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PYJAMA STYLES

Claudette Colbert

Wardrobe

Claudette Colbert, the famous Paramount star, who plays her finest part as Cleopatra in Cecil

“VIVA VILLA!”

Fay Wray and Wally Beery

"Working with Wallace

Beery

I en- Fay

is like going to a circus. joyed every minute of it!" Wray, strangely tiny for a giri

B. Demille's huge spectacle firm-who has undergone so many nor- CLEOPATRA has just bought a complete wardrobe of pyjamas- for spring, summer, autumn, win-

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These are in the very latest styles and, at the moment, are the envy of Hollywood.

rife adventures for the screen. smiled reminiscently.

"He's like a big overgrown boy playing tricks on the others in the cast and making a joke out of everything. You have to work with him in an intense scene to j realize that underneath the fun there's an earnestness that is

To start with, Miss Colbert oc- dered a dozen pairs of light- weight corded silk pyjamas, ex-plnost fanatical."

tremely tailored, with V-neck blouse and short sleeves, and in- Itialled in contrasting colours' Just at the base of the neck.

Pale yellow, pale blue, and white are the colours she has chosen for these comfortable gaz- ments.

Heavy white satin was selected for lounging pyjamas, with fud.

Beery, and Miss Wray are team- ed for the first time in their res- pective careers in "Viva Villa!" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's spectacu- lar story of the tempetuous Bre and loves of Pancho Villa. War lord of Mexico. The photoplay opens to-day

the Queen's Theatre.

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Miss Wray, of course, 1 cast as the luckless heroine who "defles

wide trousers and long, bell-shap-Villa's determined amours-and

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30.6.10, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.

KINO

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

WHEELER WOLSEY

BOOKING "AT THE THEATRE TEL. No. 25313 125332

RKO-RADIO PICTURE

WITH THELMA TODD DOROTHY LEE

'Tis a tayle of olden chivaltie that

doth make the bellie shake with madde delight!

Gay musick! Comick happenings! Waggon loades of jackasserie!

ed sleeves. Buitoning high at pays for her defiance. It is one COCKEYED CAVALIERS"

the neck, the coat is embellished with frogs of white silk which fasten to the waist. A flat, white Selt that loops and ties at the side front, and fringed at the ends, is a feature.

One of the CLEOPATRA star's favourites is created in pale blue heavy satin, with a round, wide yoke of banded satin and chiffon. This trimming is repeated on the three-quarter length full sleeves. Tiny buttons covered in the blue satin extend from the high neck to the waist, and a flat belt, but- toning at the front, is used.

of the slongest roles she has por- trayed on the screen. "But for a

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gal who has been chased by can- nibals and glant apes and all sorts of monsters" she laughed. "Pan-CHANGE cho Villa wasn't so bad, after all."

"Viva Villat" is one of the most powerful stories that has reached the screen in many a day. Tell- Ing a fictional tale of the stormy life of the peon slave who rose to grandeur and liberated the poor, It gives Beery his greatest oppor- tunity. He marches through the story, a conquering hero, humbled only when he falls in love.

With Beery and Miss Wray is a notable cast including Leo Carillo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Kat- herine De Mille, David Durand. Frank Puglia, Francis X. Bush- man, Jr. Adrian Rosley

Another favourite is a white crepe suit, slightly Russian in trend. It has a very high neck and the full trousers and long sleeves are edged with silver: which gives an entirely charming Henry Armetta. " effect!

The introduction of silver and

gold into current fashions, Incid- entally, is becoming a rigid rule

with the foremost designers, and

all of them are including these metallic notes wherever possible

THE FUTURE OF

SUNKIANG

and

HOW TO QUALIFY

Chinese Shipping Officers

Nanking, September 27.

In order to enhance the efficiency of shipping administration under the Navigation Bureaux of the set

May Beconie Suburb Ministry of Communictions, a

the

Of Shanghai

of standards governing the quali- fications of navigation officials has been decided upon,

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According to these standards, a navigation official" must either.

1. Be a graduate of a Chinesa or Foreign naval academy, mercantile shipping college other navigation institution above technical grade.

or

2. Have specialized in shipbuild- ingor marine engineering ofter graduation from 4 Chinese or foreign technical school.

3. Have over three years' ex perience as technical expert of a navigation organ,

Sungkiang. Ku., Sept. 27., Since the opening of the motor road from here to Shanghai, Sungklang has been put on the map. It is now only a pleasant afternoon drive down here, and many people avall themselves of opportunity on week-ends, writes a correspondent.

Now another and shorter road to Shanghai is proposed and will be a fact in

not distant future. It will pass Siking, Chipao and on by the Hungiso Aero- drome into Shanghai, I under- stand that work has already be- gun on it. Sungkang will soon be a suburb of Shanghai, and people will save the stuffiness and expense of a big city by living Bureaux, should be disqualified

the

4. Have over three years' ex- perience as administrative official of a navigation organ; or

"JUNGLE TRAP"

with

CHABLES LAUGHTON-CAROLE LOMBARD-CHARLES B.CKFORD

Two statues have been made of each of the principal players in "The Night Life of the Gods." One statue shows them as they are-the other showS them as they might look if "defied."

Shirley Temple

In "Baby Take A Bow" King's Theatre sometime, this month.

The

Oxford, as Hollywood sees it, will form the "background of "Manners Maketh the Man" for which M.GM, are sending a pro- duction unit to England. story, which deals with the adven- tures of a young American at the University, was written by John Monk Saunders, and the English scenarist, John Paddy Carstairs, has been working on the scirpt.

MOVIE NEWS

William Haines new picture for Mascot will be called "The Marines Have Landed" The scenario is now being prepared.

Victor McLaglen has added a twenty-five plece brass band to the "Light Horse Brigade" that he has raised in Hollywood. The troop will appear in Paramount's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

James Dann, who, will be seen at the King's soon in "Hold That Baby Take A

Girl" and also the

5. Is tho author of technical books on navigation matters.

Any person not possessing one of the above qualifications, Executive Yuan states in an order to the various Navigation

service any navigation *organ.-

Kuo Min.

here and driving to their business for every morning.

No Reason To Complain Though we hear pitiful talea of crop conditions in other places, Sungklang will have no reason to complain if something unforeseen does not happen. It has weather- ed one of the dryest summers ever known in these parts, and passed through a season of pour- irig rain and yet 11 something worse does not get them will pro- duce a bumper rice crop. I have never seen the fields in this im" mediate section look more pros-

perous. The tides from the

PREMIER RESUMES

OFFICE

Minister Consulted On Developments

London, Oct. 8. The Prime Minister had a con- sultation to-day with several of

himself with developments various departments during his enforced absence.

Whangpoo bring water in plenty, his Cabinet colleagues to acquaint

and also good drainage is furnish- ed to carry away an over supply of rainfall. The people around here have never known what a famine is Here' really is the gar- den spot of China.

in

Among the Ministers consulted were the Chancellor of the Ex- thequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Minister of Labour. Mr. Mac- Donald will continue the inter- views throughout the week, ̈ ̈

On the night before last there was quite an irony of circum- stance in our city. Armed robbers entered the house of the chief official of the First Ward of our District and carried off between ctober 29, the day before. Par-

His first public engagement sincr his return from Canada will be on

8300 and 8400 worth of booty. It Hament reassembles, at a luncheon was not far from the police given in his honour by the Nation- station. but somehow the robbers al Labour Committee. The gather- got off quite fres. One might aling will also be attended by Mr. most imagine that the robbers anley Baldwin and Sir John were trying to poke fun at the Simonene even

official

British Wireless,

SHOWING

TO-DAY

"

Bow" with Shirley Temple.

A

PARAMOUNT PICTURE

It is just afteen years since Lew's Stone took a holiday from the theatre to cast his eye over Hollywood. He's still there!

Claire Trevor

Coming to King's Theatre in" "Baby Take A Bow" with Shirley Temple.

No Mistake

It was late at night; the taxi had just pulled up by the curb and McPherson got out and began fumbling in his pocket.

At last he handed the driver a coin.

"I have known gents what gives a bit over," grumbled the taxi driver,

"Aye," said Mcpherson. That's why I asked ye to stop under a lamp."

QUEEN'S

Magnificent warrior. . Adventures

eding roughshod,.. Ruthless to war! 'Yol "

canic in tomance Villa, the magnificent,

* recaptures "the worldľa kene apon in the greatem epse.bi betional adventúre "The Big Parade"?

SINCA

Meyer Pinter

Ar 2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.30

WALLACE

BEERY

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

HONG KONG

"Cockeyed Cavaliers"

QUEEN'S:~~

"Viva Villa".

ORIENTAL----

"Footlight Farade"

KOWLOON

ALHAMBRA:

"Tenderfoot"

MAJESTIC:

"The Invisible" Man"

KING'S :-

Coming

"Jungle Trap" "Thirty-Day Princess"

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MAJESTIC

THEATRE:

Nathan Road Kowloon. Tel 57222] SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9 20 P.M.

H G. WELLS The

CIVIL AVIATION INVISIBLE

IN INDIA

Beacons for Night Flying

The annual report on the pro- gress of civil aviation in India published recently declares that the steadily

volume. perial

expansion

movement is gathering force

and During the year, Im- Airways extended their transcontinental service - from Karachi to Rangoon and "Singa- pore.

The existing air mail lines are the weekly services in each direc- tion between Karachi and Victoria Point. Karachi and Madras and Calcutta and Rangoon and the dally services between Calcutta

and Decca in Bengal.

The belated extension of the Karachi-Madras route to Colombo is still under discussion with the Ceylon Government, and three other services are projected kink Bombay, with Calcutta, Cal- cutta with Madras and Karachi with Lahore.

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Perhaps the outstanding de- velopment of the Immediate Tuture will be the provision for night flying over the whole dis- tance from Karachi to Calcutta There will be beacons at intervals of 100 miles throughout the route. and most of the landing grounds will have boundary lights and illuminated wind indicitors. All

these lights will be of the type that is automatically operated by daylight and darkness. That is to say, the mere approach of night- fall or the gloom caused by an exceptionally severe thunderstorm will turn them on and the coming of dawn will spontaneously switch them off again.

Floodlights As Well The beacons and the aerodrome lights will be distinct and inde- pendent units, as it is the func- tion of the former only to guide the plot on his course. reasonably clear, night he will

On a

always have one Seacon, and often two, within his field of vision at any given moment, and possibly he will be informed of his post- tion by an auxiliary signal lamp automatically 'flashing from the top of the beacon after the man- ner of coastal light-housER.

The main aerodromes, Karachi, Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Cal- cutta, Akyab, and Rangoon, will be fully equipped with floodlights In addition to the minor illumina- tions of the intermediate landing grounds.

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If and when an agreement 16 reached for the operation of a Bombay-Calcutta service, it is. intended that this route also should be beaconed and equipped for night landings, so that it may be covered by the air mall in each direction every night. Here new aerodromes, landing grounds, and wireless stations will be required

The Karachi-Lahore route e- quires new landing." grounds hangara. and wireless stations, and" organization on the project- ed. Calcutta-Madras route is to begin with the provision of Ind- |ing grounds,

THE SPRING SHOW

Nanking, Sept. 201

A total of 83 certificates of merit, will be awarded by the Ministry of Industry to various Arms and fac tories in Shanghai and Hangchows which submitted satisfactory -ex- hibits at the Spring Show held at the Natiys Goods. Emporium of the Ministry Auo in

MAN"

WITH

GLORIA STUART CLAUDE RAINS

BRITISH PARTY RETURNS

After Exploration In Greenland

London, Oct. 8. Lieutenant Martin Lindsay and

his party of explorers who have carried out the longest self-sup- porting exploration on record, ar- rived at Aberdeen, from Greenland to-day.

Some 350 miles of hitherto un- known territory have beer map- ped and an' extensive addition has been made to the knowledge of the Greenland Ice Cap.

Three sledges travelled 1,150 miles west to east across Green- land, over most difficult country and in severe storms; 450 miles of the journey was made on continu- ous ice.

The party was picked up at trawler Jacinth only four hours Anamagasalik by the. British

before the winter ice closed the harbour.-

British Wireless.

U.S. MINISTER SAILS FOR HOME

Shanghai, Oct.. 9.

The United States Minister to China, Mr. Nelson Johnson, left for home this morning aboard the Fresident Hoover.

He is going on furlough and will return in January- Heuter.

ALHAMBRA

VENTEE

TO-DAY TO FRIDAY First National's Comedy Cyclone

JOE E.

BROWN

The

TENDERFOOT

GINGER ROGERS “and LEW (ODY.

MICKEY MOUSE CARTOON

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