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OLYMPE BRADNA... The Star Discovery of 1938!
YOUNG LOVE IN ALL ITS SWEET STARRY ECSTASY!
Fugitive
Gene Raymond Biumpo Bradna STOLEN HEAVEN"
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Today's Screenings
Hong Kong
KING'S:
"Mannequin"
QUEEN'S:
"Stolen Heaven" ORIENTAL:
"Arsene Lupin Returns"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Little Colonel"
STAR:
"Wings Of The Morning" MAJESTIC:
"The Plainsman"
KING'S:
Coming
The Giri Of The Golden
GENERAL
GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1938-PAGE 5
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GINGER ROGERS
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QUEEN'S:
"Vivacious Lady"" "Fools For Scandal"
JAMES STEWART
ORIENTAL:
in the hilarious comedy of the season
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FT'S BREATHLESS, MATCHLESS, MYSTERY
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Gay excitement returns to the screen as Arsene Lupin opt-thrills, out-romances and out-baffles ace G-men..
Romance races with mystery... as Arsene Lupin
and an American G-Man match wits...to win a girl:.. and solve a double murder!
ARSENE LUPIN& Returns
MELVYN DOUGLAS VIRGINIA BRUCE WARREN WILLIAM JOHN HALLIDAY NAT PENDLETON
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Mary Carlisle ...!
Lloyd Nolan
"TIP-OFF GIRLS" Benny Baker
Evelyn Brent
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ANNABELLA
Remember her unusual namie. you'll never forget her lovely facet,
Henry FONDA Leslie BANKS
TINGS MORNING
TOMORROW
A Paramount
Picture
The
Presenting -
THE WORLD-FAMOUS TENOR
JOHN MCCORMACK
Directed by Harold Schuster Produced by Robert T. Kono
A 2015 Contury Fun Rolivia
GARY COOPER P
SOULS
-
GEORGE RAFT
AT "SEA"
"Tip-Of Girls"
"Hollywood Hotel"
ALHAMBRA:
"The Lady In The Morgue"
"Fools For Scandal"
STAR:
"Souls At Sea"
"Wise Girl".
MAJESTIC:
"Criminals Of The Air". "A Yank At Oxford"
FAMOUS LOVE
STORY
The tencer love which existed between two of the hardest char- acters of the old West, "Wild Bil Hickok, two-fisted hard-shooting
Jeanette MacDonald, who co-stars with Nelson Eddy in "The Girl of the Golden West," seen singing one of the great song hits in the picture to a flute obligato by Buddy Ebsen. The pic- ture opens tomorrow at the King's Theatre.
WOMAN CRIED “A GUINEA A BOX!” -SHOWED THE WAY TO MILLIONS
Ninety-one years ago a young man at Wigan put a pill on the
market;
He called it after his own name Beecham.
Today Beecham's Pills Ltd. have purchased control of Mac- Lean's Ltd., manufacturing chemists, at a price believed to be in the neighbourhood of £2,250,000, says the Evening Standard.
Wigan has been the butt of many jokes, but this time the joke was not on Wigan,
Beecham Young Mr.
Was 26 some. They're worth a quines a when he launched his venture, box." Eleven years later he moved to St. Helen's.
He was still doing business in a pretty small way. He sold his pills from a small stand in the market square, near the old town
The salesman was quick to grasp the uses of, advertisement, He inscribed the slogan on all his advertising matter.
exponent of law-and-order as the hall, from under the protection of to £312. And he spent just £100
newly opened territory knew it. and "Calamity Jane," a beauty who packed a pair of six-guns and drove a sixhorse stagecoach over what then passed for roads. is the basis of Cecil B. DeMille's latest screen masterpiece, "The Plains- man," which begins today at the Majestic Theatre.
The film begins around 1865 when the Civil War ended and the trek West. was begun, and ends shortly after "the Custer massacre. Its broadly conceived in the traditional DeMille manner.
Others in the cast are James Ellison, as "Buffalo Bill" Cody; Helen Burgess, 3 newcomer to Alms, as his wife; Paul Harvey Victor Varconi, George Hayes and "Fuzzy" Knight.
CURE FOR "DEAFNESS
The roar of an aeroplane has cured an Indian banker of his deafness,
Six years ago, following an attack of typhoid, his hearing was impaired and doctors could do nothing to help him. At Delhi he went for half- an-hour's joyride in an aero- plane. On alighting he found he could hear perfectly.
a huge umbrella.
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SPENT £100 ON ADVERTISING
In 1862 his total sales amounted
on advertising. VISIT TO FAIRS
Such was the humble beginning Sometimes he left St. Helens to of what how claims to be the lar- visit, fairs or markets in neigh-gest proprietary medicine group in bouring towns. On one of these the world, producing not only visits he received what was prob- their original pills, but also pow- ably the first, and certainly the ders, ointments, soaps, shampoos. Anest, of the great family of "un- tonics, cough cures and dog foods, solicited, testimonials."
Thomas Beecham retired from As he was holding forth on the the firm in 1895, and his son died merits of his pills, a woman who in 1916. Today the had purchased some on his last prise in controlled by a limited vast enter-
visit called out:
company. The company is con "He's quite right: I've taken trolled by Mr. Philip Hill.
CROSSWORD
NO.59
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DIARY OF LOCAL 16 Spanish
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.
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Auctions-Household Furniture;
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2,30 p.m.
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Page).
Dances. Oheero Club Dance, 8.30
p.m.
distance.
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senseless with a blow.
Lectures-Air Raid Precautions, 28 One who
Kowloon Cricket Club. Cox's Road,
10 am; St. Andrew's Church Hall,
Nathan Road, 9.p.m.; Helėna May, Garden Road, (A. 'R. P.) 5.45 p.m.:
hides on a Teasel.
32 Bense
organ.
Gas Mask Drill at Volunteer Head- 33 Peeps.
quarters, 10 am to noon.
Malls-(See › Page 16).
Meetings House Committee, at
34 Exist.
35 Constituent
parts.
38 Birds of the
cuckoo "/family..
8. & 8. Home. 5.30 p.m.; Kowloon 37 Doctrines?!? Union Church Women's Gulle, 10
a.m.
Moon-Last Quarter, 8.19 p.m. VI
Central- authorities are An Old Men's Resistance Asso. making preparations for the or- lation was inaugurated in Wan-moon, 23rd day, ganization of an Agricultural Pro- chang recently, state
Social Whist Drive and Tom a wire to motion Committee. The President the "Morning Leader,
hola in Garrison Sergeants' Mess. At the of the Executive Yuan, Dr. H. 1. inaugural meeting, which was et-Queen's Road. 9 p.m. Kung it is reported, has appointed tended by over 1,000 old people, Sports-(Ses Page 10). ffeten person as members of the resolutions were passed for the Sanrise 5.49 a.m. Summet/7.10 Committee, including Drs. Oong dispatch of encouraging telegrams p.. Wen-hao and Franklin. Ho
Tides-High at 0210 and 13.54. and to the General Executive of the Messrs. Mu Ngo-chu, Yih Teox-Kuomintang, General Chiang Kai-Low at 08.20 and 20.10. tong. Tsou Ping-wen Chang Fu shek, the Chairman of the Na- lang, Chien Tien-hao and Wans tional Government, Mr. Lin Sen, Chih-sin. Most of the appointees and to national troops fighting at have at one time or another been the front and to call on old men officials of the Ministry of Indus throughout the country to follow tries.
suit.
TOMORROW
Moon VI Moon, 24th, Day. Sunrise 6:49 am Sunset 7.10
p.m.
Tides-High at 0134 and 12.50. Low at 06:56 and 19.40.
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30 Supply with weapons
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lessly.
6 Winged part
word-
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8 High priest
of Israel
9 Rest lazily
10 Emcient '11" Food "17 Muscles
19 Upon 23 Within 24 Causes to remain in print
25 Father
Mother 37 Maiden
loved by Zeus
30 Personal pronoun
40 Lobst
sleeveless garments
41 Sport
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India
40 Poker term
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SOLUTION TOMORROW
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The British Consul in Canton has sent a sum of $500 to the reller fund now being raised by the Municipal Government there. This sum, it is learnt, was raised recently by the British combrnity in Canton for a ball to celebrate King George's birthday. Out of sympathy for the Cantonese peo- ple who have suffered grievous Josses in recent Japanese air raids, however, the Britons cancelled their plans for the ball and donat- ed their contributions to the res lief fund
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