HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 2-30-515-7-20 8, 9:30 - TEL. 31453
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
Sparkling Comedy!
Glamourous Romance !
THEY'RE WHAT LOVE IS
ALL ABOUTI
BRIAN AHERNE OLIVIA DėHAVILLAND "The Great Garrick”
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GENERAL
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING”
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. -PAGE
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10. T.15 AND PA
YOU'LL YELL "Swell"!
BECAUSE... it has the star, writers, di- rector and producer of tip-top Topper" BECAUSE... # S grand cukupe go to town... and bowl., in many marinom with 100 more howit..... and mook more romance.. than even "Topper"
PLAY.
SOACH
TOMORROW
A Paramount
Picture
DANGEROUS TO KRÓW* with
• `Akim Tamiroff - Gall Patrick -Anna May Wong
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BỪN
4 SMOWS
FLEMING
DAILY
2.305.15
7.15-9-30
ORIENTAL
ROAD WANGHAI TEL. 23473
The new A.D.C. production of James Parrish's play, "Distinguished Gathering, "will have its first night tomorrow. From left to right:-Nigel Waymouth as Felix Montague: Evelyn Teversham as
Caroline Beckwith and W. A. Cornell, who designed the settings.
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Merrily We Live"
•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY QUEENS
SPECIAL FOR TODAY ONLY!
THRILLING ADVENTURE IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA | Another of the good okl favourites that's" filled with excitement, comedy and spellbound action.
Paul
ROBESON Leslie
BANKS
Edoch Wallace's
SANDERS
Dircked by 201TAN KORDA
În ALEXANDER KORDA Production"
OF THE
RIVER
LA NIMA MAE MCKINNEY
EXTRA! EXTRA!!
FOR TOMORROW AND THURSDAY
SPECIAL MOVING PICTURES WITH ACTUAL SCENES
OF THE
"BATTLE OF TAIERCHWANG"
CHINA'S MOST VICTORIOUS BATTLE AGAINST INVADERS
5 THRILLS WARFARE 5
6 CAMERAMEN RISK THEIR LIVES TO MAKE IT 6 SHOWS DAILY 6
2.30-3.50-5.30-7.00-8.30-9.50
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES FOR ALL PERFORMANCES
STALLS
FRONT 10c
BACK STALLS
20€.
DRESS
CIRULE 30c.
STARE
TODAY ONLY
VICTOR MʻLAGLEN
MYRNA LOY DAVID BOLLINS RUY D'ARCY,
Directed by JOHN FORD
· Story dy Talbot Mandy
The BLACK WATCH
TOMORROW : "I MET HIM IN PARIS"
TRIPLE TRAGEDY BEFALLS MOTHER.
of
A triple tragedy befell an Armenian woman whose three children were killed in a few minutes in a sequence accidents in Beirut.
Her eldest boy, aged 7, in the course of play accidentally stabbed his brother, aged 5.
Hearing cries the mother rushed from washing her baby. The eldest boy terri- fied, ran and fell on the knife which killed him in- stantly Returning to the house, the mother, found the baby drowned in the bath.
KING OF YEMEN ISSUES DECREE
Cairo, May 16..
The King of Yemen has issued a decree forbidding his subjects to leave the territory of Yemen for journeys abroad, declares a re- port here from Sana, the capital of the Kingdom of Yemen."-
"The King's Tédical measure, which is practically unprecedent- ed, is said to be due to the fact that the Yemenites have abandon- ed their native customs and adopt- ed foreign, ones which "endangered the social structure of the coun try." during their fourdeys abroad.
-(Transocean),
"The Great Garrick" 1.. ORIENTAL:-
"Sanders Of The River"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:--
"Penrod And His Twin
Brother"
STAR:-
"Black Watch"
MAJESTIC:-
"The Awful Truth"
KING'S:-
Coming
"My Dear Miss Aldrich": QUEEN'S:—
"Dangerous To Know" "College Swing" ORIENTAL-
"Battle of Talerchwang." ALHAMBRA :-----
"Dangerous To Know"
STAR:--
"I Met Him In Paris" MAJESTIC:-
"Seventh Heaven"
WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
Did you know that the Queen of Spain once thought of or- ranising a society for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals in her country? She confided in a high official of the Court. "He..suggested, "The first thing we must do "In order to raise funds, is to organise a big ball Oght for it.”
“MERRILY WE LIVE"
ORIENTAL
THEATRE
BOOKINGS FOR MAY AND JUNE
May 15-16.-King Solomon's Mines (Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee) (20th-Century Fox).
May 17-Sanders of the River (Faul Robeson, Leslie Banks) (United Artists)-By special re- quest.
ol
May 18-19-Battle
Taler- chwang (Special-wor Alm China's bravest soldiers in actual warfare in their greatest "victory against Japanese invasion).
Double practicality was a feature of the streamlined stage set on which "Merrily We Live" was film-Bros.-1st National. ed. This picture, co-starring Con- stance Bennett and Brian "Aberne. opens today at the King's Theatre.. In the first place, details of the lavish mansion were so faithfully carried out that a family could move in set up housekeeping and entertain on a big scale.
May 29-21-Go-Getters (George Brent. Anita Louise) (Warner
May 22-23.-Firefly (Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones) (M.G.M.)
"The other practical advantage ci the set was in a technical phase. It departed from 'tradition in its streamline plan. The rooms of the mansion led from one to another instead of being constructed in helter-skelter fashion in different parts of the stage.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE"
CROSSWORD-NO. 3
ACROSS
1 Intrepid
5 Instrument
for piercing holes
13 City in
Brazil
15
13
15
8.On the ocean
120
21
12 One of the *
Great Lakes
22
23
24
12. FIFT
28
14 What Quaker
32
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133
was the
founder of. Pennsyl-
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165
17 Elect
57
60
18 Jeer
10 What Ameri-
vania?
15 What US.
president
Gulteau?
can general
was known
as Light Horse Harry?
21 Feminine
name
22 What is the
former name of Regens- burg where ȧ famous battle was fought in 18097..
25 Stout club
28 Common or profane
29 What slave abolitionist led a famous raid on Ear- per's Ferry?
32 Plane
surface
34 Printer's
measures
36 Winged parts 37 who brought
about the.. nomination of McKinley for president of U.S.A.?
39 Diseaes of fowls,
41 Sooner.
than
42 Pertaining
a country
45 Period of time
47 Fall along
after
48. Amount at which per- son, is rated
52 In addition
54 One of a cla including the roundworms,
56 State of min 57 Bantu
dialect
58 Pen-name of
Charles Lamb 59. Be in process of adjustment
00 High in the
-scale
61 Rodents
DOWN
1 Asks alms
2 City in Algeria
3 Italian coins
4 Postpone
5 Exist
6 What actor
was the star
of The Thin
Man (two
name's)?
7 Rock Assures filled with
mineral,
8. Imitate 9 With what
.tribe' did the
U.S. coduct
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61.
16. Persia
20 Decliné 23 Digit
24 Anglo-Saxon
coin
25 Exclamation * of disgust 26 Constella-
tion 27. Who wrote
Idylls of the King?
30 Armed
31
combat
Born
33 Of each an
equal, quantity
35 Transgres-
sion
B Siamese coin
40 Estuary of
Brazil...
43 What was
the ancient name of the western portion of Asia Minor? 44 More tardy 45" Moist 46 Fragrant resin
49 Weight of
May 24-Prince and the Pauper (Errol Flynn and Mauch Brothers; (Warner Bros.-1st National)--By special request.
May 25-28. California Straight Ahead (John Wayne, Louise Lat mer, Robert McWade) (Universal).
May. 27-28. Barrier (Leis Car rillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison) (Paramount).
May 29-30.-Public Enemy's wife (Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, (Warner Bros.-1st National).
May 31-Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple. Victor McLaglen) (20th-Century Fox)-By special request.
June 1-2-Madame X (Gladya, George, John Beal, Warren Wil- Ham) (MOM).
Mayer
K
Constance..
BENNETT
Brian AHERNE
Merrily We Live
AND LATEST MUSICAL-
SHORT IN TECHNICOLOUR “SUNKIST STARS AT PALM SPRINGS " NEXT CHANGE 'MY DEAR MISS ALDRICH
wath EDNA MAY OLIVER-MAUREEN USULLIVAN WALTER PIDGEON-BITA JOHNSON A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ricture
ALHAMBRA
SID, KOWLOON DAILY AT 2,30,5.20-720 £ 9,30 *TEL. 3 0
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
A Programme That Is All Entertainment
Picture For The Whole Family !
Two All-Acaarican Boys for All American Boys!
PENROO
and his TWIN BROTHER
Starring the
Mauch Twins Billy & Bobby
*** FRAJER CRAVEN - SPRING BYINGTON • ztrouška zy Winan Metzen • J. WALMER 'DONO, Viera Sarson Pier ler Willum Invako mnd High Consalega - Hoone on the Potrod Stories by Doanh Varkingson
'SHOWING WITH
June 3-4-The Awful TruthSybil Jason in "A DAY AT SANTA ANITA'
(Trene Dunne. Cary Grant) (Columbia).
June 5-6. Come and Get It (United Artists); '
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays... Daylight Saving Act passed, 1918. 8t. Paschal Baylon.
Auctions. Crown Lands, at Dia- trict Office, Talpo, 11.30 a.m
Cinemax-(See Column 3-of this
Page)
Entertainment HE the Gov- ernor and Lady Northcote attend Dr. Mei Lan-fang's Performance at Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
Malc-(8éé Page 181
Meetings. Kowloon Chess Club. Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; Mothers' Union and Women's Guild Combined, in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 3 p..
Miscellaneous. Rotary Tiffin, Hong Kong Hotel
Moon-IV Moon. 18th. Day. Rehearsals YMCA, A, D. C. Rehearsal. 8 p.m.
Religious-Prayer Meeting in Chaplain's Room of the 8 and 8. Home.
Social Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 9.15 p.m.; Whist Drive" and Tombola Bergls, Mess, Nanking Bta., Sham- jahuipo, 8.30 p.m.
Sports (See Fage 10)
Sunrise-5,45 am Sunset,—-0.57
p.m.
*;་
Tides-High at 00.12 and 10.15, Low at 04.00 and 17.33.
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WED JATENAPALI
A Technicolour Featurette That's A Show In Itself!
TOMORROW
A Paramount Picturs
"DANGEROUS TO KNOW"
wilä
Akim Tamiroff - Gail Patrick - Anna May Wong
MAJESTIC
MATINEES
THEATRE.
· EVEN
·TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY RETURN SHOWING A
IRENE DUNNE CARY GRANT
SPECIAL REQUEST:
THE
Awful
MATHAM ROAD KOWLOON
TELLSTERE
Truth
BALPH - BELLAMY · ALEXANDER WARGY
CECIL CUNNINNEEN JA LEO McCAREY, SSPRODUCTION
4. Columbia Plotura
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
EETURN OF ANOTHER FOLD FAVOURITE "/
SIMONE SIMON JAMES STUART în
SEVENTH HEAVEN"
A 20TH CENTURY-FOX PICTURE
S.C.A. A. DINNER ON THURSDAY
The South China Athletic As-, Federation. Cochinchinoise de sociation will hold & dinner at the Football Basociation's
football team and to celebrate the winn-
Kam Ling Restaurant, 400, Queen's
mu za ing by the 8,C.A.A. of the Hong Road West, on Thursday, at 3 pm Kong Senior Football League and In honour of the visit of the the Challenge Shield
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