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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17,

1935.

CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

MURDER IN THE CLOUDS

the

"Murder in the Clouds First National production which

scheduled as the feature attra. tion on Sunday at Alhambra is a melodramatis mystery thriller with ost amazing plot involving the commission of whole sale murder thousands of fect in air.

PRIVATE WORLDS

Phyllis Bottome's widely read and engrossing story of a woman dream of love for reality, "Private who learned to cast aside the Worlds," has been filmed by Para mount and comes on Sunday to the King Theatre, with Claarlette Colbert in the starring role.

psychological JOUN

true

rail'

The stoly by two noted magazin writers, Bog Chansor and Dore | revealing the tears and into Schary, is one of fast and furious; that ** the action, breath-taking suspense and

villains of romance, Private Worlds is set enough thrills to pack a dozen pie-

the strange and dramatic Back- tures. It evolves about the secret round of a hospital for the insane. attempt of international spies to

Its heroine is a woman doctor sten the formula from the United

who clings to the memory of a States Government of a new high

eetheart sie lost in the war. She explosive, and to obtain which they are willing to commit any crime

The blowing up of an airplane with its passengers and crew far up above the clouds and the subsequent chases after the air robbers and murderers by any planes, invol ring machine gun battles, the shoot, ing down of airships, thrilling parachute jump! from burning and lling ships, add to the intensity of the dramatic situations,

insight into the mental ills of others but does not realize that this strange attachment is threatouing

her own and.

Her two professional colleagues are Joel Meuren, who she likes and respects, and Charles Boyer, a Freach doctor whom shu in- stinctively dislikes.

The living drama of this little group Texenes .Es climax wher:

Molyou as tured from his wife,

There is also a flaming romancean Bennett, by the doctor's van. which two air-pilots battle for pire sister and Miss Bennett be the love of Ann Dvorak,

comes critically ill. Then a riot in Lyle Talbot and Gordon Westcott the hospital endangers all their are the rivals. Westcott is one of ives.

conspiratora.

A corps of famous air pilots took art with the members of the cust

in the tying scenes, including

thers.

nder the desperate stress + adrgency Miss Colbert and Boyer, Lorget thear dillerenes, work eroically to set things right again

wir pretended hatred had really

WWA

Case

a

INDITUNES THEANIN

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

CLAUDETTE OOLBERT

แ

Ï' LALPH HUXDINGER? and it hums with.... "excitement

The

DARING YOUNG MAN

A FOX Picture with

JAMES DUNN MAE CLARKE

TO-MORNOW

in "PRIVATE WORLDS"

PUBLIC HERO

NO. 1

At The Queen's

Public Hero W A

Queen s inestre yesterday has as 18 nero the United States Department of Justice.

Gordon Herberger, Dick Renaldi,and diseover in the process that Frank Clarke, Howard "Barte and Frank Tomick. At Keene Camp, nidden" a growing love for eached its season e Lue high in the San Jacinto mountainscher. of California. every sort of air

Helen Vinson, Jean Rouverol anst plane stunt was performed for the sig Boy Williams also appear in picture including barrel-rolls. Ju-

The picture is naturally oue con. of "Private Worlds," quelmans; wing-overs, fish tails ani ich was directed by Gregory Larung gangtom, Upening with a scene to a large model prison, it ends rapidly to a climax of " guo-brew in the first teù minutes. The picture has not one moment when the tension slackens. These are several totally unexpected sur prises which prevent it from being the usual gangster 6im and make it instead a real credit to author, producer, and cast.

In the cast Robert Light, Lieorge |

und Cooper, Edward MacWade

Pierson, Eddie Shubert. Wheeler Oakland and Nick Copeland,

mong his accomplices.

The picture was directed by U

lay. Clement also have roles Hiers. Henry, O'Neill is head of "the U.S. Government Agents, Charles Wilson is manager of the airport, Russell Hicks head of the international spies and Artliüross. Lederman,

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THIS IS POSITIVELY THE VERY BEST MUSICAL SHOW OF THE YEAR!

VICTOR HERBERTS

JEANETTE

THRILLS

..SET TO

MUSIC!

MACDONALD

NELSON EDDY

Naughty

'MARIETTA

"45, Sweet Mystery of Life!”

**!*m Falling In Love with

MELYBANK MORGAN

Summer Prices Matinees 20 cts.-30 cts.Evenings 20 eta.-85 eta-55 cla.

EVIDENCE OF RETURNING |

PROSPERITY

Confirmed By Statistics

Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 20. General Impressions

that the prosper ty tide is flowing strongly again are confirmed by the statis- ties of retail trade, and by the lat- est rallway returns. Issued yester day. The figures published by the Board of Trade show that in June the otal va up of sales was better by 5.8 per cent. than in June last year. The railways, in spite of the normal seasonal decrease in coal traffic, earned last week.£55,- 000 more than they earned a year .ago, very substantial rises in the number of passengers and in the amount of merchandise carried be- ing responsible for the increase.

MIDNIGHT SENATORS

(Special Air Mail Servicë)

London. July 29. None will miss the late Dr. Joseph Hunter more than his fel- low members of the "Midnight

Senate."

This little coterle of resident members of the National Liberal Club, consisting of Dr. Hunter, Sir Miles Mitchell, Mr. Herbert Holds- worth, M.P., Majoz IL E. Crawfurd, and Mr. William McKeag, MP.." have been in the habs of meeting night after night at the club when the House rose.

They would go on discussing politics and current affairs unti two o'clock in the morning.

Although the plot is not actually true of any particular group of criminals, it had in its different parts, been taken froin facts. The gaolbreak had its real counterpart less than a year ago, and th the 41 execution of the "public Fenemy," nutside a moving picture, theatre, many in the audience wili recall the sensational death of Dillinger. Chester Morris is the federal detective, and, although ne is not usually given such major parts as this to play, he handles it well and deserves great praise. Lianel Barrymore, as a drunken doctor, has barely two sane and tusid moments in the entire story. Joseph Calleia, the "public enemy," has a small part, bet Tean Arthur, as his sister, carrier her dramatic scenes well as her comedy ones O.M.O.

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ROBBERS OPEN FIRE ON POLICE

ȘI HA GĦARLES

SOYER

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY si 2,80, 5.10, 7,20 & 9.30 THE INSIDE STORY OF THE

GOVERNMENT WAR ON CRIME!

Dramatic dynamite, as you follow the blazing exploits of the men who defy death in the war on crime!"

Public Hero

NUMBER

Lionel Barrymore-Jean Arthur Chester Morris Joseph Callsta

Fand Kelly Lewis

THE RIGHT TO

LIVE

-

At The Alhambra

The Right to Live" a Warner. Bros. picture which opened its season at the "Alhambra yesterday deals with 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 fe, 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 desire for love and the galetles of life and her feeling of duty towards the man she married.

DARING YOUNG MAN

Fast

Fast Comedy

not

action is certainly lacking in Fast Young Man" "the James Dunn, Mae Clarke picture now showing at the King's Theatre.

"Dunn plays the role of a news- paper reporter who is never tired of airing his very strong views on marriage unt he meets Mac Clarke, siso a reporter but different paper.

A

"

As is usual in such cases, the hard-boiled woman-hater falls like a ton of bricks and as the result of a whirlwind courtship be ar

to lead his love alter. On the eve of the marriage. to the however, his editor, who wants an nside story on prison life, has him thrown into gaol and what a

ranges

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S

The Daring Young Man"

QUEEN'S:

"Public Hero No. 1"

ORIENTAL

"Under Pressure"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Right To Live"

MAJESTIC:-

"Blography of a

Gil"

KING'S. —

Sunday

"Private Worlds"

QUEEN'S:--

"Public Hero No 1

ALHAMBRA:—

Bachelor

"Murder In The Clouds" ORIENTAL:-

"Naughty Mariette" "Naughty Marietta” MAJESTIC:---

"Night Life of the Gods"

MAJESTIC

THEATRE-

Nathan Road Kowloon. Tel. 57223 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30; 5.20, 7.20 2 9.20 PM.

***HARDING"

NAKETA

MONTGOMERY

Biography

BACHELOR GIRL

EDWAND EVERETT HORTON EDWARD ARNOLD-UNA MERKEL,

Mayer

PHOTO A

FAMILY AFFAIR ENDS IN MURDER

Shanghai, Aug. 13.-4. A famliy quarrel in Chinese ter- rory last night resulted in one. man being stabbed to death. through the heart, an old chinese woman being wounded, and a

NON-STOP REVUE Chinese gl rece ving

Coming To The King's

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Juries. The perpetrator çf the. crime, one Ong Nyt of unknown address, is believed to be still at large. He is being sought by off- cers of the Bureau of Public Safe- ty while the old Chinese woman Is lying in the Red Cross Hospital in à serious condition.

It appears that Ong Nyi, who was married to the sister of Lee

tow Lee

Chu-sung, finding his wife miss- ing from home, went Chu Sung's house, which is near? the Sixth Division Public Safety Bureau Sta on off Jessfeld Road, and demanded an explanation. two men and Ong Ny!, drawing 4,

Express Non-Stop Revac will open Professo: W. Boariny Tropical

Theatre Wednesday August 21st, at for a short "season at the King's 5.30 p.m.-Such are as the Com. 'pany offere has not been seen in China before; three tainutes is the limit allowed for the duration of any single Item in a programme which proceeds with express speed Some of the "Quick Fire" num. Meanwhile the bride-elect has bers (as America describes them) knife, stabbed discovered her dancee's predica-fore the last word has been who were 'n he room, he also at-

last but half a minute, and almost heart. Lee's mother and ment and arrives at the prison to

In the picture are starred Jose gaol!" Favoured prisoners are al- cline Hutchinson, Colin Clive,lowed telephones, radios. cate George Brent. Peggy Wood and meals and bccasional leave others.

absence.

It is a delightful picture full of emotional sequences.-I, F.

MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN H.M... POLICE COURT

Britisher Summoned

Li

Shanghal, Aug. 13. Mr. F. T. Harrop.., who was charged in HM, Police Court, yes- terday, with disobeying the traffic signal of a Chinese constable of the French police, pleaded guilty, but later, on the advice of the Regis- trar. Mr. C. H. Hanes, he 'changed. his plea to not guilty. Finally, he pleaded guilty again and the case was dismissed with, a caution."

Shanghai, Aug. 13. Several shots were exchange be- tween a gang of robbers and the Chinese, police in Wangkatsa dis-

Two French police officers, repre- trict, Naniao, on Sunday night, senting the prosecution, when ask- following a robbery at 1-Cheng Yed to produce their witness, said it alleyway. All the shots went wild was impossible, because the man and the gang escaped with loot es- was in hospital, suffering from timated at more than $100,

typhoid fever. They had, they said," Four robbers, two of whom were a written 'statement by the con- armed with pistols entered the stable. house shortly after 10:45 pm. With one ran maintaining a watch at the entrance, the other three - timidated the occupants and ob- tained $15 in cash and several gold rings. One of the neighbours, who saw the gang decamp with pistols in hand, raised on alarm. A po- Iceman chased the men, who open- ed fire. The shots were replied to.: but the gangsters escaped.

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CHIEF SCOUT'S WORLD TOUR

Hot words ensued between the

Les through

the

niece,

ses what she can do about it. A spoken, their successors have estab-tacked. Lee's mother was wound- ished posession of the stage; it is ed in the siderten and 'th" niece ith such celarrity that the Com received m'nor injuries around the any presents a Tour round the show'der and arms.

she succeeds in doing is to get locked up herself But why tell the whole story.

The rincipal' acting is magni- ficent and they are ably support- ed by a fine cast which includes Nell Hamilton, Madge Bellamy. "Warren Hymer, Sidney Toler, Jack La Rue. Raymond Hatton. Arthur Treacher and Frank Melton, NM

ALL QUIET ON THE RICKSHAW FRONT

World"

·GIRL, DROWNS WHEN SAMPAN UPSETS

Shanghai, Aug. 13,

OMNIBUS. INSPECTOR

SHOT

Shanghai, Aug. 12. Mistaken for a police officer, a

inspector Was

A 21-year-old Chinese girl was Korean pranibus drowned and five others were shot by fleeing robbers in Kinchow throw this the Whangpoo when Road, near Ward Road, at about the steam launch Wang Ziang Zo 8.20 pm, yesterday. He was sent upta a Lannidu, sampan near the tu the Foo Ming Hospital, where Shanghai, Aug. '13. Kiangnan dock late op Saturday his condition was reported to be The rickshaw Louble between night, it was repor.ed yesterday. grave at a late hour last night. rickshaw owners and the French The launch was at the "Customs Municipal Council, which, through barrier, and some passengers call- the French police, has insisted on the registsation of all publie rick-formed the loadah that they wish- ed the sampan alongside and in- shaw puller in the French Con-ed to be taken ashore. The loadah cession, now seems at an end.

Yesterday there was no sign, either in the French Concession or The Registrar said he could not take a written statement as evi- Rickshaw owners were no longer in Nantao, of renewed conflict. dence and, on learning that the stirring up strife and were con- man would not be fit again for at tent to pay registration licences. east one month, suggested a six The pullers, who struck in sym- weeks adjournment,

whereupon pathy with the attitude taken up by the defendant, who said he was

the owners, are once again back at not anxious to delay matters; work. changed h's plea again to guilty.

Four coolles who were recently The Registrar said he thought caught red-handed 'deflating rick. the proper course would be to wait shaw tyres, appeared yesterday in until the constable was able to give the 2nd Special District Court. Three of them were sentenced to

fourth was found not guilty. Afteen days inprisonment whe the

evidence.

Defendant replied that he wou'd rather end he matter by pleading guilty. "I plead guilty," he said. "under protest."

readly assented, and brought his sampan alongside.

of whom were armed with pistols, The robbers, four in number," all

entered a Chinese shop selling shortly after 8 p.m. After in- woollen goods at 480 Ward Road timidating the occupants, the gang started looting, carrying away with them a small box containing about $100 cash.

While the sampan was alongside

lurched forward, its stern catching. the launch, the latter." suddenly

the bow of the sampan, and the ed than an alarm was raised The No sooner had the gang decamp- four passenger who had already robbers started running, fleeing in gat aboard, and the loadah and his two directions. In Kinchow Road. daughter were thrown into the the robbers met the Korean river. The crew of the launch Inspector in uniform. Thinking mediately set about rescuing those he was a police officer, one of the in the water. All were brought in gangsterg but the girl, and nothing was seen warning. The bullet struck the opened fire without of her from the moment she fell victim in the body. into the river.

The engineer of the launch stated that, as soon as the Customs. Ins

clor had passed the passenge With the exception of 20 rick through the Customs, he started shaws, all yeh cies detained by the the launch forward, as usual. He a jury for the trial of a criminal. The judge was trying to secure (Special Air Mail Service)

OBJECTION TO "FINE"

French police have been returned did not know at the time the sam-A man was being questioned as to What he objected to, the defen- to the owners, who are now com- pan was alongside the launch. Im- his fitness for jury service.. "London, July 29, dant said, was that the French po-plying with Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief ice had asked him to pay a fine since August 10 over 1,200 puliers of the passengers. he stopped the punishment?" asked the judge

the new regulation. mediately upon hearing the cries

***Do you belleye in capital Scout, and Lady Baden-Powell, the of $2. They gave him no oppor- have been registered by the French launch and set the crew rescue Chief Gulde, arrived at Southamp-unity to explain. He added that

"Yes," repiled the man," on yesterday from New York on when, in the

police. past, he had

been

isn't too severe." the conclusion of their nine fined $1, he had always pa'd.. In months world tour, during which this case, however, he was said to- they have inspected Scouts and have driven past a policeman, who enforcing payment. Guides in many different parts of was holding up his right of way, ways were at Überty to come to

Motor'sis al- LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY the world.

an allegation which, he totally the French police and discuss the dented.

matier and, if the police were not.

|At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 PM. sa isfied with the explanation, the case was taken to Court,

Dr. Hunter was. the most regular member of the "Senate," and his contributions among the most ap preciated. At the funeral today there will be a wreath inscribed: In affectionate remembrance "from the remaining members of the Midnight Senate, Naciond

I have seen Scouts of every Liberal Club, London,

colour, class, and creed." said Lord We knew him „We loved m

Baden-Powell," "T Our de-

have

visit. leper troops for the blind, cripples, bates will be desolate without and otherwise disabled boys

him.

"

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It is not difficult to suggest the background of these very encour- tging signs of gathering prosperity. Retail sales and railway traffe re- fect with automatic exactitude the condition of the people. Men and women who are feeling the pinch, buy as little as they can, even of what the re a trade returns: des- cribe as "food and perishables." In other words, they allow themselves figures show also, as they do, mark nó treats; they stay at home, Ined June rises in the sales of men's June the sales of food and per- and boys wear, boots and shoes, ishables increased; by over 7 per and furniture, the evidence of nounced, not only at the Australian cent.. as compared with June last, year. That tells its own tale. Scotland, by the way, had the big- gest rise in food and perishables over 8 per cent and the Scot is pre-eminently frugal. When the

There was little difference to be detected, he said, in the extent to which the ideals and spirit of scouting had been grasped by all.

"We found the expression of loyalty to the Throne very pro- Jamboree, but wherever we went

The Reg's car told Mr. Harrop he had acted perfectly within his rights. The French police had no right to ne British subjects. If, however, British subjects chose to pay $1 or $2 to the French police, to avoid further proceedings, that was a matter for. themselves to settle.

as he could remember, the letter The defendant said that, as far

was either to pay $2 or have action from the French police stated he

taken against him.

After listening to the explanation of the French police representa- Registrar why the French police ed to be a misunderstand

Sub-Insp. J. Croest, asked by the tives, the Registrar said it appear- had asked Mr. Harrop to pay the both parties and in the circ tom to send letters to petty traffic case with a cantion

tances he proposed to da waa rap'dly growing, and there offenders stating that, if a sum of time you have a wit were now 65,000 Scouts and 43,000 $1 or $2, was paid the matter was he added to Bu Guides there.

ended. It was not quas son of must et mek

zathering prosperity is still clearer. There has been, too, a perceptible in the colonies and protectorates," fine; replied that it was their cus rise in employment in retail estab- he added. The movement in Cana- lishments; and that, perhaps, is the best news in the June statis- ties.

work.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "OF HUMAI THE RIGHT

TO LIVE

ALHAMBRA

UB NERI.

MURDER IN THE CLOUDS-

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