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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1936.
ECT
ENTERTAINM,
QUEENS
Our
Progressive Price Policy
Upper Circle
Back Stalls
2.30 p.m.
20c. Front Stalls 40c. 70c. Dress Circle ...81,10
At. 5.15, 7.20, & 9.30
Upper Circle 200.
Back Stalls
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S...
Sanders of The River
QUEEN'S :--
"Road Gang"
ORIENTAL:-
"Collegiate"
Kowloon
Front Stalls ... $1,00 Dress Circle
50c. .$1.50
ALHAMBRA:--
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
SHOWING TO-DAY AT:2 30. 5:10, 7 15 & 9,30 P.M.
Paul
ROBESON
Leslie
BANKS
All Prices Inclusive of Entertainment Taxi SHOWING TODAY AT 235.15, 7.20 & 9.30°F.M.
PACKS MORE SHIVERS THAN THE COLD SPELL
American Hails "Gripping, Graphic Dramatic Shocker"
**BAW MEAT," SAYS HINAÖR
Johaneson Claims New Hit
**Pulls No Punches"
'STRIKING TRUTH" IN '
NEW QUEEN'S HIT
ROAD GANG
El
Flafate
FINAL
NEXT CHANGE "THE PREVIEW MURDER MYSTERY'
SHOWINGS MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
THEATRE
randort
KEMPTON NTH
Alexandre Dumas'
Presented by Warner Bros
At 2.30, 5.20, «
7.20 & 9.20 PM.
RADIO
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
With WALTER ABEL, PAUL LUKAS, MARGOT GIAHAME, HEATHER
ANGEL, JAN KEITH, Moroni Olsen, Onslow Sharan. Rosamond Pinchot, SUNDAY: -"SHOW THEM NO MERCY
ESTARE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
FOR LAUGHS AND ROARS-
FOR HOWLS AND SCREAMS-
HEAR THE GIMME GIRLS
TELL IT TO THE MARINES)
miss PACIFIC FLEET
Warner Bros. Hit with
JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELL
Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins
COMMENCING SUNDAY JAMES UAGNEY “FRISCO KID"
"What have you been learning?" asked the not too literate father,
Latin, German, Greek, Euclid→→ "All right, that'll do: let your mother and me hear you say 'Good morning, how are you?' in Euclid."
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ROAD GANG
AT THE QUEEN'S
"The Music Goes Round"
MAJESTIC:-
STAR:
"The Three Musketeers"
"Miss Pacific Fleet"
Sunday
KING'S:-
"Sanders of The River"
QUEEN'S :-
"Road Gang" ORIENTAL:-
"Last of The PagansTM
ALHAMBRA :--
STAR:
"Silly Billies".
"Frisco KM"
MAJESTIC:-
Show Them No Mercy""
MISS PACIFIC FLEET
When the average movie fan turas to the drama page and sees the names of Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell linked together in
James Cagney and Lili Damita will come to the Star Theatre on Sunday in what is heralded as the greatest of Cagney's fire big hits. "Frisco Kid,” a story of the Barbary Coast in the vicious Afties.
WEEK-END RADIO] PROGRAMMES
(Continued from Page 4)
12.15 a.m.-The News
nouncements (contd.).
V
and An-
a forthcoming moving picture, he 12.30 am-The BBC Dance Or immediately assumes that they chestra, directed by Henry will be cast
Hall as two wisecracking young gold-diggers.
1a.m.-Close down
SUNDAY
It is not surprising that these two young ladies have become known as public avengers of their sex on business men. They have. been teamed in such roles 10 50 be- long that their names have come synonymous with deflated egos.
Their latest Warner Bros. pic. ture, "Miss Pacific, Fleet," now showing at the Star Theatre is no disappointment to those 'movie- goers who delight in seeing the two girls wheedle a few hundred dollars out of the pockets of a shy but willing business man
For they're gold-digging the navy. this time, and putting a couple of battleships in mortgage while they do it.
Actually the Misses Biondell and Farrell are so far removed from
their pupular characterizations as 您
Both are is passible to be.
essentially home-loving and ne-
ther have ever been in 'want either before or during their cinema
careers.
Joan's success in moving pic- tures was instantaneous, and she is now a star in her own right. Her tastes are simple and her ambition is to rise to even higher fame as a great dramatic actress.
10 p.m.-Big Beu. "Late Extra!" A feature programme following through the life of a London newspaper, from its origin in a timber forest to its sale as, an extra edition. Devised by 5. E. Reynolds; produced by Pascoc Thornton.
THREE SHOWS IN ONE
AT THE ORIENTAL TO-MORROW
Triple show at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Laurel and Hardy in their latest and funniest comedy "The Live Ghosts," also the newest comedy screen novelty "Audio- scopika," with the aid of coloured glasses, which will be furnished by the management, objects and persons apparent.y jump right from the screen into your lap, a very funny and amusing picture! Then that special South Sea Island production "The Last of the Pagans" with a cast of over 5,000 natives in thrung scenes. The entire population of the coral isle in the facific, including its chief, was pressed to set
10.45 p.m.-A Studio Concert, The Chalk Farm Salvation Army Bard bandmaster, A. W. Pun chard. Robert Easton (Bass), Band: March, Bravest of the
It is gripping entertainment of Brave (Coles), Selection from
an unusual sort.
thrills It has the Works of Haydn
(arr. galore. It shows the audience in- Hawkes). Robert Easton: My-timate detalls of native life, all
set in island scenery of almost breath-taking beauty.
Mala, Eskimo actor, and Lotus
selt when Young (Liza Leh mann). Can't Remember (Alma Goatley), Glorious Devon (Ed- ward German). Band: Com- Long play hero and heroine. The rades in Arms (Adam). Selec only white players in the cast are tion, The Warrior's Reward a few sailors and overseers enlist- (arr. Ball), Robert Easton: ed on the islands.
Molly Bawn. (Liddle), Sylvia The actual filming of an island (Oley Speaks), The Jolly Tinker typhoon, the battle between Mala (Newton). Band: Selection, and the wlid boar, 'the cave-in, in Songs of Britain (Marshall). the potash minė. and other 11.30 p.m.-A Children's Service, l'exciting episodes with shark and from the Chapel of the Heri-swordfish add thrills to the unique tage Craft Schools, Chatley, entertainment. The escape at sea Sussex. "Address by the Rev. F. in the height of the storm is P. Hughes. Vicar of Eastbourne another thrilling dramatic high- Parish Church.
light in the enthralling story of a Midnight.-Greenwich' Time. Signal, vanishing race. Midnight.-"Saving
World
Glenda Farrell's life story reads in a like manner. She was born
the to the stage and its traditions and was a highly-successful legitimate
actress before the moving pictures claimed her and teamed her with Joan Blondell. The grandest thing in her life is her 12 year old son. Tommy, whom she is, with con stantly when not working at the studio.
The wanton eruesty of the off- cials at a prison camp in the Queen's Theatre's latest picture is emphasized almost beyond te point of endurance. and until the most heartless member of the au- dience must be strongly in favour of revolt. The convicts are .ven terrific lashings. knocked spraw- ling
the least provocation, hung up by their wrists all night. and otherwise maltreated in sing comedy romance. manner that would cause sadists the cast include Hugh Herbert. to beam with delight. The revolt Allen Jenkins, Warren Hull, Eddie comes after one has given up and Acuff, Marie Wilson and Minna become resigned to the awfulness Gombell
of it all. It is really a credit to
the Alm that it is quite awful in
"Miss Pacific Fleet" is a rollick- Other's in
its brutality and description of "MUSIC GOES 'ROUND" ruthless politicians, for the effect of a well written scenario is en-
hanced by capable, directing and
acting.
through the Child." Dr. Toyo- hiko Kagawa. (From Oslo). 12.20 a.m.-Weekly Newsletter, Sports Summary, and An- nouncements.
12.40 a.m.-The Gershom Parking-
ton Quintet. Poem (Fibich).
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"Last of the Pagans" more than screen entertainment, for it: veritably bares the soul of a gentle people of enchanted islands white whose only enemy is the man's civilization.
Dance of the Hours (Pon- DELAYED SALVAGING
chielli). La Fileuse (Raff). Skye Boat Song (arr. Lawson).
1 a.m.-Close down.
Other well-informed sources say
OF SUNKEN TUG
Surveys Proceed Whilst Tenders Considered
on
it's "a case of jitters set to music." What it all boils down to is—well,
Shanghai, July 7 Actual work something to the tempo of "The
the raising o. Music Goes 'Round and Around."} the tug St. Aubin, which sank c.. A new day has downed for jazz It just carries itself off through Saturday afternoon when rammed music. A new rhythin, & new in its own momentum. It's inspira by the sa Ping An of the Shang. terpretation has come to the fore tion.
! hat and Hongkew Wharf Com- As the political journalist who and is taking America by storm. While the new jazzique, is giving pany's Pootung Wharf, will not ta framéd" and imprisoned. It is called 'swing, but exactly jazzmen a large-sized beadache try-begin as rapidly as was expected. Donald Woods is plausible enough what, it is, no-one seems to know. ing to define it, the fact remains Preliminary surveys are being to make one suffer with him, while Even its leading exponents, like that it is an advanced stage of jazz,
Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman, a natural progression from the made, but before actual work be- Benny Goodman, Louis Prima and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" of gins, it will be necessary to deter Ed Farley and Mike Biley, como 1311 and the jazz style of the late mine who will do the salvaging. posers of The Music Goes 'Round 1920's "Swing" is definitely the Tendem now are being made to and Around," who, with their song. modern age's music.
the Shanghai Tug and Lighter, appear with Harry Richman, Ro- In "The Music Goes 'Round," Co., operators of the tulg. by vari chelle. Hudson. Michael Bartlett,
hailed as
the "show of showa," aus salvagars The tug is lying and Walter Connolly in Columbia's filled to the brim, with entertain: off the wharf about 10 yd, distant. Dew musical extravaganza, "The inent surprises, great stars and Music Goes Bound," showing now specialty headliners, Fazley and interferes with any ships that at the Alhambra Theatre, admit Riley appear in an important mu-
Next Banday, the Empress of that it is an indefinable style. sical sequence. "Bwing" is given
"It comes," they say, "from the recognition; for the boys "swing Asia will arrive here from Manila it" with their original "swing and Hong Kong. It is possible No music is read, generally. The band," which first brought the in that she will be able to share the music goes in the car, goes down fectious song, "The Music Goes Hongkew Wharf with the Potsdam, and around the musician's soul. 'Round and Around," to the at but, on the other hand, she may go and comes out as "ewing rhythm." tention of music minded America, the Pootung Whati, in which As Chick Webb, Negru band leader It is a genuine "swing" song. "Life case the St. Aubin cannot be
Carlyle Moore, as bls. friend who 1 electrocuted on a prison fence he is trying to scale. is equally pathetic. Kay Linater La com paratively new to pictures but plays the leading feminine role satisfactorily, if not attractively.
An unusually clever cartoon, re- lleves the tedium of two short
comedies.
He: "Tre waited a whole hour!" She: "But darling. I told you I might be a few minutes late."
Vicar: You promised me you
would mend your way's last year. I can't see that you've done it yet, Reprobate: Hae ye no heard of Inversible" mendin'?
heart
of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, says, "It's like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back-it's somethin' inside you."
may want to dock there. ɑ":
Begins When You're in Love," "There'll Be No South," and "Let's there. The Canadian Pacific Line Go" are other selections in the will make an announcement about
date. parade of song hits featured in the the Empress at a later big show,
(N.C.D.N.)
Edoch
Wallaces
SANDERS
RIVER
Directed by ZOLTAN KORDA
-A ALEXANDER KÖRDA Production
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TRIPLE FEATURE PROGRAMMES 3 SHOWS COMBINED!
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TUES.
LAST OF THE PAGANS
Thrilling story of the South Seas, 600
LAUREL & HARDY Laugh riot, "Live Ghosts".
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