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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935

BUSINESS DIRECTORY Fausements MAE WEST DENIES

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Cinema Notes

“ADORABLE KING'S

THEATRE

HUSBAND

Never Heard Of

The Guy"

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

DISCOVERED

Mae West,

While "Adorable”, the new Janet"] Gaynor-Henry Garat production for Fox Films, is a story of pare romance, it has a musical setting

New York. that is an important adjunct of the

the woman who picture.

captivated the cinema fans of The music was written by Wer-five continents with the phrase: ner Richard Heymann and is "Come up and see me some įspecially adapted to the romantic time." has been engaged in a rhythm of the story, and is as es-desperate attempt to discredit re- sential to it as the dialogue. The ports that far from being a spin- *musical direction of the film was injster she was married in Mil- Leather Handbags, Sait the hands of Louis De Francesco,waukee, Wisconsin. 24 years ago Cases, Parses. Hat ja member of the For studio staff. to a music hall artist named

Boxes, Collar Boxes Belts, Etc.

"Adorable" will present à number Frank Wallace.

She has issued

Phone 2223

53, Queen's Road Central.

MAN WO LOONG Leather Case Store 5. Pottinger Sti

GENERAL

NOTICES

MONSIGNEES and Owners of

cargo in the Company's Go downs are hereby notified that on and after 27th May, 1935, delivers of cargo will be made to Praya

re

QUEEN'S THEATRE

H

A thriller of the sities, with Wal-

Governors James M. Curley, of Massachusetts: H Styles Bride ges, of Maine; Louis J. Brann, of New Hampshire; Prof. John I. Murray, economist of Boston University, and Lieut. Gov. J. L. Hur ley of Massachusetts (to r.). photographed examining Japanese goods at Washington. They told President Roosevelt that the tex- tile industry is making its last stand against the competition of cookie-produced Japanese goods.

BRIDGE NOTES

AN EXPENSIVE

GIFT

BEETLE PERIL IN YORK MINSTER

RADIOT

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme wil broadcast to-day from the Ha Kong Broadcasting Station ZBW. on a wavelength of 355 metres (345 KC's).

"PICTURES ON PARADE ET FILM FANNY

ZEK. Programme

12.30-275

pm- European

12:30 nm Recorded Music. 1.pm-Local Time and Westber

Report

1.15 D-Hong Kong Hotel On ebestri

1.30 am-Renter Press Bulletin, Bugby Press News, etc..

2.35 pm-Close Down

5-8 pm.--European Programme..

5-7 pm-Hoog Koor Hotel Dance Orchestra.

pim-Closing Local Stock: Quots-

p.m-Light

tions.

7.03-30

Music.

Orchestral

Handel in the Strand (Grainger) Mock Morris Dances. (Grainger) Turkish Patrol (xır. Lloyd) The Forge in the Forest (arz. Lloyd) Dancing down the Ages (am. Fuck) Falling in Love again (The Blue

Angel

230-240 pFrom the Studio. "Pictures on Parade" by Pilka Fanny

44p-From the Studio.

of new song-hits by Richard Adenial after denial from her. Whiting and George -Marion. J headquarters in Hollywood.. that are reported as the most pro- Miss West says she has had mising written in recent seasons to rebuff no fewer than eight "Adorable”, a waltz taking its name gertlemen convinced that they from the title of the film, is destined have matrimonial claims on her. to take its place at the side of "The Belief workers. indexing re- cords have discovered a marriage Merry Widow in popularity "My THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON Heart's Desire" and "My First Love Certificate issued at Milwaukee WHARF & GOIKOWN CO. LTD. (to Last" are two more songs in the April 11, 1911, to Mae West

picture.

and Frank Wallace, who are de- scribed as appearing in a local -WEST POINT OF THE AIR The age of the bride is given as music-hall song and dance act-

18, her birthplace Brooklyn, her father, John West, born New Wall, Jorry or direct to dealers lace Beery in an important part,ork and her mother, Matilda premises by the Company on West Point Of The Air" is the these details apply to Mae West Dilker West, born France. AT Hongest and receipt of instructions Queen's Theatre attraction.

of cinema fame. This film gives Beery great scope, or Delivery

Two Frank Wallaces have been Orders. Details of charges for for his undoubted talent, and, as found to whom the details ap- these services have been sent to all the blaff. non-commissioned officer, ply. EUROPEAN FLATS at To Ter- the Company's clients.

One appeared with Miss The rates be makes his part live. race, Causeway Bay Harbour View two

Such scenes as 100 daring fyers mond Lil in 1928. shortly be West in a Broadway play. "Dia- minates to Bus and Tram with four are lower than those usually charg

It is always sound business policy big rooms and garage and water cloed now. No coolies, other than leaping from planes in parachutes fore she began

to trade one trick for two. Practi- to appear in sets, Very moderate rental. Apply those in the Company's employ, will simultaneously, Beery San Chan 1st Floor. 33. Connaugh be available for employment on the from one plane to another to save ties." The producer says he to make such a profitable exchange changing films in her "Belle of the Nine- cally no one seeing an opportunity Ed. C Telephone No. 21544..

Company's premises.

This sen from a certain crash, hun- died two years ago.

Death-watch beetles Another would overlock it. But sometimes have been at work for 400 years which Dealers employing a permanent dreds of planes in unique forms-candidate is now appearing in exactly this opportunity goes begin the eak roof of the North sta of coolies may take delivery tions and other such thrills among vaudeville on Broadway. He sing because such an unusual play Transept of York Minster are to Minor, Op. 1 (Chopin) played b

x309 pm-Concerto No. 2 to F from Godown with their own men the clouds have had all who have claimed in an interview to-day is required that it cannot be made be exterminated by poison gas seen the picture sitting on the edge that he was divorced from Mae instinctively, and most people play and acid baths in timber that is

Arthur Rubinstein (Pianoforte) and of their seats.

the London Symphony Orchestra. in 1916 or 1917, but he loves her more by instinct and by experience still useful

9947 pm Variety. The supporting cast, too, wins its still Miss West has replied ter-than by cold analysis. Often it is

Piano Salos share of praise. Maureen O'Sulli-sely: "I

At present scaffolding, more never heard of the blocking or exiting that athan 100 feet high, fills

Just one more chance van gives a sterling performance guy."

player manages to give up one trick transept; the famous Five Sis Vocal Dnet-Hood Indigo

the The Queen was. In the Parlour that lifts ber to the edge of star-

Esie da Costa. In order to gain two or more others.ters window is partially obscared; Throwing an exit card consists in experts are examining the groin-Orchestra

Layton and Johnstone. discarding or purposely losing led oak roof, now six centuries A Night with Pant Whiteman at the

Biltmore

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THE

NEWS

OF

dom

'

Robert Young, after a year

By Ely Culbertson"

Poison Gas To Be Used To Save Transept

MANY BEAMS CRUMBLE TO DUST

of exceptionally successful attrac- SEVEN-FOOT DOG card in order to avoid be old; and two years must pass

tions, tops all his previous

per-

formances in the romantic lead op- WEIGHS 17 STONE ing thrown in the lead.

posite the charming Irish actress.

-RUMBA ALHAMBRA

THEATRE

Musical Reels from the EK.0, fim Roberta showing at the Theatre shortly.

Kinz's

8pm-Local Time and Weather Report

8.03-11 -A Relay from the Lee Theatre (Chine).

21 pmClose Down 8.30-10. pm--Exropean-

Recorded

locycles. Music from ZER a frequency of Sta

मे

Costs £3 A Mouth To Feed

South, Dealer

* Both sides vulnerable North-

S-A Q J 8 H-8

In to before the Minster is free again day's hand the exit card was

All this disturbance 2 Ace, and it had to be discarded at traced to the appearance last be the first opportunity.

antumm of tiny heaps of brown Organ Solos Idust on the floor of the North Transept Far above, in the roof, the death-watch beetles Vocal-Cuban Tango. were burrowing, and it is esti-Xylophone Solo-12th Street Bag mated that the work of preserv ing sound and renewing useless timbers will cost at least £12.000. Work Urgent

2

Songs

The Very thought of you A Place in your heart

Sam Coalow. (Tenor) Broadway thea' a Keybole--Selection. Take a Chance-Selection

Terence Casey

George Raft and Carole Lombard, Strathbogie Cochlarachie Loch the sensational dancing stars of invar Mister he answers to "Bolero," repeat that early success all or any of these names in Paramount's "Bumba" which weighs 17 stone and opens to-day.

įseven feet two inches.

measures

The story is concerned with Raft, He is the massive and remark-West a Broadway dancer exiled to Havana A. P. L. Gordon, a London fin- Table Great Dane owned by Mr. by threats of gang vengeance, who

jumps into the limelight with his lance expert.

revival of Ramba dancing. Assist- Strathbogie eats three pounds Jed by Margo, the lovely Mexican dancer, he becomes the town's chief

attraction.

¡of raw meat and a bullock's heart

15 shillings a week. each day. His food costs about

Mr. Gordon takes him fre-

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The task is urgent. The beetles have attacked the roof: from both sides. Some timbers. superficially sound, "riddled with borings" that it is possible to thrust a six-inch spike into them. In others the oak crumbles away at a touch.

By the time the work is com- pletely about 150 lengths of tim- bers and 65 bosses will have been removed and tested and what- ever is done, the restorers will take care that not a beetle sur

:

Vozi

Hamy Robina

My Songs from the Shows

Marie Burke (Sopicana). 9.47-10 pm-Albert Sandler and kia Orchestra.

1. Bird Songs at Eventide.. 2 Gipsy Moon

3. A Little Love, A Little Kiss 4 Because.

10 pm Renter Press Bulletins 10.05 pm-Close Down

Bowls.

V

TO-MORROW

Presentation to Mr. E. Hampton Snooker-Steel Conison League

Kowloon C.C., 7

Royal Engineers T. Garrison Ser

geants

Chief and Petty Officers v. Water

Police Prison Warders v. Central Polier Dockyard Police v. St. Patrick's

-<7 p.m.) Tennis-"A" Division

Chinese R.C. "B" v. Chinese RC. “A” Craigengower C.C. V. Cilab

Becreio

United Service RC

Recreio “A”.

T. Clube de

Kowloon C.C. v. Indian RC.

WEDNESDAY

Bowla Open Pairs

2. Duncan, and L.A. P. Duncan v. H

Overy and F. Goodwin

L Glendinning and W. Glendinning (Club de Recreio).

v. H. Nish and A. M. Holland

(Kowloon Decks) M. Y. Adial and A. R. Dallah . 耳芤

Rose and . M Purves.

"(Czzigengower C.C)

He meets Carole Lombard, aquently to lunch in the City. lovely heiress, and falls madly in love with her.

"He is very friendly with my South- Soon, she recipro office staff,” cates his feelings, but they argue Sunday

he said to aj and she fees to New York

Express representative; but dislikes stockbrokers." Raft accepts an offer to star in finest foods in a New York show,

although he knows he is daring death, for the

The bidding: (Figures after bid vives. opportunity to be near the gizi he your loves.

refers to numbered explanatory The Friends of York Minster, H. W. Austin, the tennis star. South

Į paragraph).

who appeal for a contribution of The film comes to its climax when, is writing a book— but, contrary 1

West North East not less than £8,000 towards the as a result of threats, his dancing to statements, it is not called 4 (1) Pass

Pass 1S partner refuses to go on in the "Flowers and Trees.”

Pass cost of repair. have issued ex- Pass

Passtracts from the report of Mr. dance. Carole Lombard, then

1-South's hand was almost strong Walter. Tapper, who examined "The book I am writing, he comes to his sid. In a final burst says, "is unique, I think: It con-

enough for an Opening two-bid: the roof. These show the ex- of barbarie music, this pair dance tains instructions on a thrilling Rumha which brings the play tennis by a new method."

nevertheless he did not wish to treme gravity of the position. how to

make a Forcing Rebid of three, Outside Uninjured film to its close.

clubs. Being void in spaces, be The roof of the North Tran feared that there might be sept is actually in "OUTCAST LADY” —– MAJESTIC ial air-port, whose chief and best

two parts duplication of values and that Above the timber and plaster THEATRE

friend is killed by a daring and

he might be forced to play at a vault-fully 600 years old fearless German fying ace.. Bax

five-club contract, which he which can be seen from the floor, Constance Bennett takes the ter vows revenge and how he

* might not make.

is an outer roof, constructed only principle role in the screen version eventually has his opportunity to and South won with the Ace, South of unusually designed cast-iron West opened the King of diamond about a century ago of deal and of Michael Arlen's famous novel, fight the German in the air is "The Green Fat" which is now realistically depicted in this film. now an four hearts, discarding trusses. Although this outer being shown at the Majestic} Others in the cast include Con- Dummy, and then made the mistake beetle, the caken vanlt is gravely two diamonds and a spade from roof has not suffered from the chita Montenegro, Ralph Morgan of leading a fifth heart in the hope injured The story deals with a woman Russell Hardie, and Herbert Mun- that one adversary would discard whose husband commits suicide for din. what she alleges was "purity."

The beetle, Mr. Tapper writes, has attacked almost all of the Her brother thinks that it is sheTHE CATS PAW"-ORIENTAL relief, threw away his Ace of clubs, some of them so seriously that

On this-lead East, with a sigh of heavy beams and the bosses who is responsible for the death

THEATRE

South's lead of the fifth heart was nothing much is left in the POPPY GROWING IN Abandoning the adolescent roles, he could hardly be expected to suft the roof is a very dangerous really not such a bad play, because originally solid timber. As a re- No. detail is omitted in the pic the stunts ture and it traces the life of these which first helped to make him the spade suit, But East, whot and paraphernalia guess the remarkable division of

state two young people in a way which one of the world's outstanding mo- knew only too well that if he were B. C. Green) and his staff are The Clerk of the Works (kr. is satisfactory both to lovers of tion picture comedians. Harold forced to lead he would have to es now engaged on their task, under the book and admirers of Miss Lloyd returns to the screen at the tablish at least three tricks in Mr. Tapper's direction and with Bennett.

Oriental Theatre to day & new spades for Dummy, was only too valuable help from the Research full-grown man.

glad to escape for ever the possibi- Department He is seem as a young mality that he might have to lead. It Museum. who has returned to America from was too bad, of course, that he had Ching-with instructions to fund This picture with the depend wife! What happens to him when sidered it quite an advantageous to throw away an Ace, but he con- able Warner Baxter in the lead- he arrives and is hurled into the sacrifice If East bad thrown a King into Dummy's ing role, tells of the terrible fury of a large American city, and

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of his best friend and severs his

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"HELL: IN THE HEAVENS”

STAR THEATRE:

torture of timen during

War

Baxter is seen as a young can, stationed at a.

2 club.

de instead, South's next play

The discard of the

the

This courtship of Petunia Pratt, would probably have been the club tablished South's King and

played by the

acking King and East would have been but he was nevertheless

na Merkel), is too grand to d locked in his hand with no choice give West two club tricks and

lead through West's spade diamond tricks, being set one.

M. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh . A. Tennis "B" Division

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