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ROLLICKING ROMANCE !
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BARRYMORE
"ROMANCE
IN THE DARK
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The Miracle of 1938 Technicolour
"GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
George Brent.
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Olivia de Havilland - Claude Rains A Warner Bros. Picture
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"Nine Days A Queen" QUEEN'S:-.
"Romance In The Dark" ORIENTAL:-
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"Daughter of Shanghai"
Kowloon
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"Romance In The Dark"
ALHAMBRA :-
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"Private Worlds"
··MAJESTIC:—
"Head Over Heels In Love"
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It happened in Hollywood
Leroy March
All of Hollywood. long used Freckle-faced Buddy Ebsen yot to the joint picture billing of so enthusiastic in one of his dance Laurel and Hardy," some how routines at. Paramount the other Ands it very amusing to find this day that he threw a vertebra out" abruptly followed by "Barrymore of place. He was confined to his and Hardy-with the Barrymore bed for four days.
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In the case being John
Virginia. Bruce should be given The Barrymore and Hardy billing some sort of honorary recognition. will be applied to Hal Roach's She is one star who will not leave forthcoming comedy-drama, "Road town for her vacation. Virginia Show." Patay Kelly and Lyda explains that she can have more Roberti will supply, a hectic love fun at home in the fim city than interest for the stars.
any place she has ever known.
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Jack Benny explains that he
A Very Spectacular Companion- likes to have Martha Raye hand-ship: There is a seal who has "You Can't Have Every-ly nearby on the studio sets where formed the habit of joining Mau- he is working because the car reen O'Sullivan in her morning thing" QUEEN'S:
command "Quiett" much louder swim at Malibu-and when the "Gold Is Where You Find It" than anyone else he knows. ORIENTAL:-
"Ever Since Eye" ALHAMBRA:—
"Oold Is Where You Find It" STAR:-
Mary Burns Fugitive" MAJESTIC:—
"52nd Street"
WITTY COMEDY STARS GLADYS SWARTHOUT
Gladys Swarthout, John Boles and John Barrymore head the cast
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY of a witty comedy studded with
SHE BARED INSIDE BECKETS OF THE UNDERWORLD!
Ong daring girl trails the ring of supper-crooks who deal in human cargo..... and death.
SENSATIONAL PULSE-POUNDING ADVENTURE STORY!
DAYS ONLY
"DAUGHTER
OF
SHANGHA)"
ANNA MAY WONG
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY •
6 COMEDY SCREEN STARS IN ONE PICTURE
A show of laughter with an all star comedy cast,
ROBERT
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FRANK HUGE S
KELLY A
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brilliant songs, "Romance in the Dark," the Paramount picture which opens" at the Alhambra Theatre today.
Miss Swarthout, in the role of the singer who must arst turn housemaid and then princess to get her big chance, and Boles, the stage favourite who creates a bewitching Cinderalla who later conquers his heart, sing their way to romance, while John Barrymore adds brillant comedy to the plece. The supporting cast Includes Claire Dodd, Fritz Feld, Curt Bols and Carlos de Valdex.
DIVORCE BILL PASSED
Provision Made For Ex-Sultanah
The Sultan of Johore's divorce from his consort, Sultanah Helen. was given legal effect recently when the Johare Council of State passed a Bul declaring the mar riage annulled. The Bill was passed in nine minutes. without discussion.
The acting Legal Adviser, Mr. A Williams, introducing the Bill, sald that there were ong or two mat- ters which it was desirable to ex- plain.
Bandra Storm and Monte Banks make up Hollywood's newest younger-set romancing team.
swim is over he comes up on the sand to enjoy a sun bath with her.
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Betty Furness and Ralph Bel- lamy are proving to be the most ardent of Hollywood's checker fans. Bystanders report they are almost evenly matched.
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Problem of the Month: All of the instructors who have so far at- tempted the job haven't been able to teach Gary Cooper to dance the old fashioned Polka-and he's sup- Leon Janney, who was a juvenile posed to do the dance with Frances star of only a few years ago. is Dee for a scene in "Souls at Sea." now the busiest Romeo in Holly- before the picture can be com-wood. He has been squiring pleted..
Dixie Dunbar, Lana, Turner, and
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"I'm just not bullt for Polkas." Phyllis Fraser-individually and Gary grumbles.
on different evenings, of course.
Story Of A TO DIET IS NOT
War-Time
Romance
-FILM ACTRESS
AND STUDIO DIRECTOR
MISS LILY LEE'S PATRIOTISM
A
TO STARVE
Rotary Speaker's Advice
"In connection with food, the golden rule to remember is that we eat to live, not live to eat." NAJA Mr. H. O. Waser, in the course of his address on "Food" to Ko- tarians and guests at the weekly Inncheon meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club held recently, says the Malaya Tribune.
He stressed the importanc of imparting to the people a better knowledge of food values and ra- tional nutrition. In Great Britain,
In the Motion Picture Studio of Europe and the United States. of the Political Tralalag Department America much had been done, he of the National Military Connell in said, in recent years in this direc-
romance tion. Hankow developed which recently culminated in the "The efforts of the medical pro-, marriage of one of the leading fession and students of nutritional stars of China's war-time movies values have, in fact, evoked keen and patriot working in the same interest everywhere and met with studio as recording director.
considerable success." he went on. Miss Lily Lee was one of the 500 "The disappearance of the errone-- movie actresses who left Shanghai uus idea that rich and expensive during the
foods are the healthiest foods is Chinese troops from that sector largely due to these and similar late last year and who have since efforts. been working in the Motion Pic- ture Studio in Hankow. She had
withdrawal of the
PROPER SELECTION
reen through many hardship dur-ever, is one thing; and a
"A proper selection of food, how- COP- ing the long flight from Shanghai
to Hankow and had lost trace of sided diet like that some people impose upon themselves, for some reasons probably known only to His Highness, he spid, delivered many dear relatives and friends.
While working in the Hankow themselves, is another. People one "talak," Of repudiation, to Her Highness just prior to the studio, she had, therefore, known who feel that their health is not Sultanah's departure from Singa- no love save that for her country what it should be, should consult pore on December 31. The posi-expressed through the roles she has a physician rather than follow a tlon after the giving of one "talak" played in various pictures portray diet of their own imagination.
somewhat surprising that was that a revocable divorce was ing China's all-front resistance.
Thus she worked, constantly even in these enlightened days, the effected for the period, irrevocable
it before the expiration of the period. known to Mohammedan law as the Iddat.
TWOFOLD PURPOSE
"It is
cherished figures.
Dr. Yen's Statement
it His Highness should not revoke acting berole or tragic paris as idea or belief should still exist in she portrayed China's womanhood the minds of many that to diet Following the publication in The.
and anxiety about the future des- "Ladies, intent upon 'slimming' "Anniversaries and Holidays. Dally Telegraph and Morning Post
in war, and the strain of her work means to starve.
tiny of her country were heavy often actually starve themselves. St. Paul of the Cross. Mutiny of of a letter from an Englishwoman
NO REVOCATION living in Shanghai as to conditions
results to their the Bounty, 1789.
"The period of the Iddat has upon her heart. Ofter she could with disastrous in Chinese military hospitals, the
and, possibly, to their Chinese Embassy in London has is-
now expired and His Highness has not sleep in the deep of the night health
During one of these Tonely vigiis at 10 Hart Avenue, Kowloon,, 10.30 sued a statement cabled by Dr. F. not revoked the divorce." went on
"A diet of cold meat, preferably C. Yen, the head of the Health Mr. Williams "In these circums- she found the man of her dreams,
tances Their Highnesses' marriage for each time she sauntered in the cold roast veal, vegetables, salads Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Administration in China. Page).
In it he states that many foreign has now, according to the law of moonlit courtyard she saw a light and fruits, unaccompanied by Lectures-Theosophical Society. doctors are serving in hospitals for this State. become irrevocably dis-in one little room of the dormitory Equids of any kind during meals, which was attached to the studio, will bring satisfactory results to in solved, wounded Chinese soldiers
The Sultanah had throughout In that lighted little room she saw. healthy people who would rid Shanghai and elsewhere. Malls-(See Page 16).
The Chinese Red Cross Bociety the proceedings been advised by as she peeped through the window, themselves of an increasingly pro- Meetings. Annual, of Hong
has created an international com- her private legal adviser and the the only man in the whole dormi- truding evidence of their food.”
Mr. Waser proceeded to say that Kong. Canton & Macao Steamboat mittee of prominent foreign doc-Bill had been prepared in close tory who was an awake as herself Co., Ltd., at Queen's Bldg., noon; tors to consider applications from consultation with him. Both Her He was studying books on sound a healthy person, in order to re- main healthy, should partake of us Annual of Hong Kong General foreign doctors and enlist their Highness and her legal adviser had recording.
Miss Lee became interested in large a variety of food as possible, Chamber of Commerce, Exchange service. The hospitals are open to approved it. Mr. Williams said. Bldg., st floor, 4.38. p.m.; Mon-inspection by doctors and corre
this an who spent his nights in not in the course of one particular thiy, Hong Kong Philatelic spondents of all nationalities. The object of the Bill might be study. for "behind all these late meal, but as a general rule and Society, in S. C. M. Post Board Favourable articles on hospital said to be twofold, he added, first-hours of diligent work there could principle of sound nutrition. Room 530 p.m. Victoria Chess conditions in China have appeared ly to declare in a pupile Enact- be nothing but a patriotic, destre The best food, no matter how Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; | ja
andment that the marriage had been to improve his knowledge and skill tastefully it may have been pre- pared, In order to be able to serve Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula abroad, and many foreigners have irrevocably dissolved: secondly to to serve his country better.
Out of her desire to know more its purpose to the body and health Hotel 5.30 pm: St. Andrew's declared that the Chinese hospital make legal provision whereby Her Women's Fellowship, 3 p.. services are quite comparable to Highness ceased to be Bultanah of about the man, Miss Lee one day should be thoroughly masticated.
The substances upon which Moon.-III Mocn, 28th. Day. those of the Great War,
Johore nt bear that title or enjoy went into his room in his absence Dr. Ten points out that China's the rights, privileges or dignities and found his diary. She read it body health and vigour are de- Are proteins, vitamina RehearsalsAD.C., at European! collaboration with the League of which she previously enjoyed by and was further moved by its pendent Y.M.C.A., 9. pim.
words of patriotism. Great was mineral matters, carbohydrates, fats and water." the speaker told Social Farewell Tea Party to Nations in work connected with virtue of it, ed
her joy Rev. H. V. Baines, 5 p.m., and Pre-epidemies shows the willingness of sentation at 5.30 p.m.; in St. John's the Chinese Government to wel- Highness the Sultan has agreed to Before anybody in the Motion his listeners. Hall, Cheero Club come the services of forel a ex-make suitable provision for Her Picture Studio knew what had Cathedral
Highness during the remainder of happened, invitations to the wed- NO WAY TO PEACE Bridge and Mahjong Drive, 8 p.m.; perts
her life." concluded Mr. Williams ding of Mr. Lo Ching-ya, Recording..
"One could not secure peace by NY.M.C.A. Ladies' Guest Morning, 10
"It remains only to say that His Director of the War-time Motion a.m.; Official Dinner at Govern
Highness has approved this. Bill Picture Studio, and Miss Lily Lee giving away to Fascist Powers," ment House, 8.15 p.m. pi
and that it is desirable to pass the were circulated among 500 movie said Mr. D. N Gritt, K.C., M.F., at Sports(See Page 10).
Bill at the present session of the stars and other members of Wealdstone, Middlesex,
"The Government is more afraid Counci
China's war-time movie-producing The Bill was passed without fur-staff in Hankow (China Infor- of Socialism than it is of losing
Itne Empire. ther comment,
ination Committee)
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Tides-High at 07:35 and 20.12
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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938.-PAGE 5
KING'S
Ultent SHOWING
TODAY.
DAILY AT 2.30 5:10 7,15 & 9.30 \P.M.
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BRIDE QUEEN - MARTYR
all in nine days
SATURDAY
Cedric HARDWICKE Nova PILBEAM
Nine Days a Queen
Production
YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHİNG
...
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-with-
ALICE FAYE
RITZ BROTHERS DON AMECHE
DAILY
2:30 520 7220
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A 20th Century Fox Picture
STAR
TODAY ONLY
with a Stat
Claudette COLBERT
The mate stars að á, seman
in
HANKOW "ROAD" KOWLOON TEL
57795
"PRIVATE
WORLDS”
with
CHARLES BOYER JOAN, BENNETT JOEL MCCREA
TOMORROW
A Paramount Picture
Sylvia Sidney in “MARY BURNS FUGITIVE”
A Paramount Picture with MELYYN Douglas
MAJESTIC
73030
MATINEES.
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
NATHAN
ROAO ICOWLOON
THE BEST BRITISH MUSICAL ROMANCE
OF THE SEASON!
JESSIE MATTHEWS
HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE
SONG HITS BY. GORDON & REVEL
Directed by Sonnie Hole"
PRODUCTION
TOMORROW AND SATURDAY A WORTHY SUCCESSOR TO 42ND STREET1
WALTER WANGER'S "520 STREET"
with IAN HUNTEE, LEO CABILLO, PAT PATERSON A UNITED ARTISTS MUSICAL COMEDY
AN AMELIA EARHEART MEMORIAL
The adventurous career of the The memorial wil take this iste Amelia Earhart took a strong form in recognition of Amelia hold upon the imagination of the Earhart's work with the Canadian American' people, and the Amer- Red Cross during the war, her ican newspapers report that it 15 years of settlement work in Boston to have a permanent memorial and New York, her studies of child At a recent luncheon at the welfare, and her activities for the White House, given by Mrs. removal of discriminations against Franklin Roosevelt, it was decided her own sex.
The movement for this memo- to organise an Amelia Earhart foundation by establishing scho-rial was started by Thiel College: larships for women graduates of at Greenville, Pennsylvania, ⠀⠀ American poljeggs; such: scholar small Lutheran college which her ships to be tenable at the leading, grandfather helped to tound and social settlements of the country; from which she herself graduated.
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