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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
He Took The Crooked Road From The Slums
To
4
Riches
Yet He Was The Straightest Shooter Of Them AHE
VICTOR
McLAGLEN
in
The DEVIL'S PARTY
TOMORROW
A Paramount Picture
VILLIAM GARGAN PAUL KELLY BEATRICE ROBERTS • FRANK JENKS
· Chamsley-Brad the Havel
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A NEW UNIVERSAL
DICTURE
Sylvia Sidney
GENERAL
And It's Not Done With Mirrors, Either
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1938.-PAGE
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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE SHOWING TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 3.33 PM.
Love ON ICE! Laughs ON SEIS! Riotous Romance WITH M G-M'S ROWDIEST CAST OF FUN-STARSI Pandise--and trouble-dar Chren? and palacina! You'll whody and rel О на
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'YOU AND ME”
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MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.
A HILARIOUS, BUBBLING, FAST-MOVING LAUGH SHOW!
Here is adventure in joy unconfined. enacted by experts woven around a dinosaur, a dog, a leopard and dizzy romance. »
FRI.
SAT.
KATHARINI CARY
*
HEPBURN GRANT
BRINGING
UP BABY
With
CHARLIE RUGGLES
THRILLING MODERN
SUBMARINE D-1 WAR MANOEUVRES
Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris. Geore e Bret Frank McHugh.
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LAUREL
OLIVER
HARDY
Babes in
TOYLAND
Directed by
with CHARLOTTE HENRY
Gus Mains and Charles Rogers A:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
·TOMORROW
W. C. Fields Dorothy Lamour Martha Raye
A suspense sequence from the hilarious action in "Bringing Up Baby." Katharine tiepburn and Cary Grant's swift-paced comedy romance. It is the finale of the picture. Mina Hepburn climbing a platform in a museum, nearly falling off, and being saved by Grant, as pictured. No doubles were used in this scene, Miss Hepburn taking all her own chances. The pair finally come to earth when the bones of a 70-foot dinomur skeleton collapse under them.
"Bringing Up Baby" is showing at the Oriental" Theatre.
Today's Screenings
Hong Kong
KINGS:--
"Romance For Three"
QUEENS
"Devil's Party" ORIENTAL:-
"Bringing Up Baby"
Kowloon
- ALHAMBRA :—
"First Lady"
STAK:-
"Babes In Toyland" MAJESTIC:
"Laurel And Hardy All
Comedy Programme"
KING'S:-
||
Coming
"I'll Take Romance"
QUEEN'S:
"You And Me" "Doctor Rhythm”
ORIENTAL:
"Submarine D.1."
"A Yank At Oxford” ALHAMBRA :-
"You And Me!"
"Doctor Rhythm"
STAR:-
"Big Broadcast of 1938"
"Goin' To Town"
"Stage Door"
MAJESTIC-
"Devli Dogs Of The Air"
"Wife, Doctor And Nurse"
BRINGING UP
BABY
EDUCATION FILMS FOR THE EMPIRE
"
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The creation of central, film or- them develop and as demand, sup- Kanisations in each part of the ply and distribution are more fully Empire are advocated in 4 re-co-ordinated through a central or port on the machinery for the ganisation. distribution and display of educa- tional films within the British Em'- pire which has just been publish- ed by the British Film Institute.
CO-OPERATION
In addition to the more general functions of such organisations in In spite of the considerable and collecting and distributing in- growing desire to use educational formation and advice, it is sug- Alms, the Report says that the uc-gested that they might advise on tual use of them is increasing only questions arising with regard to slowly. The main dinculties ap- the local production of educational pear to be lack cf knowledge of films. The Institute. however, is the films and apparatus available careful, to point out that it is
whether in Britain; the necessarily high doubtful
Colonial Ad- cost of hiring copies in places ministrations can successfully un- situated at great distances from dertake such production to any the United Kingdom: and the dif- great extent without expert pro- ficulty of obtaining a proper sup- fessional and technical assistance. ply without purchasing coples out Another function of the suggest- right.
ed central organisations would be The Institute
saqpresses the to maintain close cc-operation opinion that the distribution of with the local fim träde with a educational aims within the Em-view to promoting the exhibition pire can only be substantially in-of commercial films of educational creased as facilities for exhibiting yalve such as documentaries.
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Revealing the amazing Katherine Hepburn as the exponent of come: plete entertainment, "Bringing Up Baby," showing now at the Oriental Theatre, is a mad comedy that 14 deñes comparison with any picture
15 of the type shown previously.
Co-starring with Miss Hepburn is Cary Grant, who intensifies the re- putation which he so brilliantly established in "The Awful Truth.")
Others in the cast are Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald. May Robson. Walter Catlett and Fritz
in Paramount's "BIG BROADCAST OF 1938"|| Feld.
victory at
Fish eggs Gettysburg?
What German- American soldier was the first to receive Cornwallis's offer of surrender?
17 Street urchins
DIARY OF LOCAL ROMANCE FOR WHAT THE STARS 19 English pub-
EVENTS
TODAY
Auctions-Household Furniture,
"THREE
ابیں
ARE DOING
lic school 20 Mine
Luise Rainer's new blm, "The 21 Toy Wife," with Melvyn Douglas.20 has been finished after only 29 day's shooting"
Thrills, laughs and spills och Anniversaries and Hoildays.~stitute the keynote of "Romance Berlin Trenty. "Peace with for Three." which opens today at Honour," 1878.
the King's Theatre.
The all-star comedy' cast is
Warners are trying to get Irene headed by Frank Morgan, Robert Dunne for the part of Louise in at Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Young. Mary Astor, Edna MayThe Sisters" by Myron Brinig. Room, 230 p.m
Oliver, Florence Rice, Reginald Cinema-(See Column 3 of this Owen, Henry Hull and Herman. *Pago).
Blog. Dances-Cheero
The story concerns a rich cap- 8.30 p.m
Italist who wins his own contest Lactures-Air Raid Precautions, for a prize logan and goes to the Kowloon Cricket Club, Cor's Road Alps for two weeks as a prize. He Kowloon 10 am.. St Andrew's pretends to be poor and takes his Church Hall, Nathan Road, 9 pm.: valet along to set as a rich man, Belena Máy, Garden Road, (AR.P.) 5.48 m2. Ens
Club Dance
Malls=(See Page 10. Meetings Annual of Kong Travel Association, in Urban
Council Chamber, 4 pm.
Honz
Miscellaneous Kowloon Junior School Pries-Giving, at the Central
bola in Garrison Bergeants' Mess. Queen's Road, 9-bi. (0
Sports-(Bee Page 10). Sunrise-3.48 am Sunset 7.11
Tides-High át 09.15 and 23.27..
British School, by Lady Northcote, Low at 02.47 and 16.30,
5:30 pm; Elbition and Bale órj Pictures in Aid of Chinese War!
Charities, at St. John's Cathedral
Hall, 10.30 am. to 7.30 p.m.
Moon.-VI Moon, 16th. Day:
TOMORROW
Marjorie Weaver gets the, lead opposite Warner Baxter in Ta Give a Million"
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entrance Man's name Pertaining
to the hip
Prevaricates
27 Meuntain lakes
28, Internațional language
29 Bomes.
30 Who wrote
the Pear Gynt Suite7;
31 Blender stick After "Northwest Passage" Wal- 32 Symbol for lace Beery will star in "Stand up tellurium. and Fight," an outdoor eple of 33 Implements, pioneers who linked the Atlantic 34 Geometric and Pacide with their "pratrie
Agurè schooners."
*
35 What Dutch
scholar contributed. greatly to the Reformation?
Leo McCarey, following his e- cess with "The Awful Truth,” has signed a contract with Hal Roach to produce and direct on a profit-37 Murders sharing basis.
38 Fascinated
•
39 Leguminous Basil Rathbu will play Loids plant Moon--VI Moon, 17th: Day, XI in "If I Were King Ronald 40 Steeple Sunrise-5.40 a.m. Sunset-7.11 Colman stars as Francois Villon. 42 duggest. British actor C. V. France has 45 Beast of Tides--High at 05.45 and 22.59 | Also been signed up for a part to burden
-the-film.
140 Circular
M.
Social Whist Drive and Tom-Low at 02.05 and 13.57.
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48 Collection
of tools
49 Pastry 50 Casts of 51 Note in
Guido's scale
DOWN
1 Footike part
2 Consume
3 Who said
"Go West,
young man?"
4 Ring around - "
an articular cavity; p Witnessed
# Convert into
leather
7 Supposed hypnotic force
8 Partisal
9 Who was the
frst woman to be elected to.Congress from New "York? Ruth-
10 Steal from
11 Afirmative 16 Members
an Indian tribe
18 Narrow.
infeta
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measures
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21 Winged 22 Steamship 23 Embarks 24 Satire 25 Secret
messages
27 Game, fish
30 Who was the
most famous
estly presi dent of the
American
Tederation
of Labour?
Samuel-
31 What was
the first American
colony zettled by Englishmen?
33 Former : Rus-
lap, ruler
34 Tribe.
38 Ascend 37 Dispatches
39 Shackle 40 Undermine 41 Greek letter 42 Bod: for striking billiard ball 48 Begame 44 Greek letter 47 Exclamation
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NEXT OHANGE GRACE MOORE in
"I'LL TAKE ROMANCE”.
with Melvyn Douglas-A Columbia Picture
ALHAMBRA
NATHAM RÐ, KOWLO
FINAL SHOWINGS, TODAY.
TWO WOMEN RIVALS THE WHITE HOUSE
WHO WANTED TO OCCUPY AND HAD TO ELECT THEIR HUSBAN 8 PRESIDENT TO DO IT!
A Comedy Knockout-
With A Capital Bay!'!
KAY FRANCIS First Lady
with PRESTON FOSTER - ANITA LOUISE WALTER CONNOLLY
HRADKE TEABDÁLE'S VICTOR JOINT › SOUMBE PARISINDA › Dual
TOMORROW
A Paramount Picture
& SHOWS
DAILY 230 620 720-930
"YOU AND
Sylvia Sidney
ME”
George Raft.
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THEATRE ·
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„KOWLOON
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TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY
TWO HOURS OF JOY AND LAUGHTER!
PERIY!
HAL ROACH STUDIOS presents A Double Portion of Fun!
STAN
LAUREL
OLIVER
HARDY
AN ALL
COMEDY PROGRAMME
including:
*** THEM THAR HILLS" "THICKER THAN WATER" “LIFE HESITATES AT 40”, “DIVOT DIGGERS"
and other
Selected Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Short Subjects
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY
RETURN OF AN “OLD FAVOLZITE"!
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Pat O'Brien lo
A Warner Bros. Thrilling, Drama ! ..
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Among the bills passed at a co- cent meeting of the
Federal Council" was the Lighting Control BIL, providing for the total or partial, cessation of lighting the Federated Malay States by regula, tion of the High Commissioner, on occasions of emergency or public danger or by way of experiment or practice for such occasiona
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