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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, . . 1938.

GREAT FILM COMBINES

ΤΟ BOOST

Plan Means More U.S. Cash For Us

By Moore Raymond

TWO GREAT FILM CORPORATIONS, ONE BRITISH AND THE OTHER AMERICAN, HAVE COMBINED TO PRODUCE AND PUBLICISE BRITISH FILMS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC.

This was announced recently by Gaumont-British and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after conferences lasting a fort.

night.

An official statement said that G.B. would in future produce for M.G.M. in this country, that M.G.M. would distribute these films in England, and that G.B. would handle them in America with its distributing organisation there.

Anglo-American co-operation of this kind will stimulate production in Britain, and will provide many thousands of pounds of American money for the making of those British films.

M.G.M. will in future put up half the cost of production of any film made by G.E. or its subsidiary company. Gainsborough

Pictures.

Therefore two of the biggest film companies in the world (G.-B. has capital of £6,250,000 and M.G.M. of £30,000,000) will be working together for their mutual benefit

The official announcement issued jointly by Mr. Isidore Ostrer (chairman of Gaumont-British) and Mr. Sam Eckman (managing director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in England)

states:--

"The first of the films under this arrangement is "The Lady Vanishes,' directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

"It will be followed by a Jessie Matthews picture, directed by Carol Reed; and another, starring Will Hay, directed by Mar- cel Varnel.

"Maurice Ostrer will be in charge of production, together with his producers, Edward Black and Victor Peers.

"The most recent success of the Gaumont-Briush and Gainsborough Studios, 'Owd Bob,' starring Will Fyffe, is making history at

the mo- ment

ent in America.

"Undoubtedly Anglo-American co- operation and friendship will be fur- thered by this arrangement, and the advantages to G.B. and M.G.M. must also prove beneficial to the entire future of British films."

LION AND LADY ·

Mr. Maurice Ostrer said:

"It is a feather our cap to get

G

Franco Gets His Revenge

ENERAL FRANCO got

his

back

own

оп

"Potato" .Jones recently,

BRITISH

UNITE PICTURES

UFS

Robert Wadlow, giant youth of Alton, I., as he went for an alr ride in St. Louis, Mo. While st growing, Wadlow, who was 20 on reaching the Washington's birthday, is believed by scientist to be

He stands 8 feet 8 inches completion of his phenomenal stature. and weighs 465 pounds.

WED TO GET

HER LEGACY

OF £12,000

RADIÓ BROADCAST

A Talk by the Author Of "Chinese Evergreen"

FRENCH PROGRAMME Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 .c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. 9.52m.c's, per and 8-11 p.m. on

second,

H.K.T. (AK).

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service

of Intercession from St.

Cathedral.

12.30 Coleman Hawkina

phono Solos).

John's

(81xo-

Sorrow Slow Fox-Trot; Some Of These Days (Shelton Brookes); After You've Gone (Creamer, Laylon).

12.40 Concert Walizes

Broken Life, Waltz (Arr. Schwartz) Novelly Orchestru; Rusalan

(Ar Schwartz);

Spring Waltz

Russlan

Novelty

Broken String,

Waltz Nanette (Arr. Sch

Schwartz). Orchestra; The Waltz.

....Russian Novelty Orchestra: The Swallows Waltz (Josef Strauss) ..Johann Strauss and His Viennese Orchestra. 1.00 Local Time Signol and Wea- ther Report

1.93 Luigi Fort (Tenor) and Or- chestre Raymonde.

Indian MallDescriptive (Lumo- the); Glow Worm-Intermezzo (Paul Lincke) .....Orchestre Raymonde; Ay, Ay, Ay (Perez and Freire). Luigi Fort; Ideale (Tosti); Si Vous Luigi

Compris Melodie (Denza)

Fort; Pouper Valsante (Poldini); The Dancing Clock (M. Raymonde; Ewing).....Orchestre Orient Express (G. Mohr); Taming The Tiger (La Rocca)....Orchestre Raymonde.

1.30. Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- mente.

1.40 Rachmaninoff-Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30.

Played by Vladimir Horowitz (Plano) and The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.

2.15 Close Down.

6.00 Georges Thill (Tenor) and Ninen Vallin (Soprano) In A French Programme

Leg Saltimbanques - Ouverture (Louis Ganne)....Orchestre Sym- phonique Du Lutelia Wagram sous la de Fernand Heurteur; direction

(Bruneau); Du Moulin L'Attaque

the American distribution of the pic-two of seven bombs droppeď / A GIRL who entered into a "marriage of convenience" "Adieux a la foret"; Sopho-air De

tures we shall make for M.G.M.

"We have had a distributing organisation over there for years. and M.G.ML.'s consent

to our handling the Brilish product we make for them shows how we are co-operating."

Asked if the two famous trade- marka, the M.G.M. lion and the

"hit-

so as to claim a big inheritance sat sobbing in the dock at Bow-street.

was

from a lone hydroplane h ting and sinking the 1,451-

She was Mrs. Anne Godwin j ton steamer Dellwyn in the Mitchell, aged 22, of Curzon- British owned port of street, Mayfair, W., who Gandia, south of Valencia. placed on probation on condition The Dellwyn is one of three that she temporarily entered n Gainsborough Indy, would both pre-"Wyn" ships trading to Spain Church of England home. cede any im mode under the new and is managed by Angel, Con arrangement, Mr. Ostrer said:

and Co., of Cardiff. "Potato" lion-then a title Jones is n director of the com- "Yes, first the that states, 'Gaumont-British present

Gainsborough picture-then the pany, Gainsborough indy."

a

to

She was accused of obtaining onds and credit by false pretences

or fraud.

Mr. E. A. Carse, prosceuling, said in one case Mrs. Mitchell bought a He made a name for himself insult worth £8 18s. 6d. and gave a April 1937 by being the Best cap-cheque which was returned marked

General blockade of Bilbao.

His ship then potato-carrying

HOPE FOR FUTURE asked if the G.B. studios at Shep-tain hord's Bush, where 200 people were thrown out of work when produc- tion censed there in April last year, would reopen as a result of the new agreement.

Gains-

"Not at UC moment," Mr. Ostrer sald. "We'll make the Will Hay film at the borough sludios and the Jessle Matthews picture at Pinewood. But Shepherd's Bush may reopen later,"

An M.G.M. officiul said:

run

Born- But Not Officially

Jean (Massenet): "Abl qu'il est loin

with Eugene

mon pays!"....Georges Thill

conducted by Orchestra Bigot; Gavoite ("Mignon"-Thornas) Leopold Stokowsit! and the Phi- ladelphia Orchestra Berceuse De Jocelyn (Godard-Arr. G. Sandro)..

Vallin Ninon

accompanied

D'Art Piano and Violoncello; Feux fice (Extrait des "Prelude" 20 Livre Marcel Glampi -Debussy)

sMassenet)

ccompanied by Mes

Op.

Dy

Coeur (Piano Solo); Ouvre Ton

Serenade Bizet: Nult (Spanich D'Espagne (From "Scener Pittores

Thill Faure at the

Deluge Prelude Piano; Le

Toscha (Saint-Saens,

45)....20 Seldel (Violin Solo) with Max Ra- Piano: Paysage binovitch at the (Theuriet and Hain); Si Mes Vers

Ninon Vallin

with Orchestra Avalent Des Ailes (Hugo and Hahn) conducted by Godfroy Andolfi; Le Maurice Dambois

Police are faced with the strange Franco's "N.D."

She also gave worthless, cheques tusk of helping babies in the Frim was the 885-ton for meals at Qungiino's Restaurantley, Camberley and Bashe area of Marie Llewellyn; In another case she hired a ear Surrey to prove that they are alive. Nin and his most-quoted "wlscernsk and was driven to Croydon and back. The year's register of births, mar-Saule (Hahn). "Spanish Navy? Never heard of it and gave the chauffeur a worthlessringes and deaths has been stolen since the Armada."

cheque for £3.

Insurgent bombers never gave him

after place

that, nithough he changed hin ship.

ATTACKS WENT ON

At the end of last year he "swal-

"This deal will not make any dif-lowed the anchor" (retired), and ference to our own production over bought himself an interest in the

shipping company. here.'

M.G.M., encouraged by the sue- cess of their "Yank at Oxford," star- ring Robert Taylor, have scheduled at least another six British films to cost nearly £1,000,000.

265 M.P.H. Torpedo | Flying Boat

"It appears," said Mr. Carse, "that under her grandfather's will she was due to receive between £12,000 and

£15,000 on attaining the age of 21 or if she married before.

FORGED CONSENT

from Camberley Registrar's office.

Until it is found people who have ofcial registrations not coples of cannot legally prove their existence.

IN STOLEN SAFE

Burglars carried off an iron cafe weighing 14ewt., and containing

Concello Solo) with Fernand

Hon

at the Plano; Minuet Of The Will O' The Wisps (From "Damna- ..Serge Faust-Berlioz) of Fat Koussevitzky and the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra.

6.50 Violin And Viola Solos. Major (Brahms-Joachim); Nomanza Hungarian Dance No. 6 In B Flat Andaluza (Spanish Dance (Vio- Op. 22 Yehudi

To get possession of this money £20 in silver, a cheque book and the (Sarasate)companiment by Marcel

lin) Piano

she married a man named Mitchell

Gazelle; Minuet With Two Varia- in July, 1930. It was apparently register. But Franco's attacks. On the purely marriage of convenience to "If it costs £1,000 we must have tons from Sonata (K. Stamitz);

thase books back," a representative Minuet And Finale from Divert "Wyn" ships continued.

The raid on the Dellwyn was the comply with the terms of the will.

received of the Registrar-General told a re-mento (J. Haydn)....Eero

Selin sixth attempt to get her. She has "Mitchell apparently

(Viola d'amore) Grete Eweler (Vio- been machine-gunned, and attacked some consideration, for I understand porter.

lin) and Gregory Pecker (Cello). with Incendiary and high-explosive he has never lved with her. That

7.05 Closing Local Stock Quote- is perhaps the beginning of all this trouble.

o Songs by Elizabeth Schumann (Soprano).

bombs.

No one was injured. Caplain William Elliott

and his crow "At the time of the marriage they were ushore when the Dellwyn was apparently forged the consent of bombed.

their parents, for they were both under age and their parents knew nothing about il."

↓

The ship was sunk in only 168ft. of A Torpedo-carrying flying-boat, introducing a new class of aircraft, water, and her cargo of 1,500 tons of

A banking account was opened for trustees at has been produced by the Bellonca coal can be salvaged easily. The Co., of the United States, and may be cargo has been nuhorised by the Mrs. Mitchell by the

Pontypridd, Glamorgan, continued Non-intervention Committee. adopted for the American navy.

Torpedo-currying aircraft

Gandia is not protected by ahil- Mr. Carse, and over a perlod £5,500 pioneered by Great Britain, and aircraft guns, and the raiding plane was paid in.

simple, job. One bomb

Other money had been advanced' many squadrons of the R.A.F. and had the Fleet Air Arm are equipped wrecked the docksheds, another tore by the trustees.

30ft. of railway track-all

with them.

were

up

#

"From May, 1930, unt!! early 1937," They are either land aircraft or Dritish-owned and prominently disgald Mr. Carne, "Mrs. Mitchell must have got through about £8,000 or are specially adapted for employ playing the Union Jack..

Angel, Son and Company could £9,000, and after that a number of ment in carrier ships or other war-

Jones the news. cheques, 87 In nil, and one for £700, ships. In

this respect the new not tell "Pointo"

was.have had to be returned. American type differs from them, for They do not know where he It is a flying-bout designed to co- "He's on holiday," a reporter was

"THIS WILD ORGY" on the coust operate with a fleet for defence told, "somewhere against submurines. It is consider between Swansea and Scotland," ably faster, than any British torpedo,

homber in service.

There is, however, a new British type in production, the performance!

of which has not been divulged,

Among new British designs not yet

in

Girl Baptised

production there is a torpetio- In The Sea

carrying flying-bout,

The "battleship submarine de- stroyer," us the new United States

"She was living the life of the very wildest extravagance, and having been known as a young woman of .considerable wealth, no doubt that

AT 80-

PERFECT

LOVE"

(A Dream 01 Fruhlingstraum

Der Spring Muller Schubert) Einsame (The Solitary One), Op. 41 (Lappo-Schubert).

7.17 Mozart-Symphony Major, K. 551 ("Jupiter").

Major.

Played by the Vienna monic

In C

Philhar

by

conducted Orchestra

Twice married and father of ten Bruno Wulter.

children, the Rev. W. T. Dutton,

7.45 - Stadio A Talk By The

of Cawley-road, Chichester, claims Author of "Chinese Evergreen"-Dr.

at the age of 80 to have found his Victor Purcell. perfect love.

1te told the Sunday Dispatch re-

cently.

"She is 60, and

21

widow, but doesn't look a day more than 40.

"It was a Whitsun romance and

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,

8.01

Ben'.

London Relay-Under Bl

A talk by Howard Marshall." 8.15 Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Rosamunde-Ballet Music (Schu-

of all the hundreds of women bert); Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 have met I know she is the one (Franz Liszi-art.

Muller-Berg-

for me.. She is Alling a much-haus); Torch Dance No. 1 In B Flat needed place in my heart."

Major (Meyerbeer),

8.40 Bindio-Rev, C. B, IL. Sargent Орста.

nssisted her in getting this remarks fiancee, whom he will marry-40th Series of able amount of credit"

There were other offences which Mrs. Mitchell wished to be taken into consideration.

Her father was not

next week, is Mrs. Halsey, of Chichester-and she has 10 chil- dren, too.

"A Wagner Programme."

9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.60 Dance Music.

Ohl You Sweet Thing-Fox-Troi; Shine Qulakstep....Harry ftoy and The Mayfair Tils Orchestra" from Mr. Norman Porkes, defending,

Bears Save Movie Part of a big crowd on Weymouth sald Mrs. Mitchell's mother died

Hotel with vocal refrain; Chicago-

and. His Fox-Trot....Nat Gonella craft is called, has a twin "Wasp" (Dorset) beach protested noisily three years ago,

off.

Boise City, Ida.

Georgians. engine of 950 hp. It is claimed that after Pastor T. Ryder, of the Four well

10.00 The fiming of "Northwest Fass-

London Relay—'Saturday It has a maximum speed of 265 miles Square Gospel Church, had baptised "With all that money," he added, per hour and a cruising range of a girl and a man in the sea. People, "Mrn. Mitchell soon became the prey age" here was seriously threatened Night Variety,

The Two Lealles; (Leslie Sarony of a large number of people who owing to the scarelly of whiskers. arguing, surrounded the pastor. 1,200 miles.

It carries a crew of four, with) The giri, Miss Gladys Jackson, sponged on her and led her on in However, an SOS call for 10 men and Leslie Holmes) with The B.B.C. with beards who knew how to swim Variety Orchestra conducted by armament consisting of one 1,1001b twenty-one years old, of Park Road, this wild orgy of extravagance."

by torpedo, three 2001b, bombs, and two Watford, Hearts, claimed after the Whatever happened, her husband and were not afraid of cold water Charles Shadwell: Presented fixed and four movable machine-ceremony that she had been cured of was not in a position to support her, two baby jays lying on the ground. John Sharman,

even if he wished to.

finally solved the problem. paralysis.

Funk..

11.00 Close Down.

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