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QUEEN'S
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Romanol In an aery castle an
the fog-bound English moort
Pontpia kutije prepunis
"BULLDOG DRUMMOND
ESCAPES
A Paramovat Pelaa jaks. Hay Milland
Sir Gay Bonding, Heather Angel,
by M.2 slegynes Ballade and knused Pigneto
NEXT CHANGE
BARBARA STANWYCK in SEAN O'CASEY'S
THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS' with Preston Foster
RKO-Radio Picture
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE STAR LEAVES
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Give Me Your Heart" QUEEN'S:——
"Bulldog Drummand
Escapes"
ORIENTAL:
The Girl On The Front
Page"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA !---
"The Lucklest Girl In The
World"
MAJESTIC÷-
"The Good Fairy" STAR:--
"My Man Godfrey":
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FLEMING
SHOWS
KING'S:-
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ORIENTAL
Coming
"Sons O' Guns" QUEEN'S:-
""The Plough and The Stars"
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JA DARING LAUGH PACKED STORY OF THE PRESS THAT'S ALIVE WITH TERRIFIC ACTION! MEOW! WOOF! P-F-F-T! WHAT A FIGHTI
The GIRL on the FRONT PAGE
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REGINALD OWEN
DAYSE
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POWELL LOMBARD MY MAN
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Alica
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Jean
PATRICK • DIXON
· Eugene PALLETTË Alon MOWBRAY
Saved we the novel by Eric Hotch
Bienched by Gregory LaCurs
CHARLES E. ROGUES
Kusenten Pellow
TO- MORROW
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: DIANA WYNARD in “ONE MORE RIVEK"
Lord Horder's "Bad Luck" In Choice Of Resorts
dis
The British climate was cussed by Lord Horder at the ann- ual conference of the British Health Resorts Association at Bournemouth recently.
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"Where shall we go? and, to be 'quite frank, we have not much éx- act knowledge to guide us in our answer."
"The Gay Desperado" ALHAMBRA:-
"The Reunion"
MAJESTIC :~~
"One Heavenly Night" STAB:-
"One More River".
LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
"The
Luckiest Girl in tha World," Universal's laugh hit fea- turing Jane Wyatt and Louis Hay- ward, opens to-day at the Altram- bra Theatre.
The story, by Anne Jordan, first came to public' attention in the
BEFORE FILM
IS FINISHED
Hunt For A "Double"
Henri Garet. the French actor, who has been under contract at Ealing Film Studios at £1,000 a week recently left London to "join his wife in Paris before the film on which he was engaged was com- pleted.
It was known that he expected but as to join his wife in Paris
were atill some shots
there
to be taken he Wha aslerd to stay here, for another day. It was understood that he was will- ing to do this, but he failed to rive at the studios' at the usual nour...
The im Girl in a Taxi," of which English and French versions were being made, and M. "Garat was playing a leading role in both. Miss Frances Day was starring
opposite him.
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ΟΙ
"Fortunately, in the last scene. which is the ones concerned," the director said, "no words have to be spoken. It W38 to have been а close-up shot Henri Garat
waving to Frances Day from a window. We are now searching atrenuously for a 'dou- ble, because unless we And quickly the holding up of produc-
one
tion will cost us, a great deal."
his contract In
M. Garat
stipulated that he was to be given three cigars of a certain brand
every day and to be paid evening in £1 notes.
each
BEER AND THE CINEMA
Ladies' Home Journal under the Sir John Orr's Praise
title, "Kitchen Privileges." Now everybody in thla city can share theatre privileges in enjoying the laughs engendered by this hilarious fun provoker. Hollywood scouts declare the film is a comedy hay
maker.
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 8 Anniversaries and Holidays-St.
Walter.
་
"Auctions.--Crown Lands, at Land Ofiée, Ping Shan, 11.30 am.
Cinemas. King's:-"Give Me Your Heart." Queen's:-"Bulldog Drummond
"Escapes."
Central:—"Charlle Chan At The
Circus."
Oriental:-"That Girl On The
Front Page."
World:-“Chinese Picture," Alhambra:—“The Luckiest Girl,
In The World.” Majestic:-"The Good Fairy." Star:-"My Man Godfrey.” Patertainments. -- Prof.
Harry
Ore's Pianoforte Recital, at Helena May, 6.30 p.m."
Lectures-Theosophical Society;
5p.m..
Meetings. Annual, of Indo- China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.,
A+
offices, noon; Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel 5 pm.; Ser- Church Kowloon Tong. 8.30 p.m. vets" Guild Om.ce. at Christ
Mesars. Jardine, Matheson's
Miscellaneous Claims against the Estate of Morrison". Brown
Exhibition in Sallors' and Soldiers' Yung due; Amateur Photographic
Home, 7 p.m.
Rehearsals. Philharmonie « 90- Hall, 8.45 p.m. ciety. "Street Singer." Cathedral
Social-Civil Service Whist Drive. 9,20 p.m.; Cheero Club
Drive. 8 p.m. Contract Bridge, and Mah Jong
Sports-(See Page 10). Moon-II Moon, 27th, Day Sunrise.-6.10 am. Sunset.-,41.
p..
Tides-High at 7.25 and 19.07; Low at 1.16 and 13.05.
FRIDAY, APRIL 9. Anniversaries and Holidays.→→ St. Mary of Egypt, Penitent.
Auctions. Crown Lands at Dis- trict Office, South, Hong Kong, 11
1.3%; Sir John Orr, the nutrition ex- pert, had a kind word to say re- cently for
beer and the cinema,
and for the wisdom of the working classes in, spending part of their
earnings on them.
quate diet, Sir John, who was de livering the Ludwig Mond lecture had been suggested that poor peo- at Manchester University, said it ple had themselves to blame for their faulty diet,
The story begins with a young society bud waking her wealthyviding poor families with an ade- Referring to the problem of pro- father at 4 in the morning, to tell mim she is in love and wants to get married. When papa learns that the luckless wight who has the courage to worship his daugh- ter does not have the cash to sup port her, he sends her to New York to prove she can live for a month on an amount equal to the limited Income of her swain.
GIVE ME YOUR HEART
"Give Me Your Heart." a dynamic drama revealing the human emo- tion of love, passion, bate, sacri- fice, comes to the King's Theatre to-day with Kay Francis in the stellar role.
money which might be better spent as they spent on food, on things which were not necessities, such as beer and cine-
M3.5.
"But in the
poorest fan.illes,
even though no money is spent
оп
these things," he said, "the total family income available for food is not sufficient to provide a diet up to the standard required for health.
"And who is to say whether or not, under the wretched conditions She is supported by an excep- of poor housing" and bad feeding Monally strong cast which includes these people live in the analgesics George Brent, Roland Young, of alcohol and the cinema may Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson. not be a valuable Frieda Inescort, Helen Mint, Halli-chological escape from their en- temporary psy- well Hobbes, Zefe Tibury and vironment. Elspeth Dudgeon.
The picture, a Cosmopolitan pro- duction released by Warner Bros., is based on the smashing stage hit, "Sweet Aloes," by Jay Mallory, The plot of the play is ultra-modern startlingly daring. and ai- though frank in treatment, is handled with the utmost taste.
and
good
BULLDOG DRUMMOND
ESCAPES
Crime rides the moors and "Bull- dog Drummond" battles it in his usual breezy manner in "Bulldog Drummond Escapes," latest film version of the popular series of McNelle and Fatrlie stories which begins at the Queen's Theatre to day.
"It might well be that an inquiry by psychologists may reveal fact that in those conditions; these the
means of a temporary escape from the immediate depressing environ- ment may be as great a need as the things we generally consider to be the necessities of life."
"THE GOOD FAIRY”
If the screen has ever shown more delightful comedy than "The Good Fairy," this reviewer has not seen it,
usherette in a theatre and achiev
Miscellaneous Goods, at Godown of Messrs.. Dodwell and
10.30 am. Co. Ltd. Oak Street, Taikoktaul,
Cinemas. King's: "Give Me Your Heart" Queen's: Bulldog Drutamond
Escapes"
Central-Trader. Horn"" Oriental:The Gay Desperado” World: "Chinese Picture" Alhambra:-"The Luckiest Girl
In The World" Majestic: "One Heavenly Night" Star: One More River" Darices. Health
and Strength League's St. Patrick's Ball, at Hotel Cecil, 8.30 p.m.; H.KS.P.C. (Women's Auxiliary), Charity Ball. at Peninsula Hotel, 9.30 p.m.
Lectures-Helena, May Christian Fellowship Meeting, 10.30 a.m.
Miscellaneous. -- Claims against the Estate of Ker George Russell Valzey; and George Rlland Fran- cis Leverson, due; Amateur Photo- graphic Exhibition at Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, 5.30 pm
Sports-(See Page 10). Moon. -II Moon, 28th, Day. Sunrise-611 am. Sunset.-6.40.
pi
Tides-High at 7.14 and 17.58; Low at 0.38 and 12.01
“MAKING A NOVEL” Mr. Forester Speaks Of The Difficulties
Working out the story of a novel is sometimes like making a jigsaw puzzle, stated Mr. C. 8. Forester, the novelist, in a talk on "Making a Novel" in the book department of Harrods store.
KINGS!
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DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. SHE HAD A RIGHT TO WONDER IF ANY 'MAN
WAS WORTH LOVING]:
Never Before
Has Any Picture So
Fearlessly Exposed
A Woman's Innermost
Heart of Hearts!
KAY FRANCIS
GIVE ME YOUR HEART
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GEORGE BRENT.
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KING OF THE ISLANDS"
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JOE
BROWN in SONS O' GUNS"
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JOAN BLONDELL
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD HOWLO
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FRANK MORGAN
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"You collect all the blue in one place and at it together, and all Margaret Sullavan and Herbert the black in another, and for a Marshall are presented as co-stars long time you don't see how on at the head of an exceptional earth they are to be joined up. company and neither has ever be- Then suddenly it flashes on you, fore been so happily cast. No less the parts dovetail together and effective in uproariously funny the puzzle is completed," he said. roles are Frank Morgan and Re-
So it was in writing his current With handsome Ray Milland in ginald Owen.
A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE book, "The Happy Return," Mr. the title role," and with Sir Guy.
The story of "The Good Fairy" Forester, after "three miserable Standing. Heather Angel, Porter Ands Miss Sullavan, a young girl months in Hollywood, earning (as
SCOTLAND YARD AND THE CORONATION "We cannot tell, as doctors, what Hall and Reginald Denny in the entirely unschooled in the ways he put it) a highly dishoneest uir is going to suit what people: 7 supporting cast. "Bulldog Drum of the world, leaving an orphan salary, was returning by sea,
Before the Coronation procession, hundred officers and many other myself get some very bad luck in mond Escapes" is a fast-moving
borrowed from my choice of places, and my pati-detective thriller, generously sprin- asylum to take a position as an when the possibilities of the coast begins on May 12 Scotland Yard deteptires were
of Mexico and Central America tor | will know the exact whereabouts other departments. It has invol- ents never fail to tell me if I have died with humour and real laughs. ing in a hectic 48 hours a series a novel occurred to him. He had and movements of every undesir-ved working 12 or 14 hours a day, been wrong..
It is genuine entertainment, and
of exciting hilarious adventures also long had in his mind a story able person, states a Home corres but now Scotland Yard are satis should be on everybody's “must”
and a romance with Marshall.
centred in an English frigate. Sud-pondent...... list.
fied that on Coronation Day every denly these two fitted together, The authorities are determined subject of their Inquiries will be to allow, no repetition of the in-under the closest observation. L THE GLOUCESTER
The hardest literary" task that (cident which occurred after King HOTEL
had ever been set him, he said. Edward had reviewed the Guards
During the next few weeks every was to write a new chapter for a year ago, and for the past few building on the route of the pro- The following are amongst the his book, "The General" when his months hundreds of detectives desalon is likely to be visited by the latest arrivals at the Gloucester publisher decided an existing have been engaged on the task of Police. They will want to know Hotel:
chapter might be libellous. The ascertaining the dally movements who will be invited to the building Mr. Muck'e. Mr. K. Z. Cheang, new chapter had to have the same and habits of persons who might on the day or to whom the various Mrs. Hill and Mr. Henrys Shang-number of pages, deal with the attempt to cause trouble during rooms have been let. Mixing among
same campaign in the same month the Coronation ceremony,
thearowds on the route at very Mr. Brugon and Mr. L. Biron of the War, employ the same char-¦ ¦ Thé, fiquiries, have extended to short intervals will be the strong- Haiphong.
acters, and yet deal with entirely agitators who might endeavour to est force of detectives ever em- Miss Forsyth-New Zealand trean incidents. All this had to incite persons with an imaginary Ployed. Mr. and Mrs. Jenson Johannes burg.
POOL THEIR KNOWLEDGE
of weather.
"Climatically, there were many advantages in the south coast of
those "body".
THE GAY DESPERADO
and the story, was complete.
He said be, never had any "We want something more than temptation to say that the winter a gift, which a doctor may or may in England was better than eise- not have, about where to send where, because he did not believe patients, and it is the business or something decidedly different in it was. But there were things in the doctors on
the South Coast pictures with music comes to the climates which were independent particularly to collect together and Oriental Theatre to-morrow and pool their knowledge and ex-Saturday with Nino Martini, the perience as to climate. The sooner great singing star of radio, opera that is done the better for every- and films in the title role, and Ida
Lupino and Leo Carrillo in zu hal Lord Horder thought that sea-porting parta water should be made more widely
A, gay, "'"' colourful romance laid values should be more carefully discards the usual back-stage blot available, and that its therapeutic below the Rio Grande, it competely gone into, Another suggestion of formula for pictures featuring fa- 'his was that more money should mous songbirds and presente a Mr. and Mrs. R. J. D. Richard on the required day but ever
be spent on orchestras for health thrill-packed, action-filled, fast-son-FMB resorts.
Mr. Q. E. Bon
England, irrespective of rather elemental questions of whe- ther the sun shone or not.
"But we don't know too much about those climatic conditions," Bald Lord Horder.
"We doctors are asked by out convalescent patients, and others,
moving: ihm story...
be completed within one week.
The copy was delivered at 6 pm.
to-day I can't; tell you how that was achieved.” he added.
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grievance against the Government, Contingents of officers will be re- to attempt acts Tuch as that which cruited from every city and town. occurred in the Mall
in the country, and the approxima- For this work alone, the special ate number on duty, on the day of branch was augmented by one the Coromtient will be 30,000.
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