QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 2:30·515-7:20 & 9:30 - TEL.31453
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
liere's Bette
at her best!
Here's Howard with his hair downl
LESLIE HOWARD
BETTE DAVIS
OLIVIA
D.HAVILLAND
"It's LOVE I'm After
PATRIC KNOWLES ERIC BLORE GEORGE BARBIER Brated by Andia L Dopo - Bonne Pay by Carry Bolinian - Calyland Mag by Mardan Misima “A WALDIER BEDS, FIONES
TOMORROW
A Now Universal.. Picture
+ SHOWS
DARY
2.30-La
7.15-0.20
A Rollicking Story That Scatters Fan
& Romance In All Directions!
• "PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE" Wendy Barrio Kent Taylor Mischa Auer
Taka sarv TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
PLEMING
RGAN
SEARCHIN
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AWIRED AND FUNNY FANTASTIC SCREEN PRODUCTION|| You'll cream with laughter, you'll guap at the wonderful inventions, strange customs and fashions
of the world fifty years from today.
THE WORLD'S MOST NOVEL COMEDY SPECTACLE!
DESYLVA BROWN and HENDERSON'S
FOX MOVIETONE SUCCESSOR TO “SUNNY SIDE UP"
UST IMAGINE
THEL BRENDEL FOX
2BAYE TO-MORROW & THURSDAY •
DAYS SONLY
A WISE CRACKING AND FUNNY MYSTERY PICTURE!. An hysterical murder mystery with, Hawk-shaw Jack
on the trail and beautiful Ann on his trail.
A SENSATIONAL MURDER THAT WILL CHEER YOU UP!
Laval Mystery! Thril
and plain Hysterical
JACK OAKIE
ANN SOTHERN
SUPER SLEUTH
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1938.
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:—
"Beloved Enemy" QUEEN'S:~~~
"It's Love I'm After" ORIENTAL:-
"Just Imagine"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
"Slim"
STAR:~
"Petticoat Fever"
MAJESTIC:-
"The Prince and The
Pauper"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Criminals Of The Air"
QUEEN'S:-
"Prescription For Romance"
ORIENTAL:
ALHAMBRA:-
*Super-Sleuth"
"Talent Scout"
STAB:-
"Suzy" MAJESTIC:—
“Caravan"
FILM OF IRISH REVOLT
Story Of A Girl's
"Tori: Scul
The pulsating romance of a man and a woman from two warring worlds who risked their lives for love amid intrigue and bloodshed is unfolded in "Beloved. Enemy." Samuel Goldwyn's thrilling new screen drama, starring Merle Oberon and Brian Aberne, which
SNAPSHOTS DIARY OF LOCAL
FROM HOLLYWOOD
Six Tough Boys
In Film
Warners will atur all six tough boys from Dead End in a picture called Reform School The title tells the story. Gloria Dickson will be the only woman in the cast, Margaret Sullavan, Henry, Fonda and Burgess Meredith are the founders of a new co-operative stage production venture, to be known 73 Theatrical Associates Inc. Meredith has also just been elected vice-president of American Equity, the stage actors' trade únlon,
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays. Washington's Birthday, 1732 Lord Baden Powell born, 1857. St. Peter's Chair at Antioch.
Auctions-Crown Lands,' at Dis- trict Office, Taipo, 11.30 a.m.; Mis- cellaneous Articles, at 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 10.30 a.m
Cinemas,—(See Column 3 of this page)' - .'
Ladies*
Maila (See Page 15). Meetings-Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous,—Y.M.C.A. Section Sewing. Bee.
Moon-Last Quarter, 0.24 p.m. I Moon, 23rd Day.
Religious-Meeting for Prayer in
Chaplain's Room
Methodist
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Robert Spindola, the ten-year-o'clock. old Mexican who was the aute- Social Craigengower Cricket playing donkey-boy in "The Fire" fty," gets" a speaking part in "Madelon "
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SONG OF HELL George Raft, Georges Rigaud and Akim Tamiroff will have the lead- ing parts in Paramount's Song of Hell, a story of Devil's Island.
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Patsy Ruth Miller, former screen star, has joined M-OM's writing staff.
Fredric March has had to post- pone the Broadway opening of his play. on account of illness. He is suffering from a bad case of blood- poisoning from a bol on his leg.
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FLYNN-BLONDELL
Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell
is showing at the King's Theatre.are to be teamed again as a couple Merle Oberon has her greatest of amateur detectives in "Romantic role to date as Lady Helen Drum Adventure."
mond, the lovely girl who accom-
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Moon-1 moon, 24th, Day, Sunrise.-6.51 a.m. Sunset-6.23
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Low at 08.46 and 20.40.
Tides. High at 01.42 and 13.27.
Who Might Be Called Cuthbert?
"How much au you know?" popular form of entertainment for newspaper readers, is the key to a career in the British" Army.
Problems set in the examination
pantes her father Lord Athleigh.
Alan Curtis, Joan Crawford's an English emissary, to Ireland.
Aherne is seen as Dennis Rior-discovery, was secretly married to for Army Special and First-Clasa dan, a daring, dashing young Irish-Priscilla Lawson just before Christ-Certificates man who is the secret leader of mas
the revolt and whom all the
to trap.
strategy of the British has falled Luise Rainer, lately reported seriously ill, has been seen out and about again.
The two fall madly in love, and the story depicts how the girl is torn between her duty to her country "and her devotion to this handsome, hunted fellow and how she risks. her life to intercede for the man she loves and the cause she is sworn to oppose.
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Alan Bruce Edgar Kennedy
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JEAN HARLOW - Franchot TONE
SUZY" in
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Ann Sothern e back of the Rade payroll. She was suspended for a fortnight for refusing past in "The Joy of Loving."
Gail Patrick and Randolph Beatt will be co-starred in "Angel in
held last October would probably stump the average clvillan. Here are some of them. In what books or plays do the following characters appear: Fal- staff, Mrs. Gamp. Front-de-Boeuf. Dr Watson, Mrs. Mallaprop. Long Jona auver, Mrs. Hardcastle. Brutus, Chylock, Giant Despair.
Briefly describe the kind of “per- son, who, in your opinion, would be most appropriately called; (a) John, (b) Cuthbert, (c) Mary, (d) Pansy.
Fur." This is an Arctic drama Tabulate the qualities you re-] IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER about a missionary nurse and an gard as essential in the types aviator flying emergency supplies of novels: (a) a best-seller, (b) "It's Love I'm After." a Warner to the rescue.
a master-picce. Bros comedy-drama co-starring
Mischa Auer is setting out on a
Poland.
The cockpit of Europe. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, tour of vaudeville appearances. It Discuss the truth of this state" and featuring Olivia de Havilland will be h's arst experience of the ment in relation to the latter part Patric Knowles. Eric Blore and halls.
of the 18th Century. others is due to show at the Queen's Theatre.today.
&
Claudette
COLBERT'S NEXT
Colbert will follow Howard, according to advarice
Eighth Wife" at notices, is shown as a matinee "Bluebeard's dol-a stage star about whom all Paramount with ""Are «Husbands the town's young girls are gago......
Necessary?" and Bette is his leading woman. John Barrymore is planning to They love each other, but each is do a play called "My Dear Chil- a scene-stealer. and they battle dren" for a Broadway come-back continuously in whispers while He has not appeared on the stage audiences hear them reciting for twelve years,
beautiful lines aloud.
Yount Miss' de Havilland is a
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
sentimental heiress who falls widly Shirley Temple's next picture for
be
Give an account of the character and life of either Themistocles or Pericles.
What are the vitaminis which are of importance to the human body?
How far can the present econo- mic system be regarded as com- petitive? Illustrate your answer by an analysis of the position in such a system of any form of public contral which 18 not nationalised service.
What is Twentieth Century-Fox will
the relation between in love with Howard-ind the
"Little Miss Broadway. Irving 'nstinct and habit? What are the story concerns itself with how he,
her in advantages and disadvantages of Bette. Knowles, Blore and others Cummings, who directed succeed in dis-illusioning her and "Poor Little Rich Girl" has just having all habits for life formed sending her back to the embraces signed a new contract with the at childhood?
will direct Shirley of Knowles, who is her fance. Studio, and Spring Byington. Bonita Cranville, again. George Barbler, Georgia Cálne, M-G-M has acquired the talkie It was EJE. Clive and Valerie Bergere rights to "Journey Erid:”
1930. contribute to the general hilarity. last made by Tiffany in
į directed by James Whale
PRINCE AND PAUPER
Immortal Story Of Mark Twain
History, romance and adventure
the Majestic Theatre...
GIORGIONE BATTLE
"
Translate into English: Apko yeh khabar. Kabmill?
Translate into Urdu: Beveral men will get leave this month.
ALL LANGUAGES These are only a sample of the things an amitious soldier is ex pected to know. The subjects in- cluded English, geography, an- elent history, literature, modern European history, British histors. mathematics, -physics, biology, chemistry, economics, theory and practice of music, French, German,
KING'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30. 5.10 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
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IN GLORIOUS ECSTASY...
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COLUMBIA with ROSALIND KEITH-CHARLES QUIGLEY
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ELECTRIC THRILLS. HIGH VOLTAGE LOVE!
He lives as he loves).
By fillim #listen Hartes, with
Ha trades his best friend for his
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THURSDAY
A Warner Bros.
Picture
4 SHOWS DAILY 3.30.5 20 720-930
TALENT SCOUT" DONALD WOOD & The Gold Digger Troupe
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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KOWLOON
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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY: MARK TWAIN'S UNFORGETTABLE STORY BECOMES THE SCREEN'S HIT OF HITS!
Romance and Adventure
Can Never Die
As Long as This
Story Lives!
The Prince and the Pauper
MARK TWANY'S Hair kanoen sey, wil
ERROL FLYNN CLAUDE RAINS HENRY STEPHENSON - BARTON MacLANE, THE MAUCH TWINS
BOBBY
Bike Button: Desced by WT, ERDIKIT - Music by Brich Wolfgang Kostpold AMANDA MA Milani Mana' - Frisented by Munur Ben.
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
RETURN OF AN "OLD FAVOURITE"" THAT YOU'LL LOVE TO SEE AGAIN I
CHARLES BOYER LORETTA YOUNG. IN
"CARAVAN"
A FOX MUSICAL SPECTACLE 1
The Corgione controversy might are combined in the First National be described as an artistic Teruel. Alm version of Mark Twain's im-At the time the purchase of the mortal The Prince and The Pan-panels was effected the quiet of Spanish and Urdu.** per which opened on Saturday at the National Gallery front was There were $349 candidates for:
broken only by the occasional pop-the examination. Of the 5851 All the colour and drama of six-ping of learned criticism on candidates for the first-class cer- teenth century England is brought "schools" and "attributions" | tincate; 481 took: the whole ex- to life on the screen, and the mag- As at Teruel, however, reputa-amination and 222 gained their Ottawa, Canada.Great ocean sanctuary established by the Do-nificent coronation scene in which tions were soon at stake and a certinentes. The reminder took liners still their whistles when minion Government and the Pro- the pauper boy who has exchanged major battle arose.
one or more subjects to advance phising the remarkable sea-bird Vice of Quebec, are unusual in identities with the prince is al-The most important part of the their qualifications. Or these. sanctuary at Perce, near the tip that,
Whitle
interesting, and most crowned King of England, battle has taken place in cor- 1103 have now passed in all four of Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. spectacular they are readily ac is one of the most dramatic screen respondence.
subjects and have gained their Steamships may sail within close cessible by highway, railway, and moments of recent years....
Buch authorities as Lord Lee of certificates. range of this famous bird city and steamship. They” are Inhabited Miles Hendon,, soldier of "forune Fareham, Mr. Raymond Henniker-pity candidates gained their afford their passengers a close-up during the summer by many thou and beftlader of the two boys, Heaton, Fellow of the Royal Bospecial certificate, 393 others made
ROSALIND RUSSELL view without disturbing the fea-sands of gannets, which are great is, portrayed by Errol Flynn, clety of Arts and an authority on progress towards a certificate and thered citizens who nest on the white birds as large as geese, and fresh from his triumphs in "The primitive art, Dr. D. 8. MacColl, 198 filled-Evening Standard), lofty cliffs of Bonaventure Toland py gulls, cormorants, auks, murres. Charge of the Light Brigade" and the former Keeper of the Wallace
May Leave Pictures and on the top of Percé Rock pumns, and other sea fowl
"Green Light." Claude Rains, mas Collection, and Dr. G. M. Richter. But whistles are out, because a All local records for the number ter villain of the screen, plays, the authority on Gorglone, bave.
Rosalind Russell is meditating A responsible omcial of the Yih leaving pictures when her present Rosalind Russell and Walter Iqud blast would so startle the of tourist visitors were broken this the rascally old Earl of Hertford, written letters, birds that, in their haste to take year when this sanctuary was and Barton MacLane is the pauper Moreover, Dr. Tancred Borentus, Shih Pao, has announced that the contract expires. And she's being Huston have been invited to co- fight, they would upset hundreds seen by 22.000 visitors to Perpé. boys thieving father.
Mr. P. D. Lycett-Green, the collec- paper, one of the leading Chinese offered a very heavy inducement star in the whole series. AssUM- of their eggs or young into the Half of these, or 11,000, made the
tor, and Mr. Osbert Lancaster, one vernaculars in Tientsin and con- to do so.
***** Ing the success of each successive play," such an engagement would trip by small motorboat around multitude of birds nesting there of the most distinguished of the trolled by Catholic interests, will The bird
Eugene O'Neill, America's head keep Rosalind busy out of Holly at Percé, Bonaventure Taland three miles on the ledges. colonies
red younger school of art critics, have not resume publication, contrary shore which have been included in a
report Jalso been involved.
[high-brow dramatist, is engaged | wood for a year.or two.
sea.
Estonishing Iclias",
on a playwriting marathon. That |is, he's writing six plays in chrono
logical order which will be pro- duced by the New York: Theatre Guild.
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