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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

BEHOLD MY WIFE

DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR

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The dramatic story of revenge

"Devil Dogs of the Air," a that turns into genuine love a mighty romance of the fring the underlying theme of B. F.marines, is coming to the Central Schulberg's new Paramount pio Theatre quartly, ture, "Behold My Wife" starring The picture, which is the Sh! Sylvia Sidney with Gene Raymond Cosmopolitan production and coming as the next change released through Warner Bros... at the Queen's Theatre,

is based on a story by John Monk Saunders dealing with the aviation corps of the U. S. Marinos · It le trio who appeared in "Here ngain brings together the inimita

Coues the Navy, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh. feminine role, Margaret Lindsay

"Behold my Wife" which

pre sents Miss Bidney as a beautiful fullblooded indian girl, has back- grounds in colourful primitive New Mexico, and urbane and sophisticated New York,

"Behold my Wife" was directed:

by Mitchell Leisen. The support ing cast includes H. B. Warner, „Lauen Hope, Julliette Compton

and few others.

bas leading

There are any number of dare- devil"fying stunts, with planes- crashing and men leaping from their blazing ships in parachutes.. Spectacular manoeuvers of the CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS farine Corps, with the US. S. Macon, as well as scores of air- zen warships participating, add planes in battle formation and a

to the many thrills in the picture.

Hailed as the most engrossing and ingenious of the famous "Charlie Chan' Elms, the latest of the series, "Charlie Chan In

Paris" once more starring Warner Oland opens its local engagement to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

Audiences who viewed the pic Ture elsewhere all recorded their enthusiasm for this story of phantom killer who terrorised the Bayest city in the world.

Arriving in Paris, Charlie Chan is plunged into the dangerous shadows of the most baffling my stery he has ever encountered. The French "authorities are frustrated. No one but Charlie is able to find the trail. In the course of, his in- vestigation, a beautiful Apache dancer is knifed to death and an. other lovely girl; an heiress, is -charged with still another murder, But in the end Chan proves her innocence.

Charlie Chan in Paris" was

authored by Philip MacDonald, sane brilliant young writer wna supplied the script of Char-

Chan in London, be

tellowing the death of Earl Derr Biggers, ernator of the wily Chinese sleuth.

SWEET ADELINE

Maragret Lindsay is the giri for whose love Cagues and O'Brien fight & hitter battle, while Frank McHugh has a droll comedy rola As an ambulanca driver with John Arledge as his assistant and chum.

PENSIONS WANTED WITH

WINDING UP ORDER

For White Star Line, Ltd.

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(Special Air Mail Service)

London April 18. On the company's own petition. in the Chancery Division to-day, Mr. Justice Bennett made an order

for the compulsory winding up of the White Star Line, Ltd.

"The Hon. Denys Buckley, who appeared for the company, stated that there was no opposition to the petition, but there had been notices of support.

Mr. Justice Bennett.-Very well, take the usual order.

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Mr. Buckley.The company" was incorporated in 1927 and has made severe losses. It is insolvent at the

present time and the directors de- cided to hold a meeting to get a voluntary quidation.

"Sweet Adeline," the sensational inusical comedy hit by Jerome Kern and Owear Hammerstein II that set all New York a-whistling,

Although they held sumcent now comes to the screen RA the latest of the Warner Bros. gigantic proxies to pass the resolution, there musical speciale, and is scheduled was a large majority of creditors the feature attraction at the who attended and wanted the mat-

Alhambra and Central Theatres ter dealt with by compulsory on Sunday.

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Irene Dunne, favourite singing star of both stage and screen will appear in the stellar role, sup ported by an exceptionally talent rd cast of comedy and dramatic players. Miss Dunne's golden voice became famous in such Broadway bits as "Show Boat," Irene," "Sweetheart Time" and others.

The picture laid iti che gilmorous Broadway theatrical a fashionable trysting uistrict; place for young bleeds and their ady loves on the outskirts of the city and in a picturesque Boboken beer garden of the gay nineties.

The story is the thrilling ro mance of the chatning daugnter a Hoboken been garden 'proprietor who is ardently wooed by a Broad- lay song plugger and a Major in the U.S. Army.

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liquidation.

Compulsory

Mr. Justice Bennett.-The share- holders want a compulsory liquida- tion?

• Mr. Buckley. Yes. Those share-

holders who attended the meeting, at, any rate.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1935.

SHOWING TU-DAY

2.30, 5.10,7,15

&,9.30 P.M.-

OKINGS

1910.

1935

THE SPECIAL FILM" OF THE. GLORIOUS ·AND

EVENTFUL REIGN OF

THEIR MAJESTIES

KING GEORGE V

QUEEN MARY

"ROYAL JUBILEE”

(THE "ROYAL CAVALCADE”)

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE The No. 95813 26332

NEXT CHANGE

NIGHT LIFE of the GODS

3: Uhurumand Pennine wah (

ALAN MOWERAY › PLORINÉ MARINET PEDOT SHERMORON « RICHARA GAZZE. WELLET BARRT · ZIMET ARMETTA VON PEROGRAMS OCTZSCHALK + WIL BOYD

AN EXCELLENT AQUITANIA ON A KUTIEN NOTIES

FILM

At The Central

"Pretty melodies. pretty girls and snappy dances are all to be found in Paramount's lates? musical comedy "All the King's Horses" now showing at the Central and Alhambra theatres."

MUDBANK

Tugs Fail To Move Her

Very Peaceful Year

Kutien. April 25.

All winter Kutten and the sur- sounding courty has been under the protection of the 87th Din- sion, Nationalist Army and we (Special Air Mail Service) have had the most peaceful year, London, Apil 18... In many years. The army are The Cunard-White Star Liner Busy building a memorial in Arm Chair Hill, where the most fight- Aquitania, with about three hun-

ing occurred last year, during the dred passengers on board, aground while making for South-Fukien Rebellion and many of ampton yesterday. The sea was the 87th. Division Soldiers were

killed on that bill rough" and a high wind was blow- con- ing.

The locale of the picture is Lan- genstel, a flower strewn mythical kingdom of Europe where the king always wears a long beard and attends interminable ferences

much to the annoy- ance of his lovely and loving wife who leaves him and returns to him later after she learns that he had discarded his beard.

"Taking the lead in a dual role, Cari Brisson gives one of his best portrayals on the screen and Mary Ellis as the Queen is heard to great advantage in several songs.

There are many complicating situations when Brisson as the famous American actor has to duplicate for the King, and the comedy part of the picture is sup- plied by Edward Everett Horton

and Eugene Pallette. The Picture will interest cue from. start to finish

and with

romance marvellous melodies. Others in the cast

are Katherine DeMille, Arnold Eric Mayne and others.-- 0. M. 0.

And He Was

pull up very suddenly at the street- The bus-driver was obliged to

Mr. H. B. Samuel (chairman of crossing, and in doing so grazed the side of a taxi The taxi-man turn- the Preference Shareholders' Com- mittee).As one of the share to a volume of vituperation "and ed on the bus driver and gave pent holders who attended the meeting, abuse, and, as the busman sat

desire to

support the petitionemlling and unresponsive, kept it The shareholders present thought up unth he was exhausted and it was essential there should not be could say no more. a nice quiet funeral, but that there

should be an exhumation in Carey-torted: "I thought you'd be croes."

Then the bus-driver, smiling, re- street. ...

Mr. Justice Bennett.It is not a corpse yet.

Mr. Samuel-It has been a living corpse for some time. I should like to add, as one of the persons who NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS instigated the winding-up, that one of the prime "reasons for the winding-up was that it enables the shareholders to implement their guarantee against the Royal Mail for dividend and capital, which is expected to realise a few pennies in the £.

What would you do if you had the power to turn human beings into statues and vice versa?

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Coincidence,

Not long ago, Jack Hobbs was seated on top of a bus when a little man with a beard came and set beside him.

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"Eight | tugs "falled to move the liner, which was returning from a cruise, but it was hoped late last night that she would be refloated the high tide at 4 10 this morning.

with

All but 27 of the liner's passen- gers were landed at Southampton docks by tender last night.

The mishap occurred off the Brambles Bank, between Bourne Gat and Calshot Light, at the en- trance to Southampton Water shortly before 4 p.m.

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A wireless message was sent from the ther to Southampton requesting assistance, and eight of the most powerful tugs in the port were immediately dispatched down Southampton Water. The tide was then approaching, high water

The vessel was returning to take her place in the North Atlantic passenger service after having

made two Mediterranean · cruises from New York. She is due to leave Southampton again on April

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60 m.p.h. Wind

The new airfield, south of the city has been finkhed since Jan- vary, but only once has on aerő- plane visited us and then did rot land. The field is used once week by the civilian army for a training field.

NEW MOTOR ROAD

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The new motor road from Eu- tien City to Geub Kau. "the river port, a distance of twenty miles, is nearly completed. I believe the bridges on the last half are under construction and that Я new bus has been bought for use. Beginning June first.

The government inland motor road from Nanking to Foochow is finished to Klen-ning the next section from Klen-ring to Kutlen is being worked on now, but it will be a difficult plece of work as there is a high mountain range between the two counties.

The past five weeks have been very ralny and farmers are long- Ing for a few weeks' of dry wei- ther so the wheat can be harvest- ed.

When the liner went aground she was rounding the difficult "g" bend in the deep-water channel. and it is believed that the force of and it was possible to see passen- the wind, which reached 60 m.p.h. | gers in evening dress walking in gusts, caused her nose to swing. along the floodlit deck. At times

The liner went on to a mudbank music from. the liner's orchestra” bow on, and as the tide dropped reached those on shor8, her nose was raised higher than her stern, which was aflost. Tugs continued to strain hard while there was any possibility of re- Boating her during the time the tide held, but these attempts had at last to be abandoned.

Then four tugs continued to hold with steel hawsers to her stern to prevent her swinging farther into the bank under the pressure of the The new arrival took a adelongwind. Other tugs were station glance at Hobbs, started, stared ed fidgeted, and finally said: "Excuse appeared to be firmly wedged on near her bow. The liner me, sir, but your face seems fami- the bank. lar. Haven't I seen you before?"

"Possibly, was the reply: "Tm Jack Hobbs."

"Shake," said the little man.

You'd probably do the same thing Ann Mowbray does in Night Life of the Gods" Thorne,

Mr. Justice Bennett-As long a Smith's great novel transferred to everyone is satisfied that will be all "That's it. My name's Jacobs, the screen by Lowell Sherman, and coming to the King's Theatre on

right. Thursday.

Mowbray waauts the role of a scientist, who discovers a formula for petrifying humans had animat- ing stone images. "First he turns ais nagging family in to a row of statues and sots, them out in the garden. In this way he even up old scores. Then he goes to the art museum, revives the old pagan gods and goddesses such as Apollo,

the

非

QUAKE IN TURKEY

Special to the "Hong Kong Daili Press" (Copyright).]

Istanbul, May 3, Elx hundred "were killed and

Venus, Mercury, Diane, Bacchus, 1,400 seriously injured, as the re- Hebe, Neptune, Perseus andsult of the earthquake disaster in others, and the fun begins!... Science is baffled and

Turkey, reported by Transocean on country-sides are Agog with this Friday. Fifteen villages were al- sensational experiment. Imagine most totally annihilated and over waking up some morning and be 1,300 'houses were destroyed: ing greeted. by Venus with a brand Shocks are still being felt- new pair of arma? Plastic surgery Transocean Kuo Min. of course, but proving that Venus. would be just as modern" as, any fapper if she came back to earth" to-day.

„Night Life of the Goda" is an orgy in entertainment. Among the players in the cast are Florine. McKinney, Henry Armetta, Wil-

ITALIAN FILM QUOTA

Rome," May 4.

For every three foreign · films

liam (Stage) Boyd, Peggy Shan-shown one Italian film must be non, Douglas Fowley, Richard

a decision Carle, Gilbert Emery, Wesley Bar-shown, according to

ty, Alene Carroll, Robert, MoWade, reached at a Council of Ministers Wards Deering, Irane Ware, presided over by Premier Mus- George Hassell, Geneva Mitchell | solini

Mid Paul Kaye."

Reuter

too."

SHOWING

TO-DAY

SPECIAL

Mr. Howard Carter, the Egypto- logist, who boarded the liner at Fort Said, told a reporter in Southamptou: ""The liner was simply thrown on to the bank by the wind. I felt a slight shudder and knew we were aground I doubt, however, it many of the passengers realised that anything unusual had happened."

were having tea at the time, said Other passengers, some of whom

that they felt nothing a all; but when they knew the ship had be come fast they all went on deck Crowds Watch from Shore

to watch the attempts to reñoat Large crowds gathered on the

ber: The engines of the liver foreshore at Meon, near Titchfield,

work. The liner was about half pulled her in all for about two were run full speed astern for and watched the eight tugs at about half an hour, and the tugs

a mile out in Southampton Water,hours trying to get her off.

GULLN'S

JUBILEE

OFFERING

The KING"

GOD BLESS HIM

Ar 2.30, 3.10

7.20 & 9.80

P.M.

SINISTER MYSTERY lurks in every shadow-

As Charlie Chan is lured on a perilous trail.

HARLIE CHAN IN PARIS

WARNER OLAND

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TO-DAY AT THE

KINGS:-

CINEMA

"Royal Jubilée”

QUEEN'S

"Charlie Chan In Paris

ORIENTAL:

“Student-Tour"

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"All The King's Horses"

MAJESTIC:

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"ALL The King's Horses"

Coming

KINGS:-

"Night Life of the Gods" QUEEN'S:-

"Behold My Wife"

ORIENTAL:----

"It Happened One Night" "Outcast Lady"

4 SHOWS

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