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SHOWING TODAY
THE VOICE THE WORLD ADORES !
THE THRILL
OF A GAY ROMANCE SET TO FRIML'S MUSICI
"The Qay Desperado" Gayer Than
With music by
RUDOLF FRIML
Erar... With Holly Nino MARTINI
wood's Girl of
Your Dreams
and other great composars
in His Arms!
MUSIC for MADAME
Jon FONTAINE
ALAN MOWBRAY - BILLY GILBERT ALAN HALE GRANT MITCHELL
ERIK RHODES • LEE PATRICK ROMO VINCENT
"SELF-CONTROL" with Donald Duck.
A Walt Disney Coloured Cartoon
ADDED:
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GEORGE BRENT
Warner Bros. Picture
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ANITA LOUISE
"THE GO-GETTER Based on Peter B. Kyne's Famed Story of
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THRILL of a LIFETIME
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"PERFECT SPECIMEN”
TOMORROW
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RADIO
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TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong hong
KING'S:-
"Ready, Willing And Able" QUEEN S:---
"Music For Madame"
JRIENTAL:-
"Winterset"
Kowloon
کوم
ALNAMBRA :-
"Life Of The Party"
STAR:-
"Flight From Glory" MAJESTIC:-
"Racketeers In Exile"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Lost Horizon"
QUEEN S:-
"The Go-Getter"
ORIENTAL:-
"Thrill Of A Life Time"
ALHAMBRA:--
"Wild And Woolly"
STAR:-
"Perfect Specimen" MAJESTIC:---
"Melody For Two" "Dead. End"
"UNDERWORLD”
CINEMA
KING'S THEATRE'S
GOOD BUSINESS DURING 1937
40 CENTS DIVIDEND DECLARED
The large influx of refugees from China during the last few months of 1937 proved of much benelli to local cinema theatres, ac- cording to the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, presiding at the annual ren" eral meeting of the China Entertainment and land Investment Co., Ltd., held in the King's Theatre Buliding yesterday.
He reported that the balance of many other buildings was avail the working account showed anable.
to the Turning
accounts. increase of approximately 20 per cent over that of the previous year would draw attention to the item and that the year's working could of $10,210.52 written off from In- vestment Account. This is the. be considered as satisfactory.
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938.-PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING.
TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30′ P.M.
SING! SWINGEYOUTH HAS ITS FUING!
I
LEE DIXON
The Dancin' Frei
Those present wete:-Hon. Sir balance from the Cinemas, Ltd.,
formerly
the operated Shouson Chow (Chairman), the which Hon. Dr. S. W. T'so, Messrs. Liang Queen's Theatre, and with this Liinal writing off the account is Chi-hao, Chang Kwal-yuen,
The amount written off fixtures,
Lin-chi. Chang Kwal-on, L Jow-closed. son, Cheung Kwai-lin, and George Sun (Directors), and Messrs. Ngan equipment and building is -$34, Sal-long, Chan Kwai-ping and Sun 183.90, after which the balance of nett profit for the year is $67. Ming-kwong (shareholders).
The Chairmän sald:-
165.53, to which must be added Considering the high rentals 4,515.93 balance brought forward paid by the cinema theatres to the from the previous year, making the alm distributors and the keen total amount available for dis- competition among the theatres tribution $72,281.59.
DIVIDEND themselves as well as from various
OFFICES AND SHOPS
other attractións such as Chinese Your Directors recommend plac- theatrical performances and the ing to General Reserve $25,000 and dancing halls, I think you will payment of a dividend of 40 cents agree that the Company has done per share, absorbing $39.943.20. as well as could be expected and leaving a balance of $7,338.39 to be that the year's working can be carried forward to next account." considered to be satisfactory.
The Chairman proposed and Mr. Bua Ming-krong seconded that As to our Land Investment. De-the Report and Accounts be adopt- partment, it gives me pleasure to jed. This was carried unanimously. Messrs. Chang Kwai-chong and Geo.ge Bancroft, in one vivid report that all the shops and and sweeping portaryal as the fu-jomces in our building have been Chang Kwal-ren were re-elected! gitive public enemy in Columbia's fully occupied throughout the year Directors and Messrs. Perry Smith, and Meming re-elected Racketeers In Exile," yesterday at reasonable rentals, in spite of Seth reestablished himself as the out-the fact that accommodation in sc Auditors.
Bancroft Heads The Cast
standing character actor of the current cinema. Audiences at the Majestic Theatre again saw the and Bancroft of "Underworld”.
Docks at New York" fame-a striking. dynamic figure lifted bodily out of real life.
The star appears as "Big Bill" Waldo, an overlord of the under- world, who, beneath that exterior
of S 1 simple. appealing sort tellow.
Bancroft's role is the strongest he has ever played, and its vital un- dercurrent of religious emotion gives him a new apped that is sure to satisfy audiences every- where.
Fraise is due Wynne Gibson and Evelyn Venable for their flawless characterizations, as well as Marc Lawrence, Garry Owens, John Gallaudet
Richard and others. Carle
George McKay and tribute much of the picture's comedy. Erle C. Kenton directed from the story by Harry Sauber.
NINO MARTINI'S LATEST
"Music For Madame"
At Queen's
Con-
Jail is one of the last places one would expect a rothance to bloom. However, that is where Cupid first aims his dart at Nino Martini and Joan Fontaine in "Music for Madame," which opers at the Queen's Theatre today. #
Martin plays an ambitions Ita-
MUSICAL STARS DIARY OF LOCAL
Nino Martini and Joan Fon- taine as they appear in their new musical film, "Music for Madame," showing showing at the Queen's Theatre today..
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.- Duke of Gloucester 'bern. St. Benjamin. Deacon.
1900
Auctions.-Household Furniture.
at No. 8 The Peak. Flat No. 3. at 10.30 a.m.
Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page!
Commercial-Hong Kong Land Tnvestment and Agency Co., Ltd.. Debenture Interest payable.
Dances.-Public Works Recrea- tion Club ft Annual Dance, at Rose Room. 9 Peninsula Hotel,
p.m
on
Lectures. Theosophical Society. 6 pm: Mr. Theo de Witte "The
Tribe, of New Vanishing Cuinea-Life of the Kaja Kajas." in Room "K". University, 8.15 p.m.
Mails. See Page. 16). Meetings-Annual. of Indo- China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.. at Messrs Jardine, Matheson's Offices, noon: Annual, of Hong Kong Automobile Assocn.. at Messrs. Linstead and Davis' Offices, Exchange Building, 5.30 p.m.; An- nual. of Victoria Diocesan Mis- slonary Assen, in the Bible Depot. 5.30 p.m.; Monthly, of Hong Kong
lan singer who has dropped into HUNGARIAN TRIO Philatelic Society in 8. C. M. Post
bad hands on reaching Hollywood
to
to forward his career. In fact, he becomes the pawn of a clever gang of crooks who have pulled a half-million-dollar gem robbery at: a wedding reception..
When he goes the police station to surrender and clear his name, he meets. Joan, who is a young composer and who also ran into dificulty when she crashed into the party.
THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
AT GRIPPS
- Extended Season
By Popular Request
READY
WILLING and ABLE
Hear, Hear, They'ṛs Harl Ruby und Lie and the world's most uproarious collection
af comes, including
RUBY KEELER
ALLEN JENKINS - LOUSE FAZENDA - CAROL, KUCHES - BYN SHAR
NEXT CHANGE,
COLUMBIA
Rivals de Wings
AND Rose Alexander Toddy ten · Hugh ©CareTM A Women Bras Panos · Baded by TAT BAN Monks and (pulen by Johnny Mansor del Riobare Whi
RONALD COLMAN in
"LOST HORIZON”
ALHAMBRA
• DAILY AT
· 9.30 -TEL. 500DA
OMMENCING TODAY
JOE PINNER
CENE RAYMOND
PARKY AKARKUS VICTOR MOORE HARRIET HILLIARD HELEN BRODERICK, BILLY CELSEIT
RADIO
INN SELLER
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The Greatest Comedy Cast Ever Assembled For One Picture!
Directed by When A. Seiler • Produced by Edward Keyiman
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DONALD
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The LIFE OF THE PARTY
time
-SIX SWELL SONGS!...A
of laughs ...AU the rsuance and glamour and exciting irrelinass yeur lesping beart can stand!
ATTRACTION "HAWAHAN HOLIDAY Walt Disney Tschalcolour Cartoon
JANE WITHER in-
WILD & WOOLLY
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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FINAL SHOWINGS. TODAY
A GRIPPING, PUNCH-PACKED GANGSTER DRÁMA!
HE RAN A RACKET TO END ALL RACKETS
'til a
Couple of Dames Mus- cled in On His Heartl
RACKETEERS IN EXILE
George Bancroft Evelyn Venable Wynne Gibson.
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
TOMORROW AND SATURDAY
A SWELL MUSICAL COMEDY FULL OF LAUGHTER AND CATCHY SONGS!
JAMES MELTON
fi
Board Room. 5.30 pm: Victoria Chess Club at Gloucester Hotel 5 1% Chess Club, p.m.: Kowloon Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m:: Rifle Meeting Committee, at Headquar- ters, 5.30 p.m.; "Women's Guild, in An- Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m.; St. drew's Women's Fellowship; 3 p.m. Miscellaneous, Claims against the Estate of William Erie Stevens It is learned that the manage- due.
Moon-II Moon, 30th. Day. ment of the Hong Kong Hotel
Social-Y.M.C.A. (Women's Sec- have, by popular request, arranged
Guest Morning: YMC.A. for an extended engagement of tion) the Hungarian Trio, Kyra, Roby Ladies' Night; Cheero Club Bridge
PATRICIA ELLIS in and Mahjong. 8 p.m.; St. John's and Harry.
These exceptionally accomplish- Women's Guild Bridge and Mah- ed artistes, who have gained much jong Drive in Cathedral Hall. 3 An all-star, high-speed modern popularity, have been delighting p.m.; Offelal Dinner at Govern
House: St. Andrew's Club romance, around which is built diners nightly in the "Gripps "ment one of the gayest screen musical with their exceedingly clever per-Games evening. 9 p.m.
Sports-Bee Page 101. comedies of the season, is "The tormances in some of the smooth- Life of the Party," which opens at est ballroom and vaudeville dan-
Sunrise-6.18 a.m. Sunset,-6.38 the Alhambra Theatre today.
cing ever witnessed in Hong Kong. Gene Raymond and Harriet Hi- On Saturday night, during, the
Tides. High at 08.30 and 20.30; liard, the screen's newest roman-special dinner tic team, supply the heart interest. "Gripps." this sensational dancing Low at 01.25 and 1425. and Joe Penner. Parkyakerkus. trio will appear in entirely new Helen Broderick and Victor Moore numbers. furnish most of the laughs.
"
Tuneful Musical Romance
!n dance
the
They are definitely worth seeing.
The Life of the Party" concerns and Intending patrons are advised the romance between Raymond to make early reservations of
Miss Hilliard-a romance tables."
and
which follows a rocky and uproar-
lous path Interspersed with alx
tuneful hit and three spectacula:
dance numbers.
p.m.
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'MELODY FOR TWO"
A WARNER BROS. HIT !.
CENTRAL
LAST TIMES TODAY
7 SHOWS DAILY
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-at 12.30, 9.30, 3,50, 5.30; 7,00), 8.30 & 9.50 p.m. CHINESE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MOTION PICTURE STUDIO Prosents
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MEETING"
Raymond, as heir, to a fortune The annual general meeting of which he loses if he marries be- the Indo-China Steam Navigation
Board Room of Jardine. Matheson and
fore he is thirty, falls in love with Co. Ltd. will take place today at Dr. J. Herbert Sanders Harriet Hilliard,
the in struggling noon а voung singer whose mother wants Messrs. her to marry another rich man. Co., Ltd.
Most of the picture's action takes place in a luxurious hotel in Banta Barbara, California, the A seafarers' dance will be held at famous "millionaires" playground the Sailors Home and. Seamen's
Institute tomorrow at 9 pm.
Errol Flynn
Joan Blondell
of the Pacific Coast.
Medical supplies received from Honoluly, 1 box X-ray Machine parts, 1 box Transformers,
Medical supplies to the value of |$500-received from Bayers,
10,000 miles of modern highways run through B provinces. A splendid pictorial record of China's construction.
also in the programme
Latest War News from Western China THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FAMOUS 8th ROUTE ARMY Thrilling scenes of the soldiers actual in action,
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