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DIET DISSOLVED.

JAPANESE ELECTIONS NEXT MONTH

Tokye Jun. 21. The Diet was dissolved at 3.26

p.m. to day, and it is expected that a general election will be held about February 20.

for is

the

The dissolution purpose of enabling the Saiyukai Party to seek a working majority in the Lower House.

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THE

CINEMA SCREENINGS.

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES.

Admirers of the beautiful Joan Bennett are both surprised and grati-

has

HONGKONG

SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1932.

TELEGRAPH.

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE TELEGRAPI!" FILES.

D

The following cable at the close

been recolved by Messrs. Pentreath and Co.

fed over the new Joan that fielly of the sugar market yesterday wood has developed a girl who proves In "Ilush Money," now at the King's Theatre, that she can do other things beside radiate benuty from the screen. A Janet Gordon, in this Fux film, she plays her first really emotional role.

The enrly sequences of the screen At present, the Seiyukai Party play find her a young and beautiful has only 171 sents and the Min-girl, driven by poverty to accept the patronage of a presumably cultured selto Party 240 out of a total of

and wealthy man. When she learns 106.

that the man is merely a racketeer, a wolf in sheep's clothing she is forced, against her will, to become one to pose ла hin of his gang, even

Eventually she and the rest of the gang fall foul of the law and receive prison terms. On her release from prison she determines to ge sirnight and is helped in that determination by a big, hardboiled but soft-hearted detective who has taken n friendly Interest in her.

The Dissolution was ordered as Inukal, Mr: Mr. Boon

Takabaahi Yoshizawa and Mr. had finished outlining the Gov-wire. ernment's policies, without giving the Minsoito Party an opportunity of introducing a vote confidence.-Reuter

National Policy.

of non-

Tokyo, Jan. 21.

She and the detective both go Addressing the Dlet to-day, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Yoshizawa, through, but not without a very bitter

Atruggle, ending with a murder. referring to general policy, anid:

mani- Hardle Albright is en-featured with The spirit of progress

was first Miss Bennett, playing the role of the fested when Japan

CRA supporting thrown open goveron as ever our husband, and the national policy. To "seek know-includes C. Henry Gordon, Douglas George Congrove. Myrna Loy and ledge in a wide world,"

Raft, Sidney fanfield directed. pressed in the oaths by the great Emperor Meijl is the living creed

our pesple

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The idend of our diplomney is while maintaining just Japanese rights to work in harmony with All countries and give the Japanese paljon a share is the benefits of univerzal culture and enlighten- mont

It in with that ideal that I Hope to work to help promote the in- Terestr nd the nation and the haj piness and welfare of the Japanese Imple

HUPEH BANDITS.

AN APPALLING STORY OF DESTRUCTION.

Shanghai, Jan. 21.

"A Free Soul." Time and the changes wrought by the to-dug's comfitions cannid alter spirit of the Barrymore",

Look

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When-Lionel Barrymore directing, he announced that he was tin. But when A theouch with

really great role came along the old

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March 1.06 no change. May 1.08 no change, July 1.13 down 1 pt. September 1.18 down 1 pt. December 1.23 down i pt.

next attraction at the Central, and we have the best cast of favourlies in it for you, in the bargain.

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DELIE on the disease known

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Lapplication.

A motor driver was fined $10 for accouts opened.

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having no lights, defendant plaining that he had two kerosene slowed at rates which may be obtained of lamps. A charge of dangerous TRAVELLERS CHEQUES ISSUED. driving was dismissed, the police WILB being stating that the car

a trumear. driven faster that The Magistrate, however, held that

vehicle was under contral

Remember Leu Carrillo of "Minter Antonio," "Lombardi, Ltd.," and "ilell Bound" You should see him as the politely murderous half-breed cattle owner with an eye for women, in this Burgens, the ere! And Dorothy

Redactive, fery Ettle xenorita who played the menace to Warner Baxter ijs "In Old Arizona?" She will give you the season's chilly.est thrill s the dance-hall girl, Lasea. She's het?) ter than she was in “Arizona."

John Mack Brown, erstwhile all ¦ Amerienn football star and handsome hero of "Our Dancing Daughters."

Str 1-nry May

was presented.

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the hereditary spirit of the country . strapping Texas Ranger mist frmone theatrical family, one of the

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Rio Grande,“ So

bra for bong time.

| Sumterville, The lanky comedian, and Hence Barrymore E playing Step qualy Frank Campeau engaged ton Asie. Norma Shehrer's lawyer in a laugh duet that you will remems fatlar, in Free Soul her

Aarti which whhh will come to The Osteen's Theatre on Sunday. Thr Metro-finitlwyn-Mayer pieture hand Frank on to All Regers St. Johns novel and the role is one of the Beast zirenae. fé in suların literabaya,

The story, based upon the romantic "Lasen." Desprez's | retains all of the roniance, action and

colour of the prontin

creation t

Falward Laemmle, the director, has done an all round excellent jah of the

Male dogs rd mean that Barrymors will fornske directing, in which field pleture. he soured such sucersate as "Mudam

ani Xhe Rege Song"

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Cents n Danet." "But," he says, "it

is good for direction to net once in

A Shae News Agency message from Hankow states that in the white and keen in touch with the pust two years bandits in Bupchevebolory of the player. And--it's people, while a great role." have killed 164,551

Harrymore won international fame first ne a stage netor with "The Just " "The Copperhead," and such plays, as free hrtor in "The Lion and the

946,000 are missing ani 78,000 are stil being held to gunsom,

Some 210,000 houses have been burned, the total damare mount- Mouse Wet of Zanzibar" and

JAK

Special

$177,037,880,

Commencing Sunday at the

QUEEN'S

A teure drama

for Norma

Shearer's finest

talkie performance!

NORMA

1

A

Benteruthers, and lately as a director.

- a composer of aute and painter.

picture he plays the In the new Inveer father of the lwpoine, and his teaching of "emancination" lends he into poche which almost wreck her life. Then the father, holding him. elf alone to binme, makes a'drama-

titation.

SHEARER

In a new AcrcEn

A FREE SOUL

triumph-

with LIONEL

BARRYMORE, LESLIE HOWARD, CLARK GABLE

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A notable cast appears in the pic Cinebrá whleh

Hrow# of "Anna Christie" Tom, slipected. Lesle Howard, Clark | Galle James Gleason and Latey Bean.

ment or amnar the pianure,

The picture in aid in San Francisco, Carthomes, Elaborate gambling dens. homes of the millionaire descendants of the Argonauts, and other romantle the rivkl details lend spectacle to drama.

" Girl" Coming. Sally Filers, who plays the title role In "Bad Girl," Fox Film version of Vina Delmar's celebrated novel of mother love, coming to the King's Theatre next Sunday is a New Yorker by birth as in James Dunn who plays the young husband in this gripping story of a typical New York couple.

An girl. Miss Eilers attended the York. Horner Mann sehool in New

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but finished her erration at Fairfax High School Hollywood, her family having moved there in 1926.

2016. cinema Having matured capital, with numerous friends en - it was Ened in the film industry, only natural that Sally should turn from thoughts of n speretarini career to the mor colourful and romantic on of repen neling

Her big chance came one day with she visited the Mark Sennett Studi with Carl Lombard. At lunchen she attracted the attention of Sonneti who was seeking a girl to take the pluer of Alice Day who had walked uit un him following an argument avy Mins Day wearing men's pants in the picture, Sally agreed to wear the pot and the public agreed that she wow hit in "The Gowlbye Kiss," Throu Increasingly important rates an omedies, Sally advanced in such pictures Ra "Dry Martini," "Trial Marringe," "Rrontway Dad- dier," "Show of Shows," "The Long. Long Trail," "Doughboys," and "She Couldn't Say No," She was chosen as Wompas Baby Star in 1028, an event which she considers equal ins Importance to her first role as a de finite step in her career,

Another

that of her marriage In June of 1930 to Ioot Gibson, which followed in "Sailor's Holiday," and Marle Dressler in "Reducing." Then came another with Keaton, "Parlor, with Bedroom and Bath," and one Norma Shearer, "Let Un Be Gay."

Rowland Brown chose her for the feminine lend in "Quick Millions," her Anlendi performance leading to n Fox Film contract. Since then alle hna nppeared, in rapid succession, in Finly "The Black Comel" "The Terror" and "Bad Girl," her current atceras, Frnak Bortage directed tho deture which was adapted by Edwin Burke in both continuity and dialogue. "Lases of the Rio Grande." How would you like to see a rea! notion picture--one that moves with ll of the romance and action of the eld quick-shoaling, Spanish-flavoured Borster days↑

Well, we have it for you. It is Univernal's bull's-ere hit "Lasen of the Rio Grande," which will be the

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