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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
ROMANCE
PERIL
ADVENTURE !
Across The World For A Packet Of Letters!
Richard
DIX BLINT
ALIBI
KKO-BADIO Picture
WHITNEY BOURNE EDUARDO CIARRELLI)
ADDED! Walt Disney's "MICKEY'S TRAILER”
TOMORROW "The MYSTERY of the WAX MUSEUM'
Warner Bros.
Picture
1 starring
Lionel Atwill
Fay Wray
KING'S
Hong Kong
"Map-Proof"
QUEEN'S:
"Blind Albi”
ORIENTAL:
"The Garden Of Allah”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Ex-Lady"
STAR:
"Born To Dance"
MAJESTIC:,
"The Good Earth"
KING'S:
Coming
"The Squeaker"
QUEEN'S:
"The Mystery Of The Wax"
·ORIENTAL:
Museum"
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938-PAGE 5
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE A
SHOWING "O-DAY DAILY AT 2.39, 5.10.” 7.15 AND 3.30 PM.
“HE'S STILL MINE..? and she can't
take him away from me!”.
Society's code forgotten this modam beauty fought for a love another womenshåd stolen) Myrna Loy....... more/thrillingly, beautiful than ever....... shows triumphantly why he was chosen America's No. 1 feminina star ||
ALHAMBRP
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NATHAN RO. HOWLOON - DAILY AT 1,30-320-230 & 0,30 •TEL. S
SHOWING TODAY
Fascinating! Thrilling: "Different! The story of two lovers caught in the maelstrom
of the Mystic East
arner Bros. Project
OIL FOR THE
LAMPS of CHINA
From the bank that hypumised, a' million ruidves
Hoya rast starring
PAT O'BRIEN • Jamskie HUTCHINSON • JEAN MUIR.
NEXT GRANGE
A Paramount Piezore
SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
A Cupidas Predmetten im A. First National Picture
Harold Lloyd
THE MILKY WAY”
By Popular Request
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
MOST BEAUTIFUL OF TECHNICOLOUR PRODUCTIONS: Here is entertainment that will make your pulse quicken with excitement for one of the most thrilling romances.
WHEN THIS GREAT ROMANCE UNFOLDS
You hold your breath. You'll thrill to
the most exciting lovemaking ever de
piced in all the stolic beauty of tech-
color is the greatest sensation since the Garden of Eden.
Marlene DIETRICH
Charles
BOYER
Petovni deo trËTED ABENTE
The Garden of Allah
IN TECHNICOLOR
2 DAYS TOMORROW & MONDAY
Bolly BREEN Hawaii Calls
NED SPARKS
IRVIN S. COAS RAYMOND PAIGE
An Island Paradise Rings with Song!
Advantma Romance1
Thrilla!
Melody!
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· ALHAMBRA:
"Hawall Calls"
"The Kid From Spain"
"Ol For The Lamps of
China"
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STAK:
"Cafe Metrópole" *Music Is Magic".
"That I May Live" MAJESTIC:
"Riptide"
MYRNA LOY IN
"MAN-PROOF"
IN
A fine study of Whitney Bourne, New York actress, who returns to the screen in the femininė lead of""Blind Alibi." starring Richard Dix, which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre.
Chinese Choral DIARY OF LOCAL
Concert
OLD FOLK SONGS
TO BE SUNG
An ultra-modern story of a four- sided romance "Man-Proof," which " The Hong Kong Chinese Choral opens today at the King's Theatre. Society, under the distinguished has an all-star cast headed by patronage of Bishop R. O. Hall Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, and Prof. Hsu Ti-shan, will give Rosalind Russel: and Walter Pid-a concert of Chinese music next Saturday at 9 p.m. in the. Great Hall of Hong Kong University.
geon.
Famous for her portrayals as the
· ideal American wife, Migs Loy now deviates from her usual roles to play a single woman whose man is stolen by a rival.
In layish metropolitan settings. Miss Loy appears as a newspaper artist in love with a social climber, Walter Pidgeon who, however, weds an, heiress. Franchot Tone, as a cartoonist, secretly loves Miss Loy but will not admit it to her. In the end, she finds out her foolish infatuation for the one, married.
Mr. W. H. Wong, the conductor of the Cantonese Union Church Choir of Shanghai will direct dur- ing the evening.
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries
and Holiday Mosquito Day, 1897. St. Bernard.
Cinemas--(See Column 3 of this
Page).
Malls. (See Page 16).
Moon.-VII Moon, 25th; Day.
Cricket
*Social-Craigengower Club Fortnightly Whist Drive and Tombola, 9.15 p.m.
Sports-(See Page 101. "Sunrise.-8.02 a.m. Sunset.-8.51
Old Chinese folk songs and ap. number of modern compositions
Tides,High at 03.15 and 17.40. the programme also consists of will be sung by the chorus, and Low at 11.31 and 20.34.
vocal and instrumental solos by Chinese artists.
Admission will be $2, $1 and 50 cents and booking is at the Chi- nese YM.CA. the YW.C.A. and the Tsang Fook, Music Company.
The proceeds of the concert will
TOMORROW.
Moon. VII Moon, 28th, Day. Sunrise.-6.02 a.m. Sunset.-8.52
to'd
Tides. High at 02.10 and 15.45.
MYSTERY OF THE be devoted to refugee relief work. Low at 09.56 and 19.43.
WAX MUSEUM
One of the strangest and most exciting thrillers, "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," opens at the Queen's Theatre tomorrow, with Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh and Fay Wray heading a large cast.
The story, taken from the play- by Charles S. Belden, deals with a series of mysterious disappearances of both living persons and human bodies, and the appearance of a terrifying monster. The plot cen- tres about 2. wax museum which has on display exceptionally life- like Agures of personages of history and notorious' criminals.
The picture is photographed en- tirely in Technicolour, with unusual lighting effects used to heighten the facinating mystery nilnates the production.
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that do-
CHEUNG CHAU
RESIDENTS GIVE CONCERT
The annual concert staged by the Cheung Chan Residents' Association on Thursday even- ing was well attended and was
great success from point of view.
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every
Among those present was Rev. E. Lindquist, president of the Asso- ciation.
Contributions to the programme" were given by the pipers of the Royal Scots. Mrs. G. Burnside, Mrs. Rex Ray, Mrs. I M. Aalbue, Miss June Johnson, Miss Grace Dickenson, Miss Evelyne Hansen, Miss Lois Ray, Mr. W. C. Newbern, Mr. Bam Boyle and some of the younger residents of the Iland.
A collection was made during the evening for the International Medical Relief.
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Image
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who played
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name,
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along.
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throw off.
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MYRNA LOY Franchot TONE Rosaline RUSSELL
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the Three Musketeers? Athos, Por thos.? 13. Title of
respect.
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