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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.

CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

Get out your nabestos Hned and water-cooled ribs, folka! Don your diaphragm shuck absorbers! Drown the cat Throw your troubles out the window--and see Robert Woolney In Radin Pictures' comedy kercam. "Everything's Rosie" showing to- morrow at the Queen's Theatre, The cockiest, funnicat little man on the talking screen in Woolsey. He's a nut -makes squirrels out of his audience -they like it. It really is that kind of a picture. Besides Woolany, It has astery, a real story of a carnival faker, who adopts and raises as his own a baby giri, and becomes hope. lessly, worshipfully love with her.

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"Everything's Rosie" is Woolsoy's first solo starring show-the first time he has appeared in pictures with- out teaming with Bert Wheeler. That he can more than capably carry a characterization alone is decisivolv shown in

this production. He's real star in his own right. Anita Louise, beautiful and charming blonde, and John Darrow, one of the screen's mont capable Juvenilce, furnish the romance. Clyde Bruckman, reapon- Mible for a number of Harold Lloyd's greatest successes, directed from n story by. Al Bonnberg.

Mystery at the "Taiping".

An extremely good vaudevillo show is to be presented at the Tai- ping Theatre on Sunday, in addition to a film programme. Mystery al- ways puzzles people. That's why it's mystery. And people not understand ing cry: "Fake, Fake." But there is nothing fake about Aleko. Ho is a man, he admits it. There is nothing supernatural about him, but he has developed certain of ha natural powers to a point where ne any know the future and tall the past. An in- teresting man and modeal enough to tell it himself. There is nothing un-

NEAL!

The killing of a minar by a national guardeman brought a new crisis to the war-torn mine strike aras of Taylorvills, in Illinois whers wholesale aeresis of pickats already had created a temao situation. Fifteen hundred pickets were rounded up and the county's court-bonse converted into a jail. The pic- turs above shows how the prisoners were crammed into office space. County employess arriving (as shown below) for work found a cordon of troops around the courthouse and striking minara filling the building.

usual about me. Men ure given GERMAN WOMEN RIOT. N.Y.K. ROUND TRIPS. wonderful bocker, and become

acrobats. Or are given an ability along certain

lines, and follow that

"

STORM MEETING OF BERLIN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

London, Dec. 10.

A Berlin message states that

It is their work. So it is with line

ne. I was given a mental power to transmit thought and project my mind into the future. That is all. I am

follow a workman. I

my line." Aleko in a Greek and was brought up in Athens. He has travelled exten thirty infuriated women created Hively over the world. Ha familiar with the various mysticism pandemonium at a meeting of the of the various nations. Ile studled Berlin Municipal Council, shouting for years in India under the Yogis."We want bread, clothing and coal 1"- But Egypt, he says, in his favourite

They injured two officials who country. There he learned most of tried to stop them, then clambered his secrets.

on to benchies and chairs, but dis- appeared when they saw the police arriving.--Our Own Correspondent.

"Call Of The Ben,"

The British melodrama, "The Call

SPECIAL FARES NOW BEING QUOTED

Hitherto NY.K. round-trip farés quoted between the Orient and U.S.A. and Canadn were applicable to ent class passengers only, but now round. trip fures in the 2nd class and tourist cabin class have been added by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, who are put- Ling Bame in force immediately, Such round-trip fares are valid for 12 months, and the rates from Hong. kong are as follows:

To San Francisco.

Asama Maru, Tatsuta Mara and Chichibu Maru 1st Class G5074, 2nd Class G$403.

Talyo Maru int Class G$890, Tourist Cabin G$350,

Heiyo Maru 1st Clans G$558, Tourist Cabin C$360.

To Los Angeles.

Asama Maru, Taisuta Maru and Chichibu Maru 1st Class G$674, 2nd Class G$111.

Class G$630,

Class G$570,

of the Sea," at the Queen's Theatro has a thread of suspense to keep it; together and carry out a plot gineer, and owner of numerous other which, given better direction and atag-side-lines, Bickford purchased the ing, might have proved a high-power-island through an advertisement In ed thriller. Scenes which show sailors making whoopee might have been a newspaper. It had been owned by a young Englishman who intended to eliminated to the advantage of the piece, for their antics are not im- spend his life there but suddenly came portant even for background. Henry to return to his native land. Ile ud- into a title and a fortune and decided Edwards as the hero of the yarn dock verise, his inland for sale and Rick well his part. The villion of the ford puchased it from photographs ploce, dark moustache and leering and descriptions. Bickford hopes to

Taiyo Maru 1st eyen, after the old blood and thunder i snit to his "kingdom" thla summer.

Tourist Cabin G$359. Helyo Maru 1st idea, is Bernard Nedell.lle plays suave characterization. Lewis Good-

Tourist Cabin G$359. rich

Round-trin fores to Seattle and Commodore given one of the best performances in the drama. A long and vigorously suppressed | Vancouver G$588 in cabin clasa and His few short seenes depict him as desire of Will Rogers, world-famous G5271 in tourist cabin clase by M/S a gruff disciplinarian with

of the screen, burata all Hikawa Maru, lye Maru and Heian a hard comdinn sense of duty and the knack of keep bounds in "Business and Pleasure," Maru. There are also similar ing sub-officers. in their places, for his latcat Fox Fum production, duced round-trip fares to Honolulu, their own gooi. The photography. adapted from the beat-soiling novel, and the N.Y.K. local office will be shows the progresas being made by "The Plutocrat," by Booth Tarking pleased to furnish intending passen- British cameramen. A colourful spot ton. Will gets a chance an "top man" gers with any other information in is the cabaret scene in which Chili in a quartette. Most of his vocal ef- connexion with passage fores Bauchier shows that she can dance.

Canada forte in the past have been confined to America,

as well the bath-tub or the wide open cattle Europe, such as all year round-trip ranges of Oklahoma and Texas. But, fares, summer excursion fares, and he confessos, he has always nursed around-the-world rates. re-desire to sing high tenor in a full-

Di

"the

"Thunder Below".

"Business And Pleasure,"

Charles Bickford, film actor, cently revealed his ownership of a ting Isle near Java, while at work edged quartette. Tarkington, in his

book, wrote an impromptu quartetto

re

to

as

to

with Tallulah Bankhead in her cur- made up of Earl Tinker, played by appreciated than elsewhere. Rogers rent Paramount starring production, Rogers. Ben Wackalla of the Wackatle reveals a high tenor of a peculiarly "Thunder Below," which is show. Axle Works, played by Jed Prouty, piercing timbre which undebtedly ro- ing at the King's Theatre to-day and two other fellow-vocallats. All fleets his Indian ancestry, and Featuring with Bickford are Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette and Ralph four of them are passengers aboard a and Pleasure," starring Ropem, and intriguing triangle cruise steamer en route to the Medi- featuring Jetta Goudal, Joel McCrea ferranean, and their favourite gather- Peggy Ross. Dorothy Peterson and drama with a tropical setting. Ad- Ing place in the bar, where their ex- Cvril Ring, will be seen and heard venturer, former seaman and en-

periments in melody seem to be more to-morrow at the King's Theatre,

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