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MOUNTAIN JUSTICE
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ALICE FAYE
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CHARLES DICKENS
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'Little Women
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She wanted more
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Her
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Akim Tumfróff » Jusu Martel II.2. SCHUERZEZ Preświtam
MIRIAM HOPKINS
KAY FRANCIS
TOMORROW TROUBLE IN PARADISE”
DEATH OF FAMOUS SOUTH WEST AFRICA
ITALIAN POET
AND THE UNION
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938.
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S :-
"Everything is Thunder"
QUEEN'S:~~~
"Mountain Justice"
ORIENTAL:---
"David Copperfield"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Marry The Girl"
STAR:-
T. "Her Husband Lles" " MAJESTIC:-
"Song Of The City"
KING'S:-
. Coming
"Thin Ice"
QUEEN'S:-
"You're A Sweetheart" ORIENTAL:-
"Knight Without Armour" ALHAMBRA:—
"You're A Sweetheart"
STAH:-
Trouble In Paradise" "Follow The Fleet" MAJESTIC:-
"All Baba Goes To Town"
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE AT QUEEN'S Josephine Hutchinson
Starred With Brent Josephine Hutchinson has the leading role opposite George Brent
HUMAN "PROBLEMS
The Gifford Lectures
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays. The Human Situation. Gifford Mohammedan New Year (1357). V. Lectures, 1935-7. By W. Maenelle van Gogh born, 1853. Sir Henry Dixon. (Arnold. 18s).
Wood born, 1869. *
Cinemas.—(See Column 3 of this
Professor Dixon reminds 11:5 what most of hits predecessors had seemingly forgotten-that the Off-
Page),
Lectures.-Prof. Forster on "Edu-
ford Lecture were expressly intend- cation and the Estate," at Euro- ed by their founder to be "popu- pean YM.CA. 9 p.m.; Theoso- lar discourses." writes J. C. John-phical Society, 8 p.m.
stone in the Daily Telegraph.
If he has himself "scrupulously
Malls (Seo Page 18). Meetings-Quarterly, of Royal
Guild. in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m.
fulfilled the founder's infunction it Engineers Old Comrades' Assen., in Junior N.C.O.'s Mess, 40th. "" is not out of piety alone, still less is it in any spirit of condescension 7.45 p.m.; Annual, of
Coy.. RE, Wellington Barracka, Women's towards the plain man's under- standing. Rather is it because of his own conviction that to pursue the mysteries of man and the un- into the "holy jungle 01 transcendental metaphysics" is to lose oneself on a trail that leads to nowhere...
verse
Miscellaneous, Hong Kong Horticultural Society Annual Show at St. John's Place, opposite lower Peak Tram Station, 3 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
Moon.-II Moon, 2nd Day. Not indeed that Professor Dixon,
Social-Cheero Club Bridge, 8 is wholly unacquainted with "the p.m.; Charity Games Afternoon for various metaphysical gambits, the wamen at St. Andrew's Hall, 3 opening moves," the Platonic, the p.m.; St. Andrew's Club "Open" Cartesian, the Kantian." But while night, 9 p.m. he enjoys the tourneys and ad- mires the skill of the combatants, their proceedings remind him of "the pretty battles between the
Tides. High at 10.07 and 22.08. professional condottier! "of the Low at 04.10 and 15.56.
Middle Ages, the manoeuvring for position, the checks and counter- checks." and he inclines to sym-
Sports. (See Page 10), Sunrise.-8.44 a.z. Sunset.---8.28
p.m.
TOMORROW
Moon.-II Moon, 3rd. Day.
pathy with the plain man's con- Sunrise.-6.45 a.m. Sunset.-6.27 clusion that "philosophy is but ap.. child's habby-horse, on which men Tides. High at 09.43 and 21.26 rock themselves to and fro with Low at '03.40 and 15.15. out advancing."
SKY-BLUE IDEALISTS
But if he has little use for the THE WILL TO BE FIT
Views Of Lord Harder And
In "Mountain Justice" the First abstract philosophers and their National picture which has its attempts to compress the universe tun at the Queen's Theatre today, into the pattern of a bloodless Ab-
"Mountain Justice" is a gripping solute. he has even less for the Miss Dorothy Round" melodrama based upon 1 young "sky-blue Idealists.” and their “six- girl's ambition to bring the bene-penny Utopias." What sort of a
The individual's will to be at fits of civilization to the benighted world would it be, he asks, in essential conditiori of the people of her remote village in the which throughout its breadth and success of any national fitness bills. Thwarted by nearly all of length not a soul ever kicked over campaign, according to Lord Hor- them-especially by her own the traces, in which there were no der, the eminent authority on father-she almost sacrifices her idlers. or spendthrifts, or jesters health, matters: "Without this wil ife for her ideals of betterment. or Sir Fopling Flutters?"
no amount of knowledge of ex" Miss Hutchinson is starred" as the As for the scientists, "if you ex- hortation can avail young girl; George Brent is co-perience in a picture, a poem,
Dorothy Round (Mrs. starred as a young attorney who sonata, or in the companionship of Little), the lawn tennis champion, believes in her and aids her a friend a sense of pleasure, or s of the same opinion. "I like Among the other notables in the Joy, should you make haste to con- to be fit." she says, “and I intend, cast are Robert Barrat, Guy Kib-sult the Royal Society whether in so far as within me lies, toʻremain bee. Marcia Mae Jones. Mona Bar-fact you have had or are justified t."
Miss
"
rie. Elizabeth Risden and Fuzzy in having any such experience? I Lord Horder and Miss. Round Knight. Michael Curtis directed do not advise it. You will be expressed these views recently. the picture from an original screen plunged in doubt, and presentiy play by Norman Refly Raine and debauched by dialectic cease to Luc! Ward.
belleve it."
MARRY THE GIRL
Film Dealing With Eccentrics
tide was neither avoidable, nor in
It is impossible in a brief notice itself a bad thing. to summarise Prof. Dixon's bril- In a world, "the failure of "re- liantly discursive discussion of ligion in our time, iles in its in- affales human and divine. Special ability to meet the needs of the mention, however, may be made of intellect, to answer the innumer- his answer to the besetting ques- able pressing questions we daily tion: whence come our present ask and must ask ourselves." Un About as many laugh-winning spiritual discontents? He finds it happily. the intellect, though it players as Warner Bros. had on in "the collapse of the high-compels us to ask questions, can- their own, lot or could rally from pitched expectations of a re-not answer them for us. and "we outside sources were poured into generated hüman society." We have sought our substitute for re "Marry The Girl," the wild and had been encouraged to look for ilgion in an earth-bound humani hilarious farce-comedy which has the land of earthly happiness that tarianism. the rapid growth of Its local showing at the Alhanibra was to replace the old and now which Prof. Dixon describes as the.{ Theatre today.
discarded paradise to come. But most marked change that has Frank McHugh, for example, who the bubble has burst, and we are come about in this country during recently wowed audiences with his now left without either the old his lifetime. "Olwin" in "Three Men On A dream or the new. Horse"; Carol Hughes, who Frank's weepy wife in that same show; Hugh Herbert, fresh from!
was
This humanitarianism and the collectivist reformers who are its THE OLD LANDMARKS
protagonists he robustly com- This is nobody's fault. It is not demns because they make "cu- his great triumph in "Sing Me A due to any degeneration in human shioned comfort" the ideal of Hfe. Love Song": Mary Boland, long nature, or to any change in human impair vigour, and debase the in- famed on stage and screen; Mischa hearts. It is the result of the individual with the "pauperism of Auer, the gorillaman of "My Man crease in our positive knowledge, their charity." Herr. Hitler and Godfrey"; Allen Jenkins, Teddy which has brought about the de- Signor Mussolint are evidently of Hart. Hugh O'Connell, Olin How-cay of religious faith. During the the same opinion, but Prof. Dixon land and a dozen more.
past century the rising tide of refrains from disclosing whether The film has to
knowledge has carried away all the he considers their remedy any bet- big newspaper syndicate, whose old landmarks, but the rise of the ter than the disease. writers, cartoonists, artists and the like are all-to say the least-tem- peramentally eccentric.
do with
The head of this is Hugh Her- bert, most eccentric of all.
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YOU'RE A SWEETHEART”
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SONG of the CITY
ARGARET LINDSAY AMMEREDTAK = 4. Carrol HAISH;
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Two Lugs on a Lugger. By George scenes were eventually shot, Flying Dromgold (Hutchinson, 123 d.) cockroaches, mosquitoes, sharks The inside story of film-making and giant octopi were among the in the South Seas" is a caption natural enemies encountered, and which will repel or attract the their task was further complicated by Government restrictions for- prospective reader according to his degree of susceptibility to bidding the natives to simulate Hollywood allures. But no suscepti- any warlike action and by the There
is distinct melody of bilities, however délicate, will fall almost total extinction of pearling modern life in the crowded places, to be charmed by this wholly
activities. with all its overtones and minor delightful book.
Endless patience and good hum- chords, in the new picture at the
our finally won the day, and not The author George Dromgold. Majestic Theatre, appropriately and his partner. James B. Scacxel- stating that the script had been even 2 cable from Hollywood titled "Song of the City."
Margaret Lindsay and Jeffrey from Thursday Taland aboard the quences had already been shot ford, the photographer, set off re-written and the pearling se- Dest the cast included). Clugger Veimauri to collect flm locally could damp their enthu whlist the J. Carro materfal in the shape of native glasm. Nalsh, Nat Pendleton, Stanley Rome, Mar. 1..
Morner. Marla
| backgrounds, crowds, crowd scenes,
But the startling interest of this famous Italian poet and The deputation of representá- Palange, Charles Judels, Edward and pearl-fishing pictures for an story is that in the telling the authur, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Cled tives of the political parties of Norris, Fay Helm
unnamed drama being produced in background has subtly become the today at his home at Lake Garda. South West Africa, which are in Puglia.
and Frank Hollywood. There were only two foreground. Mr. Dromgold writes where he had lived in retirement favour of incorporation of the
2 The picture tells the story of a other white men on board, Capt. with forthright, unaffected since 1930.
mandated territory into the South gay young fellow, likeable and Clay, the skipper of the Telmauri, American simplicity, slashed with
A 20TH CENTURY-FOX SUPER PRODUCTION | His: Inst public pronouncement African Unjon returned to reckless, who goes broke after a fand 'Mel Ward, a young Australian. robust schoolboy humour, yet he was a letter to the Minister of Windhuk yesterday.
catastrophe in the stock market by profession a crustaceologist, has created an Propaganda, published
unforgettable committed suicide; the 60-year-old the rough material for a Conrad or 11 the Mr. Hamman, leader of the de- and falls in love with an Italian whose passion for bottling crabs picture of the beauty and savage pearl fisher cursing madly Inside Stevenson story. Italian press yesterday, in which putation, declared upon his arrival fisherman's daughter.
caused the party many nervous remoteness of these Papuan shores his leaking diving auit; the three The book is profusely illustrated he announced he had constructed that the Premier, General Hertzog. In conjunction with the picture,
tringing the Coral Sea. His-vignet old men of the village who insisted with "stills" taken by Mr. Scackel- a private cinema show of silent had told him that the problem The Astor Trio and Katie Maeltzer They set off for Fapua, where tes of the characters he met the on dancing stark naked right in ford, but it. lives and enchants by films as he "abominated talkies."— would be solved in four years' also appear on the stage in sen- in the face of most arduous dim-government teacher on the lonely front of the camera while a crowd the delightful personality of its
time. (Transocean),
Iculties and setbacks the required Island of Darnley who afterwards scene was being shot-might be author(Dally Telegraph).
The
(Reuter).
Capetown, Mar. 2.
sational dances.
Shelton.
Inez
shocks.
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