1937-01-27 — Page 11

PAGE 11.

NEWS OF THE DAY

IN PICTURES

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Hongkong Telegraph

PHOTONEWS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937,

HAPPENINGS

AS

SEEN BY

THE CAMERA'S EYE

DEEPER THAN HE EXPECTED

CHILDREN were noi the only spectators of Gamage's 'model railway system

Quite a number of grown-ups found the lure of trains was still irresistible,

Triestina

To Italy

NEXT SAILINGS

"Victoria" Feb, 1.

Lloyd

SPECIAL RETURN TICKETS

Validity 100 days at greatly reduced cost allowing 21 months stay in Europe. Speciul concessions to ist and 2nd class travellers to London.

Fares to Venice, Trieste, Genoa and Return. £132, £08, £50. Special Two Months' Round Trip Tickets At Reduced Rates

WITH

To BOMBAY

£44

£25

£21

CHRISTMAS

COLOMBO

E41

£22

£19

£18

£13

£11

COME-PARCELS--

£12

£ 9

£ 6

SINGAPORE

SHANGHAI

ROUND THE WORLD tickets Issued at Spcctal Reduced Rates in connection with all the Trans-Pacific & Trans-Atlantic Conference Lines. ITALIA & CONSULICHI LINES Agents for the sale of through and independent tickets to North, Central and South American ports via Italy

THROUGH TICKETS TO LONDON-23 days-Special facilities for despatch by train of heavy baggage with liberat free allowance.

INTERCHANGEABLE RETURN TICKETS with the Dollar Lines en very favourable conditons.

LLOYD

TRIESTINO

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GOING HOME

SOON?.

THEN TRAVEL BY

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.Sailings from Hongkong,

TO SHANGHAI-KOBE

Eridan

TO MARSEILLES vis Saigon, Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti (Aden), Buez, Fort-Sald

6th Feb., 1937 23rd Feb., 1937

7th Feb., 1937 Aramis

Felix Roussel .19th Feb.,1937 Eridan

0th Mar,, 1937

Pres. Doumer 5th Mar., 1037 Felix Roussel Chenonceaux .20th Mar, 1037. Pres. Doumer 23rd Mar., 1937. ' Athos II

2nd Apr. 1937 Chenonecaux, 6th Apr. 1937 ;.

TOM CieDes MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

QUEEN'S BLDG,

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FINISHED JOURNEY

BY TOW ROPE

THE

RESCUE of a motorist. who "took a chance" on the flooded Maidstone - Tonbridae road. Following overnight gales and heavy rain Fast month, wide areas in low- lying diatricia were underwater.

HER PRESENT problem solved. Is that why she is looking so pleased? This seasonal

∙picture was taken at a West End store

THE FUN FAIR!

MR.''EKSTRAM-MILLS invited the "Glauffé-Necked Women” to watch the first full rehearsal of his annual Olympia Circus."

-THE

"GIRL

BOYS" AND~-

BI DE OF K.C.'a SON-MIN Ronda Keane, daughter of Daris Keane, the actress, leaving St. George's, Hanover-

after -Bquare,

her marriage to Mr, N. P. Hastings, son of Bir Patrick Hastings,

K.C.

CINEMA NOTES

Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse's hilarious - "gentleman's gent" who knows all about women, fiction's funniest char- acter, comes to the screen for the fret time. in the new

Twentieth

C****ury-Fox picture, "Thank You,

Queen's

Heucher

which opens to-day at the

Theatre.

Droll'Arthur

plays the poker-faced valet, with Virginia Field the "lady in Dis tress" and David Niven as the blundering. butter-fingered Bertio Wooster. A typical Wodehouse tale, made funnier

than ever by Its tran-

you,

-pock-of-

to the screen, "Thank over!" is one of the most riotous of the insane Bertie-from-a- trouble and helping him win the lady of its heart. The plcture opens in the apartment of Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse's amiable crackpot, with Bertie banging away with great zeal and little rhythm at a set of drums. Jcoves is a pained erlile of his mos- ter's new aberration, Jeeves gives notice; what with drumming, ban- folcle playing and romancing various knife-throwing countries, Bertie's escapades have frayed even the fron Jeeves nerves. As they talk, the doorbell rings and a beautiful young girl asks çülmly for Mr. Berije Wooster. Neither Bertie nor Jeeves has ever seen the girl before, but Bertie welcomes her over. Jeeves stony disapproval. From the girl's speech, Bertle gathers that she aru International adventuress, with the police hot on her trail. When she

Bertle

and

Lienven follow. Truc

The to

has managed to garble ever

Berile

and

it remains for the Jeeves to straighten matters out, which he does in a wildly hilarious series of mad adventures. Joseph Hoffman and Stephen Cross wrote

л

the screen play, based on one of the Wodehouse stories. Arthur Greville Collins directed the film, under the production supervision of Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel.

"Little Lord Fauntleroy"

the

Freddle Bartholomew gocs оп record as the first actor to play "Little Lord Fauntleroy" without benefit of the traditional long golden curls and plush sult in the Selzick International film version of world famous Frances Hodgson Bur- nett glory, which co-stars tho popular child star } showing at the King's

Theatre to-day. This depar ture from tradition is the direct sult of public reaction to the on- nouncement that David O. Selziek,

пе

and

who makes debut

טת

on an independ.

ent producer with this

with this fim, Freddle should own short chestnut locks.” In other respects, however, Hugh who adapted "Little

all other

Lord.

Calfattaroy" to the screen, has faith-

fully adhered to the universally be- loved I story of the little American boy who became a nobleman, went to England to live in a castle with the frascible Earl of Doriacourt ond transformed that genticman from a surly old bear to a lovable old

the Dolores Costello makes her return to the screen in the role of "Dearest", the little fellow's beautiful and

nd adored young mother; C. Aubrey Smith is scen 415 the Guy Kibbee and Mickey Rooney play Fauntleroy's American

Carl;

Mr. Hobbs and Dick, the bank

Others in the cast are Henry Stephenson, Juckle Searl, E. E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Ivan Simpson and Jessie Ralph. John Cromwell direct- ed the dim, which is released through United Arulats.

-"End of the Traty"-

Zane Grey's heroic novel of those brave pages in American history when "Teddy" Roosevelt and his rodoubtable Rough Riders nailed the Stare and Stripes to San Juan Hill and named the United States a world empire in a baptium of fire has been stirringly picturized in Columbia's

End

of the Trail," which is showing to-day at

the An The film stars

Alhambra Theatre, Jack

Lacatre. Holt

in the type of role tint first endeared him to audiences everywhere. He is

seen an adventurous, life-loving vagabond who enlists

Rough Rider for the thunder and the glory but who finds Instead a

a love for a

a beautiful

young nurac, admirably played by lovely Louise Henry. His friendly rival

the

girl's

affections is

val for

ons is young Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, who in

who in the after- math of the

the wor is forced to battle Hot on opposite sides of the law. The role of Theodore Roosevelt is portrayed by Erie C. Kenton,

(skilfull

"End of

of the Trail." The

who directed principals provide excellent portray- als, ably aided in supporting roles by Dougies Dumbrille, George McKay and Gene Morgan.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

MARJERY WYN

* all dressed up "* for her princf pal-boy part in "Goldilocks," the Dantomime at the Theatre Royal, Now- castle.

The Steamship

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No. 3 AE0/37

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Agent) Hongkong, 24th January, 1937.4