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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1934.
KING'S THEATRE TO-DAY AT THE SHOWING
Guessing Competi-
tion
1st Prize 12 Complimentary Tickets
CINEMA
HONG KONG
KING'S
"Finishing School"
2nd Prize 3 Complimentary Tickets | QUEEN'S :----- 3rd Prize 3 Compilmentary Tickets
The answers should be sent to the manager of the King's Thes- tre not later than 14th November. If two or more" answers will be will pe correct than the prize given to him whose name will re drawn."
1-Who was the money-lender that dared defy Napoleon? 2-How did the Rothschilds be- come the world's richest and most powerful family of bank-
e:6
3-Was It money or love that led the aristocratic yourg Fitzroy to seek the hand oʻ Rothschild's daughter? 4-Who was Nathan RothschEd's sweetheart during all his married life? 5-What did the Duke of Wel- lington say about the War Office?
1.
6-Why was Nathan Rothschild willing to break his daugh- ter's heart?
7-What, was the secret means.
of communication by which Rothschild baffled Europe before the telegraph was in- "vented?
8-How did the Allied Ministers seek to packet a share of the great French loan without cost? 9-What was the House of the
Red Shield? 10-Who called herself "the mo- ther of half the loans In Europe"?
11-Who was the Erst man In London to get the news from Waterloo?
12-Why did Baron Ledrantz hate
the "Rothschilds?
13 What was the death-bed ad- vice the father of the Roths- childs gave his five sons? 14-Who called the Duke of Wel- -lington "nosey." behind his
back?
“AUNT SALLY":
Comedy At The Queen's
Cicely Courtneldge, the famous British comedienne, has the lead- ing role in the spicy comedy "Aunt Sally" which opened at the Queen's Theatre yesterday. The picture
"Aunt Sally'
ORIENTAL:
"Kennel Murder Casa"
LEE:-
"King of the Arena"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA:----
"Hi, Nellie"
MAJESTIC:
"Change of Heart"
KING'S:-
Coming
"The House of Rothschild"
ORIENTAL:-
"Terror Trull" "Fugitive Lovers"
i
"Headline 'Shooter" - "The Working Man" MAJESTIC:-
]]
"Hold That Giri"
LEE:-
"The Invisible Man"
ALHAMBRA:—.
"Mickey Mouse' Silly Sym-
phony Programme"
STAR
"Lily Turner"
20 Million Sweethearts"
"Berkeley Square"
"Hell and Rign Water"
WORLD:-
"Tenderfoot" "Laughing Boy".
"TERROR" TRAIL"
At The Oriental
Tom Mix, dean of all western stars, appears in "Terror Trail" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday. Univer- sai has spared no expense in sup- plying a 'splendid supporting cast and beautiful backgrounds of mountain scenery and western plains.
TO-DAY
AT 2:30,5.10.7.15 & 9,30 P.M.
KINGS
GIRLS ON THE VERGE OF WOMAN.
HOOD AND
HUNGRY FOR ROMANCE.
inishing SCHOOL
Wan
FRANCES DEE BILLIE BURKE GINGER ROGERS BRUCE CABOT
FIGHT AGAINST SNOBBERY
In "Finishing School".
A misguided girl's pathetic.ro mance and struggle against odds in
RADIO Pictura
Directed by Wanda Turbock and George-
Nicholls, Jr. Marian & Cooper, executive producer.
"HI, NELLIE!”
At The Alhambra To-day
"It's swell," said Mervyn LeRoy. Now I've got someone to do my worrying for me."*
"You can't have him worrying
an ultra-exclusive girl's boarding | for you all the time," Paul Muni school is the basis of "Finishing | objected. "He's got to do some for School," RKO-Radio Ficture which me.”“ blases a new theme trail in modern screen drama, showing at the King's Theatre.
So it was, decided that Ned Sparks should worry ten minutes for Mervyn, who was directing "Hi, It is a daring story of young Nellie," the Warner Bros. picture love, adult hypocrisy and the ulti-opening to-day at the Alhambra mate triumph of right thinking in Theatre, then ten minutes for the face of overwhelming snob- Muni, who was starring it it, and bery.
so on down, the list. There were For the Arst time in an American ¦ ever' a few minutes of worrying The story has humour aplenty. made film, societymad mothers allotted each
Sidney day to While there is a quartette of and profiteering boarding schools Sutherland and Abem Finkel who famous
heavies Francis are revealed as a menace. screen
dramatized the Story by Roy McDonald, Bob Kortman, John Frances Dee, Billle Burke, Gin- Chanslor for the screen. But not St. Polls and Frank Brownlee, who ger Rogers and Bruce Cabot head many minutes. Everybody agreed acquit themselves fiendishly as an outstanding cast of capable that they had already done their usual the imititable comic Ray-players. The plot revolves around I job.
mond Hatton, virtually stars in Virginia Radcliff, sweet, «sensitive Ned Sparks, he of the eternally his role of Lucky Dawson, the and unlearned in the ways of the downcast "pan": looks like the gambler who'll bet on anything world. is suddenly thrust into the worrying kind. As a matter of affords Cicely plenty of opportuHis drinking and shooting scene society of girls who are past mas- fact, he's not at all. He protests nity to exploit her brilliant versatil-
is one of the furniest ever seenters in petting, drinking and wild ❘ that at heart he's really one of ity, and as a result, it provides ex-
in a western film.
parties, although nominally under the Happiness Boys. Despite cellent entertainment.
the discipline boasting a perfect Mervyn LeRoy's glee at finding atmosphere.
some one in his troupe to take care These girls, students at the of all the worries, Ned says he'd smart academy where Virginia bas, be no good at that sort of thing. been placed by her silly, vain, só- "To Tell the truth,” he said, clety butterfly mother, trick Vir- with all that Sparksian solemnity. ginla into attending a secret ren- "there's always a little bird sing- dezvous with some sporty college ing in my heart. And I'm very boya.
kind to old people. You'd never While attempting to escape from guess it," 1 auppose." He sighed the unwelcome advances of one of deeply with resignation, and went them, Virginia meets Ralph Mac-on worrying for the company. Farland, a' struggling doctor. "In addition to worrying. Sparks
Set with music, songs and dance. the picture concerns the efforts of an unknown cabaret singer, Sally "Bird (Cicely Courtneldge) to break into fame in a new London night club owned by Mike Kelly (Sam
Hardy).
At her Arst attempt; she is thrown out of the club,, but by a clever ruse she again, returns, this time as a famous French actress. She is thus engaged to star in the cabaret and eventually proves ar enormous success. She Boon bo- comes, however, a victim of gang- sters and the way in which she escapes, provides many a laughter. Besides the brilliant performance of Cicely Courtneldge and the many delightful sequences in the
Arthur Rankin does an excellent job as the weakling brother of the heroine, who finally manages to throw off the yoke imposed by the gang, and to go straight. Too much cannot be said for Naomi Judge, the pretty girl who, raised on the Dakota plains, knows ex actly how a western girl should
act.
Tony, Junior, Tom's new mount, Is a dead-ririger for Tony and does a great job.
picture, there are also many musi- cal numbers which are thorough ly enjoyable.
In short, "Aunt Sally" is a pic ture worth seeing.
LEE THEATRE
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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 and 9.30 P.M.: KEN MAYNARD
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THE
INVISIBLE MAN
UNIVERSAL PICTURE
The secret romance that blos-plays the role of an ace reporter soms between the boy and giri is in this exciting newspaper drama. discovered and the girl is turned Others in the cast are Glenda Far- in disgrace. Arell, Robert Barrat, Kathryn Ber- stirring drama unfolds from this gava and Hobart Cavanaugh point to the final climax.
from the school
the picture. Bülle Burke is cast
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE Tx. No. 95919 25332
-COMMENCING SATURDY- CALA PREMIEN MICKY-TO-MURROW AT 2.30 P.M.
HE DEFIED HIS ENEMIES TO SAVE A NATION....... and his daughter's happiness!
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GEORGE ARLISS
In DARRYL, F.'ZANUCK'S production
"CHAINED
A. Crawford - Gable
Picture
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable are together, again, this time in one of the most powerful dramatic vehicles of the year. The picture, directed by Clarence Brown, is en titled "Chained" and is coming on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre. A specini Metro-Goldwyn-Muyer production, it is lavishly mounted and painstakingly produced. The swift-moving story, following the new trend, was especially written for the screen by Edgar Selwyn and adapted by John Lee Mahin.
The supporting cast is exception- al, with Otto Kruger, Una O'Con- nor. Suart Erwin, and Marjorie Gateson prominently cast. But chtef honours go to the co-stars, who make living, characters out of their separate roles, and weave a deep-hued tapestry of the pol .gnant romance of Diane and Mike.. The locale of the Alm. ever
THE HOUSE OF shifting, covers half of the Western ROTHSCHILD
with Badli Kerleft Lorette : Young Kobart Young
Released then UNITED ARTISTS
REFUSED £800 A
WEEK
An Offer To Shirley Temple
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Oct. 17. Shirley Temple, the six-year-old fim star, has been offered £83,200 for her "professional services" for two years--and the offer has been rejected.
According to her father (quoted by a correspondent from Holly- wood), Shirley was offered. £800 a week for two years with £10,000 in cash, payable at once, to blnd the contract.
"I told the man who made the offer that Shirley was already un- der contract." Mr. Temple says."
"His plan was to use her in wireless broadcasts, personal" sp- pearances, and to boost her earn- ing capacity in films."
Shirley Temple is said to be re- celving now a salary of ("only") £240 a week.
SOLDIER PHILOSOPHER
1
(Special Alz-Mall Service).
Landon, Oct. 17. Gen. Smuts, whose Rectorial ad- dress at St. Andrews contained so eloquent an appeal for buman treedom. was brought up in the Liberal Cambridge tradition of the late Victorian era. "
When he was an undergraduate at Christ's, although he read Law. he had the reputation of being one of the most promising and brilliant of undergraduate philosophers.
This humanist approach to life has survived the enforced military discipline of two wars. N
In spite of his dislike of regi-
Frances Dee is heralded as never more charming than in the role of Virginia. Titian-haired Ginger as Virginia's vain, shallow mother,mentation and militarism, there Rogers, vivacious and alluring, and Bruce Cabot is the young doccan be no question of Gen. Smuts's provides the touch of comedy to tor.
as a fine.
TO-DAY
TO
SATURDAY
reputation
QUEEN'S
Ar 2.30, 5.10
7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
| hemisphere, moving from New York to shipboard, to Buenos Aires, to a South American ranch, back to New York and thus North to a Lake Placid resort. It is the kind of fare critics have been crying for: swift credible, well mounted, well acted and, above all, enter- taining.
4 SHOWS
1.20-5.19 7.13-8.30
4
MAJESTIC
Home THEATRE market Nathan Band Kowloom. Tel. 57222.
10-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 P.M.
again
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Janet
GAYNOR Charles. FARRELL
CHANGE OF HEART
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HOLD THAT
GIRL"
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ORIENTAL
LAST TIMES TO-DAY
SEE THE BEST DETECTIVE STORY EVER SHOW ON THE SCREEN,
WILLIAM
Powell
Returns as PHILO VANCE in
"THE KENNEL MURDER CASE
Water Bros. theilk
hit with 6-star castiga.
A REAL SUPER-THRILLER
FLEMING
·ROAD
TEL. 23473
TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY THE SCREEN FAIRLY SIZZLES WITH THIS FAST "ACTION COMEDY DRAMA.
TOM MIX
Tom and his [new⋅ pony, TONY, Jr., In the fastest Western mela" drama filmed sincë talkies:
were born.
TERROR TRAIL
LONDON'S NEW y of Bath and Bristol, and repre-
RECORDER
sented. South Derbyshire as a Liberal in the House of Commons for four years. Mr. Grégory suc- ceeded the late Judge Atherley Jones as Judge of the Mayor's and City of London Court in 1929-
Judge Gregory, K. C. and was appointed Common Ser
(Special Ale Mall Service)
London, Oct. 17. Judge Holman Gregory, KO has been elected as Recorder of the City of London by the Court of Aldermen in place of the late Sir Ernest Wild, at a salary of £4,000 a year. The choice was made at a special meeting of the Court held at Guildhall, at which Lord Wakefield, as Acting Lord Mayor, presided.
Lord Wakefield said that at the request of his brethren he cominated Mr. Holman Gregory. for appointment to the office of: Recorder,
„The Court agreed, and Lord Wakefield then formally declared Mr. Gregory duly elected," pro- vided always that if the said Hol-” man Gregory shall not be appoint- ed by his Majesty to exercise judi- cial functions the said Felection shall be null and vold of no effect.”. The Court resolved to instruct the Town Clerk to ask the Lord Chancellor that the King might be graciously pleased to appoint Mr. Gregory to exercise judicial functions,
Mr. Sheria Pears was invited to take a seat in the Court during his Shrievalty.
Bir George Truscott said that the Court would be "glad to hear that the Lord Mayor (who was congratulated on
hebaronetcy conferred on "him by the King) continued to make progress.
Judge Holman Gregory, who in 70 years of age, was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple In 1897, having previously practised as, Solicitor inng- native ty
| Bristol." He beedi a bencher i
1920. He was recorder Successive-
Jeant in place of the late Bir Henry Dickens two years ago,
ALAMBRA
TIN XTEC
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
See Why Two Little Words Made".
PAUL
teur the town in twol
"kh Nellie
And that's the title of his latest and greatest, Warner Bros. hic C
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