1932-10-04 — Page 12

CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30. THE NEWEST UNITED ARTISTS SUPER

SPECIAL PRODUCTION,

An air comedy extravaganga, staged by the lavish band of Howard Hughes, that zooma right up into the clouds of enter- tainment takes you on a cruise through merry gales of hilarious laughter!

A THRILL-SHOW TO MAKE YOU GASP! A LAUGH-SHOW TO MAKE YOU HOWL!

She Made Aviators Kcep

Their Fect on the Ground!

A siren who nearly wrecked the Allies and a sky devil-up in the clouds in love! She made his head go round like a propellor! There's a parachute full of laughs and howds in dus gay comedy of perfume, pyjamas and Paris!

HOWARD HUGHES,

RESEATE

UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE

CK

OF THE

WITH

AIR

"CHESTER MORRIS

ADDED ATTRACTIONS

"FOLLIES OF THE DAY"

With an All-Star cast of well-known beautiful young dancers and acrobats.' Produced by The Lauro Films Co. of France. 2 reals of old and new dances entirely in technicolour with the most magnificent and lavish invaluable settings and back- grounds that are quite now and novel to the public.

PRICES AS USUAL.

NEXT CHANGE

A Charming Comedy packed with Drama and Laughs.

EDDIE QUILLAN.

NIGHT WORK

-With SALLY STARR, FRANCES UPTON, NORA LANE. A riot of laughter, sparkling wit, catchy songs, pathos, chuckles, indisputably the finest dialogue and singing comedy of the sonson,

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

We are glad to announce that we will commence showing the Best Super and Special Radio, Universal and British Dominion pictures of 1932-33 from the beginning of next month.

RECLAMATION BROUNDS, WANCHAI.

GARDEN

THEATRE

-OPCH-KIR CINEM J Commer *******TALKING PICTURKA

2 PERFORMANCES NIGHTLY 7.30 & 9.30.

Hero's an all star special with Bilf Boyd, James Gleason, Low Cody, Zasu Pitts, Marion Shilling and Mary Carr.

FIVE COMPLETE STORIES in ono stupendous war-timo picturo. Love, humor, hate, jealousy and faith massivaly produced, @Pesse superbly acted and directed—a picture of Eupromo merit, with a

BEYOND soul, vibrant with glamor and VICTORY to miss.

thrill. A picture you can't afford

ALWAYS THE SAME BARGAIN PRICES-OVER 2,000 SEATS. Stalls, 30 Cts. Circle 50 Cts. Box Seats $1.00. WE PAY TAX.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICH PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hong- Song.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932.

SECRETS OF OLD ABBEY

FILM STARS' £1,500 CAR PLUNGES OFF

PHONE CALL

DIVINERS SEEK THE TUNNEL HOLLYWOOD-LONDON

TRAIL THAT LED TO A VAULT Lilleshall (Shropshire)

yenra

Abbey, where for some mysterious noises, described as rumblings and meanings, been heard.

TALKIE PACT

SHIP

WOMAN DRIVER

DROWNED

The Transatlantic telephone wha A woman motorist lost her fe used at a cost of nearly £1,600 in an extraordinary drowning ac recently for the most remarkable cident at Stromness, Orkney. call in its history,

When driving her car on to the control; mail steamer St. Ola, she lost the car shot down a

sloping runway from the duck to the deck, ran to the other side of the vessel and plunged into the

water.

Aug. 22. Efforts were made to-day to dia-

Film stars on both sides of the cover the lost thanel at the pic-Atlantic spoke to each other during turesque rufna vi Lilleahati a dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in augurating the new agreement be tween British and Dominions Film have Corporation, Limited, and United

Artists Corporation of Amorien,

A boat was lowerod and the car In a small dining-room at the hauled up by a winch. The hood was hooked by the mudguards and noises Dorchester conversations took placo 50 pro- between Jack Buchanan and Tom WAS nounced that it was decided to Walls-in England and Mary respiration was tried, but the wo- ripped open and artifical tunnel, if Pickford, in Hollywood; Ronald un-Miss Mary Ross, of West

Jolson and Eddie Cantor. Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, Al Kilbride. Ayrshire-failed to Only ten minutes was occupied The accident was witnessed by in bringing the car to the surface. Miss Kate Roys, a sister.

These aubterranean have recently becomo

find and explore the possible.

Men have been at work to-day under the altar window, both outside the Abbey and within, and for some time I assisted in the work of excavation.

revive.

The sisters had been on holiday had been associated with music at Dounby, near Stromness, They teaching at Paisley for 30 years. Killed At 84.

In addition remarks by Mr. Joseph M. Schenck there were a fow (the chairman and president of the At a depth of four feet in the United Artists Corporation) and by trench underneath the Abbey Mr. Samuel Goldwyn. east window several skeletons and Mr. Hubert T. Marah, chairman human remains, including skulle and managing director of British were found, some of them in an and Dominions Film Corporation, excellent state of preservation. Limited, told the New-Chronicle Two perfect tilea marked with the that the agreement will enable the linghay (Lines.) was killed and Mrs. Loveley, aged 81, of Bi)- Welsh dragon rumpant and the productions of both companies to six other persons were slightly remains of an old vase were also be distributed disinterred.

together United Kingdom, Australasia, India and overturned near Revesby, on In the injured when a motor-car skidded

the Billinghay-Skegness road.

Three women motorists from the South of England,

Mrs.

QUEENS THEATRE

Final Showings To-day at 2.80, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.20 YOUR FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE YEAR'S EVENTI

The Greatest Drama of the Wilds Ever Thrown on the Screen!

TARZAM

APE MAN

The Rev. W. M. L. Evans, now and Canada. rector of Saxby, has written to.

Later it will be extended to cover Mr. Ford, the estate agent, Bay-the whole world. ing that 30, years ago he was re- "It is probably the biggest agree-Watkins and two daughters, who sident tutor at Lilleshall Hall, ment in the history of the film in had been holidaying at Ardbreck- when it was the residence of the dustry," said Mr. Marsh, "and, Itninh Hotel, Lochaweside, were in- Duke of Sutherland. He states will enable British and Dominion jured in a trash, their car werv that he distinctly remembers this films to be distributed to all parts in over an embankment old passage.

of the world, including America,triking and at the same time ensure the had

a tree. Mrs. Watkins closets co-operation between Eng-daughter a broken collar bone and a wrist broken, her elder land country and America."

ribs, and the younger daughter received hend injuries.

1.

+

Diviners At Work. A search to-day failed to reveal

Three diviners arrived to-day, and I accompanied One on his tour. While crossing and recross- ing a field his divining rod point- cut to the ground continuously along a straight line. He de- clared that the ground below was hollow and the line of it was traced to a dark vault that Hes) next to the dungeon.

Workmen were summoned and n solid mass of masonry under the earth floor has been bared.

I anw Colonel Sykes, to whose manor house, Longford Hall, two miles away, the tannel is said to lead

1 IN 100 CHANCE

WOMAN'S DEATH UNDER OPERATION.

and

made by

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a

monary embolism (a clot of blood in the pulmonary artery). Aug. 23, when she was in dying condition, she was placed nder an anaesthetic and operated on but she died.

An operation, which stated was the first of its kind it was and gave a woman a one per cent. had never been performed before Dr. Nelson said the operation chance of life, was described at in the hospital To be successful City inquest on Mrs. Florence it had to be done in less than o Rebecca Kelly, 49 of Gerrards- minate to allow the heart to go square, Islington.

on beating. The operation gave Mrs. Kelly, the evidence showed, the woman a one per cent, change "I know of no tunnel coming fell downstairs on July 23, break of life. here," he said, "although some ing her left leg. She was removed time ago I found a passage in the to St. Bartholomew's Hospitas, adventure"

A verdle of "Death by mis- house. It only led to what was and after several

returned, the evidently a beer cellor."

operations it coroner remarking that the opera- was found that she had a pul- tion was necessary. ·

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 89.30 p.m.

KING'S THEATRE

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION

The Wedding

Was Grand!

—but somebody ties

a jangling tin can

to their Married Lilo!

SYLVIA

SIDNEY

FREDRIC

MARCH

IN

MERRILY WE GO TO HELL'

A Grannast Puner

ADRIANNE ALLEN

Her day of lovef Bur

the soon finds that o

mon, once won, musi

be HELD thru risks

she never saw in her girlhood dreams1 ...

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.80, 8,15, 7.5&9 30p.m

JAMES

--ADDED ATTRACTION----- Dally at 5.10, 7.15 and 9.30 p.m. Shows only.

Retura Engagemont of

BETH BERI.

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES STAR

La a Dance Repertoire,-

Now Dances--New Costumes

Accompanied at the Piano by MONIA LITTER Acclaimed, both by Zimbalist and Heifetz, the most Brilliant Pianist in the Far East. Prices as usual

the director of

"TRADER HORN"

W., VAN DYKE with Johnny

WEISSMULLER

(The Swimming Adonis) NEIL HAMILTON

0. AUBERY SMITH

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

Metro Golaryn

Ma

Based on the story by

Edgar Rice Burroughs

TO-MORROW

SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ALL STAR

VARIETY PROGRAMME

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313

NEWS

TO-MORROW

MILLION DOLLAR LEGS

"A Ninimount Ratun

Lydo Roberti Hank Mann George Barbler Hugh Herbert Dickie Moore Susan Fleming

ORIENTAL

in

THEATRE

SALLY

EILERS

OVER THE HILL

PICTURE

with

Jack Oakle

W. C. Fields Andy Clyde Ben Turpin

FLEMING ROAD, WANGHAI TEL. 28478

TO-MORROW

"Cheaters at Play"

with

THOMAS MEIOHAN OHABOTTE GREZEWOOD WILLIAM BAKEWELL BARBARA WIEKS

A FOX PICTURE

in

USIC

SPOR S

CHARLIE CHASE

in "ONE OF THE SMITHS"

STAN

LAUREL

AT THE

OLIVER

HARDY

"CHICKENS COME HOME"

A MAGNIFICENT Medley of

STAR

Mirth and Music!

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 2.30. 5.20. 7.20 & 9,20

BRITAIN'S EPIC OF GALLIPOLI

"TELL ENGLAND"

TIFFANY

Present

MAJESTIC

CAUGHT CHEATING

Charle

George MURRAY SIDNEY The Truth Abort “Caught Chanting "1 tes a 'Lughterškušah, with ThNIK

The Laugh Flow

Of the Year!

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

A Couple of Chaps. A Couple of Chiselers and a Couple of Gang. sters in a Merry Mix-Up.

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