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CINEMA TRADE NOTICES

"IT'S A COP"

Sydney Howard has never been. in a film which no suits His parti- cular characteristics as "It's a Cop" in which he takes the part of a particularly thick-witted Police Constable.-

As P. C. Spry he sets out in search of promotion and.becomes involved with a gang of crooks, who plan to steal a secret formula, the charms of Babette, an accom- plice, being employed to keep him out of the way while the burglary Is carried out,

Temporarily disgraced, our noble constable is faced with the neces- alty of setting off on the trail alone in order to rehabilitate him- self.

"

"THE SCOUNDREL"

EDNA MAY OLIVER PLAYS "WELL.

"Murder on A Honeymoon" Applauded

on

clever flm that combines comedy with mystery is "Murder a Honeymoon," a 'RKO-Radio production which had its frst showings at the King's Theatre yesterday."

Edna May Oliver that serious, it not, always humourous actress" is featured in this picture and these: who saw her playing the part of a detective in "The Penguin Pool Murder shown not long ago, will be enter..ained bitter than before, as although she's about taking the same type of role, she is shown to a better advantage, and she ls, I think, acting as good or even batter than in that picture.-A

Noel Coward, the man respon- Į R. M. sible får "Design for Living.".| "Cavalcade" and "Private Lives," three of the most popular motion pictures is to appear the leading role of the Hecht-MacArthur production. The Scoundrel," coming on Saturday to the King's Theatre.

new

Coward, actor, "playwright, com- poser and generally conceded the most brilliant figure of the con- temporary theatre plays a literary Casanova in this sharp and satiric tale of decadence in the New York smart set.

"STRANDED"

in

The Grand Central and Pennsyl- vania Stations were once the Anest Railway Terminals America but Hollywood built a bigger and finer one in just six days. Its massive Gothic beauty. framed in columns of Carrara marble, itmned as though to stand | the

'IN CALIENTE”

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1935.

LAST TWO-DAYS at 2,80, 6.10, 7.15 & 8.30 PM.-

WITH

EDNA

MY OLIVER

JAMES GLEASON

EKG-RADIO.PICTURE

MURDER ON A HONEYMOON

FROM

NORL COWARD in SAT. "THE SCOUNDREL"

ENGLISH BOY FILM STAR

Of David Copper field" Fame

Carrying the torch for a new dance rhythm

which ballroom may seriously threaten the hold- that the fox-trot has held on the dancers of America for a decade, Antonio and Fence DeMarco, famous terpsichorean team. in- In the First vaded Hollywood, National

musical "In screen Callente." scheduled to open at the Queen's Theatre this week end. they make their flm debut. And with motion pictures as their most potent ally, the DeMarcos intend, they say, to continue their invasion of the fox-trọt territory

Miss Bartholomew's petition was which they started in New York

contested by Freddie's parents, Mr. when they starred at the ne

and Mrs. Cecil L. Bartholomew, of Perstan Room in, the Hotel Plaza. London, in an affidavit.

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Los Angeles-Freddle Bartholo- mew, the English boy star of the

became the legal ward of his aunt. film "David Copperfeld," to-day

order of the Los Angeles Court. Miss Millicent Bartholomew, by

He has lived with her since, the age of three

This affidavit alleged that the "MURDER IN THE FLEET" boy had been taken out of England

"by trickery and decelt." -.--

on

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cruiser.

Visitor's day were crowds of curious sightseers-secret of centuries, ravages used for only one week. Then it work under way on a new fire was removed to make room for a control gear-then suddenly 5. Park Restaurant and a San Frun-¦ murder! cisco lodging house. Grandeur is

The parents said they had not been advised he would take part in fim work in America.

"ABDUCTION"

They demanded that the court Thus is the audience plunged refrain from "cloaking apparent

a transitory thing in Hollywood. almost immediately. Into excite-abduction with an aura of legal

ment and tense mystery of "Mur-ity."

The enormous railway station was built for "Stranded" the new

Warner Bros.. production which opened last night to enthusiastic Audiences at the Queen's.

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der in the Fleet," showing at the The parents, however, were not

Oriental Theatre, detective drama legally represented in court, so aid aboard a warship. A young Judge T. P. White ruled that the lleutenant turns detective and affidavit had no standing. He trails a strange criminal. Suspi" added:- clon rests on everyone aboard in a swift-moving story, the action of which takes place in a single night. High-pressure action my- stery is solved in the final fade out.

LADY BARON TO MARRY AGAIN

Special Air Mall 'Service)

London, Nov. 4.

A licence was applied for at a London register office to-day by Mr. Arthur Robert Tritton, bache- lor, aged 51, to marry Lady (Rene) Baron, widow of Sir Lou's Bern- hard Baron, Bart., chairman of

"My order may, however, be modified any time within the next six months if a proper showing is made by the parents"

Freddie, who at eleven years of age is earning £250 a week under a two years' contract, was a wit-

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He was asked by his aunt's law- yer if he understood what happen ed to boys who did not tell the

truth.

"They probably go to Hell" he replied.

Freddle told the court his parents had said, "How lovely it would be for me to come to Ameri ea," and had spoken of his chances of working in "David Copperfield." Mr. Cecil Bartholomew, Freddie's father, is employed at the Ministry Carreras, Ltd, who died in Mays.W. He telephoned the

Agriculture, and lives at Barnes, "Dally last year, leaving £652,101,

Express" for news of the case.

**That is # terrible thing for

Lady Baron is the daughter of Mr. Bruno Richter, of New York.

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FRANK BORZAGE'S

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BYZANCE'S RARE

TREASURES

Surprising Discovery

Made

(Special 'Air Mall- Service)

London, Oct. 29.

and

SUNSPOTS' AID

TO RADIO

Short Wave Feats By Amateurs

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An increase in the sun's activity is bringing help to the Britisu Broadcasting Corporation's Empire services, and making possible new feats of amateur communication on

with

"The most signincant fact," Mr. John Clarr.coats, secretary of the Radio Society of Great Britain, told a representative of the "Morn- ing Post yesterday. "is probably the maintenance of communica- tion with South Africa" during practically the whole of the day- light hours of last week-end."

BOUND THE WORLD IN DAY

Another amateur bas been able

TO - DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Murder On A Honeymoon"

QUEEN'S:

"Stranded"

ORIENTAL:-

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Kowloon

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MAJESTIC:

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STAR:-

"It's A Cop"

KING'S:-

Coming

-"The Scoundrel"

QUEEN'S

"Callente" ORIENTAL:---

"Murder In The Fleet" ALHAMBRA:-

"Love Me Forever"

STAR:-

"Georges White's

1935 Scandals'

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"BABY FACE

HARRINGTON"

WITH

CHARLES BUTTERWORTH UNA MERKEL

STUDENTS' FAREWELL DINNER TO SIR LAN HAMILTON

London, Oct. ia That he had enjoyed the time of his life when he ought to have been dead was the confession of General Sir Ian Hamilton who is relia quishing office as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, when he spoke on Saturday night at a dia. ner given in his honour. by the students in the Women's Union, Edinburgò

It was a miracle, said Sir Ian, that matriculated students averag ing 20 years of age should have elected, an old soldier of 80 to re present and lend currency to their ideals. Sir Ian had always regett ed rot having had a University education, but now he had had one, hood and all.

Referring to his period as Lord Rector, Sir Ian said he owed a debt he could never repay to the

TERRORISTS ON kindly help and encouragement

TRIAL

Lithuania "Alleged Of Complicity

Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

press (Copyright).A

given to him by Sir Thomsa Hol land,the Principal, and all the members of the University Court. Never once had bis small efforts on behalf of the students been cold) shouldered, and he felt on perfect- ly safe ground in assuring the students that they had good friends in the University Court. Nothing revolutionary had taken plnos dur ing his time, hut there had been well-ordered progress.

In the second of two articles Professor Baxter records a sur- prisingly interesting discovery made at Constantinople by auitra short waves. group of archaeologists who have Using a wavelength of only 10 begun to excavate the site of the | metres, British amateurs have Great Palace of the Eastern Deen able to communicate Caesars. The mosaic which thev Australia, South Africa, and Ame- | MAJESTIC:- have found is in itself a work of rica "This is because the new 11- remarkable benuty, and it may years sunspot- cycle has already possess the highest topographical advanced far enough to exert a value. It may even be a clue to

marked influence on the earth, the last entrance of the Golden

Such performances have never Hall and the private apartments before been achieved, for at the of the rulers of Byzance. The same stage of the last sunspot admirable work done at St. Sophis | cycle efficient ultra-short wave under the direction of Professor transm.cters were not available. Whittemore, whose labours have They are, however, in accordance revealed niosales of rare perfection with predictions previously pub-

the fished in the "Morning Post. and immense importance in history of medieval art, will be an Incentive to the explorers of the Palace built by Constantine him- self. They may find almost any thing in its ruins-mosaics ornaments, which may throw + food of light on the transitional art of the epoch that links pagan Rome with the Гер Christian world," Inscriptions, relics of the everyday fe of that too le the known periòd, They have friendly interest of the new Turks to Lsten to Canadian, Australian, to encourage them, and the know- Dutch and American transmissions ledge that, the modern world is in the course of a day, hearing in no longer contemptuous of the art | full detall a broadcast appeal by or careless of the history of the the Chicago police for a boy who later Roman Empire, and of the had run away from home. This great city, Byzantium, Constan- was on a wavelength of between' tinople, Istanbul, Tsarigrad, which 9 and 10 metres. There were preserved the art and learning of numerous sunspots at the time.

Next move is with the police: the old world from the barbarian These are great vortices on the

It is the "eye-print." Across the flood.

sun's disc, usually large enough

sensitive retina of the eye there to swallow up the earth with room

runs a fine pattern of nerves and blood-vessels. lo spare. Their appearance tends abroad; six and a half thousand

Each eye differs to coincide with a strengthening dollars being mentioned for the from all others, each remains it

the earth's upper atmosphere. the money was conveyed, to Kono- of the radio-reflecting layers of year 1930.

self for ever unchanging. The intermediary through whom.

Photograph the criminals" éves - times Its architecture were The British Broadcasting Cor-

Buy New York police, with the valce was a certain Revyulk, man special camera used to diagnose despised by the classicista; when | poration is hoping that reception

ager of the Kovno News Agency, eye diseases: desperate men have historians (and politicians) habi- of its programmes in Canada on

Angers to an illegal anti-Polish periodical destroy evidence, but who will put and pamphlets and who was also out his own eyes? subsidized by the Lithuanian Goy-

BOMAN EMPIRE Slowly but surely the Easi its Roman Empire is coming to own. Gone are the days when

its decorative art and even at

EYE OF JUSTICE.

War and crime go pretty well in

Warsaw, Nov 19. Serious charges implicating the Lithuanian Government made in an indictment read on harness.

were

Tuesday, the second day of the One army thinks ‘out a new trial of Ukrainian terrorists a-armour-piercing shell. The other cused of complicity in the pasts- sets un inventors to find the need- sinat.on of the former Polish Min- ful shell-resisting armour. In ister of Interior, Pe'racki in June, crime, the police rely on finger- the ind.ctment asserts, was finan-know 1934. The terrorist organisation, prints. Now America's gangsters ced in part by the Lithuanian Gov-prints. ernment who is said to have repaid a large sum in dollars to the lea- der of the Ukrainian Terrorist or-

Konovalec ganisation,

living

how to remove finger-

In his will Bir Louis left his wits them to do," he said when told of tunily used the adjective "Byzan- | winter evenings will show impra: who under an alias had published; mutilated: their own

£200,000 and his residence in Surrey and effects." His father,

the result.

"I want Freddle back. I have not heard from him since he went Mr. Bernhard Baron, who died to America eighteen months ago. 1929, left £4,944,820.

"I am now in touch with Wash- A business friend of Lady Baronington with a view to opposing an stated to-day that Mr. Tritton was extension of Freddie's employment an old friend of the family.

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AIR LINER CAPTAINS

Mathematicians And Astronomers

London, Oct. 20. The suggestion that military and commercial fiying as professions, were tending to diverge was made by Major H. G. Brackley, Air Superintendent of Imperial Air days, in a lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society last night

tine" for a combination of pomp vement as the sun's cycle, advan- and servility, and dismissed the

ces. Ideally a wavelength of 60 Eastern Caesars as the dull rulers to 70 metres, is regarded as ne- of ignoble Levantines who occupi- |cessary on this route in winter, ed themselves chiefly with re- practice no waveband above 49 ligious disputations and the search metres is available. This should chariot races. Such was the Vic- for likely winners in the next now have a better chance of get-

t ng through, torian notion of Byzance. It was unfair and unhistorical-the off spring of many parents, among

ernment

оп

The principal piece of evidence which the allegations were based appears to be letter from Konovalec to head of the france

In addition, the 18-metre band department of the Ukrainian Ter proved more serviceable in some also living abroad, relating to a

·rorist Organsation, Senejk, who la cases this year that the 25-metre conversation with the Lithuanian band did last year," and it was Foreign Minister, Zaunins, who possible to make more use of the 14-metre band used for the first time last year,

took the opportunity of speaking to Konovalec while on a visit... in Geneva on Oct. 6, 1932, in connec If the 10-metre waveband is ever used for regular long-distance affairs.

tion with the League of Nations transmissions it is believed that it Konovalec had asked that finan will be for dayight services to Buenos Aires, Central Africa, and Australia in that order.

THREE LITRE MODEL

The letter states that

gansation be maintained at the cial support granted to the of

same level next year. He also re- quested a passport and a visa for the United States "for a delegate he wished to send to America. The minister, according to the letter, answered he would do all in his power to help but that the matter did not depend entirely on himself

them the scholars who had de- cided that, save for the early fathers (for theological students only), the Graeco-Roman world produced nothing of value after the death of Marcus Aurelius, and the theory of "Teutonic" moral -superiority which attracted men like Charles Kingsley as it attracts the Nazis to-day. Eminent his torians" and "art, critics have at last persuaded the educated British public to look with unpre- judiced; eyes on the Rome of Constantino and Justinian; to Already, he said, pilots of com admire its art, to acknowledge our mercial aeroplanes would find it a debt to a formal yet vigorous "The modern dairymaid must be little difficult at first to fly a heavy civilization in which the profesha engineer and able to handle a bomber, and Air Force pilots would find the same strangeness in taking sional layman, soldier, lawyer, or spanner," write an enthusiastic as Premier Tubells and the Fin- up an Imperial Airways machina Civil servant still nourished, visitor to the Dairy Show. fy ance Minister must also give-con-

The captain of an air liner had

while the rest of Europe was in- Even if she can't milk a cow for sent. Zaunins, it is said, have now the same status as that of a fested by ramshackle barbarians nuts.

stated in a letter also promised to ship, and the control cabin was and administered by incompetent Apropos cows I am inclined to recommend the issue of a passport regarded in the same light as a amateurs in fact not to despise think that the modern country and to obtain a visa for the Unff- bridge.

Procoplus because he did not child knows, more about machinery ed States, and further to procure write the most classical Greek

than the modern city child does necessary credentials accrediting about the beasts that perish A Konovalec as a Lithunian journa friend of mine, who teaches Bum list with the League of Nations.- day school, asked a child in her Transocean Kuo Min. class to explain the passage about see the grass

that to-day grows in the held and to-morrow is cut

To rise to the top of his profes nion & pilot had to have perfect. physical fitness throughout his working life; be prepared to sup port rapid changes of climate; be the face of the ridicule of the fool a master of navigation, which in-} hárdy, KSANAAN volved considerable knowledge of Most air transport companies mathematics, astronomy and Major Brackley concluded, had meteorology, and have sufficient experienced difficulty in obtaining strength of mind to refuse to By pilote fully qualified in instrument under conditions of risk even in fiving.

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down and cast into the oven by the cows and becomes muttons,

"I know," said the wright infant and that's how it gets into the It means that the grass is eaten oren."

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LOVE ME FOREVER.

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