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PAMELA

SUMMER SALE

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MODEL EVENING AND

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A. Weill (successor)

YORK BUILDING

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1929.

PICTURES AND

actor who

one of

PLAYS.

James White bought it over his head, without Evett nowing, and, although Evett stayed with him for two or three productions, they sOON parted company.

Then White talked of the tradi tion, but did not understand it, He was very proud of it, though. Be thought he had bought it, as though it were a racehorse.

Ford, Harrison

the Robert Castle is an

screen's most popular personalities, doesn't want to act. He wants has been chosen for a featured role write, and does, but motion picture in Just Married, Paramount's producers in Hollywood, being can film version of Anne Nichols' play, vinced that his future on the serce according to an announcement by is assured, pay him a substantial B. P. Schulberg, associate producer. weekly salary to forget he is an Ford's role is that of the young

aboard the author, or, at least, forget it during bridegroom

trans- the day time. Castle will tell you Atlantic liner on which the major about it; that is, he will tell you portion of the play's action takes about it it you Rre fortunate place. His cinematic bride is Ivy enough to talk to him as he sits Harris, young Paramount player, with Bebe Daniels on her set at An interesting sidelight on Ford's the Paramount studios waiting a

apresence of the cast of "Just Mar- call to face the camert. He is play ried," is that he was the first lead ing opposite Miss Daniels in bering man to play opposite Lila Lee, next starring vehicle, a story of who also is featured in the produc-even the kindest of " newspaper woman's life, his Arst tion. role ince signing his, Hollywood

contract,

It is not that I do not care for acting he says. "It is not that at all. They have made me very happy since my arrival in Holly. wood. But when you have made up your mind that you wish to do a thing you are never completely satished until that has been accom plished. "I wish to write, and I have written a little. Novels, I have two and numerous short stories and scenarios. Even now, when the day's work is over at the studio, I continue to write in the evening. If my motion picture or stage career" were to terminate to-mor row, I would not be unhappy. have always the other field." -.

Ruth Taylor and James Hall, Paramount's new romantic team are co-started in "Just Married," under Frank Strayer's direction. Other featured players include Wm: Austin, Arthur Hoyt, Wade Boteler, Tom Ricketts, Mario Cadillo and Maude Turner Gordon.

Miss Hilda Moore, the London actress, died last month in Park East Hospital, New York, after six days illness. It was caused by streptococcal infection" of

the throat, which spread to her entire body.

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Miss Moore; the wife of Mr. Austin Fairman, an actor, became ill while nursing her four-year-old son Austin, who is dangerously with the same disease in the same hospital.

But

To see Miss Mary Pickford on the screen it always among the film-goer's simpler pleasures. to see and hear" her in her ârst talking-film, Coquette," must now be a more mixed experience for mariolaters." At the first performance in the New Gallery Kinema recently the ap paratue itself coquetted, throwing the dialogue at times so violently out of time as to produce a sight- sound counter-point beyond even Pudowkin. It would, however, be unfair to blame the local mechanics entirely for the muted consonants” and mulled rowels which make up Miss Pickford's version of the ac cent of the Southern States. Many words utterly escaped the audience, white occasionally very definite and highly amplified sobs shattered and brutalised the affect of the com paratively restrained acting which gave her part its relative con- tinuity.

But it

Miss Pickford has shed her curls and much of her sweetness. with her silence. No longer "the world's sweetheart," she is Norma Besant, a modern and not wholly sympathetic minx, Hying with an amiable young brother and a touchy- old father in a small southern town As a girl of the United States. fresh from the "Hab" school it is permitted her by the traditions of southern gentleman to Birt with the local vulgarians and trife with the heart of her most presentable miter Mr. Matt Moore). is not permitted to fall heartily in dahmond in be love with & rough " (Mr. John Mack. Brown), She was one of the earliest and still les" is it forgivable to be pupils of the Royal Academy of compromised with him and to wish Her father (Mr. Dramatic Art, in which Sir Herbert to marry him. Tree took a great interest, and it John St. Polis) settles the young was for that reason that she made man's offers hastily with a revolver. ber first appearance with him at and it is now his daughter's duty Liverpool in Oliver Twist" in (so his attorney tells her) to gain 1905, and then, returnng with him his acquittal by slanderring bes to London, was a member of the own ore and her dead lover. Miss His Majesty's company for some Pickford does well in the grotesque years. She had also acted with but sensatcinal court scene that Charles Hawtrey and Sir Gerald du follows. Maurier, and had toured in the United States and acted in Ger- many."

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Miss Moore, whose last appear Lewis Stone has been signed by Paramount for the important role ance was made in "Interference " of Count Pahlen in "The Patriot," at the St. James's Theatre not Emil Jannings' next starring pic- many weeks ago, was a tall, dark, ture to be made in the Hollywood handsome, feline like woman whose Mrs. studio. The announcement of this looks resembled those of important addition to a cast which Patrick Campbell when she was in will be one of the most imposing her prime. She had a fine dra star, matic sense, and is best remember ever selected to support a was made recently by B. P. Schuled for appearances in parts of an berg, associate producer at the adventuress type. For instance, in Paramount studio. The Patriot. 1013 she toured with Sir George which will be an Ernest Lubitsch Alexander, in the villainess role in

Bella Donna." 1 tremendously) production. is dramatic story of the brilliant and cruel days of the Czar Paul of Russia, at the dawn of the nine- teenth century. Count. Pahien, which Lewis Stone will pertray, is an historical character closely asso- ciated with the Czar Paul in the intrigues of a Court infinitely more debauched and savage than that of Louis XIV. of France or the Bor- gias of Itals, Production plans for The Patriot," which will be started in a few days, are being made on an elaborate scale, with technical, histrionic and directorial talent from every part of the world in requsition. Vera Veronina, who is cast for an important role, is of Russian extraction. Jannings and Lubitsch are both from Germany. as is Ali Hubert, master European designer brought to Hollywood to prepare the costumes.

Daly's, whether it is sold as a theatre or not, has passed for ever as the theatre one knew, for so lang. When George Edwardes died Robert Evett took control until he had paid off all the debts of the George Edwardes estate. Then

One would not pick her an exceptional emotiona! out actress, but she is natural enough when lying under cross-examina tion. She is perhaps at her best, when her father having hot him- self repentantly in the very well of the court, she goes out and along the street, deliberately alone and deliberately silent, the old waifish Mary Pickford of a dozen pictures unexpectedly brought back.

THE WOMAN'S CORNER.

CHATER ROAD

Your Home and Mine

There are opportunities which occur but once in a lifetime. By whether he grasps them or not you can judge of a man's ability.

Such an opportunity is now offered to you in the form of our great sale.

There are diamonds, gold and silver watches, clocks and ent- glass

at be had ware, to sacrifice prices.

DATE AND FIG PUDDINGS.,

Dried fruits desserts are always good, especially for the nursery tifin.

By now, everyone has surely tried out plum pudding recipes, so we shall skip over them, and let to-day's chat be confined to fig and date puddings, hot and cold.

A recipe for Big pudding calls for one-half pound of dried figs, chop ped fine. Add them so one cup of chopped beef suet, which has been Soak worked until, it is creamy. two and one-quarter cups of stale bread crumbs in one-half cup of milk. Add one cup of sugar, one- half teaspoon of salt, and two eggs, well-beaten. Mix well and com bine with the figs and auet. Place in a buttered mould or can, and steam for three hours, Serve with hard sauce.

From Jenny cumer this novel night gown of rose crêpe de chine bordered with blue,

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of anet and add the dates. Then add the following ingredients, mix-

CLEANING YOUR CLOTHES AT HOME.

Dry-clean your tweed costume by, first of all spreading it on a table and brushing it well.

Mix some breadcrumbs with a penny-worth of magnesia, and with a small brush or piece of flannel rub the mixture all over the cos tume, rubbing always in the same direction.

Placing a damp cloth over the cos tume, press with a warm iron, The result will please you.

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WILLIAM FOX presents

FLEETWING

of

THE clash

desert love and tribal laws against the colourful backgrounds the Sahara!

of

with

BARRY NORTON

DOROTHY JANIS, BEN BARD

THE romance of a beautiful slave girl and

a prince of the desert!

AT TEN

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

WARWICK DEEPING'S wonderful romance of a British War hero-how he was compelled to become a hotel bar porler; how he "Carried on" for the son he adored; and how he won through in the end!

A

SORRELL SON

with

H. B. WARNER, ANNA Q. NILSSON

AT THE

WORLD

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.

THE famous dog star in another thrilling adventure

story !.

BIN TINTIN

IN

WHILE

LONDON SLEEPS

AT THE

with HELENE COSTELLO'

STAR

· FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 6.30* & 9.20.

- "FLEETWING!"

DESERT ROMANCE AT THE QUEEN'S.

TRUNCHEON “ TORPEDO.”

POLICEMAN'S RUSE TO STOP. AN ESCAPING 'SUSPECT.

T

A case in which a young police- man was stated to have surprised four men at 1.25 m. on a recent Baturday, when they were alleged to be stealing quantities of women's dresses from a lock-up shop was

[BY QUE VILM CRITIC.]

Barry Norton makes such a very attractive young Sheik on Fleet Stains left by mud-spots can be wing" which you can see to-day removed by boiling a handful of at the Queen's that I feel sure be ivy-leaves in a pint of water, bottling was sorry to dress again in plus heard at. Tottenham Police Court it, and, when cold, rubbing it on tours or a lounge suit when his later, when Henry Smeeth, aged stains with a sponge.

day's work was over, and also that twenty-two, of Great Chart-street,

Tar can be removed from clothes by placing in a saucer the part spoilt and pouring pure olive oil over it. Let it soak all night, wash as usual, and no remains of the tar will be

scen.

ed on a charge of being concerned with three other men not in custody in breaking and entering the shop and stealing the clothing.

he will use his most persuasive East-road, Hackney, was remand smile to induce some director to give him another similar part. I am not acquainted with any Arabs, Sbeks or otherwise, but it looks as though the caste generally was

Police Constable Fairchild said weli chosen for facial type and the that he saw a motor-van outside. For grease stains on fine fabrics whole picture is quite a charm the shop, which Smeeth and two buy a quart of distilled water at little play of a burning, desert"

other men entered. They game chemist's and add one teaspoonful romance:

from, the shop each, carrying da armful of dresses, which they threw into, the van. An alarm was given by the driver when Fairchild ap proached, the men ran in different directions, and the van was driven away. Fairchild ran after Smeeth.

** Anim

of saltpetre, one ounce of sharing Mr. Barry Norton a soap, finely sliced, and four table-first captures the wild Arab Stallion

spoonfuls of ammonia.

Warm the mixture until dissolved, Put a piece of blotting paper under the fabric, dip a piece of flannel into the solution, and rub with & circular motion until the stain dis appears.

FLAVOURING.

In flavouring sweet things we are apt to become conventional.

"I shouted to Smeeth to stop," said Fairchild, and as be refused I threw my truncheon, which struck him on the head and knock ed him to the ground.”

TODAY'S WIRELESS

Fleetwing and then rescues a lovely lady in diaphonous gar- ments, from being sold as a slave, They gallop together on the Arab steed, far across the desert to the basis where Anim's tribe are on- chraped. There tragedy waits for ther, for by the law of the tribe the spoils must be divided, and, since he is not of age. Anim's Just as delicious as the bot pud-

father, the old Sheik, chooser dings, is cold cream fig pudding,

"Fleetwing for his son, and sell. served plain or with thin cream. ing well together: one-half cup of

the girl to the highest bidder. One recipe uses phe, package of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one tea- lemon-flavoured gelatin, one and spoon of ginger, one teaspoon of

There is another wild chase and

PROGRAMME. We a hand to hand combat with scimi one-half pints of boiling water, one salt, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one cup of figs, and one cup of heavy cup of flour, one cup of soft bread all know the vanilla, lemon, almond lars before Thorza's husband is

BROADCAST BY ZBW. cream, whipped. Dissolve the gelatin crumbs, and lastly, three well-beaten and orange favouring extracts, and disposed off and the lovers are at

Cook eggs.

so METRESA Turn into buttered moulds use them dutifully, but why not try last happily, united, in a pint of boiling water. which will

The action throughout is quick the figs to a jam with the remaining and steam for two hours.

mixing them a bit 1, Lemon and water in a double boiler. When the Instead of flour and bread crumbs, vanilla are good together, especially and interesting, and some of the

148 p.m.Weather report desert scenes unusually lovely gelatin begins to thicken, beat with rolled oats may be used in making in a cake.

Fleetwing himself does, much for 5.30 to 8.30 p.m.-Programme of A rotary egg beator to the consist the date pudding, with molasses re

Almond flavouring added to

the romance and interest of the Chinese music (Records supplied ency of whipped cream, then fold in placing the sugar. Mix the follow-

by The Canton Trading Associa the whipped cream and figs. Turn chopped, two cups of rolled oats, fruit salad gives a subtle, indescribim, which I advise you to sec.

The big picture is preceded by tion). into moulds and chill until firm, four eggs, one cup of molasses, one able, but none the less delightful

Our Gang comedy and ong 7.49p.m. Evening, weather flavour. : Date pudding is made in the same and one-half cups of water, one tea- manner ca steamed fig pudding, and spoon of soda, one-half teaspoon of The scrap of lemon peel, orange of the Famous Music Margera port. ADS

p.m.Evening cinnamon all-spice, vanilla, series, this time" Stephen Feter www.wr Butval on kaufe der Best Sinnamon weed day the compone

umhip. A robazdy saunalied: “by pound of stoned dates through a Pour into a buttered mould and pód, or bay food chopper. Cream one-half pound steam for three hours. Serve with and puddings-how many times do tuck Home, and other well known Kesers. Anderson Music Co,),

Ame you remember to use them 1

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10.20 p.m.-Close down. (Continued on nezt Colums). any pudding sauce.

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