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KING'S:--
"Lawyer Man"
QUEEN'S:-
"Bulldog Drummond Comes
Back" ORIENTAL:aan -
"Nobody's Baby"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :---
"Robber Barons"
STAR:-
"Les Miserables", "MAJESTIC:-
"The King and The Chorus
Girl"
KING'S :-
Coming
"The Good Earth" QUEEN'S:—
"Wake Up And Live"
ORIENTAL:-
The Case Of The Velvet
Claws"
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*Windjammer"
STAR:-
"Sorrell, and Son" MAJESTIC:-
"Personal Property"
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COMEDY ROMANCE
The unusual procedure launching a newcomer to American films with a starring role is fol-
"The King and lowed in Chorus Girl," the spirited comedy romance produced by Mervyn Le- Roy for Warner Bros., which opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre.
PLAYS FOR
NEW YORK
NEARLY 20 TO BE PRODUCED
English Actors To Take Part
New plays by Messrs, A. A. Milne, Benn Levy, Frederick Lonsdale, and Norman Ginsbury; revivals of plays by Pinero and Shaw; half-a dozen productions with Victorian settings; three Shakespearean re- vivals everything is ready for a notable theatrical season.
The season In spite of ap- pearances, 19 in New York, not London, Broadway this autumn is borrowing freely from Shaftesbury- Avenue.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
THURSDAY, NOV. 18
Anniversaries and Holidays.--- Karl von Clausewitz died, 1831.
Gaill-Curel
King born, 1889. Haakon VII of Norway · accepted the Crown. 1905. Birthday of Siri Guru Nanik Dev Jl.
Cinemas. (See Page 5).
Dances: Reel Class for Children in Hong Kong Union Church Hall, Kennedy Road. 5.30 p.m.
at
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Lectures: Theosophical Society Lantern Lecture, 6 p.m.; "The Man who invented, the Chinese Characters," by Dr. Relfier. European YM.C.A., Kowloon, p.m. Lecture and Demonstration in Photography, at 3. and 3. Home. by Dr. H. Roeschelsen, 8 p.m.
Malis-(See Page 16).
Meetings: Victoria Chess Club Nearly 20 plays that have either Gloucester Hotel. 5 p.m.; Annual completed their London runs, or of Fanling Hunt and Race Club, are still running, will go to the in
Messrs. Jardine Matheson's New York stage. It will be interest-Board Room. 5.15 p.m.; Engineer- ing to see how the American ing Society of Hong Kong Univer- theatregoer reacts to such typically.sity, in Room K. of Main Building, English pieces as the historical 8.45 p.m.; St. Andrew's Women's revue. "1066 And All That" the Fellowship. 3 pm; St. Andrew's Criterion. light comedy, "French
Club Committee, 8.30 p.m.; Peace Without Tears"; and Mr. Gerald Pledge Untor in Jacobean Room. Savory's George and Margaret,"
Hong Kong Hotel, 5.30 p.m. with its now famous third act.
"GEORGE AND MARGARET" The last-named two comedies will open in New York soon with English casts. Mr. Frank Lawton and Mr. Cyril Raymond are in 'the "French Without Tears" company. and Miss Irene Browne and Mr. Morland Graham in "George and Margaret?
The demand for Victorian set- thetings, stimulated by the success of "Victoria Regina." continues uns- bated. Thus Broadway is to see the Farjeons musical piece. "The Two Bouquets:" Mr. Keith Winter's The player in this case is Fer- "Old Music" now running at the nand Gravet, famous Continental | St.. James's; Miss Helen Jerome's screen star, who makes his Amer- adaptation of "Jane Eyre:" Miss ican bow in this picture. LeRoy Elswyth Thane's **Young Mr. met him last year in Paris, prompt- Disraeli"-which had a moderate ly signed him to a long term con- run in London nearly three years tract and brought him to Holly-ago-and a fresh version of Trol- lope's "Barchester Towers." There wood.
will also be a revival of pinero's play of 1899, "The Gay Lord Quex."
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forbidden its public presentation in England: the Repertory Players. staged it in the summer, of that, year.
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Church Miscellaneous: Christ Ladies' Guild Sewing Party at Duke Street, 10 am: Hong Kong Art Club Annual Exhibition at Gloucester Building, 8th. floor, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.: St. John's Cathe- dral Women's Gulld, 3 p.m. Fire Brigade Annual Display in No. 2 Police Station Compound, Lockhart Road. Wanchal, 3 p.m.
Moon: Full Moon, 4.10 p.m., X Moon, 16th Day. Partial Eclipse of the Moon.
Rehearsals:"The Arcadlans," at Cathedral Hall. 8.45 p.mL
Religious: Sikh Community Celebration as the Sikh Temple. Social:-Kowloon Docks Weekly Whist Drive, 9 p.m.
Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.37 a.m. Sunset.-5.39
p.m.
Tides. High at 08.29, and 20.00; Low at 02.23 and 13.46.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,
Cinemas. (See Page 5). -Mails.(Sce.Page_16).
Moon:-X Moon, 17th. Day. Sports(Bee Page -10). Sunrise 6:37 am
p.m.
Sunset.-5.39
Tides. High at 08.29 and 20.00. Low at 02.23 and 13.48,
The Shakespearean revivals in- PUBLIC SCHOOLS
John Barrymore's classic nose takes on impressive if not colossal proportions for his role of Colonel
and Cleopatra" Nielson the suave get-your-man clude "Antony
(with Mr. Brian Aherne and Miss Scotland police inspector from
Tallulah Bankhead), and "Richard Yard, in the fast-paced new
the "Second" (with Mr. Maurice rhyme-riddled comedy - mystery
fine per- Alm, "Bulldog Drummond Comes Evans repeating. his Back," which has its run at the formance' of the King).
A cheerful prospect. London Queen's Theatre to-day.
"Bulldog Drummond Comes salutes London-in-New York.
Paramount's second of the dramatization of one
featuring the McNelle stortes famous swashbuckling detective. It strikes a new high in mystery escapades.
Back
THE LAWYER MAN
The romance of an obscure East
DEFENDED
"Barbarians" Made Good Citizens
-Sir F. Fletcher
The complaint that the English Publish Schools do not teach citi-
"I am by no means prepared to admit the complaint," he said.
Side lawyer who sprang to fame zenship and that boys educated because of his magnetic power to in them fall to play their full. John Howard plays the role of sway juries, and then fell because part afterwards in public service Captain Drummond. Els extra- he thought he knew as much about as town councillors or voluntary women as about law, is unfolded social workers was answered in the ordingy sleuthing powers, in this -particular case, are stimulated by in a Warner Bros. plcture "Lawyer Education Section of the British the fear of losing his fiancee. Man." starring William Powell, Association by Bir Frank Fletcher, lovely Louise Campbell, kidnapped which is on to-day at the King's a former headmaster of Charter- At the outset by a dangerous lady, Theatre, with Joan Blondell play-house. out to revenge herself upon Cap-ing opposite Powell,
The story is said to be filled tain Drummond for his success in bringing her crook lover to the with the quaint humour of a gallows. To prove that her vill- successful East Side lawyer who alpy is not without imagination, just can't resist the smiles of the lady sets clues for the chase pretty ladies. How he is brought in the form of rhymed riddles.
to his senses eventually through The chase leads Howard, accom- the love of his wise-cracking secre- panied always by Reginald Denny tary touches on both humour and as the comic "Algy" and E. E Clive, Howard's also-clowning but- ler, through an intricate maze of suspense-laden situations.
They wind up in a haunted house with the girl and her would-be rescuera all trapped and about to die of poisoned gas, Barrymore, dia- guised, arrives to save the day.
In the supporting cast of this new film are.... J. Carrol Naish. Heien Freeman and Rita Page.
TO-NIGHT'S LECTURE
Mr. Donald K. Paul will give a lecture entitled "Towards a-Golden Age" to-night at 6 p.m. at the Lodge Room of the local Theoso- phical Ecclety, No. IB, Chater Road.
He will indicate the logicality and certainty of the imminence of an age of true civilisation quite different, perhaps, from conditions which communists, scientists and other political and religious bodies predict.
romance.
"It the complaint be true, what has happened to the boys, whom we have been sending out year by year, full of keennese for serving their community and practised in the small but very real administra tive duties of every school?
THE SPOILT CHILD
"I am sure that the material is there if the State can only make use of it. It may be well, that the blame, if there be blame, should be laid on the world outside that fails to use them, and not on the teachers and schools,
"It is the function of the secondary school to turn the light- hearted, fascinating, half-civilised individualista committed to us, into members of a civilised community. They come to us barbarians, they' leave us, us, we hope, citizens and good neighbours, at any rate in the making.
to
"For the boy who comes school from a large family, or Wise parents, or the Judicions training of the good preparatory is little hardship. school; there But the spoilt child or, only son of over-fond parents has more to go through before he realises the John Barrymore starring in proportion of things. Yet he, too, Paramount's latest adventure-learns it and it is a wiser, and
mystery, "Bulldog Drummond Comes Back," now 'playing 'at. the Queen's Theatre,
not necessarily a sadder, boy who returns to the home circle after the first three months."
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