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KING'S THEATRE
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From Pillar To
Post
By Ely Culbertson
Written br James Ashmore Creelman and Meville Baker, the
"You'd make a great states- jatory is
of the world when the man." my opponent cynically re- influence of Christ's teaching was marked to his parmer. jabout to be felt. A man, embit had all the earmarks of a man tered when poverty costs him the making a momentous decision- lives of his wife and child, makes while actually making a beautiful money and power the aims of his straddle"
of
career. How he rises from a The criticism may have been blacksmith's forge to pagan splen- unkind, but it certainly was justi- dour, travelling a road
strexa fied.
East's error was that with avarice and cruelty, is thril
many a more experienced player Company Meetings Ling told in the picture. His he wanted to try out every suit. conquests as a gladiator, killing He should have recognised that for pay are gripping highlights. ¡this was
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Horse-stealing and slave-dealing
one of the many no trump hands which contain are other means he employs to
two in each of three- stopper or swell his fortunes. Finally, as
suits, and the bulk of the tricks master of the arena, he stages
In the race for NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. spectacles in which thousands are in one long suit.
slaughtered for the amusement of time which often develops in such TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN a degraded and blood-thirsty popu- a case, the task of the defence is that the ORDINARY YEAR-lace. Then, at the height of his to pick one of the weak spots (the LY MEETING of the Society will triumphs, he discovers that all his weakest, if possible] and hammer be held at the HEAD OFFICE wealth and power cannot save from out the stoppers before declarer's
There often i Union Building, Hong Kong, on the fate of the arena his son, who suit is established. FRIDAY, 22nd May, 1936, at 11 has defed the brutal Roman law. is time for one shift, but practi- o'clock a.m., for the purpose of As the drama unfolds through cally never for two. receiving the Report of the Direc-ja vivid pageantry of fierce conflict | tors and the Statements of Ac-and violent emotions, it advances count to 31st December, 1935, and towards the most spectacular and Jof declaring Dividend, etc. breath-taking climax the de
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C. 10 4 2 is being swept away. that Marcus feels the urge of the Master's teachings, and gives up his life to save the help- less ones ahout him.
THE FOURTH EXTRA RACE CLOSED from 4th
MEETING will be held (wea-May, Both Days inclusive. ther permitting) at HAPPY VAL-
By Order of the Board, SATURDAY, 2nd May,
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1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Belf will be rung at 1.30 p.m
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
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SA STEPHAN ST.
A. W. HUGHES, General Manager. Hong Kong. 24th April, 1936.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
By Order of the Board,
· A. W. HUGHES, General Manager. Hong Kong, 24th April, 1936.
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The bidding:
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3NT [final bid] deliberation, West
Preston Foster, rapidly rising (South to screen stardom, plays the lead-10" ing role of Marcus. the smith. 18 Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, Joh¤(2NT Pass Wood, Louis Calkern, David Holt, After some Dorothy Wilson and Wyrley Birch led the four of clubs-an unfor- play important roles.
tunate choice. East won with the At jace and I dropped the nine.
"WOMAN TRAP QUEEN'S
› THEATRE
this point East made his first mis- take by returning the suit. By the "rule of eleven" I was marked with only one card higher than But if this were the
that the SIXTY-SEVENTH! ORDINARY YEARLY MEET "ING of the Company will be This picture bristles with ac-1,
held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union venture, bustles with action, the four- Building, Hong Kong, on FRI- bursts with drama that makes you mine, his partner had led low 11.20 sit on the edge of your seat. The from a six card suit headed by DAY, 22nd May, 1936, at a.m., for the purpose of receiving story has swiftness of pace, and the king-Jack-ten! The more the Report of the Directors and wealth of situations. Aeroplanes, the Statements of Account to 31st motorboats and sure-footed horses that the lead was not fourth best. logical conclusion to draw waAS December, 1935, and of declaring further the brisk plot, which
lin which case a shift was im Dividends, etc.
starts with a spine-chilling crime; The SHARE TRANSFER and moves to a startling £nale in Perative.
I won the club return with the BOOKS of the Company will be the desert, when the desperadoes,
king and led the heart. West CLOSED from 4th May 18 22nd who have used cunning with suc- May, Both Days inclusive..
cess, fall into a trap and a ridi-covered, dummy, ducked, and East iculous one at that!
overtook with the king to lead a Gertrude Michael lends dash spade.
with the Having won and fire to the role of the thrill-spade king, dummy led the heart seeking girl who gets the front-jace and a low heart, which East page reporter into trouble. George snapped up. Disappointed at Murphy plays the reporter who not finding the spade ace in bia gets his tips from gangland and partner's hand. East decided to knows too much for his own good shift once more-a fatal error. ¡Akim Tamaroff, one of the best I won the diamond and overtook: screen characters living, gives a the jack of clubs with dummy's grand human performance as the queen to knock out the last Federal agent who poses as a heart. Nothing could defeat the
this stage, since that the SEVENTIETH OR-He is in the best Holbrook Elinn eight of dubs had been preserved DINARY YEARLY MEETING
tradition, A character that as an entry to bring in the hearts of the Company will be audiences have always loved. and since I still had a stopper in held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Others who further the action are both spades and diamonds. But hadį Building. Hong Kong, on FRI- Roscoe Karns, Samuel S. Hinds, East plugged away consistently at DAY, 22nd May, 1936, at 11.25 Sidney Blackmer and Jean Jagger. either suit, the defence would a.m, for the purpose of receiving
"HERE COMES COOKIE”... have taken five tricks before I
STAR THEATRE
could run the hearts.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
N TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN crock in order to trap the killers, contract at
the Report of the Directors and; the Statements of Account to 31stį
In this picture George Burns December, 1935, and of declaring and Gracie Allen provide all the ¡Dividend, etc.
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the
laughter and hilarious situations snuff box and a deft aim that lands. in a story that deals with Gracie's snuff in the eyes of the male fac- BOOKS of the Company will be experiences when she is given ators, and otherwise revels in CLOSED from 4th May to 22nd Free rein over her father's vast merry medley of mirth and May, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES, General Manager. Hong Kong, 24th April, 1936.
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George Barbier, anxious to ward The picture gives the audience off the attentions of a gigolo on a merry evening of entertainment his daughter Betty, has his family that is evenly divided between be- lawyer, Burns, make over his wilderment, surprise and hilarity. wealth to Gracie and then goes Miss O'Sullivan is charming as society girl of the for a holiday. With a fortune at the madcap her command Gracie almost drives story and Foster enacts his role
insane with her reckless with convincing skill.
Gwenn Burns spending.
takes the part of the bishop, aļ The climax is reached when she masterpiece in humorous charac stages a show and turns her en-jterisation. Lucille Watson, as hisi tire house into a theatre, and there adventure-loving sister, is an- produces a ludicrous play and other high point in the brilliant ends it with a scene from Romeo cast assembled for the new pic- jand Juliet, in which she takes ature.
part herself,
Others who score include Re- ginald Owen, Dudley Digges, Ivan "THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES”—Simpson, Lilian Pond. Arthur ORIENTAL THEATRE Treacher and Charles McNaugh-
ton,
"DRAKE OF ENGLAND”—____ ALHAMBRA THEATRE
When a bishop sets out, armed: with knowledge gleaned from de- tective books, to be an amateur detective, that promises entertain- [ment. "And this promise is more This is one of the most impor- than made good in "The Bishop tant historical productions ever Misbehaves."
made in England and the story, While Maureen O'Sullivan and has been constructed around the Norman Foster are lovers, in tron events which led to. the recogni- ble of their own making, the mis-tion of Sir Francis Drake, by behaving bishop, as enacted by Queen Elizabeth "and her court Edmund Gwenn, sets about follow- and of, his victorious battle with ing clues, trailing criminals, the Spanish Armada:" worsting &`quartet of them with a
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