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SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931,

PRESS-CUTTING.

FLOURISHING BUSINESS THAT IS A NECESSITY.

A STRANGE COMMISSION.

The Press-cutting business is flourishing.

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GLAMOROUS, FILM "AT QUEEN'S.

"INSPIRATION.".

closeups," ingenious

represent- "Spiral

manipula-hoaded by AD of camera and devised by

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THE CHINA MAIL.

NEW

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Entertainments.

WANTED.

WANTED-Experienced No. 1 House Boy, Peak District, for July 1-Apply

To-day-King's Theatre; Box 094, e/o "China Mail”

"No Limit."

CHURCHES

To-day Queeu'a - "Inspiration," al

Today Central "Balaclava."

Theatre;

Theatre;

Theatre;

Theatre;

Theatre

·A·CHARGE OF ONE 'DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING

for a forty-day trek into the Call- fornis mountains to make... Para-: mount'a new bid for epic honours, "Fighting Caravans." This large caravan of moving picture-maker travelled into the vast spaces of the High Sierra mountains for location jį) scenes of the Zane Grey story......... For nearly forty days, this troupe, Gary Cooper Lily micro- Damita, Ernest Torrones and Tully The manageress of one of Lon- tion don's oldest and largest agencies phone,

Clarence Marshall, journeyed over the most told me (writes a London Morning Brown's Inventive mind, provide rugged and plcturesque spots of the "Fighting Caravans," the Post representative) that Press cut-novel camera and sound; effects in West. tings had ceased to be a luxury, Greta Garbo's new Metro-Goldwyn-story of those hardy old. frontiermen and that most business houses now Mayer starring vehicle, "Inspira of "The Covered Waggon," beating regarded them a necessity. tion," which is showing at the new trails, making new history, con-

Today Majestic "Perambulator manufacturers, for Queen's Theatre.

quering the old West, was actually instance, want all the cuttings about Since much of the action in the almad on ground where the historic "Love Among the Millionaires." birth announcements," she explain, glamorous Alm takes place within struggle for gold and land took To-day World old Latin Quarter place.

"Wild Company," od, "Advertisers ask for our help in the walls of an

Zane Grey poured into the story

To-day. Star watching their rivals' activities, and pension in Paris, Brown built the politicians want cuttings about their interior set, showing five fights of of "Fighting Caravans the very "What a Man.".

winding stairway, upon a hydraulic soul of the mighty force that Emer“

Home Mails. opponents."

Nearly everyone of note from stage, permitting the silent eleva-son Hough gave "The Covered Monday Outward for Europe via ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, the Pope to Mr. George Bernardtion of camera and microphone Waggon." As automobile after Siberia (President Johnson), 6 Shaw and Mr. Charles Chaplin has equipment to a height of 75 feet automobile, loaded with actors and p.m. a service of cuttings; but perhaps within the circular enclosure.

technicians waggons filled with Tuesday Outward for Europe On top of a perpendicular hydrau- cameras, food and equipment suff-via Marseilles (Chenonceaux), 1.30 June 21, 3rd Sunday after Trinity, the strangest commission came from an obscure hotel manager, who lic pleton, housed beneath the stage cient to carry the company through p.m.; for Europa via Biberia Holy Communion, 8 am requested cuttings on the subject of level, Brown had a turntable con any emergency passed through the (Achilles), 2.30 p.m. "the finding by any guest in an structed for a camera, and sound studio on the outward march, they hotel anywhere of a mouse swim- platform which, when raised of started on an expedition, almost as

revolved to follow the ming in a teapot." A woman had lowered,

by alleging that characters as they walked up or thrilling as the story of "Fighting created a scene

the stairway. Three weeks ahe had found a mouse in a tea- down pot; and he was anxious to discover were, required to build the unique

"REDUCING." whether she was doing the same set and forty-five engineers, elec

tricians, mechanics and helpers were.The easiest job ever offered extra trick elsewhere.

All Recently, the Press-cutting agent engaged in its operation.

players in Hollywood came to a has assumed a new importance, as signala were given by allent cucs, group of 200, used in "Chuck" his service is being extensively directed by Brown on a switchboard Riesner's new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Reducing," co-starring used by statisticians and political from his perch on top of the turn-picture, economists, Students ask for all table platform.

Marie Dressler and Polly Moran, Robert Montgomery plays op- which will be shown to-morrow at the cuttings on Free Trade, cotton, coal, or kindred subjects, and inposite Mias Garbo in the picturisa- the Queen's Theatre. this way are able to obtain a com-tion of the modern French romance picte view of contemporary opinion, and the supporting cast, headed by

1.was shown the middle page of Lewis Stone,

Caravan" itself.

Lammerts' Auctions, June...:28-24-Messra

Sennet

Freres' Surplus stocks, York Build- ing, 10.30, a.m.

Miscellaneous, Monday-Whist Drive, St. John's Cathedral Hall, for Poseidon Fund, 8.45 p.m...

Sports. Se Sports Diary on Fage 8.

WORST MAN IN NEW YORK. Captured By A Young Traffic Policeman.

James "Killer" Nannery, the

Usually the lot of the extra is not In costume pictures such as casy. includes Marjorie The Great Meadow" period of a London Morning Foat, which had Rambeau, Judith Vosselit, Beryl 1776, he has to be fitted to costumes, most desperate outlaw that Now already been through the hands of Mercer, John Miljan, Edwin Max- a reader, and which was ready for well, Oscar Apfel, Joan Marsh, and catting. Many of the, reference Richard Tucker. headings, such as India, Safeguard-·* ing, and Tariffs, which the reader

had written in the margin, were

"NO LIMIT."

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Freacher: The Dear.

Wednesday, June 24, St. John Baptist's Day. Anniversary of the Bishop of Victoria's Consecration. Holy Communion, 7.45 a.m. and 10.15 a.m.

Choral Evensong for V.D.MA., 5.30, p.m.”

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Kennedy Road, Hong Kong.

Sunday, June 21, 1931. Year wigs and put on an elaborate York has known for generations, makeup which takes a long time to has been captured by Charles

Morning Service; 11.a.m. prepare. In Cecil B. De Milic's Riepley, a young policeman of the

Evening Service, 6. p.m. Madam Satan" scores, of extras type that is looked down on by

Preacher: The Rev. E. G. Powell, mude jumps in parachutes from the Chicago police as a "ay-cop.?

Walking across the road, in Social Hour after Everilng Set- falling Zeppelin. In John Gilbert's "No Limit" now showing at the obvious enough; but one, consisting

that they were Sunday School: Kennedy Road, of the initials H.C., was not so easily King's Theatre is delicious pretend-"Way for a Sailor," being soaked Dover, New Jersey, to warn two vice,

to the skin a rainstorm was just people in a car understood. The letters stood foring, and the kind of a story that part of the day's work.

violating the traffic law by stop-10 a.m. In "Reducing," however, the ping at that spot it suddenly flash- "Horaclesa Carriage"-the heading shows off the personality-wares of

the policeman's mind under which the first cuttings about the new and slimmer Clara to the extras didn't have to put on makeup ed across motor-cars were filed, and which latest advantage..

or queer clothes.. They were or- that the car corresponded to the The picture opens with an amdered to "come just as you are" and description of one driven by an still used.

bitious little usherette in a big all they had to do to earn their escaped ex-convict and “hold-up". movie palace in New York who en money was to talk around a bit and man. counters plenty of the thrilling

He got on the running board laugh at the antica, of Marié Dress-1 experiences for which the metro- polis on the Hudson is universally ler and Polly Moran. Just think of and pushed his revolver into the

ribs of the driver. getting paid for that!

KING'S SON AS WAITER, Discovery At A Station Buffet In Italy,

renowned.

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"What about my girl? asked Nannery, trying to get out of the car.

SIN PATON

They were used to simulate a In the course of her job as a crowd in the Grand Central Station, uniformed guide for theatre patrons, Miss Bow finds a cigarette New York, massing around the exit

"I'll risk her," said the police- to one of the passenger tunnels, as A walter in the station buffet at case in the house and thereby meets Marie, with family, arrives to visit man, not taking his eyes off his Varallo Sesla, in Lombardy, has its owner, Norman Foster, a short her sister, the successful beauty prisoner.. been given an unsought fame be-time later. She falls in love with

The woman in the car tried to parlour owner, "Madam. Pauline cause it has been discovered that he Foster, unaware that he is a smooth Rashay. Marie's two boys get into escape, but was caught later and is the son of a dethroned monarch working thief.. Meanwhile Clara and mischief immediately and in ex-identified as the wife of "Killer" and the last of a great line of kings her little side-kick, Dixie Lee, have tricating them from trouble their Fred Burke, who is now. under ar- in castern Europe.

the good fortune of the loan of his

mother nearly causes a riot, He is Guido di Lusignano, son of luxurious Park Avenue appartment

"It is really a shame to take the Loo, reigning at one time as Leo and Rolls Royce from Stuart Erwin, XII. King of Armenia.

promtly leaves the scene' for parts For ten centuries Lusignano's unknown.

reat in Michigan for the marder of a policeman.

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On the way to Dover Nannery

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.

(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scien. tist, in Boston, Mass, USA)

Macdonnell Road, below Bowen

Road Tram Station.. Sunday Service, June 21, 1931. 11.15 8.D.

Subject:Is the Universe, In- cluding Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?"

The Sunday School is held on

Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.

Wednesday Evening Meating at 5.80 o'clock.

Reading Room at above address, open:--

Tuesday and Friday 10 am to

Korassanan in blond and befuddled suitor who money," remarked one of the extras, had relieved another young police 12 Noon....

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wiping tears of laughter from his eyes after one of the scenes.

ancestors ruled in the East. One Ensconced in the luxury and Reducing" boasts a strong sup- of them was, in the Twelfth Cen-finery of wealth the two girls disporting cast, including Anita Page, tury, King of Jerusalem, and seven-cover that they are the tenants of Lucien Littlefield, William (Buster) and. Wil teen succesalve members of the a notorious, "high-hat" gambling Collier Jr., Sally Eilera

liam Bakewell,

"WILD COMPANY.".

man of two revolvers and tear-gas Monday and Thursday 6.30 to 7 pistols. When taken to the police p atation his car was found to be The Public is cordially invited bristling with hidden machine- to attend the servics and visit the guns and other firearms.

Reading Room.

He is said to be guilty of a series of, daring burglaries, hold, upa and other crimes, among them being the shooting of a policeman and a prison warder at Ford Hos pital three months after he had pivat are the ability to trap the broken out of Sing Sing.

ball, that is "kill" it instantly, and

The secrets of access for the

to place the ball to advantage. To

family ruled over Corfu until that hangout. It is too late to with- island fell into the hands of Venice. draw and they are caught up in the The Inst sovereign ruler of this mad whirl of gay night life. The extraordinary family was Leo, romance with Foster develops' until

A moral of good worth is enacted father of the waiter, who was de- the point when a robbery is com posed from his Armenian throne by mitted at the theatra where Ciora in "Wild Company" featuring Frank Russia and given a yearly pension was once employed, and suspicion is Albertson, H. B. Warner, Sharon of £12,000.

cast upon her.

Lynn and Joyce Compton; now Being given a commission in the

But in spite of her obvious peril, showing in the World Theatre. The is in love with Mildred Van Dorn, achieve them, much practice is foreign Legion by Napoleon III, he the vivacious little heroine escapes moral is that a father who imparts but is more attached to Sharon necessary. It is surprising to find himself Aghting against from the misdirected clutches of the too great freedom to his son is Lynn, who is the mistress of a that there are a great number of Russia In the Crimea, and so 1st law and gets her man-all in a bound to take on the responsibilities gangster. Albertson is involved centre halves in first-class football

: for the son's misdoings later. his pension, and died. In Milan in sparkling, engaging finale.

In serious trouble, and at a sub who are lacking in these respects, poverty....

Excellent support is supplied by In "Wild Company" H. B. Warner sequent trial. a found guilty of and, to me, it is a sign that they His son, Lusignano, after thirty Erwin, Foster, and Harry: Green is aplendid As the father, whilst manslaughter. His father makes have neglected to practise them...

Alec James. years' service with. the Wagon Lits who portrays a dialectic, theatre Albertson, is seen as the son, who a plea of self-denunciaton. Company, five years ago started his manager. WALL

found

buffet at Varallo Station, aged.un. Added interest accrues from tho

ELLIOTT TO PAY £500. Famous Jockey in Breach of

Promise Cases estr

fact that much of the film was ac tually made in New York by Miss Bow and her supporting players.

"THE ROYAL FAMILY OF CASA BROADWAY

Cecil B. De Mille made bath-tubs the ocenes of much important action in his pictures, but it remained for

When the breach of promise action of Cameron and Another the co-directors Cyril Gardner and Elliot was mentioned to Mr. Justice George Cukor to glorify the lowly Acton in the King's Bench Division shower-bath. They did it in the Mr. Martin O'Connor, counsel for "Royal Family of Broadway," the the plaintiff, sald the case had been romantic comedy drama in which Bettled, and there would be Judg Fredric March and Ina Claire will ment for the plaintiff for £500, be co-starred at the King's Theatre

Charles Elliott lathe famous on Sunday, A Jockey who has been victorious in March carries on a conversation Almost 1,000 races, including the with his screen mother, Henrietta Derby. He is 27 years of age, and Crosman, while taking a bath in a regarded as one of the finest riders glass-enclosed shower in this sensa In Britain.tional, and amusing production. The Mr. O'Connor Bald there was sub- bath scene is one of the most stantially £200 paid cup of pocket screamingly hilarious bits in the The girl was now 20 and he asked show.

the judge to allow £800 to be paid

out now and the other sum to be

"FIGHTING CARAVANS

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