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THE LATE JOHN

GILBERT

His Success In Silent Films

London, Jan, 12. John Gilbert, who died in Holly Wood inst week at the early age of thirty-right, was (writes C. A. L.) a á actor of more note than his recent career would seen to justify, The modern generation of picture gre knows lietly of him but his failures; his voice was unsuited to talkiel, and, in spite of Garba' generous attempt to bring him back to favour as her leading man in "Queen Christina," his talkie

engagementa spectacular.

few were

and

132-

of "The Count of Monte Cresto,"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE E ARSENAL GET BIG THE INTEGRITY

FRIGHT

CINEMA

Hong Kong

In Second Half

KING'S:-

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"Les Miserables" QUEEN'S:~

Travelling Saleslady"

""Beggars In Ermine”

ORIENTAL:

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"This Is The Life” MAJESTIC:

"The Arizonian” STAR:-

"The Glass Key"

KING'S:-

Coming

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"Old Man Rhythm" "Four Hours To Kill* ORIENTAL:-

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"Nit Wits"

ALHAMBRA :-

"Hi Gaucho!" MAJESTIC:-"

"Gold Digger of 1935"

"LES MISERABLES"

Hollywood's most celebrated feud tontinues apace. Fredric March and Charles Laughton, the famous adversaries of "The Barretts of

Wimpole Street," are opposing each other again in Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century production af "Les Miserables," which is showing at the King's Theatre to- day.

ב

March is seen

-"Les Miserables" as Jean Valjean, who

on * 2 French spends ve years prison ship for stealing a loaf of "bread and iheri becomes a

fusive from Justice by violating

his parole; while Laughton is cast as Javert, the fanatical · detective. who dogs his trail, although he leads an honest and increasingly prosperous life. 1

Sharing stellar honours with the famous film enemies is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, distinguished star of the English stage and screen, while Rochelle Hudson, Frances Drake and John Beal, three rising young

OF CHINA

Bristol Rovers Lead Limits Of Compliance

Bristol Rovers... 1 Aracnal ........

London, Jan. 13. Arsenal a goal down with less than half an hour to zo; "Bastin had missed a penalty and Drake an open goal; Rovers defending vallantly and surely-no wonder 20,000 odd Briscollans had only wo words on their Ups: "Another Walsall"

The awakening.. when it came. was swift and shattering.

Once Bastin had equalised, the gallant Bristol defence cracked. and Arsenal began to walk the ball into the net. Bastin again, Drake and Bowden put on three more goals in three minutes, and Drake got a fifth five minutes afterwards.

1

Five goals in a quarter

of an

hour! That Was how Arsenal turned day into night for the Ro- vers' supporters. It all looked so simple in the end, yet I wonder what would have happened if the Rovers could have finished with 11 ft men..

The fates dealt them two body blows. Houghton, their best for- ward he put the Rovers in front with a fine shot just before the Interval-had to go of the field Soon after the second half started in state of semi-collapse,

It was touch-and-go whether he played at all, as he was suffer- ing from an influenza cold. Houghton returned to finish the game a dazed man

J

WALLINGTON INJURED

Then right-half Wallington, who, with Pickering, had put the Davidson-Basin wing early out of business before the interval, suffered a painful ankle injury. He was off the deld with Hough- ton, and came back to hobble along at outside right,

Carrying two passengers," the Rovers were bound to be fatally handicapped Their defenders

were dog-tired through overwork on an exceptionally heavy pitch,

and every excuse can be. made

stage of the second half. for their collapse in the middle

London, Jan. 8.

At the end of nine month study, undertaken after an absence from China of nearly 10 years, the best way at describing the situation in the Far East seems to lie in de- veloping three statements:-China, has undoubtedly made great pro- gress; she is likely to make much more during the next 10 years, pro- sided that she enjoys peace in a world rid of economie depression; but Japan's present policy will ruin her prospect of peace and her capacity to prepare herself for im proved economic conditions,

his conversation

Z

Of the very large number of Chinese talked with only a few, of special interest, can be mentioned, Such were Li Tsung-jen, of Kwang- si, 4 so called militarist, though much of straight out of the Confucian. Analects; Hon Fu-chu, Chairman Shantung, a tall, spare man who, perhaps, looks and sounds like a ilitarist when in uniform, but who his study bag the air of a cul- Lured dilettante, possessed of a gift tor whimsical phrases; Yon Hsi- thon, of Shansi, almost grand motherly in portly demeanour, who punctuates his talk with carefully kupt finger tips, yet looks as though he might at any moment fall apart like a loosely tied bundle; and Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the former ruler of Manchuria, Chang. Tso-lin, a popular games playing member of the Hankow Club, who speaks English, but who, on a hot Lammer's day, at tea on the club's lawn, with Gareth Jones-later to meet so sadly with disaster-on one side and the writer on the other, preferred his native tongue,

WELL-KNOWN NAMES

The list included auth well-known names as those of Wang Ching-wei, then chairman of the Executive Yuan, who is well over 30, but bas ul the sunniness of 35; st H, H. ung, Manister of Finance, who might not inaptly be described as a pleasant looking Sphinx without. secret; of T, V. Boong, formerly Minister of Finance, and now the riving force behind the National Economic Council; and of Chiang Kai-shek, the dominating personali- ty in China, whose eyes, as readers of The Times have been told before,

ave unusually luminous and com manding qualities. To be received by him is to be accorded the privi | ege also of meeting his pretty wife, who is a sister of T. V. Soong, and in as able in many way as her brother.

But the Bristol players had lived one glorious hour. When, in

Among the many Japanese with. the opening half, Arsenal, throw-

whom, as well as with the Chinese, ing everything into attack.

Sino-Japanese affairs were discuss often threatened danger, the Ro-

ed were the Vice-Minister of vers', defence was as solid as

Foreign Affairs; the Foreign Office rock. McLean watched Drake cospakescian; the chairman of the carefully that he could not get in a single shot, and Donald and Young were equally sure in their tackling.

Hollywood stars, supply a love theme that forms the counterplot to Valjean's life-long attempt to elude the clutches of Javert Others prominent in the cast are Florence Eldridge. (Mrs. Fredric

Behind them was Ellis, a goal- March.) Jessie Ralph, little keeper with the right sense of

and Deranilcipation.

made himself the hero of Bristol when, at the 18th minute, he stopped Bastin's hot shot from the penalty spot with a great save.

Marilynne Knowlden dinand Gottschalk.

THE GLASS KEY

The drama of a political battle; the excitement of a murder my-

are the elements from

at

Won

Teamed with Edward Arnold,

Filis

He thwarted Bastin twice more in the first half and, though the Ar-

senal man was destined to take complete revenge, I think it can fairly be said that the fine work of Ellis brought confidence to his colleagues, especially the forwards.

KÓVERS TAKE THE LEAD -

of an

South Manchuria Railway Com- pany; General Döihara-whose bad Chinese disqualifies him for the title "The Lawrence of the "Far East" the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, concurrently Ambassador ia Manchukuo, the Consuls-General in Naaking and Tientsin; the Military Attaché in Peking, and General Tada, com- mander of the Japanese troops in Tientsin.

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DIGGER OF 1935"

WHAT NEW INDUSTRIES

of the sympathy north

Border in with his suggestion that Scotland badly needs to undertake some London, Jan, 10. comprehensive survey of her in- Scotland's chief national Indus-dustrial resources and possibilities. try at the moment seems to be the holding of inquests on scot-

and Dr. J. A. Bow.e. fulminsi- What new industries could be at- og against his countrymen

tracted? What opportunities did Aberdeen last night, was there- Scotland offer for the manufac• ture of motor-cars, - seroplanes, ore at least in the fashion. Some

electrical appliances, paints and 01 his charges-that the main PCK of the country is dens, Varnishes, ousehold commodities, that the one thought of a Scot-and so on?

don'

at

01

Could something

de-

Gilbert in the "silent" "days, however, was one of Hollywood's

The conclusion reached from these conversations is that, at a moment most vivid actors. He had an in- escapable personality; when he

when every element of prestige and appeared on the screen a kind of stery and the indemness of ro-

power which the Chinese Govern flame seemed to kindle in the picmance

ment possesses is needed to enable turo. His work was intensely which are woven the engrossing

to manage its new currency sue genaine and quite ungrudging. It story of Dashiell Hammett's ""The

cessfully, the present policy of was not remarkably handsome, but Glass Rey," now the Star

Japan confronts it with a dilemura ho had a grace and a panache that | Theatre.

The Rovers, did well to seize the which will prove ruinous because de all his parts seem colourful.

George Raft returns to the typefalitative in the quarter

concurrence in, or rejection of, the Possibly the best work Gilbers of characterization which

degree of subservience demanded by hour aver did was in the silent version

before the interval and that policy alike must result in the him fame at the outset, of his was quite prepared for the goal loss of most of the control that ish banker faced with a new idea de done to stimulate the tourist Scottish but the war film, The Big carcer in this picture.

acored by Houghton at the 43rd Nanking exercises,

"to take the first train to Lantrame? What about Parade,' was his most spectacular

minute, The opening was made The

emell-holdings? This was the sort degree of subservience re-

to inquire about. it-are success. Old-timers still think of he is the hard-fisted, tight- by Adcock, the old Leicester Cityquired a month ago included re-bviously exaggerated and in any of question he wanted to see in- tam with affection 'in' “Bardelva the mouthed and loyal companion of winger, who dribbled across the cognition of Manchukuo; concur case much too general to be quired into. "Every other Magnificent." with Eleanor Board- the older man,

feld very cleverly before making rence in the view that North China fzstened to Scotland alone. But Pressed area" had a scheme of cas, "The Merry Widow," with

Arnold, the shrewd political his pass.

i essential to Manchukuo, and there will be a good dea? development in hand; Bentland Mae Murray, and "He who Gets overlord of a big city, antagonizes

alone Arsenal faces were long and sincere” compliance with Japan's

"seems too tired or too Stapped," with Norma Shearer.

lazy to do anything significant.”. It is an

irony of fame that he the tough" element of the city anxious at half-time. As soon as wishes in all other matters held by

Few Southerners will be anxious Banuld now be valued most for they his actions. When a mysterious the second half was under way her to affect the Far East, These

to intrude on this family quarrel series of films, beginning with "The murder is committed, Arnold's en- Bastin was restored to faside-left, requirements have never been for or indirectly, by Japan. The so- Flesh and the Devil, which he emies try to pin the crime on him. Davidson going on the wing, and mulated in writing, a method of called "autonomy' movement is the But it is curious that Clydecide trade with Greta Garbo, for these Rait risks his life and reputa- the complexion

negotiation distrusted, apparently, cutcome of plans for the realiza and the West,, for example, with by the Japanese since the 21 tion of thess aims.* were, to him as an actor, his leasttion to uncover the actual mur-changed completely.

all its vast stocks of engineering Demands. With the exception of Three further statements will knowledge and facilities, has been significant pictures. Garbo's how. derar and to save his friend. Az- Bastin, obviously, was the one the first (recognition of Manchu clarify them in greater detail. so little able to attract the newer ever, is a great, nams on which to mold's pretty daughter, acted by forward likely to set the machin kuo), they have not, to the best of First, taken bang any story, and her genuine Rosalind Keith, acts as an ad-

collectively ery working, for Bowden, as well the writer's knowledge, been for amount to much more than the con- knows, not a single aeroplane they engineering trades.. Bo far as one friendship, and alleged romance. with Gilbert is perhaps the thing series of hair-breadth escapes and ditional incentive. and after a

as Davidson, was for ever making mulated verbally as they are stated verse of the League's view that manufacturer has a works in beat qualifed to keep his memory

the wrong pass, and Bastin, back here.. The second, however, is Manchuria is essential to China. green,

adventures, Raft gets his man. in his proper place, set Arsenal verifiable doctrine as stated. If two parties share a house, sach Scotland to-day. And the Scot- Frank Tuttle directed the pic-fears at rest with a brilliant equ-comprises economic, political, acknowledging that his rooms are th motor industry has long ture which also features Clatrealising goal.

strategic elemente, The third is an essential to his companion, there is flickered and died, despite the Dodd, Charles Richman and Ray

Starting near the half-way line equally verifiable generalization of mutuality. If, however, one says, metallurgical resources available Milland.

he raced through the defence at demands expressed to, and by, "My rooms are not essential to There are many points on which speed, flicked the ball to Drake, during the past year.

arious persons at various times

you, but youre are to me,” he is, ach an industrial survey might in effect, denying the use of his fing useful light. ran forward for the expected re-

In relation to current events the own, while claiming that of his turn pass, and beat Ellis with a doctrine that North China is companion's, apartments. And, if low shot. For the first time in antial to Manchukuo, is of chief his companion concurs, he agrees you your los would save from the game the crowd had been importance. Its economic element not merely to exclusion from one given in taste of Arsenal cisse, j'in rafer and ampler access for Japanet of rooms bus to division of the The balance restored, the rest was tu raw materials, among them out other. Secondly, of the elements of easy for the League champions ton and colite strategic element named above strategy is the But I am sure many a day will stronger defence both for Man- dominating one. Russia is alleged

much in the way of showing of the paces of his latest aeroplano at Gravesend Aerodrome. In face, while wheel brakes will shorten the Only one short flight was made. run. It can therefore be landed In general appearance the new in small field. The wide wheel machine, which has been named the track makes it steady on the Vega Gull. looks, much like the ground, while the wings can easily

MR. A. T. PAŚK DEAD original Gull-that is to say, it is be folded back by one person when

low-wing monoplane, but it has | the machine is to be garaged, four soata instead of three.

The tanks are in the wings.

London, Jan. 11. Captain Percival is always a which makes for safety, and they The death is announced of Mr. liever in speed even for light hold farty gallons of potrel, giving Arthur Thomas Pasic, the author private, aeroplanes, and the Vegan range of 30 miles. There are Gull with a D., 200-h.p. flypsy cars which do no more than six-

and journalist, who was for many

ot the game

Five things observe with care;

whom you speak, to whom you

speak,

“And how and when and where.

Six engine can cruise at 150 miles teen miles to the gallon, and they Yearn a prominent contributor to pass before they think of movingchukao and Japan against Russia; is be building five railway lines, If You, Your pars would save from

An hour while its top speed is 170. will not do it at 100 miles per London newspapers and maza It has aps in the trailing edge of hour. Moreover, some of those zinek His books included "Eves the wing, which bring the landing cars cost more than the Vaga at the Thames" and "A Midsum- speed, down to 45 miles an hour, Gull."

mier MaduGES.”

Bastin from inside-left again.

Hulme alone of the other forwards

had a good match. The pick of the defenders was Male,

you your Bars

g, both these, in the advan ene from Verkhne Udinsk to Urga: VAD from Semipalatinsk to age these, in the opinion of

Three things keep meekly hld: the Kwantung Army, would derivelinautai and three others be from governmental stability in tween. Bemi palatinse and Trikent Myself, and I and udas and my, North China maintained, directly towards Chinese Turkestank

And

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