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ENTERTAIN

QUEENS

SHOWING TO-DAY

NOTE THE SPECIAL TIMES

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SEE whole city built in

how

fire.

splendour to show you, Blood razed it with cannon

at 2.30, 5.05, 7.20 9.30

SEE priceless galleons launch-

you how bits

ord and manned to show

Blood", blew them to

SEE the white slava markets SEE 1,500 men risking their

of the Carribean repro- duced in all their infamy to show. you why" Bloxi" hurled defiance,at an emperor !

lives before the মেয়ে- slaught of clubs and cutlass to show ho "Blood" turned the Atlantic into a blood-red sea!

A MILLION COLLARS' WORTH OF ADVENTURE packed into this miracle of motion pictures!

CAPTAIN BLOOD

WITH ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

LEONE? ATWILL • B'ASIL, RATHBONE

NOTE:-Reservations, will be held only until 10 minutes before the

commencement of each performance.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLET BUB

PLEMING

4 SHOWS.

DAILY

2.30-5.17

7.15-8.30

ORIENTALE

THEATRE

ROAD

MANCHAL

TEL. 2472

•2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

ONLY!

THE BIG PARADE OF LAUGHTER

HERE COMES Fun! Girls! Music! Romance!

Here Comes the Band

with and

TED LEWIS ORCHESTRA

and VIRGINIA BRUCE TED HEALY NAT PENDLETON

HARRY STOCKWELL

DONALD COOK SPANKY MCFARLAND

YOUR

NEW HIT SONGSI

"HEADIN' HOME"

-ROLL ALONG -PRAIRIE MOON”

--YOU'RE MY

THRILL

Directmi by PAUL SLOANE

LOSSEN

ProBARD

Metro- Goldwyn. Mayer

PICTURE

EXTRA ADDED FEATURE!

----LAUREL

-HARDY

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THE SCREEN'S GREATEST COMEDY STARS IN THEIR NEW RIOT OF LAUGHTER

"TIT FOR TAT"

A cyclone of mirth, melody and tomfoolery.

MATINEES: 20c-30% ✪ EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c.-70c. *

TO:DAY

MAJESTIC

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

&. TO-MORROW THEATRE

EVERYBODY'S CHEEKINO THEIR FIRST SHOW SINCE FLIRTATION. WALK'E

DICK POWELL RUBY KEELER

Shipmates

A Man Mabel Portra

Forever

AVERAGE MAN 20 PER CENT. OVER WEIGHT

Cabbage As Solution

London, April 3. The average man is 20 per cent. over-weight.

still the same appetites. There was the case of a man who reduced his meals to one small one per day and felt all right. But most of us could not do that. We could do it with our dogs, for when they got out of condition we cut down their food. We looked after our doge better than we looked after our- selves.

This statement was made by The only solution was to make Professor R. C. Garry, of University; our food so that it would not sup- College, Dundee, to Dundee Rotary ply us with too much energy. Club yesterday.

There was the case of a doctor in the North of England who advised a woman who was getting fat to eat a large plate of cabbage before every meal.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936.

TODAY AT THE MAIL NEWS FROM HOME

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S :-

"Last Of The Pagans" QUEEN'S: --

"Captain Blood"

·ORIENTAL:-

"Here Comes The Band"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Annie Oakley"

· MAJESTIC:-

"Shipmates Forever"

STAR:-

انه

"Alice, Adams"

KING'S:-

*Coming

"The Last Days of Pompeil" ALHAMBRA!--

"Gentle Julia”

STAR:-

"Rose Of The Rancho"

London, April 8.

I hear it is likely that an im- portant innovation will mark the presentation of new Colours by the King to the older Guards' This may reglaments on July 16. noo take place as usual on the Horse Guards Parade.

Two buttalions of the Grenadiers, three of the Coldstreamers and one of the Scots. Guards will then have new Colours presented. The other battalions are at present stationed abroad.

On his occasion the venue will probably be Hyde Park. The King is anxious that as many people as possible shall be enabled to see the ceremony.

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The inadequate accommodation for the general public offered by. the Horse Quards Parade is shown every year at the Trooping of the Colour.

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UNEVEN HYDE PARK Certain techn.cal objections have been urged The most serious is the dislocation of traffic which would be caused by Hyde Park Corner having to be closed before and after the ceremony.

Hyde Park was once used for the Trooping of the Colour. This was

ly always differ, discrepancies

arise.

These provide controversies for the historians of the future.

APRIL IMPERIAL CONFERENCE?

As I forecast on February 6, the Imperial Conference" will, in all probability, be had at about the same me is the Coronation, as Dominion delegations would in any case be in London for that event.

It may be some time before à final decision is reached, but the views of the Dominions have been sought

They reveal, I understand, a consensus of opinion that the con- ference-the Arst ful Imperial Conference since 1930-should be begun before the Coronation.

This suggests the opening of the conference in April

FORMER SECRETARY HOST Sir Walford Selby, the British Minister in Vienna, with whom Sir Austen Chamberlain is going to spend Easter. Was his private secretary.

He was Private Secretary to five Foreign Secretaries-Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Austen Chamber-

CAPTAIN BLOOD in 1018. It was chosen to give. lain, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Lord

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At The Queen's

sufficient space, not to sightseers, but to, the troops.

For the Trooping of the Colour each battalion furnishes a “guard." and at the end of the war there were so many new battalions that i would have been practically.im-' possible to manoeuvre them on the Horse Guards Parade,

The troops then found the un- evenness of the grass very trying when they were marching" in slow time. unusually, high proportion of young troops somewhat detracted its value as a spectacle,

That factor and the

from

People were palpitating with ex- citement. and laughing in sheer glee as Warner Brothers' version of Rafael Sabatini's sweeping ad- venture story of romance on the high seas unreeled on, the 'screen yesterday at The Queen's Theatre. Hollywood's latest discovery," Errol Flynn, of Ireland, gives a striking performance as the quiet and thoughtful physician who be- comes the terror of the Carribean Séas; but he only enhances the dramatic value of a production so well directed and cast that its suc- cess is far from dependent on his work. The picture requires over wo hours to unfold itself, but 13 moves so smoothly and rapidly through engrossing sequences that This is the usual custom. After the end seems to come all to soon, the visit of any representative of Among the many tedious films which appear. this story of piracy in the seventeenth century is a god-sena, and should keep the Queen's Theatre packed throughout its run.

As the young physician sold by his king into slavery for £10, and as the daring and gallant buc- caneer who leads his fellow slaves in the capture of a Spanish ship. Errol Flynn seems to be the idea! choice. Tall and with features cast in a commanding mould, he is an impressive figure as he swash- buckles on the deck of his ship and directs his men as they surge over the rails of a victim to pillage and destroy. Olivia de Havilland's role is not very extensive, but she serves well as the love interest of bold Captain Blood, as the haughty woman who bought him as a slave and was sold to him inter in the

picture. The other members of the supporting cast are usually good. Lionel Atwill plays the tyrant who tortures the slaves to some extent, and Basil Rathbone is picturesque as the hard-fighting French pirate'

MR. EDEN AS RECORDER

Before he could get away for the week-end, Mr. Eden would have to make reports of the conversations he had at the Foreign Office on Saturday with the French Charge d'Affaires and the Belgian Ambas- sador.

a foreign Power the Foreign Secretary elther himself. writes or dictates an account of the con- vergation.

When there is a rush of visitors, as occurred during the Council meetings in, London, it is by no means easy to space them out so that the Foreign Secretary has time in between calers to record conversations while they are still fresh in his mind.

Sometimes It is impossible. At Geneva last autumn, for instance, Mr. Eden conscientiously stayed up till one or two in the morning. catching up on his conversations of the day.

PRECISE SIR JOHN SIMON

Naturally the accuracy of the accounts depends on the Forelgi Secretary's memory. Most Foreign Secretaries become adept at this form of diplomatic Felmanism

Mr. Arthur Henderson was, I believe, an exception. He disliked either writing or dictating ac-

coun's of interviews.

Reading and, for a short time, Sir John Simon,

With Sir Austen he has remain- ed on terms of warm friendship. At the beginning of his career he was assistant private secretary to another Foreign Minister, Sir Ed- ward Grey.

Sir Edward Grey had a high opinion of his ability, and also developed a strong personal liking for him This friendship maintained right up to Lord Grey's death.

was

MR. BALDWIN GOES OPPENHEIM

A book called "The Inteligence Service," a copy of which I have Just received from Italy, 15 evidence of the low moral charac- ter which Sanctions have earned for us as a nation. The British, t tells us, are a people to whom justice, bumartey, iberty and Reace are so many making money.

The author. Signor Augusto de Angells, announces in his preface that it is his mission to "reveal to his

means

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countrymen the diabolical nature of thar English enemies in order that they may learn to 'fight them with their own weapons."

According to Signor Angelis, Mr. Eden and Liberal and Socialist Idealists are all innocent pawns of the notorious Sir Basil. Zaharoff.

Geneva will be surprised to learn that it was he who set the League machinery in motion in order that he might be able to sell dum-dum bullets to Abyssinia.

Mr. Baldwin, the author slates. is not only the first citizen of England, but has the additional honour of being the head, of the Secret Service.

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"LET ME SPEAK"

What have now beerme usual features of the B.B.C. running commentary on the boat race were included on Saturday.

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KINGS

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5 10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. Don't Miss This Triple Attraction!

LAST

Pagans

MALAN LOTUS

Beauties in Cast of 5,000!

1.

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer icture

NEXT OVANGE R.K.O. RADIO

ALSO "AUDIOSCOPIKS.

THE BIGGEST NOVELTY SINCE TALKIES! PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST

TIME ON THE SCREEN, RED AND GREEN 'GLASSES SUPPLIED TO EVERY PATRON, M. G. M. and Pote Smith bave scored a splendid success with this third dimon. sion short. Don't fajl to ses it.

Praviswar S. C. Morning Post,

AND

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LAUREL & HARDY

IN THEIR

LATEST COMEDY

LIVE

GHOSTS"

'LAST DAYS OF POMPEII"

ALHAMBRA

2D, KOWICON- E

SHOWING TO-DAY

AN AUTHENTIC SPECTACULAR AND PULSE STIRRING ATMOSPHERE OF BIG TIME OUTDOOR SHOW LIFE! Out of the roaring Eighties, with Buffalo Bill's Wild Wesli

Barbara STANWYCK ANNIE OAKLEY

NEXT CHANGE

wich

PRESTON FOSTER MELVYN DOUGLAS -Moroni Olsen Part Kallon

Andy Clyda

Directed by George Steve's Cuir Reld, as producer EXO-EADIO PICTURE

JANE (GINGEE) WITHERS in "GENTLE JULIA "

The blas of the commentators

their friends and BequaintanceS was on the side of Oxford.

When the crews reached Ham-rang them up, but total strangers captain who is killed in a duel with legal mind, is reputed to be the failed to take the lead, Cambridge goods or send messages of advice mersmith Bridge, and Laurte had who wished to ask favours, sell

to the President,

the hero. Guy Kibbee and Robert Barrat supply laughs "among the crew of the privateer.

One. 18 constantly reminded of "Mutiny on the Bounty" this pic ture has the same general flavour of gratifying revolt against cruel tyranny.

"LAST OF THÉ PAGANS”

Sir John Simon, with his trained

most adept in recent years.

Fe

small ships which he himself made during the conversation.

men began to feel that B.B.C.

even. It is sald, used to record sportsmanship was being overcione. One woman suggested that the After Chiswick Brigadier Gibbon young Roosevelts 'should arrange had little to do except judge the for her to spend a fortnight at increasing lead of Cambridge, and, the White House. as an old Light Blue himself. praise the doggedness of the losing

Talks are recorded in the form of a despatch to the British Am- bassador or Minister accredited to the country of the caller.

Naturally the vialtor makes his own report to his Government. As the recollections of any two per sons of a given conversation near

"THE LAST DAYS. OF POMPEII"'

eight,

The work of the patr of com- mentators, by way, was rather ragged. Once I thought I heard the Brigadier say to his "bos "Let me speak."

OXFORD BOAT FACE

Oxford's

consolation tea-party

De

If they left the receivers off the hooks workmen would hurry along to see the phones needed re- pairing.

A few days ago the two Mr. Roosevelts informed the telephone company that if the telephones not disconnected promptly they themselves would do it with more violence than care.

were

In the tropical paradise of the South Seas, the most reckless automobile drivers in the world have been discovered. The dis- coverer is Richard Thorpe, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer director who re- turned with a company of thirty technicians after five months de- In "The Last Days of Pompeii voted to filming "Last of the coming on Sunday at the King's Pagans"

islands Theatre, from RKO Radio, two beneath the Southern Cross. The important events of the first picture is currently playing at the cenfury of the Christian Era, are " brought to the screen They are King's Theatre.

the crucifixion of Christ in Jeru-- salem, and the spectacular destruc- tion of the classic city of Pompeil.

According to history, forty-alx greeted with a blackboard sketch from the cars, which are now run-

13 far away

With Thorpe were Mala, Eskimo actor, and Lotus Long, who play the leading roles in the South story based upon John Seas Villiers Farrow's original.

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WOMAN TRAP

WINE FOR MOTOR FUEL · yesterday, I hear, quite wiped out

A recent visitor to Rome tells me all recollections of Saturday's de- that he was puzzled by the smell feat. It was held at St. George's of wine which pervaded the streets. Hospital on the invitation of It was particularly strong in the the ward. Via Condolt-the Roman Bond- seven-year-old boy in

street. He said in his letter:

We are all Oxford and we hope you will come but some of the Cambridge but they

girls are dont matter.

On their arrival the crew,were

It was separated these powerful by one of the children. destiny-shaping incidents. In the entitled "The Oxford Boat Face." photoplay they are both re-enacted

years

in the periods in which they oc- curred. The Adelity of their re-

TR-R-ROURLING. TWO ROOSEVELTS

He thought somebody must have emptied hundreds of casks of wine in the city until a head walter solved the mystery.

It appears that the smell comes

ning on a mixture of oil and wine. The Via Condotti is narrow, so the fumes remain longer than in broad thoroughfares.

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In certain parts of Italy, where' Oxford and Cambridge under-the wine is poor in quality, growers A thrill-loving girl and a front-productions is as complete as in- When we reached adult life, he

page reporter get their lives tan- tensive research could insure... graduates do not have telephones cannot get even 3d a pint for last said, we stopped growing and we

gled with a gang of desperadoes in The Last Days of Pompei" in their rooms. Harvard under- year's vintage. They are only. too

"dramu, "Woman concerns a did not need so much food. The

Paramount's

man who, making | graduated do. Two Harvard excep- glad that the Government buys it,

eidat-Mr. John] to mix with petrol...“ boy of 10 or 12 years of age needed

Trap, which is scheduled to oper wealth and power his twin aims tons.. however.

in like, discovers this This she did, and the cabbage at the Queen's Theatre, shortly.

great Roosevelt and Mr. Franklin Roose- The mixture costs 6a 24 a gallon. more food than we did. In how

Drivers find that the new "anti- many households did that happen? took away her appetite for other The cast is headed by Gertrude Christian truth after he has made velt sons of the President...

They found that work became Sanctionist fuel goes half as for Then we were sitting about in fattening dainties but did not itself Michael, George Murphy, Roscoe his way to empire over the suffer-

as imported petrol of pre-Abys- offices all day. We were not really make her fat. This was a possible. Karns, Samuel B. Hinds, Sidney ings and tragedies of his fellow Impossible for them on account of

But we had ' solution:

Blackmer and. Dean Jagger. ainig our muscles.

constant telephone calls. Not only sintan war days.

ESTARE

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW The Screen's Most Eléctrifying Star in a Story of Heartbreak and Triumph I

DAMS

One of America's well worn books! TARKINGTON'S LOVELIEST GIRL Re-created by KATHARINE! HEPBURN

in a heart-warming drama with Fred MacMurray Fred. Stone Evelyn Venable Directed by GEORGE STEVENS Pandro 5. Berman production' RKO RADIO PICTURE

COMMENCING SUNDAY

*GLADYS

JOHN

BOLES and SWÄRTHOUT in "ROSE OF THE RANCHO PARAMOUNTS MUSICAL

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