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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

MAD LOVE

To Edward Brophy has fallen the toughest assignment a come- dlan ever had. He's had to try to get laughs out of a guillotine!

Brophy, who in the course of dozens of successful comedy roles has played everything from in- ebriates to wrestlers. ΠΟΥ finds himself cast as a sinister knife- thrower who jokes as he slays

WEREWOLF OF LONDON

A weird story produced and acted in a manner calculated ta bring a maximum of thrills and chills, "Werewolf of London' maintains the horror pace set by universal comes to the. Queen's Theatre this. Sunday,

Fast moving with vivid action and dialogue plus nerve-tingling

and in time is duly decapitated. | make-up changes building drama- tle suspense, the show capitalizes the full entertainment value of Its eerle premise. Hell and Oland

He and Ted Healy, playing an American reporter. wisecrack be- fore the guillotine and Brophy insists that "we all get it in the are outstanding in dificult roles. neck sometime.”

fantastic

The meagre romantic contrast is This is one of the amazing nicely carried by Miss Hobson and roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's, Matthews. The chief comedy re- new horror drama, llef is carried by haggish Ethel "Mad Love," which is playing at Griffes and Zeme Tilbury. Minur the Alhambra this week-end. roles are led by Clark Williams, Charlotte. Granville, Spring Bying- ton Ja, M. Kerrigan, and Louis Vincent. The eerie writing quail- tỷ of Robert Harris, who colla-

to

The new pleture introduces American moviegoers the sers- tional European star. Peter Lorre. who won the title of the "Charles Laughton of the Continent" be-borated with Harvey Gates on the cause of his magnificent, and in- dividualistic performances in "M" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

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CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT

LEGONG

12

112 which

the

Sea

The cast of Fox Film's latest A unique conterence was held mystery thriller. "Charlie Chan in in the preparations for the flim- Egypt," now playing at the King'sing ut "Legong," Theatre, were discussing thrills in father of the native South general and Director Louts King

Island girl, who plays the prir

had to approve the asked Warner Oland, who has the cipal

Aim story before he would let his leading role in the nim, if he had

daugater play the part. ever Had any narrow escapes.

"The Greatest thrill in my Ufe," replied Oland, "was of the close shave' variety and happened much faster than I can tell about it,

role,

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A 3,000-year-old curse takes its toll... and Charlie Chan plunges into his weirdest adventure |-

CHARLIE

CHAN IN EGYPT

Will WARNER OLAND

"PAT" PATERSON and STEPIN FETCHIT

~*~*~ TO•MORROW

MA in "GOIN' TO TOWN" PARAMOUNT WEST

THE QUEEN'S

Hat, Coat And

Glove"

"Hat, Coat and clove," featur- Ricardo Cortez, Barbaru ing Robins and John Beal, is the cur- Tent attraction at the Queen's Theatre and because the picture 1s so different to the types that we have had lately, it is worth seeing..

an

Ita unusual romantic triangle revolves about a lawyer, his' beau- tiful wife and

adventurous artist. The lawyer challenges his rival by re-courting his own wite. He is losing the match when the artist is charged with murder of a girl found dead in his studio. Now the lawyer has the unique opportunity of deciding his rival's fate but the way in which he "rises to the occasion" wins back for him the love of his wife.

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As the title would suggest hat, coat and glove play very im- portant parts in the picture which is "heartily recommended-ARM.

SISTER AS SURETY

In Cheque Charges

A Further remand was ordered West London Police Court when Lord Montaga, aged twenty-nine, a son of the Duko of Manchester, appeared on a number of charges concerning a cheque

The charges against him are:- Stealing, between June 28 and July 18, 1935, a valuable security the property of Mrs Violet Van a banker's cheque for £17 Os, 7d.,

der Elst, of Addison-road, W.;

Between June 28 and July 18, feloniously forging valuable

endorsement banker's cheque draw payable to Mrs. Van der Elst by David Cop. Ltd.-with intent to defraud:

The Marquis Henri de la Falaise and Glaas, producers of this all- Technicolour film which Para- mount is now releasing, had The foreman my Mexican selected their all-native cast for security-an

of ranch and I were in a

the picture, and

ready to canoe, paddling around Palmeto de la

announce the first call before the Virgen, the wild island on which cameras, when they learned that the story had to be approved be- the ranch is located,

fore their lead ng lady could be photographed

"As WE were slowly paddling

past a high clay bank, we heard an odd slithering sound overhead.

were

The procedure was to go to the A huge cayman, which is a kindgirl's father, and relate the story

to him.

of crocodile, ran out of the under- growth and dove into the water- not three feet from the canoe

"If he had upset us or taken a bite, at us, it would have been just too bad, for that beast was about twenty-five feet long and stood at least Ove feet high. Fortunately, the cayman must have been as startled as we were, for his huge jawa could have: crushed our canoe with one little bite and there might have been no more Charlie Chan!”

film.

GOIN' TO TOWN

Д

Op 1

On July 16, uttering, knowing the sanie to be forged," a certain forged document on th banker's chaque drawn payable to Mrs. Var der Elst by David Cope, Ltd.- with intent to defraud; and

This seemed a simple On July 16, feloniously, and matter, and they willingly went i with intent to defraud, re eiving the house of the girl's father for certain moneys, £13, by virtue of the conference. When they ar-

a certain forged instrument, a rived, there

cheque drawn payable to Mrs. Van crowd of natives there.

der Elst by David Cope, Ltd., knowing the same to he forged.

Wis а

and more people continued to come. Finally, when the house seemed to contain all the people of the village, the con- ference began.

The story was tediously gone over point by point with the girl's. father consulting the villagers on their reactions to the story

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.

QUEEN'S

FEMME THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW a: 2.30, 5.10 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

The Defense Attorney Knew He Was Innocent

{Evidence enough to

BADO

PICTURE

... but could prové

he was guilty... the

man who had stolen the woman he loved!

HAT

(OAT

and

GLOVE

* RICARDO CORTEZ Barbara Robbins • John #yu!

HIDDEN IN HIS

When a man on trial for soun

der strong has sharp sa prosšet

• "hower, he's playe

ting with dhe kangMAN'S DOMAİ

THEIR BATTING

SECRETS

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Charlle. Chan In Egypt"

QUEEN'S:-

"Hat. Coat and Glove" ORIENTAL:-

"Little Miss Marker"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

Chinese picture.

·MAJESTIC:-

"Shadow of Doube"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Goin' To Town'

QUEEN'S:-

NOSE

Convict And £100 Geni

Fry And Jardine

ALHAMBRA":

"Mad Love"

Two

great ericketers-Com- mander C. B. Fry and Mr. D. R.

A £180 Diamond was hidden Jardine-held a crowded audience

"Werewolf of London"

in a Dartmoor convict's nose for of boys spellbound in the "Daily WALKED IN HER

seven years... A warder "do- ble-crossed" him and stole it... He was caught pawning it in Plymouth for £7.

The facts were revealed by ex- Detective Edward Bennett.

One day in 1927 the then Chief Constable of Plymouth, Mr. H. H Sanders, sent for Detective Ed. ward Bennett.

"I have just received a remark- able message over the *phone from the Governor of Dartmoor." he said. "It appears going the rounds one morning a certain

that on

Express' Theatre recently."

For an hour and a half they gave away their batting secrets.

In his shirt sleeves, Ommander Fry demonstrated at wicket erected in the centre 0: the theatre exactly how he made the many. thousands of runs that stand" to his record in first-class cricket.

WATCH THE BALL!"

He patiently repeated over and over again every stroke and every stance, and summed up the art of or four sent-

batting in three warder was approached

by a convict, who, after saying that his seven-years sentence was

up in a few weeks, surprised the warder by declaring that he had concealed on him a large diamond worth about £100."

The chief Constable added that the convict suggested to the war- der that he should take the dia- mond to Plymouth and and they would share ceeds."

erices:-

"The first thing you have to get into your head is-I am going to watch the hall and trust my eye.

"Not one cricketer in eleven that I see playing first-class cricket re- ally does that.

SLEEP

Into The River

:

rose

soon

Miss Sophia Louise Booth from her bed in King'sroad, St. Margaret's, Twickenham. after midnight, put a flimsy dress- ing-gown over her nightclothes. and slipped quietly out of the house.

anu:

Less than half an she was drowned.

She had walked more

later

than of

MAJESTIC

GENE THEATRE====

Nathan Road Kowloon. Tel. 57222 TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30 620, 7.20 a 9,20 P.M.

"KICARDO

CORTEZ

VIRGINIA-

BRUCE

Shadow

Doubt

Meikar Bomera Roshe's mos!

baising thriller!

with Constance

COLLIER JEWELL

BARONESS OUT

OF DANGER

"I Want To Go Home"

"I want to go home," sald bovely Baroness Von Thyssen,- and with those five words stag- gered Dr. Francisco Coll, two nurses, and other ofcinis of the nursing home. where she is a patient.

..

It was the first. really coherent sentence she had been able to utter since the motor accident in which Prince Alexis Mdivani was killed.

It had been feared she "might". never speak properly again; fear. A ed she might lose her eye; feared Bt. she might not recover her mental

balance.

mile through the streets Margaret's, it is believed, in her

eep..

-Dr. Coll, speaking in French, ...No one had seen her. Her said:"Madame la Baronne 19

"If they did, they would be very eighty-two-year-old mother, sleep now quite out of danger. There

is no fear of her losing her eye..

we

much better batsmen, and should sweep the South Africans selt and Australians off the board the prMr. Jardine did!"

..

You should have heard the

bat and

The convict then asked the boys-and quite a number of Warder to get him a two-inch | grown-up boys. too-cheer that! nal, saying he had kept the

Then the way to hold a stone concealed in his nuse for "like a hammer, freely seven years until it had actu-naturally, forgetting that you have ally embedded Itself In the

a right arm."- cartileg...

The warder probably saw that It was really a

beautiful

but just as he was

Next, the stance-both facing the ball.

eyes

stone,

Finally, the strokes-"you only admiring want to learn four: the drive, the someone approached the celt backstroke, the cut, and the hook was a principal warder.

and you can leave out the hook il you have made a hundred county cricket."

The stone was nurriedly con cealed by the warder, who, to make things appear as usual, admonished the convict for some imaginary infringement

of the prison rules and left the cell with the remark "Don't led it happen again or there will be trouble.“

MOCK SEARCH

con-

"BODY-LINE”

Commander Fry showed temptuously how NOT to play back to a fast leg ball.

That sort of play." he said. "produced the little phrase "body" line bowling."

Mr. Jardine did not join in the boys' laugh, but he added bis " word: "Watch the ball-con- centrate. I was twenty-eight

A few days later the same war- der and the convict met. "What about my.. convict.

knew nothing "Haven't you got it?" asked the tion. warder.

diamond?" asked the years old before I learnt that I

The warder said he must have

At the first hearing Mr. H. Aost it when they were interrupt- Procter M.P., who appeared for

ed. Ec. pretended to make Lord Edward Montagu, said that

search for it in the cell and the there was a perfectly good answer

convict joined him. to the charges.

SHADOWED

same

about concentra-

for

"You must find that out yourselves. If you have as much fun as Commander Fry and I have had in finding out things. you have many happy hours and very few regrets in front of you."

I was close on his heels. As soon as he left the shop I entered and the proprietor what the man bad sold. A diamond, I was tola.

•

not

ing in the next room, had neard her leave the house.

she plunged into the Thames.

And in her sleep, apparently.

side of the river at 12.30 am. saw Two men Ashing on the Surrey

her pass beneath a lamp into the darkness beyond. A few moments afterwards there was a splash. A woman cried for help.

LOOKED AFTER MOTHER-

They jumped into a boat. rowed across. They found Miss Booth's dressing-gown on the bank. An hour later police recovered her body..

Miss Booth, who was forty- reven, had looked after her mo- ther since. "her fat..er died fqu years ago. Lately she had suffer- ed occasiona.ly from absent-

mindedness.

THE RIDDLE OF

SKYE

Clue At Last?

A body thought to be that Stanley. "Moore. the Sunderland

bank clerk List last May in the lonely Cullin Mountains, Ise of Skye, was found at Camasumary, twelve miles from the spot where, his fiancee, who had been hiking with him, was discovered dead in a stream.

A party of islanders came across the body and sent it to Broad- ford, some miles away, for identi- "Furrying out I caught sight offication.

The search for Moore has been "Now this is where, you come my man about fifty yards ahead in," said the chief constable towa'king in the direction of North- going on for three months. the detective.

"That warder has been

road rallway station, ·.

"NOT NEGOTIABLE"

Then the convict, after Cun- When Mrs. Van der, Elat was re- sulting a fellow prisoner, and examined by Mr. Henri Pierron, | realising. that he could not be Except for ritualistic inaccuracies, the cheque into the bank on June theft, went to the governor and asked

Brosecuting, she said that she paid further punished for the the story was heart'ly approved.

29 and had never endorsed any The scenario was changed sightly cheque for Lord Edward.

unfolded the whole story, to conform to the native ritual Mr. Pierron: if you were going and was reconsidered by the to give the defendant a loan of group. In her new starring Paramount given, and the father then con- bookmaker's cheque Of" cours? The final approval was £20 would 'you' have done it by a "Goin to Town". which

sented to left his daughter play would not comes on Saturday to the King the leading role in the film.

Mr. Roy Waxeheid, of Denmmune Theatre. Mae West undergoes the

street W. L club proprietor.

given stranges and eventful transition

stated that on July 16 Lord Ed leave to visit Plymouth, and the from a bronco-busting cowgirl to

ward 'asked him to change n governor wants him shadowed." the sweetheart DI society in quences takes place. Then they cheque, and he agreed to do so. The rest of the story can be They went to bank, and bis tad in the words of ex-Detective Southampton, without losing her go back to the States and South- polse or her wise-cracking abili- ampton, the stronghold of socie-bank mannger pointed out that the Bennett as he told it to me.

sheque was not negotiable, and that it was necessary that he Mae West marries a handsome should know Lord Edward very to Town", which presents her in young society man to attain post- well. He said he did, and the modern clothes, and up-to-date tion. But the efforts of fortune bank manager turried the cheque settings, start way back in the hunters and the jealousy of her over.. cattle country when she inherits rivals make things hot for her the money of a cattle baron, and until Cavanagh returns to the decides to go after a handsome scene to tell her that he had loved young Englishman on whom she her all the time. had an eye for some time. ; - --

In addition to Cavanagh, Ivan The pursuit of the Englishmián, › Lebedeff, · "Tito

ty.

Mae West's adventures in “Coin

ty.

Lord Toward tam produza » piece of paper with a signature on ́| it similar to the one on the choque. Mr. Wakefield said that he gave Lord Edward £5, and later sum of 8 and 83 and S4 were Coral, Monroe deducted from a "credit. Paul Cavanagh, leads. her to Owsley and Marjorie Gateson Lady Louise Montagu, Lord Ed Buenos Airies where the exciting appear in the supporting cast of ward's sister, was now accepted as and humorous horse-racing se- "Goin' To Town".

surety in the sum of 295-

3

"No one answering the war- der's description left the train at Mutley, the first stopping place at Plymouth, so I board: 'ed the train, and alighted again at North Road. Still no luck, and I went on to Milibay, the terminus. Then I saw the man I wanted.

"YOUR NAME IS——“

"Eventually he talked into the shop of a dealer in diamonds not far from St.

Andrew's Church.

officer.

son,

war-

...

An unnamed woman in Edin- "T said to him, 'I am a póliceburgh financed one expedition. officer. He held out his hand Four hundred shepherds and and replied, I am a. prison crofters were mobilised and paid

118. à day.

name is, and you are a

"I said I know you are; your Bloodhounds were sent to Skye hut failed to find trace of the der at Prince-town convict pri- missing man. Police co-operated with the searchers. Airplanes "The man's face went ashen were used.

Water diviners explored the grey. He put his hand trem- "Miingly into an inside pocket į mountain streams.

of his coat and drew forth a It was in vain until this last photograph, saying, 'Look here; search revealed the body... this is my wife and kiddies. Mr. Moore's fiancee, Miss Bar- Give me a chance. I did it for bara Nicholson, was found dead the wife and kiddies. He last May at Viksgill Burn, flye showed me £7, which he said days after they had left on s he had received for the stone" hiking tour. ghe had died from That same evening Warder→→→ head wounds and exposure. went back to Princetown under ki But no trace of Moore escort.

found.

"She is speaking quite clearly, and seems to have got over any Incoherence, except for a alignt occasional stammer.

"She is now able to walk about a little in the nursing home' grounds. She started to get up for half an hour at a time three days ago."

Because her mental and ner- vous condition is still very dell- cate the doctor has forbidden the 26-years-old baroness to have any visitors.

Even her 62-years-old husband has been told he should see her as rarely and for as short periods as possible.

A Hollow Sound Little Betty and Junior had at- tended a talk by a returned mis- sionary.

"What did he tell you about the heathen?" asked their grandma,

"Oh, he said that they were often very hungry, and when they beat on their tum-tums, it could be heard for miles."

Heard Before Bomewhere "Mothers should forget bridge. Husbands should come first in the home, then children. Daughters should not smoke. They should do real home, there will be fewer housework. If a mother makes a

divorces.

ALHAMBRA

VIENTRE

LAST TIMES TO-DAY"

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.208 9.30 p.m. A Farcical Comedy, in Cantonese.

..

"SOR-LO JOOK-SAU"

·with TSZE-HAU-CHUT and Miss MARY WONG:

TO-MORBOW-

M-G-M's Weirdest Horror Drama

MAD LOVE"

Starring

PETER LORRE

The Screen's Most Frightening

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