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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 8.15, 7.20 & 8.80 p.m.
ONE HOUR TO LOVE
AND THEN HER WEDDING BELLO BARG`HIS DEATH KNELL I Jimmy and Joan together again in thaïr first dramatic hit in two youre--and, make it from us. it is worth waiting for i
"He Was Her Man'
Die Warner Bros.' Dramatic Thrill, with ' "JAMES ÇAGNEY-JOAN BLONDELL
NEXT CHANGE
"Peter Ibbetson" ·
GARY COOPER-ANN HARDING
4 SHOWS
TIKE NI TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936.
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:--
“It's In The ́Air"
QUEEN'S :
"He Was Her Man”
ORIENTAL:-
"Arizonian"
"Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Girl In Danger"
MAJESTIC:-->
* "Diamond Jim"
STAR:
**Annapolis Farewell" i
Coming
TRAINING GALLOPS
The following times were clockz" at the Valley on February and & respectively
GRIFFINS February ?
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2nd 3rd
tance Or. Qr.
Last Qr.
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3943 1.05.3 1.37.3 2.113 247.4 3.2 37 Donovan ramascopal 434 1.092 153 2.23.3
31.2
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Royal Wedding
Eve
Rosemary
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Royal Scot and
Royal Consort" 1
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The Big Parade of Funters in the New Laugh Hit! What a gathering of your favorite comedy screen stars in this tot of 1,000 laughal Jack Benny, eron, Fanndée than on the air leads the parade of cut upe 14 miles up in the ale-end to a new high in hilarity.
Jack BENNY
IT'S IN THE AIR
TED HEALY UNA MERKEL NAT PENDLETON MARY CARLISLE
· Dunded by CLRLES Y. BIENVER Prayed by HAMIT NAST"
SHIRLEY TEMPLE CHANGE in “THE LITTLEST REBEL"
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SHOWING TO-DAY
*THREE CHEERS FOR THE NAVY! ·
A smashing, dramatic ro. CC of America's midshipmen
NNAPOLIS FAREWELL
The "Bongo! Lancies of the U. S. Navy.
A Paramount Picture with
SIR GUY STANDING ROSALIND KEITH TOM BROWN RICHARD CROMWELL
`and the Midshipmen of the U. £. Neriladerry
Directed by Alexander Hall NEXT CHANGE. GEORGEARLISS
"SHE"
KING'S:-
"The Littlest Rebel" QUEEN'S:—
"Peter Ibbetson' ORIENTAL:-
"She"
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR
"The Littlest Rebel"
"Cardinal, Richelieu" MAJESTIC:
"I Live My Life"
IT'S IN THE AIR
At The King's Theatre
There is something new under the sun!
And it is now showing at the King's Theatre in the form of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's thrilling laugh-special, "It's In The Air."
For a new angle an screen plats, Jack Benny's latest star- ring picture can't be beat,
The audience screamed, laugh- ed, cried and cheered at the thrilling stratosphere flight, with Benny and Ted Healy as the no- vice participants who have to take to the air to escape the long arm o the law for their shady deal- inga..
At The Oriental Theatre
Una Merkel, as Benny's wite, "She" is a tale of high adven shows that she is as adept at turo and fierce conflict. Two dramatic portraya's 15 comedy. acientista, following an ancient Nat Pendleton, as the dumb "G- legend, search an ice-locked coun- Man," had the audience holding try far beyond-kivilization's last their sides. Mary Carlisle was outpost for a flame of life-giving never better than in her charac Gre. It is a story highly charged terization of the fapper vamp, with mystery.
They find a king-while Harvey Stephens' and Grant dom of fabulous grandcur, a lush Mitchell turned in sterling per tropical country ruled by a woman formances. of immortal loveliness Woman
"SO RED THE ROSE”
To be Screened With
Following on the heels of his
ANNAPOLIS FAREWELL
the United
Silversmith /
135.4 1.11.4 1.49. 222 2.53.2
Splendid View
Glorious View 1
31.2 35.2 1.12.4 1.51.2 2.39.3 3.04.3 ***. 344 36.4 1.11 1.45.4 2.19.4 | 2.54° 3.27.4 99.4
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GRIFFINS
February 5
Thunder Bay and
Boolat Bay...
14 372. 1.15.1" 1.54.3 2.37
2.67.2
30.2
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11 -39 1.17.4 1.55.4 2.30.1 3.03.1
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW. A society playgirl - helped steal a priceless emerald-just for a thrill, but found herself tangled in a criminal web with her life
at stake
Potlatch and
ti Humber Supercharge
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GIRL IN DANGER
RALPH BELLAMY SHIRLEY GREY
Arthur Hohl
SAT. SHIR EY TEMPLE in "Littlest Rebel'
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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AS
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PICTURE
THUR
7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
At 2.30, 5.20,
and Hellbender 1 Rugby Star Blue Ribbon
Public Hero No. 1
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34.21.05.3 1.38 2.05.2 Moonlight 138 1.13 1.46.3 2.19.3 2.49.4 Merry Time and
A Grand Time 1
41.2 1.17.1 1.47.4 2.144
"THE
LITTLEST
REBEL"
HE WAS HER MAN
An unusually dramatic theme: As the sweetheart of the south with a strange twist is promised -and the darling of the north in the Warner. "Bros, Production Shirley Temple is starred in her "He Was Herman,”": opening to- first big dramatic role in "The day at the Queen's Theatre, - Littlest Rebel" the 20th Century James Cagney and Joan Blondell: picture coming on Saturday who made their st hit together to the -King's and Alhambra are again cast in the stellar roles Theatres.
of the picture. Cagney has the part of an ex-safecracker who is fleeing from the vengeance of a gang he has double-crossed. Whe Miss Bondelt appears in the role of a woman of the streets who is Much of the pathos and tender--| planning to put her past behind mess of the picture centres about her and marry a simple Portuguese Shirey and her mother, Karen daherman when she becomes in- Morley, who finally succumbs to fatuated with the polished but the hardship of the war
crooked Cagney.
деаг
BARNES
SUNDAYJOAN CRAWFORD IF LIVE MY LIFE
THREE-POINT POLICY OBJECTION
ESTABLISHMENT OF
NEW STATE
Pelping, Feti 4. A circular telegram announcing
kukuo
two thousand years old who doesn't first success. "Broadway Melody look a day over thirty.
REO Radio has brought "She"one of the screen's top comedians of 1938," Benny proves that he is to the soreen, an impressive specia the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tacle that provides a veritable
comedy-drama. showcase of motion picture magic 1 and wonders. Primarily, however," it is a sage of conflict. There is physical 'conflict, fierce and thrill- ing, but the real battles are moral. and mental and are waged in the heart and soul of Randolph Scott.
The production of Paramount's He faces a temptation no mortal "Annapolis Farewell," featuring man has ever been called upon to Bir Guy Standing, Richard Crom- face. What that temptation is well, Tom Brown, now at the Star
Theatre, 63med in and the exciting events with which States Naval Academy at The locale of the picture is old it ia surrounded are stirringly napolis, Md., entailed one of the Virginia at the height of the Civil unfolded in the story of "She."
most difficult directorial jobs ever War with Shirley and her parents Helen Gahagan, noted stage and faced by a motion picture director, loyal supporters of the losing Con- operatig star, make her scroen The assignment meant for Alexan-federacy. debut in the title role. Helen der Hall thirty days of constant Mack and Nigel Bruce appear in work and on each of these days he other important parts in this found that he had to accomplish Merian O. Cooper production. just about twice as much work as a director ordinarily encounters in producing a festure film
There are adventures in her Her Infatuation comes
Pelping. Feb. 4. Arriving in Baltimore be found scrapes with the Yankees, and a bringing about her death, but the
The Peiping Cultural Society tu that there was an epidemie of scar thrilling flight as Shirley's father, unscrupulous Cagney does the one day issued a manifesto objecting let fever in Annapolis and that it John Boles, attempts to smuggle decent thing in his life by seem to the three-point policy of Mr. would be wise for him to live in her through the Yankee lines, only ing to double-cross her and going Minister, on the ground that such Mongol Country) was issued at
Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign the establishment of "Mer Baltimore and commute daily to Arrangements have been made ride each morning and night added The closing sequences are deber
the Naval Academy. This auto to be captured and held as a spy to his death without involving
a policy means the colonisation af Changpel, capital of the new statu for the screening of the fim de- two hours to 'Hall's regular work voted to showing how this dimpled Victor Jary has the part of the
China
on January 27, accor picting the scenes in connection day and frequently when the road darling manages to win President fisherman lover who eventually involve the subjugation not only Chinese
"Acceptance of this policy will with the funeral of the late King was crowded with traffic the brij Lincon to her cause and saves her marries the woman of the street the northern provinces but the Pelping,
Information reach George the Fifth, at the Queen's required an hour and a half each father and the Yankee officer who although she informs him of her
The telegram appear. Theatre on the 15th 16th, 17th war. The next bit of bad news befriended them.
Entire country, the manifesto to have been issued in the name and 18th of February in conjunc- was that the entire production That lovely song, "If All Thy actor-writer-director has the
past, history, Frank Craven, noted tion with Paramount's screen ver- unit of 100 players and technicians
part Mr. Hirota's policy is (1) the delicacy, beauty and sion of "So Red The Rose" adapt also would have to live in Bali Eidearing Young Charing," Is aing of the stool pigeon while Sarah China's recognition of Manchou- Immortal love story lives again in best-selling novel
ignancy of George du Maurier's ed from stark Young's romanticore and journey, daily to An by Shirley and John Boles in the Padden stage ster plays the role kus (2) Sino-Japanese can
napolis ip, busses, beqsuse the scarpicture. Another song, Polly of the mother of the fisher lad Paramount's pleturization of "Po
Parasgainst the Communists and Booking is already open and as let fever scare was still on in Wolly Doodle," was especially Most of the tion takes part in an economic alliance ter. Ibbetson starring Gary Copper a heavy demand for seats is and Annapolis. In addition every hotel composed for the little star by e colourrut ashing village on the China and Japan. in the title role, scheduled as the dpated we recommend early city on the Severn River had been of the picture, and Bhidney Clare
and boarding house in the little B. G. De Sylva, associate producer Pacific Coast near Monterey, coming attraction at the Queen's
reserved by the hundreds of people who were coming to Annapolis for the ceremonies of graduation week Having his players" and "workem living in one city and working in another greatly complicated innti from her lover. ters for the director.
inst the picturesque H
were furthe kokground in the Vic... magni dod." Peter: "Ibbetson" inste
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“CARDINAL
RICHELIEU"
A 20TH CENTURY: PICTURE.
PETER IBBETSON
Theatre-
Funeral Scenes
servations
It is biteresting to watch Gary -*** Cooper's fine interpretation of mendation for ber portrayal, Miss Ibbetson, Cast in a role entirely Harding brings a warmth of un- foreign to any he has attempted, derstanding to the tragic, yet pa-
achieves a memurable thetic Duchess, doomed to lie Eng|| terization, revealing hither-sePBTS
to hidden versatilities in histrionic
Just as he displayed, colourful undiscovered capabilites forlan
“Bengal, Lancer.” Ann Harding who appeurs opposite Cooper," as the Duchess of Towers, Filso can be accorded, highest.com-
titim love between
schedule of ever
A CORRECTION
Bald
mon News A
of Pri
between
Jodnafak vever, detained by Chinese Telegram Adr according to Le Journal A portion of the pubished in the
the
Voice here this morning. sonality with the gure and sping to this? THE LATE C. AV WRIGHT pearance of a colonel, and was a plains that master of all games and out-door, bel estal
By the
Feb. 14
The year after he came down trom
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