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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1931.

CINEMA NOTES.

AMERICAN HISTORY IN "BILLY

THE KID."

"By the Kid" which will open at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, ha been added by King Vidor of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer to, the rapidly in- credsing list of pictures dedicated to various phases of American history.

"Billy the Kid" relates the stirring happenings at Lincoln, New Mexico, during the famous "enttlemen's war" af 1870 and 1880, The enreer of William Bonney during that time is the crux of the wildest point the wild

west ever reached.

R.A.O.B. CLUB AT BILLIARDS.

HEROIC RESCUE OF A BABY.

"I can read now, daddy!"

"AT HOME" TO THE JUNIOR N.C.O'S CLUR.

GROPING IN BLAZING ROOM.

Taunton, Mar, 18. Three babies lost, their lives in a The members of the R.A.0.1. Club

out early this were "at home" to the members of fire which broke the Junior N.C.G.'s Club, Stono-morning in the Wild Oak Nursery cutters Island, on Monday and a very lome, a large, rambling building interesting and friendly game of at Trull, two miles from here. billiards was played in the presence of a good gathering of spectators.

The result of the panes showed that a very keen interest was taken by the players of both sides: Other pictures in the history claR.A.0.B. Club, Jr. N.C.0's Club. are "Janice Meredith," "The Covered Wagun," The Birth of a Natkin," Elliott "Abraham Lincoln" and "The Big Holt Parade,"

Welham

150

Murray Cullen

R5 Willis 150 Gorst A... 112 121 Combey 112 Goat F.

160

160

Turner

Total

150 Fenley

Benson 150

788

Tolai

84

A fourth baby, who was sleeping is the same blazing bedroom as the others, oves its life to the bravery of an 18-yeurs-old youth, Harry Coles, the son of, the Taunton fir brigade chief, who cycled to the Are before the brigade reached tho Beene.

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The names of the dead children nre: Eric Sargent (ten montha), 76 Brian Benelt nine months), and

Edward Edwards (12 months).

Like a Furnace."

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"Janice Meredith," a Marlon Davies production, covered the period of the Revolutionary War. "The Covered Wagon" took up the cae of the planeer. "Abraham Lincoln" and "The Birth of a Nation" immortalized the Civil War and its after effects. The honour for the highest break "The Big Parade" was epic of Ameri-

was gained by Willis, eau parteipation in the World War. Members and visitors also indulged "Hilly the Kid" cempies a period hr-in a friendly game of Darts, with the tween "The Covered Wagon" and the following results: present day. It concerns the period in the Inte 70's when the west hack grown both rich and lawless.

Cullen and Murray (H.A.0.3) lost in Wills und Benson,

Humphreys at Gotes (R.A.0.B.) bent Casey and Swatten.

Willian Bonney was the neat dis- inetive figure of this era. A pro- duct of his ne, he defended ́his Friends with his pistol. He thought nothing of open warfare with other men, He was the ring-leader of the fuss McSween gang in the Linorst F. and Combry,

West and Davey (R.A.0.B.) bent Fealer and Paton.

enly Chanty war.

Welham and Elliott (R.A.D.B.) brat Combey und Wellington,

Tanner and Clark (K.A‚9.B.) lost to

In the hall young Coles, when he arrived, found nine nurses and the proprietress, Miss Nelly Ragers, who between them had ent carried 29 other chidren to safety. They were gazing pleously at the flame-lt passage outside the bed- room where four sick children lay helpless in their cots amid the Bamoa,

"Save them! Save them (" sobbed the women.

The heat and smoke made it impossible for anyone to get into the room from inside the During the evening, the Chairman heuse, and Coles dashed to the The Kil's greatest attribute was hh courage,“

King Vidor, of the R.A.O.B. Club, in a happy little binek of the building. He climbed to a ginas vernodab roof, and from director of the picture.

isperch welcomed the members of the MA

Junior N.0.0's Chak, and hoped that there reached the window of the Rved by vinience and led violently,

themables Leirnom. This he smashed dat panda bravery and capacity they would take back with For early ship which, in more peger memories of a well spent evening with a large stone which he had ful times, would have made him a Inmong "Biteedie Buffaloes." valuable citizen. In telling his story,

Mr. Willis, un half of the visitors, wer HTP not mitigating his misdeeds.

thanked the merubers of the R.A.0.13. In fact, we tell them with all truth, lub for their kind invitation, and bercure £ feel his example will prove hoped that it su future date in res to all young boys that you can't gotten match would be arranged at nway with bronking the Inw."

Stonreutters,

John Mack Brown plays "The Ki“ and Wallner Beery gives another of his inimitable charneterizations as Sheriff Garrett. Kay Johnson has the Cemlaine lead.

Technicolour Beauties in

"Whoopee."

Are

Darts Prizes Presented.

An interesting little ceroienz was performed by the Chairman during the evening, in presenting the prizen won during a recent Dart Championship Tournament, held at the It.A.0.B. Club for members of the Club.

Mr.

Colour in potion pictures is bring- ing before the publle a aumber Welham, was banded the Champion.

The Champion Dart Player, great beauties who are at present unship Cap, which he holds for the star, known to film-goers, although their pulchritude la celebrated on Brond- and also a replica of the Cup as a way. Two striking examples

reminder for his prowess as a Dart Ethel Shutta and Eleanor Hunt whePlayer in 1981. play loading entes in "Whuppen," the Glurenz Ziegfekt-Samuel Goldwyn all- technicolour Alm now at the Queen's Theatre.

Some of the new stars will be ne tresses of the legitimate stage who

had failed in binck and white camera tests, it is pointed cut by Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, President of the Techni

enlour Corporation, Others will be obscure extra girls in Hollywood 'Girls from all walks of life will gain their big chance because colour will reveal their tru charm.

With scores of feature productions In technicolour showing throughout

Mr. Turner being the runner up was also presented with suitable souvenir to mark the occasion. Both recipients suitably replied and in ac the Championship Cup was duly filed cordance with time-honoured custom, and passed around,

The members of the R.A.0.8. Clubs

will be "At Rome" to the members of the Junior N.C.0% Club, Lyemun on Monday, April 27, when it is lopet that another enjoyable evening will be spent.-Contributed.

the United States next year, it seems CRICKET CLUB'S NEW

vertain that 1931 will see the rise of great beauties who are at present entirely unknown to motion alcture audiences,” Dr. Kalmus said.

PAVILION.

MORE FACILITIES FOR CIVIL SERVICE SPORTSMEN.

"Recent improvements in the techni colour process have made it possible In reproduce flesh tints accurately and the exact enlour of hair and eyes. While this is not af so much import- One of the earliest landmarks in unge în photographing men, it je vital the history of the Civil Service in presenting women on the screen. | Cricket Club-its present pavilion-ia | Now, when you see a close-up of an in the course of demolition. But it is actress in colour, you see her exactly to be replaced in substantial form. as she would appear on the stage, and only a sentimental loss will be from a seat in the front row. Beauty felt. is not sus mitch contour of face as it is colouring and, at last the motion pic ture producer is able to give you his stars exactly na they appear" in the flesh.

carried with

bin, and

pluaved Into the smoke and Bame-flied room. He said later:

It was like a blazing furance, rtumbled about half-dazed for a moment or two, keeping a hand- kerchief over my mouth as a sort of gas mask because of the thick smoke. Then I came across the frst cot, in which was Leonardi Cockram, the little boy who for- tunately is now recovering. Second Gallant Effort.

The woodwork of the window was blazing and the raincont wearing had also which I was caught fire. I swung the child by its clothes to one of the nurses who had climbed half-way up he ladder.

1 turned back in search of the others. The flame were then

ting singed and my nose, legs, and really fierce and my haft was get-

hands were scorched. I found another col ringed with flumes. and picked up the baby, whose burning clothes dropped off.

By this time I was choking, and I only just got to the window be fore I realised that I could not stand any more. 1 climbed out to

get air, and then I heard the fire brigade on the scope.

Fireman Addleott brought nut the other two children (who were dead), although he was frightfully cut in his rescue efforts,

Nurse Sansome who climbed the ladder, in eatching Leonard Cock- rain felt and badly injured her ankle.

Owing to the early arrival of the fire brigade the fire was con- fined mainly to two rooms and the passage on the second floor,

THWARTING THE SPIES.

Standing for 28 years as a testi- mony to one of the biggest advances achieved in a single year by the Club and its supporters, the pavilion, which

The parents of many of the surereded, the original matsheds, is children are overseas, and others "Their beauty, also, is enhanced by now in the course of being pulled | are unable to have them with colour in costumes and in settings. down, to make way for improvements them. Many of the stars now in motion picto Morrison Hill Road and the foot- tures will be ryglorified in colour. | puth leading from the monument to Motion picture fans will find that the Hongkong Football Club, which they have not realised the true are being affected by the Publie beauty of some of their favourite Works Department. actresses. It is not unlikely that The Club, however, fully alive, to colour will discover great beauties the position have lost no time in draw- among the extra girls in Hollywood-ing up plans for the erection of a girls who have been snubbed by the new "house." These have been pass- MR. Black and white camera."

ed, and by the end of September The coming of technicolour into next, an entirely new concrete edifice motion pictures is going to tame the will adorn the Civil Service Recrea camera. It probably will not sound tion ground. Actually this has given the knell of many of the girls now the Club the opportunity of providing established as screen favourites. They its members with even better facilities and their hair-dressers and the light-than those enjoyed in the old club ing experts and the photographers house.

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and the make-up men, have learned It will be a somewhat larger Service in Athens, exposes in First how to fix up their blemishes and tobullding, one wing of which is to be Athenian Memories the melodrama- torn bad lines into good lines. These built across the nullah which new tie uselessness of this organisation girls will suffer only in these eases borders the playing field, and another after a year of war, and emphasises in which the colours of their eyes and

wing will run alongside. The new their hair, are by nature, undistin

the gross bungling by which Allled premises are to be of reinforced con- guishes, but which may have been crete, with verandahs running half port, incurred the distrust both of diplomacy threw away Greek sup- satisfactory in black and white.

way round, which, it is proposed, will "The Boudoir · Diplomat." be used for whist drives and other Venizelos and King Constantine.

forms of racial entertainment,`

and drifted into the costly Salonica "The Boudoir Diplomat," Univer-

The present facilitles of a refresh adventure. sul's sophisticated comedy of manners mont bar and lounge will be retained,

The

treatment of Greece during which comes to the Central Theatre and in addition there vili hea Indies the Great War was one of the most to-day, served to reunite director lounge and dressing room, and disreputable examples of 'muddling and two players who worked together gentlemen's card room. It is expect through in our history," writes Mr. on "The Grand Duchess and the el that the structure will take six Mackenzie very justly. Waiter one of the most successful months to complete, so that i should pictures in the career of Adolpho be ready for use in September.

The British Foreign Office led Menjou.

the hand-to-mouth existence of a clubhouse was erected Inn Keith, who is seen as the phi- in 1903, When debentures were issued, street conjurer, producing out of a landering bachelor, Baron Valmi, ap; and were paid up in quick time. The battered

old Whitehall top that pears in the saine role that he played cost then was a mere $3,000, which, Thrace, Cyprus, Macedonia, and in the original stage version of the an official of the Club expressed to badly cat chunks of Asia Minor to play. The story traces the tangled

representative of the Press, earn the pennies of a sceptical love affairs of Valmi and two` Indies was sufficient indication of the cheap-Balkan audience. Wo in Athene whose husbands are high in the Euro-ness of building in those days. No came each by his own road to lis

Mary Duncan han an important role intimation was given as to the cost

of the new building.

own policy, and finding there was the management of the house, and His ngoats, the voluble Clarence, In the Universal comedy of con-

no policy at home, each of us tried who felt that his cricketing aver the bulky Tucker, Cavour the tinental life, narrowly missed being

to carry out his own."

are entitled him to resont auch in-magnificent, hio conspiratorial lawyer After her graduation from

Relations between Constantine terference....A gift for flattery chief, all vividly drawn, nro char- high school, she spent two years at between England and America, and and the British Minister in Athens, was essential in dealing with King actors which might have stapped Cornell University, studying law. but unde a total of 33 round trips across Sir Francis Elilot, for whom Mr. Constantine, and never was man as straight out of melodrama. There Anally decided that sho preferred the the Atlantic. singo to the bar, and promptly on- Jun Kelth in one of America's Mackenzie bas great respect, were incapable of flattery as Sir Francis. was adventure and danger in plenty..

Bielodrama Characters.

Mr. Mackenzie bringe serentest students of Shakespeare, and not harmonicus: Llanel Belmore, easily qualifies as on a moment's notice can play any King Constantine's attitude to But, primarily, this brilliant, en-tive in this book, a sequel to "Gaill- of the screen's leading trans- role in any of 21 Shakespearean plays.wards Sir Francis Elflot was that of tertaining, and historically valuable golf Memories," to the beginning of atlantic commuters, even though ho Betty Compson's engagement” në a a popular young prefect very good book is a record of Mr. Mackenzie's 1916, when the Comte de Requefeuil

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