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Today's your Mirthday!
Let Joe east your howloscope, under » the sign of the. planet Zowie!
Jor E. BROWN When's You Yirthday
Marian Marsh - Fred Keating • Edgar Kennedy
Directed by Harry Buncament. A DAVID L. LOEW PRODUCTION.
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5 big comedy stars in a great pictures packed with fun, sparkling with gorgeous dancing and song hitë
SEE VELOZ and YOLANDA WORLD'S GREATEST DANCERS.
It's sweet. It's swing!
It's everything!
Adolph Zukor pensamis,
GLADYS SWARTHOUT and FRED MACMURRAY
"Champagne Waltz"
DAYS
Jick ́Oakio, Veloz and Yolanda Ettman Bing Vivienne Osborne
Paramount Picture
28 TO-MORROW & THURSDAY
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THE STORY of 5 BATTLE for LOVE THAT SHOOK TWA HEMISPHERESI
HEARTS DIVIDED
Dick Prowell · Charlie Ruggles Cloud Reinek. Everett etgetan
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HELEN WESTLEY
THURSDAY
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BAFFLED AND THRILLEDI
Frances Brian
DEE - DONLEVY
Charles
BUTTERWORTH
HENRY STEPHENSON
"BIG BROADCAST OF 1937 **
JACK BENNY BURNS & ALLEN
MAN OF THE PEOPLE Theatre, in which a thousand
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A Buck brivate in the army and
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people worked with Joseph' Callefa Florence Rire, Ted Healy and Thomas Mitchell yapark an extra in a Hollywood motion sequence, Director Edwin Marin picture mob scene face similar brdered ten additional assistafit problems.
directors, and gave each of them For if the crowd is more than a
an assistant. hundred strong, then the director adopts army tactics and com- mands his extras as a general would "command his army,
Each assistant was responsible for a hundred people. It was his duty with the aid of his own assistant to work out their exact
"In" "the" "case" of "Man of the movement during the actions : of People," "showing at the King's' | the picture.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE MARY PICKFORD'S DIARY OF LOCAL
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Man Of The People" QUEEN'S:-
"When's Your Birthday?" ORIENTAL:-
"Champagne Waltz"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
********"*"Lady" From Nowhere" MAJESTIC
"Gold Diggers of 1937"
STAR:.
"Half Angel"
KING'S:
Coming
PLANS
To Make Two Films. In England
Miss Mary Hckford, the first film "star" to be known as such; will produce two films in England this Spring.
Miss Pickford arrived in London recently for the first holiday she has had for four years. She will remain in England for two or three weeks, and after a tour in Europe will return in time for the Coro- nation.
Shortly after her return to Ame- rica she will marry Mr. Buddy Rogers, dance band leader and Alm actor.
"While I am in England". Miss Pickford said, "I want to spend most of my time in out-of-the-way places I have never had the chance
"The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" to visit." QUEEN'S:- :.
"White Hunter"
ORIENTAL:-
J Hearts Divided”
ALHAMBRA :—
"Love., Letters of a Star" MAJESTIC:
STAR!
"Stand Up And Cheer"
"Big Broadcast of 1937"
WHEN'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Clad in robes of regal splendour, Joe E. Brown finds himself in the most magnificent surroundings" of his screen career in one sequence of "When's Your Birthday?" the David Loew comedy production. which is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
The scenes represent an elaborate garden party with hundreds of 80- clety guests attending a charity bazaar at which Brown, as what
Discussing the film industries of Britain and America, Miss Pick- ford said there had never been such a shortage of talent."
"Writers, artista, directors, and technicians are desperately need- éd both here and in America," she sald; that is why such fantastic salaries are paid in the film busi- ness."
"There is a great future for good British films in America, But there must be more exchange of. 'stars' and a greater liaison between the two countries."
JI
LADY FROM NOWHERE
Having been anointed with long- deserved stardom, Mary Astor proves her first-rank capabilities In the exciting melo-dramatic comedy. "Lady From Nowhere." the Columbia production serving as her star- debut vehicle which opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-
might be termed a "big-shot" day. astrologer, is the social lon. The The story tells, briefly, of a comedian is dressed in a gay Per-manicurist who is forced to flee for her life after witnessing a gang- land murder. She lands in a small town and is taken in tow by a
sian
costume, embroidered with thousands of beads, and the outfit also includes heavy jeweled col- larette and a turban of imposing local reporter. To cover her night
height.
she assumes the name of a publicized runaway heiress. The climax is reached when the gang- sters, the police and the rate father of the real heiress all join in the chase, each ignorant of the athers' intentions.“**
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The garden is burdered with gally decorated booths, and the guests include (unfortunately) his present sweetheart and The Girl Who Used To Be, in the persons of Marian Marsh and Suzanne Kaaren, This is a combination which has always brought grief i also includes such popular players to the party of the third part, and before the evening is over. Brown realizes what it means to be the remembered man.
as Suzanne Kaaren, Minor Watson, Maude Eburne, Frank Jenks and Margaret Hamilton, not to men- tion the picturesque Ball Montana. The picture was directed by Harry In "When's Your Birthday?," is | Beaumont, and the story was headed by Marian, Marsh, Fred adapted from a play by Fred Bal- Keating and Edgar Kennedy, and lard.
The comedian's supporting cast
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EVENTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 20. Anniversaries and Holidays. Corn Rain, (Ku-yl). St. Agnes of Monte Pulciano.
Cinemas. King':-"Man Of The People" Queen's: "When's Your Birth-
day?" Oriental:Champagne. Waltz” World:-"Chinese Picture." LeeHell In The Heavens"
Alhambra:-"Lady" From
Nowhere".
Majestic:-"Gold-Diggers Of
1937.!
Star:"Half Angel"
Meetings Kowloon Chess Club, St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; «An- nual Meeting of A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.. at Hong Kong Hotel, 11.30 am: St. Andrew's Mother's Union 3 pm: St. John's Cathe dral
Mothers Union Working Party, in Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m.
Tiain. Miscellaneous - Rotary Hong Kong Hotel
Rehearsals-Hong Kong Singers, Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5.30 Pm2
Sõelat, Craigengower · Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9.20 pm; Cheere Club Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m.
Sports-(Sea Page 10), - Moon.-III Moon. 10th. Day. Sunrise.-6.00 am. Sunset--8.45
· Tides-High at 08.53 and 17.48: Low at 11.26.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL-21. Anniversaries and Holidays-S1, Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury and Doctor (1109).
Cinemas. King's:—"Man Of The People" Queen's: -"White Hunter" Oriental:-"Hearts Divided" World:-"Chinese Picture." Lee: "The King Steps Out" Alhambra:"Lady From
Nowhere" Majestic:-"Stand Up And
Cheer
Star: "Half Angel" Dances-Cheero Club Dance. 8
p.m.
Entertainments-Dramatic Per- formance in Three One-Act. Plays at St. Andrew's Church Hail, 9.00
Meetings. Annual, of Victoria Recreation Club, at Club-house, 6 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild. 10 a.m.; Annual, of Hong Kong. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in the Writing Room, Gloucester Building, 5.30 p.m.: "House Con- mittee Meeting in S. and S. Home, 5.30 p.m.
Social-Whist Drive and Tom- bola. Garrison Bergeants Mess, Queen's Road, 8,30 p.m.
Sports. (See Page 10). Moon Moon, 11th, Day.
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CHARLES QUIBLEY THURSTON BALL Biranted by fordon Milon
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DICK POWELL JOAN BLONDELL
"GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937
VICTOR MOORE • GLENDA FARRELL LEE DIXON OSGOOD PERKINS - ROSALIND MARQUIS
dlosie und kyrka by Marry Warreo & Al Dubin und' Havalal 'Arian & 8. T. Harburg & Musical Humbura
· Crested and Directed by BUSBY SERIEFLBY « A First Natiqnal Picture Directed by LLOYD BACON.
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! "STAND UP AND CHEER *
HEARTS DIVIDED
with WARNER BAXTER • SHIRLEY TEMPLE AN "OLD. FAVOURITE? FROM; FOX !
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937
Because of the variety of song numbers used in the Warner Bros. musical picture "Gold Diggers of 1937." two studio song teams col- taborated, in the writing ef the music and lyrics for the lavish production numbers staged by Dance Director Busby Berkeley!
Never has the beautiful star, Marion Davies, appeared in a more entertaining and. gripping, romance than in her latest production "Hearts Divided," showing at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.
The story of the wooing and winning of the brilliant and beau- tiful Betsy Patterson of Baltimore by
Captain Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the French emperor, is a real heart throbbing drama.
The picture is a lavish one, with mammoth sets and colourful back- grounds, while the women are costumed in the gorgeous Empire gowns of the period.
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The team of Harburg and Arien wrote tour of the numbers
Speaking of the Weather," "Let's Put our Heads Together," "Hush Mah Mouth" and "Life Insurance ” while the team of Warren and Dubin wrote "With Plenty of Money and You" and "All is Fair The picture is onlivened by in Love and War." a stirring drili catchy songs, and sung by Dick number that serves as the finale. Powell, who has the leading mase for the picture. "Gold Diggers of culine role opposite Miss Divis. 19377 comes to the Majestic Then Other delightful music is furnish tre to-day. NA ed by the Hall Hohnson Choir who sing the spirituals of the Negro alaver quartered on the Patterson
estate,
There is plenty of thrilling sc- tion in addition to the somewhat tangled up romance/-
I stars Dick Powell and Josu Blundell, and the other noted players include Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Les Dion, the famed eccentric dancer; Cagood Perkins, Charles D. Brown, Rosalind Marquis and Irene Ware,
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