4 SHOWS
DAILY
1.205.13
7.10.20
QUEENS
THEATRE.
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20. & 9.30 P.M.
DOLORES DEL RIO IN WARNER'S TORRID MUSICAL "In Caliente
with PAT O'BRIEN-LEO CARRILLO
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1935.
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Bishop Misbehaves"
QUEEN'S:-
"In Calenta"
ORIENTAL:-.
"Secret Bride...
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
I'll Love You Always" MAJESTIC:-
"Age Of Indiscretion"
YACHTING
Ladies' Fifth Championship Cruise
The ladies' fifth championship cruise was sailed yesterday over an eight mile course beginning from Quarry Bay Mark (P), Kowloon Rocks (P), Rumsey Shoal Mark (P), North Mark on Line (P) and Quarry Bay Mark (8). The results were:-
Joss, A8 (Miss M. Larssen)
Prev.
Tinghed Cor, Pos Pts PLS, TH
16.38.30
14.39,53
.... 16.41.39
1 13 18 31
-3 10 38
48
4
9 52
61
2 11 41
52
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SHOWING KINGS
TO-DAY
The BISHOP
MISBEHAVES
LA VAN EDMETNED TO HAYNEEM
LUCILE
GWENN * O'SULLIVAN * WATSON
RENAID OWIE - DODDET TIDGEE • MORGAN TORER
| BERT WHEELER-ROBERT WOOLSET
in "THE NITWITS" REO-LÀ D'O, PIATUAR
TAKE ANI TRAM DR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
PLAMING
ORIENTAL
2 DAYS
ONLY
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
ROAD
WANGHAL
TEL. 28479
EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION! BIG DOUBLE STAGE AND SCREEN SHOW ALOHA, WANDERWELL FEARLESS ADVENTURE GIRL THEY CALLED HER "SHE-DEVIL " ALOHA FEARED NOTHING? She explored dangerous places without. regard for safety of lfe, places in which Frank Buck. Harold Dunn, Norman Westwood and other veteran jungla-man dared not venture. With her travel fim she will thrill you with her exciting experiences among wild tribes and jungle' beasts.
ON THE SCREEN
A MOST UNUSUAL AND GRIPPING STORY 3 GREAT STARS UNITED
Don't Let the Title Fool You! Actually-IT'S A REVELATION! ·
STANWYCK
beings you the great ventana: tinit of pha season is “The
SECRET BRIDE
A Warner Bros. hit with WARREN WILLIAM - GLENDA FARRELL
Prices Matinees 20 e-80c. Evenings 20 e~80 α-50 c.--70 e."
STARE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.29 & 9.20 P.M.
W. C FIELDS
in
IT'S A GIFT"
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
-NEXT CHANGE-
RICHARD DIX in · "HIS GREATEST CAMBLE”.
RKO HADIO PICTURE
EMPEROR OF JAPAN'S ART TREASURES
Arrival In London
London, Nov 1. Treasures which the Emperor of Japan has lent to the forthcoming exhibition of Chinese art at the Royal Academy, arrived at London Docks yesterday in the Yasukun!
Maru.
"PURSUIT
STAR:--
It's A Gift"
KING'S:--
Coming
"The Nitwits"
QUEEN'S
."
"The Glass Key". ALHAMBRA:—
"Pursuit"
MAJESTIC:-
"Our Little Girl"
STAR:-
"His Greatest Gamble"
IT'S A GIFT**
in the future, the calling carda uf W. C. Fields, motion picture comedian, will be inscribed "gen-
tleman farmer."
Lobo, A2 (Mrs Thoyts)
La Linda, A5 (Mr. M. Keary)
Pat, A12 (Mrs. D. W. Persse) ... 16.37,58
6 10 45 4 12 32 '3.13 46 .59
"L," "Y" & "G" Classes-Started At 14.50, Stella, YI (Mrs. E, I. Ellerby)... 16.54.58 16.39.36 1 10 40 Robens, Y4 (Miss H.. Gerrard)... 16.58.58, 16.44.58 5 11 42 "Widgeon, YS (Mrs. Bilderbečk)... 17.01.11 10.46.31 Zephyr, Y8 (Mrs. R. E. Hindson) 17.00.17 16.44.57 Toynette, 02. (Mra, K. Harrison) 17.06.54 18.44.54 Sirius, OT (Mrs. E, Cooper) 17.06.07 16.42,47 Lola, G9 (Mrs. R. Wren) ...... 17.14.12.16.52.12 ..."H" Class-Started At 15.05. Diana, HI (Miss I, F. Ritchie)... 10.48.47 16.48.47- Colleen. H2 (Mrs. P. F. Foley)... 16.58.02 16.50.42 Rolla, H3 (Miss B. M. Kirke)... 16.45.57 16:45.57 Dorothea. H9 (Mrs. H. Moulson) 16.59.02 16.52.22
HOCKEY
Indian Police Defeat Recreio "B"
In a friendly hockey game. At King's Park yesterday, the Indian Police gained a narrow victory over the Recreio "B" by the only goal scored in the second half.
Though fast the game was very
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"UNIVERSITY OF ROME
The New "City"
(Special Ale Mail Service)
London, Oct 30.
The University Cipy of Romë is
ta ba
inaugurated on Wednes
In "It's a Gift," his newest star- ragged, and a distinct disappoint day. It as been planned on a
ring picture for Paramount, now at the Star Theatre, Fields is shown as a grocery store keeper who inherita & California orange grove. Just to get the proper feel of the idea, he claims, he pur chased a 7 acre ranch near Ea cino, Cal., about thirty miles from the film city.
It contains any number of orange trees, as well as lemons, Mexican limes, apples, pears and walnuts
"SECRET BRIDE'
\
ment, considering the fact that the players of both teams had been playing in competitive hockey for a couple of seasons.
grand scale. Covering'an area of about 40 acres, the site lles on the
easterly outskirts of Rome along, side the road out "to` Tivoli, Of,
the
buildings
this area about one-seventh will be occupied by themselves. The remainder will be taken up by courts, avenues, gar- dens, and a sports ground. The new bu'id.ngs have risen up in a neighbourhood
MAJESTIC
TO-MORROW THEATRE
At 2.80, 5.20.
7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
A DRAMA OF MARRIED LIFE IN 1935!
AGE of INDISCRETION
a Meno Gobligjra Mayer BATUM
COMING:
PAUL LUKAS MÄDGE EVANS
· HELEN VINSON, STAROBSON
DAVID JAC
SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN ---
LITTLE
"OUR
lodgings, dining-rooms, studies, and other conveniences for about 300
UTILITARIAN DESIGN
The Recreio's set of forwards
The architecture of this new were the faster, but they lacked comblaation, and consequently
University City has its impassion ed critics Admirers congratulate missed umpteen chances of scoring.
themselves that the new Univer- The Indians were playing with better combination but were only
sity, should have aris when the epoch of debased baroque Eas which already prevented from scoring by A.A, dos
passed away, and when such. comprises auch specially planned Remedios who was playing a ater- ling game at defence. The first constructions as the vast Foly-buildings as those of the regret- half ended with no team scoring.chnic, the new Dental Institute table Via Cavour and certain other Barbara Stanwyck coming to the
The second half was a repetition provided by the late Mr. Eastman, modern thoroughfares are no lon Oriental Theatre to-marrow and of the first, with the Police doing and the massive new Ministry of ger being, projected. On the other hand, not a few critics, while ad- Wednesday in her latest produc most of the pressing. In one of Ar with its annexes.
mitting that the 90,000,000 or su sion, "The Secret Bride" which is their attacks Chanan Singh" scored
re (about "£1,600,000) assigned said to be the most powerful and the only goal of the game.
to the scheme left no margin for Chester Morris and Sally Ellers dynamic picture in which she has The "match was brought to a
frills," would have Uked the come as a new type of romantic yet appeared.
"close with no further goals being
buildings to have shown a rather The picture, based on the play registered. team in a new type of comedy.
greater variety of style. Taken as a by Leonard Ide, is a thrilling romance in "Pursuit," Metro-
drama of political plote and in. ARMY IN TRIAL MATCH
whole, the University City must be Goldwyn-Mayer's whimsical ad-
trigues which involves two my. The Army held another hockey
judged a remarkable product of venture in romance on the high-atcrious murders a suicide and the trial at the Chatham Road ground ways and byways.
love impeachment of the governor of yesterday which resulted in a draw. motorized and hitting on all six- the state.
both teams scoring twice. teen!
In addition to the thrilling The game was played at a fast The
situations and the baffling my.
teams being evenly series there is a glamorous ro mance in which Miss Stanwyck balanced, and the standard of the state's attorney general who is has the role of the secret bride of hockey displayed was all that could
be desired. compelled to investigate her father on charges of sccepting a bride.
with
new picture, which plays at the Alhambra from Thursday to Saturday is a delightful com- bination of romance and thrills, high comedy and adventure. A young couple artempt to smuggle a child out of the state by motor to avoid a guardianship sult.
"IN CALIENTE”
numbers around which
"THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES"
*
Dace both
The dominant note, perhaps, is austere utilitarian.am. So much was, indeed, to be expected. The general direction and supervision were entrusted to the Royal Academician Marcello Piacentin whose Ministry of Corporations in Rome. LaW Courts in Messina, Monument to the Fallen in Genos. and other creations up and down Italy are typical embodiments of the new school of Italian architec- ture. Signor Placentini has him- self designed, only the rettorato, cr rector's lodge-if the word lodge can be applied to so grandiose a building.
But his influence is
The outstanding played in view was Lal Singh," the brilliant Colony left-winger. He practically played clearly stamped upon all the work himself into the team by his polish of his seven, collaborators, and i ed hockey and neat stickwork and is he who wil be praised or critic- is undoubtedly the best man forized down the centuries for the that position. He also scored a "general style of the city goal with a beautiful backstick.
„NO" COLLEGE SYSTEM The main entrance, flanked by the Institutes of Hygiene and Or- thopedia, les through lofty pilas ters crowned by an architrave. bearing the inscription "Victorio Emanuele III Regnante Benito Mussolini Rem Italicam Moderante Vetua Urbis Studium In Hanc de-
modern Italian architecture, and ungrudging praise should be given to the way in which the interiors of the various buildings have been planned to meet their several re- quirements.
It is primarily with a utilitar'an purpose that the new University City has been created at last. As the years. went by the University grew with the careless spontanielty of Topsy rather than upon any well-ordered pian. It was not un- common for students engaged in the more specialized work known as seminario to be turned out of
GIRL"
ALHAMBRA
MENTRE
TO-DAY
at 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 4 1.30 B3.
ALL SHE ASKED OF LIFE WAS HIS LOVEL
Jee LOVE YOU ALWAYS
NANCY CARROLL GEORGE, MURPHY
Diracion by Lee Migaw A COLUMBIA PLOTURS
+4
PURSUIT
with
NEXT CHANGE CHESTER MORRIS, SALLY EILERS
their room by a professor Who THE KING AS A JIG-SAW
claimed the right to lecture there. Students could be seen standing
in the corridors and trying to fol-
ENTHUSIAST
low a lecture given in a hall too small to hold all the class. Above The Queen Buys Him A New
One For Chrismas all students and teachers wasted time and money in scurrying across Rome between the scattered buildings."
the title song of the picture is sung by a group óf, singing enter box and a deft hand that lands for the Whites, did not come up to of Physics and Chemistry. Boven | the so-called "tripartite" solution.
tainers and accompanied by colourful "sombrere dance" by the
chorus.
When a bishop sets out, armed Four songs and three song and with knowledge gleaned from Another player who was in the dance production numbers com-detective books, to be an amateur limelight was Dulla Singh, playing prise the musical features of the detective that promises entertain at right-half for the Reds. His in First National picture "In Caliente" ment. And this promise is more terception and clearances was now at the Queen's Theatre.
than made good in "The Bishop pretty to watch. One of the songs, "To Call You Mayer's new comedy-mystery being Metro-Goldwyn - Misbehaves,
For the Whites, Alaf Din played My Own is a ballad which. Is shown at the King's Theatre."
a great game at right-half, and sung by Phil Regan as an enter-
While Maureen O'Sullivan and the choice for that position lies be- tainer at Agua Caliente as part of Norman Fostor are lovers, in tween himself and Dulla Singh, the comedy plot. The other three trouble of their own making, the After the first half, Lal Bingh dem Romana Magnificenta Dig-
Special Air Mall Service) Busby misbehaving bishop, as enacted by was substituted by Teja Bingham Translatum Est." The road
London, Nov. 8. Berkerly has built his special Edmund Gwenn, British stage and Though a player of no mean ability leading up to the central piazza The remedies proposed for this
state of affairs The Queen is one of the most dancing features, "In Caliente," screen" star, sets about following he was not in the same class as is a broad avenue with flower unsatisfactory
beds and tries down the middle. were finally, reduced to two. Ons clucs, trailing criminals, worsting Lal Singh.
energetic women in London. a quartette of them with a mui-
After an exhausting day of Lt. Metcalfe, playing at left half On either side are the Institutes strong body of opinion favoured
"ceremonies connected with the snuff in the eyes of the malefactors, and otherwise revels in a morty expectations nor did Lt. Williams buildings-the institute of Miner Traditions were to be maintained royal wedding on Wednesday, the Queen and the Princess Royal" medley of mirth and mystery. at centre-half, though he partly alogy, the, School of Mathematics, by keeping the old Sapienza for
visited the Imperial redeemed himself at the closing the Faculties of Jurisprudence and the Faculties of Jurisprudence yesterday. stages of the game.
Letters, the Rettorato, and the and Letters and the offices of the Institute, where the Disabled ex- "THE NITWITS"
W. O. Senior and Fte. Taylor were Institutes of Physics and Chemia University, while the requisite in-servicemen's exhibition opens to the best forwards of the whites' try already mentioned-about on stitutes of medicine were to be the public to-day.
built near the Poryclinic and the. After an hour's lightning shop- Bringing & rare treat to the each scoring a goal The other the central piazza. screen, a mystery musical comedy, goal-scorers were Lal Blogh 'and
The main feature of this gran- sciences were to be grouped on the ping tour the Queen and the London, Nov 1. Bert Wheeler and Hobert Woolsey Dulla Singh for the Reds.
Viminal. The alternative, to bring Princess climbed the stairs next „diose mess of buildings is the im- The annual-meeting of the are currently starred in "T
posing entrance leading to the all the Un veralty buildings to door to the Jehangir Hall, where China Society was held at the Nitwits," their latest RKO Radio
study" and trception rooms of the gether near the Polyclinic, was they spent, the rest of the morn- the afternoon sorting, China Institute on Wednesday, picture coming on Thursday to
the King's Theatre, Bir Denison Ross was in the chair.
"THE GLASS KEY"
Rector, to the spacious ceremon- Anally accepted, save that the ing and
arranging the School of Applied Engineering classifying and lal hall known as the Aula Magna remains in the Convent of Bap "The Nitwita" offers usual The report of the council and the cinema
thousands of knitted garments 'combination: mystery
and to the many administrative accounts for 1935 were read and melody and "mirth
that have been made during the Nothing - is George Raft le the star of Das offices. Behind this main building Pietro in Vincoli and the School China Bociety fs the Chinese Am- and Woolsey's farmiest production, which is scheduled as the Queen's thoas for Physiology and Botany, the Valle Giulia Just behind, the bassador. The new vice-presidents and simultaneously one brimming Theatres next change. This en- are:--Lord Peel, Lord Winterton, with thrilling "melodrama,
while set off at an angle are the British Schod. The conception MEG, Wels, Mr. Laurence thom as proprietors of cigar sents the popular star as a hard-
Bert and Bob's new roles picture author of "The Thin Man" pre sports Ground
thralling murder mystery by the Casa dello Studante and the of the University City goes back Faded almost 50 years. But it is no mere co'nedence that it should have James Stewart-Lockhart, the Rvmusic publishing establishment,
CHINA SOCIETY'S NEW OFFICERS
Altogether there are 48 dbjects accepted. The president, of the left undone to make it Wheeler helli Hammett's "The Glass Key." come other institutes, such as of Architecture is established in year for the Queen Mary Needle
Among the Emperor's own posses, $ions sent from the Imperial household at Tokyo-is a bronze Hoa sacrific'al wine vessel of 216.
work Guild
The King likes doing fig-kaw puzzles in his spare time. So the
Queen bought him a new one of Windsor Castle at the exhibition,
B.C. There is also a tortoiseshell Binyon, Sir Percival David, B counter in the Lake Building Ensted-battler who defies the lord-In Rome, as in other Connen been left to Bignor Mussolini to' to do at Sandringham during the
comb which a woman of Korea used 2,000 years agó,
The Crown Prince of Sweden was
at the Academy yesterday. He is lending valuable bronze mirrors, jades, and ancient weapons from his own collection. Practically every country in the world has now lent some of its Chinese trea-
*suren:
Dr. J. Scott Lidgett, and Major- located in Tin Faz Alley. A ter lings of the underworld to aid his tal Universities, the college. 375- wake this gift to the Rome which General Sir Nelli Malcolm. The rorist, blackmailing prominent re friends. It is the first time Raft ten of Oxford and Cambridge 18 he has done so much to revive and new council for the year includes sidents of the city, strikes first in has played a role of this type, since unknown and the vast majority of adorn. Mr. W. W. Astor, Captain Victor, the building at a song magnate, his triumph in "Scar-face" In the 7,000-odd students are exter- Cochran-Balille, Mrs. Ellert, and employer of Betty Grable, Bert's the well-rounded supporting cast nal. Nevertheless, a number of Miss Irme Ho Tung. Mrs Davis, ance. He is slain after ignoring of "The Glass Key" are Edward students at Rome University need
the demands of the Black Widow, 74, Grosvenor Street, B. W. 1. Was and Mary is accused when the Arnold Claire Dodd: Rosalind suitable and congenial accom appointed secretary for the so police and the death weapon in Keith Ray Milland and Guinn odation, and the Cass dallo Stu- dente' will, at the outset, provide
clety,
her possession.
Williams.
There are two kinds of men:
Christains holiday.
The Prince of Wales's private table linen has been reproduced for general sale for the first time. Luncheon sets were bought by the Queen and the Princess Royal. the first customers. They are
those who do what their wives tell made by badly disabled men near thent and those who never marry., Sheffield,
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