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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1037.

KINGS SHIRLEY TEMPLE PUBLIC ALHAMBRA

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Johnny

'AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

TARZAN'S ARMS HELD HER CLOSE!

Tomorrow...he would face the terrors of the jungle for her l'

ALL NEW!

TARZAN ESCAPES

Girls! There's a new love thrill for you...as a thou Band dangers shadow the primitive romance of the one and only

Tarzan and his lovely matel It's all NEW DIFFERENTI TWO

YEARS TO MAKE

* Metro Goldu ya Mayer nezum

Tarzan captured by savage fans í

Strange peril! Death from the air f

with MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

TO-MORROW

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CHAN RACES DEATH NECK AND NECK.

how

at the

CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK

with

WARNER OLAND

KEYE LUKE

HELEN WOOD THOMAS BECK DAVIN MUIR ALAN DINEHART Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone Anale Producer Jin Stone The character "Charlie Shenrouted

by Earl&pg/s

'CHARLES RUCCLES - MARY BOLAND in "WIVES NEVER KNOW"

FANCY NO. 1

Gracie Fields Most Popular British Star

-CINEMAS VERDICT.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE retains the place she won in

1935 as the most popular film star in the world. This is the most striking result of a poll to which 20,000 cinema owners in Great Britain and the United States 'contri- buted the names of those they found to be the best money- making stars of 1936, ・・

Such a poll has been conducted by the United States Motion Picture Herald sinen 1932. This is the first time Dritish cinema owners have joined in the voting.

Of all flm stars, these are the fea who made most money for British cinema owners last year.

Shirley Temple,

Fred Astaire and Gloger Rogera, Gracie Fields, Clark Gable,

Laurel and Hardy,

Jessie Matthewa, James Cagney, Wallace Heery, Greta Garbo. Norma Shearer.

other. Scaltish clnema owners

- were almost manimous in placing

her in this position.

Individual filmgoers may gunyrel with these lists, but it should be em- phasised that they are the result of cousulting the actual box-office re-

theipts of British and United States

Taking Brkish Alm stars only, Arst ten money-makers were:; Gracle Fields, Tom Walls and

Jessie Matthews, Jack Hulbert. George Formby, Robert Donat,

Jack Buchauan,

Ralph yun, Will tay, George Arlls", Sydney floward.

The most lateresting feature of this at is that these stars may all be de suribed as "popular."

The new star of the year 1s George Formby, who carries on the great tradition of brood British comedy, of which his father was one of the most brilliant exponents.

success

the

His

remarkable is evidence of the fact that the big- gest takings are carned by those Ims which make their greatest

outside appeal to filmgoers London arca. George Formby was introduced to Aims by Basil Dean, who also made Gracie Fields a film star. SHIRLEY'S BIG LEAD

Here is the United States' best ten for money-making:

Shirley Temple, Dick Powell. Clark Gable, Joan Crawford.

and

Astaire. Robert Taylor.

Mac-

cinemas..

DOES HONGKONG AGREE?

Shirley Temple was voted the most

When this poll first started the Inte Marie Dressler was first in 1932 and 1933, the late WII Rogers was drst|popular fim star of England and In 1934, and Shirley Temple was first America. But Hongkong audiences in 1935,

prefer sophisticated William Powell,

MAN CLAIMS CHURCH

FOR A DEBT

Poole, Dorset, Feb. 10.

A MAN who had paid £1,200 for a new church

claimed for possession of it at Poole County Court to-day from the pastor and five church officials.

Mr. Herbert Lewis Hodges, a nurseryman, of Albert-road, Parkstone, said that although at a meeting of the church officials It was agreed tó repay him the money he had advanced he had not received a penny.

Mr. J. Maloney, for Mr. Hodges, said that a small body split from the Poole Baptist Church, led by the Rev. L. É Nunns, in 1933, and went eventually to a hut which Mr. Hodges

Ginger Rogers Claudelte Col-bought for them.

bert. redi

Jeanette

Donald. Joe E. Brown, Gary Cooper.

The most spectacular progress here has been made by Robert Tay- lor, who was 83xxl in 1835, and is now fourth.

"DESTROYERS" OF

advances MacDonald Jennette. from 35th place to ninth, and Gary. Cooper from 31st place to 10th.

Marlene Dietrich appears in 5 fourth supplementary list-preceded by 07. other names.

THE AIR

8-Gun 'Planos To : Fight Bombers EXPERTS' VISION

When all film stars are consider- By An Aeronautical Correspondent

ed, the drawing power of Shirley Temple is nearly twice that of any

SMOKE SCREEN

A proposal that a new type of "destroyer fighter" aircraft should be introduced into the range of military machines is made-by-Lieutenant-General-N. N. Golvovine in his book “Air Strategy" (Gale and Polden, 75. 6a), which has just been

They had to leave in 1935 be- cause the load authorities objected to the ventilation. The congregation asked Mr. Hodges for help, and he bought a new site for £320 and a building for £135.

|"INSULTED HIM”

He had spent £1,211 ́ al-

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together, but could not find any IRENE DUNNE ROBERT TAYLOR - CHARLES BUTTERWORTH trustee who would accept res ponsibility for the amount.

Mr. Hodges claimed that there had been friction, and the pastor insulted him, as a result of which he left the congregation.

Judge Hyslop Maxwell said: "It is a thousand pities that two religious bodies should be in a case like this,"

An offer of £700 down and

FOR MADRID published. The book is written second mortgage was made.

1

in collaboration with a British Eventually n agreement was technical expert and it contains reached by which the church was to full documentation as to the pay Mr. Hodges by instalments. proposed destroyer - fighter, its armament and its performance, together with drawings,

Scientist's Views On Protection Of City PRO PROFESSOR J. B. S. Haldane, the

biologist has returned to Londen The essential duty of this new type from Madrid, where he has been for is the "encounter" attack of bombing a month advising the Spanish Gov- formations, and for that purpose it is

and a ernment on measures to protect the furnished with long range an

speed peed slightly higher than that of the civillan population against gas,

Asked Whether

be possible bombers. It is also visualised as it would be to put up smoke screens to protect being used for escorting bombing the city from attack by enemy troops machines on their raids, and protect- or nirmen, the scientist ngreed that it ing them against hostile fighters. would be possible, but said It was It is a twin-engined monoplane, out of the question at present because fitted with two liquid cooled, fully

of the elaborate apparatus and train-supercharged engines, each of 1,200 cd men necessary.

h.p. Its maximum speed is 315 miles an hour, and its range 1,200 miles.

VITAL NEEDS

HON. MRS. DROGO MONTAGU

TO BE MARRIED TO AN AMERICAN

From A Correspondent

New York, Feb. 2. The Hon. Mrs. Drogo Montagu,

Miss formerly

Tanis Guinness, daughter of the British banker, Mr. Benjamin Guinness, left New York "The things wanted most are anti-The plane carries a crew of two or t 8.40 this evening on an aircraft guns and barbed wire and three, and the armament consists of all-night flight to Juarea, in Mexico, tank mines, he declared. They would a "cannon" fring 20 to 25 mm, shells to marry Mr. Howard Dletz, of New directly forward in the line of aight, more important now than a smoke and three firing backward above and York.

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LAST TIMES TO-DAY

A HILARIOUS Comedy with music

IT TOPS:

THANKS A

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An #KO Radio flotura:

SING

BABY

ALICE FAYE ADOLPHE MENJOU TED HEALY GREGORY RATOFF PATSY. KELLY MICHAEL WHALEN RITZ BROTHERS

ANNE SHIRLEY & JOHN BEAL in- Bret Harto's “M'LISS”

Ecreen,"

On the question of Russia's attitude below the tail and on moveable:

Mr. Dletz is accompanying her on

to the civil war, Professor Haldane mountings. The cannon can be un- the flight, which will take about 11

locked and given a certain amount of hours. "So far as the Russian propaganda free movement in special circum- which is supposed to be everywhere stances, ...

said:

Mrs. Montagu, who is aged 28, was formerly married to the Hon. Drogo

in Madrid is concerned, I would say General Golovine suggests that the Montagu, son of the Earl of Sand- that the most striking instance, I saw automatic cannon could be used for with.

About two months ago she was

of it was the Russian tinned corned long-range ottnek, being brought into to have been married to the Earl of beef. When people who haven't action against comparatively slow Carnarvon, who hurried from Lon-

asted meat for some time have a aircraft at a range of 300 and possibly don to meet her here. meal of that they seem right away 500 yards. For short-range attack to come to the conclusion that Russia must be a pretty good country.

TYPHUS

They went to Baltimore, where the

the cannon would be used, together ceremony was to have been perform- with the fixed machine-guns. For ed at the British Consulate, but Mrs. defence the moveable machine-guns Montagu finally decided that she at the rear would be used.

could not go through with the wed-

370 M.P.H; SCOUT

Mr. Dietz was divorced only recent- ly froin his wife, formerly Mins Eli- zabeth Hall, of Virginia. The reason

It is not suggested that the ding. "At present there is not much

She und Lord Carnarvon went to danger of epidemics, though there destroyer would supersede the single may be danger of typhus when the acater, and General Golovine proposes Europe by different ships, but within wariner weather comes. But by a light single-seater fighter and also a short time Mrs. Montagu returned

York, then they hope to have enough people a "scout," which would be the fastest to New

type of all, evacuated to remove such danger.

"The evacuation is going on steadily, though it is hard for them

The scout is a very small machine he and Mrs. Montagu are going to to do much with limited transport and road resources."

with a long range, a speech of 370 Mexico to marry is that his divorce Professor Haldane declared that m.ph, and armament consleting of was secured in that country. the people of Madrid had no doubt two ordinary machine guns. It has He is about 40 years of age, and that they are going to win, "provided a closed air-tight cabin and carries has been an excecutive of the Metro- we don't go on letting the other side wireless. The messages received by Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co..for many Ket masses and mussos of Germans." such a

a machino would be so many years. He has written the librettos "They feel they can cope with and so complex, it is suggested, that of many musical plays. the Italian," he went on,

"some form of

of electric dictaphone" "But trained German troops in might be needed to take them down

great numbers are, of course, and relieve the pilot of the duty of considerabic-spars broken and 10 to formidable propositions for them." trying to memorise them,

20 square feet of fabric or metal Professor Haldane inspected the Some information is contained

ned as covering torn off..... medical services of the International lo

Losts done the Oerlikon and

with Column.

| Madison: "campon, "Maktore of the no faith In the "fying fortress" "There is a real need for trained Oerlikon and Madeen guns," say the cherished by disciples of General thopire slsters and for brain : aur- [outhors, "have shown for official Douhet's air doctrine and by the ad-

The authors state that they have

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