1935-07-19 — Page 2

THE BALLAD IS COMING BACK!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY

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

'coming back into favour, and Decca has a vorled 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.

M454. Love sends à Little Gift of

Roias,

Beauty's Eyer.

M449, Rosos of Picardy.

Thank God for a Gardon.

M427. Homing,

I Hear You Calling Me,

M426. Because.

Until.

M405. The Song of Songs.

Troes.

CAB030. Kashmiri Love Song.

For You Alone.

FRANK TITTERTON, (Tonor)

K673. Lots Than the Dust. Till I Wako.

F1666. For You Alone.

Maire, My Girl.

F3032. In

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DALE SMITH. (Baritone)

F2737, Widdicombe Fair.

On Likely Moor Baht at.

MARY KAY, (Contralto)

F5280, Love's Old Sweat Song.

A Brown Bird Singing. F3870, My Ain Folk.

Danny Boy.

ROY HENDERSON. (Baritone)

F1987. The Blind Ploughman.

Tommy Lad.

F1654. King Charlos,

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

The Drum Major.

(Soprano); ANNE WELCH NORTON COLLYER (Tenor), CONWAY VICTOR and

(Baritono).

K560. Boosey Ballads. Old

Town. My Dear Soul.

Empire Air Route to tho Capo

BRITISH PICTURE

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

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

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

Intro, Fashioned

RICHARD WATSON.

(Bass)

K653. I'm Roamor.

The Floral Dance.

F1988, Down Among the Dead

Mon. Drinking.

Kashmiri Song.

Ansoclated with Michael Balcon, Fairy Pipers, 1. Hear You Call-Director of Production at the G.B. Stadion, in thin new film enterprise ing Me, Bird of Love is R. B. Wainwright, A.F.C., who Divine. Until,

has already left by air for Cupe- town to carry out preparatory work on the picture. Wainwright himself an ex-1.A.F. pilot, and is still an enthusiastic civilian air- mnu. He is well-known in the film

K572. Chappalt Ballads.

Intro. Where my Caravan has rested. She is far from the the land, Rose in Bud, I know a garden.

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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 Japari Is greater now than it has been at any time in the last Ave years.

Japan has had her way in North China. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek has yielded to Tokyo's intest demands, because there was nothing else to do and because he continues hopeful of remaining China's strong man between the Yellow River and the South Ching areas autonomous dominated by the regime at Canton.

1

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

3 Has been described as a shade

unrestful.

8 Signify.

A reformed sinner. 10 Silly.

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11 The, man who wrote that life fa ke a cup: the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the

Wake up! It ends in an English

in

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13

river. Somebody must win colour.

10

ad dryad, or somo

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The Stato Department Washington and the Foreign Office in London, representing the two nations having the greatest stakes In China, extent Japan, have kept allent in the face of the startling developments of recent week.

A bream in the shade.

simple anagram.

Is on it.

Is on it.

on this

other

But there is the pravost concern 23 A main accompaniment and ours lest the struggle between Japan's determination to achieve economic 24 Is about to study. supremacy in Eastern Asia and the 25 A fellow starts to be more from

exposure to cold, desire of Occidental traders to keep 26 Abreeding etablishment. their China markets result 420 Where Ireland predominates in situation susceptible to settlement only by force of arms.

"Air Liner" will involve.the.

of flm artists, GERMAN BISCUITS transportation technicians, and equipment to

will Ingredients: Eight oz. flour, half Capetown, whence the unit follow the hir route across

the teaspoon baking powder, one tea

"The Great War of the Pacific" shouting scenes In spoon powdered cinnamon, ib. continent. Johannesburg, Kenya, Sudan, and of margarine, 1⁄4 lb. sugar, two has been the subject of speculation eggs, pinch of salt, warm icing. for year. But for the most part Egypt.

Owing to the fnet that the locnie

Method: Sift flour and baking it has been treated as something of this story is distributed

powder; rub in fat and add the to talk about and write about be both northern and southern hem!-sugar and cinnamon. Add beaten cause of unlikelihood it would spheres, equable weather conditions eggs, gradually forming into a dry huppen. for timing only occur twice in each dough. Turn on to floured board. But now Japan has won her was year: March-April. September-roll out about one-eighth inch in North China. She has kept October, The second of the two thick, and cut into rounds with a Manchuria for four and a half seasons has been chosen for this small round cutter. production, necessitating the pre- paration, months in advance, of a schedule wurked out with almost hour-by-hour hecuracy; and it is largely to confirm these arrange: ments that Wainwright is making his present 19-day lightning air-

tour.

warm

years in the face of the most con-

Bake on greased tins in a mo-Perted international diplomatic op- derate oven, until pale fawn position. Now she is in a position colour. When cool join together to bring Central and South China with jam and coat with

to the sume point of helplessness leing, ono half pink, the other in which North Chinn Ands herself. white.

When that day arrives the ques- tion of who is going to rule un- challenged in Eastern Asia will no longer be a matter for speculation.

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

"MARIE CELESTE" MYSTERY "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste," based upon thu SCR mystery, is announced by Hammer l'roductions for July production, with Bela Lugosi, of Holly wood, 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 world has

remained excited over the con- undrum of the Marle Celeste. the American brig that was found in the middle of the Atlantic with all Balls set, ghosting on her course, and with no living soul on board.

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OFFER TO BRITISH CHILD

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 new British picture,

FORCEFUL DEMANDS

mere

For when the manufacturers of the United States, Great Britain und France, the refiners of natural resources, discover they cannot sell national interest in the Far East their goods to or in China inter- will cease to be ab academic matter.

The film will deal with the '45

There will be forceful demands Jacobite Rebellion, and wil be that "something be done about it." called "The Fiery Cross." It is to The Japanese for half a decade show three days in the life of have made no secret of their posi- Cameron of Lochiel, after the news tion that nothing can be done of the landing of Prince Charles about it as long as Japanese armed Edward has reached him. Neither might is able to put into effect the "Bonnie Prince Charlie", nor Flora programme of those far-seeing Macdonald will be seen in the film. planners in Tokyo and other Japan

The film is to be made by ese and industrial centres who Donovan Pedeity, who is now at formulate Japanese économic poli. Achnacarry.

cles.

Everything Japan has done on HARRY ROY AND FIANCEE FOR the mainland of Asia 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,

Ilis fiancee, Miss Elizabeth Brooke,, wood to act for the films.

will appear In the same film.

Helen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter King, the wardens of the Dramatic Centre of Citizen House, Bath, who are also interest ed in the Everyman Theatre, Hamp- stead.

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"MARY OF SCOTLAND"

Miss Brooke has undergone teats at the studios and has been given an important part.

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And

KIEPURA'S U. S. FILM Jan Klepura, 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 drama, 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 Pelping during the past few duya are agreed Japan will be halted on her march toward establishment of her Far Eastern hegemony only when there is at least un equal matching of guns, airplanes, tanks, armoured cars, fleets, artillery, and all the other accoutrements of war. Occidental traders are becoming impatient. American and British businessmen and investors in China Bay their home Governments are going to hear plenty before they give up the China market.

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32 I can't imagine a man doing this

with his eyes open.

35 Be agreeable! 36 Kind of wool.

37 There are at least 32 among my

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particular in gay surroundings. Spur, and almost another part of the rider's equipment (two words). A fairly modern composer.

4 Carries weight."

5 Titania's crown?

In for most of it, I may tell you!!

7 Discoverer of good Friday.

14 An old master.

15 Throw into the shade.

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10 How an artist

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27 Self-possession from abroad.

28 Measures at least 132 feet in.

little Charles.

30 They grow longer in winter.

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