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DICK POWELL ROSEMARY LANE HUGH HERBERT
LOUELLA PARSONS.
BENNY GOODMAN AND HIS SWING BAND
TOMORROW
Warner Bros. Picture
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"INVISIBLE MENACE"
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A GRAND "PICTURE YOU'LL ENJOY SEEING AGAIN I With pounding hearts, you'll live Mark Twain's thrilling tale of a boyish prank which threatened to wreck an Empire
and the courage that saved it.
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Lynne Övermon Edgar Kennedy
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Produced by Alben Lewin
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FLASHES
TODAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KINGS:-
"The Bad Man of
Brimstone"
QUEEN'S:-
ORIENTAL:
"Hollywood Hotel"
"The Prince and
The Pauper"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :---
"Hollywood Hotel"
STAR:-
"True Confession"
MAJESTIC:
"Life Begins. In College"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Lost Horizon"
QUEEN'B :—
"Invisible Menace"
ORIENTAL:
GENERAL
FROM HOLLYWOOD
Stars In The Californian Floods
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CARRILLO'S
RESCUE
HAS BEER LOST
ITS “LIFT"?
Five years ago boer lifted Ame- ries out of the 1929 depression, say the beer barons" in the · United States.
It gave employment to thousands of jobless. men, they say, and sent billions of dollars circulating
Leo Carrillo WX5 one of the through the country. heroes of the recent Callfornian All of which sounds very well, floods. He and a policeman stood so long as no ons aaks how many outside. Carrilo's Santa Monica dollars went for beer that should house watching workmen try to have gone for bread. prop up a bit of the canyon that looked like sliding
One of the man fell into the whirling water. So Leo. dashed inside. fetched his trusty lariat and actually lassooed the man.
With the weight of the police- man to help pull, he got the un- fortunate man up and put him to bed in the Carrillo home. Just that old Western touch.
COMIC RELIEF
But if beer pad that power Ave years ago, why does it fall now to lift America out of the so-called recession? *
Has beer lost its "life"?.—(Chris- tian Science Monitor),
to
Davis career in a big way. It' be a nice change to see Bette in a decorative costume part, even if she is a spitare still.
the Sylvia Sidney provided comic or With all due respect pathetic relief in the food-time, Davis de-glamorisation in the -. according to whose point of viewterests at art, you can be too you see it from. Paramount tried willing. In It's Love I'm After, to get in touch with her. couldn't [Bette had certainly gone far "California Straight Ahead" and went up in smoke thinking enough in the way of being the
she was marooned in her home.
Instead Sylvia was lying in hos-
**** BELLAMY TO STAR pital suffering from a go of pto- malne brought on by bad fish. Ralph Bellamy, comes the quiet She hasn't been too happy announcement, will be starred in.
back coming
-to Holly- and as, The Gentleman from. to make You and Me Montana. Columbia bought and makes no bones about crying story specially for him before out loud how much she hates publication. Hollywood.
ALHAMBRA
"Love Is On the Air"
STAR:-
"Make A Wish" "Merry-Go-Round Of 1938"
MAJESTIC!~
"Tarzan Escapes"
COLLEGE LIFE
WITH MUSIC
Å mad and merry. Jamboree comes to the screen of the Majestic Theatre today when "Life Begins in College" has its initial showing: Hilarious and, interspersed with excellent songs, the
well-known presents such names
15 Joan
since
poos
character.
11
the
Quite a compliment to Bellamy's
Can't wait to be free of the riotous,, work in The Awful Truth tummyache and the picture to get as another gentleman from the back to New York. Hollywood wilda. But it's a funny business can't belleve she really feels that where an actor has to trend on a way and guesses a romantic mag-leading lady's toes to win recogni- tion for seven years of uniformly good screen work.
net in New York,
ADOPTION MOVEMENT Bette Davis is joining the adop- picture tion movement. Just to be differ-
fim
* ROBERT YOUNG Bobert Young's admirers will be ens. Bette isn't actually adopting very relleved to know that M-G-M Davis," Gloria thirteen-year-old Pamela Bascom. have bought a story which pro- Stuart, Tony Martin Fred Stone, but taking her into her home "tomises to be a slap-up starring Nat Pendelton ond the Fitz mother her."
vehicle for Mr: Young. Brothers.
Pamela, it seems, has gifts for Only facts to date are that they Burrounding the plot, which
music and dancing and Bette and bought it from the galley proofs, at breakneck speed, are her orchestra-leader busband are the author is Marco Page, and the dazzling ensembles with hundreds going to see to her musical train-title Fast Company. of gorgeous girls dancing to the
ing.
Sounds altogether · like one swing tunes or Pollock and Mit-
Reports are, filtering through the Montgomeryesque comedies chell.
that Jezebel is being good for the this Robert' does so nicely.
moves
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Astonishing Facts About
New Pacific Clipper
The 72 passenger Clipper plane now being built by the Boeing Aircraft Company at Seattle, Washington, to be delivered soon to Pan-American Airways for ocean fiying, is a series of amazing “be- lieve it or nots.”
"
of
Some astonishing facts about their type ever built. They deve- lop twice as much power as a rail- this 15 room "flying palace":-
Its weight (82,500 pounds) is way, locomotive, although each is nearly three and a half times that only five feet wide.
of the largest overland plane now The giant plane can fly on any in operation.
two of its four engines. The com-
Its four engines (1,500 horse-plete power plant and engines are power each) are the largest of accessible to mechanics for repairs during flight through wing passages...
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CAROLE LOMBARD
FRED MACMURRAY JOHN BARRYMORE
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"TRUE CONFESSION
A Paramount Picture Directed by WESLEY RUGGLES
BOBBY
BREEN
MAKE A WISH"
with Basil Rathbone
THE DEVIL IS DRIVING
A dynamic dramatization of a cludes Nana Bryant, Frank C. Wil- fearless prosecutor's one-man cam-son, Elisha Cook, Jr., Henry Kolker, paign against playboys turned Ann Rutherford and John Wray. killers when driving in a drunken Dix launches a relentless cam- state. Columbia's "The Devil Is paign against traffic violators. His Driving opens at the Alhambra sincerity, doubted at first, is again Theatre today with Richard Dix in questioned when he is faced with. the star role,
prosecuting the very same boy he. Joan Perry, lovely leading lady, once acquitted for killing a girl, in heads the imposing east which in-another motor accident.
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permanent
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spring.
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Asia Minor. Taking oath. Doctrine.
20 To run.
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habitation
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TOMORROW
Propellers have a diameter of 14 feet and are three-bladed. constant speed and automatic adjusting.
Eleven and a half miles of elec trical wiring, (60,000 feet) are in the plane as well as 3,000 feet of Piping and 5.000 feet of control cable.
WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
An income-tax collector had died. und="a", "rubscription was raised in a Wall Street office for wreath. Than AVD. dollära. boss promised
A few days later one of the clerks called for the money, The chief handed him a 10- dollar note.
"You want 5 dollars change, sir,” said the clerk.
"No," growled the boss: "keep it and bury another."
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays—
Lenglen Empire Day. Buzarine bom, 1899 Victoria Day. Rogation, Day. Our Lady "Help of Christians. Public Holiday."
Cinema (See Column 3 of this Page)
Malis......(Öne Page 16)..::.. Meetings Kowloon Chess Club Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pm; General of the Hoong Tak Steam- ship Co., Ltd., in Liquidation, at 288 Des Voeux Road Central 3 m. St. John's Cathedral Church Council in Cathedral Hall, 15 Dm. Christ Church Fete Com Imittee, at St. Andews, Vicarage, o
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938.
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COLMAN in
LOST HORIZON".
ALHAMBRA
TODAY AND TOMORROW
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AS THE MOMENT BEFORE A CRASHT CRASHING TO A CLIMAX OF CHILLS!
THE
DEVIC DRIVING
Bichard
DIX
JOAN PERRY, NANA BRYANYAS
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The RITZ BROTHERS LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE
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THURSDAY, ONE DAY ONLY! ● Return Showing of the Greatest of All the Adventure Pictures 1
in
Johnny Weissmaller, Maureen O'Sullivan - “TARZAN ESCAPES"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
Miscellaneous Rotary Tufin, Thanksgiving and Consecration In Hong Kong Hotel; Exhibition of the Chinese Methodist Church, Modern Anglo-American and Hennessy Road, 7.30 p.m.; Empire | Chinese Graphic Art at the Library Day Service for Bchool Children at of the Chinese Chamber of Com Catholic Cathedral, and St. John's merce, 65 Connaught Road; H. Cathedral; 0 sm.
Cricket the Governor goes for short Cruise Social---Craigengower on H. M. S. Rorqual, 8.15 a.m., and Club Weekly Tombola. 9.15 pan.. dines with Lt. Col. G. L. Hall and Public High Tea in the Assemilly Officer of the 2nd Bn. The Royal Hall of the Bailors & Boldiers Scots, 8.30 pm: Dilne Paloting Home. Hennessy Road; 6.30 p.m....
Sports-{Bee Fage 101 Exhibition At French Chinese Middle School Caroline Road, Causeway Bay Pl
Moony Moon
Convent
Sunrise -6.402a.m. - Banset ---7 D.m
Tam High at 65.10 and 16.09.
at 11:15 and 23.20.
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