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-- YOU'RE A SWEETHEART
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1938.
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
""Thin Ice"
QUEEN'S:-
"You're A Sweetheart"
ORIENTAL:-
"Romeo And Juliet."
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:—
"Mountain Justice"
STAR:-
"Unguarded Hour"
MAJESTIC:--
"Ali Baba Goes To Town"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Men Are Not Gods" QUEEN'S:-
"Ever Since Eve" "Hitting A New High" ORIENTAL:-
"Armoured Car." "Fit For A King." ALHAMBRA :---
"The Perfect Specimen" STAR:-
MAJESTIC:-
"Draegerman Courage"
"Whipsaw"
SONJA HENIE SETS NEW VOGUE
Willowy Beauties Ou Of Date
PAY TRIBUTE
FAMOUS ACTORS DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY Anniversaries and Holidays.
TO IRVING
Warm Welcome For Rev. H. W. Beecher died, 1887.
Centenary Plan
to
be
Count Zeppelin died, 1917
Auctions-Houshold
Furniture, at 35 Hantow Road, Kowloon, 1.30 p.m.
Malls-(Bee Page 18).
"A number of well-known actors and theatre managers have ex- Cinemás. (See Column 3 of this pressed their enthusiastic interest Page) In the Henry Irving Centenary Performance, which
Meetings, Lawn Bowls 'Assen. organised by the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, to take place at Committee, in " C. M. Post" the Lyceum Theatre in the spring. Board Room 5.30 p.m. Kowloou Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 Here are some of the tributes p.m.; General, of Y.M.C.A. Amateur received since the announcement: Dramatle Club, to discuss future Sir Frank Benson, who began programme, 9 p.m., in West his stage career with Henry Irving Lounge; Soldiers' and Airmen's" at the Lyceum Theatre, in 1882. Christian Asscn., in Hong Kong playing the part of "Paris";
Union Church Hall, 7.30 p.
Miscellaneous. Rotary Tifin, "The very thought of this matiaee fills me with the greatest Hong Kong Hotel; Women's Sec- enthusiasm, for I think that it tion of YMCA. Sewing Bee: An- will help to revive the spirit of nual Pound Day of Alice Memorial self-sacrifice and devotion which and Affiliated Hospitals, 11 am, to' epitomised the era of Irving and 5 pm. (New Nethersole Hospital open for Inspection and gifts re- Ellen' Terry.
ceived on 5th floor).
"The influence of Irving is still being felt as it was felt in my young days. I often think that if
Moun.--II Moon. 7th,, Day: Rehearsals-Hong Kong Singers,
It had not been for that grand at St. John's Cathedral Hall 9.15 man of the theatre there would p.m. be no 'Old Bensonians' today.
Religious. -- Lenten
Discussion
"The matinee has my blessing and Group in St. Andrew Vicarage. 8.45 the blessing of all the famous P actors who have passed through my hands"
Social-Whist Drive and Tom- bola in Sergts.' Mess, Nanking Bks..
Shamshbipo, * 8.30
p.m.: Police Branch g! Ministering League, Bridge and Mahjong Drive, at Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m.
Sports(See Page 10). Sunrise.-8.40 a.m., Sunset,—8,30
Walter Payne, President of the Society of West End Managers:
"It is a great tribute to the British stage that The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post The advent of Honja Henle is should be organising the Irving noticeably changing the shape of Centenary Matinee, and a timely p.m.
future Hollywood stars.
reminder that no matter what
i!
Tides-High at 01.35 and 13.10.
The lovely-star of "Thin Ice."other roots may be torn up in the Low at 00.25 and 20.38.
which is showing at the King's Theatre today. has already creat ed a new vogue in physical beauty as opposed to the elongated. wik low type of former years.
Miss Henle is healthy.. whole- some and bubbling with en- thusiasm and energy. She has
course of years, those of the British drama will ever remain in a great tradition."
MOST SUITABLE THEATRE Angus MacLeod, Director of Daniel Mayer Co. Ltd.:
"I am delighted that the cen-
TOMORROW
Moon-II Moo.n. 8th. Day. Sunrise.-8.40 am. Sunset.-6.29
p.m.
Tides. High at 00.30 and 12.00. Low at 06.00 and 19.05.
the charm of the athlete. plus the tenary is not to be overlocked by HURRICANE ON
grace and chic vivacity of sophisticate. -
ส
Radiating health, happiness and fresh young beauty, to which are added intelligence and dis- tinctive talent, the screen advent of the Olympic skating champion marks a new beauty criterion for Hollywood stars.
YOU'RE A
SWEETHEART
the profession. No more suitable theatre could be chosen than the Lyceum.
་་
"I feel that under the auspices of The Daily Telegrph and Mor- ning Post the best possible cast
chosen. The form of will be entertainment in the hands of Edward Knoblock should ensure its success.**
THE SCREEN
Goldwyn's New Success
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Samuel Goldwyn has pulled it off again. His new fim, "The John Gielgud: "I am delighted Hurricane," may not be great art, to know that The Daily Telegraph but, in the idiom of the ring, the and Morning Post is to organise punch it packs is terrific, writes the commemoration matinee in the Daily Telegraph Blm corres- honour of the centenary of Bir pondent.
1:
KING'S
TODAY ONLY AT 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30. P.M
SONJA
HENIE
TYRONE
POWER
Thrilling a You
knew they'd be zo gether...in this gayły
romantic musical of undriamed - dł
magnificence)
Thin Ice
Swirling whirling ice pallets and songs of litting loveliness that multiply by a million the delights that "One In & Million" gave you!
TO-MORROW UNITED ARTISTS
| ARTHUR TREACHER RAYMOND WALBURN JOAN DAVIS
O BUKANN - ALAN NALE LEAH RAY • MELVILET COOPER MAURICE CASS • GROBUG GIVOT
MIRIAM HOPKINS in
MEN ARE NOT GODS"
ALHAMBRA
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JOSEPHINE
"
HUTCHINSON GEO. BRENT
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE
with CUT KIBREE • MOKA
·BARRIE · ROBERT SARKAT
The Secrets of
„The Mountains!
Directed by Michael Curtiz First Stational Plature
THURSDAY
A Warner Bros. Picture
At
730 - £30
Moderu Musical Comedy
Henry Irving. I hope that the The first impact of the stor Until you've seen "You're. A public, as well as the actors and has one dazed and groggy... Sweetheart," which is showing at actresses, will rise to this memor- the end of twenty minutes frenzied the Queen's Theatre today, you'll able occasion."
assault on eye and ear.
the have to admit you've never before Gerald Lawrence. who was audience is out for the count. seen a real modern screen musical | Irving's last juvenile leading man The Hurricane" is based on a comedy."
and was playing with him when South Seas tale by Nordhoff and It's distinctly different. It's he died:
Hall, and contains many of the ultra smart. It's clever. It's up- "The proposed matinee has ingredients-idyllic scenery, happy roariously funny. It has plenty of caused great Interest among the natives, tyrannical oppression and plot. You don't have to believe it. members of the Green Room Club, brutal flogging mixed so effectively" The plot makes fun of itself. It for they revere the memory of in their "Mutiny on the Bounty.” is packed with diversifed special-] Irving. He was an original member But it is the storm that counts, ties: tuneful, rememberable songs; of the club, which, was formed in You
Bee tall palms, to
which
trig, trim and intriguing dances. 1877. The members are looking for- natives cling like ants, torn up by And yet this abundance of variety ward to giving their best. at this the roots, houses whirling through is packed so neatly, so perfectly matinée.
the air, boats tossed and crushed into its length that you will won- "He said to me three nights like eggshells. der how it was possible to show it before he died. It's a sad thing. Half the population of the tiny all in one evening.
just as we are beginning to know island, encouraged by the priest, The reason, no doubt, is the cast a little about this work of ours. take refuge in the stone church. The star, Alice Faye, delivers what it is time to leave it.' These words Then this, too. is overwhelmed, is the finest picture of her career proved tragically prophetic but when the gigantic roaring of sea in "You're a Sweetheart."
did. I feel, show the spirit of the land wind subside, to be followed Second
George Murphy.most wonderful 'chief' the stage by a strange silence, the Island George is smoothness. personified, has ever had, a'chief' we loved. ts left bare of life and vegetation in his acting, dancing and singing. "We did not have to learn to except for the party sheltering in
"You're Sweetheart" estab-love him it was a spontaneous a feboat "lashed to a stump. ilshes & smart atmosphere and a affection for a man who com- Technically the storm sequence pulse-quickening pace from themanded the greatest respect from is as brilliant in its way as the very opening and keeps it mount- all ranks of life. I remember, on chariot race in "Ben Hur." I am ing steadily in tempo to the very one occasion, he entered a room not surprised that it cost £50,000 finish, a trick hitherto
never which was filled with Cabinet of the £300,000 spent on the pic- successfully completed in screen Ministers
and other important ture. musical offerings.
personages. There was an imme- Jon Hall, a newcomer, as athletic diate silence-the great man had as Johnny Weismuller and sa arrived."
THIN ICE
A gay and magnificent musical
that skims in shimmering delight LORD DE VILLIERS along the silvery Alpine slopes, snow-drenched with dazzling
A BARRISTER.
handsome as a Greek god, piays the hero, and Dorothy Lamour his wife. Other important roles are C. Alled by Raymond Massey, Aubrey Smith, Mary Astor and Thomas Mitchell.
NEW CANTOR FILM
Ali Baba Goes To Town
spectacle and exciting beauty,
Lord de Villiers, of Wynberg. hear-warming with riotous fin and House, Wynberg. South Africa, young romance, brings Sonja Henie was called to the Bar in the Inner and Tyrone Power together, as you Temple on call night of Hilary wanted them to be. thrilling, as term in the four Inns of Court. you knew they'd be, in the His grandfather. the first Lord Twentieth Century Fox-plcture, de Villiers, was Chief Justice of "Thin Ice," which is showing at the Union of South Africa from Bagdad of fun, a thousand and
1910 111 11s death the King's Theatre.
1814, one nights of entertainment in Chief ¡one! Topping all her triumphs of "One Previously he had been
in
A Cantornado of laughs, a grab-
The PERFECT SPECIMEN?
ERROL FLYNN - JOAN BLONDELL
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ddie CANTOR
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GOES
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Music and Lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! MYRNA LOY "WHIPSAW'
SPENCER TRACY in
AN OLD FAVOURITE" FROM M-G-M 1
GRAY HAIR 'N
EVERYTHING
A si check dated April 3, 1899,
TIN-CAN WEDDITG
BANNED.
City Manager C. A. Harrell In- structed police to clamp down on excesive fanfare. after.. numerous
Noisy wedding parties-the kind was cathed recenlty by the Forth that rattle tin cans and pails after in a Million." Miss Henie is more Justice of Cape Colony.
Eddie Cantor really goes to Worth National Bank, 3. T. Cark, bridal cars are taboo in Schenec radiantly exciting than ever as Two women were in the can-town in his first picture for hit- who presented the check, did not tady. New York. she displays new beauty, new dar Bat-Miss Daisy Colnett spickett, making Twentieth Century-Fox say where It had been ing and new breath-taking thrills. of West House, Pontypridd, Glam, "All Baba Goes to Town," fentur- A delightful romance of mistaken daughter at Mr. 3 E. Spickett, ing Tony Martin, Roland Young, Identity affording many hilariously Registrar of Pontypridd County June Lang. Louise Hovick and and Revel song hits, beautiful complaints had been received from funny situations, "Thin Ice" con- Court, and Mins Claudine Berry, of thousand of others, currently at girls, exotic dances and thrilling silence-loving citizens. To prevent spectacle, "All Baba Goes to misunderstanding, slips attached cerns the romance of a beautiful Elmside, Grange-road, Cambridge, the Majestic Theatre. & skating star who falls in love with second daughter of Arthur John An unusual and" "magnincent Town" marks the beginning of a to marriage licenses fasued by the a man she belloves to be a reporter," Berry, Fellow and Lecturer of combination of surpriseful and new and important phase in city call attention to the anti-
noise ordinance. but who, in reality, is a Prince... Downing College, Cambridge. side-splitting comedy, new Gordon Eddie Cantor's brilliant career.
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