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QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG
AT 2:30-515-7·20-930 RML
LAST TWO DAYS
JULES VERNE'S stupendous romantic spectacle sweeps to glory on the screeni
KOWLOON.
AT 230 +3.20·720 £ 9:30 PM.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
MICHAEL STROGOFF
4. Pandro S. Barmen Production, HORADIO MCTURE
WEDNESDAY
"MAN WHO FOUND
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MARY.
HIMSELF"
MA ANTON WALBROOK Elizabeth Allan, Margöt Grahame, Akim Tamiroff, Iric Blore, Fay Banter Directed by Gaurav Nicholia, de
„TO-MORROW
Wm. Boyd
Jimmy Ellison
in "BORDERLAND”.
Fach any Tram OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTALE
PLORING
ROAD
WOLNOZAG)
2MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.
FAREWELL PERFORMANCES
AT POPU ́AR PRICES!
4 Shows Daily 2,30-5,05-7.25-9.30
Excitement thrills-daring romance-brought to you by the finest star in screen annals! Don't Miss It! YOU'LL NEVER SEE ITS EQUAL AGAIN!
NEVER Was There n 'Love Story so Exciting
NEVER Was There an Adventure so Thrilling . NEVER Was There a Motion Picture so Magnificent!
LESLIE
SHEARER HOWARD
JULIET
JA ROMEO
In Wam Shakesponen's
ROMED
Baston's Enterhežkomand Event of The Fiscale
CONWAY TEARIE
ANDY DEVINE
RALPH FORBES
and
with
JOHN BARRYMORE and a Brittivät DESE
EDNA MAY OLIVER BASIL RATHBONE REGINALD DENNY
100 OTHER FAMOUS SCREEN STARE
WED.
THUR
་་.
WEDDING PRESENT
Joan Bennett Cary Grant
A romantic thrill picture filled with laughter."
• MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
ADVANCE BOOKING OPE'S
AT THEATRE BOX OFFICE TO-MORROW MORNING For reserved seats at 38.30 and $4,50-plus tax) Other seats. on day of performance.
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POSITIVELY ON PERFORMANCE ONLY
KING'S
The
MON 5AT 9.30
JULY
Famous International
Dancer
LA MERI
assisted by
BASSANO RAMGOPAL
Brilliant
Young Hindu Dancer.
PROGRAMME INCLUDES MANY SPECTACULAR DANCES The White Pescook-Vids Brave" "AsturianHumoresque" (Diorák)—“ Thé Burriso Doll” -“ Caprice Vikinpiše", (Kreisler)
"Ravel's BolaroKrishna and Rbada"Hawaiian Swing"-etc. FULL, STAGING, LIGHTING AND MUSIC
AB IN LONDON, PARIS, VIENNA, NEW YORK“
LOVE ON THE RUN
THE CENTRAL THEATRE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Personal Property"
QUEEN'S:
"Michael Strogoff". ORIENTALS!".
"Romeo and Juliet"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Michael Strogoff"
MAJESTIC:~~
"Love On The Run"
STAF:-
"Michael Strogoft”
KING'S:-
Coming
"When You're In Love" QUEEN'S:-
"Man Who Found Himself” OBIENTAL:
"Wedding Present"
ALHAMBRA—
"Borderland”
MAJESTIC-
STAR:
"Sign Of The Cross”
"Bunker Bean"
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
'MONDAY, JUNE 28
Anniversaries. and Holidays. Luigi Pirandello born, 1887, Victor Trumper died. 1915. St. Peter and St. Paul'
Cinemas.--(See Page 5).. Dances.Cheero Club, Dance, B
Lectures. - Volunteer Nursing | Detachment, atʼP.W.D. offices.
Mails(See Pare 18).
Meetings Annual, of "Club de Recrelo, in the Club House, 8 p.m. Miscellaneous.—-Claing against the Estate of Gladys Eileen King due; YMCA. Chinese Clasa, in Mezzanine Room, 6.30 p.m. Bill Bord has a new friend in Social-Y, M. C. A. Servicemen's *Borderland,” new Hopalong Cas-Whist Drive, in West, Lounge, 9 sidy picture which opens Tuesday | p.m.; St. Andrew's Club "Open at "the Alhambra Theatre, She's Night." 9. winsome young Charlene Wyatt---- and it looks as if she really enjoys being the pal of the most popular cowboy in movies..
MME. LA MERI
Fine Programme Arranged
Ta-morrow morning.
at the
Sports-(See Page 10). Moon.-V Moon, 20th Day. Sunrise-5.41 am. Sunset.-7.11
p.m.
#
Tides. High at 00.55 and 11.15; "Low at 04.50 and 18.31.
TUESDAY, JUNE 29..
Anniversaries, and Holidays St. Peter and St. Paul born. 1577.
Rubens
Cinemas. (See Pare 5). Entertainments.-St. John's Ca
RADIO SURPRISE King's Theatre, the booking will thedral Organ Recital, 5.30 p.m.
"Clifford Huntsman
On The Air
open for the dance recital which Mme. La Meri, the famous dancer is to give next Monday, July 5, and which will be her only ap- pearance in Hong Kong, ;
has
A full programme of fourteen dances will be presented. Including Radio listeners had an unex- her famous creations "The White pected pleasure on Friday night Peacock." "Asturiana" "Humores when they heard the limpid que" and several Spanish Cas- strains of Debussy, floating on tanette and Shawl Dances which "the air and found, they were lis-she
made very popular tening to a short plano recital throughout the world. given by that delightful pianist will be a group of oriental dances, Clifford Huntsman, who gave
ain some of which Mme. La Meri similar recital when he was here will be assisted by her "protege," a couple of months ago."
Bassano Ramgopal, young Hindu dancer from Banga- lore, India
Full marks to Z.B.W, for secur- ing his services so promptly, for he was only in the Colony for twenty-four hours, on his way down to Singapore" by the P. & O. Naldera.
Mr. Huntsman is a great. De- bussy enthusiast having studied the works of her husband with the late Madame Debussy, in
Paris.
A feature
Lectures.--Hong Kong Hockey Association Lecture at Police Training School,
Mails. (See Pare 16). Miscellaneous.
Hong Kong Hotel.
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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN TO-DAY & TO-MORROW DAILY AT 2.30. 6.10. 7.15 & 9:30P.M.
Just because he's ber haad
sane butler, in she call him bec
Personal Prapusty
HARLOW TAYLOR Personal
Property
Directed by W.S (After The Thin Man) VAN DYKE
Adwyn Mayer ›
445 REGINALD GWEN
ACT PICTURI
ALSO. COLOUR. MUSICAL COMEDY "LA FIESTA DE SANTA" BARBARA "
GRACE MOORE in WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE”.
with C ABY GRANT
WEDNESDAY
COLUMORIA
DAILY
AT
230
Rotary
Club
TA
520
720
Whist
920
Socizi. Gheera Drive, 8.30 p.m.; Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tambola, 9,20 p.m.; REO.C.A. Whist Drive, and Tombola in Garrison Lecture Hall, 8.30 p.m.
Sports. (See Page 10). Moon.-V Moon, 21st. Day. Sunrise.-5.41 a.m. Sunset----7.11
P.. brilliant Tides-High at 01.25 and 12.01; Low at 05.35 and 19.29.
The entire presentation will be exactly as given in London last year and in Paris, Vienna, Berlin. New York and Rome during Mme. La Merl's seasons in those cities The full lighting equipment, with flood lights and amultitude of spotlights. is carried with the party, and is controlled by their own lighting experts. This will be the first time that a concert at- traction of this kind has been seen
FILM ROMANCE
World's Sweetheart" Marries Again
Hollywood, June 27. The film stars. Mary Pickford
Hurrying on board just as the bells began to ring for "passengers ashore" Mr. Huntsman stepped aside to avoid going under a lad-in the Colony. Immediately after and Buddy Rogers were married der, and walked right into a heap or gold-dust, where somebody had apparently spilled a whole jar of it on the planks of the wharf.
Quite a lot of it stuck to CB- ford Huntsman's shoes. If that does not mean good-luck we in tend to give up being superstitious.
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the Hong Kong performance the party will leave for Japan, "and. later for South America.
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NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEAR EAST PACT
Baghdad, June 28. 'The Turkish delegation headed
by the Foreign Minister, Dr. Rush-' di Aras, left Baghdad yesterday by plade for Teheran.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor are the thrilling new star com- The visits to Baghdad and Te- bination presented by Metro-heran are connected wits the ne- Goldwyn-Mayer in the new com- gotiations. for a Near Eastern Pact edy romance. "Personal Property," between Turkey, Iran and Afghan- which is showing at the. King's Istari.→→ Theatre to-day. Taylor idol of the screen, comes from the arms of Garbo in "Camille" to his romance
Transocean News Service.
with Miss Harlow in the present WAR photoplay which is based on the H. M. Harwood stage success. "Man fh Possession." Miss Harlow was last seen in the four-star hit, "Libeled Lady."
"Personal Property" comes from the hands of W. B. Van Dyke who has achieved the unique record of never having turned out a fal- lure. Among. Van Dyke's recent hits were "After the Thin Man," "San Francisco" and "Rose Marie."
MICHAEL STROGOFF
Enough action and excitement for a dozen ordinary films are said to be crammed into "Michael Strogon," the gigantic production of the famous Jules Verne adven- ture romance.
VETERANS
Mary Pickford
VISIT GERMANY: tr- the presence of a few friends under an oaktree in the garden of
Paris, June 28.. Louis Lighton, the flm produčer. -- More than 800 French War vete-Beuter: ans mostly members of the Union Federale, and the National Associa tion of French War Veterans, will went of Fun GOVERNMENT'S
July.
They will be welcomed at Frel- burg by the leader of the German War Veterans Bociety. Transocean News Service
GREAT PARTY-
FOREIGN POLICY
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*** ANTON WALBROOK: Elizabeth Allen, Margot Grahame, Akim Tamiroff, Eric Blora, Fay Bainter Directed by Georga Nichoff, J
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Good News! THEY'RE TOGETHER AGAIN!
ALSO "NEWS OF
THE DAY
COMEDY
Kissing..and.
glowning, and kidding ....... in the happiest hit of than allt Ir'a fost GRAND...when loan and Clack take their “lova, on the ran with W. 5. (''Sati Francisco"") Tanj Dyke at the beim ?
RAWFORD Clark GABLE LOVE ON THE RUN
FRANCHOT TONE REGINALD OWEN **W„B.Fan Dýka Productiei 2
· Prodnísať by Joseph' L. Mankiomiom
WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY ! FREDRIC MARCH
ELISSA LANDI “SIGN of the CROSS”
MOLD FAVOURITE” FROM PARAMOUNT ↑
BUNKER BEAN
Some years 210, Harry Leon Wu-
MEMORIAL OF KIPLING
Berlin: June 25:0 When Mr. Neville Chamberlain. British Prime Minister, outlined. the Government's foreign policy in the House of Commons, and told members that he considered Ger- CONFERENCE many had showed admirable res
Patent and traint in "civeing” the Leipzig in-. Washington, June 25 aldent, he made's good impression Over 100 Democratic Benators in German political circles Se and Representatives landed from His speech, has done much to- small boats on Jefferson Jaland, wards removing some of the bitter- Dealing with the heroic efforts famous summer resort of Ameri- ness prevailing regarding the press of a couṛlar to penetrate hostile | can, society, to attend Fresident, comments in foreign newspapers. territory and carry dispatches to F. D. Roosevelt's great party con- | which followed the German dsci- a besieged Russian army in Siberia ference, Newspapers call it “a stax stop to withdraw from the naval | son, one of the foremost American during a rebellion of the Tartar love feast.***
ARE |control scheme In Spanish waters novelists; wrote a story Romance runs rampant, adven-
Rex Story will present fils latest hordes, “Michael - Strogon” in--・ The President's guests included It beren suggested that Mr Bunker Bean." Doubtless most of ture has its ding and love con- Hollywood Non-Stop Revde at the cludes two of the most impressive most of the Democratic Party's Chamberlain's speech may bring you have read it the story of a quor all in the delightful new Central Theatre nulz Tuesday, and pattle sequences ever recorded by repels, but a handful of irrecon- Baron Konstantin von Neurath likeable young chant who was wel M-G-M comedy melodrams, “Love we learn that is in pae of the most the camera, and scores of drama- cilables, like Senator Carter Glass, German Foreign Minister, tá Lon- squipped, both mentally and phy- on the Run," which came to the cheery validevibe shows seen for a tic crises and hand-to-hand en- studiously ignored his invitation don, earlier that was expected really, but who suffered no from Majestic screen last night. Team- bonquerable unie, state counters to make it cutstanding to discuss their grievances and Baron von Neurath cancelled his an underestimation of his own ing those two exhilarating per- Bex Story was hete before with in the history of romantic adven-criticism
engagement to call upon Mr. An- abilities that he was fair game for monalities, Joan Crawford and; a show called The Nine O'clock ture films.
Everyone will have an oppor-thony Eden, British Foreign Recre- | anyone who wanted to make rise of
appeal for £550,000, Clark Gable, in a dashing sale of Hollywood Inghilehits, and, if this⠀⠀⠀ "Strogoff's" struggle with an|tunity to talk personally with fary, when the British Government | him. Now, based on this play by be ma as a memorial, to modern doings by ultra-modern | is only half in good it should prove enraged bear; his fight with President Roosevelt, who will also failed to support the German de- Les Wilson Dodd," the story )hax
The Sum people, the new picture provides a very great success for
pirates on a Biberian-river; his be available on Saturday and mand for a demonstration in been brought to the screen as all pended in bursaries at the m excitement and laughter in 20
capture and torture by the Tartar Sunday as other Congressmen danish waters by neutral feets RKO Radio pictu 6ntainment melange of an heiress,
rebels and his final confict with arrive
following the alleged attack on affair it alon a fortune-hunting nobleman two
his enemy in the palace at Irkutat The press is barred from the Gaiman cruiser by Spanlih Gov. Pleasure of seeing Bunker. Bean old school and the erect American correspondents and a
these" are among the highlights Jefferson Island conferences - ernment mbmatinée
7 on the screen at the Star Theatre brane of European crooks.
of this screen saga.
Heuter
Router's Bulletin Bervice,
to-day and to-morrow,
Córiety, fast, Lepping dancers, pretty girls and catchy sang hits | are fist a few of the attractions
we shall see at the Central Theatre next Tuesday.
called
have the
Appeal For £250,000 To Be Made
British
London: June 26
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