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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
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FRED
ASTAIRE.
GINGER
ROGERS
SHALL WE DANCE
Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Directed by Mart Sendrich. A Pandro S. Berman Production.
THURS
With
Edward Everon Horton Erio
Store Jerome Cowan · Kent Gallian William Brisbane Hamlet Hoctor MOJRADIO NCTUEEL ▼
Robert Woolsey
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Harriet's Partner
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
Hong Kong
KING'S:—
"The Great O'Malley" QUEEN'S:-
"Shall We Dance"
ORIENTAL:-
"Pick A Star"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:--
"Armoured Cat"
STAR:-
"Desire" MAJESTIC:-
"Crime Over London"
Bert Wheeler
RKO
Picture
in
ON AGAIN
-OFF“ AGAIN
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ALSO
KING'S:-
-JOE. LOUIS
vs. TOMMY FARR
QUEEN'S
4 SHOWS
DMA K
2.30–5.18
7:19-0.30
CHAMPIONSHIP HEAVYWEIGHT CONTEST
TÁKS APIT TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUE
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING
ROAD
WANDHAI
TEL. BOATS
CLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
GREAT STARS IN A BIG LAUGH SHOW!
A fast and funny comedy of wirth and melody
·HAL' ROACH
prosants
BLAUGH & G|24|
SPECVACLEY.
with
PATSY KELLY JACK 'HALLY ROSINA LAWRENCE » MISCHA AVER
LYDA ROSERTI
also STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY
Directed by EDWARD SEDGWICK
DAYS ONLY
TO-MORROW & THURSDAY
YOU'LL LIKE THIS LAZY OLD LOAFER!
But he's a whirlwind when he goes into action to save his
kid from disgrace"... Wally's grandest triumph.
LAUGHSI TEARSI THRILLS!
Wallaci
BEERY
UNA MERKEL ERIC LINDIN JUDITH BAKRUTT
GOOD OLD SO
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1STARE
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY
Savea
Heavenly Days of
Glorious Romance!
KOWLOON
MARIENE DIETRICH GARY COOPER
Desire
A Paramount Pature with Jobs Kalb dey William Fanboy » Duected by Frank Bo
gr comedy by Hans Sonhely and A Stommie - Produced under chu Personal Supervmids of Kraut Labilecă
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY
“ LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID
WOMEN FEAR WAR
CRIME OVER LONDON
American
Fear of a war is dominating the
Coming
"Nobody's Baby"
"On Again-Off Again”
ORIENTAL:-
"Good Old Soak"
ALHAMBRA:--
"She Had To Ext"
STAK:-
"Last Train From Madrio
MAJESTIC:
"Broadway Bill"
THE GREAT O'MALLY
im
..That ever-popular Irish star, Pat O'Brien has the title role In "The Great O'Mally." a melo- drama of life in New York's colour- ful East Side which opens at the King's Theatre, to-day.
Pat's a policeman this time. He's Officer O'Mally. £ tough. hardbolled copper who cannot see beyond his rule book until a lttle crippled girl and a lovely school teacher humanize him. By the time the anal fadeout ends the story he's a regular fellow. just as Pat always is. in films Indeed, in
real life.
The East Side settings for this picture are the talk of Hollywood.
Three square blocks of that crowded New York territory were bufit from photographs of the actual region.
ARMOURED CAR
Packed with Intense interest.
The romantic leads in RKG Ra. "dio's lavish flmusica; "New Faces of 1937," are taken by Bill Brady and lovely larriot Hillard. Brady. whose tenor valce took New York by storm, makes his lm debut u this picture. Harriet, who scored to Follow the Fleet." is the well, known' radio-songstresa.
NEW MARRIAGE
LAWS
Public Criticism Invited
Two important pieces of legis- lation relating to the monogamous marriages of non-Christians and the registration of polygamous marriages by persons other than Christians or Muslims are to be introduced in the F.M.S. Legislative Council shortly.
The provisional drafts of these two new ordinances were published in the Government Gazette re- cently and comments on the pro-
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5. Anniversaries and Holidays. Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Portugal. Offen- bach died, 1880. Lord Thomson (R101) died. 1930.
Auctions.-Household Furniture, at 35 Hankow Road, 2.30 p.m.
Cinemas-(See Page 5).
Malls. (See Fage 16),
Meetings-Kowloon Chess Club,
in St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Mothers' Union, in Cathedrai Háll, 3 p.m.; St. Andrew's Church Mothers' Union. 3 p.m.
Miscellaneous-Sale of Work of Police Children's Club of Minister- ing League, at Police Recreanon (Club, 4 p.m.; Rotary Tiffin, Hong
Kong Hotel.
Rehearsals-Hong Kong Singers,
in Union Church. Kennedy Road, 8.45 p.m.; Mozart's "Requiem" and Elgar "For the Fallen."
SocialCheerd Club Whist Drive 8.30 p.m.; Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9.20 p.m.
Moon-IX Moon, 2nd Day. Sports(See Page 103. “ Sunrise.-6.15 am. Sunset.--6.08
p.m.
Tides. High at 10.08 and 21.50 Low at 03.25 and 15.25.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 Cinemas. (See Page 5). Mails. (See Page 16). Moon-IX Moon, 3rd Day. Sports. (See Page 103. Sunrise.-8.15 a.m. Sunset.-6.09
p.in.
Tides.-High" at 09.25, and 21.26; Low at 03.46 and 14.58.
HEROINE OF LOOS
Legion Of Honour For French Girl
A Frenchwoman who at the age of seventeen was a heroine of the the Legion of Honour. Battle of Loos has been awarded
Emillenne
sixteen when Loos en Gobelle was
Moresu was only
1914. She hid her father in a "occupied by the enemy in October
pigeon loft to save him from a German concentration camp, but he died and she had to make his coffin herself with odd picked up here and there.
planks
She also saved a number of French and British soldiers who
Universal's "Armoured Car," which posed legislation" may be. sent by were wounded in the attacks and
opens to-day at the Alhambra Theatre. is one of the season's exciting thrill-dramas. "It presents
The picture features Robert Wil- cox in the role of a guard in charge of an armoured truck and Irving Pichel as a mastermind of the underworld, who tries to rob these modern treasure galleons..
public bodies which are interested in the subject.
THE FIRST BILL
counter-attacks which raged round Loos. In order to prevent the vil- lage children from running about under the hall of shells, she organised a class of 42 children La
a new field of action in screen en- Thirst bill, which is intituled tertainment, revealing the thrill-"An Ordinance to provide for the ing incidents that occur in the solemnisation and registration of a cellar. Ilves of men who guard armoured monogamous marriages, has-been-Then came the Battle-of-Looa trucks which convey huge sums of drafted in order to meet a request towards the end of September 1915, money and security.
by the Straits Chinese for legisla- when the Scottish regiments tion to make it possible" for mo- recaptured the village. Emilienne Dogamous marriages in their com- gave the British troops information munity to be 'registered without which enabled them to dislodge being subject to the Christian Mar- the last machine-gunners defend- riages Ordinance...
ing Loos. Even before the village was entirely in British hands, she was helping the wounded, some of whom she had to defend against the "retreating Germans.' Four hundred wounded Scots were given shelter and treated by herself and her mother.
GOOD OLD SOAK
unfor-
The new bill, therefore, provides that those persons who marry in accordance with its provisions will be prevented from entering into a marriage contract. with a third person.
On the screen at the Oriental Theatre for Wednesday and Thurs- Anyone who enters into "such a day you will
That see
inarriage will, therefore, be con- Her courage came to the cars of gettable character, the Old Soak.sidered guilty of bigamy. There is the High Command, and she was immortalized by Don Marquis in a provision for re-marriage of mentioned in army orders and his. original novel. Wallace Beery persons who have already contrac- decorated with the Croix de Guer- now finds his greatest role in this ted one marriage. characterization.
The picture, "Good Old Soak." from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer draws A cross-section, of the America" that was the United States in the era of prohibition. Beery portrays the character of a small town philosopher who retires from active business in order to locate the local speakeasles.
IMPORTANT CLAUSE
re.
The British Government awarded An important section of the new
her the Military Medal of the Red ordinance is that clause which Cross and of St. John of Jerusalem. deals with the rights of succession Queen Mary sent her a moving and issue. This clause states that letter, and she was received by if a man, who is married under M. Poincare. President of the this new ordinance, later contracts Republic.
a union. with a woman which, but Mile. Moreau later brilliantly for such first marriage, would passed her examinations to be confer rights of succession or in- come a schoolmistress, and is now heritance upon her or upon the living at Lens, where she married issue of the union, no issue shall M. Just Evrard. Secretary to the be regarded as legitimate or being Minister of the Interior. In the right of inheritance in, or succession to, the estate of the
man.
The draft provisions deal "leng,
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TO-MORROW
M.G M. Picture
The GREAT OMALLEY
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WE BEN SHERIDAN FRIEDA INTECOST STRE ALSON DONALD CLASP » JENAY Coreapta, CHAIS REYNOLDS ROSAGE GAYANGUSN MOLON KALY
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'NOBODY'S · BABY
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ALHAMBRA
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T-DAY & TO-MORROW
BULLET SMASHING DRAMA
with Miss America's newest screen romance "data" ROBERT WILCOX
ARMORED CAR
with JUDITH BARRETT AC
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A NEW INIVARSAD PICTURE
ROMERO
SHE HAD TO EAT" Rochelle Hudson Jack Haley
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BROADWAY BILL' *OLD FAVOURITE" FROM COLUMBIA!
CANADA AND EDWARD PRINCESS ALY KHAN
The Registrar is given the power
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Son Born To Aga Khan's Daughter-In-Law
Dr. The Bishop of Bradford,
to refuse to register such a maz-
JOSEF LAMPKIN
Recital In Singapore.
gangsters operating Mr. Josef Lampkin, the noted women of all countries, declared from headquarters in London is American violinist, will give anisation of such marriages, the a marriage between the parties is
thily with the time for the solem-riage if he has reason to believe that View The Same As Britain's Miss E Picton-Turberville, for the novel theme developed in cital in Singapore on October 7: merly M.P. for Wrekin, at a con- ference of Yorkshire teachers in Leeds recently.
the Majestic To-day."
ed before large audiences in Nan-
return from Canada, that the feel-
Criterion Films production "Crime He has been travelling in the mise such marriages, and adds local usage of the religion professed Blunt, stated at Liverpool, on his
powers given to persons to solem- prohibited by the traditional and Over London," which comea to East most of the year, and appear that no prosecution for an offence by elther party.
Princess Aly Khan, wife of Prince Margot Grahame, the beautiful king (where he was the guest of punishable under the ordinance The Registrar may also refuse to ing in the Dominion on the sub- Aly Khan, son and heir of the Aga According to an announcement Among the young people every British actress who rose to star- the American' Ambassador), Hone shall be instituted without the register the marriage in any caseject of the Duke of Windsor was 1 Khan, has given birth to a so where, she added, there WOL D dom by her portrayal in "The In-Kong. Macao and other centres. authority of the Attorney-General. i which the parties profess diffe- much the same as in Britain,
rent religions.
"They feel that what ex-King E-cently the child was born pres maturely. Both mother and baby. The validity of the registration ward wanted to do could not be. of the marriage will not be affected done," he told a reporter. They are reported to be doing well
Princess Aly Khan was formerly by the omission to register such a were frightfully sorry to him, but, the wife of Mr. Loel Guinness.
Her marriage to the Prince took marriage or by and error of par- now that he has abdicated, they ticulars recorded."
do not want to talk about It."
place in Paris in May of last year.
sense of impending doom.
roles.
..
Mr. Lampkin has been described
SECOND BILL former," plays her most dramatic
¿The second- draft ordinance. re- In all countries in Europe they part in a British film as a gang- the greatest of American born
was born In Los lating to the registration of mar- were saying: "What is the good ster's "mall." Paul.
Cavanagh, violinists. He of anything when war is Inevit Joseph Cawthorne, Bene Ray and Angeles and made his first publie riages by persons other than those able?" This fear was proving Basil Sydney play the leading appearance at the age of twelve. who profess the Christian or Mo- He studied with such masters as hammedan faith, provides for the detrimental to education.
Leopold Auer, Ferenc Vecsey, Karl registration of partculars of mar- Flesch and Juno Hubay. He made riage contracted in the colony his debut in Paris in 1977 and was other than a marriage one of the A stowaway found on an ocean halled as a great virtuoso, and he parties to which is a Christian or liner weighed eighteen stone. Pre-appeared with equal success In Muslim, or a marriage under the sumably he had been making a London, Berlin, Budapest and other Monogamous Ordinance or mon-
ogamous system of law. practice of stowing away for years. European cities.
Mr. D. R. Davis, of London, sald Hitler was "A man who has made science of the government of, gangsters." Such a government did not merit the return of any cólonies.
his A third provisional draft is also Dr. Blunt added that in published in the Gazette for the sermons and lectures in Canada purpose of amending the Divorce he made no reference to the Duke Ordinance to suit the requirements of Windsor, but had given inter- than 12 months ago.
pede af en M his wife's illness his of the two ordinances referred to views to the press,
Els visit was arranged by the abandoned after five above if they should be passed in
Canadian Council
Church Union more | Canadá.
Owing to tour was days in
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