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TO-DAY & TO-MORBOW at 2.80, 5.15, 7.20 QKLY From the sensational mystery novel by Mignon Eberhart

The WHITE COCKATOO'

Warner's thriller with

JEAN MOIR-RICARDO CORTEZ

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faroma Korn's musical romance

REXE

DUN

AS GING E. ROGERS

ROBERTA

-with RANDOLPH SCOTT HELEN WESTLEY- VICTOR VARCOMI CLAIRE DODD

BADIO Picture

Prices Matinees 20 -80 c.

STARE

TO-DAY "ONLY

JACH BUCHANAN

10

BREWSTERS MILLIONS

WITH LILI

DAMITA

"diseclad by

THORMON FREELAND

direktor of perodua!iami

9M> HEAGENT WILCOX

TO-MORROW "THE CASE OF THE

CURIOUS BRIDE"

URCHIN HERO IN FİLM THRILL

27

TO-MORROW

& THURSDAY SPEED MANIAC'S IN A PICTURE OF THRILLS, SPILLS AND RECKLESS DRIVING

RED HOT TIRES

LYLE TALBOT MARY ASTOR

ROSCOE KARNS FRANKIE DARRO Evenings 20 4.—80 c.—50 - 700.

"UNKNOWN WOMAN”

If a fish is a bad motion-picture actor, it couldn't very well be

called a fiam actor, because even if

it is a hum actor a fish can't be a ham. That is probably how the phrase "poor fish" was originated -they had to call bad fish actors Komething!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE THE FINDING OF

CINEMA Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Anna Karenina"

QUEEN'S:

"The White Occkatoo"

ORIENTAL:-

"Roberts"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

ï

"3 Kids And A Queen" "Cowan and, Bailey”

MAJESTIC:—

"Calm Yourself”

STAR:-

"Brewsters Milions"

KING'S!-

Coming

"Unknown 'Woman" ORIENTAL:-

STAR:

"Red Hot Tires"

"The Case of The Curious

'Bride"

ALHAMBRA:

"She Married Her Boss" MAJESTIC:-

"Call Of The Wild"

"RED HOT TIRES”

Mary Astor is the first movie star to win a membership in the exclusive Hundred Mile Au Hou" Club.

racing

a the First National picture, "Bea Hot Tires, which comes ta the Uriental Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, Miss. Astor enacts the rule uf daughter of a cur manufacturer who participates ju races as mechanician because of her love for the thrilling sport

While on location at the Ameri- can Legion Ascot Speedway for the himing of racing sequences, Miss Astor declared she has actually long held the secret desire to experience the thrill of speed-racing.

"Babe Stapp, nationally known racetrack champion, invited her to accompany him in the trial spin- before the scenes were filmed, Miss Astor donned a helmet and goggles and fearlessly accompanied the daredevil driver in one his exhibi- tions of whirlwind racing around the track. After finishing the breathtaking ride, in which a speed of 118 miles an hour was attained the movie star was informed that she bad qualified and awarded the honorary membership in the Hund. ed Mile An Hour Club, an organ-

In the Columbia picture, "Un- known Woman", coming on Wed- nesday to the King's Theatre, thora are 12 lot of good, bad and in-ization of racing drivers

different fish actors, for in severul Lons of the finny creatures all of them can't be stars!

la "Unknown Woman", which and Fentures Richard Cromwell lovely Marian Marsh, Cromwell Enacts the attorney for a peddlers' association, and as part

fish

of the exciting plot, the peddlers lashing to rescue hint are seen from a boat where he is held prisoner.

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Plenty of fish were needed for the peddlers' curts and to "dress" the wharf scenes, and it was in these scenes that the fish. became actors However, when the Snay oars were through emoting for the day, it was a debatable question what to do. with so much real food. After all, barracuda, yellow and blue an tuna, tom cod, halibut, mackerel, kelp fish, sardines and sword fish, look very nice on any table. Bo, after the fish bad, served humanity via the motion-picture, Columbia distributed them to the poor of the Los Angeles harbour district to serve humanity in a different

manner.

The members of the cast, which includes besides Cromwell add Miss Marsh, George McKay, Douglas Dumbrille, Nan Bryant and Henry Armatta, never did got used to the peculiar perfume so representative of the fish family. Many of them have sworn nover to eat anything but beef and lamb from now on And ham-they'll eat bam

"Unknown Woman" was directed by Al Rogell

"Red Hot Tires" is a stirring romance by Tristam Tupper

MAY ROBSON THREE KIDS ANDA QUEEN*

UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION

"JANE EYRE”

THE LUSITANIA

Value In Salvage Work

Исид

London, c, ki

wreek of

diver

In locating the Lustre End sending a

to bar, the salvage ship urpair successfully demonstrate we valute in salvage work of, two remarkable iqventions, writes a correspondent

Une, the Hughes' Echo Sounder, was designed to do away with the uccessity for long dragging opers tions, and the other the Tritonia diving dress, or Iron Man--was to enable a diver to work in the deep

Fat oculus.

The echo sounder-an Admiralty patent-is a comparatively new in vention, but already it has been widely and successfully used, to ebart the sea bottom and to locate wrocks, shoals of fish and other "ukuurina objects

Briefy, the echo sounder employs sound waves to draw on a "tape" the picture of the sea bed, to show. ita depth, to indicate anything lying on the bottom or between the bottom and the surface of the sea. It will accurately give the extent of the object, be it a wreck, ruck, bank, shcal of fish, or even a single whale.

TO-

From the hull of the searching ship an apparatus gives out a loui sound four times every second, the yound travels to the sos bed and is reflected as an ocho. The ceiver on the searching ship picks up the echo, and this electrical impulse to flow through the stylus of the apparatus."

Causea su

The stylus is moving back and forth acroes a chemically treated paper tape." five inches in width. ihat is slowly unrolling from the machine. The stylus will not mark the "tape" unless a current is flowing through it. The instant the echo returns and releases the current, a brown mark is made on the "tape."

TRIAL OF LORD DE CLIFFORD

Acquittal By Peers

London, Dec. 14.

For the Arst time in 34 years the Royal Gallery was yesterday the scene of the ancient ceremony of trial by peers, writes a corre spondent. Lord de Clifford had been indicted for the manslaugh- ter of a young engineer, Douglas George Hopkins; and manslaugh- ter being a felony, no other Court but the House of Lords possesses, during the Session of Parliament, any jurisdiction to try a peer on such a charge.

The Royal Gallery, which is a lofty apartment of about the same dimensions as the debating cham- ber, had been specially fitted up for the trial, with a Throne, a chair for the Lord High Steward immediately below it, a Woolsack, and along the walls chairs for about a hundred peers, in three rows "on each side of the Throne. Seats for the advisory Judges, the accused, counsel, solicitors, and witnesses occupied the intervening space on the floor of the House. Microphones and amplifiers had been introduced to overcome, the accoustical defects of the chamber, Outside the bar at each end some hundreds of peeresses and other spectators assembled privileged before the proceedings opened; but there was no attempt to re- peat the fashionable display that caused the trial of Lord Russell, in 1901 to be likened to Ascot or Hurlingham.

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in

and

The lords, having mez in their own chamber for prayers and roll- call, and there been marshalled by Garter King of Arms, entered in procession from behind the Throne about 10.50 a.m. Preceded by thei Judges, they were ranged inverse order of precedence, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary first, The speed of sound in salt water then the hereditary barons, the

(in is known, and so the time taken by single Bishop the sound to travel to the sea bot-scarf), the viscounts, earls, mar tom (or to any intervening object quesses, and dukes, their rank such as a wrecky and for its echo indicated by the varying number of bars of minever on their scarlet to return to the apparatus can be

robes. They passed to their seats translated into foot and shown on the scale.

--one or two remembering to bow to the Throne--the barons on the left and those of higher rank up- posite them The Lord Chancellor came last and occupied the Wool-

sack, with the four Judges in front

If the sound strikes an object at a lesser depth than the sea botton the echo returns so much sooner, and the stylus commences making its mark proportionately sooner. It is, in fact, drawing the foreign of him. The accused' was not yet object on the chart and drawing it to scale! The distance travelled by the searching ship while actu-. ally over the object can be observed, and this is the length of the

object.

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None of us aboard the Orphir will ever forget the thrill of the standing on the moment when, ship's bridge, scanning the "tape" unrolling from the sounder,

the outline of the Lusitania suddenly commence to take form.

The We were in 30 fathomis.

"tape," Bea bed, as shown on our had remained constant at that depth all the morning. Then the great outline of some object showed up on the chart, rising soft from the sea bottom. We travelled a 1aeasured distance of 800ft over it before the outline faded.

We knew we had passed over a wreck 800ft in length and 60ft in height. We checked our distances and measurements 90 times. We knew then it was the Lusitania we had found. Diver Jarrate in the Iron Man walked upon the hull.

Next year

diver will descend to the wreck and direct salvage operationa

"THE WHITE COCKATOO!!

present.

THE LORD. STEWARD

After the Serjeant-at-Arms had called for silence "on pain of im- prisonment," the proceedings open- ed with the reading of the King's Commission for the appointment of a Lord High Steward, all pre- sent standing uncovered. The document recited that the office was vacant *es We are informed";

although the Lord for

High Steward is so great and dangerous a potentate that no permanent. appointment has been made since 1399, the constitutional fiction is maintained that the vacancy has been allowed to continue by advertence. Lord Hailsham was appointed "pro hac vice" and was about to take up his office when the Sericant-at-Arms proclaimed "Oyez, oyez, oyez,” and began to summon the accused to the bar. This interruption having hastily suppressed, their lordships recovered the thread of the drama, and the Lord High Steward was conducted from the Woolsack to his official seat, where Garter King of Arms and Black Rod knelt to present him with his white staff. He immediately returned it

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"UNKNOWN WOMAN”

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ALHAMBRA TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

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FOR 2 DAYS ONLY ' Positively Final Performances of Hong Kong's Favourite Entertainers

COWAN

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BAILEY

with

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EVELYN

Presenting Songs" from "TOP HAT" and "BROADWAY ME:

LODY OF 1936”.

Grand Entertainment ! Latest Songs ~~~ Music Dances-Comedy.

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ON THE SCREEN

May Robson's

Greatest Role !

CAR LÁRDIE PREZENTË

TOUR OWN SILOVED

May ROBSON....

3 KIDS AND A QUEEN

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THEATRE

MAJESTIC

Paid to take over "other peoples wor

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Thursday: CALL OF THE WILD WITH

CIARK

GABLE

to Black Rod, who held it through- ing special consideration, for Lord ery, and the Lord High Steward, out the trial Lord Hailsham sat Russell was only allowed a stool addressing Bir Henry Curtis Ben There is enough thrilling action, with his three-cornered black hat The Lord High Eteward acquainted nett, announced that the House suspense, laughter. and romances on top of his wig, the peers also him with the nature of the indiet had seen fit to consult the Judges in "The White Cockatoo," opening putting on their cocked hats and ment, and, Lord de Clifford, hav-upon his submission, and that the Perhaps one of the most remark-to-day at the Queen's Theatre, to sliting down. As the trial pro-ing pleaded 'Not Guilty," was ask-Judges had unanimously advised Elephant "Star" Goes Mad

able things about the screening of supply the plots for half a dozen ceeded it was noticeable that the ed by the Clerk of the Parliaments that it be upheld. The House had Proclamation was then, ordered the famous Charlotte. Bronte's ordinary film melodrama. Yet in three-cornered hat, soon disap-"How will your lordship be tried?" resolved to adopt this advice, London, Dec. 14

& kidnapping, & hats descended from noble heads peers." The formula "God send to be made for summoning Lord News of an elephant fight which

classic, "Jane Eyre," which is the spite of the fact that it contains, peared, and more and more cocked He replied: "By God and my next attraction at the Queen's three murders,

your lordship a good deliverance" de Cufford to the bar; but since he was already in his place within might have resulted in tragedy is

Theatre, is the extraordinary re- robbery and the counter plotting to knees or floor..

criminala,

Then, followed the formal read-was omitted. The sectised was ad-

Lord the contained in a ble message from

High 16, there was a moment of hesita~ Robert Flaherty, producer of "Man

semblance of Virginia Bruce and of two rival gangs of her youthful counterpart, little this latest Warner Bros. thriller ing of various documents, includ-monished by of Aran", writes a correspondent.

himself Lord High Steward proceeded to nine-year-old, Jean Darling. Both never fails to be both convincing ing the indictment and the writSteward, in common with all other tion and. nothing happened. The He is now in India making "Ela.

of them play the title role, little and awesome, which is exceedingly of "certiorari" for its removal persons, to address

from the Central Criminal Court. throughout to the lords in general put the question to the peers, phant Boy" based on Kipling's

Thomai of the Elephants,

Jean Muir, who has the leading after which the Lord High Steward and not to any one lord in parti- whether the accused peer were How Mr. Flaherty, searching Fortunately he was caught and Jean as the youthful Jane, who is unusual in screen mysteries. everywhere for a suitable hoy to unable to free himself,

in a role that in less capable hands ships pleasure that the Judges Attorney-General opened the case. felony whereof he stood indicated, The speeches of counsel and the and, the Clerk calling the roll play Toomai, discovered his ideal "A third tusker" began trumpet

feminine role, is particularly good asked whether it was their lord-cular, and sat down while the "Guilty or Not Guilty” of the

Ricardo have leave to be covered. Leave in Sabu, a pathetic looking urchining. Onlookers ran for their lives,

might have rung false,

was given, but it appeared that evidence are reported below. At from the junior baron present in his own elephant stables, has but our boy Babu, mounted on

Cortea for once a hero instead of a already been recorded in The Kala Nag, stood his ground, des

no head cover but their wigs."

Crown Bir Henry Curtis Bennett cases the youngest pear) to the Bally Telegraph." Mr. Flaherty's perately striving to control him,

villan, gives one of the best per the Judges had brought with them the conclusion of the case for the Lord Roche) (not, as in previous of Edward Rochester.

T formances of his career.

submitted that he had no ease to Lord High, Steward himself, each lord in succession rosa in his place, rable tells how the little boy, a like the great mahout he is.

Another remarkable thing about The plot centres around the ACCUSED PEER'S PLEASA

Next, the Berjeant-at-Arms hav-answer

laid his right hand on his heart. wahout (elephant-driver) and son a mahout, saved the situation

the two, is the fact that both of efforts of two gangs of criminals to

The Attorney-General having and said: "Not Guilty," on mine during the elephant fight.

them are said to be the typical obtain a fortume left to Jean, an ing made proclamation, Black Rod DEBATE IN CAMERA "Four days ago we filmed a

counterpart of Miss Bronte's orphan with one brother whom she was dispatched to fetch the ac

Finally the Lord High Steward cavalcado of 14 elephants. When l of us, with three cameras,

famous heroine. Both are bite has never seen. Each of the two cused, who appeared in morning replied, the Lord High Steward honour" RM

motor-care,

and

eyed blondes, and both have the has a sip of paper to serve to dress without robes, and was im- pointed out that only a vote of the bullock teams bundreds of onlookers were mixed

austere English beauty so much identify them to each other. mediately admitted within the House could decide upon the sub-informed Lord de Cllford that he up in a village street, our elephant,

favoured in the Victorian era of Three murders are committed, bar, at which his predecessors have mission, and on his motion their had been tried by his peers and Joan is kidnapped attempts are been compelled to kneel until lordships adjourned to the cham-found"Not Guilty," and an Kals Nag, suddenly charged an

which Mass Bronte wrote.

Colin Clive plays the leading role made on the lives of several other given permission to rise. Having ber of Parliament. There the nounced that nothing remained ther tanker, hurling him against

in the stone wall of a house filled with

"Jane Zyre" opposite Misa people. Cortez in the role of the bowed to the Throne and to the debats continued in camera" be- but to determine his own com- Bruce. The production was direct-bero... with the aid of the peers on either side, he was con- fore and after the luncheon in miston. The Berjeant-at-Arms screaming peoplá

ducted to a chair with a desk and terval About S. o'clock the pro-commanded all manner of persons Meantime I am taking" so-

Cockatoo solves BOY IN CONTROL

micronbone before it again enjoy cession re-entered the Royal Gall- present to depart in various mysteries. "The elephant's tasks drovequences with the boy, Sabu, who used by Christy Cabanne from the "White

adaptation by Adele Comandini. through the root of the house. undoubtedly a krest star find.”

"Only when Jemadar-one of the abouta-got Bala Nag in double chains would the boy dismount. "Sines then Kala Nag has temporarily insane. Hs

extreme

y dangerous, and has to be con- trolled with a double guard and double chain, but Jemadar com fidently, hopes to bring him around again within a few days. As the elephant plays the lead in the pic ture, his recovery is of great im-

•portance, G

sent to the pubile orphanage by her indifferent foster parents, and Miss Bruce as the more mature Jane, at the time when she leaves and takes the the orphanage, position as governess in the home

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