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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

NO MORE LADIES

directed

GIGOLETTE

New York's colourful "hot spots" the night clubs that frequently border on the under world-pro- vide the unusual backgrounds for by the new comedy drama "Olgolette" which opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre."

In a story that fairly bubbles with comedy Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery comes to the Queen's Theatre soon in "No More Ladies" the new Metro-Goldwyn. Mayer production Edward H. Grifith.

Prominently featured with the co-stars are Charlle Ruggles, Franchot Tone, Edna May. Oliver, Gall Patrick, Reginald Denny and many others. Each sagaciously, east these polished experts have created a beautiful photoplay from the rich material granted them,

Steeped in the atmosphere of Gotham's midnight-to-dawn re- sorts, the feature mirrors drama- tically a phase of the metropolitan amusement world in an engrossing story. capably interpreted by an impressive cast. W

Adrienne Ames makes an allur- ing and wholly creditable heroine. Beautifully gowned, she portrays the society girl with charm dramatic effectiveness.

and

When Marcia (Joan Crawford) marries Sherry (Robert Mont- gomery), she knows his past; but they are sure. that, in spite of their many "happilyi divorced" friends, they can make marriage: work. When later. Marcia dis- Ralph Bellamy presents a pains- covers she may have made a mistaking and accurate characteriza- take, she decides to dry her tears tion as Terry, and Robert Arm- and throw a party. And what a strong garners the lion's share of party! All Sherry's ex-sweet- the comedy. Donald Cook shares. hearts are invited with their new prominently in the acting honors swains and ex-husbands. That it for his suave role as Gregg. doesn't turn out exactly as Marcia planned, and the funniest party scenes "ever filmed hold the

screen,

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OUR LITTLE GIRL

Shirley Temple caus throughout the world called with pleasure over the recent award to her of a special statuette by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The six-year-old screen sensation (She turned six this month), was angled out by this respected vody for making e greatest contr.bu tion pictures last year.

NAZI ATTACK ON MR. KIPLING

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HUNG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935.

LAST TWO-DAYS at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

SYDNEY HOWARD AY A COOK -- A

DETECTIVE A POLICEMAN—“ ITS A COP."

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DOROTHY BOUCHIER

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MOLTIAN DOCERE HERBERT WILCOX

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“A SONG CONTEST"! (Organlogne)

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IN OUR LITTLE GIRL"

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JOAN CRAWFORD — FRANCHOT TONE ROBERT MONTGOMERY-CHARLES UGGLERS

PARAMOUNT PICTURE

NEWS

FILM RELICS FOR MUSEUMS Nearly one hundred museums- one or two in England-will bene- fit by the making of Cecil B. De- Mille's big Paramount spectacle- -The Crusades. Replicas of an- clent armour, swords and accou- trements.cost a great deal of money... too much for most small museums... but by making large quantities in the Farn- mount: workshops DeMille was able to cut the cost to the lowest possible amount.

When the film is released De- Mille will present his careful re- plicas to selected museums.

The studio had to make every one of the pieces, for no manu-" facturer to-day carries on the business of making chain mail casque helmets. plkes, maces, mangonels or trabuchets. Every- thing that Henry Wilcoxon wears in his part of Richard Coeur-de-Lion was carefully.. sketched from contemporary drawings and painstakingly turned out in the workshops The spurs were perhaps the smallest item on the Est. At the other extreme was the slege tower, 50 feet higb, and weighing 35 tons.

pay £1,000 for a gurgle from each or both of them over the micro- phone.

TRAVELS OF A TALE

The story of "Private Worlds,” the Paramount picture, featuring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer. Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea, is probably one of the greatest that Phylla

Bottome, the" British author, ever wrote.

Although its action is confined to a hospital, the story, went all round the world before it finish- ed up in Hollywood. It Arst came into being when Miss Bot- come started it on board a liner in the Pacific. She wrote new chapters in all-parts of the world, Italy, Germany and England and Rnished it in Bavaria in the mid- dle of a revolution.

The book was sent to Holly- wood from London, and when the producer, Walter Wanger, sent back the script, it went all round the world again in pursuit of Miss Bottome, who was off again, finally catching up with her in Nijni-Novgorod, Russia! Charles Boyer, incidentally. is featured with Loretta Young in Para- mount's "Shanghal."

FIVE STOREYS HIGH For weeks the property men cut huge oak timbers into shape and took them out to the set where the tower' was to be used. There they bullt it floor, by floor until it stood five storeys high, with a drawbridge which could' be lowered from its fourth stage. Mr.

It was capable of containing 100 soldiers, and had interior stairs up which an entire army could Ale to the attack across the drawbridge. Voelkischer From Spain came armour- '

Mr. Radyard Kipling is des cribed 11.3 "a fanatical hater oi Gormans and one of the bitterest enemies of Germany," in a leading article in the

"Our Little Girl," which starts Beobachter," the official Nazi news its "local engagement on Friday at paper: All good Nazis are urged the King's Theatre, is the first to buy no more of his books.. picture Shirley has made since the award. It goes

The articles written by Prof, O. without saying that her numerous fan following Urbach, the Nazi culture leader. takes pride in knowing that their He appraises both "Kim' and love for the young screen star is "The Jungle-Book" as "undiluted backed by the Academy.

expressions of Anglo-Saxon an Those who are

na yet strangera perialism." to the Shirley Temple spell should. beize this chance to see the work which Mr. Kipling is alleged to

The attack is based on a letter) of this inimitable child.

The award came as a surprise have written to the French novelist, and followed the distribution of M. Heuri Bordeaux, saying that the German has learned nothing the golden statuettes voted by Academy

members

from the last war, while he hay leading artists, producers, directors, and suffered comparatively little from

writers,

to

Was

Irvin S. Cobb, famous humorist who served at toastinaster, follow. ing the announcement which greeted by an ovation, paid tribute to the talented youngster. He pointed out that she has given the world one of its greatest gifts ne has made more people happy and made more childen laugh than any child her age in the history

at the world'

it"

NAVAL LINGUISTS

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London, Aug. 21. has become the most popular sub- The study of foreign languages

ject in the Navy's vocational, train-

ag courses for seaner.

The baby starlet accepted ber honours modestly, displaying the

Unlike their officers, the scamen famous dimpled" smile and bowing

hundreds of film per-get no benefit from the Service for the sonalities cheered her.

being interpreters,

These courses are solely to train them for civil employment.

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Shirley not only acts but sings in "Our Little Girl." Her support ing cast includes Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot. Erin O'Brien-Moore, Jack Donohue, Ppodles Hanneford. Gus Van, Margaret Armstrong. Rita Owin Feonard Carey, J Farrell Mac donald, and Jack Baxley.

The direction is by John Rober- ton. It is an Edward Butcher production.

Modern Lady

deár?" ww

Hitherto, motoring and handy un courses have had the most ap- plicants.

the men

The foreign language courses for German, Spanish and Italian, and are confined to French,

Mediterranean shipa take place

almost entirely in Officer interpreters, of whom there are more than 300 in the Fleet, receive extra pay for their languages.

Hubby (to wife, who has just an- The most difficult are considered swered telephone): "Who was it, Chinese, each of which carries a to be Japanese, Arabic, and speciál p-yment of 45 a day. Wifey: "Our washerwoman. She'll Russian and Turkish interpreters be two hours late: Che's having ret ts. Od a day extra, and other trouble with her carburettor."1"

languages either 28, or la Gd.

maker Juliano Arechen, follower of an obsolete trade and descen- dant of countless generations of armour makers. Under his ex- pert eye swords and scimitars, and pikes. maces and halberds, battle-axes and arrow-heads were turned out in wholesale quanti- ties.

VETERAN TO RETIRE

Rene C. Starling

Lili Damita and Jack Buchanan in "Brewster's Millions.".

IT'S A COP

At The King's

In a hilarious new comedy at the

King's Theatre yesterday, Sydney Howard was the life and soul of it all, and 'It's a Cop" must rank as the most successful film that the popular Yorkshire star has made. Those who ap- preciated him in "Girls, Please" must see this, his latest hit, which is a scream from start to finish,

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"It's A Cop"

QUEEN'S

"Gigolette"

ORIENTAL:-

"Evelyn Prentice"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:—

Chinese Picture.

MAJESTIC:-

"Silver Streak"

KING'S:---

Coming

"Our Little" Girl"

QUEEN'S:—

"No More Ladles":

ORIENTAL:---.

"The Night Is Young". "Clive of India"

ALUAMBRA:—

"Two Hearts In Waltz Time”

GREAT STRIDES

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Television Success In Germany

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HEIRESS TO MARRY

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London, Aug. 31. Miss Olive Maxton, the young grand-daughter of the Into Barney Barnato, the diamond magnate and South African financier, has Decoms". engaged to Mr. Fitzroy Paget Upsali Phillips, a young solicitor.

When the will of her mother. Leah, Baruato, was announced in October of 1043 it was stated that the amount of her fortune was sworn just short of £300,000, and the will deviared that the fortune" should go to the child of her mar

This year's German Broadcast-riage to Mr. Alfred Haxton, to ing exhibition, which was officially whom she was married in 1914. opened to-day, in the huge exhibi- tion halls at Witzleben, Berlin, brings television appreciably near- er to the average householder.

Indeed, those who live within 35 miles of either the Berlin' broad- casting station or the -Brocken Heights in the Hartz Mountains-, the second great experimental

receive a regular programme three point-can now acquire a set and

mes a week. The from £66 to £250) and 20 seta of five different makes may be seen working simultaneously in one of the six large halls in which the exhibition is housed.

cost varies

"I shall be married on Septem- ber 97 at St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street Mayfair," Miss Haxton told a reporter yesterday:

Mis Hanton 15 20; Mr. Phillips is 26.

MISS HEWLET

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London Aug. 15 day at Christ Church, Lancaster The marriage tuuk pisce yeater- Gate, of Mr. John Fraser Miller, only son of Mr. and Mr. George Miller, of Kamakuri, Mayield Road, Sutton, and Miss Elisabeth Frances Hewlett, only daughter of Sir Meyrick Hewlett, H.B.M. Con- sular Service, China. and Lady Feirse officiated. Howlett. Prebendary R. Beresford-

To the layman the difference in price is not at first intelligible, but close examination reveals the fact He appears as P.C, Robert Spry, that distortion at the sides of the a "dumb" policeman and a hen- screen is more noticeable in the pecked husband who flounders in cheaper sets, and that the screen and out of an amazing mass of surface itself measures only 8 by her father, wore a simply cut The bride, who was given away troubles whilst chasing & gang of 7 inches, instead of being 9 inches

gown of ivory-tinted satin with a desperadoes. Finally a

spectacu-square. The pictures ar: trans-train in one with the skirt. Her lar capture, he is awarded the nitted on a wave-length of ap- sulle veil was worn with a balo coverted sergeant's stripes.

proximately six metres, and the headdress trimmed with pearls, and. The above briefly is a resume of sound track on one of about seven she carried a bouquet of lilice-of- the story. One must see the ple- metres.

the-valley. There were five brides. ture to fully appreciate the An official of the German Broad-aida Miss Betty Stogdon, Miss Howard sm" of the scenes, which casting Corporation told me to-day (siater of the bridegroom), Miss Joan Knight, Miss Margaret Miller cannot be adequately described an that, although 35 miles is the "guar Joan Nash (cousin of mere paper.

the bride), anteed distance," the six-metre and Miss Thereas Ozanne. The. wave-length is showing some cur- chief.. bridesmaid, Miss Betty

togdon, wore a gown of pale del phinium-blus chiffon, and the other: attendants were in deep dalphinium blue. They all had flower caps made of delphiniums, with eye-veils," and carried bouquets to match, Mr. Was beet

Howard has an excellent team

Shanghai, Aug. 31. Retiring after 32 years in China, al spent in the service of the Chinese Maritime Customs, Mr. Rene C. Starling, Chlef Tide Sur- veyor and Harbour Master of Chin- klang, asked by a representative of the "North-China Daily News" how he felt on the eve of his departure for Home, said, "Although I am looking forward to settling down to a well-earned rest in the home- to support him, including Dorothyous behaviour with regard to what land, it is, nevertheless, a joy not Bouchier, Donald Calthrope, Garry

is known as "skip distances," as antinged with regret, for I shall be Marsh, Annie Esmond, John Turn- compared with the rather longer leaving behind many old friends, bull and Cyril Smith. Maclean wave-length used by the so-called both Chinese and foreign."

Rogers is the man who directed | short-wave stations-LE, Mr. Starling, accompanied by this latest of Howard comedies, working between 12 and 50 metres. Duncan Robertson Glass the Hermit, Alan Hale as Blondel bis wife, daughter Joan and son which must no account be They were much astonished three and Montagu Love "as the Black-René, will embark on the s. missed.--"Redincam."

weeks ago, he said, to receive a smith.

report from New York to the effect that both the television and sound track of a programme sent out

The chief parts in The Cruasdes are taken by, Loretta Young, as Berengaria, Henry Wilcoxon as Saladin, C. Aubrey Smith as

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GARY AND MARLENE Gary Cooper is Marlene Diet- rich's co-star in her next Para-

Potsdam which leaves to-morrow morning, their destination being London where they will stay until they have found the country home, mount picture-The Pearl Neck- "not too far from London," which lace which soon goes into pro- is to be their permanent resi- duction.

dence. The picture will be directed by Frank Borzage,

At the moment Gary a hard at work on Paramount's screen version of George du Maurier's

"Peter Ibbetson." He is, without doubt, one of the most popular stars in Hollywood, and Para- mount receive countless requests from other studios for the loan of him to play opposite their stars.

It will be recalled that Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich played together in Paramount's ."Morocco."

BING'S LATEST Bing Crosby, the famous sing ing star of "Mississippi" and other famous Paramount films, is to

Joan Bennett. Others in the cast make "Two For Tonight," with

and Lynne Overman. Frank are Thelma Todd, Märy Boland

Tuttle wil direct! Pe

In the last few weeks Bing has received fabulous offers from newsreel and other companies for the rights of aiming his famous twins. One broadcasting company actually was willing to

!

was

how), Antung. Tangku, Ningpo. Samshul and Wuchow. He last stationed at Chinklang and officially retired on July 29, his 60th birthday, and has just" cóme

those

from Brocken had been received clearly there..

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMMES

Under present arrangements the LENGTHY SERVICE

to Shanghai after spending a short Broadcasting Corporation, which is Coming out to China in October vacation in Japan with his family.subject to the Ministry of Propa- 1903, Mr. Starling joined the out-In 1920, Mr. Starling was decorated ganda, makes the programmes, door staff of what was then the by the Chinese Government with while the Post Office does the act Imperial Maritime Customs and the fifth order of the Chino Ho for has been through many exciting adventures during his lengtny ser- vice, including the revolutions of 1811 and 1913..

services rendered.

ual transmission. The guarante:d programme" consists of 11 hours In addition to two brothers, Mr. three times a week. On the other Harold V. Starling of the Shang- days the Post Office gives experi- hal Municipal Council, Mr. S. B. mental programmes. He and his family were also Starling of the local office of An interesting innovation is a among those who were forced to Messrs. Butterfeld & swire, Mr.unal telephone." Cells have been evacuate from Wuku in 1927 when starling leaves behind many well-arranged from which persons tele- their home was completely looted. wishers who feel his going a per- phoning to one another can also

He is the unsung hero of a sonal loss, for his unassuming see each other on a screen beside smuggling episode, when unarmed waya, generous heart and rare the telephone. This principle" is against a gang of armed despera capacity for always seeing the to be put into general practice does, he discovered and confiscated "other fellows side" have endeared next spring, when a visual tele five tons of opium at Chinklang him to all who have come into phone circuit will be available to were gleaned from his friends and These interesting bits, however, contact with him.

undoubtedly interesting career, Mr. when approached for details of an

Starling modestly, but emphati-

cally, refused to discuss anything, merely saying that no one would be interested?

Hlwork has taken him to many places,Including Bh sung Pagoda

Excellent:Work!:

Neighbour looking over garden bees done well

trunk eailers between Berlin and Leipzig.

The ordinary run of radio:sp- paratus seems little changed from last year. There are 232 exh tors in all, and the prices of sets va from 172 marks (214

with F dual #loud

speaker and

man.

ALHAMBRA

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TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

A Cantonese Talking Picture

HEUNG-HA-LO YAU FOW"

Part III

with Mrs. SIT KOT SIN and Mr. LIU MONG KOK

NEXT CHANGE

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ARTS

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