14
ENTRAL
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30. 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
TOM MIX TALKS
for the first time on any screen, In the mashing picture made from a famous novel!
MIX
DESTRY RIDES
AGAIN
By MAX BRAND)
UNIVERSAL PICTURE
(and Tony, too, of course)
WithClaudiaDell. Zasu Pitts. Direct- ed by Ben Stoloff. Produced by Stan- ley Bergerman. Presented by Carl Laemmle.
THE KING OF COWBOYS & HIS WONDER HORSE IN HURRICANE ACTION-TYPHONIC THRILLS-TITANIC
DRAMA.
TO-MORROW
SHE TRAPPED HIM . TRICKED NIM... BROKE HIM...but she
couldn't stop loving him!..
Men
of CHANCE
Packed with Heart Thrills by Three Great Stars..... Written by the Man Who Rocked America with "Five Star Final”
MARY
ASTOR
RICARDO ·
CORTEZ
JOHN
HALLIDAY
Story by Louis Weitzenkorn Directed by George ArchainBAUD RKO -RADIO PICTURE
PEERS SAVE THE cruelty.
CIRCUS
SLIMMING CRUELTY.
On the other hand, Lord Carnock said that when people considored
MONKEY'S WHISKY cruelty to animals they were apt to
AND SODA
The circus has been saved. By two votes the House of Lords rejected a Bill which, if passed, would have prohibited performan- ces by chimpanzees, lions, tigers and other
and big cats, beara hyenas and, as Lord Jessel pointed out would have deprived children of many of the delights of the travelling circus.
The debate contred on the old question: "Can these animals bo trained by kindness?"
lose all sense of proportion.
"Film actors and actresses,” he continued, "are forced to slim, and some people would say that this wna a case of gross cruelty. It is, in fact, a pain- ful business. I now, because I have tried it myself."" (Laugh- tur),
Experience showed that animals could be trained by kindness.
"have got a chimpanzee to drink a whisky and sodn, thing I have done very easily myself. Many of your lordahlpa have never done it. I have done. it often." (Laughter). "No, said Lord Danesfort. the! Lord Lucan, remarking that the [Home Office had no fresh oyidence nover, Lord Kinnoull, the seconder of cruelty since 1925, declared the and Lord Banbury, who maintained Government's neutrality, and left that circus tricks were contrary to the matter to a free voto of the au animal's nature and must Involva House, with the result stated.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933.
SPEAK UP ENGLAND!
PRESS-POWER TELLS
THE WORLD
Prince Arthur of Connaught, in n speech recently, told how he enjoyed reading advertisements.
power and influence, and not more- SLIMMING
ly by wealth.
"One of the qualities I like so much about this country, is its re- ticence in advertising. We аге not a nation of high-powered sales- men. Excessive advertising and high-power salesmanship tend to destroy the Individuality of the people.
"But we are faced to-day with a The occasion was. the twenty-new and harder world. Silence first anniversary banquet, of the may have been golden in the past National Advertising Benevolent-but the hour has come when Soeloty, and the place was the England must spook up. Guildhall, London.
aro
-By a Peer
NOT WORTH THE ORDEAL
Slimming is not worth while. That is the opinion of Lord Carnock, who made the House of Lords rock with laughter, when he revealed that he had found slim- ming a painful business.
There was malice in the laughter of the noble Lord--for Lord Car nock la a large man. He told a reporter:
"In tolling our own and other "When there is, a dearth of crafts, our goods and products, we people of our ideals, our arts, our news,' Bald Prince Arthur, "I
fortunato in possessing n turn to the advertisements with medium of the printed apocch
"To slim, one has to diet, and enjoyment, marvelling at the skill which is the nest in the world. dieting is not pleasant. All starchy of wording and drawing and the I mean, of course, our daily, week-things, potatoes, sweets, puddings, originality of wit one often findsly, Sunday and monthly press butter, jam. in fact, all beyond compare the world's best. From the columns of these papers the things one really likes, have to
be given up. we must drive home ever more deeply the merits of British mer- chandise
therein.
"I think." he added, "the news. paper publishers are very far seeing people to reinforce the news interest of their columns by the aid to the 'ronder-interest' which the advertising columns yield."
NEW AND HARDER WORLD. Sir William Crawford, President of the Society, sald that though it would be unwise for him to say that the depression was at an end, nobody could stop him from bo. lieving it.
"Advertising has the faculty of Improving the quality of the goods whose merits it proclaims. It is not only a maker of trade, but it is also a critic of goods. It sets a standard. It insists on efficiency and quality. It is a protector and an insurance to the public.
"I had a month of it once down at Tring. I had nothing to eat.
apot of That is, nothing but orange juice. I lost quite a lot of weight, but I put it all on again.
"I DON'T MIND."
"There is no doubt that these diets would work if one could only keep it up. But I can't keep it up.
"The way 1 sce it is, is it worth it? If I were a jockey or a film star it might be. But I'm not. I don't really mind being fat.
"This year commodity prices may be more firmly raised and the "No one is better able to judge volume greatly increased by inter- of this," he added, "than an ad- national agreements. Tariffs also vertising man. Advertising peo-we may expect to see on a more But such arrange- ple see right into the heart of the equitable basis.
"Of course, there are disadvanto-. business mechanisms of the coun- ments will only make competition
Res. I can't take much exercise and try. They see not one trade but more severe and more open.
I can't play polo. But if I was many."
Mr. James Strong, the treasurer, thin, no doubt I should have or something. As Other points from Sir William'a announced that the total donations rheumatism
in connexion with the coming-of-one gets older (Lord Carnock Is speech were:
age festival, including subscrip-50) one is bound to have some "If we are pulling through, it is tions of £1,000 during the dinner. thing. I'm fat and that's the end because success is measured by amounted to £10,300.
of it."
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"
HONGKONG'S FINEST CINEMA
The merry whirl of
Washington society
took him for a ride
Daringly dressed women tried to en- snare him, wily dip- loniats laid traps for
him as he flashed through the intricate mazes of the capital.
Warner BAXTER
in
Man
About
Town
teith
Karen
Conway MORLEY TEARLE Novel by Denison Clift Directed by John Francis Dillou FOX PICTURE
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————STARTS SUNDAY
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She lured him into double harness-but he kicked over the traces.
BACHELOR'S AFFAIRS
with
Adolphe MENJOU
Minna GOMBELL
Arthur PIERSON Joan MARSH Based on a play by James Forbes Directed by Allred Werkes
PICTURE
ON THE STAGE
"THE HOLLYWOOD HI-LIGHTS"
A Talented Company in Musical Comedy
Prosent by
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(English Titles)
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The
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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
with JACK CAKIE THOMAS WEIGHAN HARIAN NIXON RASU PETYS WIELERE CORLIERS WILLIAM BOYD
•LEW CODY.
`A Garamount Future
SPORTS SPECIAL
'The WATER
JAM. BOREE'
FROM SUNDAY
THRILL AT WHAT MAY HAPPEN
IN 1940!
The New York Times.
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NEW YORK CITY BOMBARDED
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MEN MUST FIGHT
Man Goldwyn-Mayer Neum
PICTUAL
with
DIANA WYNYARD
of Cavaleads" Famo
LEWIS STONE, PHILLIPS HOLMES, RUTH SÈLWYN.
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Directed by
EDGAR SELWYN
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7.20 8 9.20
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AMERICAN
MADNESS
WALTER, HUSTON
PAT O'BRIEN
KAY JOHNSON
∙CONSTANCE CUMMINGS GAVIN GORDON
A FRANK CAPRA Production
Dramtic Thaunderbolt Great Story of To-day
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9.20 P.M.
What will the neigh- bours say? What will his wife "do"when" she: learn about him and the girl next door!.
with, CLIVE BROOK, LILA LEE, CHADLERS BUGGLES.
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