Statement on Foreign Policy, Expected Tokyo, Dec. 18.
It is announced that the Foreign Minister, Mr, Hachiro Arita, will receive foreign correspondents on the afternoon' of December 19, for the first time since his resumption of the portfolio of Foreign Affairs late in October.
Mr. Arita, it is expected, will issue a statement, at the press conference, enunciating Japan's foreign policy on the new situation in East Asia—Reuter Emperor of Annam Flown to Saigon Saigon, Dec. 15.
Emperor Bao Dai of Annam was rushed here in a hospital plane today to be treated for a fracture of the leg sustained during a hunting trip. An X-Ray revealed that the Emperors left leg fractured slightly above the ankle. This is the first time that an Emperor of Ani has come to Saigon.—Hav her telephone scene in "The Great Ziegfeld" which won her the Motion Picture Academy Award. And again there is William Powell whose polishea performance as a distinguished artist, besides being worth watching in itself, contributes to ard enhances her ing to sense what was in store for them, theatre-goers flocked to the Cathay Theatre last night and were for from disappointed. "Escapade" is an extremely well-produced story of old Vienna, spiced with light intrigue behind the courtly manners, all to the accompaniment of lilting waltzes with occasional dashes of fine music as the centre of attention. But what win attention more than anything else is that rare quality brought to the screen by Luise Rainer, a sort of wistful poignancy that runs below the sur-Audiences felt the same quality portrayal. The ho ours won by the telephone scene in the earlier picture, could well go to t. studio scene here where her half-murdering of her troubled thoughts should hold a audience in rapt sympathy. There Frank Morgan too, in a sterner role then he usually pla cerns to resent this by the way acc J flashes of his familiar loud affability tend to hi through the crust of his part as a famous physician on tender hooks about his wife's activities.
As his brother, Reginald Owen overdoes slightly his mouthing monologues while Virginia Bruce is, in retrospect, merely a member of the cast.
Remarkably exciting pictures of the more dangerous winter sports open the programme, bob-sledders at one time hurtling over the bank and fiving straight towards the camera. To make it complete, the newsreel is also of unusual interest, including the innovation of a definitely labelled "Woman's Page."—RRR.
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