1934-10-29 — Page 14

WEDNESDAY KING'S

AT THE

PAID TO SHOW HIM A ROYAL TIME! A foke princess hired to vamp a handsome bachelor... she kissed him and a bond issue was floated! She kissed him again... but this time bonds were not the issue'l

Sylvia Sidney

THIRTY-DAY PRINCESS

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with

CARY GRANT

a B. P. Schulberg Production

Clare Bedington Laband's Ledes Home Journal Portul A Poremount Pilure, directed by Marion Gering

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29,

1934.

FILMLAND NEWS

NEW CAPELETS

Advance Contracts for For Evening Wear In

British Films

KORDA CAMPAIGN

The autuma sales campaign_for this year's roster of London Film Productions, which has just been! completed, reveals that 10,000 con- tracts have already been secured in advance on such films as H. G. Wells's "Whither Mankind," "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (Leslie Ho ward), "Sanders of the River" (Edgar Wallace story), and "The Private Life of Don Juan" (Douglas Fairbanks.)

For each of those pletures con- tracts have been secured with over 5,000 cinemas in the United States, over 1,000 cinemas in France, 700 In Germany, 400 in Italy, and over 200 in Belgium,

mas

'Black Taffeta ·

MADE LIKE PETĀLS

Further play dates have almu been secured for about 600 cine- In South Africa, 200 in Canada, 150 in Austria, 100 in Hungary, 200 in Czecho-slovakia, 300 in Spain and Portugal, 100 in Holland, over 200 in the Scandina-BEAUTY CULTURE vian countries, 100 in Poland, and

The latest in evening`capeleta -made entirely of black taffeta petals which are lined with silver-green tinnue,

80 in Yugoslavia for each of the ALTHOUGH vast sums of money

Alms mentioned,

It is revealed that this is the first occasion on which a block of British plctures has been said before completion to so many thou Bands of cinemas in foreign ter

ritories.

NEW AIRPORT. FOR LONDON

BUILDING ALONG THAMES

TRAFFIC CONTROL BY AUTOGYRO

London (Bup).

One of the chief obstacles which stand In the way of the development of air traffic in this country is the difficulty of providi -airporti reasonably near the big cities. In a great number of cases the tin saved by rapid air travel is more than offset by the time lost in transit to and from the airports at ench end of a trip. So we are out to change all that

If proposals now being consider- led are corried Into effect the City of London will have its own airport within its own limits. The City Corporation is making a special en- quiry into the renasbiuty of Buen a plan. It is suggested that there shall be erected a huge reinforced considerable concrete platform at height along the foreshore of the riwr. Thames or above existing

The cost,

side warehouses. The originators are spent every year upon of the plan set great store on a beauty culture, and there must be City site; as this would enable the thousands and thousands of women Corporation to be master of a situa- who attend regularly at boty tion which is likely to grow in The parfours, yet the vast majority do importance as time goes on. not alve much time or thought to view is held that the future trade make-up...

and commerce of the city in largely Old-fashioned women still con-bound up with a practical and The pictures mentioned will be sider it "fant" to use rouge or lipspeedy solution of the problem.

of course, would be screened in almost every foreign stick, to have the eyebrows plucked, capital in their original English and the finger-nails coloured. The colossal, but the Corporation of the

these City verslons, explanatory sub-titles modern girl, however, does being printed on the Bim in the things as if they were all in the greater facilities for raising the Jangange of the particular country day's work, and she feels unnatural necessary funds than any

similar body in the world. showing the picture. The ple- when she is not made-up. tures are also "dubbed" no that.

WIRES TO DISAPPEAR. the countrica receive the picture In their own language in place of the English dialogue. The four pictures mentioned will be "hibb ed in Spanish, French, German

and Italian,

H. G. WELLS FILM.

London probumy

other

Care of the skin and hair, the eyes, teeth, and hands, is really a duty for the woman who is well- Just at the same time as, appro- groomed and as nice-looking as she priately enough, we are planning to can make herself, succeeds better haild our airports in the air, so we

hoine-telephone wires underground. maker she owes it to her family to All telephone poles In Britain will make herself as alteretive na pos- be abolished, according to plans id xible,

down by Sir Kingsley Wood, the John Barrymore, the famoa Heauty preparations are numer-Postmaster-Generni American stage and screen actor,ous and excellent, but the old pre- So far, nine million miles of tele- has been engaged for the lending parations used by our great-grand-phone wires run underground, and valuable as ever, there is only another million or so part in the Arst original film story mothers are na written by Mr. 11. G. Wells, Milk, honey, white of egg, lemon to follow, Thousands of men are and tomato juice, can all be used being encaged to lay a linking-up The story, "Whither Humani-with wonderful success in the care underground cable, 220 miles long. te douls with the future in Mr. of the skin. To counteract the cold to eng Scoting in instantaneo Wells's own imaginative way, and winds of autumn, and to prevent instead of long-distance telephonic has already been in preparation redness, warm milk is excellent. (commnualention with the rest of the for some months with "trick" It is well to start using it before country. As far as London is con- camera work by Hollywood expert, the very cold weather sets in. Forcerned the distance to the Scottish a sensitive skin, coena butter will border is from 300 to 330 miles; In a tritish studin.

smooth away roughness, and will from London to Edinburgh or Gina It 1x being produced by leave the skin soft and velvety. It How is about 400 miles. This Alexander Korda for London film should be gently massaged into the scheme will cost $3,700,000. Productions, and Mr. Wells in tak-skin from time to time. A good Ten million dollars is to be spent ing an active interest in its pro-remedy for wrinkles and a sagging on speeding up the tlephone service

|skin la an egg mask, for, while it within the next few months.

stringent, it also

Crump; while if she is a In the business world than the fare well on the way to putting our

gress,

*

POLICE IN THE SKY.

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.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

Weight-Bfters would rearoviy chore such a diet, although they sound appropriate.

8 Flah that sounds immortal.

9 You don't know when you're in

5t, but it's won in a center, 10 Might be flutter.

Rather unusual preposition. 12 Conference

America.

that

13 Eastern priest.

came

Solution in Fonte chser.

18 Not word! 17 The old Whitefriars, 18 Exult

with shillings.

from

Jena than

Ave

21 Short cut, perhaps? 22 Calm, as the components of n

sausage should be

25 Mounted division of an English 24 Member of a European race.

county?

28 Very dry.

29 Under this system, A dozen coppers would be too many for

Bon

Mr. Barrymore, who arrived incts London last weekend, has not ap-tightens and tones up the muscles. and stimulates the tissues. The peared in a British flm before, but white of an egg should be whisked the popular hymns bins us to "ox Taking to the air again. One of some years ago made some scenes to a stiff froth, and then applied upwards to the skies.” on the Thames Embankment when thickly to the face at bedtime, and day London did.

The other he appeared as Sherlock Holmes allowed to dry on to the skin. In

Millions of us, I suppose, stared the morning it should be bathed off into the heavens to watch the FILMLAND'S NEW RECRUIT. with milk and honey lotion. A tea- hovering over the streets in an police spoonful of honey added to the milknutogyro and frequently descond Mr. Winston Churchill is well-facts as an astringent and makes ang by special permission of the

good base for powder.

Air Ministry to within 800 feet of the ground; which is far lower than freckles on the same spots each for ordinary flying.

the 4,000 feet minimum prescribed | 34 If this beast swallowed nothing efore the cat, he'd make a day.

The

position for himself.

thun suficient.

ing for the screen.

He has just signed a contract with Alexander Korda's company London Film Productions, to edit A series of films of topical interest.

turn "The "The Family," and "Gold."

They are to be presented by a special staff of experts, and Mr. Churchill's ideas as to their screen trentment are to be followed us! closely na possible.

31 Eton, In this, is to go with o 32 Here you get tied in a knot,

bang.

13 Sounds like an officer, and it's the fleet in part of one ship.

For some of the tests she made, was to work of the police flight 35 Pattern, and most of it is more

out a scheme for a aort

The topics already selected pro- Anne Shirley was supplied with of higher control of traffic from the visionally by Mr. Churchill freckles by the make-up. depart- air. clude: Will Monarchies Re- ment. They looked real enough, Such is the peculiar layout of Rise of Japan, and were not unbecoming, but the London (Its streets running at all "Marriage Laws and Customs," director wanted to know who angles and in nl sorts of curves

would see to it that each freckle and with many thoroughfares fre occupied exactly the same spot quently converging at "cireuses") each day!

that the real cause of a traffic block at one point is often to be found at COLOURED STAR FOR Home relatively remote spot. Thus

FILMS.

it is often impossible to discover from the ground. For instance. Josephine Baker, the coloured re-the other day serfous trafic block vue actress, has become a film star symptoms at Westminster had to (says Reuter's Paris correspond- focal point nt Kinnington, a couple ent.)

of miles away.

·

FRECKLES NOT FEASIBLE.

"Anne of Green Gables" will go to the screen minus the freckles which were nae of her characteris- ilea in the novel by L. M. Montgo-

that

She is busy making her first! If the plan is found practicable, big film there. It has an Eastern the traffic police at this or setting, and will be called "Zonzo." congested spot will be enabled to mery.

When it is finished she will pre-reccive wireleas orders from auto- The decision to omit the freckles pare. for her debut as n

comic gyros overhead and so to break up waa made for the good reason that opera star in a modern veraton of Jams elsewhere by judicious diver- it was impossible to keep ayathetic Offenbach's "La Creole.”

BALESMAN SAM

WELL, FELLA, YA CERT DID A SWELL PIECE OF WORK KINDA GO FER YOU, AS A DETECTIVE!

ON TH' GIMLET ROBBERY CASE! CONGRATS, SAMMY!

slon of traffic.

Maybe He's Gettlag What He's Worth!

BY JINKITY JINKS, I JES HAPPENED TA THINK OF SOMETHIN'! I GOTTA GO BACK TO THE STATION!

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A PAYROLL HOLD-UP!

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rails out of sight.

A great Tudor Agure turned aasseur.

Pace, aeroplane, and hesitation Spell a doubtful sort of relation. Madam, now Don't change into thist

7 It would almost seen as if the chartered accountant is familiar with this type of puzzle.

14 Animal mud

plece,

19 Eaved.

fetter are all to

20 Becoming unsteady.

21 U.S.A. State.

26 Cheat,

27 Iden is to get it back ih' tima.

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this one...perhaps...

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