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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1936.
TODAY AT THE A WINGED MAN
Successful Flights
CINEMA
Hong Kong
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IN AIR
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
KING'S:_
"The King of Paris"
QUEEN'S:
The Swellest of all
Perry Mason stories!
"THE CASE OF THE
LUCKY LEGS
WARREN WILLIAM PATRICIA ELLIS
A First National Picture
NEXT CHANGE-
JAMES CAGNEY
in the biggest hit of his big career
TO-DAY
&
"FRISCO
KID"
TO-MORROW
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
At 2 30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9:20 P.M.
WONDERS TO DAZZLE the human imagination.in a flam ing love story set against a gigantic background of thrilling spectacle!
Ogoiah Thor presents
CECIL B. DeMILLE'S
A
Case of the Legs"
ORIENTAL:-
"Thanks A Million”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:--
"Exclusive Story" MAJESTIC:-
"The Crusades"
-STAR-
"Mary Burns. Fugitive"
KING'S:
Coming
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London, April 28. A sun-tanned young man with nerves of iron calmly cilmbed into Lucky the cockpit of a 'plane.
"Show Them No Mercy" QUEEN'S:—
M
*Frisco Kid" ORIENTAL:-
Over the golden sands of Day- tona Beach. piloted by his friend and student colleague, he flew three miles up.
Then-
The thousands oi spectators suddenly gasped.
A tiny speck leaped from the wings, twisted, turned and dropped like a stone for 2,000ft....
It was the smiling young' mani they had seen leave the ground a few minutes before."
He opened his arms, now in bild- air, and stretched his legs. Sohn, the bird-man, the art man of times to conquer the air without the use of engine power was flying. Telegraph wires hummed and the world heard of this wonderful
feat.
Looping the loop, swerving from
The Case of The Curious side to side the human bat flew
for 7,000ft.
Then he closed his arms stood at attention in space.
Bride"
ALHAMBRA:--
"Follow The Fleet"
STAR:-
"Four Hours To Kill*
THE CASE OF THE
LUCKY LEGS
#
and
*
His body dropped. at first hundred feet. It gained velocity. somersaulted, and when 2,000ft. from the earth he pulled the rip-cord of his parachute, gently floating to the sands, to be seized and carried shoulder high by the cheering hysterical crowds.
"I could have stayed up longer." he said simply, palling the home- wings from his shoulders, wrists and legs. "But the coldness froze
Perry Mason, the debonair lawy- er Who solves murders in his day's work, has become a Hollywood in- stitution, rivaling Sherlock Holmes as a perennial detective character. | më."
Different from other sleuths. Aviation experts were astonished. however, the fiction character but remained untalkative. They created by Erle Stanley Gardner, had sald that to fly like a bird man has been portrayed by only one would need wings at least 20ft. actor Warren William, Philo Vance long-a 40ft, span. snother popular Alm detective bas A bre flaps its
wings 200-300 been more variable, peing playedtimes a second, a wild duck nine by Warren William, William Po-mes, and a sbarrow twelve times. well, Basil Rathbone and Paul The flight muscles of some birds Luka..
are as much as half the weight of The third of the Perry Mason their bodies but Sohn's efforis pictures... "The Case of the Lucky are still puzzling the experts. Legs" with William in the stellar: Man has been always persistent THE KING OF PARIS" role comes to the Queen's Theatre in his attempts to emulate, the
"The CRUSADES"
LORETTA YOUNG-HENRY WILCOXON
298 k baat 28 10,000 - Paramount Picture
ESTARE
{FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAT
'I Didn't Know He Was a Murderer'
"All I did was help "the man l-loved when"
he was in trouble.........“. Adolph Zutor prezenti
SYLVIA
SIDNEY "Mary Burns, FUGITIVE"
with
MELVYN DOUGLAS PALAN BAXTER a Walter Wanger Production A Paramount Pictura
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY RICHARD BARTHELMESS IN "FOUR HOURS
TO KILL
FRISCO KID
A strange situation arose out of the casting of Cedric Hardwicke to play Max Till in the new picture, "The King of Paris," which is to have a special presentation at the King's Theatre to-day,
Greek mythology begins with the tale of Daedalus, who made wings of wax and feathers and flew over the Aegean to the evade his purSUETS.
to-morrow. with Warren William birds. protraying the role of Perry Mason, and Genevieve Tobin as his shrewd and devoted secretary, who masks her love for the "boss" under a bar- rage of sarcastic remarks.... "
The real romance, however, is out by Patricia EU and Max Till is a great actor-the carried king of the Parisian theatrical Lyle Talbot, with Porter Hall, in world a master of stage technique, the role of Miss Ellis' Boss, as a a man to whom the theatre is the third member of a triangular love breath of life, an actor whore re-
affair,
putation is the greatest of his day.
And this is the character which Cedric Hardwicke has to portray a great actor of real Hfe imper- sonating a great actor of faction?
mainland" to
RAILWAY AIR SERVICES
Big Extension This Summer
NEW GLASGOW INVERNESS ROUTE
London, April 25. Important extensions of the air services operated by the main line rallway companies through their alr Arm, Railway Air" Services (Ltd.), will be made under their their summer flying programme, which begins on May 25,
more
a
Orders have been placed for & number of new luxury air liners to carry out the augmented sys- tem of 62 regular services, which will involves, mileage of than 1,000,000 during the summer.
In addition to introducing Inverness in the north with Tor- series of new routes liriking up
quay in the south, Railway' Air Services are also offering the travelling public new co-ordinated facilities for air, ratl, and steamer transport.
Their new routes will be: Glasgow-Perth-Inverness; Glas- gow-Isle of Man; Carlisle-Isle of Man; Leeds and Bradford-Isle al Man; Belfast-Isle of Man; Cardif and Bristol-Weston-super-Mare; and Ryde (Isle of Brighton.
According to British lore, King " Bladud, father of King Lear, was killed while trying to fly,
And 2,000 years before him the Chinese Emperor" Shun is said to It is this triangular love that is have flown from a high prison as the bottom of the mysterious tower using two large umbrella murder, although the man who is hats made of reeds. slain has no connection with the Human-birding was even a Ro- romantle angle. He is a fake pro-man sport. and Nero watched ar Himself an actor without poses or
moter who conducts a contest for exhibition, seeing a youth crash to mannerisms, without bombast and the girl with the most beautiful his death. without any effort to be dramatic legs in the village in which the in daily life, Cedric Hardwicke sees lovers live, the prize being won by clearly and with a shrewd sense of Miss Ellis. The promoter, played humour many of the fofbles of his ty Craig Reynolds, skips"town with profession-and derives great en-
all the cash, and is murdered with joyment from satirizing them the a surgeon's knife which throws actor's pleasure in getting over a suspicion on both Miss Ellis and good line in any situation in sa-her Doctor lover.
Clem Sohn Asn't doing anything. new, but he "is" succeeding!
J. E. Hodgson, the historian of aeronautics in Florida was undis- turbed by the news of the bird- man's flight....
"An ingenious combination of grading and parachuting, made pos-
vouring his dally emotions and ap- Others in the cast include Allen sibe by the tremendous height praising their dramatic value, in Jenkins, Barton MacLane, Peggy Sohn gained before he jumped," ́making a brilliant entrance and an Shannon. Anita Kerry, Henry he said.
exit at the right point-all these O'Neill, Charles Wilson, Joseph "Man can't fly like a bird because things are pinned down and ex-Crehan, Oun Howland Mary Treen he hasn't the muscles to support hibited as subjects for amusemen; and Joseph Downing.
the minimum wing spread that would be needed."
by Cedric Hardwicke In his por- trayal of Max Till
Yet his portrait still contrives to he sympathetic, because it is a portrait done by a man who him- self has a great understanding and love of the stage.
Jack Raymond, in his first plc- ture with Cedric Hardwicke, bas
MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE
Ambitious to become Hollywood's first actor and director of both stage and screen, Melvyn Douglas revealed during the filming of
showed that he understands Hard- wicke's personality completely. The remainder of a orilliant cast is headed by the French star Marie Glory and in support there are his first motion picture. Ralph Richardson, John Deverell, Phyllis Monkman, Joan Maude, Lydia Sherwood, Jeanne Stuart and O. B. Clarence.
Waiter Wanger's Paramount im, starring Sylvia Sidney, "Mary Burns, Fugitive," showing to-day' at the Star Theatre, that he is making arrangements to direct
To date. Douglas has both acted end directed on Broadway, plan- ning to return shortly to direct two plays and enact a leading role in third,
"Acting and directing are com-
But Sohn did dy like a bird-and has done so with regularity ever since,
THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE”
At The Oriental Theatre
►
Mystery fans have long re- cognized that the writing of a de- tective story required a special technique on the part of the au- thar, which is why there are 10. lew really successful writers of de Lective action,
It is now generally conceded that portraying these roles either for the
Wight-
An additional Glasgow-Belfast service will also be worked.
LACK OF FACILITIES IN EAST OF SCOTLAND The main part of the programme comes into effect on May 25, but the Glasgow-Perth-Inverness ex- tension is still the subject of in- vestigation, and Sir Harold Hart-
chairman ley,
o the company. said that it will probably be open- ed on a date-yet to be fixed-in June or July,
Sir Harold also stated that con- nections with Edinburgh were not contemplated this year, but the reason was not because there were no suitable airport facilities, as permission would be available to use Turnhouse Aerodrome.
He said that the flying time.be- tween Glasgow and Laverbess would be approximately two and a half hours.
Asked why the east side of the country was not included in the programme, Sir Haroid said that : weather conditions were a factor, but the mala" reason was lack of suitable airport and wireless facilities. -Thé question of extending the route northward from Inver- ness to Thurso and Orkney has
also been considered.
AN ORIGINAL LAUNCHING CEREMONY
Miss Gracie Fields
THE PRINCIPAL FIGURE
One of the best known stage, screen and radio personalit.es of the day is Miss Gracie Fields, who only lately returned to England after a highly successful South African tour.
This popular actress was the principal figure in a highly ori- ginal launching ceremony at Bouthampton recently, when she christened with her own name a new vessel for the Bouthampton, Isle of Wight and South of Eng- fand Steam Packet Co. After singing à verse of the song "Sing as we go", às the vessel slid down the ways, Miss Fields sang for the benefit of the local section of the Lancashire Association, spectators and shipyard workers 10.ning heartily in the chorus.
The "Gracie Fields" is a paddle
steamer 202 ft, long and with a speed of 14 knots, but by John L
"Frisco Kid," Warner Bros thrill-tres or their lives on the throw plementary occupations," declared stage or screen, also requires spec.Thornycroft & Co., Ltd. Naviga |
ing tale of the glamorous Barbary Coast of old San Francisco is due shortly at the Queen's Theatre, with
of a dice.
Into this picturesque atmosphere Douglas. "The actor finds dirential ability, to which must be added ton in the Solent presents certain termine the best design to suit an all star cast headed by James crude, ignorant, but a man of tre chanics of acting, because the
comes a nallor, strong, purposeful, ing not so difficult and the direc-experience, if the characters are to peculiarities, and, in order to de-
tor finds it easy to master the me- be convincing.
It was because of this that First these conditions, the builders car- Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo mendous force and magnetic per- Cortez and Lily Damita,
sonality who rises to be the master the mental set-up required in the National Pictures, when selecting ried cut experiments in their tank the cast for the latest of the thrill at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. As a The picture is set in the colour of the Coast, and who dares to fall same for both."
In "Mary Burns, Fugitive," Doug Ers it has produced as a Clue Club result, although the hull form of ful background of the early afties in love with the most beautiful girl tax appears in the role of a bril-mystery, combed Hollywood for
the new vessel heavier and of when the waterfront at the Golden of San Francisco's highest society. Gate was a flaming panorama of: James
liant, wealthy, but temporarily players who could do justice to the greater displacement than that of gilded gambling halls and palaces Lndsay, as
Cagney and Margaretinded young scientist who falls most popular of Erle Stanley Gard. the "Princess Elizabeth", her pre-
the two characters, of pleasure, when murder, arson, carry on this strange, romance in in love with an innocent girl fugi ner's "Perry Mason" novels, "The decessor in the same service, it is tive from Justice. An exacting
Case of the Curious Bride" which said to be easier to drive through
the water. crimping and robbery was winked the midst of a series of thrilling at by the authorities who derived episodes when the city is rocked series of romantic" and dramatic will be seen at the Oriental Theatre huge revenues in bribes from the by terrific battles between the vigi- complications bring this absorbing on Wednesday and Thursday. denizens of the underworld.
lantes and the denizens of 'the drama to a thrilling finale..
The characters are based on his toric personages of the time who flocked to the city of gold from every port in the world, adven turers all, ready to risk their for
coast.
The leading characters, besides
those mentioned, include Donald Joseph Crehan, Robert Strange, Woods, Barton MacLane, George E. Joseph Strange, Joseph Sawyer, Stone, Joseph King. Robert McWade Fred Kohler and Claudia Coleman
Warren Wultam plays the leading { one of the exploits of Perry Mason, role and the supporting cast are the most popular character in cur- Margaret ́Lindsay Allen Jenkins, rent detective Cction. In addition Thomas Jackson, Donald Woods, to those named, it has a big cast and Warren Hymer, menye of fim favourities all of whom are "The Case of the Curious "Bride" thoroughly experienced in this type is a gripping, thrilling chronicle of or work/pa
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30,5 10, 7,15 & 9,30 P.M.
CEDRIC
&
HARDWICKE MARIE GLORY
IN
THE KING OF PARIS
NEXT CHANGE
SHOW THEM NO
MERCY!"
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THE TRUE "INSIDE STORY"
that sent
its author
to jail!
Franchot TONE Madge EVANS
AND
IN
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Staggering secrets of the war on the policy”racket-the first time on any screen-by Martin Mooney,whowenttojailrather than betray his information..
EXCLUSIVE STORY
Pached with
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and laughter!
STUART ERWIN . JOSEPH CALLEIA
From the story by MARTIN MOONEY
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