RECORDS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936
HOLLYWOOD COLOUR FILMS PLAN
Can A Dog Commit
"TO
FOLLOW
FROM
FOLLOW THE FLEET Suicide?
BC10032 Let's face the music and dance
Fred Astaire.
Let yourself go.
(With Tap Dancing)
BC10033
We saw the sca
.Fred Astaire.
I'm putting all my eggs in one basket.
.Fred Astaire.
I'm building up an awful lot-down. THE ANDERson music COMPANY Phone 21322.
Ice House Street.
BC10034. I'd rather lead the band
MARTIN MOONEY, CRACK REPORTER,
WENT TO JAIL
because he refused to expose, the sources which gave him
this
EXCLUSIVE
Franchot TONESTOR
& Madge EVANS
STUART ERWIN JOSEPH CALLEIA Directed by George B. Seitz Produced by Lucian Hubbard
From story by MARTIN MOONEY
First-hand, on-the-spot revelations of the in- famous "policy" racket -shocking because it's all TRUE-made into a screen drama that rips sensationally into the war of headlines against the forces of the underworld!'
TO-MORROW AT THE
Metro
Мус
PICTURE
ALHAMBRA
WLPLUGS
PAW
PAWLPLUGS
WALL
PLUOS
STOCKS OF RAWLPLUGS AND TOOLS
ARE HELD BY
THE G. E. C. OF CHINA
Queen's Building. Phone 30247.
TRUE HONGKONG STORY
De dogs commit suicide? This is the true story of Maggie, an Aberdeen terrier owned by a European living at Happy Valley.
A fortnight ago the son of Maggie's owner rescued a small kitten from the roof of the four storey building in which they lived,
How the kitten got on the roof of the building was a mys- iery.
The kitten was too young to lap and had to be fed from a small bottle from a child's set of accessories for a doll.
Maggie, with no puppies of her own, instantly mothered the stray kitten. In her rough, doggie way.i she licked it and ruddled it into! her.
Maggie still lives, but she does not seem to want to get well
DOMINATE INDUSTRY IN FIVE YEARS”
Cinema Chiefs Cope With Public
Demand
Los Angeles, May 10.
INDICATIONS of a decided turn to colour pictures are seen in current Hollywood developments,
Fourteen feature pictures in colour are definitely scheduled by the major studios, and a great increase in short pictures in colours is evident.
Technicolor, with five plants in Hollywood and with contracts for ten feature pictures signed and a the trend toward colour in the senre more in negotiation, reveals following figures showing the
total footage contracted for dur ing the past four years
1936-50,000,000?1.; 1935-22,000,000г1.: 1934-11,080.000ft.; and 19339,000,000f1.
Cinecolor, another process, is building a new plant to be ready in August.
pleturo public, makes our present problem that of expanding to take on this business rather than that; of obtaining it."
Dr. Knimus will sall for Eng. land shortly to confer with offi- cin's of the Company's London office.
Mr. M. C. Cooper, regarded here as the "Father of Colour in Pictures," And executive vice- president of Ploneer Pictures, sak:
"Full colour moiton pictures will dominate the entire Indus- try in the next five years. "Within three years it will be possible to produce full colour films almost for what black-and- white productions now cast.
"FUZZINESS" CUT OUT
At present 7 per cent, of the total gross footage in Hollywood. "The greatest contribution in is in colour,
the past year to the improvement of fall colour films has been the elimination complete
the vi 'fuzzincas' And indistinctness | LONDON CONFERENCE
hitherto eisaracteristic of Many In short subjects colour is of them. In the production of showing a vast increase. Thirty"The Dancing Pirate" problems five per cent. of Warner Bros, and of colour production are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shorts will parable with those encountered be in colour this sonson, and Mr. when sound pictures first came in, Walt Disney's entire production
com-
'Robber' Taken
On watch for thieves who had been raiding Orange, Cal, homes for milk, pollée captured Jimmy and Alia Kerr, 1 and 2, who ran away from home 10 days beloro. Jiminy broke away and escaped but Alta was taken in.
"We find some players unauit WOMAN GAGGED
AND BOUND
scheduled for colour treat-able Tor colour, and our firm is
stock n starting
of
lle
company
I
ROBBERS PLEAD
GUILTY
The kitten accepted his canine foster mother and they became rrently attached to each other.
But bottle feeding did not agree with the kitten and it gradually is weakened.
it died. ment. Yesterday
Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, presi-Fartists suitable for such produc- Maggie was inconsolable.
This morning, Maggie's brok- dent of the Tachicolor Motion tions. We shall produce ten full en body was found on the pave- Picture Corporation of Hollywood, colour feature productions within]TWO ment below the third-floor flat New York, and London, and: the next two years." where her master lived, Sho "The current growth of the
Mr. Walt Disney is one of the lind fallen or jumped from the volume of our business, together leading advocates of colour pic- An armed robbery at 157 Queen's with the enthusiastic interest, tures. has scheduled a 100 Road West, third floor, on March 5 window.
displayed by almost every Holly per cent. output in colour, with last, had a sequel at the Criminal wood producer and by the motion the 1936 senson enlling for 18 Sessions this morning when, before Mr. Justice Hayden, three men were shorts and one feature.
Mr. Disney said: "Colour charged with having committed the provides many advantages for offence and with receiving stolen cartoons. It permits more satisfy property.
The accused were U Mui, Tam ing characterisation and atinos Chai-you and Choi Tak-kau. The all over frst two pleaded guilty to the first phere. Public reaction
has supported this charge, whereupon Mr. E. II. the world opinion."
Willians, Assistant Attorney-General. Mr. Selznick (International who prosecuted, and he would not Pictures) has started production offer evidence against them on the third prisoner denied second. The of "The Garden of Allah"
both charges, but he was eventually the company having de- tried on only the second count. colour,
Arizona, On
The first two accused, who said the parted for Yuma,
third location.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
WISDOM...IS A STRUCTURE OF THE UNDERSTANDING RISING OUT OF THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL NATURE.-Henry Taylor,
The unlawful possession of a tree, 15 feet in length, nt Magazine Gap, was admitted by Cheung Kau, 34 when he appeared before Mr. Balfour at the Central Magistracy this morn. memory log. The defendant was bound over.
H.Inspector A. W. Smith prosecuted.
Out of respect to the
AIr. the of
Jato
II. . Esmail, the Iangkong Sharebrokers' Association was closed this afternoon,
*
Bitten by a monkey at No. 80 Ilollywood Road last night, Fung Yau, three-year-old boy, was admitted to Charged before Mr. W. Schofield, the Government Civil Hospital. The at the Central Magistracy this morn-monkey apparently belonged to ing, with cruelty to 44 ducks at Main street Juggler. After a report had
422,
been made of the Street, Saiwanlio, Pang Choi, shop foki, failed to appear in Court, police went out to search and his bail of $26 was catreated animat, but could not trace it. The Crown-Sergeant Mallett the boy was rather badly bitten about ducks were in a crate about three feet the face. by two feet. Three of them dead.
were
occurrence,
for
The the
Charged before Mr. Balfour at the Central Police Court this morning with the unlawful possession of a large carpet, Kwan K, 33. unemployed, was
in
Miss Marlene Dietrich and the prisoner had nothing to do with robbery, were sentenced to three Mr. Charles Boyer are starred and a half years and four years in it.
Mir. Samuel Goldwyn has to colour features on schedule. In preparation la "Goldwyn Follica, an international musical rerue with an all-star cast, which, how- ever, is not announced ng yet. Some scenes for this will be filmed in London, It is stated. This will be followed by "Hurricane," by
hard
WIS
said to be the nephew
labour respectively. The second of the victim.
The following jury was empanelled to try
try the
cose against the third ae cused, Mesra, J. M. Oliveira (fore- Kwan-kok, Kenneth Chan,
McCormack,
Jovim, Chun Shu-cheung. J.
King-un. Chung the facts of the case,
Mr. Arst charge against the accused but said he intended to drop the
Miyazari Isomatsu, 39, engineer: was brought before Mr. Balfour at the Central Magistracy this morning sentenced to one month's hard labour, Mr. Nordhoff and Mr. Hall, would proceed against him on the charged with committing a breach of Detective Sergeant Pilkington stated authors of "Mutiny ол the second.
small boy Was carrying the
Bounty."
The rubbery, he said, took
the Registration of Persons Ordinance, that Sub-Inspector I
W. II. Nolloth said de carpet and stopped at a tante-Pioneer Pictures will produce At-the-line there was only one pe
place about 7.30 am. on March 6, fendant was a member of a crew on some food.
defendant came ashing boat and it was more or along and picked the carpet up and "The Life of Custer," and also in the house, and that was an old less ignorance on his part that he walked away. The boy could not be 100 shorts for United Artists. falled to register. The defendant found was cautioned.
woman, Chan Kung-ho. The secondl accused, Tam Chal-yau was her nephew and had lived in the house for some time.
'CHANGING OF THE GUARD' "I ought to be sent to gaol," said
Warner Brothers have released Keung Chik-kwan, 47, fiali stall Leung Yau-chol, 39, at the Criminal
· GAGGED AND BOUND colour shorts, foki, appeared before Mr. Balfour at Sessions this morning when he plead a series of ten the Central Police Court this morned guilty to a charge of returning to among them "Changing of the On the day a question, Tam was ing, charged with the possession of the Colony on April 21 last after hav. Guard," showing the famous cere- the last to leave the house, and short- two forged $10 notes of the Hongkonging been banished for life on January mony at Buckingham Palace, ly after he had left, there was n and Shanghai Banking Corporation 2, 1035. It was stated that the pri- 1st consideration are feature knock on the door. The woman open- and one forged $10 note of the Chir soner had been convicted five times colour productions of several biged the dear and saw two men who tered Bank of India, Australia and for the name offence and four times dance numbers for musical films. the San Hung Yick shop with which said they had } toiber for her from Chim. On the application of Detee-|for
burglary and larceny. Kis The Twentieth Century-Fox con-she tive Sergeant C. Byron, accused was criminal record dated back to 1010.
had been dealing. started production on ~ I Th men then
The men
walked into the remanded for three days in custody Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, Acting Chief er to enable the police to complete Justice, sentenced him to four years colour feature of "Ramona" on house. One of them was armed with enquiries.
Muy 4.
sharpened file. in the shape of dagger, and they seized hold of the woman, pushed her inside a cubicle, gagged and bound her up and took the keys from her. The robbers then ransacked the house and took away money and jewellery to the value of over $600.
hard labour.
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After the robbers had left the floor, the woman managed to free her- self and raised the alarm. Police arrived on the scene, and the second ureused was arrested when he return- ed. He took the police to 12 Stone Nuliah Lane where some of the stolen property was recovered. The third necusod" was arrested there, About a week later, the first accused was arrested In Jordan Rond.
The case is proceeding.
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