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"THIS YEAR'S KISSES" "ME AIN'T GOT RNYIUM" "SŁUM.
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"YOU'RE CAUGH LUNGAT MET | THEGIAL ON (THE POLICE GRIEZIE!
4 SHOWS
1.50-5.15
1/15--20
atest real-life to Irving Berlin's
music in a show as hig
DICK
MADELEINE
POWELL CARROLL
Jouring Berlin's ON THE AVENUE
ALICE FAYE - RITZ Brothers and GEORGE BARBIER
Alan Mowbray +Care Witherspoon,
Staple Furch » By Briann Directed by Ray Del Kush
Kandel fredetir Gone Marker
Mupac and Lybica by Irving Borde
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY A SHOW OF LAUGHTER An uproariously funny comedy of an eight year old General and his army of kids who defeat, a regiment.
BRING THE CHILDREN!
ROMANCE TO
THRILL YOUT
Loughs and throbs,
too, in 70 minutes.
of delightful en- "tertainment!
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1937's SPECTACULAR
MUSICAL SMASHI
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CHINA AND THE WEST
Dr. Kung On
The Influence
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:--
"Dodsworth"
QUEEN'S:- 41
"On The Avenue",
ORIENTAL
"General Spanky"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA¦—
"On The Avenue" MAJESTIC:
"Sinner Take All
STAR!-
"Let's Make A Million”
KING'S:-
Sunday
"Pennies From feaven" QUEEN'S:-
"On The Avenue" . ORIENTAL:
"One In A Million”
ALHAMBRA:---
"On The Avenue" MAJESTIC:
STAR
"Sons O' Guns"
"On The Avenue"
ONE IN A MILLION
1
Bing Crosby
THE THEATRE ENIGMA
An
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 5. Anniversaries · and Holidays- Adam Smith born, 1723.
Igor Stravinsky born, 1882,
Cinemas. (See" Page 5). + "Entertainments-Choral "Group Concert at Club de Recreio, 9 p.m. "Miscellaneous—Ron Dr. A. R Wellington, Director of Medical Services, opens the Precious Blood. Children's Hospital, Castle Peak Road, 3.30 p.m.
Sport-(See Page 10). Moon.-IV Moon, "27th. Day. Sunrise.--5.38 a.m. Sunset-7.05
D.D.
Tidès-High at 05.43 and 18.37: -Low at 12.55.
SUNDAY, JUNE 6
· Anniversaries ^-and Holidays.-- Second Sunday after Trinity. Vis- count Byng died, 1935, Sprouting Seeds (Mang chung), '
Cinemas. (See Page 5). Entertainments. Gala Perfor mance in King's Theatre, in aid of Boy's Club.
Miscellaneous. Claims against
astounding thing about Coronation week happenings was that the London theatres turned money away, despite the pomp and
Estate of Harold Bevington pageantry out of doors, the good the weather, and the bus strike. Even Foster: Ella May Ramsey; and on rainy Coronation night the Frances Margaret Bois, due; YM. theatres did well. Even theatre CA Discusion Group, in West managers admit that they were Lounge, 9 pm. Outing by Mem- agreeably surprised, for the Jubileebers of Franciscan Order, to Stan- celebrations almost emptied the ley, to visit new Carmelite Con- theatres, though they were, then vent; Formal Enclosing of Car- expecting full houses. After the melite Monastery by Mgr. Bishop Jubilee stump managers apologised H. Valtorta, 6 p.m. tor the box-office figures by sug- gesting that no play could com- the show outside. Coronation week had provided a finer street show, jammed even greater crowds into the West End. Transport has been crippled, yet every manager tells one that they did good business.
Sonja Henie, possessor of "roomful" of trophies and medalspete with for Agure-skating and bolder of World's and Olympic champion- ships, whose first screen success, the Twentieth Century-Fox specta- cular musical-hit. "One In A Million" showing at the Oriental Theatre to-morrow. Monday and Tuesday, learned to dance before she could skate,"
Sports--(See Page 10). Moon.-IV Moon, 28th Day. Sunrise.-5.38 a.. Sunset-7.05
9.m.
Tides. High at 08.27 and 20.00; Low at 00.04 and 13.50.
MONDAY, JUNE 1 Anniversaries and Holidays- Knud Rasmussen born, 1879: Augustin Daly died, 1899.
Cinemas. (See ·Page 5). Dances. Cheero Club Dance, 8 pm.
Miscellaneous.Claims against
One seeks in vain to explain this discrepancy of effect between one week of festival and another. The Having already astounded first candid manager regards explaina- | the sport world and then a much tion" as hopeless. The other kind wider public with her exhibitions forgets his apology for Jubilee ab- of unbelievable grace and rhythm sentees, waves the bus strike away on skates, Sonja leads a breath- by stating that his patrons can Social-YMC.A. Service Men's taking Ice ballet in "One In A afford taxis, and remarks that Whist Drive, in West Lounge, 9 Million," which features a tremen-any way an earthquake would not ̈p.m.; George Herlots' School dous dancing chorus on skates.
ON THE AVENUE
Swinging merrily along to the tune of the best songs ever writ- ten by the greatest writer of songs in' the world. "On The Avenue.", opening at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to-day, represents Irving Berlin at his melodious, best, in a musical that As full of pep and Bilting good
spirits.
With Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll making a new and roman- tic twosome of musical comedy. the yely Twentieth Century-Fox musical represents B real-life romance of New York, in a show that's as big as the town. Alice Faye. The Ritz Brothers and George Barbler add both melody and mirth to the production...
SINNER TAKE ALL
the Estate of Minna Livingston Schack Mur due.
Sport (See Page' 10). Moon. IV Moon, 29 Day.
keep playgoers away from enter- | Annual Founder's Day Dinner. tainment so excellent" as his. The incalculable element in theatrical business could not be better illus- trated.
*As to-the-music-halls, the Palla- dium reports good first houses, but with audiences so tired that they sat still instead of visiting the bars. Second houses, which finish half an hour later than the theatres. were below normal. The explana-
diences cannot pay for taxis home. tion may be that inusie-hall au-
A doubting variety official hinted that perhaps the theatres were ex-
Aggerating their good fortune.
DODSWORTH
ver-
Samuel Goldwyn's most ambi- tious production, the screen sion of Sinclair Lewis' "Dods- worth," which thrilled millions as a best selling novel, and a smash. stage hit. Is to-day at the King's
A capacity audience at the Theatre... Majestic Theatre yesterday EX一 pressed enthusiastic approval of the picture "Binner Take. All," a new and thrilling mystery story from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
With Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay and Joseph Callela in the leading roles, the story la A dramatic account of murder, and mystery in Manhattan. The sup-
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Walter Huston repeats the title- role he created and played for more than two years on the stage. Ruth Chatterton appears opposite him, while Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven are also pro- minently featured.
porting cast Includes Stanley Moderator And The
Ridges, Vivienne Osborne, Theo- and there were 800 graduates go- dare von Eitz, George Zucco, 'Ray- ing out of these institutions every mond Hatton, George Lynn, Ed- year to take up careers. We had ward Pawley, Louls Natheaux, and much to learn from China; Gen- Robert Emmet O'Connor, eral Chiang Kai-shek and Mme.
Errol Taggart directed from the Chiang Kai-shek had by their per- novel by Whitman Chambers. sonal characters and their genero- | Lucien Hubbard and Sam MATI, sity towards their enemies set a former newspaper men, produced. lofty example to Christians of the whole world.
Of Christianity Dr. Kung said that the Chinese
PENNIES FROM
HEAVEN
the
Coronation
"High Seriousness' Of The Service
Sunrise.-5.38 am Sunset-7.06
p.m.
Tides. High at 04.59. and 17.08: Low at 11:44 and 23.20.
Paid Lukas in “Dodsworth'
SONGS OF OLD CHINA
Mr. Arthur Waley, already celo- brated as the translator of Chinese
poetry, drama and of "The Tale of Genji," has completed a volume of translations of 305 Chinese songs dating from 800 to 600 BC. The songs have not appeared in Eng- lish since the middle of the last century, when many of them, deal. Impressions of the Coronation, ing with courtship and marriage, which he attended as, Moderator were interpreted allegorically. Mr. of the General Assembly of the Waley, with nearly a century of in- Church of Scotland, were given by creasing knowledge of Chidese be- people believed in religious free-
the Right Rev. Professor Daniel tween him and his predecessors, dom, and it was now a part of
Lamont, D.D. in in address makes a new direct approach to The United Committee for their Constitution, China' was at Columbia's picturisation of "Pen- Christian Universities of China present going through a process of nies from Heaven" is one of the during a service in celebration of what his publishers describe as "the Coronation In St. Giles' finest collection of traditional entertained Dr. H. HL Kung. vice regeneration and emphasized the nnest musical comedies the screen president of the Executive Yuan spiritual or social side as against has ever presented Headed by Cathedral Painburgh The Very songs which antiquity has left, us." and Minister of Finance in China, the material. They believed that Bing Crosby and Madge, Evans in Pr.. Charles L. Warr conduct The book will come from Allen and
ed the service.
* | Unwin in the first week of July. at luncheon at the Florence Re-China had something in the way the leading roles this melody-ladan staurant, Rupert Street, Wra of culture to offer to the West, and drama of youthful romance com Touching on the "august pagean- cently. Dr. Kung was the Chinese it was his hope that the Christian mences its inaugural screening at try in Westminster Abbey, the Moderator said he had two Envoy. Extraordinary to the Coro- and other institutions in China the King's Theatre to-morrow. nation. The Rev. C. E. Wilson would serve to bring the culture Through the medium of gay dominans impressions One was with God and with their subjects. secretary of the Baptist Missionary and civilization of China to, the songs, laughter and romance, this that, magnificent as it was, it was and the people stood Society, presided. Marte
West, so that international co- picture unfolds the tale of a raga not obtrusive it was only the covens operation might be promoted and bond troubadour who is entrusted background, and was felt by all
The other the cause of world brotherhood be with a letter from a condemned. attained.
murderer to the family of the the murdered man. The minstrel andsvalled through
King a little girl (played by Uttle Faith: Fellows the personality star)
The Chairman, in welcoming Dr. Kung and other Chinese guests, said that they were all friends and well-wishers of China: One of the Other speakers were the Rev. T. most remarkable. features of Cocker Brown, chairman of the modern China was that the committee, and the Hey, William graduates of the Christian colleges Paton, secretary of the "ter were coming to positions of li national Missionary Council. furace in the State and in all the Among those present were the learned professions. In the last Chinese lons. In the
dozen years the number of en- Que? Bir rolled students in the colleges had Pratt Bi increased from 2,000, to over 1,000,- máy CLB
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her impoverished grandfather, and Que sets about trying to earn a living for them. In so doing she trails with a county, welfare Alfred Lewis, Bi: John who is supposed to send
Frederick Whyte-and- to an orphanags-
Ambassador and Mme
of the King
ducedito, s
bent on mading
themselves
rejoice
TO-DAY ON
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
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K-CONDITIONED THEATRE
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you and she doesn't!
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THE MOST UNUSUAL MURDER. MYSTERY OF
́THIS OR ANY SEASON!
A
BRAUTIFUL HEIRESS marked for death... and a headline-hunter who didn't be leva in signs! It's the romantic kick of a.. lifetime as they match wits with the mys terious killer...for highest stakes of all!
SINNER TAKE ALL
BRUCE CABOT Margaret Lindsay
JOSEPH CALLEJA
Desfest ly Enjol taugant
Me nahocenť by Torien Halban it
COMMENCING SUNDAY
JOE E. BROWN JOAN BLONDELL
in “SONS O' GUNS”
DAILY
AT
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY:
Those Pixilated" Sisters Get the Drop un Eddie!
"LET'S MAKE A MILLION"
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
Charlotte Winters
Pastor Huli
Dick Powell Madeleise Carroll TO MORROW⚫ m “ON THE AVENUE
China's Changing
Faces
Big Noses In The Fashion
the
With the
the Moderator
clinics in Shangh the knowledge that the of Chinese are seeking
and es
their faces and their fort votion
changed.
of
the Abbey
solemnly Inten
riceless interests and libert
her that
the
Common
In the
Covenant & the Empire
According to an old Chinese lef, the shape of the face,
eyes and mouth destiny. Frosperity or 1 believed to be alderinter contour of the carro
Man to mouth is the more success
FARAB CONGEZ
The King rece!
Buckingham
Crown Prince who presented
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fought, hebbe likely
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