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*WE WENT TO COLLEGE”....... KING'S THEATRE

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1938.

Cinema Notes From The Theatres

SHOT GIRL

"EVENSONG”--STAR THEATËR

CHARGE

Alleged Accident With Gun

"Evensong" is the story of a) One of the most notable casts Prima Donna who forgot the wo-İSON'S REMARK TO HIS MOTHER assembled in recent months for a man in the singer. Maggie Mc-

romantic comedy was completed Neil, of Tralee, had a wonderful A mother went into the witness- at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with the voice which her friend. George box at Brighton police court and signing of Charles Butterworth Murray, said would bring her told bow her son came home one and Walter Abel for two of the fame and fortune if trained in morning and said that he had "had Her father forbade such an accident with this blessed gun.”

principal roles in "We Went to Paris College."

Hugh Herbert,

{x move; Paris was a wicked city. The son, Bezin Frederick Ket- Una Merkel Mazrie ran away, was trained by tley, aged 28, fruiterer, of Wash- Walter Catlert and Edith Atwater Madame Valmond. christened Irela ington-street, Brighton, appeared have other outstanding assign-by Kober, who secured an audition on remand charged with shooting at the Paris opera, and "managed" Beatrice Rose West, a Brighton ments in the picture, which Josepher for the remainder of her life. waitress, with intent to murder | Santley directed.

Ireia possessed a marvellous her. The play was written by Richard voice, and capital after capital was Other charges not proceeded Maibaum and Maurice Rapp, from at her feet for years. The thought with were wounding with intent a story by George Oppenheimer of love was never allowed to into murder and wounding with in- and Finley Petter Dunne, Jr.

Įtrude, her art came first-until a tent to do bodily harm.

At A Brighton Hotel

The plot revolves about the ef-persistent admirer followed her to forta of "old grads" to recapture, Venice and the capitulated. Her The attempt was alleged to have during Homecoming Week at lover was an Archduke of Austria taken place on the night of Sep- large university, the idealism and and the young lover defied the tember 6 in the girl's bedroom at excitement of their school days. Al Emperor, bat he could not deny¦s Brighton hotel

strong note of romantic interest the call to arms which followed At a previous hearing it WELS is added by the wife of a profes-the assassination of his cousin. stated that he stayed with her all sor, who endeavours to reawaker

The lovers were parted. They night after she had been shot.

the dormant love of her husband's met again, on the night that an Kettley's mother, Mrs. Agnes | best friend.

audience had demonstrated Kettley, said that her son told herị Irela that she was no longer peer-that the gun went off accidentally. Promised highlights in -We

"I must have touched: Went to College include a foot-less in her realm. Thus disillusion-He said: bail game, with emphasis on the ed she could not, would not, accept the trigger with my fingers and it

Theodore's offer of marriagè and went into Beatty." not always-passive spectators,

broken heart, while Her son put the gun on the kit- fraternity dances, a varsity play died of a

Baba, who had supplanted her, chen sideboard and said the police an alummi parade, with the..

sang triumphantly in the green would want to see it. Later she grads dressed in hilarious Co

handed the revolver to a police in- tumes; a huge stag party, and room of the opera house.

spector. other typical campus spectacles.

"THEY MET IN A TAXI” ... ALHAMBRA THEATRE

"THE UNGUARDED HOUR"

ORIENTAL THEATRE

Alleged Statement Ex-Police Constable Calway, who had since retired from the force. Screen entertainment filled with said that Kettler called at his

Chester Morris, Fay Wray, mystery, drama and romance that home on the morning of Septem-

Ann Shirley, aged 17, one of Hollywood's youngest stars, is shown at "New York, which she

· left as a child of three. Shirley was thrilled at the sight of her home town and, girl-like, wanted to see everything at once.

£5 SALE OF CONTRACT

Shirley Temple Dispute

BROKE HER LEG AGAINST A STAIR

Whilst Hampered by Rheumatica

-="Two years

ago," writes a WOZDAN,

*T. was suffering with rheumatism is my legs, and when walking up sİRİTE

one day just kicked my sight foot against the stairs, and broke my leg Just below the knee. I

3 Sa hos- pital for four months, and when I came out someone advised me to try Kruschen Salts. I did so, and now 1 have

no trace of rheumatism. would not be without my daily dose of Krischen, which I take every morning half an eggspoonful in warm water before my early mora ing cxp of tee"--Mrs. P. B

Unless the kidneys-or body filters function properly, certain

acid: wastes, instead of being expelled, are {allowed to pollute the bloodstream

and produce troublesome symptoms:] sheumatism for one: excessive fati- gue for another.

Kruschen Salts is one of the finest diuretics or kidney xperients available for

assisting the kidneys to ezrete acid impurities by direct action on the renal cells, thus causing a more rapid and copious "ushing" action and washing away of those harnaful acid waste products.

NO HOMEWORK. AT WEEK-ENDS Recommendation By Minister

Considerable reduction and, at some periods, abolition of home- work is expected following the Board of Education's report on the subjuct which will be issued shortly.

Mr. Oliver Stanley, president of]

Lionel Stander and Raymond Wal will appeal to young and old alike ber 7 and said he had accidentally NEW PROTEST BY PRODUCER the Board, has made a prelimin-i

Hour."

in “The Unguarded shot`his girl and wanted his ad-

vice..

me,

One of the first proposals Mr. Stanley will make to all local education authorities will be the labolition of all week-end home-

work.

Time For Play

Reports have shown that in

burn, as excellent a quartet of will be seen

Jary examination of the conclu-} factors in Hollywood, battle and

All the flavour that made the He said that Kettley said to!

Hollywood. sions his experts have drawn from love their way through an hour of

New allegations were made last the reports made by 400 school the grandest screen entertainment Ladislaus Fodor play a smashing him: "I had the gun with me in-Í seen this

season in Columbia's hit is contained in the picture. tending to dispose of it. She was month by Mr. John Hays, the pro-jinspectors all over the country. "They Met In A Taxi."

which includes a cast of notables sitting on the bed and I was facing ducer who is bringing an action headed by Loretta Young and her at an angle I was holding for damages against Shirley The story revolves about the Franchot Tone.

.. the gun in front of me when sud-Temple, her parents, the Fox Film colourful escapade of a beautiful

Corporation. Twentieth Century The production, done in a lavish denly it went off. dress model, posing as an escap-

concerns a prosecuting manner,

"She cried out,

'Oh and said Fox, and the Bank of California. ing heiress-bride, who turns out to attorney who is famed for sending something like You shot

Mr. Hays, who is also a trainer be not a bride at all, but a girl ac-men to the gallows on the strength "You hit me."

of child artists, claims £100,000 cused of the theft of a valuable!

accounting of] of circumstantial evidence. "I did not take much notice of damages and an zecklace.

Shirley Temple's earnings. Through a strange series of hapit at the time, because I thought He now protests against the some cases children have had to] Among those whom Miss Wray penings, he finds himself involved she was frightened of the noise. involves in her strange adventurețin a murder and is arrested on cir.

sale for £5 of a contract for the do homework on Sundays. "When I found, she had been services of Shirley Temple, a con- Mr. Stanley will advocate child- are Chester Morris, who billets cumstantial evidence.

wounded I wanted to call a doctor tract which he alleges was valued ren having the week-end free for her in his apartment when she ap- The thrilling finish climaxes it- but she would not let me, saying by the owner at £200.000. peals to him for aid, and Morris's self in a tense courtroom "scene would get into trouble for being

He said that a conspiracy exist- Another of the Minister's sug-j Bro pals, the amble-fingered that causes the audience to grip on the premises. I stayed with

led to dispose of the document dur-gestions will be that steps should Lionel'Stander and Raymond Wal- their chairs.

her until just after seven o'clocking bankruptcy proceedings.

be taken to abolish the "cram- burn, a newspaperman writing a

According to Federal Court re ming" prevalent in some second- society gossip column.

cords the contract was sold in Jary schools.. November, 1933, to Shirley's Father, Mr. George F. Temple, for {£5 through Mr. Harry Ashton, a

trustee in bankruptcy.

Lewis Stone, Roland Young, Jessie Ralph and Dudley Digger

add new laurels to their outstand PUSH-HALFPENNY

careers.

“NEXT TIME WE LOVE”—__ MAJESTIC THEATRE

The story takes you straight|

P.c. MARRIED

Bride Aged Only Sixteen

revealed re- Brighton-It was cently that, unknown to his co-

"

"They Met In A Taxi" is farce, melodrama and comedy agreeablying concocted, with just enough spicej to keep every audience on its toes.i Directed by Alfred Green, from the Saturday Evening Post story by Octavus Roy Cohen, the film] into the glamorous lives of'2 wo- has freshness and charm. The man who is a stage and screen performances of Morris and Miss star, and a man who writes abor Wray are superb, in the starring important world happenings leagues in the Brighton police New Gaumont-British roles, lending a decided charm to the far, exciting comers of the force, P.-c John Waldren-Under- the robust,

drama.

Their adventurous

careers 31

633 CINEMAS INVOLVED

ControlTM

GIGANTIC CONCERN

Mr. John Maxwell, chairman of

recreation.

Longer School Hours

So varied are the reports, how- fever, that it is unlikely that there will be any general conclusion- different areas will be advised dif- ferently.

In some cases, it is understand, there will be recommendations that an hour, or even half an hour, might be added to school time to assist the scheme.

WALKING HOME AT 1 A.M.

actionfal comedy-earth. These two, desperately in wood, Brighter's "push-halfpen-

love, marry.

ny P.-, has been married at Brighton Begister Office to Miss Lionel Stander and Raymond) Walburn give their usual excellent lifted to greater heights of human Peggy Helen Rathkina, daughter performances, while Kenneth Har-terest when another man falls in of Mr. H. E. Esthkins, a retired lan, Ward Bond. Heary Mollisonove with the wife. To reveal what R. A. F. captain, of St. Luke's-Associated, British Picture Cor and Ed Le Saint de apendidly in happens after that would spoil road, Brighton.

see enjoyment when you the supporting roles.

of marriage the $5,000,000 "Next Time We Love," so the de- was given at Caxton Hali Register cinema organisation with its in Tough Customers In tails of the story will not be given Office, Westminster. now.

"GRAND JURY"-QUEENS

THEATRE

Originally notice

poration, has bought control of Gaumont-British

A Car

Elarrow.

portant chain of 350 theatres.

This is biggest deal of its kind In the certificate of marriage

Britis The picture stirs the emotions P.-c. Waldren-Underwood's age is in the history of the "Monopoly has crashed the deeply, rising to a climar which given as 27 and his bride's as 16. Cinema industry, it involves con!

bined assets of £24,000,000. Its im

Alan Smith, aged 42. of Lime- films. The game that has hit high will long be remembered. The pro- The marriage was by licence and

portance is immense.

grove, Ruislip, trudged along the popularity

duction was developed, scene by the ceremony took place in the re- by permitting its players to speculate with high for-scene, building up toward its gistrar's inner

It ensures that control of this road from Harrow to his home room. Mr. and tunes and lose them painlessly reatest heart gripping effect in Mrs. Rathkins were the only wit-great system which was in danger It was 1 am. He had missed his plays an important part in "Grand the final sequence. Jury, the new film story of a

The action of "Next Time We A few hours after the wedding

A car came along. Smith step- novel on crime, with Fred Stone Love" whiris from the busy city P. Waldren-Underwood put on and an official statement is expect-lift as the car stopped.

The agreement has been signed ped into the road and asked for a

in the top role.

room of a New York newspaper his uniform and went on duty. to places where human drama isi

jed shortly.

Then he drew back, for in the car were four extremely tough- now: in Russia.

looking men. He was frightened

The use of "Monopoly," which happening even

nesses.

FLAMES

incidentally operates uniquely to Siberia, China, Rome and Switzer- MAN BURSTS INTO save two men from being murder-iand...all of these spots that ed in the story, is typical of the figure in the red hot news dis- freshness of the whole production.patches which sizzle over the Reflecting to-day's headlines in cables and burst into your daily American newspapers the fire depaper.

picts the way in which racketeers.

and their mouthpieces use techni-

calities and red tape to defeat jus-

tice. It traces the dering action SISTER'S HEROIC

ACT

Leads To Loses Of Fingers

After Explosion At Factory

of passing into American hand will remain definitely British.

CHILD KILLED IN CRASH

Women And Chauffeur Badly Hurt

Uxbridge

last train.

But he tried not to be frighten- ed. He stack his hand in his jacket pocket, produced a season railway ticket, and announced importantly that he was a police officer.

At which the four men stuck their hands in their pockets and produced raal police warrant cards.

stone last month, 19

And he was discharged.

Romsey (Hlents),

James

A child was killed Shearing, aged 50, a foreman, of and two women, one believe” to be

Smith, who was accused of be- which 2 fore taxpayer takes to

Caperaham, near Bamsey, Hants, the mother and the oth the fing drunk and disorderly, told this} restore law to a mob-ridden city

was severely burned last month grandmother, and their chauffeur story to the magistrates at Weald- whose grand jury is an easy mark

when his clothes, soaked in para- were seriously injured in a colli- for the gangsters' clever lawyers.]

|fint, caught fire at the Text Valley sion between their motor-car and Fred Stone and Owen Davis, JIM

{Iron Works..

motor-lowy at the function at owe their existence at the end of

· He änd ́ an apprentice, Richard Field Heath-road and Royal-lane, the drama to Monopoly. Stone Seeing her seven-year-old

Frampton, of Prunerfect, Eémsey, Hillingdon, best month, safety portrays "The single-handed foe of besther Kaurice, holding a lighted were thrown several yards when The child, named Williams, was crime, while Davis, romancing firework Miss Ethel Brandon, of oxyacetylene blow plant con-three weeks old. One of the wo with Louise Latimer, depicts a re- Manor road, Chesham, anstehed Ittaining four gallons of paradingmen was Mrs. Williams, of Ever, porter instrumental in snaring from his

Frank Thomas, Eussell

the gunmen.

Gibert, Charles

Beresford All Lap

It exploded in her hand,

She felt a sensation of zomb Guinn Wißama, Bill neck, and discoverell that

ber index finger

blown xWxy,

exploded.

CAROBATICS

Backe, and the chauffeur was Eric My husband wound the engine Workmates fore off the blazing Lester, employed by Mr. Westher-löf his car for half an hour with-

put out the famen) infléy,"garage owner, of Iver. Fr

jout any results. When the engine) The car was overturned, against eventually "kicked" hím he went was detained in hos-isome railings, and overhing

ditch, completely wrecked.

completely of the handleño *man at Tottenham Police Court.

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