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LOTTERY LOVER

"Just walt until I am directing

producing my .or

own picture." Work will start not earller than 12 пooя. We'll lunch at 3:30 art finish for the day at 8 or 9 in the evening.

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Such a schedule might come to pass in the not very distant future for the speaker was Peggy Fears, former New York producer and actress and the only woman, in the motion picture Industry to hold a four way contract that calls for her services As writer, producer, director and actress She is under

For contract to Film.

Peggy's film debut becors in "Lottery Lover," comedy with Paris background now showing. at the King's Theatre. The only thing to which she hasn't able to reconcile hersel? 30 far is that terrific 8:30 tall in the morning. It means retiring not later than 10 in the evening and rising at 5:30 in the morning in order to be made up. costumed and ready for work at 8.

SOCIETY DOCTOR

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One of the most unusual films to come aut from Hollywood the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro- duction; "Society Doctor eatur- ing Chester Morris and Virginia Bruce and, which is the attrac- tlon at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.

The story concerns two, internes la a metropolitary hospital and a pretty nurse, the latter played by Virginia Bruce. It also presents her and Chester Morris as a new screen' team of lovers with Robert Taylor as the third angle of this eternal triangle of love. Mr. Tay- Jor is a product of the M.-G.-M. dramatic school and is heading for a promising career, ...

Bille Burke, well-krown come- diente, has the role of a wealthy curatic patient who backs Mor- ris: as Dr. Morgan in setting him- self up in private practice after being Bred for operating" on patient too hastily.

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Society Doctor" directed by interest George Seltz is full of and gripping drama.

"In New York." says Peggy... "you rehearse for à play. On the opening might you. know whether It is a success or a flop. It's the former you settle, down" for "a Jun But here you can't have any sociál life.

whatsoever. These early calls make Hollywood a one night town. The film co- lony waits for Saturday evening to play."

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Lew Ayres and "Pat" Paterson are featured with Peggy in "Lot- tery Lover."

THE CRIME OF HELEN STANLEY

Inspector Trent calls to his "aid every invention of modern crime- detecting science before he solves the mystery of the murder of Helen Stanley, popular star, the beautiful victim of an 1ssassin's bullet in Columbia's "The Crime of Helen Stanley", to-day's attrac- tion at the Queen's Theatre.

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Patrons will be treated to 23 authentic back-stage view of a large Hollywood studio. Detalls of how pictures are actually made. the strange jargon of slang and studio argot that has become uni-

versally used in Hollywood plants, and intimate detalls of produc- tion, equal to a trip through a busy studio, form ал intensely absorbing background to a "bar- fing mystery tale.

The cast of "The Crime of Helen Stanley" includes besides the two leading "players, one of whom is Bellamy and the other Shirley Grey, Bradley Page, Clifford Jones, Vincent Sherman and Ward Bond, D. Ross Lederman directed the picture.

THE LAST GENTLEMAN

"I never eat anything I can pat."- explains George Arliss; defining-his pecullar brand of "vegetarians" ism."

Asked whether he eats fish, he replies that he does indeed, be-i cause you can't pat a fish not, that is, without a struggle!

It all goes back to a transcon- inental tour made by him and Mrs. Arliss years ago when they first cathe to America. It was a year of great drought.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935.

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30.5.10, 7.15

£ 9.30 P.M.

OKINGS

HE DREW THE WINNING TICKET IN A

Lottery of Love!

The only girl-sby aderina gallant crew won the right to woo glamorous darling

of Paris... with her garter

as his call- ing card... but he was too bashfull

LOTTERY LOVER

A FOX Mature with

LEW AYRES "PAT" PATERSON

PEGGY FEARS

Waltür King

Alan Dinebari

Reginald Deany - Nick Foran

Produced by AL ROCKETT--*

From the "mory by Siegfried M..Harris _and_Monrlcy_Hanline

KANSAS CITY

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PRINCESS

First Rate Film

That French sport, known as "la "savate." is given a vivid workout In the in Warner Bros. production of cattle Country the rain.. passedKansas City Princess," which is through miles of range and cat-showing at the. Central Theatre tle were dying like flies. Thirst to-day. Theatre-goers who have tortured kine were leaning against never seen the art of a savate” fences, too weak to stand. It was practised will get some a pitiful thing to see. The sight now it works when Osgood Perkins

was too much for Mrs. Arliss,

“I dumb beasts can be tor- tured like that to provide food for as humans" she declared, I for one will never eat meat again!"

And she became a vegetarian on the spot.

But Arliss liked meat and con- tinued to eat it. But not for long.

idea of

floors Robert Armstrong with it.

Quite apart from the unique en- tertainment which this form ör self-defence offers, the pieture is,

FROM

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE The. No. 25313 126932

* Joseph M. Schenck

TO-MORROW

GEORGED ARLISS

in

Last

Gentleman

Plotare

in "Itself, very acceptable fare. George Arliss, in the title role of THE LAST GENTLEMAN,” indulges We have had many an example in a little ungentlemanly twitting of Edna May Oliver, as a result of of how clever Joan Blondell can i which she does an uncommon amount of'sniffling and borroWS OVELY be but when she combines her banky in sight in this 20th Century comedy, which United Artists efforts with those of Glenda

brings to the King's Theatre to-day Every time he put a piece of meat Farrell, the result is just one reci into his mouth, his own conscience and his wife's accusing eyes con-

spired to rob it of all gastronomie appeal. So, by and by, he too be came a vegetarian and has re- mained one ever since.

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THE LIVES OF A-BENGAL LANCER

Perhaps the most ambitious and costly spectacle that Hollywood has ever attempted, Paramount's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has at last been screened and comes to the Central and Albam-

of laughter.

"Kansas City Princess" can be

recommended as first rate enter- tainment & R. M.

"JOE'S" LATEST

At The Alhambra

Though

· somewhat: absurd - in

COLDEST PLACE ting effort in its production. role, is a picture which will "make

In The Universe

A small part of an Oxford laboratory was the coldest place in the universe to-night, when Pro- fessor Simon, formerly of Breslau, demonstrated on temperatures be low one degree Kelvin to a large audience.

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"WAITING AT THE

CHURCH'

Yokohama, April 20

A Japanese picture bride to-day introduced a new twist to the an cient attuation where the groom is left waiting at the altar.

THREE MORALS IN ONE

An incident in, the news:-

A motorist obligingly given a policeman a lift, to assist him in his duties. There is a alight accid- for the obliging motorist's licence. ent. The policeman has, to' sak

The obliging motorist has to con- fess that his licence, is out of date. Conviction for the motorist Fine of five shillings.

The seventeen-year-old Miss Haru Ohta, or rather Mrs. Jiro Takada, was found sobbing on a bench in the Yokohama Railway

Moral, according to the motorist Station late at night by a patrol-don't help policemen, man. Taken to the Tobe Police Moral, according to the police- Station, she tearfully unfolded the

man-duty first. :*

Moral for all motorists keep She had just been married to Mr. | your licences up to date. You Jiro Takada 28-year-old sales may then help whom you will. | manager of a small business frm

following tale: *

bra Theatres for simultaneous theme, "Six Day Bike Rider," now showing during the Easter Holl- showing at the Alhambra Theatre days, after four years of unremit- with Joe E. Brown in the starring

Featuring Gary Cooper, Franchot you forget your worries and laugh Tone, Richard Cromwell and Sir from beginning to end. Guy Standing in the principal As the title suggests, the aim in Tokyo,, she said. roles, "The Lives of a Bengal chiefly deals with bicycle races in Although they had been engaged Lancer" is a stirring, colourful which the hero is seen as a small-since last summer, it was at the and action-crammed story of the town near sighted fellow. The marriage ceremony that she had exploits and adventures of Eng-versatality and clowning of Joe first seen her future husband in land's Colonial soldiers in India. need not be stressed here for he person, "

The author, Francis "Yeats- is already too well known. Suidce Brown, was himself an order of it to say that the picture is up- the Lancers while Achmend Abroariously funny, there being a dullah, film adapter and four large number of gags and thrills British Army Officers served as which would keep you in. a con Professor Simon reached 08 of technical advisers during the protinuous roar of laughter S. AR a degree Kelvin, or less than a duction of the film tenth of a degree above the ab- Directed by Henry Hathaway. solute zero, which is 273 degrets "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" below freezing point. The tem-has had more than 4,000 players perature reached was lower than in its cast during the four years the cald of interstellar space, of production. Monte Rue, Doug- which is warmed to two or three las imbrille, Kathleen Burke, C. degrees by the heat of the stars Aubrey Smith Colin Tapley and. It can only exist in a few labora Akim Tamiroff appear in the sup- torles engaged in similar experi-porting cast.

ments. The absolute zero is un- attainable

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The temperature was the lowest ever demonstrated to a large audience. The lowest claimed temperature, 01 of a degree at Leyden, involved enormously com- plicated apparatus. Comparative ly simply. Professor Simon is reaching one-tenth of a degree in Oxford twice a week..

The experiment, employing liquid bellum and magnetism, in- volves the slowing down of matter almost to a standstil. The motion of the particles which heat in volves was practically eliminated No. gas can exist at less than one. degree The liquid helium was used to cool certain salts previous ly magnetised to this level, and The removal of the magnetism caused a further loss of heat:

15IN. MAN A HOAX

The reported discovery pigmy fossil at Vadnagar, in the Mehsana district of Baroda, proves. to have been one of the greatest hoaxes of recent times.

The fact is that no-such discovery was made. Either the report was the work of a practical joker or fit was due to a remnant of anci Hindu superstition, that to sprend a false rumour, helps a domestic crisis,

The Bombay authorities been overwhelmed with cabl quiries from all over the

owing to the inconvenience caused by these a strict investigation was made

SHOWING

TO-DAY

taking the new couple to the Alami Hot Springs for their honeymoon arrived the bride decided she would Jeave her husband of a few hours. She alighted from the train and went to a bench to have a good cry, she told amused policemen

"He wasn't anything like his pic- ture,” she declared, explaining that their marriage had been arranged by an exchange of photographs... The abandoned groom and: the The marriage ceremony was held, parents of the bride were notified but when the express that was of the matter

QULLN'S

2.30, 5.10

7.20 & 9.30

PM

Was love ber crime? Dia ber band

fire the fatal shot in the scandal

that stunned the nation:

The CRIME STANLEY

RALPH BELLAMY

Shirley Gra

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:

HONG KONË

"Lottery Lover

QUEEN'S

"The Crime of Helen Stan-

ORIENTAL

"The House of Rothschlid"

CENTRAL:-

"Kansas City Princess"

\KOWLOON.

MAJESTIC-

"Long Lost Father"

ALITAMBRA :

"Six Day Bike Rider

KING'S

Coming

"The Last Gentleman" QUEEN'S:

"Society Doctor"" CENTRALme

"Six Day Bike Rider" "Ruggles O Red Gap":

MAJESTIC

"Belle of Nineties" ALHAMERA:-

“Kangas City Princess" "Flirtation Walk

NOT COMPLETELY NON... PARTY

(Special. Air Mail Serviae)

London, March 24.

I see that Mr. Lloyd George has been re-elected for the 30th year to one of his many presidencies within the Caernarvon Boroughs Liberal Association, writes a cor- respondent.

A curious anomaly attaches to his tenure of the same office In the National Welsh Liberal Federation. Unlike the Scottish Federation, which is entirely in "dependent, the Welsh body is a

MAJESTICO

THEATRE S

Natian Road Kowloon. Tel 57822 FINALSHOWINGS TO-DAY At 230, 520, 7.20 & 220 P.K

John

BARRYMORE

He deserted

his wife for wine, woman

song.

and

** but tried to save his daughter from wine, music and ment..

"LONG LOST FATHER"

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RADIO Reture

Moha Chandler Donald Cook From the novel by:

6. & Stam Directed by Ernest

Shameck Marian

Coower, Executive producer

NEXT CHANGE MAE WEST

Belle of Nineties

subsidiary of the National Federa-" tion. KIMA

"Mr. Lloyd George, however, does not take this position of sub- "ordination to Mr. Ramsay Muir, the National president, too tragi- cally....

Incidentally, I learn that “Mr. Lloyd George, on his visit to the distressed areas in Durham next week,, win haye

Dean tea with Alington and afterwards see the famous cathedral library,

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In the DARRYL 2: ZAMUČK production

THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD

IDRETTA YOUNG • ROBERT YOUNG-

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THE COMEDY THAT AL

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WITH LAUGHTERE

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