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Mr. Paul MUNI
THE LIFE OF
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"EMILE ZOLĂ
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938.
TODAY AT THE
"
CINEMA
Hong Kong
RING'S:-
"Heldi." QUEEN'S:—"
"The Life of Emile Zola.” ORIENTAL:-
"On The Avenue"
www.
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:—
"Night Key":
STAR:-
"Angel"
MAJESTIC:-
"The Prisoner Of Zenda"
KING'S:-
Sunday
"Held!" QUEEN'S :-
"The Life of Emile Zola" ORIENTAL:-
"Way Out West" ALHAMBRA:-
"High Flyers"
STAR:-
"Souls At Sea" - MAJESTIO:-
"Fire Over England"
CEYLON'S NEW
GOVERNOR
Irresistible Charm
In the course of an interesting address on Ceylon before the mein- bers of the Malacca Rotary Club recently, Mr. P. G. Mahindasa re- ferred to the popularity of the nèw, Governor. Sir Andrew Caldecott, who was for many years in Malaya. "The charm of Sir Andrew is ir resistible." said Mr. Mahindasa, and he has come at an opportune time when moderation has to be exercised in guiding the ship of State. In pronouncing his early policy he said he would exercise caution and go "hemin, hemin." which means "slow slow." He was nevertheless an advocate of pro- gress, and literally too where the rallways were concerned. He thought them slow and that 50 miles an hour should be the ob- Jective. The recent arrival of Diesel units would show His Ex- cellency meant business where ex- pediting rail journeys wAS cont cerned.
"He has a very crowded life these days, officiating at openings of this show and that exhibition, but
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Anniversaries and Holidays. U. 1 Medy born, 1837. J. B. Dun- op born, 1840. St. Agathu.
Cinemax-(See Column 3 of this
page).
Dance-Royal Enginers Old Comrades Assen, fortnightly Dance at Peninsula Hotel,
of
Mall(See Page 16). Miscellaneous - Exhibition St. Paul's Boys' College, for War Hong Kong idustrial Output, at Relief Fund 11.a.. to 9 p.m.
Moon.-I Moon, sth. Day. Social - Craigengower Cricket.] Club fortnightly Whist Drive and Tombola, 9.15: p.m.
Sunrise.-7.01 a.m. Sunset-8,14 Tides-High at 1231. Low at 06.15 and 18.15.
'
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Moon-I Moon, 7th Day. Sunrise.-7.01 a.m. Sunset,—8.13
D.m.
Tides. High at 11.50 and 23.35. Low at 05.47 and 17.22,
he carries on with his accustomed LADY DRUMMOND
grace and cheer." said the speaker. "He Is so often making references to Malaya, the scene of his early labours, that I am almost tempted
·LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA as a Hason officer between Ceylon to refer to him in military terms and this wonderful peninsula of ours."
Supported by a cast that had been hand picked, by Director William Dieterle, Muni gives a colourful impression of his times. The picture opens on a scene of the novelist's humble home when Zola and Paul Cezanne starved to- gether 10 я Parisian garret. It moves then through the penny- pinching days when he supported'
HIGH FLYERS AT ALHAMBRA
Wheeler and Woolsey, the two high-voltage funmakers of the
a wife on a clerk's meagre salary, screen, take to the air in, what is and thence through his progres-said to be the maddest, merriest sively successful career when he of all their big-laugh comedies, the frst shocked Parts into conscious-new RKO Radio pleture. "High
hummself as
Flyers," which opens at The Al- realtic Action by his revelations hambra Theatre to-morrow. of the life of a Paris prostitute in lady, with Marjorie Lord, Margaret Flery Lupe Vélez is their leading
ness of
"Nana."
a writer of
with
HAY
Well-Known
Journalist
In Singapore
Lady Drummond Hay, the well- known journalist and author, is staying in Singapore at the Raffles Hotel for the purpose of being present during the manoeuvres, and of gaining a little more colour for her picture of the Pacific, on which she is to lecture to American audiences at the end of the year.
Lady Drummond, Hay is making an extensive tour which will not be
Shanghal, Peking, Dairen, Tokyo, She is visiting, among other places, completed until September.
and Hawaii before embarking for.
San Francisco and New York.
From New York she crosses to America Germany, and will return to in the new German
It shows his prolific outpourings Dumont and Jack Carson appear- later whereby he aroused French-"ing in prominent roles. The come- men to a consciousness of them-dians are cast as operators of s selves and the wrongs committed trick airplane concession, against them by a blundering goy-Wheeler as a grounded ace giving ment. The film moves episodically aying lessons, while Woolsey off-dirigible, built after the tragedy but grandly to Zola's fight for clates as "marker." the release of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus from Devil's Island.
2
Trouble starts when the pair ac- cept a proposition to fly out to sea The Dreyfus case, which was a and pick up a package which will cause célebre during the Nine- be tossed overboard from an in- teenth Century, formed an exciting coming steamer. They steal ellmax to Zola's career as a chan plane from the harbour police, pion of truth and, liberty, and is, meet the steamer and get the pack- consequently, the dramatic high- 28e. It contains jewels belonging light of this film biography.
to Arlington, owner of < country is estate, which have been stolen
board the steamer by federate of the crook who employ
**The Life of Emile Zola” showing at the Queen's Theatre today.
NIGHT KEY
ed them.
a con-
specially reconstructed involving the Hindenburg. and hellum gas which America released for the for export as a result.
In conversation with a Malaya Tribune reporter, she was enthu- siastic about the amenities pro- vided by airship travel, which in-
cludes similar facilities to those obtainable on a steamer, but said it was not possible to express an opinion as to the relative safety of dirigibles and heavier-than-air craft. It was, she said, rather like asking the same question in con- nection with ships and motor-
cars.
Chased by a revenue cutter they ay inland and crash down on the Arlington estate; where the owner Boris Karloff's starring picture. to investigate a series of which mistakes them for detectives sent Universal's "Night Key". present-have recently taken place there. capacity as a journalist, has per- Lady Drummond Hay, in ber ing him in a new kind of role, is The real culprit is a dog, "Spot" a sonal experience of many of the showing at the Alhambra Theatre canie Kleptomaniac, whose thiev-international conflicts of recent today. In it the star abandons the ish propensities cause all sorts of years, and was in China when the grotesque make-up of his former roles and. playing the
complications. The part
jewela are Woosung incident took place, She "straight". reveals himself as
hidden, stolen again several times, is extremely well-informed on in- а dramatic actor of outstanding the loot for its owner.
until finally the partners recover ternational affairs, and writes with authority for many, well-known journals. including those served by the North America Newspaper Alliance, and the Sphere, popular British weekly.
talent.
and
The story centres around one of Other players in the cast are the great burglar alarm systems Charles Judels, Lucien Prival. Her- such as guard thousands of banks bert Evans, Herbert Clifton and business firms throughout the George Irving. nation. Karloft is cast 3.8 an inventor who has been robbed of the system which he created. When he invents an improved system and is robbed of it, too, he declares vengeance on his enemy. With an instrument which neutra- Ilzes, burglar alarms, he enters one store after another to show the Ineffectiveness of the old system and to destroy confidence 6, 7, 8.-Way Out West (M.CM. Pic In the alarm operated by his foe.
AT THE KING'S
Shirley Temple as "Heidi!”
Millions the world over have been enthralled by the warmth, the ten- derness and the charming beauty of Johanna Spÿri's beloved story of Heidi and all the colourful folk whó, lived and laughed and loved high up in the Swiss Alps, just beneath the stars.
the
Translated into all languages and read everywhere, it is a story that had to wait for its star before it conla be brought to the “screen. The Twentieth Century Fox pro- duction of "Heidi," starring Shirley Cemple, showing today at Kings's Theatre, is the picture for More than 1,000,000 natives of which she'll remember always. Harcelona, Feb. 3. Shenal are participating in the "Held!" brings a Shirley Temple The Republican Ministry of De-Mass Self-Defence Corps which are more glorious than has ever been fence has issued instructions to organized under the auspices of known, in the pictdure she was the Republican Air Force to the Shenai War-Aid Association. asked to make by thousands of fans abstain from air bombing of open They are now undergoing intensive who wrote to the Twentieth Cen- towns.—(Trans-Ocean),
tury-Fox studios.
REPUBLICAN ACTION
military training.
AT THE ORIENTAL
Feb.
KING TO VISIT INDIA
the
London, Feb 3. 45.-On the Avenue (20th-Cen- Thet forthcoming visit of King tury Fox film) Dick Powell, George Vi to India is gradually Madeleine Carroll, Alice being brought or the forefront of Faye.
public attention, mainly as result of more reassuring messages ture) Laurel and Hardy. from India, according to a despatch 9-10-History is Made at Night from Bombay to the "Evening
(United Artists
Picture) News." Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Mr. Gandhi has come Leo Carrillo,
out in condemnation of the attitude of 11-12-100 Men and a Girl (Uni-the Congress Party in working versal Picture) Deanna tur the boycott of the royal visit: Durbin, Adolphe Menjou. It is regarded as fairly certain Prince and the Pauper direction will meet with success. that Mr. Gandhi's efforts in this (Warner Brothers Picture) in which case the main bitacles Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, standing in the way of the visit Henry Stephenson.
would be remove... ner Brothers Picture), Jean royal visit will take place this It is generally believed that the Muir, Barton
MacLane, year, provided developments in the Henry O'Neill. 18-19-Charlie Chan at the Circus the journey of the royal pair in- Far East are not such as to make (20th-Century Fox fim) advisable.--(Trans-Ocean)~ Warner Oland, Keye Luke. 20-21-Varaty Show (Warner Bro
13, 14,
13
18-17-Dragerman's Courage (War-
thers Picture) Dick Powell, Fred Waring, Ted Healy.
Alexander's Ragtime Band, 22-Just Imagine (Fox Picture) Zanuck's big musical based on the one day only by special re-famous Irving Berlin tune and quest. El Brendel, Maureen some new ones, will have Tyrone 23-24-Super Sleuth (R.K.O. Radio Jack Haley and Ethel Merman in O'Sullivan, John Garrick Power, Alice Faye, Don- Ameche, Picture) Jack Dakle, Ann the chief parts: Due for produe- Sothern.
tion early this year.
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30; 5.10, 7.15 & 9:30 P.M,
NEXT CHANGE
Gaumont British •
Bringing gloriously to the screen all the folk who lived and laughed and loved in the story that has enthralled mil lions the world over! The picture you waited. Shirley to make...even greater than you hoped it would be!
Shirley TEMPLE HEIDI
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CUSTODIAN OF A SECRET THAT COULD LOOT A THOUSAND
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RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS
Prisoner Zenda
PITU
MADELEINE CARROLL
· MÁKY ASTOR - DAVID NIVEL -BATMOND MASSET → C. AUBREY SMITH
400
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr.
ms Rupert of Hakim Produced by DAVID O. SELZNICK Kerited by Lake Generwall Bragð en Edvard Ravi's donnentiation of Authors Hope's novel.
TOMORROW AND MONDAY ALEXANDER KORDA'S NEW SPECTACLE!" 'FIRE OVER ENGLAND”
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