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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

AT THE QUEEN'S

A carnival In Spain, a riot of colour, beauty and adventure, is the climate highspot of Marlene Dietrich's new starring Paramount D.cture, "The Devil Is A Woman," now showing at the Queen's Thea.

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Directed by Josef Von Stern- berg, this new Dietrich picture is a spectacular romance of Spain. centring about a woman who won the love of all the men but gave hers to none.

As the cilmax to the riotous car- 11.val celebration the two men meet on the field of honour. The T.SUIS of tile duct shake the girl's confidence in herself, teach, her the real meaning of love and

change the lives of all the riiree principals. Among the fu- tures of The Devli Is A woman," Is Mas Dietrich singing two new songs by Robin and Rainger,.com- posers of "Love In Blooin" and other recent hits. Edward Everett Horton and Alison Skipworth have roles.

ル

"DINKY".

One of the cleanest and most re- freshing pictures of the year, the Warner Bros., production. "Dinky," wah Jackie Cooper in the stellar role comes to the Queen's Their Q1: an early date.

It is picture which every one will enjoy. Yet it is by no means a chidren's picture. Every' man will live over azan his boyhood and every woman will yearn over both the tots ir, the academy and in the orphanage. There will not be

a dry eye in the audience when Jackie, whose whole pride in e lay in his mother and his school, gives up the academy so that the funds left by his mother, for his schooling. shall be used to teip h free from a jebbed up charge nt embezzlement. There are two distinct romances in the picture ona a childhood love affair be- tween Jackie Cooper and le Betty Jean Haney, the girl who did such wonderful work in "Mary Jane's Pa" The other ds a grown- up affair between Jackie's widow- ed mather, a part played by Mary Astor, and lawyer, Roger FryOt. :

4 SHOWS

DAILY

1.20-13

7.16-8.30

"IT'S A GIFT"

The W. C, Fields picture "It's A Gift" showing at the Oriental Theatre

Wednesday on

and Thursday

presents Paramount's droli genius of comedy in a story that fits his pecular talents bet- ter than anything we have seen to date.

Supported by Baby LeRoy, who has learned to talk and utters his first dialogue lines in this picture: Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouvercl Julian Madison and Tammany Young. Fields has incorporated 'the best of his husterical

gags, aid some of the funniest any routines he has ever perpetrated. in this fim,

The story is a simple one. It concerns 7 shiftless, benperked grocer who can nelther shave. eat or sleep in peace in his own home. He finally inherits a sum of money. Invests it in a Call- fornia orange ranch and packs the family into a dilapidated car for n transcontinental trip thele new home.

to

Their adventures on the trip are replete with excruciatingly Sunny incidents, but when they finally arrive in the golden state they And that the orange ranch isa

"lemon." It is then that Fields really pais his genus into high..

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935.

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

THE SEARCH IS ON.. FOR ANN GRATI

Para ella Sis's beastytut d'the fecuinetales in TEST The Mecked fos marder by the poliow, the was starwada watu bar low pensons of its rocking Žugitive from love wanted bros mast në atët

e docking

Mayer

[NEXT CHANCE →

WOMAN WANTED

HANSEN

O'SULLIVAN, JOEL MCCREA

LEWIS STOMA LOUIS SALIRA › MAR EDGEDY ADUCE AND

ALSO

·SELECTED

SHORTS

QUEENS

** THEATRE CASIMI

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

Overture

Paramount Newareol

Selection Topical

Hyp - Hut - Tist"

POP-EYE CARTOON

KING'S:-

Marlene Dietrich

in

THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN'

with

LIONEL ATWILL

NEXT CHANGE

JACKIE COOPER

"Dinky"

GRACE MOORE in "LOTE NE PORIVER'

COLUMBIA PICTURE

SHANGHAI WEDDING

PERFECT SOUND RECORDING

Grace Moore. In Love Me Forever

Those duubters who insist tha there's nothing new under the sun will be interested to learn that Holywood is rapidly shooting that theory full of holes,

Perspective recording, an' alto- gether new development in the sound motion pictura, has just come to the lore, and will be heard for the first time when Columbia's. dramatic musical romance. **Love Me Forever," starring Grace Moore opens on Thursday at the King's Theatre. The system of recording was Initiated under the direct super. vision of J. P. Livadary, head of the Columbia sound department and recent winner of the Academy

Motion picture. of

Arts and Sciences award for the best sound Marlene Dietrich who appears in recording of the past year. "The Devil is a Women

The now

showing at the Queen's Theatre.

TAKE AND FRAYOR HARDT VALLIO ŽE

ORIENTAL

LAST

THEATRE

4 TIMES TO-DAY DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS

SENSATIONAL THRILLER!.

Drama to tear this shock-proof town apart! Romance as glamorous asits thrills!

PUBLIC HERO

NUMBER

with

Lionel Barrymore Jaan Arthur

Chester Morris

Joseph Called

Pant Kally Lewis Stom

› Metro-Goldwyn-Mayes neruka

Prices Matinees 2-c-30 e.

ESTARE

SHOWING TO-DAY

FLEMING

ROAD

TEL. 29473

TO-MORROW & THURSDAY THE

FUNNIEST COMEDY

YOU'VE SEEN THIS YEAR!

W.C.Fields IT'S A GIFT

with

Baby LeRoy

Frenings 20 8.-30 a.—50 c —70 c.

"WOMAN WANTED"

WZA

method

developed theoretically by J. Maxfield, of the American Bell Laboratories, and was given its first test in the Grace Moore picture. Enthusiasm over the improved method has gripped a Hollywood, and other studios are quickly taking up the new technique, it was learned. JUST THE RIGHT VOLUME "Perspective recording." nounced Lavadary, "gives the voice! Just the right volume and quality for whatever distance the player may be from the camera. In re- cording all of Miss Moore's songs by this method. We made two sound tracks at one time. same method was used In the dialogue scents. One track is "made with a microphone placed close to the player and the other is made with one placed at a long-shot and close-up.

close shots is used. For 201 camera angles at

Intermediate

distances, the two sound tracks

Howell Bateman

Shanghai, Nov. 7. The wedding of Mrs Carolyn bateniun, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ST. King of London, England, and Mr. Hargraves Milne Howell, son of

Mr.

and Mrs. George Howell di South Lodge, Stockgrove Park, Bedfordshire, England, took place yesterday at 11 am, at H. M. Con- sulate-General with Mr. J. W. O. Davidson officiating.

The bride, who is a member of the Imperial Society Teachers of Dancing, has resided in thanghal for a number of years and is prin- cipal of one of the city's leading dancing schools."

THE CHINESE

WISDOM

Not An Old Race For Nothing

"Woman Wanted QUEEN'S:-

"The Devil is a Woman"

ORIENTAL:-

"Public Hero No. 1"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:----

"Against the Law"

MAJESTIC:

"Adorable"

STAR:-

"The First World War"

Coming

KING'S:-

"Love Me Forever"

QUEEN'S:-

"Dinky" MAJESTIC

"Society Doctor"

(Spesial Air Mail Service)

London, Oct. 22, The Chinese are not an old race for nothing.. They know any in a language which no European [URIRA FAL:— amount, and they have hidden It

is invited to learn in three months without a master. But wisdom cannot be altogether hidden be- hind bows and hyperbolle com-

"It's A Gift“

For her marriage ceremony she pitments. If we watch the Chinese DECREES

wore an ankle length Princess Mary blue marocain frock with 3 rouleaux of self material at the neck and wrists. She wore a halo hat with an eye vell, and a cape 07. summer ermine to which was pinned a corsage of tea roses.

we shall get-hints.--What, we ask we travelled ones. Is that which the Chinese ticket collector, in addition to his painless forceps, carries in his hand? It is a ruler, and with it he measures the height The bride was attended by Mrs. early to see the world. For to the of such children as have begun thus A. J. Evans who served as matron Chinese our arbitrary line drawn of honour and by her two sisters, Miss Dulcle and Miss Audrey King. word

at twelve years seems the last who were bridesmaids. Mrs, Evans They laugh over it as we, in our in barbarous childishness. wore an ankle length fame geor- humble tam, laugh over black men gette diamante buttons; a black velvet and after that say, vaguely and

with white revers

and who can only count up to three turban and eye vell and a corsage hopelessly, "a of African daisies.

great many.” All

the logic is with the Chinaman.

AGAINST F. J.

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLUON · FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.8 5.20. 7.20 & 9.20 P.X.

Fox Film Presents

JANET GAYNOR HENRY GARAT

Adorable

Tunes Your ba Humeleg Soon "Adorable", "My Hart's Desc" "My Pics Love to Lam"

Story by Paul Freak and Bike Wider. Maala by Wemer Elchard Heymaan. Directed by WILHELM DISTERLE

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WEDNESDAY 18th

Society Doctor"

OUTLET TO THE FAR EAST

Canada To Celebrate Jubilee

(Special Air Mall Service:

London, Oct 22. Vancouver, Canada's outlet to the Far East, is preparing celebrate its jubilee.

to

The city, to-day one of the Empire's greatest ports, is only.

RAVEN FILED afty years old. The first commer-

Order Made For Payment Of $390,083.90

clal settlements were established there in 1885. They were incor- porated as a city in Apr. 1886.

The Committee of Organisation for the jubilee celebrations bus just been formed. It has ambitious Blans.

The whole of British Columbia is to be mobilised for the.celebra- tions, which will begin about Christmas and wil continue

until April,

Growth and Golf

slon is hard to beat,

The rate of Vancouver's expan-

steamship lines call there. ceuver is 400.000, and 53 different To-day the population of Van.

Empire where winter and summer Vancouver is the only city in the sports take place at the same time. On the same day the skler on the

Hollyburn Ridges, above Vancouver. can look down upon people bath- ing in the warm waters of the Pacific.

Shanghai, Nov. 7, clated with the Reliance Motors sically small you take up less room, Raven were signed by Judge Milton The bridegroom has been asso- If the principle that being phy-three suite against Mr. Frank J. Decrees in connection with the

Company for several years, repre- put less strain on the engine, and J. Helmick late on Monday night senting Vauxhall Motors, and is ari-well-known as secretary of

cause less wear and tear to the in the US, Court for China, in China Kennel Club, clubs as well by

the rolling-stock, is sound and it is accordance

Three months after its incor- with a recent order as the S.V.C. He was attended by truth-then it is just

no means 盘 self-evident from the court. In the first suit, out by fre. The poration as a city Mr. Stanley E. Flory. also an old by the foot. There are

it was wiped to pay instituted by Mr. Frank Hough, inhabitants had to rebuild it. In two thousand Tauntonian schoolboy, who was lads

Tanky liquidator of the American-Orient that first year 23 ships left the best man.

of eleven- who want allal Banking Corp., the defendant new port. and more, of their share of the has been Following the ceremony a recep-carriage space, and there are un

ordered to return and The tion was held from noon to 2 pm dersized brate who can be packed "being the amount paid to the pay to the plaintiff $188,811.18. in the suite of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. } twelve aalde with no discomfort. defendant Evans of H M. Consulate in the why should the charge be the Oriental Banking Corporation and by the American- corated with chrysanthemums and Medhurst. The apartment was de- same, and why should bulky ten go received by him without considera Mr. Evans proposed the health of thirteen? If it be said that Eng- per cent, per annum from January at half the rate of diminutive lon." together with interest at 6 the bride and bridegroom. "In cutting the picture, the pro-

A buffet tiffin was served at the ful measurement of their offspring, and costa.

lish people would resent the care-13, 1332 until the date of payment. per sound track for the long and reception which was attended by why do they not resent the cross-

about 50 guests including Mr. and examination on recent events by brought by Mr. Hough on behalf In connection with the ԱՆ Mrs. A. 6. Henchman, Commander which alone it

G. Moncrieff, Mr. Key stevan. rough-and-ready fashion, whether had been accepted, and Mr. Raven brate the Jubilee. will be are blended together so that perRev. A. J. Garnier, Mrs. W. J. anybody is really under twelve?

can tested, in of the A.OF.U, a ples of payment which is

It has nine golf courses. A tenth, being planned, to cele- fect voice perspective is heard at all times."

Baker, Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Duff,

is accordingly ordered to pay the finest in the Empire, Mr. and Mrs. 8. E. Flory. Mr. and

VICTORIAN PARENTS

sum of $13,401.54, together with It is to be called "The High- Mrs. J. B. Manley, Dr. and Mrs. J.

The truth is that our rallways interest at 6 per cent. per annum lands." Robinson, Mr. H. G. MacEwan, Mr. lish love of comfortable Actions Edgar, Mr. H. Jory. Dr. R. H. are one more example of the Eng-date of payment, and costs of the from October 16, 1935, until the

W. Hutton, Mr. and Mrs C. L. Victorian parents, with their con- the first, Mr. Raven being ordered and Mrs., W. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Half-price was established because Matthew. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. siderable families, expected a re-

The third decree is similar to Leach, Mr. and Mrs D. C. Olive, duction and would not travel with of the Asia Realty Co., the sum of, to pay to Mr. Hough, es trustee Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hunter, Mr. and out it. But they were" touchy $188,811,18, "being the amount paid Mrs. D. Beare, Mr. and Mr A. H. about an appearance of charity, so Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. the pretence was inaugurated that Realty Co. Fed. Inc. USA., and to the defendant by the Asta Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. Springborg, children under twelve are no real mceived by him, without considera- Brown and Mr. G. 3. Grik.. Mr. W. C. G. Clifford, Mr. G. A. P. trouble. If the principle of size tion, together with interest at the had been adopted there would have been an agitation to extend from January 18, 1832, till date of rate of 8 per cent. per annum it to grown-up people. The weigh payment, and the costs of the ing machines on platforms would have acquired a new and ugly

In accordance with a ruling of significance. The railways, with the court last week, all other suits their confident assumption that brought against Mr. Raven have everybody is the same size, and now been stayed..

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In "Love Me Forever" Miss Moore is supported by cast headed by Leo Carrillo, Michael Bartlett and Robert Allen. Victor Schertzinger directed from the screenplay by Jo Swering and Sidney Buchman.

"AGAINST THE LAW’

Those who love action in their *Terror reigned in the realm of drama will thri at Woman romance! Strong men clashed

THE BOOK THAT Wanted: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's over lave-while Fate decided the

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THE FIRST WORLD WAR

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EXTED BY

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Findweedy Truman Taller

A FOX PICTURE

new drama of the law on crime, victor! Stirring, dramatic incl- now playing at the Kuig's Theatre, dents and tender romance mingled In an amazing sequence of swiftly

In an exciting thriller of the police moving thrills it packs the hectic ambulance servicel adventure of eight hours into a single evening of entertainment.

These are the highlights of Columbia's "Against the Law," Maureen O'Sullivan plays. Ann, starring Johnny Mack Brown. the heroine, with engaging skill, which is showing at the Alhambra and Joel McCrea, teamed with her to-day and to-morrow. Brown for the first time, gives an equal-portrays the role of a daring am- ly refreshing and convincing perbulance driver who is involved with formance, under the direction of George Meeker, his interne-friend, George Seitz Lewis Stone plays and Bally Blane, the girl they both the "district attorney with his love, in a gangster feud. usual forcefulness, and Adrienne Thrills pile on thritis Ames is a charming "vainp" in the picture.

David Silverstein und Leonard Fields wrote the screen play from a story by Wilson Collison,

Modern Politics. "Have you seen the candidate .yet?"

•

as the

World-Famous Freemason Dead

that "room for five, persons" is 'a

safe general rule, were perhaps

wise. Thin people, as a class, are

sult.

sult.

the

(Special Air Mail Service>

London, Oct 22. One of the world's most famous more cantankerous, and fat people After all, the principle of varying" Masome figures-Mr. Curtle Chip-are easy-going. The demands for the charge according to man, a Bouton (US.) banker-has reductions from the thin would nuisance-value of the traveller died at Boston at the age of fifty-have been a nuisance not redressed opens the door to a far-reaching eight, says Reuter.

by the easy mulcting of the fat Inquiry into carriage behaviour. Two years ago he was elected And the fat might have fibbed. Some think there should be an powerful criminal machine closes an honorary, member of the Grand Railway carriages, after all, are extra charge of a penny or two fu about them, driving the young Ledge of Scotland—a rare honour. not much fun for them. Not or using smoking carriages, which doctor to salcidé, and threatening

theirs to lake exercise on long need much cleaning out. The sur- the love of the other two. The

journeys, skipping about the cor-ly and the garrulous, both of whom surprise climax is filled with hair-

ridor. The only exercise they get diminish the popularity of railway raising suspense and tense drama.

in corridors is a form of abdomin- travel," might also, at the guard's Lambert Hülyer directed.

al pressure, in passing or being discretion, pay little more, and passed, very uncongenial to those those who take papers and maga of a full habit of body. The col-zines in order to lend them to lector with a tape measure, assess-strangers might pay a little less. ing the excess, would be an added But if these, considerations begin affliction, and the demand for and the ruler starts them-it specially wide carriages, for trains will not be surprising if we become,:: with an appropriate bulze, would more than ever home-loving De rather hard to out-argue." people.

Say No More "Yes; he flew over our house Diner: "You can't expect me to this morning and dropped down a eat this stuff! Call the manager!" lot of literature and threw a kiss Walter: "It's no use; he won't to the baby.".

eat it, either!"

An Easy One.... "You're good at conundrums. Try this one,"

"Snre;: go ahead.” "Take away my first letter, take away my second letter,-take away all my letters and I am all the same What am I?",

"That's easy. You're a mail car rier,"

ALHAMBRA

THEATRE

the

OPENS TO-DAY at 2.50, 5.20, 7.25 & 1-30 P.M.

Two young stars in

a happy

show!

JOHN MACK

BROWN

Against the Law

SALLY

BLAME

ARTHUR

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