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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1933.

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From

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1973.

12th Aug,

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6,000 19th Aug,

Destination

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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ROUND HONG KONG'S

CINEMA THEATRES

"LOVE ON WHEELS"-KING'S

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"THE WOMAN ACCUSED”— QUEEN'S THEATRE.

Yet now was not the time to ware er, falter. The work which he had carried almost to completion awalt- ed coronation. Success alone. would set a seal upon endeavour. To fail was to be false to what his! strength and skill had fashioned, to prove unworthy of the master- piece he had created. Besides, the "Love on Wheels," now showing "The Woman" Accused," now moments sped. He must be free three hours before suarise at that the King's Theatre, is a quick-showing at the Queen's Theatre, is

written! action comedy, full of racy humour a thrilling murder story least. The nights just now were and charming song numbers. by Viki Baum, the famous were never very cold. He knew the

Jack Hulbert, the popular British authoress of "Grand Hotel." country well. With any luck he

Miss Nancy Carroll, Cary, Grant} would have gained the forest-tar, is featured in this picture and covered foothills before the dawn his famous grin and spontaneous and Jehr Halliday are featured in had broken.. And then, by stealth fooling provide something really the leading roles, and the story, worth while is the way of cnter-which concerns the murder of s and fleetness to the Northern coast, fainment.

man who attempts to menace the running by aight, hiding through-

newly-married! He is seen as a shop-assistant in happiness of out the day.. He wondered how his; wife would welcome him. He pic-ne of London's biggest stores. His couple, is both interesting and ex-

job is a precarious one, for, at each citing. tured her surprise...

Miss Nancy Carroll and Cary Suddenly be paused. His heart complaint from a customer he is

One Grant act their parts splendidly threatened with dismisal gave a wild beat. A clod, untouch-day, however, he astonishes his and are ably supported by Louis ed, came tumbling of itself upon his feet. He put a hand upon the manager by quitting. He eventual- Culhern, Irving Pichel and Gert- fore the audience has been treated place from which it fell. Just for finds a good position but not be rude Missinger.

Ito Home thoroughly

laughs.

a second the crumbling earth seem- ed to strike faintly" warm upon his finger-tips.

His brain swam. Save for his eramped position in the tunnel he would have fallen. After a while he felt again. The warmth was

enjoyable MAIL REVIEW

The shota of busy life in a huge store are most interesting, and when Jack Hulbert commences to

sing and dance in the perfume de- (partment and carries on through

"SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE-MAJESTIC THEATRE.

nothing, only his imagination. Yet, the haberdashery and ladies' out- "Secrets of the French Police,"

no Placing his fingers on the little lower down, he earth could detect a difference in the temperature. The lower soil was cooler by a shade.

He struggled to collect himself. but as his hand had felt the earth his heart had given a sick drop He was curiously weak, exhausted, not by his sayage toil so much as by some strange and clutching ter ror, a vague and haunting fear,

the current attraction at fitting department, the incongruity the

adapted! from Mr. H. Ashton-Wolft's famous! of the surroundings add consider Majestic Theatre, was ably to the fun.

Jack Hulbert is supported by a memoirs of the French Surete, brilliant cast, including Gordon combined with the story "The Barker, who gives a fine study of a Lost Princess." The film is a very Cockney bus conductor. Edmund interesting one and contains many Gwann and Miss Leonora Corbett, thrilling episodes. who dances and signs delightfully.

that sapped his strength and drain-frenzy was replaced by an abash-

Gwilf Andre heads the cast, sup ported by John Warburton, Gre gory Ratoff and Frank Morgan.

ed his energy. A sense of omin-fed docility. Upon his grimed and MAIL REVIEW ous impendence weighed him down. bleeding, face there broke the

A pair In vain he tried to grapple with he flicker of a wistful smile. knew not what. The thing evad-of unseen hands assisted him to ed capture like a dream that mock-rise. ed him.

He shuffled slowly off, dropping

"THE LITTLE DAMOZEL”— CENTRAL THEATRE.

In the close silence of the un-jupon that frm and friendly The Little-Damozel,Low nel's end he waited, listening, and, He was weary, weary, and vy showing at the Central Theatre, is as he waited, something crept and hungry. stirred minutely in bis brain.

Presently he knew that the He could hear the hammering of would give him supper.

a picture based on the famous play by Mankton Hofe, and was suc- cessfully presented in London and

With an already' world-renowned story and music Noel Coward, by Ray Noble and

Damozel," starring

his heart-it sounded like the beat- His smile attained a preterna-New York. ing of a drum. He could hear the tural tenderness. Con-drive and surge of blood against

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the damp and wounded earth vanished the little crowd that had Anna Neagle and James Renale, about his head. And now,, between collected to watch Pietro Succi's offers unusual entertainment,

ahould not have been there.

these sounds, a voice, a memory..jexit from his burrow stood chatter- In the role of a specialty danger

His haunting dream had slowlying by the fence.

at a night club, Anna Neagle has gathered 'shape. A threatening It was rare fun to see that a part which calls for the expres- image rose before his eyes. He saw shouting, frenzied thing with Bion of an extraordinary dual per- the bottom of the prison wall, its whirling, flail-like arms

come sonality. One, the sweet and sym- and ruled and level edge, that wall that thrashing upwards from the pathetic "damozel," and the other,

wise-cracking. light-hearted, He ground. Good fun, and nobody the a saw himself as he had stood

dis-worse for peeping, although, al-night club singer and dancer. mayed a moment gone, his hand though his people did make such The supporting cast includes upon the earth that had seemed a fuss. It was worth ten lire any Athole Stewart, Alfred Drayton, warm. He saw at last a vacant, day to watch. Besides, it only Benita Hume and Franklin Bel-

lamy. goggling face, the face of someone happened about once a month.

After the rest had scattered, two white and staring face of one whom peasant lads remained beside at liberty had terrified...

opening in the fence. He turned and in a final frenzy "And now, you set," sald one,

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head. He struggled, but the pres-¡Just like a badger, fan't he, or else

disaster an earth-bear of some imminent

from the forest? sucked, his strength. A forebod-They only start the tumhel for him {íng, black as death, had gripped his and he finishes. He thinks that ing at the Oriental Theatre, has 7.000 30th Sept. Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney soul, a baffling, nightmare sense of he's escaping from the prison.

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"GOOD NIGHT VIENNA”

ORIENTAL THEATRE..

"Good Night Vienna," now show.

been опе of Jack Buchanan's

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Seven times I've

triumphs. It is full of captivating He had dropped the chisel and greatest sight in Veggia-er any songe and dances, Jack Buchanan was working with his hands alone. where in Siclly they say. Why, plays the role of an officer in a There were stones now and sudden- once there was a man who came Guards Regiment.

Веед it, The

The film deals with the amusing

ly the blood ran trickling warm to see him do it from Palermo," about his fingers. A smother of "But why," inquired the other, adventures of the popular film idol, earth fell blinding choking, in his "why does he want to tunnel? and is a musical comedy brim-full eyes and mouth, but still he bat And was he really "In

a prison of laughter.

frightful dream that holds Its vic- "Yes, He was eight years. in Itim still upon the parting brink of the prison. They thought he mur-!:

He was just

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and again his brain had totterer escaping by his tunnel when they bursting, on that fatal verge. pardoned him. It made him mad. The P. & 0. S.S. "Kidderpore" | He realised that he was shouting, And now he always has to bar- left Singapore for this Fort the cursing, but his outery did not row."

Bist uit, and is due here on the 6th Icease. A blind, un-reasoning fury For a while they hung, fascinat instant

had possessed him.

ed, staring upon the place from The R.M.B. "Empress of Japan" Suddenly the earth above him which the madman had emerged. arrived at Shanghai on the Aug, 1st.. S'hat, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Yhams.

final shuddering She leaves Shanghai on the" Aug.) S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Nagoya stirred. It fell upon his neck, his Then, with Shanghat, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama shoulders, in a murderous, crush-glance, they slowly turned away. 2nd., which is due at Hong Kong on Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. ing weight. He gasped for breath. [From "The Smoking Leg"the Aug. 4th and leaves Hong Kong' Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

for 'Manila on the Aug. 4th. ·· As by degrees he fought his up-" Amay, Shai, Mol. Eobe Osaka. Shanghai, Mot

|wird way he felt a burning beat. Kobe Yokohama

Osaka & Thama. His eyes were blinded by a tortar- Kobe & Yokohama. ing light. Something was roaring, Kobe & Yokohama booming, in his ears, Surely the Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.. Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, sound of voices,

Shanghal, Kobe & Yakohama Shanghal, Kobs & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama.

And, why, it was broad day!

He sank exhausted; dazed, “upon'

(Jarrolds).]

"RICKSHAW BRAND

the ground. He rubbed his eyes CELEBRATED and, blinking, looked about him.

Where was the prison, where? CEYLON

Whose were those faces peering at him through a fence? AT

For a while he sat, bewildered

end dismayedƒ then,, as he heard, a step behind and felt a touch upön'

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