1935-10-25 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935.

WONDER TOUR OF NEW ZEPPELIN:

COMFORTS OF A LINER

Imperial Airways Youngest passen ger. Baby who recently crossed Channel from Brussels to Croydon by

Imperial Airways plane.

UNITED ARTISTS' TRIUMPHS

EVEN A SMOKING ROOM

LIKELY TO BE GIVEN NAME OF

"ADOLF HITLER"

Berlin, Oct. 15. THOUGH the name of Germany's new airship, the L.Z.129, is still an official secret, she is likely to be called the "Adolf Hitler."

The engineers in the giant hangar at Friedrichshafen hope to put the finishing touches on the ship by the end of November; but it is doubtful whether her maiden voyage. will take place before the New Year.

Though she is not many feet longer than her im-1 mediate predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, she has nearly twice the diameter. The skeleton is of duraluminium and with the exception of the stern and rudder plates she is

now mounted.

Iler 16 gas bags (cach with

an outer and nner gas cell) will

be filled with hydrogen on the Silken Thread

first voyage; but it is hoped that on her visit to the U.S.A. hydrogen will be replaced with the non-inflammable helium.

Will Steer The

Queen Mary!

London, Oct. 7.

The most striking change in the interior design is that, whereas in the Graf Zeppelin the pilot's and IMPOSING LINE-UP OF passengers' rooms are in an after- Kondola, the entire passenger ac- FORTHCOMING FILMS

commodation in the new ship will WHEN the new ocean giant, Queen Mary, noses out into Reorganised United Art-be in the interior of the hull. ists', little troubled by the defection of Twentieth Cen- tury, is paving the way for one of the biggest years in its history.

Certainly its line-up of U.A and associate releases for the forthcoming season is an imposing one.

In addition to the Walt Disney "Mickey Mouse" and Silly other similar Symphonics and

record-breakers, United Artists has lined up a schedule of no less than 36 films to be screened in the Far East during the next six months.

Samuel Goldwyn is scheduled for six masterpieces. These are "Dark Angel", featuring Frederic March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall, "Barbary Coast", star- ring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCren, "Shoot the Chutes", with Eddie Cantor, "Navy Born, with Miriam Hop- kins and Joel McCrea, "Splendor"

with the same starring players s "Navy Born" and another, un- titled-as-yot, with Merle Oberon,

Reliance Films, producers of some of the best American films the U.A. banner, are under scheduled to release "Red Salute" starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert, Young, "Melody Lingers On", with Josephine Hutchinson and George Huston and "Last of the Mohlcane", with an all-star cast.

The engineers have tried to make the Atlantic on her maiden voy- the comfort of the air traveller al-age, it is probable that no one on most as great as that of the passen-board will remember that the ger in a small liner.

On "B" deek there is accommoda-liner owes anything to a seam- tion for 50 passengers-25 small stress living in a back street of cabins ench containing two hunks, Glasgow. supplied with hot and cold water and centrally heated.

Central Heating

Yet to Miss Edith Rankin, of Glasgow, the Queen Mary will owe her ability to stay on a true course.

On the port side is a spacious

Miss Rankin has the task of and lofty dining-room with slant- ing windows of safety glass, weaving the gossamer threads through which the diners ean of silk on the magnetic compass watch the landscape below. On ard, and sewing on the other side of the ship is a magnetic needles. which must comfortable lounge and a small he adjusted to the thousandth library and writing room.

part of 4 inch. A fractional In the centre there is a cock-rror might throw the ship tail bar at the entrance to the niles off her course. first smoking-room ever built

Lamp:

ALL THE Lamp Shades Sippers, Curios, Novel

British Tommies, members of the Sixth Battery, Royal Artillery, embark at Southampton, England, for garrisons t Malta on the Mediterranean, and Aden, on the gulf bordering the Indian ocean. Meanwhile, British naval concentrations in the, Mediterranean are worrying Mussolini, who has offered to divert soldiers from Libya if Britain will take Renown and Hood away.

Strange Ill-luck of Charlie

Chaplin's Leading Ladies

the HOLLYWOOD BELIEVES-IN THIS HOODOO TS there a bad luck spell that follows Charles Chaplin's

leading ladies?

into an airship. The passen- Miss Rankin bas specialised in gers are not allowed to smoke this work for many years, and in any other part of the ship, compasses used by ships seat- and in this small smoking-ered throughout the seven seas room, the walls of which are of have passed through her hands. special fire-proof material,

tobacco and matches are re- So delicately does Miss Ran- tained in compartments within work that. a silk stocking the owner's name or number. contrived by her hands would Outside the smoking-room an probably be digestible even by attendant-will-beon-guard to see the most fastidious stomach.. that no оне разясн out with a lighted elgarette, plpe or cigar.

To Carry 135 People The electric kitchen is of the most modern type. The passenger section is arranged in two decks gangway and a and there is n broad staircase for the passage from one deck to another.

The ship is to be run by four) Mary Pickford, who is entering Diesel engines (giving a total of the production field in conjune-4,500 h.p.), each of which is to be tion with Jesse Lasky, will make will tie four pictures. One "Casanova", which will star Fran- cis Lederer.

Two From Mary

Joseph Selznick. probably the greatest American producer alive to-day,

Mexico

Makes Good Use Of Its Cannon

contained in a gondola. The gon-. dolas are attached to the hull by PLOUGHS TO BE MADE means of steel girdler framework Land steel cables

enormous strength.

of

The control room is in the bow, immediately in front of the naviga-

inside the hull.

in producing six films.tor's room. The wireless room is Chief la "Little Lord Fauntleroy", which will star Freddie Bartholo- mow, of "David Copperfield" famo.

FROM OLD ARMS

OF DEATH

Mexico City, Oct. Old cannons and surplus war material will be converted into 10,000 ploughs by order of Pre- sident Lazaro Cardenas.

For short cruises, in addition to the crew of 35 which is to be ne- commodated on the lower deck amidships, the number of passen-

A 'docres has been issued order- Charlie Chaplin, In addition to

gers can be increased to 100. starring in "Modern Times,"

Every person who has been en-ing the Administration of War which is already completed, isgaged on the design and structure Materials to utilize, the govern directing titled, for United Artists. This will star Paulette Goddard, his leading lady in "Modern Times." The latter is scheduled for near release in the Far East.

one film, as yet un-

British Productions Probably the most imposing lino-up of films ever to come out. of British studios is scheduled for release under the United Artista banner.

These productions Include seven from London Films and six from British and Dominion studios. From Alexander Korda, United will distribute "Sanders Artista of the River'', Edgar Wallace's famous tale, the screen version of which will star Paul Robeson, "One Hundred Years to Come", based on H. G. Wella' imaginative classic, "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," starring Roland Young, "The Ghost Goes West", with Robert Donat, "Cyrano de Bergerac", with Charles Laughton (all Technicolour, utilising now. process), "Conquest of the Air" with all-atar British cast and "Moscow, Nights," also with an important cast.

British & Dominions' contribu- tion to the UA. line-up is almost na imposing. It includes "Escape Me Never" with Elisabeth Borg- nor, "Peg of Old Drury”, starring Anna Nangla, "Where is George", starring inimitablo Sydney Ho

of this great ship, more than 8001t, in length, is convinced that she will even surpass the marvellous record of the Graf Zeppelin.

ward, "While Parents Sleep", with cast to be decided and "Come Out

with the Pantry",

Jack Buchanan.

of

"La Vic Parisienne"

ment factory in manufacturing agricultural implements.

The purpose of the decree is two-fold: first, to aid the agrarian programme of the Six-Year! Plan; secondly, to give work to the 1,606 umployces of the Nation-

al Arms and Munitions Factory, who might soon be thrown out of work, au practically all the money Two Continental films will also appropriated for war materials in be released by United Artists. 1935 has been spent.

These are 'La Vie Parisienne" The operation, which will cont (English vorsion) and "Amateur between $60,000 to $100,000 Gentleman", playing Douglas Fair- (Mex.) will be financed by the banks, Jr..

National Bank of Agricultural In addition to these films ache-

Crodit. duled for 1985-36 release, United Artists have yet to release in Four types of ploughs, suited to Hongkong several of their 1934-35 the various regions of Mexico, will productions.

be made. Obsolete cannons and Chief of these is "Scarlet motals already in the hands of the Pimpernel", atarring Merle Administration of War Materials Oberon and Leslie Howard, will be used. The government which comes to the King's hopes to be able to sell the "cam- Theatre on October 25,

pesinos" (rural workers) the Sinclair Lewis's 1934 Nobel ploughs of a cost below that which Literature Prize winning novel, they would ordinarily have to pay: "Dodsworth", has. also been yet it has announced that it does acquired, and will be released Innot desire to affect adversely pṛl- the near future.

vato industry,

Charles Laughtop is also sche- duled to appear in "The Lion of Outside of the utilitarian as- | Mayfair", and Jack London's great pects of the plough manufacturing story of the, Klondyke gold rush, programme General Cardenas de- “Call of the Wild”, will co-star sires it to stand out as a demon Clark Gable, Loretta Young and stration of Mexico's peaceful con- Jack Oskio.

ditions.

Hollywood believes in this hoodoo.

"A Chaplin leading lady fades away once her Work with Chaplin is done," is what they say.

Charlie Chaplain and his 'intest leading lady, Paulette Goddard.

G-WOMAŊ IN

THE U.S. NOW,

Virginia Cherrill, who played the blind girl with Chaplin in "City Lights," believes in it; but thinks she can break it.

She is now in London, and has been playing in a news- paper film called "Late Extra" at Wembley..

"For five years I have been a mocking proof of this bad luck," she said. "And i have felt so help- less' all the while. It is all so my sterious.

"I was introduced to Chaplin at a boxing match. He was altting be side me, unassuming, insignificant. I did not feel greatly thrilled.

"Would you like to play in pictures?' he asked me.

"Is there any other answer on any girl's tongue but 'Yes, rather!' to auch a question?

"Well, he made me a star. There were no preliminaries, no tests.

Inexperienced

"I protested: I have had no ex- perience of acting! I would not know what to do. I'd be frighten- ed.'

"Beenuse 'you have had no ex- perience, said Chaplin, I chose you. I do not want you to know a lot of things you'd have to un-

X-RAY EYES PIERCE fearn. GANGSTERS' DISGUISES "For two years we made 'City Lights" Two years making a film AMERICA'S firat G-woman the whole world breathlessly

is bringing fear into the awaited. hearts of her Stato's criminals. For Marie Grolt, good-looking the end of my life as a Chaplin "The showing of the film meant blonda whose X-ray eyes pierced protegee. I was free to do what Dillinger's disguise, is now head wanted. of the Indiana Police Bureau of Criminal Identification.

"But the ill-luck fell upon me. I wondered if I should make pictures, or rather, if I would be allowed to make pic- tures..

"Yes," she admitted, "It is true that I was called to Tucson, Arizo- na, where they were holding Dil linger and managed to say that he was the wasted man.

"For two years I battled against "There is nothing wonderful it. I was a year with Fox. I ap- about it; It's my job. For Ove peared in a few of their films. At yenra now I've been classifying other times I wasted-just waited

ugerprints and other characteris for something to happen. tics, and this identification racketi is just socond nature to me now."

Heemed that Chaplin had Miss Groit's first taak will be to given me a motion picture training. establish a system of duplicating too are for the ordinary studios, her 140,000 records, so that these

"Could it be, I thought, that can be forwarded to the State Identification Burenu at. Washing this was the reason for the spell? "Were we Chaplin leading ladies not ordinary film players ready to be cast in any role but Chaplin models?

ton.

She is a firm believer in the infallibility of fingerprints.

"Criminals can dye their hair or oven alter the shape of their noses and chins," she said, "but there is no getting away from finger-prints.”

"It

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Can that be an explanation? "Now I am in Britain. Tam making a picture here. I hope to One of these days the first make other pictures here.

G-woman intends to apend a "If the spell says I shall not find vacation in Gront Britain-study-success in Hollywood, then mayhe ing Scotland Yard methods.

I can break its power in London.';-

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