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◄ SHOWS
BUL.
1.30–5.15
T.15-8.20
TAKE VACY we YAKAY VALLÈ• Bus
ORIENTAL
GATHEATRE:
ORIENTAL:-
"Coronado"
"East of Javu"
ALHAMBRA:—
"A Tale of Two Cities"
Coming
ENTERTAINME QUEENS
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 a 9:30
An Euntional Sock that whips, up "Dramatic Suspense and Delivers an Amazing Wallop at the enda Truly Sensational Melodrama
"4 Hours to Kill"
Paramount's Drama with
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
NEXT CHANGE ··
4
PAT JEAN JAMES FRANK O'BRIEN MUIR MELTON M©HUGH in "STARS OVER BROADWAY"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936.
A
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S :-
"Every Saturday Night"
QUEEN'S:
"4 Hours To Kul"
ORIENTAL:-
"Trowelling Baleslady"
Kowloon
"Whispering' Smith Speaks”
ALHAMBRA
MAJESTIC:-
"East of Java"
STAR:
"The Informer"
TRAINING GALLOPS
Snidier of Britain Macaroni
Young Chap
Ythan
Humber
? 38" 1.13 1.44
1 33.1 1.05.4 1.38 -
33 2 1.03.4 4.31.1 141
38
SHOWING TO-DAY
KINGS
The following time were clocked at the Valley yesterday morning,
Dis- 1st 2nd 3rd 4th -15th Last tance Qг. Qr. Or. Qr.
Qr.
29.9 1.00.4 1.31.2
30.3
31..
Soldier of Germany Tinsmith Boxing Eve
32.1
27,2
Double Chanet
1.17,1 1:51.4 2.34.4 1.13.4. 1,47
33
31.1.
31.4 1.03.3 1.34.4
31.1
Mersey.
# 91.4 1.03:3 1.34.4
31.1
Ranger
I 33
1.02.2 1.31.3 1.58,4
27.1
Copper Idol
1 37
1.14.2 1.50.3 2.22.2
31.4
Ocean View
1
42
1.20
1.55.4 2.27.1
31.3
Hertot
1 44
1.26.4 2.08.2 2.40
31.3
Stopwatch
1
43.1
1.28.4 2.10.3 2.48.1
37.3
Valorous
37.4
1.13.2 1.45.2
32
#36
1:08.4 1.40.4 211.3
30.4
51.3 1.37
Rose Evelyn
1 43
Brutus
2.08 1.35 2.02.4 2.35.8 31.258.3 1.27.2.
31.
32.4 28.4
'Sadko
Ribble
3 332 1 34
1.08.2 1.42.2 2.13.1 1.06.2 1.39 2.10
30.4
31
with JUNE LANGTHOMAS BECK · JED PROUTY NEXT
KING'S:
King's Sceptre
"A Tale of Two Cities" QUEEN'S:-
King's Warden
King's Bounty
"Stats Over Broadway" "Collegiate",
The Drinlin
1 36.2 1.10.4 1.442 2.13
I 37 1.11.4 145.3 2.13.2
1 42.2 1.22.3 1.59.2 3.26.3
1.02 +31
1.34.4
28.3
28.
Get happy
with this happy/
scrappy family!
At 9.30, 5IL,
7.15 & 1.30 P..
EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
RONALD COLMAN in A TALE OF TWO CITIES."
M.G.K. PICTURE
90,1
92.4
Valley View
Merry Jester
1 35. 1.09.4 1.44.3 2.16.4 11 45
+1
32,1
1.30" 2:11 2.47.4 3.19.1
31.2
FLEMING ROAD
WANCHAN
CENTRAL:won
Rose Queen
Strathroy
1 37.21.12.1 1.47.3 2.18.1 1 32
30.
1.01.2 1.30.2 1.57.3
27.1
Celebration Time
1 35
1.13 1.51
2.28.2 3.01
$2:3
Pontiac Bay
1 37
1.12 1.45
2.15.2
30.2
Mistake Bay
-1 37
1.12
1.45
2.15.2
30.2-
1
31
1.04.3 1.35.4 2.06
30.1
1 54
1.45 2.24 2.49.1
25.1.
1 40 1.15
1.46 2.18.2.
30.2
7 34.3 1.08.2 1.38.2
30
3 39
1.12.2 1.41.3
31.1
39
1.12.2 1.4:3
311
30:4
1 39 1.15.1 1.50.1 2.22.2
32.1.
1 37 1.10.4 1.42
2.11.2
29.5
Lucky Strike
1 31
1.08.4 1.42.4 2.18
33.1
42.2 1.20
1,50.1
30.1
1 37
1.14.3 1.49.2 2.19.3
30.1
Cassius
+36
1.10.3
1.42
-312
Estray
3 38
1.10.3 1.42
31,2
What A Chance Racing Boy Shamrock Miracle
1 44
1.20.2.1.55
2.25.3
30.3
1 39
1 35
1.14.3 1.49.3 2:21.3 1.45.2 2.17.3 1.11. 1 33.4 1.09.2 1.41.4 2.13.3
32
32.1
31.4
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Emergency Ca'l The Rain Gauge Donovan Amberley
44 1 1 44
1.22.4 1.58.1 2.31.1 1.32.4 1.58.1 2.31.1
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1 423 119.3 1.53.4 2.25.3
31.4..
4 33.3 1.04.1 1.35.1
31
33.3 1.04.1 1.35.1
31
33.2 1:07.4 1.41.1 2.13.2
32.1
1 37
1.13.2 1.48.2 2,31
32.3
1 35.3 1.43
1.48.3 2.20.2
31:4
4 28.2 56.2 1.24
27.3
ALHAMBRAIN THEATRE
NATHAN RD, KOWLOON DAILY AT 2,30:5200720_`E 9,30
TO-DAY & 10-MORKOW
Ride with George O'Brien to the res- cue of a girl aboard
a roaring, runaway, record-breaking locomotive!
George
O'Brien
WHISPERING SMITH Speaks
IRENE WARE KENNETH THOMSON » Directed by David Howard
From the story by PRANK HE SPEARMAN
A Fox Relia
€ 34
1.05.1
1.35.4
30.3
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1.05.1
1.35.4
30.3
1 35:3 1.11
*1.47 2.21
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38.2 1.10
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31.2
1 34.1 1.11.4 1.48.2 2.19:4
33.2
1 34.1 1.11.4 1.46.2 2.19.4
33.2
1 38'
I 38
1:16 1.16
1.51.2 1.23:3 ·*
32 1
1.51.2 2.23.3
32.1
NEXT.. CHANGE
Dawn Star Old Star Mike
1 36
1.12.2 1.45
2.16.4
31.4
1 36
1.12.2 1.45
2.16.4
31 4
1 45
1.22 1.59
2.32
33
Gold Sovereign
1 42
1.22.4 2.01.2 2,30,3
29.1
Hawthorn
1.42
1.20
1.58.1 2.36.1
.38
1 32
103.3 1.36.3
33
TO-DAY:
ΤΟ SATURDAY
1 37
1.1.1 1.45.2 2.17
31.3
Metro's Giant Hit!
RONALD COLMAN in
"A TALE OF TWO CITIES"
MAJESTIC
mathemaneman J^ HEATRE=aman
At 2.80, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•
THE FAMOUS GIMME GIRLS IN ANOTHER RIOT OF LAUGHTER!
THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER'S ON THE ROAD!
DAYS
Traveling Saleslady
JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELL
2 ONLY TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
JOHNNY
A Breezy, Modcup Musical Timed to e Tempo That's FASTI
Adolph Zekor pronunta.
onado
DOWNS - BETTY BURGESS - JACK HALEY
EDDY DUCHIN ANDY DEVINE
A Foramaunt Picture
MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-3 -50c.-70c-
STARE
TO-DAY, 10-MORROW,
BATURDAY!!!
The Best Picture of 1985Į
Soul-stirring drama,
brutally reall
The
with VICTOR
McLAGLEN
HEATHER
ANGEL
PRESTON
FOSTER.
MARGOT
GRAHAME.
• Wallace Ford
Une O'Connor
A John Ford Production "From the novel by Liim 2'Flaherty
57 Ausociate Producer, CB Rad
RKO RADIO
ADDED ATTRACTION COLOUR CARTOON
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
MARION DAVIES. DICK POWELL VIN. GLORY"
PACE MISS
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Appeal Unlost
MAJESTIC:---``
"The Gay Deception"
STAR:-
"Page. Miss G.ory,"
THE INFORMER
Produced by the same studio and staff that made fim history wish The Lost Patro." and pre- senting Victor McLag en, the sam star, Lam O'Flaherty's widely- read novel, "The Informer." coines to the screen.es a John Ford pro- duction for RKO-Radio, Awarded the first prize by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (and acclaimed the best picture of 1935 by the Association of New York Critics).
Accounted one of the greatest character studies and sorbing stories known ture. "The Informer" affords Mc- he Laglen what considers the "finest role of his entire career. While the drama centres closely about one character, roles of ex- traordinary power
and human
qualities are carried by Margot Grans me." Preston Foster, Heather Ange!, Wallace Ford, Una. O'Con- nor J. M. Kerrigan, Joseph Sauers, Nell Fitzgerald; May Botey. Grize'de Harvey, Donald Meek. and other men,bers of the large supporting cast
Having Dublin, Ireland, as its locale, and the troubled years following the World War as Its period, the story centres round the dramatic theme of betrayal. Gypo Nolan, a giant in stature and a pigmy in intellect, "informs" on a pad for a price. His weak- ness for a beautiful blonde woman motivates the act.
Herod
Vixen Tor King's Lead Wadebridge King's Jubilee King's Justice
Rousseau Mayflower Gladiator
Philanderer Rugby Star
Royal Highness Cyclamen Bay Strathalan Plain View Shooting Star High Speed High Honour' Unicorn Belmont Star Paymaster Burgomaster · Balion
Blue Ribbon
Hopscotch Tiny Star
"CORONADO"
1 41.3 1.20.3 1.59.3 233.1 3:04
With 20 pounds in h's pocket. Betty Burgess, 13-year-old-Los- and the worst crime known to Angeles high school girl whose
"EVERY SATURDAY
NIGHT'
is
One of the happiest, scrappiest
the family pictures of
year, "Every Saturday Night." the new and hilarious Fox Comedy-drams typical American family, which 14
the now showing: at King's Theatre.
of
a
th:
The story of "Every Saturday Nigh depicts the trials and tribulations found in the modern,
his compatriots on his conscience. frst mction picture engagement Gypo becomes à man relentless sands her starred in Paramount's pursued by fate. Altemately Coronado," can sing, dance, draw ifted Lis drucken heights of
paint in olls, knows something grandeur delusions, tortured by
plays about scu ptre and and mad fear. torn by remorse,
Diano. harried by superstition he is
opposite Johnny Batty is seen carried from one dramatic situn-
Downs who was the "Al-American Boy" of the first "Our Gang" All of the action of the pictare comedies, in "Coronado, and dan-American home. The Evers family. takes place in one eventful night ces as well as sings to the music composed of Mr. and Mrs. Evers, into which is crowded the drama of Eddy Duchin and his Orchis two daughters, three
boys and to the times granny, are all up except dad. He had old-fashioned ideas as to how to bring up his children and his continual rectur
A preview of "A Tale of Two tion to another. Cities" at the King's Theatre yes
terday revealed that despite the years and the constant repetition од both stage and screen the Dickens masterpiece has not lost Its appeal -
of life and death, love and hate.
1 tra. hope and despair.
The setting for the story is one Comedy rellet highlights the That the well-known tale can stark drama of the story, and a of the world's most fashionable still interest 20th century film softer romance,
between Preston beach resorts the Hotel Coronado audiences is due largely to the Foster and film's excellent handling and the vides contrast to the attraction Burgess plays the part of an en-
presents
EAST
OF
JAVA
CHARLES BICKFORD.
ka Universal's Amazing AdTENEURS DESEZAİ
Heather Angel pro in Southern California where Missing dampens the fun of his Sunday:-Francis Lederer in "The GAY DECEPTION"
carefully selected cast in which between McLaren none is better chosen than Ronald Grahame. Colman who plays Sydney Carton on lines, which if not strictly Dickensian, will add to the already long list of Colman, admirers.
"Colman's
Miss
FOUR HOURS TO KILL
tertainer with Duchin's orchestra. Youthful, handsome Johnny Downs is the son of a millionaire auto- mobile manufacturer who comeɛ to the hotel and falls in love with the orchestra's singer, but through a series of "tinfortunate, circum- stances the rich boy fails to con- the Queen's Theatre: is the screen vince the gir from the other aide adaption of the success.ul Broad- of the tracks that he is wild about
tier. way stage hit, "Small Miracle."
"Four Hours to Kill!" the new showing at Paramount film, now
bipod.
of the
Every Saturday night proved to be a thorn in Dad Evers' side. Late dates, reckless driving and the high speed activities of his children kept him in sour humour throughout the week. One parti- cular Saturday Night, the Evers portrayal of the
home is beset with a series of Wastrel Carton has been infused
critical situations and when Dad
ster with many light touches that are
Evers
how
children hia so well played that they do not
shoulder the responsibilities be far on the intensely tragic story
begins to realize that in compari- The action of the story taker! and bring the macarbe and sordid
son to his neighboure children, revolution scenes into sharp rellet. place almost entirely in the lounge
STARS VER BROADWAY his brood is not as bad as he He is assisted well in his light of a Broadway theatre and depicta
made them out to be. scenes by Reginald Owen and the unusual drama that occurs in
The Parton sistema, vocalizing of Harry Warren and A Dus n. the ives of a group of people in Billy Bevan
a catchy tune during one of the Elizabeth Allen is a charming the space of four hours. Heading ace song writers, have composed figure as Lucy and a good actress the well-rounded cast are Richard four new hits for Stars Overnight club scenes is one and Claude Gillingwater and Edna Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Helen Broadway the new Warner Bros, highlights of the film. May Oliver are splendid in their Mack. Gertrude Micheal, Dorothy musicomedy, coming this week-end
to the Queen's Theatre, Tree and Roscoe Karns, roles.
concerns The songs include "You Let Me dame" with James Melton, the The plot of the story In contrast to silent films of the same story, Charles Darnay is not Barthelmess a condemned murder- Down," a torch number: "Where famous radio singer, who makes a doubled part with Carten buter. who spends the last few hours Am I?", a novelty and a character his Am debuit in this dim," is played in this aim by Donald outside, prison, manacled to the novelty. "At Your Service. Ma- The number Warner and Dubin wrote as Melton's solo is where Woods who bears a somewhat writ of his detective watching dame."
Jane Froman, who recently was Am I?" In addition to this song. striking resemblance to Colman. Broadway musical. A
Among the many others who He effects bis, escape, and chan- named the most popular star sin-Melton sings "Celeste Aida Carry have much to do is Basil Rath-ges the lives of the others in the ger of modern songs in a poll Me Back to the Lone Pri bone, Mitchell Lewis, Henry B. theatre. His escape is not for conducted by radio editors of the other numbers. The picture is
drama with Walthall, H. B. Warner and a freedom but for revenge and how United States and Canada. will thrilling comedy brilliant newcomer, "Blanche be achieves revenge is brought out introduce You Let Me Down.". In music, with an all star cast
productions staged by Bobby Concluding Pat O'Brien, Jean Turka, who as the fanatical re-in a cleverly conceived climax. volutionary woman, paints a hor- The romance is carried out by nolly, brilliant dance director, the Miss Froman Melton. Fran rible figure.
"B." Joe Morrison and Helen Mack. will sing, "At Your Service, Ma-High and Marie Wor.
"
s
and
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