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NEWS OF THE DAY
IN PICTURES FROM FAR AND NEAR
Hongkong Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1930.
HAPPENINGS
AS SEEN
BY
THE CAMERA'S EYE
Some very slightly clad fresh air enthusiasts during a mountain trip
in the Swiss Alps having a rest and enjoying the clear, fresh-mountain air.
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The skating human figures look diminutivo against the mountain slopes of the white world of the
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28th Mar.
From ancient times the Dutch have been enthusiastic skaters. Photograph shows how one of the numerous canals looks on a day in mid-winter.
Sir Samuel Hoare shown, daring
Preparations for next year's World
Exhibition are already in full swing
in Paris. The exhibition ground will his recent visit to Switzerland, show-
be
near the Elife I Tower. Above
picture shows the renewal work of ing his wife how a Foreign Minister
iho trees on Avenue du President
Wilson. In the background te the famous tower.
can akate. Tho ice subsequently proved" "too thin".
Alexander Woolcott, critic, author and lecturer, talked books, and nothing but books" with Dave Lamson when they met in Lamson's cell at San Jose. Lamson, accused slayer of his wife, Alleno, nwalts his third trial on murder charges.
Travel Chats
"You lost some of your baggage
didn't you?"
"Yes, but it doesn't matter; I insured
it through Cook's."!
Thos. Cook & Son Ltd.
Queen's Building.
D. I. Rasberg, United States mail carrier between Idaho Falls and Bone, Idaho, gets the mail through regardless of snow blockades. Soated in his "anow-bucking Lizzy," he rambles over drifts at an average speed of 15 miles an hour and attains a top spood of 40 miles on the open road.
CINEMA NEWS
stirring novel was a dramatic protest, under suspicious circumstances, the Rochello Hudran, John Beal and underworld forces combine to pin the Frances Drake supply a love theme blame for the crime on him. How that forms a romantic counterplot to the politician's friend and counsellor NOTES SUPPLIED BY Jean Valjean's
desperate career. upsets the nefarious plans of the THE THEATRES
Also prominent in the supporting cast conspirators, although he almost loses are Florence Eldridge, who in private his life
sace
in the performance, is the life is Mrs. Fredric
Jessie subject matter of the latter part of Victor Hugo's immortal classic, Ralph Ferdinand Gottschalk, and the film. Frank Tuttle directed "The "Les Miserables," was brought to the little Marilynno Knowiden. "Les Glass Key" which also features Rosa, screen of the King's Theatre to-day Miserables" is a Joseph M. Schenck lind' Keith, Ray Milland and Charles in Darryl Zanuck's lavish production presentation, released through United Richman.
of the novel for 20th Century Pic | Artists,
Cedric
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Charles Laughton
starring Fredric March,
and-Sir.
"The Glass Key"
The ralo
The tinsel glamour is rapidly being
Richard Belle, the direction of
of
Joan Valjean, celebrated convict here rubbed off gangster chiefs and the
who spends
Ave
Calls Port Swettenham.
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