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The Company is planning many scenes there for pictures dealing with the Manchurin affair and other similar themes.

Bird of Paradise."

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MOLLY O'DAY, MINNA GOMBELL, HOWARD PHILLIPS. A FOX PICTURE.

PICTURE

TRACY KENYON

CONLON

PICKPOCKETS IN EVENING DRESS

THEFTS IN SHANGHAI ON NEW YEAR'S EVE

CARBARETS AND CLUBS VISITED

Shanghai: Wearing dinner jac kets and evening gowns, foreign pickpockets of both sexes made a vigorous attack on Shanghai's re... völlera on New Year's Eve and niade several hauls, Clubs, cabarets and hotels, practically, anywhere a crowd had gathered to celebrate, received their share of these unwelcome visitors.

"Police precautions at certain places where people welcomed in the new year resulted in the moving on of shady charnetors. There are apparently some do foreign pick- pockets, many of them Russian, who ply their trade in Shanghai, Hongkong, Dairen, Harbin other places, who are known to the polico.

and

These pickpockets travel from one port to the next, spending a few weeks or months in each. In Shang hai on New Year's Eve their most definite attack on respectable places of entertainment yet record- ed,took place.

In Dinner Jackets,

In one club threo man lost money out of their pockets, and a woman had something stolen from her. handbag. It is believed that two men and two women carried out the thofts.

Such a party approached a mem, hor in the bar shortly after the now year had arrived, crowded around him and wished him a happy New

Your. A few minutes later he realised that some banknotes in his pocket had gone.

The men and one woman, on whom suspicion had fallen, managed to get away from the club without being caught, but one woman"'was

evidence was allowed to go. was of gypsy type.

NOVEL PARTY UP IN "BIRD OF PARADISE" detained but in view of lack of

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"SOB SISTER

AT THE KING'S

TRIUMPH FOR JAMES DUNN AND LINDA WATKINS

YOUNG AMERICA "

HOW SPENCER TRACEY MADE GOOD

DEPICTED IN SKYSCRAPER’

FINE ACTING BY. DOLORES

DEL RIO

Dolores Del Rio ame of the most beautiful actress to-day gives a magnificent performance in "Bird Accustomed as Hollywood may be of Paradise which is now show to "high life,some sort of recording at The Central Theatre. was broken at the Metro-Goldwyn- Joel McCrea, King-Vidor and a Mayor studios during the filming company of forty techniciane spen of Skyscraper Soula, now play six weeks in Hawaii filming out ing at the Queen's Theatre with door sequences for this production, Warren William and Maureen Richard Walton Tully's play O'Sullivan, in featured rolen. '

which has been brought to the It was during the filming of a sareen by RKO-Radio Pictures. party atop of New York's tallest, Joel McCrea handsoms young building. All the excitement of the leading man of many of Constance 6lm occurs in and about a 102-story Bennett's recent pictures plays the hero in this production and the cast Three years ago an actor and his skyscraper.

As contrived by Director Edgar includes John Halliday, Bert Roach, Two young players who have wife were seated in an obscure lit- suade good in Hollywood in an un-tle motion picture theatre in New Selwyn, everything was done to Richard Skeots" Gallagher and usually far way head the large York City, watching the swift give the players taking part in the Creighton Chaney the son of the and brilliant cast of the Fox pro- parade of horsemen riding through party the feeling of being more late Lon Chaney, King Vidor duction, "Sob Sister," which is inesquito clumps as the film un- than 1,000 feet above the street level,

Beventy-five Manhattan's unrivaled skyline, directed. Low delighting the audiences of the rolled before them. King's Theatro,

I dollars a wock docan't go far with with all its towers, roofs and spires, They are James Dunn and Linda jan actor in Manhattan, and "Wes-loomed in the distance, Far down Watkins.

teras" formed the principal diver Six months ago, Dunn was an i sion of these two.

Now! ambitions but "unknown"

Neither had ever been west of Yorker, taking screen tests at the Wisconsin, and the actor gazed with New York studios of the various some envy at the carefree cowboys large film companies. Then Fox on the screen and wondered if he Filmns asked him to take a text and would ever win enough success on then the first train out of New Broadway to enable him to afford York, Hollywood bound. In his à vacation in the sagebrush.It pocket was a Fox contract and at didn't seem probable. He had The Hollywood station was waiting played in stock in various cities, and had been with the Theatre the leading role in "Bad Girl,"

As Sally. Eilers boy friend in Guild and with George M. Cohan that picture, Durn carved a line for some time, yet he had never in screen history and a niche for had the opportunity to display the hitself in stardom. "

talents he was sure he possessed. Most of his rôles were heavies," and a stage heavy seldom attain prominence.

to

The other star is Linda Watkins, perhaps not so well known screen fans at this time, but who is destined for the heights on the To-day that same actor, Spencer silver screen. Miss Watkins, who Tracy,, is one of the most talked-of- nakes her film debut in the title screen player in Hollywood. With rôle of "Sob Sister," is a Bos growing army of admirers from torian by birth but a New Yorker his work in "Up The River," by training, having lived in the "Quick Mollians," "She Wanted. metropolis since the age of four | A Millionaire" and "Sky Devils." weeks On the Broadway stage she and with his recent triumph in Conduct," he has scored heavily in such hits as "The "Disorderly

Ivory Door," "Sweet Stranger," firmly elinebed his right to film "Midnight" and "June Moon." fame.

Two News-Hunters.

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She is blonde, blue-eyed and slen. Although he hasn't no yet satis der, ard is reputed to have one of, fed his early ambition to play a the beat dramatic voices in Holly- cowboy, he still has hopes and wood.

meanwhile gets practice in the gentle art of sticking to a horse's Sob Sister" derives its title back by going in for pola. “ from the appellation tagged on to Tracy is áhy to a degree, hates those faminine members of the press premieres and previews for fear who write up the heart throbs of people will "gush" about him, is the days news But in its true natural, and unaffected with every sense it is not a newspaper story.une, and in general is what Main It is rather a delightful and thril- Street calls "regular." And in ling romance of two nowagathers, those difficult half-hero, halfvillain and deals with their own honest rates he plays so well, he finds the emotions and heart nehes instead justification of both his talents and

of the hardboiled, cynical attitudes his hopes with which they are themselves In his latest vehicle, "Young when on the chase for newa. American, Tracy has a new type Edwin Burke, who wrote the of role--that of a grouchy drug dialogue for Bad Girl," adapted gist who dislikes youngstors and this story for the screen and his who raises plenty of objections when They are also scheming to take work is just as human and master his wife brings a boy into their ful thpt of the previous film koue Doris Foam PervMer- films with Ching, India and other Alfred Sautall, who directed Dad cer, Ralph Bellamy and two ju- parts of Aaia as the background. y Lond Legs directeil the cast, renile players, Tominy Conlan and As to the sending of actors to In which in addition to Dunn and Raymond Borzage, have the other Alins Watkins-includes Minna Gom prominent roles in the production, dia, the company now in combell also of Bad Girl fons, which Frank Borzage directed. The manication with the British Em Molly O'day Howard Phillips and picture comes to the king rhen

George E. Stone in featured roles the on-Bunday neat bassy in Tokyo.

She

Both the men were wearing din- ner jackets and the two women were dressed in evening gowns.

Among the Cabarets.

At a western district cabaret the biggest haul that has come to light took place, where a visitor carrying American bank-notes to the value of G.$300 as victimisad At least two others loat money, the total han being in the neighbourhood of 82,500. In a hotel near the Bund a woman lost 8300.

"Nothing was reported as having been lost in two French Concession cabarets, thanks to the vigilance of their stads and of detectives: In one of them, the floor manager re- cognised a party of two men and a woman, and immediately requested them to leave the premises, which they did without delay. One or two others received the same request. in another cabaret detectives were responsible for the moving on of more than one man and woman whose presence was considered un- desirable.

There wore probably several more below, in Times Square, electric The new building of the Bank of signs flashed on and off. The tops Canton, Ltd., in Jawarad road, minor cases which have not come to of the Chryster, the Chanin and tho! Woolworth buildings could be seen Bangkok, is on the opposite side of light. With the various places of from their cerir place of revetry, the street from the former office, entertainment thoroughly crowded, which was shut off from the rest of which was destroyed by fre. It is pickpockets who attended them. the world by a protective parapet.

a fine building and Mr. M. §. Fung were in their element, especially on Host at this party was Warren William, as the Dave Dwight of and his staff had the congratnia a night when most people attempt e. Faith Baldwin novel, "Skyscra tions of business Bangkok to be carefree. Shanghai revellers

have a new menace to combat. per," who owned the building. In when they held a reception by way the east and attending the party were. Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory of velcbrating the opening. Natur Ratoff, Anita Pago, Verree Teasdale, ally Chinese business men were best Norman Foster, George Barbier, represented, but all were very cor- Jean Hersholt, Wallace Ford, Hedda Hopper, Helen Coburn, and dially welcomed by Mr. Fung, Mr. John Marston. ·

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