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SAMUEL GOLDWYN

MIRIAM.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936.

AMERICAN RIVER FLEET GOES DOWN

AT INLAND SCAPA FLOW

Stainless Steel-

Hopkins Statue

SPLENDOR

Miriam Hopkins, who gave such'à vivid and striking performance In "Barbary Coa!"

now appears in a contrasting dramatic role that will win the applause of audiences

and critics alike'as one of the finest characterizations of the year! with

JOELMCCREA. PAUL CAVANAGH

LORETTA YOUNG- FRANCHOT TONE in

THE UNGUARDED HOUR"

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Murder Steals the Show! Famous star found dead at gefa picture praminen ......... murdered in bis sat! How? Why? By whom?

Adolph Zukor

present

The

PREVIEW Murder Mystery

A Paramunat Pictura with

Reginald Danny · Frances Denka Dali Patrick · Rod LaRoque

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ANNIE" ...

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FAMOUS SWORDSMEN OF HISTORY LIVE AGAIN IN GLAMOROUS SPECTACLE !

A picture that is a credit to the entire motion picture industry, unusually exciting.

Dumai dauntless

heroes live again

to fight for love

and kingt

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

RKO-RADIO PICTURE

with WALTER ABEL, PAUL LUKAS, MARGOT GRAHAME, HEATHER ANGEL, IAN KEITH, Moran) Olsen, Onslow Stevens, Rosamond Pinchot, John Qualan, Ralph Forbes, Nigel De Bruller. Screenplay by Dudley Nicholz and Row land V.Lee.

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HOWARD OBERON

The SCARLET PIMPERNEL

RAYMOND MASSEY - NIRŐL

BAUTE A

ball,ALEXANDER KORDA

Friday:-EDDIE CANTOR in “STRIKE ME PINK"

* Printed and Published for the Proprietora by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, nt 1, and 3; Wyndham Street in the City of Victorin Hongkong: "

GRAVEYARD

OF WAR TIME SHIPS

San Francisco, July 7.

Paris, July 1. At Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Working with a'medium,never before been tried, Beniamino not far from Paris, an Ameri. Bufano, San Francisco sculptor, can fleet of 25 vessels is to-day was nearing completion of gradually sinking in Ameri a 14-foot stainless steel statue of ca's inland Scapa Flow. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, former Presi- |dent of China.

"Maternity

Marathon"

Nears End

Toronto, Ontario, July 10.

"Maternity Marathon," in

The Charles Vace Millar

which several Toronto mothers are competing for Strollers along the canal of the a $500,000 prize awaiting Little Darse, which leads from the one who bears the most The statue, when it is com-the Marne, come with surprise children in the ten-year pleted late this summer, will be upon this graveyard of stup period ending October 31, presented to the city by Bufano some still afloat, some half- and by the Kuomintang, Chinese submergel, some showing only was termed "that biologic Nationalist Party, and the

their smokestacks, on. whose joke" by Honourable Dr. W.P.A. art project, which have bows are the words, so strange Herbert A. Bruce, Ontario's been financing the work.

to French eyes, Arkansas, Mis- Lieutenant-Governor, in an sourì, Ohio, Kentucky, Worces- address herc. ter, Georgia and finally-not so strange-St. Louis.

In fashioning the replies of the Chinese patriot, Bufano is portraying a personal friend. According to the sculptor, he lived with Sun Yat-sen for four months during which time he was commissioned to do a portrait of the president. Bufano is using that portrait as well as other drawings and some photographs in fashioning the

statue.

NOT MOVED SINCE

Speaking to the graduating nurses of the Toronto Hospital

are

They are part of the war stocits-for sick children, Dr. Bruce said 20 river lugs, bought by the French quality and not quantity was government from the United States in "the only thing worth any con- 1916 with the intention of using them sideration where, children for the Paris-Rouen service. They Though the sculptor has himself were handsome boats when they sall-concerned."

Referring to the baby race. done some research in metals in then the Marne, Missouri' leading

1926 the way, and turned into the canal of started in

when Millar. past seven years. the credits scientine the Little Darse in 1916, and the wealthy lawyer and sportsman, and investigators in various steel com-French government had paid 250,000 a bachelor, died leaving a will in pantes with proving the information 24 which makes possible his use of the ranes each for them. They were tied which he specified the residue of up to the bank-temporarily. Coat his estate, new valued over $500,- new stainless steel for sculpture, was left in their bunkers so that they 1000, should go to the mother who would be rearts to move out in a few within ten years of my death gives days and start their new servies. They haven't moved since.

"Beenuse the old master could not

know what we now do about inctals, they were unable to use them for artists purposes." Thus Bufano ex-

mentation with stainless steel,

The bead and hands of the statue, already completed, are of red granlle The body and arms are being beaten

-

birth to the greatest number of

After a while the department of children," Dr. Bruce said: plains the heretofore lack of experi-inland navlation took their engines "That biologie joke-the Millar put and, presumably, put them to prize donated by a bachelor was a work elsewhere, Later Junkmen poor one. You rightly concerned came around and removed what it with the physical quality of a child, tings were left. Inhabitants of the but Millar had no thought but the nearby settlements had taken the coal quantity of children." long before that. Thereafter the boots were forgotten. Some of them )

Lenders In the fantastic race ap- gradually settled down into the ooze pear to be Mrs. Matthew Kenny on the bottom of the canal. Others and Mrs. Arthur H. Timleck, both are still afloat.

Jelaiming children since Millar's

death-United Press.

of stainless steel-United Press.

Children Dropped In River After

Last Kiss

NOAH'S ARK

“

Once or twice half-hearted efforts were ntade to sell them. The offering price was moved na jaw as 50 francs and there were no takers. None, that is, except one American. Maybe he was santimental or maybe he was tired of paying rent. He turned the boat into a houseboat and renamed it Noah's Ark. He lives in it now. It used to be moored in the Bois du Boulogne, and when he wanted certificate of: domicile, a document

MARKET gardeners working often necessary in France, he got it

"Black Eagle"

Becomes An "Italian"

in a river-side plantation at from the forestry guard of the Bols

New York, July 7. Hubert Fountleroy Julian, Helf- Evesham, Worcs., recently, du Boulogne. Now he has moored styled "Black Eagle" who a year ago SILW a smartly-dressed woman his boat in the Murae,

went to Ethiopia in a subburst of The boats are not entirely abandon-Harlem adulation to hold Emperor push a perambulator through. They provide a playground for Haile Selassio in the air, is now en two meadows to the side of the children of the neighbouring villages, Italian. Julian and the Italian gay. River Avon.

whose favourite sport is playing ernment made it official by aranone. pirate Daily they swarm over the ing recently that the "engio" had She stopped, lifted out n boy and American boats and scuttle them with sailed for a tour of Italy on the 9.8. a girl, kissed them and then dropped ferecious energy. It doesn't take Vulcania with an Italian passport. them into the river. Then she Jump-much Imagination. Half of them Italy claims that all Ethiopians are ed in.

already are more below the water now Italian citizens by virtua-of- ~The gardeners van to the river bank than above-United Press.

annexation.-United Press. and succeeded in rescuing the girl, who is two years old, and they re- covered the aged 11 months.

dead body of the boy, HAWAII INVITES WORLD

The woman's body, was taken from the river about two hours later...

Mr. William Davis, captain of Evesham Town Football Club and English Amateur international goal- keeper, at Cowl-street, Evesham, told a reporter that with another man he raced down to the river bank.

He saw the two children foaling in the water, and just as he was about

to swim to the one farthest from the honk, the strong current swept the body of the boy to the side. With the aid of a stick he got the body out of the water but the child wo dead.

The woman

was Elveria Doris Reading, aged 42, wife of Frederick James Reading, a baker, of Windsor- road, Evesham."

Mrs. Reading left the following note:

"Dear Fred.—1 have gone to end It all. I am an absolute failure as a 'mother and wife.---Vern,”

Mr. Reading left home at 6 am. and found the note on the table when he returned to lunch,

NEW FORTS ON KRONSTADT

FOÚR YEARS' WORK COMPLETED

Helsingfors, July 5. The strengthening of the for- tifications of Kronstadt is now reported to have been satis- factorily completed.

During the last four years, 11,000

TO FEAST ON PİG AND POI

Honolulu, July 1. Export of powdered poi may fail to quicken the pulse of inter- national traders but it's got George Pacle Mossman so excited he can scarcely pay attention to his Hawaiian language lessons. undulating buls and the plaintive, somebody saved the culture of Hawaii. Mossman is the man who saw the years ago and decided it was time island songs going to wuste severali With that culture now well on its way through the world with grass skirt and ukelele accompaniment exe- cuted by people from Finland to Fresno, Cal who have gone to his Hawaiian vilinge school, MossmAN has turned to gastric research. He's going to teach people to prepare and ent (one is about as hard as the other) Hawaiian food,

LONGEVITY RECORD

MARKS TREE WITH

12,000 BIRTHDAYS

Brisbane July. Where most countries VARC their claims for interest on hia- toric and pre-historie dead things, Queensland boasts of possessing the oldest living thing in tho world.

It is a macrozamla tree about 20 feet in height and estimated to be more than 12,000 years old In the Tamborine Mountain re- serve there is a grove of racro- zamia trees, the youngest of which, only three feet in height, Is 3,000 years old.

Accurate xelentiße data on the macrozamia trees of Australia has been collected and established by the University of Chicago- United Press.

MURDERER COMPOSING,

This is where the powdered pol comes in.

Grandmother would have a diffleult time matching dish for dish the menu of a genuine Hawaiian meal. There are at least 16 courses but a luau (feast) without pig and pol would ha about as sumptuous. as a New Eng land Thanksgiving without. turkey and cranberry sauce.

Nearly any butcher has pork, but Mossman was dlamayed about the problem of furnishing polto European gourmets, for instance, hungry for a Hawaiian feast, until he thought of drying it up and shipping it in cans like powdered milk.

Pol is made by literally pounding to a pulp the taro (native potato) and adding water until a bluish Bub- stance somewhat similar to ilbrary OPERA

paste, is formed.

Now pol gets stale rapidly. But Sydney, July 1. by workmen have been employed, day A murderer is composng an found it would be.

water Mossman evaporating the and night in converting the ancient opera in Goulburn Prison, New finitely. He Inalsted the stuff tastes preserved indo. what Admiral Orloff South Wales, eltadel into

better when water is added again Commander-in-Chief of the Red Ficet, has referred to as "the Malta tenced to death in March 1929 for

He to Alister Jenner Clark, wen-thin fresh pol did in the first place. of the Battle."

Mossman figures ho can teach the The Soviet Government has now murdoving his wife, Ella Fay Clark, most undomestic hostosk decided still further to ensure The sentence was later commuted cook and prepare the feast in 10 easy

lessons. Kronstadt's invulnerability by entire to life imprisonment.

how to

ly rebuilding the great Gorky Fortress In Goulburn Prison, by special

Half of the menu is eaten raw, With a view to its employment as a permisston, Clark was taught music

One of the biggest problems of naval seaplane base. The fortress of and passed with credit, a series of spreading a home-made luau will be Kotlin is to be converted into a great Conservatoire examinations.

getting the man of the house to apade up a place in the back yard and Ilo is now studying orchestration cart in rocks and wool for the Imu, submarine base. Russia's determina- tion to compete with Germany for supremacy in the Baltie in shown by listening to gramophone records, the oven where the pigs in cotized. the 1937 naval programme providing He plays and composes themes for But, insists Mosamen, that's not for eight new warships and 15 sub-his opern on the chapel piano....his job, so he offers no instruction. marines.

Renter

United Press.

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Garromantic comedy... whon the two memosi kids you over mot... decido to tramo their parents-- into a wedding !

and so

THEY WERE MARRIED

TO.

• Misogynist

A fellow who hates all

women. An ex-husboodi)

** Misogamist

MORROW

A damnel whe loathes the

very idea of marriagei

MELVYN DOUGLAS MARY ASTOR Edith Pallows Jackie Moran Directed by lliott Nugent

• D. P. Bobulberg production

A Columbia Ficture

"THE LONE WOLF RETURNS"

Melvyn DOUGLAS

-Gail PATRICK

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"BACK STREET"

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