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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1930.

FOREST FIRE.

ROUND THE CINEMAS

ADVENTURES IN A JUNGLE MacKENNA PLAYING IN GEORGE

FIRE.

TREES LIKE TORCHES.

An Ipoh resident who is staying on Kledang HE writes to the Times of Malaya.

I had an interesting adventure on the way up the Hill on a Monday afternoon, at about 4.30 p.m. when, on rending a bend in the bridle path, I heard a roaring sound like the rush of a high wind through a pine forest. There was, however, very little breeze and, when I looked up, I saw that the jungle on both sides of the path was on Üre. The hent from the fire was intense, but

I hurried through as desired to get up the Hill that evening.

At this part of my journey the jungle fires were not very near the path-that experience was to come later when I was higher up the Hill where the path runs through virgin jungle. Safely past the first part of the blaze. I was able to stop and take stuck of the position.

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"LOVE, LIVE AND LAUGH.”

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THE CHINA MAIL.

"The Legion of the Condemned" is filled with the romance, the daring, and the excitement which surrounded those birds of War for

which no mission was considered too

dangerous. It is chock full of unique thrills taken from the cockpits of the alt-planes.

It is a tale of a young American newspaper man who, believing that his sweetheart has passed out of Kenneth MacKenna,' who plays his life for ever; plunges into the opposite Lila Lee in "Love, Live "Legion of the Condemned," whose and Laugh," George Jessol's first personnel consists of men who Starring Fox Mavictone all talk want more than anything else to ing drama, was a stage producer | die. Each and every one of them when he signed a contract with have pasts, and, according to their Fox Films.

philosophy, their sins may be ex- MacKenna produced and played plated only through death. the lead in "The Big Pond," a play He is torn between two fires, by George Midleton. When however, when he is confronted" Middleton was made a production with the problem of transporting executive for Fox Movietone, he the girl he loves ever the German sent for MacKenna, who was then lines as a spy.

producing plays in Denver, Mac-

he was signed to a contract.

"THE VIRGINIAN.”

The same technical work, which

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN CHINA MAIL ***

To-day Queen's Theatre, "Fox Follies of 1929,"

Todays" "Blind Goddess.”

Star Theatre,

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To-day- Majestle Theatre; "Legion of the Condemned."

Today Centrul Theatre "Able's Irish Rose."

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Kennn'e tests were satisfactory and made "Wlags" auch an outstanding hit, was employed in the making He made his talking picture de- of this newest pleture of the air. but in "Picaaure Crazed." "Love, Live and Laugh" he plays ence in the filming of "Wings," Subscribers to

In Having gained an unusual experi- July 26-Important meeting of the Kowloon Tong the role of a New York doctor who Director Wellman applied the same Buliding Scheme, Garden City Club, operates on Jessel, blinded by the methods in the filming of this pro-9. Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong, war, and restores his sight. "Love, duction, and possibly introduced 2.30 p.m. Live and Laugh" is directed by some William K. Howard and will be The patron is taken aloft by the new angles in the 6iming. seen and heard at the Queen's pilot, and flies right along with him Theatre to-morrow.

in the cockpit, undergoing the same reaction that the fighting plot re- ¡ceives, "The Legion of the Con demned" comes from the pen of The jungle appeared to be aight

Audiences at the Central Theatre John Monk, author of the "Wings," in at least a dozen places and dead will have the opportunity to-mor- The cast consists of Fay Wray, Gary trees lifty and a hundred yards row to learn whether

advance Cooper,

Barry Norton, Lane apart suddenly flumeti

up like view critics were correct when Chandler, Francis McDonald, Voya "damar" torches through the dense they said that "The Virginian" George, Freeman Wood, E. H. white smoke, purrad for a bit and is "The Covered Waggon" of Calvert and Charlot Bird. then crashed down in half a hundred all-talking pictures. The Owen burning pieces to add

to the fire Wister classic of pioneer days, on amongst the undergrowth.

the Western cattle ranges has all Dense Smoke and Flames. the car-mirks of an epic film. The manner in which Remember, that at this stage of my adventure the tires were quite it was acclaimed by advance re- fifty yards away from the path and viewers indicates that it will go mainly giving off dense volumes of high on the list of really greats." smoke except where old dead trees crackled into red ilanic and burned furiously until they crashed to earth. Having watched this section

of the forest fire for some minutes

I decided that it was time to get on my way again if I was to reach the hilltop before dark. Refreshed by my brief halt I strode ahend, but I had not been on my way much more than fifteen minutes when I again | heard the dull roar of a fire and up the valley on the right swept dense smoke with red Blames coming

FIRST OFFENDERS.

PRISON DOCTOR'S VIEW.

A Psychological examination for The film, based on the novel by all first offenders is advocated by the same name which brought Dr. Ahern, medical officer at Wal. Owen Winter quick fame in the ton Prison, who is being trans- been ferred to Parkhurst. In an inter- 80's, and which has since termed the greatest American view, in the Liverpool Post; Dr. romance, enjoys the distinction of Ahern, who is an authority on being the first all-outdoors play to mental diseases in relation to be recorded on the audible films, crime, said the opinions he ex- But its greatest claim to honours pressed were his own and did not lies in its general perfection innecessarily represent the official every department. There is alylew, Huston, great cast-Gary Cooper, Walter Не

of our

declared that redemptive Richard Arlen, Mary efforts must in the future be made Briar, Eugene Pallette, Chester in the direction of the borderland Conklin, E. H. Calvert, Helen Ware of crime, expressing the belief swiftly in the wake of the smoke, I was debating whether it would be have proved their worth on the decrease the population

a superb group of artistes who that such efforts would tend to possible to run across this section of stage and the talking the path before the advancing fames There is masterful direction, by time." he said, "when

acreen. prisons. "I look forward to the reached it when something happen Victor Fleming, a genius in his offenders of no matter what age all firat ed which made me decide to wait. art. There are gorgeous settings shall be submitted to a psycho- Ahead of the fire and across the the real out-of-doors of the logical examination upon convie- path making up the hillside on the pine-dotted cattle ranges of the oldtion and before they are sentenc left came a dozen or so snakes and West. There is tense drama, riched with a view to their proper one twelve feat python. I know romance, rollicking humour-and that snakes could "accelerate" when the thema is one which deals with put to it, but those snakes were

an exact chapter in American across the path and away into the pioneer days. higher jungles before 'quile real- ised that they really were snakes.

Next there was a crashing amongst the scrub which is matted round the roots of the big jungle trees and I made sure that, at long Inst, I was going to meet one of the Kledang panthers-one of those the old Chinese hill coolie rejoicing in the name of Apek (old man) de clares he has seen from time to time. I tried to assure myself that the punthors would be too scared by the fire to take any notice of me, but all the little hairs on the back of my head and neck would sit up. Here I may explain that one's hair does not "stand on end' when one is frightened. It just "aits up," but that is quite enough.

Trees Blaze Like Torches. Well, there was a final crash is the jungle and out plunged, not a panther but a wild boar, with his "missus" and half-a dozen little piglinga The old boar appeared to be very annoyed at the fire because, as he went up the path at a galop, he looked back at least twice,

Meantime, there was I with a fire behind ine and one just in front of me and such deniasns as the jungle contained up and about in alarm,

The fames swept quickly up the hillside, bowled across the path and up the slope, leaving, as with the fire I first encountered dead 'trees ablaze like torches. Some of these blazing trees were just alongside the nath and when they burned through and fell some fell across the path one bringing down the telephone wire, which thick copper wire snap ped like thread with the burst ends whipping up into the air.

I did not feel very happy at this stage, but I soon saw that the un dergrowth was so dry that it burned to ashes very quicky and that if kept a sharp pokout for falling trees I could get past what had been,

"ABIE'S IRISH ROSE."

Charlos "Buddy" Rogers, whose rise to movie fame has been noth- ing short of sensational, has one of the featured roles in the pic- turised version of Anne Nichols' "Abie's Irish Rose" now showing at the Central Theatre.

Rogers has been in option ple- tures in a little over two years, but in that short space of time has] been heralded by all movie fans.

Paramount was quick to realise the popularity of the young player and recently elevated him to com- plete stardom. Perhaps no other player in motion pictures to-day has enjoyed the record Rogers has made for himself.

Pick from hundreds of candi- dates by a committee appointed by the motion picture, concern two years ago for the purpose of find- ing a typical American youth, Rogers was given an opportunity to attend the Paramount Pictures School in New York City. He was given the leading role in a gradua tion picture in which all of the members took part.

Then

Soon after this production was released Rogers was given a role in support of Clara Bow. came the master epic of the air, "Wings," Rogers was immediately acclaimed for his work in this film and his fan mail leaped with bounde until now, he receives more fan mail than any other male atar in Hollywood, a jure sign, that Roger is held in the highest esteem by the public.

His first role in "Abie's Irish Rose" will serve to increase his Popularity. He portrays the role of Able, the Jewish boy who falls in love with Rosemary, the little Irish lass. The role of Rosemary is filled by Nancy Carroll, looked

a few minutes before, an infernd of upon as a "comer" among those

fire. Cramming my hat down over my ears. I bolted through, but not without sparks burning a few small holes in my shirt, wat though it was with perspiration. A leap over some embers and I was clear of the fire, which had swept away up the hill side to the left

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who know screen pissibilities of a player. Nancy is real Irish, too, having been born of risk parents in Tenth Avenue, New York City. She has red hair, blue eyes, and

peaks with a tinge of brogue.

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treatment. My twenty-eight years' experience of prisons has given me

a sympathetic understanding of criminals and I say unhesitat- ingly the effect of the mind is pot recognised to-day as it should

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