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TINGS OF THE MORNING
THE WORLD-FAMOUS TENOR
JOHN MCCORMACK
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YOUTH MEETS THE TEST OF COURAGE IN A GRIPPING STORY OF BOYNOOD ADVENTURE.
Freddie Bartholomew', Mickey Rooney, Sherwood Balley," Jackie. · Cooper in a scene from “ The Devil Is A Sissy,” Freddie Bartholomew as the English boy facing the touch realities of life on 'New York's fower East Side,-proves his mettle in this scene from "The Devil In A Sissy," showing to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre.
THE PLAINSMAN
The screen's most-famous "sole" dier-of-fortuné, handsome Gary Cooper, who has fought in about every army ever timed, enacts the role of one of the most famous of
"The Flainsman”, which comes to
the Oriental Theatre to-morrow Monday, and Tuesday,
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The man is. J.B-Hickok, law-in forcement agent in the Wild West during the early seventies, known
to millions by virtue of the man-
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HÒNG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE WEEK-END RADIO DIARY OF LOCAL
KING'S:
CINEMA
Hong Kong
"Maytime" QUEEN'S: ---
"Wings Of The Morning" ORIENTAL:-
"Libelled Lady" -
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Wings Of The Morning" MAJESTIC :-
"Hearts Divided"".
STAB:-
"Fighting Stock"
Sunday
PROGRAMMES
(Continued from Page 4)
rangements for the week, and de- tails of the Coronation Broadcasts, 9.35 pm. Weekly Newsletter, Sports Summary and announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 9.45 p.m. Trans, III (G.S.IL, G.S.F. G.S.B.).
10.15 p.m. Big Ben; Selections from English Light Opera. 10.40 p.m: "What Mean ye by this Ber- vice? 11 p.m. Walter Collins and his Light Orchestra. 11.30 p.m. For the Children: "The King's Chair," written by Lawrence Tan- ner. Midnight. A Short Plano Re- cital by Kathleen Denyer. 12.15 p.m. Weekly Newsletter, and an- nouncements. Greenwich Time Signal at 12.30 am. 12.30 am. A Violin Recital by Daniel Melsa,
KING'S:~~~
"Maytime"
QUEEN'S:---
D.J.A.
"Wings Of The Morning" ORIENTAL:-
D.J.B.
D.J.K
"The Plainзman” ALHAMBRA:---
"Wings Of The, Morning" MAJESTIC:
"The Devil Is A Sissy"
STAR:--
"The Beloved Vagabond"
"WINGS OF THE MORNING"
D.J.N.
"BERLIN
SATURDAY
EVENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 8.
Anniversaries and Holidays:- Lavoisier died, 1794. Gustáv Flau- bert died. 1880. The Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel.
Cinemas
King'a:—""Maytime" Queen'-"Wings Of The
Morning"} Oriental: "Libelled Lady.” World:-"Chinese Picture."" Alhambra:"Wings Of The
Morning"
• Majestic:--"Hearts Divided." Star:-"Fighting Stock”-- Dances-R. A. M. C. Association Coronation Cabaret Dance, at Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 pm.
Miscellaneous. →→ Claims against the Estate of George Mist due.
Sports(Son Page 10), Đ Sunrise. 5.47 am. Sunset.-8.53
p.In.
Moon-III Moon, 28th. Day. -Tides.-High at 07.05 and 19,55.
Low at 01.00 and 13.52.
SUNDAY. MAY 9.
Holidays.
·Anniversaries · and Sunday after Ascension. Sir J Barrie born, 1880,
Cinemas
King's: Maytime." Queen's: "Wings Of The
Morning" Oriental:-The Plainaman.” World:"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:"Wings Of The
Morning"
Majestic: The Devil Is A
Bissy."
31.38m. (95.80 k.c.) 19.74m. (15.200 k.c.) 16.89m. (17.760 k.c.) 31,45m. (95.40 k.c.) D.J.Q....... 19.63m. (15.280 k.c.7 1.05 p.m. Call DJA, DJB, (German, English German Folk Song. 1.10 p.m. Week-end Music. 2.00 p.m. News
In German. 2.15 p.m. Week-end Music (continued). 2.55 p.m. Greetings to our listen- ers. 3 p.m. News and Economic Review in English. 3.15 p.m. To- day in Germany, Sound Pic- tures. 3:30. p.m. Children's Hour: Star: "The Beloved Vagabond." Children, to-morrow is "Mothers
Entertainments Coronation Band, Sterc Donoghue, the world's most Frohlich family. 8.45 p.m. Con-
Day,"
Secret Conference of the Concert at Peninsula Hotel, 9 p.m. fainous jockey and champion Derby cert of Light Music. 4.30 p.m. Film on
Miscellaneous-Presentation
ΟΣ winner, achieves another Derby A
Aviation of Italy at thousand merry notes. victory in "Wings of, the Morning. p.m.
5.00 Queen's Theatre, 11.15 a.m. New music from Twentieth Century-Fox release in 5.30
Japan. Religious Special Coronation natural Technicolor showing at the Review in
p.m. News and Economic Services at St. John's Cathedral. Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to-
German. 5.45 p.m. 11 a.m. arid 6.30 p.m. day. Annabella, Henry Fonda and
Our every-day, 6.00 p.m. Songs by Johannes Leslie Banks star in
Brahms. Sung the Alm, by Else Varena. 6.15 p.m. Sign which presents the world-famous on
DJA and DJB (German, tenor, John MacCormack.
English); Although Donoghue has figured DJN, DJE (German. English). Ger- 6.55 p.m. Call DJB, 12 many a newsreel, "Wings of the
man Folk Song. 7 pm. Concert of Morning" represents his film debut. Light Music. 8 p.m. News in Eng- In the story, he pilots a horse own-
Lish. 8.15 p.n. Concert of Light ed by a gypsy queen and trained Music secretly in Ireland to win the Derby at 100 tal.
Produced in Technicolor through- out, the film has as its climax a fall color record of the Derby, with Steve "up" on the sensational out- sider. Actual scenes were taken with the color camera at Epsora. and matched up with the sequen- ces made at the studio.
MAYTIME
"Maytime," based on the unior- gettable Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young. is at the King's
Theatre.
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are the stars and John Barry- more appears in his first role since "Romeo and Juliet. Lynne Carver, a screen newcomer, has the juvenile feminine romantic part with Ton Brown.
Sports-(See Page 10).
Moon-UI Moon. 29th. Day. Sunrise-5.47 a.m. Sunset.-6.63
p.m.
Low at 01.38 and 14.40.
Tides.-High at 07.44 and 20.59:
MONDAY, MAY 10
Greetings to
(continued). 8.55 p.m. Anniversaries and Holidays.-
in Outbreak of Indian Mutiny. 1657.
P.W.D. Offices, 3 p.m.
Auctions. Crown Land,
our Listeners News and Economic Review in the Netherlands East Indies. 9 p.m.
German and Call DJQ. 9.15 p.m. Greetings to the Netherlands E. In- dies. Special broadcast. 10 p.m. News and Economic Review in English on DJE, DJN, DJQ.in Netherlands on DJB. 10.15 p.m. To-day in Ger- many. Sound Pictures. 10.30 p.m. Military Concert. 11.45 p.11. Daily life in Germany. Midnight. Sign of DJB, DJN, DJE, DIQ (German, Engliah),
SUNDAY
p.m.
Cinemas.
King's:-Maytime." Queen's: Wings Of The
Morning." Oriental:-The Plainsman." World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"Wing Of The
Morning."
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and Tombola, in Garrison Lecture Social-R.E.0.0.A. Whist Drive
Hall, 8.30 p.m.
Sports. (See Page-10). Moon.-New Moon, 9.18 p.m. IV Sunrise.-5.46 2.0.
Sunset.---0.54
:-
p.m.
Tides.-High at 08.23 and 22.00; Low at 0214 and 15.31
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COMMENCING SUNDAY
M-GM'S GREATEST HUMAN” DRAMA! THE DEVIL IS A SISSY
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Majestic: The Devil Is A
Bissy." Star:-"The Beloved Vagabond.” Entertainments-Pianoforte Re- Les p.m. Call DJA, DJB (Germ., cital at Helena May. 5.30 p.m. Engl.). German Folk Song.
Meetings. Annual, of all Mem- 1.10 p.m..A Sunday Concert. 2 p.m. bers of RAOB. Club, 7.30 p.m.; News in German. 2.15 p.m. A Annual, of Hong Kong Philhar- Sunday Concert (cont.). 2.55 p.m.monic Society, in Cathedral Hall, Greetings ta our Listeners. 35.30 p.m. p.m. News and Review of the Moon, 1st. Day." Week in English. 3.15 Dear Mother. A celebration hour for "Mother's Day. 4 p.m. Chamber Noel Langley adapted the plece music. 4.45 p.m. Immortal Queens. and the songs were written by Postage stamps rise for play..and Sigmud Romberg, composer of the song. Musical radio scenes by Vera original" Broadway score, with Bern and Waldemar Wendland. Herbert Stothart, who composed 5.30 p.m. News and and Review the first screen operatta. "Czaritza," of the Week in German. 5.45 pm, which occupies
melodious Hitler Youth Programme: The Hit- sequence.
ler Youth will sing songs in which everyone should join in... 8.15 p.m. Sign off DJA "and DJB (German.. Engilsh). 8.65 p.m. Call "HEARTS DIVIDED"
DJB, DJN, DJE (German, English). German Folk Bong. 7 p.m..
Mr. J. GyGibson, who, as Direc- Never has the beautiful star. Concert of Light Music. 8 pm tot of Home Aviation, will be Marton Davies, appeared in a mere News in English. 8.15 p.m. Concert responsible for the development of entertaining and gripping romance of Light Music (continued). 8.55 Britain's internal air services, is an
Edinburgh man educated than in her latest Cosmopolitan P.m. Greetings to our Listenera. production, "Hearts Divided." which9p.m. News and Review of the George Watson's College and Edin- was shown at the Majestic Theatre Week in German and Call DJQ. 4.15 burgh University. A very brilliant yesterday for the first time locally P.m.. A Bunday Evening's pro- mathematician, he won the Vana as a First National release.
gramme. 9.30 p.m. Chamber music. Dunlop Scholarship in Mathema- This story of the wooing and 10 p.m. News and Review of tics at the University, and if he winning of the brilliant and beauti- the Week in English on DJE, DN, had not gone in for the Civil Ber- ful Betsy Patterson of Baltimore by DJQ in Dutch on DJB.10.15 p.m. vice would probably have had a dis- Captain Jerome Bonaparte, brother Songs by Johannes Brahms. Bung tinguished career as a research of the French emperor, is a real by Else Varena. 10.30 p.m. Popular physicist. His first Civil Service heart throbbing drama.
Orchestral Concert. Short Wave appointment was in the Public While the romance is predomin- Orchestra conducted by Wernier Works Department. Returning from Else service in France after the war he ant the picture has an historical Richter-Reichhelm Soloist: background, with Jerome Bona-
C. Kraus. 11.45 p. Good joined the Air Ministry. Mr. Gib- parte in America as the agent of Midnight. Sign off DJN, DJE, DJQ, National Church, Crown Court.
Night Auttle Chamber music. son is an elder of the Scottish for seats on the route of the Coro- nation Procession are still being his brother to negotiate the sale the Louisiana Territory. It
DJB (Germ, Fugl.).
addressed to the War Office and brings in many noted characters
that many applicants do not fall of the period, including Napolen
within the categories eligble to re- himself, President Thomas. Jeffer-
celve seats. son, James Madison, James Mon- roe, John Marshall, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.
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ARMY OFFICERS:
(b) Officers of the Supple- AND CORONATION mentary Reserve, Categories A and
B. Serving Oméers of the Territo-.." rial Army, and members of the to the fact that many applications.
The War Office draw attention Territorial Army Nursing Service. (c) Retired Omcers' of the Ra gular Army.
of Officers
the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, retired members of Queen Alex andra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, and 'members of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nur-
The War Office therefore wish | sing Service Reserve, to repeat that no applications (d) Officers of the Supple- should be made to the War Office mentary Reserve, Category C. re- and also that owing to the limited tired officers of the Territorial amount of accommodation : avail- Army, officers of the Territorial able officers who have served only Army Reserve of Officers, retired officers of the Special Reserve and Militia, retired members of the Territorial Army Nursing Bervice. The distribution of tickets will
gramme, with Baritone,- 9 pm. Programme from the Melbourne Studios. 10.30 p.m. Australasian News Service. 10.50 pm, Mall Bag Bession (Australia, New Zealand and North America). 11.10 p.m. Dance Music, 11,30 p.m. Close.
SUNDAY 8 p.m. Time Signal. 6.01 pm. Music. 6.16 p.m. News, markets 6 pm. Time Signal. 6.01 p.m.1 The following are the latest ar- and weather for the countryman: Children's Session. 6.25 p.m. "Ran- rivals at the Gloucester Hotel: 6.40 p.m. Sporting notes. 7 pm dom Pages Piano Miscellany. eligible are: Major Francis Hutchinson, Mr. Talk. 1.20pm National News 6.40 p.m. Talk. 7. p.m. Symphony ~ (a) Officers on the active at and Mrs. Sireyjol, Mra. and Miss Bulletin. 7.30 pm. Victorian News Hour, & p.m. This Week's Story of the Regular Army, members of be carried out by the Headquarters Crowe. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh de Bulletin 7.35 p.m. Lyre Bird. 7,40 | 8.15 p.m. “Gems from Favourite Queen Alexandra's Imperial Mill- of the Military Commanda “and Haven, Mrs. Choliot, Mr. and Mrs. p.m. Old English Songs, by the Operas" 8.50 p.m. "International tary Nursing Service, and civilians Districts at Home, London District H. de V. Booten, and Mr. W. W A.B.C. (Bydney) Wireless Chorus. Affairs.” 9.10 p.m. "Cavalcade." || of equivalent status in Establish- |- being, for this purpose; included. Brotherton
8 pm. A Light Orchestral - Pro- ̈1 10.30 p.m. Close.
menta.
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on a temporary commission are not eligible to apply. The categories
in the Eastern Command.
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