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Mary with Love
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DENNIS KING
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DEVIL'S BROTHER
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"THE WALKING DEAD"!
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1937.
م رسمی الله طرح مادر
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S
Hong Kong
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" QUEEN'S Bero Mary, With Love" ORIENTAL:-
"Billy Billies". CENTRAL:-
"Fra Diavolo".
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Pepper" MAJESTIC:
STAR:
"Piccadilly Jim"
"Walking Dead"
"
KING'S:—
What is proclaimed as an en tirely new type of murder mystery
thriller comes to Star Theatre on Sunday, under the startling title of "The Walking Dead," & Warner Bros, pruduction starring Boris
Karion.
Coming
"On Ice" QUEEN'S:
"Thanks You, Jeeves" ORIENTAL:
"Ex-Mrs Bradford". ALHAMBRA
"End Of The Trail" CENTRALA
STAR
"Olive of India”
"Celling Zero"
"TO MARY-WITH
LOVE"
A story that strikes deep and sure at love to-day, showing at the queen's Theatre to-day, in the Twentieth Century-Fox picturiza- tion romance, "To Mary With
Love."
Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy, together for the third time cinema- tically, are co-starred and their performances opposite each other are said to surpass the heights tney reached in "Broadway Bill" and "Penthouse."
LA VEUT
"PEPPER"
Irvin S. Cobb and Slim Summet- ville literally went into training for their respective roles in "Pepper," Jane Withers' new Twen- tieth Century-Fox hft, which us showing to-day at the Alhambra Theatre,
The Paducah Humerist and the elongated comedian found that the rigors of keeping up with the mischievous Withers miss required. that they be in the pink of con- dition.
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VACANCES ATMOS SO L
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 25.
.
Conversion of St. Paul.
Anniversaries and Holidays. —
Auctions-Crown Land, at P. W. D. Onces, 3 p.m.
Cinemas. King's Little Lord Fauntle-
Toy." Queen's: "To Mary, With Love" Central:"Fra Diavolo". Oriental: 80lly Bles." World:"Chinese Picture." Alhambra Pepper." Majestic "Piccadilly Jim" Star: The Walking Dead" Dances-Cheero Club Dance. 8
p.m.
Јаде plays. & shin-kicking, tomato-throwing. window-busting pintsized Robin Hood of lower New York in "Pepper," and both Cobb and Summerville
go through services of strenuous and energetic adventures with Jane...
Therefore, to properly at them- ] selves for their parts. Cobb and Summeville decided to take a re- ; sular course of "setting-up" exer- eises during the production of the film.
One of the sceries of the film callis To Jane to slide down a thirty-foot Bannister Jane tried the side first, but complained that Whlst Drive, 9 pm in the West *Social YMCA Service Men's bannister wasn't "smooth | Lounge Burns Dinner, at Penin- enough, GA
Bula Hotel"
the
The property man waxed the ralling to a glass-like smoothnesa and then Jane went him one better and added a liberal coat of talcum powder to further facilitate he slide.her'
Result; when Jane slid down the bannister It was like a roller- coaster. Instead of alighting at the bottom of the slide, Jane catu pulted out into space--and smack into Irvin B. Cobb, standing on the alldelines,
The camera had 'caught' Jane perfectly but she wanted to try the thrilling slide again. Cobb, how- ever, could not be persuaded under any circumstances to again act as buffer so Jane had to forego any added thrills.
"PICCADILLY JIM”
Theatre last night.
Hollywood's adaptation of the P. G. Wodehouse comedy, "Picca- dilly Jim." brought an upheaval of fan Hunter, as Myrna's child-bilarious laughter to the Majestic hood sweetheart who still loves her, and Claire Trevor, as the good-time girl who almost disrupts the romance, are featured in the cast which also includes Jean mxon.
A love-letter romance, "To Mary ---With Love," opens with the mar- riage of Baxter and Miss Loy. Best man is Ian Munter who hides his regret with a grin, at seeing Myrnia's happiness in Baxter's
arms.
válunteer Lecture Room, 5.30 p.m.; Meetings-Rifle Club Meeting in Annual, of Hong Kong Football Referees' Association in Room 305, Gloucester Hotel Building, 8 pm RehearsalsStreet Singers,” in
John's Hall:
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Sports.
Badminton-Men's Doubles "A" Division: Free Lancers v. Univer- sy "B": Bt. Andrew's "AY Recrelo "B" University "Ä” Y. Chinese Y.M.C.A.; "B" Division: Kowloon Tong "B" v. 8. and S Home: VRC. v. St. John's; King's College Kowloon Tong "A".
Billards-Senior Championship: E. D. da Roza v. R. F. Luz (Civil Service Cricket Club), 8.30 p.m.; Junior Championship: ' ATM C.
V.
Rozario Lee Chi-cho (En- A. Lewis E. A V. Remedios gineers' Institute), 8.30 p.m.; A..
(South China A.A.), 8.30pm.
Meeting-Annual Meeting. Hong: "Kong Referees' Association (Glou- cester Building).
Moon-XII Moon, 13th. Day. Sunrise.-7.04 am Sunset 6.07
P.DI
Tides.High at 9.13 and 20.21: Low at 3.00 and 13.22.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26.
Cinemas. Kings "Little Lord Fauntle-
Queen's: "To Mary, With Love" Central:-"Cilve of India." Oriental:"Silly Billies." World:-"Chinese Picture". Alhambra:-"End Of The Tra!!" Robert Montgomery is excellent
Majestic: "Piccadilly Jim." ia the title role. Madge Evans is
StarThe Walking Dead." a lovely lady opprette him and
Miscellaneous. Claims against Ziegfeld," appears as his father
the Estate of Mary McGregor and Frank Morgan, also of "The Great an actor in love with a woman of Hong Kong League of Nations and Edith Frances: Bernard, due: high social station in London.
Rotary Timn, Hong Kong Hotel:
So occupied is he that Myrna Ziegfeld, makes her first screen Prizegiving, at St. Joseph's Col- Billle Burke, widow of Florenz Peace Societies Essay Competition a summer trip to Maine appearance under her new M-C-M lege, 4.30 p.m.. alone. Returning home, earlier contract and plays a truly delight-singers, Union Church, Kennedy than expected, she Ands
that ful role. Eric Blore and others in Baxter hasn't been so lonesome as the cast keep up the pace, supposed but, instead, has been entertaining Claire Trevor.
An exceptional all-star cast Anniversaries and Holidays.---- added to the merits of the story Australia Day. itself and the direction by Robert 2. Leonard, who dirceted "The Great Ziegfeld." was superb. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has taken Wodehouse at his face value and It proves to be a gold mine of. mirth. They give his original story visible and audible life, but otherwise it is unchanged,
Making love lightly, yet loving deeply, they move through their honeymoon and then return to New York where Baxter plunges into the stock market, intent on accumulating a fortune.
takes
This is the first flaw in their happiness
and, although they INTERNATIONAL
patch it up, the scars still linger. Baxter returns to his manipula- tions in finance and, as the mar-
ket rises, becomes wealthy.
EXHIBITION
Money doesn't bring happiness Plans For 1937 Paris
to the pair, however, for Myrna finda too much time on her hands and becomes intimate with 3 group of parasites and question- able frienda.
Just as it appears that their marriage must break up, the mar ket crashes and Myrna finds that her husband needs her more than
every
From their penthouse they go to liva in a shabby suburban bun- kalow. Baxter is unable to com- prehend what has happened and Myrna is unable to convince him that he should get a job-any kind uf a job.
Hiding their hurts and holding buck their tears, Myma and Baxter ise gallantly and splendidly from
their misfortune and and a new and greater. love to reward them.
Darryl F. Zanuck chieftain of the Twentieth Century-Fox studios, selected John Cromwell to direct To Mary With Love." and Ken neth Macgowan associate producer,
Display
Rehearsala "Elijah" Hong Kong
Road, 5.30 p.m.
Social Cheerò Club Drive,
Sports.
Whist
Badminton-Annual Colony Bad- minton 'Championship."** (FIN Moon-XII Moon, 14th. Day.
p.m.
Suurbe-704-am Sunset-6.08
Low at 3.35 and 14.11.
Tides High at 10.25 and 21.10;
"LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY'
Frances
The object of the International Exhibition in 1937 in Paris is to present "art and technic of the present day. The interest in this exhibition is so lively, that it may record as the Arst actor to play Freddie Bartholomew goes on well be assumed to become one of the most important of its kind. "Little Lord Faunt eroy" without Germany, at the invitation of benefit of the traditional long France, will be very well repre- golden curls and plush suit in the sented. A "palace" called "Deuts-Seladick International alm version ches Haus will be built. The of the world – famous plans for this House provide for Hodgson Burnett atory.' which co- a total of 150 metres han stars the popular child star with breadth of 20 metres. - The Visitor Dolores Costello Barrymore. will enter through an enormous to showing to-day at the King's tower into & Hall of Honour and Theatre: Therapie ch from there into the man exhibiIn all other respects, however, tion hall, 142 metres long and 20 Hugh Walpole, who adapted "Little metres high. On the roof will be Lord Fauntleroy" to the screen, a restaurant, commanding a has faithfully adhered to the un- exhibition grounds. The architect American boy who became splendid view of Paris and the versally beloved story of the little Speer, responsible for the Reichs nobleman, went to England to party Grounds in Nuremberg, has live in a Castle with the Earl of designed this "Deutsches Haux. Dorincourt and transformed that omels of the managers and their to a lovable old grandfather,
Above the Hall of Honour the gentleman from x surly old dear staff will be situated, a well-known Dolores Costello Barrymore Bremen architect, Brinckmann, makes her return to the screen having been entrusted with the tn in the role of the little fellow's actor has the role of the scientist Exhibitors for German products mother C Aubrey Smith 15 terior decoration beautiful and adored young who bringa Karloft back to re. Marguerite Churchill and Warren Enacted by a brilliant cast, the Ball, assistants of the scientist, characters stand out on the screen supply the love interest. with startling vividness Karloff, Benry O'Neill has the part of famous for his terror pictures, has the District Attorney, Joseph King the role of the walking dead man, that of the Judge shot down in Leader of the crooks is Bicinto cold blood by the gangsters, Ruth Corter, racketeering lawyer, hind Robinson the role of his wife and Barton MacLane, political boas of Addison that of the prison garden.
The picture deals with the rear rection of a dead man, who walks agath among his fellow men, walk- ing in a half dream, dazed, but w possessing an unfailing and seem the city, Other members of the ingly supernatural power to rec- band include Paul Harvey, Robert ognize the members of a band of Strange, Joseph Sawyer, Eddie crooks he had not known before Acuff and Kenneth Harlan. as the persons who had framed him for murder and caused him to be electrocuted for a crime he did not commit.
Edmund Gwenn, famous English
KINGS
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. THIS PICTURE WON THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MEDAL
FOR THE BEST PICTURE OF THE PAST YEAR. ¿
With this Magnificent Cast One of the Great Stories of All The Unfolds
Upon the Screen!
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THE BIG LAUGH SHOW OF THE YEAR!
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As the screen "soes gay with P. G. Wodehouse funl Seven comedystars, "Great Ziegfeld's famed director, cut loose with
the year's laugh riot!.
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missar for the International Ex Mickey Rooney play Fauntleroy's will be chosen by the Reichs Com-seen as the Earl; Guy Kibbee and hibition in Paris, 1937, who will be American friends, Mr. Hobbe and
The exect of household fires can responsible for German exhibits Dick, the bootblack. Others in being ng representative as possible, the cast are Henry Stephenson, in populous districts, for at about be seen any sunny Bunday morning A permit mom the Commissar will Jackie Bear, EE. Clive. Una 11.30, when the dinner cooking thus be necessary for exhibitors O'Connor, Ivan Simpson and gets, unter way the smoke begins from Germany, whether represent Jetele Ralph John Cromwell to vell the sun and to cut of ed in the German House or in directed the film, which is releks other Pavillions.
"ealth-giving="nitra-violet rays ed through United Artists.
"Mr. E. Kilburn Scott."
I doubt if anybody in such times Chamberlain." can see far ahead sit Aurten
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