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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

MONDAY, JUNE

22 1936.

CT

ENTERTAI

QUEENS

SHOWING TO DAY AT 2.39. 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

Iftheworld is sane...

then they're completely ma

Adaigh Zung presumi

Margaret

Sullaran

NEXT CHANGE

"The Moon's

Our Home

CHARLES BUTTERWORTH HENRY FONDA

Sevich Buncil · Mencivita Creus Walter Brennan A Faramount He fure-Directed by Willem A. Leiter A Walter Wanger Production

Wm. Bord as HOP-ALOHC GASSIDY

E EAGLES BROOD

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The Prisoner of Shark'

"Island"

QUEEN'S:--

"The Moon's Our Home'

ORIENTAL:-

"Bohemian Girl"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

STAR -

11

LAST TWO-DAYS AT THE

KING'S ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON' "

At 2.30 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM. : At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 9.30 P.M.

TEARS WILL GLISTEN IN A MILLION EYES!

Crushed, despised, tortured ... and for- gotten! His heart, black with despair his soul blank of hope. Only one faint gleam of light the divine spark of a woman's love... gave him the strength

to withstand a nation's hate!

TO-DAY B MAJESTIC

ONLY

STHEATRES

"The Prisoner 01 Shark

Island"

MAJESTIC:-

"RIT Raf“

"The Milky Way"

Coming

"Where's George"

KING'S :-

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 2 9.30 P.M.

They Called Her à Flash in the

HARLOW

RIFF RAFF

TRACY

UNA MERKEL JOSEPH CALLEIA

Die rod by. 3;WALTER RUBEN]:

TO-MORROW :-WINI SHAW IN

змученных м

STARE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

WHO'S THE GENT WITH " THE GLASSES? You've guessed it Harold

Lloyd, himself, in his funniest picture!

HAROLD LLOYD

The Milky Way

A Paramount Picture with

ADOLPHE MENJOU VERREE TEASDALE

HELEN MACK • WILLIAM GARGAN GEORGE BARBIER DOROTHY WILSON

Directed by

LEO McCAREY ADDED ATTRAUTION

"POPEYE TH SAILOR CARTOON

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY W. C. FIELDS IN "MAN ON THE

FLYING TRAPEZE"

THE EAGLE'S BROOD

sto

but the konw anhal

the wanted

ht

another

'Mihin.

work!

life of ladies 6.5 dentisment

Harlow nevet, 20 glamorous..."Chica Doll'epsoutofher bighit "China Sear" with a new THRILL ROMANCE. 161 your delight

'BROADWAŸ HOSTESS"

H

QUEEN'S:-

"The Eagle's Brood" ALHAMBRA :----

STAR:

"Top Hat

"Man On The Flying

Trapezo"

MAJESTIC:

"Broadway, Hostess"

AMUSING TALE

At The Queen's

Two people, famous in their respectiye spheres of activity who have not met but learn to despise

ah amusing tale which is unfolded

THE PRISONER OF each other, provide the theme of

SHARK ISLAND

A STRONG AND RUTHLESS PICTURE"

more

One of

darker and the shameful passages in the story of American national life has cour- ageously been used as the basis for an important

On

the screen, at the Queen's Theatre.

The principals are. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda, Mar- garet depicts temperamental actress and Fonda, a much

tra- velled man "who is lost without his water bottle",

I have not for quite some time past, seen a screen "romance" in which the principais indulge in film by 20th slapping each other on the face at the slightest pretext, as in this Century Fox. Its local screenings on Saturday at the King's. and Al-picture. They squabble through- hambra Theatres were before fallout the entire length of the reel and the suddenness of euch fight that takes place between the "lovers," quite takes the breath away.

houses. The plot concerns a case nowhere to be found in the his- tory textbooks of the United States and the details of which were pok- ed out of the carefully guarded Xovernment archives. It is the case of the country" doctor in Vir- ginia, who treated John Wilkes Booth without knowing his identi- ty just after the latter had assas- sinated Abraham Lincoin Washington D. C. theatre.

X

An angry people vented their righteous wrath on all the most convenient objects which included, the country doctor. Tried before a military jury which had received instructions from the Secretary of War to ignore anything so foolish as "evidence" and "beyond a rea- sonable doubt," Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) is sentenced to life imprisonment on an island near Key West, Florida. His ex- istence on the island is a veritable nell the details of which are not spared the audience. Yellow Fever

by

The picture is outstanding for some splendia outdoor shots antongst snowy landscape. The actress and the traveller met un- expectedly in a ski-run that ends in magnificent collision, and

from then on the action

moveh

Swiitly to an orthodox and happy encing.

Margaret Suljavan and Henry Fonca

"THE LIFE OF LOUIS PASTEUR,"

This outstanding hit will send patrons away talking, a powerful production, Impressive entertainment and a standout character- ization by Paul Muni makes this a prestige picture of impor iance with world-wide appeal. The sheer drama of this great scientist's fight for recognition builds to a great climax.”

SCOTTISH BRIDE

Is Married At The Union Church

The

DICKSON-LANG

Union Church, Kennedy Road, was the scene of a pretty wedding on Saturday, when Miss Ann Lockhead Dickson, of Victoria Park Drive, North Glasgow, a re- cent arrival in the Colony, became the bride of Mr. Iain Wilson Lang. travelling passenger Agent for the Canadian Steamship Ltd., The Rev, Mackenzie Dow officiated.

Miss Jean Gibble Lyon Dunlop was the only bridesmaid' and Mr.

Wilkinson Arthur Charles

per- formed the duties of best man.

Coming from Scotland especially for the wedding, the bride's mother was the Matron of Honour.

A receptiori was held

at the Hong Kong Hotel, where the health апа happiness, of the newly-weds was toasted: The honeymoon is, being spent at Ra- culse Bay.

WELL-DRESSED MAN. FOUND SHOT

Mystery Surrounds Murder Off Columbia Road

near

-1:

AIRPORTS AND THE FUTURE

LINKING GREAT BRITAIN WITH THE CONTINENT

(Special Air Mall Service)

Two new

London, June 14. Air communications are decom. ing increasingly valuable to Great Britain as the number of airports and aerodromes grows. airports, Gatwick and Shoreham, are to be officially opened during the next fortnight, and work is being begun on several others, writes a correspondent.

Not

only do these landing ground facilities help the internal lines, but they also enable fuller

use to be made of the external lines by providing means of col- lecting and distributing passengers and mails coming and going on the continental systems of air routes, the Empire routes to Egypt, India, Australia, and South Africa, and the French trans- atlantic route.

At the present moment there are in Great Britain "ninety-seven licensed civil aerodromes, and six additional ones are projected. In addition, there are many tem- porary landing grounds; but as these have only monthly licences they ought not to be included in the totals. Royal Air Force aero- drones and landing grounds, which are

under certain open conditions to civil aeroplanes, number sixty-seven, and thirty more are under construction of projected. field off Amherst

Shanghai, June 16. The lifeless body of a well-dress- ed Chinese man, aged about 30 years, was discovered at 5.10 o'clock yesterday morning in a Columbia Road, Avenue. He had been shot in the back and strangled. Officers of the Bureau of Public Safety,,started an investigation and deavouring to establish the mur- dered man's identity.

are

€14-

(who, by the way, were once married but are now divora ed) give "sound performances ably supported by Charles Butterworth, who supplies all the humour neces-head shaven, and he wore a blue- sary:-"Redincam”,

THE MILKY WAY

Harold Lloyd Comedy "The Milky Way" had its local premiere yes-

of a

He was 5 ft. 6 in. In height, with

striped white under-jacket, blue silk trousers, and a black silk long gown. On an envelope found in one of his pockets was written, in Chinese, the words "Ha Fung- sien." (N.C.D.N.).

WHANGPO0

__

Chinese Passenger Dives Off

Nagasaki Maru...

La Airport design still fluid Croydon, like Topsy, just "grow- ed," but it did contribute the idea of the dominant control tower with look-out platform and signal-' ling arrangements. Heston was the Brst true airport design; but Gatwick, which will be opened on Saturday by Viscount Swinton, the Secretary of State for Air, and which I had an opportunity of inspecting on Thursday, is tainly the most advanced design. Its control tower is not, as was once recommended in an 'Aeronau- tical Research Committee Report. in the centre of the aerodrome; but it is a circular building with

commodate six air liners at one

cer-

time, all of them with loading and

unloading facilities. Gatwick is the most interesting experiment in land airports.

breaks out and the official calls on ter strews the path of the spectal-

terday at the Star Theatre. Laugh- SUICIDE AT MOUTH OF an annular apron which can ac- the doctor down in the dungeoned comedian in his timid progress for help. Sullen at first, he re- members his doctor's oath and from the uneventful life of a milk- cces enough about remedying the man to the pulsing career situation to

middleweight aght champion, win a pardon. The

There is a gorgeously goofy idea story deviates but little from his in this picture. The hilarity is un- torical references in the happy abated. Lloyd is cast as a poor sap finale. A fine performance

of a milkman, an obscure fellow Warner Baxter does justice to a scared of his own shadow: He la powerful plot the crux of which is always skipping out of trouble. day, two hours behind schedule, the capacity possessed by good quite a skipper, in fact. people in the heat of anger of

He steps into the limelight by cundernning an innocent man by a decking away from a blow almed variety of righteous means.

at him by a drunken crony of the enllre cast contributes

admir-middleweight

champion. The ably to the Ane quality of the film champ gets the sock and BOES under the direction of John Ford,

down for the count. Reporters Maru

The

Shanghai, June 15. The .. Nagasaki Naru arrived in Shangaal at 5.30 p.m. on Satur-

gecause an inbound passenger had

In flying boat harbours there is as yet little sign of the growth of a definite shape and lay-out. The proposal to make Langstone Har- bour an Empire air base, capable of coping with the new flying boats which have been ordered for Imperial Airways, visualises the of *moorings for six ing up the Whangpoo off the Bell landing ground adjacent to

machines and the provision of a the Buoy After a futile search, last- | harbour ing for 40 minutes, the Nagasaki One form of aerodrome has so continued on her way to † tar been almost entirely neglected;

jumped overboard at about 1 laying

o'clock while the ship was steam-

but especially noteworthy is the pounce on the milkman. He brags, Shanghai, work of Claude Gillingham as aand le cgged on. Inte declaring bombastic Bouthern colonel, It is that he knocked out the great un- a strong and ruthless picture pre-defeated champ. ceded by an unusually, interesting newsreel.

This catapults Lloyd into fame as a contender, A promoter coll- ars him and puts him into train-

"The Eagle's Brood" which is due shortly at the Queen's Theatre. Cassidy also has a mission to ac-ing. He is forced to fight the featuring William Boyd and Jim complish, and with his pal "John- champ. There is going, to be a

n Nelson" hot headed young cow massacre - with

ชยพ

The suicide was entered on the passenger list as Huang Chao-hal, aged 23, a roof-layer. He gave two

addresses, one in Osaka and the at Klangtouchen, outside

(N.C.D.N.).

other

owner.

possibly because it has been as- sumed that there is no need for it; the aerodrome devoted exclu- sively to the private Heston began in this form, but soon developed into a commercial airport To-day, more than ever. there is need for a distinct private-owner type of aerodrome from which commercial air linera William Gargan and Lionel are excluded as well as Royal Air Stander de exceptional work try-Force training schools.

Shanghat

Commer-

my Ellison.

the exmilkman The story revolves around the, boy, the two set out to locate the scheduled to be on the receiving

adventures of "Hopalong" missing randson of a former out-end of the punishment. Cassidy in the picturesque danger... law.

It would be spoiling the fun to ing to knock the comedian's block cial air liner pilots complain of -ous days of old west: "Hopalong" A series of exciting events trail tell you what happens when trem- off. They send their hefty rights the risks of allowing private aero-

le cast as a peace officer in the the two boys before they are suc-bling Lloyd, spectacles and all. is lawless town of Hell Center, de- cessful in their hunt. Willam shoved into the ring. termined to restore law and order Farnum Dorothy Rivier, Addison and wipe out the reign of terror Richards are in the cast. Howard established by a gang of bad man. Eretherton directed.

Praise la due Leo McCarey for the fastpace and uproarious situa- tions that stud "The Milky Way."

and lefts from many angles, but plane owners to use the main air- never connect. Fine performances ports, and with increasing air are also given by Adolphe Menjou, traffic the need for segregation of Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, private flying and commercial Dorothy Wilson and George Barbier, flying also increases,

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THE PRISONERS

SHARK ISLAND

AMERICA'S BLACKEST P

starring

WARNER BAXTER

GLORIA STUART

with

Claude. GILLINGWATER ARTHUR BYRON

O. P. HEGGIE.. HARRY CAREY

and a cast of one thousand

•

A DARRYL F. ZANUCK

20th CENTURY PRODUCTION

Presented by Joseph M. Schenck, Associate Producer and Screen Play, Nunnally Johnson Directed by JOHN FORD

Bated on the life of

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

The mos tower- ing troph picture making sincecture- making began.

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TO-MORROW.

OF THE SCREEN'S FUNNIEST COMICS

NOW THEY'RE VAGABOND. GYPSY LOVERS!

If anyone can gyp the gypsies they're the boys that can do it!

There's music and song-and exciting story-But fun comes first and it contiques to the very finish.

il

Remember them as the low-

ifa highlanders in "Bonny Scotland" They're aven

funnier now as a couple of

vagabond gypsies......, în a

full-length screamie that

has grand music and ***

citement as well!

LAUREL

Oliver

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