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Commerce, Connaught Rond, Central, has been busy packing Hongkang products for EXHIBITS BEING SENT FROM shipment which include Chinese and Foreign goods. Exhibits are being transported free of charge.
CANTON EXHIBITION., in the Chinese Chamber
HONGKONG
On Wednesday, February 15. the Mr. Kaam C. Lie, the Hongkong Canton Exhibition will be formally representative of the Exhibition, bus opened.
called on various foreign Consets and For the past few days, the long- Trade Commissionera in flongkong to kong Office of the Canton Exhibition enlist support.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933.
CINEMA SCREENINGS.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
With the current showing at the Queen's Theatre of "Grand lote," best- acapted from Vicki Buam's
co
soiting novel and successiul stago play, an expensive experiment of new veral years duration has its final test before the public. 10 experiment In 2 plear terms as this: will a picture with two or more stars head- ing the cast have a greater appeal to the public than a fim that icatures only the star. And, if so, is it worth Since the great expenso involved? the earliest days of the motion pic- ture, when producing companies sought to curb the star system by billing their players as the Triangie girl or the biograph man, this ques tion has come up agals and again, but until recently no picture company hus had courage enough to attempt the experiment which would settle the problem for all time, in Д WAY, Grand Hotel" is not in itself the experiment, but rather the culmins- tion of an experiment extending over the past few years. Egh! Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
released plctures within the past several months have had two stors. In the leading rules, These include "Private Lives," starring Norma Shearer and Robert-
Champ," Montgomery; "The
with Cooper; Wallace Berry and Jackie "ill Divers, in which Beery teamed with Clark
Gable; ni." whicis Carbo and Navarro nhared the stellat roles; "Arnene Lupin," bringing the Barry- more Brothers, John and Lionel, to- first gether on the screen for the time: "Polly of the Circus." co-star- ring Marion Davien and Clark Gable; "Letty Lynton", co-starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery; and "Strange Interlude" in which Norman Shearer and Gable share the Jending
Hotel," "Grand relen. In however, no less than ve stars are tu be seen together in one picture. The five most prominent roles in the now m are played by Greta Garbo, Crawford, Jhn Barrymore, donn Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore. Mins Garbo plays Grusinskaya, the dancer, Jolus Barrymore is the Baron with whom he falls in love and Man Crawford is seen as Finemmehen, n stentgrapher. Wallace Beery har the role of Preysing, a German fionarial! speculator and Lionel Barrymore has the much-discussed role of Kringelein, "Hat Cheek Girl"
"Mara m
Although Ren Lyen and Sally Filers! arver yorked together in a pictur until they made "Hat Chest: " recently for Fox Films, Ben has good renson to remember the Indy. for fant years ago she was his first arroplan · nagstar. Neither does any flying in "Hat Cheek Girl," however, the story bring a spertly romance between n night club girl and a Park Avenu millionaire. Ginger Rogers, Arthur
son, Monra Oesley, Purnell Prat and other favourites are in the engi of the picture, which cames to th King's Theatre x Thariday.
"Air Mail"
One of the most hazardous ni- feats ever attempted is said to b shown on th; were at the Cop`rna
is this week whers Universal's thrilling "Air Mail" provides the ptare attraction. Swooping from the rids nt 210 miles an hour a Spil plans roars through an aeroplane henger with but a few feet. el arane en either side. Other daredevil sty manoeuvres are said to make the film an authentic picturization of mirae"ou
sit Rank Beamy. Pal O'Brien, Russell Hopton, Slim Sum merville, Garis Stage and Lay Bond are the principal players.
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ing. Thought wo'd forgotten to unlock it. He figured wold be in the dining room or on the terrace and came around that end of the house, expecting to find us wait- ing for him. First thing he aces Is the empty lawn, then me sprint- Bing up and cousin Amos on the
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"From then on, you know the reat. Of course it was just plain contrariness that kept him irom lelling us this when We naked him."
Emerging a few moments later from the shower, Linda continued where they had left off. "DIO you say anything about the shirt? 1. hope you kept that dark!"
"I meant to, but by now it's grown to an epic. He wouldn't have missed telling about it and the episode of kissing Rosie--ho ets himself go on that theme. fle didn't go into what kept him from the dance the rest of the time. Some other amorous adventure which he's probably forgotten by now."
Now, hurry, Tom!" she mock- ed as he started off, but he was impervious to the satire and soon merged, his mind, too, still on the
ubject,
"One thing I did enjoy," ho added with a chuckle of remini- acent glee, was my curlain ypruch. As it happened, they all "ame upstairs separately mid I wcompanied each one, just to be one everything was o. k, in your absence. The careful hout, that's
"Well ?"
"Well, when I raid good night each one made n little specch about how nerve-wracking it must have been and how weit I'd be- haved-sort of back-patting, you know. But it made me sore be- cause each one implied that so far as he was concerned, it was much ado about nothing. I'd heen a brave sort of nitwit, you 40, where ony sensible man would have known at once that particular person was innocent. irritated me each time because
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I know they a3 did behave badly and there was plenty of reason for suspecting each one."
"They did and there was," agreed Linda. "Hope you rubbed it in!"
Well, not metly that. But when the speech was over-in each care-1 thanked him, shook hauds solemnly, and said, 'Good night. I'm glad it's over safely- but let this be a lesson to you. Never lose your temper
THE END
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