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HONG KONG
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LAST TWO DAYS'
KOWLOON
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LAVISHLY PRODUCED-TUNEFUL SONG HITS AND INTRICATE DANCE ROUTINES |
PARAMOUNT SILVER JUBILEE SPECIAL!
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:--
"Born To Dance":
QUEEN'S:-
"Champagne Waltz"
'ORIENTAL:
"Big Broadcast of 1937" CENTRAL:
"Special Chinese Newsreel
Programime"
Kowloon
TRAINING GALLOPS
The following times were recorded at the Valley training
on Saturdayş
Thunder Bay (G) Inca (8). Despair
Dis- 1st
And 3rd tance Qt. Qr. Qr. 32.2 1.05.3 1.38
5th 1th "QT. Qr.
6th Last Qr. QT.
32.2
Bay (9) & Aire
(0)
1
35.4 1.11.2 1.47 2.22.1
35.1
Magnificent View
1.52.1 2.27.2 3.00
32.3
(G) ................ 14 40 1.17.1 Busok (S) ......... 1
51.3 1.38 Park View (8)..... 1.
2.24.1 3.00
41.4
49.2
1.32
2.12.4 2.45.2
32.3
Gypsy Love (A)..... ₫ 34 Spring Beauty &
Tempest (8) Precious Stream
1.06.1 1.33
20.4
1.51.4 2.26.2 2.58
$1,3
11 41
1.15.4
2,03 2.38.3 3.10.2 3.38.4 28.2
ALHAMBRA:—
"Champagne Waltz"
MAJESTIC:-
STAR:
"Angkor"
"Champagne Waltz"
Coming
(A)·........ ........... 14 44 Royal Mall (G)... 4 $0.2 Meadow View (G) 39 Commencement
1.25 1.03.2 1.38.1 1:18.3 1.52
34.4
35.2
1.40.1-2.11.1
31
Bay
Red
#1
Centre
(0) Scenic View (G) 1 Aztec (A)
Feather (G) 1 34 Forward
1.07.4
1.46.2 2.16.4
30.2
1
Flying Arrow (8) 1 Courting Eve &
40 37 1 23.3
38
1.14.2
1.13.2 1.47.4 2.22.3 2.63.1
*30.4
58.1 1.28 1.57 1.16 1.52 2.23.1
29
31.1
1.48.3 2.14.2
27.4
P
PAGNE
KING'S:-
L
"Down The Stretch"
QUEEN'S
Without Orders"
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
"Nevada"
"Without. Regret"
MAJESTIC:
"Many Happy Returns"
Barometer & Gold
Exchange (8)... 14 Happy Eve (G)..... 1)
Such Fun (A)....... I Tabby Cat & Per-
sian Cat (9)
37
1.12.2
1.30 2.23.9 2.57.1"
33.3
› Tze" Tin (8)
11 37.2 1.14.1 147.2 1.29.1 2.08.2 2.46.1 3.24 Havoc Eve (G)... 14 38.2 1:12 1.44.4 2.16 2.49 Royal Wedding
2.16
3.55.4 81.4
31
1.44
32
H
Eve (0)
1
35.1 1.10.4
||
Peak View
1.47.2 2.21.4
94.2
Naughty Cat (3) Coronation
(S)
1 35.2 1.11.3 Day
KINGS
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
EVERYBODY'S GOING TO THE BIG SHOW!
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BORN DANCE
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Cowell
Your "Broadway Mélody® Girl
JAMES
with
VILONCIA
STEWART - BRUCE Una Morisi - Sid Siivors » Frames Langford · Raymond Walkman Alan Diaskari › Buddy Ebran,
Mano Godicyn Maya
PICTURE
AISO LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY... NEXT CHANGE. "DOWN THE STRETCH' WARNER BROS. with PATRICIA ELLIS MICKET BOONEY
1149.11.30
1
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42.1 1.20 40.1 1.18.1
2.08.4 2.46 3.19.3 3.51 31.2
1.58.3 231.2 3.07.3 9.43.2 35.4
1.50.3 219.4
29.1
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1.30-8.33
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7.15-8.50
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FRED MacMURRAY, GLADYS SWARTHOUT JACK OAKIE, BENNY BAKER, HERMAN BING VELOZ and YOLANDA
WEDNESDAY
At the QUEEN'S
SALLY EILERS-Roat. ARM TRONG "WITHOUT ORDER"
An R.K.O. Radio 'Picture
K SHOWST
DAILY
2.30 $10
720.930
TO-MORROW
At the ALHAMBRA LABRTBUSTER" CBABBE
"NEVADA
A Paramount Picture
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
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16L57222
(MATINEES. 20€ 30%• EVENINGS. 20.-30.50%-70%) FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
THE WORLD'S WEIRDEST MYSTERY REGION REVEALED IN A STARTLING PICTURE OF A LOST CIVILIZATION !!!
A FILM CHRONICLE OF A FORBINDEN JOURNEY
ANGKOR
SHOWING THE WONDERS OF ANGKOR-VAT, THE MOST MAGNIFICENT RUINS IN THE WORLD! MYSTERY! INTRIGUE! ADVENTURE: AND 1,000 WILD ANIMAL THRILLS !' AN APEX PICTURE
TO-MORROW & WEDNESDAY GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN IN THEIR GOOFIEST AND MADDEST COMEDY
'MANY HAPPY RETURNS"
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.
CENTRAL
ATRE
SHOWING TO DAY
At 12.80, 2.80, 5.15. 7.16 & 9.15 P.
SPECIAL CHINESE
NEWSREEL PROGRAMME
A splendid record of the Safe Arrival of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek from Sian.
Vivid glimpses of the Sui Yan Front, etc., etc.
NEXT CHANGE #S
MICKEY MOUSE. & SYLLY SYMPHONY PROGRAMME
BORN TO DANCE
That peculiarly rhythmic tap- ping sound which is being heard all over town to-day is merely the echo of Eleanor Powell who once again clinches her title of the world's greatest feminine tap dan- cer in the new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer musical spectacle, "Bora to Dance," showing at the King's Theatre to-day.
Miss Powell, who first won praise from critics and film audiences alike in "Broadway Melody of 1938," is a delight to behold, "a pleasure to listen to and treamen- dous treat to lovers of dancing in any form. In her first pictures sne proved her versatility by swit- ening from tap dancing to ballet: In "Born to Dance" she Introduces a bewildering array of routines, including even an original version of the current popular "swing"
tempo.
In its music, production value
and dazzling array of supporting talent "Born to Dance" in every way lives up to the light standards set by its brilliant dancing star.
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The songs, written by Cole Porter of "You're the Top" and "Night and Day" fame, are of the type that once heard linger on the ear weeks after. The romantic "Easy to Love" the haunting T've Got You Under My Skin" the catchy "Swinging the Jinx Away," and the lilting waltz number, "Hey, Babe, Hey," are songs that every- one will be whistling and hum- ming. for weeks to come.
In its magnificent settings, eye- Alling ersembles, every one of whose dancers must be a beauty- prize winner, the interesting naval backgrounds and the general luxury of the proceedings, the pic- ture is definitely in the tradition of "The Great Ziegfeld." Dave Gould did a brilliant job of super- vising the dances and the direc tion of Roy Del Ruth adda im- measurably "to the success of the whole.!
The story of "Born to Dance"
MR. MELLON'S ART GIFT
National Gallery
For U.S.A.
The announcement has been made to the American people, by the publication of letters exchang- ed between Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, a former Secretary to the Treasury and a former Am- ent Roosevelt that Mr. Mellon is bassador in London, and Presid-
tonal Gallery of Art in Washing- willing to build and endow a Na-
ton which shall house his magni- ; dicent collection now offered to
|DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
MONDAY, FEBI JARY 1.
Anniversaries and Holidays.-
St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch.
Cinemax
다
King's:--Born To Dance.' Queen's Champagne Waltz." Central: Silly Symphony.
Frogramnic.". Oriental:-"The Big Broadcast
Of 1937. 1 WorldChinese Picture." Alhambra:-Champagne Waltz.” Majestic: "Angkor," Star:-"Champagne Waltz" Dances.-Y.M.C.A. Service Men's
the country as a free gift, and as Dance, West Lounge. 9.00 p.m.; the nucleus of a great national Cheero Club Dance. 8.00 pm.
Meetings Athletic Sports Com-
collection.".
Kance
My collection, Mr. Mellon an-mittee, in Volunteer Lecture Room, nounced, is representative of most 5.30 p.m.: Kowloon Union Church of the great masters of Western Annual Meeting. 8.45 pm; 8. works of art which I acquired in Cathedral Hall, 3 pm. Europe and includes outstanding John's Cathedral Women's Guild,
from the Hermitage Gallery in Miscellaneous-Entry forms close Russia. It also contains Renais- for Hong Kong University School sculptures, including most Leaving Certificate examination; of those formerly in the Dreyfuss Beginning of Chinese New Year Collection In Paris; and there is in Fair; Exhibition of Pictures by Dr. addition a large assemblage of Paul Wolff, ab Gloucester Arcade: American portralis from the C.N.A.C. Hong Kong Office, in Clarke and other collections which King's Building, open to Public. would be suitable for a National Rehearsals.Philharmonic Portrait Gallery
clety, "Street Singer," in Cathedral Hall, 5,45 pm.
The value of this extraordinary gift is on a plane above figures, put the works of art have cost Mr. Mellon £4,000,000, and Lord Du- veen said that they were worth at least £10,000,000, à sum of rough ly £2,000,000 is to be devoted to the erection of a building on the north side of the Mall.
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Pictures From Russia
MORE
ORIENTAL
DAYS TO-DAY
TO-MORROW⭑|
THE SCREEN'S BIGGEST MUSICAL LAUGH SHOW THE GREATEST STARS OF STAGE, SCREEN AND RADIO.
JACK BENNY
GEORGE BURNS GRACIE ALLEN
BOB BURNS MARTHA RAYE BENNY GOODMAN and his ORCHESTRA
"THE BIG BROADCAST
OF 1937"
● MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
HANKOW
KOWLOON
STARE
DAILY
AT
So-
2:30
520
720
9:00
LAST TIMFS TODAY
GLADYS SWABTHOUT
&
Sports.-Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium Class, 5.30 p.m.
Moon XII Moon, 20th. Day. Sunrise.-7.03 am Sunset.-~8.12
p.m.
Tides-High at 0.15 and 13.12;- Low at 6.35 and 18.53.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2.
Anniversaries Purification V. M. Candlemas-Day. and Holidays.'— Scottish Quarter Day. Birthday of Celestial Dragon (Tien-lung-tan).
Cinemas. King'a-Born To Dance.". Queen's-Champagne Walta." Central-Silly Symphony
Programme." Trauma Oriental:The Big Broadcast
Of 1937." World:"Chinese Picture." Alhambra: "Champagne Waltz” Majestic:-"Many Happy
Returns"-
The collection has been made over the past 35 years. Six years ago Mr. Mellon bought from the Soviet Government 16 pictures, of involves the romance of a small-
which ave rank among the world's greatest town girl who falls in love with "Alba Madonna," Botticelli's "Ado- masterpiecesRaphael's navy man and almost loses him to a show girl James Stewart is Triptych, "The Crucifixion," with ration of the Magi Perugino's the Navy man, and Virginia Bruce St. Jerome, Van Eyck's "Annun gives an outstanding portrayal as ciation," and Titian's "Toilet of the temperamental show girl. Also Venus." About the same time he scoring in a topnotch supporting acquired Raphael's "Madonna and cast are Una Merted and Sid Bil- Child," known as the Cowper or A perfect evening's entertain-
galore Niccolini Madonna, from Panahan- ment is provided by "Champagne vers furnishing laughs Waltz," at the Queen's, Alhambra Frances Langford of radio rame, ger House, and from Englana alao and Star Theatres to-day. Even and Buddy Ebsen, the eccentric Reyelds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, LP, "o-grou-please King Sees. Mint's
Raymond Walburn, Alan Dinehart came magnificent examples of ing is not the major feature, as roadway Melody of 1936." Gladys Swarthout's excellent sing comedy dancer who scored in Romney. Turner, Constable, and
CHAMPAGNE WALTZ
the film also includes humour, a touch of pathos, and some of the
most delightful music heard from
others.⚫
Star: Without Regret. Entertainments Union
Concert, 8.45 p.m.
Meetings. Fourth, of the Hong No individual, say authorities on Kong Branch of the English Az- the subject, has ever assembled sociation, in Helena May. Speakers, so great a collection. Holbein's Miss Frances Steel, M., 8.30 "Prince Edward" is there, Goya's p.nu.
Marquis de Pontelos, Rem- Miscellaneous. Rotary Timan, orandt's "Beit Portrait," El Greco's Hong Kong Hotel 4
the screen for many a long while, out sings some intriguing new The alm includes some amazing numbers with her usual abiity scenic effects showing a classical and the musical background to the and dance orchestra playing two picture, is provided by several different tunes at the same time. Strauss waltzes. Jack Oakle, asat. Ildefonso," Raphael's "St. and producing a Most pleasing the manager of the dance band, a George and the Dragon," Titian's effect. Throughout the picturs "touch American type who yet is "Madonna and Child," with the there runs an entertaining plot not touch enough to see through infant St. John in the landscape, which places Fred MacMurray in the wiles of an engaging Russian Vermeer's "Girl with the Red Hat," the position of a dance band lead countess, is well able to supply and is "Lacemaker," Van der er masquerading as an American the humorous episodes, in which Werden's "Portrait of a Lady, and consul, in order to deceive the Herman Bing also occasionally intinite riches more. It will be for charning singer, Gladys 'Swarth takes a hand. "Champagne Waltz Congress, on the President's I out, whose wrath is justly aroused is distinctly above the average run commendation, to accept the giftp.m. by the band's rivalry to her of-pictures, and would be worth and then the building of the Gal- father's orchestrá, Miss Ewarth seeing for the music alone,
fery will begin,
FRED
KacMURRAY
CHAMPAGNE WALTZ"
WITH JACK
OAKIE VELOZ'L
YOLANDA
PARAMOUNT
·SILVER
JUBILEE
EFECIAL
ELISSA LANDI
MORROW'WITHOUT REGRET EENT TAYLOR
Deputy Master
New Coins By May 12
Before returning, with the Bocial Cralgengower Cricket pary 13, the King received Col. Bir Queen, to Sandringham on Jan-
Tombola, 9.15 p.m. Cheero Club the Mint, at Buckingham Palace, Club Weekly Whist Drive and Robert Johnson, Deputy Master of Whist Drive, 8.30 pm St. His Majesty discussed with him the drew's Mothers' Union entertained designs for the new coinage. by Cathedral Mothers' Union, in Cathedral Hall, 330 p.m. -
An official of the Mint said that j'no final decision has as yet been Moan-XII Moon, 21st. Day. made on the design, but that Bir Sunrise-1.03 am Sunset 6.11 Robert informed the King that it was hoped to issue the new coins by May 12, the date of the Corona-
Tides-High at 12.47; Low at 6.07 and 18.09.
tion
His Majesty gave a sitting at Sandringham recently to the portrait modellers to the Royal Mint, Mr. P. Metcalfe and Mr. T. H. Paget. They are now preparing that plaques from one of which the moulds of the new coins will be e designed. T
The journey of the King, and va, Leaving Liverpool Street Sta- Queen to Sandringham was a slow tion et 2.49, the train to which the Royal saloon was attached arrived at Wolferton, the station for Sandringham, at 5.28.
stations-Bishop's Stortford, Aud- On the way it stopped at eight, ley End, Cambridge, Ely, Littleport, Downham, King's Lynn and North Wootton