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ENTERTAIN

TAINME

QUEENS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1936.

TODAY AT THE

BURNING THE CLAVIE

ST. ANDREW'S

CHURCH

To-day & To-morrow Only at 2,30, 5.15, 7.20 9.30

The biturius story of a hen-pecked husband

who pecked back

W. C. FIELDS

in Paramount's Classle

"Man on the Flying Trapeze"

with MARY BRIAN KATHLEEN HOWARD NEXT CHANGE

JAMES CAGNEY-JOAN BLONDELL

in

He Was Her Man ”

4 SHOWS

TAKE IT TRAM DE HAPPY VALLEY BLAG

7.15-14.30

ORIENTAL

LAST

THEATRE

4 TIMES TO-DAY

UP-TO-THE-MINUTE

MUSICAL SHOW MEXICO'S MILLION-

.DOLLAR PARADICE OF GIRLS

PAT

O'BRIEN

DOLORES DEL RIO 15 OTHERS

CALENTE

PLEMING ROAD

WANGHAI

TEL. 28478

TO-MORROW

& THURSDAY

A ROARING" ROMANCE

FILLED

WITH THRILLING EVENTS!

RICHA

DIX The

ARIZONIAN

Margot Grahame

Preston Foster Dinicked by CHARLES Louis Calhers VIDOR, CHO R

quanciale producat, RKO-RADIO

Prices Matinees. 20 c.--30 c.. Evenings 20 -20 ~50 s.—70 c.

STARE

TO-DAY ONLY

A CIRCUS OF STARS

AND GAGS WITH JOE ÁS THE

AND GIRLS

RINGMASTER

от

CEREMONIES

JOE E

BROWN "BRIGHT LIGHTS

A Best Nacional Picture wich ANN DYOZAK WILLIAM GARGAN PATRICIA ELLIS Houding Huge Star Cat -THURSDAY, 6th FER “ANNAPOLIS FAREWELL'

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

"IT'S IN THE AIR"

BRIGHT LIGHTS

Patricia Elias, during the pro- gress of the shooting of the First Sutional comedy "Bright Lights," which is at the Star Theatre to day, celebrated her birthday. The and there for the first time in three years, she admits, she told the truth concerning her age.

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Les Miserabiça”. QUEEN'S:

"Man on the Flying Trapeze" ORIENTAL:-

"In 'Caliente"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"The Man Triler" MAJESTIC:--

"Flame Within”

"Bright Lights".

STAR:--

KING'S-

Coming

"It's In The Air" QUEEN'S

"He Was Her Man" "Peter Ibbetson” ORIENTAL:—

STAR

"Arizonlari" "She"

"Annapolis Farewell"

Ancient Ceremony At Burghead

London, Jan. 13. The ancient ceremony known as the burning of the clavie, which is observed annually at Burghead on New Year's Eve (old style), was witnessed by large crowd.

Annual Church Meeting

Satisfaction for the healthy state of affairs existing in the Church were expressed by the Rev. G. R. Higgs, vicar at the annual general meeting of the St. Andrew's Church, which, was held yesterday The clavie burning is a century- | in the Church Hall before a large old custom believed to be a relic gathering of parishioners... of the ancient fire worshipping as The unique method of likening practised by the Druids, and by the church to a ship that had ius observance, it is held by weathered both rough waters and those whose minds are still given amooth, was adopted by the Vicar, to superstitious beliefs, al evil who suld that his position on the spirits have been banished from | "vessel" was comparable to that of the township for the ensuing the "First Mate.” twelve months.

JR.

An

History was made at the meeting when two ladies volunteered to act as 'aidesmen' during the year, they being Mesdames Baldwin and Thomas, who have the distinction of being the first ladies to serve in this capacity.

"

Council: Messrs. R Baldwin; R. Dormer, H. Gittins, A. C. Jeffreys, G. B. Labrum. E G. Phillips, R. H. Wong, F. W. Staple- ton, Major C. M. Frimer, Mr. Web- ber, Miss J. M. 8. Smith, Miss M. M. W. Wentworth, and Mrs. Gar- diner.

All the rites In connection, with the preparation of the clave are hereditary, and in the early after посп the clavie "king" or "skipper." Mr. Wulans Peterkin. Brander Street. and his "crew" set to work in its preparation.

Officers Elected The

clavie

consists

Officers elected for the ensuing Archangel tar barrel which once year, resulted "as follows: procured, is sawn in two, one half Representatives on the Board of being affixed to a salmon Asher's | Trustees: Mr. O. B. Raven and stake by means of a Jong nail Mr. A. C. Jeffrevä

Church specially forged by village black: smith. In the driving home of the na!" only stones from the beach were employed, the use of a hammer being deemed irreverent.

When Anished, the clavie was carried to an appointed place near the old U.F. Manse, where it was filled with wooden Inggots and tar. and punctually at six o'clock C. Fields, It was-set alight by the skipper; a Above all elso W screen comfe, hus a unique style of glowing peat belag used for this delivery, which has endeared him to purpose.

the Co. Ignited, millions.

Fields, who is starred in Para-clavie, now a flaming. torch, was through the principal mount's "Man On The Flying carried

being called here Trapere," scheduled to open at the streets.. halts Queen's Thontre today, declares he and there where pieces of acquired his reepy voice as a blazing faggots were thrown un- youngster, and never has lost it. cermoniously into the house doors Faw people know the started his of certain favoured house-holders, faggots are cherished 23 career as a vocal comedian, turning These to pantomine when he left for omens of great good fortune for abroad.

the ensuing year.

MAN ON THE FLYING

TRAPEZE

When this WILS

the

The Fields delivery is unique. Finally the clavie, now far spent; The lines themselves, with the was carried to the Dorle Hill. rospy Fields voice reciting them, over-looking the Moray Frth. gain a distinctive humour that no where it was replenished with other funny man or stage or screen combustibles, the blaze being seen can imitate or equal. Paramount for miles around: Finally it was put him in a picture called "In hacked at, and a mad rush ensued ternational House, the public for possession of the burning em roared. He was given a âlm con- berg as these scattered down the tract by Paramount and put upon slopes of the hill with the collapse his own, privileged to write his of the clavie, own pictures and his own dialogue

In The Man On The Flying Trapeze" Fields is seen as a shy down-trodden clerk, brow-beaten in the office and hen-pecked at home.

On her last birthday she was 18 The film tells how this funny years old.

"poor-man" tries to sneak away. from bis office and his nagging wife and mother-in-law to attend a wrestling match.

record

Hence, when she entered the studio three years ago at the age uf 15 and became AL featured ployer. she rather set a Of course, nobody knew she was that young-she said, in fact, that sie was 17 years old at the time.

Young as she really is, however, Miss Ellis is quite mature in ex- perience in acting for she was liter- ally reared in the theatre,

HE WAS HER MAN

J

These faggots are carefully cherished as harbingers of good luck, and many of them are sent to Burghead people resident overseas.

THE ARMY

་

鸭

Vicar's Warden: Mr. F. W. Stap- leton.

Warden: Mr. A. C.

Auditors: Messrs. Martin and

People's Jeffreys,

GOOD YEAR OF TRADE

Reports From Aberdeen

London, Jän, 14, Increased revenue, decreased ex- penditure, and an increase in both, imports and exports at Aberdeen' Harbour for the year to Septem- ber 30 last were reported by air John H. Irvin at the annual gen- eral meeting of Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners yesterday, The re- venue for the first three months of the current financial years, he in- creased by £3550 compared with the "corresponding three months of the previous year.

The number of arrivals and the tonnage of trading vessels enter- ing the harbour had increased.

Promotion And Appointment. There were 58,563 tons more goods

London, Jan. 14. Major and Brevet Lieutenant-

"An exceptionally talented cast Cotonel R. N. O'Connor, D.8,0 has been" listed for the principal | M.C., has been selected for promo roles in the latest Warner Bros, tion to the rank of Lleutenant-

imported, and goods exported in- creased by 15,347 tons. The ... re-. venue. was up"£7780, expenditure was down £9094, and after set- ting aside the annual statutory

contribution to the sinking fund,

Her father is Alexander Leftwich, Production, "He Was Her Man," Colonel with effect from January amounting to £20,536, there was

a surplus of £24,023.

and he's a celebrated ampressario of Braodway. Director and pro-

the next attraction at the Queen's 12, in succession to Lieutenant

DETAILS OF REPORT |4 ducer of many important shows in

Theatre.

Colonel R. D. Hunter, DS.0., who

Dealing with the volume of New York, he recently came to the James Cagney, recently seen in retired on that date.

tramc, Sir John said that, com- Major W. P. Bradley-Willams, pared with the last pre-war year West Coast to stage musical pre "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as ductions.

"Bottom." nas the leading mascu-SO, has been selected for com-1813--it was still behind in the

of the 1st Battalion. The Hence it is not surprising that line role, while Joan Blondell, of mana aliss Ellis, when just old enough the "Travelling Saleslady" fama, King's Own Yorkshire Light 12-tonnage of trading vessels by 10.8 to walk out on the stage, appeared plays opposite him in the feminine fantry, in succession to Lieutenant per cent, and in goods by 23.8 per cent. In the thing section the before the footlighta. At first she lead.

another member of Colonel L. D. Daly, D.8.0., O.B.Evessels tonnage was ahead by 83 was a child actress; then when she the cast of the Shakespearean whose tenure expires on January grew older and was large for her masterpiece "A Midsummer Night's 15, age, her father let her understudy Dream" Victor Jory will be seen the leading ingenues in some of

in a strong characterization of a his shows.

Yet

"ARIZONIAN"

Bichard Dix, starred as a frontier marshal in "The Arizonian, shat ters a orime web more complicated and sinister than anything existing

Thus, at the age of 15-though simple Portuguese fisherman who she then had advanced her age is deeply infatuated with Miss Beveral years-Miss Ellis had actu- Blondell, in the role of a woman ally graduated into leading roles. of the streets. Frank Craven, the She was in fact, playing in "The noted actor-writer-director has the Royal Family" and "Elizabeth the role of a "stooge" while others in Queen" when she first attracted the the cast include such well known attention of First National execu-players of both stage and screen to-day. tives.

as Harold Huber, Russell Hopton, Coming to the Pacific Coast, and Ralfe Harolde, Sarah Padden and immediately cast in importaat parts, Miss Ellis continued her James Eagles

The picture is a dramatic story stage success in screen roles; and also continued her education on the of an utterly unscrupulous scoun- studio lot.

drel whose one decent act is to go "Bright Lights" is a hilarious to his death without involving his comedy with music, by Lois Lea enamorata, leaving her free to wed Wednesday at the King's Theatre, son. The screen play is by Bert the man who has offered her real needs for his forthcoming radio Kalmar and Harry Ruby with love.

adaptation by Ben Markson and

"Wanted-radio players with screen personalities." That's what Jack Benny, starring in Metro comedy-drama, Goldwyn-Mayer's "It's in the Air," to be seen on

programmes.

TO-DAY ONLY

"

At 3.30, 5.10,

SKINGS.

THE SCREEN'S MIGHTIEST

VICTOR HUGE S MANY CRIME KL MOZIN

Les

Miserables

ACTORS IN THEIR SUPREME NITI

Fredric MARCH Charles LAUGHTON

ALSO WALT DISNEY SILLY SYMPHONY

WATER BABIES

FROM WED.

THE MOST BRAutiful TechnicÓLOWE »

Ever Prosocad,

JACK BENNY

in "IT'S IN THE AIR " with. TED HEALY · NAT PENDLETON - UNA MERKEL

M.G.M.

PICTURE

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

NATHAN RD. KOWLOONI-D

2- 9.30 ·TEL. 56396

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

BUCK

JONES

"The MAN TRAILER

with

Cecilia Parker

Written and directed by Lambert Dhafiser

The Fearless Rider of the Frontier I

TO-DAY

& TO-MORROW

Columba

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

Then came

a man who

needed bar * despar

ately!

HARDING MARSHALL #FLAME WITHIN

CHINESE PAINTINGS

Sir Percival David's Advice To Critics

At 2.80, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

THURSDAY

EDWARD ARNOLD

IN

"DIAMOND JIM"

SCOTTISH EDUCATION

BILL

London, Jan. 15.

1 understand that, the drafting of the new Scottish Education Bill, per cent., and yet, the fish landed

London, Jan, 15. which is to be passed through Par- was behind by 20 per cent..

At Burlington House on Monday liniment this session, is now prac In his remarks last year Bir evening Sir Percival David opened tically completed, and that the the hands of John, said he had stated that they the additional series of weekly measure will be in

.to. could not look too far into the official lectures in connexion with members before they return future, but the expressed the view the. International Exhibition, of Westminster on February 4, writes that there were undoubted signs Chinese Art, and they will be con- & correspondent, The Bill is that that the country was gradually tinued until Monday, March 2. He under which it is proposed to racise getting out of the depression from took the opportunity to review the the school-leaving age, and to make provision for exemptions in the which it had been suffering for a progress of the exhibition. number of years.

Big Percival David said thaj dur. case of children for whom beneficial Colias, Secretary of State for He thought that these accountsing the 40 days of exhibition there employment is found. Bir Godfrey

had been 154,816 visitors, being an opinion, although trade and com-level were maintained for the re had justified that expression of average attendance of 3,870. If this Scotland, who has returned to London from abroad for the merce were not yet what they maining, 48 days, the exhibition Cabinet meeting to-morrow, intends would like them to be

IRON ORE DISCOVERED

Foochow, Jan,:26.

and murder existing in the early The net of outlawry and theft days of the West entwined judges, sheriffs and other public figures

would have attracted some 350,000 to travel north at the end of this Such unscrupulou, authorities, os

visitors a total surpassing the at-week in order to discites the new tensibly acting in the public's favour, are Dix's foes as he seeks

teldance at each of the former win education proposale with loca to drive bandite out of the town.

ter exhibitions--the Flemish, Dutch, authorities. He will be in Edin

|burgh on Monday and in Glasgow In his role, Dix personifies a

Persian, French, and British. composite of real-life characters,

There was no subject of Chinese on Thursday of next week, and on best represented by Bill Tilghman

art so little understood in the West the following Monday and Thurs- as that of painting; there was cer- day he will visit Dundee and Aber and Bat Masterson. They tried to

tainly none more dificult to under deen respectively. During his stay purge the overnight communities

in Scotland he will also roosiva a Rich deposits of fron ore have stand. It was impoemble to ap- which sprang up numerously in the early West and were, opposed and been discovered in Anki, southern preciate Chinese paintings in the number of deputations on other mattera connected with Scottish true spirit of the native connoisseur Office administration. antagonized by the forces whom the Fukien. people blindly socepted as their According to surveys made by without knowledge of Chinese That radio testa, as well

That expert exponent of outdoor benefactors an

engineering experts of the Provin-language and literature. The wife in portrayed by Una action, Buck Jones, will head a Dix's clorte to lean up Silvercial Department of Reconstruc- special knowledge was possessed' by Benny's second starring vehicle, Merkel, who incidentally, for the promised parade of thrills and er City result in ganplay and blood-tton, the amount of iron deposits fes persons in England, and in its ceptions and prejudices before directed by Charles F. Ricener, first time in her screen career has citement beginning. Shewing at shed, but the West, as territory is estimated at no less than 40 absence we were prone to apply to serious approach was made shows him in the characterization a dramatic rather than a douiedy the Alhambra Theatre, now when had to be made peaceful before it million tons. The quality is stated Chinese pictorial art the canons of Chinese painting. The aim of the his latest Columbia production. became properly habitable to be better than that of the Han item that we applied to Euro-Chinese painter was fundamentally of a Broadway chiseler," who is role,

bean painting baratos different from that of the Western Back, who numbers among his The Arisonian," produced by only one step ahead of the law,

methods and

star

The radio, stage and soreon Benny Rubin. The lyrics and made plans with Metro-music are by Mort Dixon and Allie Goldwyn-Mayer, studios to allow Wrubel and Kalmar and Ruby. him the use of a camera and sound Busby Berkeley directed. crew so that he can give applicants

screen

auditions

Ted Healy plays. Benny's side-

"THE MAN TRAILER**

until, by accident, he becomes ajkick, while Nat Pendleton is the fans more than & million schoolboy RKO Radio which made Cimers rang mines in Hupeh or the Ping The pictorial arts of the East and painter and b

age youngsters, enact the role of rons fonaires a noteworthy cast, sang mines in western Klangst. an outlaw who breaks away from Marget Grahame, sensation-maker Annalynda shows that the Fakten his renegads companions to become of the Informer Preston Foster ore contains 60 per cent. of iron marshall of a little Western town, and Louis Calhern,

national hero through a stratos phere flight into which he has beeh forced by his estranged wife

comical "G-Man Mary Carlisle, Harvey Stephens and Grant Mit chell are also in the cast

Audrin

the West were so different that come made remored from parisons became not odious but these of the West, he to make the simply irrelevans The mind sould critical apparatut of the European be disabused of all, Western precon?) art expert useless and unworkable.

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