1936-06-24 — Page 5

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A Here Frodo 1.53"

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There Outlaws Listened When His Tie-Oun Spekel

CINEMATIC EVENT OF ANY SEASON! Story of Louis Pasteur'

with the outstanding star of the acron

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ONLY

•2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW. ARE 100.090 COLLEGE MEN

"100.000 GUINEA PIGS?

What becomes of all the college youngsters every year... College told them "The World is Yours!" The World said "Try and Get It!" They are up against a stacked deck!

A PICTURE EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT SHOULD SEE!

Ú

THEY

TRIED TO

LICK THE WORLD'

WITH A DIPLOMA.

Gentlemer

ARE BORN

FRANCHOT TONE JEAN MUIR MARGARET LINDSAY ANN DVORAK ROSS "ALEXANDER NICK FORAN

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ESTARE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

SWEET DREAMS

The Indica-Aghting skipper

në “Mississippi" threats the

many herties he wen

before he was married!

ACCUM

.C.Fields

'MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE

with

MARY BRIAN KATHLEEN HOWARD -

Paramount Pitture.

FRIDAY, ONE DAY ONLY!

DAVID COPPERFIELD" An Old Favourite" that you can't afford to mixx !

THE EAGLE'S BROOD

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936.

TODAY AT THE Three Of World's Richest

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Where's George?"

QUEEN'S:—

"The Eagle's Brood" ORIENTAL:-

“Gentlemen Are Born”

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA¦—

.. "Top Hat*

MAJESTIC:-

STAR.

"Broadway Hostess"

"Man On The Flying

Trapeze"

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Dark Angel"

QUEEN'S:

FI

Men To Co-Star In Film

Thanks to the enterprise of a young Englishman, three of the world's richest men are to co-star in a film.

"combined

The men whose private lives will be brought to the screen are the Nizam of Hyderabad,, the Maharajah of Bikanir, and the

whose Maharajah of Jaipur, the Indian potentates wealth is repated to exceed £300,000,000.

The film which will be in colour, will capture all the glitter and gorgeous pageantry of their Eastern kingdoms,

The State of Bikanir is ruled by the six-foot, military-looking Ma- harajah, Britain's firm friend and

Richly decorated palaces, tradi- tional processions in all their Orl- ental magnificence wil be offset by "shots" revealing the simple feally. led by the rulers in the midst of colossal riches.

The man who has secured per- mission to take this aim is advan- turous, cheery, blue-eyed F. W. Wilson.

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HIS WINNING WAY With his usual winning manner, he walked in and succeeded where dozen big film companies had falled.

The Nizam of Hyderabad, the drst star in the flim, is the world's richest man. His total income is said to exceed £150,000,000.

His annual Income is £10,000,-

coach 000.........His State

is of pure gold from his own mines of Golconda......Fourteen million peo- "The Story of Louis Pasteur"ple come under his rule. MAJESTIC:-

19 a

"Rendezvous"

"WHERE'S

GEORGE?”

AT THE KING'S

film

Sydney Howard's latest Where's George?" which is show- ing at the King's Theatre to-day surprising combination ol Lancashire and Yorkshire talent In the funniest comedy yet made by Sydney Howard-or anyone else!

JOHN

McCORMACK FOR

B. I. P.

FAMOUS SINGER TO MAKE STORY OF IRELAND

Count John', McCormack, the famous Irish tenor has signed a contract with British Internation- al Pictures to star in a story with ! an Irish background, "that will go into production sometime in`Aug- ust. The name of the story in "which he will be featured, has not Sydney Howard is typically gormless as Alf Scodger, a hen- yet been announced, but it is plan- ned that a company will go over to pecked husband and the most timid man in the Yorkshire village Ireland to secure the authentic Irish backgrounds for the picture. where he is blacksmith. His life

Brian Desmond Hurst, who direct is centred upon & foal, George,

ed the other BLP. story of Ire- which he keeps out of his wife'sland, "OURSELVES ALONE. has

sight in his smithy.

In his state Mr. Wilson will be able to fim the crack Bikan camel corps.

OWNS FLYING CORPS

The ruler of the state of Jodhpur, the, Maharajah of Jaipur," ranks as one of India's most io- dern princes.

He has spent a vast sum of his private fortune in founding and maintaining & chain of aerodromes in his country. He has raised his own private corps of airmen »

Forty of his polo ponies, to be shown in the film, are worth £1, 000 each.

In his State army the native in- fantry all wear kil's and have their own pipe bands.

DETECTION OF CRIME IN SHANGHAI

How The S.M.P. Calls

Science To Its Aid ̧

PHOTOGRAPHY SPECIALLY VALUABLE

Saangaat, June 19. The methods employed

in the detection of crime and the manner in which the Snangasi Criminai Investigation

Department. works were the subject of a lecture given B. C. yesterday evening by Mr. Young, Deputy Commissioner the 8. M. Police, at the Interna- Young tional Arts. Theatre. Mr. addressed a large audience, and was introduced by the Secretary of the Shanghal Municipal Coun- cil, Mr. J. R. Jones.

Murder, according to Mr." Young, worat crime nat can be is the found in any country, and he em- phasized the fact that this parti- cular grime is brought to the at- tention of people more than any other. Yel murder, as far as re- present as suits show, does not many difficulties as do many other crimes. All manner of

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Let's join George!

SYDNEY

HOWARD

Where's

George?

"CAROLINA

MELODIES"

(S ***

ALSO

"FOR OLD TIMESĮ SAKE" (ÚRGANLOGUE)

NEXT CHANGE

FREDRIC MARCH- MERLE OBERON - BERBERT MARSHALL

"THE DARK ANGEL”

in

NITED ARTISTS PICTURE

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN RD, KOWLO

TO-DAY

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ONLY!

BY POPULAR DEMANDI

See Them Dance The "Piccolino!"...Hear The Songs You Can't Forget!

ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS

TOP HIAT

Comedy Cast Including Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Erie Blon.

EKO KADIO" PICTURE

Lyrics

and music by IRVING

been named as director of this new After a glass of beer, Alf be-

subject. "OURSELVES ALONE" comes involved in a dispute over the rugby league match to be dealt with the tragic side of Ire- played between his village, Yor- land. but ony the gayer aide of lite caster, and its Lancashire rival. in the Emerald Iste will be em- Oldcastle. He joins the home phasised in this new production.

John McCormack's last screen team-at practice and displays an

appearance, was in "SONG OF MY amazing ability to catch the ball, with the result that he is selected HEART, Fox picture that was made in Ireland in the early days to play in the great match.

Then follows one of the high- of the talkies and a film that was lights of the film when he dreams one of the first big taikle success- that he is Arizona Alf, a Wildes. Incidentally, this was the plc- lesser West he-man." He enters a salon, ture that led to the discovery of a scientific means are used in catch- shoots up everybody in sight, and little Irish girl called Maureening the murderer to-day. The mo-EVERYBODY'S OLD MAN" with IRVIN S. COBB

O'Sullivan, since to become fam- dern criminal is more scientific then wakes up.

as **TARZAN'S" mate in than the older type, and thus 15 is The next day George disappears aus from the smithy and, daconsate namemus jungle adventures. Foll-necessary to use science to catch at the loss. Alf disgraces himself owing his very

successful talkie him.

on the rugby Beld. He is carried debut, Count McCormack set out off but his nagging wife drives on a concert tour, appearing all him back again. He sees' George over the World, at all the best musical centres. Now, wandering behind the opposing known

goal and overjoyed. Alf runs to with his fame and his popular wards it. The ball is kicked in his ity greater than ever. he has been directior and he catches it auto-tempted back to make a second matically, running on to score the Alm appearance in a story to be

winning try.

Fingerprints are especially valuable. He told of the develop ment of the fingerprint until it came into universal use. Although, signatures and seals could be far- ged, it was realized early that a thumbprint could not be.

The earliest official use of finger- prints was by Sir William Hers- made about and in, the land ofchel in 1858. He used the thumb-

Sidney Howard extracts the last his birth, ounce of fun from the many comical situations, and he receives

Constanduros as his wife, and Leslie Barony as a brother-in-law.

William Boyd heads a stellar cast of players in the Almization | magnificent support from Mable of Clarence E. Mulford's new story for Paramount's "The Eagle's Brood" that opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre. Portraying "Hop- along Cassidy" Mulford's famous western fiction character, Boyd impersonates one of the old west's fearless gun-fighters.

"Hop- In "The Eagle's Brood" along" has become a man of the law a peace officer in the great Southwest who can use his head

MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE

COLUMBIA SIGNS POLLY MORAN

Polly Moran, who was "Two Gun Nell" in those early comedies long before there was a Hollywood, has entered another phase of her

remarkable career as a come- dienne. This week she was signed to a long-term contract by Co'um- bla Pictures which calls for her to be starred in a series of two-

Above all else W. C. Fields, screen comic, has a unique style of delivery which has endeared nim reel comedies. to millions.

print as a protection against for- gery, and all documents and seals cf, his were accompanied with his thumbprint as an added precau- tion. The general use of the ingerprint in connection with the detection of criminals was delayed, however, owing to the lack of a method of classification which would enable the Anding of the required prints in a collection, Su Francis Galton and Sir Edward Henry ultimately evolved a system of classification, and the latter in- troduced it to Scotland Yard in 1901, when he was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

FINA

TO-MORROW

BERLIN

& ROCHELLE HUDSON

SHOWINGS MAJESTIC

TO-DAY

Heer will. Singt "Playbay of Borey" "Viceryllet to Be Mage]

THEATRESemme

At 2.30, 6.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

Red Hot Rhythm..Cold-Blooded Murder..and Bitter-Sweet Love!

"BROADWAY HOSTESS

Wini Shaw

PHIL REGAN

GENEVIEVE TOSIN

LYLE TALBOT · ALLEN JENKINS

委

Thursday:-WILLIAM POWELL IS " RENDEZVOUS"

ALFRED RODE KEEPS BUSY

stance takes something like twen- ty years to master, while the torogate is another very difficult Instrument to play perfectly. One of the highlights of the film wil. Miss Moran, who with the late

Alfred Rode, the famous Cata-be the playing of Liszt's Becond as well as his hands. Jimmy

Fields, who is starred in Para-Marie Dressler, formed one of the Ellison, new western star, is seen mount's "Man on the Firing Tra- greatest comedy teams the screen

Photography also is considered ane band leader, who is appear Hungarian Rhapsody, by the en- In the role of "Johnny Nelson," | peze," coming to-day to the has ever known, has been playing specially valuable in the detectioning with Lupe Velez in the newtre orchestra." ". youthful "pay" of Hoppy, who Star Theatre, declares be 10

"GIPSY British these comedy roles for many de- of the criminal, as it affords a

Artistic Alm, tentatively

MELODY" is being Idolizes Jalm and of whom quired his raspy voice as a young-

The short features in means.95 identification. Both "Hoppy" is continually trying to stor, and never has lost it. Few cades.

mond Greville, and there is a keep out of scrapes. Together people know he started his career which she has appeared are too front and profile pictures are taken called "GIPSY MELODY," is one made, under the direction of Ed many of the busiest men in pictures at strong cast that includes Fred vocal comedian, turning to numerous to mention. A few of or a man, and, although they lerret out a band of "Bad-08 men" who have held the town of Pantomime when he left for abroad, the many full-length productions changes may be made in his ap-the moment for in addition to Duprez, Jerry Verno, chosen after The Fields delivery is unique. in which she also had featured pearance, such as the growing or having written the story and com- his fine performance in ""OUR- Hell Centre in a reign of terror The lines themselves, with the roles were. "Callahans and the cutting off of the hair or

BELVES ALONE," Margaret Yardo, and through strategy they succeed raspy Fields voice reciting them, Murphys "Bringing Up Father moustache, he still can be identi-nosed the music for the dim, he Raymond Lovell, Monti de Lyle, In wipping them out and restoringain a distinctive humour that no

"Shadows of the Night." "Dan fed. Measurements also are taken has been organising a Czigane Doris Long law and order to the community other funny, man on stage or gerous Females," "Chasing Rain-of a criminal so that, no matter band of nearly a hundred musl-The film is being made under the bow." "Prosperity." "Alice in Won-what change he may make in his clans and has been recruiting supervision of Emil Reinert, with appearance, he still can be identi- these from the ranks of the Bri-Leon Hepner, managing director picture called "International derland," and "Hollywood Party."

tish players. Despite popula at the company acting as produc- Be The public roared. House was given a film contract by Para-

Mr. Young spoke at length on the opinion to the contrary. these tion manager. Claude mount and put upon his own, "MEET NERO WOLFE” point of identification, and said British musicans can put over the Greene is photographing. privileged to write his own pic

the Bertillon system of identifica Gipsy melodies with all the fire tures and his own dialogue,

Edward Arnold's newest starring tion was devised some years before and verve of the continental or In "Men on the Flying Trapeze" picture for Columbia will be re a method of classifying fingerprints chestras. Of course, a number of hib original 'orchestra will also be Fields is seen no a shy, down-trad-leased in A under the tile of was evolved. (N.C.D.N.), den clerk, brow-besten in the office of Meet Nero Wolfe," the Studio

retained because some of the in- and hea-pecked at home. The film

struments can only be played by men who have specialised in them and they are something of a music at xarity | The cymbalum, for in

Paramount put him in

Others in the cast include wil- serren can imitate or equal. Ham Farnum. Addison Richards, George Hayes, Jaan Woodbury," Frank Shannon, Paul Fix, A Lydell and Dorothy Revier.

"I want to thank you for giving my wife your seat in the car yes- terday afternoon."

"Oh, that's all right! I'm get-- ting tired of our being accused of giving our seats only to pretty girls!"

tells how this "poor man tries to announces. It is a 'm adaptation

fied.

*

sneak away from his office and Rex Stout's popular detective featured roles in the production his nagging wife and mother-in-story Fer-de-Lance." Lionel which was directed by Herbert law to attend, a wrestling match Stander and Victor Jory haye Biberman, Theatre Guild expert,

and, Lewis Darnley.

Friese

"Yes, the smallest thing seems to upset my wife. The other day she was doing a cross-word puzzle and she asked me what is a female sheep? Ewe," I said, and she burst into tearA.”

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