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是

It Happened

One Night

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Walter Connolly Roscoe Kains From the Cosmopolitan Magazine siney by Samuri Hopkins Adamı

Screen play by ROBERT RISKIN

A FRANK CAPRA

Production

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

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A WARNER BROS. PICTURE

A certain Scot used to send for his parson every time he became very drank and "saw things." The parson became Ured of these disagreeable visits and determined to end them. The next tinte hé Wis called out the patient was. lying in bed murmuring: **"Eh, meenister, it's a terrible thing to be lyin' here seein' all these plnk rats creepin' about on the wall."

"John," said the parson severely, It's not a zky pilot you need, it's a Skye terrier."

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE WARSHIPS & AIRCRAFT

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Robin Hood of El Dorado"

QUEÈN'S:-

"Celling Zero" ORIENTAL:-

"Strike Me Pink"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-..

"Robin Hood of El Dorado" MAJESTIC:-

"Rose of The Rancho

STAR-

An Attempt To Estimate Their Proper Relationship

'BY SIR HIERDERT RUSSELL

When the Air Estimates were is-

be treated as one integral whole. sued hard upon the Navy (Esti-.

I must be big enough to fulfil its mates for the financial year 1936- tanecions, and this question can 37, certain newspapers commented only be determined by a full com- upon the fact that the Sea Serviceprehension of what those func- WON getting. some £30,000,000 tions really are. To base 100 squad- more than the Air Service, As rons of powerful flying boats be- these same newspapers have long tween the North Foreland and the heen emphatically air-minded, the Lizard would undoubtedly add im- impilcation of this comparison wasmensely to the security of the clear. The powers-that-be have ¦ English Channel. But to say that, got things all wrong! For £30,- consequent upon this increase in 000,000 they could have built 5.000 war 'planes, and thereby have jumped this country into the position of the most dominant"air | "Charlie Chan at the Circus" Power in the world. Instead, this QUEEN'S:-

"It Happened One Night"

KING'S:-

"

Coming

"I Found Stella Parish" ORIENTAL:-

The Bishop Misbehaves" ALHAMBRA :----

"Hell-Ship Morgan"

MAJESTIC:---

"Going To Town"

I FOUND STELLA PARISH

localized security, we could now afford to do without so many bat- tleships, pruisers, and destroyers is to treat the problem of sea de- fence as one capable of being res colossal sum is being devoted to tricted to boundaries. rather after sea armaments which represent the manner of the static war on an obsolete method of warfare, the Western Front. British naval since the sea ship is at a hopeless strategy cannot admit any such disadvantage as against the air-limitations. The idea of the Glb- craft.

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING.

When an

demon- argument is strably wrong" it matters little whether it is perfectly sincere or merely a debating point. One Enfortunate effect of this sort of "I Found Stella Parish"

reasoning is that it suggests to powerful drama of a beautiful and the tay mind a competition or talented stage beauty who is try rivalry between the Royal Navy ing to conceal her secret past is and the Royal Air Force which due shortly a the Queen's

does not exist. There are plenty Theatre, with Kay Francis in the of airmen in the Fleet Air Am, Ian Hunter. is the and there will shortly be more. brilliant young journalist sent out There are plenty of naval men at- to get a story about the disap-tached to the Royal Air Force and pearance of Stella Parish after the premiere showing of а new and successful play. He discovers her past and publishes the story of her life, rocking the two con- tinents with the scandal. He subsequently realizes that he loves her and tries to right the terrible

stellar role.

wrong he has done her. He pur-

suades Paul Lukas, her theatrical manager who is also in love with her to take. Miss Francis back to resume her role from which she has run away. Bringing the story to an astounding and intensely

dramatic climax.

raltar-Slogapore strategical chain hypothecates that the defence of Australia, for instance, may be- gin in European waters quite as well as in the Pacific.

CREATING UNEASINESS

The doctrinaires who would re- place sea power by air power have

very strong tendency to support their reasoning by illustrations which, are either grossly exagger- ated or simply untrue. Their pur- pose is to demonstrate the 1m- potence of the warship against the combship, and there is no doubt that reckless propaganda (which holding rank in it. The real spirit is what it comes to) has had a between the two Services is one very disquieting effect upon public of mutual understanding and co- upinion. There can lie no objec- operation. It is in harmony with tion to proponents seeking to drive this spirit that the following lines home their points by assumptions. are written. In attempting to dis-But when it comes to alleged prove the popular fallacy that the the bombship. I have not the least battleship has been "outed" by

deliberate

"definite statements of fact" which

thing this is a method of creating are wildly wide of the truth. I

tention of trying to "play of" uneasiness which is not easy to the one arr against the other. Justify. Let me not he misunder- Rather would I prefer to believe stood as suggesting that a great many airmen will misrepresentation; the mischiet agree in what I say. Like Grad-really lies in the readiness to give grind in "Hard Times," I simply credence to, and pass on, fantastic, Sybil Jason, he child actress want facts, and no man of clear statements without the least at- born in South Africa who made Judgment is going to quarrel with tempt at verification. I propośr her American film debut as the facts

because they dispel big- to give some examples of this. star of 'ttic Big Shot" does a

headline fallacies.

They all come from American off- remarkable plece of acting as the

cal records. Our own admiralty daughter of Stella Parish.

has done a good deal of similar experimenting, but, very properly most of us will think, it has not given publicity to the results at- tained and the conclusions drawn.

made and did not recognize any such role. Th Court was a judicial inquiry to discover whether or not there had been any leakage of Bud- get information. Mr. Thomas had come to the Tribunal freely and willingly and had said that at no time had he disclosed any informa- tion to any person.. There was no esidence against him, and counsel submitted that Mr. Thomas was entitled to be cleared of all im-mercial putation. The voice of gossip, Mr Morris remarked, was something with which he could not and must not deal. The voice of untutored gossip was no passport to the judicial mind.

Counsel invited the Tribunal to say that, so far as the name of Mr. Thomas had been mentioned in the Inquiry, not only had it not been proved that he had done anything incorrect but that it had been Arm- ly and affirmatively proved tha' Mr. Thomas at no time made, an scrt of disclosure...

Mr. Walter Monckton, R.C., for Mr. Alfred Bates, and Mr. Walter Frampton. for Sir Alfred Butt. M.P.. also addressed the Tribunal, and Mr. Van den Berg, K.C., stated that Lloyd's had placed before the Tribunal all the evidence they had. He made it clear that the Chate "man of Lloyd's thought it his duty in the public interest to convey to the Government such information as he had and that the Committee had been actuated in the matter solely and entirely by a sense of public duty and nothing else,

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CEILING ZERO

CAN AIR POWER REPLACE SEA POWER

SOME RECORDS

in the Erst place the assumption that £30,000,000 spent on the value "Ce ling Zero" a drama of com-

Navy will yield very poor compared with what would have aviation starring Pat

been the case had it been devoted O'Brien and James Cagney opens to the Royal Air Force manifestly

"I am not offering the following to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

presupposes that air power can examples of the bomb versus the Three war buddles join Com-

replace sea power. Within limits battleship as anything new, I am mercial aviation. Pat O'Brien' as this may be true; in other words, simply presenting the correct ver- super_ntendant of Byers at

at is net a proposition to dismiss sions, assuming, as I think We Western airport where Stuart as totally, absurd. Erwin is a pilot. Cagney is the ficulty is that you cannot treat

But the dif- may, that the Unived States' offt- cial records do stick to the facts. spectacular aviator of them al

sea power piecemeal. A Navy must The experiments Have been related and Pat gets him to join their forces.

a good many times in this country with astonishing variations, ac- cording to the enthusiasm of the narrator for proving his point. One "authority" has sunk the Ostfriesland in six seconds. AM- other, a retired flag officer; pre- With Warner Baxter contribut-ferred to take two ing the finest performance of his quarter minutes over the job. Of career: "Robin Hood of El Dorado" course, it all depends on what is showing to-day at the King's and meant by "sinking" a ship through Alhambra Theatres place among the truly magnificent most of us understood it to do the takes its hostile action. Does it mean-a3

screen. outdoor features of the talk ng period between the opening of the attack upon her and her founder-

Cagney makes a play for pretty June Travis, a new comer, who takes the leading fem nine role, that of an air hostess, although he knows that she is engaged to a fellow pilot. In order to keep an appointment with her, he gets Erwin to take his run for him Erwin encounters a fog and is Klled.

Cagney is very cut up, and when orders come for Wadsworth, Miss Travis' fiancee, to take up a plane In a storm he hits Wadsworth on the head and takes his run, haet- ing bis death.

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Fossessing much of the epic 1ng? Or is it fair to limit the word sweep of such tremendous hits as to the actual disappearance of the Martha Tibbets plays the part "The Covered Wagon." "The Rig vessel when she has been fatally of O'Brien's wife, who has had an Tra" and other outdoor Aims damaged and lost all her surplus affair with Cagney. Isabel Jewell that marked the closing days of. buoyancy? plays that role of the wife of the the silent screen, "Robin Hood of

Here, then, are the authentic re- pilot who met his death through | El Dorado" ∙has

dramatic

cords: Cagney's philanderings.

majesty, that gives it the aura of mportance, while at the same time retaining the Intimacy of romance and personal thrills which make for truly superb en- tertainment.

James Cagney (centre) Pat O'Brien and June Travis make merry despite the shadow of death that hangs over them as they blaze the air trails of the world in the Cosmopolitan production "Cell- Ing Zero," which is now slowing at the Queen's Theatre.

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Baxter surpasses even his per- formance in "The Cisco Kd" with his characterization of Joaquin. Murrieta, the dashing good-bad man of the Far West who left a trail of plundered gold and broken hearts as be, rode through the American m'ning settlements' at the head of his outlaw army.

The story of Joaquin Murrieta, as depicted in "Robin Hood of E Dorado," is the story of one of the California Spaniards who was broken under the "rom heel of American Invasion on the heels of the discovery of gold, Painted with bold strokes on a romantic canvas, it finds opportunity to present a drama of romantic can- vas, it finds opportunity to present drama of romantic glamour, that is vital entertalument

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Battleship New Jersey, laid- down in 1901. No special pre- parations were made for using ber

target-snip; no

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water-tight

B

doors in place. First attack-20 bombs, each of 6001b, were dropped; 15 ex- ploded. Damage, was not great ~~~no under-water injury. Bec- ond attack-10 bombs of 2,000- Ib. each were dropped, 'No di- rect hits were made, but several near misses, one very near. After two hours the ship was showing a list of 6 degrees. Third: attacks-7 bombs, each of 2,000lb, dropped. All "fell at the bow:" no damage. Fourth attack 3 bombs, each of 2000lb.; dropped. One fell 100ft away, one either scored a hit or fell right alongside of the vessel, the third failed to explode. The ship sank in Ave minutes after this hit-or-close- up burst,

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