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ROBINSON Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
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Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Tarzan's Revenge"
QUEEN'S:
"The Amazing Dr. Cutter-
house"
ORIENTAL:
"The Emperor's Candlesticks”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
STAR
The Amazirig Dr. Cutter-
house*
""Secret Interlude" MAJESTIC:
"Woman. Against Woman"
KING'S:
Coming
"She Married An Artist". QUEEN'S:
"King Of The Alcatrar" ORIENTAL:
"Crime School" "Lost Horizon" ALHAMBRA:
"Wooden Crosses"
STAR:
"Gentlemen Are Born" "In- Calishte" MAJESTIC:
"The Toy Wife"
CLINICAL TEST
OF CRIME
CINEMA & GENERAL
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS
Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele-Pèrking Air Raid Precautions Officer, showing how to put out an Incendiary bomb at the exhibi- tion outside the Colonial Secretariat on Wednesday. (Photo: A. A. Kahn),
KEEPER KILLED BY ELEPHANT
Said To Have Hit
Its Trunk
BAIL REFUSED TO CORRIGAN
K.C. Tells Of Two £2,000 Sureties
A renewed application recent- who ty for bail on behalf of Dennis circus Michael Corrigan, 46, an agent, of near Park-lane, who is charged with that conspiracy to defraud, was refused had by Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell at
Bow-street police court.
At an inquest on a man was trampled to death by a elephant at Crowland. Feterborough, it was stated just before the accident he slapped the beast's trunk,
The dead man was William James Aslett. 56, assistant
Frederick Willing, 50, of Tavia- ele-tock-square, and James Ol Herbert phant keeper, and a verdict of Willing, 24, of Dorset House, both death by misadventure was re-metal merchants, who are charged with Corrigan, were released on
£500 ball.
turned.
The elephant that killed him was one of a pair used in the film
Elephant Boy."
Edward G. Robinson, in
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" which is being shown at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to-day, gives an outstanding performance as a medical genius, master thief and [phants, sald that Aslett had been mad killer, who embarks on upon femployed as an assistant for two
John Swallow, owner of the cle-
The charge alleges conspiracy to defraud M. Theodore Laffitte of
7,250.
for both the Willings. Mr. Hessen- One man was accepted as surety
a career of crime in order to find! weeks. The elephants were 40 berg, solicitor for the Willings,
out the reactions of criminals dur-years old and
were used
ing those moments when they are strangers "and children. committing crimes.
He saw his employees
to asked that the name of the surety should not be disclosed in court. It So engrossed in his findings is
picking was that of an influential man. Robinson that he takes over the elephant tent.
up the man frora outside the whose firm acted for a number of leadership of a band of robbers and Mr. Swallow understood him name was not disclosed.
He was conscious, religious bodies in the City. The formerly led by Humphrey Bogart to say that he had been lying on and for which Claire Trevor acts his bed when an elephant freed representing the Director of Public Mr. E. Clayton, who was in court as fence." He conducts clinics! Itself by pulling out a stake. The Prosecutions, mentioned that the tests of his followers in the course man died. before a doctor arrived. most murders the former gang-leader in Medical evidence showed self-defence.
Aslett's ribs were crushed.
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY of scries of robberies, and finally
AMAZING THRILL STORY OF INTERNATIONAL SPIES! She was the roost dangerode woman in all Europe, with a smile on her lips and a-death warrant in her band.
Williman
Luise
POWELL RAINER The EMPEROR'S
CANDLESTICKS"
2 DAYS ONLY-TOMORROW & MONDAY
TODAY'S-KIDS TURNED INTO "TOMORROW'S. KILLERS ! Cells like these are the classrooms where they learn how to make crime pay.
GRADUATES OF
CRIME SCHOOL..
CLASS OF 1938!
CRIME SCHOOL"
THE DEADEND KIDS HUMPHREY BOGART
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TU-DAY
Important witness ted that abroad. He would attend the next bearing, bat lils evidence probably
Supporting Robinson, Miss Robert Davison, elephant at- would not be concluded in one Trevor and Bogart are Gale Page, tendant, said that he had never day. There must be some cross- Allen Jenkiris, Donald Crisp, Henry had any, trouble with the animals.. examination;
O'Neill, John Litel, Thurston Hall, Maxie Rosenbloom and Ward Bond.
NEW TARZAN
ROMANCE
ኑ፣
SEEN BY CHILD
1
HAD NO PASSPORT
Mrs. Mary James Bone. wife Mr. J. D. Cassels, K.C., renewing of an old age pensioner, said she of Corrigan later in the day, sald the application for ball on behalf took her grandson. aged three, to that there was no likelihood of see the elephants. Aslétt was t-
1ing on some hay in a comer of Corrigan leaving the country, or Glenn Morris, Olympic track the tent in front of the animals, even of his being able to leave. stor plays the role of Edgar Rice(He asked one of
He possessed no passport, and his to give
residence in this country was es
thei
Burroughs' fanious ape-man intim his trunk, which he took and sential for his business. It was
The elephant would
the new picture now at the King's shook Theatre, "Tarzan's Revenge."
also important that he should be Supporting him in the part of its, trunk away and Aslett, clapped solicitors.
not take in a position fully to instruct his his jungle mate is Eleanor Holm It. The animal then Jarrett, famous American, swim-him," making an angry, growling by either one or two sureties. The
"went for
Bail of £2,000 could be offered ning champion.
Together, they go through many thrilling moments in a story full of action and suspense concerning the efforts of Tarzan to protect a European safari from the dangers of the African wastes
George Barbier, who cently seen
was
arise.
called
Mrs. Bone said that she for help, and some circus; en ployees came along, and dragged the man clear.
managing director of a well-known firm of publishers in the City was prepared to stand in £2,000.
The charge concerned persons. who were in France. A fourth
Swallow was recalled, and saldman, accused of being "concerned rehat an elephant's trunk was a
with the alleged conspiracy.
1
as Kublai Khan in tender spot and to slap it might Chinese, named Chou Tin-shu, was "The Adventures of Marco Polo," be asking for trouble.
-in-America and was likely to be the subject of extradition proceed- ings.
C. Henry Gordon and Hedda Hop-
per are also in the cast.
WILL ROGERS RANCH LICKED BY BUSH FIRE
in
Los Angeles, Nov. 24 Suddenly flaring up anew,. the disastrous bush fires the Santa Monica mountains are now almost out of con❤ trol. The flames are sweep-
eastward ing
towards the Mandevillä Canyon, where there is much valuable pro- SPORTS(See Page 10),
perty. AUCTIONS-Ready-made Dresses,
SUNRISE.-6.43 a.m. BUNSET
Fire-ighters are struggling at 2 Connaught Road Central,
5.38 p.m.
to save the ranch of the late (Room 205, 2nd floor), 10.30 am
TIDES.-High at 13.30 and 22.57 Will Rogers, on which the flames CINEMAS (See Column 3 of this Low at 08.15 and 16.43.
are bearing down from, three sides.
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5.38 pm TIDES.-High at 12.40 and 22.30
Low at 00.34 and 16.13.
ORIENTAL THEATRE
SHOWINGS:
The management of the Oriental pindi closes at 9.45 am. for Re- Theatre announces the following gistration, and 10.30 am. for programmes for the remainder of Ordinary,
the month and the beginning of Diocesan December: Girls' School Annual Bazaar, Crime School
Nov. 27th and Jordan Road, Kowloon, 3 pm; 28th): Lost Horizon (29th only); Exhibition of Chinese and Wes- 52nd Street (Nov. 30th and Dec. tem Amt at Cathedral Hall, 10 1st); Stand-in (2nd and 3rd); The a.m to 7 pm; Aid Raid "Warn-Texans (4th and 5th)”
Mrs. Rogers in leaving by car, but the children, with the film actors, Bruce Cabot and Leo Carillo, are helping: 75 firemen to the re-enter.
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ORDERED OUT OF TIENTSIN CONCESSIONS
Tientsin, Nov. 25.
There would be a very prolonged preliminary investigation, and if Corrigan were refused ball it would almost amount to a denial to him of opportunity properly to prepare his defence.
POLICE OPPOSITION
The police who are in charge of this case know this application La being made," said Mr. Cassels. "I do not know whether they are sup- porting or opposing the applica- tion.
"If they are opposing. I would
posing. venture to say, that the granting of ball is a matter for you. If they oppose, it is equivalent to the police having almost the power of grant- ing ball to a man or not."
The Japanese here are in- tensifying their efforts to re=” duce the commercial impor- tance of the British And French Concessions in Tientsin by requiring all the remaining Japanese trading firms to move to the Japanese Concession or a special puppet district The British and French conces slons are charged to be centres of patriotic Chinese gatherings in spite of the protests of the Japan- Mr. Cassels also mentioned that ese military and consul oficials. the second surety mentioned "lived About 450 Japanese firms and in Colchester in a very substantial shops have moved out of the two position." concessions
Det. Insp. Stevens said he must However, the branches of the oppose bail at that stage. There Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of was always the possibility that Chosen, Pakusho Koshi and other Corrigan might leave the country. large Japanese compantes have to Although he might not have a remain in these two concessions, as passport, there were ways and
is dimeult to secure suitable means. buildings outside of the British and Also there might be intimidation French areas,
of witnesses. He was not suggest- As Tientsin is dealing largely in ing that there had been or would Japanese goods, the amount of im-be, but there might be. morts, handled at wharves of these The officer handed a document two concessions is beginning to fall to the magistrate Bir Rollo, after on account of the Japanese boy- examining it, said: "In this case, cott, while the Japanese Conces--at this stage, it is not possible to sion and the special Chinese dis-grant ball"
trict are gaining burness, Puppet Mr. Cassels indicated that hu firms are also moving out to the would renew the application when Japanese concession. Interna- the case was, again before Bir ¡tional..
Rolio.
SATURDAY, 'NOVEMBER 26, 1938.-PAGE.
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