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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN

"The Private Life of Don Juru," which brings Douglas Fairbanks to the King's Theatre to-day. climaxes the Athlectic star's long- standing preference for 'fins "with Spanish themes and backgrounds, which began with "The Mark of Zorro" and followed through in "Don Q." "The Gaucho" and "The Black Pirate."*

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BABOONA

One of the most sensational ad venture films of all time is promis ad for the King's Theatre when the aud newest production of Mr. Mrs. Mattin Johnson, "Baboona,' comes, to the screan,

"Baboona, it is said, outdis tances anything the Juhusuus have yet brought back from unexplored and savage lands, not only for authenticity and graphic detail but for shear suspeise and excite

ment..

The story of the film, which was directed by Alexander Korda for This time the intrepid pair of made safari in through United Artists, explorers, have release treats, the great lover in rather Africa by air. Subtitling their an aerial epic over cavaliarly fashion and expounds feature the amusing theory that, deprived Africa," they have created it from of his name and reputation by a

the labours of two" years during trick of fate, Don Juan was nhi time they travelled greater dower than the next "fellow, 50,000 miles by air above jungle if a great.

and plain, above unkown waters and mysterious mountains. A cording to those who have witness fod "Baboona” in preview show. ings, it furnishes one of the world's most extraordinary, recorda of the conquest of the nennquer- able.

LADIES SHOULD LISTEN

are

ti

There

so few unmarried actory in

Hollywood that young actress's chances for companion- ship and matrimony become quite a problem.

ing

to-day 21,

Theatre.

actors are

"It seems that all Hollywood the marrying kind, Frances said. "On the other hand. there are proportionately so many unmarried actresses that bachelors are considered to be only doing their duty when they escort three dr four different girls out weekly.

MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH

Making her screen debut in the title role of the picturization of Alice Hegan Rice's noted classic, the distinguished stage star is cast in the same type role that she has played so often, end so brilliantly in the theatre.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1935.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30.5.10.7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

The

Back in his greatest rolal As he tops Robin Hood. Three Musketeers....... The Thief of Bagdad ...with his gay por.. trayal of Don Juan!

LONDON FLSA S

Douglas FAIRBANKS

in ALEXANDER KORDA'S

PRODUCTION OF

The Private Life of DON JUAN

MICKEY MOUSE

M

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

ALSO SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! IN PLAYFUL PLUTO"

BELOW THE SEA

Excellent Film

MERLE OBERON

LENITA

LINNTE

BARNES

BEAUTIFUL

LADIES OF

fold thre UNITED ARTISTS

A NEW WALT DISNEY

FILM OF A SCOTTISH GHOST STORY

น

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London, June..26..

A haunted Scottish castle, which was sold and transported plece-

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE [Tai No. 263

12639

NEXT ATTRACTION

UNBELIEBLE!!

until ytor soft

MESSERS. MARTIN

BABOO

This is the opinion of Frances Drake, brunette film actress, fea-

famine Lord," noted stage ae. tured with Cary Grant and Edward tress who makes her motion-picture Everett, Horton ta 'Ladles Should debut in Paramount s

“Mrs.

Below the Sea" which is hav- Listen." the Paramount fim open-Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, ing its run at the Queen's Thea-meal to the United States, will

Alhambra coquing to the Alhambra Theatre tre will delight those the

who care figure in a new film. "The Laying on Sunday, has been on the stage for this particular type of films. of the Glourie Ghost" which M. for over thirty years, yet never.

The story is a commonplace Rene Clair is to direct for London has played an ingehur role.

oversha-"Film Productions, Ltd. Production one, and the acting is dowed by the interesting deep sea will be started on July 1, and it is". marine life which the actors set understood that several of the out to obserYO,

scenes will be shot in Scotland. A diver and a German sea cap-The film is based on a short story. tain take advantage of the Chap-"Sir Tristam Goes West," which man scientific expedition to sal-appeared in "Punch" three years ago, and the theme of the haunted that went to the bottom of the castle which remains ghost-ridden sea during the World War. The after its Atlantic crossing provides backer of WANGHAI

the expedition is a promising material for M. Clair, spoiled playgirl who falls in love who is preparing the scenario with with the woman-hating hero and the plot divides itself between her, efforts to win her man and the schemes of the captain who plats to outwit the diver of his share.

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2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

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A CYCLONE OF MIRTH!

THE FUNNIEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR! WARNER BROS. FAMOUS LAUGH STARS

GET TOGETHER

IN ANOTHER GREAT COMEDY CONVENTION; THE

FUNNIEST OF ALL MATRIMONIAL MIX-UPS,"

ICAN

MERRY WIVES OF RENO®

Beth Warsagentens fushat Kelulut Targets CaNDA LAPRILE, BUY

JALUTUM HUNTINI RUTH DONIJELE SPANK MCHUGH MARGAREL INDNEY DONALD WODON HERBUNGAVANJUGH

KIDAT

Summer Prices Matinees 20 cts.-30 ets. ----Evenings 20 ets.-85 ets.-55 ets.

DR. ANN HARDING

And The Lunatic

HAWKER AIRCRAFT

PROGRESS

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London, June 25.

vage some $3,000,000 in gold bars

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Fay Wray and Ralph Bellasy are both good and B scene which Fay Wray is cut off with the oxygen supply will readily commend itself to those who take in breathless, moments.

Trere are many specimen of fish seen "under the "surface and

Others in the cast are Fredrik Vogeding. Esther Howard. Trevor Bland, William J. Kelly and Paul

Robert Sherwood. Mr. Robert Donat, who took the chief part in "The Thirty-Nine Steps," will play the ghost, as well as the super- natural visitor's modern descen- dant

FOUR AIR LICENCES

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No Other Woman Holds

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London, June 26," The first woman in the world to

OLD ETONIANS' LODGE

Freemasonary At The College

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London, June 26. Prince Arthur 01 Connaught, Past Grand Master of Berkshire and Master of the Old Etonians' Lodge, attended the annual Pub- lic Schools Masonic festival Eton College, when nearly seven hundred brethren took part in a long and varied programme

at

This is the first time the festi-

val has been held at Eton. The attendance was 50 per cent, high- er than at any previous gather- ing of the kind..

TO-DAY

KING'S

AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"The Private Life of Don

Juan"

QUEEN'S:—

"Below The Sea" ORIENTAL:-

"Merry Wives of Reno"

Kowloon

MAJESTIC:

"Kid Millions"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Ladles Should Listen"

Coming

KING'S.-

"Baboona"

QUEEN'S:--"

"Let's Live To-night”.... ORIENTAL:-

"Sunshine Susie" "City Lights".

AN ITALIAN -

MANDATE

Over Abyssinia?

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London, June 26. Mussolini wants Mr. Anthony Eden to agree to an Italian Man date or Protectorate over Abys-

sini

4,

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Those are the only terms' on watch de will discuss the matter

MAJESTIC

PARIHEATRE. I

Natwa Raad Kowloon, Tel. 57242 TO-DAY TO MONDAY At 2,80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

The pyramids LAUGH) The laughs PYRAMIDAs Cantor and the gorgeous "Goldwyn Girls go treasure-hunting on the hot sands of the Sahara and get hotter and hotter on the quest for melody, madness and wirth !

IN SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S production of

KID MILLIONS

Reśnakad, the UNITED ARČIAUS

LINDBERGH TURNS

SCIENTISTS

(Special Air Mail Service,

Landon, June 26. One of the most sensational events in the history of medicine is believed to lie behind the an- nouncement, made to-day by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, of the development of an"artificial heart."

One of the two discoverers of this manmade "blood stream" is Colonel Lindbergh, the famous American airman

The other is Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Frenchborn surgeon, who won the Nobel Prize in 1912 for success

ย all. As the two statesmenin suturing blood vessels and the met at Mussolini's palace in transplantation of organs. Rome to-day the Italian Foreign The discovery" enables entire Office spokesman issued a state-organs, with their immensely com- ment disclosing his country's at- | plicated structures, to be kept alive titude.

outside the body.

The official subjects are the Anglo-German naval agreement

znd

The report of Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh sayı:

the proposed Western Air "The method consists of the Locarno; but it had been sug-transplantation of the organ of gested in London and Paris that any part of the body into a sterile these would be overshadowed by chamber, and of its artificial feed- Abyssinia.

ing with nutrient fuld through the arterias.".

the Among the guests were Earl of Harewood, Past Master:

Mag Lord Ampthill, Pro Grand ter of England; the Earl of Do- noughmore, Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Ireland; Lord Saltoun, Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Scotland: and Lieut.- Colonel J. H. Moir and 'Mr. H. E. Niven, representatives of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

Others present fäcluded Lord was prepared, on conditions, to Cornwall's, Colonel W. F. Wyley.offer support for a plan whereby Bishops

would grant certain, of Buckingham, Lincolt, Abyssinia and Warrington, Major T. G. economic concessions to Italy in Lumley Smith, Sir Colville Smith, return for an outlet. to the sea lur herself through British Noma- and representatives of each of the twenty-seven publie school

Ulland. Lodges.

One report said that Britain

Ballamy's battle with an octapus quality for a licence as a full- or the floor of the pceap will fledged aero engineer has received give the audience several thrili-notification from the Air Ministry. lng moments.

that she. has passed all the Technicolour shots of sex, ane-examinations. mones and star flsh, are instruc- She is Miss Dorothy Spicer, of tive as well as beautiful,

Landon. With Miss, Pauline Gower,

The Foreign Office spokesman she runs a commercial air) firm.

sald Italy would be very sur GARDEN PARTY Miss Spicer for the last : six

prised if Mr. Eden brought the months has been working at the luncheon on Fellows Eyot, During had been received, and in any

The programme opened with

subject up at all. No"notification. Napler Engineering Works, Acton,

Old Etonian case ne did not think that the sheer educational value" learning the practical aide of her

"members conducted the visitors British Government this picture is hard to beat.-O.job.

would over the College, and then the likely to make any "satisfactory M.O

She now holds all the Air Minis-

guests assembled at Agars Plough proposals. try's licences which it is possible

"Mere advice, he made to see the Royal drive through it clear, was not wanted." to get for the care and mainten- ance of aircraft and aere engines den party. given in their honour Eton Later they attended a gar- PASSPORT FINGERPRIUTS|These are the "A" "B" "C" and

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London, June 26.

It is unlikely that British Gov- ernment Department would ap- prove the proposal of internation- A trading profit of £105,801 is al police authorities, made at their reported by Hawker Aircraft in, convention in Denmark, that every respect of the year ended March passport should bear the finger- 31. This compares with £180,143 prints of its owner.

...

"D" licences.

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No other woman holds them all. In Great Britain or the Empire.

DRAKE UP-TO-DATE".

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, June, 26. Admiral Lord Jellicoe is a keen follower of lawn tennis. I liked the story told of him by H, W. Austin at the eve-of-Wimbledon dinner of the International Club, of which he is president, writes a correspondent.

the afternoon the

in College Garden' by the Provost and "Fellows., The Provost (Dr. M. R James), the Vice-Provost (Mr. C. H. K. Marten), and the Head- master (Mr, Claude Elliott) re- ceived the guests.

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Lodge was opened In Schoot Hall after tea and then a pro- cession was formed and all the guests walked to College Chapel, where a service was held. The Bishop of Lincoln gave the ad- dress.

A banquet in a large marquee, an Fellows Eyot brought the day's proecedings to a close. The Lord Jellicoe, according to Austin

toasts included "The Master," (and I don't really believe him) proposed by Lord Ampthill and was playing tennis when summon- responded to by Prince Arthur of ed by a sailor messenger to come Connaught; "The School" pro- and do battle on the high seas. posed by the Bishop of Bucking

"Oh, I can't come yet," he re-ham and responded to by Mr. Claude Elliot, and "Sister Lodges." proposed by Lord Cornwallis and

(Special"Air Mail Service)

London, June 26. Anh Harding has ber most Solemn part for some time in "The Flame Within." next week's

im at the Empire.

for the preceding year, and en- So far as Britain is concerned, She is a woman doctor who ables the board, after placing such a proposal would have to be psychoanalyses the abnormal back | £15,165 to capital redemption | approved by the Foreign Office. to normality and meets with very reserve and £50,000 to genéral British passport officials con- @fair success. This success, how-j reserve, to raise the Ordinary sider that the present passport

ever, is a mixed blessing. When dividend from 15 to 20 per cent.system works well. Lilian Belton (Maureen O'Bull-On the 400,000 new "A" Ordinary pnnection with the alien re- van) attempts suicide she comes shares of 58. that were issued to gistration British passport author under the conscientious care of the shareholders in January at Itles sometimes ask an alien to al- the she-psychologist. The root of | 12s. 6d. each a dividend is payable low his fingerprints to be taken, the trouble is Lillan's fance, who, of 5 per cent., being 20 per cent. j'in addition to signing his name in although charming between times, for one-quarter of the year. The the characters of his own lang-plled, "It's three all in the final has spasms of drinking more than premium of £150,000 obtained on uage:

set." ́he should. In consequence, the the sale of these "A" mbares, good doctor has to save the com- together with the capital reserve pany from themselves" and straigh- of £15,925, has been devoted to ten out their difficulties. In doing writing down "designs, cences, so the makes any number for and patents," reducing that in--1 herself, as the young drunk trans- | tangible asset to £99,000. Owing ́ fers his affections toʻher.

GOOD ACTING“

to the recent provision of fresh capital the company was at the date of the balance-sheet well

Considering the subject of the supplied with working resources: story and the construction of the £173,431 of cash was held, and plot, "The Flame Within is £83.113 of British Government genuinely interesting. The action securities: adding debtors, stock. is not too clinical, so it does not &c, floating assets amounted to suffer from the blemishes that £800,692, or nearly twice the cur- marred Men in White" and rent liabilities. "Doctor Monica. There are not too many test tubes among the roses, and every bower does not contain a thermometer

comes from a secondary player Miss Harfling plays her part Louis Hayward, as the youthful with a thoughtful sincerity which alcoholic. There are times when gives her mental adventures some- the tim suggests its theatrica thing like truth, and Herbert | origin it is adapted from a stag Marshall assists as yet another | play--but, on the whole, dialogu medico on the», paychoanalytic has been well upheld by action. scone. The best performance Sound If serious entertainment -

TO-DAY

ONLY

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w the sea

Below

COLUMBIA PICTURE

Battling a

AT 2.80, 5.10

7.20 & 9.30

*P.M.

FROM SATURDAY

LET'S IIVE

TO NIGHT'

TULLIO

TILI

MESSAGE TO THE PRINCE

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 26.

welcomed by 15,000 young and old General Evangeline Booth was

members of the Salvation Army at Alexandra Palace on Saturday, on her return from her world tour. 500 children in the costumes of various countries sang different "It is no good" the emphasised national songs. A telegram was -"suggesting territorial or com-

sent to the Prince of Wales, - in mercial concessions, Italy can- which those present wished the not and will' not 'withdraw ber fullest measure of success to the troops from her colonies until King George Jubilee Trust, "which", something has been done to en-

we feel to be alike happy in con- sure that Abyssinia will not ception and fraught with tremen- continue to be a menace to dous possibilities for good in opers- Italy

tion."

"Buch concessions would nut

In any way unsure this."

CORDIÄL TALK

Mr.

"He then added that Eden were in a position to en- gage the British Government's support for an Italian mandate for or protectorate over Abyss Ainia tre Italian Government would be favourably disposed to discuss such a suggestion, a An official "communique Issued by the Italian Government after the meeting stated:

This morning Bignor Mussolini received the Britian Minister, Mr. Eden, at the Palazzo Venezia, and had a cordial discussion lasting two hours.

In the course of this "they examined the Anglo-German naval pact of June 18 and the projects for a pacts and also other ques-, tions which formed part of the Anglo-French agreement of Web- ruary 3,

These "other questions includea paeta of, mutual desistance and Austrian independence

zacknowledged by Colonel W. Wyley

During the dinner.

of greeting was read _count : Galwa

of New

Ok the

ALHAMBRA

FRENTED.

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

at 2.30, 5.20. 7.20 8. 9.20 p.m.

A most delightful Paramount Falco Comedy Pure hilarious unfurtainment

TALKED FAST

and toyed single until one girl slai down

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