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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1936.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"San Francisco"
QUEEN'S:-
Till We Meet Again"«
ORIENTAL-
"Small Town Girl"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"San Francisco"
MAJESTIC:
"Road Gang'
STAR:-
"I Live For Love"
Coming
KING'S:-
"Whic Parents Sleep"
QUEEN'S:-
"Let's Sing Again" ORIENTAL:-
"The Preview Murder
Mystery"
ALHAMBRA:-
"Pride of The Marines"
MAJESTIC:~~
"Wie vs. Secretary*
STAR:-
"Klondike Annie”
"SAN FRANCISCO"
"San Francisco showing to-day at the King's and Alhambra Thea- tres brings Clarke Gabic and Jeanette MucDonald together as a co-starring team for the first
time,
The musical romance gives Miss MacDonald her widest
scope in vocal numbers in her screen career
-a total of nine presentations ranging from a solemn hymn to beautiful operaric arias.
Clark Gable is seen in the role of a blustery Barbary Coast gam- bling baron who has no falth in anything but his own power and his charm over women.
Co-starring with Miss MacDonald and Gable is Spencer Tracy, as a priest; and the supporting cast in cludes Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy, Shirley Ross, Margaret" Irving. Harold Huber, Al Shean, -William Riccardi and Kenneth
Harlan,
"San Francisco" is laid in the colourful perlod of 1905-06, ita life of galety and song. its Barbary Coast prior to and through the disaster "thu, levelled the famous Golden Gate city thirty years ago.
The picture follows closely in the wake of the successes scored by "Naughty Marietta" and **Rose Marie." and comes to the screen as the third of Miss MacDonald's Bims directed by W. S. Van Dyke,
"ROAD GANG"
CHAPLIN TO FILM AN ENGLISH NOVEL
Not To Act Himself
Charlie Chaplin is to
direct a Alm called "Regency," which is based on the English novel by Mr. D. L. Murray. Miss Paulette God. dard, to whom he is engaged, wut take the leading part, Mr. Chap- lin says that he will direct and produce the nim but not act in it himself. Production""will begin when Paulette Goddard's Arst "solo" picture known as "Produc- tion No. 6" Is completed.
SCIENTIFIC PROOF BEFORE BELIEF
Declaration By
Modern Churchman
"One very important point in
che which
modern Christian is compelled to differ from the an clent Christian is that the truths of the physical sciences, if they are to be included among Christian be Kets, must be held to be true only because they have been proved to be true at the bar of science."
This declaration was made by Dr. H. D. A. Major, Secretary of the Modern Churcamen's Union, at the Union's conference at Oxford.
He continued: **This ap- also to all Christians concerning the dates. places.
By buying a scenario in England Mr. Chaplin is setting a precedent for himself, as his invariable cus- tom has been to write his own scripts, or in earlier days, to makeplies them up as he went along.
Mr. Chaplin showed that he is authorship and character of Bibli- maintaining his reputation 15 a cal literature. These truths may be j philosopher in an interview, which
belleved only if proved true at the ke gave
a few days ago on the bar of literary criticism beach at Ensenada, Lewer, Callfor-appiles to Christian nta. He feels that the world has just gone through a great transi- tion period and that the lessons of the depression have been hard but that they are proving very beneficial.
"A few years ago-everyone went ilgging on the floors of might clubs with a vacuous look on his face," Mr. Chaplin declared. "That has been supplanted by an expression of serious endeavour. There is more sobriety. more naturalness.
more
simplicity and maturity. And the young people-they are well alive to the situation. This
than the last one. The children is a much more serious generation
are cognisant of the task ahead. They know they face a harder future than Competition is keener, opportuni- their parents did.
tles less."
Chaplin declared that he had come back from his trip Orient" with
to the "n greater respect for the natives Japan. We often think of the of China and
coolfe as merely someone carrying something, but actually he is often an excellent actor. musician, and in many
Q talented capable artist," he said.
cases a
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
The same historical truths such as the virgin, birth, the physical resurrection of Jesus. Christ on the third day, the ascen-" sion on the 40th day after the re- surrection. and so on.
"They can only be rightly held to be true I proved to be true by scientific, historical research. Here we know that Christian tradition is in acute conflict on many points with modern scientific conclusion.
"There must be some proof for every Christian belief, but the ques- tion is, what kind of proof for those Christian beliefs which cannot be proved scientifically? We have to make the great truths of the Christan rellgön our working hypothesis, and to observe as we test them, by living in obedience to them, whether the result supports them or not.
"An army of fanatical obscur- antists led by sceptles is the great. danger ahead of the Church to- day."" he added,
FATHER WOODLOCK'S VIEW
The "Modernist bellet and the plain man" was discussed by Father F. Woodlock. Di Farm-street Church, London, at St. Aloys.us Church, Oxford.
"God." he said, "is not an intel- lectual snob, who is only interested in, and vates communion with, the University don or the profound philosopher. Eruditionis not necessary preliminary to the ac- ceptance of Christ's teaching."
Modernism, Father Woodlock as- serted, led to pass the test when Anniversaries and Holidays Ember appiled to the average man's needs and capacity. The honest "plain Auctions.-Household Furniture at man" was shocked at the duplicity: Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Bom, 2.30 nvolved in the practice of the modernist clergy, who reverently re- cited the Creed before God in wor- ship at the altar. as a preamble to a rejection of the articles of the same Creed in the pupit
Day.
p
Cinemas,
King's San Franciscu," Queen's-Tilt We Meat Again." Oriental Small Town Girl" World:-"Queen Of The Jungle." Alhambra "San Francisco. Majestic Road Gang." Star Live For Love." Lectures. Heienu May Christian Fellowship Meeting, 10.3 1.21. A picture of raw, stark realism, SocialCharro Club Duplicate Con said to bare the terrors prisoners tract Bridge, 8.00 pm. R.AM.C. are subjected to in a penal in- Association Whist Drive and "franbola, stitution run by grafting politist Military Hospital, Bowen Road, 8.30 Clans, mes to the Majestic P. II.Q.L.A. Sergeant Mess Whist
Drive and Tombela, 8.30 p.m. Theatre to-day under the title of "Road Gang."
Sports. Polo-Polo Tournament Street), 5.00 p.m. (V.R.C.), 6.00 p.m.
Swimining. Colony Championships
Besides its terrifying aspects which make it of vital interest, there is a glowing ronance of a girl who sticks by her man even when he is convicted of a crime, and who battles for his release antil she eventually wins his free- dom.
The picture is set in the sombre background of a farm conducted by a
convicts and a county for mine where incorrigible prisoners are shipped. In the former place: the brutality is almost medieval, but at the latter conditions are 50 terrible inmates are said to either go insane or die.
There is a wealth of dynamic drama and fast action, with thrill upon thrill, including a convict's strike and battle with police guards who use gas bombs and Tommy guns, in the bowels of the earth; a running gun fight between police cars and an auto in which a con- vict is fleeing for his life; and the blasting of a mine tunnel with dynamite.
The picture has an
い
unusually
large and talented cast which is headed by Donald Woods, Kay Lin aker, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Henry Others O'Neill and Joseph King. include Addison Richards, Joseph novel by: Sinclair Lewis
Orehan, Charles Middleton, lin Howland and Eddie Shubert, be- Huston. who acted the part on sides scores of others in the roles Walter Huston, one of the the stage for over two years of guards, police and convicts. screen's best actors, is seen "ali too claims to know every linë “of the
Louis King directed the produc- infrequently these days. For a play. He will be able to give valution from the screen play by Dalton long time he devoted all this enable advice to his co-star, Ruth Trumbo, based on the original ergies to the stage. Then he was Chattertour, and to the rest of the story by Abem Finkel and Harold persuaded to come to England to cast.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19.
Anniversaries and Holidays.-Ember
Day.
Cinemas.
King's "San Francisen." Quecu's-Till We Meet Again." Oriental :-"Small Towo Girl.** || World:-"'Queen Of The Jungle." Alhambra San Francisco, Majestic "Boad Gang." "Star :-**I Live For Love."
Cominercial-China Estates Second Interim Dividend payable.
Dauces. Health and Strength Langn Flannel Dance, Hotel Cecil, 8.45 p.m. Craigengower Cricket Club, D.15 p., 1 *Entertainments.Variety Concert at
the Miscellanous. Claims against
Estate of James Frederick Hers, due
Social. Cralgengower Cricket Club Whint Drive, 9.00 p.m.1 Cheero Club Open Games Night..
Sports
Bowls.--First Division, Taikoo B.C. v. Craigongower C.C. "B"; Craigan- gower C.C. "A" v. Kowloon Docks; Becond Division, Civil Service C.C. v. Yacht Club
{ .4! Swimming. Colony Championships (V.B.C.), `9.15. p.m. -
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Jeanette
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What People
Are Saying
Father Woodlock alluded to Dr. Inge's paper on the effects of pra- yer and his derita! that prayer could ever alter the progress of a disease. "Apart from the medically attested miraculous cures at Lourdes, thou- sands of people in England both "The modern mind is in' a con- Catholics and protestants, have dition of completa confusion. The seen the beneficial results of prayer trifluence of Christianity in the offered for the sick, and their ex-world is steadily, waning."-The perlence disproves Dr. Inge's char-Dean of ́St. Paul's acteristicaly dogmatic statement.”
"We destroy revolution not by Father Woodlock said he believed black shirts or by castor oil, but
that the common sense of the by ordered progress and free dis-
„"plain man" would save him from cussion,”—Sir Samuel Hoare.
being won to the new version of "Pacts and treaties are of use. Christianity, if only because he only when they correspond to the would recognise that from the actual feelings of the people who "Christ of history" as modernien have to implement them." Other- presented him there could never wise they are a dangerous hypo- have arisen the Christian Church crisy."-Sir Francis Fremantle. which converted a vagan world.
M.P.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.
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Anniversaries and Holidays.--Fir
"There is no limit to the advant- age that Germans and Italians believe we derive from our over- seas Dominions "——Mi38 Rebecca West..
"For the League of Nations I
teenth Sunday after Trinity. Fast of would not ask any man to fight. Gedaliais.
Cinemas.
King's San Francisco," Queen's :-"Let's Sing Again." "Oriental:-"Praview Murder
Mystery."'
Its universality is fatal to com- plete loyalty."-Sir Arnold Wilson,
MP
"England is slow to awake, but when aroused she follows on to the end." Mr. W. H. Yerburgh,
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A Warnoc Bros. Mature wish DOLORES
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GUT KIBITI
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·SHAW & LES
World:"Chinese Picture."
"The darkest year are now well Alhambra :-"San Francisco,”
behind us in Industry. et large. Majestic:-"Wifa va. Secretary."
and in the shipbuilding industry Star:-"Gold-Diggers Of 1933."
in particular."-Bir John Cadman. Social.Tombola at Royal Signale Bergeants Mess, Kowloon, 8.00p.m.: stitute for history in the political
"Propaganda serves as a at China Fleet Club Theatre, 7.30 world and myths in the rellg'ous' p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola, R.A.: (8lation) Sorgenata*. Mass, Gan Club world."-Rev. M. T. Dun'op. fill, Chatham Road, Kowloon, . 8.30 p.m.
Sports.
Wrestling-Wong Bock-cheung Young Aquinaldo; Hatts - Singh Mohar Singh (Lee Theatre), 1.00 pm
Moon-Vill Moon, 5th Day. Sunrise.-8.11a.m.
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"In the course of public activi- tips one becomes basured to' human foolery and stupidity in all its forms."Mr. A. L Rowe.
"Poetry has greatest power when it finds its way into song.”- MI. A E McCreer
"The world !a vpside down and sick of a grievous malady which Tides.High at 11 54 od 21.14, threaten to become graver and Low at $.50 and 77.15.
more dangerous stil:"The Pope.
UAYAWADON
SUNDAY
MAE WEST in "KLONDIKE ANNIE
VICTOR MAC AGTEN A PARKMOUNT PICTURE
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