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UNDER PRESSURE'

Edmund Lowe and Victor Mc- Laglen are reunited as co-star in "Under Pressure" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday. This unique picture the most colourful, the most thrilling and the most human of the notable Lowe-McLaglen series,

"Under Pressure" is said, sup- plies this outstanding screen team with a upe of story, and a back- ground, never before attempted by This background is 'Hollywood. furnished by the tunneling opera- tions beneath a New York river and the two stars are seen. as 'sand hors." battling perilously against the black waters which surround them.

Only one hour of the twenty- four they spend below the river. That is, as long as men can eh- dure the air pressure there. But they draw hugh pay for that one hour; and in the other twenty- three there is time for love and life and laughter.

In addition to the two stars of

the picture, an unusually well-

balanced cast includes Florence Rice. Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford Siegfried Rumann, George Regas! Roger Imnot, George Walsh. Warner Richmond. Olin Howland and James Donlan

4 SHOW

DAIL!

1.20~3.11

7,15-5.3

THE DARING YOUNG MAN

A huge church set. a . dozen frockcoated ushers. beflowered bridesmaids, 2 bride, for father and several hundred guests were! all present and accounted for and for principals, Director William A. Seiter had James. Dunn and Mas Clarke.

But, unlike most weddings in the 1ovies, the principals in the pic- ture were not the principals at the ceremony. The affair merely re- presented a big society wedding at

which Dunn and Miss Clarke, re- porters on rvai papers. meet for. the Ars; time and begiň „ romance of the rawr in their current come- dy offering. "The Daring Young Man," which comes to the King's Theatre 12morrow.

Since the wedding itself was

background in merely inciden.al the picture and never reached the alter and "dearly beloved" stage, the absence of the bridegroom was unimportant,

Neil Hamilton, Warren Hymer and Sidney, Toler head the sup- porting cast of "The Daring Young Man," which Robert T. Kane pro- duced for Fox Film from the screen play by William Hurlbut, who ad- apted it from an original story by. Claude Binyon and Sidney Skolsky

TAKES ANY TRAN OR MAPPT VALLEY BUB

ORIENTAL

FONTHEATRE

LAST TIMES TO-DAY 2 GOOD COMEDIES BUSTER KEATON'S '

"GOLD GHOST"

AND THE BIG HOLLYWOOD LAUGH SENSATION

365 NIGHTS in HOLLYWOOD

JAMES DUNN

ROAD

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TO-MORROW

& SATURDAY. ANOTHER DOUBLE

FEATURE SHOW! SHIRLEY TEMPLE - “GLAD RAGS TO RICHES"

AND A THRILLING SACTION PICTURE

UNDER

ALICE FATE PRESSURE

Mitchell and Durant

Summer Prices Matinées 20 ots.-30 ets.

THE RIGHT TO LIVE

"The Right to Live" a Warner Bros. picture which is scheduled as the feature attraction at the Alhambra on Friday and Saturday deals with a most daring and unusual theme in which a beauti ful young woman is confronted by the problem of whether she has the right to live her own life, to love and be happy, or to remain with her hopelessly crippled hus- band.

In the picture the girl falls in love with her husband's brother. after the husband has been crip- pled by a terrific airplane crash.. and is torn between her destre for love and the gateties of life and her feeling of duty towards the man she married.

Josephine Hutchison who re- cently made her bow on the screen in "Happiness Ahead" but who has long been famous for her work with Evà La Gallienne in the Clk Repertory Theatre, heads the all-star cast, in the role of the beautiful young wife.

Colin Chive is the husband and the brother is played by George Brent.

Peggy Wood, the musical comedy star, plays the part of the nurse who actures the wife of murdering her husband. Henrietta Crosman famous on both stage and screen, appears as the mother of the two brother while C. Aubrey Smith is the Army Major, a friend much involved in the family affairs. Leo G. Carroll is the family phy- sician.

William Keighley directed the production from the screen play by Ralph Block,

EDMUND LOWE VICTOR MCLAGLEN -Evéhings 20 ets.-35 ets.-55 ets.

PUBLIC HERO NO. 1

Modern as to-day's newspaper as their headlines, and thrilling graphic accounts of the war of the government on organized crime, is "Public Hera Number '1." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "amazing thriller of the work of the secret service due to open to-morrow' at the Queen's Theatre.

Tracing

the pursuit of

a

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935.

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. TO CAPTURE HIS WEART SHE BECAME HIS PRISEREN

LADIES LOVE DANGER

A FOX PICTURE WITH

MONA BARRIE

GILBERT ROLAND DONAID COOK ADRIENNE AMIS HARDIE ALBRIGHT • HERBERT MURIDIN

NICK FORAN

- TO-MORROW'

"THE DARING YOUNG MAN

A FOX PICTURE WITH JAMES DUNN

MAE CLARKE.

NEIL HAMILTON

"LADIES LOVE. DANGER"

At The King's

Gilbert Roland, who was a very popular star in the days of the "Silent" Alms, stages a come back in "Ladies Love Danger which is being filmed at the King's Thea

Yesterday at the LIV.

premiter showing, good houses were re- corded, and it must be said that Roland when starred with Mona Barrie, combines well with her and both have much to do with the success of the piece,

proft Although murder, for motivates the criminal in this exciting mystery, it's grimness is relieved by hilar our comedy. which is a mixture that is success- ful to the extreme. One moment there is a tense situation, while at another one is left with rollicking mirth.

The picture deplets Roland as a playwright, who one day, finds a very charming visitor in his bachelor apartments. Although uninvited and a total stranger to him," she makes herself quite at home. Prior to her arrival there

had been a murder next door, and feeling that she had some- thing to do with it, Roland keeps her for a prisoner for the night.

The girl escapes, and the situa- tions that develops as à result of this more, are both exciting and comical.

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

TO-DAY OILY aɩ 2.30, 6:10. 7.20 & 8.30

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GRAND VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT!

MICKEY MOUSE

SPORTS. SHORTS

SILLY SYMPHONIES

CURIOSITIES

SCREEN SNAPSHOTS

COMEDY

NEXT CHANGE

TOPPING EVERYTHING IN THRILLS

“PUBLIC HERO No. 1.”

ROYAL GARDEN PARTY

King And Queen

Their Guests

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 29.

so

Among

one Cabinet Ministers, members It was entirely appropriate that of both Houses, soldiers sailors, the Jubilee season should end to- diplomats of every country, par- day with the Royal Garden Party. sons by the hundred, and a good. Nu other occasion illustrates

many country gentlemen who neatly the relation in which the meet and greet each other here King stands to his subjects. He every year as they do at Lords. almost a private citizen enter- Some of the morning coats have taining his friends almost, and done duty at many royal garden the difference is unstated, tact-parties and nobody worries, ly observed by the tact of nust and guests alike, so that t becomes a matter of mutual good manners and self-respect.

The

now.

GOSSAMER GOWNS

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Ladies Love Danger QUEEN'S:-

"Variety Programme ORIENTAL-

365 Nights In Hollywood"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :----

When A Man's A Man” MAJESTIC:-

"Before Midnight"

KING'S.-

Coming

"The Daring Youngi Man" QUEEN'S:-

"Public Hero No, I'

ALHAMBRA;—

"Right To Live"

"Murder In The Clouds”

ORIENTAL:

1

"Under Pressure"

RICKSHAW AGITATION

DYING DOWN

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Three Men Arrested For

Denalig Tyres -

to nearly normal

Con Acne French

Shanghal. Aug. 9. The French Concession, where a strike situation has existed for the last few day because of opposition to the registration of rickshaw pull- èrs, was "reasonably quiet again Three men were ar- yesterday. rested for having pulled the valves' of rickshaw tyres, and several 11- cences were withdraw because nf The heat was intense. It was the pullers' failure to register." A the "King's 'weather," which has few hired loafers, so the French shone on all London's occasions Police stated, operated in the Chin- this summer from the Jubilee till ese City, disabling rickshaws still It was a day for frocks like | found in the streets, but no serious-

and thistledown,

there were trouble occurred

The return plenty of them, family pink and blue and

conditions green, and under brilliant parasols of every even so there were colour. But

did not which many frocks attempt to compete with As-Issued instructions to both owners and pullers, enjoining them to cot, but were quite content to

adopt peaceful measures in deal. be cool and-plain and comely.

Any frock was better than the ing with the situation. The Tang- pu officials, in a public statement, black oven af, a morning coat

announced

rickshaw that the husbands of the The unhappy

together: owners had assumed full respon- stood, packed and slowly liquefied. There seem-siblity for the rat at Pont St. ed a serious danger, that if they Catherine on Tuesday and did not did not keep moving two or three casu cae Tangpu before taking of them would stick together ke lumps to toffee and have to be prised apart

When the King and Queen emerged from the side dour of Buckingham Palace this after-

12,000 guests acon nearly

were awaiting them on the lawn. baną played "God Save the King' and that was the end of for mality.

For the next half-hour 05 more the King and Queen strolled separately through the crowd, stopping to speak to their friends and to others who were Introduced to them by members of the royal household. If one Was more than twenty yards away IT WAS impossible to tell frocks where the King was unless one noticed a slight thickening of the crowd and a few "bared heads in

It is worthy to note that in the supporting cast there are Donald Cook Adrienne Ames, Hardle Alts centre. . bright, Herbert Mundin and Nick Foran OM.O.

LARGEST WORKSHOP IN CHINA

Ready By 1936

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cession was attributed in part to the intervention of the local Tang- pu (Nantao office), whose leaders

action.

Obeying the instructions of the Bureau of Social Affairs of the

Yet the unobtrusive code was being observed all the time. The King walked; as it were, in

While the King and his family rickshaw owners agreed to ask the moving space of open, grass, As had tea in their marquee & good pallers to resume work in Nantao to-day. Owing to the position of ha advanced

stood any of the guests grasped at the French authorities and the the crowd

the opportunity to slip away and feeling of the pullers, the owners back automatically behind an in-

walk along those winding paths said they could not agree to a re visible line which advanced, be-

coolness breathes fore him. He was looking fit and Where cheerful, and often moved

hts from the lake and one comes Ou right hand as he spoke in that secret lawns among the trees. Chunsan yu Da-king, and Guc familiar, gawing gesture which is curious, the contrast between one sees when he is talking with this strange, wild beauty and the staid beds of geraniums and Miles good spirits and animation. seemed the embodiment of simple, which flank the comfortable Han

overian face of the Palace. Nu

Twenty-seven pullers voluntarily stranger, perhaps, then the sud-registered with the French Coun den blaze of scarlet and blue as cil on Wednesday, making a total the King's Indian orderly officers of 341 licensed on that date.

the black-coated pass through

In the Second Special District the queer, barbaric Court, yesterday, Koo Tsang-being.

He

Nanking, Aug. 9. China will be able to manufac- ture machines for her own "use notorious public enemy, the work early next year when the Central of the operative who turns him up Workshop, now being built in to justice. and the amazing Shanghai under the auspices of unpretentions geniality: yet he was the King, and none the less ramifications of the

Federal the Ministry of Industries, is comingly because he took no pains

pleted. agencies pitted against the non-

to be 50. The Workshop is one of the world, the story tells. in detalls

POLITICIAN'S BLUSHE actually taken from records, cases national reconstruction enterprises

A hardened politician blushed and newspapers, the ever more undertaken by the Ministry of

crowd, or

silmption in the French Cunces- sn. The three delegates, Ohlu

Ching-yuang. further petitioned the City Government for assistance in the dispute with the French au-

thorities."

apparent fact that crime does not Industries, during the past few and almost stammered when the touch of the red and blue canopy a sixteen-year-old boy, was charged years. Other projects already ac- short figure in the grey frock- under which the King and Queer with having been caught by the

pay.

Directed

by

Central

#be foreign

BARON LODGES PROTEST

diplomats coat speak to him, and a great receive J. Walter. "Ruben complished include the

actress of comedy lost a good The whole day is full of contrasts: and taken from a story by himself Alcohol Distillery and the Central half of her self-possession. The that is most of its charm. and 'Wells Root, it is a thrilling Fishery Market, in Shanghai, all and engrossing cross-section of of, which are the biggest of their finest curtesy of the day was made by STI American woman whose the work of government opera- kinds in this country. tives, replete with thrills, enriched Latest information indicates that fact fairly radiated undemocratic with a romance and lightened by almost 90 per cent. of the con- reverence.

Elsewhere the Queen' was max. many comedy interludes.

struction work on the plant has

the a similar progress, but Lionel Barrymore plays the been completed. Situated in the ing

Were of the Royal Family principal character role, in which northern suburb of Shanghai, the rest he demonstrates 15

amazing factory occupies an area of about private citizens for the day. The facility for comedy along with 130 mow. The factory, the con- Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, for drama as the blbulous Dr. Glaas.struction of which is estimated at instance, were to be seen stand- physician in-ordinary to

the $103,000 is expected to be completing in the middle of the cohorts of the underworld.

Chester Morris gives what is probably the finest performances

ters.

ed in the middle of August.

MACHINE INSTALLATION Following the completion of the

the

taba

With State House

French Police in the act of slasi ing rickshaw tyres on Wednesday afternoon. The Court sentenced the boy to twenty days detention, but suspended the sentence for two years. The French Police reserved the right to appeal against the de- cision, whereupon the Court order ed the boy to be handed over t his parents.

"ANOTHER MONSTER

Boston, Aug.. 13.

Monte Rosa, Aug. 13. von Tippelskirch, Ger- The "Lochness Monster" has its Consul-General, has pros counterpart here, on the Italo-

Baron

man

If one talking to a friend. watched the crowd around them one saw that nobody walked near of his entire career as the adven-plant, machine Installation work enough to incur, the suspicion of turous Jeff Crane, who exposes will be commenced and is expect cavesdropping or far enough tested to the Speaker of the Mas-Swiss border, a score of peasants himself to all sorts of dangers ined to be completed early next away to suggest conscious avoi-sachusetts State House of Repre- testifying that they have seen getting out of perilous close quar-year when the Workshop will be dance. They were allowed to be sentatives against a resolution during the past few days a sort

formally inaugurated.

as regarded, for once, as any passed by the House condemning or dragon, which is reputed to Also outstanding " the gangster The first shipment of machinery body else."

Nazi racial and religious persecu- have lived in neighbouring woods portrayal of Joseph Calleia, who for workshop has already One noticed ; once more how tions.

for the past four years. created such a personal hit in the arrived in Shanghai from England little this particular gathering is. The Consul-General described It is stated that this creature New York stage play "Small where purchase orders have been concerned with niceties of dress, the resolution as an unwarranted had been seen from time to itme Miracle" and who now gives every placed by the Ministry of Indus- The uniform for the men, of and unpardonable interference evidence of being in great demand tries. The second gipment is ex- course, is a top-hat and a with the domestic, affairs of Ger for picture roles

pected here within this year.

morning "coat. One saw black many, which is in no wise within The romantic angle of the story The workshop, when completed, coats and grey coats, ties black, the jurisdiction of the Massachu is deftly handled by the attractive will have four departments, name- grey, blue-even one that was red setts House of Representatives. Jean Arthur and other cleverly tron-pipe manufacturing. iron and blue. Some of the most fl- The Speaker of the House has. portrayals are contributed

- manufacturing, Iron-ore|ustrious figures there wore some repiled expressing the view that Paul Kelly and Lewis Stone.

melting and iron, refining.

of the shabblest clothes.

the resolution in no way Inter- hop The total expenss for the estab- There were several lounge, sult fered with domestic matters in little son. “I found a lot of seeds lishment of the plant are placed containing, one suspected. Labour Germany, but mo expressed Daddy came into the nursery on the floor":

at, $3,100,000 of which $2,500,000 is members of Parliament, They the opinkm of

of oldsens looking very stern.? "Someone "P-please, daddy, it wasn't me," from the "Sino-British Boxer In- were topped by soft hats, bowlers has been eating the grapes again” stammered Freddy, eds I swal-demnity Refund while the remâin- and in one case by no hat at all. Inte the said, looking severely at his lowed all the pips!"

der from the Ministry of Industries. The crowd is an Inanitely various - Ne

Too Crowded Hubby: "Well, I guess if the worst came to the worst we could go and live with your parents."

Wife: "That wouldn't be possi- ble; they're living with their people":

A Busted AlbI

by sheet

subject exiiti

by various people, but it recently disappeared. A peasant eyewit ness describes it as a huge ser- pent, of a yellow-green colour, over nine feet long. its body being as thick as a log

Country folk in the neighbour-

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Vab Rat Kowloon Tel: 5722% FINALSHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9:20 P.M.

The Pendulum; al hate held; them in its hypnotic sway!

Thoir Pyek never left the clock as it tickçed toward unist- aight, and murder! No huonan hand could stay the terrible late that awaited une of them at the stroke at twolseg

BEFORE MIDNIGHT

VOR RALPH BELLAMY • JUNE ČOLLYER

Claude Gingwater at Betty Bividw Arthur Porban

4 COLUMBIA

PICTURE

NAGATA MURDER

RECALLED

Press Tribute

Tokyo, Aug. 14. Remarking that foreign ob- servers, were Jasicäily mistaken in assuming that Army differences were responsible for the conflet- between Conservative and Radical' elements in

Japan, the **Japan Times" to-day declares that Ma- jor-General Tetsuzan Negata, murdered by Colonel Aizawa in the course of a quarrel yesterday. was considered one of the War: Ministry's most able lieutenants.

The policy prohibiting the use of the Army for political ends, which

had aroused formidable oppos t'on

ele." among certain ments, was at the back of much of the discard to be seen in po- litics. Many belleved sincerely that the present domestic and in- ternational situation demands 'the Army's greater participation in the nation's political affairs, the paper says.

The War Ministry. was deter- mined to preserve Army's inte- grity as an effolent war machine. belleving that political activities void tend to estrange public opinion and lead to the formation of Army factions.- -Reuter.

ITS FIRST DEFEAT

Cheltenham, Aug. 14, After winning or drawing thirty matches, the present South African

touring side sustained its first de

feat at the hands of Gloucester- shire by 87, runs,

There were 'exaltant, scenes on the part of the spectators at the close of the game. The Mayor re- marked that the match was the most historic ever played at Chel- tenham. A curious, feature is that Gloucestershire is last but one in the County Championship table- Reuter,

ALHAMBRA

FHUNTEE

LAST TIMES TO-DAY At. 2 80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. THE STORY THAT THRILLED MILLIONS..

GEORGE O'BRIEN

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

LIVE*

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