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•POST OFFICE ROBBERY.
$1,587 EXTRACTED FROM
IRON SAFE
Tho mysterious disappearance of a sum of about $1,587 in bank
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Ing to investigate the robbery
The money was found missing when the clerk opened the anfo to begin his duties in the morn- ing. There was a sum of about $3,500 in the safe at the time, and some stamps, but these were not touched, the thief merely contenting himself, with taking the banknotes...........
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Is Diana Wynyard, the lovely Eng- is girl, who has created a sensation in Hollywood's film of Noel Coward's
"Cavalcade" to share the martyrdom
He signed a Fox contract in 1931 and his present production, a comedy romance, the Infernal Minchino," opening next Wednesday at the King's Theatre, with Chester Morris and Genevieve Tobin featured, to- gethor with Victor dory, is the third he has directed. His others were
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The Silent Witness" and "Chandu, of the few film benities who seem the
Magician". Advance fated to grow prematurely old? state that the Infernal Machine", Cinemagoers will be able to form adapted from a novel by Carl Sloboda their own conclusions when they ace outdistance all his other work becaUAL of its sustained humorous quality the Alm at the King's Theatre to-day and pictorial charm.”
For months the Fox Company searched for an English girl who could be expected to give a true chat acterisation of the dignified, austero Jane Marryot who is the chief charne
ter in Cavalende."
Tests proved that even the best that the singo could offer would in no way-satisfy the film camera.
Then Diona Wynyard, at that time unknown in Hollyweed, was tested. She went before the camera na the young Jane Marryot of 1899, fresh, young wife and mother, into whose life a lone shadow was cast by dark Africa.
"Gabriel Over the White House" Those who look for motion picture tense, authentic melodrama-of-actual entertainment permented with the headlines in to-day's news will fod "Gabriel Over the White House." new Cosmopolitan Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production coming on Thursday to the Queen's Theatre one of the out- standing talkle events of the year.
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This picture was adapted from the most darng expose of Washington ever written. Its anonymous author knew hin politics and at the same LONDON SERVICE time weaved into his story of a Unit-
SARPEDOŇ, The result of the test was electrify-ed States President who steps out Ing: here was a striking new star, a and does something about current
PHILOCTETES pure English type with great drama- problems an unusually gripping hú-' tic foren, and with regal dignity sub-man theme. slatent in the best British woman
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very significant aspect of the robbery is that there were no marks of damage on the safe. which leads the police to believe that the thief dr thievos must have used a duplicate key,
But Hollywood still The method of entry into the;
doubted office also seems to be very mys- whether Miss Wynyard could play terious, as it was impossible for the part. For Jean Marryet she inust be able to start her performance the robbery to have been com-at the age of 32 and end it as a mitted in broad daylight, situa- woman of 65. ted as the safe la in the general view of all the clerks and persons entering the Post Office to buy stamps. There is a bright light above the safe.,
With faint hopes they asked 28. year-old Dunn, to show thent, she could do with the character of Jane Marryot aged 65, Clothes," make-up und art combined in the making of the most astonishing film test turned Mr. W. J. Carrie, the Post Mins-out of the experimental studios of ter General, when interviewed by Ilallywood. a representative of the South China Post, expressed the Morning opinion that the thief or thieves must have concealed themselves in the office before the closing of the doors on Friday evening. and committed the robbery ut their leisure, walking out when the doors were opened on Satur day morning. There is good reason to believe this must have been the case, because none of the doors had been forced open or the locks lumpered with.'
No suspicion attaches to any of the clerks, for the money wes all intact when the day's work was over.
Dinna, as the whole film world now acknowledges, was
Janie Marryat, Not only the Jane of 1900 with the two young children, but the bereaved, olderly and childless June of 1932, Her greatest hope is that her great "Cavalcade" success will not result in a long succession of "old woman"
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With, her in "Cavalende", ave Clive
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Headed by Walter Iluston as the President who overnight is transforus- ed from an insincere, back-slapping man of iron, the politician to a distinguished cast of "Gabriel Over NEW YORK SERVICE the White House" includes Karen Morley, Franchet Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore, C. Henry Gordon, David Landau, Samuel Hinds, Will lam Pawley, Jean Farker and Claize Dubrey.
the in- The drama, starts with auguration of the simple, back country man, Jud Hammond, whe becomes the ilon. Judson Hammond, President of the United States. Ilis first press conference shows him to be a typical politician, jovial, in- sincere, evasive, unwilling to courageously with national problems. He is injured in an accident and on his return to work following a long period of illnes which has given him time to think things over, he becomes a new Judson Hammond, hard) instead
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He res the Secretary of War and Brook, Irene Browne, Herbert Mun- din, and Uni O'Connor who also age asks for the resignation of his entire with the story. Other British artists cabinet when they hesitate to support in the film include Frank Lawton, his moves to relieve the Unemploy- Ursula Jeans, Merle Tottenhum, Mar-ment Army, te demands that Con-i guret Lindsay and Tempe Pigait. gress give him the powers of a All are British.
"The White Sister"
dictator. He fights directly with tho "king" of the racketeers and through a federal police force wipes him out. He forces at Internatiumil Debt Cou- "A new contribution to the list of gress, not behind closed doors but on The police are busy making in-imposing screen achievements enne the deck of a yacht where a graphle yesterday to the Queen's Theatre in demonstration of how quickly war vestigations, but so far no arrests the presentation of Metro-Golwyn- craft may be destroyed by airplanes have been made.
Mayer's tallting-picture version of leads to debt payment via sums saved
The White Sister" with Helen Hayes in disarmament.
LESSON SERMON.
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and Clark Gable in the principal roles.
In its poignant, touching narrative, its beautiful direction, its effective camera work and in the brilliant performances of its two wellknown FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,stors, this picture stands out forcibly
SCIENTIST, HONGKONG
"Reality" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, yesterday.
The Golden Text was: "Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former.shall not be remembered, nor come into mind" (Isaiah 65:17).
Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Rejoice In the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright... For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth....By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth....The counsel of the .the Lord standeth for ever, thoughts of his heart to all genera tions" (Ps.38:1,4,0,11).
As an example of the beal in cinema art.
F. Marion Crawford's immortal story of the girl who enters a convent when she believes her lover to be dend only to meet him again after she has taken her holy vows, is too well known--to-bear- repetition. in these columus. Sufficient to say that the new talkic version of the tale brings. moments, its most forceful out describes the experiences of the romantic Italian girl and her soldier- lover in a series of warm sympathie- tid, human episodes and brings the narrative to a close in as heartrend- ing a climax as has been seen on the: screen in some time.
"Infernal Machine"
Chartered accountant, actor, war veteran with five years' service, director of stage, plays and motion pictures in two languages are some of the activities Marcel Varnel has ecowned into thirty-eight busy years.
A native of Paris he was educated in Chaptal College there, at Charter House, London, and the French Con- servatory, of Dramatic Arts in his home city. Then he took a business The Lesson-Sermon also includ-course in colloge and qualified as an ed the following passages from expert accountant. the Christian Scienco textbook, His father wanted him to follow "Science and Health with Key to in his footsteps as manager of the the Scriptures" by. Mary Baker Paris markets, but young Varnel pre Eddy: To grasp the reality and ferred the stage. After playing o variety of roles for three years, he order of being in its science, you became a stage director, staging plays must begin by reckoning God as with auch famous actresses 'n. Duse the divine Principle of all that and Rejane. really is....There is but one primal cause. Therefore thore and was discharged five years Inter can be no effect from any, others a first lieutenant. He was twice cause, and there can be no reality taken prisoner by the Germans, but in aught which does not proceed escaped each time after recatering
from injuries, from this great and only causo" (pp.275,207).
Ile entered the war as a private
In 1925 he came to America and directed "Countess Maritza". "Circus
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