QUEENS
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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
SHE BLASTED A TOWN WIDE OPEN... To prove her right to take love, on her own terms!
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
KING'S:
CINEMA
Hong Kong
QUEEN'S:
"Parell"
"Exclusive"
ORIENTAL:-
"Espionage"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
P
"China Seas"
"Dodsworth"
MAJESTIC:-
"Pennies From Heaven"
Coming
"Song Of The City"
KING'S
QUEEN'S
Foy Holden Ralph Morgan
A Paremkunt PleROCONTI
Adolph Zukor presents
FRED MacMURRAY - FRANCES FARMER - CHARLIE RUGGLES
EXCLUSIVE
WEDNESDAY
with LLOYD NOLAN
GIRL OVERBOARD"
"Girl Overboard"
ORIENTAL:-
"It Happened One Night". ALHAMBRA
"West Bound Limited"
New Universal Picture
STAR:-
Gloria Stuart
Walter Pidgeon
TIKE ANY TRAM OR MAPPY VALLEY BUS
* SHOWS
FLEMING
ROAD
DAILY 1.30-8.17
7J9-4.30
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
TEL. 20173
"Private Detective' 02" MAJESTIC:
"Yellowstone" i
PARNELL
Frances Farmer" and Charle Ruggles in эселе from Paramount's "Exclusive," now playing at the Queen's Theatre.
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ORIENTAL
The following are Oriental Thea- tre bookings for September:..
Mon. 6. "Espionage" (M.G.M.) with Edmund Lowe, Madge Evans,
Hailed as the most powerful Paul Lukas,
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫ motion picture attraction in years.
'A COMBINATION OF LAUGHS, THRILLS AND ROMANCE! Teu tuations trembled when "the most hated man in the world" fled on a secret mission.
A BAERA YF OF LAUGHTER AND EXCITEMENT !
Fayest rom
triller!
'I'm in love
Espionags
LOWE
EVANS
· Pu! LUKAS • Ketti GALLIAM
SPECIAL FOR TU-MORROW
ONE DAY ONLY
ONE OF THE BEST OF THE OLD FAVOURITES
YOU'LL ENJOY SEEING AGAIN!
WED. THUR:
TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIMEI
CLARK
CLAUDETTE
GABLE COLBERT It Happened One Wight
WALTER CONNOLLY - ROSCOE KARNS"
From the Cosmopaiston Magazínů“story ov Samuel floukins Adams
Screen clay by ROBERTRİSKIN
A FRANK CAPRA Production
RIOTOUS FINANCIAL FARCE!
"HOT MONEY?' ROSS
ALEXANDER BEVERLY ROBERTS
FRI THE SMASH HIT OF 1937
SAT.
with William Powell-Myrna Loy and 50 others. "AFTER THE THIN MAN"
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DAILY
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TO-DAY
& TO-MORROW
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL
has the honor to present SINCLAIR LEWIS
DDSWORTH
WALTER HUSTON,
RUTH CHATTERTON
WEDNESDAY.
ONE DAY
ONLY
PADI LOKAS - MARY ASTOR
William Powell 'in
• “PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62”
LOYALIST SUCCESS
THE HOTELS
"Parnell," the tremendously mov ing fiction drama of Charles Stewart Parnell, "Uncrowned King of Ireland," has its run at the King's Theatre to-day, with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy co-starred at the head of a cast of big names. Marking their first co-starring success since "Men in White" and Manhatten Melodrama," the new plcture presents: Gable as the dynamic Irish patriot who sacri- fced a glorious career because of another man's wife, and Miss Loy as that woman. the lovely Katle O'Shea. wedded to man she iespised.
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At the height of his power, Par- nell, who never looked at a woman,
Tues. 7: "IC Happened One Night" (Columbia) with Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert.
Wed. 8 and Thur. 9: "Hot Money" (Warner Bros.) with. Ross Alexander, Beverly Roberts.
Fri, 10 and Sat. 11: "After The Thin Man" (M.G.M.) with William Powell, Myrna Loy. Elissa Landi.
Sun. 12. Mon. 13 and Tues. 14: "Michael Strogoff (RKO Radio, with Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan. Margot Graham.
Wed. 15 and Thur. 16: "sca drille" (RKO Radio) with Paul Muni. Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hay- ward.
Fr. 17 and 'Sat. 18: "Polo Joe" (Warner Bros.) with Joe E. Brown, Carol Hughes.
met Katle O'Shea, who *was Bun. 19, Mon, 20 and Tues. 21: estranged from her husband. It "China Seas" (M.G.M.) with Clark was love at first sight with Par-Gable, Jean Harlow Wallace nell and Katfe who fought Parnell's Beery. love until he became . Then' she invited him to her home at Eltham where their romance blossomed.
Wed. 22 and Thor. 23. "Postal Inspector (Universal) with R1- cardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis,
Fri, 24 and Sat. 25: "T Met Bl There has never been a more In Paris" (Paramount) with Clau- beautiful love story written than dette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, "Parnell." It captured the warm Robert Young. hearts of the Irish pecple, their joys and their sorrows. will reach deep into the hearts of all who see it.
EXCLUSIVE
It
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
There's happiness ahead at the Majestic Theatre,
where Bing Crosby's latest picture, Columbia's
A powerful story of a news- paperman who placed principles "Pennies from Heaven," is due io- ahead of life itself, only to have day. A cast that includes Madge his own daughter undo his work Evans. Edith Fellows, Donald Meek brings Fred MacMurray, Frances and Louis Armstrong. famed king Farmer. Charlie Ruggless and
of swing, works along with Bing. Lloyd Nolan to the screen of the
in the Alm. Queen's Theatre to-day.
his own
The story concerns the efforts of @corrupt politician, played by Nolan, to wreak rengeance on a reform newspaper by establishing scandal sheet which he eses for blackmail purposes. He tries to iure Ruggles and Mac Murray away from the reform paper with tempting salarles but they remain loyal to the paper they helped to build.
When Ruggles' daughter, played by Miss Farmer, who is also Mac- "Murray's sweetheart, hears of this, sie 19 furious, Unable to un- derstand the principles
of
her father and sweetheart, she accepts a post as reporter on Nolan's paper. She soon becomes the newspaper. senation of the town. Nolan uses her ability to dig, up the past of one of the town's leading merchants, causing him to commit suicide.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. Anniversarles and Holidays— Labour Day (U.S.A.).., Jewish New Year (5698). The Marne, · 1914. Bank Holiday.
Cinemax-(See Pare 5).
Mails (See Page 16).
p.m.
Meetings.-S. and SvHome" House Committee. 5.30 Monthly of St. Andrew's Church Women's Guild, 10.30 a.m.
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Miscellaneous -Examination for New Students at St. Stephen's College, Stanley, 9 .m.: Diocesan Boys' School re-opens.
Social--Y.M.C.A. Service Men's Whist Drive. 9 p.m.; Cheero Club Contract Bridge, 8 pm.
Sports. (See Page 101. Mooh-VIII Moon, 2nd. Day. Sunrise.-6.08 a.m. Sunset.-6.38
p.m.
Tides. High at 10.34 and 22.38: Low as 03.31 and 18.08.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Cinemas(See Fage 5). Malls-(See Page 16). Meetings.-Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Monthly Committee Meeting, Chamber's Board Room. 2.30 p.m.
Miscellanecus. - Hong Kong Hotel.
Sports. (See Page 10). Moon-VII Moon, 3rd. Day. Sunrise.-8.07 a.mi. Sunset.--6.37
p.m.
Rotary Titan.
Tides. High at 00.30 and 22.08; Low at 02.47 and 15.42.
David Niven in a scene from "Dodsworth," showing to-day at the Star Theatre.
DUCE'S VISIT TO
FREHRER
Nothing Startling Expected
No
Rome, Sept. 4.
The story concerns, a vagabond to emerge from Mussolini's visit to 'No new agreements are expected troubadour, who falls in with a #ttle girl and her
Hitler next month. Signor Gayda, improvident grandfather and proceeds to take the Duce's mouthpiece, in dis- them under his somewhat patched-cussing the visit in a conciliatory up wing. The child is about to be article in the "Giornale d'Italia," sent to an orphanage
says that Italy is not faced with and the elderly man to an Old People's
the problem of having to choose Home when the troubadour hits between a pro-British and pro- upon a plan to make
German policy, and deprecates the enough money for all three of them to tional will come of the impending suggestion that anything sersa-
conversations. Reuter.
live on.
Crosby sing "Let's Call a Heart a Heart," "Pennies from Heaven." "So De I". "One Two Button Your Shoe" and "Skeleton in the Closet,'
CHINA SEAS
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HOME FLEET
Leaves Portsmouth For Autumn Exercises
London, Sept. 3. Ships of the Home Fleet station- Roarding out of the Orient, ed at Portsmouth including H.M.S. typhoon of narce loves, bitter bates Rodney, flagship left to-day for In- and berilous intrigues will strike vergordon for their autumn ex- the screen bf, the Alhambra ercises in Scottish waters. The Theatre to-day.
flag of the Commaner-in-Chief of It is "China Seas," which unites the Home Fleet, Admiral Sir Roger three of the greatest stars of film-Backhouse was transferred from dom for the first time in almost the Nelson which is renting to five years, Clark Gable, Jean Här- the Rodney this morning. The Director of Education in- low and Wallace Berry."
The aircraft carrier Courageous, forms us that everything possible China Beas" is gripping, in- with her attendant destroyed is being done by his department tense melodrama from beginning MS. Crusader, escort vessel
CENTRAL BRITISH
SCHOOL
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN TO-DAY AND TO-MORKÓW DAILY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
WHEN THEY LOVED
THEIR ROMANCE SHOOK THE WORLDI Clark Gable in his finest triumph as the fighting leader of a fighting nation! Myrna Loy... truly magnsd- cant as the one great love of a great man's lif
GABLE LOY PARNELL
EDNA MAY OLIVEX M-G-M's $MASHING /
EDMUND GWENNI
ALAN MARSHAL DONALD CRISP
BILLIE BURKE
ROMANTIC HITS
Produced by JOHN M. STAHL
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WEDNESDAY. SONG OF THE CITY
M.G M. Picture
with MARGARET LINDSAY-JEFFREY DEAN
ALHAMBRA
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
GREAT STARS GREATEST HIT!
Flaming romance, pulse stirring adventure, thrill ing spectacle of thou sands as three gres stars enact their mos: brilliant roles:
GABLE
HARLOW
BEERY
China Seas
us Lewis Stone
Dudley Digges Directed by Tay German
Rosalind Russell.
C. Aubrey Smith Associate Produtir Álbert Lestin
A Metro Gita Mayer NCTUM
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PENNIES
front
HEAVEN
with
BING CROSBY
MAD CE EVANS
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY
THE GREAT GEYSER MURDER "YSTERY! HENRY HUNTER JUDITH BARRETT IN
"YELLOWSTONE
A UNIVERSAL THRILLER !
and by the Refugee Committee to end. There is not a single Fleetwood and the destroyer BAKERS CONFERENCE
regarding the transfer of the pre-mament in which action lags or Blanche were among the vessels sent occupants of the C.B.B. build- suspense is missing.
salled. It has, a which
The
destroyers.
ARAB KILLED
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Haifas, Sept. 4 A wealthy Arab
Ing at the earllest possible date. background, of hurricanes and Forester and Fury, which were to London, Sept. 4: The annual He also states that owing to the bloody raids by modern Chinese have accompartied the Fleet, had Bakers and Confectioner's conven- member of the National Detence Valencia, Sept. 4.
late start of term, caused by pre-pirates, and against this vivid their orders cancelled as a result tion is being held at the Royal Party who was seriously wounded An ocial communique states The following are the latest arent circumstances, the Christmas setting moves a human drama no of the decision to reinforce the Albert Hall. A model bakery was when shot at by an Arab assailant
and Easter Vacations will be sur-less powerful
destroyer strength in the Mediter erected and visitors could enter this morning has since died. tailed so that the number of days All the action takes place on the ranean Sea. They are proceeding and watch competitors in the Reuter's Bulletin Service. Hong Kong Hotel: Mr. R. Bigazil, approximate to the usual total. piows through the storm seas be-Firedrake. The aircraft carrier can section
In the School Year, 1937-8, will wheezy old liner Kin Lung as it with H. M. Ships Fortune and culinary art. There is an Ameri- Mr. C. Martel, Mr. Y. LOosbergo. When
In the competition further questioned the tween Hong Kong and Singapore Furious, attended by the destroyer competition which a number of Gloucester Hotel: Miss B. the school opened by the 20th or with
Director said he hoped to have with a cargo of gold and freighted stronghold, will sail for Scotland bakers from the United States were
an even more interesting on Thursday next-
entered.- Collins.
at the latest, the 27th.
cargo-human passions.
British Wireless,
Reuter's Bullets Service.
thatBelchite important-road-rivals at the hotels junction near Saragossa, has been occupied by Government troops after severe fighting. In which 1,500. Insurgents were slain -and- 500 prisoners, with much material taken — Reuter! |
war
William Powell has been borrow- ed from M-G-M by Twentieth Century-Fox for Annabella's first Hollywood fl
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