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HUMOUR AND SENTIMENT IN A HOMELY STORY! cā Krkich §.Domisions Production, directed by jack. Ropmond

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FREDRIC MARCH -- MERLE OBERON - HERBERT MARSHALL

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'THE DARK ANGEL"

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The darling of Hollywood and the idol of the women's clubs try to find romance away from the spotlight!

Margaret Sullavan

The Moon's Ourllomë

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Henry Fonda Charles Butterworth

Trulah Bandi Henricsta Crosman - Walter Birasan' Directed by Willisser A. Kaitaj ka turumaunt. Future

na Waler Wonger, Premten

TO-MORROW

THEY WERE SPLITTINYTHE SWAG

AND DUCKIN TOWN, WHEN

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ting away with plenty

il that lx-gun of old

Hopalong Cassidy broke up their parade. Another wall Cassidy yarn of the Old West when ro-

mance rode the long trail.

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MULFORD'S Hopalong

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WILLIAM BOYD JIMMY ELLISON

Addison Richards • Nana Martinez A Harry Sherman Production

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1936.

Edwina Booth Is Well Again

7 YEARS FIGHT WITH JUNGLE SCOURGE

THE

THE most tragic real-life story of the films is in sight of

a happy ending.

Edwina Booth, the blonde beauty who paid for screen fame with seven years of living death, is fighting her way back to fife' and health.

The mysterious tropical disease which attacked her after her work in "Trader Horn" has been diagnosed and successfully treated by a London specialist.

Korda's Big Stars For

British Films

Lawrence Film To

Made In Arabia

And now she has returned to Amerlen with her father, eccking in the quiet life of her country home the completion of the cure which was begun in London.

It was in 1929 that Edwins Booth, 19-year-old daughter of n Californian doctor, took her first star role-nt £20 a week.......... as the white jungle goddess in "Trader Horn."

Clad only in monkey skins she Beacted, with primitive savages as "extras," in the heart of the Uganda jungle,

Alexander Korda will start production at his new £500,000 film studios at Den- ham this month. He has given the complete outline of his plans for the rest of the year. Two outstanding points are:

1. Marlene Dietrich has signed a contract for one picture, and will come to England on August 1. She will appear In "Knight Without Armour," from the book by James Hilton. This is the first authorita. tive atatement, following a long series of rumours and denials con cerning. Miss Dietrick's plans.

2. Mr. Korda's "discovery," Merle Oberon, who now ranks among the best-known stars in the world, will plsa return in August from Holly wood, where she is now making "The Garden of Allah" in colour, and will make two films (as yet untitled) at Denham.

ALL STAGES BOOKED Every one of the six stages at Denham (when not wanted by Mr. Korda) has been let continuously

Malarin, dysentery, and sun stroke ruined her health. Then she fell victim to a mysterious tropical disease that sapped her

life away.

Less than a year after her re- turn to America she was reported to be dying, and medical men de- clared that before "Trader Jorn" was publicly shown its heroine would be in her grave.

FATHER'S SACRIFICE

Her father, Dr. James Lloyd Woodruff, abandoned his practice and devoted his life to finding cure for his daughter.

He brought her to specialists in Europe in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and London-In the long quest for health.... Now, though Edwina is still weak, cure is at last in sight. It is hoped that after a year or so of continued care and reat she will have completely regained her health.

to direct it, and James Wong Howe, the brilliant Chinenc cameraman, will photograph' it.

LAUGHTON THE ROMAN "Under the Red Robe, from for the next two years at a con Stanley Weymann's novel, is the siderable rental. Work is to start next. It will start in 6 weeks' shortly on the erection of two time with Conrad Veitt and further stages, Thirteen comVivien Leigh, whom I signed for panies, in addition to London five years 12 months ago. In Films, have arranged to work at August Charles Laughton will Denham. In a couple of months make I, Claudius from the novel time the studios should be in full.

of Roman days by Robert Graves. swing.

This will be done on a magnificent and senle The Merle Oberon Marlene Dietrich pictures follow. Robert Donat may play opposite Miss Dietrich."

"I shall make five or six films during the rest of this year." Mr. Korda anid. "Other companies will make another fourteen or fifteen.

"Walter Hiudd will go out to

"I have considerably extended

Arabia, to make Lawrence of my team of writers. R. C. Sherriff. James Hilton, Robert Sherwood Arabia' In September, and we shall start a third H. G. Wells (author of Reunion in Vienna'T

film. "The Food of the Gods,' in Frederick Lonsdale, Carl Zuck- mayer. and Frances Marion will January, Ned Mann, the trick- work for me (The last two-are-effect-expert, will be kept busy

by this." famous in Germany and America respectively.)

With regard to other schemes "We start with the life of which have been mentioned, AIr. Rembrandt, which

been Korda told me that "Cyrano de has written by Zuckmayer for Bergerne" and "Hamlet" have Charles Laughton. Then Erich been indefinitely postponed. The Pummer, the famous German stories, International Quartette" producer, will make Fire over and the "Return of the Searlet England, in which Flora Hobson Pimpernel," have been sold to will play the part of Queen other companies. Elizabeth.

He hopes to be able to make a musical film about London on the "It la from a story by A. E. W.lines of "Brandway Melody" some Mason and Clemence Dane.time next year, if he cun as- Raymond Massey, and perhaps semble 20 or 25 famous names for Laurence Olivier, will also appear. it. He is also toying with the idea William K. Howard, the famous of making a film of Pocahontas, American director, is coming over the Indian princess.

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France

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Paris, June 8. Hint to the jobless: a new profession has been discovered in France. It's being a victim of railroad accidents.

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FLEMING

ROAD

WANDHAI

The state railways auditing ecr vices discovered it when they noted in their accounts that one Joseph Guerrez had collected sub- stantial damages from three differ ent lines, just at the moment when he had another claim against a fourth, so they shifted M. Guerrez' ; Jurisdiction from the civil to the criminal court and learned all ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THE ORIENTAL! about It.

BU-

Joseph Guerrez, it seemed, had worked out a system of living without working. He would pick out a burban train (because they were cheaper), wait until it had worked up speed, and then jump from the win- dow of an empty compartment will a piercing cry.

Having picked out his landing field carefully, he managed to get off with nothing more important then a broken arm on one occasion, a broken leg on another, and on the very unprofitable third attempt, only scalp wounds.

He had made 23,000 franca profit from his first, three jumps, to say no- thing of the long lazy weeks in the -hospital at the railrond's expenso when unfortunately the fourth at-

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tempt caused the auditors to decide2DAYS TO MORROW & THURSDAY •

that M. Guerrez was just too unlucky for it to be coincidence.

The investigation turned up a dis- ciple, Louis Birringer, a former acro- bat, who had been tipped off to a good thing by Guerrez Birzinger, however, though his aerobatic practice, would seem to be a distinct asset the profession, was something of a piker. He specialised on getting his fingers caught in station gates, his head un- der falling trunks, his feet under lug- gage trucks. His pickings were never, more than 2,500 franes per accident,. and sometimes only 1,000.

pro-

Along with the two principals four accomplices were convicted, for viding them with false work certift- catca, since the defendants could hardly give to the court as thele pro- fession: victims of railroad accidents. It was une of the accomplices who provided the most damning piece of. evidence against Guerrez; a statement made for the division of apolls, in which he certified in due fegal form that "I have gypped the railroads be- tween October 1984 and May 1935" of the amount involved.

The lenzuige was unorthodox, but the form was unimpenobable, and the Court was only too glad to accept it as reliable evidenco on which Guer- rez' support at the expense of the state could be arranged for a further period.United Press.

TOC H. MOVEMENT ·

TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATIONS

London, June 22, Twenty-one years ago, a

young British officer, Gilbert Talbot, son of the Bishop of Winchester, was killed at Hooge in a Uquid fire sitack,

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THE BOOKSHELF "PEOPLE, PALS AND

PLACES"

ORDINANCES IN CHINA The Wah Kiu Yat Po, leading Chin- ese morning newspaper in South China, is to be commended, on having undertaken the task of publishing a Chinese.translation of the Ordinances "Peopic, Pals and Places:" Such is of Hongkong by Mu Yuen, the first the apt title of a book of unorthodox volume of which (covering the period character from the pen of Philip of 1844-1000) has just been issued. Somerville (George Allen and Unwin, } second volume will appear later. Lid., London; Os. net).

bringing the list up to the present In all there are some fifteen little year. vignettes of life, including travel pic This is the firai publication of its

As a memorial to him, a soldiers'

was opened a few months tures which strike something of a new kind, and it should fulltia distinct inter at Poperinghe, behind Ypres-note, They might be described as public service, by providing a ready Sallent.

paintings in prose, save that they are means of reference for the Chinoco richer in extent and depth than any community to the laws of the Colony. The club was called Toc H, the palette could possibly achieve. The The venture has earned the approba- signallers method of indicating the author sets his studles In London, ton of leading members of the inluals of Talbot house and was run Parla, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm,

Chinese by a chaplain of gentus, Reverend

P. B. Clayton.

Oslo, Switzerland, Ireland and Lap Hon. Sir Shou-son Chower the

Dr. R. land, and gives us a parade of diver- Kolewall, the Hon. Mr. S. W. Teo, the Under his guidanes the Toe H, gent conditions yielding a rich hervest Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin, the Hon.

thought.

Mr. M. K. Lo, Messrs. Hin-shing Lo, movement continued and developed

The author writes with a sure pet, Peter HL Sin, R. C. H. Lim, M. W. Lo, after the war and has branches in displaying the skill of a real artist, Li Sing-kul (Chairman of the Chinese many parts of the world, where one who has an eye for things be-Chamber of Commerce) and many trudillons of followship and socialneath the surface, and, above all, with others who have kindly written pre- service are malatained and develop the capacity to carry his reader along fatory commendations, both in Eng- el. This week is being devoted to with him. Altogether a chutninglish and Chinese-which have been "the coming of ago celebrations, p Collection of sidelights on varying incorporated in the first section "of the

work. King Edward as Prince of Wales people and places.

diaplayed an active interest in the movement and the Duke of York is,

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