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NEWS OF THE DAY IN PICTURES

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Hongkong Telegraph

PHOTONEWS

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1987.

HAPPENINGS.

AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE

LONDON'S BIG MID-MARCH SNOWSTORM

THE CITY bad fls share-but here business does not allow any slop for

snowfights enjoyed by more leisurely youth.

THE

FUNNEL

BLUE

LINE

FREIGHT AND

nor

REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES

LONDON SERVICE

DEUCALION sulls 24 Mar. for Marseilles, Casablanca,

PATROCLUS

Londen, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Glasgow sails 7 Apr. for Marseilles, London, Rotterdam & Glasgow

LIVERPOOL SERVICE

TEUCER solls 23 Mor, for Havre, Liverpool and Brom-

NEW YORK SERVICE

borough

RHEXENOR, "sails 8 Apr. for Boston, N.Y,, Philadelphia & Baltimore via Manila, Batavia, Straits & Cape of Good Hope

PACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe, Nagoya and

Yokohama) TALTHYDIUS sails 15th Apr. for Victoria, Vancouver & Seattle

INWARD SERVICE

ANTENOR

MERIONES

MENTOR

Duo.27 Mar, From U. K. via Straits Due 23 Mar. From Europe vin Strails: Due 1 Apr. From UK via Straits."

Special reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamera with limited passenger accommodation

For freight, passage rates and Information apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

-in snow. Recent blizzard brought just the right

conditions for schoolboys who engaged in a snowball, Uglit in. London's famous square.

Honda may be ippassable

and care marooned in drifts, but this sort of weather found the boys in their alement.

OUTLOOK: UNCERTAIN,

ANOTHER FALL LIKELY

WHEEL TICACES AND FOOTPRINTS · on the carpet of white at Croydon. merodrome after a German passenger plane bad landed,

She didn't go to St. Moriiz for winter sport thrills. Tobogganing was all the fun of the fair on the snow-covered slopes of Hampstead Heath.

AS

CINEMA NOTES

It is an unusual story that unfolds on the screen of the King's Theatre, In the pieture "Sloner Tako Al, which opens to-day. The process of blending metropolitan mystery, with romance in the high spots and comedy in the newspaper world, is accom- plished with remarkable finesse. Produced by Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Sinner Take All" presents the ace trio of Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lind- say and Joseph Callela in top notch dramatic roles. Cabot, as a former newspaper man turned Inwyer, gives в Спе performance: Miss Lindens scores as the daughter of a millionaire publisher who is mysteriously mur dered, and Calleia

his excellent menaces another of portrayals. "Sinner Take All" is based on the popular novel by Whitman Chambers, The picture was directed by Errol Taggori, with Lucien Hubbard and Sam Marx, both ex-newspaper men, producing. The supporting cost in- cludes Stanley Ridges, Vivienne Os- borne, Theodore von Eltz, George Lynn Raymond Halton, George Zucco,

Edward Pawley, Louis Natheaux and Robert Emmet O'Con- nor.

"The Flainanan"

The beautiful romance of "Wild Bill" Hickok and "Calamity Jane," two frontier characters who wrote their names large in American his- tory, is the motivation of the new. Cecil B. DeMille eple, "The Plains- magnificent sagn of Ameri- can greatness in the making, which has its inst showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to-day. The leading

mun,

toles

arc played

by Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, the romantic couple who scored in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." They are supported by a score of brilliant actors ing James Ellison as "Buffalo

notorious gun-rummer; Porter Hall as Jack McCall, the man who slow Hickok; Paul Harvey as the Indian schem "Yellow Hund," schem

Charles Bickford as John

Victor Milfan 25 "Painted Horse"

John as General Custer; Frank McGlynn, Sr., as Abraham Helen Burgess, recently "dishes

เร Hollywood cafeteria by DeMille and given the important role of William .A. Cody, and

and many

oth

The Plainsmun is produced in the broad and lavish manner which is DeMille's undisputed province in the motion picture feld. Its mighty sweep embraces several battles, in- cluding the massacre of Custer and hia men at Little Big Horn, and the Infiltration of thousands of eager frontier-folk in covered wagon, on horseback and on foot into the new land freshly wrested from the Indian, It's The Limit - but 30 m.p.h. signs meant

"Lady Bo Careful" C-nothing-to-motorists:---At-Red- "Fire"story of a shy sattor who at=" hill drivers found it impossible to move on the Ice- cidentally gains a reputation as a covered stretch at the top of the hill. "Go very slow"woman-killer, and then is forced to

in the rule for these descending.

demonstrate by attempting to gain the attentions of Panama City's most gorgeous blonde dancer, is

is told

in "Lady Be Careful" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday. The fast moving comedy has Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Larry amy "Zuker and Grint

ARCTIC

AL CALLING

Hed with lefotek, their pool at the Zoo looked a real “home from hom

at the top of its cast. Based on a play by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson, it has screen dia- logue turned out by the top team of Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell d Harry

Ruskins. In "Lady Be Care ful," Ayres, the timid gob, Is persuad ed to prove his right to a new nick- name of "Dynamite" by trying to date Miss Carlisle, the dancer, to

obtain from her. ☐ ribbon nd a memento. Friends bet

he will succeed;

porters of

of Larry Crabbe, swashbucki-

The

ing Martine, bet against him. Ayres, through the development of laugh-filled plot, wins not only the ribbon, but the girl as well. **The Man Who Reclaimed His Head" The volce which became a screen star overnight has returned to Holly-

direct from wood,

a triumphant, engagement on the New York stage in "They

Shall Not Die," the John

stage

Wexley play With It arrived ita owner, Claude Rains, noted player who was heard but not seen in the title role of the H. G. Wells mystery-thriller, "Invisible Man," and who became through this single rolo an established luminary of the screen. Rains was confronted with the neces- sity of making a “hit” with his volco alone, with none of the ald which accrues when the personality and physical presence of the actor com- bine to make an impression on the audience. In many scenes the clothes of the actor were seen walking about, but since the man himself was in visible, the figure was headless. It a coincidence, then, that Rains'

second Universal picture is called "The Man Who Reclaimed

His

and Head Man greater still that the second story is connected in any way with, the first. The new picture, which comes to-day to the Majestic Theatre is a absorbing drama. The screen story was adapted from the play by Jean Bart, and Rains' supporting cost Includes Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, three-year-old Baby Jane.

not

most

CORRESPONDENCE

Reports From Spain

To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraphi.

Bir The Italian Consul General.in. Hongkong on the authority of news in his possession, Is able to state that reports of the number and quantity of Italian military units in Spain, as as the outcome of the recent events in Spain are lucking in foundu-

tion.

that

He stresses equally the point the majority of reports reaching Hongkong are very contradictory and generally oxaggerated in regard at least to the landing and activities of Italian elements on Spanish

To prove further the incollat f the news he needs only point to the telegram published purporting to came from the "head of the Italian Government, and which report has to

· bo tonaldered as devoid of-truth-

R. Consolato Generale d'Italia-in: