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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1936

Annisements

Cinema Notes

SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPLATE

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

In adapting "Seven Keys To with Baldpate" to the screen

дет Gene Raymond under his

headlined, contract long-term

RKO Radio has chosen a play that is of considerable importance in the history of the theatre.

In 1913 George M. Cohan dared to shatter a well-established, thea- trical tenet sniggered at all pre- vious mystery thrillers, and wrote "Seven Keys To Baldpate" as a spine-tingler to end all mysteries;

Before Cohan's historic experi-i Iment, chillers were inclined to be ponderously horrible, even gory. More, they had been governed by: the rule that the audience was al- ways to know what the characters! didn't-was never to be ignorant of what was going to happen, or who was going to murder whom. Suspense was to be kept, accord-: ing to the tenet, only through in- terest in how things would work out.

Water that seeped into gas mains ar Utica, New York, caus-

in a series of blasts which in ed the mains to burst, resalting

The arrows in the jared two persons and terrorised hundreds. photo above show manhole covers blown high into the air by the explosions; below, Patrolman Ernest Borville, injured by a flying manhole cover, is placed in an ambulance.

"Seven Keys To Baldpate" changed all that-violently, hu- mourously, amidst remunerative, public delight. It mocked the old! borror tales with a deft humour that eased the tension created by the spooky interior of gaunt old

took joyous out the picture, the girls furnish! Baldpate Inn. It liberty with the audience-fooled the musical and dancing enter

tainment, while the comedy situs-)

it.

Playing opposite Raymond in tions are offered by Joe Penner, the film is Margaret Callahan, Jack Onkie, Frances Langford, and the cast includes Eric Biore, Ned Sparks and Lynne Overmahu. Erin O'Brien-Moore, Moroni Ol-j

sen,

Mayor.

Great Mitchell and Ray "RED MORNING"-ORIENTAL

"COLLEGIATE”—QUEEN'S

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ROTARY MEETING

Interesting Talk By

Mr. E. Nelson

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AIR LINE OPERATION

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E. Nelson, ARE.F M.LM.T., Supervisor of Kai Tak The backgrounds of this produc- Aerodrome, gave a most interest- tion was "shot" in British New ing talk at yesterday's tiffin-meet- Guinea and the Fiji Islands, where ing of the Rotary Club, on "Some! of Air Line Opera- versatile the heat is sufficiently intense to Difficulties Picked as the most

The speaker dwelt on the pusasi- Thurs., 9th Apr. girls in Hollywood, 60 young beau- melt the emulsion from the cellu- tion.” 25th Apr. ties, whose dance repertoires in- loid of exposed film. To prevent

clude steps from classic selections this, the footage was promptly bilities of both 100-ton air-liners to the modera "ha-cha" variety, locked into refrigerated cabinets and the development of efficient "baby" planes for the ordinary were engaged by LeRoy Prinz, after removal from the cameras. Paramount dance director, for co- The New Guinea sequences in man-in-the-street, and

are declared to ference to Hong Kong's air link lourful sequences in this film.Red Morning”

be the first authentic views of this with Penang; operated by the frontier land. Hundreds of na- "Dorado.” But before being signed to s

The following guests were wel- 3rd Apr. contract for the picture, each of tive head-hunters appear in the

chorines was put production Religious rituals, na comed at the luncheon: Rotarians George Charles Manassa, of St. Louis: through a series of routines that tive habits and eerrie dances are Harry Massman, of Kansas City: included ballet, eccentric. ball scanned by the camera. room, folk-dancing and the com- Dromgold and James B. Shackle Fleming Ross, of Ottawa, Kansas, ford, noted explorers, filmed these Warren Penwell, of Fana, Illinois; of the bination of tap and modern trip- scenes by special arrangement Fritz Kruse, Commodore

tourist liner Reliance; and Mr. ping, known as truckin'. Having with the British Government. being trained from childhood by

The background, is interwoven H. R. Butters, Postmaster General

introducing In

Commodore some of the foremost dance in- structors here and abroad, the into the romance between Steffi

of excitement Forster) Wed.,

1st Apr.girls are regarded as leaders in Duna and Regis Toomey, who are Kruse, the President (Prof. L. Moa. 20th Apr. their respective fields. However, caught in a maze

when called for their part in the and romance. 7th Apr..

picture, they settle down as a team 15th Apr. and worked in complete unison.

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said he was a keen Rotarian, was President of the last International Conference in Mexico City, and had frequently held Rotary meetings on his ships. The Chairman also referred with regret to the approaching de One of the most outstanding parture of Rotarian Sir William dancer, the chorus uses almost comedy teams in the United States Shenton, who was, with them for every technique known to the mo- appear again before he him the last time. dern night club entertainer. public in "A Night At The Opera," Dance authorities believe the after an absence of over a year.. į "Rhythmatic" autober will be Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx classed

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