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THE HONGKONG

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BORDERERS TAKE INTER- UNIT CUP

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932.

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SCOTT FLYING FAST.

LEAVES BASRA AFTER THREE DAYS ON TRIP

Baarn, Apr. 22. Mr. From a Sunday school teacher and Keen sport was witnessed at the

C. W. A. Scott, who is Hongkong Aren Athletle meeting choir singer in Columbus, Ohle, to the making his third night between which was continued at Sookumpoo chorus of a burlesque alow in Boston, yesterday. The South Wales Borderers, was the quick and rather startling England and Australia, left here: who had extablished a lead in points transition of Louise Dresser, who to-day at 2.30 a.m. for the Inter-Unit Athletic Cup on portrays, one of the featured roles in

107 polnis

He took air frons Lympno at 5 a.m. on April 10 in an attempt

Thursday, increased their advantago stepping Sisters," the Fox comeds to break the record.-Reuter.

78.

to the

to win the trophy by

Corning on Sunday against the Jat Regiment's total of Theatre. She strikes an analogy in the picture by appearing na an ex- Col, C. R. U, Savile, D.S.O., Q.B.E. burlesque queen. Stage struck since President of the Area Sports Board, she was a child, Miss Dresser obtained gave away the prizes in the absence her first engagement when she was 15 of His Excellency Major-General J. years old. She was led to believe the was going into musical comedy, but W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S. when she arrived in Boston where the who left for the North yesterday.

abow why playing, she discovered, to Col. her dismay, that it was

was a burlesque Addressing the gathering Savile said that Major-General Sandl-company she was joining. It took her lands had not been allowed to leave many weeks to pay back what had Hongkong for some time, and when, been advanced to her, but as soon as last, he was allowed to go, he felt she had done this she quit and found that if he were to change his plans herself stranded in New York. he would not go on his Northern tour. She was without money and without at all. THE General Ind asked the food and on the day her landlady was speaker to say how much he regretted about to evict her from the little not being present at the

at

performances in and "The Black claimed for her "Quick Millions" Camel, enacts the role of the girl and others in the cast are Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirk- wood and Stanley Fields.

Irving Cummings directed.

"Escape."

Father and daughter play real life parts in "Escape," current talkie at- irection at the Queen's Theatre. Lewin Casson, prominent English legitimate stage actor and producer amt his daughter, Ann Casson, are

They all knew how much interestttle room ake occupied, Miss Dresser cast an father and daughter in the

took in their sports and military wel-eight shown a day. fare and he had always attended their Functions.

he gat a job singing in a dime museum-film version of John Galsworthy's notable play, producer by. Associated Radio Pictures.

Casson is

a veteran in the theatre Appeared in a number of and han

His daughter. Galsworthy plays.

only fourteen years of age, shows remarkable promise as Roof and has of one net plays

Five years from the time she left the farlo que show in Buston, she was aslar on Broadway and she remained

York on the New

stage for nine years, a record that few have under contract to such well known producers as Weber and Fields, Galsworthy's "The Charles Forhman, Klaw and Kringer, written a number

spirit of the units of the. Held, Col. Weight Tring this time she w

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La Ann has appeared in

Shanghai, were returning a cable Al Woods and the Shaberts. She was here" is the first noted author's

one of the must popular actresses of the stage,

sporting Commenting upon Savile remarked that when it learned that the Argyll and Sather who had been in Fand Highlanders. cubating

in the Majestic Botel in was sent to them asking what they

works to be brought to the talking intended to du about the sports,

In 1923 she was induced to have it screen. It was produced and directed reply was received that the Battalion would enter as a unit. In the mean- try at motion pictures and made her by Busi! Denn, noted for work on both The production has time the detachment which had re delt in "The Glory of Clementina" stage and screen.

Then she won wide critical and audience nc- mained in Hongkong had entered

with Pauline Frederick.

and claim as one of the outstanding films with the Samil Unite, who, however appeared in "Burning Sands" could ugreed to carry on as best they by themselves and allow the detach-after that in "Enter Mudarne with of the year

Miss Dresser Clara Kimball Young. nient of Argyll and Sutherland High has been active in motion pictures

since then. Innders rejoin their battalion.

to those 19f the the

"Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Hise." What a combination-Greta Garbo and Clark Gablet Metro-Goldwyn

on the Mayer certainly had an eye box ofee when they handed Guide the choice assignment opposite Garba 3.in "Susan Lenox, ller Fall and Rise,"

which is showing to-morrow at the

After expressing thanks responsible for the success mreting, Col. Savile gave away prizes to the successful runnera.

The full results were as follow: 220 Yards Relay, South Wales

Royal Artillery. Add and Sutherland Highlanders, Argyll

Enlisted Boys 220 Yards RelayQueen's Theatre.

IL WRX happy choice, anyway.

1. South Wales Borderers,

One Mile Team Race.-L. Wales Borderers: 2, dat Regiment, 3, Hongkong S.I.A.

£115

Central Theatre Attraction.

Neil Hamilton, who plays the male lend in "The Command Performance," a James Cruze Production for Tiffany, has never before, during long screen

the been offered opportunity to play a dual role. And such a role has long been his ambition!

career.

The characterizations he is required to play in "The Command Perfor mance," showing to-day at the Central Theatre, are particularly difficult ones. They are different in all save pearance.

South The picture is by fur Carlo's best in talkies and in the opinion of this re- viewer, among her three greatest in Found silent. Modernized, the Putting the Shot-1. Arky David Graham Phillips novel makes Sutherland Highlande:;. 2, South

3, Hongkong splendid material for Garbo and Borderers;

her leading man Galle is more than romantic. He's great! amply

Garbo plays the part of a humble

girl, horn

under cruel cire Swedish cumstances and reared

on mid. Running Away from Western farm.

S.

120 Yaris Hurdles Relay.-1, South Wales Borderers; 2, Argyll and Sutherland Highinniers; 3, Jat Regi-

Yards Relay, South Wales Borderers: 2. Argyll and Satherland Highlanders; 3, Royal Artillery.

Jat Regiment: 3, South Wales Bor-

ap.

As Prince Alexis, son of a Queen of a small kingdom, he plays the part of a rather spoiled. fazy, helterskuller rest far too lightly on his shouldera, young roughneck whose princely dutles As Peter Fedor, an actor in a company travelling through the kingdom, he pluxury

the of a young mun unused ceremony-a man who

to

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the

This makes the part thrice difficult a bargain marringe arrangement, she has had to live by his with. seeks refuge in a mountain lodge occu piel by a young engineer, Gable. She for, as the story progresses, he is J'ale Jump-1. Hongkong S.R.A pin by a to his love-making and he forced to assume the part of

surrenders leaves, promising to come back and Prince. Another dificulty of the plot make hur his wife. Her relatives als i is that neither characterization is in cover her and she again flees, joining he in happy-go-lucky and harum- an itinerant eircus. The engineer

with serum and not to be trusted does return but learns she has been

the hero the Prince neverthless, must' the mistress of the carnival manager. great responsibilities. Without being He throws her over and goes out of her life.

R.C

one.

ning tended to be disliked. As Prince Alexis

"The Comunnd Performance" is an

der Retay-1. 11.M.S. Hermes B. I.M.S. Hermes "B": 3, Indian 440 Yards Helny-1, South Wales Borderers; 2, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: 3, Hongkong S.K.A.

Tug-O-War. Hongkong S.R.A. beat Jnt Regiment by two pulls to

Inter-Unit Athletle Cup.-1, South Wales Borderers (107 points); 2, Jat Regiment (78 points); 3. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (71 points); 1. Hongkong S.R.A. (69 points); hands. What follows takes the story with Nell Hamilton and others in the rato San Francisco and then trust are Helen Ware, Albert Gran, the island of Java where the stirring Vera Lewis, Lawrence Grant, Thelma Todd, William von Brinchen, Miseba climax occurs.

Garbo's role is one of great demanda Auer and Burr, McIntosh.

an unusually wide lati-

Royal Artillery (64 points); G. Small Units (20 points).

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UNIVERSITY INTER-HOSTEL

TOURNAMENT

of the Following are the results Inter-hostel basketball tournament of the Hongkong University, which terminated yesterday, with St. John's Hall winning the championship:

St. John's Eliot Morrison May

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Later the girl becomes a reigning beauty in New York, installed by a wealthy admirer in a lavish penthouse Here the engineer again meets her. But this time, the power is in her

animotional characterization tu

tule of emot which she rises with superh artistry. Gable is splendidly cast and in his first straight romantic lead, offers a magnificent performance that should go a long way in ellnching his hold

n, future stardom.

"A Holy Terror."

George O'Brien has furnished many thrills in various motion pictures, but he described his own greatest thrill Pls.ns the receipt of his first letter which he still carries in his make up lax. The letter was from a young woman living in Grand Rapids, Mich., who

Iron

Horse." in saw him which he played his first leading role. Since that time, O'Brien's fan mail

to proportions that grown

in "The

SENTENCED TO DEATH.quire the undivided

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YOUTHFUL ASSASSINATOR OF and photographs. Ilis

MR. HAMAGUCHI

Tokyo, Apr. 22. Sagoya, the youth who shot Mr.

re of a

of a stampa fan mall is equal to that of any male star in Hollywood. I almost doubled after the release of "Lone Star Ranger," Duanes" and "Sens Last of the Beneath."

Hamaguchi, Premier, on November O'Brien is seen in Fox Film "A Holy 14, 1930, has been sentenced to Terror," current success at the King's death, while the reactionary abet-Theatre.

The climax is reached

tors, Matsuki and Iwata, have been when the boy discovers he has been

with tracking his own father. sentenced to imprisonment

Sally Eilers, beautiful and vivacious was widely nc- screen actress who

hard labour for 13 years and four months respectively.—Reuter.

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