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T'VE GOT TOO MANY BOY FRIENDS.
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EDWARD G. ROBINSON
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:
Hong Kong
"Its All Yours” QUEEN'S:--- '
“Kid Galahad”
ORIENTAL:-
"This Way Please""
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Bombing of U.S.S. Panay" "Some" Blondes Are
Dangerous"
STAR:-
"New Faces Of 1937" MAJESTIC:-"
"There Goes My Girl"
BETTE DAVIS
KING'S:-
in "KID GALAHAD" Humphrey Bogart - Wayne Morris Jane Bryan
NEXT CHANGE
CHINESE „NEW YEAR ATTRACTION
DAILY
ERROL FLYNN THE PERFECT SPECIMEN ”
with
JOAN BLONDELL, The Perfect "Nuisance'
Pick any Yaam DR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
DAD
MANCHAS
TEL. SETS
Coming
"Broadway Melody of 1938"
QUEEN'S:
The Perfect Specimen" ORIENTAL:-
"The Crusades"
ALHAMBRA:~~-
"Varsity Show"
STAR:-
"Mr. Dodd Takes The Air" MAJESTIC:
"Devil's Playground"
SOME BLONDES ARE DANGEROUS
DURANTE THE DIARY OF LOCAL
GREAT LOVER
There isn't an actor in Holly- wood who really knows how to make love:
EVENTS
TO-DAY
Anniversaries and Hoilday- Australia Day, 8t: Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr.
Cinemas-(See Column 3 of this
This blatant opinion was voiced by Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante recently 1.5 he dabbed powder on the now famous adorn- ment for a scene in Columbia's Dances:-Cheero Club Dance,
"College Follies of 1938."
some
"As I was sayin'," said Schnozzie, "Hollywood, hasn't turned out a screen lover in two years. That's when I left here-two years ago.
“Leading men have a stereotyped way of making love. That's it- stereotyped. Who ever heard of Robert Taylor. anyway? When Durante makes love, boy, they stay loved: Besides I went to Pomona College too. Taylor hasn't got any thing on me. I walked through Pomona College for the first scene In "College Follies of 1938."
page).
8.30 p.m.
Flying Boats." by Capt. Holland,
Lectures: From Sailing Ships to
tary on "Wings Over Empire" by followed by flustrated Commen-
Union Church Hall. 830 p.m. the Imperial Airways, at Kowloon
Mails (See Paze 18) Meetings:-Annual, of Central British Assen, in Peninsula Hotel Private Dining Room, 8.30 p.m.; Ping Pong, at Confucius Club, Hollywood Road, 7.30 p.m.; General Committee, in Assembly Hall, 8. & S. Home, 5.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous:-Closing
Exhibi-
Moon:- Moon, 25th Day. Social: Whist Drive and Tom- bola at Garrison Bergts. Mess, Queen's Road, 8.30 p.m.
Sports(See Pages 10 and 16). Sunrise:-7.04
Sunset:---
"I says to Director Al Rogell, I says. what is this. a conspiracy?tion of Tonkinese Arts, Crafts and Tourism at French Bank Bldg.. 30 As soon as Walter Connolly, Ray- mond Walburn, Johnny Green and
am. to 6 p.m. Charles Starrett and the other leading men find out rm the heart interest what do they do? The get together and decide, let's get rid of Durante. What happens? I'm shipped off to location at Pomona, They're just jealous of my system," Schnozzle explained. Low at 00.48 and 10:08.
"My system? I'm just nonchalant and aloof. Make 'em come to you. So I went to England, Ireland and Scotland. Then I did a play called 'Jumbu' in New York. The gals clamored so loud that I had to come back to Hollywood. Boy, do I knock 'em desd.
Presenting gripping, incidents in the career of a champion boxer, whose swift rise to fame blinds him said Schnozzle, "a my voice. I got "Another point in my favour,"
values of life and makes him easy prey for the beau- that mellow quality. It seems to tiful women and grasping men who entrance the women. I guess the heap laudation upon him, Univer-Hollywood girls were sure getting sal's "Some Blondes are Dangerous" is showing at the Alhambra Thes- tre today.
⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY to the true
DOUBLE ENTERTAINMENT! 2 SHOWS IN "1! ON THE SCREEN
A great comedy show with an all star cast.
Adalah ¿what pedient
THIS WAY PLEASE
CHARLES "Buddy ROGER'S - BETTY GRABLE NED SPARKS FIBBER MEGSE and MOLLY Poner eller Bowmen Cool Cunningham • Forms Viscent.
LIVINGSTONE
EXTRA" ADDED STAGE SHOW
6 charming girls in a -pectacular, danice navne.
VOLSKYS
MIDNIGHT FOLLIES
The dialogue and situations are swift in tempo, replete with caustic humour and moments of pathos, Adapted from W R. Burnett's famous story.
"Iron Man," the characters delineated might well have been lifted bodily from real life, so closely does the story follow the usual histories of those cour- ageous young men who battle their way from obscurity to the stellar niche in the boxing world.
6.08 p.m.
Tides:-High, at 07.30 and 17.50.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27. Cinema-(See Column 3 of this
paxo).
Mails(See Page 18), Moon.XII Moon, 26th Day. Sports. (See Pages 10 and 16). Sunrise.-7.04 a.m. Sunset.-8.07.
p.m.
I
Tides-High at" 05.20 and 16.53. Low at 09.00.
"THE CITADEL"
fed up on Taylor and Gable while ELIZABETH ALLAN IN they were waiting for me to come back, but they don't have to worry now. Durante's back in town; Boy.
oh boy, do i slay 'em:"
AT THE MAJESTIC
Donat May Be Film Hero
Of Cronin's Book
Miss Elizabeth Allan is to be leading lady in the film of Dr. A. J.. Cronin's famous novel "The
been suggested as the doctor hera. Arrangements are not yet com- plete, but production is to begin at Denham in January by the Ameri- can firmi, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with the English producer, Victor Saville, in charge.
Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern score a screen stoop in the news-Citadel." and Robert Donat has paper story, "There Goes My Girl."; which operied last night at the Majestic Theatre. It is fast- paced, show with ample action. thrills and Judiciously spotted In Aiming this story, Director comedy, showing the blonde haired Milton Carruth surrounded himself Gene and the "brunette" an with some of the most accomplish-glamorous Ann at their happy best. ed young actors and actresses in the motion picture industry.
AT THE KING'S
Football was never like this, but then, those rhythmic, nitwits, the Ritz Brothers, are crazier than ever In their first starring tuneswept jamboree of giddy gaga and gor- geous girls, riotous fun and fren- zied football, "Life Begins in Col- lege." Twentieth Century-Fox hit. which opens today at the King's
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BENNY BAKER MOEROW・ in "Mr. DODD TAKES THE AIR»
Gaining the confidence of cus- tomer Nat Pendleton, an Indian whose enrolment at Lombardy College has resulted in a thorough collegiate hazing with amusing consequences, the brothers are
They play the roles of rival news- paper reporters, who" are in love. Their plans to get married were in- terrupted right in the middle of the wedding ceremony by a shont- ing
At the same time Mr. Michael "Balcon will begin production for. Metro at Denham of Tennyson Jesse's "Finishing School," with an al-British cast.
WANTED: 9 SANTA CLAUSES
Ann Sothern's news instincts predominated and she left Ray- mond standing at the altar, where- at Raymond swore to have nothing Any job in a film studio, no mat more to do with her. When Annter how insignificant, is a coveted learned that her hard-boiled city one because of the glamour, iriter- editor. played by Richard Lane. est and humour attached to such had framed the murder hoax be- work.
Even the girls who type and cause he was unwilling to lose his
the daily ace news-hawk. the girl reporter mimeograph
"call work "burned "
sheets" And their
any- thing but prosale. Here are some excerpts from a call for Columbia's "No Time To Marry a fimization of the widely Tea Paul Gallico magazine story, "Twas The Night Before Christmas."
Miss Sothern arranges to be de- talled on a genuine murder mystery story that Raymond is working on. in hopes of winning him back, promised access to his huge income solving the crime, and once again They scoop even the police in from oil wells,
become enamoured of each other, but the city editor again inter-
vrces.
AT THE MAJESTIC
Coach Fred Stone is about to be Ousted by the alumni, but
fast work on the part of Joan Davis. who has spotted Fendleton, places the Ritzes in a position to offer the college a huge endowment with stipulations that the coach be re- With Richard Dlx. Dolores Del tained, and they be given the Rio and Chester Morris sharing the chance to play in the football starring roles, Columbla's "Devil's team.
Playground," a dynamic comedy- drama based on the exploits of the brave lads in the United States submarine fleet, will open its local
When Pendleton is ruled out of the crucial game of the season, for having unwittingly played one day of professional football, and Dick run at the Majestic Theatre to-day, Baldwin, substitute, has broken his collar bone, the Ritzes go into the game to save the day for Lombardy.
AT THE QUEEN'S
After calling to camera .duty Richard Arlen, Mary Astor and Lionel Stander, featured players in the film, there were listed the following other needs for the day:
9 Santa Clauses.
1 Billygoat with a beard and ap- petite for tin cans.
1 New York policeman have flat feet.)
(tust
2 African lions that roar easily 1 pack of bubble chewing gum for Stander
1 Ostrich egg (must be fresh) 2 Talking parrots (must unusual
Revolving about the triangle of two navy officers, orice Inseparable, who part over the friendship of a voluptuous siren.
"Mid-
interested in neither of them. "Devil's Playground" turns 1ts at With three famous stars heading tention in a sensational climax to the cast-Bette Davis, Edward G. a spectacular crash between a huge. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart derelict ocean liner and a fully drama of the prize ring called "Kid manned submarine. Also Galahad" will have Its local open-night Follies" on the stage. Ing at the Queen's Theatre today.
Made from the best-selling novel by Francis Wallace, ace sports actionist, this Warner Bros. thriller deals not only with those elements of the boxing ring with which everyone is familiar, but with the behind-scenes manoeuvering nf fighters and managers.
GUARDS KILLED
Moscow, J. 25. Exemplary punishment for the guilty and appropriate compensa-
curse)
not
Thus ran the list, calling for 'many other strange properties demanded by the hectic action of this comedy drama, some of the scenes of which are laid in a zoo.
LONG DISTANCE TAP DANCE
A new and novel tap dance which covers the equivalent of six city blocks. or a half-mile,
was originated by Louis DaPron, inter- nationally known dancer, for a large musical sequence in Colum- bin's "All American Sweetheart."
The dance is called "Turn On The Tap." During the number DaPron nimbly circles a gigantic club dance floor innumerable times, taps his way to the top of
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THERE GOES MY GIRL
WILL
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"VOLSKY'S MIDNIGHT FOLLIES"
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A WHOLE FAMILY OF Sally and Sue St. Claire were
"TWINSIES"
When Director Charles C. Cole-
finally chosen for roles in "The Shadow." If they hadn't been ac- cepted, the studio could have had."
tion for the victims of the familles, was demanded in a strong Soviet Eddie Robinson (staunchly back-diplomatic protest to the Esthonian ed by his girl friend, “Fluff" play-] Government, folowing a 'frontler ed by Miss Davis) has one con- incident, near Lake Pelpus. tender for the championship. The Societ version of the in- Bogart has another. There's an cident is that two Soviet guards 11-round fight for the champion- found that a party of Esthenians ship (said to be the most flery ever had crossed the frontier one and thrown upon a screen), a duel to hall miles into Soviet territory the death between the two man- While the guards were pursuing through a pedometer: attached to They just called the St. Claire agers after the fight, some vast the trespassers, the Estonian his foot to arrive at the surprising home in Hollywood and asked for scenes of Madison Square Garden-guards, from Estonian territory, space coverage. It is regarded by twins. and yet. withal, a tender romance ared on the Soviet guards, Hilling dance experts as one of the most "Which ones?" was the reply. between Eddie's fighter and Eddie's both
tedious dance routines ever For the St. Claire home specializes executed.
in identical twins,
a steep stairway where the orches- man, Jr. wanted a pair of identi- Molly Lou and Polly Ann St tra is located and then executes acal girl twins for the Columbia Claire, also identical twins in the difficult and thrilling back slide picture. "The shadow," the casting | same family. down the stairway on one foot. office at the studio didn't' even
DaPron checked his mileage hesitate.
2. There have been eight sets of
sister.
kester.
identical twins in this family in the past few generations,
In fact, the Bt. Claire family is the answer to a casting agent's prayer, identical twins are wanted for the movies.
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