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THE CHIRA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935

Amusements

Cinema Notes

"FOLIES BERGERE

- THEATRE

KING'S

A night in Paris without the morning after"

BONDS BURIED IN

OIL CAN

£3,000 Worth Found By Youth

PROVE TO BE FORGERIES

New York

A big forgery plot was revealed

That is the best description of "Folies Bergere, Darryl when Arthur Pakrul, a 17-year-old Zanuck's new 20th Century musi youth nearthed a large all can

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cal extravaganza, starring while digging for sand on an Maurice Chevalier, which is empty space at Linden, New

showing at the King's Theatre to Jersey-

day.

Pakrul took the can home to his HONG KONG & SHANGHAI The lavish dance and musical father. The lid was forced on BANKING CORPORATION presentations, featuring more and inside wrapped in paper and

F

than 70 of Hollywood's loveliest covered dancing girls, were staged by

cardboard

packets of bonds.

Each bond was of $10-12-de

2.10.0 per Share, subject to de-Dave Gould in the sensational nomination, and they were worth water front. The house can accommodate 130 guests, besides

"WEDNESDAY'S CHILD".

QUEEN'S THEATRE

The Olympic home for yachtsmen at Kiel as seen from the having a Post Office and a huge drying room for the sails

BRIDGE NOTES NEW "SMOTHER” PLAY

By Ely Culbertson"

HUSBAND'S TRIALS Wife Refused Order For Separation

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following, programme will

be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZBW con

* wavelength of 355 metres. 1845 X€3).-

DANCE MUSIC, FROM HONG

·KONG HOTEL

..

ZEK. Programme

12.30-215

pm European Pro- 12.30 pmRecorded Music. 1pm-Local Time and Weather

Report

115 pin-Hong Kong Hotel Or-

chestra.

1.30 pm-Renter Press News, etc. 2.15 pm-Close Down

5-8 pm-European Programme. 5-7 pm Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

for Piano and Orchestra (Georges

7-1.25 pm Concerto in F-Majör

Gershwin)

7.25-7.12-put--Vocal Gene The Waltz Dream (Sarauss): The Belle of New York The Merry Widow (Lebar)

IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that!

Interim Dividend of

duction of Income Tax, has been manner for which the Paris musi-altogether over 15,000 dollars declared for the HALF YEAR cal institution, from which the Mr. Fakrul took them to the

£3,000. fending 30th June, 1935, at the rate film takes its name, as well as its jof 2/241⁄2 per Dollar.

mood and settings, is world-re-police, who-after inquiries found THE DIVIDEND will be pay-nowned...

they were forgeries. It is believ- able on and after MONDAY, 12h Marrice exerts the exhausted the forgers lost their nerve and AUGUST, 1985, at the offices of ble Chevalier charm in double disposed of them in this manner. the Corporation, where Share-measure in "Folies Bergele, în holders are requested to apply for his first dual role not only as Warrants.

Charlier, the gay, straw-hatted, THE REGISTER OF SHARES singing star of the "Folies Ber

The Southend justices recently of the Corporation will be closed gere," but

a bemonocled:

refused to make a separation or from MONDAY, 29th July to French baron whom he imperson-Wednesday's Child," the car-

der against Henry Atkins, South- |SATURDAY, 10th AUGUST (both ates in his act as well.

rent attraction at the Queen's One of the rarest of end-plays wife accused him of persistent Report, Closing Local Stock Quota- church-avenue, Southend, whose! 8 pm-Local Time and Weather WANTED-THE Services of a good days inclusive) during which The furr begins when the Baron Theatre, is a story of a child's is that in which

a guarded decruelty- Scotch Terrier Dog Write Box No. period no transfer of shares can goes off to try to raise funds to heartbreak when his parents difensive trump honour is captured 226 c/o China Mail”

cover a bank shortage and the vorce and shatter his idealistic despite the fact that the declarer husband was of such a jealous dis- be registered

Plaintiff's case was that her Hing Theatre (Chines

| 805-11 pz-A Relay from the actor is called in to impersonate conception of home.

or the dummy has only a blank position that when she went to By Order of The Board of him in life as well as, upon the

Frankie Thomas, who was a situation is that dummy at the in love with film stars-particularly

11 pmClose Down honour behind of it. The usual a cinema he accused her of being from ZEK on a frequency at

8:30-10 p.m.-European Pro Directors

claimed by all the critics when he

start of the hand has three Maurice Chevalier:“

kilocycles. Complications develop when the played the part of the child

6.30-9. p.m.-Orchestral Music, Baron returns unexpectedly and the New York stage, has the same trumps, to the Ace, the declarer

Rondo aus der Hanner Serenade Defendant's case was that after (Mozart)

Hungarian Dance No. (Brahms)

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THE

HOUSE

OF

BARGAINS

ALBIL

stage

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7428 pm-Jubilee Music Hall Parade," 1910-1935

tions,

learns that his wife has been flirt.role in the screen version, while five to the Queen-Jack-ten-nine.working from Monday to Friday Hungarian Dance No. 6 (Brahms) Jing with Charlier. To test-her. Karen Morley takes the part of and the player under the dummy he was expected by his wife to get Torch Dance No. 1 in B Flat Major The turns the tables by imper- the mother and Edward Arnold. After two fixesses have been made scrub the floors. He also did the Le Prophete-Coronation March

sonating Charlier and an impas-the father. sioned love scène ensues, with

When his parents become es-

second

the King guarded

three times.

up early on Saturday morning and

without the King's having been the wife uncertain whether the tranged his mother decides to enplayed, the declarer proceeds to cooking for the family and lodgers man is her husband or merely ter matrimony for the

strip the hand.

on Sunday. Charlier's impersonation of him. His father also makes UP is thrown in at the twelfth frick Eventually the other opponent Ann Sothern and Merle Ober- his mind, to take the plange twice

the leading feminine but when he overhears his son which the other three hands are and is forced to lead a suit in son have roles in "Folies Bergere, which pouring his heart out to a school-

all void On this lead the de- Roy. Del Ruth directed from alfriend, he realises how much it Long. for release through United of his own, and so forgets his in or not is immaterial. If he does ther the defensive player coVETS

i

BULLET LODGED IN EYE

script by Bess Meredyth and Halmeans to the boy to have a home/clarer plays his Queen, and whe Grevions Bodily Harm

Artists.

"LIVING ON VELVET____ ALHAMBRA THEATRE

A salute to cavaliers is the

theme of the designs worn by Kay

од

Francis in her new First Na- tional production, "Living Velvet which is showing at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.

tended bride and settles down to look after his son."

"BEHOLD MY WIFE— STAR THEATRE

Charge

not cover but undertrumps. the declarer merely discards

from Leslie John Rodway, of Corn- dummy and wins the last trick wallis-grove, ... Edmonton, with the Ace.

Was bound over at Waltham Abbey re- A more unusual type of cently on a charge of inflicting excellent partner for dark Sylvia rump Jack was picked up after camp at Chingford.

Blond Gene Raymond makes an

"smother" play occurred in the grievous bodily harm on Ronald hand below. East's guarded Bond, of Chingford at a riverside Sydney in "Behold My Wife, the declarer had been forced to which is now showing at the Star shorten his own trump holding

Theatre. Kay's most recent screen offer-

The story

and thas found himself unable to concerns a young take the marked finesse. ings, including "British Agent" man whose bride-to-be commits

South, Dealer East and West vulnerable North:

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ment which might enhance her by her off. He leaves in his right to the title of "the screen's family, and is nursed by an InH-K 987

car after quarrelling with his best dressed star," but the situa dian girl when he is injured in tion is now effectively remedied. "Glamour, of course, is a word

an accident.

used more appropriately in coning his family by marrying the

He conceives the idea of sham West nection with women's clothes than with masculine garb, but girl, and what follows when be, there's no denying that in trans-returns home provides tease si

tuations. ferring the cavalier note to the

style worn by Kay in this produc"WEST POINT OF THE AIR tion, Orry-Kelly, First National

designer, has transferred also a

definite part of the costuming

MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wallace Beery has one of the

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which made their historical ante- finest roles of his long career in South cedents glamorous in their time.West Point Of The Air" in Henry VIII, England's genial which he is cast as an N. C. O. king, is remembered in the wed-who raises his son to be an of ding ensemble worn by Kay Acer in the American air arm. coat of rich grey velvet is quilted

When his son develops a per- in a diamond shaped pattern, its

The bidding: length and cut and sleere treat-violently and Beery is court-mar1 H

verted sense of duty, they quarrel South

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West ment inspired directly by the ialled and dismissed the service 4 H

15 Such a shine lavishly for trimmed, loose and nancy and interest.

lavish kingly costumes. It isThe film lacks nothing In pois- and

BRASSO

METAL POLISH

swagger.

A In "Living On Velvet" Kay hast the role of a wealthy society wo] man who falls in love with a wealthy young aristocrat, crazed by an aeroplane accident: Othersi in the cast include George Brent the aviator, Warren William, his best friend, Helen Lowell, Henry O'Neill, Russell Hicks and Mande Turner Gordon. -

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Frank Borzage directed the picture from the story and screen play by Jerry Wald and Julius Epstein, famous screen writers.

"THE MIGHTY BARNUM”:

ORIENTAL THEATRE

This great picture traces story of PT Barnm of

North East 3, E Pass. -Pass Fass Pass The way the cards were divi (Continued at foot of next. Col)

ADAMSON HAS A TERKIER

of attempted murder.

The charge was originally one Medical evidence was given that a bullet could not be taken

from Bond's eye as it was too deep to remove without impairing the sight

(Meyerbeer).- .

(Meyerbeer)...

La Fille de Madame Angst Overtor

(Lecocq) Les Cloches de Carneville

(Planquette)

9-9.15 mA Relay of the Daven- try News Bulletin (Copyright by Bester).

9.15-9.30 pm-Song Memories Great Bass Ballads

-Norman Allin and Chargs Sweet Genevieve (Tucker); AL Trinity Church (Gilbert). Honeysuckle and the Bee (Fritz); If you want to know the time ask 2 policeman

·9.30.10 p.m.-Dance Music.

10 pm-Berter Press Bulletins 10.05 pm-Close Down.

FAULTS IN PERISH

RECORDS

Vicar Finds Forty In Marriage Register

The discovery that there are ed It is easily seen that a three-Tabout 40 faulty entries in Thorpe notrump contract would have (Surrey) Farish Church marriage been easier to fulfil However, registers has been made by the I do not think either North's "or Vicar when the entry of a tong South's bidding. can be severely past wedding was being sought- criticised

In the July magazine the Vicar

West's opening lead was the writes that a wedding last month' spade King, and the Ace in dum-was the first entry in the new mar- my won the trick. South natural-riage registers "The first entry ly then won the first round of in the last used registers was in hearts in his own hand and was September, 1887, 30 a new ma

warned by West's drop of the riage register is a thing of N

five spot to win the second lead in Thorpe still," he continues. in the North hand. He won the He states that in one of the old Isecond round of trumps with registers there is a gap of five dummy's King, thus keeping years without a single entry. In tenace position over East's Jack all about 40 entries are in one

South, of course, despite the way or another fanity. fact that the trump situation was now revealed to him, still kiew he had to be lucky to fulfil his!: contract. He returned to hist hand with the diamond King and immediately took the club finesses The club Ace was cashed and the third club runed with the deace fof hearts. South now cashed his lother top diamond and then led a

spade towards diuory.

West perforce won this trick and now had no choice but to teash three black cards.

of course, followed with three spades and the dummy

spades and the last

the twelfth tric South's having

tion of playing top diamond that suit to forced to lead

seven of dummy

of this

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