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JANUARY
1934.
BANKS.
Mundin yearns for recognition as a HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF dramatic actor. Ile got his chance in BANKING CORPORATION. INDIA, AUSTRÀLIA & CHINA.
.850.000.000 Incorporated by: Kayal Charte 1533.
with Clive Breek, acquitted himself: Apthorised Capital with distinction. "I became disgust, Loed and. Fully Paid-up 20,000,000 ingly intoxicated," he says, "I slapped
my small daughter, abused people who
Sterling Bilver
10.000.000
HEAD-OFFICE-HONGKONG BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
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J
had been good to me, broke my wife's Reservs Liability of Proprietors 220,000,000 heart and
in a drunken stupor, firmally, was run over and killed by a fire truck. Nothing huniorous about that. But the other night, as I was coming out of a theatro near our home, a young girl stopped me and said 'Mr. Mundin, Pro-always enjoyed-your-work-on the screen but I just had to tell you that you have never been so funny an in W. 1. Bell, Fan Cavalendo." Mundin's newest part A. II. Compton, E. in that of a pseudo-Southern general' 8. 11. Dodwell K in "Arizona To Broadwayennett, and
in which ton, Mr. C. O. 8,
Mackle. ho, James Dunn,
Sammy Cthen become involved with confidence and "Bambo," the miracle medicine of the Kickapoo Indians. It comes on Wednesday to the King's Theatre.
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"I'm No Angel" The girl of to-day gets her ma3|| BATAVIA
easily than did her mother, BauBAY much more but she is net nearly so successful at CALCUTTA kcoping him. So opines Mae West, CANTON the movies now nearch queen, whe CHEFOO convincingly and enter: COLOMB demonstrated taimingly in "She Done Him Wrong." DAIREN how she attracts the men. Now he rooCHOW Rives another demonstration in her HAIPHONG latest Paramount picture, "I'm No HAMBURG Angel," coming on Saturday to the HANKOW Queen's while practising her aris on HARDIN Cary
Grant.
nowest HONOKEW Screendom' queen gives a feank demonstration of ILOILO the arts "luring" of
"hckling and
in [PON her new picture, "I'm No Angel." Onor
JOHORE Rovealing an unusual assortment of БОВЕ curves, in the early sequences of the KOWLOON picture she plays the role of Tira, RUALA LUMPUR carnival dancer. Here she dances tho
midway, a torrid conception of the and Fixed Depoalia received for one year Current Accounts opened in Local Currosey shimmy dance which she herself orl or shorter periode in Locki Currency and Kinated. Later, her curvacious form Sterling on terms which will be quoted on
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Hongkong, 80th October, 1939. arrayed in tights, she becomes a lion tamer, is wildly neclaimed by the big city
practices her wiles on the society playboys. The picture has been directed by Wesley Ruggles. The sup-
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Fifty years of acting on the stage and screen haven't lessened May Rcbson's enthusiasm, and she feels as oxcited about her current role withi Lionel Barrymore in
in "One Man's
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in Arthur Soniers Roche's Alexandria Flonelulu
RAWALPINDI Miss Robson wont to New York, worn by him in a gunman's death
TANDA COMORIN
did about her first appearaustralls,
for
re-embarking
to
at the seond
hot m• Cinouse," and that the "blood" was {atavia age of soven, rking for Churluni turo version of Arthur Somers Roche's Bombay
receiva}
Ncenario
sho made her
her grape juice. "Penthouse," a pic-- Berlla
Magazine Calcutta debut sensational
9. Van Dyke, CrutoD
old Vitheraph Company in a story, was demopolita""
by W. the rio she
wrote herself. Since Others in the east besides Pendleton Dans Dalny) then she has been dividing her talents are Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Mac Fengtlen
(Mukden) C. Henry between the stage and screen. Des-Clarke, Phillips Holmes, pite hor years,
May Robson is a per- Gordon, Charles Butterworth, Martha Hamburg. fermier of great vitality and possesses Sleeper, George E. Stone and Robert Harbin a keen understanding of each of har Emmett O'Connor. roles. Among hor recent appearences, are roles "Little
In Vienna,"
Ilangoch Ito de
Karachi
Janeiro
Kobe
San Francfico
London
Brattlo
Los Angeles
Semarang
Manila
Moll
Negurki Nettoya
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Deposits received for fixed periods at rates Hollywood offers a sprightly and to be obtained on application.. "Reup." Orphan Ann "Strange
II. MORI Interluds" and "Letty Lynton." Me original comedy with briliant theme. et in being said of "Rafter Romance" Robson's role in "One Man's Journey
aure
to
Mannger.
Hongkong. let January, 1056. an RKO-Radio Picture, is that of the RKO-Radio Picture now showing kcusekeeper to Llonel Barrymore, who at the Central Theatre with Ginger
Norman Rogers,
Foster, George Sidne
Sidney eyed old maid, while she pictures him doc- country portrays a hoble-hearted tor who considers himself a failure. and Laura Hope Crews. This latest an a roue and holy terror. While all
"Penthouse"
the plea- this animosity rages, the pair meet Hollywood contribution
cf nations is a
a Greenwich village outside the attic and fall in love. As Blood splotches on a gray suit of the of an ambitious young girl who the outsida love grows hotter, the attic elathes gave Los Angeles police though poverty is forced to share on batred bursts into a volcanic climax. solution-to-a daring-bank- hold-uPainttip with a struggling Young"artist.-"after Row.unce was directed be novel by almost during the filming of the The boy and girl nover meet in that william Seiter from an i Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cosmopolitan attle, as the boy is a night watchman screenplay of John Wellntion and productos which is now showing a white she is at work. Week after Glenn Tryon. Mins Rogers and Foster and occupies the room during the day Sam Mintz, H. W. Hanemann and Goorgo
Arthur Somers Roche's
Near Los
one
of the
the Queen's Theatre. Angeles, a bank had been robbed. In a gun battle that followed, Landits was captured, a cons
a constable wan critically wounded and a second bandit, believed to have been shot, escaped. Shortly after the robbery, a hard- faced young man entered a Hollywood cleaner's establishment with a gray. suit of clothes, red stains upon it and a bullet hole in it.
up the hole the cleaner
A
and take out the juice, tencions!
Tho cleaner's was told were aroused. He notified the police after the customer,
departed, Two Glicers
"staked out" in the shop, to await the return of the suit's owner, suspecting him of being the escaped wounded bank bandit. But it wasn't. It
was. Nat Pendleton, player of gangster rolce, who appears as Gazotti in Penthouse." And it took, many
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