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TO-DAYS WIRELESS

PROGRAMME...

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES..

in to 1.30 am.-Stock quotations. 11.30 am.-Chinese programme. 19.30 p.m.-European programme of

Victor und 13.M.V. record

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Queen's.

King

HONG KONG

"Hook, Line and Binker."

Canaries Sometimes Sing."

Central..

1 p.m.-Local time and weather | World.

report.

1:30 pm-Rigby Props news, mai

noties, ole.

2.p.m.-Close dowa

3 to 7 pm.-Chinese programme.

0 to 6.30 p.--Children's convert.

Star,

of Victor and H,M.V. arcorts.

Variety.

0730 11 p.m.-European programaNe

7 pan.-Mail notice, etc.

7,03 to 8p..

*Song--! My Ohk. Ölçme,”

Humorous Songz Ee, by Gun!"

-Gracie Fields --E25-0.-

Önata Selo-" Wad 1% Brenm 77: Organ „Selbst Blogs of Yester

Day."

Пumorous Mong- The Drago

Way.

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All Quiet on the Wasterri

Front."

Spring Time"

(Chinese picture),

KOWLOON.

Strictly Unconventional,”

COMING.

Queen's.

SE"

The Secres Six"

Behind Office Doors."

King's,

Confessions of n Co-Ed,"

The Man 1 Killed,"

Sunshine Susic."

Palmy Days.?

Howland Fans,

F.İ.C.O-BESO.

Central.

"Seed."

Cock of the Air"

Humorona Song" Homes,"

Norman Long. - Bee17.

World.

Humorous Moulogne--" An Ema

Bauknem kaart Bon."

Humarons Muzelores

Blue.

heard. --Wish Wyrne.--B5541.

Banjo - Lolinins,“

star.

Funio Soth-- Teasing the Freis."

Michele Orten. --83631.

Song You Wealda't Ford Me,

Would You ?"

Song- My Lucky Star."Harry

Shabon (Baritone). - Bag1"

Organ Solos Jilly, of Laguna.” Organ Solo-ut Tauzise."--

Leslie James-Be

Humorous Son-Cows

Fishes,

and

Humorous SOBK - "Brof."-

Suzette Tarris- B2000,

Spargi-"* Peace of Mind."-Gene

Austin (Tenor),

Vren Trio-" There's Rooms in

My Heart. Walter Glynne,

Sydney Coltham and George Baker-B:201

p.m.-Loentha and weather

report.

L.

Tonight or Never."

Robin Hood."

Ku Tze Kin Sing Chinese picture. named."

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Say It With Songs," Me of the North!! Way. For a. Sailor."

"Gold Diggers of Broadway.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. 1932..

ONLY Ar 2,30, 5.10, .

7.15 & 9.30 P.M..

KING'S

BY SPECIAL REQUEST

RE-SCREENING OF

FREDERICK LONSDALES

Canariletimes

sing

TOM WALLS ·

YVONNE ARNAUD - ATHOLE STEWART - CATHLEEN NESBITT

ار

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313

—TO-MORKOW-

who is this girl who loves & tells.?

CONFESSIONS OF A CO-ED"

a Paramount Picture

You'll never know her name. You will know her story she con- aded it to her diary.

with

·SYLVIA SIDNEY PHILLIPS HOLMES NORMAN FOSTER

THE RAILWAY ROAD CONTROVERSY.

COMMITTEE APPOINTED IN LONDON TO MAKE INVESTIGATIONS.

London, March 22.-The rail road controversy roashed a crucial staga- to-day when Mr. P. J. Pybus, Minister of Transport,' mat four re- presentatives of railways and four representatives of fime ongaged in goods transport by road! After a discussion which revealed a sharp cleavage of opinion a "committoo was formed to investigabo facts. rg-- lating to the total costs of the highway syatom, iucluding regula tion of traffle and contribution to wards the cost of upkoop by dif- ferent classes of rond users,

The committee is also enjoinad to ounsider the question of regula

tion of goods: transport by roud ́and rail, and to submit recommen-.

tions on these questions..

The recommendations are to bo designed to assist the two sides, of"| industry to carry out their functiona under equitable conditions which. will adequately safeguard the in- terests of trade and industry. The report is to be submitted before the end of July.

"The committee will consis) of the four General Managers of Railways and four rond haulage representa- tives. An independent Chairman will probably be appointed by the Ministry of Transport..

GOSSIP

MOVIE NEWSET

On the Screen in Hong Kong.

4.05 to 3.50 p.m. Variations DRAMATIC ROLE FOR

Symphoniques (Cesar Franck) played by Alfred Cortot Bod the London Symphony Orches tra, conducted by Sir Landon Ronal D: B100/D.B.107; 8.20 40 0 pm.—A sejection of Victor |

Herbert's music played and sung by the Victor Light Opera") Company

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life," Selections from "Naughty Mariet

t.n."-23,15, a

Kiss Me Again. A Selections from Teller."-9146. Budinge.

En de Balle

DOT LEE.

"CANARIES SOME- TIMES SING."

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HOW TOM WALLS DIRECTED IT.

Tom Mix's Return.

gress in British films since I was Tom Mix, the cowboy film star, thrilling he said. The industry her three years ago has been who was auce said to earn £9700 has accomplished great things, and CONFESSIONS OF A week, is back in the limelight again. I do think anyone of us inay he

He is returning to the screen in

CO-ED."

ACTUAL CONDITIONS AT U.S. COLLEGE.

رے

and certain achievement.

his rattalkie, Destry Rides proud to play a part in its further Again with his celebrated horse Pony Mix bought that hore The Mannequin..

for twelve dollars. In 1925, when

1QUEEN'S

THEATRE PA

FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY AT 2.90, 5.10, 7.15 and 9:20:

MERRY, MADMEN

OF THE SCREEN

Mighty Stars of

**Half-

shot

at

Sunrise

WHEELER WOOLSEY

Heading the Parade in a Slam-Bang Cirens of Nonsense

HOOK, LINE AND SINKER

"Hook Line and Siaker,"

He came to England, he rode him "Under Eighteen, at the Regal hilarious farce, co-featuring Bert Wheeler and Robert. Woolsey, at the

down the gangway from the liner and London Pavilion, is about a to the quay.

He rode him to a working girl (Marian Maran), who Queen's Theatre, means more than

banquet given at a West End hotel gets a job, as a mannequin, and in one of the best comedy pictures Something near a riot was caused

in his honour. For the past three order to help her sister obtain a Phillips Holmes, picked off the yaari Mix Radio Pictures Bas produced, at in the film industry by Tom Walls'

has been touring divorce appeals to a weathly phi-66 least it meant more to Dorothy statement to the effort that he did campus of

The phi- America with a circus. Then, just anderer for nusistance. Princeton university

as he was deciding to break into anderer (Mr. Warren Williams)" To her it commemorars the not

believe in using well-worn lean than three years ago, and talkies in November, last year, he invites her to a colossal, party, at realization of a lifelong ambition cinema technique" in regard to pre-Norman Foster, of Carnegie In-operated on three days before thedaner, drink cocktails, and fall in- got appendicitis and had to be which semi-intoxicated. people to be an actre85. In this comedy, ducing for the seroon stage plays he makes her first appearance or prayed success. His contentions. a full-edged detress with- a single songs or a dance. Singing and dancing were the weh Pons she used to crash the studio gates.

Lue.

The Fortune

"A

Fresco."-0347.. March of the Toys. Selcations from "Babes in Toy.

land."148.

"

Solutions from Sweethearts." Selections from "The Red Min."

-9140%

0 to 1 pm-Dance programme. 0.30 to 9.40 p.m. (approx.).—A talk

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news.

out

Musical Comedy Star.

She went to. New York and ap- peared, still winging and dancing in "Hello Yourself." Through all

by Dr. Radio of the Radio Ser-these years she was forced to sup vice Station.

press her desire to act. The studio paa-Rugby mid-day Press doors remained algof, and tightly

closed. 11.0 p.m.--Close down..

Then Radio Pictures" Hello All records in the above Euro-Yourself and produced it as "Sen penn programmes are supplied by copation," Miss Loo was given a Messrs. Moutrie & Co.

part. She was given a contract and sent back to the studio near her old home.

SUBMARINE RESCUE

DEVICE.

SOUTH AFRICAN CLAIMS NEW INVENTION.

Cape Town. The disaster the British submarico M.2 hus caused an English engineer, Mr. H. L. Lewis, now living in phis city, to press his claims for the acceptanço by the British Admirality of a sub- marine rescue device.

Acting, however, stemed as far nway as before, in succession she danced and sang her way through several Radio #Rio Ritn,"

The Cuckoos," " Dixiann,'" and "Half Shot at Sunrise.' In each of these produc- tions, though, there were lines to spoken, and she spoke them well that her selection, to support

the famous comics, Wheeler and Woolsey, in "Book, Line and Sinker," was a foregone conclu- sinn.

·

stitute of Technology, play the

is that if the public are thoroughly leading male roles in the first satisfied and entertained, by the authentic pictures of American exact reproduction of a good stage college life to come to the screen, play, why all the winecessary trap- pings, such as peculiar shots, weird photography and the torturing of a straight-forward story?

Whisher, he is right or wrong in

his methods one can judge for one-

Confessions of a Co-Ed."

Featured with these young college men is Sylvía Sidney, in the leading

Érst Some

moving. picture.

City

audio lights went up.

TH

Now ba has at work on this new Western mulodrama. which ought to be completed this month."

**The Corsair."

"The Counir" says 僖 London critic is about a footballer (Chester Morris) who goes into business on Wall Street, nds that it is crook ed, and witers the hi-jacking busi ness in order to give his hoss a lege son in his own methods. He sells

to a bathing pool. Naturally you expect, the worst to befall Miss Marsh. But it turns out that her rich friend is quite a good sort. He lends her the money, her sister guta. her divorce, and Murinn returns to marry the man she loves..

The chief merit of the film is the acting of Miss Marsh, who has an innocent charm and sincerity. You. will enjoy it if you don't take the atory too seriously.

";

Ronald's Return to Footlights.

JOICH

DOROTAY. LEE RALF HAROLDE Jobyna Howland Natalie Moorhead With World's Greatest Array of Nute, Nit-With and Damos de Luxe Directed by EDDIE CLINE

- TO-MORROW THE DRAMATIC BRITISH

MURDER MYSTERY

ALIBI"

self, but this much can be stated woman role. Miss Sidney, who that his fret aforts, Rookery Nook" and "On Approval" proved made an instantaneous hit in her him rum out of his own rocket. enormously popular, and his latest

The predominant sensations, wore Ronald Colman, after an abeanco production. "Cantries

the sight of Alison Lloyd as the of seven years in pictares, is mi Limes Sing" which is showing to-

boss's daughter improving on the turning to the stage. He is to take day at the King's Theatres by Streets" plays her second import blondeness of Jean Harlow, and part in a play which will serve as spécial request, the film adaptation an screen role in “Confessions of looking like a large, luxurious kind of rehearsal to the successful alage play, will most as- suredly be enjoyed by patrons to

a Co-Ed." She was winning fame According to current American tor-will be the successful London show, flower from the Devil's garden. production in talkie form. This whom the cinema means two hours as the star of the Broadway pro minology, this is called "doing a "Cynara, which is shortly to be or more of real entertainment, An duction "Bad Girl" when the Harlow The other senantion was staged at Los Angeles, and in which execllent cast in an bxcellent story movies "discovered her.

the sight of a bootleg pirate carry he plays the leading part. After with exquisite dialogue.

What &

ing out operations in a bowler hat. I wargls the whole cast will be trans more i

Confessions of a Co-Ed,” However, this is a finely photo ferred to the studio, word-perfect. which will show at the King's Thea.graphed picture with some cleverly for the job, Mr. Colman has just devised, thrills, and incessant action finished work on "Martin Arrow tre starting Thursday next, is the lusty, hard-hitting entertain- smith," based on Sinclair Lewis's intimate story of an, anonymous col- ment.

novel. It seems to have been well FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY rocsível in America, from lego girl, taken

ber

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 AND 9.20′′ day-to-day diary. For obvious roa- sans the author's name must remain kin, the London actress, is to marry New York, Miss Josephine Lar-, hidden but her story, highly Mr. Richard Baum Gardiner, 23 dramatic and intensely emotional years-old saxophonist of Frederick,

Maryland.

PAPUA FORSAKING HEAD-HUNTING,

RAIDS BY SAVAGES ONLY OCCASIONAL.

2700 Kias Girls.

British Film Drive..

Potentates of the British film in-

(STAR)

dustry are organising a sales drive for their pictures in America and WHAT about LOVE? a triumvirate of film. axecutives, armed with wide powers from War four-street, has just left England. to attack the movie situation on the

threatened missionaries and peace- My invention," declares Mr. ful natives. Mr. Downing set out

as it in, reflects the actual condi-Miss Larkin, who won fame in the Lewis, will made it posible to with natives police to prevent fight-i locate with the greatest of canc ing. Leaving the main body of

Sydney-Tribal warfare and the tions existing in the modern Ziogfeld Follies, is known as the any Bunken aubmarine and, with 4 police at the river, he set out with practice of head-hunting are dying American callege.

£700 kiss girl. She was coming to England in the Cunarder Beren-

New York front. a minimum of delay, to rescue the few of them to visit the chief of put in Paputi, according to Sir entrapped men.”

the hostile, tribe.

A girl's sorority house, populated garia in 1900 when a New York Without warn-Hubert Murray, the Lieutenant- dr. Lewis explained that his ing. his camp was attacked at mid-Governor

Broker vowed he would kiss her The Filming of "Alibi." with a galaxy of beautiful young Occasional raids by savages on college women, recruited from the Larkin said, "that he should not. version of Alibi," which is com-

"I was equally determined," Miss device, which he has patented con- day and he was wounded in the

There is one sequence in the film sists of apparatus for sending out thigh with an HITOW. A native peaceful natives, he said, were to wireless signals of distressed sub-policeman was also wounded. The be expected until all the natives i campuses of several California and when I saw his approaching, I ing to the Queen's Theatre to- marine. When the submarine has attack was repelled and reinforce the territory were brought under schools, is the background for the Fun off. After we had disturbed morrow, and in which much fun gone down, this apparatus, is enruments were sent for. The attackers Government control A recent at action of Confessions of a Co and I had run a little over a mile, film was being shot.

hundreds of peaceful passengers was obtained by actors when the ried up to the surface attached to fled after several of them had been tack and taken place about 100 Ed." There Sylvin Sidney meets he caught me up. I think he deser was a billiard room, and John The setting float. which is released by the ahot.

miles up the Fly Rivers Seventeen grew: On reaching the surface, it Mr. Downing, who went to peaceful natives had been killed. and falls in love with Phillips ved a kiss after that--but it was Doverall, who sustains the chief

very gold one. immediately shrieks" to the world Sydney on leave, took with him Native police, in charge of whiteHolmes, and Norman. Foster per-

comedy rôle, in said to have"sur- its distress signals, thereby enabling some beautifully carved arrows as offers, arrested 20 raiders. The uita in his hopeless wooing. Trus if anyone kissed me by force he one. He banged the balls about to "I had previously told him that passed himself in more wilys than rescuers to locate the position of momento of the ruid.

native police were very loyal and the submerged venel, Telephonic In tho Morobo district, Mr. showed grent fortitude in tracking ing in Claudia Dell, a sorority would have to give me a mink cent such good purpins that during one communication with the men in the Downing said, two-thirds of the raiders through many miles of sago sister and professed friend,, Sylvia,

**tuko” in an excess of real, ho submarine can then be established, natives wore friendly but the re-swamp..

⚫succeeded in sending two of them

off the table, and oas just missed... according to Mr. Lewis, and pro-mainder were head-hunters. Every Mr. H. L. Downing, an assistant encourages both young men, and, Eritish Film Progress, vision made for their early release" time he had set out on an expedi- i district officer attached to the Ad- when Holmes is expelled from col- Mr. Clive Brook, the cinema atar, the "mika": Austin Travor con- Mr. Lewis cocsiders that his de- tion he had been warned by hostile ministration of New Guinea, was lege, gives all her attention to who has been in London on holiday trived to look both amazed and "vice would be mose hulpfid during undives that his life would be buiten: † recently wounded in a nativor raiu

bas returned to Hollywood Hisamuel and Leslie Hiseott would peace-time manoeuvres, when opera But beyond a few, arrows shot from at Pant-bash in the Upper Mark-

outstanding impression of London have liked to include this take in tions ro usually carried out near the bush to test the nerves of his ham River district.

was having soon in the Ealing the completed 6im However, he the coast and within ensy reach of native police, no attempt had been

studio built by Mr. Basil Dean saw consarial, opposition, owing to assistance should any submarine made on his life until the attack

"one of the most perfect talking language diffulties created by the -meeb-with an accident.

Lalready described...

picture studios in the world. "Prosound stalk.

Word had reached the Adminis-

1

Foster.

The tangled situation is intansi ration that hostile natives had fied when Holmes returns to find Continued on Previous Column) her the bride of his rival.

and £709.

He paid up.

Strictly Uncon- ventional

with LEWIS STONE CATHERINE DALE 'OWEL