1935-07-19 — Page 14

THE BALLAD IS COMING BACK!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY

That exclusive English musical product, the Ballad, is definitely! FILMLAND NEWS

coming back into favour, and Decca has a varied list of this popular song form, some of the best examples of which are listed below.

ALFRED PICCAVER. (Tenor)

M456, I Heard You Singing.

Trusting Eyes.

DALE SMITH.

(Baritono) Y

F2737, Widdicombo Fair.

M454. Love söndra Little Gift-of {~~~-

Roses,

Beauty's Eyes.

M449. Roses of Picardy.

Thank God for a Gardon.

M427. Homing.

I Hear You Calling Mo.

M426. Because.

Until.

M405. The Song of Songs.

Trocs.

CA8030. Kashmiri Love Song.

For You Alono.

FRANK TITTERTON. (Tenor)

K673. Less Than the Dust. Till i Wake.

F1666. For You Alone.

Maire, My Girl.

F3032. In

an

Old Fashioned

Town. My Dear Soul.

RICHARD WATSON..

(Bass)

K653. I'm á Roamer,

The Floral Dance. F1988, Down Among the Dead

Men. -Drinking.

On Likely Moor Baht 'at.

MARY KAY. (Contralto)

F5280. Love's Old Sweet Song.

A Brown Bird Singing. #3870. My Ain Folk.

Danny Boy.

ROY HENDERSON. (Baritone)

F1987. The Blind Ploughman.

Tommy Lad.

F1654. King Charles.

Simon the Cellarer. HORACE STEVENS. F2237. Chorus Gentlemen.

The Drum Major. ANNE WELCH (Soprano), NORTON COLLYER (Tenor), CONWAY and VICTOR

(Baritone).

K560. Boosey Ballads.

Empire Air Route to the Cape

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A film which will bring to the acreon the drama of the Imperial Airways Empire air-route from Croydon to South Africa is to be produced by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.

Based on "Air Liner," the Charles Lorne novel, the film will concern a group of passengers in опе of the giant England-Africa air liners. It will cover the full route and working schedulo of the Imperial Airways route, and will bring in airports and localities at many widely distant bases.

Full co-operation is being given by the aircraft operatore; huge planes of the multi-engined Ian- nibal and Atlanta classes, as well as numerous smaller aircraft, will be placed at the disposal of the film-makers.

Intro.

Associated with Michael Balcon, Fairy. Song. Kashmiri Pipers, I Hear You Call-Director of Production at the G.B. Studios, In this new film enterprise ing Mc. Bird of Love is R. B. Wainwright, A.F.C., who has already left by air for Cape- Divine, Until, K572. Chappell Ballads. Intro. town to carry out preparatory work Where my Caravan has on the picture. Wainwright is rested. She is far from himself an ex-R.A.F, pilot, and là the land, Rose in the still an enthusiastic civilian air- Bud. 1 know a lovely garden.

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Bake on greased tins in a mo- pale fawn paration, months in advance, of a derate oven, until schedule worked out with almost colour. When cool join together with warm hour-by-hour accuracy; and it with jam and coat largely to confirm these arrange-icing, one half pink, the other ments that Wainwright is making white.

his present 19-day Hghtning air-

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The script, under the direction best-known directors, will direct. of Guy Bolton, is already in pre- paration, and full production will start shortly.

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GWEN GILL'S NEW ROLE

Gwen Gill, the Edinburgh girl who went to Hollywood for Para- mount's "Search for Beauty" and has made a film for Fox since her return to this country, has been given a principal part in a British picture,

"MARIE CELESTE" MYSTERY "The Mystery of the Marie

based Celeste,"

sca the mystery, is announced by Hammer Productions for July production, with Bela Lugosi, ef Hollywood, heading the cast.

Denison Clift has written the story and will direct, beginning aboard the schooner Mary B. Mitchell off the Spanish coast, with interiors in the Nettlefold Studios at Walton in August, under the production supervision of H. Fraser Passmore.

For half a century the work has remained exclted over the con- undrum of the Marie Celeste, the American brig that was found in the middle of the Atlantic with all sails set, ghosting on her course, und with no living soul on board,

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The film will deal with the '45 Jacobite Rebellion, and will be called "The Fiery Cross." It is to show three days in the life Cameron of Lochiel, after the news of the landing of Prince Charles Edward has reached him. Neither "Bonnie Prince Charlie" nor Flora Macdonald will be seen in the film. The film is to be made by Donovan Pedelty, who is now at Achnacarry.

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19, 1935.

MARKETS IN CHINA

JAPAN DETERMINED ON CAPTURE

DANGER OF WAR

BY H. R. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent·

Washington, June 14. Except for times when Soviet- Japanese relations were tensest, the danger of war involving America and European nations with Japan is greater now than it has been at any time in the last five years.

Japan has had her way in North China Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek has yielded to Tokyo's latest demands because there was nothing else to do and because he continues of remaining China's hopeful

between the Yellow strong man River and the South China areas Autonomous dominated by the regime at Canton,

In

The

Department Stato Washington and the Foreign Ofec in London, representing the two nations having the greatest atakes in China, except Japan, have kept silent in the face of the startling developments of recent weeks.

But there is the gravest concern lest the struggle between Japan's determination to achieve economic supremacy in Eastern Asia and the desire-of Occidental traders to keep their China markets result. In u situation Ausceptible to settlement only by force of arms.

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Ireland predominates in

32 I can't imagine a man doing this

with his eyes open. 35 Be #greenble!

"The Great War of the Pacific" has been the subject of speculation86 Kind of wool.

for years. But for the most part 37 There are at least 32 among my

solutions. it has been treated as something

to talk about and write about be-38 The morning finishes up with cause of unlikelihood it would happen.

some satisfaction. 10 Commences

But now Japan has won her way40 in North China. She has kept a half Manchuria for four and years in the face of the most con- certed international diplomatic op position. Now she is in a position to bring Central and South China to the same point of helplessness in which North China finds herself. When that day arrives the ques- tion of who is going to rule un- challenged in Eastern Asia will no

be a longer

mere matter for speculation.

FORCEFUL DEMANDS

For when the manufacturers of the United States, Great Britain and France, the refiners of natural their goods to or in China inter- resources, discover they cannot sell national interest in the Far East will cease to be an academic matter. Thero will be forceful demands that "something be done about it." The Japanese for half a decade have made no secret of their posi- be done tion that nothing can about it as long as Japanese armed might is able to put into effect the programme of those far-seeing planners in Tokyo and other Japan- ese and industrial centres formulate Japanese économie poli-

cles..

who

Everything Japan has done on HARRY ROY AND FIANCEE FOR the mainland of Asin since Septem-

FILMS

ber 18, 1931, has been accomplished either by force of arms or by threat to resort to armed force.

Harry Roy, the dance band leader, recently signed a £40,000 A six-year-old girl, Helen King,film contract for a picture that will

has received an offer to go to Holly-go into production on November 4. His fiancee. Miss Elizabeth Brooke. wood to net for the films.

will appear in the same film.

Helen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter King, the wardens

Miss Brooke has undergone tests of the Dramatic Centre of Citizen House, Bath, who are also interest-at the studios and has been given, ed in the Everyman Theatre, Hamp an important part. stead.

"MARY OF SCOTLAND"

KIEPURA'S U. S. FILM

and

Jan Kiepura, the British Katharine Hepburn will star in Continental singing star, who has the Radio screen version of Max-been signed by Paramount, will well Anderson's stage drania, play the leading part in "I Sing "Mary of Scotland."

of Love," which Frank Tuttle is John Ford, one of Hollywood's directing.

Observers competent to weigh the meaning of the dispatches from Tokyo, Shanghai, Tientsin and Peiping during the past few days are agreed Japan will be halted on her march toward establishment of her Far Eastern hegemony only an equal when there is at least matching of guns, airplanes, tanks, armoured cars, feels, artillery, and nil the other accoutrements of war. Occidental traders are becoming impatient. American and British businessmen and investors in Chinn suy their home Governments are going to hear plenty before they give up the China market.

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