1936-01-31 — Page 23

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NEWS OF THE DAY

IN PICTURES FROM FAR AND NEAR

Hongkong Telegraph

PHOTONEWS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934.

HAPPENINGS

AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE

Somo very allghtly clad fresh air enthusiasta during a mountain, trip

in the Swiss Alpa having a rest and enjoying the clear, fresh mountain air.

The skating human figures look 'diminutive against the mountain slopes of the white world of the

Austrian Alps.

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bo

Sir Samuel Hoare shown during

ing his wife how a Foreign Minister

Preparations for next year's World Exhibition are already in full swing

In Paris. The exhibition ground will his recent visit to Switzerland, show-

near the EiTo 1 Tower. Above

picture shows the reaowal work of

the troos on Avenue du President can skate. The ice subsequently'

Wilson. In the background in the

famous 'tower.

proved "too thin".

Alexander Woolcott, critic, author and lecturer, taiked books, and nothing but books" with Dave Lamson when they met la Lamson's cell at San Jose. Lamson, accused slayer of his wife, Allene, awaits his third trial on murder charges.

Travel Chats

"You lost some of your, baggage

didn't you?"

"Yes, but it doesn't matter; I insured

it through Cook's."

Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd.

Queen's Building.

From ancient times the Dutch have been enthusiastle skaters. Photograph shows how one of the numerous canals looks on a day in mid-winter.

D. I. Ranberg, United States mail carrior between Idaho Falls and Bone, Idaho, gets the mall through regardless of snow blockades, Seated in his "snow-bucking Lizzy," he rambles over drifts at an average speed of 16 miles an hour and attains a top spood of 40 miles on the open road.

CINEMA NEWS

are Florenent in the supporting cast conspirators, although he almost lose

stirring novel was a dramatic protest, under suspicious circumstances, the Rochelle Hudson, John Beal and underworld forces combine to pin the Frances Drake supply a love theme blame for the crime on him low that forms a romantic counterplot to the politician's friend and counsellor NOTES SUPPLIED BY Jean Valjean's desperate career. upsets the nefarious plans of the

Ако THE THEATRES

Eldridge, who in private his life in the performance, is the life is Mira. Fredric March, Jessie subject matter of the latter part of Victor Hugo's immortal classic, Ralph. Ferdinand Gottschalk, and the film. Frank Tuttle directed "The Les Miserables," was brought to the little Marilynne Knowlden. "Les Glass Key" which also features Rosh- screen of the King's Theatre to-day Miserables" is a Joseph M. Schenck lind Kelth, Ray Milland and Churles in Darryl Zanuck's lavish production presentation, released through United Richman.

of the novel for 20th Century Pic- Artists.

The Glass Key"

Th

starring Fredric Mar

March Charles Laughton and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, under, the direction of Richard Boleslawski. The role

of The tinsel glamour is rapidly being Jean Valjean, celebrated convict here rubbed off gangster life and who spends five brutalising years in ele share of the honours in the new police and detectives are getting the galleys of a French prison ship for the theft of a loaf of bread and pictures trouing from Hollywood. finds his whole faturo, life darkened Paramount's The Glass Key" one by the petty

crime, Is the greates of the latest to de-glorify the under- undertaking of March's brilliant world "big shot," is now at the Star

Who the

ветер

fanaticul detective,

career. Suvert as

dedicated his life to the literal inter and

stars George Raft with

pretation of the law, offers a charac

Arnold and Clairo Dodd. Glass Key" is the screen

of Dashiell Hammett's wide terisation which affords a

novel of the same name. Ham- glimpse into the strange work mett, who achieved a measure of

fame

a paycho read

Maltese

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about prosperous man. The story, crookdom. The story revalves about which was transcribed to the screen the political master of a big city who by W. F. Lipscomb, reveals vividly cracks down on the petty grafters and the social conditions in the France criminals in his area. When the of "Hugo's day, against which his brother of the woman he loves dies

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