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20 MILLION SWEETHEARTS"
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FREDRIC M_RCH in "ANTHONY ADVERSE
A Warner Bros. Pictura with Olivia de Havilland
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Following the outbreak of are Con board the cruiser Birmingham on Tuesday whilst lying in Porta-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938.
TO-DAY AT THE Joe E. Brown-Sees Double
CINEMA
KINGS:
Hong Kong
"The Prince and The Pauper"
QUEEN'S:
"Merry-Go-Round of 1938"
ORIENTAL
"On Agaln÷00 ́Again”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
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"Angel""
20 Million-Sweethearts"
MAJESTIC
"Romeo and Juliet"
KING'S-
Coming
"Melody For Two"
QUEEN'S :—
"Stage. Door"
ORIENTAL
"New Faces of 1937"
ALHAMBRA:—–—–
Fit For A King"
STAR:-
"Anthony Adverse**--
MAJESTIC:—
!
"God's Country and The
Woman"
THE PRINCE· AND THE PAUPER
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"The Prince and the Pauper," "a First National production and the first talking film version of Mark Twain's Immortal adventure to: mance, will be presented to-day on the screen of the King's Theatre
Evail, Joe & Brown jooks a bit bewildered, in trying to apguish these two young ladies apart. The ore on the right is Helen Muck, hits ica cing feminino player in "Fit for a King." On the left la Rhoda Crúsa. har double. David L. Loew produced this feature comedy in which Jor plays a ludicrous foreign correspondent who throws royal its when he te taken for a king.
Next change at the Alhambra Theatre.
HOBBIES OF STARS
Change With The
Seasons
The well-known story is that of two bables born in London at the same moment in the 18th century. une the young Prince Edward, who first sees life in the palace, the other Tom Canty. who opens h What the legal profession lost. -ayos in-the-diums, --the-son-of`a the stage and films gained, when thlef and villain. Their lives be-Grimth Jones-decided that nis
come tangled because they look exactly alike.
A pair of identical twins. Billy and Bobby Mauch of Peoria, III. appear in the picture." Böbby plays the Prince. Billy the Pauper. Errol Flynn, handsome young Irish star of "Green LightCaptain Blood" and "The Charge of the Light
·Brigade" is also in the cast, as well as Claude Rains Henry Stephen- son. Barton MacLane, and the others.
THE LAST OF
CHEYNEY
MRS.
William Powell jó!ns Joan Craw- ford and Robert. Montgomery · In Frederick Lonsdale's delightful my- stery comedy "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," which opens a one day engagement at the Majestic Thea-
tre.
Although Powell has been teamed with most of, M-G-M's lovely stars through the past three years, "The Lasi of Mrs. Cheyney" co-stars lum and Mles Crawford for the first time. Too, it is the first plc- ture in which Powell and Mont- gomery have matched wits for the same, reward, a beautiful woman.
Leon Gordon, Samson Raphael- Sun and Monckton Hoffe adapted the Lonsdale play for the screen. In the outstanding supporting, cast of players are Frank Morgan, Jes- sle Ralph, Nigel Bruce, Colleen
Clare, Benita Hume, Ralph Forbes, Alleen Pringle and Melville Co-
oper.
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law course at University College, London, was not to his liking. Realizing that he was much more Interested "In a stage career, he won a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he started "training, and was gold medallist in 1932.
Born in London, November 19 the son of Elinor and William Thomas Jones, he attended Poly- technic Secondary School, "and
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Cinemas. (See Page 5), ・・ Dances--8. & S. Home New Year Dance, 8.30 pm.; Y.M.C.A: Hockey Dance, 8.30 p.m.; Seafarers' Dance In Sailors' Home and Seamen's Institute, 9 p.m.
Malls. (See Page 16).
Meetings-Kowloon Chess Club at St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Helena May Christian Fellowshilp 10.30 am.
thence won his scholarship to nor apens
Miscellaneous-H. E the Gover-
the new University College
Nethersole Hospital Bonham Road, 11,30 a.m.; Walle still at the Royal Academy, Contract, Bidding Lesson for Ser- Jones made his first appearance vice Men at Cheero Club. 7 D.D.
on the stage at the Embassy Theatre, as Achmedin Carpet 3ppers, There followed such reles as Sir John Montague in Richard of Bordeaux, Leyland in The Rats of Norway and Michael Collins, the Sinn Fein leader in Ourselves Alone, which gave him his arst big chance.. As Caryl Sanger in Escape Me. Never, opposite Elisa- beth Berner, he scored a great success, which he repeated bọth in the film version and in the Broadway stage production, Re- cent stage appearances includes Romeo and Juliet, at the Open Air Theatre, Farewell Performance. with Mary Ellis, After October and Women of Property.
Moon-XI Moon, 8th. Day. Social-Whist Drive and Tom- bola at R. E. W. O's and Bergts. Mess, Wellington Barracks 9.15 p.m..
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Currently appearing with Robert Taylor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore, Vivien Leigh and Ed-Low at 66.25 and 17.18.
Tides High at 12.5 and 23:34 mund Gwenn in Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's"A Yank at Oxford, Griffith Jones la combining Alm and "stage work by playing at the same time
a leading role in John van Druten's GRIFFITH JONES
Gertle. Maude. His previous: films Include Catherine the Great. Escape Me Never. First a Ciri and The-
"ROMEO" TOPS
TRIUMPHS of
DIRECTOR CUKORMшll on the Floss.
No graduate of the Broadway stage has pitched into the more intricate lask of picture directing with more enthusism or more' sue- cesses, including Little Women" "David Copperfield," "The Royal Family," "Dinner at Eight" and the forthcoming "Romeo and Jullet" reads like a list of banner attrac- tions of the past five years.
A young man, Alled with tremen- | dous force and vitality but still) ranked as one of the most patient and considerate of Hollywood's cinema-makers, this director makes no secret of his preference for the" screen over the so-called "legiti mate" stage,
come
Born in New York, Cukor graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School just in time to be- a member of the student training corps for the duration of the war, After the war he deter- mined to ally, himself, with the theatre, He got a job. In 1919 ne mouth harbour comes news that assistant stage manager of the yesterday, are also broke out, an Chicago company, of "The Better the minesweeper Hebe, at present ole." He soon proved himself a indot Portsmouth, The cause skilled technician. He acted, nå of the fre, which was speedly ex stage manager for the, Bhuberts tinguished, remains a mystery, al- and Edgar Belwyn. then ren a though it 18 believed to have been stock company in Rochester, NY started by a short circuit--- that proved one of the most suc Tranancean Neion Service.
cessful in the country.
One of these twins is, Billy Mauch and the other his brother Bobby. The two boys play the title roles in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Proper," now, showing at the King's Theatre,
Brief Biography
As the seasons change, so change the hobbies of many film stars.
And with the coming of autumn in Hollywood,, many hobbles bre being carefully laldeaway, and those popular last winter are dug up again...
Fleanor Powell; despite the long haurs she spends at the Metro- | Goldwyn-Mayer studios, has found -time to buy a needle and thread
and knits woollen sweaters for friends, a custom she revives each autumn. Her summer pastime, collecting gramophong recorda, is forgotten for another nine months. Wallace Beery has taken of goggles and helmet, and has
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stored his airplane away. He is a heavy picture schedule, will be rolls around he lays aside. his mallet for a pair of hoting gloves. Having his camera lenses cleared, horseback riding." and will soon be shooting and deve- Back to the mothballs go Luise He often boxes with Chester loping colour photographs..
| Rainer's caméra and Hiding habit. | Morris, his closest friend,"
With the coming of winter, such George Murphy is born conec Myrna Loy has turned her zoo hobbies as chess checkers and tor. In the summer be collects
of rattlesnakes, ground squirrels, brown foxes, and even a skunk, over to the caretaker, at her Ban Fernando ranch, while she brushes up on her sculpturing at which she was só proficient only eight
talented Viennese actress.
cribbage become popular with the old maps, spring brings on his desire to collect rare stamps, and Joan Crawford is one of the few now with winter practically here, stars to keep one hobby all year he is ever alert for any and all ound. She swims-every morning, old felt bat
But it takes Una Merkel to net the pace for annual autumn kojby. It's Christinas' shopping. Doing H Robert Montgomery 'plays pow | early fs'an obsession with her. She only hobby this winter, because of in the summer, but when winter | calle: it har "happiness hobby.”
months aro
Clark Gable has packed away ble guns and fishing tackle, `H
rain or shine.
PLAYS POLON,
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