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GEORGE BRENT
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DECREE FOR WIFE
OF GEORGE ROBEY
Mr.
Justice
MY DEAR MISS
ALDRICH
the Bucknil, in Divorce Court, recently granted a The equality of women gets decree his, with coats, to Mrs. better than an even break in "My Ethel Wade, living at Cranley-Dear Miss Aldrich," the amusing `mansions, South Kensington, whose comedy which | Metro-Goldwyn- husband, Mr. George Edward Wade Mayer provides at the King's --George Fobey, the comedian-Theatre today...........
did not contest a charge of adul- With Edna May Oliver, Maureen tery with a woman named Littler. O'Sullivan and Walter Pidgeon
Mr. and Mrs. Wade were mar topping
GENERAL
DISTINGUISHED
GATHERING"
Left to right:-Gelston Gilmore, as Sir Brian Howet; Helen Prior, as Lady Thalia Wilmer; and.
ELH. Joseph, as" Detective-Inspector Rutherford, who are in the cast of "Distinguished Gathering” which the A.D.C. produced at the China Fleet Club Theatre last night. The performance will be re- peated tonight. tomorrow and Saturday at 9.15 p.m. each night. The producer is Charles Burton, (Photos, D'Asis Studio).
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KINGS:-
"My Dear Miss Aldrich" QUEEN'S:-
"Dangerous To Know" ORIENTAL:-
"Battle of Talerchwang."
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Dangerous To Know"
STAK:-
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WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
"What do you think would
zo well with my purple and green galt socks?"
"Hip boots."
MUSICAL HIT AT MAJESTIC
"San Francisco" brings Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald together as a co-starring team for
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
Holidays—
Anniversarios Viscountess Astor born: 1879. Thirty-third Day of Omer. St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canter- bury.
Auctions-Crown Lands, at Land Office. Ping Shar 11.30 a.m.; Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2,30 p.m. Household Furniture, at 35
Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Page!
the first time.
Entertainments.-Y. M. C. A The musical romance, gives Miss Amateur Dramatic Club's Presen-
"Lives Of A Bengal Lancer" MacDonald her widest scope in tation of "A Busman's Honey-
MAJESTIC :-
"San Francisco"
KING'S:-
Coming
"The Bad Man of
QUEEN'S:-
"Hollywood Hotel". "College Swing" ORIENTAL:-
"The Go Gettër" ALHAMBRA:-
"Hollywood Hotel"
STAR:-
די
vocal numbers in her screen career moon," 9 p.m.; A "Distinguished total of nine presentations Gathering" at the China Fleet ranging from a solemn hymn to Club Theatre.
the most beautiful operatic arias Lectures.--Theosophical Society.
Clark Gable returns to the vigor-6 p.m.
ous type of role that first elevated Malls (See Page 18).
W
him to stardom as a blustery, Bar- MertingsVictoria Chess Club, Brimstone bary Coast gambling baron who at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; st. has no faith in anything but his Andrew's Club Committee. 8.30 own power and his charm over p.m.; St. John's Cathedral Club, in Cathedral Offee, 5.30 p.m.; St. Co-starring with Miss MacDon-Andrew's Women's Fellowship. 3 ald and Gable is Spencer Tracy in pm.: Lawn Bowls Assen. Sub Com- his most unusual role, that of a mittee, 5.30 p.m. priest; a distinguished supporting
"Trouble For Two" "Romeo and Juliet"
MAJESTIC:--
"Cafe Metropole"
women:
Miscellaneous-Small Display of
cast includes Jack Holt, Jessie Scale Non-Flying Models in S. C. Ralph. Ted Healy," Shirley Ross, M Post Boardroom, 5.45 pm;
| Margaret Irving. Harold Huber, Women's Guild Members of St. Al Shean, William Ricciardi and John's Cathedral attend Tea Party Kenneth Hathan
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at Heep Yunn School, Kowloon City, 3 pm.
Moon-IV Moon, 20th. Day. Religious. Solemn Requiem Mass with Pontifical Assistance for the late Joseph Lo Pah-hong, the Great Apostle of Charity of Shanghai, and Special Remem- brance Service for the Victims of the Sino-Japanese War, at the Catholic Cathedral, Caine Road, 7.30 a.m.
Social St. Andrew's Clup “Open Night." 8 D.00. Cheero Club Bridge and Mahjong. 8 p.m.; Da- ner at the Kam Ling Restaurant
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Arst-rate cast. ried in 1898, and lived at Victoria picture ranks as one of the better road. Kensington.
laugh films of the age. It tells the Mrs. Wade's case was that in 1920 story of a school teacher who in- trouble began to develop, and inherits a newspaper. The managing 29 Greek letter 1923 she and her husband agreed editor, strong in the belief that no to part. Last year she received a woman is fitted for work beyond letter from him, and she alleged the home, attempts to block her that adultery had taken place at at every turn until, of course, he
falls in love with her. Acacia-road, St. 'John's Wood, where her husband and Miss Littler had lived together.
Edna May Oliver appears as a puzzle addiet. in the most humorous role of her brilliant
Mrs. Robey was Miss Ethel Hay-career. don, the musical comedy actress. and was born at Melbourne, Aus- trailä
Her stage debut was made when' she was 18, at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, in "In Hongur Bound," In 1895 she made her first London appearance as Alice in "Dandy Dick Whittington" at the Avenue Theatre, now the Playhouse.
Miss Haydon's first part at the Gaiety was that of Bessie Brent, in "The Shop GUL
One of her most successful roles was an La Favourita in "The Cirens. Girl at the Galety in 1996. She also played in pantomime, and for some years appeared in various musle halls. She retired in 1902.
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Sunrise 5.42 am Sunset.-6.58
p.m.
Tides High at 01.50 and 11.08. Low at 05.00 and 19.18.
CHEERFUL FILM
SELLS BEST
Mr. Tay Garnett And Audiences' Demands
Mr. Tay Garnett, the brilliant director of such flm successes, za "Stand In." "China Seas" and the never-to-be-forgotten "One Way Passage," is in London on holiday from Hollywood, writes a Rome correspondent.
Like everybody else, he make a comedy before leaving the United States, but he tells me that he has tried not to make "Joy of Living" quite as crazy as some of its predecessors.
I asked him if he intended to revive his plan to make a nim in England. He replied that he was! doubtful whether English produ- cers would pay his price,
“A good many directors," he went on. "are interested only, as Mr. Bhaw said Mr. Goldwyn was, in Art. Like Mr. Bhaw, I'm only interested in money.
"For months now I've had a col league touring the United States, getting in touch with exhibitors, large and small. His reports are extraordinarily interesting.
SHOPPING FOR
V ENTERTAINMENT
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1938. PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT: 2.30, 5.30, 7.35 AND 9.30 PM
Girls! Don't get suusta in your ramasex? Pratty Blasensti made thou mečataan, nd taking Auntie Rina May Oliem along... and what trauble obe Sal Salone
she met up with a milton in the hacht and a part th bar arcoal Butlets a tauch-mpowe all the way with an all-fan all-star case!
MY DEAR MissALDRICH
NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. PICTURE
„KONA WAY OLIVERI MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN WOLLTER
ROGEON
KITA JOHNSON -JAMES BELOMER
ALSO
"GLOVE TAP8"
(Our Gang)
"THE BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE”
Starring
WALLACE BEERY
STARE
TODAY
Soldiers Three
TO. MORROW
DAILY 230 20 720-9.30
ONLY
$7795
Heroes Alli
Gary Cooper Franchot Tone
in
"THE LIVES
OF A
BENGAL LANCER"
with Richard Cromwell Kobert Montgomery Rosalind Russell TROUBLE FOR TWO"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL. 87232
MATINEES, 202 -30% • EVENINGS. 20%-30ɑ-50:700 TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY! "RETURN OF ANOTHER GREAT OLD FAVOURITE":
NEVER SUCH A THRILL!
CLARK
JEANETTE
Your two most exciting stars...in
M-G-M's mighty romantictriumph!
GABLE MACDONALD
San Francisco TRACY
with
Spencer
JACK HOLT - JESSIE RALPH TED HEALY
a 15, 3. VAN ÖYKÉ Pinducson
Produced by John kamenon arid Bernard H. Hyman
• TOMORROW AND SATURDAY CEDRIO HARDWICKE & NOVA PHILBEAM in
"NINE DAYS A QUEEN
A GAUMONT-BKITISH FRODUCTION.
"The reports bear a striking re-head and other costs: Useless ex- semblance. They prove that the ecutives and other dead wood have average timgoer demands:
been eliminated. But the average "A love interest, preferably be cost of a good nlm, without music, tween two very young people, as is still about €125,000* the Indian summer type of zo- Mr. Garnett says that Charles Laughton is still England's most "A cheerful story with some popular player in the United good laughs by the way;
States, though Robert Donat and "A picture without at least Errol Flynn are rising fast. one big name, no matter how The two biggest box-omce at- good has very little chance."tractions in the world, he thinks,
They show that the ordinary_mance leave them cold; and fan with enough money to see
only one film a week starts read- lug synopses and reviews a month abend, makes careful inquiries-of friends in other districts, and
shops for entertainment as care-Hollywood has been forced to are hirley Temple and Gary fully as for food bebysin
make drastic economies in over-Cooper.
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