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ENTERTAĮ

QUEENS

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5 15. 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. BURSTING WITH EXCITEMENT!

Kirke Great Draman

BOULDER DAM

A Warner Bros. Hit with ROSS ALEXANDER PATRICIA ELLIS LYLE TALBOT

TO-MORROW-

THE PICTURE TO DRIVE YOUR BLUES AWAY

ANYTHING

GOES"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 4; 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE DOMINION OF THE AIR

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Petticoat Fever"

QUEEN'S :-

"Boulder Dam"

ORIENTAL:---

"Hands Across The Table"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :--

"Another Face"

MAJESTIC:

"The Lost Jungle" Tommy's Revue

STAR-

"If I Had A Million"

with

BING CROSBY

-

ETHEL MERMAN

CHARLIE RUGGLES

Coming

KING'S :-

FAKE ANY TEAM OR HAPPY VALLEY DUE

4 SHOWS

MEMING

ROAD

"Anything Goes" ORIENTAL:-

DAILY

7.159.30

ORIENTALE

LAST 4 TIMES TODAY

A SHOW FILLED WITH LAUGHTER! They started out to grab millións and wound up with counterfeit money!

NO 'LOVE IN A COTTAGE STUFF FOR HER!

She was going to marry mon- ...is the mat guy with

"mishonibles personality..

ged not a dime to his noma!

Adaigh Zehar prestais

CAROLE LOMBARD

FRED MacMURRAY

Hands across

Lat

the Table

Poromaun Pyorum a gla Astrid Allwyn Ralph Bellamy

DAYS TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

ONLY

ANOTHER GREAT COMEDY SHOW!

THE MAN-TAMER OF "BORDER- TOWN" SHOWS A SOCIETY DAME WHAT IT TAKES TO HOLD A MANI

bette davis.

in her first-sensacienní tache à Dietname

THE GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE

MATINEES: 20c.-30¢ © EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c.

STARE CENTRAL

TO-DAY,

ONE DAY ONLY! An Old Favourite"

The Biggest Cast of 'Big Names in the History of the Screen is in

IF I HAD

A

MILLION

a Paramount Picture-

with

GARY COOPER GEORGE RAFT WYNNE GIBSON CHARLES LAUGĦION JACK OAKIE FRANCES DEE" EHABUERUGGLES ALISON SKIPWORTH W. C. FIELDS MARY BOLAND BOSCOE KAKOS MAY ROBson БЕЛЕ ВАУТОПР LUCIENI EITSLEKELO RICHARD BENNETT

ALSO

PARAMOUNT.

NEWS

TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

WINI SHAW IN

BROADWAY, HOSTESS'

A London Scot scat home a hag-

was

gis from the City: and all day he looked forward to his dinner. At dinner another dish served, and he asked his English wife why she had not cooked the haggis.

"Cook It?" she asked. "Oh, was

THEATRE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 9.20 P.M.

AT POPULAR PRICES

SIR GUY STANDING RICHARD CROMWELL

in

"ANNAPOLIS

FAREWELL"

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.

Future Of Empire Service

་

L-THE PRICE OF SPEED

London, May 18.

Proposals for increasing the frequenes and raising the speed of the Empire air mail service are to be dis- cussed in Parliament to-morrow. In the following and a subsequent article the Managing Director of. Imperial Airways outlines the past and the future policy of the company's service.

BY G. E. WOODS HUMPHERY

Total passengers carried

... 102,667 Carried' by Imperial "

Always. 48,413 (47%) Carried by other

British lines... 9,712 (1052). Carried by foreign

Unes

Air transport offers a speed un- Always carried more passengers auainable by any other means of than all the foreign lines put to- transport, and therefore will al-gether:- ways have work to do which can be done in no other way. It is not cheap transport, but it is cheap "Robin Hood of El Dorado" speed for the carriage of passen- gers, malls, and high-grade com- QUEEN'S:--

never displace modities. It will

means of transport for Surface The carriage of bulk supplies of "The Gil from 10th Avenue merchandise where a continuous ALHAMBRA:-

production and transport delivery plan can be adopted. Major R. H.

broadcasting ค Thornton, weeks ago in his capacity as a ship- owner, pointed out that while the steamship requiries only 1 h.p. to 1 move a ton and a half through the water, an aeroplane requires 1 h.p. for every 14lb.; that is, of course, the price of speed.

"Robin Hood of El Dorado"

STAR:-

"Broadway Hostess"

"PETTICOAT FEVER"

few

Air transport, therefore, nas in it something of the nature of the telegram, cable, and beam wireless. and, like them, its application is to some extent Hmited.

...... 44,542 (436) The cheapening of the service can best be shown by the fact that during the years 1925 to 1932 we were able to reduce the cost per tun-mile by 50 per cent, and by 1933 the reduction on the same basis amounted to 57 per cent. We have every reason to expect that our new get now under construc- tion will give us a further substan- tial reduction. If we take the amount of subsidy received per ton-mile of traffic carried we get the following results:- Year ending Mar. 31

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1036

3.

7

d.

7

..

5

0

4

0

3 2

1 9

a background of ice- Against bound Labrador, Robert Mont- gomery and Myrna Loy are en- acting one of the funniest comedies n the new Metro- ever screened. Goldwyn-Mayer picture. "Petticoat

What, then, ought we to do for Fever," now at the King's Theatre. Adapted from the stage hit of the the future? There appear to be same name, the story concerns a two divergent lines of development, wireless operator who is so lonely either of which could be followed, that he holds prisoner two lers. or some compromise between the a beautiful young girl and her two. We can either concentrate on

Improvement in aircraft, engines, and fuel, the development of our male companion, whom he rescues giving still greater speed to the Lew from the Arctic night Reginald regardless of cost, and so lean to-own sound and economical main- Owen heads the featured cast, as wards compeition with the cable the blustery Englishman whose and telegraph; or we can concen- bride-to-be is snatched away from trate on reducing the cost, retain. under his very nose. Others casting and gradually increasing the are Otto Yamaoka, as the Eskimo man servant:

Auence on cost, Forrester Harvey.

Bo Ching and Iris Yamaoka.

The brillant direction of George Fitzmaurice is to a large extent responsible merriment

for of

advantages so far avaliable, and make air transport available to the towards many: this would tend competing with surface transport services. Another policy would be the unabating to divide our attention between the this exceedingly two Unes of development, as has runny picture. Producer Frank been done from the inception of Davis has dressed it with lavish air transport to the present day, production mountings.

but by adopting this we should "Petticoat Fever" is the first got attain the highest possible picture to bring together Mon-speeds for the lowest possible cost. gomery and Miss Loy since their memorable vehicle. "When Ladies Meet." Each has gone far in since that personal popular.ty Eme and improved vastly in act- ing technique.

The funniest sequence in the new picture and, no doubt one of the funniest ever screened is the for Montgomery party given by

for

h.s two guests--the party which only he and Miss Loy have the courageous fair to don everi- ing clothes while an Arctic bliz- zard rages outside,

BOULDER DAM

'Boulder Dam." a Warner Bros." production heralded as a drama deeds of thrilling action, heroic

is and glamorous romance, scheduled as the feature attrac- tion for to-day at the Queen's

Theatre.

The picture is based on Don

M. Templin's story of the building of this mighty project and the Ilves of the daredevil workmen

"ANOTHER FACE" solid rock and scaled the walls hundreds of feet above the river. unconventional Ross Alexander portrays

The wildest,

In

2

A

MORE TRAFFIC: LESS COST-

tenance system, and the evolution of scientific operating technique have yielded notable success in the direction of cost reduction. Opérat ing technique has an enormous in

When we started

Imperial Airways we thought we were doing well to fly each indivi- dual aircraft 50,000 miles a year, the average for every while now aircraft of our fleet exceeds 140,000 miles a year, and certain units. which are operating in particular sectors and are somewhat favoured by circumstances in the amount of flying they can do are able to fly on an average no less than 225,000 inlles a year.

On an aeroplane costing £40,000 or so the difference in cost per mile arising from this standing charge alone, according to whether

The success so far achieved by the adoption of the middle course, If I may so describe it, may be measured, on the one hand, by the improvement in the volume of pas sengers, mail, and freight carried the mileage flown in the year is the high or the low of these figures, and on the other by the reduction amounts to about 5s. a mile. The in the cost of the services. In the

importance of this aspect of year 1924-25 Imperial Airways car- ried les than 400,000 ton-miles of the resultant financial benefit cari- operating technique is evident, but

traffic. In the calendar year 1935not be obtained without some con- the traffic carried was about 4,750,- cession to convenience of opera- 000 ton-mites. On the cross-Chan- tion, time schedules, etc., and one nel services during the year 1934,

has to face the dislocation-as in the last year for which comparable

2 shipping line-that results from statistics are available, Imperial the unexpected loss of a major unit of the feet, such as the loss by fire of our fine flying-boat Sylvan- us at her moorings in Brindisi har- bour.

ANYTHING GOES

"Anything Goes," which opens to-morrow at the Queen's Theatre,

MAILS AND PASSENGERS Economy in operation has been.

is a jolly tuneful; entertaining obtained under the system of picture: Big Crosby Is

featured player

the carrying passengers and malls in this song- the same aircraft. The idea of starred Paramount presentation of

carrying mails alone has appealed

ing the speed of the services. There

who blasted their way through the popular Broadway musical to some people as a means of rais- comedy which broke records dur-

ng its New York run, He le is a technical and financial objec- assisted by such favourites as tion on Empire routes to the con- Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles. centration of attention on the car- lover in the blue book of romeos shirking disgruntled mechanic in Ida Lupino and Grace. Bradley.

Ast

riage of mails to the exclusion of is the motion picture publicity a mid-West garage,

All the famous Cole Porter passengers, and that that the. man depicted by Wallace Ford in fight with his boss the latter is

which were universally bulk of the mail flowing from the The mechanic songs "Another Face." show.ng to-day killed by a fall.

popular "are heard in this mirthful

heart of the Empire. to cutlying.. parts greatly exceeds the flow in picture.. He has provided a num- ber of others which are equaly the return direction. Mail ipads good as "You're the Top" also vary from week to week, while

at the Alhambra Theatre.

fees.

Ford wins his reputation by In his wanderings he lands in interrupting a gay romance with Las Vegas, where the Dam was a screen star on the eve of their being buit. In a dance hal he 25 wedding and pleching himself and encounters Patricia Ellis, a singer "Anything Goes," and "I get the amount of postal traffic at of You" Additional Christmas is exceptionally high Is bride-to-be into spine-chilling at the club, who intervenes when Kick out

songs by other music makers are

and taxes the capacity of every thrills in an attempt to develop he is about to be ejected as a

She takes him to her included. a publicity stunt from the capture tramp.

part of the postal administration Crosby is Knight errant of a killer:

home where he is welcomed by her

and transport services. Letter mail aboard a transatlantic finer. His The romantic difficulties. that kindly family.

also is ahead of even the "perish arise are worked out in brisk Lyle Talbot, in the "Heavy" borrowed, passport gets him into comedy and lusty action which role, is in love with the girl and trouble, for it belongs to a public able" category of goods; it can- results in a battle between Ford also knows of his successful rival's enemy. That passport forces him not be held over for carriage on and the gunman on l'a catwalk past. He gives Ross twenty-four to tumble in and out of sundry a subsequent service-It must go with hilar ous conse- on the next service. If mail alone forty feet above the floor of a big hours to quit Las Vegas, butan disguises studio sound stage

incident occurs which change the quences. The whole ship becomes is carried no latitude la left for the a. madhouse of fun, when Crosby adjustment of loads from week to Phyllis Brooks and Brian Don-who aspect of the situation and levy have other important roles brings the picture smashing stops at nothing to divest passen week or in the two directions, and In the concentration on mall carrying.. under Christy Cabanne's direc- climax. There is a strong sup- gers of their costumes.

to

tion RKO Radio made "Another porting cast which includes Eddie end. he gets his reward with an therefore, crystallizes and makes permanent a low load factor and Face."

Acuff, Henry O'Neill,

Egon elusive romance. · Breecher, Eleanore Wesselboeft, "Anything Goes" is amusing en-therefore a higher cost per unit of Joseph Crehan, Oiln Howland, tertainment through and through, weight carried that a haggis? I'm sorry, I put William Pawley, "Ronnie Cosy It is heartily recommended to one

and George Brekston, it on the rockery."

and ai

(Continued on Page 12.)

› AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

WHAT A PAIR TO BE IN LOVE!

Robert

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

MONTGOMERY MYRNA LOY

-together again- and merrily! It's the first time sincer "When Ladies Meet

Petticoat

with REGINALD FEver

OWEN

A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer neture

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WARNER BAXTER is ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO

MG M. PICTURE

ALHAMBRA

#4

NATHAN RD, HOU LOGH-DALLY AT 2,30-5.20-

- 9,30 -721. 56856

SHOWING TO-DAY.

Another

FACE

-- A thrilling story of plastic

surgery in crime...

Wh

Wallace Ford

Brian Donlevý

Phyllin Brooks

Erik Rhodes

Molly Lamont

· Alor Mala Addison Randali Paul Stanton

Directed by Christy Cažersoe

Avci Produs OHJAN

NEXT CHANGE

:MO RADIO Monume

M-G-M's Mighty Successor to "VIVA VILLÄ!” WARNER BAXTER in

ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO with a cast of thousands.

FINAL SHOWINGS

"TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

MASCOT SUPER

SERIAL

At 2.30, 6.20,

THEATRE S

CHAFTER ONE

7.20 & 9.80 F.L.

Clyde BEATTY JUNGLE

in THE

LOST

ALSO ON THE STAGE AT ALL SHOWS

TOMMY'S REVUE

IN THEIR NEW ACTS, LATEST SONGS AND DANCES

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