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PUBLIC HERO NO. 1

"Public Hero Number I." The Metro Goldwyn Mayer's few thriller due shortly at the Queen's Theatre la a drama immortalizing the unknown soldiers of peace in their rentless war against or- ganized criminals. The story is, aside from being breathless tertainment, an eye opener to the public. in showing Intimately what goes on in the struggle on the side of the law dally.

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Chester Morris as the adven- turous Jeff Crane and Joseph Calleia as the fugitive crime over- lord, are the centres about which the amazing plot revolves. Lionel Barrymore adds both comedy and pathos in the principal character role, as the strange old physician. tool, of the underworld. and blonde Jean Arthur, with Morris, provides the romantic interest. The excellent cast also features

Paul Kelly. Lewis Stone, Paul

Hurst and George E. Stone.

LADIES LOVE DANGER

A two-letter bristles "in the te

career were modified by a series. o: Gilbert Roland. His life and

of It's.

If his family had not fed from Mexico during a revolution he now would be a retired bullfighter- for matadors past thirty, are prac- tically all retired.

If he hadn't been a demon o determination he would not have battled the Hollywood extra line for four years.

If he hadn't somewhat resem- bled Roman Navarro he wouldn't have been taken to Annapolis to double for Navarro.

If the producer, B.. P. Schul- berg, hadn't seen him in a cafe

he wouldn't have offered him a screen test.

If he had been able to raise an additional forty dolars he would have gone to Spain to try his luck in the bull rings.

If he hadn't been able to speak Spanish perfectly, he would not have been engaged by: Fox Film for Spanish pictures.

The sensational prison break. the stampede of a thousand con- victs, the breath-taking operation sequence, where the doctor per- forms a transfusion in a crook- hide-out, the raid on the gangster

If he hadn't signed the con- stronghold. running battles be-tract, he would not have played tween fast automobiles, and other, the lead opposite Mona Barrie in

detalls -embellish exciting

turned the "Mystery Woman," which story as the audience follows the out so well that he is again co- Federal mer in their dangerous teatured with her in "Ladies Love. task.

Danger." the murder-mystery- romance, coming to the King's Theatre on Wednesday, with a brilliant supporting cast. It 12 Lowe production Humber-

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The story is an original by J. Walter Ruben and Wells Root, founded entirely on actual facts. One of the mazing details is the an Edward resort of the crook to plastic sur-directed by H. Bruce gery as a disguise, that, however, stone, ፡፡ fails to elude the vigilance of Uncle Sam's watchdogs.

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FOLIES BERGERE

"Razzberries!" comes the ring- ing reply of the seventy-three dainty dancing beauties who may

WHEN A MAN'S A MAN

An ungrossing story that in book from thrilled sixteen

million American readers, from the pen of Harold Bell Wright. Bas been transposed to the serean. It is. "When A Man's A Man," due at Alhambra Theatre to day.

currently be seen at the King's magical Theatre frollicking blithesomely through 20th Century's "Folles Bergere" with Maurice Chevaller. The girls spent twelve hours a day, seven days a week for five weeks, rehearsing under the eagle eye of dance director. Dave Gould. Another two weeks were required to shoot the lavish musical en- sembles.

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*LADIES LOVE DANGER” with MONA BARRIE

365 NIGHTS IN HOLLYWOOD

Halled as "the laughing low- down on the world's dizziest city," the Fox Film production, 385 Nights in Hollywood" is showing

at the Oriental Theatre on Wed- nesday and Thursday.

Here at last is a story with a new slant on Hollywood. ***385 Nights in "Hollywood" tells the story of a girl a boy and two adagio ice-men who turn the flicker city upside down.

The picture laughs at many of the foibles and the fancies of the

screen heath.

great and their native

Alice Faye is seen as a young screen aspirant while Jimmy Dunn is cast as a smart-cracking picture director, Her problem is to get the top. His is to get there too. Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant are a pair of slightly cuckoo ice- men who plek Alice as a star and then set out to pave the way for her success.

Other members of the cast are Frank Melton, Grant Mitchell John Bradford, Frank Conroy and John Qualem.

FAST ASIATIC RUBBER ESTATES

A Substantial Improvement

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London, July 29. The Twelfth Annual Ordinary General Meeting of East Asiatic Rubber Estates, Limited, was held yesterday at 19, Fenchurch Street, London, EC.

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MICKEY MOUSE

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SILLY SYMPHONIES

CURIOSITIES

CREEN SNAPSHOTS

COMEDY

A limited number of MICKEY MOUSE MASKS, pres nted by courtesy of Messrs. Maller and Peippa, may be had on applica tion at the Ticket Office.

KUALA LUMPUR FLYING

Club Report

Singapore. Aug. 7. The amount of flying carried cut in the Kuala Lumpur "Flying Club aircraft is still somewhat below normal for this time of the year, says the July report of the club,

ART IN THE SCHOOLS

Exhibition In Singapore

Singapore, August 7.

A few years ago, art was not considered an essential sub- lect for local schools although some work was done in the lower classes in plasticine, basketry and raffia work

This is accounted for partly by the fact that dense smoke haze during the early morning has To-day it is an 'important item made instructional flying almost in a school curriculum, so much Impossible, and also by the fact so that special art and handwork that one of the Gipsy Moths has are held every week for post- been out of commission, having normal teachers under the super- been damaged in a forced landing vision of an Art Superintendent. on old mising land near the Mr. R. Walker. aerodrome in the early part of the month. Repairs are, However, well in hand and it is hoped to have the machine in service again shortly.

One of the most interesting events of the Club year was the annual competition for the Carl Nauer Cup on Sunday, July 34.

Great strides have been made by the pupils, and yesterday the results of a year's work were seer. at a private view of an exhibition of the classes work which is being held in the hall of Raffles Girls'

School.

The exhibition" will be open to the general public to-morrow. on Friday and on Saturday.

YOUTH TRIUMPHS

OF INTEREST TO PARENTS This year the competition took A the form of a ladding contest The exhibition should be of most very high standard of flying abi- interest to parents of children in Hty was revealed, the Cup being Government and aided schools. It dnally awarded to HL S. Kanwar, gives them some idea of the In- the Club's youngest member.teresting work done in art and whose total solo amounted to only 43 hours.

handcraft in these schools, Even a brief view of the exhibition is

sufficient to reveal that Singapore is now well-supplied with efficient and enthusiastic teachers of art and handcraft.

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Members were pleased to wel- come back to Kuala Lumpur and to the Club, Mr. R. G. E. Wishaw, one of the Club's earliest and most experienced"pilots, after sick leave. Art teaching directed towards crafts suitable for home occupa- in England.

Three Vickers" "Wildebeestes" of tion stencilling book-binding, of Montrose, No. 100 (T.B.) Squadron,

R.A.F. linoleum block-printing, decorative K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. (the chair- paid a visit on July 13. Air. Com-writing, lettering, and needlework.

There are some excellent exam- man), said that the net profit for modore 8: W. Smith, the Air the year, including the dividend Officer Commanding the Royal ples of embroidery and cushion from the subsidiary company, the Air Force, Far East, who had been making by the women pupils of

the classes. Teluk Merbau Plantatious, Limited, convalescing at Fraser's Hill, re- had amounted to £45,222, com- turned to Singapore as a passen- pared with £23,951, and, with the ger in one of these aircraft. -* carry forward from last year of Mr. J. Leverton of the A. P. C. £34,755, the total available | Miri, Sarawak, came balance was £79.978. The board | Lumpur for the third year, in suc- to transfer to general cession to spend his fortnight's proposed reserve £25,000, restoring that ac- local leave in qualifying for the count to its original figure of renewal of his pilot's "A" Licence

100,000, and to recommend an

this he was successful. M.. dividend of 5 per cent, less tax, Leverton is to be congratulated on against 3 per cent. last year, leav- his keenness and enthusiasm: ing £14,978.

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The Improved position for the past year was, of course, due to the working of the restriction arrange- ment which had materially im. proved the price of the commodity The company's financial position remained extremely sound. TRE company still held 2,737.500 fully paid shares of 2s, each in. Teluk Merbau Flantations, Limited, which

Reports trom other cities where this romance of the Far West has already played, reveal it as out-of-the-way attraction, packed to the hilt with tense situations.

Harold Bell Wright's talent for depicting the vital drama of the Seven weeks of unremitting West, and his gitt for creating effort and physical risks, hanging unforgettable types, is second to on to whirling machines in the

none. In When a Man's a Man," Straw Hat number and stepping he pits the East and West in a oft bolts of lightning in the Rhy-dramatic duel. A polished spoiled had made a profit of £8,968. The thm of the Rain number. And darling of fortune, all but penni-yield of copra from that estate had for all that to the girls will be less, comes West to unlearn his represented on the screen by less than twenty minutes of footage, incidentally, which cost Darryl F. Zanuck, producer of "Folles Ber gere," a third of a million dol-

lars,

realities.

outdone

As to

to Kuala

A feature is woollen tapestries carried out by the teachers from designs made by Mr. Walker.

VERSATILE ARTIST

Mr. Walker is a man of un-. doubted ability, and his artistic enterprise can be seen in most of the exhibits.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Folles Bergere" QUEEN'S:--

"Variety Programmet. ORIENTAL:-

"The Mighty Barnum“

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :--

"Living On Yelvet"

MAJESTIC:-

"West Point of The Air"

KING'S.

Coming

"Ladies Love Danger"

"The Daring Young Man" QUEEN'S:

"Public Hero No. 1" ALHAMBRA:—

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"When A Man's A Man" "Right To Live" "Murder In Tha" Clouds"

ORIENTAL:-.

365 Nights. In Hollywood"

A LOVELY SPOT

Dayang Valerie On Sarawak

Singapore, August 7.

"I love Sarawak. It is a lovely spot and I hope to live there for the rest of my life after I'm married which I hope will be next year, said the Dayang Valerie,

the Raja to a "Free Press" re- youngest daughter of His Highness

porter on Saturday.

The Dayang Elizabeth, the Raja's second daughter, is to marry Mr. Harry Roy, the May Fair Hotel dance band leader.

"Harry's very nice chap,” commented Sir Vyner talking of the marriage.

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The Raja and. his daughter are on their way to Sarawak,

"I think he's a sweet person," "I like him added Miss Valerie, very much, and I think Elizabeth and he will be very happy."

I'm afraid I

Sir Vyner made reference to the Valerie being "semi- Dayang engaged."

"No, I'm not engaged," remark- ed Dayang Valerie quickly. *T*m only twenty-but I hope to be engaged next year. cannot tell you to whom

"Yes, I'm engaged next year, I also hope to be married next year.

I would like to live in Sarawak for the lest of my Hie. It's a lovely spot-and I hate London.

HEAD-HUNTERS

The Rajah then spoke of head- bunting in Sarawak.. This is still prevalent. but fortunately is dying out.

Last year, there were two out- breaks on the part of Dayaks, paintings of scenes in his home April and a party of Malays and Around the walls hang. his three Chinese being murdered in

county. Cornwall, and at one end Kayans being attacked In August of the hall is à dining room suite with the result that two of them, for a small flat designed by him & Malay and a Kayan, were killed. and executed by a local furnishing

The head-hunters were members company. Even the hand-painted of a band of outlaws, numbering dessert plates were made from about thirty, who wander about. design of his scribbled on a plece in small parties of two or three, of paper while he was on a visit making capture extremely dim-

cult.

VISITS TO SUMATRA Two visits were made to Sumatra during the month, when Mr. L, K. Pay, himself a keen member of the Club, was down across the Straits by Mr. Newark The first trip was made in a Gipsy Moth. the second in a Puss Moth the to a factory in England. property of a member of the The exhibition should be a

However, three Dayaks concern- Club.

popular one as there is much of ❘ed in the first outbreak were 'are interest to be seen

rested in November, sentenced to death and executed."

comparatively unimportant town The destination was a small and called Rantauperapat, where the visitors were surprised to find an excellent landing ground, 1,000 by 500 metres, which had been con- structed by the local authorities, end which they had the distinc- tion of using in its official capa- ctty for the first time.

GOOD LANDING GROUND 2.

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Sir Vyner related the meeting been approximately 3,984 tons, but

he had in October with a number past and fit himself for sterner the price realized had been only

On Monday, July 29, the Club of chiefs who were summoned to The producers nave

£5 128. 10d. per ton compared with

conveyed HE. the High Commis Kuching to discuss the question of themselves, it is said, in making a £ 5s. 10d. per ton; the output of

aloner to Ipoh. This was the first what action should be taken with picture to do justice to the book rubber had been 474,0001b. masterpiece. Starring in this Fax

cross-country Journey His Excel-regard to the outlaws. the East Asiatic Rubber

he was most enthusiastic in his Highness with the request that lency had undertaken by air, and A deputation approached His Film release is George O'Brien: Estates, Limited, the crop had been But a Hollywood chorine cannot round him is a fine supporting 3,116,5221b, compared with 2,964,-

praise of the advantage of air the outlaws should be punished reckon ber effort in dollars and cast made up of Dorothy Wilson, 7551b, for the previous year, and

travel. The machine used Was with a fine only and made to hand cents, for it is an accepted faer Paul Kelly Harry Woods, Jimmy practically the whole output had The Dutch authorities were most Mr. Loke Wan Yat's Leopard Moth, over pledges as securities for their that the work exacts" more than Butier, Richard Carlisle, Clarence been sold at a gross average price helpful, and hospitable. The pro- the fastest private aeroplane in future good behaviour. They sug- it gives in return. The hope of Wilson and Edgar Norton

of 6fd. per lb. lanced London vision of landing grounds near all this country at present, Western catching the eye of Director Roy Heretofore

gested that if a "peace-making" pictures

H. E. returned to Kuala Lumpur were to be held with these condi- Del "Ruth and thus grabbing a symbolized conflicts of law and equivalent. The restriction scheme the large towns and most of the

outlaw. The new type of Western was working out slowly and the small ones in Sumatra is evidence in the afternoon accompanied by tions in view most of the wanted ""close-up," or of impressing pro-

A. Lovinger. The time men would surrender, ducer Zanuck and winning a con- hero, as described by Harold Bell tendency for costs to rise in ad- of the active policy in regard to Mr. V.

Wright in "When a Man's a Man," vance of remuneration had to be aviation which is fostered by the taken

was exactly one hour in NO PARLEY WITH THE tract that may lead to stardom! is a more complex and interesting

watched most carefully, Until Government of the N. Lamong each direction. The Puss Moth

OUTLAWS those are the incentives that spur person, equally at home in the world consumption Improved he the local authorities.

VR-RAF, piloted by Mr. MT. His Highness refused to consider the chorus girl in her long, wear-drawing room or saddle.

On July 20, the Nilai Club held Stanley with Mr. A. A. Henggeler the suggestions. He informed the ing hours of work

its annual motor gymkhana, and a as passenger, escorted the Leopard assembled chiefe that he would" display of aerobatics by the Chief Moth on both journeys, Instructor greatly amused the spectators,

Because of the spectacular, re- putation of the original "Folles

Bergere, from which Boss Mere-mic dance routiness are mibor dyth and Hal Long adapted their: dinated to sensational effects. The screenplay, the chorus numbers girls were, therefore, given call for greater courage on the long selge of physical training in part of the girls than the custo- addition to the rehearsals in mary screen musical. Mere rhyth dance formation."

did not think it was reasonable to expect prices to improve much. Although world stocks showed a decidea reduction, London stocks sill remained high, and the Re- striction Committee would have to take careful note of those stocks in framing their future policy.

The report was unanimously adopted."

Flying time for the month was: dual Instruction 30 hrs, 35 min. solo flying 55 hrs., passenger in struction 5 hrs.,

Visits were paid by club aircraft to Singapore, Bahau, Teluk Anson, Seremban and at Kuala Kubu. At struction 20 bra 40 mina testa 50 the latter places proposed new min., private air landing sites were inspected.

min total 157 hra

have no dealings with those guilty of murder, and no mercy on them, since in almost. crimes had been committed.

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NON-STOP FLIGHT TO 'GIBRALTAR

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 29. The Royal Air Force bying boat Singapore III, piloted by Squad- ron-Leader Plenderleith, which left Plymouth on Tuesday morning on a fight to Singapore by an all- British route, arrived at Gibraltar at 7.40 the same evening.

The dlight Was accomplished ron-stop, the first time this fest has been accomplished by a flying boat. It was made in 14 hours mins.

Squadron-Leader Flenderleith 15 to make Malta his next stop. Thence he will proceed by way of Aboukir, Basra, Karachi, Chitta- gong and Mergul. The fight from Flymouth to Gibraltar was over a distance of 1,070 miles.

During the day the mathme re- ported her position regularly by wireless to R.A F. Headquarters at Lee-oti-Solent. She started at 5.34

1.11,

At 6.15 am, she was off the Eddystone Lighthouse, and by 8.45 o Ushant. She few west of Lis- bon about 445 pm, and rounded Cape St. Vincent about 5.35. She passed Cape Trafalgar at 7.15. .

In addition to Squadron-Lender Fienderleith, the crew consists of Pilot-Officer E. J. Hobbs and four non-commissioned officers 2nd

men.

were made very difficult by the ald given to the outlaws by their relatives,

"However, we erected a ring of block-houses round a certain area. Following this action two of the known murderers were killed by patrols and one was captured but he died shortly afterwards. We hope to get all the outlaws before long."

THREE AERODROMES Bir Vyner revealed that three aerodromes are being constructed ! at Kuching, Miri and Bintulu.

"Their purpose is rather myste- rious at present," came his answer in reply to a question, "but I hope- the R.A.F. will make use of them in time,"

His Highness leaves: Singapore this moring for Kuching in an P.A.F. "Singapore flying boat accompanied by Air Commodore 8. W. Smith

His Excellency the Governor, Lady Thomas, and Miss Thomas leave on their first tour of Sara- wak and British North Borneo by the Government yacht, the Bea Belle H on August 6, arriving at Kuthung im August 8....

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Harold Bell Wright's WHEN A MAN'S A MAN

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