77.01
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the result that after he had moved American Can to a Brooklyn rooming house, ho was American Smelting 11% forced to accept a fob in a road show, American Tel. & Tel. 104 105
Tobacco frat in "The Green Goddess" and American then in "East is West." In the latter play he arrived ultimately in Los Angeles, and then, aceing bls op portunity, he made the rounds of the studios and the casting offices.
50%
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"Speak Easily."
SUNDAY, 1st January,
1st Race 2.35 p.m. Special Train leaves Kowloon 1.06 p.m. Returning 6.00 p.m.
First Class Return includes admittance to Race Course, Admission Public Enclosure $100. Service mon in Uniform half price.
TO-MORROW at the
KING'S
climbed on board the train and took Kreuger & Tell their seats just as they would in a Liggett & Myers "D" regular station. Conductors signalled Locw's Inc. and the engine started to put with Montgomery Ward all of the accompanying whistles and National City Bank 41% raiting of the cars being recorded Pacific Gas & Elec. on the sound track with dialogue of Packurd Moters the players. "Plenty of realism in Sears Roebuck this scene-but tough on the direc- Radio Corporation tor" sald Edward Sedgwick from a Shell Union ...... perch on the luggage racks where he was trying to maintain his balance during the action.
Eocony-Vacuum Cor-
to illuminate the scene, a mixer's tabla and a "mike" boom all controlled by International Tel. &
Tel. a maze of wires. The players
actual The height of realism In sound effects was achieved when an entiro passenger train we rented to provide "atmosphere" for Buster! Keaton and Jimmy "Schnozzle" Drugs Inc.
# new Du Pont de Nemours 80% Durante in "Speak Easily" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy to be Eastman Kodak ...
Bond at the Quean's Electrle shown to-morrow
Share Theatre. Portabic sound equipment hot up beside the track was connected Electric Light with a long cable to microphones in- side the car. As the train moved General Electric
Was General Fooda out of the station this
cable allowed to unwind from a drum for General Motrs several hundred feet during the scene. Gillette Safety Razor 18% Cramped into the small space of a Goodyear Tire
Rubber car aisle was a largo sound camera mounted on wheels, lights sulcient International
"B" Anaconda Copper Auburn... Bethlehem Sicel Borden Company, Candadian Railway Chase National Bank Chrysler
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THE FANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB
Special Train leaves Kowloon 1.05 p.m. Returning 0.06 p.m.
First Class Return Fee of $2,00 Includes admittance to Race Course,
Two buses of the China Motor Bus Co. will leave the Star Ferry (Godown Entrance) on Sunday, 1st January, one at 10.45 a.m. and one at 11.00 nm. going direct to Kwant! Race Course via Castle Poak, and returning soon aftor the last race.
The fare there and back cluding entrance to the Course (Public Enclosure), be $8.00.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932.
CINEMA SCREENINGS NEW YORK STOCK
NOTES SUPPLIED, BY THE
THEATRES
Ronald Colman, whose name bas come to be all but synonymous with Hollywood, falled utterly in his firat attempt to get into pictures.. The star of "The Unholy Garden," which comes to the King's Theatre on Sun- day next revealed this information at
EXCHANGE
YESTERDAY'S MARKET
FIRM
According to Messrs. Swan, Culbert- son and Frits, the New York market was arm yesterday, Business dono: 1,050,000 shares. The Wall Street Journal reporta: Strength in benda a recent gathering of friends in the and grains advanced a quist market Colman home. After returning from which however featured bolated sell- tax lossen. The the war, in which he had delved into ing to establish
report reflected amateur theatricals, Colman mado Federal Reserve his debut upon the English stage as strong banking condition. Grains! on account of) the partner of a vaudeville headliner, advanced strongly and then made a name for himself higher cables from Liverpool due to But the aggressive bulying of wheat from (in-upon the legitimate stage,
London theatres fell into the doldrums China and India.
Dow Jones averages: and, like so many other English ac- tors, Colman migrated to Broadway. America offered the only hope, but,
20 Rail when he arrived there he found condi- 30 Industrials tions worse than they were in Eng-120 Uthitics land. Everything Colman attempt 40 Bonds ed in New York went wrong, with
Race will
Admission Public Enclosure $1.00. Service Men in Uniform half price.
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ROBERT WOOLSEY
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Mc-
rectly tailored, evon to the envy of Woolworth Hollywood's professional "handsome" men "While Paris Sceps," Laglen's latest featured picture for Fox Filma, now showing at the King's Theatre with Helen Mack and Willam Bakewell in the romantic leads, does not show the glant player in Immineu. late dress. Yet ono cannot help but feel that his tatters are just the proper thing for the role he portrays, The stirring drama is a romantic ad- venture in the back streets of Paris where the love story is enacted among the ovil machinations of a gang of cunning opaches.
como
"Love on the Spot." Richard Dolman was born in Ken- Lancing sington, and educated at College. In 1016 he joined the Inns of Courts O.T.C. and inter became a pilot in the Naval Air Service. In 1917 he had a bad crash in which, a three foot was badly crushed and yonra were spent in hospital before recovery was complete. He served his urticles of clerkship and qualified as a lawyer, but never practised, as the frst chance of a stage. part when he understudied Fred Astaire in "Stop Flirting" in 1923. Since then ho han appeared in many musicel comedies including "One Dam Thing After Another," **Lady
Mary "Yoicks," "Here Comes the Bride" and "Stand Up and Sing" His first ercen appearance la in "Love on the Spol" now at the Queen's based on Sapper's story "Three of Iind" Since his appearance in this film he has been chosen as Gracie Fields' leading man in her next picture, "Looking on the Bright Side."
"While Paris Sleeps."
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