"
KINGS
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2:30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.30 PM.
LOVE IN A JUNGLE EDEN!
2 YEARS TO MAKE. "It'■ NEW! ''. DIFFERENT! Never before on any screen! What girl would be afraid of 1,000 jungle terrors " with the great arma of Tarzan to protect her... to love her?
WEISSMULLER
JOHNNY
TARZAN ESCAPES
with MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
Roa akq50s the characte verented by Edaur Rice Boats Suda Dive falta, RICHĄRU THORPE
NINO MARTINI in
:
THE GAY DESPERADO"
with IDA LUPINO – LED CARRILLO
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 230-515 ·7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31455
LAST TWO DAYS
HALFWAY ROUND
THE WORLD... HE RACES NECK AND
NECK WITH DEATH!
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK
WARNER OLAND
Sed on the character “Overlin Chan" created by
Eart Der Blegars
CHARLES RUGGLES MARY BOLAND
NEXT CHANGE
•
44
• IN
A PARAMOUNT
COMADY
WIVES NEVER KNOW"
1549
WAROMAT
TEL. 20473
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Tarzan Escapes" QUEEN'S:--
"Charlie Chan at The Race
Truck"
ORIENTAL:--
"Swing Time"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
That Girl From Paris" MAJESTIC:
"Earthworm Tractors"
STAR:~
KING'S:-
Coming
TRAINING GALLOPS
3
The following times were recorded at the Valley training xallons on Saturday:~~
3
Snowy River (0) Strathroy (0) ..... Saltire (A) Wadebridge (0) Hetman (0) Sylvandale (0)
New Star (0)
Red Feather (G)
Tyne (0)
Dawn Star (0)
Home Brew (A)
A Great Time (A) Centre Court (0) Yum Sing (8)". Katinka (A)&
31.2 1.03,1 1.30
1 39 1.13.3 1.44 11 42 1.19 1.61
Dia- ist 2nd 3rd tance Qr. Qr. Qr.
2.25
5th 4th
Last Qr. QI. Qr.
27.4 2.12.12.39.4 27.3
2.53 28
1
35.3 1.12.3 1.46 2.17.2
31.2
38.3 1.12.1 1.42.2
11
30.1
11 39.2 1.18.4 1.58.1 232.4 3.08.1 33,2
Expansion Time (0)
1
32.4 1.08.3 1.38.3 2.10.4
31.1
Strathcarrick (A) .......
1
32.4 105.1 1.30.2 2.03.4
21.3
King's Coronation (G) &
King's Highway (G) ... 1
38
Vixen Tor (0)
1
41
1.11.3 1.43.2 2.15.2 2.10.3 1.15.2 1.44
32
26.3
National Unity (A)
Ranger (0)
# 33.2 1.06.4 1.37.2 35.1 1.07.1 1.34.3 40.3 1.20.3 1.58.3 2.31.2
$0.3
27.2
32.4
Commencement Bay (G) 14 34
1.08.1 1.41.3 2.13.1 2.45
31.4
33.4 1.07.4 1.39
2.11.2
32.1
King's Lead (0)
32.3 1.04.4 1.30.1 2.07.1
31
King's Warden (01
}
36 1.07
1.37.2 2.07.4
30.2
Lan Gollen (A)
1
41.3 1.28.4 2.01.3 2,29:2
27.4
Boronia Belle (A)
37.2 1.11.1 1.37.4
26.3
"Bing. Baby, Sing"
#34.3 106.1 1.36.4
30.3
35.4 1.08.1 1.39.2 2.11.2
32
36.3 1.07.4 1.35
27.1
The Right Time (A) &
1 90.2 59.1 1.27.2 1.58.1
30.4
+ 34 1.06.1 1.35
25.4
Meno
I
38
1.19.3 1.48
2.18.4
30.4
Meyer
35.1 1.05.2 1.33 3.01.2
28.2
Pagan Love (S)
1
98.1 1.13
1.46.3 2.17.3
31.
Philanderer (0) &
Air Mail (8)
TO-MORROW
1
374 1.11.2
146. 2.20.3
34.3
Yihan (0)
734
1.08.1
1.36.4.
30.3
UNITED ARTISTS
Twilight Star (A)
Ï 35
1,00 1.35.3 2.04.2
28.4
Fetlar (8)
38.1
1.13 1.45
32
1
42
1.20.2, 1.57 2.29.3
32.3
1 .44
1.24.4 159.2 2.32.2
1. 33
1 31.2 1.02.4 1.91.3 1.58.3 11.38 1.09 1.45 2.20
#33.4 1,03.2 1.35.3
27
2,58 38
20
35.4
32.4 1.07.1 1.40
32.4
Happy Venture (9) &.
I
49 1.42. 2.33 3.04
31
I
36.3 1.11.3 1.46.2 2.17.4
31.2
Prospero (S) &
1 42.1 1.19.3 1.55 2.26.1 1 35.4 109.4 1.43
31.1
2.15.4
32.4
38.3 1.14.4 1.49', - 2.21.3
32.3
1 39.1 1.15 1.48 2.24
36
38.2 1.13
1.44.3
31.3
1
44 1.13.1
1.52.4 2.25
32.1
2 36.3 1.12
1.44.2
32.2
National Anthem (8) &
33.2
1
1
45.3 1.24.1 1.59.2 2.31.2
44.2 1.25.4 2.05.4 2.40.1
32
34.7
"The Gay Desperado" QUEEN'S:-
"Wives Never Know"
ORIENTAL:-
"Magnificent Obsession"
ALHAMBRA:
STAR
"The Girl On The Front
Page"
"M'Liss"
MAJESTIC:
"The Poor Little Rich Girl"
Petroushka (A)
Bag Ter (0)
Feudal Knight (S)
Perfect Day (0)
Standard Time (8)
Bear Claw (0) Aramis (8) Mayflower, (0)
4 30.3 1.02.1 1.38.
• Supers
BALT 2.00-8.18
735-8.00
TAKE ANY TRAY DR HAPPY VALLAY İRƏ
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW
DAYS
A GRAND MUSICAL SHOW FILLED WITH LAUGHTER, SONGS AND DANCES
PUT ROMANCIN' IN YOUR DANCIN'
FRED
Bescher dance."The
Swing Time Walt",
ASTAIRE
GINGER
ROGERS
in a cube-swept SKET
of love on the wingi
SWING TIME
with
Yaar Modra Kalan Broderick
Betty Furman Eric Bors
Music Sy JEROME KERN
WED. THUR..
#
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
Irene Dunn. Robert Taylor. Charles Butterworth
MATINEES: 20e.-30c O EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c.
ISTAR
SHOWING TO-DAY
HI-DE-HOI
IT'S HILARIOUS!
SING
BABY SING
NEXT CHANGE
IT'S A HIT!
ANNE SHIRLEY RKO-RADIO FISTIKE JOHN BEAL
EARTHWORM
Joe E Brown
TRACTORS
comes
HANKOW
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ROAD KOWLOON TEL
57795
ALICE FAYE ADOLPHE MENJOU
TED HEALY GREGORY RATOFF PATSY KELLY - MICHAEL WHALEN RITZ BROTHERS
IN
M'LISS"
that
abe
ouly he discovered aready had become a bride.
The arst love is played by Carol Hugnes and the second by June to the Travis, whose love he finally re- Majestic Theatre to-day in "Earth-sains by a series of mistakes in worm Tractors," a First National which he almost causes her death and then playing ine conquering production that is said to be his most hilarious comedy to date. hero, rescued her from a dynamite The picture is based on a series trap into which he had .ed her.
or
stor.es written
by William Hazlett Upson and which appeared In the "Baturday Evening Post Joe brings to life on the screen the hero of these comedies, that blundering, and in his own egotis tical est'mation, natural born super-salesman, Alexander Botts, who somehow always wins out in
the end despite his egregious
mistakes.
Joe has two leading women in the picture, one whom he loses to a rival when he leaves town and the other whom he finds is quite unwilling to play second fiddle when he stupidly tells her he would have married the first girl
cantankerous
Not only does he win her back, but in a hilarious Silmax to the atory, he sells ber father a flock of tractors.
Others in the large and talented cast include Guy Kibbes, Joe's father-in-law to be; Olin How land, father of his first love who lived to regret he had forbidden his daughter's marriage to Joo; Dick Foran, Joe's rival for his love: Joseph Créhan, Sara Ed. wards, Charles Wilson, Willam Davidson, Irving Bacon and Stuart Holmes.
...
Raymond Enright directed the comedy from the screen play by Richard Macauley, Joe Traub and Hugh Cummings.
TARZAN ESCAPES
Johnny Weissmuller and Mad- reer. O'Sullivan are now at the King's Theatre, reunited in their latest romance of the jungle. "Tarzan Escapes." thrilling ad- venture drama of the king of the wilderness and his bride from the civilised world.
Thrills galore surround the love idythe adventure of the giant vampire bats, the quicksand mire O' death. the stampede" of ele- phants routing savages, the river of crocodiles,
March Brown (S) Tim (G)
Whalsey (S) Election Time (G) National Faith (8) Election Day (8) Tiny Star (0) Araxy (8) ..... Declasse (S)
National Wisdom (8) 11 44 1.24 2.02.1 2.37.3 3.11 Gordito (S) Playboy (S)
amazing Swings YOLA AND PAUL DIARY OF LOCAL
across gorges and other concen- trated excitement.
The story deals with Tarzan's Extended Season At
escapes from a treacherous white
from
Hong Kong Hotel
tunter who seeks to trap him, hoping this to take him to civil- ization to exhit. Tarzan's mate Arrangements have been made and his wild allies keep the plot by the management of the Hong of the people from civilization Kong Hotel for an exterided season being realized. Richard for those brilliant interpreters of Thorpe directed the new thrill | dance themes-Yola and Paul, romance with deft skill.
Their very limited season at the The cast aside from Weissmul- Hong Kong Hotel has been crowned ler and Miss O'Sullivan, includes and crowded with success, and in Saturday Benita Hume as Rita, William the Roof Garden on Henry as the faithful cousin. night they graciously and grace- John Buckler as the treacherous fully obliged with encores to the animal trainer, and Herbert Mun delight of the very large and en-
thusiastic audience. dia provides comedy.
Hundreds appear in the battles between elephants and savage warriors, in the fight between the white sari and the giant bats and in the other breath-taking episodes.
Gorgeous photography and scen- ic details and hundreds of wild animals add interest to the new
picture.
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK
Neck-and-neck with death, half- way 'round the world, Charlie Chan races a ruthless murderer lu his most baffling case, "Charlie" Chan at "the Race Track," Twentieth Century-Fox picture at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
Opening with the thrilling Me- bourne Sweepstakes in Australla, the scene of the film races across the Pacific, where the murderer first strikes, to Honolulu and then Los Angeles with Chan on the killer's trail
EVENTS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15.
Anniversaries and Holidays. -
Sts. Faustinus and Joyita.
Auctions-Land Sale, at P.W.D. onces, 3 p.m.
Cinemas.
King's:-"Tarzan Escapes.", Queen's-Charlie Chan At
The Race Track.” Oriental: "Swing Time" World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-That Girl From
Paris."
Majestic:-"Earthworm Tractors" Star:-"Sing, Baby, Sing:" After the final appearance in the
Dances. Cheero Club Dance, 8 Hong Kong Hotel, which will be on Saturday, Yola and Paul will P.. leave for Manila where they have
Lectures. Volunteer Nursing Detachment; "Home Nursing," at an engagement for a short season.
Possibly Yola and Paul are PW.D. Offices, 5.30 p.m. amongst the
Meetings.-Annual, of Kowloon most travelled
3 Duke dancing act in the world, and the Tong Anglican Church. fact of their being able to make so Street. 8.15 p.m.: Combined, of many re-appearances at the most Ladies Committee and Women's famous rendezvous throughout the Guild, in Hong Kong Union Church Orient, is proof of the excellence of Hall, Kennedy Road, 10 am, Miscellaneous.-Opening of their performance which is char- acterised by vitality and dignified partment of Wireless Telegraphy Government Trade School, by elegance.
Wood Road, Wanchal,
SPANISH COAST CONTROL
London, Feb. 12. The communique issued by the sub-committee of the International Non-Intervention Committee, after
at
De-
Rehearsals. Philharmonic So- clety, "Btreet Binger," in Cathedral Hall, 6 pm.
Social.-Y.M.C.A. Service Men's Whist Drive in West Lounger 9 Pan Whist Drive and Tombola at Sergeants' Mess. Nanking Bar- racks, Shamshulpo, 8.30.p.m.; In- its last session, declares that the terport Football Dinner, Hong committee had discussed various Kong Hotel.
technical details of the control
Sports
plan and had drafted recommenda- Hockey. Interport Hockey, Army tloris to be submitted to the main Ground, Scokunpoo. 4.15 p.: committee. The question of the pm: Shanghai Ladies v. League control of the Portuguese coast was Champions ("T" Ladies).·*
Moon-T Moon, 5th. Day. Chan encounters thrilling and not discussed during the session
Bunrise.-6.56 am. Euriset.----6,20 exciting experiences during the since the Portuguese delegate had chase. A huge gambling ring not yet received instructions from that stops at nothing has switch-his Government and will, there ed the favourite in the Santa fore, have to be discussed during Juanita Handicap with an inferior the next session of the committed.
Transocean New Service. horse..
་་
Chan alone discovers the fact but the killer. kidnaps the wily Chinese aleuth the day of the big race. Chan is faced with an intra- may dart that kills with the speed. of light and deadly foam emitting venomous polson. By a ruse, Chan escapes from his captor, and ar- rives at the track just as the b'g race is about to start and the murderer is about to strike again! Warner Oland portrays Charlie Chan, with the cast of the film also featuring Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck. Alan Dine hart and Gavin Muir,
MRS. SIMPSON'S MOVEMENTS
pm.
R
..it
Tides. High at 12.05; Low at 5.52 and 18.02.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16.
Anniversaries and Bo'ldays. --- St. Onesimus, Disciple of St. Paut Cinemas King's: The Gay Desperado.”: Queen'a:-"Charlie Chan At Rome, Feb. 12.
The Race Track" A society news item that is cir-
Oriental:-"Swing Time" culating here says that the con
World: "Chinese Picture.” "Alhambra: Thần Girl From fidential agent of Mrs. Simpson
Paris" has arrived in Formia from Can- mes with the object of making the Majestic:-"Earthworm Tractors": necessary preparations for Mrs.
Star:"Blig. Baby, Bing," Simpson's sojourn during
the "Dances-Interport Hockey Sup spring and summer months. It per Dance, Peninsula Hotel, 9.15 will be taken on the coast of North p.m. Naples -
Tranistean News Bervice.
ALHAMBRA
ATHAN UN, HOWLOON. DANY
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
THREE GREAT STARS! SPARKLING MUSICAL COMEDY !
PONS
Flen Maw Songs
need a Thousand
New Laughs i
THAT GIRL FROM PARIS
She came from France to
Had zemenes and look, her heart to poringtime
STAYHOND
OAKIE
#KO-RADIO PICTURE
Msoka Aver Lucille Ball Frank Jenks
Made by ARTHUR SCHWARTZ, Lavky by Edward Harman, Disted by Leigh Jarva A Pomire 5. Barmen Production,
WEDNESDAY
Universal Picture
• SHONUS
DAILY
720-930
1.30 570
"THE GIRL ON THE FRONT PAGE”
with Gloria Stuart
Edmund Lowe
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL 87222
MATINEES. 204 -30% ° EVENINGS. 208×30e50:70
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
POSITIVELY THE FUNNIEST SHOW IN TOWN!
JOE E.
WE'LL TELL THE WORLD HE'LL SELL THE WORLD!
Super-salesman 'Alex- ander Botts, fresh from Wm. Hazleti Upson's fur mous Saturday Evening Post stories and dens up Brown by the screen's most comical laß»stärt
· ALEXANDER BOTTS #
EACTORS
JUNE TRAVIS
• Carol seanmek
GUY KIBBEE
Plan forno [
Gena tutahora
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Serban Olan H13 termo
ALSO: "CHANGING
OF THE GUARDS".
MUSICAL IN COLOUR
WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY! SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN "THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL”
office removal to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, 3rd." floor, from 11 am, to noon; Rotary Tian, Hong Kong Hotel
Erjah," Rehearsals, satis
Hong Kong Singers, Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5.30 p.m..
Moon-I Moon, 6th. Day: Bunrise.-6.56 a.m. Bunset-4.19
D.x.
Miscellaneous-Mesars.
B E Tides High at 11.28 and 23.35; Levy and Co., "At Home" to mark! Low at 5.21 and 17.10.
Infant Italian Prince
Rome, Feb, 12.
The infant near to the Italian. throne, whose birth at Naples on Friday has already been reported, will bear the name of Vittorio. Emanuel, according to a semi-of- ficial announcement- Tinatarray, Newri Sernici,
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