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Amusements
Cinema Notes
WHEN A MAN'S A MAN"--- ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Sixteen million people " of alli types and ages have read from cover to cover the fascinating Wright _classic, Harold Bell "When_a_Mms z in Front [11 indications, at least three times this number will enjoy the Fox Film adaptation of this mas-? terpiece. It will be shown at the Alhambra Theatre to-day with George O'Brien in the starring
role.
Universal, appeal is what both book and picture possess. The stereotyped version of the West Jaspeopled by desert rats lurking through the sage brush of the dry lands is, abandoned; in placej lis a vibrant story of modern { youth involved in a vital romance.
The
Arizona setting is ranch, to which comes a mysteri-| ous Easterner, short of money, obviously the gentleman, but, silent on his past. He, is be- friended by a hardened Wester- ner, changes from playboy to al rugged "man's! man,” and finds himself in the dilemma of his lifetime when he realizes that his best friend and himself are rivals | for the hand of the same girl
Before turning to writing. Harold Bell Wright knew the typical American man and wọ-
FREAK FACTS
NICKNAME.
CITY OF SEATTLE MOTHER & ACTRES JACTED WITH MANY DICKFORD:
LATER WON SCOLARSHIP W***
STOCK IN WASHI [GION DE
EDORITE BEA
jOWNS A
ANDREVESA FOR
EYES BROWIN
FIRST FILM WAS HAPPINESS ANCAD boer or "RIGHT TO LIVE
PEGGY WOOD
ABOUT FILM FAVORITES
"CİL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA *
B TAMOUS AS A WRITER, OF SHORT STORIES
COLIN
CLIVE GOT #S. STAGE
SAST WEEK A BROKEN KNEE BARKED KM-SK-M BETISH ARMY.
"Right to Live" will be screened at the Alhambra Theatre next Friday-
man as few others knew them roles in "Folies Bergere," which, Into "When A Man's A Man," he Roy Del Ruth directed from a poured his rich knowledge of the script by Bess Meredyth and Hal West and of the conflicts and ro Long, for release through United mance that arise, far from urban Artists. artificialities
Around George O'Brien are fea- tured Dorothy Wilson and Panl Kelly, in a cast composed of Harry Woods, Jimmy Butler Rich- ard Carisle, Clarence Wilson and Edgar Norton. It is a Lesser production, directed by Edward IF. Cline.
E
BEHOLD MY WIFE”...___
STAR THEATRE
BRIDGE NOTES
REFUSING TWO
OVERTRICKS
By Ely Culber
RADIO
FO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
In a rubber game, the de clarer should not risk his.con- [tract to try for overtricics-
The following even when there is a ten-to-one be broadcast to-day from the programme will chance that he can make two Hong Kong Broadcasting Station more tricks than he contracted ZBW. on a wavelength of 355
(845 KCS).
JAZZ BANJO AND PIANO RECITAL FROM STUDIO Dance: Music.
12.30-210 pm. (Approx)
for On the hand, below a metry loquacious kibitzer rebuked South for making only three notrump when ive-odd could have been made without much difficulty. As usual. I must dis. agree with the kibitzer. South; can only be praised for taking the absolutely safe play for three.
North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable North.....
Spade-A Q 10 7 5 Heart AJ 9 Diamond—A J ́6 Club--8-4
West-
Spade K9 6 Heart KQ 10 3 2 Diamond-8
Club Q 932
South
Spade- 4
Heart-8 6
DiamondKQ932
Club-K 10 6 5;
East
Spade 8-32
Heart-7 5 4
Diamond 10 7 5 4
Club-A J7
The bidding (Figures after bids refer to numbered explana-
Q
SPIRITUALISTS” ACTION
£3,000 Damages Awarded
North IS 3D (1) P Pass Pass
East South West Pass 20
Pass 3NT(2) Fass
Blond Gene Raymond makes anį JUDGMENT GOES BY DEFAULT excellent partner for dark Sylvia
Theatre.
Sydney in "Behold My Wife" The hearing yas concluded in which is now showing at the Star the King's Bench Division recent- ly of a libel action brought by the The story concerns a young Spiritualists National Union Ltd... -VARIETY PROGRAMME”–
man whose bride-to-be commits Hollins-chambers, Bridge-street, QUEEN'S THEATRE
suicide when his father tries to Deansgate, Manchester, against the buy her off. "He leaves in his International Prychic Gazette and -What should prove to be a
car, after quarrelling with his Mr. John Lewis, editor, and Bobby great attraction for the children- is provided by the Queen's Thea-dian girl when he is infured inside Press, Mitcham; printers.
family, and is nursed by an In- and Co., Ltd., Margate, and Hill tre to-day.
of Mickey Mouse, as devised by|**
Walt Disney, have been respon--WEST POINT OF THE AIR?- sible for giving cinemagoers
more
laughs than any other screen "star.”
MAJESTIC THEATRE
the
tory paragraphs.)
Pear Programmat.
12.30 pm-Becorded Mario 1 pan-Local Time and Weather Report
180 pm-Beuter Press Bulletins, Engby Press News, etc."
140 pm-4 Belay of the Rotary Club Tiia Speech from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden ME ̈G B Gifford-Hull on "The Progress of the Shing Man "Dam.”
210 p.m. (Approx) Close Down 4-7pm-Chinese Programme. 7:11 pm-European Programme. 7-713 pm-Tannbawer" Over- |ture" (Wagner).-
7.13-7.30 p.m.-Vocal Gems. Viktoria and her Hussar From Erik Charell's "White Hors
In 2
***7.30-8. pm-From the Stadio.
A Jazz Banjo and Piano Recital by Fred Carpio and Julian Silverio.
Programme
1. Banjo Soloso.m
Southern Echoes Knick Knocks.
2. Piano Solos
Handful of Keys.
According to the moo
3. Guitar Solos:
Avril Kisses,
This is my way.
Piano Sole
Soliloquy.
Jazzaristiz
8 pine-Local Time and Weather Report Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
8.05-843 pmA Variety Pro-
FIRMIDC... Vocalo
1-North here had his choice of It's An old Southern Costom
two bids. He could have sim-1
Cia Edwards. ply rebid his spades but chose "Oh, I didn't Know you'd get that to raise his partner's diamond
Alice Faye. bid because be desired to make (Coming to the King's Theatre short "George White's 1935 Seandais” a stronger call A simple rebid.lv),
The Mills Brothers.
of two spades would be a mini Vocal-What's the reason......... mmm rebid and the raise to three diamonds must be taken Piano Solos Piano Medley
Ronald Gourley. as encouraging...
Vocal 2-A slight gamble by South in Don't let you love go wrong
The Boswell Sisterz
view of the lack of protection in the heart suit, but one which Xylophone Solo-Bobbin Harry is definitely justified.
North Song
Harry Robbins...
I Live" in my dreams ("Let's live
to-night
on his diamond raise is looking for a game in either notrump or diamonds, and since South. is
Tallio Carmizati (Tenor).· Piano Duet Haarlem Bloes far too weak both in honqur
Jean Wiener and Clement Doncet. tricks and distribution to see Selection The Love Paradę - any hope of an eleven-trick -843-9 pm="Poeme" (Chansson, game in diamonds, he decides Op. 25) played by Georges Enesco
(Violin). to gamble on three notrump and 9-9.15 pm--A Belay of the Daren- count on his partner for the ty News Bulletin (Copyright by necessary
heart stopper. Reuter) he North, of course, if his hand is
1. Polonaise" in C Minor
an accident.-..
The Union Mickey Mouse cartoons. Silly
complained of He conceives the idea of sham articles published in April, 1933, Symphonies, The Three Stooges, ing his family by marrying the and February, 1934. In the first Screen Snapshots and Sports girl, and what fellows when he instance the printers were. Bobby shorts provide the nucleus of an returns home provides tense ai-Ltd, and, in the second, Hillside excellent programme. The antics tuations.
Press. The articles accused Union of "gross maladministra- tion of funds" subscribed for Parliamentary propaganda, which money, it was asserted, had not Wallace Beery has one of the been used for the purposes for This type of comedy is unique finest roles of his long career in which it had been subscribed. in its qualities of giving enter"West Point Of The tainment to old and young alike, which he is cast as an NC 0. Air" in
Verdict For Plaintia
9.15-9.40 plBand Selectionă. while the recording of world-who raises his son to be an offend the action, the paper did not Mr. Lewis did not appear to de-
unsuited for notrump, can al-ving Berlin Waltz Songs Medley
Dixieland Selection wide events and scenes showing ficer in the American air arm. put in a defence, and the printers
ways return to four diamonds. Maurice Chevalier Songs-Medley some of the world's greatest
Against the three-notrump con- 9.40-10 p.m. From the Studio. athletes in action add variety toverted sense of duty they quarrel
When his son develops a per- apologised.
tract West opened the heart. King A Pianoforte Recital" by A. W. the excellent programme.
The jury returned a verdict for and this trick was won by dummy's Lorena violently and Beery is court-mar-plaintiff Union against Bobby and Ace." Five rounds of diamonds
Programme tialled and dismissed the service. Co. assessing damages at £500, were now laid down and then the The film lacks nothing in poig- and against Hillside Press, with spade Jack, which, not being cover nancy and interest.
£1,000 damages.
ed by West, won, this trick. Lord "Hewart entered judgment| At this point South stopped and against these defendants for the counted. He had already won one That is the best description of
amounts mentioned, with casts. beart trick, five: diamond tricks and "Folies Bergere,"
Further, on motion, his lord-one spade trick, had another cer- Zanuck's new 20th Century, masi-story of P. T. Barnum, originator of appearance, against Mr. Lewis know he could surely develop an
This great picture traces the ship entered judgment, in defanit tain trick in the spade Ace, and} cal extravaganza, starring of the "greatest show on earth" (the editor), and the International other trick his ninth-by leading Maurice Chevalier, which is from his humble beginning as showing at the King's Theatre to grocery store assistant to the ages and costs.
a Psychic Gazette for £1,500 dam-up to the heart Jack |day
greatest showman the world, has The lavish dance and musical ever imown" d presentations, featuring more Wallace Beery in the title role than 70 of Hollywood's loveliest is lovable and clumsy, though dancing girls, were staged by slightly grotesque, and plays the Dave Gould in the sensational part with realism. Others in the manner for which the Paris musi-cast include Adolph Henjon, and cal institution, from which thelyirginia Bruce as Jemy Lind. film takes its name, as well as ita;
“FOLIES BERGERE KING'S
THEATRE
A night in Paris without the morning after.
Darryl F.
THE MIGHTY, BARNUM”- ORIENTAL THEATRE
DANGEROUS FOR OLD PEOPLE
Present-Day Roads
South accordingly, after bis spade-Jack held, led a low heart. West went up with the Queen, and South eventually just made his three-notrump contract as he never took a second spade finesse,
Chopla..
Chopin.
2 Nocturne in C Sharp minor
3. Prelude in C Sharp minor
Prelude in A Major Mazurka in C Major. Waltz in E Minor,
10 DmRenter Press
·10.05-11. p.m. Dance 11 `p-Close Down.
Do Not Neglect Rheumatis Had Mr. Gordon Taylor Purified And Enriched Pis Blood ÷With Dr. Williams' Pink Pilis Farber He Would Have Been It is easily seen by inspecting all Saved Several Tears Suffering four hands that South could have It is unfortunate for rheumatic suf. made five odd by merely continuing ferees when they try to ignore the Recording a verdict of accide with the spade-ault However, early signs of this painful malady, or waste time and money on Trong death at an inquest at Pitses, South was not playing Maurice exerts the inexhausti- MICE OUTGROW OLD Esser, or Mrs. Elizabeth A point duplicate game
Mr. Gordon Taylor, ot
mood and settings, is world-re-
|nowned.ca
HOME
250,000 To Be Removed
Southend-on-Sea
ble Chevalier charm in double messure in "Folies Bergere," in his first dual role not only as Charlier, the gay, straw-hatted, singing star of the "Folies Ber gere, but 25-a bemonocled French baron whom he imperson- ates in his act as well, we h A quarter of a million mice and #Theifum begins when the Baron 135,000 ats
grating goes off to try to raise funds to Faser cover a bank shortage and the MA Toc actor is called in to impersonate Raleig him in life as well as upon the red to stage.
Com Baron returns:
learns that
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