1936-08-18 — Page 11

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NEWS OF THE DAY

IN PICTURES

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Hongkong Telegraph

PHOTONEWS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936.

HAPPENINGS

AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE

TYPHOON HAVOC EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS

It was

The Dollar Steamship Company's vessel Chief Capilano, which dragged its anchor to the China Light and Power Company's wharf at Hung Hom.

refloated, undamaged, yesterday afternoon.

All that remains of the river ferry steamer Shun Mon, which was blown against the Dalry Farm wharf at Latchikok und battered into matchwood. Five men were saved,

As

These two cars were left outside the Peninsula Hotel on Sunday,

night. The picture tells its own story..

A scene on the island during the height of the floods, IN CENTRE.-The Chinese Custom's Cruiser Hoi-Chow aground-in Kowloon Bay, alongside a Chinese tenement. On the left is the hulk

of a British submarine wrecked in the 1923 typhoon.

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Jack Hulbert's chin may not be the film most prominent part of the "Bulking Jack," but it is very much in evidence and carries him round many a tight curner, The film is showing to-day at the King's Theatre. for Bulldog Drum- for Bullo As a substitute mond, who has been disabled in one of the most thrilling car "accidents" Wit- the average person has ever

Bulldog Jack does remarkably nessed, well in the sleuth line. If he is put off the scent by mistaken clues it only in early stages of his in-

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and these episodes are se really funny, because they

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cremies. The work of Fay Wray in "Buildog Jack" was difficult in the extreme. Her plight is such an an- xious one and her fear for her grand-

realistically father's safely so

Intense, that it must have been difficult to smile naturally in the story, yet the temptation to do So when her two wellwishers. got together must have been extremely strong. As the vil- Iain of the place. Ralph Richardson has that suave assurance suficient disarm the suspicion of Scotland Yard's best brains. His idea of sub- stituting the Jewdred hands in the

adorning

the god- dess of the British Museum, and his plans for require something more than ordinary determination,

he slops and nothing-not even murder. In the British Museum, Bulldog Jack Ands himscit

inselt unarmed and surrounded by a reckless gang of criminals with revolvers ready for diction. The show case by which he hides fortunately contains a good stock of boomerangs, and Jack with unerring alm, lays out

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compasses their downfall. Although five years ago, has there been such for, the moment the chief robber delightful musle and dancing on tho gets away. and drives a tube train screen and never before has there +with such reckless. abandon that been such a lavish hand used in the disaster seems inevitable, Bulldog staging of the various numbers. Jack is again on the scene, and able

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"Coltzen".

"Just look at that boy's dancing!" undertaken on behalf of that great exclaimed Ruby Keeler. Just listen. sleuth, "Buildeg Drummontl."

to his tapal I thought I'd seen and heard all the best, but this man is "Broadway Melody of 1936"

certainly the tops!" Miss Keeler waR "Broadway Melody of 1938" with sitting on a sideline of one of the seis on the Warner Brothers musical musical hits new high in screen comedy field returns to the Oriental Star Theatre. She was watching u 8-foot specimen of red-headed, day Jean. Theatre on Thursday for one only. You will find entertainment of grace, speed and agility, who was a new and fascinating order in whirling, prancing, tapping his way "Broadway Melody of 1830, Metro-about a hardwood floor in rehearsal, ious cind in old slacks and metal-plated Goldwyn-Mayer's

ambitious most musical extravaganza, Vilma and shoes. "You're looking at America's Buddy Ebsen, famous eccentric dan-best male dancer!" Ruby went on New York. An elaborate with genuine enthusluar. "His tap- cers of ballet staged, by Albertinu Rasch toping is absolutely perfect. There's 'slur nor 'slide" the music of "You Are My Lucky not the slightest

in us Star" is one of the finest things of sound to a single top. Each its kind the screen has ever presented. clear, distinct and staccato as an in- Nut since the first "Broadway dividual shot in a machine-gun burst. Melody" which M-G-M produced And besides, ho hins grace and per-

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