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If Ever A Cop Enjoyed Doing His Duty, This One Did... In The Nerve Tingling Drama Of Young Love"... And A Gang Of Jewel Thieves!
THE DARLING OF
THE NIGHT CLUB {..beautiful decoy for the police in their ruthless war on gangland!
NIGHT
| FADIC):
June
SPOT
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PARKYAKARKUS
ALLAN LANE GORDON JONES
Joan
AWOODBURY
-ADDED, ATTRACTION
A Heavy-weight Championship Title Knockout Bout JOE LOUIS vs. NATHAN MANN
'FRIDAY'
RKO Radio
Presents "
[4 SHOWS]
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.1-9.30
Walt Disney's
SNO W WHITE
AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
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THE FUNNIEST DARN PICTURE IN MOVIE HISTORY! Howling laugh stars of Broadway'a greatest hit musical show jam-packed with laughter.
FRI. SAT.
THE FOUR HORSEMEN of HILARITY
MERRY GO ROUND
THE NEW UNIVERSAL presents A TEN STAR FUN FROLIC BERT LAHR JIMMY SAVO BILLY HOUSE ALICE BRADY MISCHA AUER JOY HODGES
IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER' Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, 100 other stars.
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ISTARE
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Marlene
TODAY ONLY
DIETRICH
TOMORROW
A Columbin
Picture
"The
SCARLET EMPRESS®
A Forumount Picture presented by Adolph Ackor with John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dessor... Direted by JOSEF von STERNBERG
Gary Cooper - Jean Arthur
“M. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN"
£50,000 DIAMOND
SOLD IN LONDON
NEW R.A.M.C. SHOW
A £50,000 diamond was sold in Under distinguised "patronage, Hattongarden recently. Parties the RAM.C. Players will present concerned in the transaction have a variety show called "Smile" at been sworn to secrecy, but I un-the China Fleet Club Theatre on derstand that the purchaser la a May 27 and 28, starting at 9 p.m. leading industrialist.
The proceeds will be donated to
The diamond measures lin. by the Boy Scouts Association. a. It is the third largest cutting
Further particulars will be pub-
made from the famous "Jonker lished later,
diamond, the fourth largest in
:
the world, which was bought by
Sir Ernest. Oppenheimer for £75,-
000.
diamonds recently. People
are
The agent who negotiated the beginning to regard them as a sate sale said:
Investment, for their value seldom
"We have had a rush for big varies."
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
KING'S:-
Hong Kong
Bornec"
QUEEN'S:
-"Night Spot"
ORIENTAL:-
'Merry-Go-Round of 1938"
Kowloon
"ALHAMBRA :---
"She's Got Everything"
STAR:-
"The Scarlet Empress"
MAJESTIC:-
The Green Pastures'
KING'S:-
Coming
"Farewell Again"
QUEEN'S :-
"Snow White"
ORIENTAL:---
"It's Love I'm After'
"Snow White"
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:-
"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town” "Ever Since Eve".
MAJESTIC:-
"David Copperfield" "
CINEMA
It happened in Hollywood
Just In Case Movie Wealth Makes
Leroy March
*
Sonja Henle is apparently really You Avaricious: Most of the paper "going to get away from it all." She's building a week-end cottage money which appears in motion on the very inaccesible crags of pictures is worthless Mexican re- Mount San Jacinto, over 8000 feet almost straight up, volutionary currency, issued by the above, and stalwart bandit bravo, Pancho from filmdom's favourite desert re-
sort, Palm Springs. Villa. It always was' fairly worth- {less, even when Pancho WBJ Answer to Juan D: Lape Velez San Luis Potosi, born in it, because lasuing
the famous Was bardit neglected to provide gold Mexico, in 1910. or, silver with which to back his gold and silver notes. This fictici- ous money is used in pictures be- cause the United States forbids the photographing of American paper
CUTTONCY.
*
A definition by Cecil B. DeMille: What used to be called a display of 'temperament' by` a star was generally nothing but an outburst
of bad mannera.”
GLAMOUR UNDER
COLOUR
M-G-M Stars Prepare to Take Plunge into Technicolour
JEWELS THIEVES
IN NIGHT CLUB within three years.
How a handsome young poiler officer falls in love with a pretty nightclub entertainer while trying
M-G-M, who have remained unshakenly black-and-white or am- biguously, sepla, have contracted to make six pictures in Technicolour
They will begin the experiment quite soon on Northwest Pass- age. the costume adventure ga starring Robert Taylor and Spen- cer Tracy.
to obtain evidence against her that' Hitherto M-G-M have had their individual reason for holding will link her with a gang of jewel out against culoar when other major studios began to be` dazzled by thieves provides romantic dificult
tles in "Night Spot," in which Allan Lane and Joan Woodbury have the romantic roles.
D
The story deals with a group which conducts large-scale jewellery racket by operating a fashionable nightclub where they get information regarding their wealthy patrons. Lane, as a trum- pet-playing policeman, is assigned by his chief to work in the orches- tra where he can uncover the evidence necessary to convict the evidence necessary to convict the gang..
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The picture opens at the Queen's Theatre today.
"Green Pastures"
At last The Green Pastures, Mare Connelly's Pulitzer Prize play that ran eighteen solid. months on Broadway and road showed throughout the Unit- ed States, thrilling millions of peo- ple comes to the screen.
Was
The picture. which retains all the unique qualities that made the stage production known
白宫
"America's Best Loved Play." will have its local premiere at the Majestic Theatre today.
ROBERT TAYLOR
Stace the enormous strides made in the use of colour last year. everybody must agree that colour need no longer be a bogey. But I feel glad that there is no immediate chance of a wholesale transrence to colour, writes a Home correspondent.
We have yet to see. If we ever. shall colour" vindicated fundamental element, of the cine-
as a
ma. We have seen that it can be inoffensive as in A Star Is Born;
or beautiful on a suitable stylised subject such as the Goldwyn. Fol~ ller.
But we saw
very clearly in Nothing Sacred that it has still not the vigour and sharpness of black-and-white to stand the racket of fast comedy.
At first hearing it seems surpris- ing to have chosen a he-man vehicle like Northwest Passage as safe conduct ́in colour for M-G-M's stars.
Until now
They felt that, having a larger number of high-powered stars
every woman has than any other. company. their gained in life and beauty from the risks were correspondingly multi-new Technicolour, while the men
retain a slightly painted look.
pitea
With colour in an experimental
But Taylor at least can have lit-
stage. they could not count ontle to fear. Everybody who saw more than perhaps two-thirds of him over here agreed that his na their experiments turning. out tural colouring made him much more healthily handsome than his right.
all too white-and-black screen
ineed, scarcely worry about his {beauty.
Stars of the eminence of Gable,
It is said to be the most preten tious production ever attempted by Warner Bros.. or any other studio, and was filmed in the Shearer, Garbo, Tracy and Taylorage. And an actor like Tracy same lavish manner as "A Mid-could hardly be offered as possible summer Night's Dream." "Captain sacrifices to problematical pro- Blood," and "Anthony Adverze." Fress Absolutely nothing was spared in an M-G-M let the other studios
the making of the film to give do the experimenting in public. DIARY OF LOCAL
this inspiring play the majectic Now, Mooring suggests, they feel background it deserves and to colour has reached the stage when make it one of the outstanding it has been made "safe for Metro-| screen dramas of all time.
CREST."
MOST AMAZING SHOW
How the "Ark scene" "The Green Pastures," the Warner Bros. film fable adapted from Mare Connelly's Pulitzer prize winning play impressed Artist Harold Cox III is shown by the above sketch. Mr. Cox made many drawings during the filming of the play, which is declared as being startlingly different from any picture ever produced. It will come to the Majestic Theatre today.
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays-St. Monica, Mother of St. Augustine.
Cinemas (Bee Column 3 of this Page).
Dances. Cheero Club Dance. 8.30 p.m.
Gen-.
Malla (See Faze 18). Meetings.—Extraordinary. eral, of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, at the Club House. 5.45 p.m.; Ladies' Church Ald, in S. and S. Home, 10.30 am.; Kow-
{ loon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 a.m.; Sergeants' Mesa, at Volun teer Hara., 6pm; Youth. Confer- ence, St. Andrew's Hall, Kowloon,
8 p.m.
Moon---IV Moon, 5th. Day. Rehearsals --A.D.C. at Européan YMCA, B p.m.
Social-Prison Branch of. Min- istering League, Monthly Bridge Drive at Stanley 3.15 p.m.; Gar-, | rison Sergia(.Mens Weekly Whist Drive and Tombola, Queen's Road, 9 p.m.; HE the Governor, Guest at Admiralty House, 8.15 p.m.
Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise-6.49 a.m. Sunset-6,51
p.00:0
Tides-High at 00.56, and 1131, Low at 04.56 arid 19,00
TOMORROW!
Moon-IV Moon, Bih. Day, Sunrisa. 5.50" a.m,' Sunset ---6.51
Tides-High_at 10.40 Low |04.20` and `18.10.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938-RAGE 5
KING'S
♦ TODAY
ONLY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M:
THERE'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER LIKE IT!
From the forbidden depths of the isle of the incredible...where fish climb trees, snakes fly, and aysters grow on tree- trunks...whäre native blowguns breathe death and the head-hunters still lurk ....... comes the thrilling, recoed of a great
adventure?'s greatest adventure!
Osa Johnson
Martin Johnson's last picture'
BORNEO
-TOMORROW
Dramatically avaci feed by Lovell Themen which difarious interrus- Kom by "Finfasset,” Law take Supervised by The Toller
FAREWELL AGAIN"
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A LESLIE BANKS — FLORA «ROBSON Releasi Thre United Artists
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN 10, HOW
SHOWING TODAY
It's got
EVERYTHING
Romance Thrills.. Glamour.
GENE RAYMOND ANN SOTHERM
VICTOR MOORE SELEN BRODERICK".
PARKYAKARKUS →
BILLY GILBERTS
Dienated by Joseph Sandler, Produced br Albert Lanth. Stran piar by Harry. Supai! and Marwal Shape
PRO RADIO NOSURE
& Giggles!
Romance runs inte dynamite!
Shi's Got EVERYTHING
ADDED ATTRACTION
Heavy-weight Championship Title K. O, Bout
JOE LOUIS vs. NATHAN MANN
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THE MOST STARTINGLY ORIGINAL PHOTOPLAY OF ALL TIME!
SEE THE WORLD IN THE MAKING
IN THE DRAMA THAT MADE THE WORLD APPLAUD!
THE
GREEN
PASTURES
NOW ON THE SCREEN AUER
A Fabio by two fit nnelly - Ba
Main Conan Dy
> YEAR STASI RUN
FRIDAY, ONE DAY ONLY 1
RETURN OF ONE OF THE GREATEST "OLD FAVOURITES":
CHARLES
DICKENS "DAVID COPPERFIELD"
As M-G-M SurEL-PRODUCTION. With All Star Cart |
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