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Her own
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ICTORIA
THE GREAT
ANNA NEAGLE ANTON WALBROOK
H.B. WARNER
With
scenes in
TECHNI-
COLOR
WALTER RILLA
Prated and dried by HERBERT WILCOX Screen Play by Miles Matteson and
Charles DeGendrautz 250-RADIO P
TOMORROW
AT THE QUEEN'S Josephine Hatchinson Geo Brent in
"MOUNTAIN - JUSTICE”
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH
1, 1938.
TODAY AT THE Vivien Leigh's DIARY OF LOCAL
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
The Painted Vell" QUEEN'S:
"Victoria The Great" ORIENTAL:-
"West Bound Limited"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Victoria The Great"
Career
FROM DARJEELING
TO HOLLYWOOD Vivien Leigh, the beautiful Eng- hsn stage and screen actress, who recently went to America to play: the leading role in "A Yank at Oxford," is something of a cosmo- polite.
EVENTS
TOUAY
Anniversaries and
Hofdays.
St. David, Patron of Wales. Shrove Tuesday. Lord Strachey born, 1880. Cinema-(See Column 3 of this
page)
Dances. St. John's Club Dance. 8.30 p.m.
Entertainments.
known
The well- "Hansel Operetta
and Convent" Born in Darjeeling. British India. Gretel" at Maryknoll where her father was a sentor School, 5.30 p.m. in Ald of Charity;
Zeno's officer in the cavalry, she went to Great
(Prof. Andrews) England in 1919 and attended Conjuring Performance in St. An- "Adventure. In Manhattan" school in Roehampton, Later her drew's Hall, 9 p.m.
parents took her to the Continent, Mails. (See Page 151. MAJESTIC:-
and she studied in Paris, Germany "Knight Without Armour"
and Italy.
STAR!-
Coming
"Everything Is Thunder"
KING'S:-
AT THE ALHAMBRA Hugh Herbert Mary Boland
in
"MARRY THE GIRL"
TAKE ANY Taem un marry yousky hue,
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THE WORLD FAMOUS
ASTOR TRIO
SENSATIONAL ACROBATIC
DANCERS
THE PERSONALITY GIRL
KATIE MAELTZER
EXTRAORDINARY DANCE CREATION
2 SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
EXCITING RAILWAY MOVIE THRILL PRODUCTION ! Trains ut 60 miles an hour in a head-on collision, a romatic story that's action filled from start to finish. NOTHING LIKE IT EVER SEEN ON THE SCREEN BEFORE!
SINGING RAILS! LAUGHING LOVE! TENSE ADVENTURE!
WEST BOUND
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A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE wijde
LYLE TALBOT - POLLY ROWLES MENRY HUNTER </FZANK REICHER . "ÉNEY BRANDON · WILLIAM LUNDIGAN Serom Play by Maurice Gershty
QUEEN'S:-
"Mountain Justice" ORIENTAL:-
"David Copperfield" ALHAMBRA:—
"Mary The Girl"
STAR!--
"Her Husband Lies" "Trouble In Paradise" MAJESTIU:
"The Gilded Lily"
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REPRODUCTION OF HISTORIC EVENTS
"Victoria The Great" At
Two Theatres
Due to the cooperation of the British Government, which extend- ed hitherto unheard of facilities in the production of RKO Radio's feature, “Victoria the Great," the lavishly produced drama of the
Queen has revered British showing at
the Queen's and
Alhambra Theatres today.
Meetings-Hong Kong. Branch of the English Assen., in Helena From the age of ten she showed May. 5.30
Chess p.m.; Kowloon a great enthusiasm for the stage, Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; j and as soon as she was old enough Annual of Kowloon Union Church, she was sent to study under one in the Hall, 8.45 p.m.; Mothers' of the great teachers of the comedie Union.
at St. John's Cathedral Francaise in Paris. After further Hall, 3 p.m.; Soldiers' and Airmen's
Itals and Christian Assco.. theatrical training in
Hong Kong Austria, she returned to England Union Church Hall, 7.30 p.m.
to make her stage debut in "The Miscellaneous.-Rotary Tin, at Green Sash." Her second stage Hong Kong Hotel; Hong Kong |
at Oxford appearance was
Evening Institute reopens; Open- "Richard IL" "Bats in the Belfrying of YM.C.A. ́Swimming Pool: and The Happy Hypocrites" fol-St. Andrew's Mothers' Union Enrol lowed.
ment Service, 3 p.m.
Miss Leigh leaped to stage star- dom by performance in "The Mask
Moon.-I Moon, 30th. Day Social. - St. David's Society
of Virtue," and was signed to a Annual Dinner at Hong Kong Hotel Dim contract by Alexander Korda |Roof Garden. 8.15 p.m.; Craigen- | as a result. Prior to her screen gower Cricket Club Weekly Tom- ; debut in Fire Over. England". 'she | bola, 9.15 p.m.
other play,
one avpeared in "Because We Must."
"Dark Journey." Victor Saville's Storm in a Teacup" and "The P First and the Last," with Laurence Ouvier; arc, some successes.
Sports. (See Page 10), Sunrise.-6.45 am. Sunset.-6.27
Tides. High at 69,35 and 20.50. of the Alm Low at 03.08 and 14.35 TOMORROW Recently Miss Leigh went to Moon Moon, 1st. Day. Elsimore, Denmark, to appear in Sunrise.-6.48 a.m. Sunset.--8:25 "Hamlet" at the request of the p.m. Danish Government.
Tides. High at 09.25 and 20.10. In her spare time Miss Leigh is Low at 02.30 and 13.55. an enthusiastic follower .of the hounds and hunts frequently with
The picture, already hailed in the Scuth Devon and Dartmoor DOCTOR WARNS
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GRETA GARBO AND MARSHALL
London, Paris, and New York, was packs. planned by Herbert Wilcox, its producer, as long as ten years ago. although he was aware that until four generations after Victoria's death, no stage or screen enter- tainment offering an Impersona- tion of the sovereign would be permitted by British offelaldom, This decree has now been can- celled.
Much of the story centres on the younger days of the Queen. showing her as a fun-loving girl, her courtship, her love for Prince Albert, with Victoria doing. the proposing by virtue of Royal right, their marriage, and the long period
bliss which followed.
Together In The
Painted Veil"
MIDDLE-AGFD
"Gluttonous Men And Shapeless Women"
PERILS OF FAILING TO | KEEP FIT
The Painted Vell," the new Metro-Goldwyn Mayor picture showing at the King's Theatre, is Many looked uneasily at Greta Garbo's twentieth starring one another as, at a recent lunch- im in the nine years since sheeon of the New Health Club at the arst arrived in America.
Cafe Royal, W., Dr. Leonard Wil-
SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY! ONE DAY ONLY! or twenty-seven years of wedded women for a screen portrayal that
One of the best of the old favourites
A BIG PRODUCTION YOU'LL LOVE TO SEE AGAIN!
TO LIVE FOREVER IN YOUR HEART
DAVID
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Two Years to Make! Cast of 681.
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AT THE ORIENTAL
Miss Katie Maeltzer, who is appearing with the Astor Trio in novel dances at the Oriental Theatre today and tomorrow in conjunction with the screening of "Westbound Limited."
In it the great Swedish star re-tams, who is 76, discoursed on turns to the realm of moderni "Fitness in Middle Age."
Dr. Williams drew these ap- promises to become the highest palling pictures of the middle- dramatic effort in her spectacular aged man and woman who ne-
glects his or her health.
The Man
career.
All of the castles and palaces in which Victoria resided were duly Almed both as to interiors and ex-
The gripping story, from the teriors, including Buckingham. pen of the master story-teller. Windsor, Balmoral St.
A bald-headed and pot-bellied. James. Somerset Maugham, begins in the. Kensington, and others. From the dreary home of an Austrian Selen- bibulons, gluttonous, smoke-suck- Liverpool Museum was taken the fist and, following the star's maring beast who deserves all he gets. ancient locomotive and cars which age to a young British doctor. It and more. of gout. high blood constituted the first train that ascends to most gripping episodes pressure and arthritis. even ran in England, which steam of love. hatred and sacrifice in a ed under its own power from cholera-infested district of interior" Liverpool to London, a distance of 200 miles, and then from London to Windsor. This is the train in which the royal couple are seca starting upon their honeymoon. The state coach in which Her Majesty
China,
CARR LEAVES NOTTS COMMITTEE
A. W. Carr, the former captain rode in her Diamond Jubilee was also loaned by the nf Notts. has resigned from the Government for the reproduction club. committee. "I cannot spare
the time." he said recently. of that historic event...
SWEDISH LOCK-OUT · DRIVES
AWAY PAUL MUNI
Film Star Leaves For Copenhagen
The Woman..
A paint-bedizer.ed, cocktalling. bridge-playing: smoking, shapeless flounder who so often disfigures race meetings and the front row of the stalls..
Dr. Williams has written exten-
sively on the science and art of living, on the causes of obesity. and on health in middle and old age. He himself is an outstanding example of good health.
DIFFERENCE OF SEXES When asked him if he had any secrets to reveal, he laid particular emphasis on his abstinence, from smoking. He did not, however, give it up till he was 56, writes a Dally Telegraph special correspon- dent.
A second point he stressed gas
Paul Muni, the film star. and food than they sold weekly before his abstinence from butcher's
his wife, who had been ited to the lock-out.
meat, though he cats fish and visit Sweden, landed at elleborg
STAFF REDUCTIONS
poultry. Stockholm's Covent Garden, "And alcohol?" I asked. recently from the German ferry.
much it very
th- but on being told of the hotel Smithfield and Billingsgate, the enjoy lock-out, which has followed the wholesale suppliers of restaurants deed," he replied unhesitatingly, employers' rejection of the "em- and hotels, are dismissing em-"but in moderation, of course."- ployees' demand for Increased ployees every day, and laundries. In his address Dr. Williams salaries, left at once. for Copen-which are losing thousands of stressed the fact that stress in hagen.
pounds, are also reducing their middle age was a totally different
thing in each sex,
The film star's departure caused staffs. disappointment to thousands of Swedish admirers.
Women's hairdressers and taxi- His picture of a woman, he said, cab drivers are complaining that was representative of "a.' good More employers belonging to the their profits are dwindling, as all many of the affluent classes." Cafe Owners' Association Joined social events, including dances, are This type deserved all the abuse the lock-out, They OWII 300 postponed.
he had addressed to men, while
cafes, which serve 100,000 work- Students at the university town the men deserved not only the people dally, and 1,700 employees of Lund are intending to hold a diseases mentioned, but a nagging are made idle by their declalon.
university ball on board the Danish wife.
Conservative
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over-
Hundreds of non-union members ferry between Denmark and Swe- "The first thing to remember middle-aged men it was due to own fault, she was often are without means and are suffer den. This will allow three hours about middle age," he said, is not excessive intake and insufficent | fond of the pleasures of the table.. ing hardship.
for dancing on the double journey, to be frightened at It. Learn to output in the way of exercise and arid should be careful.
To avoid mama's awful exam- The streets at business hours and plenty of food and drink will relax, be philosophical, and keep otherwise." In women it was
your nervous system well ander question of "a glandular matter ple, the daughter. must be parsi- present a tragi-comic sight. Gov-be available. ernment officials, city men, clerks
newspapers are control. The next thing is to be about which not enough is yet monious about food. At the same
time, he lent ho
at and typists all carry sandwich urging the Labour Government to sure that your eyesight and hear-known..
Man's fatness is due to self-in-semi-starvation diet, action to parcels when going to their daily intervene to avert a serious crisis.ing are in good order."
dulgence, in woman it is certainly Sir William Crawford, who pre- work
as the lock-out may have far-
..slded, said: "I never started Teashops and eating-houses are reaching consequences for
really to live til I was 40, and now gold mines; and provision dealers whole country and not only the are seping dally more ready-cooked hotel träde.
the
"MIDDLE-AGED SPREAD"
not."
As for obesity, Dr. Williams said But while "mama's middie that in 90 per cent. of cases of aged spread" was not always her
I feel about 22" Bir Willam is 60-
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