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A VICTOR and EDWARD

HALPERIN PRO_DUCTION Directed by Victor Halperih RELEASED, KY UNITED ARTISTS'.

STARTS WHERE ALL OTHER

MYSTERY DRAMAS LEAVE OFF!

Haro's a burning glamorous love tale told on the border- landoflife and death!

WATCH OUT FOR THESE EYES. THEY WILL CAST A SPELL OVER YOU, TURNING YOU INTO A SLAVE, MAKING YOU DO HIS EVERY BIDDING.

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gone era is recaptured in O. Henry's "The Cisco Kid," picturosque Fox romance now playing at the King's Theatre, and its authentic atmosphero of the Old Southwest is perhaps large- ly responsible for the unusual atten tion the picture is receiving..

With Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid, a gay and reckless border rascal, Edmund Lowe as a cavalry sergeant bent on winning the reward on the Kid's head, and Conchita Montenegro as the Mexican dancer who intrigues both men but loves only one. The film is crammed with action and surprises as well as with a dual love-story in which Nora Lane as a courageous pioneer woman plays an important part.

Irving Cummings directed this colourful offering, and the support- ing cast includes Charlie Stevens, Frederick Burt, Willard Robertson, James Bradbury, Jr, and Chris Martin.

"Congress Dances" "Congress Dances" the Ufa operetta satire with a large cast and brilliant arists is having its final run at the Central Theatre to-day.

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matter of state when he fall in love cars as we had had when the States with a glove-shop girl, Christel. How and municipalities dealt alone with their beautiful idyll is interrupted the liquor problem. The regulation of industry and the enforcement of re- the whon Napoleon escape from

gulation is increasingly impossible to Alexandria Island of Elba, lends up to tho

the extent that it is thorough-going. Barlis dramatic climax of the picture.

Lillian Harvey is seen in the land. Let Federal agents go about inspecting Bembay Canton

Los Ancien ing role, as the charming, mischievous the affairs of business men, and you Calcutta

Manila and captivating Christel-Miss Harvey will have a multiplication of the evils Chahun.

and Dairen (Dalny) Nagasaki

Nagora being a very popular star in both and abuses, including bribery

Our Fengtien blackmail,

(Mukden) Newchwang building hamburs England and Europe. Henry Garat municipalities enforcing

New York is seen as the Czar, Conrad Viedt as codes, tenement house regulations, ankow Prince Metternich and Lil Dugover, and so on. in featured role as Countess,

Beautiful music, Ainging and danc- ing are featured against gorgeous atage setting in "Congress Dances," the photography for

It is urged that we have an ex- handled by experts. Hundreds of perience on which to build in this extras take part in the film while connection. During the war, we did magnificent palaces and theatres are have a good deal of regulation and among the settings with the action control of industry, and it is thought taking place in one of the mast jolly that this experience can be applied and beautiful towns in the world--the to-day. I believe that that war time old Vienna.

experience will be largely useless na applied to our present problem. The Uncle Sam's navy may be describ- objectives in the war time were sim- ed. an the unpublicized star of ple and clear. We were over-strain- "Hell Below," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ing our productive capacity, and the essential was to produce dynamle talkie drama of submarine problem adventure which opens to-morrow at goods. So and so many tons of steel ware needed for such and such definite the Queen's, following its long run

"Hell Below"

which

Was

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168 NOW REPORTED

MISSING

Shanghai, July 11. Latest reports reaching the China Merchants' Steam Na- vigation Company offices here state that 168 passengers and members of the crew of the steamer Toonan are missing, and it is feared that all have perished, as a result of the sinking of the ship after colll, sion with the Chosun· Maru early yesterday morning, NA Only. 89 persons were saved, it is

maximization of the production of specific needed goods. There was stated. unlimited demand and limited supply, and the problem was to restrict de- mand and to direct supply.

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at the Astor Theatre in New York purposes. So and so much whent was City. For without the active co- needed to go across the water. There operation of the naval department, was a definite military problem, and filming of this picture could scarcely the big purpose of the war control was to hold down the production of have been undertaken at all.

The picture was adapted from Com-non-essential commodities to provide resources for essential commodities.. mander Edward Ellsberg's story. There was the definite further pro- "Pigboats," and its all-star cast in-blem of holding prices down and cludes Robert Montgomery, Walter limiting profits, along with the Huston, Modge Evans, Jimmy. Durante, Eugene Pallette and Robert Young, under the direction of Jack Conway. For 15 days the actors in

Proceeding through a heavy fog Authorised Capital "Hell Below" coached by regular navy

carly in the morning, the Toonan Subscribed Capital men, manned torpedo tubes, worked The present problem is radically and Chosun Maru' collided with Fald-up Capital controls and literally lived under the different. It is the problem of got terrific impact. The Toonan settl-Reserve Fund and Rest watset the submarine base at Pearl ting men to work producing goods that ed at once and the Chosun Maru,| Harbour, Honolulu.

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aid to the passengers and crew of action thanks to special underwater charge of industries, each studying the doomed vessel. lights and lenses, and the fact that his own specific market, can know,R Hawalian waters are so remarkably | but not even they can know how

Many must have been trapped in Bangkok clear. In the picture one sees a big much demand can be increased As

their berths, however, for, accord- Bombay submerged submarine heading right they and their fellows each increase ing to reports, the Toonan sank Colombo Calcutta for the camera-sees it blow off, dive, production, each take on new em- pump out the tanks and rise again. ployees and generate new buying po- rapidly. Ono aces depth bombs being wer for all other products. hurled by "Y-Guns" as they lay a pattern under water. One sees them explode, making great globules as the water is displacea, and the submarine rushes through them, in desperate race to escape their terrifle concussion. garding the proposal to allow trade pany offices here, the Toonan carri.

Anti-aircraft gans, operating associations on a great scale to geted a complement of 109. against diving attack planes are shown in another thrilling scene, Then . bomber appeurs on the horizon. The submarine dives, and the camera follows the dive down below the surface.

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WHO WILL CO-ORDINATE THE TRADE ASSOCIATIONS?

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I am particulary apprehensive re-

Law

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The missing include five Japanese scamen who were thrown overboard by the force of the impact.

According to the steamship com-

with the Sherman together,

Of the passengers who were waived, to raiso prices and limit out- put, euphemistically called "adjusting saved, it is understood three were supply to demand". If one industry Europeans-Reuter. alone does this, it may, if it does not overdo it, increase its profits, although

And

even one doing it could easily mean manufacturing industry here less mon at work. But if all of them abroad. Our own factories, sharing do it, they will simply strangle one an expanding market with reasonable another.

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The Old Man" "The Old Man," the latest Wallace thriller, adapted from the Wyndham's Theatre success, is a mystery talkie Here there would not be one central foreign competition, will produce and that keeps its secret right to the end. plan, but merely a central validation sell vastly more goods than they can No.

It tells of mysterious character of a multitude of conflicting special do with exclusive control of the de- pressed agricultural market and the who appears to spend his time in plans. The groat and growing replacing stolen property in the Ar- crease in demand which will come as depressed raw materials market. ranway's mansion of an apparently men are steadily added to the payrolls, Birtatious wife and of a blackmailer and as more and more raw materials who, if he does not meet the end ho deserves, is at least satisfactorily dis- posed of before the conclusion."

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used, incrensing the buying power of producers of raw materials, will simply not materialize. There is no aurer anti-revival measuro than This, of course, is all vary dramatic

a widespread application of this plan. 'and, as too much. drama' may cause

One of the great troubles in the mental indigestion, the producers have cast Malalo Gay in the role of a present situation has been

manufacturing has curtailed output, garrulous and kind-hearted char-

no tho woman. That this results in much adjusting supply to demand," hilarious comedy is a foregone con- while agriculture and raw

phrase

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material clusion, and, itself, should be a big production have gone on largely un- attraction to picturegoers.

checked: There is an immense un- Anny Groy, Cecil Humphries, D. Abalance between extractive industries, Clarke-Smith and Lester Matthews, on the hand, and manufacturing on in the more dramatic parts, ably the other, manifest in the exceedingly support Miss Gay, while Diana low prices of raw materials and Beaumont plays the part of a very agricultural products as compared attractive mald,

with the prices of manufactured Tho Old Man" opens at the

goods. King's Theatre on Thursday,`

We want this unbalanco correctoil, "She Done Him Wrong"

and the great correction will come through the expansión of nianufactur- "She Done Him Wrong" tolls the ing activity at home and abroad. The vivid story of the Bowery, with Miss lowering of the tariffs; permitting Weat as the lady known da Lou, who manufactured foreign countries to sings for her diamonds at Jordan's buy on a great seale the raw materinis diamond palace. She sings "Frankle and foods in this country which they and Johnnie" as it's never been eug need, will restore this balance. It before, and also Introduces two now will lead to an almost explosivo riso numbers, "A Man What Takes: Han the prices of foods and raw Time" and "Haven't got No. Peace of materials in the United Stater, and Mind, both especially written for her to an almost explosive expansion of by Ralph Rainger,

(To be Continued)

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