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QUEENS
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
In the Endeavour to Provide the Unusual for Your.. Entertainment we have now the First Cantonese Singing Talking Picture made in Hollywood
“HEARTACHE”
with MISS WEI KIM FONG-
TO-MORROW-
THRILLING, EXCITEMENT with
JOAN BENNETT and CARY GRANT
io
"BIG BROWN EYES
Faks NY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
• SHOWS
FLEMING
DALLY
2.30-5,15
1.15-8.30
DAYS
ORIENTAL
2DNLY TO-DAY •
ДОАО
WANCHA
TEL. THATS
TO-MORROW.
HERE'S THE SEASONS COMEDY HIT!
FOR LAUGHS AND ROARS- FOR HOWLS AND SCREAMS- HEAR THE GIMME GIRLS TELL IT TO THE MARINESI
JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELL Miss PACIFIC FLEETTM
Allen Jenkins
Warner Bros. Hiy with. "
Hugh Herbert
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
GINGER ROGERS GEORGE BRENT
GRAND
COMEDY IN PERSON"
'SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY
MARLENE DEITRICH" GARRY COOPER
COMEDY CROOK STORY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Nell Gwyn"
QUEEN'S:-
li
"Heartache"
(Chinese Picture) ORIENTAL:--
"Miss Pacific Fleet"-
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"The Voice of Bagle Ann" MAXESTIC:
STAR:
Girl from 10th Avenus"
"Personal Mald's Secret"
Coming
KING'S:-
"The Country Doctor" QUEEN'S:-
"Big Brown Eyes. " ORIENTAL:-
"In Person" "Desire"
ALHAMBRA:-
"Dangerous Intrigue"
STAR:-
"Tell Me To-night" MAJESTIC:-
WHY FILM STARS
ADOPT BABIES
A canvass of homes of leading actresses in Hollywood has dis closed that dim stars who year for motherhood but feel they can- not afford it are acquiring adopted bables with increasing frequency. There is near Chicago a clear ng house for motherhood-a aclent! Acally conducted establishment which selects perfect babies from. those brought to it by mothers unable to support them and de Uvers them into the custody of flm stars.
Altogether this institution has found homes for 3,000 babies in the past few years.
"Liberty" well-known Ameri-
ROYAL NAVY
APPOINTMENTS
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, June 23, PROMOTION
Lt. (E).-J. O. H. Gairdner, to rank of L-Cdr. (E) (seny. June
15).
(June 7).
RETIREMENT
can periodical-gives an interest-Retd. List, with rank of
Cdr. P. H. Ridler, placed on the ing list of the more prominent
Capt. actresses who have acquired babies in this fashion. It points out that the inordinate cost of motherhood toy Hollywood stars is responsible for "this growing practice.
SALARIES ABANDONED
f:
They have to abandon magnifi- cent salaries for months on end and they have to consider the pro- ducers, who naturally object to substitutes in pictures which they may already have spent millions
The Last Days of Pompei" of pounds...
PERSONAL MAID'S SECRET
.out
Also actresses often ind. after a year's absence from the screen caused by motherhood, that the public has left them. Helen Twelvetrees. for instance. estimates that she sacrifled something like! £40,000 for the privilege of having her son Jack. The initial cost was a year's salary, amounting to £26.000. To this had to be added the fact that she lost the leading part in "A Bill of Divorcement,"
Miss Norma
made by the Admiralty.
The following appointments were
Payr. Cdis.-D. O. Henwood, "to Victory II; and W. D. Stanack, to Capetown (July 1).
PAS
SINGAPORE COMMODORE Captain M. L. Clarke is to suc- ceed Captala W. P. Mark-Wardlaw, D.3.0., as Commodore 2nd Class in charge of the naval establish meats, Singapore naval base.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ESANNA NEAGLE
&
SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE
Men
Gwyn
ALSQ WALT DISNEY'S
"CAMPING OUT" A MICKEY MOUSE CARTOON
NEXT ORANGE Destroyer
Capt. Clarke, who formerly com- manded the Sixth Motilia, is a navigation specialist. During the war he was navigator Alsatian, flagships of the blockade the cruisers Crescent and
squadron.
or
RADIO TELEGRAMS TO SHIPS From July 1 next the rate for
private radio telegrams sent from the United Kingdom to personnel serving in H. M. ships via Portishead
Shearer, 5d. a word.
Margaret Lindsay, who has the leading role in the Warner Bros. picture "Personal Muld's Secret," which comes to the Star Theatre to-day, has screamed loudly and efficiendly in many pictures on the screen. None of them could which went to Miss Katharine Radio will be reduced from 74, to compare, however, with some Hepburn, screams she made while
of sacrificed an even larger sum for character.
her son. Irving Thalberg, and her Wearing a bulky polo coat and daughter. Katherine. She took' dark glasses, she was making the two maternity leaves from the rounds of one of the amusement plers with her sister. In a spirit salary.
screen. each year losing £80 000 in of bravado, the two girls decided to go on the roller coaster since Margaret had never been on one before.
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She lost all pretense of bravery as soon as it made its first terrine dive. She let loose with some particularly piercing sereams and. kept it up until the conster stopped
As the wan actress tottered out, two youths who sat in front and had turned around, amazed at such vocal exhibitions, stopped her. One of them said:
Warned by Miriam Hopkins visited the famous these losses. Miss
clearing house and found her little
who looks just like her. Michael, a handsome blond boy.
A BROTHER FOR HER
、NAVY LIST APPENDIX The June issue of the Appendix to the Navy List is now on sale to the public, price 18. 8d. In this booklet of over 200 pages will be
of retirement, uniform regulations, found the rates of pay, conditions
and the detalls of entry for naval cadets including the special en- try); probationary second Heuten- ants, Royal Marines; chaplains, in- structor öfficers, medical and dent-
cadets artificer and dockyard apprentices. school-masters, boy seamen, and
A star who imitated Miss Hop-al officers, paymaster kins's example was Miss Gracie Allen, wife of Mr. George Burns, who otok from the institution little Sandra,' and then, anxious lest Sandra as the only child might grow up to be selfish, asked the institution for a brother for her.
DISRATING FOR IN- COMPETENCE
It has been decided that the no- tation "Incompetence" on the ser- vice certificates of ratings who disrated for incompetence
The institution had in Ronald John just what she was seeking-were
"Lady, with a yell like that, you ought to get into the movies!"
Miss Lindsay has the role of an ambitious wife in "Personal Maid's Secret," a rollicking comedy with the two tense dramatic situations and a
brother and sister," "DESIRE" fascinating romance, based on
● MATINEES: 20c-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-702.
ESTARE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY:
CONVULSING CONFESSIONS!
EXCRUCIATING EXPOSURES!
DELIRIOUS DISCLOSURES!
Personal Maid's SECRET
(A Wormer Bros. Pie with
MARGARET..
LINDSAY
WARRIO
HULL
ANITA LOUISI
MARUTH DONNELLY
TO-MO-ROW, ONE DAY ONLYI TELL ME
TO IGAT, An Old Favourite" From Gaumont-British
Studio
ASTAIRE ROGERS
сп
Fred Astaire and Ginger Bo- *gers have started work their next musical, "ala't Gonna Dance."
THE KING STEPS OUT
WORLD PREMIERE AT MUSIC HALL
Grace Moore's newest Columbia Alm, "The King Steps Out" had It's world premiere at the Music Hall, Radio City. New York on May
28.
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"Saturday Evening Post" story by Lillian Day,
The cast includes Miss Lindsay, Warren Hull, Anita Louise, Ruth Donnelly, Arthur Treacher, Frank Albertson, Ronnte Cosby and Henry O'Neill.
"NELL GWYN”
Anna Neagle, the only gir: de- 'veloped in British studios who has Achieved world Stardom without leaving Elstree, bursts into her full glory as "Nell Gwyn" with as ravishing a performance as screen has been in many a month, DOW showing at the King's
Theatre.
the
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"a baby with the exact colouring under the old regulations before Sandra had at his age, so that the introduction of the system of actually looked like reversion or unsuitability is to be altered to "Reverted." All service Mr. Al Jolson and Miss Ruby certificates bearing the notation: Keeler adopted 2 black-eyed "Incompetence" are to be amended youngster, part Irish and part forthwith. Jewish, and Miss Keeler suffered by, this adoption no interruption
RN. SHORE SIGNAL SERVICE in the receipt of her salary.
Under a new Order in Council, Miss Barbara Stanwyck, who officers of the RN. Shore Signal bravely announced that she in-Service may be permitted to retire tended to have two hables of her voluntarily subject to a require- own, whom she named in anti-
ment of a minimum period of ser- cipation Michael and Kathleen, Vice of one year as chief officer, finally adopted a red-haired and be eligible, at the discretion baby, nine months old, called of the Admiralty, to receive on re- Dion.
Lirement a proportionate gratuity earned by service. This gratuity basis authorized for officers who. is to be assessed on the revised
as ratings of the RN. Shore Signal 1. 1933, Irrespective of the date of Service, entered on or after April
the icers entry.
DESTROYERS IN AFRICAN WATERS
20TH CENTURY FOX
•
THE DIONNE QUINTUPLES in "THE COUNTRY DOCTOR'
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD, KOWLOOK-DAILY AT 3,30*320-120 & 9,30 TEL. 36654
SHOWING TODAY
The Story of the Year is Now the Picture of the Year!
The
VOICE of BUGLE ANN
Your heart will tell you of the beauty, the soul. thrill, of this drama of youth in love-rebelling against the harsh code of its elders! Proudly presented by the producers of "AhWilderness!"
"
Lionel Barrymore
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN ERIC LINDEN
Directed by RICHARD THORPE
NEXT CHANGE.
Produced by
JOHN W. CONSIDINE 1.
Meso-
"DANGEROUS INTRIGUE" ~
with RALPH BELLAMY & GLORIA SHEA,
TO-DAY-
& TO-MORROW
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 8.20 P.L.
THE MAN-TAMER OF "BORDER- TOWN" SHOWS A SOCIETY DAME WHAT IT TAKES TO HOLD A MANĮ
bette davis
in her first sensational starring 'a elyre
"THE GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE
2. Fast National Portura de
Friday:THE LAST DAYS OF. PUMPEII"!
'BABY'S FILM DEBUT DEBUT Miss Zasu Pitts fell in love with the adopted. baby of Miss Barbara Lamarr, and When that
actress diled adopted the little boy herself Mr. Wallace Berry has an adopted Miss Neagle plays Nell as his daughter. Carol Ann, aged four, tory deplets her bawdy, un- who has already made her debut restrained and daring, a woman of in "China Seas," and Mr. Harold unabashed "personality, ready wit, Lloyd, though. blessed with chi- and bodily charm the "Mae ❘ dren
It is very rare for a division of of his own, has adopted destroyers to visit an East African West of the Restoration period.
Peggy. Never before have you seen an
port: Four vessels which are at- Other foster-parents are Miss tached to the East Indies Station Anna Neagle like this one. Sae Constance Bennett, whose speaks in a broad Cockney accent, Peter, now
son temporarily from China are now ive, comes from the making a cruise off whether it be to King or bar-rour clearing house, and Miss Gloria They are the Dainty, Commander this coast. cronies, and her language vergeswanson, who with two daughters R. M. Dick, D.B.C., the Decoy. Com at times on the lurid.
With her of her own; has acquired a son mander & F. de Balls, the De-late of the Australian Navy, and full lipe and Laughs her way through the film
buxom figure she called Joseph, in a way that is wholly captiva-
fender, Lieutenant-Commander & the Constance, both completed in P. Hinton, MV.O., and the Dians, 1916; and at Devonport the Castor, ting.
Lieutenant-Commander W. H: Gel- completed in 1915. Other vessels by all of which arrived at Dar-es- the destroyer Thisbe, mooring ves- Lord Beatty.
on the sale list are, at Portsmouth, Salaam on Saturday. The Diana sel Lacas, and submarine L 18; at came from Bombay and the other three from Aden. Normally a
Chatham, the "minelaying flotilla cruiser of the East Indies Squadron leader Abdiel, which led many ex- would be cruising in African waters ploits into hostile waters during about this time of the year, but the War; and at Rosyth the notilla the cruisers are now at Aden or
leaders Shakespeare and Spenser Colombo.
and the destroyers Seafre, Bena- tor, and Serene.
the story, based, on the pretty FILM STARS COME
FROM U.S.
SYLVIA SIDNEY'S FIRST BRITISH PICTURE
REWARD OF ZEAL - Commodore W. F. Mark-Ward-
"The King Steps Out" is Miss Moore's first" production since orange girl's historie. love affair her sensational successes in with King Charles H, keeps close- Columbia's "One Night of Love" ly to history and "brings back to and "Love Me Forever." Franchot vivid reality one of its most ple- Tone plays opposite the star and turesque and romantic periods. Josef von Sternberg handled the
Sir Cedric Hardwicke with a production,
make up which bears a most strik- ing resemblance to Miss Moore is now making
the Stuart King, gives a vivid performance ( personal
appearance tour of
SHIPS FOR DISPOSAL Europe
as Charles II. Including
Charles emerges concerts in from the film not only as the
In addition to the five "O" class Copenhagen,
Another platoon of Hollywood cruisers which are to be disposed Oslo, London, Paris, and other cities statesman
Stockholm Merry Monarch but as a great film stars have arrived in London. of by December next under the after which she will vacation at the gallant lover to Nell or con- Louise. Richard Barthelmess, Lesile séquence of the decision to retain Whether he is playing They are Sylvia Sidney. Anita London Naval Treaty, in con- her villa in Cannes before return-
ferring with his ministers on mat Howard and Margot Grahame. King arresting and entertaining..
No plans to work in Britain have been made, except in the case of brifiant supporting cast, Sylvia Sidney, who is to make her mainly famous stage personalities first British film at the Gaumont includes Jeanne de Casalls, Esme studios, This, to be directed by Pergy, Helena Pickard, Miles Alfred Hitchcock, is "Babotage" Malleson, Murich George, Lawrence from Joseph Conrad story arms in London and Hollywood he went on a world cruise: Every Anderson O. B. Clarence, Tonie Ter leading man will be Robert has been repeatly announces and day he was on the bridge of the
Donat, whose signing up by various contradicted.
liner studying and checking charts
A
ing to Hollywood to make her next ters of state, Bir Cedric makes the picture for Columbia which is to be based upon the story. "The Nightingale Files Home" by Rr Hughes noted American author,
On June 4, Miss Moore sang ar Albert Hall, London for which it
is reported, she received top price ever paid any concert artist,
Bruce and Moore Mariott.
cruisers of the Hawkins class in their place, three other cruisers Portsmouth there is the Brisbane are now on the disposal list. At
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with
PRESTON FOSTER
Tere he met a well-known peer who also is interested in charts.
The peer was so impressed that when he returned to England he mentioned the matter to the late
The result was promotion for Captain Mark-Wardlaw," first to Hong Kong, then to Singapore,
The sales manager's wife had called at the oficy, to be told that he was in conference.
"Were you terribly bored while law, who is retiring from his post when he returned.
waiting for me," dear he asked
the creation of the naval base.ittle colored pins in that map on Singapore, has been in charge No, darling," she yelled, “T of naval establishments there since amused myself with those ducky He owed his appointment to a the wall. I changed them around officers, he was in danger of be basman's holiday. Some years ago, and made them look much pref like many other excellent naval tier
ing “axed,"d
To fill in a period of inactivity,
Dad what la political art?" "That, my son, is the art of not
getting your views mixed in with your interviewera.
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