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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
Cash, Camera Awards and Trophies to the Value of $1,200.00
IN ADDITION TO THE CAMERA AND CASH PRIZES MESSRS, ILFORD, LIMITED, OF LONDON OFFER
TWO SILVER TROPHIES
TO WHAT ARE ADJUDGED THE TWO, BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
COMMENCE SENDING IN YOUR ENTRIES NOW. ENTRIES RECEIVED UP TILL 31st AUGUST.
SECTION 1
FOR THE BEST STORY-TELLING PICTURE
1st. Donated by the manufacturers-Franke & Hoidecke in conjunction with the
Hongkong Representatives, Menara. Melchers & Co.)
Rolleiflex Photo-Automat Camera 24 x 24 (6 x 6 cms) with Zeiss Tessar 3.8 lens. (Complete with Leather Case). VALUE $235.00.
2nd. (Donated by the Eastman Kodak Company) New Continental Kodak · 620-Duo, Zeiss Tessar f.3.5 lens and Compur Shutter; 16 pictures to the Verichrome, Panatomic or Supersensitive
VALUE $134.00. Panachromatic No. 620 Roll Film.
3rd.
(Donated by "Agfa China Co.") "Agfa" Superior C. Camera 8 x
· 14 cm, with Anastigmat Trilinear f.6.3 lens, Compur Shut- ter and Self-timer. VALUE $60.00.
4th.--(Donated by the Eastman Kodak Company! Kodak 620, Anastigmat f.6.3 lens; 8 pictures 24 x 34 to the Verichrome Film Roll No. 620. VALUE $28.00.
Consolation Prize of New 620 Box Brownie SECTION 2
·BATHING AND PICNIC PHOTOGRAPHS
1st.-Donated by the manufacturers--Franke & Heidocke in conjunction with the
Hongkong Representatives, Messrs. Melchers & Co.)
Rolleicord Photo-Automat Camera 24 x 24 (6 x 6 cms) with Zeiss Tessar 4.5 lens. (Complete with Leather Case).. VALUE $135.00.
2nd.-$50. 3rd.-$20. 4th.-$10.
620 Box Brownie.
Consolation Prize New
SECTION 3
CHINESE STUDIES.
(FIGURES AND FACES)
1st. (Donated by the Mayen Studio Baldax Camera with Meyer f.2.9 lens, Compur Shutters and built-in self-timer (Timing 1 sec. to 1/250th Sec. 16 pictures to the British New Ensign Lukos 120 Film. VALUE $75.00.
2nd.~(Donated by Carlowitz & Company! Zeiss Ikon Camera.
$35.00.
VALUE
3rd. (Donated by "Agfa China Co.") "AGFA" Speedex Record Camera,
F 7,7. VALUE $25.00.
Consolation Prize of New 620 Box Brownie
SECTION 4
VIEWS, INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE & STREET SCENES 1st. $50. 2nd.~$20. 3rd.-$10. Consolation Prizes of New
620 Box Brownie and one "AGFA" Box Camera.
SECTION 5
STUDIES IN STILL LIFE
1st.-$40. 2nd.-$20. 3rd.--$10. Consolation Prize of New
620 Box Brownie.
SECTION 6
SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14 YEARS
1st.-$12.50. 2nd.-$7.50 and 12 Consolation Prizes of No. O
Box Brownie Cameras. (Donated by the Eastman Kodak Co.).
The following Rules will govern the Competition:- 1.The Competition is canlines exclusively u
amateur photographers.
2. The Prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photographs in ench Section. Each entry must be accompanied by the form below. 3-The right to publish any or all of the entries
in the Telegraph is reserved.
-Photographs which must not be less than
x 3" (excepting in the Children's Section) should be printed in black and white, with the entry form lightly pasted on the
back. 8.-No correspondence will be entered into in con.
nexing with the Competition.
9. Entries in the Children's Section must bear Photographs which have been already entered
the name, age and address on the entry form in local competitions are ineligible.
countersigned by parent. 5.-At the conclusion of the Competition, entries
10-Mumbers of the Staffs of the Hongkong will be returned to competitors on application
Telegraph and South China Morning Post are at this Office within seven-days.
not permitted to compete. 6-No responsibility will be accepted for non-
11-The decision of the Judges shall be final. delivery, loss or damage. Address your Eantries to.-The Hongkong Telegraph Amateur Photographie Competition.
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1934.
RAILWAY DAMAGE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18,
CINEMA SCREENINGS
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
HARBIN ISOLATED BY FLOODS! AND BANDITS.
Gratum Green's best-selling novel
Dairen, July 17. comes to the screen of the King's The railway systems throughout Theatre to-day under its original the three North-eastern provinces title, "Orient Express." Produced under the Fox Film banner, the picare ture is reported as being even niore Harbin Is, virtually cut off from nensational than the book. Fox has the rest of the mainland,
The railway tracks have reconstructed on an exact scale the
completely paralysed and
of
becu
the
Section The Eastern N.M.R. is so damaged that traille hus bran Ruspended, but bandits, not floods, are responsible for the tearing out of the ralls.
On the Western Section the the bridge at Anganchi, over Nenni River, is on the verge of collapse.. Repair gangs and mat- fro being rushed to the eriala scene-Router.
deluxo train with its conchos and washed out by the Lalin River, thundering engine, Its cosmopolitan 115 miles south of Harbin, haltlag dining cars, and the milling crowds Changchun-Harbin traffic, includ anil naley stations of Europe. The Ing the Siberian mails.. story of "Orient Express" In novel, in that it gives a dramatle character. ization of seven strange people who incet on board a train speeding from Ontend to Constantinople. The seven ure dancer: a wealthy young mer chan, who falls in love with the dancer: a Cackney Englishmen and his domineering wife; a thief. Boeing from justice; n beautiful giri, a Com- munist leader and a wonun reporter. The emotions and ambitions of these noven people are dramatically charac the neurs terized. As the train Jugo-Slavian border, the Communist gives the dancer an Incriminating let- ter which lends to her arrest along with the thief td the Communist himself. How the dancer finally untangles her self from the grano if the net fato las cast around her, brings the film to what is-reperied ag n tense and exciting ellas. Heather Angel, who has endeared herself to the American public in "Berkeley Square", as the fending feminine role, while Norman Foster plnys ปร remantic lead opposite her. The film boasts a well- rounded cast that includes such stellar Italph Morgan, kerren stars
Drought Relief.
Nanking, July 17. At a meeting of the Executive Yuan, presided over by Mr. Wang Ching-wel, who returned from Shanghai this morning. it was de cided to create a Drought Relief Omer. In view of the serious! drought in a number of
pro- vinces,
The meeting, appointed Mr. Chen Kung-po (Minister for In- dustry) as Director of the office. -Reuter.
Herbert Mundin, Una O'Conner, Irene film, which was produced by Sol M. | Ware, Dorothy Burgess, Lisa Gora, William Irving. Roy D'Arcy: Perry Ivins, Fredrik Vogeding and Mare Lobell.
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Wurtzel.
"Fugitive. Lovers"
Jike "Fugitive With
picturen Lovers," The new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer m showing at the Queen's Theatre, the inpvier come into their Own.
The new melodrama, a thriller from beginning to ensi, is the kind of a story to which only the cinema could de justice, and in this case they do more than justice. Written by Ferdinand Reyher and Frank Wend, the story is first of all, flawless.
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WITCH AND WILDCAT... HER LAWLESS LOVE SET FIRE TO THE MOUNTAINSI
KIROBERT YOUNG RALPH BELLAMY MARTHA SLEEPER
"TRIGGER" by Luis Vollmer, Deected by John Creveal Marion
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"The House On 56th Street" Few stories are raid to offer a star a wider range of dramatic opportun- itles, ur a more dazzling background, Linn are afforded beautiful Kay Frans in The House On 56th Street", Warner Bros.' picturization of Joseph Suntley's story, which is ichard Boleslavsky's brilliant dree- coming to the Alhambra Theatre on ton has the power to enhance even Sunday. As the orphaned daughter the best story. The cast, enrk num=" professional gambler, whose her superb in his or her part, was henuly wins her immediate success
wisely chosen. Robert Montgomery In Bronddway's jrayest musical shows, jas daring in the thrilling prison 113 he is romantic. #nd makes her the tunst of the town, as one of the "Floradoro" girls, Kay Madge Evans portrays the role of Francis undertakes a role completely an independent chorine with charm.. different from anything she has ever
feeling and convincing characteriza- attempted before. The story opens tion. Ted Healy and his three mat- in their In the New York of thirty years ago. cap stooges are hilarious when the marriages of the "Floradora" "traight" character roles. As Daly. G. lienry to mitiannires was the talk of the detective par excellence, world, and when Delmonico's and Gordon is the kind of prison official Sherry's were he rendezvous of New who would make the most sagacious York's elite. As she steps from the esenped convict lie awake nights. stage into the most conservative social The navelty and freshness of "Fugitive! sel of the city on the bride af Monte Lovers" res in the fact that prac Van-Tyle, scion of an old Knicker-tically the entire story takes pince a great Groyhound road Cruleer pcker family. Peggy's happiness on
New o Hollywood from ems complete. It is not gamlding en route for money that brings about her ruia. York City. Seeing the picture is like But Pesity ennmat resist gambling making an exciting crosscountry trip. with life, and taking chances with
in involved
the Fate. Becoming deatir of one of her former lovers, though innocual, everything she loves is swept from her in a calummitmus sequel to an act of reckless genero- sily. Husband, child, friends and freedom are stripped from her in the senndial and trial that follow. New York's famous Casino Theatre, ntast being of 11 generation's celebrated murical shows, Sherry's, the Carino at Monte Carlo and other famous resorts of the years before the war were faithfully produced on the Warner Bros. stage. Mies Fran- cis has some of Hollywood's best known players associated with her in the picture. Gene Raymond, whose work in "Ex Lady," "Zoo in Budapest' und "Brief Moment" has brought him rapidly to the front, plays Monte Van Tyle. John Halliday, remembered for his able portrayal in "Men Called Baek," "Eifty Miliun Frenchmen" ad "Bird of Paradise", is the dis- carded admirer whose death brings tragedy to Peggy. The gambler Blaine, who dominates Feggy's later years and furtunea, is in the able hands of Ricardo Cortez, one of the ereen's best-known actors and re cently acclainted for his work i Torch Singer", "Flesh" and "Ele Executivo." Margaret Lintisay, Frank Mellugh, William Boyd, Sheila Terry and Henry O'Neill have other import- on 66th nnt parts in "The House Street" Robert Florey, director of "Ex-Lndy," "Girl Missing" 2
other
successes,
"Murder in Trinidad** "Murder in Trinidad", selected by the Crime Club as one of the best n.ystery novels of the year. comes to the King's Theatre on Thursday as a thrilling motim picture. Th novel, written by John Vandercak. han met with great popularity be
unusual Its intense and mystery. The screen play, adapted to the screen by Seton 1. Miller, is reported to be equally absorbing and exciting. The film serves to intro- tuce a new and unusual type of detective, who, to all appearances is low moving awkward and outwardly. A keen- reality is stupid, but in minded, alert individual. It in this detective who is confronted with the task of cleaning up a group of dia- mond Amugglers and solving three murders. The trail he has picked up fends him to the Caront Swamps, treacherous with ouicksand, inacces- sible to man and infested with man- esting crocodiles. It is In this hell. hole where man has never beon known to at foot before, that the detective finds the astonishing evid enco that leads to the capture and enviction of the murderer. Nigel Bruce, who will be remembered for hia entendid portrayal in "Coming Out Party", has the role of Detective Ivnch in the Alm. Heather Ankel endows the picture with her romantic charm, and along with Douglas Wal- ton supplies the love interest. The others in thn enst aro Victor Jary, J. Carmel Nalsh, Murray Kinnell, Claude King, Pat Someraol, Francis Ford, John Davidson
Noble Johnson. Loula King directed the
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