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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

BLACK SHEEP

Edmund Love is on to a new peak of popularity as a result of his performance in "Black Sheep," which is commencing to-day at the Alhambra Theatre. He portrays a new character-far removed from any type he has yet done.

COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO

One of the most amusing and highly entertaining pictures of the season is promised the patrons of the King's Theatre, with the book- ing starting next Sunday of The Countess of Monte Cristo," Univer- In Fox Film's latest comedysal's gay and intriguing continental drama "Black Sheep" which has drama, with Fay Wray and Paul received great ovation wherever Lukas in the featured leading It's played, Edmund Lowe plays the part of a professional ship gambler who is returning to New York on the second-class deck because the cards and the horses would not behave abroad.

Claire Trevor as an actress who is "walking home" from her first trip to the Continent, joins forces with Edmund Lowe to back a romance and keep a captivating adventuress. Adrienne Ames, from a desperate move involving the life of a young play boy, Tom Brown who would not play her game.

The story zips merrily along in a fast comedy fashion with the underlying drama coming more and more frequently to the surface. The fomance between Edmund Lowe and Claire. Trevor is one of the most refreshing ever seen on the screen and has been well re- ceived everywhere

roles.

The story presents the unique situation of little film extra girl who masquerades as 3 countess and the embarrassing moments she Eves, through before she is dis- covered and rocketed to fame on the crëst of publicity.

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Never has his screen role so vad- Atted the. suave and mirably polished Lukas, who is right home, in this continental back- ground, while Fay Wray sparkles in a new and different charac- terization.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST

LAST TWO-DAYS 1280 to 5 P.M. Continuously GRIPPING...]

as a Liberty Magasine serial by Octavus Roy Cohen!

MORE GRIPPING

now as a Universal screen production!

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with GENE RAYM

"COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO”

HENRY HULI FRANCESDEVAKI

WA FAY WRAY-PAUL LUKAS-A Universal Picture

23, 1935.

QUEENS

THEATRE

-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 2,30, 5.10. -7.20,& 9.30

MURDER...merrily solved!

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Mayer

PICTURE

One

NEW YORK NIGHT!

NEXT CHANGE

FRANCHOT TONE

UNA MERKEL

"PARIS IN SPRING

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with MARY ELLIS-TULLIO CARMINIAT

Others in the worth-TRANSIENT LADY NOT-STOP REVUE CHINESE VISITOR

while cast include Patsy Kelly, Paul Page. Reginald Owen, Robert McWade and John Sheehan

The artistic direction of Karl Freund, who has made pictures both here and abroad, assures this one a first class production built around a delightful theme.

Black Sheep" was produced for the favourites in the supporting Fox Film by Sol M. Wurtzel and cast are Tom Brown, Eugene directed by Allan Dwan. Among Pallette and Herbert Mundin,

4 SHOWS

2.30-513

7.15–1.50

„TAKE ANY TRAM ON MAPPY VALLEY BUD

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

SPLEMING

ROAD

WANDHA

TEL. ZBATE

2 DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

"ONLY

HERE'S GAGNEY'S GREATEST PICTURE! "YOU'VE SEE GAGNEY

·SLAP "EM DOWN IN A DOZEN PICTURES.

NOW SEE

HIM TAKE IT ON THE CHIN

Cagney

Mayor

of Hell

At The King's

"Transient_Lady" now showing at the Alhambra Theatre, is a moving strongly realistic drama exposing the narrow, small-town mind that grasps so eagerly at a chance to exhibit its own high morals by alandering and abusing the differs from anyone who Ignorant mob. So vividly is this idea presented that a member of the audience is apt to sit through the picture seething with indigna- lon, and to leave with wonder that the heroine, victim of the forked tongues, could consent to stay in such an atmosphere, even with the man she loved, It is doubtful if one familiar with this

call environment; would *pleasant* entertainment-'strong'

ters.

this

DELIGHTS

Good Fare Served

A unique entertainment in the form of an up-to-date show with thrills and noveldes is now be ing shown at the King's Theatre ny The Tropical Express Revue."..

Yesterday the theatre was once again filled to overflowing and the same high standard "which was evidenced on the Arst day's per- Cormances was not lacking. The versatile dancers, arists one and all contributed to a programme of over 70 .tems full of vim and pep and not forgetting the many delightful surprises.

the talented

Music, songs, dances "short sket- ches and

laughter are all well. catered for in the programme and

2 minutes duration and before one knows what's happening one is very quickly carried away to the

next act.

The programme varies from the wild Russian bance to the exotic Carioca, the Buiero danced to the music of Ravel, with Cuba's gift to the Dancing world. "La Rumba Cubana" performed by Lolita Pa- dilla and the Docrlay Girls.

of 'realistic' are better designa- | there is not a dull moment in the ibns in spite of the happy ending 21 hours of good solid entertain- and the expert portrayal of a ment. The acts are all of about

mall group of admirable charac- Frances Drake takes the part of the girl who arrives in the small town of Karrik as a meni- ber of a travelling show. She is very attractive and at her appear- ance a number of village loafers exchange their leering grins rnd prepare to make trouble. Really, these loafers the self-righteous women, the blustering politicians, and the avid villagers, make the picture. The leading actors are. good enough but they are only a means through which the spirit of the community can be shown. Gene Raymond has the role of a young lawyer who befriends the travelling trio, and he is the hera of an excellent little court scene. Supporting these two, Miss Drake and Mr. Raymond, is a fine cast. romance begins in Hawaii, where Henry Hully, Clark Williams, Ruby, a General's daughter, meets Frederick Burton, all come near to Dick, a young private in the army, surpassing the stars if, indeed, Then the action switches to West they do not actually do so,

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make himself an "officer and gentleman."

RIPS YOUR HEART WIDE OPEN!

TEARS THE ROOF OFF OF HELLM

Summer Prices Matinees 20 ets.-30 ata. Evenlugs 20 cts.-35 cts.-55 ets.

FLIRTATION WALK

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The most popular co-starring team on the screen to-day, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, make their appearance together "Flirtation Walk," showing at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, Mon- day and Tuesday.

"Flirtation Walk" shows them to an entirely new setting.

Their

KING'S

TO-DAY AT 6 & 9.80. P.M.

PROF. WILLIAM

DOORLAY'S TROPICAL EXPRESS NON-STOP

REVUB

NEW ACTS 1 NEW SONGS

NEW DANCES IN

SEADMISSION PRICES: MATINEE-12 £2, 3, 3, 50, che, PLUS EVENING 13.32 A SUAVES TAX /Barvicemen In Uniform M. 2.81 50,

Children" Haif Prión:Matinas'onf.

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A perch act high up the ceiling of the theatre by Franz Kunkel, Ruth Hasse and Maria May evok- ed rounds of applause and left the audience gasping by its daring.

To relieve the tension laughter and comedy was furnished by Ver- say, an eccentric comedian and dancer, who kept he audience amused with his antics of "Chap- linesque pantomime." "

The Dance of Carmen." "Sevil- laras" "Spanish Tangos" were all

Point, where Dick is trying toring through the story is a series cleverly executed by the Pastrana

of dialogues by negroes of the Sisters. Incidentally they showed town, smooth actors all, who us how the castanets should be Pat O'Brien has leading role furnish amusing contrast as the used." A very daring act by Mias as a tough army sergeant... ́. grim tale unfolds

Hasse, in "Looping, the Loop" was vociferously received. Miss Emilia

"Poem" Pastrana sang

accom-. panied by the Doorlay Girls Band

There are several magnificent, dance sequences. featuring hun- dreds of Hollywood's most beauti-

ful girls. The Eawaiian dance ONE NEW YORK The same artiste obliged with sa-

number Introduces Sol Hoop! "and his Orchestra, known to all lovers of the theatre.

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PIONEER CHRONOMETER

The

·NIGHT·

At The Queen's

veral encores,

The Sleigh Bells' act was unique in several ways, while the audience was also shown how to use same.

Fred Gordon whirled a rope as it was never whirled before and never before seen"locally. This was really a plece of work which called forth exceptional ability

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(Special Air Mail Servios)

"When drama takes hold of your

There was also the spectacular life, it does so suddenly, and "hangs. London, Aug 5.

mos- on until it exhausts itself. That's Trapeze Act by the Frio

this

kovich and at the same time the Jour early chronometer what I've tried to show In

Dorlay. Girls showed us that they which have been lent by the Ad- story."

are no mean gymnasts... miralty to the Science Museum Edward Childs Carpenter, noted were invented by John Harrison a Broadway Playwright, was stand- Yorkshire carpenter, in response ling on a motion picture set tra Government prize offer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, £20,000 in 1714.

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The famous Chinese act by Ido Hei Tsehn was very well received.

The programme watching

the whole was exceptionally high and variety speed are the keynote,

his play "Order, Please," being tränsferred into a motion picture. The requirement was an accur- The title of the new screen ate method of obtaining a ship version is "One New York Night," longitude when out of sight of which opened yesterday wat the land. The only way of doing this queen's Theatre. is by knowing the exact-Green- wich Mean Time.

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Buch entertainment on a scale as never before seen was pre-

sented and those who have not viewed it should make a point of "Like most astounding episodes paying a visit to the King's Thea- in our lives, this one la too heavily tre. The condition of accuracy was charged with comedy," he said. that the ship's estimated position "The very grotesqueness of murder must be not more than 30 miles is apt to induce an' hysterical, but out at the end of a voyage to the none the less funny brand of West Indies.

humour."

Harrison produced, at his fourth attempt, a chronometer which st

Carpenter is also the author of stage hits as "Bachelor such Father" and "Whistling in the

The Worker

"Choppy"

Bammy was not prone to over exertion in the classroom, There-

prised and pleased when he came home with the announcement. “I got a hundred this morning.

(Special Air Mail Service). London, August 5:

Of all the thousands who went to Hampstead Heath for all the Fun of the Fair to-day, not oue could have had the fun that Mr. T'ang Hsi Fan had writes a cor- respondent. And because I had the honour of introducing Mr. T'ang to the fair and the holiday crowd, I claim to be ranked No. 2 in the list of people who most en- joyed themselves.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:

Hong Kong

"Tropical Express Non-Stop

Revue"

"Trandent Lady"

QUEEN'S:-

"One New York Night" ORIENTAL:

"The Mayor of Hel":

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

"Black Sheep

MAJESTIC:

"Red Morning"

KING'S.

Coming

"Count of Monte Cristo" QUEEN'S :-

"Paris In Spring" "Murder In The Fleet","

"PLAYING WITH

FIRE"

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Aug. 5. Judgment was delivered by Lord Pitman in the Court of Ses- sion. Edinburgh, yesterday in a case regarding a Grena marriage ceremony which took place about 5 a.m., in circumstances which his characterized as |34- Lordship Precedented.

The action was brought by Maria Bindman, of Montague Street, Edinburgh, against Wiliam Fled- man, of Hospial Street, Glasgow.

Mr. Tang has been in England only a little more than a week 'He came in the cruiser Suffolk with the art treasures from China. and is in charge of the Interna- tional Exhibition of Chinese Art to be held at Burlington House during the coming winter. He had never seen anything like Hampstead Heath

Bank Holiday before.

"My goodness," he said, wheri we were in the thick of the jostling crowds. (Yes, he said

My goodness.") But I thought | Miss Bindman asked the Cour to Englishmen took their "pleasures sadly. Look at these happy faces They are not sad

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order the defendant to desis) from asserting that he was her husband. I was staled that they, met at a dance at Glasgow in July, 1934, HE GOT HIS COKERNUT

and later at the Jewish Institute "Look. They are all enjoying there. On August 17 they met themselves. It is good to be a kid again at a dance, and Fieldman" again. I suppose that is the idea i escorted Miss Bindman to the of this fear?"

He smiled that marvellous, in- ectoth smiles of the Oriental.

"Come on," he said, "let's be kids again like everybody here."

else

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We had three balls for pence" AL the cokernuts-four times. He might still have there had he not got his cokernut in the first three shots

We rolled our pennies on to tables marked in squares in a futile attempt to win a fuzzy haired doll. We had "Aye shots for a tanner with a rifs-twice! and grinned with delight when we finally hit the celluloid ball which a jet of water, keers bobbing up and down in rather an elusive and tantalising fashion.

Then he tried the "hobby horses" and the slides. He took a | peep at the outlying countrysid) › through the telescope on the hu

house of her aunt, with whom she lived. On the way he asked her to marry him, and she agreed. her parents He asked whether would object to her engagement to an unemployed man, and she re- plied that they might.

He then suggested that they should go to Gretna. He found a taxicab, and they drove there, ar- riving about 5 a.m. The custodian of the famous smithy was aroused and a Gretna. marriage gone through, the pardes accepting each other as man and wife and signing the usual document.

They returned to Glasgow, bu nothing was said of their escapade at the time, and they never lived together as man and wife. Later Miss Bindman told her father tha she was engaged, and they were accepted by a large gathering of relations as an engaged couple. Miss Bindman declared that she never looked on he ceremony as And when he saw the caravans

one of marriage, and added that of the fairground people be the Jewish religion

did

not exclaimed: "And this is where recognize such a ceremony as con- they sleep? It is a good idea.stituting marriage. They move about from place, to place? Yes? That steps the people getting tired of the fair

Then he said: "Why do you call it a bank holiday? In China we have bank holidays, but they are We only holidays for the hinks. have national holidays like this, but on different days, of course.

"We have festivals on the ed by eller party to constitute national holidays, but not fairs marriage. Any action by the two like this. What do you call these before or after tending to show roundabouts? We do not have that a marriage was intended or them

had taken place might have result- ed in the two being held "to be married: but there was no single Item of evidence of such intention. and he was prepared to hold that marriage was not intended when the ceremony was gone through.

THE FARMEÈ AND THE FAIRY

"There is in China' ore general holiday which we have but no one really knows why, here is a legend

that a farmer once met a fairy, and the fairy told him he must go to the top of a yellow dower hin If he wanted to escape misfortune that year.

"Bo every year on a special-day the people go to the yellow flower hills-I do not know what you call the yellow flower in English

free from misfortune":

the end of this voyage was only park," both of which were made Lore, his mother was both sur and that is how the people keep four seconds out. The ship into pictures by M.-G.-M

within one mile of her position

estimated by this chronometer Featured in the large cast of which was the size of a large "One New York Night" are Con- rad Nagel Harvey Etephens, Atein watch:

Duna, Charles Starrett and Louise Henry”.

Franchot Tone and Una Merkel are seen in the leading roles.

Harrison won the prize twelve years after the offer was first! made.

It was warm--and thirsty--work being kids again.

↑ "Ice cream?!! I suggested.

"Thank you, thirsty. I ke to Tetried

"That's lovely, dear," she said as the Tissed the boy tenderly

"What was it in?” she asked. "Fifty in reading and afty in it is ver

Spelting

Lord. Pitman said Fieldman "had not appeared in the case, so that only one side had been heard; but the actions of the parties had been sc preposterous that, he felt justi-. filed in hoding that the expedition to Gretna and the ceremony there' were just a mad frolic cot intend-

The case was a narrow one, and. people who went to Greina should realize that they were paying with first and tright get their angers burned.

MAN OF ARAN

have been

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Nat in Bond Eɔwloos. Tel 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 a 9.20 PM:

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RED

MORNING

with

STEFFI DUNA

REGIS TOOMEN

OLD COUNTRY WILL "FULL THROUGH”.

(Special Air Mail Serv)

London, August 5.

"I believe that we are getting through the depression better than any other country. I believe there is an ample luture. for our coal trade. The steel trade, too, is im-.. proving, and if we work shoulder and put our backs into It we will yet see this old country out top." "

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Sir Arthur Rose, Government Commissioner for Scotland, was in, optimistic mood when he inau- gurated the new sewage purifica- tion scheme at Hamilton yester- day. The scheme is estimated to cost £142,000, and the Govern- ment will contribute a grant not exceeding £106,500.

After putting the first sod at the site of the old sewage works at Balkmuir, which will be linked up with the new purification, works to be situated near Bothwell Bridge, Sir Arthur expressed his very great pleasure: In inaugurating 3 scheme which would not only be for the good of the community. but "which would improve the public health and amenities of the district.

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LABOUR PROVISION

INSUFFICIENT

His job, he said, was an almost impossible one, and he had" to formulate his own ideas of how best to try, and carry it out. - The mere provision of labour was not going to solve the problems with which he had to del..

The right solution would only be found by taking the long view. » For instance, one did feel that there could be no attraction for people in an area where the public health services had deteriorated They in Hamilton had suffered severely because it was one of the places where the depression-bliz- zard had first; struck Bcotland.·.

The scheme, which will deal with the sewage of the whole town, will comprise the main purifica- Pop works and three pumping- stations.

Afterwards Bir Henry S. Keith presented Sir Arthur Rose with a sver qualch on behalf of the Council and the community ás a souvenir of hits inaugural cere- mony

ALHAMBRA

THEATER

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5:20, 7.20 ₫ -9.30 p.lliam ADVENTURE-MYSTERY

Thrill-packed Fun-capped!

BLACK SHEEP

EDMUND LOWE CLAIRE TREVOR

SYNING VERK

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