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1 In a vigorous manner for the

engineer entirely.

0 Literally, a large slice of bread.

9 Carriage drawn up behind the

ductor's door--and

10 this might be the same 12.In the end, I am like this girl. 13 Give un even surface like the possible number of your apart. inent.

10 One of a couple you have, but with many people it sounds like No. 1.

17 What I should be it a grenade

burst too near me.

19 Lamb's insido depending.

21 Neighed (anagrain).

Zi Italian winter "resort.

20 An Eastern naine,

27 Resolutions of a sort.

28 It's Tom sure enough it Ma's

mixed up in this, but if Pa is.

it's just pathetic,

31 Frum tine immemorial.

32 Deal out, but part of Scotland in.

33 A templation to spend.

10

and almost

14 Plump

(This is very deep).

homeless?

1 A satisfactory transaction, but if you lost it, you wouldn't think Ho (three words).

18 Some considerable time in

sdown.

25

20 One of those Nevada girls

again!

22 The hard part of keeping your

hair on.

23. A record of light service (two

words).

24 Sir Otto in a stew. 25 Flowers.

29 "Violets dim, but sweeter than

"the lids of—'g ̄eye","

Or Cytheren's breath." (Winter's Talej.

10 What many of us work at.

Yesterday's Bolation.

PSYCHOANALYBT HOACH

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY

FILMLAND NEWS

TRIM SUIT

Freddie Bartholomew and Grey Outfit Worn With

Garbo

ANNA KARENINA FILM

Freddie Bartholomew, the talent

Jed English youngster who created Charles Dickens immortal charac- ter, "David Copperfield" on the awaiting his screen, is anxiously

Garbo first mealing with Greta with whom he shall appear in "Anna Karenina" Nine months unheralded ngo he went to America and unsung, an unknown English Ind hoping to win the role of Dickens favourite character. Since then he has achieved fame as one of the outstanding child actors of the screen, with a bright future before him.

very

"Pleturo work has been thrilling," he said in a recent inter- view at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. "I love It because I have mel.so many charming people. In. David Copperfield,' I believe I liked best of all Elizabeth Allan, who was my sad little mother, and Jessio Ralph, my nurse Peggotty.

"And now I am to have a very plenannt experience. You know, of course, I am going to play Greta Garbo'a son in Anna Karenina," I am eager for our first meeting- but I am afraid 1 shall be terribly nervous.

"Strangest of all, I never knew of Miss Garbo before arrived in since learned Hollywood. I have much about her and do know now that she is a great actress."

Freddie admitted that he was a Kittle homesick for England. "Hollywood is so far away from home," he said.

Taffeta Blouse

COOKERY NOTES

Trim "Popularity of the Suit." "The use of very light textured grey flannel for routa and skirta ia an iden borrowed from the sporting tailors." Here in a neat auit with a blouse of blue and grey tartan patterned tagcta.

CREAM OF BEETROOT SOUP

Heat one quart white stock or skim milk. Melt one oz. butter in a saucepan, add an equal weight af flour, stir over the fire for a few minutes without browning, and, Al-when smooth..gradually stir in the stock of milk. Scrape a large cooked beetrool, and cut, first, into alices, then into shreds.

Wash and shred a stick of celery,

Freddie said that he would never desert his beloved England. though he enjoys his picture roles, he wants to go nek hume some- day.

tho

serven in

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"One New

16, 1935.

CUTTING LOSSES. OF RAILWAY -

CANADA'S NATIONAL

BURDEN

State-owned railways in Canada did bettor last year, by about ten million dollars,

Nevertheless, the deflclt of 1934, according to the statement just submitted 10 Parliament, was $48,000,000. Unless economic re covery occurs soon, members of Parliament, and many others,” are apprehensive ns to the capacity of the country to stand the strain..

In twelve years, the pubile treasury has put up an average of $70,000,000 annually, in this exten- sive and emulent, but embarrassed, public utility. As has been point- ed out already, political exigencies -the unpopularity of it for one thing-bar amalgamation with tac Canadian Pacific, while the Cann- dian National Railway truanteca, after exploring suggested projecta of co-operation between the two systems, And most of them not justifying the expense. Neverthe less, a million a year is being saved by pooling arrangementa and the co-operative conomies thus produced.-United Prcas,

but himself, Dawn and the regular camera crew were permitted on the set where tests were in progress. And finally he found the girl he thought most suited the assign- ment, a young woman named Carol Borland. Lionel Barrymore is starred, and the supporting cast Jessie includes Bela Lugosi, Elizabeth Allan, Lionel Atwill and Ralph in make-up along with Miss Borland.

ISABEL JEWELL

If and when Isabel Jewell finds and recognises a certain telephone operator from Chicago, she's going CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT and when the stock boils add the to sit down and write the operator a substantial sam. a cheque for She was Miss Jewell's first real- "Continuous movement" is the two vegetables. Boil for half an new dramatic technique applied to hour with the lid on, taking care fe heroine. And by imitating

York not to exceed the specified time.

"Her first Night," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro-therwise the colour will be spil, the actress has made great duction featuring Franchot Toned. Pass the soup through a sieve, Progress on the screen.

tween scenes of "Times Square

at the and Una Merkel. The story told rubbing through enough of the he was Daisy," said Isabel he- Metro-Goldwyn- into on the screen is continuous in that beetroot to make the whole a nice Lady"

Mayer studios. She it transpires in exactly the same colour and consistency.

Sonson well with salt and pepShoshone, Wyoming, where I lived, length of time the picture, when

one morning to go to work for the Anished, will take to tell it-about per, add a half teacupful cream,

And heat thoroughly without hotel. By noon. people were talk- an hour and a half.

shreds of ing about her all over town. bolling. Put some

A comedy-mystery, based on the Breadway play, "Order, Please" by Edward Childs Carpenter, it con- cerns a dramatic episode occurring in a single evening in a hotel. It

lettuce in a bet tureen, pour the hot soup byer, and serve at once.

is about nine o'clock when the first search for a woman "wo beautiful character walks into the scene (just that she scares people."

Casting directors took exception. as it could well be nine o'clock when

of

came

"Several nights later, my father took me to the hotel for dinner. I was only ten er eleven. The first thing I heard when we entered the lobby was that girl's voice. I watched her as she answered entis.

gum, and was chewing She a theatregoer sits down to see the "Beauty cannot terrify" was the marvelled how she could talk and time. She picture), and at the final "Tude-consensus of opinion. Browning's chow at the same

Una out" Franchot Tone and case, however, found a champion in smiled into the transmitter nost Merkel are hurrying to catch the Jack Dawn, make-up director for and then, and her voice would be 10.40 train. With this formula. M-G-M. "What is wanted," he soft and intimate one minute, and timing each scene. and cutting it anid," is a brunette woman of per-crisp and business-like the next.

to

She wore very short skirts, and her feet Bgure and facial proportions to the exact length, is one

wns bobbed. "A long time feminine vampire. The hair Director Jack Conway's most Im-

play a portant tasks;

corpselike quality that is to be used after that, I had a chance to play All the action of the new picture in her make-up is to make her a telephone operator on the stage takes place within the four walls seemingly unreal, and her beauty remembered Daisy. and tried to of the "Ifotel Diplomat," in New would only serve to heighten the imitate her. That's how I started York City--the camera following effect. As a matter of fact, many on a theatrical career."

Daisy didn't stay in Shoahone the actors from basement to top things of sheer beauty are absolute, floor as the story of a murder and ly terrifying. The sleek sheen and very long. She went away on the black panther, evening train, and another girl was its solution unfolds. To intensify amazing grace of SPEAKERS PRIEST the mystery element, every actor is for instance. fire beautiful, but given her job. Where Daisy went from suggest ferocity. The same goes and what happened to her is one shown in every movement

with some of the of

the mysteries of life. "I've UAE BDPA

are for a WOMA beginning to end. There PITH EMBER WREN neither stock "shots" nor inserted qualities of an animal in her ap always felt I owed that girl some- thing." Isabel said. "If I ever find EH PARA ED out-of-door scenes to detract from pearance."

famous her and I'll know her the minute Dawn pointed to the BCAIN GOCART S the story in band.

Also featured with Tone and painting of "The Vampire," by see her-I'll try to show my ap- LINE FERNIH CI ĐI E, Miss Merkel are Stelli Duna, Louise Burne-Jones, "Here is a woman of preciation in a substantial way."

Other women Miss Jewell has a glance LAUNDRY PARK

Henry, Conrad Nagel, Harvey atter beauty, and yet

Bernard aufices to make one realise there seen have taught her all she knows TSON A PCStephens and others,

18 somthing sinister about her. about the type of characters she OTHO FLIRT ROCKlyman produces.

Such an effect may be accomplished plays. by careful make-up.

There Was UA PKT N Ro

a manicurist SITTER PILASTER] BEAUTY THAT TERRIFIES

"The first essential is an ab- Boston, who gave her that charac Tod Browning, who is said to solutely perfect face and form, as turistic lift of the eyebrows that know a thing or two about mystery. I have said. The subject should be hus nude millions laugh. In Los Angeles, there was a waitress who and horror pictures, came up with fairly tall.

"I would not ze to extremes in mude futile gestures with her hands and arms, and Isabel copied failed in another attempt to vin- a new one recently. Browning Is dicate himself when the District the gentleman who directed the late make-up; a pallor, of course; very

red lips, and darkened eyebrows; her. A blonde in the box-office of Lon Chaney in "The Black Bird, Appeals Court rofused his appli- ANOTHER THOMAS MOONEY ton to review hla conviction on! "London After Midnight" and the would dress her black hair the Mason Opera House in

APPEAL REJECTED

the ground that a pardon can only silent version of "The Unholy simply, arranged to gve the effect Angeles taught her that Indolent

Three"

among many other success-of high check-bones, suggesting droop of the eyelids. And that San Francisco, May 15.

be granted by the Governor.

ful thrillers. Beginning work something of the feline in trick of strident, blunt speaking characteristic of many of her Thomas Mooney, the Socialist The Court denied his right to a leader who was sentenced to Im-writ of habeas corpus, Mooney now the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios woman."

Director Browning conducted his screen roles was inspired by a prisonment for life. in 1910, for an intends to file a similar writ with a "Mark of the Vampire," he allged bomb-throwing outrage the State Supreme Court. Reuter, stated he was

34 Might not ita owner volunteer

for transfusion? (two words).

Down

To confront impudence,

2 Station-possibly full of laxia.

Her husband made her cros all

over the country.

4 Without any help.

Quite a decent match.

7 In process of time.

Present about a thousand and

just upwards, and all in control.

11 This bird can't talk, yet it might

be a liar,

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