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Fingers

Partos-ex-convict, ・ ox-| prize fighter and trainer-champion'

THREE BODIES OF VICTIMS

RECOVERED

Tokyo, Sept. 2. The body of Mr. M. O. Putt, chief and aaviour of one hundred and twon-officer of the British steamer Athol Queen, and one of the five victims ty million peoplet

of the explosion at sea, has been found and identified.

That's the character around, whom revolves the action of "The Billion Dollar Scandal," a well-knit, druma. tle, timely melodrama which comOK ON Thursday to the Queen's Theatre. And Fingers Partos, us played by Robert Armstrong, is one of the most interesting characters that has come out of Hollywood in a long time.

Two other bodies of foreignera, believed to be. victims of the been found off disaster, have Chiba.

The Athol Queen, which was on route from Koke to Manila when the disaster occurred, will bo docked and repaired in Yokohama.

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The audience first meets Fingers In the penitentiary, where his fingers, of marvellously adopt in the net massage, have won him a place na trusty, and masseur to the warden. When Fingers' pala, Batsy

and the Kid (lenson) Hymer) are released on parole, the warden goes to the mat for Fingers and obtains his parole as well.

Outside, the three ex-cons pick up Home girls, including Anna (Olen Baclanova) who sticks with Fingers.

The names of the victims are celebration celebrate. Their and comes to an abrupt end with an Mr. S. G. Knott, chief engineer. automobile collision, in which Master- Mr. M. O. Putt, chlef ollicer, Mr. on (Franic Morgan), the wealthy A. M. Rae, apprentice, Mr. M. occupant of the other car, in knocked Johnson, ship's carpenter, and Mr. unconscious. The clever Angers of W. Read, deck hand.-Reuter. Fingers Partos revive him, and the banker is so impressed that he hires Fingers as his personai masseur ami organizes a gym class of his Friends with Fingers ns the instructor.

The explosion occurred while Water was being poured into (James empty tank for cleaning purposes. (Warren The five victims were all on deck, and were literally blown off the ship into the sea as the heavy metal deck was torn apart by the blast, leaving a gaping hole forty feet long.

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brother

BALLOON RECORD?

GERMAN ADVENTURERS

CLAIM CREDIT

Cologne, Sept. 3. Three Essen balloonists have laid claim to the world's record for altitude dying in ordinary They declare, they balloons.

of over 38,000

From the conversation of his gym pupils, Fingers pick up enough stock tips to make himself wealthy. But he also overbears the plotting of a nation-wide swindle of gigantic pro- portions. Masterson, however, does not realize that Fingers poMACBICS this valuable information, and, when and Masterson's Fingers daughter fall in love, the banker, enraged at the thought of an ex- convict's brother for son-in-law, reached a height breaks Fingers and discharges him. feet, although this figure has not And his therefore, open yet been offtelally confirmed.-- massage stort ani

Reuter over again. A powerful newspaper editor, Griswold (Irving Pichel) tells Fingers the iden that, by exposing Masterson and his crowd, he can be come tire man of the hour, and the champion of 120,000,000. Fingers' principul motive in talking is revenge on Masterson, but soon the iden of the "truth racket" takes hold of him no thoroughly, that he wades through treachery, threats of death and all manner of villalny, speaks the truth before a Senate investigation, and brings the whole bank of millionaire eroika to justice.

QUEEN'S

APP CONFINED PERNE

COMING!

LAUGHS? Certainly TEARS and HEART- THROBS? Yes! DRAMA? ROMANCE? Plenty !

MARION.

Davies

PEG

MY HEART

Sad moments, glad moments

they're all höre.

HOME BY-ELECTION.

FORMER LEADER OF LABOUR PARTY WINS

London, Sept, 2.

Mr. Arthur Henderson, fornier Member of Parliament for New- castle and Burnley and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Labour Administration, has been elected M. P. for the Clay Cross. Division...

Mr. Henderson defented the Na- Lionalist Candidate. Mr. Moore, by a huge majority, the final figures being:

Henderson (Lab.)

Moore (Nat.)

21,931

6,293

part of an undergraduate in “So Thin in College," has since achieved a meteorle career in which he has played opposite such screen hend- Greta Garbo, NOTIA liners as Shearer, Joan Crawford and Tallulah Bankhead. In his newest picture he is said to have been given his greatest opportunity to put over the rapid- fire good humour which has endeared him to millions of Moviegoers.

Mont- ไม่ "Made on Armstrong's performance in the gomery has the role of a debonair. role of Fingers is no less than man-ahut-town who is actually the brilliant. He has made the "Leuth power behind the city's political from racketeer" a thoroughly human, he-scene. He prevents Miss Ellers

I rezult of lievable individual, and has contribut- committing suicide us ed one of the best performances of poverty, and transforms her into a

Broadway dazzling

personality. the season.

When an unanticipated murder takes place Montgomery forced to straks his resources to the limit in order to save his "synthetic mistress" from the death penalty,

The

attractive Madge Evans has an important role in the picture ns Montgomery's ex-wife who, still love. ing him, tries to bring some reason. and order into her husband's mad amusing Manhattan existence. The Eugene Fallette is seen as a confi She wears a dozen smart costumes in "Dangerously Yours", her latest dential butler and C. Henry Gordon. picture coming on Thursday, to the who recently scared as the gungster in the General Election, défented King's Theatre. Even a glance at head in "Gabriel Over the White Mr. J. Weinbers (Nat. Liberal) by her as she steps into a-scene-reveals-lous"-enacts-the-town's--mayor-21,163-votes to 11,611...

Rounding out the cast are Jean Par- ker, Iva Lebedeff, David Nowell, Vince Barnett and Joseph Cawthorn,

directed

"Dangerously Yours"

better dressed This would be a world, says Miriam Jordan, if there were more and better vanity.

"Vanity, the kid I refer to", she корк ** the consciouanens of ore's good points which, after all, is sartorial the very beginning of wisdom","

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the fact that she understands clothes and her own good points in wearing

them.

"It is no longer the fashion to wear your skirts above your knees, or down to your ankles because skirts are so worn by the Queen of Timbuctoo", says Miss Jordan. The real test of whether you are in fashion to-day is not the height of your waistline but how your clothes look on you!

The

worn by Miss Jordan in

Made on Broadway" was by Harry Heaumont who has a long ist of box-office hits to his credit, including "Unashamed" "Dance Fools Dance" and "Our Blushing Brides."

"Best of Enemies"

"Downs Yours", in which she Nixon in the leading roles, "Best of

appears opposite Warner

Baxter,

new

With Buddy Rogers and Marinn

Enemies", the

Fox comedy the were created under the supervision of romance, is showing to-day at

Theatre. It ik. A novel Rita Kaufman, Fox stylist. Among King's them is a beautiful white crepe romance depicted against an as up-to- trimmed in navy blue crepe, a dinner the-minute a background as has ever

n sailor-collar motif been seen. gown, with

The story traces the development carried out effectively in the low-cut

nek. A wool Ince dress, n black of a youthful love through the velvet and white mlin combination vagaries of events surrounding two frock, smart little pajarias and a red youths. Differences between their wood suit are other interesting modes families are brought out, things over which they have no control. andi worn by Miss Jordan,

barriers are set in their way. The central background being the passage and the return of beer, the situations accompanying the romance are highly unusing.

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"Made On Broadway" Two of the most popular players in pictures are co-starred in "Made on Broadway, which opened yesterday

story moves in locale from a at the Queen's Theatre as a filmiza- tion of the Courtenay Terrett story, city in the Middie West, inhabited by "Public Relations," account of a great number of German-Americans' metropolitan "wise guy", Thoy are who camust give up halita Robert Montgomery, affable expert centuries, to Germany, itself, where at flip humour, and Sally Ellers, who the young man of the romantic pair sky-rocketed to stardom after her goes to study. The film has a din- tinctive musical accompaniment outstanding hit in "Bad Girl".

Montgomery, who WAS brought directed by Arthur Lange and dance. from the Broadway stage to play the sequences arranged by Sanuny Lac.

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Pollitt (Comm.) .... 3,434 the Mr. Henderson, who was Parliamentary Labour Candidate, was loader of the Party when it was defented at the General Eleg- tion in 1931. Mr. Henderson was defeated at the poll-Router.

The vacancy in the Clay Cross about was. brought electorate through the death of Mr. C. Dun- can. the Labour candidate, who,

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OKAY. FRECKLES!!!

THEY'RE ALL TIED UP, NOW

NOW WE'LL SEE HOW YOU LIKE A LITTLE WIRE AROUND YOUR WRISTS!

A BRAVE PAIR. OF LADS THOSE TWO... WE'LL

GET BACK TO

OUR SHIP NOW!

SO YOU WE'RE GOING D KIDNAP UNCLE HARRY AND MAKE HIM PAY YOU. A FORTUNE? TOO BAD YOU CANT CARRY OUT YOUR PLANS... YEAH!

HE CAME DOWN IN THESE WATERS FOR A MORE IN-

PORTANT THING THAN -!"THAT, ME LAD.....BUT HE

DIDN'T GET IT !!.

GET

WHAT

A SET OF DRAWINGS FOR A SUBMARINE DETECTA- PHONE THAT MY NEPHEW HAS ON BOARD THE NELLIE M...HE'S HIDDEN ABOARD.

THE SHIP, RIGHT NOW!.........

SAY! MAYBE YOU'RE MISTAKEN.WE SAW

A MAN JUMP OVER-. BOARD, JUST AS WE

LEFT YOUR EBOAT !!

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