1932-03-29 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932.

ROUND HONG KONG'S

CINEMA THEATRES

OFFICIAL SOURCES. ·

"THE SPIDER."

Hailed far and wide

was

King Prajadhipok, the fabulously rich ruler of Siam who was a recent visitor around the world, is shown in his royal palace in this film of adventure, The King was one of kaleidoscopic pugeant of picture the rulers who entertained Doug magic, a three ring circus of nerve- and his party during their camera snapping suspense and rib-straining expedition in search of adventure hilarity, "The Spider," Fox Films' and thrills which take in Japan. screen version of the Broadway China, Siam, India, Indo-China, the mystery thriller, opens its long Philippine islands and other places awaited engagement at the King's of interest. Theatre to-day.

"Around the World" has been Edmund Lowe and Lois Moran, shown to crowded houses for a the pair who set the moviegoing period of ten days and will be run- two more days at the public on the edge of their chairs ning for

in the spectacular "Transatlantic," Central Theatre so as to afford those are featured leads. Lowe has one who have not seen it a chance to of the most engaging opportunities witness the finest eatertainment the of his career in the colourful part screen has yet offered.

of Chatrand, the magician whose!

act is interrupted by a murder,

committed in the aisle of the crowd-!

may

"CONFESSION OF A CO-ED."

RADIC

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

THE CHINA

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 K.C.'s) ;-

5-8 pan-European Programme. 5-5.15 p.m.-Orchestral. · Carneval Overture (Dvorak).

MAIL.

A DEAD SEA IN RAJPUTANA.

Strange Body of Water Near Delhi,

K

BIG SALT DEPOSIT.

SHADOW'S BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions. To-day-Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong,

-Entertainments.

Theatro;

In the heart of Rajputana where and. Peninsula Hotels and King's rainfall is scarce and deserts plen-Restaurant. tiful, tucked away between tho| states of Jaipur and Jodhpur and To-day King's Theatre: less than 200 miles from Delhi "The Spider." stretches a vast salt lake covering

To-day Queon's "Hook, Line and Sinker.” several square miles.

Today Central Thook-an "Around the World in 80 Minutes."

To-day — Majestic "Charley's Aunt."

Today - Star "Strictly Unconventional.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

6560. Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai), Victor Symphony Orchestra

35764. 5.15-7 p.m.-(Approx:) Relay of "The Spider" from

It is fed from tributory streams King's Theatre by courtesy of draining over 2,000 square miles of the Management.

surrounding country and which flow for only a week or two during 7.3-7.20 p.m.-Vocal Gems. Blossom Time,

the rainy season.

Victor Light Opera Company The Yankee Princess,

Victor Light Opera Company

My Maryland,

the

The fresh water rushes down the Kun scorched lake bed and then quickly percolates several feet into 35722. the silty clay. In doing so it ab. sorbs a certain amount of salinity of which the clay is formed. This process continues until the fresh water is gradually transformed into salty brine.

Victor Light Opera Company Rio Rita,

J. Harold Murray and Victor

Light Opera Company 35816. 7.20-7.35 p.m. Hawaiian Music. Palolo-Hula, Lepe Ulaula,

J

Yet strange to say only a few feet away from the precincts of the lake, drinking water wells are sunk

Sam-Ku-West Harmony Boys which yield beautifully fresh water

21419.

Paalahi (Hawaiian Guitare)

20027.

7.36-8 pm-Concert Items.

Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

(Pounds-Fearis),

ed orchestra. Lois Moran is pre- Phillips Holmes, picked off

the Princeton university sented us a sweet young innocent campus of enmeshed in the coils of a very in-less than three years ago for a tricate and sinister intrigue.

meteoric career in motion pictures, El Brendel is involved in the pro-and Norman Foster, alumnus of Carnegie Institute of Technology, reedings with results which easily be imagined, and George E. tay the leading mate roles in the Stone, that excellent character ac-first authentic pictures of Amer!- tor, is cast in one of the key posi-can college life to come to the] Honolulu March, tions to the mystery. Warren screen, "Confessions of a Co-Ed." | Rohala March, Hymer's rugged profile is thrust Featured with them is Sylvia Frank Ferrera and John K. Into the turmoil, where it does the Sidney, who made an instantaneous most good.

hit in her first moving picture,! William Cameron Menzies and "City Streets." She was winning| Kenneth MacKenna co-directed fame as the ator of the Broadway Song- "The Spider," their second combin-production "Bad Girl"

when the ed effort for Fox. Their initial movies "discovered" her. venture was the Elissa Landi auc-: "Confessions of a Co-Ed,” which cess, "Always Goodbye." Those will show at the King's Theatre, who have seen the present picture starting Thursday next, is the in- say that the use which these two timate story of an anonymous col-Violin have made of the sound camera lege girl, taken from her day-to-day gives

extension new

to the diary. For obvious reasons the medium, bringing to the spectator 'author's name must remain hidden of the screen drama that same but her story, highly dramatic and thrilling sensation of being actual intensely emotional as it is, reflects ly involved in the trime and the the actual conditions existing in subsequent investigation, that was the modern American college. experienced by those who saw the Sylvia Sidney meets and falls in play on the stage.

love with Phillips Holmes, and Barry Conners adapted "The Norman Foster persists in Claudia Spider" for pictures from the play in his hopeless wooing. Trusting

God Will Take Care Of You

(Martin-Martin), Marion Talley (Soprano) 1248.

Solo→→→ Caprice Antique (Balogh-

Kreisler), Legend of the Canyon (Cadman), Fritz Kreisler 1093.

Song--

Who is Sylvia? (Shakespeare-

None But a Lonely Heart

Schubert),

ky Fulton Oursler and Lowell'in Claudia Dell, a sorority sister Plano Solo-

Brentano,

"HOOK, LINE AND SINKER.**

Lavish settings for the movies

and professed friend, Sylvia en- courages both young men, and, when Holmes is expelled from col- lege, gives all ber attention to Foster.

ore nut confined to spectacular The tangled situation is intensi features.

hed when Holmes returns to find

Farce comedies, such as Radio her the bride of his rival. Pictures' "Hook, Line and Sinker."

co-featuring Bert Wheeler and

Robert Woolsey at the Queen's

Theatre, get their share.

**ALIBI."

Mercia Swinburne, who plays

without a trace of salt.

Although several theories have been advocated, it has not been es- tablished how this salt-bearing silt came to be formed at this particular Nor is it known how long it spot. has existed but the ruins of an im-

provized fort in the vicinity dates back to the Mogul period.

700 Miles From Sen. But the unaccountable fact re mains that nearly 700 miles from the sea exists this large and inter-

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Europe

Home Mails. To-day-Inward from via Siberia (Felix Roussel).

Meetings. To-day Chamber of Commerce, Chartered Hong Kong General Bank Bldg., 5 p.m.

To-day-Hong Kong Automo- bile Association, Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Board Room, 5.80 p.m. To-morrow-Hong Kong Fire In-

surance Co., Ltd., Messrs. Jardine's offices, noon.

To-morrow - Society of St. George, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

To-morrow - Union Waterboat Co., Ltd., Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., 3 p.m.

March 81-Hong Kong & Wham- poa Dock Company, Ltd., 2, Queen's Building, 11 a.171.

March 81-Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., Exchange Building, Des Veux Road, noon.

April 13--China Entertainment & eating salt lake offering special Land Investment Co., Limited, facilities for the extraction of one extraordinary meeting, King's of the most essential elements of Theatre Building, 5th floor, noon. our daily food.

Laminerts Auctions.

These natural facilities were Murch S1-At Sales Roam, post- quickly perceived and salt works age stamps, 5.15 p.m. were started over 50 years ago: March 31--At 1, Torres Build- which have been gradually extended ings, Kowloon, household furniture,Į and brought up to date.

10.30 a.m.

(Tschaikowsky), The lake is now divided into John McCormack. (Tenor) | numberless small sections demar- 1306. cated by low earth walls. They contain a pinkly liquid, which is kept at a certain level for a con- siderable time. It is then allowed gradually to evaporate through the

Album Leaf (Grieg). Capriccio (Brahms),

+

Harold Bauer 1418.

8 p.m.-Local Time. 9.3-11.30 p.m.--Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.

11.30 p.m.-Close Down.

All Victor Records in the above European Programmes are kindly supplied by the Tsang Fook Piano

Co.

action of the sun.

The residue that remains is a salt crust, two or three inches thick, which is dug up, loaded into trucks and hauled away by a small rail- way to a special store. Here great hills of salt have been formed by accumulation and on which the railway lines are laid and over A costly hand-painted Viennese in "Alibi," Britain's latest-murder

which both trucks and locomotivas. boudoir set, imported from Austria, mystery, has the reputation of

ABS daily. appears in the bedroom of Natalie being one of the best dressed ne-

The value of the lake has rapid- Moorhead who plays the role of aįtresses on the English stage. The "Post Office Engineers' by increased and as a salt provid- naughty countess.

Cinema audiences will be privileg-Journal" reports an interesting ing source is of considerble import- Another scene is that inside aed to see her wear some striking experiment in the measurement of ance, Over 250,000 tons of salt grand hotel reproduced on a full' models in this film. Mercia al- the speed of an electric current from here are consumed annually in ways chooses clothes to express which took place last year in Aus-the United Provinces and else- her personality, and consistent tralia. The main trunk telegraph where. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 with her unusual dark beauty.

MINUTES.

and unstinted scale.

50,000 MILES A SECOND.

system of Australia consists of a As the importance of the lake This is not to say that Mercia series of channels, which extend has grown, so have the inhabitants Swinburne is not also one of our from Perth to Adelaide, thence to of the adjacent town become more Over fifty trunks were taken by most charming and sincere ac- Melbourne and Sydney. By "hook- opulent. A large, flourishing white" Douglas Fairbanks and his three tresses, and when her performance ing up" all those circuita a continu-city, inhabited essentially by salt companions in the expedition for in "Alibi" is seen on Thursday at ous "line" 36,440 miles long was dealers and work people employed his latest adventure film, "Around the Queen's Theatre, the public obtained: this began and terminated at the salt works, has come into the World in 80 Minutes." The will immediately realise that a new in the Central Research Laboratory existence. trunks include besides all manners star has arisen.

of costumes, Doug's weapons for hunting various kinds of wild game, athletic equipments and gifts for the Oriental monarchs who enter-) tained him. The gifts Doug re- return literally doubled cefved in the amount of baggage carried on the return to Hollywood. The

of weapons

ancient warriors, costumes, rich tapestries and jewels, and the trophies of wild beasts. he had slain were brought back by Doug in addition to the 200,000 feet

of negative from which were taken the 10,000 feet which form his new film.

Bringing Up Father.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION,

SUMP AT -- R

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CATE

RM NEAVES

at Melbourne.

In addition to traversing the 'cir- Escaping from its cage on a fair cuit the current had to pass through ground at Walsall, Staffordshire, a A woman 76 sending nd receiving relays, lion went for a pai taeo. and as a minute fraction of delay found it asleep in her garden and in the transmission occurred at each when she touched it it

rose and of these the apeed recorded would followed her into the house. When naturally be slightly below that it came into the light she saw it which would have been obtained was a lion, screamed, ran into an-j over a really continuous line. The other room, and, alammed the door. aummoned and the time taken during the experiment Police were varied from 0.706sec. to 0.712sec., lion's cage was brought to so that a speed of 51,300 miles a house. The lion, which had been second was achieved. The measure-roaming about the

rooms, walked ments were taken with a Westing-quietly into ita cage. It had only house oscillograph.

broken a vase and a picture glass.

the

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DAILY

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word pussle has been made by an expert but

our readers are warned to look out for occasional phomatic epellings, such az harbor, plow,and altho.)

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16

B

19

12

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126

140

156

HORIZONTAL

1-Harsta

-Pointed weapon

I HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

4B-Be motionless |50-Loaded again:

-Metrio land measure 52-Reformer

10-Wanderer

11-Encountered

15-Emulated

13-More weighty

18-Rose

19-Wish

20-African village

21-A divtalon of Germany

22-Gift

24-Joyful celebration. 24-Entrost 27-Weird. 29-Concerning St-Girl's plaything

(pl.)

88-Withers 20-Nuisance

88-Degrert

40-Made ready 42-Put a new face on 44-Underground

cavities

45-Type of oar 45-Scented

63-Negative

64-Bird of prey 65-8cotch form of

John

|66-Paper mersurement

(pl) 57-Borders

VERTICAL

1-Sharp, slight

expicalve nolue 2-Worship

8-Dated in advance Reddish brown

(Var.) 6-8erlos (abbr.)

6-Indulges in display

7-Piling up 8-Alleviata 9-Bronze.coln of anolent Rome |12-Terrace (abbr.)

13-8tops

14-8nly

ib

VERTICAL (Cont) |18-Roman goddess of

the hearth 17-Distributed

121-Loans on one side

21-Bering tool 24-Placed for future

reference"

26-Caper

28-Cablos

30-Disunito

82-Ran in a current {33-Wild animal track

(B. Afr.) 94-Tint again |35–Preserved-

$7-Coarse grass 38-Boaked brand

flavored with wine |80-Fisher for lampreys |41-Ransom (N

48-Familiar form of

·Frances 45-Vapid

147-Lalr. [49-Half a moure

51-National Academy

of Salances (abbr)

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.}··

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