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SHOWING · TO-DAY

SIMULTANEOUSLY AT THE

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20. & 9.30 P.M.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.209.30 P.M.]

KING'S!

"Fang and Claw"

QUEEN'S

IN BREATH-TAKING NATURAL COLOURI

A blazing love story of the feud-torn

Kentucky Hills...filmed in natural color!

Against a background flaming with the haired of neighbor Fighting. neighbor unfolds the glorious romance of a wild-hearted daughter of the hills and the man (who opened her heart

to lovel

Adolph Zukor procents

SYLVIA SIDNEY FRED MACMURRAY HENRY FONDA

in.

"THE TRAIL OF THE

LONESOME PINE'

with Fied Stans, Nigel Bruca, Beulah Bondi, Robert Barrot, Spanky McFarland, Fuzzy Knight. Actually filmed outdoors in Techni- color-Directed by Henry Hathaway-A Walter Wanger Production - A Paramount Picture

TO-DAY MAJETIO

ONLY

THEATRE

SHIRLEY COMMANDS YOU TO BE GAY!

-At 2.30, 6.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

Curly Top

JOHN BOLES ROCHELLE HUDSON JANE DARWELL

Produced by Wanfald Shreaten

TO-MORROW ‚—“ PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER"

VISITORS TO SHANGHAI

"Japanese Composer's

Intentions

Shanghai.. Aug." 19. Mr. Tomojiro Takahama, Who Studled musical composition at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musi- que in Paris for the last eight years, was a visitor Shanghai op Monday and Tuesday as the N.Y.K.

hama, known as a leading ex-

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RAID FROM THE DIARY OF LOCAL

SKIES

Precautions Taken

In London

Methods of safeguarding fac- tories and business premises and

The Trail of The Lonesome their starts in the event of air

Pine"

ORIENTAL:--

i' W

"Annie Oakley"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA !—

"The Trail of The Lonesome

Pine

MAJESTIC:-

"Curly Top"

STAR:-

"Love Parade"

ORIENTAL:

Coming

"Little America"··

MAJESTIC:-

"Professional Soldier"

STAR:-

raids were explained by a Home Office expers to 1.200 business men in London on July 26. The meet- ing was arranged by the London Chamber of Commerce.

Sir Stephen Demetriädi, preat- dent of the Chamber, emphasized that the meeting was not an in- dization of panic. They took the View that to be prepared now was to avert panic later,

Col. W. Garforth. of the Air Raid Precautions, Department of the Home Office. made the follow- ing points in his speech:

The main dangers from air at anek would undoubtedly be incen- diary bombs, high-explosive bombs -mainly of 5001b-and gas bombs, The average warning of an air raid would be from seven to 10 minutes.

Polson gas need not be feared if the population knew how to deal with it.

Incendiary bombs. Col. Garforth said, would range in size from 21h 3oz the kilo bomb--to perhaps

EVENTS

MONDAY, AUGUST 24

Anniversaries and Holidays. —

SL Bartholomew,

Cinemas

King's:— Fang And Claw." Queen's: "The Trail Of The

Lonesome Pine." Oriental:-"Annie Oakley.“ World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"The Trail Of The

Lonesome Pine." Majestic:Curly Top." Star: "The Love Parade."" Dances. Cheere Club Dance, B

p.m.

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Meetings. ---Volunteer Nursing Detachment, at P. W. D, Offices, 5 30 p.m.

Miscellaneous.--Claims

against Samuel

the Estates of Alfred Plumptre White-Cooper, and Henry Charles Saunders due.

Moot-VII Moon, 8th Day.

Social-Y.M.C.A. Whist Drive in West Lounge, à p.m."

Sports

Teunis "C" Division. Kowloon Tong v. Kowloon Indian T.C.-

Sunrise.-6.03 a.m. Sunset-8.48

D.m.

Tides-High at 0.40 and 12.56: Low at 8.00 and 18.31.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 Anniversaries

ild Holidays.---

"The Private Life of Henry 601b. The one chiefly to be feared St. Louis, King of Franco

VILL"

was the kilo bomb which they might expect to find freely used. This could penetrate light roofing, such as slates of corrugated iron. and could not be extinguished by water or ordinary extinguishers.

CURRENT

The Trail Of The

Lonesome Pine"

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Cinema King's Fang And Caw Queen's: "The Trall Q The

Lonesome Pine," Oriental:-"Little America," World: "Chinese Picture." The best way to deal with them Alhambra:-The Trail of The was to have a quantity of earth or Lonesome Pine." sand sprinkled on the root, and a Majestic:"Professional Soldier.” shovel kept ready 30

Star:-"The that the

Private Lite Of bomb could be picked up and Henry VIII." dropped into water to fizzle out,

Miscellaneous. Rotary Tiffin. and the earth and sand used to Hongkong Hotel, put out the surrounding fire.

SAFETY OF NEW MASK "There is nothing to fear from polson gas." said Col. Gärforth.

Rehearsals-Hongkong Singers "King" Olaf" (Elgar), in. Union Church. Kennedy Road, 5.30 p.m.

Based upon one of the most lamous stories of the early and rough hfe of the nineteenth set Llers in America, "The Tran of the Lonesome P.ne," a Paramount plc- ture which opened a season at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres on Saturday to crowded audiences. nas suffered considerably at the hands of the particularly lavish | If you do not know" how to deal VII Moon. 9th Day.

you know how to deal with it how to use your gas mask" and how to make your room gas-proof,

production with a plethora of soas and buckets of mawkish sentimen- with it you go under very quickly." He had been asked a good many tality,

times if the gas mask which was to be lasued to the public was really safe.

Ranking as on of the most. famous colour-Alm' productions of the century. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is interesting

"I can only say this," he said. “I enough, but the first section which would take any one of you, with gives

your wife and with my own wife. every indication of a. thoroughly gripping and

into a chamber filed with a far enter- taining drama of the feud-riddled more deadly concentration of gas back country of Virginia, gradual-than would be mist with in war. wilts before the withering in- and guarantee to bring you out fluence of sob-stuff and gun play safely by the use of the mask. There is, however, much vigour in

containing liquid gas the show, and Fred M'Murray and varied 1 weight up to 2501b. The Henry Fonda seem to supply the as lay low on the ground.

High-explosiva" answer to the boxing promoter's

might prayer. They certainly scrap well, weight anything from 3,000lb to

and. If that be a redeeming fea- ture. then the latter part of this picture LS thus almost retrieved from dreariness."

Sylvia Sidney does her best with the temperamentally difficult part of June Tolliver, but she does not enhance her reputation

Without doubt one of the best performers is a One collie dog, but he does not even get a mention in the cast of characters.

Bombs

25lb.

bombs

The common weapon of future war would probably be bombs of the 5001b, type. The only protec- tion from these would be in a

dugout 50ft underground, or in a surface shelter with a roof of not less than 15ft. of reinforced con-

crete.

in

Social-Tumbola at R.E W.Os & S/N. COs. Mess, a pm.; Cheero Club Whist Drive. 8.30 p.m.

Moon-First Quarter, 1.49 pm.

Sunrise--6.03 am.. Sunset.-8.49

p.m.

Tides-High at 0.16 and 12,20; Low at $.54 and 18.24..

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26

Cinemas King's:-"A Message To Garcia. Oriental:"Little Amarica." World:-"Chinese Picture." Majestic: Professional Soldier."

Sports

Yachting.Annual Meeting. Ro- yal Hongkong Yacht Club. (North) Palat), 3.45 p.m.

Moon.-VII Moon, 10th. Day. Sunrise.-8.03 a.m. Sunset.-6.47

p.m.

Tides. High at 1.20 and 14.25 Low at 9.39 and 18.06.

POET LAUREATE'S CONFESSION

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London, August 3. Mr. John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, stated last night that even now he found difficulty in words all that his brain perceived.

COWES WEEK

The principal danger from these London, Aug. 2.

bombs, apart from a direct it, Despite the absence of the Royal

was from. splinters.

Mr. Masefield gave a reading of This production. which is in-tection were advocated

Various forms of earthwork pro- some of his poems to the Liberal Family there is every prospect that Cowes Week, which opens to- teresting rather than entertaining,

cases Summer School at Oxford, and where there was no cellar or base- before doing so said: morrow, will be a big success again will continue at the Queen's and this year. There are 113 yachts the

ment. Earthworks would have to Alhambra Theatres until entered for the different races dur- Tuesday.

be at least 2ft. 6in. thick to pro- ing the week, and more moorings

vide protection. have been laid down for vessels

In the case of single-story buildings, where vacant land was

lying in the roads for the regatta "THE LOVE PARADE" available, an ordinary trench with

than even last year, when the Jubilee lent a special atmosphere to the occasion. The yachting people are convinced that before]

"Many people start writing in

"I have tried, many things with- out making much success of them. I wanted to be a writer and I did not want to be anything else. I gradually attained the ability to set my heart on being a writer and

a dug-out was the best form of Bet something of what I saw in Hner Hakusan Maru, on which he

.shelter. The dugout could The ten hit songs featured in

be my brain.. is going home, stopped here.

"The Love Parade" can be said to made gas-tight The son of Mr. Kiyoshi Taka-long King Edward will acquire 3 Schertzingor, who wrote the ten independent lighting, food sup easily set down all that they per- come "out of the night." Victor In all cases shelters should have the beller that they will quite yacht, but it is recognised that he ponent of the art of composing is hardly likely to do so until the his composing in this home high and, if possible, wireless. "Ventila beller is not justified in my case. songs for "The Love Parade" does plies, and sanitary arrangements,ceive. I have found that that "haiku," Japanese 17-syllable

controversy about the design of above Hollywood-at night.. poems. young Mr. Takahama in-

It From my infancy I perceived the big-class cutters is more or less tends to devote himself to the settled.

It is his method to work on his was calculated that an unventi-things which I could not set down. musio at night, laboring through tated room 10rt by 10 would felt thwarted and defeated, and creation of a form of Japanese : The King is admittedly less in- the dark hours and sometimes past accommodate six people for five or could not achieve one-tenth music best adapted for rendition terested in the sport than was his down. All his musical composi- six hours.

father. Indeed, the most active of tions have their inception while hel the younger members of the Royal is at his desk, working only with Family at Cowes has been the pen and paper. Later he develops Duchess of York, who thoroughly his melodies on his violin, Bills in enjoyed her days afloat in the the harmonics at his piano and works out his orchestrations at the Britannia. Her interest has cer-

on occidental instruments, accord- ing to the Japanese press.

Aboard the same ship were a group of six students from

the Tokyo Commercial College who have completed a tour of Formosa, French Indo-China, Siam and the Straits Settlements. During their

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stay in Bangkok' they made special study of the power welded

in Slam by Chinese residents. The party is to safl for Japan by the

is studying the Chinese judicial system. After a ten-day stay in Shanghal, he is planning to vialt Nanking. Hong Kong, and Canton [**(N.C.D.N.).

tainly been welcome to the grow- pipe organ,

tion must not be overlooked,

OZ

one-twentieth of what I set out to

do."

"FANG, AND CLAW"

that has strayed away from its A picture replete with the thrilla mother. Were it more for the of the jungles is enacted in the timely intervention of Buck, the ing number of women owners who was followed in composing of such ing at the King's Theatre. Frank long, despite the fact that it was It was just such a procedure that nm. "Tang and Glaw," now show-rhinoceros would not have lasted steer their own craft in the racing numbers from "The Love Parade" Buck, of: "Bring 'em back alive" of what is known as the armour- and are now taking an active part as "Dream Lover," "My Love fame, has scored another scoop in plated variety. ih yachting organisation. Mrs. Parade," "Nobody's Using it

vice-commodore of the Lymington | hits.

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this "Fang and Claw" evokes thrills

Cecil Brownlow has been elected Now," and seven other popular the animal kingdom with s.s. Nagasaki Maru this morning.

by a rapid succession of hair- production by Van Beuren. Another passenger was Mr. Bhogo Yacht Club and Miss Evelyn More- Maurice Chevalier; Jeanette Mac

More than two thousand animals, breadth escapes and breath-taking

between Donald, Lupino Lane and Lillian and five thousand birds were cap- struggles

man and Ishihashi, procurator of the Tal- ton is this year commodore of the Hoth head the stellar cast of prin- tured by Buck on his recent ex- animal, both in pursult and cap- nan, Formosa, District Court, who Redwing class, delightful - little

boats that are particularly popular cipals in "The Love Parade," the pedition, and they were brought ture. with yachtswomen.

feature attraction at the Star back to America for various zoolo- Another high-light is the hair- theatre, to-day.

raising pursuit of a dative by a There will only be four cutters

gical collections. "The Love Parade" is the story competing for the King's Cup this of the affaires d'amour of a queen them furnished- the action for tiger, an enormous beast that The most interesting among ravenously hungry, man-eating year, but the entries for Queen of a mythical kingdom, played by pang and Claw," the chief among lurked in the wild fastnesses of Mary's Cup total twelve. Both Jennette MacDonald, who falls in races are to be salled next Tuesday. love and marries a prince, Maurice than being the capture of two the Bakal country, stalking its an- Chevalier. Their comical marital Pythons barehanded, each about suspecting prey through the dense Jungle. The famished cat follows life, the troubles of a prince, con- twenty-eight feet in length. sort and general life in the palace form the background for this rol- licking musical romance.

My dear, it is with joy I see You have obtained a law degree

With merit ́and renown. Buccess for you I can foretell,

If you take up the law as well

As you can lay it down,

In what is still another episode the native to his abode and it in full of surprise; a tiger stalks and there that the excitement, mounts springs upon a baby rhinoceros in a furious crescendo.

MUNORY

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

JAST TWO-DAYS AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

TRANKA BUCKS

Own story of his perilova odven

tures is the land of mighty beasts

FANG CLAW

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AND

"Once more he's back`'alival.... Back from the nameless ranch- es of forbidden lands.... to

astonish and thrill you with Jacenes of tighting tury 2. flimod at the risk af itte and limb !

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AN ERNST

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JEANETTE MADONALD LUPINO LANE, LILLIAN BOTH.

A Paramount Picture

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY, ONLY

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AND IT IS BRITISH |-

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF

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