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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB, Second Extra Race Meeting. In FOR SALE-German PIANO, good condition, and E'Alto Saxophone (Postponed from 3rd April, 1932) Baenchor) recently bought. In ex- Going cheap.
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THEATRES.
"Palmy Days"
Eddie Cantor insists that he has al fature that goes beyond current sue- coas, but what it is he doesn't know. Since the Samuel Goldwyn picture Palmy Days, at the King's Theatre, After a search of two weeks during is meant to be a for-laughing-pur poses-only exposure of spiritualism, which production necessarily was defertune telling and such occult pas- Cantor makes his role as an layed, Miriam Seegar was chosen for the leading feminine role in the Pathe unwilling assistant to a fake spirit-
"featur- comedy drama, "Big Money,"
Ing Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong,
both
unist seem the more
wyn.
In the real
of Europe James Gleason, Misa Beegar and Marsay of a future, Cantor is contem
ices of Samuel Gold- goret Livingston, which was directed plating a goodwill tour
In con- by Russell Mack and which is show-ander the
appearances Personepices ing at the Central Theatre to-day, section with the showings of "Palmy Miss Seeger, a petite blonde, was Days" in Berlin, Paris, Londen, Vienna
known on the stage,' favourably
New York and London before she went to Hollywoood about a year ago. Sho played leading roles opposite Richard Dix, Reginald Denny and Adolphe Menjou, and most recently. was featured with Charlie Murray in
Clancy in Wall Street
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The cast for "Big Money" was caro. fully selected and some twenty-five prominent stage and screen player, were entrusted with the various roles. The story deals with the troubies and
of a Wall Street messengo triumpha boy employed in a broker's office. He addicted to the gambling habit, which is not uncommon in Wall Street, and as a dice thrower he is a distin guished success. He is given $50,00 to deposit in a bank, but anxious for another whirl at the cubes, he finds the bank closed and in obliged to guare the money through the ensuing night He falls in with several gangsters and
h when they learn of the
treasure carries. In a brief case, his troubles begin
There are numerous thrilling secnos, but Eddie Quillan's flair for comody oven in the face of personal peril. carry him through with flying colours ie falls in love with his employer daughter, portrayed by Miss Soeger and Anally wins her after giving up the gambling game which had almost wrecked their love romance. The ple- ure was directed by Russell Mack Robert Edenon, Dorothy Christy an other notable players are in the cast.
"The Man I Killed." The new trend in pictures, as re- cently described by B. P. Schulbarg of Paramount' managing director West Coast production, when he sai that "dialogue should only be used tr story," in striking exemplified enhance the dramatic value of the
the King's Theatre.
Modern Apartments. Terms Moderate. THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB | Hotel, Hongkong, on Tuesday, the 19th April, 1932, at 11.30 am. for Three minuten from ferry. Tel. 67367.
Draft Programmes and Entry the purpose of receiving the Forms for the Fourth Extra Race Report of the General Manager. Meeting to be held on Saturday, together with a Statement of Ac: ended 81st (weather per- counts for the year 23rd April, 1932, mitting) may be obtained at the October, 1931. Secretary's Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sporte Club, and the Stables, Village Road.
We beg to notify the Public that we have removed from 14, Queen's Road. Central. to 18. D'Aguilar Street.
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Entries close at 12 o'clock Noon on Thursday, 14th April, 1932
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP, Actz. Secretary.
ALL THE ENCHANTING
Our
of
The Register of Shares of the closed from Company will be Wednesday, the 13th day of April. to Tuesday, the 19th day of April. 1932, both daya inclusive, during
no transfer which perlod shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hongkong, 7th April, 1932.
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At Prices which can't be beaten.
Over the Harbour to Hariram's.
51. Nathan Road, Kowloon.
sophisted, "The Smiling
and Rome are likely. Eddie basn't seen to Europe since he went to Eng land on his honeymoon in 1914, to
sing Asingin number in "Charlot's Revao. The song in
Love the Ladies, remembered,"
Then the goggle-eyed comle has two tage offers under advisement-one rom Florenz Ziegfeld for a new Follies" or possibly a "book" or story how, and another for Earl Carroll's Vanities. A year ago, when Cantor went westward after his long atago
"Whoopec,
hoopee," to make the memo- un in
able picturization of the Now Ams- him- erdam Theatre hit, ha
self and his family Promised his
wife, Ids, and his five daughters, hat he was through with the stage! 'orever. No one challenges his right o change his mind, that is, no one xcept Eddle and his family.
are be
Cantor's literary, ***** utumb
comg increasingly
on that
nuch so, in fact, that Eddio in serious- y contemplating a more intensive con-
ration
field. "Caught nort" was an outstanding succosa; o Was My Life Is In Your Hands."
Prosperity Jurrently, "Yoo! Hool
ttracting nation wide attention in its serial publication sook form after
The Saturday Evening Post. His
And
market magazine stories
a quic
It is n and great popularity. ertile and almost untouched field.
has his family Cantor has Lastly,
3
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da, his wife, with whom
on
Le grew up in the East Side tenementa 1 New York, his five daughters, rang- Ho ng in age from four to fifteen.
caroor he ha nows that the more of
the stage or 168, particularly screen, with its night work, its con- tant travel and public attention, the ass family he will have. He likes California. He thinks it a fine coun- ry to bring up the Cantor girls. He as a great mansion in Great Neck, ong Island, that is closed during klá Iollywood sojourn.
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Ernst Lubitsch's first dramatic talk ing production will reach the scree
And AD Eddie Cantor is wondering. the fortune-telling exposures with far less dialogue than the othe
Falmy Daya" help him none at all. big pictures made since the advent a Round,
"Dialogue
"Flying Ugh." Is important when
Thanks for a huge new aluminum means something, yet only where i
rane which permits a camera to boj
the air, there to is vital to the story," says the directin who made several dramatic silent plecarried high in tures but whose talking productions toperate hither and yon at will, one of date have been confined to the lighter he most unusual shots" ever made
motiun .nn
picture appears in "Fly and more Lieutenant.
Carlo" and "Thing High," which will open on Sunday Love Parada"
.it the Queen's Theatre.
The "shot" concerns a brilliant song and dance number, "Happy Landings. When the scene first:
appears on the the screen, camera apparently is hovering over a huge aviation field, rom which RCOTOS of "ships" are rising. Suddenly, however, the field slips away, disclosing two score of gorgeously beautiful girls, who per form an intricate dance manoeuvre as directed by Busby Berkeley, respon sible for the ensembles of "Whoopee." Katryn Crawford Is the featured singer of the number.
"Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll. Phillips Holmes and the other char acters in The Man I Killed" talk when it is logical that they should talk:
they do not talk, however, where the story can better be develop ed in terms of action and use of the
cameras.
of this new
Only the Invention "camera crane" which can go through how
new and remarkable evolutions made possible this unusual photographic offering.
Page after page of the script of the after-the-war romance laid in France and Germany was baro of dialogue. It was more like the scenarios for silent pictures, following the down-to- earth formula which authorities such as Schulberg and Lubitsch say is the new trend in providing the kind of entertainment demanded by the public. Beau Ideal." Adventure-seeking soldiers of the French Foreign Legion! Battling out- Tho "Happy Landings" number is casts
fugitives from life and but one of four new songs which are of society! Devil-may-care heroism from interspersed between the drollerles the four corners of the world! The Bert Lahr, America's most imitated courage of this famous body of sol- comedian, Charlotte Greenwood, Pat diers-of-fortune as depicted in "Beau
Beau O'Brien, Kathryn Crawford, Charles
Winninger, Hedda
Hopper, Guy Kibbee Ideal" coming to the Queen's Theatre
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Dorothy Fields and, James McHugh other body of troop A
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apparently
foulish delay.
Hero in the terse explanation of a rmer officer of the Legion: former
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