THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936.
KINGS 272 LOVE LETTERS: BREACH OF
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15, § 9.30 p.m. SHAKING THE WORLD WITH LAUGHTER!
it's even funnier now on the scrson!
Three LIVE Ghosts
M-GM has taken the famous stage
hit and made a howling fan-fate of if Not sinos "A Night at the Opera" such mad, marry exaitement! RICHARD
BERYL
ARLEN · MERCER
FROM TO-MORROW
JEANETTE MacDONALD ---- NELSON EDDY in
ROSE MARIE"
QULLA
TO-DAY ONLY Ar 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30.
The World's Heavyweight Champion Grouch!
big hearted
herbert
TO-MORROW
She's "The Lady In Red"...
AND LAWD-Y-Y-Y. WHAT
A PERSON-AL-I-TY!
な
The singing sensa tion of "In Caliente,
and "Gold Diggers ́of 1935"..in her first
starring picture!
GUY KIBBEE FALINE MCMAHON
BROADWAY HOSTESS
Wini Shaw
Phil Regan Genevieve Tobin
Lyle Talbot
5 Now Song Sensations
by Wrubel and Dixon
A First National Hi
TO-DAY &
Allen Jenkins
TOMORROW MAJESTIC
SUNDAY 1-
STARS!
"GIRLSI
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Joe E. BROW N BRIGHT LIGHT S
MANN DVORAK • WM. GARBAN,
PATRICIA ELLIS Scores of Others
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
--with
O'SHAUGHNESSY'S BUY Wallace Borry
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PROMISE ACTION FAILS
WAR WIDOW: "YOU A BALLOON
HAVE TO RETALIATE
Questions about the right to bring a breach of promise action were asked by Mr. Justice Hilbery of a war widow at Newcastle Assizes recently.
unsuccessfully
The widow, Mrs. Ethel Fisher, brought an action against Herbert Cowper, stated to be the eldest son of Mr. Cowper, of Stotes Hall, Jesmond, Newcastle.
CLIMBS 132,625 FT.
Moscow, April 1.: '
A radio balloon released by the Borispol Aerological Observatory, near Kiev, has ascended 192,025ft. in 68min. height.
This is claimed to be a record
When the ascent bogan the tem- "Is it your view," said Mr. Jun-t
I really do forgive you from the perature near the surface of the tice Hilbery to Mrs. Fisher, "that
bottom of my heart. if that is ground was 7deg, C. below zera: if a man asks you to marry him
12min. later, at a height of any comfort." secretly for 10 years, you refuse, and he gets sick of waiting, that Parker, of Whitefield-terrace, New-ture was 63dog. C. below zero,
33,160ft, the balloon reached the Mrs. Fisher's mother, Mrs. Fanny atratosphere, where the tempera- you are entitled to bring a breach castle, said that while her daughter 43 BELOW ZERO
of promise action against him?" was living at Whitley Bay she saw At a height of 132,625ft. the
Mrs. Fisher: When another girl Cowper fixing up a wireless set. Flo
rings you up and says she is going said to her: "Don't you think it temperature, was 43dog. C. below with the man you have to retaliate will look nice in our little home чего.
In some way.
when we are married?” Mr. Justico Hilbery: That is rol taliation because the girl rang could not have married Mira, Fisher Cowper in evidenco said that he you up?-No, It is because of the and set up house without his treatment have received after 12 father's approval. years' faithful devotion to this
man.
Is that breach of promise to marry really don't know. Other people do it. It is the only redress a woman has.
Mrs. Fisher stated that Cowper had repeatedly naked her to marry him secretly because he was afraid of his father. She repeatolly re- fusod, saying that if they were not married "decently" she would walt, until his father died,
Mr. C. Paley Scott, K.C., for Cowper, naked Mrs. Fisher: What are you retaliating about In bring-} ing this action?
Revolver Incident Denial Mrs. Fisher: Because he has let me down.
How? Because he was going about with other girls when he was engaged to me.
Mrs. Fisher denied that she was very violent when Cowper refused to marry her; and that she locked Cowper and herself in a room at a dance hall, and threatened him with a revolver. Cowper had the revolver. She had given it him some years ago. She never threa-1 tened him with it.
Two hundred and seventy-two) letters from Cowper to Mrs. Fisher wore produced in court. They were bound in three volumes. "A three-volumo novel," commented Mr. Scott.
"It's oven duller than that," guld! Mr. Justice Hilbery,,
One of the letters rend:
"I feel I cannot live another minute without writing. I feel
I am the biggest swine ving; but God knows I have suffered. I feel I have been a misery, and
I must just write to say, dear,
The air pressure at that altitude was 500 times lower than at the surface of the earth.
wore heard throughout the ascent. Signals from the radio balloon
Reutor.
Wives At Home
Can Out-Beauty
Girls In Office
EASTWARD HO!
號肆零陸
Eastward bound: Locomotiva built in Manchester, shipped from Brikenhead in Norwegian steamer to Canton for now Can- ton-Hankow railway. Characters on buffer are an Identification mark.
GEORGE RAFT GOES
YOU MAY HAVE
SOME OF THESE-
TO THE RACES!
JUBILEE STAMPS: FACE VALUE, £5: SOLD FOR £115 COLONIAL, Jubilee stamps if the value of £5 were sold at Harmer's, New Bondstreet, laat month, for £115. An expert sald that the late King's Jubilee stamps were going "up and up" in value. The atamps wore printed in London for certain South African Colonies. The feature that makes them of value to collectors is error-Windsor Castle with two flagstaffs. On others the King's hair is curled,
Cagney Is Free Of £900-A- Week Contract
an
SCREEN tough-guy James Cagney was freed by the Los Angeles courts recently from his contract with Warner Brothers, saya Router.
"Gosh," he said afterwards, "this ends a long headache for me."
LATEST HOLLYWOOD
“REBELLION"
Hollywood, Mar. 28.
DUSTPAN and
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN DO HOWLOOMIDARY AT
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
TWO IN THE DARK
with
Walter Abol Margot Grahame Wallace Ford ⚫ Gail Patrick Alan Halo Leslle Fontan Eric Blore.. Erik Rhodos
Erin O'Brien-Moore
A gripiping mystery. romance! The story
of a man whOBA
past became a
blank to him.
Directed by Ben.Stoloff, Aua Producer, Zion Myers
AND THE LATEST TWO-
REEL FEATURE OF
RKO - RADIO Plature
broom THE GREATEST YOUNGSTERS IN THE WORLD!
were claimed as princi: pal aids to beauty by Dorothy Bateman, women's physical instructer at Cornell Univer- sity, New York, cables a cor- respondent.
If properly used, said Miss Bateman, they can place the housewife ahead of the office worker for beauty at any time. These were points for the house- wife to remember:-
Heavy lifting: Right way dispels
middle-age
spread; replaces "spare tyre around the middle" with strong, slender hips. Right
way is to keep one foot ahead of the other when you stoop, then when you rise keep the back straight and use thigh and hip muscles. Going upstairs: Use hip muscles and keep hips well under torso. Sweeping: Let the trunk twist
from the hips.
Gro
Dusting: Overhead reaching and
handling curtains
fine stretching exercises if not done too suddenly.
Railway Queen Tells Russia
About Blackpool
Moscow, April 4,
British
| FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD
"Railway Queen," Audrey Masson, making a sixteen-day tour of Russia, broadcast from The "strikes" and the "walls-Moscow:- outs" in the Hollywood studios CONCERNING CHURCHES.-"I still continue. That Marlene Dietrich was objecting because Lubitsch would not be on hand
intend to go to church in Mos- cow, for the churches are here for worship."
to supervise her latest picture, CONCERNING STALIN.-"After
I Loved a Soldier," was common knowledge all round Hollywood before the "shooting" of the film was suspended.
But, side by side with that, was a little rebellion on the part of George Raft. another star of the same company.
Raft's rebellion throws much light on what the producers in Hollywood have to face when they! handle anything so temperamental as actors and actressCS.
being on the same platform with him I am afraid I shall fall in love with him." CONCERNING BLACKPOOL (her honte town)"I wish you Russians would visit Blackpool. There is no place like it.” CONCERNING RUSSIA.-"I could love Russia, but I am English, and love the homeland with all my heart."
In his case it was not a question New British Colour
of salary but merely that he didn't like the camera-man assigned to his new film, "Concertina.".
Film Shown
a great advance in colour cinema- A film which, it is claimed, marks tography was shown privately to- day at the Harrow factory of Kodak, Ltd.
Raft was working in the picture with Carole Lombard, but when he heard Teddy Tetzlaff was, the camera-man he was annoyed.
Raft claims that Tetzlaff gave Misa Lombard "all the breaks" In successive scores the Alm ro- as he put it when photographing, produced the subtle pastel shades their previous co-starring pictures. of an English countryside on a dim The quarrel between Raft and November day; a sunlit seascape; Tetzlaff had reached a climax when the colours of sunflowers and roses; vowed he would not appear in an-n dried gorse-bush, and a bee sele "Rumba" was filmed, and Raft tongues of flame flashing, through other film unless he got a nowing honey on a phony. cameraman.
The film was of 16 mm. size, but the pay-roll," the studio oficials cess can be applied equally well to "Go to work or be suspended from technicians explained that, the pro- told Raft when they beard about full-size film. the dispute.
And the next day Raft, instead of going to work, went to the races!
United Press.
salary of £900 a wook.
Chemists are now trying to solve the problem of duplicating the film. It is a comparatively simple matter to produce ono copy, but to make soveral is much more diMcult. At James went on: "I am now
present only six men in England He complained that Warner's can carry out the work of develop going on vacation, probably in broko it by failing to "bill" him as ing. Europe. Don't be surprised if I the star of the films in which he make pictures in England. I appeaned. He said Pat O'Brien Tonsily by amateurs, Colour filters have had some nice offers." and Joan Blondell were made the are not used in either camera or Cagney's contract gave him a "top-liners,”
...
The now colour film can be used)
projector.
THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
"GOING ON TWO YEARS” TO-MORROW.
BIGGEST MUSICAL THRILL OF 1936!
Triumph for ite'singing. stars, stirring romance, hit songs, spectaclel
MCDONALD NELSON EDDY
Rose Marie
VIM REGINALD OWEN. ASALBANI JONES
The staging
"Naughty
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THE NITWITS
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A
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