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YOUNG CHIEF

Sir Charles Hector Fitzroy Mac- lean, Bt., who became chief of the Clan Maclean on the death of his distinguished centenarian grand father, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, last "December, returned south from Duart Castle, Mull, after his first visit to the ancient home of his ancestors since his coming-of-age. which will be celebrated in true | Highiand fashion at Duart Castle later in the year by his clanspeople, The Clan Maclean Association will present their young chief with his portrait in oils in Glasgow "on October 22.

EDWARD E. HORTON Prefer Bits To Star Roles

CALIFORNIA

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Screen Players Have Plenty Of Grit And Determination

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Hollywood screen players, not only do not let disaster get. them down-but they deliberately ca pitalize on it, writes a Hollywood correspondent.

This was pointed out more than ever "recently as Carole Loinbard, beautiful blonde star, began to work under her new contract, one of the most favourable entered Into between a player and a mo- tion picture producer in several

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often react beneficially. People who have handicaps work harder for success than those who don't have handicaps,

"Sarah Bernhardt, who lost a les. is an example of this. The fact that she suffered this handi cap did not interfere with her work. Her courage and determ- nation to triumph over ft resulted' in her becoming a better actress in fact, one of the greatest we have ever known."

...Miss Lombard, was injured so Miss Lombard admits that she seriously while riding in the auto is not alone" In Hollywood when it mobile of a friend ten years ago," comes to battling against handi- that he was in hospital and re-caps. Reginald Denny was play- ceived special treatments for 2 ing in musical comedy when he period of six months. Not only did lost his voice. He went to Holly-" she suffer from extreme shockwood, became a star in silent films, which affected her heart, but she improved his voice to the extent was cut about the face in such a that he is still in demand in mo- manner that it appeared she would tion pictures. be scarred permanently.

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Those scars can still seen. "I made up my mind that I would become a success in motion pictures In spite of any possible handicap," Miss Lombard declared. "I know that the determination, born of an accident which caused a handicap, is responsible for my advance ment, I think that such disasters

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COLUMBIA SIGNS

GLORIA SWANSON

Glamorous Gloria Swanson will

A dramatic action picture, pack-definitely return to the screen in ed with thrills and laden with romance. is showing at the Alham-closed recently.

the immediate future, it was dis- bra Theatre'io-day, when Univer- Harry

sal's

Cohn,

president

of

film," "California Straight Columbia Pictures, closed the deal Ahead" will be seen on the screen.‡ in a long distance telephone con- The picture dramatizes a strug-versation with Miss Swanson in gle between railroads and truck- London. ing lines for supremacy. The story.

Of almost equal importance is is told from the viewpoint of the the vehicle which will serve as human beings who carry the fight Miss Swanson's first presentation. along, showing their personal pro-It is, the sensational unpublished blems, loves and hates. The cast novel by Noel Pierce, "The Second includes John Wayne, Louise

Mrs. Draper which has been ac- Latimer, Robert McWade, Theodorequired by Columbia over the inten- Von Eltz, Tully Marshall, Emerson Treacy and Leroy Mason.

sive bidding of every producer. in Hollywood.

SHE COULDN'T

TAKE IT .

"The Second Mrs. Draper' is a story of a beautiful cosmopolite who becomes the second wife of à wealthy man and who falls into the embarassing situation of hav- George Raft and Joan Bennett ing her husband's son fall in love battle their boisterous way through with her. The story deals with her laughs, thrills and romance in Co-methods of evading this youthful lumbia's "She Couldn't Take It." which is on to-day at the Majestic Theatre.

Headed by the stellar pair and cast with a long list of excellent players, the picture relates the colourful tale of an exgangster who undertakes to manage the affairs of the socially prominent Van Dyke family, whose escapades and front- page scandals have kept them tab- lold-headlines. for a half-score of

years,

PARK AVENUE DAME

Richard Arlen recently placed under term contract, and Fay Wray, Columbia's star and, leading woman, were assigned to a new picture entitled "Park. Avenue Dame," which will be placed in production in the very near future. At present, Miss Wray is working before the cameras in "Once A Hero," th-which she is co-starred with Richard Dix. This will be Mr. Arlen's first assignment under his new contract.

attention and turning the boy back to the girl who loves him,

Pierce's story will be published serially in McCalls Magazine begin- ning in July, and will later be pre- sented in novel form by McBrides. the publisher.

Marlene Dietrich, studying to be a concert violinist, broke her wrist; became a motion picture extra and fought her way to stardom. She believes to-day she would have been a mediocre violinist if the accident had not inspired her to put up a fight against terrific odds in an entirely different deld-that of dramatic acting.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 Anniversaries and Holidays.-R

B. P. C. A. founded, 1824. Arthur Melghen born. 1874. King Gustaf of Sweden born 1858.

Cinemas-(See Page 5). Dances-Cheero Club Dance, 8

Meetings-H.K. Aquarium

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clety 8.30 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 am.

Social-Whist Drive and Tom- Queen's Road, 8.30 p.m.

Garrison Bergts. Mess.

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Sports. (See Pags 10). Moon-First Quarter, 3.03

a.m.

V Moon, 8th. Day,

Sunrise.--5.38 a.m. Sunset.-7.09

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Tues-High at 03.56 and 15.03: Low at 08.48 and, 21.28.

Holiday-

THURSDAY, JUNE 17 Anniversaries and John Wesley born: 1703. R. H. Bar- ham died 1845. Bunker Hill Day. (Mass. U. 8. A.), St. Alban,··

Auctions-Crown Lands, at Land Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 a.m.

Cinemas (See Fage 5). Entertainments.-Kowloon Union Church "Arctic Frolle, in, the. The pieture is set for early pro-Grounds of Diocesan Girls' School, duction..

"YOU CAN'T TAKE

IT WITH YOU”

"You Can't Take It With You," the George Kaufman-Moss Hart current Broadway stage success. which was purchased last January. by Columbia Pictures for $200,000, said to be the largest sum paid for film rights to a stage or fiction property, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Best Play of the year..

ever

In giving ita award to "You Can't Take It With You," the com- mittee has followed the public-the play has been the most popular one of the season. Opening at the Booth Theatre on December 14, of last year, to date it has had not an empty seat, with the SRO sign decorating the lobby of the house at every performance.

8.30 p.m.

Lectures-Theosophical Society,

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6 p.m.; Dr. Montgomery on ""A Visit to Ball":-and with film Hong Kong's Coronation Celebra- brations, in St. Andrew's Hall, 9 3.m

Meetings, Women's Guild, in St. John's Cathedral Hall. 3 p.m.. Finance Committee, in Cathedral Office.

Hockey Association, in St. Andrew's 5.15 pm Hong Kong

Hall, 6 pm

Miscellaneous. Claims against the Estate of David due.

Abraham Jacob

Social Civil Service Whist- Drive, 9.20 p.m.; Cheero Club

Drive, 8 p.m. Contract: Bridge and Mah Jong

Eports (8ce Page 10). Moon.-V Moon. 9th. Day. Sunrise 5.38 a.m.. Sunset-7.08 p.m

Low at 07.10 and 20:41...

Tides-High at 03.08 and 13.55;

DONATIONS

Starting his picture career as a Paramount stock player, Mr. Arlen played his first important role in "Wings." Some of his later plc tures include "She Made Her Bed," "Ready For Love," "Let 'em Have This is the second time that It," "Helldorado," "Three Live George Kaufman has won the Ghosts" and "Secret Vailey." Last Pulitzer Prize, the first was for "Of POLICE AT THE

season he was starred in Colum-Thee I sing," a political satire with MICROPHONE

bia's Harold Bell Wright stories, music, Together, the co-authors The Hong Kong Travel Associa "The Calling of Dan Matthews" of "You Can't Take It With You" tion acknowledges with thanks i have heard many favourable and "The Mine With The Iron wrote the two previous hits "Once the receipt of the following Sub- comments on the microphone atyle Dor

In A Lifetime" and "Merrily We scriptions:NON Roll Along

Mesars Johnson, Stokes and

Master Messrs. Norddeutscher Lloyd

Bremen

of the police who have been broad- Miss Wray had the leading roles casting hints and directions to in a number of Columbia's earlier London's post-Coronation crowds productions including. "Once To from such places as the top of the Every WomanWhite Lies" "The Eros statue, writes's Home Corres- Captain Hater The Sea,” “Roam- pondent.

Ing Lady" and "They Met In A

Scores of 308 messages were Taxi. broadcast, euch is;--- WE LIFT

Will Margaret Stone: aged 14,, who is missing; join her parents at the foot of the statue.

I am told that four out of five, of these BOS messages were suc- cessful...!

doesn't matter. Fin a character actor and want to be known as one. "If a picture is bad, they blare it on the star, the producer or the Edward Everett, Horton, who scenarist. They never stop to con- played the leading role in Para- sider the character actor. That's mount's "Let's Make a Millon, is why I have no hankering for star one actor who doesn't want to be dom. I prefer to hide out behind called a star. “Maybe I'm not star the shadow of the more common material,hë: RETE," "Anyway" It." dénomination.""

THE HOLLYWOOD TRADITION

POLICE THANK THE R.A.C

A tribute to the work of the Royal Automoblie Club's officials during the Coronation procession is paid by Sir Philip Game, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Buch a fuss was made of Holly-in a letter to the secretary of the wood's capture of the Earl of War- | Club.. wick that the news that he has The services which the RAC not made a single picture during so generously undertook on this his time over there is mildly amus occasion, he writes, "were vital to ing, writes a London correspondent: the success of the ceremony and Actually this is distinctly in the of the very greatest value, both to Hollywood tradition" I don't know the police and to the general pub about actors, but I do know that I fear that they must have put a number of well-known authors a heavy strain on your resources, and playwright have been invited but will believe me, I am sure. over, been bald big salaries for six when I say that the highly emclent months, and have left for home work of the officials of your Club without doing a stroke, of work and of the road guides, was greatly for the aims. Bull, it's Hollywood's appreciated.

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Doctor Hugo Eckener, designer of $50.00 the Hindenburg, suggested at the inquiry into the loss of the airship Sa cause for the disaster which, to the lay mind at least, appears the moet plausible of any yet ad

FLORA MACDONALD'S RING

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He virtually dismissed other theories and gaye it as his viction that bydrogen leaking

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The little gold ring set with a cluster of brilliants presented to Flora Macdonald by Bonnie Prince Charlie, in token of the help she rendered and the courage she dis played, was sold in London recent- ly together with other interesting Jacobite relics belonging to the catate of the late Allan Macdonald. of Waternish, Skye. Another 206- fact that the purchaser venir of the braya days of long ago member of an old Scottish was purchased at the same time intends to make the graceful ges This was a pair of cur-links, made ture of sending both the ring and of gold Spanish coins dated 1741 the links to the great- 1742 1741, and 1745, and worn by gra Prince Charlie himself. The de to

daughter of Tiors Macdonald whom, he feels they really. Hightful part of the story is the

the landing manoeuvres and tore a hole in an after gas cell This caused a mixture of air and hydro- gen to accumulate in a small space about a foot wide between the gas cell and the outer envelope of the ship. When the nose lines were dropped they were dry, and, there fore poor trical conductors. which was falling st wetted them, how-

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