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"HONG KONG DAILY

TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1935.

CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

WE LIVE AGAIN,

BLIND DATE

Blonde and glamorous Ann So- upon one thern seems to grow each succeeding picture.

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At any rate, whatever it "Blind Date" the next change at the Queen's Theatre is a delight- fully entertaining picture, Inter-

"We Live Again." with Anna Sten and Fredric March in...its leading roles will bring to the King's Theatre screen on Friday. the Arst directorial eTort of Rouben Mamoulian since he "com- pleted "Queen Christina“ with Greta Garbo last year. Mamou-spersed with laughs, thrills and llan directed the picturization of the Tolstoy novèl under its new, title for Samuel Goldwyn.

In its writing and in its tech- nical production, "We Live Again" offers much as the great' novel on which it is based, did to the world forty years

Mamoulian ago. believes that the real story of "Resurrection" has never been told "la Alms. The riot, protest and rebellion of Tolstoy had never found its way to the screen.

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heartaches.

Utterly unpretentious and thor- oughly clean. It relates the story that is old, yet ever new and pulsating.

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Ann Sothern is seen as "Kitty Taylor" sole support of an indolent and numerous family and heart throb of Paul Kelly as "Bill" rough but devotedly struggling mechanic...

So anxious is Bill to remedy the financial situation so that wed- "We Live Again" is Miss Sten's ding bells may chime, that be ne- "second picture in America; it glects Kitty » In righteous indign- follows the "Nana" in which she ation she finally accepts a "blind made her debut last year, Her date."

Nell Hamilton, in the role co-stardom with Fredric March of "Bob Hartwell" son of a de- marks the third of a trio of plc-partment store magnate. is the tures with the latter star to be date. shown throughout the country al- most

simultaneously. March's name part in "the Affairs of Cellini" is first, then with Norma Shearer and Charles Laughton in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," and third, "We' Live Again" as his final work of the season,

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The result is mutual and grow- ing interest between the two and a stormy crash of Bill's hopea.

The story. excellently written by Ethel HI, then continues through to a surprising denoue- ment, replete with romance, comedy and gripping drama.

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GOOD FAIRY

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE 11

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9,30 P.M.

MEN OFFERED HER MILLIONS!

Carl Laemmle presents MARGARET SULLAVAN HERBERT MARSHALL

In Ferenc Molnar's Masterpiece-

"THE GOOD

FAIRY"

with

FRANK MORGAN

A UNIVERS 'L PICTURE

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The Picture that Dares to tell

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AGE OF INDISCRETION

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with

WE LIVE AGAIN”

PAUL LUKAS

NEXT CHANGE ANNA STEN FREDRIC MARCH IN

ULTRA-SHORT WAVE

"RECORD"

Signals From Snowdon Summit

A record in wireless transmission on ultra-short waves was set up during the week-end tests which have been carried out on Snowdon, It is reported that the signals were heard at Stoke Poges, in Bucking hamshire, nearly 180 miles away in a straight line. Reports of re- ception were also obtained from Bristol and Ormskirk, in Lan cashire.

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The previous "ground" record for such transmissions was eighty "miles, accomplished On five- metre wave in the United States One of the experimenters taking part yesterday has picked up signals

from Crystal Palace on ultra-short waves while fying over the Wash, but such as reception cannot have the signi- cance in wireless theory as a "ground" record such ад that now claimed.

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The week-end experiments have been conducted by Mr. Douglas Walters, of London, assisted by Mr. David Richards, the young Cardiganshireborn Welshman who was responsible for the wireless ar- rangements on the last Mount Everest expedition.

operated by joining a private tele- phone line to Snowdon, making it possible for them to speak, by or- dinary telephone service with Lon- don. The Marcont "Company also was transmitting to them from Chelmsford but

.could not be heard, and as yet, they were not able to say whether their signals had been heard at Chelmsford or not,

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QUEEN'S

"Age of Indiscretion”

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"Kld Millions"

Kowloon

MAJESTIC:—

"David Copperfield"

KING'S.—

Coming

"We Live Again”

“QUEEN'S :—'

"Bind Date"

ORIENTAL:

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GLORIOUS ROMANCE reaches your

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heart!

cast of 65

featuring "W" halda

O'BAILYAN Madge Evana Edna May

ATTACK BY ARCHBISHOP:

in

(Special Air Mail Service

London, July 12. George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobac-

(Special Air Mail Service) co Co. was married yesterday at

Edinburgh, July 12. Caxton Hall Register Office, Lon- Remarkable charges concerning don, to Miss Mary Barnes, his the treatment Edinburgh of English secretary-a handsome Roman Catholics-both

priests woman of 39-11 years the bride-and lalty-were made last night. groom's junior,

by the Roman Catholic Arch- Mr. Hill is said to be one of the bishop of St. Andrews and Edin- richest men in the world,

burgh, the Most Rev. U, J. Mc- navy Donald'

"The office which I hold," he

(Spects Air Mail Service)

London, July 19. At Christie's yesterday a modest picture owner received a surprise The picture a very grimy one-of a loaf of bread, wine glasses, and rough tablecloth, was placed upon the auction easel, and somebody scornfully said: "Five guineas." there was a slow trot to 50gs The The first lap went to 20gs. and company warmed up at 100gs, and persons were going to test each was dressed in a pale blue sum- then it was discernible that two his buttonhole, and the bride said, "has been the object of

other's patience and stamina. mer costume, on which was pin. Both often pretended to have, ned a spray of orchids. She had made Inet bid, and then would a picture hat of a deeper shade counter again. In the end the re of blue.. presentative of Messrs Asscher and Welker defeated Mr. Edward Smith at roogs.

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The coming television service is To be worked on the ultra-short waves, as they are free forsuch a

I learn that this picture, which development, and do not seem to

was by the Amsterdam 17th-century be much affected by atmospherics. painter, Willem Kalf, was sent to Reporting on their proposed use, Christie's by its owner, who lives the Selsdon Committee, whose re- in the South-East of England, as port. Issued in January is to be the a "Still Life in oils-dete and bests of the British television ser-painter unknown." It was “even. vice said:

unframed.

Present experience both here But a few weeks ago, in the and abroad seems to indicate that Costs sale, a superb work by Kalf -with a fine pedigree of ownership these ultra-short waves cannot be--fetched 2,000gs, and the dealers be relied upon to be effective for a have been waiting for another, broadcast service. much beyond with or without a pedigree. Kalff. what is commonly called "optical who could paint the brass pots and range." Generally speaking it is pans, of & Dutchman's household at present assumed that the area

as well as any man, is represented capable of being effectively covered in the Louvre, at Amsterdam, Several better ground records by ultra-short wave stations of Dresden, and Vienna, and there than the American, one were ob- about 10 kilowatts capacity will not should be some pictures by him deft tained yesterday and had been re-exceed, a radius of approximately in the Hermitage. ported to the experimenters before 25 lles over moderately undulat- they left the summit of Snowdon. ng country. Metro- "The Good Fairy," in her pro-

It was, however, on arrival at the in more hilly districts this may Victoria Hotel. Goldwyn-Mayer's amazing play of ❘gress of exciting adventures and

Llanberis. last bu considerably reduced, and in- divorce and his influence on the good deeds.

night that they received a tele- deed in certain areas an entirely from moves lives and fates of children of se- orphanage into a movie theatre, phone message from Mr. J. Char-rellable service may be impractle paration is

at the and it is there that she conceives man, the receiver at Stoke Poges, uble. It is clear, therefore, that now playing Queen's Theatre with Paul Lukas, the good fairy idea which mot-whose call sign is"ĠECI" May Robson, Madge Evans and vates Molnar's story and carr es little David Jack Holt the centres- her out into the most interesting

backgrounds. of action in a gripping piece of of

"The Good dramatic entertainment,

Fairy," starring Margaret Sullivan. Heré is an exciting drama telling. and Herbert Marshall is how at the story of a millionaire mother-the King's Theatre.

AGE OF INDISCRETION

"Age of Indiscretion."

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Uut'l that message came it was believed that the farthest point al which the signal had been "re- ceived was Bristol, where an ex- perimenter. "SJU." reported re- ception.

Among other listener

in who reported “peking up" was

in-law's fight for the custody of a The entire story is laid chuid from his father. The story Budapest, Hungary, and especially one at Ormskirk who used an is an original by Lenore Coffee. interesting are street scenes made deftly directed by Edward Ludwig,

at night, with bustling.

paratus in a van on the top of a after hit Reports state that the speak Miss Robson rises to dramatic theatre crowds and the distinc-ing was heard plainly on a lours- heights as the battling mother-in-tively different traffic of a typical peaker at full strength both ways law and her address in court to

Evans.

Little David Jack Holt is a real discovery among child actors, an

Central-European city. Other

in intimate scenes with Lukas and duplication of the Budapest Mual- "Flush" the famous screen dog, ab- solutely wins his audiences.

cipal Orphanage, and still others show various parts of a. large hotel of the city. Through this constantly changing scene is told

COMMUNISTS IN CHINA

(Special Air Mail' Service)

Mr. Walters stated that he 21su

got into touch with another place

occasions, and he understood that at a distance of 55 miles "on four

many in Bristol had. heard their signal, but they on Snowdon a

was GSCV, and telephony and.

until the effective range be creased, a large number of trans- mitting stations would be re- qu'red to provide a service cover- ing most of the country, though we think that with 10 stations, prob- ably at least 50 per cent. of the population could be covered from suitable locations.

SOME TEMPERATURE HEIGHTS The summit of Snowdon is 3,560 feet above sea level. The Berlin Witzleben) station, from which broadcasting is done, has a mast most of the German television

430 feet high, and the authorities are discussing the erection of a higher one.

At Alexandra Park, London's first television station, an aerial mast 300 feet in height will be erected on a site that is 305 feet above sea level

(Special Air Mail Service?

THE NAVAL RESERVÈS

(Speemal "Air Mall Service)

London, July 18. plans, the first for several years, A beat of the navy's mobilisation

The bridegroom wore Я blue suit with a white carnation

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gross insult and of the vilest ac- cusations

"For some time it has hardly been "possible for a priest to ap- pear in the city without being sub-

and

most

Among the witnesses who sign-jected to unspeakable indignities. ed the marriage register were the PRIESTS "SPAT UPON" Hill, the bride's brother and ats- bridegroom's sister, Miss. Gertrude They have been not only the.

target for vile abuse ter, Mr. Robert Barnes and Miss filthy and abscene language." but F. H. Barnes, and Mr. M. Boyer, they have repeatedly

been spat a director of the "Bank of France, upon and molested in the public and Mrs. Boyer.

streets.

CROWD AT OFFICE

"In the factories and public Among the guests were Mr. and works Catholic employees and par- ' Mrs. Boyer's two young sons and ticularly defenceless girls have the bridegroom's small daughter, suffered bitter persecution as con- who carried a bouquet of sweettemtible as 1t 1s cowardly. peas,

Strenuous efforts have been made In the register the bridegroom to induce employers to dismiss is described as the son of the Catholics on the ground of their late Perrival Smith Hall, presid-religion alone." ent of the American Tobacco Company, and the bride a a daughter of the late John Barnes. captain of police.

When the wedding party came out of the register once the bridegroom put on a large white straw hat, and he and the bride posed for a moment for a photo- graph.

MAN WHO PRAYED FOR DEATH

"THERE ARE LIMITS..." After referring to the recent Eucharistic Congress at Edinburgh

when disturbances occurred hc said:

There are limits to human en- durance, and if the continuance, of these conditions leads to dan- gerous public dis-peace, then the disastrous consequences cannot be lald at the door of the Catholic body."

Then they elbowed their way through the crowd, and they ant

after refusing to say their guests drove away in taxis.

He was certain that the bulk of where the

the citizens of Edinburgh must was provided at the dockyards to-reception would be held and the

when the facts were brought to Jay, when 3,000 reservists reported honeymoon spent.·

their knowledge, regard with ab- for a fortnight's service to bring

horrence the actions of what the reserve feet ships up fo full

after all was a mob of the lowest complement. When the Beet mo-

elements. bilised in 1914, the plans, which were all right.on paper, did not quite respond when the human ele- ment came to work them. There was no breakdown to-day. At Portsmouth 1200 men presented themselves, and every one of them vance, provided with any necessary had been registered, paid in ad-

kit and bedding, allotted a ship, and given a three-course dinner before noon. The statis were handling the crowd at the rate of sixty 4 minute,

".

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July. 12. Sir .. Mark Beresford Russell Sturgis who, under a clause in the

explorer, has to assume the sur- will of Mr. W. J. A "Grant, the

name of Grant in order to bene-, at, told a reporter yesterday that he had to consult a solicitor about the matter.

MATERNAL MORTALITY IN SCOTLAND

(Special Air Mail Service).

London, July, 18. Several important findings and recommendations are contained in a Report on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Scotland, which has been prepared and tued by: the Department of Health for Scotland,

Naturally, he said, he desired to During the afternoon the men hold his own name as a surname. moved off from the depot in bat- 1 However, he had not to make the ches for their respective ships as change until September and mean fast as there were lorries to cart time had", decided nothing." their bags and hammocks, and by Sir Mark was presiding Special four o'clock all was clear except Commissioner of Income-tax incesths of mothers in childbirth.⠀ for five stragglers.

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vices in 1922–24. -.-.

The inquiry on which the Report is based covered the period from October 1, 1929, to the end of 1932, and included reports on 2405

Dealing with causes of death, the Secretary of State for Irish Ser-Report states that the information furnished by the Inquiry suggest that maternal mortality is less de- pendent than was thought on local, conditions, such as housing, ur bonisation, and the like.

The men were put through a strict medical, optical, and dental examination, and it is a remark-

Mr. R. J. A. Grant, Cullompton, able fact that only three were Devon, bought his own coffin and turned back as unfit. It is the was said to have prayed for death more remarkable because 80 per to end his sufferings. He gave a cent of the men were pensioners "swan dance" as a farewell to his and fleet reserve ratings--that is friends,

the judge is one of the outstanding sequences take place in the motion dramatic moments in the picture. picture palace and in a beer gar- dan and there are also interesting Lukas is seen in the role of the

glimpses of a large Hungarian de- sympathetic father, backed by his faithful secretary, played by Madge Dartment store, where Miss Sulia

van and Marshall make their pur- chases and pursue their romance. not hear the signals from there. Other scenes, both interior and * SPECIAL TRANSMITTERS exterior, are made in a perfect

Two

special five-metro low- power transmitters and receivers were in use, and these have been designed and constructed by Mr. Douglas Walters. The code signal THE MISSING TETRASTICH Morse were broadcast. The co- OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

of operation

radio experi bienters with apparatus suitable for listening had been ЯI' ranged. A directional beam and

London, July 18. omni-directional serials were used,

The University Court of St. and the beam directed towards Andrews has agreed to undertake London, where special arrange the administration of a fund set ments had been made to com- apart by the late Miss Alice A

to estimate what proportion of municate with Snowdon. At vari- Fetavel for the award of a sum of the navy, and therefore are no suggesting that sufferers from inclusions arrived at after careful either twenty or twelve years in Last year he wrote to newspapers deaths is avaldable, and the con- ous points throughout England money of the first fuder of the and Ireland portable five-metre missing tetraatich of Mary Queen longer young.

curable disease should be allowed consideration, were that 58.7 per stations were listening for the of Scotts

to take a lethal dose to end their cent of the total number within transmissioua.

Miss Petavel was a student of

aufferings,

the coope of the inquiry were Mr. Walters told out North the history and times of Mary

Mr. Grant, who took part in avoidable 21.61 per cent nine Arctic expeditions, left estate owing to negligence of the Wales reporter last night in an in- Queen of Scote

"What a boy you are for asking of the gross value of £190,499 with, and 37.09 per cent. to som It is known that this manuscript numerous requests for supplies of snowdon they were operating in a exists, and Miss Petavel, who her questions said the father. "I'd net personalty £7

like to know what would have Another benencia

der Mr. self made much search among the Scriptures, these had been forward hut with a corrugated-iron roof, Queen Mary papers, left this happened if I'd asked as many Grant's w

Lesile ed to the Argentine, Bolivia,which was not to their advantage.ndowment so that some of the questions when I was a boy An account was given of a Brazil, the Falkland Islands. The weather tamed had during students of the life and times of Perhaps," surge fourney undertaken by Mr. Dugald Paraguay, Venezuela, Guatemain, the night and yesterday morning Queen Mary might be induced to hopeful, you Campbell, who crossed the desert Mexico, and the Cape Verde between Morocco and Tamanrasset Islands,

The Post Office authorities.com.continue the search.

a story which has never been excelled for brilliance.

Frank Morgan heads the cast supporting Miss Sullavan and Marshall In London, July 18.

"The Good Fairy.". The circulation of 300 Gospels in

while other important members of Arabic among Moslems in China Director Wyler's cast are Reginald Owen, Beulah Bondi, Alan Hale, was reported yesterday at a meet ing in Glasgow of the directors of 2nd June Clayworth. the National Bible Society of Brot- land. The Rev. Dr. Adam Philip presided.

It was reported that news from South West China was exceedingly grave. There had been fresh Inva sions of the area by Communists, and the situation had become so desperate that only seven stations in Kwairhow were occupied by missionaries. The rest of the workers had been compelled to leave

as far as Insalah. On the way he visited 60 oases and had circulated large number of Arabic and Tunreg Scriptures. No colporteur or missionary had ever previously passed along the route.

It was stated that in response to terview at Llanberis that on

It is stated that one of the

to say, they have already done ***TO END SUFFERINGS primary objects of the inquiry was

Possibly

BREDA KILEWer some of m

the young

the atten

nong atter things the Report strongly recommends that mater- institutions should be of sun- size to justify the employ ment of a resident medical officer. specially trained in obstetrics

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