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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

GOIN' TO TOWN.

WEREWOLF OF LONDON

Rightfully "this takes its place on the horror, picture roll of honour beside "Frankenstein," "Dr. X," "Dracula,"

#ax

As a girl who knows what she wants and thrives an opposition," the new and modern Mae. West

to the screen returns

in Para- mount's "Goin' to Town,", which | Museum" and the rest of the bet- Beautifully ter spine vibrators. opens to-day at the King's Theatre. The blonde star's new vehicle tops photographed by Charles Stumar, all her previous efforts for comedy. well acted by a proficient cast, romance, intr.gue and vocal ef and strikingly mounted, it is de- serving of a place in any first- .. forts.

run house whose audiences go for this sort of thing. Hull as the werewolf, has perpetrated many a grisly murder before the pistols of Scotland Yard rub him out as 15 about to murder his young Beautiful wife, done by Valerte Hobson. The picture is a little slow striking its note of terror

Gutteringly arrayed in the styles

West of 1035, Mae

plays Q catule baron's widow with many to burn and warm affections. And to get her man she transports hers. from a small mid-western m.ning town to Buenos Aris and Southampton, and through a series of gay and hectic adventures.

Paul Cavanagh, playtrig i hand- some Englishman, the 'man, When Mae West discovers that beauty, wealth and racing stables can't get him, she decides to be cme lady, in the society man- ner,

but once it has never lets down. Hull's magnificent acting ability 14 submerged by, the grotesque requirements of the role, but nevertheless his per-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935.

`SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

MAE WEST

GOIN TO TOWN

*HT CHANEL

fine crusher' sedary

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nand darmo. Son to deter her out). 243 volt soul, you 'hear her sine graad opera! You'll A is the older) A Forumson Platorneo Otcented byálkadadır. Moli

Janet Gaynor-Warner Baxter in "ONE MORE SPRING**

formance is thrilling, convincing DIANA WYNYARD

and skilful. Warner Dland, DS the Oriental werewolf who is not With her characteristic directness above stealing Hull's flowers to and bravity she sets about acquiri rid himself.

very, im-

of

ing manners and a background. also magnificent and

werewolfery, Tears Up A Contract

of

But there is a rival. Marjorie portant 23 the story develops. Oateson, and a number of fortune

As the childhood sweetheart hunters, including Ivan Lebedeft,

the unhappy bride of the were and between them they make a wolf. Lester Matthews turna in a lot of trouble for the blonde splendid performance. Spring chariner.

Byington, J. M. Kerrigan, Clark Willams and Louis Vincent all stand out in minor supporting roles. The picture opens to- morrow at the Queen's Theatre.

Mae West bests them in the end, howev ir and when she does Cavanagh returns to tell her that he has loved her all the time. !

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ONE MORE SPRING

A woman's eager pursuit of the glamour of romance is said to be the theme of the latest Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter co- starring vehicle, "One More Spring." scheduled to come to the King's Theatre on Tuesday as. the feature attraction.

Reports from other cities where this Fox Film is playing to capa- city audiences, reveal that 1t scores one more triumph for these two popular stars who belong to gether on the screen.

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The locale is large city park during the rigours of winter and the promise of spring.

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THE

SCREENS GREATEST NOVEL TIES PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE ISLAND OF BALI

LEGONG

ROMANCE IN BALI

· Native Girls timed entirely in TECHNICOLOR

-Evenings 20 ets.-35 ets.-55 cts.

MÅD LOVE

Diana Wynyard, star of 'Holly- wood's greatest talkie, "Caval- cade," has torn up her fim con- tracta £300-a-week contract.

She will not go back to Holly wood.

She told me last n'ght: "I saw 1 representative of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in London." and after Long discussion we have agreed to forget about my going back,

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"I don't want you to think that I am one of those people, wao 80 out there, earn a very big salary then come home and say vitriolic things about my employers.

FOX FICTURE "

QUEENS

THEATRE FE

TO-DAY ONLY #: 230, 5,10 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

The Defense Attorney Knew He Was Innocent

Evidence enough to theas e cont

JADIO

FAILED BY A WOMAN

・・・ but could prove

he was guilty the

man who had stolen the woman he loved!

HAT

OAT

and

GLOVE

with RICARDO CORTEZ Jurburu Robbins • John Boul

Ducted by bangtan Alerth

After Sixteen Years

Frederick Charles Townsend, of Hartford, Huntingdonshire," who had driven a car for sixteen years in Cañada, came to England for a two-months holiday, went for a driving test, which was conducted by a woman, at Cambridge.

failed.

and

He appeared at Huntingdon Po-. lice Court-In what was described as the first case of its kind in the cuntry-and made an application against Captain Stuart, chief test- er to the Ministry of Transport. for permission to take another test within a month.

the

"It is just that I know I don't ilke filming In Hollywood; that

Mr. R. H. Copley, who represent- know that my real future lies on the London stage; and that per-ed Mr. Townsend, said that sonal ties, keep me here. I would very much rather stay with my mother and father."

The parting of Miss Wynyard from M.G.M. follows a

summons

to the studios at the expiration of her London "holiday." She .wp- turned in "Bweet Aloes" in the West End.

In the middle of the run the play was interrupted while she went into a nursing home for on appendix operation.

HAT, COAT AND GLOVE

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A colourful cast combining old favourites with new faces" comes

to the screen at the Queen's Theatre to-day only in .RKO- Radio Picture's dramatic romance "Hat, Coat and Glove."

"Mad Love." Maurice Renard's uncanny novel of strange surgical Experimentation, provides the sciea- tific basis for the latest terror- drama of the screen which brings to American pictures an amazing gained new mystery personality in Peter Lorre, European star of "M."

to

of

Leading roles in the productkn are carried by Ricardo Cortez Barbara "Robbins, John Beal and Dorothy Burgess. Others in the cast are Sara Haden, Murray Kin- nell, Margaret Hamilton and David Durand, Cortez, a rank- ing favourite of the screen for ten years, worked his way to star- dom in the silent films and las talking pictures.

increased popularity in Miss tobbing, beautiful brunette from the New York stage, makes her screen début in the feminine lead, and 's being halled as one of the films' outstanding discoveries. · She comes to pictures direct from leads in such Broadway successég

Baffling mystery and intriguing romance are entertainingly com- bined in "Hat, Coat and Glove."

SHAW'S PRE-WAR JOKES

not

Road Traffic Act provided for an appeal to be made, but did say what form it should take whether by application, complaint.

or “summuDA.

The complaint was that the test was not conducted in accordance with the regulations

When a maa on misd for many destrus his story sa greinač A woman's home), hơn plays long with the hangman's Mason)

RETIRED ARMY OFFICER

In Assault Case

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PÁ Retired Army oficer agreed that he had written letters to another man's wife, addressing her as "darling, complained in West London Police Court that the husband had assaulted him.

The husband, he said, forced his way into his house and punched him.

"The next thing I remembered,* he continued, "was finding myself in bed with a policeman standing

over me.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Goin' To Town"

QUEEN'S:-

"Hat, Coat and Glove"

OKIENTAL:

"Little Miss Marker"

Kowloon

ALHAMERA:-

"Mad Love"

MAJESTIC:--

"Shadow of Doubt"

Sunday

KING'S:-

"Goin' To Town”

QUEEN'S:-

"Werewolf of London"

ALHAMBRA:=

"Mad Love"

ORIENTAL:...

"Legong"

MAJESTIC:-

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"We Live Again"

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DRUG MENACE IN CHINA

No Proper Control

Geneva, Sept 18.. (From Our Special Correspondent)

Addressing the League Assem- Canton, Sept. 20. bly.Committee on the oplum re- The police ban on fashionable port, Mr. Victor Hoo," Chinese de- The x-over

Wilnam clothes does not appear to worry | legate, thanked the Rapporteur Christian, aged forty of Swell-dressed women, who are seen for his remarks regarding Chin- Clement'e-mausions, Fulham, to-day in strects and theatrea in ese efforts to stamp out the drug

their usual short-sleeved ensem-

menace, and expressed the opin- bles with long slits at the side displaying bare legs.

The husband Was Kenneth Charles Peer, aged twenty-seven, a toolmaker, of Chaidon-road, Fulham. He was accused of caus- ing grievous bodily harm to Christian.

Christian said that he was in hospital for three weeks with head injuries.

"PESTERING" DENIED

Replying to Mr. John Haring ton who defended, he said that Mr. Townsend, in the witness-wife, adding that be did

Peer naken him to stop seeing his box, said that he had held a dry- believe in platonic friendship. He ing licence for sixteen years probably told Peer that he was Canada. He had "never had

marrow minded. accident

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Two days after he arrived in England he went for a driving test, but he could hardly under- stard the questions which the woman examiner put to him.

Mr. Percy Albert Green, garage

who

with Mr. Wis proprietor, Townsend when the. test W&5 made, said he thought that under similar conditions 95 per cent. öf those tested would have failed. Townsend was, his opinion, a com- petent driver.

The tester, Bessie Holmes, said that she had tested about two hundred applicants, and about one l every ave had falled. In her opinion Mr. Townsend did not pass the test as a whole.

After half an hour's considera- tion the magistrates decided to dismiss the application,

NEW TRAFFIC SIGN,

Halt At Major Road

Ahead"

not

ion that the legalised output of druga still exceeded the world's Several glamourous creatures legitimate requirements. Clandes- were said to have been halled in- tine manufacture was increasing to police stations where the sad smugglers were becoming inspectors gave them a tecture more skilful, he said.

on 'what to Wear in the hot Mr. Hoo regretted that the So- weather, but some police officials | viet had not adhered to the 1931 denied the arrests.

Convention, and that the League

Stylish women here still follow WAS unable to give information very closely the feminine styles regarding the situation in Man- prevalent in Shanghal. Thustrat- churia and Jeho.. As long as

ed magazines showing Shanghai manufacture there continued" to movie actresses are studied care- an unlimited extent, the narcotic

situation fully by smart ladies who

of the world would to appear up-to-date in

never be satisfactory.- Heuter.

attire.

wish their

According to government regu-

Mr. Harington. You thought it was narrow minded for a husband to object to a man seeing his wife?

Bir Gervais Rentoul (the magislations, women must wear not trate): I might or might not be. It depends on circumstances.

Christian denied that he Was pestering Mrs. Peer or that be followed her about and sent her chocolates and flowers. He agreed. that he had written the following letters to Mrs. Peer:-

"Darling, I have just heard great news. I believe Ken (Peer)" is working this afternoon. If so, will you be kind and take me out

"Darling, unlucky again last night. I waited at the window And then wandered to the top of your road, but I did not even get a sight of you. I wonder if I am going to have a better fate this evening. Can you manage to meet me! Be a kind soul. I pray to God you will oblige me, with all my love."

"NO HARM IN WRITING" Christian said he saw no harm in writing to Mrs. Peer.

He did not recall telling Ma. Peer's parents that he loved their daughter and would marry her if aho was divorced.

Mr. Harington: Would you have married her if she was divorced Not in my present circumstance I am a widower with four children and I cannot afford to marry,

Mr. Harington, replying to the Mr. Hore-Bellsha, Minister of magistrate, said that the wife in. was "not an agreeable Transport, has caused a letter to the case be sent

to highway authorities party."

When the prosecution agreed to throughout Great Britain calling reduce the charge to one of assault. Bernard Shaw's six-hour-long attention to the new trame sign the husband pleaded guilty, and creed, "Man and Superman"-it Halt at major road ahead," was bound over for six months to not a play-has not dated for awhich he has authorised with a keep the its pre-war vintage. The jokes view to reducing the number of recognisances of £

pence in his own still drew spontaneous laughter at accidents at road junctions. the Cambridge Theatre last fight.

The picture, due at Alhambra to- day shows Lorre as a surgeon, gone mad, and using his amazing know ledge to wreck the life of a pianist whose wifh he covets. Grating of hands of a murderer to replace those lost in an accident by the pianist; the uncanny surgery where as "Dangerous Corner" and "No It is a dramatic modern story, fantastic operation neyer seon be-

the surgeon, Gogol, attempts a Questions Asked,”

of high adventure

gallant fore, and other creepy detail sur courage, adapted from the wide-round gripping drama in the "ly acclaimed novel of Robert audacious plot. A glimpse of

Nathan which proved a best- Paris' Grand Guignol Theatre seller.

horrors is another graphic and bizarre detail of

the

amazing story. Lorre brings a new type of menace the screen-the calculating malefactor who regards crime a fine art, and is perfectly impersonal In the setting drift, separately, about. it. His strange face, his a number of strange types, each peculiar expressive eyes and odd original, each reduced by circum-personality are due to give Ameri- stances to near desitution. They can picturegoers a new kind of include a girl out of work, a thrill. ruined

auctioner,

starving Frances Drake is beautiful, and violinist, a suicide-courting back- acts the role of the wife with ez, a hite-wing worker, a cop Clive gives an impressive per poignant intensity. and Colin formance as the pianist, Orlec, This motley crew, brought to Henry Kolker plays the prefect of police who, aided by Ted Healy as gether by fate," work out their

the reporter, solves the mystery, destiny, and find that their and Edward Brophy provides an therto drab lives have been amazing character as Bollo, the heightened by their adventures murderer, guillotined and sup together.

posededly brought back to life. Jenet Gaynor is said to have a Keye Lake is the sinister Oriental assistant to the mad surgeon.

and lich-tamer.

than a couple of hours—was re- markable for two things:-

The vitality of Esme Percy and

The letter explains that the new

directions.

only "stockings but long trousers to cover up their legs. A way to enforce this ruling is still under consideration.

BANKS IN DIFFICULTY

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, Sept. 20 Mr. Wu Hok Yan, manager of the local branch of the Nationa Commercial and Bavings Bank, Ltd. told newspapers men to-day that the cash deposits of his alents amounts to only $600,000, while an equal amount was lent out by the Bank, not to mention that the property of the Bank Is worth about $200,000,

In the circumstances, he. said that there should be no difficulty for the local Bank to resume business, although the decision is to be made by the head office in Hong Kong. Mr. Lu added that he had made a report of failure of the Bank to Mr. Fang Fo, Provincial Commissioner of Pinance, who promises to give assistance should the Bank decide to reopen

the Ou

As regards the Bank of Canton, Ltd., it is learned that there is Ettle prospect for its resumption of business. So far the amount of deposita filed is about $600,000.

·NO DECISION YET

Even the theory that woman pursues man is so decked out with sign sold, as a general rule, be cases the Minister will be prepared special to the "Hong Kong Dally erected only at places where the to consider giving his approval

· Press" (Copyright);] wit that it seems fresh,

The scene in he which was driver of a vehicle approaching a when applications are received.

Addis Ababa, Sept 19." played last night-a four-fold major road from a minor road

No final decision has yet been The new sign will be placed as philosophie discussion lasting more cannot have a reasonably "clear

view of the major road in both close to the junction as will allow taken by the Government na to an approaching driver reasonable the attitude towards the Commit- It is suggested that in some distance to bring his vehicle to a tee of Five's proposal which has the exquisite slow gestures of Mar-cases the new sign-may, with ad- halt before he enters the major been the subject of lengthy de-

read. In no circumstances would liberations, t

The Emperor has invited all the Karet Rawlings while other mem-vantage, replace an existing "Slot be more than 30 yards from the bers of the case are speaking;

-major road ahead" sign, but the

foreign correspondents to a banquet Miss Rawlings has stepped from Minister expresses the hope that

on, Lursday evening, when it; im deeply emotional role as A Sarah. Haden, Isabel Jewell. one part-in The Greeks Had a highway, authorities will in all It is expected that many of the expected he will reveal his inten- Courageous girl alone in

Warner Baxter Is the Charles Trowbridge and Inn Wol-frankly immoral woman

the Murray Kinnell, Harold Huber, Word For It"-in which she was a cases consult the chief officers of new signs will be in position very tions in some form of declaration, world.

Into a police before deciding at which shortly. Drivers who disregard the romantic adventurer who clings feare in the east, to the right to dream.

the

role in which the immorality is Junctions the new signs should he indication given by them will be Transocean Quo Min increased but the frankness is not erected

guilty of an offence under Section so apparent.

It is recognised that, there may 4 of the Road Trame Act, 1930. It is only the quality of her par- be other functions where, sitiouse The words "Halt at zaajor road formance that makes the charac- there is a fair view of the major shead will be in black on a white

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As the slow-moving easy-going lion-tamer, the inimitable come dian Stepin Fetchit has a role that is good for a thousand-and- one laughs.

Karl Freund repeate triumphs he scored with the weird -ffects of "Metropolis" and "other European pictures, in the direction of the new play adapted by him

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junction.

If and Guy Endore from theter of a purely Shavian woman from the minor road, the new sign | ground surmounted by

not only credible but enchanting I would be desirable, and in these triangle within a circle,

original novel.

Hollywood Dimen

being

Will you be my fourth wife?" Bure, if you don't'r

Afth husba

ITALIAN ARMY

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

press'

(Copyright).1

Rome, Sept 19. Men belonging to the classes of 1911 to 1914, who already have been rejected by the authorities as unfit, wil be subjected to a new medical inspection which shortly after. ¦ wards will be carried out, also fór

the classes of 1901 to 1911.

This measure which is customar.

ly only adopted in time of war, will result in all four classes being now ander the colours, as well as all classes of reserv.s being reinforced, Transocean Kuo Min.

ALHAMBRA

UREATRE

TO-DAY at 2.30, 3.20, 1.20 à 9.30 P.M.

1.000 Thrills

MAD LOVE

GPS STABBING-

Peter Lorre

FRANCES BRAKE COLIN GLAVE

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