QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 2·30-5′13·7·20 & 9:30 - TEL.31453
· TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY
"Everything we've done before we're doin' double now!”
BING CROSBY MARTHA RAYE
NOTHING
Me A Paramount Picture with
Andy Deving Mary Carlisle William Frowley Fay Holden
· Samual & Hinde William Henry Diracted by Theodore Read
TO-
MORROW
A SHOWS
DAILY
10-$12
7.1%-4.00
KAY FRANCIS - ERROL FLYNN
- in Warner Bros. Romantic
66
it'
ANOTHER DAWN"
TAKE ANY TRAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:—
"Devil's Playground"
QUEEN'S:
"Double or Nothing" ORIENTAL:-
"Mountain Music"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
MOTORIST 11 MILES FROM HIS CAR
Held To Be In Charge
Is a man still in charge of his car when he is a mile and a half away?"
This question was discussed at Dorchester when James Guy Michael Payne Audain. Indepen- dent, of West Coker, Somerset, was 'ordered
to pay £15. including
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3.
Anniversaries
and Holidays.— Thomas Jack, Publisher, died. 1887. Mrs. Eddy died. 1910. Feast of St. Francis Xavier.
Auctions -Household Furniture, and
Blackwood Furniture, etc.. at Lammert's Sales Room, 2.30
Cinemas (See Page 5). Entertainments.-The
Fireside Free and Easy, and Singsong at
£2 9s 6d costs. for being under the S and 3 Home, 7.30 p.m.
Influence of drink while in charge
"Trouble At Midnight"
of
STAR:
"King of Gamblers"
MAJESTIC--
"Velvet ClawS"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Topper"
QUEEN'S:—
"Another Dawn" ORIENTAL:-
"Hollywood Cowboy" ALHAMBRA:-
"Another Dawn"
ROAD
WANGMAI
STAR:
TEL. JAAYA
DAY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.
ODAYS:
ONLY
HERE'S A RIOTOUS NON-STOP COMEDY SHOW !' These laaghmaking stars give you the funniest awingin'. aingin', ronrin', soarin', masterpie e you've ever seen.
A LA GHING HILLBILLY HONEYMOON FUN. FEUD!
A RAMPAGIN' RIOT OF FUN AND FEUDIN'I
BOB BURNS MARTHA RAYE
MOUNTAIN MUSIC
JOHN HOWARD TERRY WALKER Directed by Embed Ferry & Porn Pictur
2 DAYS SUNDAY & MONDAY
ONLY
YOUR FAVOURITE OUTDOOR STAR'IN A BIG SHOW!
A movie “softie" who proved to
have a cast iron fist!
1.
PRO-RADIO PICTURE
GEORGE O'BRIEN
HOLLYWOOD COWBOY
WIN
CECILIA PARKER
MATINÉES; 20c-30c⋅ EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c. ❤
Daily
"AT
.230
5:20
720
STAR
HANKOW ROAD. KOWLOON TEL
57795
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
The amazing inside story of the $1,000,000-a-year slot-machine racket!
der has pro%
KING OF GAMBLERS
A Ferment Microw
CLAIRE TREVOR LLOYD HOLAN
AKIM TAMIROFF - LARRY CRABBE .ELEN BURGESS-PORTER HALL
FREDRIC MARCH
TO-MORROW.
in..
EVELYN VENABLE
‘DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
INSIDE GLIMPSE OF HOLLYWOOD
A real gala Hollywood premiere, complete with pressing throngs, searchlights, radio announcer and celebrities, is one of the thrilling "high lights of “A Star Is Born,” David O. Belznick's technicolor.pro- duction co-starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, which begins at the Majestic Theatre to-day. ↑
William A. Wellman directed this glamorous story of Hollywood's inside. which casts Janet as a 'little' country girl who came to Hollywood in search of fame, faced the crushing odds of 100,000 to one and made good
Adolphé- Menjou, May Robson. Andy Devine and Lionel Stander
35
"Death Takes A Holiday" MAJESTIC:
"A Star Is Born".
DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
His a car,
Icence WAS suspended for 12 months.
It was stated that the car was found Hear Cross-roads at 5:30 am, and that at 6.45. a.m. Audain was seen by a policeman walking' along the road one and a half miles form the car. He said he was fetching a fresh supply of
constable petrol The Audain to be drunk.
believed
Mr. Christopher Arrow, Audain's solicitor, submitted that Audain be- ing that distance away from hi car, he could not be held to have been in charge of it. `
After the magistrates had ruled that there was a case to answer, Audain gave evidence. He said that he lost his way and ran out of petrol about midnight. When the constable saw him he was walking to Dorchester to get a bed and send someone to fetch the
car
Supt. Lovell: Who do you say was In charge of the car?
Audain: I should say the const- able, as it was at the roadsid.
SOLDIER'S WRONG
IMPRESSION
Young Girl Reserts Advances
ar
A powerful dynamic drama, Columbia's "Devil's Playground," which opens to-day at the King's Theatre, unassumingly lays claim to being one of the most enter- taining films of the new season. In breath taking tempo it tells a story of sunken-submarines and shattered loves tragic union of two events which have been stir- dingly related In the brilliant script prepared by Liam O'Fla- berty, Jerome Chodorov and Dal- Private Mathew Mitchell, of the ton Trumbo.
Richard Dix, as the rather gul-before. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Seaforth Highlanders. appeared Jible and unsophisticated sailor. who is the "best deep sea diver in
Magistracy yesterday the US Navy, turns in a well-Han, 16-year old giri, at 25 Luard with assault ON Yuen nigh perfect performance. Ches-Road on November 30. ter Morris, as Dix's pal and a "Don Juan" among girls of every port provides the element of dramatic
clast.
11
Central charged
address was the residence of a Sub-Inspector Tuckett said the girl who used to work in a beer
hall. There were two sailors stay- ing there, and defendant had gone FLIGHT FROM GLORY but found them out. Complainant to visit them on Tuesday night,
was employed as an amah them An unusual cross-section of life and defendant teased her and | among exiled men who dally flrt ¦ made suggestive advances. She with death and who are unable to evaded him and he left the place. forsake their dangerous occupation Later he was alleged to have as-
saulted her.
Mail (See Page 16).
Meetings Helena May Christian Fellowship. 10.30 am: Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's "Hall, 5.30 p.m.,
against the Estate of Elek West Gabor de Gyulay due; Kowloon Union Church Jumble Sale. 3
p.m.; Chinese Art Exhibition at Univer- sity.
Miscellaneous. Claims
Moon.-XI Moon, 1st. Day.
ciety. Orchestral Section. Sallors' Rehearsals:-Philharmonic 50-
Sallors' Home and Seamen's Institute. Pantomime. West Lounge, à p.m.
8.45 p.m.; T. M. C. A
Social-Cheero Club Duplicate and Contract Bridge.
8 p.m.; Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, at St. Andrew's Hall, 3 Dam. Whist Drive and Tombola, Sergeants' Mess, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 8.30
p.m.
י
Sports. (See. Page 10). San.-Annular Eclipsa of the
Sun
Sunrise 6.47 a.m. Sunset.-5.se
p.m.
Tides. High at 10.45 and 21.08; Low at 03.53 and 14.40.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4.
Cinemas-(See Page 5).. Malls-(See Page 18). Moon.-XI, Moon, 2nd. Day. Sports-(See Page 103.,
Sunrisa 8.47 am. Bansel.-5.39
p.m.
Tides Hgh at 10.03 and 20.45. Low at 03.14 and 14.05.
KING'S TOUR OF CORNWALL
Picturesque Ceremony Of Presenting Feudal Dues
London, Dec. 1.
The King's two-day tour of the Duchy of Cornwall began early His Majesty had spent the night this morning in heavy rain, after
at Moreton Hampstead, overlook- ing Dartmoor.
At Princetown, 300 tenants filled, passed the King as their names were called.
This was the first visit paid to Els Worship asked Second- the Duchy of Cornwall by His Lieutenant Mackintosh, of the Majesty as King- Seaforths, whom he had invited | Reuter on the Ecnch. as to defendant'è
KING'S
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
RICHARD DIX DOLORES DEL RIO CHESTER MORRIS
They're Uncià Sam's bravesi-e at the bottom
of the oceamer in a
woman's armst
DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
Directed by Erie C. Kenton
A COLUMASA PICTUES
NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. Picture
CC
CONSTANCE BENNETT - CARY GRANT in
TOPPER"
ALHAMBRA
MATHAN RD, HOWTOON DAILY AT 2.30°5,70-
9.30 TCL 50000
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY DRAMA THAT SWEEPS FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE TO THE SMOKING FLAINS OF AMERICA'S CATTLE COUNTRY !
TROUBLE AT MIDNIGHT
À NEW ORIVERIŽL METURE WAK)
· NOAH BEERY, Jr. • LARRY BLAKE
CATHERINE HUGHES BERNADENE HAYES
TO-MORROW
Warner Bros.
Picture
4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.30 $20 720-30
Li
ANOTHER DAWN Kay Francis Errol Flynn Ian Hunter
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
12
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
TEL ST228
(MATINEES. 20c•30«• EVENINGS. 20. ·30ɑ 50×70,
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY....
Perry Mason's Most Baffling Case!
"THE CASE OF THE
is grippingly revealed in "Flight |
From there the King drove in from Glory." which brings Chester
In answer to his Worship, Mit- a closed car to Tavestock and then Morris and Whitney Bourne to the chell said he was acting under a to Launceston, where he received screen in the leading roles.
misapprehension, as he thought feudal dues from tenants in the Laid in a bleak South American the girl was 2 prostitute. In- form of 100 shillings in a silver THE MERRIEST MURDER-SOLVING SPREE EVER FILMED I air base the story grimly lays bare spector Tuckett added that de-mug and one pound of pepper on the forlorn hopes of a group of dis-fendant was under the influence a silver platter. graced aviators who have accepted of Liquor at the time. an offer from a mercenary airline owner in Peru to pilot his condem- ned ships over the treacherous An- des Mountains.
These flyers with diversified character." and was told he had pasts react differently to their been in the Army four years, had hopeless plight under the tyranny a good character and was a good of the despot who has a mortage soldier He then bound defendant on their lives. One by one the
ver in $50 for one year: men meet their fate in their dying coffins, and one by one they are re- piaced with new outcast flyers from the States..
Chester Morris. Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Van Hefin, Doug- las Walton, Rita LaRoy and other capable players are responsible for the powerful characterizations in "Flight from Glory" which Lew Landers directed for RKO Radio Pictures.
"Flight from Glory" has its run at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
TROUBLE AT MIDNIGHT
MYSTERY THRILLER
BLAZE ON H.M.S. ELIZABETH
Little Damage Done
London. Dec. 1.
A fire, which might have proved more serious but for its timely discovery, broke out on H.M.9. Few murder mystery melodra-Elizabeth in Portsmouth dockyard mas have so intriguing a plot as today. I originated in the oil the latest First National thriller, tank, where it is believed some "The Case of the Velvet Claws."oll waste caught alight, Members which kept audiences alternately of the crew. after half an hour. laughing hilariously or gripped in succeeded extinguishing the suspense, at the Majestic Theatre flames with buckets of water be- yesterday..
fore any damage bad been done.
British Wireless..
M
ja
NO ANGLO-ITALIAN TALKS YET
VELVET CLAWS
De EHLE STANLEY GARDNER"
With WARREN WILLIAM, CLAIRE DODD-WINISHAW
prion 12 • Joanh AGE O Den Hawlated - Adunan Richards » Eddie Kent » Duck Purcell Directed by wn, Chriters
A First National Mystery Mustarplace
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
THE FIRST MODERN PICTURE IN TECHNICOLOUR Į
JANET GAYNOR ·*. FREDRIC MARCH IN
"A STAR IS BORN”
A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
WAR DECLARED; ON "IMMORAL"
FILMS.
London, Dec. 1. Replying to a member who asked
War has been declared on "im whether conversations were now moral" "Alms. by Cardinal vii- atking place between the Italian leneuve, head the Roman
of
CHINESE DANCE BÄND
The picture is the most novel of all the productions made from the famous series of novels by Erle Stanley Gardner whose attor- is ney-detective, Perry Mason, known to every lover of fiction.
A really good all-Chinese Dance And, for once, Perry Mason has
Band is a rare feature in Malaya, All the excitement and thrills of genuine romance, for he is mar- the old West have
and Ipoh residents recently bad now been ried to his wisecracking "secretary transferred further east, where the in the very brst, seene.
the opportunity to hear and dance modern cattle-rustler has begun to
to one of the best amateur dance But it is a strange honeymoon, and British Governments through Catholic Church in Canada. He is orchestras in Malaya-the L Tek operate. Today the cattle-thieves one that nearly drives the bride the British Ambassador in Rome trying to get people throughout Scan Orchestra, of Penang. are prominently featured in this use large feets of fast trucks to the divorce courts, the bride with a view to improvement of the province of Quebec to enrol
This orchestra is well-knownL first up-to-the-minute story to be They creep up, stealthily under filmed in technicolor, while others cover of night, raid a dairy farm groom being kidnapped at the relations between the two coun- in a Catholic Cinema League which everywhere, and it has played in playing important roles are Owen or cattle ranch and roar down the point of a gun and forced to take tries, the Foreign Becretary replied would boycott cinemas showing practically all big towns from Moore, Peggy Wood, Elizabeth road before pursuit can overtake who has had a secret love affair in a position to make any state-
́over a "criminal case by a woman'
Penang to Singapore at chari- in Commons, "I am not at present alms regarded as objectionable. table functionis. Jenns, Edgar Kennedy, J.-C. them.
At the close of many religious and fears that her name is about ment on this subject,”----- Nugent and Guinn Williams..
comprises 24 These gangs are organized, to be dragged through the col- British Wirelear
services, worshippers are being cal-players, including a lady crooner Such world-famous. Hollywood armed with machine guns. They umns of a scandal sheet.
led on to subscribe to the following (Miss Betty Karchang) whose voice landmarks as the Trocadero, Grau- lay their plans carefully and car-
pledge: "I undertake to join the comes out very well through the This is the fourth time that man's Chinese Theatre, the Brown ry them out swiftly. They have Warren William has played the
"mike." Derby, and the Biltmore Bow! as scouted for a market and found It looks during the annual banquet dealers who will handle the stolen debonaire Perry Mason.
part of the cool, analytical and of the Academy of Motion Picture cattle. The matter ta fast appro- Arts and Sciences, are shown in aching a racket of dangerous pro- natural colour for the first time.
|bortions, pro
دام
The orchestra
Mr. J. A. Montang, a well-known The conductor of the band is
musician in Penang.
One of the two Singapore candi-Catholle Cinema League. I will dates for the London University | juin, forces with all who repudiate external B. A. examination passed bad cinemas as being a danger for with second class honours in his our youth, our families, our re tory. She is Miss Nancy Edith Hgion and our country, I will un- Shakespear, daughter of Brigadier dertake from today not to enter This new situation in banditry ers are Nosh Beery, Jr., Larry A T. Shakespear, formerly in theatre where morals and Chris- is exposed for the first time on the Blake, remembered for his stirring charge of the administrative stan tianity are not scrupulously obser- take action by means of a Fishermen in the Mount's Bay, screen by Universal's dramatic role as Well in "The Road Back" at the Malaya Command. With ved, and also to persuade as many league recalls the powerful cam- Cornwall have seen several turny | film, "Trouble at Midnight,” which | Catherine Hughes, Bernadene his wife and family. Brigadier others as possible to imitate me." paign orgnised against certain near the shore, although, nobody has its run at the "Alhambra Hayez, Henry Hunter and. Harlan Shakespear recently lett Singapore The Cardinal wants this promise types of films by Catholics in the has yet caughtɛany."
Theatre today. The, featured: play- ' Briggs.
for England.
repeated each year. The plan to United States.
Page 5Page 6