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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

CALM YOURSELF

"Calm Youdseif" which closes to-day at the Queen's Pheatre, packs all the laughs of the season's best farce, and 'th addi- tion has outstanding entertain- ment' qualities in a well-knit story that rings

the bell for being humanly dramatic.

In this newest picture from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Robert Young and Madge Evans are teamed in a screen narrative that is crammed with action plus merriment.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

"Great Expectations" comer to the screen of the King's Theatre next week with the real Dickens flavour untouched, right out of the pages of one of the most, human, absorbing and dramatic novels com. ceived by this greatest of English novelist, si ever-living classic of literature for all time. The story uf "Great Expectations" will never grow old. It is just as fascinating and thrilling to-day as it was when Dicken's wrote it, almost a hundred years ago, in his beloved house at

alshit. The story is full of des. "con-criptions of the countryside sa- rounding his home, of the Kentish lanes, he loved so well; but it is also vivid with scenes of the London

Young is the head of a fidential service" bureau, and as such accepts whatever jobs that come along.

Miss Evans is a banker's daugh- ter whose father, unkriben to her, wishes the bureau head to "sup- press" her--and the resulting complications set up more laughs than one has heard since the last blue moon.

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

of his day, for Dickens was a great write of that great city and its cosmopolitan figure and could people with more understanding than any writer has been able to do.

One of the most interesting cenes in fireat Expectations" is the Cheapside Inn, Lily and the Swan."

The various signs on it,

such as "Coffee Room," "Coach

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTE ABER

SHOWING TO-DAY ·· DAILY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM. FRANKENSTEIN IS LOOKING FOR A WIFE!

Would YOU be his brido ?/

Carl Leemat persents

KARLOFF

THE

"Bride of

FRANKENST

& NORYSAL

COMING SOON.

'GREAT EXPECTATIONS”

QUEEN'S

THEATRE

12, 1935.

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10 7.20 & 9.80 P.M. THE MOST ORIGINAL COMEDY IDEA OF THE YEAR!

A WILLIAM LANNING

Buda that itu vien Jeru

tenglar aşa sabody's

with HENRY BULL-PHILLIPS HOLMES-JANE WYATT

SELECTED

SHORTY

Office, etc., were faithfully copied OLD TRADITION

from books such as Cruikshanks' "Days of Dickens" and actual

Did you ever see a full grown wo places in which Charles Dickens

man brought to life? -

All the astounding details of such a miraculous accomplishment were been at Universal studios recently for the benefit of the cameras, with the infusing of life into the fantas- tic form of a woman buds up from parts of dead bodies, 'allached to a blackened skeleton stolen from an underground burial crypt. The feat took place in a great stone la- boratory filed with advanced "elec- trical appliances, and to the ac- companiment of spurting flames, showers of sparks and exploding

himself stayed.

A cast of unusual merit interpret the well known characters of "Great Expectations." Henry Hull, Florence Reed. Phillips Holmes and Inne Wyatt.

IT'S A GIFT

PASSES

Back To One Again

The decision to equip the new Orient liner Orion with one funnel

NO LONGER NEEDED

Theatre Closes Down

On the outskirts of picturesque Atherstone, not so from Shakespeare's birthplace, an! many miles:

The production of Paramunt's/has given rise to some interesting old actor sits disconsolate on the

'Its a Gift," next change" at the "Queen's Theatre.", the smallest spotlight in exis.ence was put into use. Designed especially for its

comments, which suggest that in many cases funnels" have become mere pleces of furniture.

steps of his caravan, writes a cor- respondent.

Mr. Horace Holloway, owner of the last of the old travelling theatres, belongs to an older, per-

clouds of white smoke, while out-purpose by the Paramount electri-second was due to the need for haps a merrier, England.

side a terrific thunder storm raged

and crashed.

These scenes now form a part of the strange Universal drama, “The Bride of Frankenstein," starring Karloff as "the monster," and de- picted the creating of a mate fur the Morster. himself previously,

"manufactered"

by half-mad scientists in exactly the same man- her. The role of the "Female Monster" was played by the noted

following directions. painted in its cal department, the light has the

back.

"For use only on the nose or W. C. Fields." Ever since Fields, the

star of "Ils a Gift" has become an outstanding screen attraction, the problem of focussing an or- cameramen have struggled with dinary sun lamp on such a small area as a nose......although Fields' protuberance could hardly be con-

cumstances. The new "spot" solved that problem and pleases Fields no end. "My nose," says he

The earlier, steamships had but one funnel, and the addition of a

baller-space. Probably, one of the more power, which meant more

earliest multi-funelled vessels was the Great Eastern; but she had two separate engine-systems, which, doubtless determined the paint"

Three funnels appeared in ships the German liners of late Victorian like the City of Paris, and some of days adopted three or even four. But two funnels gave the usual suggestion of pomp and circum-

age and beyond.

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provided the villager of England For centuries men like him have

with melodrama.

will do so no longer.

Holloway, the last of them all,

The Villagers have outgrown his wares. He has closed his theatre last ditch. down-reluctantly, fighting to the

English actress, Misa Lanchester sidered small under crdinary cir- stance right down to the Edwardian him to move his caravans. By

and her

make-up in the part is

hardly less grotesque than that of

the Monster himsedf.

The introduction of four funnels was a practical matter, based on

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October he must be gone.

Holloway, son of generations of

shall stay on my pitch with my

CALM

YOURSELF

ABIERT YOUNG

MADGE EVANS

BRITT FORBESS - KAPI REISAR RAT PEBRETON - KAMOK ALANGIT FLARINE BELMOWATER - THORLEY MAK LATEREN KAYTON - HEIMAN ME

MISS DE VAHL'S

SECRET

Her Love Affair

An attractive girl of nineteen, one of

the few people in

the confidence OL ner weaitay gud- van told the writer the full story another, Miss Noran Cecilla de

of Miss de Vahl's love for a former Indian Army captain, and of the circumstances of ber death.

of Edith-road, Kensington.

The girl is Miss Nonte Bentley, Her

for afteen years, and, was cheated godmother's love for Mr. Vivian Godwin Roberta love that lasted

by her death a few months before they were to have married-was never a secret" from her.

"My godmother." she said, "was a charming as well as a beautiful

woman

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TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S

Hong Kong

“The Bride of Frankenstein

QUEEN'S

"Calm Yourself"

ORIENTAL:

"She Done Elm Wrong"

Kowloon

ALHAMERA:--

Chinese picture."

MAJESTIC:

"Transatlantic Merry-Go-

Round"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Great Expectations"

QUEEN'S:

"It's A Gift”

"Werewolf of London"

ALHAMBRA:

"The Cowboy Millionaire" ORIENTAL:-

"Catherine The Great"

THE WALDEN CASE

Help To Break

Prison?

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THEATRE.

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TRANSATLANTIC MERRY-GO-ROUND

ponderous gravity, "is my speed and boller requirements. / troupers, said to me bitterly: "I Easter, an operation was advised. Lemcke......ara accused by this in-

with most valuable prop."

"The Bride of Frankenstein," vilrected by James Whale, is now playing on the screen of the King's Theatre, and the cast appearing in support of Karloff includes · Colin | Dwight Frye, Clive and Clive, Valerie Hobson. O. P Heggie, others. This hair-raising picture Ernst Thesiger, Una O'Conner, was produced by Carl Laemmie, Jr.

many

Boris Karloff in "The Bride of Frankenstein,” showing to-day at the King's Theatre

4 ISOVES

2.30-18

718-4.00

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUE

ORIENTAL

LAST TIMES TO-DAY

THEY CALLED HER "IADY LOU"- QUEEN OF THE STREET THAT WAS PAVE WITH BAD INTENTIONS I

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Douglas FAIRBANKSJM Elizabeth BERGNER

Catherine. the Great

"It was no surprise to me that That was bad. A heavier blow she had left Mr. Robert £30,000. has fallen.

"Her Rove for ber 'beloved Atherstone Council have ordered fiancé, as she always called him,

was deep and unswerving.

"When she was taken ill with an infected throat, just before

"She declined., She feared that making her less attractive in the eyes of her fiancé,··

"Her condition grew worse. She was made to realise that only an

she agreed. operation would save her life, and

JACK BENNY NANCY CARROLL

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RADIUM FROM SALT

Value To Medical Profession.

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Professor

naval vessels are not des'gned for portable theatre until they eject scars would be left on her neck formation of the crime of rescuing dience that whereas natural radium.

show, and it was quite normal, 'up ¦ to the late war. for the design of fast ships, such as cruisers, to in- clude four funnels. H.M.8. Terrible was an early example, and there was a Russian cruiser also, whose copious funnels earned her the nickname "Packet of Woodbines"; the, French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc displayed as many as six furnels, targets which would certainly have been refused it'practical considera- tions had allowed.

„THE DIESEL ENGINE

me."-

"ACTED ALL MY LIFE " Using the dramatic gestures of an old Shakespearian actor, he

told me something of his life.

I was born sixty-two years ago at Hampstead Heath. "My father had a portable theatre there.

"It was #

thirty actors and a full orchestra.

grand company I began acting young. I have acted all my life.

"My wife was our leading lady, and together we traveled through- The introduction of the Diesel out England. We produced the engine seemed likely to shock pub- old, old favourites East Lynne lle opinion by depriving ships of The Mormon's Bride.' *Home any funnel at all-or, at least, of Sweet Home, and many others. dign ́fled dimensions. But before "Until five years ago the theatre this development took place the made a fair profit. Broadcasting public were already accustomed to and talkies have closed us down, ships belonging to some of the "Now we run a firewood busi- most important lines, which, owingness." to progress in engineering, found I possible to dispense with all but Doe funnel.

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Mr. Holloway showed me his theatre with the craftsman's pride. It can hold 350 people...

None the less, the idea had We looked at the stage in silence. taken root in some quarters that The scenery, torn and faded, was the more the funnels the greater piled on one side. The sight told the safety and efficiency of the a real life tragedy more poignant vesse and the present writer, than the old actor and his com- when engaged on some pre-war pany have ever acted. matter relating to shipping adver- tisements, was definitely assured

that inimigrants to the United more difficult especially with a States preferred, for reasons of certain reticence in the matter of safety, a multi-funnelled ship. -

masts to estimate a vessel's exact How far their notion may have course, and, therefore, more diffi- been just fled, history alone can cult to sink her with a torpedo. say. It is at least strånge that the

The technical brains concerned multi-funnelled theory should have invented the small funnelled War. persisted and that, long after eu-Shamrock and the other standard gineering progress had lowered the ships, which the war-time genera funnels or reduced them in num-tion knew well enough; the pre- ber, funnel-worship" should still sent writer examined the ship in exist. Its persistence is shown in question through a periscope dur-| the Atting of dummies (a practice ing her trials in the Firth of Clyde, at least a score of years old); used and, to the lay eye at least, she either as freshwater tanks, as was certainly a more puzzling bus- workshops. as engineers" smoke-ness than a ship whose symmetry rooms, or for the numerous ather is more definitely insisted upon. purposes already cited. S

Time brings its revenges. The CAMOUFLAGE

unfortunate marine artist of to-day -Dummy funnels have been rigged, is faced with a Normandie whose however—as in the case of the after funnel is of so little Emden to deceive the enemy, Dortance that its insignificance which is a different matter, though) (plus stream-line theories) enables not so remote as may appear at the designers to slope the whole Arst sight, The present writer battery" down hill to the de- assisted at some discussions, which fance of all accepted rules of ship took place late in the last war. perspective,

concerning the outward appearance What the Fall of the Funnel will of the then non-existent “standard | bring forth in the near future is still uncertain. It may be that, in arguments put for the event of a maritime war 1

ac-eyer remote it will baye s dednit funnel bearing on the sublect of marin

the

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"She said to me over and over again. 'I must uve! For Vivian's sake, I must livel

TREASURED LETTERS "Eleven doctors and surgeons attended her. Their efforts were In vain, and she died,

"Beyond everything my god- letters, one of which was written mother treasured the bundles of

to her regularly every week by "Mr. Robert.

"Sometimes she would retire to her study, untie the blue ribbons that bound the letters, and read and re-read them.

London, Aug 28. Ernest Lawrence, of the University of California, told the American Chemical Society at Shanghai, Sept. 7.

San Francisco yesterday that in As expected. the Hankow

mab his opinion it will soon be possible 'plane brough, with it on Thursday to produce cheap artificial radium. exact decals of the charge which in his laboratory he is producing Mr. Feithan Watson, District At-minute quantities of radio-sodium torney, will prefer in, the U. 8. from common salt. He said that Court for China against Messrs. artificial radium should be pro- Eugene Br.nson and Carl J.duced shortly "for commercial use Lemcke, American residents of from salt and other cheap sub- shanghai, who were arrested in stances such as phosphorus. The dankow last week and are being new salt-radium is formed by the Drought here in custody."

atomic bombardment of salt usirig The charge, which was filled with high-voltage electricity. the U. S. Court for Chins yesterday, radium emits three forms of radia- Natural morning, reads as follows:- tion, salt-radium only the gamma. "Eugene Brinson and Julius C.rays used for cancer treatment.

Professor Lawrice told his au pr.soner committed as follows: hua half-life of about 1,700 That Joseph Walden, alias Mr. X. years, losing its intensity by hair was convicted and sentenced on or auring about the 24th day of August 1935 rudium has a half-life of only B that period, artificial

sonment by the Provincial High salt-radium of to a term of fifteen years impri- few days or hours-in the case of about 15 hours. Court of Hupeh, at Wuchang. Re- But he said that this brevity of of espionage. That the said Joseph medical profession because radio- public of China, being found guilty life should be an advantage to the Walden, alias Mr. X, while in the sodium could be injected into the legal custody of the Provincial tissues of a living person and was High Court of Hupeh, at Wuchang. spontaneously destroyed in a few. Republic of China, did then and hours, whereas ordinary radium. there attempt to escape, and the could not be injected because it had sald Eugene Brinson and Julius C. the power of radiating for years. ald, abet and assist the said Joseph estimate the cost of the new sub- Lemcke did then and there directly Professor Lawrence Walden, alias Mr. X, in his attempt stance as a commercial propost- to escape from the custody. afore-tion, but said it would be far less sald, contrary to the statute in than the cost of natural rädium. such case made and provided, and He added: "Some of my medical against the peace and dignity of colleagues think it quite possible the United States of America.”

OTHER CHARGES" Messrs. Lemcke and Brinson are charged with the violation of Sec- tion-246-Title 18' of the US:C.A.

"Every room in her large house" at Bayswater was full of photo- graphs of him. Her conversation always turned to Mr. Robert and their forthcoming marriage."

Miss Bentley told me of her godmother's

secret-her unceasing affection for her god

child.

second

"Perhaps," Miss Bentley said,

"Her generosity was unbeliev- able. My mother was her friend, She died when I was ten years of

ge,

and bail was inmediately fixed by Judge Milton J. Helmick in the amount of U.S. $2,500 each. Two further charges, of "assisting the Chines: Communist party to en- "I ought to call her my fairy danger the safety of the National godmother.

Dj Government,” and of "bribing Chinese government officials," are understood to have been preferred against the two Americans by the Chinese authorities, but nothing in this connection has been heard from the District Attorney.

The two accused left Hankow on Thursday on board the s.s. Tuckwo, in the custody of Mr. Edward L. Taupe, U. 8. Marshal, who flew up to Bankow the day before yester- day upon receipt of telegraphic in- structions from the District At- torney. They are expected to az- rive here to-morrow at about 10.30

"HER ONE THOUGHT" "From that day Miss de Vahi never ceased to care for me.

"I was sent to a college in Kent, and when I left school she start ed a business for me in the West End of London, "

"Her one thought was that I should be independent in the event of her going to India to murry "Mr. Robert,

"Ahe left me 1 considerable am amount of jewellery and a sum of £1,500

"I shall miss her terribly. She was the sweetest and kindest woman in the world."

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Arrangements for the posting of the cash bonds will probably be made this morning by Mr. Norwood F. Allman, counsel retained for the defence. Until he has had an op- Miss Bentley is engaged to Mr. Fortunity to talk with the accused, Peter W. Finnie, a bank clerk, no indication of the line of defence Mis de Vahi, shortly before heran be given, he said yesterday. death, had planned a large party

at the Bavoy Hotel to mark the engagement. It was never held.

No man bit a dog laat week; but

motorist did sue a. pedestrian,

rich

Two Bizes Larger

Heard the latest about New-

No-what nov "He bought

ZIV bed, but

it was too small for tim, so he sent

could not

that the discovery of artificial radioactivity will ultimately be of greater importance to medicine than the discovery of natural radioactivity,"

**Radioactivity was first prom

duced artificially early in 1934 by

Joliot and his wife, who is a daughter of the late Mme, Curte. discoverer of natural radium, Other

methods were quickly devised by workers in other countries, and the work done on these lines was described in an article in "The on June 16, 1934.

Times

ALHAMBRA

HEATRE

TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. An Historical Romance of Old China

· LEUNG-SAN-PAK CHUK-YING-TOI

featuring

Miss TAM YUK LAN and Mr. LO BUN CHIU

NEXT OHANGR

GEORGE O'BRIEN in a new type of thrill picture "THE COWBOY

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