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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

DANTE'S INFERNO”

Scenes that beggar description and sights that stagger the fina- gination, are the larger part of an unforgettable drumu. Di day.

to- which

"Dante's inferno", opens to-day at the King's and Alhambra Theatres, the story of a woman who desperately strives to save the man she loves from destruction.

"JACK'S THE BOY”-

"Jack's the Boy," which is show in at the Star Theatre by spec.a request of cinema fans, is an un- usual comedy of a detective type I scintillates with joy and excite ment and provides first rate era

Jack Halbert plays tertainment. the role of the son of a "big noise" in Scotland Yard, and enlists 1 the police force known as Con- Ten million sinners writhing in stable Brown. He later is involved eternal torment, torture chambers, in a love-affair with the girl Ivy rain of fire, lakes of flame, and which leads him to the arrest oi craters of doom make "Dante's fa notorious crook, Jules Martin Inferno" timely as to-day's news The star is suported by Cicely and eternal with Its challenging Courtneidge,

Shotter.

truths,

Francis Lister, Peter Oawthorne

Winifred

**STRANDED

Dante Alighieri's "Divine Come-and Ben Feld. dy", the greatest of all, literary classics, is picturized in the most astounding spectacle ever attempt- ed in theatrical history, but it is not the principal burden of the story. It serves. to express a 10- dern theme.

The story tells of a modern transgressor, played by Spencer Tracy, who starts as a stoker on ship and rises to a position of "wealth and affluence by chi

chicanery and trickery.

the

The most dramatic, and greatest in heart interest of all the Warner Bros., service stories.

stranded next change at the Queen's Theatre with Kay Francis and George Brent in the leading roles. "Stranded" is stark drams. although there is comedy reliel hand there, just as there 15 amour in every walk of life. it centres about the lie of a-worker of the Travelier's Aid, waoŋon'ÿ

He builds a fortune around an amusement concession depicting the horrors of the "Inferno" and launches E flanting palace of-thinks in the terms pi humanity. pleasure, a gambling ship. Behind him he leaves a trail of lies, decep- tion, and betrayal -

"EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT**

"Every Night At Eight" new Paramount comedy, musical and romantic drama, which is delight ing audiences at the

Queen's Theatre, is the 'hrst motion picture to present a romantic story around radio amateur hours.

"With George Raft, Alice Faye, Frances Langford, Patsy Kelly, the

She is in love with a hard boiled engineer who is building the largest bridge in the world and who considers human beings only as cogs : an industrial machine. The clash of characters is the strongest point in the story,' al- though the action at time is fast and as thrilling as the wildest melodrama. Kay Francis in the role of the Travellers Aid worker gives one of her greatest screen characterizations.

ger, directed by Roaul Walsh, the film musical introduces brand new

Three Radio Rogues and Walter songs by Dorothy Fields, James Catlett, produced by Walter Wan-McHugh, and Ted Fio Rito.

* SHOWS

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A story that throbs with tender pathos

romance... and sparkles with joy and laughter!

HER BRAVE SMILE REBULOSTA ∙SHATTERED DREAM OF LOVE

SHIRLEY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1935.

LAST TWO-DAYS. AT THE

KING'S

ALHAMBRA

AL3-30, 5,10,7.15A 0.30 P.M.At 2 50, 5.90, 7.90 & 9.30 PM. SPECTACULAR.1 GĦALLENGING | TIMELY!

DANTES INFERNO

FLAME TREVOR MNKY N. WALTAREJ - ALAN DUBLAN

40

SPENCER TRACT

Unforgettable drame of today—a woman desperately striving to save the man she loves from destruction!

NEXT CHANGE

14

QUEENS

THEATRE PR

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 6.16, 7,20 & 9.30 P.M.

REAL ENTERTAINMENT I

Paramount s

Every Night

at Eight"

with

GEORGE RAFT-ALICE FAYE PATSY KELLY-FRANCES LANGFORD

THE THREE RADIO ROGUES

ALSO IN THE PROGRAMME-

POP-EYE CARTOON.

MURDER ON A HONEYMOON" KA EDNA MAY OLIVER-JANES OLYANON • BADIOB

"RXO

NEWS BREL

Lynn Cowan and Bill Bailey, Holly wood Entertainers at the Hon; Kong Hotel, Saturday, December 7.

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PRODUCTION OF VARIETY ACT AT

H. K. HOTEL

TEMPLE DANTES INFERNO

in her greatest picture

"OUR LITTLE GIRL ROSEMARY AMES · JOEL MCCREA LYLE TALBOT ERIN O'BRIEN-MOORE,

Prices Matinees 20 e.-30 e. Evenings 20 c-80 -50 e.-70'e.

CASH. NO CHITS, IN

SPY MANIA” IN JAPANESE CAFES

JAPAN

Proprictors Make Important

Decision

Shanghai, Nov. 10. Prospective patrons of Japanese cafes in Shanghai will have to carry cas unless they are among the fow ulect listed as "regulara,' according to a resolution adopted on Friday by the Japanese tavern

ownerz

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Also elected at the meeting was committes of five who will draw.

+

Two-young-foreigners, an En-

A Difficult Job

Cowan And Bailey Back Again To Delight

Big things are in store for the cilentcle of the Hong Kong Hotel

Untold difficulties were encount- ered by the technical staff of Fox Flims whilst engaged upon the production of the Inferno scenes. No effort was spared to make everything as realistic as possible and the finished picture as shown at the Alhambra and the King's when it opens its official season of

on December :heatres yesterday, shows the tre-entertainment mendous amount of work which They have booked a very versatile must have been put in by every pair of entertainers in the persons one in order to make, a very of Cowan and Bailey whose ap- dimcult portrayal, as real as pos-pearances here need no introduc-

sible.

tion.

SCREEN SOUVENIRS

REFORMS. IN

CHINA

Chiang Kai Shek's Government

(Special Air Mall Service

London; Oct. 24.

Mr. J. O. P. Bland, a former esident f Shanghai, writing "to the London Times on reforms in China touched upon many in- teresting points which are of in terest to our readers. We repro- duce his litter in full.

Sir, The ever-increasing import- ance of the subject of good govern ment in China is my

excuse for asking of your courtesy, to be per- Bitted to refer again

to Mr. Warburton Davidson's letter of "good news from Szochuen," blished in The Timer of September 24, and to the request for mor specific information, contained in my letter, published in bolumns on the 27th,

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your.

KING'S:

DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"Dante's Inferno"

QUEEN'S --

"Every Night At Eight"

ORIENTAL

“Our Little Gir?"

Kowloon

· ALHAMBRA¦---

"Dante's Inferno"

MAJESTIC:--

Pubile Hero No. 1”

STAR:-..

Jack's The Boy'

KING'S:-

Coming

"Murder In A Honeymoon"

QUEEN'S—

4

A "Every Night At Eight” ·

STAR:-

"Wednesday's Chud"

AIR CRASH ACTION ENDS

Judge Finds Pilot Negligent

(Special Air Mail Service)

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATRAN ROAD, KOWLOON TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.80, 520, 7.20 2 9.20 P.M. SECRETS OF THE WAR ON CRIME!

Watch the rats- take to cover!

Drama to: tear this shock-proof town apart! Romance as glamorous da its thrills!

PUBLIC HERO

NUMBER

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- Lionel Barrymore Jaan Arthur Chester Morris

P Kelly Leaks Stone

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SIGHT OF ONE EYE LOST

"Borrowed" Car Fine For Viscount Thurles

Viscount Tharles, aged 19, sori of the Earl of Ossory, of Bryan- fon Square, London, W., was fined £2 10s, at Hondon Police Court, for taking and driving away a car without permission or lawful an- thority, and 10s. for using a car without an insurance policy in force,"

He was ordered

to pay £3 costs and his licence was suspend-

ed for 12 months.

London, Oct. 24. The widow of a passenger kill- ed in the Imperial Airways iner disaster at Ruysselede, Belgium, on

Mr. Knight (prosecuting) Bai December 30, 1933, was on October that Viscount Thurles was am 23-awarded £3,500 in the King's played as a salesman at a garage Bench Division, and her daughter in Brook-mews. W., where a car was given £500, Mr. Justice Lewis owned by Mrs. Roberts, of Craw- holding that the pilot was negilford Street, was taken for repara gent.

in. July. Who the car was ready His lordship gave his considered for delivery, Viscount Thurles judgment in the test action which told his employer that he had per- › recalled the disaster to the air mission to use it.

He took it out, uner Apollo. The machine crashed and at 2.m the next day he was into a radio mast and ten people severely injured in a collision with amater lory. at Hendon." A on board, including the pilot and young woman passenger was also

injured,

second officer, were killed.

Mrs. Else Charlotte Grein claim-

In his reply to this request, and further communication

Au- dressed to you by the Archdeacon of Western Szechuan (both publish el in The Times of October 1), the "good news" is confirmed in general terus, but neither of these letters supplies anything in the nature of detinite information con- curning the men and methods em- ployed, during Etio

few past mouths in carrying out the vast ed from Imperial Airways, Limit- programme of reorganization and ed. on behalf of herself and her reform, to which both writers re- daughter. Elli, damages for the fer. From the Archdeacon's letter oss suffered by the death of her it would appear that the Generalis husband, Mr. Louis, J. E. Grein, a simo's method of closing opium passenger, deas, tax offices, &c., as applied in Szechnen, consists in turning out denial of negligence and lablity.

The defenICE WILS a generat corrupt officials" and replacing, them with his own men-an BX-

Mrs. Roberts told the Court that she did not give Viscount Thurles permission to use the car excent to take it to the gurags.

Viscount Thurles said that he had lost the sight of his right eye in the accident and his girl passen. er was still in hospital. Mrs. Roberts agreed to his taking the Giving judgment, Mr. Justice car for an extensive text after the

repairs had been done. pedient which, unless the character Lewis sald: "I think the machine Knowing I was going to Bt. of the Chinese people has recently was thoroughly and properly Albans," he said, "I thought it an undergone a miraculous change, is equipped as to engines and wire excellent opportunity for a fair not calculated to produce either less apparatus and I do not think trial, and I took the car in prefer stability or good will in the re- Imperial Airways falled in their ance to asking for another one at gions thus dealt with. For the duties to provide a properly equip-the garage." rest, it would seem that confidence ped aeroplane.'

in the permanent efficacy of General Chiang's methods of recon- struction and reform

is mainly

Continuing, his lordship said he

the occasion of the 11- fated journey, he was negligent. He failed to get a wireless messäre and falled to pick up a landmark but went ahead knowing of this chstruction.

"In the result, I find for the. plaintiff, with costs, for the sum of £4,000+£3,500" for herself, and for the daughter the aim of £600."

found that Mr. Gittins was a com-suffered damages in consequence of based on the fat (which none dis petent, fearless and steady pilot his death. putes) that he is a great loader, but on and furthermore that he and his talented wife are both Caristians With all dus respect, may "Ì 're- 7. mind the Archdeacon and Mr Davidson that a similarly optimis tic outlook has often been baseu ža the past Or the prolmanu Christianity of other prominent leaders, most notably in the case returned of the late Sun Yat-sen and that

Apart from the Inferno se. This pair of mirth provoking

quences, a modern story is enacted

glishman and a Itussies, ceployed by a Kobe firm, were taken to a by A cast headed by Spencer police box and questioned by an Tracy, H. B, Walthall, Claire Tre- Osaka plain-clothes policeman last vor and Alan Dinehart ---N.M. weck; reports the "Japan Chroni cle." They were released after a somewhat lengthy examination, and allowed to go home. The young men had been instructed to obtain samples of sulphur from an Osaka agent and were on their way back when they were stopped by a detec tive who at first refused to show his identity card. Eventually the

up a petition to the S.M.C. asking two foreigners were taken to a po- for a reduction or a complete relice box, where they consented to mission for a certain period of their licence fees. Tazes, the con-answer questions. The police re ferees said, were their largent, fused to take any notices of their business cards, but put many ques single item of expenses.

Other decisions included the fix. Lions as to the business which had ing of the price of a bottle of sake, taken them to Osaks. A book one

patrons

players are no strangers to us here as many will remember their previous visit here last year in the same capacity, when their enter- tainment, of a type exceedingly rare in this part of the world, fairly sent the local audiences to

BUTTERFLY WU hilarious mirth.

Marriage Will Not

Interfere With Film Career

simo's recent demonstrations

of

A. PRUDENT COURSE

Judgment was entered according-

A stay of execution for fourteen His prudent course was to have daya was granted bending const- to Brussels, No one fderation of the question of, an

would have blamed him if he had appeal moreover, two other alternatives.

adopted this course. Thefe" "were,"

of Feng Yu-hsiang The Generalis good will towards the missionaries of Szechuen may be perfectly sin "Perhaps." proceeded his lord- core, but, the fact remains that 10 ship, " Glitins or the other years ago, at a time when he pro occupants of the aeroplane, were fessed to have found his spiritual here they might have i put ja home in Moscow, he was at the different complexion upon

the head of a Nationalist party, which facts I have found, and distaste- Lynn Cowan and Bill Bailey are sanctioned an anti-Christian move ful as it is to me to find that ciso musicians of no mean repute.ment of great violence.

Gittins was guilty of negligence, I Their singing and playing on Finally, a word on the vitally the guitar and plano gained in- important matter of opium. The feel it is my duty to decide this stant recognition wherever they Archdeacon observes that, at the case on the evidence, which has have appeared. Their inimitable time of his visit to Szecinien last been given. I cannot speculate as

district of Chungking had been fateful journey.

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TO-DAY ONLY at 2.80, 5.20, 7.20, 9.20 P.M.

BY POPULAR

REQUEST

enties which are all their own spring, all the opium dens of this to want in fact happened on the JACK'S THE BOY

respect thereof. His widow has

will certainly prove a big attrac- closed as the result of Chiang's 1 therefore find that Mr. Greini tion here Their popularity is vigorous measures of suppression met his death owing to the negli- assured because though they work On the other hand, the Cheness gence of the defendants and that Wanking, Nev. 12.-

with enthusiasm their infections Recorder for July · contains the that negligence would, if death had Miss Butterfly We. popularly re personality coupled with their following note on the subject over not ensued, have entitled him to Japanese rice wine, at 50 cents for of them carried attracted particu-garded as the "queer" of Chinese ability to put the acts over will be the, reliable signature of Mr. Sher maintain an action for damages in the imported product, and 30 cents lar attention. It was "The Invin movisdom, is of the same opinion their chief assets.

wood Eddy for the local brew, and the collectible Adam," a companion book to as most of the Hollywood star

With them are Ted and Evelyn, When I went into Shansi and of telephone charges from the famous Salome," and scar that marriage does not confile: thythm and tap dancers straight Szechuan I found that it was, in

Bory examination by the nolién ap.

with a movie career.

from the Hollywood Studios and stead of Japanese drugs, Chinese parently suggested Communist

In an interview with a represen-Estelle Davis, Announcer.

opium, that was poisoning the and Bought opium, sold-as-freely thoughts..

tative of the Central News Agency Headliners wherever they went, people. In Bhansi Marshal Yen and as publicly as bread yesterday, Mis Wu stated that appearances of Cowan and Bailey Hai-shan (once prominent in the May 1 venture, in conclusion, to she would continue with her screen will be eagerly looked forward to British Press as the model gover suggest that the importance of this ful letter was more formal than a work after her marriage which w by the patrors of the Hong Kong ser] had a plan of opium suppres subject is suficient to justify pn. sion which, on paper, would deliver blication, at the earliest possible child's eassy on the work of a take place in Shanghai on Novem- Hotel....

the province from addiction in a date, of a Blue Book containing hypocrite. It is a good job for the Ger 23. A wife said at Tottenham police world that there are but a few wc- Miss Wu enlarged upon the sub- court that she went for a holiday

men like you. Who the dickens ject with the statement that not and wrote home to her husband to

wants to know about your new jumper or the weather? I have a few successfu' screen actresses tell him how she was getting on. The husband wrote her in reply enough to get on with without foreign countries are And this in what he wrote:rending about them--Your Endar mothers of several chidrer

Worthless Wife-Your disgraceing Husband."

WHERE THE MAN TAKES THE UPPER HAND

the

completed yesterday a series

of

dramatic performances here be is leaving day for Soochow on her way back to Shanghai-Con The celebrated Chinese actress tral News.

with

·JACK “HULBERT

CICKLY COURTNKIDGE

BRITISH FARGIDAG COMEDY

TO MORROW –

few years, but which, in practice, the latest available reports on the A GAUMONT BRITISH PICTURE" Ecreased the consumption of opium situation in general and on the for provincial beusit. In Dium traffic in particular, by the amount of opium grown, sold, F.M. Consule in: China and consumed, Brechuen led all Chins in the provinces. I visited.

went out on the streets of Chengtu

-I am do

TOP BLAND.. Braden House, Aldeburgh.

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