HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 2:30-515-7-20 & 9:30 - TEL. 31453-
SHOWING
TODAY
The Laugh Riot Of The Year With Versatile Katharine Hepburn As An Unpredictable Madcap & Cary (The Awful Truth) Grant Sharing The Fun f
CANY
Laugh-Riddled Romance!;
RADIO
THIS IS
ADDED:
KATHARINE
* HEPBURN GRANT
In a HOWARD HAWKS Production
Bringing Up Baby
WA CHARLIE RUGGLES, Berry Fitzgerald,
May Robson, Walter Cutlets, Felta Faid
Walt Disney's. *BOAT BUILDERS"
with Micky. MOUSE DONALD DUCK “NEXT. CHANGE
Bob Burns - Jack Oakle - Kenny Baker - Ann Miller
in RKO-Radio's Rousing Laugh & Rhythm Show RADIO CITY REVELS
GENERAL
WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT LEADERS
President Roosevelt
NEWSPAPER
PLEBISCITE
Plebiscites, seem to be quite the fashion 'nowadays. Almost at the same time as the anschluss poll in Germany and Austria, the Hague Post (Holland) asked its readers who they considered to be the most Important: personages in the world. today.
The result of the poll was as follows, in order of importance:---
1. President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States;
2. Bignor Benito Mussolini of Italy;
3. Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany;
4. Ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony den of Britain:
5. Dictator Joseph Stalin of
Soviet Russia and
6. Generalissimo
shek of China..
Chiang Kai-
Signor Mussolini
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938. —PAGE 5 -
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
THE WORLD KNEW HER ONLY AS "MADAME X"
Why had she been exiled from society...and why, years later, had she refused to speak when a single word might have saved »
her? A heart-stabbing drama and an acting triumph!
GEORGE
SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-15.15
7.15-9.30
TAKE ANY TRAM DA HAPPY VALLEY BUG-
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
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●LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY❤
DRAMA THUNDERS FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS!
Strange secrets the mountains have beki prisoner for ...
erntaries now blast from the screen to expose the last.outpost of Purl-barbariam.
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A MOST THRILLING STORY OF BACKWOODS JUNGLE I
Drama Thunders
From The Mour-
tain Tops!
JOSEPHINE
HUTCHINSON
GEO. BRENT
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE.
wicke
CBY NIBBEE • ROWA BARRIE ROBERT BARBAT
Directed by Mickist Curtis • A First National Pistars
EXTRA SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTION APPELEING ON THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES
KYRA-ROBY-HARRY
DAYS
2 ONLY
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR TREMENDOUS SUCCESS .
Chancellor Hitler
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Madame X"
QUEEN'S:-
"Bringing Up Baby"
ORIENTAL:-
"Mountain Justice"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
"Back In. Circulation"
"Midnight TaxI”
MAJESTIC:-
"She Married Her Boss"
"KINGS:-
Coming
"The Hurricane"
QUEEN'S:-
"Radio City Revels"
ORIENTAL:-
"Married Before Breakfast"
ALHAMBRA :-
STAR:
"Alcatraz Island"
"Radio City. Revels"
"Wake Up And Live" MAJESTIC:-
"A Day At The Races" "Broadway Melody Of 1938"
KYRA-ROBY-HARRY Noted Russian
ENGAGEMENT PROLONGED TWO MORE DAYS!
Presenting all new dances, acrobatic sensations and their funniest comedy creations.
FAREWELL PERFORMÁNCES OF THESE FAMOUS ARTISTS!
ALSO SHOWING
ONE OF THE SCREEN'S BEST, COMEDY HITS: Love tangles with crooks and police in a comedy of hit-and-run errors.
THE LAUGES START EARLY AND STAY LATE!
MARRIED
BEFORE
BREAKFAST
ROBERT YOUNG FLORENCE RICE
@MATINEES: 20a-30¢ • EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c.-70c. ✪
A DAY AT THE SPANISH WOMEN
RACES
Ladies and Gentlemen: We fe
strain ourselves with difficulty to announce the Marx Brothers- Groucho Harpu-and Chico-la
PRESENT GIFT
TO HITLER
Basso Dead
FEODOR CHALIAPIN'S ADVENTUROUS LIFE
Generalissimo Chiang
Mr. Eden
WORLD BRIDGE OLYMPIC
ཏཱ
Mr. Justice Lindsell To Broadcast
Tonight
At 8.50 p.m. tonight Mr. Justice Lindsell will broadcast on ZEK a description of the Bridge Olympic to be held at the Chinese Club on Wednesday, April 20.
Several hands from the 1937 tournament will be explained, and those wishing to follow the play. should keep the deals before them at the time of the broadcast.
North Dealer
Dictator Stalin
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays:- Maundy Thursday. Princess Bea-
rice born, 1857,
'Cinemas.~{Bee Column 3 of this
Page).
NORTH SJ 6 3
GLADYS
Madame
NEXT CHANGE UNITE ARTISTS
JOHN BEAL
WARREN
Also "ULIMPSES OF
WILLIAM JAVA AND CEYLON
THE
Canroom & CoNIET." ALL IN TECHNICOLOUR
HURRICANE ·
with Forothy Laninir, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
ALHAMBRA
MATHAN 80, KOWLOON-DAILY OF 2,50-520.7.20
30 TEL. 536556
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
The Thrills of " MARKED WOMAN". The Action of "G-MEN”..... The Punch of “KID GALAHAD”
All combined in one Picture !
DID YOU SAY MARRIAGE?
NO, I SAID
MURDER!
Both Sides Vulnerable
TOMORROW
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Lectures:-Theosophical Society, South
Dealer
6 p.u
Mails(See Page 16). Meetings Annual, of Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd. at Jordan Road Ferry Pier, 11 am.; Victoria Chess Club; at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m. Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; 8t, 5-287 2 Andrew's Women's Fellowship, 3-A 87
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p.m.; St. Andrew's Club, 9 pm:
D-K 10 8 Paris April 13.
Miscellaneous:-Claima against C-96 3. Feodor Ivanovich Challapin,
Russian world - famous
"Basso, the Estate of Robert Edwin Hem- of Tientsin, due; died at his Parls home yesterday minge, late
|Special Passiontide Music by the at the age of 65 years. |||
Challapin, who at the peak of United Choirs of St. John's Cathe. his career enjoyed a wide reputedral and St. Andrew's Church, 9 tion and great popularity, Was p.m.
Moon-III Moon, 14th. Day. · Rehearsals:-A.D.C. at European
born at Kazan, on the.Volga River. on February 15, 1873... His career was, an adventurous one. YMCA, 9 pm. since he had been in turn porter. Religious-In Catholic Cathé shoemaker, hunter and street-dral, Washing of the Feet at 11 p.m.; Adoration of the Blessed | sweeper.
He received his first musical Sacrament all day and all night;" training as a choir boy in Kazan. The Office of the Tenebrae, 5.30 büt his first serious studies, as r singer were made under Oussatov at Tidla.
Bocial:-Cheero Club Bridge and Mahjong, & p.m.; Woman's Bection ¡of YMCA Bridge and Mahjong
morning
Sports (500 Page 10). Bünist:-105 am. Eunset:-6.43
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A Clever defence arose in Hand No. 9.
East and West, vulnerable, have! contracted to make four spades and North leads the Heart deuce.
FAST
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SOUTH" B-63 HAJ.. 10 8 5 4 D-Q J 9 &
Owing to the Easter holidays, "Tides:~~High at 09.08 and 31,56 the close of entries has been post- Low at 02.40 and 15.18. -
poned until noon. April 19.
TOOK AUDIENCES BY STORM
He frat sang at the summer theatre at 8t. 'Petersburg and later. at the Imperial Opera House there and at Moscow, where he scored his first outstanding successes. Berlin. April 13, In 1913 he paid his first visit tr Senorita Pilar Primo de Rivera, London, where his superb bass: "A Day at the Races"-I daresay daughter of the late Spanish voice and remarkable dramatic the greatest haw-haw in the his- dictator and leader of the Falange powers took the audiences by tory of motion pictures. Metro-Femenina, who is at, present on a storm. Thereafter he sang also at p.m. Coldwyn-Mayer made tt-a, whole visit to Germany, was received by other leading opera houses in corps of star writers wrote it-ana Herr Hitler yesterday afternoon Europe and America." the Marx Brothers have the fun- She handed to the Fuehrer as 7 During the World War and niest roles ut, their lives in it..
gift from Spanish women a hand-afterwards, until 1921, he remain.
tic Theatre today.
*
Moon
TOMORROW
Moon, 15th. Day. Sunrise: 6.06 a.m. Bunset: 6.42
Tides:High at 08.40 and 21.08 Low at 02.12 and 1435. ^
MANCHUKUO MINISTER
PRINCE
BERNHARD
IN ITALY
Rome, April 13. Prince Bernhard of Netherlande. who is at present making a tour through Italy accompanied by his The picture comes to the Majet-wrought replica of an ancient To-ed in Russia. He lost the greater
brother, Prince Aschwin zu Lippe- ledo sword and a gilded réplica of part of his fortune in the Revolu
Rome - April 13. Blesterfeld, arrived in Naples yes- Maureen O'Sullivan, the lovely an ancient dress(Transocean)tion and, during the latter part of The Brat Manchukuo Minister to terday from Palermo. Irish girl, appears in the romantic |
his life, he paid only a few brief Rome, Mr. Hau Bhao chlaz, is ex- - Aftar & few days. Prince Bern- visit to his native country, where pected to arrive in Naples by the hard will continue "his journey to that rising young singer of Holly- Margaret. Dument and Esther Hair however. he retained his old Terukuni Mazu on Easter Monday. Rome und Florence Tradio- wood. Others prominently cast are in uproarious roles.
popularity.-(Transocean).
(Transocean).
feminine role opposite Allan Jones,
ocean);
BACK IN CIRCULATION
•Warner Bros' mulle-a minuta, kit, 'vturing
PAT O'BRIEN JOAN BLONDELL MARGARET LINDSAY
gach by y twight + '& Pest 10ceral Powe Bar, Sect mount Phae de Wachs Best - Pran's Completion Regziste`Sier by Zásta kogus 25. Ikas
ALCATRAZ ISLAND'
John "Lite)
Ann Sheridan
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
THROTTLE WIDE OF
„TIRES SCREAMINGI
BULLETS WHINING I
MIDNIGHT TAXI
BRIAN DONLEVY FRANCES DRAKE
ALAN DINEHART-SIG RIS
TOMORROW 20th C.. Fox. Picture.
& SHOW).
239: 6:20 7209 30
GILBERT ROLA
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL
37795
Walter Wincħall-- Ben Bernie Allos Faye 'WAKE UP AND LIVE”
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ---ROAD KOWLOON TEL:87212
(MMATINEES. 20230z • EVENINGS, 202°302-50270)
TODAY ONE DAY ONLY
RETURN OF ONE OF THE MOST-
MALAR HOLD FAVOURITE"!!
DO NOT MISS YOUR FAST OPPORTUNITY OF
SEEING THIS GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY !
Claudette
COLBERT
-A COLUMELE PICTURK
GRAND IN FIER GREATEST!
She MARRIED HER BOSS
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
BY SPECIAL REQUEST THE GOOFIEST, CRAZIEST, COCKEYEDEST COMEDY. OF THE YEARE
MARX
BROS in "A DAY AT THE RACES"
A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE
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