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TROUBLE IN MOROCCO
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
The Guy'nor" QUEEN'S.....
Don't Tell The Wife" "" ORIENTAL: V
"Man Of The People."
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Motor Madness.".
MAJESTIC!
"Trouble "In Marocco”
KING'S:-
Coming
"More Than A Secretary" QUEEN'S:-
"There Goes My Girl"
ORIENTAL:-
*Sen Devils"
ALHAMBRA:----
"Oh, Doctor!"
MAJESTIC:-
"Mary Stevens, M.D."
DON'T TELL THE WIFE
"Thar's zold in them thar hills," but the gang of crooked stock salesmen in the hilaricus screen comedy. "Don't Tell The Wile," didn't believe it, so Guy Kibbee went "a-prospectin'" and found himself a bonanzą, and the crooks who had tried to fool him got left out in the cold.
Besides the rollicking Mr. Kibbee. this mad farce features Unt Merel and Lynne Overman, sup ported by ace comedians, such as Thurston 'Hell. Quinn Williams. Frank M. Thomas, Harry Jans and Hattle McDaniels.
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WOMAN'S YEAR
IN JUNGLE
JUST TO PAINT
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
"THURSDAY, "AUGUST 12. Anniversaring ~; and · Holldayı -—- General Sir Hubert Gough born, 1870 St. Claire, Patrouess of the
German Girl's Trip Sisters of the Third Order of St.
To ca
A German woman recently left London to live for a year"in a Central African Jungle. She will eut her way through the remotest parts of the vast Iturf forest land of the pigmies. In Eastern Belgiari Congo, where vegetation is so thick that the sun rarely penetrates it.
She is going all that way-Just to paint.
Blonde, vital Fraulein Gertrud Sauermann, aged forty, but looking mere like thirty. wants to paint ilons. "leopards, and elephants in their haunts.'
Francis.
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Auctions-Leasehold Properties. at Lammerta Bules Room, 3 p.m.
Cinemas-(Sce Page 5). Malls-(See Page. 15). Miscellaneous-The Old Time Religion." etc. by Mr. Clifford Lewis, at St. Andrew's Hall.
Social-Civil Service Whist Drive, 9.20 p.m.; Cheero Club Contract Bridge and Mah Jong, 8 pm
Sports.--(Sed, Pago ID). Moon-VIT Moon, 7th. Day. Sunrise.-6.59 a.m. Sunset-8.58
p.m.
Tiden-High at 00.55 and 13.00: Low at 06.43 and "18:43.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. Anniversaries" and Holidays.
She wants pictures of gorillas and the giraffe-like okap! whichst A. L. Liberty born, 1843. Inhabits only the thickest jungle Florence Nightingale died, 1910. and is known as the shyest animal. Our Lady Refuge af Sinners."
On canvas, too she hopes to paint a pictorial record of life in a pigmy village.
Fraulein Sauermann's white companion will be Herr Herman Freyberg, hunter and explorer. He Arst went to Africa when he was elghteen and has pierced further into the jungle than most men. chiefly because of his remarkable knowledge of tropical medicine.
This knowledge, acquired during twenty years in Africa, has so far given him immunity from the tsetse fly, most feared peril la the interior.
Fraulein Sauermann, who has been living for some time at West Cromwell-road. Earl's Court, Lon- don is one of Germany's foremost women horseriders.
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She has won races against men, has been the horse-jumping cham. tion of her country.
With her tropical kit and guns sha' has packed fifty canvases, an easel, a year's supply of oil colours When three honour students and pencils: and a stack of sketch from Sing-Sing," the college on books
the river,, receive their diplomas, But Frauleia Sauermann is also they lose no time in finding their quite fentinine, She has packed former crony, Lynne Overman, eighteen hatat whose wife has forced him into honest re trement Overman can't resist the lure of the bucket shop and money pouring in for gold mine stocks. But trouble for them and fun for the audience, begiris when they hire an honest. man, Guy Kibbee, to "front" for them.
MOTOR MADNESS
It has been a long time since the screen has produced a really sweil
BRITISH FILMS
"In Need Of Experienced
Producers
The British mation" picture" in- dustry, is in need of experienced producers rather than Hollywood stars and writers, according to Mr. Raymond Massey, the actor. who is now in Hollywood to make
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Auctions--Crown Lands, at Dis- trict Office, South, Hong Kong, 11
a.m.
Cinemas-(See. Page 3). Malls.--(See Page 15). Meetings-Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Hall. 5.30 pm.
Miscellaneous Mr. Clifford Lewis "Life's' Greatest Question" at St. Andrew's Hall.
On
·Spetal.———— Cheern Club Duplicate and Contract Bridge. 8 p.m.; Part- ner Whist Drive, Fusiliers' "Ser- geants' "Mess, 8.30 p.m.
Sports(See Page 10). Moon-VII Moon, 8th. Day. Sunrise.-5.59 am Sunset:-0.57
p.m.
Tides.-High. at 01.22 and 13.47: Low at 07.43 and 19.07.
SATURDAY, ́AUGUST 14. Anniversarles
and Holldays.-
J. Galsworthy born, 1867. Richard Jeffries died." 1887. St. Eusebius... Pope and Canon,
Cinemas-(See Page '5), ' Dances.--Flannel Dance at Hotel Cecil, 8.30 p.m.
Mails
(See Page 16);
The Hong Kong Finance Co. Ltd.
Meetings-Final, of Members of
at Messrs. Lowe,' Bingham and Matthews' Offices; 12.30 p.m.; final, of The Hong Kong Trading Co. | (1931) Ltd., it 3 Des Voeux Road Central, first floor, noon,
Miscellaneous-Inauguration
of St. Teresa's Chinese Young Men Society's new premises at 99B Waterico Road, by Mgr. Bishop H Valtorta. 5 p.m.
Sports:=(See Page 10). Moon-First Quarter, 10.28 a.m: VII Moon, 9th. Day.
+
› Sunrise.-5.58 am. Bunset.~8.59 p.m. 7
4
Tides. Hign at 00.25 and 12.23; "Millions of dollars have been Low at 05.50 and 18.18. spent on pictures which in Hol- lywood would rate no better than 'quickies'," said Mr. Massey in an interview."
MARRIAGE IN PRISON
Bucharest, Aug. 10."
movie about motorboat a picture. racing, that dangerous, lightning- fast sport which is reserved for persons with steel nerves and eagle-sharp eyes. "Motor Mad- ness." the Columbia production which has its run at the Alhambra
"It wasn't through extravagance, Theatre to-day. As just that sort but through a plain lack of know- of "picture. If you want a thrill-ledge, Money would be spent on. A most unconventional marriage alled evening, don't miss it.
the wrong things, and more added took place at the Penitentiary In the leading roles are two to it in an effort to straighten out here when the political prisoner players of unusual talent-Rosalind scenes hopelessly mixed" he added. Anton Amalessu, who serves a life' Keith and a handsome fellow "Hollywood has mastered the sentence, W21 married to his named Allen Brook, who is some-art of setting speedy scenes amid farmer sweetheart, in order to thing of a stranger to the screen: slow action so that each fast legalise their now 8 year-old-child- The two turn in really excellent portion stands out like a jewel. Both Amalescu and his "best performances. Miss Kelth fulfilling The change of pace mounts the man!" also a political prisoner. the promise she showed 17 best parts of each production as a "Theodora Goes Wild," and M. jeweller would mount jewels in a chains. The authorities not only had to appear before the priest in Brook giving every indication that ring. his name will soon be up in lights with the best of them."
WHITE TIE ·
Taken from the New Yorker: Arriving in New York on a bual- ness trip, a man was invited to dine at the house of one of his clients. He forgot to aåk how
received a letter from his thirteen- Trable in Morocco" is a fresh. year-old daughter, at school in breezy film packed with the fastest England. It was an excellent ac-sort of action, with Jack Holt at count of seeing the Coronation his but in a ripping story of the formal the meal was to be, so procession and included the fol- French Foreign Legion. It has its when he went back to his hotel he lowing passage; habanel
run at the Majestic Theatre to-called the client's office and finally In the evening we listened to
day. the King's broadcast. It was the Columbia has provided Jack 8ot through to the secretary. King himself who spoke not Holt with an excellent supporting house," he said, "and I want to "I'm going to dinner at Bär. J's George VI or Queen Elizabeth's cast. Mae Clarke, in the leading know whether to wear a white tle husband or Princess Elizabeth's rerninine role, delivers a delightful father or the Duke of Kent's portrayal. C. Henry Gordon..Har- brother, but the King of England. old Huber, Victor Varconi. Paul heipful young woman on whether "That all depends," said that Hurst, Bradley Page, and Oscar you are going to wear tails or Apfel all rise splendidly to the oc- dinner jacket.” casion also.
God bless him"
The young lady had better be careful. If she writes like this at the age of thirteen, she is able to be a best seller,
at twenty
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WORLD'S LONGEST
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Lasted One Hour 18
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„Two Hollywood players working on'a film claim to have endured?
one hour and 18 minutes. the world's longest kiss. It lasted They Are Gilbert Boland and Dorothy Lamour. Notand-ins able when they were preparing for (temporary deputies) were ayall
the
scene to be filmed Bo for more than an hour and a quarter, with short Intermissions, they had to stand with lips pressed together while cameramen and electricians arranged lighting effects.
The kiss will occupy only a few seconds in the film.
tives of the bride but also prison- ́ers › who had a record of good conduct, were allowed to take part in the festival. After the banquet was over the newly-wed bride had to leave the prison../ Transocean News Service,
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Pal Cluett, foreign news The tale is an exciting
respondent for an American syndicste. meets a rival of long standing, Linda Lawrence, in Paris,
One of the most pressing matters
pubiterraads in an average Islads as has hitherto been bub and tricks her into revealing that during the making of George the tre route to Morocco to cover was choosing of a site for the
pa pas concounty borough just over £39 18 posed, but is a peninsula of Arliss's new picture The Guvnor" exclusitely a big gun-smuggling haunts of the two tramps whose
Lodon, Aug 10 met not out of rates, but out of Antarcile continent. It was also Following the abolition of special grants from the National Ex- establimed that the Andes story, Cluett taxes Linda's pass ventures are the keynote to the
"LAZIEST GIRL” air mill fes on postal matters chequer, their continuation in mis port si that she cannot follow him
between Britain and her oversea In one case this figure rises to tarctic too closely, and leaves for Africa: story showing to-day at the
Dubbed the lastest girl in the colonies, the colonial paper "East £56. In athinistrative counties, Tronoces New Service. An Assistant Director combed class. 17-year-old Gene Seymour Africa and Rhodesia", as the first especially Bara)" "areas where certain meadowlands and pastures of Norwalk (Connecticut High periodical in the world, publishes agricultural land pays no rates, in search of the sort of sylvan school, protested as follows; a regular airmail edition. The the proportion from the Exchequer backwater which tramps usually go to school from 8 am to paper is published on extremely granted still higher The aver£70. The proportion is lowest in select In auch place it was pro- 2 pm Then I work in a store thin, so called "bible "paper" and age 18 947but 12-47 out of the 62 the posed to film Tramp Arlas and till 5 pm. Then I work for a will be in the hands of subscribers counties it is over £50, and in the sou
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