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... She sent a man to prison for twenty years ..then menaced her
own daughter with the buried scandal!
Adolph Zukor pissents
HERBERT MARSHALL
Forgotten FACES
Puremount Picture with
GERTRUDE MICHAEL
James Burke Robert Cummings - Jane Rhodes
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE EMPIRE FILM
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Prisoner ct. Shark
Island"
QUEEN'S:
"Forgotten Faces"
ORIENTAL:-
+3
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:--
LIBRARY
1,000 Reels
SCOTTISH NEWS
FROM FAR AND NEAR
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, June 14. (Special Air Mail Service)
The position of the supporters of London, June 16.
the Scottish Orchestra in Edia- Five new Alms presented by the burgh was evry clearly stated by Union Government of South Africa Mr John Cameron, chairman of have completed the first 1,000 in directors of the Concert Society, the Empire Film Library at the at a meeting of guarantors last The Last Days of Pompeir Imperial Institute, South Kensing-night, and it is quite obviously a ton, from which the reels circulate serious one. "Edinburgh's guaran-' among educational, technical, tee fund has been gradually trade, and social organisations decreasing, despite all the efforts throughout the United Kingdom. of the Concert Society to keep it The Horary was opened by the up, and the directors, feeling they Duke of Gloucester in June" last | cannot "go on indefinitely asking yeur with a legacy of about 850 for such substantial calls as that of ums from inc. Empire Marketing the past season (12s 6d in the £1), BUIL Since then scarcely a week | have made two alternative prp- nus elapsed without some new posals to the Glasgow Choral and additions, silent or "talkie," being | Orchestral Union-a substantially made to the "catalogue of reels lower hiring fee for the orchestra, describing
and in- | or a pooling of the Glasgow and dustrial me, the scenery and the Edinburgh guarantee funds.
auna of overseas Empire coun- tries or the industries of Britain. There has been a corresponding growth in "the number of "bor- rowers, and for the more popular films there is a waiting list. In- stitutional borrowers at the mo- ment number over 2,500,
"The Prisoner ot
Island"
Shark
MAJESTIC:-
"Here Comes Trouble"
STAR-
PARAMOUNT'S
SELECTED SHORTS
"The Irish In Us".
TO MORROW
MARGARET SUL LAVAN
Scintillating comedy romance
'MOON'S OUR HOME "
TAKE ANY TRIM ON MAPPY VALLET Bus
EORIENTALE
OLAST 4 TIMES TO DAY
A TRULY GLORIFIED SCREEN SPECTACLE! Pompeli, preud and mighty... playground of pagan pleasares.. caught in the midst of savage rovels, faces mighty doom!
MIGHTIEST OF SPECTACLE DRAMAS!
Merian C. Cooper's
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
Ducted by East &. Schordsach
with PRESTON FOSTER
ALAN HALL, BASIL KATH- BONE, JOHN WOOD, LOUIS GALHERN, DAVID HOLT,
EKO-RADIO Picture
TOMORROW MONDAY TUESDAY.
LAUGHTER REIGNS SUPREME WITH THESE FUNNY ROVING GYPSIES.
Stan
Oliver
LAUREL HARDY
Bohemian Girl
with
ANTONIO MORENO - JACQUELINE WELLS
Melnor Maye
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ESTARE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
THE TOP OF THE MORNIN' TO YE FROM
JIMMY AND PAT ..
and bave ye been after
secin' them top their, "Here Comes the Navy" laff records in
"THE
IRISK IN US
Vintner Bras" Wild logh Nose-butnam Hell wilts
JAMES CAGNEY PAT O'BRIEN
FRANK MCHUGH ALLEN JENKINS OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
TO-MORROW
HAROLD LLOYD
IN
"THE MILKY WAY":
FORGOTTEN FACES
KING'S
Sunday
"The Prisoner of Shars
Island"
QUEEN'S:
ק
"The Moon's Our Home ORIENTAL,
"Bohemian Girl"
ALHAMBRA
"The Prisoner of Shark
STAR:-
Island"
"The Milky Way" MAJESTIC:-
"Rul Raf”
THE IRISH IN US
:-----
head
the domestic
were
In 1934, before the formation of the library, there"
about 14,500 borrowings. Last year the number rose 1c 17,500, and it is estimated. that about 3,500,000 people have seen them. Among the latest applications is one to show the films by daylight from a religious society's van that will traverse rural areas of England and Wales."
Teachers are divided in optaton as to the merits of the silent and. the sound Aim for instructional purposes. The sint Alm, it is argued, allows the teacher to make the points he or she desires to em- phasise in
supplementing class-
A CASE FOR COMPROMISE The Edinburgh proposals will doubtless receive careful conside- ration, and all lovers of the Scot- tish Orchestra must hope that wise counsels will bring a solution of the problem... If the proposed pool should not meet with approval the question of the hiring fee is obviously one that lends itself to compromise. Last season Edin- burgh paid £3024. Against that. of course, there are transport ex- penses of £500 or £600, Still, Glasgow would find great difficulty In getting from any other source such a substantial sum as revenue. or even the lesser sum which Ed- inburgh has presumably offered.
SCOTTISH AIR SERVICES Although, investigations into an extension of the London-Glasgow railway air route to Inverness, hv way of Perth, are still proceeding. I learn that this new Scottish ser- vice is likely to be in operation in the summer. Consideration is also "There is no division of opinion being given to the possibility of among users, however, regarding continuing the route to Thurso. the value of the visual instruction the most northerly railway ter- imparted by means of the film." minus, and beyond to the Orkney the library authorities point out. "One "result is a more
Waruer Bros.' latest comedy drama The Irish In Us" which presents James Cagney,
room instruction, Pat O'Brien, Frank
McHugh and Olivia de Havilland at the of an unusually popular support ng cast, has been booked as the feature production of the Star Theatre To-day.
intimate
The title, It is said, is based knowledge of conditions oversea 011 traditional characteristics of and a greater Empire conscious- the "Irish--to alternate between.
Islands, but such an extension will not figure in this year's program- me. When inaugurated the Glas- gow Perth-Inverness service will
laughter and tears, to jump fromness in the rising generation which comedy to intense drama, to Eght will give many of them an irresis-be the 63rd under railway aus- with those they love and love tible urge to see the Dominions or those with whom they fight.
colonies when the channels of emigration are reopened by over- sea Governments."
The story itself is the story of most families-internal battles, but a common front against an outside attack.
Mary Gordon, a 55 year old Irish widow whose leap from a job as restaurant, cook to near stardom in Hollywood is in itself 7 romance, portrays the part of an Irish mother whose three sons are Pat O'Brien, a cop: Frank McHugh, a fireman, and James Cagney, who refuses to take a steady job, but devotes himself to managing broken down prize fighters.
Ma's catering to the one producer of her brood keeps the family in constant turmoil, but
breake the tempest when Cagney takes O'Brien's girl, Mis de Havilland, away from
bon-
in ear Best
Drama with an emotional wal-him. lop as powerful as one of Joe The sorrows and joys; the Louls' hard lefts to the jaw is anxieties and triumphs of this offered in "Forgotten Faces," the little family of New York Irish folk is said to have made, one of the most laughable and at the same time most touching screen iramas of the year.
new Paramount picture which closes Go-day nt the Queen's Theatre.
Herbert Marshall is the star of In the cast are Allen Jenkins, Harvey Parry. J. Farrell Mac
THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND
VAI
Gaunt, bearded and tattered, a man with burning eyes and tor- tured
pices. Under the summer program- me of rallway air services Intro- duced this week, over 1,000,000 miles will be covered on the vari- ous routes,
THE CLAN MACDONALD In "At Home and Abroad," "pub- lished to-day, a volume of essays by Mr. Ramsay' MacDonald, the following conversation between the Lord President of the Council and an old Scottish peasant woman in Nova Scotia is recounted: visage rose from the Mr, MacDonald. What would tumultuous past to the screen of your tartan be?" the King's and Alhambra Theatres,
Old Peasant Woman.The Mac- where The Prisoner of Shark Lean. Island" opening to-day,
Iose to confound his judges and to bare the long concealed and harrowing story of America's most tragic martyr Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd!
So stark, so vivid, so over- whelmingly real do the action on the screen seem that members of the audience, forgetting that they were watching actors in a written drama, were swept along in its waves of emotion, shared its terror,
almost shouted their indignation
the
Mr. MacDonald. Mine is MacDonald..
Old Peasant Woman.- Aye.... the MacDonalds were a masterful lot.... a wild, self-willed, mas- terful lot.
After this conversation she bade farewell in Gaelic. "I did not re- quire to know the words." Mr. MacDonald writes. "Deep spoke to deep."
A MATTER OF APPROPRIATION There is a marked resemblance
the pleture, and the lovely blonde Donald and Thomas Jackson in at this story of man's inhumanity between Mr. MacDonald's Literary
Gertrude Michael plays opposite him. The story opens with Mare atal
3 devoted husband and father deeply in love with his wife, Miss Michael, and almost worshipful where his baby daugh- ter is concerned.
But his whole world is shattered when he returns home one night
to discover his wife in another man's arms. In an emotional heat he kills the intruder and then
after arranging for the adoption of his daughter, he gives himself up. A stern court sentences him to prison.
anted
addition to a number of prize fighters and many college athletes, a
♫i
THE MOON'S OUR HOME
Margaret Sullavan, noted screen star, is cast, appropriately enough, in the role of a screen star in Walter Wänger's production "The Moon's Our Home," Produced for Paramount, the picture opens to- morrow at the Queen's Theatre, with. Henry Fonda; Henrietta Crosman, Charles Butterworth and Beulah Bondi featured in important roles
In The Moon's Our Home,"
to man.
and oratorical style, as the follow- The "Prisoner of Shark Island" ing sentence indicates: tells a story of the stormy era
"I have a prejudice as a matter following the Civil War. After of appropriateness in favour of an Lincoln was assassinated his expectation that there will be murderer fled to Maryland where continuing interest in what the he prevailed upon a physician to world may be when it was finish- set his broken leg. That physled with me, and it is therefore an clan was Dr. Samuel Mudd, play-imperative request of my being ed by Warner Baxter, and to the that I should make provision for frenzied mob he became an ac- its requirements before my eyes complice in the murder of their close." idol.
CALEDONIAN BALL "
-r
The picture depicts the trial at
Fents are in the news this week. which Mudd, held with the ae Many who spend the greater part complices, fights futilely against of the year in Scotland will be in the rising tide of mob hatred, the London for the Caledonian Ball'at tense hours when he walls to Grosvenor House on Friday. tearn of his fate while others This time the Duchess of Atholl deemed gulty are hanged within will lead the processional march his sight, and finally his dreary introducing the set reels-always Journey to
Dry
the first item on the programme. Tortugas prison under fe sentence.
Lord James Stewart Murray, On the island the real dramasaid to be the best reel dancer, will take part in the Atholl High-
Seventeen years later, he learns that his daughter now grown to about to lovely womanhood, is marry and that her mother threatens to tell her dance wha she really is unless she is paid to be stiena Marshall succeeds in securing a parole and establishes himself as butler in his daughter's grandmother. As a sky-rocketing begins its course, The gentle, un-landers' sixtoonsome recls.
household. On the day the mother approaches for her money she is confronted by her husband and a fery, dramatic climax puts the finishing touches to two explosive
Margaret Sullavan portrays a tem- pestuous little spitare controllable only by a person equally fery, her
motion picture star, Margaret hears of, and determines to hate, a man she calls a "globe trotter who would be lost without his hot water bottle."
the
The close of the picture, which follows the events of actual story, shows Baxter pardoned by the president, and returned to his loving wife and the freedom of the outside world.
worldy man ights against the degradation and spiritual starva- tion, against the bestiality of the timorous ship captains to land labour he '18 forced to do. supplies by threatening to are on world-famous author-explorer, has
Henry Fonda, a Desperation drives him to attempt them.
an escape with the aid of a mergo and tragic careers.
heard of her and has learned to guard. In what is probably the "Forgotten Faces" offers one of despins the sound of her name, most powerful sequence of the these rare dramatic pieces of en-referring to her as "the phoney pleture, he swims a shark-filled tertainment whose suspense 19 blonde with a face that resembles moat, escape to a boat where his truly gripping. The acting is French Pastry."
wife awaits him only to be recap- tured by the pursuing guards.
When fever strikes and "pros- trates the island, Mudd a given manhood. He takes up the night against the epidemic, drives the prison guards to aid him, forces
perfect and in addition to the two leads, special credit is due to Jane Rhodes, as the grown up daughter, Robert Cummings, as her fiance, and James Burke as Marshall's police-sergeant pal,
They meet, fall desperately in love without knowing their real identities, marry, separate, and are brought together again in this scrappy adventuresome and wildly romantic comedy.
SHOWING TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY
KING'S ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG
KOWLOON
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. : A# 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. TEARS WILL GLISTEN IN A MILLION EYES!
Crushed, despised, tortured... and for- gotten! His heart, black with despair... his soul blank of hope. Only one faint gleam of light the divine spark of a woman's love... gave him the strength.
to withstand a nation's hate!
THE PRISONERS
SHARK ISLAN
AMERICA'S BLACKEST P
slatring
WARNER BAXTER
with
GLORIA STUART
Claude GILLINGWATER ARTHUR BYRON O. P. HEGGIE HARRY CAREY and a cast of one thousand
A DARRYL F. ZANUCK 20th CENTURY PRODUCTION
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck Associate Producer and Scrven Play, Nunnally Johnson
Directed by JOHN FORD 'Based on the life of
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd.
The mo tower-
•ing troph öf picture making
`since pictures makin begen!
NEXT CHANGE at the KING'S-NEXT CHANGE at the ALHAMBRA
SYDNEY HOWARD in
"WHERE'S GEORGE?".
United Artists Release
FINAL
FOR ONE DAY ONLY
FRED ASTAIRE CINCER ROGERS In
TOP HAT
__RKO Radla_Picture
SHOWINGS MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
THEATRE
HERE COMES, TROUBLE
PAUL KELLY ARLINE JUDGE
·MONA BARRIE GREGORY RATOFF
FILMING SCOTLAND
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
ON THE STAGE
▪་
AT 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
THE NINE
O'CLOCK REVUE
A: NON-STOP VARIETY SHOW
SUNDAY
JEAN
HARLOW
SPENCER" TRADY
IN
ii
"RIFF RAFF
Too often in the past producers search of a Scottish setting or subject for their films have seen (Special Air Mall Service) the country "in terms of kilts and bagpipes," forgetting. If they ever London, June 14.
knew, that the vital Scotland is Gloria Stuart plays the leading It is gratifying to find that Mr. tp be found elsewhere. Mr. de role opposite Baxter in the pic- Richard De Rochement takes Rochement will have the advice of tura, Nuunally Johnson, Holly-realistic view of the place which Mr. John: Grierson, whose Alm wood's foremost scenarist, pre-Scotland shall occupy in future is "Drifters" was a memorable pic- pared the screen play from the aues of his "doumentary" plus "in-ture of one aspect of Scottish life blography of Dr. Mudd:
I terest” film; "The March of Time." } and work
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