1936-08-01 — Page 5

QUEEN'S

Telephone No.-31453.

AIR-COOLED

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30. 5.15,⋅ 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

THE BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT WARNER BROS HAVE EVER "OFFERED,

SINGING

“THE SINGING KID’

featuring AL JOLSON

with all these Singin' and Swingin' Kids:

SYBIL JASON

ALLEN JENKINS

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

THE YACHT CLUB BOYS CAB CALLOWAY AND US

FAMOUS BAND

NEXT CHANGE

BARTON MACLANE & MARY ASTOR

in

& SHOWS

DAILY

· 14,20-5-19

7.35-220

MAN OF ARON"

FARE ANY Twan or HAPPY VALLEY BUI

ORIENTAL

S THEATRE

FLEMING

ROAD WAKUHAS

TEL. 28473

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Է

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Haif Angel" QUEEN'S:—

ኣነ

"Singing Kid"

ORIENTAL:-

"Colleen"

Kowloon

"ALHAMBRA:-

"Frisco Kid" -

"You Could Only Cook*

MAJESTIC:---

STAR

"The Mystery of The Wax

Museum"

KING'S:-

Sunday

"Come Out of The Pantry' QUEEN'S:-

"Singing Kid"

ORIENTAL!---

"Special Agent"

STAR:-

יד

42nd Street"

MAJESTIC:

Chinese Picture.

THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM

The Warner Bros. casting de- partment was given öne ot its

assignments most difficult

in selecting the cast for "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," a stirring mystery thriller which is showing at the Star Theatre to-day. This arose because of the need for a score of the players who resemble famous historical characters.

It was made even more difficult because it required two principals, ' who not only must look the part, but be accompilahed actresses in,

LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY addition

THE BIGGEST AND FUNNIEST M.SICAL SHOW OF THE YEAR

THE BIG DANCE PARADE OF STARS AND LAUGHS!/

COLLEN

ONLY

DICK POWELL • RUBY KEELER JACK OAKIE »'JOAN BLONDELL Hugh Werbert + Louisa Extanda • Pauf Benoor » 100's Of Meta * Fang Xis+ Big Charts Numbers

2 DAYS TO-MORROW & MONDAY THE EA ONS, THRILL SENSATION !

SEE "T-MEN MOP-UP MONEYED MOBSTERS G-GUNS COULDN'T GET! BETTE DAVIS

SPECIAL AGENT

with

GEORGE BRENT RICARDO CORTEZ HUGE ALL STAR CAST

* Nurhal bere Pasture

MATINEES: ̧20c÷30ɛ' EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c,

"HALF ANGEL”

philanthropic woman whose hobby is aiding those in trouble.

Mass Déc goes to Miss Westley's Laughter freezes pn your lips as home, a strange household peopled mystery mingles with romance and by a weird assortment of ex-" comedy blends with suspense in criminals, and Dunlevy follows. "Half Angel," the Darryl F. The reporter climbs a trellis and Zanuck Twentieth Century produc-¦ enters Miss Dee's 'room, through a tion now at the King's Theatre window. The terrified girl pro- with Frances Dee, Brian Donley mises to meet him at the front and Charles Butterworth in the gate and relate her story to him. feature roles,

Returning to the house, Miss Des

"Half Angel" is a combination of is horrified to fine Miss Westley mystery, romance and suspense, dead and her husband, Henry intermingled with gay humour. Stephenson, apparently dying hilarious comedy situations, and both of poison. sparkling dialogue.

The police immediately arrest Frances Dee is an innocent vie the girl again and it appears that Lim of circumstances who is caught she will certainly be convicted. in a sinister web of synthetic point Donlevy, however, never loses faith her as a polson murderess. in her innocence and in a series Brian Donlevy, as irrepressible re- of exciting episodes the daring porter, falls in love with her at news-hawk unmasks first sight and refuses to believe murderer.

to

the manufactured evidence.

When the jury returns as unex-

pected verdict" of acquittal, while

the real-

Shop Assistant; "Can't you really

she is on trial for the first mur-remember what you came here to

der, Donlevy follows, Miss Dee, hoping to hear Arst-hand her life- story. The newly-freed girt de- parts at once with Helen Westley,

buy?" A

the

Fair Young Thing: "No: I can't, Would you mind telling things you keep?

Fay Wray was finally selected for the ingenue role be- cause she resembled Marie An- toinette and is also a capable per- former: Miss Wray has the same delicately chistled features, the a'most spiritual expression.

and beautiful body of the French Queen

Other players had to resemble Marat. Charlotte Corday, Helen of Troy, Columbus, Voltaire, Mary Queen of Scota, Pocahontas, Cyrano de Bergerac, Robespierre, Powhattan, Shakespeare, Richard

I and others.

1

The plot of the picture, taken 8. from the play by Charles Belden evolves about the actions of a strange monster. and the mysterious disappearance of several living persons and a'so bodies,

STARE

Two More "Old Favourites"

from Warner Bros. ! TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY ! *

HIS... to do with as he desires... IS SHE WOMAN OR WAX?

THE MYSTERY OF THE

WAX MUSEUM

ALL IN to OKGEOUS

TECHNICOLOR

Wapres Main W. 196 LIONEL ATWILL FAY WRAY

TO-MORROW, OIE DAY ONLY 1.

WARNER BAXTER BEBE DANIELS 42ND STREET

WEEK-END RADIO BIG PRICES FOR

PROGRAMMES

(Continued from Page 4.)

the Heart (Ketelbey). Overture, Little Mirror An the Wall

ART TREASURES

4 Hours Bidding At Oppenheimer Sale

(Rust). Pas de quatre (Lutz). NATIONAL FUND PAYS

Selection. Jerome Kern Melodies

(Kern, arr. Henry Hall).

9 p.m.-Greenwich Time Signal. 9p.m.-The News and announce-

ments.

ኣነ

9.20 p.m.-Cricket-Surrey v. Notts, at the Oval, London: a com- mentary by C. B. Fry.

by

9.35 p.m.-The.London Palladium

Orchestra, conducted Richard Crean. Sulte, London -Again (Eric. Coates), 9.45 p.m.-Close down.

Tranmission 3

SATURDAY

The following frequencies will be used:-

51

GSG 17.79 Mc/s (18.88 m.) GSH 21,47 Mc/s (43,97 m.) !! GSF 15 14 Me/s (18,82 m.) .. trom 11.30 p.m. to close). 10 p.m.-Big Ben, Harry Farmer, at the Organ of the Granada, Tooting. London.

£900 FOR SKETCH

London, July 11,

BY A, C, B, CARTER The National Art Collections Fund had the satisfaction of ac- quiring several dine drawings at the dest day's sale of the Oppen- neumer drawings at Christie's yes terday.

Sir Robert Witt, Sir Alec Martin, and Mr. Kenneth Clark, represent- ed "tre rund, and they captured the Cima da Conegliano head of. St. Jerome at 260gns and the be- autiful Filippo Lippi sketch „, for

The Crucifixion" at 850gns.

As the proceedings lasted for four hours much endurance was shown by the auctioneer, M, Oor- don Hannen, by his veteran clerk, Mr. Edward Smith, and by every participant in the contest.

Quite early, the Comtesse de Be- hague gave evidence of her prowess. From 5gns to 155gns she carried 1030 p.m.-The Band of His Ma- the bidding for a study of a palm- jesty's Grenadier Guards (by tree by Fra Bartolommeo, and stay- permission of Col. G. E. C. ed the course similarly from 30gns Rasch, D.S.O., Commanding to 360gns for a charming head of Grenadier Guards), conducted a child by Bernardino Luini. Her by Major G. Miller, M.B.E., determination to win the Leonardo Director of Music, Grenadier da Vinci sketch, which she opened Guards. From the Zoological] at 500gns, stopped at 1,800güs, how- Gardens. Regents Park, Lon-ever, and" Mr. Gustavus Mayer's don.

nearest rivals in the 4.100gns race

11.15 p.m.-Tod Slaughter and were Messrs. Kobedier and « Mr.:

Jenny Lynn. supported by C. | Fritz Lugt, of Amsterdam. Douglas Carlile, Nesta Lloyd, Another memorable few minutes and Barbara Wynton, in “A was when a sheet of studies by "Little More Drama." Being ex- Michelangelo went from 500gs to tracts from "East Lynne." "Un- 3,400gs, This was an Oppenheimer der Two Flags," and "Sweeney purchase in 1913 at £960, and Mr. Todd, the Demon Barber of Mayer, who bought it for Colnag- Fleet Street." Production by his, told me that, along with the William MacLurg.

Leonardo," it will most probably

11,45 p.m. The Olympic Games: a¦ join another British. přivate collec-

description of the opening | tion. ceremony. from the Olymple Stadium, Berlin.

In such a long sale, especially as the lots followed alphabetical or- 11.55 p.m.-The News and An- der, there were periods when the

nouncements.

Midnight Greenwich Time Signal 12.35 a.m.--Dance Music. Ambrose

and his Orchestra. 12.45 a.m.-Cricket-Surrey v, Notts, at the Oval., London: a com- mentary by C. B. Fry,

1 a.m.-Close down.

drawings brought only modest sums, but there were other spark- ling reliefs which gave .pbvious -pleasure-stp» Sir - Max Bonn;Ïïthe

senior Oppenheimer trustee.

REMARKABLE PROFTTS Thus the first drawing in the sale, an anonymous Italian sketch of a cavalcade of hunters, which had cost £66 in 1917, advanced to

Lionel Atwill, Faw Wray, Glenda 480gs. given by the French firm of Farrell and Frank McHugh are

Bacri Freres. The Comtesse de featured in an all star cast, which Behague's 155gs study of a palm- includes Allen Vincent, Edwin

Maxwell, Gavin Gordon, Holmes tree, which I have already men- Herbert, Arthur Edmund Carewei tioned, had cost the Oppenheimer and Monica Bannister. The screen estate nothing as it had been split play la by Don Mullally and Carl off the back of another drawing. Erickson. The picture is entirely in technicolor,

"THE SINGING KID"

Herr Rosenberg of Amsterdam's 340gns of Fra Bartolommeo's study: of two angels 'was bought for £120 | in 1913. As for Canaletto's pen and bistre drawing of an Ascension Day festival in Venice, for which Mr. Bellest paid 800gna, this had cost On Christmas Day, 1907, the only £90 in 1908. Another Cana- Stork, neck and neck with Sanca letto drawing of the Plazza, Venice. Claus, arrived at Rochester, New bought by Mr. Edward Smith for York, and left to honest God-

520grs, was picked up for £80 in fearing negro parents, His High-1912" de-Hl of Ho-de-Ho.

Other works, showing that the collecting of Old Master drawings can be profitable besides being in- structive, may be added: Carpaccio, "The Martyrdom of the

10,000

That is the affectionate title his public has since given Cab Callo way. director of one of the most popular jazz bands in America or overseas, for that matter, and now plering with Al Jolson in the First

£240 1913), 860gs (Rosenberg). National picture. "The Singing Guardt, Landscape. £32, 540gns Kid," now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

IL

He is also known as the feading

Harlemaestro."

His father and grandfather, be- fore him, were Cabells, a good old.

Southern name. so Cab really can claim the dignified title of Cabell Calloway D.

I

(Cassirer),

Guardi, Coast Scene, £80 (1910),

230gns

Dr. Borenius).

F. Lippi, Male Figures, £800 (1813),

1 300gns

(Knoedler).

B. Luini, A Lady, £600 (1913))

1.050gns

(Colnaghi).

Perugino, Apollo, £960. 1,400gns

(Colnaghi).

In the sale of the Marquess of Lansdowne's Old Master drawings, Antonio Pisanello's gruesome study

He is the second of a family of six, evenly divided as to..sex.

While Cab was a small boy. the family moved to Baltimore, where he received an education from public schools and graduated from Douglas High School. Here

··he also sold newspapers, ⠀⠀-age of men hanging on the gallows was At the age of sixteen he split sold for £410. Yesterday bidding his time between "waiting" on came from every quarter and call tabies in the Century Roof Theatre Messrs. Knoedler had to and singing in the choir of the 1,800gns. to win it. Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal The drawings sale will be con-i Church. It may be recorded here tinued on Monday and Tuesday, that he attributes his current and on the third day there is sure unique type of singing, to a com- to be some mighty bidding for bination of newsbaking and Jehan Foucquet's portrait's of a church-psalmilag - wool

masterful Papal Legate,

Finding it necessary to support himself while attending law school at Crane College. Cab joined his sister,

Blanche, in "Plantation Days" at the Loop Theatre, Chicago,s kont

From there he went to the Bun set Club and became, in no time, master of ceremonies and leader of a band known as the Ala bamians!

His next venture was leader of another band in New York's Cot tor Club-the Missourians.

cidentally this gang replaced Duke Ellington at the famous night apol

VAIK-CONDITIONED THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY AT 3.30, 510 7.15 & 9.80 P.M. HER ANGEL FACE ...

what did it hide?

HALF ANGEL

A nervy reportert and his nitwit?

stooge set QUI to find out!

FRANCES DEB-BRIAN DONLEVY CHARLIES BUTTERWORTH

SUNDAY UNITED ARTISTS ****_RELEASE_

11

JACK BUCHANAN - FAY WRAY in "COME OUT OF THE PANTRY"

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AD. KOWLOOR-DAILY AT 2,30-320-230 (9FORTE, 2003

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

DOUBLE

A GREAT.

SHOW

A STAGE AND SCREEN. PERFORMANCE FOR THE ONE PRICE OF ADMISSION !

ON THE STAGE

·REALLY,

I'M WORTH MILLIONS!

FINAL

At All Performances

YOLA

and

PAUL

The Celebrated Continentl

Dance Team

A Real Sensation.

ON THE SCREEN

MARSHALL

YOU'RE AN AWFUL, LIAR- BUT PLEASE DON'T STOP1

ARTHUR

YOU COULD ONLY COOK

LED CARUILLO

SHOWINGS MAJESTIC

-TO-DAY

JAMES

; THEATRE-

CACHEY EWAYS DIS BLESK FOR KANE FISTB

CAGNEY

FRISCO KID

PELLO SWAZ

DU PONT FIRM SALARIES

£240,000 In Bonuses

"The Singing Kid," combines rollicking comedy with heart throbbing drama, and spectacular

Washington, July 10. musical numbers. Besides Jolson

The Securities and växchange the cast includes Sybil Jason, Beverly Roberts, Edward Everett Commission has rejected the petia Horton, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, | tion of, the armamente firm of Du Claire Dodd and Wini Shaw, The Font de Nemours to treat as con- Yacht Club Boys also are dential information then com featured

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P..

TO-MORROW

HEARTACHES"

FIRST CHINESE TALKING PICTURE IN TECHNICOLOUR.

STARRING

WEI KIM FONG

The re-

bonus payments in 1935. port stated that 38 omerals shared nearly £240,000 in bonuses,

The highest paid Du Pont of- cial last year was Mr. W. 6. Cat- penter Junior, who received 225 000 while Mr I Du Pont received £20,000 and Mr. Harrington £19,000 CAN THE E

It was also disclosed today that ndisk Backus, President of the Burroughs Adding Machine #received a salary of £15,4

Page 5Page 6