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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
2 Great Dramatic Stars In 1 Great Love Drama I
FORBIDDEN TO MARRY.
SHE'S ON PAROLE!
SYLVIA SIDNEY GEORGE RAFT
YOU AND ME"
with BARTON MacIANE - HARRY CAREY - `ROSCOE KARNS & Paramount Picture Produced and Directed by FRITZ LANG
TOMORROW
A Paramount Picture
The Jumbo of Musical Jamborees
DOCTOR RHYTH“ Bin Crosby Mary Carlisle Beatrice Lillie
ADDED! their efforts to aid homeland.
A SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
715-9.30
Paramount News: U.S. Chinese unite
Twisker Pircher -a popeye cartoon.
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THREE RECKLESS (FISKETEERS"
OF THE IL'S, SUB KAYTI
PAT O'BRIEN WAYNE MORRIS GEORGE BRENT
FRANK MCHUGH DORIS WESTON
* Promoted by MEENER BROS.
TOMORROW & MONDAY
THE SCRAPPIEST, HAPPIEST OF "ALL COME Y HITS!
A two fated laugh riot as a fighting, romancing Yank goes to Oxford and wins all sporting honours
ROBERT
TAYLOR
A YANKatOXFORD
with LIONEL BARRYMORE MAURREN O'SULLIVAN, VIVIEN LEIGH
LOMON GWENN.
GENERAL
MANY WEIRD JOBS FOUND IN MOVIES
Today's Screenings
Hong Kong
KING J.-
"I'll Take Romance"
QUEEN'S:-
"You And Me" ORIENTAL:-
"Submarine D.1."
Kowloon
VI.HAMERA:-
"You And Me" STAR:--
"Stage Door** MAJESTIC:--
"Wife. Doctor And Nurse"
Coming
KING'S:-".
"Mannequin"
QUEEN'S:-
"Doctor Rhythm" "Stolen Heaven"
ORIENTAL:-
"A Yank At Oxford" "Popeye And Betty
Specials"
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
"Doctor Rhythm" "Little Colonel"
"King Of Burlesque" MAJESTIC:-
The Bad Man Of
Brimstone"
Have you spent more time siting on a flagpole than standing on your feats
Are you a person of normal height who looks like a midget when You sit down?.
Can you stuff eight billiard balls in your mouth and sing at the ame time?
Can you sneese in forty different languages?
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Then perhaps Hollywood has room for you, for in Hollywood can
ze found many persons eaming comfortable salaries on freak jobs.
BACK-SEAT DRIVER
talcum
There's Bobby Bowles. He is the Instead, he uses brown world's champion backseat driver. powder and causes the furniture to Bowles for ten years has been driv- look even dirtier by an application ing a high-geared camera car for of soap-an anomaly in itself. those thrilling, breath-taking “run- M. EL James is kept constantly ning shots" that cause audiences busy painting "Old Masters.” to grip their seats and hang on Should a director demand a Rèm→ while the theatre seems to crash brandt. a Rubens or a Titian to be into a telephone pole or something. hung in one of his sets, James is C. S. Pratt has a steady job of "apable of producing it overnight. collecting black widow spiders. He has collected them from all parts of the United States. He began his collection by ridding the studios of them, and became so Interested in his job that he ex- Albert Spurling until recently panded his job to supply the black was the champion spider-web spin- widows and other poisonous spiders uer. Spiders cannot be trained to
accurate copy that, at camera istance, cannot be distinguished from the original.
WEAVES SPIDER
to universities. He has 250 bot-spin their webs where directors tles, each containing from two to demand them to he
spun. Sc six spiders.
Spurling solved the problem.. He BOTTLE COLLECTOR
spun them himself. His contrap- tion consisted of an electric drill. Egbert Barner's job is to collect the drill removed, a receptacle at- bottles of every variety, from tiny tached and the speed reversed Boop serum ampulaes to great Mexican In the receptacle was a
ollas. He has bottles of
special every liquid rubber which within a few nationality, of every age and for minutes was transformed into a every possible use. Barner started realistic spider web. For his in his strange job when he was a set- genulty. Spurling attracted atten- dresser at the studio. He needed on and now he is an assistant certain bottles for a set but found rector.
NEW MUSICAL DELIGHT
The man who made crooning ar American pastime and the British Empire's own darling laugh pro- voker are together in a new plc- urg, That is to say that Bing Crosby and Beatrice Lillie' are ap- pearing in "Doctor Rhythm.”
Made from one of O. Henry's most popular tales, the flim shows Bing Crosby as a Park Avenue physician who turns policeman for a day as a favour to a friend and
them scarce.
"From that day I found the job of bottle-hunting an interesting one." he said.
Most recent of the freak jobs is now held by Hughle Hunt. He sits all day long in a row-boat in the middle of Lake Arrowhead,
scenes" are
Ernie Tate's job is to make new where lake furniture appear old. He does when he hears
made.
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is by his 'bwn aging process. whistle on the lakeshore, he raises arring the new, furniture with a white flag. One toot means a low torch and then rubbing scene has started. Two toots, the various ingredients. into the
corched areas.
DIRTYING WITH SOAP Freddie Wells does other things new furniture. He makes shiny arniture dusty. The operation is lone with a bellows of his own sign, but he do not use dust.
Others in the picture are Mary Carlisle, Laura Hope Crews, Andy
is assigned to be bodyguard to the Devine and Louis Armstrong and madcap Beatrice Lilife.
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BRIDE ELOPED FROM A HOME
A bride of eighteen who eloped from a remand home appealed to the Middlesex Quarter Sessions Committee recently against a sen- tence of three month imposed on her by the Uxbridge Bench for stealing 30s. from a gas meter.
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She was Mrs. Fieda Georgina Lloyd, of Woodcroft-cresent, Long- Jane Hillington. She refused an offer to shelter in a home...
The offer was made after Miss
F. M. Brown, the Uxbridge Proba-
tion Officer, had said that if Lloyd EVIAN CONFERENCE
would remain in a home for three months, at the end of that time
her husband, who was undergoing
a sentence of three months for his part in the theft, would be liberty.
CONCLUDING
Evian, July 15.
Refugees
The International
at Committee has virtually completed
its, labours.
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24 Workers in a chemical element
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verb (plural)
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Previous convictions were praved
The heads of the various delega- against the woman, and it was tions have reached an agreement revealed that once when, on re- on the text of the resolution for 39 A Scripture mand she escaped from the re-approval at the plenary meeting mand home by a window at a today. great height, and then got mar- *ried
A full meeting of the Conference
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vessel
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will be held in the evening to de-41 Yarn for She said she suggested the pre-cide the methods of financing the seat offence to spite the oc-permanent committee to be estab-43 A native. cupler, who, when she worked for lished in London-(Reuter). them accused her of stealing.
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When told that her husband had admitted taking 30s, from the gas and electric meters at the house she said: "Then he diddled me,, I only got 11s, as my share.”
The Committee decided that the alternative to prison was a period of detention in a Borstal Institu- tion and committed her to the Quarter Sessions for that course to be taken.
Margaret Bullavan "will", sing for the first time in "Shopworn. Angél,” the picture in which she is appear ing with James Stewart for M-G- M
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tene is ended On the lake are scores of motor-boats. The white flag is a signal to the motor-bonts to stop and KD
TOURIST PARTY ARRIVES
En Route Around
The World
Under the direction of the D. F. Robertson Travel Bureau of Los Angeles, a party of 36 Ameri- can tourists arrived in the Colony yesterday by the Empress of Japan en route around the world.
After arrival, the party proceed- ed by car on a sightseeing tour around the island,
The party will proceed to Manila and return, to the Colony by "the same steamer. After three days here, the tourists will transfer to the Pand. O. ks. Ranpura for Singapore, Penang. Ceylon. India, Egypt and Palestine.
The party will travel through Europe by car and is expected back in the United States by the end of next month,
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY Anniveraries and
Holidays.
Jean Corot born, 1798. Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Cinemax-(See Column 3 of this
Page).
Dances-Sumner Dance'at Hotel Cecil, 845 pm
Malla (See Pure, 18). Moon VI Moon: 19th Day. Religions.Carmelite Courrent at Stanley celebrates, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel..
Sports.--(See Pago 10),
Sunrise-5.47 am Sunset 7.11
Patt
Tides-High at 00.19 and 10.48. Low at 04.380 and 18.10.
· TOMORROW. Anniversaries and Holidays--- Fifth Sunday after Trinity, Jewish Fast of Tammuz.
Cinemas. See Column 3 of this Page).
علي
Malis.--(See Page 10). Miscellaneous. - Claims against the Estate of Robert Andrew Muter Macindoca Ogilvie due; European Y.M.C.A. Discusion Group, West Lounge, 9 pm.
Moon-VI Moon, 20th. Day... Social--Tombola in the Royal Signals W.O.'s and Sergeants' Mess, 9.30 p.m.
Sports-(Bee Page 10). Sunrise.-6.48 am Sunset 7.10
[p.m.
Tides-High at 00.39 and 11.20. Low at 05.15 and 18,41770
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938-PAGE 5
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DAILY AT 1.38, 5.10, 7.15 AND BM PM.
RINGING WITH MERRY MELODY AND RIOTOUS ROMANCE!
Grace
ILL TAKE ROMANCE Melvyn Douglas
BELEN VÆRET, STELUT
ALSO LATEST COLOUR CARTOON
SPRING FESTIVAL"
TOMORROW JOAN ORAWFORD-SPENCER TRACY in
MAN N 1 QUIN”
DAILY
AT
230
5:20 720
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
HANKOW
KOWLOON
STARE
SHOWING ODAY
SCREEN! WIG CAST IN 19E YEARS BIG NCTURE
Stage Door
KATHARINE
GINGER
HEPBURN ROGERS
with
ADOLPHE
MENJOU
WAR BILI YOU SEE THEM TOGETHER! (in the amazing adaptation of the play
by Edna Ferbro and George' 5 Mautavuni
GAIL PATRICK. Constance Cellier Andrus Leeds. Sammal 5. Hinds Lucille Ball
1XXC-RADIO
Directed by GREGORY LA CAVA, Produced by PANORO S. KERMAN,
NEXT CHANGE Warner Baxter Alice Faye "KING OF BURLESQUE’ A 20th Century-Fox Picture
& SHOWS DAILY
130 $20 720-930
Jack Oakie
MAJESTIC
"THEATRE ·
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(MATINEES. 20«•30¿» EVENINGS, 20, 30<-50670) FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY:
A GAY AND SPARKLING ROMANCE IN THE
MOOD OF TODAY!
Three who tried to out-guess
Gay! Smart! Grand entertainment! One
of the year's great pictures.i. a twinkie in its eye and, a catch in its heartl
LORETTA
YOUNG
WARNE
BAXTER
VIRGINIA
BRUCE
WIFE DOCTOR
NURSE
JANE DAR KIDNEY MAURIC MINNA GOI MARGARET IR
20th
TOMORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY
" VIVA, VILLA'S" GREAT STAR RIDES AGAIN ] ·
THE BÁD MAN OF BRIMSTONE " Starring WALLAOE BEERY. with VIRGINIA BRŪCE A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
Sir Anthony Jenkinson, corres It is quite uncertain whether pondent of the London Daily the three foreign colleges in Pai- Sketch, arrived in Hankow recently ping, the Yenching University, the from Bian, being probably the first Catholic University and the Sino- foreigner to make the journey, by French University will reopen for frain since the interruption of the fall semester, states a message through traffic on the Pingnan to the "Standard" The autho Langhai railways at Chengchow titles of Tenching University, it is when the latter. junction was stated, are considering its removal threatened about a fortnight aroo Tientain in order to prevent the by the Japanese. Sir Anthony activities of a pro-"Provisional made the journey from Loyang to Government" Society within its Hankow via Chengchow in thirty campus, from which it has stead- hours
fastly steered clear.
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