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ROMANCE TURNS INTO : THRILLS 'WHEN THE BIG NEWS BREAKS. RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF THEIR WEDDING I
The screen? charming romantios in a gay story of rival reporters—
GENE RAYMOND ANN SOTHERN
THERE GOES DIY GRI
With
́GORDON, JONES/ FRANK JENKS NICHARD LANEA
BRADLEY PARE
Directed by Now Holmes, feduced by Wilkan Suram: REQ-EADIO NGIUCES
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'WINGS OVER HONOLULU”
Ray Milland
ZÁMKU AVEY THẦN OR HAPÝ VALLEY BUS
Wendy Barrie
ORIENTAL
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937.
CINEMA
TO-DAY AT THE JEANETTE MACDONALD AND EDDY.
TO STAR IN "ROBIN HOOD"
WALTER CONNOLLY GIVEN BIG ROLE IN "GONE WITH THE WIND"
KING'S
Hong Kong
"Good Old Soak” QUEEN'So
"There Goes My Girl" ORIENTAL:-
"Blage Struck"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"You Can't Beat Love"
STAR:-
"Step Lively, Jeeves!” MAJESTIC:—
"Private Detective 82"
KING'S
Coming
"Hot Money" QUEEN'S:-
****Winga Over Honolulu” ORIENTAL:-"
My Pal The King". ""Internes Can't Take"Money" ALHAMBRA:--
"Lovas Of A Dictator"
STAR:-
"Nancy Steele Is Missing" MAJESTIC:
FLEMING
ROAD
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LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY
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Barbara Stanwick and Joel McCrea in a grand picture.
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GANGLAND'S IN A
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STEP LIVELY JEEVES!
WEDNESDAY
20th C. Fox Picture
ARTHUR TREACHER
and a cast of fun-makers
ictor McLaglen June Lang in "NANCY STRELE IS MISSING"
BRITAIN'S NEWEST
CATHEDRAL
ples have had to be driven into the clay.Excavations for the crypt are well advanced, and it is ex- pected that ground level will be Good progress is being roade complete and work on the amper
structure begun early next year
The cost of the cathedral, will be
London, Aug. 13.
with Brittain's newest cathedral in qurrey, A
"U.S.S.R. of To-day"
GOOD OLD SOAK
In "Good Old Sonk," ‚which has Its run at the King's Theatre 10- day, the panorama of the Ameri- can scene during the era of " drought is pictured with all the whimsical humour that Đơn Marquis injected into his own inimitable descripton. It 18 a charming story, laughable, Ironical and, above all, vastly entertaining.
Outstanding in support of Wallace Beery are Una Merkel, in another of her down-to-earth- comedy roles, Eric Linden, Judith Barrett who sings and dances, Betty Furness, Ted Healy and Janet Beecher. Others who offer true-to-life small-town characteri-
zations include George Sidney. Robert McWade, James Bush and Margaret Hamilton,
The picture is a satire of a fine order, and Director J. Walter Ruben showed rare perception in his fliming of the highlights of a never-to-be-forgotten excerpt from American history.
Nelson Eddy and
Jeanette Macdonald, now temporarily seps- rated by Jennette's marriage and honeymoon. will be texmed again in the autumaz.
Subject will be "Robin Hood' with Mr. Eddy and Mis Mac- Donald as Robin and Maid Marian respectively..
If they only manage to capture attle of the vigour Douglas Fairbanks. Senior. put into the slient version, they'll be doing pretty well. And do you remem- ber Wallace Beery as Richard I?
That's rather a lot of money to spend on a young woman who's only played one imporant role on the screen.
Another report not to be taken too seriously says that Garbo has asked George Cukor for copy of the script. But she's not my idea of a Southern belle...
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The only other item of news about the picture is purely nega- tive-Clark Gable will "hot" play Rhett Butler.
Trene Dunne, another beautiful- young woman who now Seems doomed, ke Miss Hopkins and Walter Connolly gets the dis- Carole Lombard, to an unrellexed tinction of being the first player diet of comedy, is to become "a cast for an important part in female Nick Charles. "Gone with the Wind." He will Aainst a "Thin Man" bäck- play Gerald O'Hara, Scarlett's ground. Irene will do some semi- Irish father.
aerious, semi-comic sleuthing in Scarlett herself still remains Radio's "The Mad Miss Minton. undiscovered. The rumours that Paulette Goddard will have the part are on again-but they say she is asking £20,000 for the job.
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If the idea clicks. Irene will do a series of pictures based on the same character, with probably the same character players in support.
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The Whole Town's Wally heads the Bid Porade on à Laughing Jag!
in the drond, hai incin comiady of the "old sõûk" who comes fighting through and how! A riel of fougla
Hars and Mévillig tool
GOOD OLD SOMA
ALSO
SPECIAL SPORTS NEWS
"TENNIS TACTICS"
UNA MERKEL ERIC LINDEN
JUDITIS BARRETT BETTY FURNESS.
TED HEALY JAMET BEECHER
DECARGAR SIDNEY
A wonderful demonstration of tennis ability by FRED PERRY, who was formerly the World's Amateur Tennis Champion..
Is reveals his different features of play that carried him on tổ hid World's Championship.
THUNDERSTORMS IN DIARY OF LOCAL WEDNESDAY
LONDON
Severe Flooding Causes Dislocation Of Traffic
London, Aug. 13.
EVENTS
MONDAY, AUGUST 16: Anniversaries and Holidays.
London's spell of dry weatherSir G. O. Trevelyan dled, 1928. with high temperatures, came to a sudden, end to-day in thunder- storms which resulted in severe flooding in
many districts and
Auctions-Crown Lands, at P. W. D. Omces, 3 p.m.
caused considerable dislocation of
traffic.
Knightsbridge was flooded at one time to a depth of five feet and woodblocks in a stretch from the French "Embassy to the Egyptian Legation were forced up so as to make the road impassable. Heavy afternoon traffic westwards was diverted through" Belgrave Square. In the west of London, under- ground railway traffic was also in- terrupted by the deluge, which nooded the tracks where they emerge from the tunnel. The posi- tion was particulariy bad to Acton and Ealing, and the London Pas- senger, Transport Boari · caused notices to be posted at all stations
THERE GOES MY GIRL warning passengers of the hold-up
of trage west of Hammersmith. As rival, newspaper reporters, Rain fell with tropical violence Genie Haymond and for an hour in Barnet, and traffic and lovers, Ann Sothern provide a delightful was held up by kerb-high floods in hour-and-more in this new photo High Street, which is part of the play. There Goes My Girl," which Great North Road. In the lowest has its run at the Queen's Thea-part of the district, the drains tre to-day.
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Council, in Gloucester Hotel, 6 p.at. Meetings.-H.K Football Assen
Miscellaneous.---Claims
against
the Estate of Jacques Jessula due: National Savings and Commercial Art Exhibition on Second Floor of Bank Bldg. 84 Des Voeux Rd. Ctl..' 10 am to 7 pm."
Moon.-VII Moon. 11th. Day.
Whist Drive, 9. p.m.; Cheero Club Social.-Y.M.C.A. Service Men's Contract Bridge, 8 p.m.
Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise a.m." Supset-6.55 p.m..
Tides. High at 03.50; Low at: 12.21.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17.
- Anniversaries and Holidays. Admiral Blake died, 1857. Honore de Balzac died, 1850.
Auctions-Letting and Sale of Crown Lands, District Office, Tai Po. 11.30 a.m.
Commercial-Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co. Ltd.. Interim Dividend payable. Mails(Set Page 16), Miscellaneous, Rotary Tiffin,
could not cope with the storm water and manhole covers blew up and, water poured out in six-feet-Hong Kong Hotel. high columns, flooding houses,
» Kilburn was another district which suffered severely and long starstretches of the Edgeware Road- | p.m. the ancient Roman Watling Street
Moon.-VII Moon, 12th Day. Sports-(See Page 10). Bunrise.-5.50 am. Sunset.-6.58
Tides. High at 02.51; Low at
When these ace reporters decide to top their romance with a wed- ding ceremony, Miss Sothern'a city editor interrupts the wedding with hoax murder. as a means of preventing the loss of his news gatherer." "
Learning about the hoax, Miss had to be closed to traffe. Dam- | 11.08.- Bothern sets about regaining the age by lightning was slight and affections of Raymond, who broke the London Fire Brigade had only off their engagement when fils one call as a result of the storm near-bride appeared to be more which raged round and over Lon- Interested in reporting the shoot- don for most of the morning and ing in the church than in going afternoon. through with the wedding
cere. British Wirela... mony.
YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE
Small-town pontics, with All their rivalries and conflicts and underground struggle, comprise the basis of "You Can't Beat Love." RKO Radio's new Preston Foster-Joan Fontaine vehicle.
Bubbling with comedy situations a sparkling romance, the story is played against a dramatic political background which afforda
and
PALESTINE PROBLEM
British Proposol Too Vague
Geneva, Aug. 13.
FRANCE BANS REFUGEES
Paris, Aug. 13. The French Government is un- able to allow more Spanish fugees to enter France,
re-
An official notification to this effect has been conveyed to the
British Government, which is in- structing British shipping com- The Permanent "Mandates Com-pantes accordingly. mission has issued a statement. No fewer than 45,000 Spanish saying the British 'proposals re-refugees have already resched garding Palestine are too vague France. Reuter's and are unworkable, though the Commission does not propose to furnish an alternative plan.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore, British Secre-
2 marked contrast to its surface tary for the Colonies, answered hilarity, and thereby makes It further questions regarding British unique in its realism and enter- mandatory rule of the Holy tainment values..."
Land-
TRANS-POLAR FLIGHT
The picture presents Foster as a Reuter rich young. idler with an ex-
·aggerated sense of humour, and Miss Fontaine as the daughter of the town's mayor, who is running for re-election, On a dare, Foster accepts Miss Fontaine's challenge to enter the race himself, and the fire-works begin.
PRIVATE
DELAYED
New York, Aug. 13. Terrific head winds beyond the North Pole have delayed the Rus- sian trans-polar flers some hours and they are now not expected to arrive at Fairbanks, Alaska, until early afternoon Reuter
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William Powell scores another. An earlier message stated the tremendou hit in hu latest War-plane had crossed the Pole. ner Bros. comedy-drama, "Private Detective $2" which opened is at the Majestle Theatre,
Recognized, as a past, master of suave men of the world, Mr. Powell in the file role of "Private Detec five 62′′ delighted with his aubtle
sense of comedy. But this latest Warner Bros. picture is not all comer. It has come powerfully a quarter of a million effective dramatic and thrilling zituations which he handles with expert capability.
Owing to the nature of the sub-about soll on the hillside to toe west of pounds. Guildford, 778 Veinforced concrete British Wirr'en.
REGULAR SERVICE
PREDICTED
London, Aug. 13.5. Colonel Gromek, leader of the Soviet trans-polar fight last July predicted here to-night that within two years a regular service would have been established be-, tween" Moscow and San Francisco;. or Moscow and New York, taking only 24 hours for the flight."
The trans-polar, plazes, he said, would take of and complete the Voyage in any weathe Berder,
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TODAY & TO-MORROW LOVE AND POLITICS MIX IN A STIRRING ROMANCE OF BEAUTY AND BALLOTS!
Romance wins the vota ... in
of ballots between the pan whe never took
a dan dod the gil man made
PRESTON FOSTER JOAN FONTAINE YOU CANT -Beat LOVE
care
PADDED: The World's Beavy. Weight Championship Bout JOE LOUIS vs. JAMES BRADDOCK
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PRIVATE DETECTIVE
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U. S. S. R. OF TO-DAY
A SENSATION&l record or LIFE IN THE
LAND OF SOVIET8 17:
ANGLO-AMERICAN EXCHANGE OF NOTES
ARGENTINE UP IN ARMS
Washington, Aug. 13,
Buenos Aires, Aug. 13, In the course of an Anglo- The Argentine press and public American exchange of notes, the are surprised and indignant over United States has asked for as the proposal of the United States suzances that the rights of the to sell at least six cruisers and American Government and citizens destroyers to Brasil shall be protected under any The press state that this step change in the Palestine mandate will nullify the results of the re
The United States bassed ita cent Pan-American Conference. claim to considération upon the sponsored by President Roosevelt. Bremen, Aug. 13 Anglo-American Convention at Reuter Five men and a women have. 1924 and Mr. Cordell Hull, the been sentenced to, terms of impri- | 'Secretary of State, has asked that sonment ranging to two and, a any proposals modifying the five votes to one, voted immedate treason" for forming a group for Washington in ample time to en- The Senate sub-committee, by half years for preparing for high mandate be communicated- to approval of the nomination of the alleged purpose of listening to able the Government to make Senator Black one to come of te abervations, I necessary, with a
NOMINATION OF
SENATOR BLACK
Washington, Ang. 13.
Supreme Court Senator Smith treason” for forming a group for view to preserving American (Republican) was the only dis of a married pair-
righte sentienturer's i
Reuter
Reuter
LYNCHING BILL
The Sedan
Washington, Aug. 13:
resoltt
01 the
Won to postpone discussi Lynching Bull until next sessiozi
Reuter
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