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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 211 1853.
NOTED PUBLISHER'S DEATH
VISCOUNT BURNHAM
CINEMA SCREENINGS
NOTES SUPPLIED BY
THE THEATRES
Working with animals is no Job for a nervous actor, is the opinion, of Gene: Raymond who, with Loretta Young, is co-starred in “Zoò in Buda- pest", frat Jonno L. Lasky production for Fox, coming on Saturday to tho King's Theatre.
London, July 20, Lord Burnham, leading publisher and prominent parliamentarian, dfod in his sleep last night.
His
pasalng, was sudden, and comes as a shock to London, where he was a distinguished and popular; figure.
While it is not an animal picture."] On Tuesday he attended the meeting of the Select Committee despite the fact that more than 500 on Indle, and appeared in the best plants, chimpanzees and other assort lions, tigors, panthers, leopards, clo. af health-Our Own Corresponed Jungle beasts are used the action dont
of the picture requires Raymond to handle some of them.
Harry Webster Lawson, Viscount Burnham, was born in London in December 1862. His father as the first Lord Burnham, who made the Daily Telegraph a success,
Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he entered Parlla ment in 1885 as a Liberal and sat
Ho, has the role of an orphan boy, born and reared in the zoo, who has nasociated with animals all his life. A Jovo affair develops between him and Bliss Young, a young jove-starved girl from a neighbouring reformatory- like orphanage, who is marched to the 200 once a week with the other girls for an "educational lecture",
"What! No Beer?"
Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante stole a march on Congres. While the nation's legislators were battling over the beer question, these two comedians completely settied the
problem in their which comes on Sunday to the Queen's new comedy, "What No Beer?" Theatre. This Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy covers the whole agitation for beer, from the election to the night in Congress for legalization.
on that side of the House with In-boy and girl is lightly etched against The whimsical romance between the tervals till 1900.. In 1910 o wasan animal background. returned for Mile End дя .0 Unionist. Had he devoted himself entirely to politica, he might inve taken a prominent position in the Cabinot, but, realising the power he wielded as the owner of an im- portant independent newspaper, he preferred to concentrate his chief attention on it. In 1903 he took the place of his father na managing proprietor of the Telegraph and since then has directed its policy their wordy battles, Keaton
But while the politicians woged and given assiduous attention to Durante pitched in. In the course the details both of its news and of their operations they got caught business sides, making all im-in a war between rival beer-running portant decisions himself. .:
gangs who sought control of their output. The story, therefore, weaves its why between comedy and excite- mont.
In spite, however, of his con- stant preoccupation with the paper
..
and
he found time to do an enormous when Buster falls in love with The romantic interest is provided amount of public work, having the served-often as
sweetheart of сле of the: chairman-en gang leaders. The feminine lead) Innumerable commisssons, com-is taken by Phyllis Barry, who mittees and the like, and spoken Ronald Colman in "Cynara." Other
made
hor
debut opposite much at meetings. He was per-
important roles
played
of the Keaton-Durante
John Miljan and Edward Brophy, rival beer
screen
haps the most indefatigable diner-Rosco Ates, er
"Just My Luck"?
Ben
"Just My Luck" at the Central on Aldwych farco "Fifty-Fifty": Sunday is a screen adaptation of the Travers being responsible not only for the adaptation but: also the sparkling dialogue. The nature of toristic screen material, and the out- the story affords Ralph Lynn charac door locations, particularly the race- course scenes, extend the interest for beyond the possibilities of the stage.
out of his time and was in great Kent demand as an after-dinnor speak-racketeers; Henry Armetta, Charles or. Among the bodies on which Dunbar and Charles Giulyn. "What! he served were the committees on Sedgwick, who directed Keaton and No Beer?" was directed by Edward House of Lords reform, army pro- motion and offleers' resettlement,
Durante in "Speak Easily." seditious literature and overseas settlement, for he was a recognis- ed champion of Empire solidarity and development. In 1921 and 1922 he was President of the In- ternational Labour Conference at Geneva and in 1924 presided over the Public Health Conference at Bordeaux. His name will always be associated with the schools, for he was chairman of the com- mittee on teachers salaries in 1920 and made the award fixing revised rates, which became known as the "Burnham Scale." When it was-ro-adjusted in 1924, Lord Burnham's services wore again requisitioned:
Chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors Association from its Hnception, he succeeded his father
For half his natural span with the with whom fate has dealt unkindly, a screen Ralph has been a music teacher fact largely due to his difdence and a disinclination to assert himself. From being kind of football of chance the suddenly blossoms out as a self- assertive gentleman, with a whole and hearty, belief in himself, a change perous man of such type. due to a chance meeting with a pro-
music teacher in adorning himself as The self-retiring, modestly-garbed as president of the Newspaper a pushful, energetic, well-dressed Press Fund and the Newsvendors business man, changes his outlook an Benevolent Association. During life and rushes onward to success the war he was chairman of the and trouble. The part is one that Press Conference which dealt with the regulation of news. AB president of the Empire Press Union, he officiated at ite confer- ences in Canada in 1920 and in; Australia in 1925. In 1927, he accepted an Invitation to preside over the International Presa Cen- ference at Geneva In August.
In 1884 ho married Olive, daughter of Sir H. de Bathe and has one daughter. He succeeded hia father in 1916 and for his ser- vices during the war was made a Compaplan of Honour in 1917 and a Viscount in 1919. The county ends with him. brother, the Hon. Wm. A. W. Law- von, is heir to the barony, and has q Bop Col. F. Lawson, who became connected with the managerial Bide of the Daily Telegraph after the war.
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Paz" "Ifumanity”":"
Many actors go to Hollywood dotor nilaod to crash into motion pictures, but discover they have made the trip. inorely for their health.
Alexander Kirkland reversed the arder of this common procedure. For following his success on the Now. York stage, he went to the Pacifle Const in search of health and, on tho day following his arrival in Holly- wood, found himself signed to a For Film contract and assigned to a featured role in "Surrender",
Kirkland has since played featured roles in "Charlie Chan's Chando" Almont Married", "Devil's Lottery" "Passport to Hell and other pictures, Including "Strange Interludo",
Kirkland's latest picture in "Hu- manity" now at the King's Theatre, in which he is co-featured with Boots Mallory, Other Important roles aro enacted by Ralph Morgan and Irons Ware,
"Humanity", directed by John Francis Dillon, is based on a story by Harry Fried and prepared for the sexech by Bradley King. It rovolves about the adventures of a young doctor who forsakes the ideals of his physician father and takes a disastrous excursion in to the realms of society and big money,
QUEEN'S
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BUSTER
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monster brewers of laughs
WHAT! No Beer?
with ROSCO ATES
PHYLLIS. BARRY JOHN MILJAN
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