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"TO-MORROW
"THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE”“
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KINGS:-
"It Had To Happen" QUEEN'S:-
'Border Flight" ORIENTAL:-
"Let'em Have It"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Nobody's Fool" MAJESTIC:-
Tailspin Tommy' (Final Chapter).
STAR:-
"The Case Against Mrs.
Ames"
Ha
Coming
"ang and Claw”
KING'S:-
''སྨཱ །
QUEEN'S
·
Henry FONDA
In Breath-taking Natural Colour
Fred MacMURRAY
Sylvia SIDNEY
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So amazing, none dared tall it before! Now it comes to you in thundering drama... the truth... for the first time! The truth about the heroes of the Department of Justice... how their cold science triumphs over blazing machine guns |
RICHARD ARLEN VIRGINIA BRUCE
LET EM HAVE IT
BRUCE CABOT ALICE BRADY
SUN 2 DAYS BARBARA STANWYCK
MON.
ONLY
In Buffalo Bill's Wild West Thrill Spectacle.
THE LIFE OF
ANNIE OAKLEY
CHAMPION RIFLE SHOT
MATINEES; 20c.-30e O EVENINGS: 20c.-30c,-50c,-70c.
STARE
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW -
THE MOST AMAZING TRIAL PICTURE EVER FILMED!
MADELEINE CARROLL and GEORGE BRENT
THE CASE AGAINST Mrs. AMES
A Paramount Picture witha
ARTHUR TREACHER ALAN BAXTER BEULAH BONDI ALAN MOWBRAY Directed by a William A. Saifer
¤ WALTER WANGER
Preduction
SUNDAY, ONE DAY ONLY 1 * "MADAME BUTTERFLY” WITH SYLVIA SIDNEY
"The Trail of The Lonesome
Pine"
ORIENTAL:-
"The Life of Annie Oakley" ALHAMBRA:----
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Pine"
VANISHING BABY
Houses Becoming
Much Smaller
LONDON BOROUGHS MUCH THE SAME
More than one-half of the fami- Hes living in London-537.000 in fact-are composed of units of 3 or less, and the average size of a London working-class family is now 3.20 persons,
years.
DEFENCE PLEAD AN ACT OF KINDNESS
Harbouring Of Young Girl
WOMAN'S LAXITY COSTS $50 FINE
Addressing Mr. W. Schoñeld at the Central Court yesterday on behalf of Chan Suk Yin, who to- That is one of the facts that gether with another woman, had emerge from the Overcrowding been charged with taking part in
writes Survey just issued,
an the transaction of a minor for a "Evening News"
representative, valuable consideration, when they A. el and it shows how families have appeared on Tuesday, Mr. continued to shrink in recent Arculil, in defence of the charge of härbouring which his Worship At the last census' In 1931 the bad found against the defendan. average size of a London family stated that the reasonable excuse was 3.46, and ten years before that for the keeping of the girl was The that the child had not been happy the official figure was. 3.79,
years has with the other defendant in the last 15 drop
It will be recalled that the first. therefore been slightly over half
defendant Was discharged unit, which the
new survey
Tuesday. reckons as one child.
HAMPSTEAD'S HOUSES Some people have been puzzled by the disclosure that the greatest volume of overcrowding is among the smaller families of 3 or 4 per-
B
The Trail of The Lonesome sons; but this is explained by the fact that in thousands of cases two or three families are living to 'gether in one dwelling.
MAJESTIC:-
STAR:-
Curly Top
"Madame Buttery"
THE CASE AGAINST
MRS. AMES"
whose
Madeline Carroll At The Star
same.
stili the
an
Mr. Arcall went on to say that the girl had gone to stay with the defendant on her OWN accord, though she had been requested not to do so by both defendants. The girl had been originally in- tended for marriage with the first defendant's cousin, and the cir cumstances were such that it did not seem unlawful to allow the giri to remain.
the
Although vast amount of house building has been in pro-
A further defence was that the gress since the last census the girl had been intended for adop- relative position of the London tlon by the defendant. The girl boroughs remains much the did no work in the house and led
as same fe
입니다 adopted Hampstead is
least daughter would lead. The defen- congested, and Shoreditch the dant had paid $120 as compensa- most overcrowded. The northerntion to the first "defendant, and borough has the greatest number was really doing an act of kind- ness to the girl, who had not been of large houses. averaging 7,59
while in happy with the other woman. rooms per dwelling. Shoreditch
average is only
sensational! 4.78,
the
of houses
Medelinc Carroll,
LARGEST FAMILIES and
star English stage
screen
Overcrowding is naturally great- performance. In "The 39 Steps" brought her International est in the Eastern boroughs, where fame, makes, her American debut the size of families is larger and smaller. The In lms in Walter Wanger's "The that
Are found in Case Against Mrs. Ames," open- largest families
Stepney. Poplar, and Shoreditch, ing to-day the Star Theatre,
Miss Carroll is co-starred with and the smallest in"Holborn, West- minster... and Paddington. In George Brent in her initial Ameri-
the average family is can picture, a dramatic story of a Stepney
Paddington and Mary- woman faced with execution for four; in murder and then with loss of her lebone only three.
Families of only two of three only son through court Her battle to clear her name and persons have increased greatly in keep the child, against the power recent years and those of six or and wealth of a mother-in-law seven are rapidly disappearing.
diminish- Similarly, houses are who despises her, keeps the plot
ing in size. The average number at high tensior. throughout. Brent appears, as a
ruthless, of rooms per family in London is district cynical assistant
at-now three as compared with four torney, careless of the means he 20 years ago. uses to convict the mother of murder and unshakable in bis belief that she is "guilty.
action
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IT HAD TO HAPPEN" Is guilty. Even the child. inau-
Raft And Rosalind Russell enced by his grandmother, turns
Take The Lead against the accused woman. With but one ally, Mrs. Ames is forced
that 20th Perhaps the moral to fight the court battles herself.
Featured players in the film in- Century's delightful love comedy, clude Arthur Treacher, Alan Eax- "It Had To Happen." intends to ter. Beulah Bondi, Alan Mowbray, point is that "faint heart, ne'er
Mr. Schofeld held that the proper procedure would have been to have asked either the Police or the S.C.A. for advice.
Inspector E
the S.C.A. said that the defendant was fully acquainted with that procedure as she had done SO before.
J. Ellis, of
Mr. Schofield thought that the ease WLS not one for heavy punishment and inflicted a fine of $50. The defendant had been doing an act of kindness. but had shown considerable laxity.
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BICYCLE THEFTS
Story Of Police Visit To Huts
Tiù Chol, 19 and Lau-Flag. 28, Both described as milk coolies ap- peared before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on remand, charges, of stealing bicycles, the property of Pang Pak and Li Ming. respectively on August 7 and April 14.
.
MOUNT EVEREST Brenda Fowler, Esther Dale, Ed- won fair lady," because before de- police visited Tiu Chol's hut at
WILL
BE CLIMBED
"But Not By Me," Says Mr. Ruttledge
"I WILL LIVE IN A YACHT"
Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader or The 1938 Mount Everest Expedition,
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ward Brophy. Richard Carle and bona r George Raft wins the hand Scotty Beckett. The feature was of glamorous Rosalind Russell in at the King's produced under direction of W- the picture now
he goes through as llam A. Seiter from a novel by Theatre,
amazing a series of romantic and Arthur Somers Roche.
high-spirited adventures as the screen has presented in some time. Presenting this irresistible team of screen lovers in their first role together, "It Had to Happen" is
..
100 хоно "Nobody's Fool," the Universal film starring Edward Everett Horton, at the Alhambra Theatre is a story about the dumbest or the cleverest man in town, de- pending on the view-point.
the story of a man, who blazed his way to dizzy heights for a dazzling girl beyond his reach.
Manhattan is the scene of als racy drama, and George Rait is first introduced as he piles out of friend, Leo Carrillo. In the mix-
the boat he catches up on
ર
His lack of guile and his pro- which was beaten by a freak of clivity for putting his foot into glimpse of the alluring Rosalind the weather, has made his last at-situations where other folks would Russel, a tempting heiress, and tempt to scale the world's highest not dare to thrust a ten-foot pole, mentally resolves to fight his way
lifted him from the humble job up to her level. of small town waiter to the post-
peak.
on
conditions. better housing
Inspector A H. Elston, for the prosecution, stated that following Information received a party of
Shamshulpo. He was not in at 3 seen approaching the time but y from the villake. As soon as he espled the police he attempted to run away. He claimed qwnership of a machine found in the hut.
A few minutes later Lau Ping came Inte the hut, and Chol stated: "He has one also, The police then went to Lau's hut where they saw a bicycle."
At the station in answer to charges preferred against them, both claimed legitimate purchase of the machine
The case was adjourned to. this morning.
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GEORGE
ROSALIND
and you've never been within my reach.But now you are... and. I'm reaching out!"
RAFT - RUSSELL.
The "Rendez-
vous" girl
*kèeps a dering
date with the screen's most irresistible lover!
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Edward Everett HORTON
IN A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
Nobody's
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In Natural Colour
SYLVIA SIDNEY FRED M MURRAY HENRY FONDA...
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
Find Strina'. Ńapel Boruto". Besluts Boner - Robert Sment - Spiquchy McFarland Artvolly filmed vul. doors in Techniralar Dimenticed lay Honey Ho•howny - A Ville Mangr Piaituction - A Puenmount Potuse
MAJESTIC
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FINAL CHAPTER
At 2 80. 5.20,
7.20 & 9,20 PM.
TAILSPIN TOMMY Sunday CURLY
LOCAL NULLAH DISASTER
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
TOP"
"THE WESTERN CHAMBER'
5. L. Hsiung, the Chinese author
PRINCESS JULIANA'S ENGAGEMENT HINT
Princess Juliana, heiress to the throne of the Netherlands, who is
Another Body Found
of "Lady. Precious Stream," was no- on holiday with Queen Wilhelmina at the. Vosges Mountains resort of
Malvern during a recent week, and Another victim of the Babing, it was an amusing experience to Hohwald, was reported in several French papers on August 6 to have ton nullah tragedy was recovered and him rebearaing several mem- practically confirmed rumours. offrom the harbour, and was later bers of the festival company in the her coming engagement..
Identified as that of Chan Mu, 16. public gardens. His latest adapta- She is stated
have said of No. 17 High Street. The body tion, "The Western Chamber," pub-. blushingly that there was "more was found by the Water Police sned by Methuen earlier in the fact than action" in the reports patrol near the China, Navigation year, is to be produced by him n of her coming engagement to a Company's whart on the praya Shanghai this year. It will be act Scandinavian prince, suys British waterfront.
ed by a Chinese company in Eng- United Press
Five of the seven victims have lah. He talks of bringing the It is recalled in Paris that Prin-
The company to London next February accounted for. cess Juliana's name has been link- now been
to
In future he will live in a yacht
In episodic scenes, the picture that he has just bought. using the tion of leading Manhattan realtor. traces his rapid rise to the top of Devonshire fishing port of Brix-
Whenever he was called on to the heap as a political overlord.
ham as his base:
talk, he had one set speech, about Then, when Alan Dinehart, Miss these plans He outlined
By Russell's husband, is involved in August 8 when he arrived at Fly-sheer luck, or the Providance that a bank scandel and appeals to mouth from India in the P. and O. watches over babes, fools and real him for aid, Rait suddenly finds his dreams within liner Mooltan.
estate promoters, he made that the indy of "We saw Mount Everest at its speech to a gathering of the lead-reach. worst," he said. "We reached ing operators in the metropolis. Under pressure, Dinebart makes 20,000 feet. but we never had a And they were impressed.
restitution for the funds embezzled chance because the monsoon broke He got mixed up in a plan de- and fees to Cuba while the mat- earlier than ever before.
vised by real estate sharps, to ter blows over. Left on their own, "Sooner or later Mount Everest gauge owners, of property where Ms Russell and Raft find tremen- each others' will be climbed," he said. It is title flaws could be shown. From dous attraction in only a question of time, but I shall this muddle, while facing the company.
returns and plots rever climb it. I am too old now. toughest gang of highbinders in Dinehart 1 am 51, and my climbing days are town, the fellow everybody thought Raft's downfall through a frame-ed with that of Prince Charles of tragedy which occurred at 1.30 Mr. Hslung leaves for China in the
Sweden, who is twenty-five years P.m. on August 17 caused a sensa a dummy worked out an honest up, and in a taut dramatic climax,
that seven of nine boys had been Festival was Morris Gest, the Ame- Future expeditions. In his view,.project for better housing condi- Miss Russell learns to conquer her old. He is a nephew of King Gus- tion when the news leaked out Another valtor to the Malvern should have no difficulty in ob- tions. He proved to be nobody's ingrained snobbery and to come to tav of Sweden.
Bignificance is, therefore, at- washed down the swollen waters rican manager who presented "The Miracle and other big productions taining permission from the Tibe fool. His plan guaranteed a re- the aid of the man who loves her. Roy Del Ruth, who directed ""It
tached to the suggestion of the of the hutah and drowned, E tan Government.
turn to investors. Best of all, 12
Dutch Government this week that The two fortunate lads, Wong In New York Mr, Gest was ren-" "We were entertained most hos gave decent living conditions to Had to Happen," manages to
Queen Wilhelmina's income be re- Pn, 15, of 3, Yuen Bing Lane, and ponsible for the American produc pitably by Tibetan monks, 16 miles people who had never known them | maintain all the drama, racy
duced to provide a fund for an Lau Chiu, 23, of 8 Third Street. tion of Lady Precious Streamin from our base camp. They offer before. Hollywood reports declare humour and romantic punch of
the Rupert, Hughes tale in its income for a possible prince con- are stated to have fully recovered the spring and he intends to re- ed prayers for our success,
Nobody's Fool" to be swift moy
from their terrifying experience/vive the play this autumn, transfer to the screen..
sort for Princess Juliana. blessed us before we left,"
ing comedy
Over."
and
autumn.
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