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CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80 A UNIVERSAL THRILLS

KING

OF THE

ARENA

NEXT CHANGE- BING CROSBY

IN

"We're Not Dressing

A Paramount Picture.

in an almost unbelievable part. He is a veteran of the London and New York stages, making his spectacular entry into motion pictures with this bizzare part.

William Harrigan, Gloria Stuart, Dudley Diggers, Une O'Connor, Henry Travers and Forres- ter Harvey comprise the featured 'cast members. James Whale, who made Frankenstein' directed this film which has become even more of a sensation,

باز

"THE INVISIBLE

· MAN” ·

Super-Thriller For

The King's

The secret which Universal studios jealously guarded within the im pentrable walls of a forbidden sound stage for months will be revealed on the aureon of the King's Theatrs next Sunday, when H. G. Well's startling novel. "The Invisible Man" open its long awaited engagement there.

Filmed in the utmost secrecy with "No Visitors" signs attached to locked doors," The Invisible Man" during its production created more intriguing conjectures than any photoplay made in Hollywood in years. Until the film's recent release, only a select group of 20 people actually knew the amazing manner in which this spectacular motion picture was made, and they were under oath not to tell..

Writers, photographers, executivos, were strictly barred as the cameras ground on the strangest character ever to be created by Hollywood-an un seen star Naturally, of all places Hollywood possesses, the most easily accelerated curiousity, and rumours of every colour were racing about the city of make-believe while "The In visible Man" accomplished his spine- tingling career.

Universal continues to guard the secret of the manner in which the film was actually made, but its powerful effect became the property of the sensational first showing was held. theatregoing world the minute its As it continues to thrill in. weird fashion audiences all over the coun- try, guesses accumulate regarding the manner of its filming and the nature of the sator whose sence supplies the unmatched "kick" of the druma. His name is Claude

pra-

Rains, and "The Invisible Man," haa made him a star virtually overnight, Continued on Previous Col.) ·

THE KING'S PRIZE AT BISLEY

Capt. Barlow Wins Gold

After Tie

Medal

the butts. The target came into view and again Captain Barlow fred. Another bull was recorded. Captain Sedgwick, who had fred his sighting shot almost in the same second, secured a bull.

The Losing Magple

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST - 11, 1934.

FINAL

SHOWINGS

TO-DAY AT

| 2.30. 5.10, 7.15

& 9.30 PM,

JOHN BOLES GLORIA STUART

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

THEY

KNEW

THE

"LOVE

OF

LIFETIME!

A Universal Picture

Two hearts that beat as one through tree. 'generations * 77 hearts steadfast. through the most exciting events; In American history... The screen's opic of emotion,with haunt. Ing music and songel

Beloved

WOMAN PAINTER DEAD

Travelled Widely In Search For Material

(Special Air Mail Service) -

London, July 25, Miss Emily Murray Paterson, one of the best known of women painters, died at her home at War- wick Avenue, London, yesterday.

Shortly after the Great War. Miss "Paterson attracted much at tention with an exhibition of war pictures. She had been given spe⚫ cial permission to go to Ypres to paint, and the battlefields, "as they were when hostilities ceased, in- spired some of her best work,

One of her war pictures hangs in the War Museum at Brussels, next to a portrait of the late King Albert. Others hang in the Ini, perial War Museum.

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Born in Edinburgh Miss Paterson travelled widely in search of material for her brush and sometimes placed herself in danger. She took risks, to sketch

HOLLYWOOD TURNS TO

BARRIE

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 25. Hollywood's flight from sex stories has led to a discovery of the near-classics.

The film rights of Barrie's "The Little Minister have just been bought for a figure that runs Into, several thousands. This despite the fact that producers had been unable to perceive any merit in the book for twenty years. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer are also about ta make

"What Every Woman

Knows."

The latter story has, it is under stood, involved the producers in a quandary, Should they keep to the year in which the play was writen (1908) or modernise it? They feel that the clothes 1908 are old-fashioned enough to be faintly ridiculous without being picturesque.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, July 25. There was a dramatic finish to the competition for the King's Prize on Saturday, which-after a tle-left the Gold Medal in the hands. of Capt. J. A. Barlow, of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Inci- dentally, this is the first time the greatest honour known to British In rapid succession, just as soon marksmanship had come to a as the target could be lowered and the scene of a London air raid, acquired by permanent galleries in #serving member of the Regular raised, came two shots from the and to paint snow scenes high up Cape Town. Johannesburg, Dun-

West Yorks captain' Each made on the Alps. She painted in Hol-dee, and Aberdeen. The Duke of Gloucester attend-contact with the "bull" And then land, Venice, the Bernese Ober- Miss Paterson was born in Edin- ed by Lord Cottesloe and a group he paused. After an appreciable land, the Tyrol, Norway, Brittany. [burgh. She was educated in Edin of officers, watched the great con- interval of suspense Captain and Belgium. test from just behind the ring Sedgwick Bred.

burgh, London, and Paris. It was his first In adition to her paintings in point. Further back were thou- and last tie shot to count for the war museums, others have been Scottish Watercolour Society, and She was a member of the Royal sands of silent spectators,

bullet cut its way through the "magpie" square, inches away from the target's-black-central-disc.

Army..

Capt. Barlow's sole adversary in the closing scene was Captain Sedgwick, of the Durham Light Infantry.

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Like a flash the cry went round that Captain Barlow had won, and "Rapid Fire"

there was much cheering, for the ' outstanding feature of the winner is a very popular man at shoot was the remarkable rapidity Bisley. He was presented by Lord

which Capt. Barlow fired. Cottesloe to the Duke of Gloucester The shots rang out as quickly sa who warmly congratulated him on the targets 1,000

yards away his success.

with

could be manipulated. Similarly It was at the Pavilion,' the tig- in the main shoot the rife was scarcely up to his shoulder before the pressure of his finger was on the trigger.

As a consequence of this rapid- Are Capt. Barlow was one of the first off the mark, and, I belleve, the first to finish. His score was 288.

"It seems almost unbeatable," he remarked to me a moment after firing his last round. While still prone he had reached for cigarettes which were in his over- coat pocket and it one as soon as he sat up.

ger pull of his rife had been test- ed and found correct, that Capt. Barlow was able to speak to me about himself,

Born in India, he is 33 years of age; and joined the 1st Bn. the West Yorks in 1921. In 1928 he became Technical Oncer at the Machine. Gun School, Netheravon, and he is now Assistant Buperth- tendent, Design Department, in home is at Blackheath. the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. His

He first began to take an intel- ligent Interest in rifle shooting, he told me, at a meeting of the Army Rifle Association in 1923,

His mother was one of the first -to approach him. In answer to a question from her he said, "That last shot frightened me. I wait- ed until I saw something I recog-plonship twice, the King's Medal nised."

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Friends crowded round him; but he refused to take their word for it that he had won, and resolute ly declined to remove his over coat. It was 'as well.

Thirty or forty yards down the firing line another man was scor ing "bulls" with each shot, but he was shooting just as slowly and deliberately as the other had fired quickly. He was very nearly the last of the Hundred to get his Afteenth round away, but each one had brought him a step nearer to his goal. He wanted avg, with his last shot to tle, and he got it When the news reached Captain Barlow... he threw his cigarette down. That is what I thought." he said, "and you told me to take my overcoat omi

Then came the crucial moment Captain Barlow's sighting shot brought the bullseye signal from

Among his successes since that date have been. the Army Cham-

once, the Rupet Cup and the Hun dred Cup. He has been seven times in "the final for the King's Prize, and was placed. eleventh last year,...

He has won many other trophies and prizes at Eisley and elsewhere and even before to-day, was one of the best-known Army shots, hoth with the rifle and the re volver. He wore his overcoat, he explained, for the same reason that most competitors were similarly attired-to stop sling vibration on the arm.

When the rapidity of his fire was mentioned he remarked quietly as if surprised at the question- "That is how ride shooting is taught in the Army."

Captain Barlow, whose father was Chief Instructor of Musketry at Chungligullt, In India, is the author of a standard work on the "Elements of Rifle Shooting."

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BETTY

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All-Star Thriller That Tops

All Boctrifying Helo-drama-

MIDNIGHT MYSTERY

TO MORROW

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TO-MORROW

NVISIBLE MAN

With Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains, William Harrigan, Dudley Digges, Una O'Connor, Henry Travers, Forrester Harvey. Sereenplay by R. C. Sherriff. Produced by Carl Laemmle: Jr. Directed by James Whale. Presented by Carl Leem- mle. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

GOING HOLLYWOOD".

At The Oriental

Lavish stage settings, dazzling 006- tnines and musical numbers that pro miss to become nation-wide hits have been crowded into one of the most original motion picture productions to come from Hollywood and

which serves as Marion Davica' new starring vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. the Oriental Theatre tomorrow Mon- It is "Going Hollywood" showing at day and Tuesday. The picture is des- cribed as a view of Hollywood itself, with all the glamour of the motion picture world thrust into an hour and halfs screen entertainment.

The spectacular dance ensembles were arranged by Albertina Kanch and the crooning is done by the king- pin crooner of radio fame, Bing

Crosby.

Director Raoul Walsh points" out that though the production has been moulded into a beautiful living picture of rhythm, movie and light comedy, it also presents behind-the-scenes of Hollywood views never presented on the screen before.

The cast, beside Miss Davies, Bing Crosby and Fifi Dorsay, includos Stuart Erwin, Ned Sparka, Patay Kelly, Bobby Watson and Three, Radio Rogues.

of the Societe Internationale des Aquarellistes (Paris), and an 8550-

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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S-

HONG KONG

"Befored"

QUEEN'S

"Call It Luck"

CENTRAL

"King of The Arena"

ORIENTAL

"Four Frightened People"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA—

"Midnight Mystery

MAJESTIC-

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"Cleopatra"

"Those Who Dance"

KING'S......

Coming

"The Invisible Man"

"Jennie Gerhardt"

QUEEN'S—

"Manhattan Melodrama"

CENTRAL-

"After Marriage"

ORIENTAL

"Going Hollywood". "Men. Of Chance"

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"SO THIS IS HARRIS"

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FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE

"BELOVED"

Gloria Stuart's Modesty

"GOING HOLLYWOOD

At The Oriental.

motion picture actress who is fighting against stardomi Gloria Stuart is this unusual giri; and she declares that she sincerely hopes that Universal will not make her a star, and a recent anpouncement revealed that they planned to do,

I do not believe that I am ready, for stardom yet," she states with rare modesty, "and I am trying to convince Carl Laemmle, Jr., that I would much prefer another year of parts important only as they are important to the picture, and not because everything else is sacrificed to make them "star parts

Miss Stuart does not believe that stars can be automatically classifield as such. The public prefers to choose their own stara, she believes, and are quick to express their interest. Naturally," she says "I hope that my succeeding screen work may interest. them to auch an extent that I will achieve the honour of stardom, but I do not want to be known, officially, as aatar until the public classiffes me in that category."

Miss Stuart is now at the King's Theatre in "Beloved," the Universal "musical romance of the century in which she is featured with John Boles. This unusual picture was directed by Victor Schertzinger, who also wrote its music, and the cast sup porting Boles and Miss Stuart-in- olades Morgan Farley Dorothy Peter son, Albert, Conti Flagille, Flen: Edmund Breese, Mie Bach,y Lawlor Fath tall and many popular players.

TO-MORROW.

MONDAY TUESDAY! THE MOST TUNEFUL PICTURE

OF THE YEAR HOLLYWOOD

THROUGH A KEYHOLE.

MARION

DAVIES

Going HOLLYWOO

BING CROSBY

"COME ABOARD"

Navy Week At Plymouth

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 25. The entrance hall of Charing Crosa Underground Station has taken on a warlike air for the pur pose of advertising the attractions of Navy Week at Portsmonth. Chatham, and Flymonth. The thousands of travellers who pass that way and pause to look at the exhibits are given a tabloid educa- tion in British naval history by photographs and an impressive row of models ranging from a war cance of A.D. 700 through the changing types of the years to HM.S. Nelson, our most modern battleship. In addition, a burnish- ed naval howitzer, a huge torpe- do, a 16-inch shell, and a variety of interesting diving gear in the foreground are helping to make Londoners Navy conscious, and many of them will doubtless take advantage of the Invitation to "Come aboard" during next week.

WIN FOR KING'S YACHT

Captures Big Race At Cowes

London, Aug, 9, The King's yacht Britannia" won the chief race at Cowes to day.

She finished about three minu after

sheda" over course, and, having allow minutes, time for 14 seco

was second and Ast

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