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HONG KONG DAILY

PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936.

ENTERTAIN

QUEENS

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30. 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. IN RESPONSE TO PURLIO DEMAND WE HAVE. REEN FORTUNATE IN BEING ABLE TO ARBANGE FOR THE RETURN OF THE GREATEST ADVENTURE PICTURE OF ALL TIME

SLASHING ITS WAY TO SEN- SATIONAL NEW RECORDS!

CAPTAIN BLOOD

WITH ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND SIÓNEL REWILL » KASI'RATHKONI

-TO-MORROW

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

"KING'S:—

"The Garden Murder Case

QUEEN'S

"Captain Blood"

ORIENTAL:-

"Four Hours To Kill"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:~~

"Yellow Dust"

STAR

J'AN

KIEPURA

GLADYS SWARTHOUT

"GIVE US THIS NIGHT"

in

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB

4 SHOWS

SLINING

ROAD

DAILY

2,30-5.13

-7.15-12.00

DAYS ONLY

2DAY

ORIENTAL

TO-DAY

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TO-MORROW.

HE WALKED THROUH HELL TO GET HIS MAN! Here's dramatic dynamite! A daring picture that pulls no punches. Positively the most exciting story over shown on the screen.

A LITTLE GUY WITH A BIG HATE!

A killer on the loose in a

Broadway theatre! He tangles. the lives of people like YOU

dynamites them out of " their seats and into the story!

Adolph Zukaz paranı

HOURS TO KILE

with Richard BARTHELMESS

jokorttion.Gertrude Michael

Helen Mack - • Dorothy Tree

Roscoe Karns Ray Milland

Foramount Pictura

● MATINEES: 20c-30e © EVENINGS: 20c-30c-50c.-70c.

ESTARE

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Kay turns the tables on a bionde trouble-maker by proving one man's as easy to deceive as another! KAY

FRANCIS

LU

THE GOOSE.

AND

THE GANDER

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Ama 2006 M

GEORGE BRENT-GENEVIEVE TOBIN RALPH FORBES

SUNDAY, MONDAY,

TUESDAY

SYLVIA SIDNEY

IX

MARY BURNS

FUGITIVE".

It was the open'ng match of the cricket season, and Mrs. Brown had come to see her darling Teddy play. Unfortunately Teddy, was bowled out first ball,

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His mother tried to comfort him saying. "Don't worry, ducky."

CAPTAIN BLOOD

Daring and debonair Peter Blood, ummortalized by the novel of Rafael Sabatini, has been brought to Life on the screen by Cosmopolitan productions in "Cap- tain Blood," which s being shown to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

The gentleman pirate of fortune is portrayed by Errol Flynn. *

Irishman young

comparatively

new to Alms, but who won this zole considered one of the most important of the year. over score of famous actors Efter ti series of screen tests.

MAJESTIC:

"Alibi Ike"

"The Goose and the Gander"

KING'S

Coming

"Captain January"

QUEEN'S:

"Give Us This Night" ALHAMBRA:-

"Captain January”

STAR:-

"Mary Burns, Fugitive" MAJESTIC:-

TAR Wilderness".

"FOUR HOURS TO KILL"

At The Oriental Theatre

Richard Barthelmess plays the gun-fighting desperado who lays down his life to get a squealer in Paramount's "Four Hours to Kill" showing to-day at the Oriental Theatre.

An escaped murderer on his way back to the goose, Barthelmess makes a successful break in a theatre where he and a detective are spending the time between trains.

Kay Francis, ever glamorous, and recognized, as one of the world's most beautiful and best gowned women, gives her love rival lessons" In husband snatching in one of the outstanding portrayals she has offered, as star of Warner Bros.' new hit, "The Goose and the Gander," now at the Star Theatre.

"

THE GOOSE AND

THE GANDER

The Goose and the Gander," Warner Bros. gay comedy drama or maritai mix-ups. is scheduled us the feature attraction 1: the

Star Theatre to-day.

Kay Francis heads the all-star cap, with George Brent playing Among the other opposite her. players are

Genevieve Tobia. John Edredge, Claire Dodd. Ralph Forbes and Helen Lowell.

FIGHTING THE SUBMARINE

Lessons Of The War

THE CONVOY SYSTEM

Only Means Of Defence

London, Apr. 28.

As a result of the London Nayal Treaty of 19v, rules for the huma- 1.saion of, suomarine warfare be- came b.nding for al time upon Great Britain, the united States, and Japan. At the signature of the New Naval Treaty in March, Lord Monseil announced that these same rules would soon be signed by France und Italy. and that other Naval Powers would also be asked to.subscribe to them. These ordin- ances, to be regarded as establish- ed rules of International Law, are worded as follows:-"

1. In their action with regard lo mercount sh.ps, submarines must conform to the rules of In- ternational Law to which surface vessels are subject.

2. In particular, excep: in the case of persistent refusal to stop on being duly summoned, or of active resistance to visit and search, a warship, whether sur...... face vessel or submarine, may notank or render...ncapable of navigation, a merchant vesse: without having first placed pas- sengers, crew, and ships' papers In a place of safety. For this purpose the ships' boats are not regarded as a place of safety, un- less the safety of the passengers and crew is assured, in the exist- ing sea and weather conditions, by the proximity of land, or the presence of another vessel which is in a position to lake them on board...

The story by Charles Kenyon involves not only the theft" of In maritime war, private as well hearts but that of precious jewels. as public property belonging, to Its a sparkling. snappy up-to-the enemy may lawfully be cap- While police search frantically the-minute drama abounding in tured, though when a merchant

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for him, Barthelmess makes call that lures his victim to the theatre, and lies in walang for him.

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โท the meantime, other small life dramas work out in the theatre. A rich weman" has met her sweetheart in the theatre and plans to run away with" him;, a

and cloakroom boy steals

faces arrest.

All of these dramas center on that of the escaped convict when his victim suddenly enters the theatre and stands before his hiding place.

A crashing, lightning-like climax changes the figures In the 'drama and brings it to its conclusion.

Joe Morrison. Helen Mack Gertrude Michael. and Dorothy Tree appear in the principal sup- porting roles.

GIVE US THIS NIGHT

Jan Klepura, European singing star who entranced audiences in "Be Mine Tonight" and Gladys Swarthout, comely Metropolitan Opera Star who made her screen The leading lady, portraying a

debut in "Rose of the Rancho" are beautiful noblewoman who falls in

teained in "Give us This Night," a love with the bold pirate, is none other than Olivia de Havilland musical romance which comes to who leaped to fame over night by the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.

her work in the Max Reinhardt production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream.”

Y

Ross

The

Included in the Beore

humour and exciting episodes.

ship is taken on the high seas it is The plot centers about the at- the duty of the captor to send her tempt Kay, in the role of the first prize, with her crew, papers, and wife of a milliona.re business man all things on board her, so the near- to get revenge on the second wife est Prize Court of the captor's who had stolen her husband's country for adjudication. If it be heart.

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impossible or exceedingly danger- Hearing wife number two plan ous to navigate the vessel to a port a mountain resort party with an-where a Prize Court is sitting, the other man, she induces her ex-captured vessel. It belonging to the husband, a philanderer already enemy may be destroyed at sea

red of his second wife, to visit. I need hardly be pointed out her instead of making the business that the submarines of 2,000 tons trip he had announced.

"Give us this Night" introduces a new type of musical production to the screen-a combination ot In addition to these two there popular and semi-classical music is an all star cast of more than written by two outstanding agures forty principals, headed by Lionel in their respective fields,

music is by Erich Wolfgang Korn- At 11, Basil Rathbone, Alexander, Guy Kibbee. Henry gold, with lyrics by Oscar Ham- Stephenson, Robert Barrat. Hehard merstein. Cavanagh, David Torrence and J. is an original opera by Korngold..

Miss Swarthout plays the role of Carrol Nalsh. Several hundred bit players and extras took part a famous opera soprano who aids a young Italian fisherman-a role In this picture.

played by Kiepura-to scale. the heights of operatie fame. She first discovers him in his native village, and with the assistance of a noted composer, gives him his chance to study and success. Running

"THE GARDEN MURDER CASE”

in-

or all the characters Edmund through this story frame-work is Lowe has created for the screen, the three-cornered romance Cone has intrigued his interest so volving the star, the teherman and nuch as Philo. Vance, the famqus the composer. scientific detective, which he now

permitted by the new Nayal. Through the connivance of

Treaty are not adapted for carry- service station operator, Kay coning extra men to serve as prize trives to have the Urardous wife.

crews, or prisoners tram captured Genevieve Tobin, and her escort vessers. It follows, then, that if side tracked to her lodge so that the second of the new rules he they will meet the husband and obeyed to the letter, the potency Ell be shown up in their true of submarines against merchant colours.

shipping is largely removed.

But are we prepared to pin our couple of jewel thieves who had faith to the rules being adhered to? robbed both herself and the Are they any more likely to be second wife of jewela at the beach obeyed than were the rules of in- hotel and stolen the second wife's ternational Law which forbade the car in order to escape. The dress bombardment of open towns by

also sidetracked suit robbers are to the lodge by the puzzed ser- artillery or aircraft, the laying of

She had not

vice station man.

counted on

With all under the same roof there is a surprising ser.es UF

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mines outside the territorial waters of an opponent, or the use of pro- jectiles "the only object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or

embarrassing as well as exciting deleterious gases"? Even with all situations, which lead most amazing climax.

George Brent enacts the char- acter of the friend of the blonde wife and the two evening clothes thieves who become involved the mix-up are "John Eldredge and Claire Dodd.

in

ETON'S FEES RAISED

Parents Now to Pay £245 a Year

the weight of neutral public opin- fon against her, it seems more like- ly that & nation fighting for her existence will use every method of war, including submarines, us ahe considers, most expedient.

SHOWING TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY

KING'S ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.159.30 P.M. ↑ At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

A FAMOUS STORY

becomes

HER FINEST PICTURE!

Just when you've thought she's given you her best - along she comes with an even bigger hit!

Shirley

in

TEMPLE

CAPTAIN

JANUARY

See

Shirley's new dances l Hear

A FOX factura with

Shirley's new songs! GUY KIBBEE

SLIM

SUMMERVILLE

JUNE LANG BUDDY EBSEN SARA HADEN · JANE DARWELL

Asocicle Producer B. G. D«Sylva Directed by DAVID BUTLER lowed on the story by Laura E. Richards DARRYL "F. ZANUCK Is Charge of Production

-NEXT CHANGE at the KING'S NEXT CHANGE at the ALHAMBRI GEDRIC HARDWICKE-MARIE GLORY

*** EXCLUSIVE STORY" "THE KING OF PARIS" with FRANCHOT TONE 'MADGE EVANS

United Arilate Released

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

TO-DAY &

TO-MORROW

JOE E.

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MAJESTIC

THEATRE

1.20 & 9.20 P.M.

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LIEBEKHAR BESTWILLAND-BUTH DONNELLY ·

Alibi Ike

THE CONVOY SYSTEM. .. Helen Lowell, veteran stage star, As a counter to the unrestricted has the role of Miss Francis aunt, submarine campaign of 1917, we who finaly solves the mystery of revived the age-old system of con- the stolen jewels.

voying merchantmen in fleets, Others in the cast include which finally proved successful. Spencer Charters, William Aus-The convoys were protected against SUNDAY:-"AH WILDERNESS” with WALLACE BEERY tin. Eddie Schubert, Charles Cole-surface raiders far out at sea by man, Olive Jones Gordon Elliott, ocean escorts, and in areas of John Sheehan and Wade Boteler. flerce submarine activity by Jellicoe wrote in his “The Crials of thods and devices may have been swarms of smaller craft. A similar the Naval War," the destroyers, improved since 1918, the fact re- Alfred E., Green directed.

system will still be necessary in both ships and men, were reaching mains that we possess an inauf- `any naval war that can be visualis the umil of their endurance by clent number of small craft for the ed. Moreover, the rules for the November. 1917, about six months institution of a convoy system in, human conduct of submarine war- after the beginning of the unre- say, home waters and the Mediter- fare do not apply to convoys. Anys.ricted submarine campaign.

ranean. merchant ship under the protec- Apart from the destroyera work- The newer destroyers are large, tion of an armed vessel may legal-ing with the Grand Fleet, the fol- expensive vessels built to service ly be sunk on sight, "

lowing numbers of small ships were with the Fleet, Apart from them, London, Apr. 30. The figures for 1917-18 are illu- engaged in convoy, submarine | and omitting ships of the Austra- pays in "The Garden Murder Loudon and New York stages for

Eton College reassembled yester-minating. At one period, the Con-hunting, and local defence duties lan and Canadian Navies, we have

about ninety older. destroyers still. Case, new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer many years, makes his film debut day for the summer half. There voy Service in the Atlantic alone on a typical dale. April 21, 1918 feature showing at the King's in "Give Us This Night" in the role will be 1156 boys in the school this obsorbed fifty ocean escorts, con- Home Waters. 181 destroyers of all suitable for convoy work, and fifty- Theatre to-day,

ages, of which 37 were Ame- ' five sloops built building, and pro-. of the composer. The only other character in is furnished by chubby Benny cord.

Comedy relief term, only four short of the re-sisting of old battleships, cruisers,

armed merchant cruisers and arm- rican," 45 "P" and "P.C.” boats. "jected. Twenty-eight of these lat- Lowe's experience that rivals Vance Baker.

26 sloops, 70 torpedo-boats..

ter, however, are listed as being Alexander Hall directed

Lord Lascelles was due to arrive ed escort ships, ninety sloops and

Total $22. in interest is Sergeant Quirt, which the picture for Paramount.

abroad, and others are in regular with 52 new boys, but, owing to his destroyes, fifteen "P" boats, which

flotillas. Ot the he created first in "What Price

being in quarantine because of the were really small destroyers, and Mediterranean, including Gibraltar minesweeping

cheap, and Malta, 67 destroyers, In-comparatively

20-knot Illness of the Princess Royal and Afte trawlers, Theke latter, with the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, he will their low speed. were unsuitable ex- cluding 4 American and 14 Kingsher type coastal sloops of one of his finest characterizations. Į and Ned Marin and was directed by not be there until next week, cept for the slow convoys steam- Japanese, 45 sloops 13 torpedo-586 tons; fitted for anti-ubmarine'

Millions of readers of 88. Van | Zdwin L. Marin from a screen play

boats, 15 yachts. 12 American 'duties and the lineal descendarits This half parents or new boys ing at six or seven knots between

gunboats,

of the war-time "P" bouts. one is Dine's novels seem to have the by Bertram Millhauser

will have to pay increased fees of Gibraltar and the United Kingdom. Besides Lowe, the cast includes £245 per annum, decided upon by sume idea, for the adventures of

A complete system of convoy in

actually in commission two will bo Philo Vance are listed among the Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, the Provost and Fellows to meet the Mediterranean required an

ready in September, and two more ANTI-SUBMARINE

during 1987 bestsellers of all contemporary Douglas Walton, Nat. Pendleton, the extra expense of additional other 290 vessels of all sorts, and

Other natinas still have large literature. "The Garden Murder Gene Lockhart, IL. B. Warner, Kent staff and the rebuilding scheme only 215 were available. There was Case" is the newest of these, It Smith. Grant Mitchell and Frieda which has been embarked upon. always a shortage of cruisers and flotillas of suomarines, and how was produced by Lucien-Hubbard Inescort.

Former fees were £230 per annum, of small, fast craft, and, as Lord ever much our ani-submarine me

Glory?" and later in "The Cock- eyed World," and which remains as

Phillip Merivale, a star of the

Total 153. VESSELS.

There is no disguising the fact, that more small craft are urgently needed

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