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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23,

1937.

KINGS MARIE PREVOST DIES ALHAMBRA

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At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

ANNA

NEAGLE

"Her glee and her pathos were equally catching, she held a golden keỷ at whúch all the doors of the heart flew open. Her face, too, was as full of goodness as intelligence it was like no other face, the heart bounded

to meet it.

in

Bryn" sex morerntsson" by Charlie Brake

CEDRIC

HARDWICKE

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“THE DEVIL IS A SISSY

with Freddie Bartholomew - Jackie Cooper Mickey Rooney - Ian Hunter

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TIME, Dec. 21, 1936

THE RADIO BROUGHT HER TO YOUR HOME -THE SCREEN BRINGS HER TO YOUR HEARTI

DEANNA DURBIN

She charmed you- on Eddie Cantor's radio hour! She'll thrill you now in

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BINNIE BARNES ALICE BRADY

RAY MILLAND

CHARLES WINNINGER -MISCHA AUER • NAN GREY BARBARA "READ MAN-JOHN KING.

A UNIVERSAL picture

SHIRLEY TEMPLE 'DIMPLES"

in

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

FORGOTTEN KORDA

'Perfect

Body' Star

Too Plump

For 1937.

MA

Los Angeles, Feb. 15. "ARIE PREVOST, the woman once idolised as the Film Star With the Perfect Figure, the woman who once employed a bat- tery of secretaries to keep her "fans" at bay, lay dead for two days in a humble kitchenette apartment in Hollywood before she was even missed.

But for the whining and bark- ing of her half-starved dachshund dog, on Saturday, she hight have re-

mained even longer.

Lamp Broken

Police broke in. They found the once slim and beautiful Marle Pre- vost lying face down on her bed in pyjamas, now a plump woman thirty-eight years oid-too plump to hold her own ngainst the Hned flm girls of to-day.

stream

At first, as they looked around, they were mystified and auspicious. The room was in disorder. A chair was overturned and a lamp was broken.

Then they found a glass of sedu-

CLARK GABLE

CLARK

GABLE

COLLAPSES

ON SET

Hollywood, Feb. 15.

CLA

LARK GABLE, famous

film star, collapsed on

tive that indicated suicide, but exa- the set to-night while mak- mination of the body and the disco-ing a film. He is now in very of several empty liquor bottles

in the kitchenette led the coroner's bed with a high fever and is ollicers to believe that her death was under the care of a nurse. natural, that she had succumbed to

a heart attack induced by lack of food and too much drink.

Tacked to the outside of her apart ment door was a pencilled note:-

"Please don't knock this door

inore dan once,

bark. If I am in I'll

I

not deaf.”

tear you as

For two days nobody had knock

ed at all. Marie had few visitors except creditors.

Her dog, the lust of a once valuable breeding kennel, was one of the very few friends, Marie, once one of the highest-paid comedy stars of Holly- wood, had left.

She died penniless and in debt. In her flat police found a promissory note for 100 dollars (£22) made out by Miss Prevost in favour of Joan Crawford. They found that she was several months behind in her rent.

The

Diet-Tragedy

French-Canadian bathing beauty, whose figure had once been copied by thousands of women, had been unable to get more than an extra part for months.

At the studios they told her she was too fal. Friends said she tried to make a come-back In April last year; that one of the studios hud offered her a contract. If she could take off some weight.

His doctor declares that the star's determination to work despite on attack of Bu has aggravated his

condition.

if

Extreme care, he says, is necessary

Influenza is

Gable is to make a quick reeve

sweeping the

colony here. More than 1 dozen

ORDERS PAY CUTS

By PAUL HOLT

BY order of Mr. Alexan-

der Korda, after a meeting of directors of London Films, all employees at Denham studios have been notified that they will be required to take the fol- lowing temporary salary cuts to-day:

Up to £10 a week Up to £20 a week

5 per cent. 10 per cent.

Over £20 a week... 20 per cent. These cuts apply to the regular technical and administration stairs. Reductions of staff at Denham have been in progress for weeks. As films have been com-

some

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Romance Hits the Kiddies' Radio Hour!

pleted comern crews and studio NEXT CHANGE units have been dismissed. Total of employees laid off" recently after ms is stated to pass the 300 mark.

Saving 20 p.c.

These meri will be re-engaged when the studios restart their "big dim" policy in a big way. At the moment, they are intending to pro- duce a series of medium-priced Alms with an occasional "super."

Pur- pose of the salary reductions is. to cut by £200 every £1.000 spent in making ftims at Denham in 1936.

Mr. George Elvin, secretary of the Association of Cice Technicians, said: "I am going to Denham to-morrow to see the management. I intend to suggest it is unjust that the small salary man should be affected while the studio continues to employ high- priced foreign experts."

Gracie Fields' £200,000 Contract

By A Correspondent

GRACIE FIELDS, after months

of negotiations, has signed a

stars and featured players ure on contract to make four films for the sick list.

EMPERORS'

PHONE

TALKS

TAPPED

PRAGUE, Feb. 15.

DETA

ETAILS of how secret telephone

talks between the ex-Kalser and ex-Emperor of Austril during the war were tapped by a Czech engineer have just been disclosed here.

ما

A memorial

the engineer, Nikolski Osceneck, who smuggled She, dleted too stringently, lived details of conversations through to on nothing but black coffer. It the Allies has been unveiled in weakened her heart-but she did Prague suburb. not lose weight.

It is believed that her dieting more recently was enforced, by poverty rather than the need to lose weight. There was no food of any kind in her home.

Miss Prevost was one of the few

A group of Czech patriots dis- covered that a secret line between Berlin and Vienna for the person- al use of the two rulers ran underneath a huge oak tree in a Frague suburb, So Dr. Becka, later to

of Finance In Czecho Slovakia, arranged to rent a villa

famous Mock Sennett bathing Minister who could really swim.

near the oak tree,

become

Oscenuck and two other men dug

Fox-Twentieth Century, the big Hollywood film combine.

I learn she will get £50,000 for each picture.

She will probably go to Holly- wood for two of the pictures, but the first will be made In London

liis summer.

All yesterday Gracle was working at the Ealing studios on her last scenes in Basil Dean's new pictures.

DUKE OF

WINDSOR

OFFERED

ISLAND

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR 15 TO. SPEND THE SUMMER ON PRINKIPO, A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ISLAND 10 MILES SOUTH OF STAMBOUL. IN THE SEA OF MARMORA.

Special permission to use the island has been granted to him by Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish dictator, whom the Duke will probably visit during the summer,

£

Prinkipo is Use only habitable Island in a group of eight or nine Islands, and is ideal for yachting and cruising hoilday. Until he goes to Prinkipo Uie Duke intends to stay at Schloss Enuesfeld,

beautles After she epased to be a Mack Sennd girl she was teamed up with Phyllis Haver., Her peak come during the four years from 1924 to

n tunnci from the cellar of the villa 1028. She appeared

with Ronald to the roots of the oak tree, tapped Colman,

the Charles Ray and many underground cable and fixed an other stars.

extension wire to the villa. Talking pictures started her de Every word the two emperors) which he has leased from Baron cline. When she was famous Marie uttered was noted and sent by special Eugen von Rothschild for several Prevost weighed Ost. 11lbs. When messengers to the Allies, to whom months while the Baron and his wife

are In Paris. she died she weighed more than 12st.it wag of inestimable value, NATHAN

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REMINDER

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO ENTER THE

sent recent to Princess Elizabeth in THIEVES presumably in search of jewels broke into the AMATEUR MOVIE CONTEST

inch long.

Their motive, however, was fully recognised and the children-Eileen and Belly Martin, who live in Lan- sdowne-terrace, Weymouth-have received the following letter:

Plecadlity, W. 1.

to

her

tomb of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the armaments "king," who was buried last November next to his wife, the former Duchess of Villafranca de los Caballeros, in the park of his magnificent chateau of Balincourt, north of Paris.

"The

On visiting the small private chapel where the bodies are burled, Majesty the Queen is commanded to the porter of the chateau to-day discovered that the door had been forced acknowledge Elleen and Betty Mar- open

He then found that the marble stone on top of Sir-Basil's tomb, and tin's kind letter to Princess Elizabeth.

Though the Princesses are as a thick onk covering beneath, had rule never allowed to accept presents been removed. from those which whom they are not personally acquainted, the Queen is very glad to make an exception in

DISTURBED

This evening they were under the impression that the criminals did not intend to open Sir Basil's coffin but The criminals had failed in their that of his wife and that they made

darkness.

en and Betty Martin's case, and attempt to strip the lead covering a mistake because they worked in thanks them for their kind thought." from the comin itself.

EMERALDS Mr. Martin atated "Elleen, whoIt is presumed that for some un-Sir Banil's tomb and that ̃öl ̃ ̄ ̄Kis ̃ Salx, noticed That Elizabeth

Princuse had

'known reason they were disturbed wife lle alde by side, and sald let's make some anall ones

only Jarge dolis and that they left the chapel hur- It has always been rumoured that

rtedly. for her. I crocheted some lule

the duchess who died in ID20, 19 dresses, and we packed the dolls in a the porter of the chateau and the buried with valuable jewels, includ-

The police, who were informed by months after her marringe, had been- match-box and sent them to Princess late Bir Basil's secretary, have been ing an omerald necklace and small

moking' investigations all day. diamond rings.

Elizabeth."

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You still have time to put your best picture in shape for entry. Your film must be in the office of the FILMO DEPOT, Marina House, Hongkong, not later than Feb. 27th, 1937, addressed to the Hon Secre- tary Movie Makers Contest.

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