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TO-MORROW
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
"The Gay Desperado" QUEEN'S:—
KING'S:
THE WORLD... HE RACES NECK AND
NECK WITH DEATHI
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK
with
WARNER OLAND
•Emed on the charecter
“Carla Ovate created by
Carl Deer Biggera
CHARLES RUGGLES MARY BOLAND
A ParaxounT COMEDY
• IN
729-13:30
WIVES NEVER KNOW"
TAMU'MIN TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
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THE SEASON'S MOST EXTRAVAGANT
COMEDY MUSICAL DANCE SHOW!
ASTAIRE
DAYS
GINGER
ROGERS
in a tingle-tos drama of lere op the wlag!
With tunes by JEROME KERH
SWING TIME
2ONLY 1
TO-MORROW & THURSDAY •
UNIVERSAL'S MILLION DOLLAR MASTERPIECE
IRENE DUNNE ROHERT TAYLOR"
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
A JOHN M. STAHL
Production from the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, with Charles BUTTERWORTK
BETTY FURNESS
A Universal Picture presented by Carl Laenunla
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DAILY
AT
2:30
5.20
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STAR
SHIRLEY
GUY
SHOWING
Jika
in a roaring romance of the frontier
MISS
With
DOUGLASS
KIBBEE DUMBRILLE
MORONI OLSEN Directed
by George Nicholls, Jr. Associate
producer, Robert Sisk
TO-DAY
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BRET HARTE'S FAMOUS STORY
EKO-RADIO PICTURE.
"Charlie Chan at The Race
Track"
ORIENTAL:-
"Swing Time"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"That Girl From Paris" MAJESTIC:-
"Earthworm Tractors"
STAR:--
"MLS"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Gold Diggers of 1937" QUEEN'S:-
"Wives Never Know" ORIENTAL:-
"Magnificent Obsession"
ALHAMBRA :----
"The Girl On The Front
Page"
STAR:-
"Sully Bullies" MAJESTIC:---
"The Poor Little Rich Girl" "We Went To College"
THE GAY DESPERADO
Nino Martini, world famous singing star of radio, opera and fms, comes to the King's Theatre to-day. in the Pickford-Lasky's sparkling romance. "The Gay Desperado."
St. George's Day Unveiling Of Royal Memorial
The King will unveil the mem- orial to his late father. King George V. at Windsor on April 23 -St. George's Day.
He will be accompanied by the Queen.
Other engagements which the King and Queen hope to filni | are:
April 25-An inspection of a parade of the King's scouts at Windsor..
April 27-The opening of the National Maritime Museum, Green- wich.
May 2-To attend the inaugural service ・まい the Royal Military
| College Chapel, Sandhurst.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. Anniversaries and Holidays. --- St. Onealmus, Disciple of St. Paul. Cinemas Kings: The Gay Desperado." Queen's: "Charlie Chan At
The Race Track." Oriental:-Swing Time" World:"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra--That Girl From
Paris."
Majestic:-"Earthworm Tractors" Star:-"ML158,"
Dances.--Interport Hockey Sup- per Dance. Peninsula Hotel, 9.15 b.AL
Meetings. St. Andrew's Mothers' Union fortnightly meeting, 3. p.m.; St. John's Cathedral Mothers' Union. 3 p.m.
Miscellaneous-Messrs.
B
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Levy and Co, "At Home" to mark office removal to Hong Kong and
Bank the Shanghai
Bullding. 3rd.
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK
Charlie Chan encounters strangest and most, bating case of his career as he combats the deadly machinations of a ruthless killer in "Charlie Chan at the Race Track," Twentieth Century- Fox picture which has its run at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
floor, from 11 am. to noon; Rotary Tin. Hong Kong Hotel.
Hong Rehearsals."Elijah," Kong Singers. Union Church, Kennedy Road, 3.30 p.m.
Moon--I Moon, 6th. Day. Social, Cralgengower Cricket Murder with a phantom horse- Club Weekly Whist Drive, and shoe, an intra-ray that hurls un-Tombola, 9.15 p.m.; Cheero Club seen death, and a polson foam Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m.; Kowloon that bubbles venomously, are but Union Church Y.P.S. St. Valentine a few of the macabre means of Social, 8.45 p.m. murder that. Chan deals with sa he races neck-and-neck, hali-way 'round the world, with an invisible killer.
Warner Oland once again plays Charlie Chan, Earl Derr Biggers famous sleuth, with Keye Luke.
Helen Wood, Thomas Beck and Gavin Muir also featured in the cast. 11
Sports
2
·Billlards.-Senior Championship. M. N. Rakusen v. R. F. da Luz (Engineers' Institute). Junior Championship, Wong Yu-chee v. Mut Chan-ted (Club Lusitano), 8.30 p.m.
Golf-Ladles Medal Competi- tion (New Course, Fanling).
Hockey. Hockey. Interport Shanghal v. United Services.
Sunrise.-6.55 a.m. Sunset. 8.20.
The film opens with a thrilling horse race in Australia where Avalanche, the heavily-backed | p.m. favourite. loses the Melbourne Ida Lupine and Leo Cerrillo are Sweepstakes through the opera- featured in support of the hand-tions of a gambling ring.
some tenor.
Major Kent, infuriated at the The second offered of the
gamt.crs,cables Honolulu and re- newly-formed Mary Pickford and
quests, Chan to investigate the Jesse L. Lasky producing com- case, When the boat carrying bination. "The Gay Desperado" Kent and Avalanche to America completely discards the conven-
docks in Honolulu, Char finds the tional plot formula, for films star-Major dead-apparently kicked to ring famous singers and tells Q death by Avalanche. fast-moving romantic story of gay and glamorous Mexican ban- dido who sings his way out of a succession of difficulties
An original story by Leo Brinski, "The Gay Desperado", is laid below the Rio Grande, with picturesque natural backgrounds for its set- tings.
"The Gay Desperado" marks the cinema debut of the "Trovadores Chinacos." famous Mexican string
orchestra, and "Senor Batista,” Mexico's greatest guitar player.
"The Gay Desperado
was
Chan uncovers evidence that in disputably establishes the fact that Kent has been murdered-and the why sleuth decides to continue with the boat to America, thereby plunging headlong into the most amazing exper'ences of his career. Avalanche is to run in the
and Chan makes the astonishing discovery that the horse has been switched with another and slower thoroughbred.
Tides High at 0.27 and 12.45; Low at 6.22 and 19.05.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Anniversaries and Holidays. ---- Ember Day.
Cinemas, King's: "The Gay Desperado.” Queen's: "Wives Never Know," Oriental:-"Magnificent
I
Obsession." World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"The Girl On The
Front Page" Majestic:-"The Poor Little
Rich Girl."*|
Star: "MLLss." Dances.-R..E..O. C. A. fornightly dance, at Peninsula Hotel, 8.30.
famous Santa Juanita Handicap-Cheere Club Dance, 8 p.m.
Entertainments.-Concert at He- lena May, 5.30 p.m. Church Women's Guild Monthly
Meetings. Kowloon
Union
Business Meeting. 10 am.
Miscellaneous. - Kowloon
Thrill follows thrill as Chan follows on the heels of the nur-
d'rected by Routen Mamoulianderer, euminating with the kid- and is released through United napping of the detective on the
Artists.
EARTHWORM
TRACTORS
Joe E. Brown who is at the Majestic Theatre to-day in "Earthworm Tractors," got dunked In the muddy waters of a swamp during the production of the filmm And the First National comedy Star sn't sure, but he bas sneaking notion that Guy Kibbee may have had something to do with it.
Jae admits that his suspicion of the corpu ent Kbbee is based on his general knowledge of human nature and a natural desire for revenge.
The reason I think Guy caused me to fall into the mud," grinned Joe, "is that several days ago while I was driving the big "Earthworm Tractor I gave Kit- bee the scare of his life."
Kibbee denies that he jarred the plank on which Brown was stand- Ing when he took the swamp tumble, He denies it, members of the "Earthworm Tractors" com-
pany point out, but he continues
NEXT BERT WHEE) BE" “SILLY BILLIBS” to gri
CHANGE ROBERT WOOLSEY 1/
Woman As' A
Seismograph
Earthquake Beadaches
Mrs. Hilda Burton of Deva, Single-well-road, Gravesend, claims that she te "human seismo-
graph" and that her body records earthquakes in any part of the worlo
In a letter she states:
"Whenever there is an earth- quake I suffer from cold shivers
in the spine, followed by feelings of sickness and a severe head ache with peculiar sore pains at
i
the back of the neck and all over the top of my head. generally have to go to bed and next day feel dull and sore all
over my head.".
I have experienced this extreme sensitiveness for 20 years, and I am anxious to and some means of counteracting It." Mrs. Burton sald.
eve of the race.
race.
By a clever ruse, Chan outwits his captats and reaches the track just before the start of the big Alded by hason, Krye Luke, Chan ercates a disturbakke and in the ensuing excitement restores the Avalanche to his true colours.
The horses leave the starting
Tong
Anglican Church Discussion Group in Church House, 8,30 p.m.; V. D: M. A. Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 10 a.m.
Moon.----I Moon, 7th: Day.y Religious St. Andrew's Church Lenten Service and Address. 9 p.m.; at St. John's Cathedral, 5.45 p.m.
Social-Interport Chinese Chow, Roof Garden, Hong Kong Hotel & p.m.
Sports
Bullards-Senior Championship. Pong Shiu-più. v. U. S. Santos
Kowloon C.C.), 8.30 p.m.
Football.-Eastern China v. Hong, Kong F. A. XI (Caroline Hul), 4
post in a burst of excitement-and as they pound down the streten with Avalanche in the lead, the gambling ring strikes again!
Chan is hand. however, thwarts the murderers, and un-p..
killer covers the
in his Inmitable fashion
Οτι
OWTI
"Charlie Chan at the Race Track" is unquestionably the best and most thrilling Charlie Chan picture ever brought to the screen.
HEADMASTER-- CLERKS
Two-Finger Exercise On Typewriters
7.
Hockey-United Hockey Tourna- ment, Seaforth Highlanders Eruopean Police (Bookunpoo), 245 D..
Shooting.--Hong Kong Rifle As- sociation Spoon and Practice Shoot (Army Rifle Itange, Kowloon City), 2 p.m.
Sunrise.-6.56 a.m. Sunset.-8.20
p.m.
Tide.--High at 12.05; Low at 5,52 and 18.02.
"Boom" At Gretna
A criticism of the system which places so much clerical work on headmasters was made during the
Already this year there have concluding session of the con- been 22 marriages "over the anvil" on location at "Gopher Flats", on ference of the Incorporated Assat Gretna-and the couples were
Brown took his muddy tumble
the ranch just across the river from the First National studio. And when he fell, eye-witnesses
On
clation of Headmasters at the from Scotland. Guildhall
Mr. Rennison, the "blacksmith Mr. H. G. Williams Westelik priest" of Gretna Green, revealed
when commenting on-Seal said that it was regarded that fact as essential that
a headmaster the now proposals to deal with should have an honours degrec, irregular marriages, but the amount of clerical work I do not beg people to come which most headmasters had to do here to be married," he said, “They constitated a sheer waste of good come of their own accord, and material.
perform the ceremony according to Scots law.
"In some schools," he said, "they don't want a headmaster; they
sald, he let out a Joe E. Brown yell that was mighty genuine.
Hurriedly furnished with facili- ties for a shower bath of a crude type, and given a complete change of wardrobe, the comedy star, within an hour after the ac cident" was serenely doing his stuff over the muddy swamp,
"If Gretna is abolished I shall But he was keeping, it was want a superior clerk. It is a most not be unduly annoyed, I can get noted, a wary eye on Guy. Kibbee.pathetic sight to see a headmaster my living elsewhere. I can go into "Earthworm Tractors" Ja painfully tapping on a typewriter the vineyard and labour. I have scream'ngly funny comedy based with two angers."
never been on the 'dole" or the on the stories by William Hazlett Mr. E. T. England (King Edward | 'parish." I have had my hard times, Upson. Besides Joe E. Brown and School, Birmingham) complained but I have always gone forward in the North of England some Kibbee, the cast includes June that the attitude of the Univer with the will to win, and have so
Travis, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, attles particularly Oxford to far won
"I was very l on the occasion at the queth earthquake, and when there were earth tremors
years ago I experienced the worst
sickness I have ever had.”.
Reference, to a woman possessing similar temperament was made
by a famous scientist, Professor H. H. Turner, 12 yatra ngo.
KINGS
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THERE'S LOVE!
"MATI PËRTO/2
THE
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THERE'S ACTIONI
THERE'S SONG!
Theck-packed with entertainment, in bat zverything" a went
picture needs to set the whole world talking take our went for its "The Car Duperado" in a
to be the most talked-about picture of the yearl
Nino Martini
GAY DESPERADO
10A LUPINO A LEU CARRILLO
Materjal dave UNITED ARTISTS
DICK POWELL-JOAN BLUNDELL in "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937"
ALHAMBRA
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THAT GIRL FROM PARIS
OAKIE
She came from France to
And roamaran..and lost, *** her heart to swingtided
RAYMOND
Berasan Bing Mischa Azer Emeille Ball Frank Jonke
SEO.RADIO PICTURE) The data by ARTSILE SENKARTE. UNty in Edward Haman. Directed by Lalph Jašau
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JOE.
WE'LL TELL THE WORLD
HE'LL SELL THE WORLDI
Super-salesman Alix-- ander Botti, fresh from Wm. Hazlett Upson's fa- mous Saturday Evening 'Post stories and done up 'Brown by the strom's most comical laff-start
ALEXANDER BOTTS
EARTHWORM
JUNE TRAVIS
GUY KIBBEE
Gap Sack toget sourow
Tuhan • Gülaye blood
TRACTORS
*
ALSO:
CHANGING
OF THE GUARDS" MUSICAL IN COLOUR.
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN “THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL
It May Be Goodbye This tiny nickel coin, with
To Poor Old Sou
France Finds It Too Costly To Mint
Gene Lockhart and Olin Howland. | physical training was one of con- "Some people talk about no re-
The Prenen son-the smallest, Raymond Enright directed the temptuous Jethargy. Neither of cords being kept." Mr. Rennison picture from the screen play by the Universities showed any inter- added "All the marriages I have as well as the most typical, of all Richard Macauley, Joe Traub and est in the subject, and the doctors performed have been truly record the French colnage-may soon be
abolished. d'splayed no knowledge...
Hugh Cummings.
hole in the middle, looking exactly like a small washer boasts a die tinguished history dating back through 1,500 years.
But now this sole survivor of; the old French currency has only the value of approximately one tenth of a penny."
The reason for its possible abolition is ita cost of production F is often minted at a loss,
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