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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

"BORDERTOWN'

Occasionally 4. motion picture studio will rent 1or a day or a week large estates with their expensive and beautiful gardens in the midst of which is centered a great man- 5.011

These estates and homes are taken on short rental for the pur- pose of making exterior scenes for some picture requiring a character possessing riches.

Alhambra

Consequently, when the Warner Bros. unit making "Bordertown," which comes to the Theatre on Sunday departed for location to a beautiful estate, not one member of the crew knew the name of the owner.

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"Bordertown" Is

thrilling drama, involving an ambitiou for eign youth, a French girl of the wealthy

border towns.

and

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American society beauty.

BACHELOR OF ARTS

j.

"The most natural combination

of young screen lovers since Janet

Gaynor and Charles Farrell climb- ed the flights of stars to the gar- ret in 7th Heaven." This is the verdict of Louis King who directed Tom Brown and Anita Louise in "Bachelor of Arts" having its final screenings to-day at the "Queen's Theatre.

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The story of "Bachelor of Arts" Is said to be really an honest one. of college life. It is devoted to the thesis that all college life isn't one long rah-rah-rah, They young players are faced with real and mature problems which they work Out in a human and believable

manner.

* SHOWS

DIABLY

1.20–5.15

7.15-0.30

**CLIVE OF INDIA"

Great men should" be pictured on the screen with the same forth- Fight truth as they are now re- vealed in books says Ronald Colman

Colman follows out his convic- tlon in his "portrayal of the great British hero, Clive of India,” re- leased, through United Artists and showing on Saturday at the King's Theatre.

"Clive" of India" was written by two Englishmen. W. "P. Lipscomb and R. J. Minney. "The picture does not attempt to gloss over Clive's duplicity in forging the signature of a British admira to

id of the tyrant who was then a, secret treaty in an effort to get

ruling India..

RECKLESS

Jean Harlow has found herself

on the threshold of a new cateer

The platinum star reaches the newest character transformation

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1935.

TO DAY ONLY

ᎪᎢ " 2,30.5.10.7.15

& 9.30 PM.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

NOW THEY'RE ADVENTURING"

IN MYSTERY

GREAT HOTEL MURDER

EDMUND LOWE VICTOR MCLAGLEN

Ames

"GREAT HOTEL

MURDER"

Final Showing At

The King's

in the course of her career as a singing and dancing star in her. new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Reckless" which has its initial screenings to-morrow at the

Roter, Fox Flim stylist says a Queen's Theatre and in which she

woman is as stylish as her hat. is co-starred with. William Powell.

For Spring, he features, combina- "Reckless" drected by Victortions of straw and felt. Fleming presents several dazzling He has designed a hat, of the musica; numbers-onë by Jerome Kern-and has a cast Incuding Franchot Tone, May Robson, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, Robert Light, Rosalind Russell and Henry Step- henson.

TAKE MY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY HEAR

ORIENTALE

THEATRE

2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

་་

ONLY

A BREEZY

EXTRAVAGANZA OF LAUGHTER FAST AND FURIOUS FUN A PICTURE.

JUST ALIVE WITH COMEDY SURPRISES SYDNEY HOWARD

TURNS DETECTIVE ON AN OCEAN LINER.

HOWARDZ

TROUBLE

ang. MetEAN QOGERS

Summer Prices Matinees 20 cts.-30 cts.Evenings20 cts.-35 ets.-56 ets.

- ALL OF ME

Dancing has been the open se- same to screen careers for many

women, ucluding Miriam Hop- kins, but it is not generally known that a number of the screen's male. favorities also started their stage careers as dancers.

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A LOST LADY

Shyness and a wall-flower dis- position are the last traits in the world that anyone who has seen him on the screen would attribute to Ricardo Cortez.

Yet Cortez, who plays a bold George Raft, featured with Miss

dashing sultor the Warner Bros.' Hopkins. Fredric March and

production "A Lost Lady""' showing Helen Mack in Paramount's "All-day and to-morrow at the Al- of Me," which will open to-day at the Star Theatre, is considered the inest dancer now in pictures.

"Sure. I was a dancer," he said "I've danced all over the United States and Euroope-got more money for I, too, than I did when I irst started movie acting."

Modestly, Raft omitted to men- tion that he was considered one of the world's greatest dancers-3 role which he will portray, by the way, in "Bolero," his next film- and that," while dancing in a Lon- don night club, he gave the Prince of Wales a dancing lesson,

"There is nothing effeminate about dancing." said Raft. "I was a bantamweight boxer, and played semi-professional baseball around New York, before I took up danc- Ing.

*

Raft's role in "All of Me" is that of a love-mad slum kid, whose

namora Theatre, admits that he is positively timid in real life.

Cortez has been accused by many -who judged him solely by his ex- ternal attitude of being haughty and snobbish. He is nothing of the kind, his self-composed reserve being really what the psychologists call "a defense mechanism" to hide' a sensitive temperament,

Expecting Too Much

the operation wil be dangerous, Patient (nervously): "I suppose

doctor?"

Doctor: "Nonsense! You could forty dollars." n't buy a dangerous aperation for

Strategy "Father," said the small boy. "what is psychology?"!

intense affection and love for Hei- "Psychology, my son, is a word

en Mack, teaches s Park Avenue debutante things about life and -love she didn't know existed, and from them she learns the differ- ence between her kind of romance and real true love.

Bless You!

"Want to leave me, Mary? ·L

of four syllables that you ring in to distract attention when explaining gets d'ficult"

Information Wanted

the

A small girl was entertaining her mother's visitor. "How is your little kiri?" she asked.

"I am sorry to say, my dear, that

thought you were quite comfort | I haven't a little girl”

able; What" 16 for something:

private?"

"No, ma'am, it's a sergeant."

"How is your little boy then?"

I haven't a little boy, either."

Then what are yours?"

Breton sailor type for Rosemary Ames, with turned-up brim of navy blue felt a crown of loosely women straw.

For early spring wear he has created a white pique bornet type for Miss Ames in "The Great Hotel Murder." now at the King's Theatre. She wears it with a short coat and cape ensemble of navy blue wool and white. pique blouse which repeats the fabric used in the hat.

shoes

Great Hotel, Murder." a Fox Film picture. produced by John Stone, directed by Eugene Forde. and based on Vincent Starrett's stery story, "Recipe For Murder..

EX-QUEEN OF SIAM ROBBED

my-

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 7.

Moury 'Hell

Mary

C. Mary Garden

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

STRL No. 25918 2533.2

TO-MORROW ———

FOR A GIRL HE HAD NEVER SEEN!

#IS SWORD BARVED OUT A THRONE

CLIVE INDIA

HI RONALD

COLMAN

LORETTA YOUNG

ROYAL VISIT TO DESERT HORROR

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:--

"The.Great Hotel Murder"

QUEEN'S: —

"Bachelor of Arts" ORIENTAL:-

"Trouble"

Kowloon

MAJESTIC:-

"That's A Good Girl"

`ALHAMBRA:- ·

"A Lost Lady".

Coming

"Clive of India"

KING'S:-

GLASGOW

Duke And Duchess Of Kent's Tour

Widow Dies Near To Safety

QUEEN'S:--

(Special Air Mail Service)

Glasgow, June 7. The Duke and Duchess of Kent nad a busy day in Glasgow to-day, when they made a tour of the gity to perform a number of cere- monjes.

|

(Special Alr Mall Service)

London, June 7. What mystery lies behind the Sahara, tragedy of thirst and des- pair which the discovery of the bodies of an Englishman and Englishwoman has brought to light?

"Reckless" "Witching Hour"

ORIENTAL:"

"Forsaking All Others" "Adventure" Girl" "Lottery Bride" " MAJESTIC:-

"Kentucky Kernels"

While police, trying to answer THE ALDERSHOT

bis

TATTOO

MAJESTIC

=-2THEATRE

Nathan, Baad Kowloon Tel. 67222. TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20. '7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

JACK

BUCHANAN

THAT'S A GOOD GIRL Elele Randolph

DIRECTES BY JACK. BUCHANAN

BERT

COMING

WHEELER

ROBERT WOOLSEY

IN

"KENTUCKY

KERNELS"

TELEPHONING ACROSS THE WORLD

Permanent Reductions In Rates

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June .7. The Pastmaster-General an- nounces that after the temporary

In Empire radio- telephone rates introduced as £ Silver Jubilee concession during May, arrangements have now been made with the Overseas authori- ties concerned for permanent, re-

In the early part of their jour, the question, were giving 'orders ney through the south side of the for the exhumation of both bodies city an unual incident occurred yesterday," Örst news' of the which ended with the Royal visi-

woman's fate reached her father, tors making the remainder of the

Dr. William Ainslie, of Hereford. tour in a police speed motor-car- fact that less than six weeks ago

The blow was heightened by the Giant Massed Band ductions of the rates in the ser- Because of the restiveness of one.

daughter's of the two horses which drew the Ronald William Henry Knight, husband, Mr. Royal carriage the

Duke and only son of Mr. and Mrs. Chur- Duchess left it and entered

an chill Knight, formerly of Shanghai open low-seated police, motor-car and now living in Devon, was which headed the procession. The killed in a crash while flying not Duke and Duchess sat in the back far from the spot where Mrs. of the car and the Chler Constable Knight died.. of Glasgow took his seat in the

front,

tures

(Special Aly Mail Service?

London, June 7. The dates of the Aldershot Tat-

too are this year a little different from the normal. The first per formance will be on a Thursday,

vices to Australia, New Zealand, India, the Union of South Africa and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The reduced rates will take effect at once.

·

Aftica; and India will be £1 108. The new rate to Australia, South

a minute (minimum £4 108. for three "minutes) from Monday to A close friend' said that Mr. | Le., June 13. Then will follow Friday and £1 a minute (minimum Knight, who was twenty-six, was performances on Friday and always courageous. She and hes "Saturday, the 14th and 15th. The days. In the other services men- £3 for three minutes) "on Satur- husband, who were both at Cam- next performance will be on June tioned the new rates per minute. bridge, hard shared many adven- 18, and the Tattoo will then be applicable from Monday to Satur

repeated each evening up to, and day. will be £1 14s. to New including, Saturday June 22

Zealand. £1 15s. to Northern There wil thus be a blank

Rhodesia, and £1 139. to Southern Monday, with eight performances Rhodesia, subject in each case to in all.

A minimum of three minutes.

"Reduced night rates for tele- phone calls to Canada and the United States between, 19 pm, and 10 a.m. (British time) have also been. Introduced. The charge for a night-rate call to Montreal or

This is the story of the tragedy the police have so far piece to- gether.

1)

High heels in feminine are demoded, says Royer, who keeps a watchful eye on accèssor- les. Eecls one inch and a half high "are "tops". In smartness for springtime wear..

All along the route the "Royal Edmund Lowe and Victor Me-visitors were warmly received. So Laglen are co-featured in "The enthusiastic were the crowds that

as the motorcar, proceeding slow- ly, approached the: City Chambers in George Square the thousands of people gathered there surged in and broke through the police In the early morning of May cordon. The crowds were pracical- 92, says Reuter, Mrs. Knight left The motif this year will be ly in touch with the Royal car. Agaden by car to cross the aunbak-Grown and Empire" which the

When the Royal carriage wased Haggar Mountains. She was

producers Have made worthy of proceeding through Maryhill some accompanied by Mr. Peyton, an the great occasion afforded by the men rushed into the middle of the Englishman living in Switzerland, Silver Jubilee of His Majesty. street and waved a red flag, but and two Frenchmen M. Husbert, The main item consists of a the police quickly intervened and aged twenty-five, and M. Chauveur, pageant of all those Sovereigns of living at Kano, in the Sahara, whose reigns equalled or exceeded

SUN WILL KILL YOU".

a span of quarter of a century. Τη this cavalcade Twenty-ive miles from their

the military goal-the oasis of Tamanrasset-scope of each reign is touched on. the engine failed for lack of It is a pageant, however, in petrol.",

which we have to include Henry VI. but to rule out Anne. Still, we have Edward II and Elizabeth. And not least, there is the fery little soldier-king, George II. the

We're Here on Business last sovereign to

A young barrister paused in the English army in the field and to said to Lord Ellenborough: "Is it an midst of a boring harangue and win a great victory and whose it the pleasure of the court that subjects in 1769 were to witness should proceed with my state- the most glorious year: England had ever seen.

ment?" "The Romans were trifiers compared with us," sald Horace Walpole,

Thieves who broke into Knowle, took five men into custody. The aged twenty-eight, a Franch trader England, prior to Queen Victoria, as compared with $2 a minute

ex-King and

procession continued on its way Surrey, where the ex-queen of Stam are staying, without any further untoward ransacked dressing-room ad- happening.

3 joining the room in which they'| were sleeping, tung documents on to the Hoor and stole the ex- Queen's personal Jewellery.

"We believe the thieves, got into

the house through a Scullery window in the early hours yester day," a member of the household told a reporter to-day. ***The jewellery stolen was part of the ex-Queen's valuable collec- tion and included rings, bracelets and necklaces.

"Careful check has been made of the documents thrown out of drawers. None is missing.

"No one heard any disturbance in the house and of the three dogs one is in the house--none was

heard to bark."

A piece of lipstick found outside the scullery window at first led to the belief that one of the thieves was a woman. This is now consi- dered unlikely,

TO-DAY

ONLY

INFIRMARY EXTENSION

On their arrival at the Central Station about midday the Duke and Duchess proceeded to the Station about midday the Duke of Kent opened an extension. Their Royal Highnesses made à tour through the wards and con- versed with a number of the patients. They then drove to the City Chambers, where luncheon was served. After the luncheon Lord Provost Sir Alexander Swan welcomed the Royal couple to Glasgow.

·

Mrs. Knight and Mr. Peyton decided to walk to the nearest post. The two Frenchmen, who knew the desert warned them not to go,

But the Englishwoman and her friand left on the trek.

A relief party eat but. Eight days passed.... Suddenly they spied a car standing silent and deserted in the desert wastes.

There they found two human Bcarecrows-tuebert and Chauveur in a shallow grave, hollowed out to provide coolness and shade.

Thereafter a visit was paid to Cahntesburn Infirmary, where the Duke laid the foundationstone of trail and after some time spied a The rescuers continued on the the Royal Infirmary Auxiliary body lying in the sand. It was Hospital and the Zachary Merton Mrs. Knight. Her body was in a Convalescent Home. party afterwards proceeded through clothing in shreds, and her fista The Royal terrible condition, her bloodstained the city to the East End on their and thighs covered with penknife way to Edinburgh.

cute.

QUEEN'S

BACHELOR

OF

ARTS

.... Here's A College Story With Humor

Instead

of Hokuml...

with

TOM BROWN ANITA LOUISE

STEPIN FETCHIT

AT 2.30, 5.10.

7.20 & 9.30

P.M:

NEXT CHANGE

M-G-M's 30 RING CIRCUS of Music Splashed Dramaf

Jean

HARLOW POWELL Reckless

FRANCHOT TONE

GROSBY TILLD.

|

command

1,500 BANDSAIEŃ There will be the largest massed band" ever heard-over Afteen hundred performers. And if there are massed bands, these will not be to the exclusion of more declares that "The Scots will re- turn to the Tattoo in greater primitive music. A Press notice

strength than ever." Never before has there ever been before in the history of the world, outside Scot- land-a greater number of bag;| pipes playing together. This is a solemn thought.

An interesting display will be that of the drill of the Grenadier. companies of the regiments of old time, from the days of Evelyn, who noted in his diary of 1878, the dexterous skill of this "new sort of soldiers called granadiers." A Tattoo without horses would be: 2 sorry business, so the 1st Cavalry Brigade gives a catholic turn, in which a musical ride. a cavalry charge, and a meet of hounds are all staged.

The Aldershot Tattoo has no militaristicalm, and is divorced from all question of propaganda

In response; however, "to demand," a modern. included in the pros

will take the form

attack upon

by mechanised

and the National Ant

New York is now £1 8s. a minute,

during the day: to Winnipeg or Chicago £1 12s. a minute, as com- pared with £2.4s; and to Van- couver or San Francisco 2 a minute, as compared with the day- rate of £2 12.'

*

Lord Ellenborough replied:

"Pleasure, Mr. has been out ef the question for a long, time; but you may proceed."

Patronize us in Comfort-Free tran-- sportation of car and passengers by Vehicular Ferry, Tickets at H.K. Wharf.

ALHAMBRA

BESTEU

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 89.20 p.m.

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