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TO-DAY ONLY AT THE

KING'S

HONG KONG

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936,

HOLLYWOOD COLOUR FILMS PLAN

ALHAMBRA "TO DOMINATE INDUSTRY 'Robber' Taken

KOWLOON

At 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

as you've always wanted to see her...more adorable than ever in sou'wester and slicker ...gaining new glory in this unforgettable story of a lighthouse by the sea!

CAPTAIN JANUARY

A FOX Pictura with

GUY KIBBEE

SLIM SUMMERVILLE

JUNE LANG SARA HADEN.

BUDDY EBSEN JANE DARWELL

Anocicle Producer B. G. De Spiva Directed by DAVID BUTLER Based on the story by towa 2. sichorde DARRYL PP ZANUCK

In Cheage of Production

~~~TO-MORROW At the KING'S | —TO-MORROW AT THE ALHAMBRA—

Cedric HandWICKE-MARIE, GLORY in "THE KING OF PARIS”

United Artists Retouned.

* SHOWS

DAILY

$.30-3.18

7.1-8.50

"EXCLUSIVE STORY"

With FRANCHIOT TONE-HADGE EVANS

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture:

TAKE ANY Tran on HarŴY VA LET BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRETMAN

FURMING

ROAD

WANDHAI

TEL. 19413

2MORE TO-DAY TO MORRÓW.

YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BETTER ENTERTAINMENT: 1

MILLION dollars worth of headlinors of stago, screen and radio give you all the fun you can take in this

great show of laughter, music and song.

IT'S THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW !

See..YOUR RADIO FAVORITES

́at their peppiest.....

at their merriest....

in this musical

jubilee of joy

THANKS A MILLION

Starting DICK!

POWELL

ANN DVORAK FRED ALLEN PATSY KELLY PAUL WHITEMAN ad BAND with RAMONA

RUBINOFF

- KATMOND WALBURN YACHT CLUB BOYS:

DARRYLF. ZANUCK

206 CENTURY PRODUCTION Proceed to MTEPH M.SCRENCH

• MATINEES: 20-30c

EVENINGS: 20-30c.-50c.-70c. ℗

IN FIVE YEARS”

Cinema Chiefs Cope With Public Demand

Los Angeles, May 10. INDICATIONS of a decided turn to colour pictures are seen in current Hollywood developments,

Fourteen feature pictures in colour are definitely scheduled by the major studios, and a grent Increase in short pictures in colours is evident,

volume of our business, together with the enthusiastle interest, displayed by almost every Holly- wood producer and by the motion picture public, makes our present! problem that of expanding to take on this business rather than that of obtaining it."

Dr. Kalmus will sall for Eng- land shortly to confer with offi- cinis of the Company's London office.

Technicolor, with five planta in Hollywood and with contracts for ten feature pictures signed and a score more in negotiation, reveals Mr. M. C. Cooper, regarded here the trend toward colour in the as the "Father of Colour in following figures showing the Pictures," and executive vice- total footage contracted for dur- prealdent of Pioneer Pictures, ing the past four years:-

Baid:

1936-50,000,000ft.; 1936-22,000,000ft.; 1934-11,000,000ft.; and 1933-9,000,000ft.

At present 7 per cent. of tho total gross footage In Hollywood Is in colour.

Cinecolor, another process, is building a new plant to be ready in August.

LONDON CONFERENCE

"Full colour motion pictures will dominate the entire Indus- try in the next five years. "Within three years It will be possible to produce full colour Alms almost for what black-and- white productions now cost.

"FUZZINESS" CUT OUT "The greatest contribution in the past year to the improvement, of full colour films has been the In short subjects colour is

complete elimination of the showing a vast increase. Thirty- | 'Tuzzincas' and indistinctness five per cent. of Warner Bros. and hitherto characteristic of many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shorts will of them. In the production of be in colour this season, and Mr. "The Dancing Pirate" problems Walt Disney's cutire production of colour production are

scheduled for colour treat

Is ment.

.com-

On watch for thieves who had been raiding Orange, Cal., homes for milk, police captured Jimmy and Alta Kerr, 11. and 9, who ran away from home 10 days before, Jimmy broke away and escaped but Alla was taken la.

parable with those encountered] The King And

when sound pictures first came in.!

"We find some players unsuit-| World-Link Of

Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, presi- dent of the Tachicolor Motionable for colour, and our firm is Picture Corporation of Hollywood, New York, and London, said:

"The current growth of the

Gloomy Business Future In North China

Tientsin, May 5. Foreign business leaders in North China were to-day looking forward with trepidation and misgiving to the immediate future, Forecasts arc [I]- animously gloomy.

ing

starting a stock company of

artists suitable for such produc-Boy Scouts

tions. We shall produce ten full colour Feature productions within the next two years."

Mr. Walt Disney is one of the leading advocates of colour pic- tures. He has scheduled n 100: per cent, output in colour, with the 1930 season calling for 18 shorts and one feature.

MOVEMENT'S "GREAT

EXAMPLE”

The King addressed nearly 1,000. Boy Scouts at Windsor Mr. Disney said: "Colour Castle last month on the occasion provides many advantages for of the annual National Scout Cartoons. It permits more satisfy Service, and also received Ger- ing characterisation and atmos-man schoolboy athletes who won phere. Public reaction all over the challenge cup at the White the world has supported this City Stadium on Saturday, to oplaton."

whom he spoke in German,

Mr. Selznick (International. Pictures) has started production

The King stood on the steps of St. of "The Garden of Allah" in George's Chapel to address the Scouts colour, the company having de-who were assembled in the Horse- parted for Yumi, Arizona, on shoe Cloisters. A Guard of Honour was formed on the steps by far location.

Miss Morlene Dietrich and bearers from 37 countles. Mr. Charles Boyer are starred in it.

A years ago American and British traders were anying it would be fire years before they would begin to

"You probably know me best, the Beriously feel the result of Japan's

King said, as the Chief Scout for nctions in North China but now they

Mr. Samuel Goldwyn his two Wales. That proud position I held realize they were far too optimistic.

Uncertainty is the chief contribut colour features on schedule. In for over 20 years, and I have had

factor. In the ald days

the Chi- preparation is "Goldwyn Follies," any opportunties, not only in Great Britain but overseas throughout the ness ordered his stocks in carload lots an international musical revue Empire, of geting to know your neti- nl to-day he orders by the handful. with an all-star cast, which, how-vities, your work and the scope that Store owners are keeping: day-to-day ever, is not announced as yet the movement gives to so many boys stocks on their shelves, Thousands Some scenes for this will be filmed to learn what comradeship means, of Chinese shops have closed their in London, it is stated. This will and what goodfellowship is among doors,

Scores of foreign porcine followed by "Hurricane," by your neighbours. have gone out of business.

Nordhoff and Mr. Hali, import companies, wholesale concerns, Mr.

"But the Scout Movement In its shipping companies, Banks, rows author of "Mutiny on the best and widest form is international papers, brokerage houses, real estate Hounts" firms and oil companies are feeling the blight.

from

Pioneer Pictures will produce "The Life of Custer," and also 100 shorts for United Artists.

That, in these days, is a thing of very great importance, and I would like you all to remember when you have grown up, when your scouting days are behind you and you are working 'CHANGING OF THE GUARD'

In some form of employment in the Warner Brothers have released future, that internatlonial aspect of a series of ten colour shorts, which the Scout movement Is such

BRITAIN'S PART IN THE WORLD

The manager of the Tientsin branch of one of the largest banks in Ame rien spent the entire afternoon with: the manager of the American nows- paper here, reducing advertising U.S. $10 to U.S.$2 per month. That newspaper, which had paid dividends among them "Changing of the a great example. every month since it started 18 years, showing the famous cere ago, now finds itself with a mounting mony at Buckingham Palace.

In consideration are featuro) deficit. These are typical conditions in foreign business circles in North colour productions of several big China to-day.

dance numbers for musical films American oil companies, which The Twentieth Century-Fox con-depends for its success not only on previously competed with cheaply re-cern started production on organisation and efficiency but also fined Japaneso gasoline and kerosene, colour feature of "Rumona" on on leadership. Up to now, for the now competes with petroleum pro- May 4. ducts smuggled into North China with the full protection of the

foreign traders urge that Streamlined Car

May Challenge

be made a free port, like Dairen, so that all foreign business can have an equal chance, but there is little chance that suggestion will be adoptel. The customs revenue is too ardently desirable and General Sung Cheh-yuan, chairman of the Ilopei- Chahar Political Council, is presently trying to compel the Central Govern- ment to give him all the customs re- venue under threat of opening a com-

World's Mark

Muroc Dry Lake, California,

May Z. A special stream-lined racing car which hurtled across the dry

"This country will always have to take a very leading part in the affairs of the world.

"Now a great movement like yours

Last 30 years since the Scout move- ment has been flourishing, there has never been any lack of leadership and I know full well the number, of men who have come forward. There

are many of them here to-day. who

can ill afford the time-It all has to be done in your spare time-to work with these boys and lead them in the right way.

"I only hope that in the future the

example that has been set by so many scoutmasters will never falf, and thất

the high standard that the Scout petitor in the customs field, which bed of Muroc Dry Lake at a called for three cheers for the King, movement has reached will be main tained."

Lord Somers, Acting Chief Scout, would

confuse the business proximately 150 miles an further situation here..

Japanese are benefitting by the now has been hailed by its designers whole party marched into the chapel who remained on the steps while the conditions in North China but even as a potential challenger to the for the service.

hour

they are

are being held back by the feel world's endurance run record. ing of some imminent catastrophe, With James Stewart, young movie ponsibly war, in North China. Plans

four-wheeled whipped the

made by the South Blanchuria Rail- Fengler we him, co-designer Harlan 2000-YEAR-OLD: way and other large Japanese thunderbolt down a straight-away SEED FROM ®

financing companies for largo de-courae while a movie camera crew re- velopment projects in this section, corded the dash. The run was the

have been indefinitely postponed. climatic sequence to a picture being PHARAOH'S TOMB

After one year they hope conditionsfilmed here by a llallywood company. will have been clarified--at least for) themselves

Rome

United Press..

Annuls

25

35

Marriages In A Year

The car 20 feet, two inches long, GERMINATES was built by Fengler and Lou Moore,

one time Indianapolis speedway win-

Metered by a willer in Motor, it is equipped with a 12-foot {stabilizing fin, which tends to balance

tho machine at maximum speed.

Fengler, who met several "aucer track records in 1923 and 1921, sald Vatican City, May 1.

he made no attempt to set any record Thirty-five

in the local run and could only esti- marringes wero annulled last year in the whole

mate the speed at 160 miles per hour, Moore and Fengler plan to replace Catholic world.

the present motor with a 12cylinder Eighty canes were submitted to 076-horse power engine within the the sacred Roman Rata, supreme noxt three months and attack the 24 court for the hearing of matri-hour endurance record of Captain monial caBES In the Catholic George Eyston, English driver, set on Church, by ecclesiastical courts record is 140 miles per hour for the in countries in all parts of the 24-hour run. Fengler said his run world. Forty-five wore rejectedt would be made over the same courne. by the Rota-Router..

United Press.

the Utah Salt Flats last year. The

QULLA'S

TO-DAY ONLY. At 2.30, 5.05, 7.20 & 9.30.

JAN KIEPURA

Adolph Zuket Presenta

A dorious musical romance

› under a Mediter

rancan moon!..

GLADYS SWARTHOUT

Us This Night

with PHILIP MERIVALE - BENNY BAKER Lyrics and Musle by Oscar Hammerstein II and Erich

Lyric gold Directed by Alexander Hait. A Paramount Picture.

TO-MORROW

WE'RE GIVING YOU

WARNING

OF THE SCREEN SURPRISE OF YOUR LIFE! It's the show insiders have been whispering about! The fastest, funniest sleuth story since The Thin Man' — and the swellest of all PERRY MASON'S amazing cases?

THE CASE OF THE

LUCKY LEGS"

STARE

A Fina National Picture ælth WARREN WILLIAM PATRICIA ELLIŞ

4 SHOWS DAILY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.,

• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

SYLVIA SIDNEY IN HER GREATEST DRAMATIC TRIUMPH SINCE "MADAM BUTTERFLY" ! ! ! A GRIPPING SWIFT-MOVING DRAMA CRAMMED WITH ACTION, THRILLS AND ROMANCE ! ! !

Within Two Seconds

Her Whole Life Changed!

Adolph Zuker presents

SYLVIA SIDNEY

"MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE"

A Paramount Pictura with

MELVYN DOUGLAS · ALAN BAXTER Directed by William K Howned. • A Walter Wanger Production

• WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY CARL BRISSON in "SHIP CAFE"

TO-DAY

ONLY

Paramount's Comedy-Hit with Songs !

MAJESTIC

THEATREND

THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAMAT

At 2.30, 5.20.

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

AH WILDERNESS!

WALLACE

Beery *Mold Barrymore

Tuesday 19th

with

LIONEL

THE

"CRUSADES"

with

Loretta Young Henry Wilcoxen

ON MAIDEN VOYAGE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

RECEPTION HELD ABOARD N.Y.K. KASHII MARU

The N.Y.K. were hosts at a recep- tion, held aboard the new freightor

SLIGHT INJURIES WHILE PLAYING POLO

London, May 17. The Duke of Gloucester fell from Kashii Maru on Saturday, when the his pony while playing polo at Fleet, ship was at Kowloon Whort during her maiden visit to the Colony, The (Hampshire). Kashil Maru, which is the first

Last year, some seed wheat

The Duke was takon to hospital found in Tutankhamen's tomb, In Egypt, was taken to Australla of five new ships and inaugurates a and when X-rayed it was found that

service between the Far East and by Mr. S. L.. Macindo of Glen Northern Europe, arrived at 7 pm. the elbow was badly Injured but Innes, New South Wales, who on Friday and left

had been studying in England.

Wan no

Special Service.

fracture-Renter's

on Saturday there evening. The seed, crossed with Aus-

Representatives from all the leading tralian wheat, has germinated, shipping firms, and a large number despite the 2,000 years it has of shippers and consignees of the knots, created a very good impression lain dormant. Samples of the NY.K. Line, inspected the ship while on those who saw her, being the same fully matured grain have just she was at Kowloon and were shown type as the many now, fast freighters

are being turned out been shown at the Newcastle over the vessel by members of the which (N.S.W.) agricultural show, saya crow and members of the staff of the Japanese shipyards just now. Flor

lucnt oflco of the NYK.

passenger accommodation also proved Austral News, They have cx- The ship, which has a speed of. 19] very pleasing. cited very great interest as thie outcome of an experiment that

of

had been thought to be ImposFRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Printed and Published for the Propriotors by FREDERICK PERCY

sible of success.

Hongkong.