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A GLORIOUS PICTURE THAT COST A FORTUNE!
On the Wings of 1,000 Love Songs
come the sweethearts of "Rosa Maria" and "Naughty Marietta".., to show you how gloei- ou love can be... when a man is bold...and a woman's lips are willing!
MACDONALD
NELSON EDDY:
Maytime
And Cast of 2,000 including
JOHN BARRYMORE
A ROBERT 2. LEONARDA
Production
Proded by Hane Stromberg
them sing the
Roomberg "Will You Comember" Scales
other thrillin melodies?
2DALS TO-MORROW & THURSDAY
ONLY
MAXWELL ANDERSON'S PRIZE WINNING. STORY'I ·
Won the gold medal award of the Academy of Arts for the
most gripping thrill-packed picture of the year.
A GREAT PHOTO-PLAY THAT THRILLED THE WORLD!
Winterset
with
BURGESS MEREDITH and MARGO in the roles they created on the stage. EDUARDO CIANNELLI
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"BRIGHT
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FLIGHT FROM GLORY”
Chester Morris
Whitney Bourne
CINEMA
This Is America, Or Some
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Dead End" QUEEN'S:-
"Tovarich"
ORIENTAL:-
"May Time"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
"Blossoms On Broadway"
"Bright Lights"
MAJESTIC:-
"Stingaree"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Ready, Willing And Able" QUEEN'S;—
"Victoria The Great" "Music For Madame"
ORIENTAL:-
"Braddock vs. Farr;
"Winterset"
ALHAMERA:-
"Life Of The Party" STAR:-
"Flight From Glory" MAJESTIC:—
"Racketeers In Exile"
STINGAREE
Of It
From Our Own
Correspondent
Goings on in the great Amert. can Republic, as reported in the public prints:
Science And Invention THE NATIONAL Inventors'. Con-
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays,**** John Keble died. 1868. Chinese National Holiday. (Anniversary of
the Death of the 72 Martyrs at the Yellow Flowers Hill in Canton. 1911).
Auctions.Household Furniture. gress is meeting here soon! Here at 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30 are some of the Inventions that p.m. will be on view, and all joking aside:
Sponge-ned bath tubs, which
Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Page)
Lectures-Air Raid Precaution.
| make it impossible for you to slip by Mr. R. Dunlop, at St. John Am-
on the soap.
Wedding rings that expand as your Anger gets stouter with the years.
bulance Hqrs, 6 p.m.;' Fr. G. T. Byrne on "Murder in High Places," etc., at University Union Assembly Hail, 8 p.m.
Spun glass dresses for women,
Malls-(8es. Page 161.- Shoes that make it easy to walk
Meelings-Kowloon Chess Club, on water-very useful in floods. at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; An-
Butterfly lipsticks--you press nual. of The Hong Kong Fire In them on your lips, and they leave surance Co., Ltd, at Messrs. Jar- a perfect butterfly.
dine, Matheson's Offices, noon; An- Rocking chair fans-as you rock,nual, of Bibliotheque Francaise, at the fan blows air down your back. the French Consulate Offices. Sergeant White. of the 8th In. Alexandra Bldg., 4th. floor, 5 p.m.; fantry, United States Army, has Cathedral Church Council, in the patented a device that lets you all. 5.15 p.m. fire a gun just by pressing, à but-
ton.
.
Miscellaneous -- Rotary Tiffin Hong Kong Hotel; Soldiers' and Airmen's Christian Assen. meets in Domnestic Affairs
H.K. Union Church Hall, 7.30 p.m. "GREAT Wedding Cake Contest
Moon.-II Moor, 28th. Day is being waged across the coun-
Religious. Lenten Discussion try. So far Mrs. W. Train, of Red Group, in St. Andrew's Vicarage, Co-starred for the first time Bluff, is the winner. "I still have 8.45
p.m.; Prayer Meeting in since their appearance in the epic a piece of my wedding cake, cook- Methodist Chaplain's "Room of S. picture, Cimarron," Irene Durine ed 40 years ago." she says. "And and S. Home, 8 p.m. and Richard Dix came to the it's still fit to eat."
Social, Craigengower Cricket screen or the Majestic Theatre When Mr. John Spry, in New Club Weekly Tombola, 9.15 p... today in "Stinguree," a romantic York, confessed to his wife that Sports. (See Page 10). tale of the seventies in Australia, he was entangled with another Sunrise.-6.30 am. Sunset.-6.37 with Mary Boland.
woman, Mrs. Spry bought a target ! The story deals with the great, and a pistol, and practised in the Tides. High at 08.20 and 19.42. mutual love of Stingaree, a dash-basement. Now Mr. Spry is dead. Low at 01.53 and 13.45. ing bandit, and Hilda Bouverie. Mrs. Spry told the police: "I who crydges in the home of the couldn't stand it any longer.”
TO-MORROW Clarkson's, her rich relatives. Stin- garee hears Hilda singing when he enters the Clarkson home to rob it, and immediately falls in love with her. When the police surround the place to capture him. he abducts the girl and makes his
escape.
pm.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1938.-PAGE 5
KING'S
TODAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9 30 P.M.
Deams scoped from the streets of
« great city.....the slamental clash `of human bolags with the life theý despise... 24 hours of throźbla life in an exciting metropolia...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN punta
DEAD END
ALSO LATEST MICKEY MOVIE, 1
CARTOON IN COLOUR
TOMORROW
Warner Bms.
SYLVIA SIDNEY and JOEL MCCREA HUMPHREY BOSARY. WENDY BARRIE
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Released Show UNITED ARTISTS
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DONALD” RUBY KEELER LEE DIXION in "READ, WILLING AND ABLE"
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN 3D, KOWLOON-DRILY AT 2,30-5,2
TODAY & TOMORROW
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ALL SIGNS POINT TO THE LAUGH ROUND-UP
IT'S THE RODEO OF FUN & ROMANCE!
A gold-mine of
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In Long Beach, California, 77- Moon Moon, 29th. Day. year-old Mrs. Mary Clayton is be- Sunrise.-6.21 "a.m. Sunset.----4.37 Ing sued by her husband, who is p.m.
H.K. POLICE
RESERVE
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92, for divorce-wil alimony. He Tides. High at 08.15 and 18.53. says she is worth at least 60,000 Low at 01.19 and 13.00. dollars, and he is living on a pen- slon of 10 dollars a month. She deserted him two years ago, he Two melodious theme
songs. says. They were married when he "Stingaree Ballad" and "Tonight was 81. You're Mine," are so woven into In Brownwood, Texas, H. the plot as an integral part of it. Guyer, aged 75, has become the
"Stingaree" is a musical, drama- father of triplets. But two tic and scenic treat, well worth them lived only a day. The third, seeing for any ci these three a boy. weighed 28 ounces at birth. qualities alone. The work of Miss He is living in an oxygen tent, and Dunne and Dix is at least equal doctors think he may survive. to that in the epochal "Cimarron," than which it would difficult to give higher praise.
"BLOSSOMS ON BROADWAY”
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Edward Arnold Is A Shady Promoter
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"Blossoms on Broadway" which opens today at the Alhambra Theatre boasts a cast headed by a trio of stars Edward Arnold. Shirley Ross and John Trent, and features such outstanding perfor- mers as Rufe Davis, William | Frawley, Frank Craven, Kitty Kelly, John Arthur. Edward Brophy. Charles Halton, The Radio Rogues Eddle Bartell and Jimmy Holly- wood) Frederand Clarke and Weber and Fields,
The story starts with the publis- hed announcement that "Death Valley Cora," reported to own a fabulously rich gold mine, is about to visit New York. Edward 'Arnold, a shady promoter, arranges to kidnap her and keep her prisoner, while he primes Shirley RosS. beautiful but broke, to Impersonate the Western millionairess.
In line with his scheme, Arnold instals Miss Ross la am expensive apartiment and furnishes her with a car and a chaffeur, handsome | John Trent, with whom she falls
in love.
Women at a meeting in Rockford, Illinois, asked Mrs. Roosevelt her favourite recipe. "It's this, for scrambled eggs,” said Mrs. Roosevelt: "Put a little butter into the pan, break the eggs into it, add a little milk. Keep them stirred up until ready to serve." And she is the wife of the President.
The party winds up at the police station where the complica- ted tangle, including the much- tangled love affair of Miss Ross and Trent, is straightened out in tenor
Gallant Martini
of
Nino Martini, whose glorious voice has delighted · many
a merry, madly hilarious musical cinema fans, will soon be seen on finale.
the screen of the Queen's Theatre in his latest picture. "Music for Madame," in which he is support ed by Joan Fontaine.
CHINESE COMPANY Training Course-Part IL-The undermentioned members of the. Chinese Company will attend Chi- nese Company Headquarters for Part II of Training Course on Tuesday, March 29th at 17.15 tours -
Constables R72 Fong Hing. R82 Stern Ho, R90 Yuen Sui Taug. R94 Linh Hung Kun, Rồi Yu Salu Tung R89 Hung Woon Man and R93 Shlu Hung Yuen.
Patrol Duty.Nightly between 18.00 hours and midnight by mem- bers' as detailed by the Officer in Charge of Company.
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INDIAN COMPANY Training Course-Part II-The undermentioned members of the Indian Company will attend In- dian Company Headquarters at. 17.30 hours for Part II of Train- Ing Course on Tuesday, March 29th 1938 under L. 8. R. 214 Channan Singh:--
Constables R246 M.Y, Khan, R219 Nur Ahmed, R297 Karam Kham, R211 S. Aras, R215 Feroz Khan, R223 · Firdos Khan, RZES M.R. Malik, R279 Mir Walli Khan, and R221 Hakim Al
Patrol Duty Nightly between 18.00 hours and midnight by mem- bera as detailed by the Officer in Charge of Company.
FLYING SQUAD Instructional Patrol-An in- structional patrol for members of | the Flying Squad will be carried out on Friday, April 1st, 1938. All members will parade at Central Police Station at 17.15 hours. Dress Blue Uniform, and Cap with White Cover,
Strength. Constable R360 HARRY HONG SLING has been taken on the strength of the Fly- ing Squad as from 26th March. 1938.
EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE. Motor Patrol-A motor patrol will be carried out by members of 'DEAD END”
the Emergency Unit Reserve on Wednesday, March 30th 1938 All Story Of Slams And
will parade outside Miss Sidney has her greatest role members Gangsters
as Drina, the girl who valiantly night Queens Fier at 17.30 hours. Dress Twenty-four hours of throbing a losing battle to keep, her littleOptional. life in city street, paved with riches brother from the gangster's. fate
C. CHAMPKIN
D. 8. P. (R) and poverty, comedy and tragedy, ahead of him and to raise them romance and heartaches, thunder both out of the sluma.
Hong Kong, March 28, 1938. across the screen in 8amuel McCrea 18 seen at Dave, the poor. Goldwyn's production of "Dead |ärchitect she loves, who dreams of This story is told in the Ber- End," which is showing at the tearing down all the tenements in mondsey Labour Magazine: King's Theatre today.
Means Test Committee chairman
the world.
Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea Humphrey Bogart plays "Baby to young applicant; You are in are starred at the head of a great Face Martin," the killer, drawn lodgings and receive 158. 34. a week, cast in this powerful human story back from his gangland haunts to Don't you think you would be bet- based on the stage hit by Bidney the slum where he was spawned ter on with your parents? Kingsley, as produced by Norman by an Irresistible yearning to see Bel Geddes, which set new records his mother and his boyhood sweet- in its Broadway run.
heart.
Applicant: Yes.
Chairman: Where are they? Applicant: Dead.
laughs and love!
Blossoms Broadway
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* EDWARD ARNOLD SHIRLEY ROSS - JOHN TRENT with RUFE DAVIS - WILLIAM FRAWLEY WEBER & FIELDS - FRANK CRAVEN Directed by KOWALLACE· Seno Pay by Theaters Hooge *P. CHULS(10 producion · A Foraminer Tides
"LIFE OF THE PARTY"
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MARY BOLAND
INGAREE
TOMORROW & THURSDAY
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TOVARICH IS FINE COMEDY PICTURE
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Long awaited, because of a starving in Paris, to which capital sensational world-wide success as they have been driven by the a stage play, the comedy "Tovarich" Boviet revolution. This is despite showing at the Queen's Theatre the fact that they have deposited today.
in a Paris. Bank some 40 billion Produced by Warner Bros. on an franes. But their honour won't let unusually lavish scale, and having them touch this money because it Claudette Colbert and "Charles was given to them in trust by the Boyer as its stars, the picture scems Czar,
The working out of the various to this reviewer to be one of the season's crop. Those who saw the offorts to get the 40 bilions, and Initial showing in Hollywood-and the final disposition of the money, who also saw the stage play-por-form a novel, humorous and oft- claim the film. to be decidedly times thrilling plot. superior to the footlight produc- "Tovarich" was written by Jac- tion.
ques Deval, translated into English The story ands Miss Colbert, as for the New York stage by Robert a Grand Duchess, and Mr. Boyer: Sherwood, and put into film form her husband, as a Prince, both of by Casey Robinson. It was directed the old Russian nobility, almost by Anatole Litvak.
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