1932-05-17 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932.

ROUND HONG KONG'S

CINEMA THEATRES

OFFICIAL SOURCES.

"LORD BABS."

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres

6-8 p.m.-European Programme

6-6.35 p.m-A Concert. Instrumental

Elegle (Tschaikowsky),

cares perched on your shoulder,|(845 K.C.)— but you'll discover that these cares vanish instantly at Susie's magle of Victor Records. touch. There is a something about In the funny sequences of "Lord the picture that radiates happiness: Babs" there is perhaps nothing after all, really worth living.

that makes you feel that life is. quite so mirth-provoking as the

It may be the bright music, it attempt to dress Bobby Howes ("Baba") forcibly for the wedding may be Jack Hulbert's irresistible

he wants to evade. Time and again the beer-garden that are

humour in those scenes in

sure-

the footmen endeavour to induce Bubs to robe suitably for the happy.y the funniest ever devised- but above all, there is the events, but Babs eludes these at-

sunshiny-personality of the star tempts.

Eventually, he arrives at the herself, a personality destined to be remembered long after the film church in a top hat. doesn't belong to him, and a pair has reached its happy conclusion. of plush breeches belonging to A burly footman'.

a coat that

the ex-

The effect is comic In treme, an effect that is heightened by Baba's expression of injured in nocence as he arrives, too late-as dramatic events are to prove.

“TO OBLIGE A LADY."

"HINDLE WAKES.”

What

is probably Britain's greatest screen achievement to date, fills the bill at the King's Theatre very soon.

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Song-

The Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta (4151). Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

(Bland), My Old Kentucky Home (Foster),

Roan Ponselle (Soprano) (6509).

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DO TOURISTS SEE

ANYTHING?

Lord William Cecil. Wants Them Gorse- Lined.

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.

NO EYES FOR BEAUTY.

Social Functions. 2 The Bishop of Exeter (Lord Wil To-day Tea Dances at Hong liam Cecil), writing in 'his Diocesan Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; Gazette says:

Dinner Dances At Hong Kong. "I'very much doubt whether the and Peninsula Hotels, and King's:

who average tourist

comes

to Restaurant. Devonshire sees anything at all; He

Entertainments has no eyes for beauty. You see

To-day King's him pass on the road with his eyes "Over The Hill.” glued upon it. If he stops it is only for lunch. As like as not he keeps the windows up.

Plano Solo-

Capriecia in F Minor (Dohnanyi);

"I see him again in the Cathedral Valse Oubliee (Forgotten Waltz)

Yard as I leave work. He is seeing (Liszt),

Exeter Cathedral, seated in a closed Vladimir Horowitz (1455). car looking hard at a paper. No Chorus-

Bedouin Song (Foote),

doubt he will report to his friends Associated Glee Club of he has seen Devonshire and Exeter

*America (86048).

Cathedral, and if he is asked does he think them beautiful he will answer he did not think them very different from any other place.

Song-

Two Hearts (Reisch-Robinson-

Young-Stolz), Yours Is My Heart Alone

(Herzer-Lohner-Smith-Lehar),

Richard Crooks (Tenor) (1509).

BZW

"For his whole mind was on the tarred road, and he really nothing else. Such ́s man needs Piano Solo-

Tango (Albenix),

feducation to enjoy life. He wants to be brought, like a child, to some Soaring (Schumann),

Wilhelm Bachaus (1445), beautiful hedge, told he must not 6.35-7.08 p.m.-Variety.

touch it but must learn to look and admire; then he must be taught to stop and look at beautiful things.

"Hindle Wakes," a play of Lan- cashire life, was written by Stan- ley Houghton over twenty years An unusually good farce comedy ago. It is one of the few plays. will open at the Queen's Theatre that does not age with time, and la on Thursday. It is an all-British as fresh and as provocative in production, "To Oblige a Lady," theme as when it was written. It which was adapted from a story by is, in fact, coming to be regarded the late Edgar Wallace.

now as one of the plays of the century. It inaugurated a school of drama which expressed the views of the new social order. wherein the rising generation claimed independence and set up Song- a new code of relations between the sexes,

In addition, Maisie Gay, the popular comedienne, plays the lead ing role, and sings the song special, ly written for her by Noel Coward, "What Love Means to Girls Like

Me."

Novelty of conception, hilarious

new

ly funny situations, excellent act This story is played to an intri- ing by the whole of the fine cast,guing conclusion against a vast, and sparkling dialogue are only a spectacular background of Lan- few of the points of this attractive cashire at work and at play. talkie. Go and see it for yourself!

"OVER THE HILL."

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After twelve years' absence from the screen, during which she de- voted her entire attention to her husband and her three small children, Mae Marsh emerges from retirement to play a prominent part in "Over The Hill," the Fox drama starring James Dunn and Sally Ellers, which is now showing the King's Theatre.

at

Sybil Thorndike, Norman Mc- Kinney, Edmund Gwenn, John Stuart and Belle Chrystall All the leading roles.

POLICE ORDERS.

Appointments and Training.

.

The following orders have been Miss Marsh's last screen ap-issued by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, pearance was in D. W. Griffith's Inspector-General of Police: "The White Rose," since which:

time she has been frequently im-¦ portuned by various producers to return, especially since the advent of talking pictures.

"I have always been afraid of the talkies," admitted Miss Marsh

Chinese Company. Appointment.Mr. Ts'o Tsun- on, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Reserve) has been appoint- led 2nd in Command of Chinese

Orchestral

My Song, The Thrill Is Gone,

in

Thestra:

· To-day--Queen's Theatre; "Alias "Lord Habs."

To-day-Central Theatre; "The "Happy Stars."

To-day - Majestic "Renegades."

Theatre:

To-day Star Theatre: "Those Three French Girls,

To-day World Theatre; "Inspiration."

Lammerts' Auction. To-morrow At Sales Room, Postage Stamps, 5.15 p.m.

Thursday At Sales Room, house hold furniture, 2.30 p.m.

of

Home Malis. " To-day-Inward from Europe via Suez (Naldera),

Meetinge. Tomorrow-Fifty-first ordinary Song-

meeting Indo-China Steam My Blue-Eyed Jane,

Navigation Co., ́ ́ Etd., Messrs. Jimmie the Kid,

Jardine Matheson's Offices, noon: Jimmie Rodgers (23549).}

The Place with a View, Organ Solo

"In other countries, countries' we May 19-Fifty-irst_ordinary, Mexicali Rose,

despise like Germany, very often General Meeting of The Canton In- The Four Little Farms.

Sigmundo del Oro (46181). you will see a view pointed out, and surance Office, Ltd., Messrs. Jardine

fa little place made where people can

Matheson's Offices, noon. sit Moonlight Saving Time,

with comfort and enjoy it. May 27-Union Insurance Society Right Now!

[Societies ezlat, I think, both of Canton, Ltd., 59th meeting, Maurice Chevalier (Baritone) Switzerland and Germany, which Messrs. Jardines Offices, 11 am.

(22723).

make beautiful pathe in lovely

May 27-China Fire Insurance Mesara. valleys so as to encourage people to Co., Ltd., 63rd Meeting,

Jardines offices, 11.15 a.m. walk and admire the beauties of the country.

May 27-British Traders' In- "Why should not we, with our na-surance Co., Ltd., 66th meeting,

Messrs. Jardines offices 11.20 a.m. tural beauties, follow these exam-

May 28-Extraordinary general ples? Why not let us take the lead and make a speciality of Devonshire meeting of A. S. Watson & Co.. Herodiade-II Est Doux, est bon in that we preserve its flors?

| Ltd., 11:30 a.m., at Hong Kong (Massenet),

leads now

"That great wide road which Hotel.

Miscellaneous, from Newton .... to Torquay, how infinitely beau- May 22-24-Empire Fair at the tiful It would be if the Peninsula Hotel

Settlement May 25-May waste ground was carpeted with wind flowers and primroses. That Hong Kong Stock Exchange and perfectly lovely road that leads from FK. Sharebrokers' Association. Exeter to Chudleigh; the wonderful meadows in North Devon, covered with daffodils, could not they be preserved?

Rudy Vallee & His Connee ticut Yankees (22784). 7.08.7.30 p.m.--Operatic.

Song...

Jeanne d'Arc-Adieu, forets

(Tschaikowsky),

Maria Jeritza (Soprano)

(6604).. Band-

Selections from Mefistofele (Boite, arr. Crentore),

Creatore's Band (35971). Song-

Don Giovanni-Pretty Lady

(Mozart), Don Giovanni-Is a Maiden Fair

and Slender (Mozart),

Feodor Chaliapin (Bass) (1983).

Orchestral-

Fete Dicu a Seville (Albeniz),

Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

7.30-8.p.m.-Orchestral.

(7158).

at Company, as from May 9, 1982. Fantasy of Melodies by Offenbach

the time "Over the Hill" was put

Promotion-Constables R30

into production, "but the story of Thong Po-hing and R33 Lau Shiu:

(Urbach),

Marek Weber & His Orchestra (V-60088).

'Over The Hill' was too appealing chuen have been promoted to the The Geisha-Potpourri for me to resist. I signed a con-rank of Lance Sergeants as from tract to play the role of 'Ma Shelby' with the strong belief that I could May 11, 1932.

(Janes-Zeitberger),

Marek Weber & His Orchestra (V-50028).

Marek Weber & His Orchestra (V-50002).

give the part that mother love and Training Course: Part II-All Lehariana (Geiger), feeling that only a real mother can recruits will attend at the Chinese appreciate."

Company's Headquarters to-day at The screen play of "Over The 5.30 p.m. for instruction. Hill" is based on Will Carleton's

Training Course: Part 1-All | memorable poems and was adapted recruits of the Chinese Company for the talking pictures by Tom will attend Central Police Station Barry and Jules Furthman. In ad- for Squad Drill on Thursday, May dition to Miss Marah, James Dunn 19, at 5.80 p.m. and Sally Eilers the cast includes James Kirkwood, Claire Maynard,

Indian Company,

8 p.m.-Local Time 8.03.11.30 p.m.-Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.

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"At least we could encourage the broom and gorse for a triffing cost, to grow on the broad banke of our by-pass roads.

..

LATVIA IS HIT BY

ECONOMIC CRISIS.

of

Riga (Havas), May 1, The economic crisis has inserted "Could not we clergy teach that its chill fingers of privation and the love of beauty is not only an poverty into all domains of existence end in itself, but, if rightly under in Latvia. Hardest hit have been the peasants who must sell their stood, one of the means by which

at extremely low prices the soul attains to deeper knowledge produce of the beautiful mysteries of life 7" which make it virtually impossible for them to obtain the materials necessary for. cultivation of the

BY 'WINDMILL' "PLANE 80il.

TO THE CAPE.

The first long-distance flight ever attempted in an autogiro, or “wind- 11.30 p.m.-Close Down. All records in the above Euro Mr. J. N. Young, a young ex-R.A.F. mill" plane, is being planned by pean programmes are kindly suppilot. According to his present ar plied by the Taang Fook Piano, Co.

assemble at the Range at that in

Edward Crandall, Olin Howland, Strength. Constables R230 Has-time. William Pawley and Joan Peers. san Dia has been permitted to re- The production was directed by sign from the Indian Company as Reserve Emergency Unit. Henry King.

"SUNSHINE-SUSIE."

There are people, morose indivi-

rangements he will leave Hanworth jaerodrome - for South Africa machine on a standard which the only alteration will be the atting of extra large storage tanks Notice. All members who have for petrol. He believes that the from May 8, 1932,

not yet sent in two photographs autogiro is so safe that no further Revolver Practice. Revolver for their arms licence must. do so precautions need be taken for the practice will be carried out by at once.

| journey.~ ́ ́. members of the Indian Company,

Until Tunics. All members who have on the Kennedy Road Range to

recently the autogiro duals, who are spt to take their morrow at 6.80 p.m. Members will not yet turned in their Khaki was not a fully licensed machine, a troubles in advance, who have de-assemble at the Range at that tunica for alteration must bring reporter was told at Hanworth,

time.

Flying Squad :

Revolver

them to the Police Store at once, but it was clared that there never has been so

later given a full certain a tonic for the blues as

Defendu Class-A demonstra-licence by the Air Ministry. Mr. "Sunshine Susie" which by special "

tion in Defendu will be given by Young is not going to try to break request is being re-screened at the

Practice. — Revolver Sub-Inspector Field in the Gym any speed records. His main object King's Theatre on Friday next, fur practice will be carried out by nasium at Central, on Thursday, is to get there in this new form of two days only. ....

members of the Flying Squad on May 18, at 5.80 p.m. Every mem- transport. The extra tanks which You may enter the picture the Kennedy Road Range to-ber of the Company is urged to at have been fited will enable him to theatre with the usual heap of morrow at 5.30 p.m. Mambera will tend.

fly 500 miles without refuelling.

OPEL

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