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TO-DAY AND TO-MORKÓW.
The Action-packed Romance, of a Nervy Reporter Who Bucked The Town's Most Dangerous Racketeer !
The amazing inside story of the $1,000,000-a-year slot-machine racket! ~".
KING OF GAMBLERS
A Parteini Pichart with
CLAIRE. TREVOR LLOYD NOLAN AKIM TAMROFF - LARRY, CRABBE HELEN BURGESS - PORTER HALL
ADDED FEA URE
SPECIAL PARAMOUNT NEWS OF
CHIA WAR
AUTHENTIC PICTURES FROM THE NORTH
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7.15-0.30
ROAD BACK"
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The most beautiful of musical drama's, 300 singing horeswen led by etaon Eddy in the "Sny of the Mounties " 100 da cers in sednational spectacle.
THE SCREEN'S GRANDEST ENTERTAINMENT:
"ROSE MARIE, I LOVE YOU!"
"The world's greatest -love songs...romance that thrills...spectacle that enchants... in M-G-M's MIGHTIEST TRIUMPH!
JEANETT DONALD NELSON EDDY Rose Marie
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke Produced by Hunt Stromberg
2 DAYS TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
MEET THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY MIND! The most sensational and spectacular mystery picture ever produred filled with startling surprises. SOMETHING NEW IN A SURPRISE THRILLER!
"The marriage you're
planning will never take
‚ plocel“ the great Gambini
womed...
Adolph Žukar presande
"THE GREAT
GAMBINI"
A. Parameset Plature with AKIM TAMIROFF
MARIAN MARSH
+
JOHN TRENT
Gavier Tobin fuglackd Danny
Directed by Charles Yider
3.P.Schulberg production
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Enchanting Music
KOWLOON
57795
Romantic Comedy !
"N CALIENTE”
with Dolores Del Rio
Pat O'Brien dward Everett Horton
TO-MORROW R.KO, Badio
Picture
A Warner Bros.' Picture
Joe E. Brową
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Case Of The Black Cat"
QUEEN'S:—
"King Of Gamblers"
ORIENTAL:--
"Rose Marie"
Kowloon
"Virgins of Bali"
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR
"In Caliente" MAJESTIC:-
Theodora Goes Wild".
KING'S:
Coming
"God's Country and The
Woman" QUEEN'S —
"Road Back" ORIENTAL:-
"The Great Gambini" ALHAMBBA:-
"Road Back" STAR:----
"Riding On Air" MAJESTIC:-
"Marked Woman"
VIRGINS OF BALI
Now comes a serene and beauti- ful feature with the enchanted Island of Bali as a background and the entire cast natives of this tiny paradise, just east of Java. The production, titled "Virgins of Ball."
at the Alhambra opens Theatre to-day.
A William M. Pizor presentation, distributed through Principal Pic- tures Corporation. "Virgina of Ball" is a veritable poem in ple- tures through which dramatic thread which has to do with the ambition, of a beautiful and graceful native girl to become d temple dancer and her subse- quent kidnapping and then wedding the great festival occa sion of, the Balinese."
runs
F
"Virgins of Bali". is highly re-
commended by the critics of other cities. It's one dramatic feature that even Hollywood would never attempt to duplicate.
Jean Rouverol and John King in Universal's "The Road Back"
THE ROAD, BACK
Great world events leave their mark on the lives of millions of people. Authors who live in such dramatic times wilte novels which stic, countless generations to come. Erich Maria Remarque roused the readers of every country with "All Quiet on the Western Front He exploded another bombshell when he wrote "The Road Back," the re- velations in it compelling him to leave his homeland.
"The Road Back" tells what hap- pened in Germany after the Arm- istice Universal studios had to walt five years after the book was written, before the time was ripe to produce it for the screen. Now the tremendously dramatic story comes to the Queen's Theatre in this city, for a four days run start- ing October 30th.
The cast includes 2000 players, notable among them being Barbara Read, John King,, Richard Crom- well. Slim Summerville, Andy De- vine, Louise Fazenda, Noah Beery, Jr., Maurice Murphy, John Emery, Lionel Atwill, Larry Blake, Etienne
Grets Gynte, Girardot,
Jean Rouverol, Spring Byington and Laura Rope Crews.
THEODORA GOES WILD
"Theodora Goes Wild," a rollick- ing Columbia production which serves to introduce Irene Dunne to motion picture fans in her first
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28. Anniversaries and Holidays:- Simon and St. Jude. Captain Cook born, 1728.
Cinemas-(See Page 5).
Entertainments. International Medical Relief Light Concert Music, in Peninsula Hotel Rose Room, 9.15 p.m.
Lectures. Theosophical Society "Lantern Lecture on "The New
American Race." 6 p.m. Mails(See Pazo, 167.
· Meetings.—Monthly, of Hong Kong Philatelic Society, in "8.C.M. Post" Board Room, 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, 3 p.m. weekly, St. Andrew's Boy Scouts (1st Kowloon), €
p.m.: Annual, of Sailors' and Sol- diers Camera Club, at "$. & S. Home," 22 Hennessy Road, 8 pm. Miscellaneous—Arrival of Sir Geofry Northcote, Governor De- signate, at Queen's Pier. 10 a.m.; Administration of Oaths, at Colo- [nial Secretariat's Offices, 11.15 a.m.; Public Address of Welcome, at King's Theatre, 11.50 3.1. Christ Church Ladies' Guild Sew- ing Party at 3 Duke Street. 10 2.0.
Moon.XI Moon, 25th Day. Rehearsals."The Arcadians," "in Cathedral Hall, 8.45 p.m.
Social---Busy Bees' Bridge and Mah Jong Drive: in Cathedral Hall. 3 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, 8 p.m.; St. Andrew's Club Open Night. 9 p.m.; Kowloon Docks Weekly Whist Drive, 9 p.m.
Sports(See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.28 am.
p.m.
Sunset-5.49
Tides High at 03.45 and 18.22. Low at 11.08 and 23.08.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 Cinemas-(See Page 5). Malks (Set Page 167. Moon-IX Moon, 26th. Day. Sports.--(See Pare 101,
Sunrise.-6.25 am
p.m.
Bunset.-5.50
Tides. High at 02.12 and 17.28: Low at 10.05 and 20.20
comedy assignment will be shown THE GREAT GAMBINI locally at the Majestic Theatre starting" to-day.
Supported by an exceptionally strong cast, Miss Dunne is per- mitted to run fancy free through a sprightly tale of a small town CASE OF THE BLACK girl who wins her big-city man in a. big-city way. Melvyn Douglas appears opposite Miss Dunne in the leading male role, with Thomas
CAT
Most baffling of all Erie Stan- ley Gardner murder mysteries is "The Case of the Black Cat" the First National production, showing to-day at the King's Theatre,
killed
The plot is most unusual in that the first murder is a hoax and the Than supposed to be turns up at the trial of the man accused of slaying him, while two actual murders are committed as the result of the trick. Six per- sons are suspected by the police, all of whom are proved innocent The real killers are exposed at the trial of an innocent man by Perry Mason. the astute lawyer-detective who invariably solves mysteries that the police are unable to Tathom
Ricardo Cortez gives an un- usually clever portrayal of Perry Mason as does June Travis, as Dolla Street.
KING OF GAMBLERS
Mitchell, Thurston Hall, Rosalind
"The Great Gambini" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday which features Akim the title role, L Tamiroff in primarily a thrill-packed mystery. Tamiroff is the star attraction at a swanky night-club. where he and his beautiful, bindfolded as- sistant "read" sealed messages Keith, Spring Byington, Elisabeth sent him by the audience.
Margaret McWade When Tamiroff prophesies that Risdon rounding out the cast.
Marian Marsh, planning to be "Theodora Goes Wild" Was married the next day, will not adapted to the screen by "Sidney marry her fance, it is first con- Buchman from an original by aldered merely a bad joke, but Mary McCarthy. The production when the flance is found murder- was directed by Richard Boles-ed the next morning. the case lawski
and
takes on a more serious aspect.
SCOTTISH MARQUIS M.P. WINS
"LOVE BATTLE”.
ENGAGED TO DUKE'S
SISTER
"I have just returned from the most critical contést of my life- the battle of the Woolng." decla- red the Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, acknowledging the congratulations of the Moderator of Hamilton Presbytery, who an- nounced at a luncheon in Hami- Iton recently the Marquis's eng- agement to lady Elizabeth Percy, sister of the Duke of Northumber land.
in collaboration with his co-pilot. | Mr. D. F. MItyre, on their epic
flight over Everest.
Son of the Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, he has been A.D.C. to the Lord High Commissioner on several occasions. He is also an Honorary Colonel in the 7th Battalion of the HLL, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Mem- ber of the Royal, Company of Archers. He is an elder of Hami- Iton Presbytery.
TRAINBEARER TO THE QUEEN
Lady Elizabeth Percy is 21. Her
The Marquis confessed that his battle had begun at Alnwick Cas-muther Is Mistress of the Robes tle, the stronghold of the Percys, and had reached a successful con- clusion in the North.
to the Queen, and Lady Elizabeth
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
SHOWING TO-DAY
DAILY AT 2.30. 5.10. 7.16 & 9.30 P.M.
PERRY DEFENDS
A CAT OF NINE TALESI
And ench inde is more murderoses than the unl You've read this great mystery wzory in Liberty Maganine. Now me it on the screen, the new T and bese of Warner Bros" Chat Club masterpieces?'
THE CASE OF THE
Black Cat
By Erie Sisley Grid RICARDO CORTEZ
JUNE TRAVIS
REDO: Jess Bryan = Crazy Raynadáv
Menced by Sam Roßlean A Fastenal Picture
NEXT CHANGE
LOVE BLAZES NEW
TRAILS!
"GOD'S COUNTRY AND THE WOMAN”
with GEURGE BRENT BEVERLY ROBERTS
Magnificently filmed in Technicolour by Wamer Bros.
ALHAMBRA
NATL
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TODAY AND TO-MORKOW
A Love Adventure on A Lotus Island
SAT RDAY
New laiversal Production
À SHOWS DAILY
1.30 $20 720-930
Bathing In Bal
STRIKING BEAUTY
BALI
Deliciously
Daring
Wm. M. Pizor
Presents.
Virgins of Ball
with
Ni Wayan TagelNi Wayan Ugem. LMaria
PRODUCED ON THE ULAND B
DEANE HL. DICKSON
Famous Iraveler & World Adventurer
Mighty Soquel to "ALL QUIET ON THE WEST AN FRUNT**
"THE ROAD BACK”
JOHN KING RICHARD GROMWELL BARBARA READ and Others
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
MATHAM ROAD KOWLOON
TEL:7222
(MATINEES, 20€+30%.° EVENINGS, 20, -30% 50270, TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, SATURDAY
THE YEAR'S MOST RIOTOUS ROMANTIC COMEDY:
TRENE DUNNE
THEODORA
GOES WILD MELVYN DOUGLAS
A Columbia Picture
COMMENCING SUNDAY
THE BIGGEST DRAMATIC THRILL OF THE SEASON!
"BETTE DAVIS in MARKED WOMAN
1.
A WARNER BROS. SENSATIONAL HIT!
was one of the Queen's six train- HAROLD BROADBENT-
Tiffany Thayer, one of America's outstanding writers on crime and rackets, comes through with an- other winner in "King of Gam- hlers," a daring story of the slot machine racket as it exists in many cities, which has its rua at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
The title role is played by Akim Tamiroff, a big time racketeer whose crock machines muct a
Six centuries ago there was a large city of millions yearly. He
aifferent battle involving a Doug- lavishes this money on a beautiful
las and a Percy: It was night club entertainer, Claire celebrated "meeting on August 19. Trevor, who does not love him1388, at Otterburn, when the Earlled, having voyaged all over the She does not know that he is czar of Douglas and his men fought of the city's underworld, and with the English force led by Bir Henry Percy, the famous Hotspur, then Warden of the Marches..
when she falls in love with Lloyd
Nolan, a newspaperman whose job it is to uncover the slot machine racket, she inadvertantly leads to Tamiroffa undoing and the smash- ing of his racket,.
in RIDING ON AIR LADY NORTHCOTE
Mr. Frank-Barbour, of Lisburn, Co Antrim, à Director of the Linen Thread Co., Ltd., and an. owner of steeple chasers, left (personal in Great Britain and Northern Ireland) £199,003.
SPAIN'S GOVERNMENT MOYES
""TO BARCELONA
It is understood here that the Valencia Government is transfer ring to Barcelona at the end of
the month.
the
bearers at the Coronation.
Her red-gold hair is fitting to one of the "Red" Percyɛ, and her delicate features are in the typical Percy mould. She is much travel-"
world with her mother and sister, Lady Diana..
"
In this case the coming together of a Douglas and a Percy la hap- pler than at the meeting in 1388 at Otterburn.
These were the days when the Douglas rode into England "to when the take a praye," and general state of affairs between the families was indicated in the minstrel's verse:--
BOXING MARQUIS The Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, who is the 34-year-old son and heir of the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton has been M.P. for Renfrewshire since No vember, 1930. Popularly known as the. "boxing Marquis," he won his From a wireless message re- blue at Oxford, and represented ceived from ss. "Ranchi" it is now his University against Cambridge hoped that Lady Northcote will be tor three years in the ring. well enough to participate in the He is a Wing Commander in the reception ceremonies with the ex-
Auxiliary Air Force, and in 1933 he was chief of the expedition to ception of the introductions ar-
Six centuries later the old tale ranged to take place on Queen's fly over Mount Everest. Three
years later he "published a book of blood has a sweeter echo. The
Pier,
Ther was never a tym on the Marche-partes Ben the Doglas and the Perse met,
But yt ys the tervele and the rede blude ronne not. As the reane days in the stret.
RETURNS
Landon, Oct. 28.
MIDWIFE SISTERS
Returning To England After Pioneer Work In Sudan
Two sisters, the Misses Mabel'
F. H. Broadbent, who attempted to break Jean Batten's England to and Gertrude Wolff, who have Australia solo record, but aban-both been awarded the MB2.
doned the fight owing to con- tinuous bad weather, landed at for midwifery work in the Sudan medical service, have arrived in Heston aerodrome at 8 o'clock, to Cairo from Khartoum on their night.m
way back to England, Kleuter.
They are taking lease ponding retirement from the service. They have done 17 and 12 years' ploneer work respectively, in the maternity and child welfare movement at Omdurman and the provinces.
those doughty Descendants of knights who plighted their trowth of mutual destruction on the bat-
The detrmination and con- tlefield have given a fairer pro-
of mise, and the Douglas has won a stant struggle in the cause willing: "praye
midwifery, in the face of deep- On the battlements of Alnwick rooted ignorance and reluctance Castle, the home of Lady Elizby the natives to change age-old abeth, leaden warriors still stand | customs, has resulted in the where they were placed to in- establishment of 224" trained midwives and the saving of, ilves. timidate besleging Boots,
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