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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

Second Extra Race Meeting.

(Postponed from 3rd April, 1932)

Sunday, the 17th April, 1932,

cheap. By courtesy of the Stewards of the Fanting Hunt & Race Club, the abo.e Race Meeting will be FOR SALE 1928 Buick in perfect held at the Kwanti Race Course running order and exceptionally good on condition. Price HK$1,500. Write Box No. 950, "Hongkong Telegraph.” FOR SALE-1931 model. Pontiac, two-seater, condition as now. Can 324, Hennessy Road, be seen at Wanchal, from 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 0.80 p.m. dally.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1932.

CINEMA SCREENINGS.

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES.

After a search of two weeks during which production necessarily was de-

"Palmy Days,”

Eddie Cantor insists that he has a future that goes beyond current aud- cass, but what it is he doesn't know. Since the Samuel Goldwyn

picture 'Palmy Days," at the King's Theatre,

to bo # for-laughing pur

IN

layed, Miriam Seogar was chosen tans

of a

In tho contom-

of Europe

in con-

Calling and of "piritualem. and such occult pas- Canter makes his role as an

fake spirit the leading femnino role in the Pathaitng assistant to comedy drama,

rama, "Big Money," featur-anw

ualist seom the more real. Eddle

Quillan, Robert Armstrong, ualist ing

ray a future, Cantor James Gleason, Misa Seegar and Mar- garet Livingston, which was directed ainting a goodwill tour

under the auspices of. Samuel Gold- by Russell Mack and which is wyn. Personal appearancer palmy ing at the Central Theatre to-day. noction with the showings of

Seeger, petite

blonde, was known on the stage, both Days" in Berlin, Farin, London,

London before she and Rome are ikely. Eddie hasn't seen to Europe since be went to Eng about a year ago. innd on his honeymoon in 1914, to sing

reies opposite single number in "Charlot's Revue."

Ladies."

in New went

She played

Richard Adolphe

And

Vienna

nt to Hollys old Denny and cho song is still remembered, "I wase and most recently,

with Charlle Murray Clancy in Wall Street."

ave the In Love

The cast for "Big Money" was care fully selected and me twenty-five prominent stage and screen, player.

were entrusted with the various roles. The

story

deals with the troubles and triumphs of a Wall Street mossenger: boy employed in a broker's office. He addicted to the gambling habit, which is not uncommon in Wall Street, nail as a dies thrower he le a distin- guished success. He is given $0.00. fot to deposit in a bank, but anxious another whirl at the cubes, he finds the bank closed and is obliged to guaro the money through the ensuing night He falls in with several gangsters and when they learn of the treasure he carries in A brief esso, his trembles begin.

oven

There are numerous thrilling scenes, but Eddie Quillan's fair for comedy in the face of personal carry him through with lying colours He falls in love with his employer

daughter, portrayed by Miss

Then the goggle-eyed comic has two stage offers under advisement-one rom Florenz Ziegfeld for a new Follles" or possibly a "book" or story show, and another

ther for Earl Carroll's 'Vanities." A year ago, when Cantor want westward after his long stage went w un in "Whoopee," to make the memo able picturization of the New Ams- erdam Theatre hit ho promised him

self and his

อ

.y

family, meaning

hia

vife, Ida, and hin five daughters, ---- hat he was through with the stage 'orever. No one challenges his right change his mind, that is, no one xcept Eddio and his family.

Cantor's literary

Are be- activities nuch so, in fact, that Eddie' is serious- a more intensive con- contemplating a entration

Bold: "Caught that un Short" was an outstanding success; My Life Is In Your Handa." "Yoo Hool Prosperity is nation wide attention in book form after its serial publication

The Saturday Evening

His magazine stories find a quick market

great

To him, it is a untouched field. Cantor has his family Ida, his wife, with whom in the E

Enst Side tenements New York, his five daughters, rang-

omg Increasingly successtul.so

O WAL

and finally wina her after giving us the gambling game which had almost wrecked their love romance. The pirertile and

Curc

"The Man I Killed."

E

to

tant travel

on

allfing Pt in Great Neck,

ry to as a great ong Island, that is closed during his Tellywood sojourni.

was directed by Russell Mack. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Robert Edeson, Dorothy Christy and

ho Annual ether notable players are in the cast. that the Forty-seventh Ordinary General Meeting of the

He ng in age from four to fifteen. The new trend in pictures, as re- HOTEL-23-25, Nathan

Company (since its registration! AIRLIE Road, Kowloom. Under European

will be held at the Hongkongcently described by B. P. Schulberg news that the more of a career

of Paramount's 105, particularly the stage or managing director Culaine, Excellent Management. Modera Apartments, Terms Moderate. THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB Hotel, Hongkong, on Tuesday, the West Coast production, when he said screen, with its might work, its con- and publie attention, the 19th April, 1932, at 11.30 a.m. for that "dialogue should only be used te Three minutes from ferry. Tel 57857.

ess family ho will have. He likes He thinks it a fine coun- Draft Programmes and Entry the purpose of receiving the ethic that day values th la strikingly exemplified i "The Man I Killed," coming soon

the Cantor girls. He Forms for the Fourth Extra Race Report of the General Managers Meeting to be held on Saturday, together with a Statement of Ac: the King's Theatre. 23rd April, 1932, (weather per-counts for the year ended 31st mitting) may be obtained at the October, 1931.

The Register of Shares of the Secretary's Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Company will be closed from the Wednesday, the 13th day of April. Club, the Sports Club, and

to Tuesday, the 19th day of April, Stables, Village Road.

of Entries close at 12 o'clock Noon 1932, both days inclusive, during

which period no transfer on Thursday, 14th April, 1932.

ahnres can be registered. By Order,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 7th April, 1932.

We beg to notify the Public that we have removed from 14, Queen's Road, Central, to 18, D'Aguilar Street.

WING HING CO.

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Ernst Lubitsch's first dramatic talk ing production will reach the scree with far less dialogue than the othe

sound. big pictures made since the advent o

tures date

"Dialogue is important when I means something, yet only where 1. who made several dramatic silent ple- in vital to the story," says the director but whose talking productions to have

been confined to the lighter and more sophisticated, "The Smiling Lieutenant," "Monte Carlo" and "The Love Parado.

Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll. Phillips Holmes and the other char

Killed" talk acters in "The Man when it is logical that they should tnik; they do not talk, however, where the story can botter be develop ed in terms of action and use of the ca meras.*

产品

The

of

And so Eddie Cantor is wondering, fortune-telling exposures Palmy Days" help him none at all. "Flying High." Thanks for a huge new aluminum rane which permits a camera to be sarried high in

the air, there to of operate hither and yon at will, one

he most unusual "shots" ever made appears in "Fly-

na notion pict open on Sunday

ing

High, ," which

can

at the Queen's Theatre.

The

"shot"

brilliant song concern and dance number, "Happy Landings." When the scene first appears on the screen, the camera

apparently hovering ever a huge aviation field, of "ships" are rom which scores

ver, the field rising. Suddenly, however,

lipa

away, disclosing two score of Page after pace of the script of the gorgeously beautiful girls, who per- after-the-war romance laid in France form an intricate dance manoeuvre as

Berkeley, respon

and Germany was bare of dialogue. directed les af "Whoopee."

It was more like the scenarios for sible for the silent pictures, following the down-to- Katryn Crawford is the featured earth formula which authorities such singer of the number.

as Schulberg and Lubitsch say in the

Only the Invention of this new new trend in providing the kind of "camere crane" which can go through entertainment demanded by the public. now and remarkable evolutions mado

Beau Ideal"

possible this unusual photographic Adventure-seeking soldiers of the offering French Foreign Legioni Battling out Tho "Happy Landings". number. Is but one of four new songs which are fugitives from life and but on casts society! Devil-may-care heroism from interspersed between the dralieries of the four corners of the world! The Bert Lahr, America's most imitated courage of this famous body of sol-comedian, Charlotte Greenwood, Pat diern-of-fortune as depleted in

Idea!"

coming to the Queen's Theatre to-day, taxes credulity. The hetero- geneous characters of the men enlisted produce situations unparalleled in any other body of troops.

of troops. A bugle sounds the call to arms,

The Legion barracks spring to life. Soldiers rush to the gun racks. There they wait, while a corporal unlocks the chains which With at hold the rifles in the rack. Lack

threatening,

one wonders at this apparently foolish delay.

Here is the terse explanation of a

former officer of the Legion:

"All nations, colours, creeds and religions are, in our Legion. They have pay days. Liquor is plentiful and potent Quarrels

Kathryn Crawford, Charles er, Hedda

Hopper, Guy Kibber and others. Other numbers include

DARCE

Until the Dawn" and "The Examination Number." These are by Dorothy Fields and James McHugh

fourth A fourt

Lahr-Greenwood slapstick, number, "The First Time for Ma, is by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, who with McGowan wrote the original stage success.

EXCHANGE RATES.

arise. Loose Paris.. guns are dangerous!" Soveral vete Geneva

Berlin of the Legion have important I parts,

in the picture. Ralph Forbes who created the role

rans

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