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PARIS life... PARIS love.

· PARIS thrills... PARIS gayety-

ARIS

MADGE EVANS ROBERT YOUNG OTTO KRUGER

UNA MERKEL. TED HEALY Directed by EDWIN L. MARIN Produced by LUCIEN HUBBARD A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

lilting music .... Bright lights.

where love and dazzling girls tragedy and laughter ara mixed together to make a cocktail called -Lifa !

Come . . .

to Paris !

QUEEN'S

THURSDAY.

THE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH, MONDAY, OCTOBER

FILMLAND NEWS

£40,000,000 Spent on Cinemas In Year-

BRIDAL DRESS

Of Pale Parchment Chiffon Velvet

STRIKING FIGURES DEEP CUFFS OF LACE

The amount paid by the public for admission to cinemas. during last year was £40,200,000,

This figure was quoted to the Economic Science Section of the British Association meeting at Aberdeen, recently, by Mr. S. Rowson, of London,

He also revealed that the re- venue from the Entertainment Tax on cinema admissions Inst year was £0,700,000.

A detailed analysis of over 300,- 000,000 tickats bought during the first half of this year more than 2,000 cinemas showed, said Mr. Rowson, that the average price paid for admission was a fraction over 100.

In Britain' there were 958,000,- 000 admissions a year, or an aver age of 18,500,000 a week, and Ira- land raised the total to 19,250,- 000.

Out of 475 imported nima rogistered last year for distribu- tion in Great Britain, 330 were registered by nine American- owned companies directly repre-i senting londing American film- producing enterprise. The value of those filma was 90 or even 9K per cent. of the total. The net; value of remittances to the United States in 1933 in respect of films was about £5,300,000, but againat thla had to be set the receipt from abroad of £600,000 on account of British films.

"There is no market in the world," said Mr. Rowson, "notį even the bazaar in the Far East, in which the art of bargaining la exercised with such great skill a

in the sale of films."

AN UNUSUAL CINEMA.

"A Bridal Dross." “A lovely wedding gown.... was made of pale parchment-colour chifon melvat, with long sitting cufà in lace of a alightly deeper tone, and a fluting loca collar which made a charming frame for the face.

QUEEN'S PUDDING

sugar,

EXPEDITION TO ASIA

1934.

DROUGHT-PROOF GRASS WANTED

PROTECTING PRAIRIE STOCK

Washington, Oct. 10. Beause the great drought turned millions of acres of fertile farm lands and grazing pastures into & parched sterile desert The U.S. Argricultural Department is send Ing an expedition Into Central Asia to search for pasture grasses that will resist drought.

In the present crisis millions of starving cattle and sheep had to be bought and slaughtered by the government because there was no hope of feeding them then or In the near future. The introduction of a "drought proof" grass would do much to prevent the repetition of such a large-scale disaster. agricultural experts feel

Discussing the expedition, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallance, said: "On the edgo of the Gobi desert in Central Asia are great pasture lands where the summer tempratures often go above 100 degrees and the, winter temperatures more than 40 degrees below zero.

"The rainfall in this area is less than 16 Inches ansually but apparently there are certain pas- ture grasses which through thou- sands of years of natural selection have learned to adapt themselves to an environment as Bevere that of our great planes statco this past year.

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RESISTING CORROSION. "Most of the rainfall comes in the summer and is sometimes tor- rential in nature, thus causing

ONE cupful white breadcrumbs, erosion. We are hopin-relati

cover not only drought-resistant опе tablespoonful jam, one dessertspoonful moist sugar, one Pasture grasses but also grasses teaspoonful castor

Due and shrubs with root stocks of a type suitable for preventing wind quarter cupful hot milk, one egg and water erosion

in dry land Pour hot milk over breadcrumbs and allow them to stand. Well area.

"As a leader in charge of the The Roval Naval Cinema at grease a small piedish and place Gibraltar fe probably unique in Jam in bottom. Separate the yolk current expedition to the Hingan the film world. for it in entirely of egg from white. Well whip Mountains and the plains adjoining the property of the naval ratings, yolk and stir it into breadcrumbs, the Gobi, the Department has been concerned, and run for the exclu- adding moist Bugar. Put this fortunate to secure the collabora- alve benefit of the personnel mixture on top of the jam and put tion of Prof. Nicholas Roerich, the internationally recognized authori- stationed on the Rock and their in the oven to allow it to Bet. families..

Meanwhile whip the white of egg ty on Central Asia.

stiff froth with a little of the to

"For the last eleven years Prof. extensive ex- It is no "amateur" undertaking, castor sugar. When the mixture Roerich has made but a first-class theatre, showing is set take it from oven and cover peditions Into Sikkim, Kashmir, thoroughly up-to-date programmes, with white of egg, lightly stirring Tibct, Chinese Turkestan, Mon- With that thoroughness character-the rest of the sugar into the golin and the Gobi Desert and Altal istic of all its undertakings the meringue. Now put dish back in region where his exhaustive studies Navy supervises every department, to the oven and leave it until the of the scientific and cultural back- whilst the audience itself is criti-meringue is brown and crlap.

grounds of the entire Aalatic field have been second to none. cal and good-humouredly exacting.]

The cinema dates back to the

we are

PARLOPHONE RECORDS

We are now agents for these records and our first shipment from the monthly releases will arrive shortly.

Parlophones best known artists include:

RICHARD TAUBER, JAN, KIEPURA, CONCHITA SUPERVIA, · LOTTE LEHMANN, LILY PONS, RIA GINSTER, EMANUAL. LIST, RONALD FRANKAU, LESLIE HUTCHISON (HUTCH), SOPHIE TUCKER, PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH, BINNIE BARNES, HAROLD RAMSAY, HARRY ROY and His Orch... LOUIS ARMSTRONG and His Orch.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.

9. Ice House Street. Hong Kong,

USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

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6. It's a blessing when this creature

loses its head.

8 Horo is a bloom preserved in oil. 9 One of twelvo.

10 Not at all suitable.

11 The source of swarms of insects, 12 This, "fence" is anything, but an

obstacle to the burglar.

16 Slide in a modified way.

16 When he's a rogue he is a

terrible rogue.

19 The lower the higher, as divers

well know.

24 A fiery manifestation.

27 Longthen.

20 A mundane epithat. 28 Very frightoned.

"Since 1929 he has also been interested in botanical expedition oid aflent days of 1920, when a Federation, which is organising into Western Tibet, studying the seaplane shed utilised by Ameri-the movement here,

medicinal plants of this region. can acaplanes during the war waal

He says: "I am glad to know Because of this -background which converted into A theatre. The

of the successful result of the has caused him to be held in high enterprise was Ananced by the

campaign against undesirable esteem throughout Asia, men's own moneys, and Was restricted to Service men and their alms and especially to learn of the hopeful of an unusually fruitful

valuable and widespread co-opera-expedition. families. With the coming of the tion which you are receiving from

"Accompanying Prof. Roerich 30 A craftsman whe could send hla

own head. talkies the show was temporarily the other dioceses in England-and are hie azn, George Roerich, an 61-A--country-upstart-one-gathers,

32 At one. closed, but reopened again on the Wales. The campaign seems to expert. on Central Asia and H. G. last day of 1931 fully equipped me to be organised on sound and MacMillan and J. L. Stephens of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who prudent lines, and in a way that!are fundamentally trained in the Commander 1. W. Whitehorn, cannot possibly give offence to any study Americn R.N., the commanding officer of right-minded person. May God United Pres8.

for talkics.

H.M.S. Crmorant, the depot ship bless and prosper your efforts."

of Gibraltar, 18 president of

SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE COMPLETES WORK.

of

grasses."

and the effect is likely to be a

im famine.

Production during the coming season will, it is stated, reach the

the committee administering the affairs of the cinema, and Pay- master Commander L. J. Graham, RN, is honorary secretary and Sir Cedric Hardwicke has finish-total of 173 features. The ocial treasurer. The manger la Chief 'ed his work on "The King of quota allows for the import of 176 Petty Officer Writer H. Bosher Paris," the British and Dominions films from other countries, but, of and the chief operator, Petty satire on stage folk and their ways. these 70 must be silent, no that Officer A. G. Baker.

The shooting schedule was care the industry will have only 278 The theatre has a capacity of fully arranged in order to give sound pictures for the whole year's over 600, and the entire profits are him the chance of making an early supply. devoted to benevolent and recrea- start with his theatrical tour, the tional activities of the Gibraltar scenes in which he appears being filmed first. Meanwhile plenty of command.

work remains to be done on the film by the other members of the company.

"CLEAN FILMS." Cardinal Bourne, head of the Catholic Church

England,

BRITISH MOTOR RACING FILM.

All the thrills of high speed motor racing will shortly be seen for the first time in a British film. GERMANY'S FILM FAMINE. Under the provisional title of "Death Drives Through," Clifford has now given public and ometali support to the "clean Alma" cam-faced with a serious shortage of theme for a picture which will The German film industry is Taylor productions are using this paige.

I product. At one time the leading foature Robert Douglas, Dorothy He has written, saying so, to production country on the Contin- Bouchier, Miles Mander, Frank Fr. Bernard Whelan, priest-secret-ent, political events have given Atkinson, Percy Walsh, and Lillan ry of the Westminster Catholic the industry a norious set-back. Gunn. Edward L. Cahn will direct..

SALESMAN SAM

Howdy Now Warming Up!

Down

1 Small change perhaps, but of

little valud.

2 Whatever is this was not "born

to blush unseen"

8 Partly repose but wholly im

patient.

Suitable for an elder's spring

wear.

5 An obstacle of shells.

6 This rub becomes savage.

7 They say Australia is this with

rabbits. 13 A bit of excitement.

14 Hendless remedies are not bless

inga. 17 Skin,

18 The home of an architectural

Kum.

20 In this are included, shreads.

21 A weighticas Antarctic explorer

in a certain bar.

22 You may take it as said.

23 A mixed dish to me is a sum-

mary affair,

24 Japaneko island.

26 The contents of this may be

discharged in time of war.

26 S. American republic.

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Saturday's Solutloa PERSPICACITY

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