HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938.
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 2:30 - 515 · 7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31453
LAST 3 TIMES TODAY
3 SHOWS AT 2.30. 5.15 & 7.20 P.M. ONLY
HE WAS ON THE TRACK
OF CRIME TILL A CUTE TRICK SIDE-TRACKED HIM!
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE ·
WENDY BARRIE KENT TAYLOR MISCHA AUER DOROTHEA KENT
TONIGHT AT 9.15 P.M. GALA PREMIERE
of
"VICTORIA THE GREAT"
With the Fall Band of the 1st Bu. Seaforth Highlanders. By kind poriniasion of Et.-Col, R. A. Wolfe-Murray, p.s.o., M.C., & Officers
Admission Prices: $2,20, $1.50, 75 c. & 50 c.
SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-0.30
TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLIT BUA
FLEMING ROAD
TEL. 38473
ORIENTAL
DAYS* TO-DAY TO-MORROW
ONLY.
A SURGING DRAMA OF GOLDEN GREED! You'll be amazed at the violent vi of daring who made today's great fortune out of blood and tears.
DAYS WHEN DOG ATE DOG TO POSSESS WEALTH !
The story of a glamor girl who queened it over Wall Street's robber barons" in the raging days when moneyed giants battled for possession of America,
SUN. MON.
EDWARD ARNOLD
CARY GRANT FRANCES FARMER JACK OAKIE
ROBBER BARRONS
·ELEPHANT BOY"
Directed by
Rowland V.Leo. An Edward Small Produe tion.... RKC- RADIO PICTURE
JUNGLE THRILLER
Rudyard Kipling's famous story of mystic India"
• MATINEES: 20c-30c ® ́EVENINGS:"20e,-30e.-50c.-70c. @
ISTARE
TODAY & TOMO BOW
When a tightwad goes on a spending spree, Oh boy i
WILD MONEY
SUNDAY
Warner Bros. Picture
in
"And we thought
he was a pikeri
DICK POWELL -
FRED WARING VARSITY SHOW"
SONJA HENIE
New Film Contract For Three Pictures
year.
Queen Victoria at Last Comes to the Screen
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
The Painted Vel"
QUEEN'S:-
"Prescription For Romance"
9.15 p.m. Victoria the Great"
ORIENTAL:
"Robber Barons"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
STAR:
"Talent Scout"
"Wild Money"
MAJESTIC:-
"Thirty Day Princess"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Eycrything Is Thunder"
QUEEN'S
"Victoria The Great" ALHAMBRA :---
"Victoria The Great"
STAR:-
"Varsity Show"
SYLVIA SIDNEY AS PRINCESS
Comedy Romance At Majestic
?
The above scene was taken on
of Victoria the Great." the studio set during the making DIARY OF LOCAL
Left
to right: Herbert Wilcox, direc- tor-produces, laton Walbrook. Anna Sengle, Ralph, Hanbury, R.K.O.-Radin executive, and H. B. Werner,
VICTORIA
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WILL BE REMEMBERED
Overstatement is a common fail- ing among film publicity men, but all that has been written both dur- ing the preparation and since the first screening of "Victoria the Great" was borne out at a special preview yesterday of this truly great picture.
Normally. condensation Into G space of two hours or so of eventful happenings. over such a long period as dealt with in this story. Would present im- mense difficulties, but by expert direction and the clever merging Herbert Wilcox has scenes, managed most successfully to achieve the passage of time with out interrupting in any way the continuity.
of
Affairs of state must naturally play a great part in any story of the life of Queen Victoria, but, by the deft interweaving of touches of lightness. the interest of the au- dience is held right up to and through the concluding sequences, so magnificently filmed in colour.
Naturally main attention is cen- A charming. breezy comedy tred on the superb acting of Anna romance about a girl who pre- Neagle as Queen Victoria and An- tends to be what she is not. full tan Walbrook as Prince Albert, but of chuckles. sly humour, bright there is nothing lacking in the dialogue and superb acting, Sylvia portrayal of the supporting roles. Sidney's latest starring picture for Those who see "Victoria the Paramount, "Thirty-Day Princess," Great," and none should miss it. comes to the Majestic Theatre will see a picture, which, for its today.
perfect and tasteful presentation Miss Sidney appears as a shy and for its high entertainment princess of an obscure, little, value, will lang be remembered. European kingdom, who is trans- Most will probably wonder why ported to America to create good-screen productions of this standard will for her country. In the are so rare. background is a ruthless, banker,
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who stands to profit by 2 pro- posed $50,000,000 bond issue for her kingdom.
Edward Arnold, Lucien Little- field, Henry Stephenson and Edgar Norton are excellently cast in the supporting roles.
PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE
GRETA GARBO'S REAPPEARANCE
Somerset Maugham's Story At King's
ap-
Two of the screen's greatest players make their frst pearance together in "The Faint- ed Vell," the film adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel which is being shown at the King's
Theatre.
One, of course, is the incom-
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.-- St. Ethelbert. King (d. 819).
Auctions. Chinese Art Curios, at Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.
Cinemas. See Column 3 of this
page)
#
Entertainments."French With- aut Tears." at China Fleet Club Theatre, 9.15 pm; Recital of Rus- slan Church Music by the Rusalan Orthodox Church Choir, at St. An- drew's Hall, 9:15 p.m.
Photographic
Mails. (See Paze 16). Meetings-Helena May Christian Fellowship. 10:30 pm,
Miscellaneous, Exhibition at Cathedral Hall, noon to 9.30 pm. Central British School Prize-Giving by H.E. The Governor, in the School Hall, 5.30 p.m.;
Detachment Volunteer Nursing First Aid Demonstration, at P.WD. Offices, 5.30 p.m.; Training Group, at St. Paul's Hostel, 7.15 p.m.
Moon.- Moon, 26th. Day. Social-Cheero Club Duplicate Bridge, 8 p.m.; R.E., W.O's. and Sergts'.. Mess. Whist Drive and Tombola, 9.15 p.m.
Sports,-(Bee Page 10). Sunrise.-6.49 am. Sunset-8.25
p.m.
Tides. High at 17.50. Low at 06.55.
TOMORROW
Moon.-I Moon, 27th. Day.
Sunrise.-6.49 a.m. Sunset,-0.24
p..
Tides High at 16.40 Low at 00.01.
MACHINATIONS OF
FILM MAKING
"Talent Scout" At Alhambra
If you're at all interested in the machinations of movie-making. "Talent Scout," a First National picture which has its run at the Alhambra Theatre today, will give more than a share of the inside Information.
Done in an airy manner, the comedy, starring Donald Woods, and veterans of last year's Gold Diggers Air Tour-Jeanne Madden, Fred Lawrence, and Rosalind Mar- quis. is the story of a young singer
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.16 & 9.30 PM.
AND ONLY.
arbo
ALSO
The PAINTED VEIL
HERBERT MARSHALL
GEORGE BRENT:
Metro Gold
Mayer Pictu
A TRAVELOGUE SPECIALLY MADE FOR HONG KONG
"HONG KONG THE HUB OF THE ORIENT"
in TECHNICOLOUR CONSTANCE
NEXT CHANGE Gaumont British
BENNETT in
"EVERYTHING IS THUNDER "
ALHAMBRA
64
NATHAN RD, KOWLOON-DAI
2,30 3,10+7, 20 - 0,30-TEL. 56855
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
YOU MAY
BE THE NEXT
Talent Scout
STAR HE'LL FOOD!
DONALD WOODS /-" - LEARNE MADDEN ROSALIND MARQUIS-FRED LAWRENCE
Directed by WILLIAM CLEMERY * First National Picture - Presented by Warnes Dras.
TOMORROW VICTORIA THE GREAT”
Anna Neagle Anton Walbrook B. B. Warner An R.K.O. Radio Picture
+ SHIGINS BASKY
·230 5.30 720-930
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
ROAD KOWLOON
TEL 87279
MATINEES, 202 •30‹ • EVENINGS. 20.-30.50<-70,
TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY !
AN "OLD FAVOURITE” THAT YOU SHOULD
NOT MISS !
SYLVIA SIDNEY
HER REIGN WAS, SENSATIONALLY SHORT BUT SHE GOT A LOT DONE!
"THIRTY-DAY PRINCESS"
with
CARY GRANT
B. P. SCHULBERS Production
Pictur
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQUEST | William Powell, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery
in
THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNET
A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER COMEDY-EIT!
HORSEBACK
GRAVELY ILL
**
Comedy Romance With Wendy Barrie In Lead Glowing with tempestuous rom-parable Greta Garbo. The other who makes good in Hollywood ance, which blooms against the is the brilliant English actor, through the shrewd effort of a HEAVY DAMAGE
gay background of Budapest, and Herbert Marshall, who is in great fast-talking and faster thinking 62 MILES IN 4 HRS. ON GENERAL PERSHING sparkling with the wit which has demand nowadays as many lead-talent scout.
Before the civil war endurance
New York, Feb. 23. Two large fires kept members of
Woods plays the part of the scout lifted Mischa Auer and Frank ing feminine stars desire him as
General Pershing, Commander of the Shanghai Fire Brigade" busy
Jenks into the top flight of come their leading man
who takes a group of chorus girls tests for Spanish army orders, about midnight one day last week.
dians, Universal's "Prescription For The story deals with a young across the country in a bus, an idea who rode relays of horses, used to the American Expeditionary For- ces in the Great War, is seriously The first fire occurred" In Yang- Sonja Henle. the Norwelgian Romance". 18. showing at the woman who, refusing to marry the originating from the airplane trip be an annual event.
Capt. Fernando Gonzalez-Gordon, in with complications of gheumat taepoo In Lane 231, Chemulpo skating Alm-star, has been given | Queen's Theatre today.
man picked for her by her parents, made by the "Gold Diggers of 1937."
one of the seven sons of the Mar-iem and heart disorder (Reuter) Road, where two Chinese houses a new contract by Twentieth Cen
Superb settings which emphasize weds a physician and comes with Woods in fred by his boss on ac- were gutted and three others badly tury-Fox for three pictures this the glamour and charm of this him to China, where the husband count of his extravagance. Soon qués de Torre-Soto and a member damaged.
historic city in Hungary form a neglects her and she accepts the afterward he discovers Jeanne of the famous Jerez family, has Madden singing in a small town ridden from Jerez to Seville, about The Sinza district experienced Although no actual figures are sparkling background for a roman- attentions of another man.
62 miles, in four hours. The story rises to great drama- amateur night contest. the other blaze, at an electric bulb given, it is thought that she wutic comedy, wherein the white
A smart and light script written He used elght horses and estab- factory in Lane 509, Tatung Road be paid about £25,000 for each shoulders of beautiful women, glittle heights during a native riot Houses 4, 0, and 8 in the lane were (picture:
tering Jewels and the pageantry of and the destruction of a plagued by George Bilson and William | lished a new relay record.
Capt. Gonzalez-Gonion -the Here Garbo and Jacobs, and directed by William gutted by the flames. No-one 'was "Her first film, "One in a Million" gay uniforms, medals and decora-city by fre
contribute the heat Clemens,, the picture is especially "Gordon; his British mother's bees bombarded 12 milles east of made early in 1937 carried hertions vie for the intense interest Marshall
name and according to Spanish Valencia, according to a wireless £10,000, and for her two sub-created by the unusual and amaz-performances of their respective interesting because of the manner
in which it gives us the lowdown usage is placed after the paternal message pleked up by the local
station—(Reuter). George Brent also gives a man- on Hollywood's inner workings. name-1 3 and 5 fine polo player. BOY KICKS GRENADE: sequent films she is said to haveing situations that unroll in this carpers.
fast travelling screen story.
At one time na used to be re- Betting the pace for the love tefly characterization" as "Town- Mias Madden, who being con- KILLED
sidered by the Metropolitan Opera garded as the best back in Spain Bellville at Bantander. He escap- sceries, the vivacious Wendy Barrio send, the "other man."
Company: Fred Lawrence, and and frequently played in King Aled execution by pretending to be appears opposite Kent Taylor, and
an English journalist, deception pert little Rosalind Marquis sing tonistid over hefe
One of his brothers, Ricardo, which no doubt his perfect DE several Hft numbers witten by M.
Jerome and” Jack-Schooll,
Captured with Mr. Rupert lish enabled him to maintainin
injured
been paid £18,000
Chungkmg, Feb. 24. grenade. The grenade exploded One was killed and seven in- and instantly killed the boy while
of at Chungking' on Tuesday a number jured
onlookers were when a Chinese, boy kicked a handį wounded-(Reuter),
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they are supported by anch finish. Samuel B. Hinds, Frank Reicher, ed performers as Gregory Gaye, William Lundigan, Constance Moore Dorothea Kent, Henry Hunter, and Christian' Buk
ANOTHER FRENCH SHIP BOMBED:
Tangler, Feb. 23. Another French steamer has
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