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MURDER IN THE FLEET

Mysterious crimes. aboard

ממס

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principal-character role, and Una Mufkel, Nat Pendleton. Ted Healy, Arthur Byron, Raymond" "Hatton," Mary Doran, Danold Cook, Mischa

a Auer. Robert Livingston,----Keye

of note are in the cast.

Cruiser, an officer turned detective | Luke, Frank Shields and others to ferret out a criminal a suspicion laden vessel, "weird pur- -Among the amazing scenes are sulta, sinister shadows, and an the attempted electrocution of a amazing fight in the flooded pow- crew of machanics, followed by der magazine of the warship, pro- pursuit of the mysterious criminal vide thrills in "Murder in the among the water-tight bulkheads Fleet," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's of the ship. Robert Taylor's amazing detective 'romance coming spectacular fight to the death 3000 to the Queen's Theatre. with the cornered criminal" in the"

"Murder in the Fleet" deak | ship's powder magazine, which, is with crimes aboard ล warship fooded, the water slowly rising during visitor's day. Civilians and while they fight. "crew are imprisoned-on the vessel during an investigation in which everyone is under suspicion unti the criminal is located in the final ¦

scenes.

Asking for Trouble First Navyy-"Bullo, BM tow did you get that black eye?”

Second Navvy-Well, the missus Robert Taylor, of "Society made some cakes for tea yesterday Doctor" and Jest Parker, who re- and" as she 'anded me the plate, cently scored in "Sequoia" head she said. "Take yer pick, and I an elaborate cast in the new pro- said, "Blimey! from the looks of duction, Jean Hersholt plays the l'em I shall need it.”

& SHOWS

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1,80–5.13

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB

ORIENTA

2 DAYS ONLY

THEATRE

TO-DAY

& TO-MORROW

FLEMING

ROAD WANGHAI

TEL. 18478

YOU wouldn't believe there could be so many heart-thrille and laughs in one picture until you see Clark and Conpie match wits in this 1985 gay romantic and thrilling comedy. A LAUGH TOPS EACH LOVE-THRILL!

Clark GABLER Constance BENNET

After e

IN

Office Hours

Summer Prices Matinees 20 ots.-30 ets Evenings 20 cts.-35 sta.-58 eta.

KING'S

TO-DAY AT 5 & 8.80 P.M LAST TWO SHOWS

TO HONGKONG AND HER PEOPLE Before leaving Hong Kong to- morrow for Japan, I beg to express my hearty thanks to the public of Hong Kong for the wild and warm reception they acedrded to me and my conp ny, I thank also the authorities, the preas and managt ut of the King's Theatre who give me the possibility to present my show »in Hong Kong. Wherever I go around the world, I shall always remember and talk about this

country and har sympathic people.

Prof. O. W. DOOBLAY. FAREWELL PERFORMANCES: The Tropical Express Non-Stop Bevue will give Two Gala "Farewell-Shows" at 6 & 9,80 P.M. to-day,

Prof. Doorlay, the producer and composer will personally con- duct the orchestra.

Don't miss your last chance to see the biggest, snappiest and most extraordinary-show, what- ever visited the East:

If you miss it-you'll miss a great chance

GIFTS FOR REMEMBRANCE During the interval the Doorisy Girls will offer to the public, free of charge, Autographed photos for remembrance..

PROF. WILLIAM DOOR AY'S/ TROPICAL EXPRESS NON-STOP

REVU

NEW ACTS NEW SONGS NEWZVANOES

JAUNADMISSION PRIDEBT

MATINEE-4,

BEVENINGEN TAKE

Servicemen In Uniform M.B.5,

Children Half Prices" Matinee only.

ELINOR NORTON

"Amigo," which in Spanish means "friend." may become an popular an expression as "Howdy"

or "Hawait."

Everyone,

Gilbert to

Roland,

Mexican born Hollywood leading

man. is "Amigo.”

To all his friends Roland has come to be addressed as "Amigo."

The greeting has been adopted more or less generally by every. production unit with which the young actor works.

to+

It's pronounced "Ah-mee-go." One of the latest troupes become "amigo-consious"! wns that which worked" with Gilbert in "Elinor Norton," which features "Claire Trevor," Hugh Willams, Henrietta Crosman, Norman Fos- ter and Roland himself,

HÙNG HONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30,

TO-DAY ONLY 12.30 to 5 P.M. Continuously. ALLURE IN HER FACE+ EMPTINESS IN HER HEART!

MARY ROBERTS RINEHART'S

Elinor

Norton

♫ POX Picture with

CLAIRE TREVOR GILBERT ROLAND HENRIETTA CROSMAN

HUGH WILLIAMS NORMAN FOSTER

QUEENS

THEATRE.

1935.

"TO-DAY" & "TO-MOHROW I 2.30, 5:10 7.20 & 9:30

The Golden-voiced hero of TELL ME TOM

sings again

Admission: 70 cts. Ex 40cts. JAN KIEPURA

OLECLE

NEXT CHANGE-

WARNER BAXTER IBITI GALLIAN - IN "UNDER THE PAMPAS MOON"

MY SONG FOR YOU

At The Queen's

Those who have seen the picture "Tell Me To-night” wü, readily re- member the singing quality of the picsure provided by Jan Kispura out the same standard has been surpassed by the same star in his atest him "My Song For You' now showing at the Queens Theatre.

In this picture Klepura appeari as a famous singer with Sonny Hale as his tight and engergatic manager. He falls for a very charming girl (Atieen Marsen) who wanders by accident on to the stage during a rehearsal of scenes in "Alda." The girl rebuffs him but eventually requiring an intro- duction for her sweetheart con- sents to dine with the singer.

At this juncture Sonny Hale comes into the picture with a de-

comical Ightful and

sequence. Kiepura has promised to broadcast that night, and to to keep, faith. with the public his manager has te deputise.

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The singer is heard in the theme song to good advantage: ExcEYDES from opera were also sung and wo- wards the end of the picture he sings "Ave Marie with the real effect.

"My Song For You" is an ex-

cellent and entertaining musical

picture. The outdoor locations are

all superbly filmed and the settings for the scenes are all sumptuously done. The picture should please.

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A 'PERFECT ROMANCE PERFECT NO LONGER

~(Special-Air-Mall Services

London, Aug 13, Joan Blondell is filing a suit for divorce to-day-on the ground af "incompatibility.”

"In other words-her own-hè? **perfect romance" with George Barnes fa ended!

"Elinor Norton," a Fox picture. is now playing at the King's Theatre. Hamilton MacFadden directed this dramatic screen story, which has been adapted fact that she separated from her Fhusband a fortnight ago, a Reuter

She has announced this, and the

from the recent novel of the same title by Mary Roberts Rinehart, message from Hollywood says. Mrs. Rinehart considers it one of the best adapted to film treat ment of all her novels.

And she is to ask for custody of her son, born last November..

When Joan Blondell and George Barnes, film cameraman, were wed It was her Arst marriage; hig fourth.

My Song for You

TO APPEAR LOCALLY.

Versatile Chinese.

Artist

• Local theatregoers will have the the opportunity of hearing Miss Anna Chang 3 versatile, stage. favourite from the States who is airiving here to-day from America by the ss. Empress of Japan.

trip out East although her prowess

Miss Chang is making her first

CAMPBELL BLACK

Abandons Cape Flight:

<Special Air Mail Services

London, Aug. 12. After an 11-hour flight from Hatfield Mr. Campbell Black land- ed at Cairo at 6.30 this morning and announced that he was aban~ doning his Cape flight and returni ing to London

He said, according to Reuter's correspondent, from Cairo, that his plana had developed engine trou- ble. One engine would have to be overhauled.

Mr. Campbell Black was hoping to reach Capetown in 36 hours and to be back again in England in five days. Catro was the first stop.

The plane in which he and Mr. J. H. G. McArthur, as second pilot. were flying was a DH Comet. Their next stop was to have been Klaumu. in Kent

The present record for the fight from England to Cape Town is held by Mrs, Mollison, who made the trip in 4 days, 8 hours and 54 minutes in December, 1932.

MISS FLORENCE DESMOND IS

"Gosh! What bad luck!" said.

SO DISAPPOINTED

In the fields of singing and radio] Mrs. Campbell Black (Miss Flor-

is well known in the Unitedience Deamond, the actress), when

States.

While back in America she made three successful trips to Cariada where she delighted the theatre goers there with her repertoire, She has also made several short reels for the movies,

Born in San Francisco Miss Chang's fame has been known Lover almost the whole sphere and wherever she went her success 1s always assured.

She owed her first success to Paul Ash at Granada, SF, when the long haired leader was there. Her appearance therefore in Hong Kong will be awaited with pleasure.

she learned that her husband had abandoned the fight.

"I was so delighted when I beard that he had reached Cairo safely," she said."-

I was terribly excited about it. I thought that he must be going marvellously to have arrived there so soon.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong.

KING'S:

Tropical Express Non-Stop

Revue"

"Elinor Norton"

QUEEN'S

"My Song For You" ORIENTAL:-

"After Ofice Hours"

Kowloon

'ALHAMBRA:---

Chinese Picture.

MAJESTIC:

"Below The Sea"

KING'S

Coming

"Tropical Express

Non-Stop Revue" Under The Pampas Moon"

QUEEN'S:-

"Murder In The Fleet" ALHAMBRA

MAJESTO

THSATRI.

Nat na Band Kawlona Tal 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 1.80 PE

Newer and Greater Thrills!

on Bottom of the Seal

Diver Battles giant octopus to zecover sunkia treasturg and woman he loved!

BELOW

THE SEA

Wik Underson Senses in TECHNICOLOR: RALPH BELLAMY FAY WRAY Directed by Alloyell

Story & Sareen Play by Jo Sweding . A Columbia Picture ·

like tall and, raising his fiat p pers, ufted his head from the

"The Dragon Murder Case" Water and looked knowingly at ORIENTAL

́ ́"Transatlantic

Round"

Merry-Go-

"Evelyn Prentice" "The Night Is Young' "Clive of India”

the captain.

"They had their OWNL river water, too, and were kept warm by means of steampipes.

THEIR PILLOWS

I had one amusing experience. I knew they always slept with their beads just out of the water, so I divided off a corner of their

THEY RAN OUT compartment with a sort of ledge

OF LETTUCE

V

on which they could rest their reads,

"Everything went well until we left the river on the start of the voyage, and the ship rose to the

So Captain Sent Answell. One of the Manatis was

SOS To Filot

'Special Air Mail Service

apparently examining the com- partment just beyond the ledge: and a lurch threw him of his. balance, with the result that he dived headfirst into the smaller compartment.

sticking straight up into the air..

"You should have seen him! London, Aug. 10.

There he stuck, with his head. Two "mermaids came to Lon-down and the rest of his body don to-day. They were Manatis whose semi-human gave rise to a mermaid legend- and they travelled slowly through London in a lorry.

appearance

This was the last stage of their journey from the tropics, which involved a 23-days sea voyage in the Inanda, which berthed at the West India Dock yesterday.

They passed' through London- these two curious mammals re- sembling sea-llons-lying placid ly on their backs in tanks of water. They Bre the first Manatis to reach the Zoo for 31

years.

"We had to get derricks i rather worried for fear that he action to 'get him out. "I was

had broken his nose, but he seemed none the worse."

Captain Gibbings explained that the Manatis were caught in canals in the sugar plantations near Georgetown.

BATH FOR THE KEEPERS There were exciting scenes at the Zoo when the Manatis arrived.. Their tall is their only, weapon, and six Zoo keepers had "the bath of a lifetime in extremely dirty water.

Captain Willis Gibbings, the

They were removed from their skipper of the Inanda, who ar travelling tanks to the Aquarium ranged for their capture and by an ingenious scheme invented superintended their transport, sald by Dr. Vevers, the Zoo superinten- to-day, that the bull was aft sin long and weighed 400lb. The cow

Huge tarpaulins were slung, un- was three feet longer and weigheder them in the water, and they were then lifted out bodily as in a hammock. Then they were

"And now this as happened It's too bad. It must be a bitter 5801b. disappointment for him to meet with this bad luck after such a splendid start,

THEIR "DIET

dent.

On the foredeck the Manatis lay ignominiously hauled to the pala in 8ft. square steel tanks contain, tial new tank prepared for them ing shallow muddy water. There

Full Name

Little Rosalle, a first-grader,

"He will probably have the plane put right and try again."

́is something` wairus-like in their "It really is tough luck," she appearance, and sometimes a thu- added.

man look about them, "I was hoping against hope that They give the impression of walking with her mother, spoke to the engine trouble was not so bad being very, very ancient. Their a small boy. "His name is Jimmy as it seemed and that he would heads were under the water, but and he is in my grade," she ex- be able to continue his attempt on every now and again up would tob plained. the record. !!

a face to nibble at pleces of lettuce "What is the little boy's last. "I am

now anxiously waiting noating on the surface.

name?" her mother asked. for my husband to call me up, so "I had a big job with them,” that he can tell me himself all said Captain Gibbings. “When about it, and so that I can give the Zoo authorities heard that him what consolation I can."." could get them they had to make special inquiries to find out what they ate.

MAN CLAIMS TITLE

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Aug 12. Since her father, the late Colonel Alexander How Maclean, died five Joan is 26, has been on the stage | years ago, sixteen-year-old': Cat- and in Alms since she was a child.clona Maclean has believed her- Ketti Gallian is "dressed up" (Recent pictures: "Kansas City self to be the rightful ebjeftain or for the first time in her career Princess," "I've Got Your Number" the Macleana of Ardgour, Argyll- -as "Yvonne, La Marr""" in "Under and “He was Her Man.”

UNDER THE PAMPAS.

MOON"

On

the Pampas Moon," coming Sunday to the King's Theatre, In which she co-stars with Warner. Baxter. MissGallian wears score of different costumes," ali especially prepared by Rene Hubert, style creator at Movie- tone City, who has just returned

."

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THREE BRAVE WOMEN

(Special Air Mail

London, Aug 10. Three women missionaries, 'all from a whirlwind trip to Paris to over so, who have just left London inspect the trend of fashions for for France, are about to return to the coming summer and autumn.

In her various parts in Paris, in Turkestan, via Germany, Poland, Russian and Biberia. They are Gal-taking with them their adopted Chinese, child Topsy, who is deat same costume through and dumb!

The Acc in London, and in "Marie Galante," Mias

lian always wore

the

practically

out the productions. The roles

is

The adventurous trio are Miss

shire.

Now a man threatens her birth- right.

AIR CUP THRILLS

(8pecial Air Mail Service)

London, Aug. 8. The growing air-mindedness of the public is evident in the heigh

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"A man was sent by Diane w the Brussels Zoo, where they have a Manati. As a result I received message that they were fed on lettuce, chicory and endives.

GRASS-CUTTING PARTIES

"Before I left for Georgetown-

His whole name," said Rosalie, is Jimmy Sitdown-that's what the teacher calls him.”

Taken Literally

Wee Winte Gordon went into a baker's shop in Union Street and asked for, 2d, worth of broken bis- cults of exper

Shop Assistant (noting Willie's dirty knees): "My wee man, ye'll need a bath."

|E

Willle left the shop and returned

the Manat's were caught in British | in half an hour with a bath-tub.

The man, who has the full sup- port of the Clan Maclean Asso ciation, is Commander HH, MRC- lean, or Bursledon, Hampshire.

The whole on is ab-tened. Interest being displayed in Gulana-1 took aboard 1000 let surd," the Hon. Mrs. Maclean,

the race for the King's Air Cup | tuces, which were put in a refri- Catriona'g another, told me, on September 6 and 7 Winning gerator. My greatest" difficulty "Commander Maclean Ismay

the air blue ribbon will be re- was food, for they eat forty pounds Englishman. He has no propertygarded as specially worth while in per day, and more lettuces had to

While the in Scotland, and so has no ser. Jubilee year.

first be bought at Georgetown. ritorial rights

day's eliminating flight round the "The only other thing they Catriona herself is even more country taking Edinburgh and would eat was fresh grass, and at emphatie "I intend to fight the Glasgow in its stride, will provide every port of call a party went claim of this usurper with every thrills over a wide area, the Rashore and cut grass for them... rangements made for the final Although only youngsters, they

tators at Hatfield, where for two you whistle they will =uft their hours there will be a continuous heads out from the water in anti- spectacle of high-speed aircraf

of a tasty piece of foo racing neck

always required that she portray Ml'dred Cable, Miss Evangeline and resource at my command," she promise a big concourse of spec- are not very demonstrative, but if

Miss Francesca French. Two

a poor, ill-treated girl--

In "Under The Pampas Moon" years ago, when they were journey- produced for Fox Film by B. G. home from North-West China, by De Btive and directed by James the overland route, they were cap- Tiniing, Miss Gallian leaps in and tured by the Mohammedan bandit, out of costumes from the opening Gen. Me

Kequence to the closing scene Eight months later they escaped "The outfits range from chic sports Then they had to travel by male- things to smart dinner ensembles cart 600 miles over the desert, with and formal evening robes all re-the barest supplies of food, and flecting the new allhouette of water before they reached com- forthcoming styles.

parative safety

cald.

THE STYLE

Two ladies were attending a and recr concert at the town hall. They severi looked about then

"Nice building,” said one What style of architectu I'm not quite rare, other lacy butt inn fy miniscence.

ALHAMBRA

TH STEE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW A 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 9.30 p.m.

A Cantonese Talking Picturs

HEUNG-HA-LO YAU FOW

Mrs SIT KOT SIN→ MIT CHE LO LAN MELIU MONG KOK

SUNDA ZDRAGON Minder LASE

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