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in her strongest, most human role
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GENERAL
BERNARD SHAW'S SHORTEST SPEECH
Today's Screenings
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Hong Kong
KING'S:
"King Of The Damned" QUEEN'S:
"Cocoanut Grove"
ORIENTAL:
“Ex-Lady"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Cocoanut Grove"
STAR:
"Sign Of The Cross". MAJESTIC: "
"Romance For Three"
KING'S:
Coming
"The Divorce Of Lady X" QUEEN'S:
"Jezebel"
ORIENTAL:
"Mannequin"i"
ALHAMBRA: "Jezebel"
STAR:"
"You Said A Mouthful"
MAJESTIC:
Mannequin".
ROMANCE FOR
THREE
Filmed partly on location in Washington for snow sequences, the new comedy-drama "Romance for Three," opens today at the Majestic Theatre,
Laughter At TWINS AFFINITY
Studio Luncheon
Mr. Bernard Shaw made the shortest speech of his life at a luncheon at the Pinewood Studios, Iver, Bucks, recently to celebrate the filming of his "Pygmalion,” by | Gabriel Pascal, under the direction of Anthony Asquith,
Remarking simply that there had: been one Important omission, hel proposed a health to Mr. Shaw, coupled with the name of Mr. Asquith, and proceeded to drink it with ceremony. i
AS GROUND FOR DIVORCE
Wife Cannot Tell
Them Apart
Inability to distinguish bet husband from his twin brother. is the basis of a woman's plea for divorce which has come before the Courts at Nancy. The brothers. Identical in ap pearance. are doint proprietors of a shop. Before the marriage of one they lived together in the upper
Mr. C. M. Woolf, "the chairman, part of the building. said that in all his film experience Afterwards the husband
and
he had dever known a fim to be wife took over the first floor, and Ananced like this one. Neither Mr. the bachelor moved up to the Shaw, nor Mr. Leslie Howard, the second. All three, however, had star. was taking a single shilling their meals together.. until the flm made a profit. Here Confusion reigned from the cut- there was uproarious laughter as set. The young wife continually Mr. Shaw cast his eyes despairing.found herself addressing to her ly to the skies. 1.
brother-in-law terms of affection.
Mr. Woolf added that Mr. Shaw or of irritation, intended for the had promised, or threatened, to do husband. something also quite unprecedent-
ed in an author-he would not go. near the set.
"OLD PLAY DUG UP" Mr. Howard neatly satirised the grandiloquent terminology of the film business. He could, he said, suggest that a heaven- sent producer and director were to direct a superlatively magni- ficent cast in a work by the greatest living genius.
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An added complication was
the fact that the bachelor had.
woman friend who also found it diffenit to distinguish between the two brothers.
A simple way out of the dim- culty would have been for the brothers to separate. This they Armly refused to do. All their life they had lived and worked together, and they could not im- agine existence in other condi tions.
"It might be more to the point," he went on amidst laughter. "If I In the end the wife who com- the constant pre said that somebody dug up an old plained that play from somewhete, that
sence of the twin was like “seeing night I met a dark gentleman from double" and made her "dizzy" left home and petitioned for heaven knows where at a supper party, and that somebody
divorce. raised some, money-I still do not know The cast. includes Frank Mor-how-which we may never be able gan, Robert Young. Mary Astor, to pay back. Edna May Oliver, "Florence Rice. Reginald Owen, Henry Hull and Herman Bing.
The plot concerns three men, a
The judges now have to decide whether the circumstances of her conjugal life, constitute injure "Probably truth les somewhere grave," which in France suffices between these two extremes. We to dissolve a marriage. hope to make a success, and then another, and so gradually lay, a
capitalist, a valet and a pauper, small commer-stone, of the British Alm script of the play, part of who trade places during a two Alm industry.".
which had been incorporated in
in life.
.
weeks vacation at an Alpine Mr. Asquith spoke of the Coun- the script to be filmed. As the play resort in order to enjoy the plea- tess of Oxford and Asquith, "whom ended inconclusively. Mr. Shaw sures they feel they are missing--and I speak with A certain has also written two other ends. because of their respective stations amount of experience—it is always The censor has not yet been ask- a pleasure to meet," Leslie Howard, ed to pass judgment on the line. "the best ambassador we ever sent which caused such a sensation to America." and Mr. Shaw. "the when Mrs. Patrick Campbell; as distinguished film actor."
Eliza Doolittle, uttered it for the PROBLEM FOR CENSOR first time on the English stage, at Mr. Howard said later that Mr. His Majesty's in 1914: "Not Shaw. originally wrote a complete likely!"
APE BITES KEEPER
Jealousy Is suggested as the cause of a chimpanzee biting a keeper at the Clifton Zoo, Bristol, recently.
The keeper, Ralph Guis, was 1 torn
taken to hospital with TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
I'M YOUNG! I'M PRETTY! I'M; AN AMBITIOUS!
I'm going to get what I want
any way I can.".
CRAWFORD TRACY
Meuro
Mayes
PRINTZA
MANNEQUIN
RALPH MORGAN ALAN CURTIS
A FRANK BONZAGE Production
·Screen Play by Lawrence Hazard Directed by FRANK BORZAGE
MATINEES: 20c.-30e ► EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
INSULL LEAVES
£200 IN CASH-
OWES £2,800,000
Samuel Insull, America's "Utilities Emperor," has left £200 and
debts tolalling 2,800,000.
Yet only a few years ago be calculated that he £100,000,000.
Was
worth
Insult died in Paris aist month, and his will was filled in Chica-
go on August 11.
arm and hand. An operation was performed.
A man who saw the attack said that a big crowd had been watch. ing Guis playing with Alfred. the: gorilla.
"Eventually the keeper "left Alfred and walked to the cage containing the chimpanzees. As he passed. Jahnny, one of them. reached out, grabbed his arm, pulled it inside the bars and hit it three times...
"A man jumped over the rails) and went to the keeper's help. The chimpanzee then ran into the cor- ner of his cage"
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.
St. Louis, King of Fiance.
Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page).
Entertainments.-St.
Andrew's
Club Musical Evening. 9 p.m.
Lectores-Air Raig Precautions.
at The Elttle Flower Club, 246 Nathan Road, Kowloon, 6 p.m.
MaUs (See Page 16),
A personal friend of the ex- charges followed. A hunt all over Society, in S. C. M. Post Board Meetings.—Hong Kong Philatelic
Cockney-turned-millionaire said: Europe commenced. Broken in Room, 5.30 p.m.; Sewing Meeting of -Insull was always generous with health, his fortune was lost when the Busy Bees Working Party, at his money. For years he financed he was acquitted.
Cathedral Hall. 3 p.m.; Victoria
Chicago's opera,, and be gave In Paris, he said; "I have Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, $ hundreds of thousands to cha:1-not enough money to buy my p.m. 1
ties.
400,000 TRUSTED HIM
dally bread."
ظرم
Miscellaneous-Air Raid Precau- But he was wearing' expensive tions Examination for Ladles,, at Insul left the squalor of the othes, still looked the millionatre. Y.M.C.A., 10 a.m. and 6 pm.“ East End to become secretary at He still changed his suits four Moon-New Moon, 7.17 p.m. VII 22 to Edison, and managed the times a day and spent a fortune Int'e Moon. ist. Day. whole of his business enterprises.
Sactal, Cheero Night.
Sports Bee Page 10). Sunrise,—6.03 am Sunset-0.47
"At the peak of his career in 1929 he earned the title of "Car of the Middle West" lord of "hundreds of power and @light companies and arbiter of
some £500,000,000 entrusted to: Kim by 400,000 investors who 'had complete faith in the ex- five-shillings-a-week ofice boy who had made good.
on Paris taxi-cabs.",
FUNDS FOR RELIEF WORK IN SPAIN
London, Aug. 24. Contributions received to August 15 by the International Red Cross Committee for the purpose of re- lief work in Spain amounted to £18.500, of which £5,000 came When his stocks hit à new "low" from the British Government. he left America, Embezzlement | (British. Wireless);"
p.m.
Club"
Bridge
Tides. High at 08.47 and 21.59: Low at 02.10 and 15.30
TOMORROW Moon-VII Int'e Moon, 2nd Day Sunrise-8.03 a.m. Bunset.--6.48
Dm.
Tides-High at 07.52 and 21.24; Low at 01.15′′ and 14.55.
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31 Declare 33 Gratuity 34 Ancient
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THURSDAY, AUGUST "25, 1938-PAGE 5
-CONDITIONED THEATREN
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 519. 7.15 AND 6.30 PM.
"MEN CONDEMNED TO LIVE WITHOUT HOPE ON THE ISLE
THAT MAN FORGOT
Caged men revolt...on the isle of the Damned
. Ruthless murderer appoints himself dies tator, seizes gov- arner's daughter for --. his bride...
Then the sleepless vigil ... 24 hours a day ....... day after day.....lo. protect her from the menace of murderoun mutineers.
KING OF
THE DAMNED
CONRAD VEIDT
'loth
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HELEN VINSON
A Gaumont-British Froduction
NEXT CHANGE “ MERLE OBERON-LAURENCE OLIVIER in
United Artists
"THE DIVORCE OF LADY X"
ISTAR
TODAY ONLY
.
KANOW ROAD KOWLOON
TEL
57795
CECIL B. DEMILLE'S
OF
The SIGN THE
CROSS
DA
TOMORROW Warner Bros.
Picture
SHOWS
DAILY
230 6 20 720.930
Joe E Brown
PICTURE
Ginger Rogers
YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL'
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL 47322
MATINEES. 20.-30. • EVENINGS, 201, 30-50:70)
SHOWING
TODAY
HOT COMEDY WITH TRIPLE-POWERED ROMANCË!
M-G-M's STAR-STUDDED ROMANTIC REVEL!
From Alp to Alp... with this thrassome of romancers and rioters...it's the dizzip-
est joy-ride you
aver kowlad atl
ROMANCE FOR THREE
Alsor News of the Day Our Gang
Comedy
MGM Picture
FRANK
MORGAN
HARY
ROBERT
YOUNG
EDNA MAY
ASTOR OLIVER
FLORZACE
REGINALD
RICE OWEN HENRY HULL. HERMAN BING
Directed by Edward N. Bunsall Produced by SAM ZIMBALIST
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY ·
DRAMA OF A SHOPGIRL AND A MILLIONAIRE! JOAN CRAWFORD
SPENCER TRACY "MANNEQUIN
#1
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hit I SOLUTION NO. 89
CANADIAN X-RAYS POPEST DESERT PIONEER DEAD OREGONTE MILIE RIGT DARWIN A B TATTIPEERTALT: ENS CLAYTACT:8 RAPHAELIOTTON 1TROSSTPALITY
NGILT DERIVE a TINE 1BA8.8 TERA HAGUFLIT¶¶MI ONTERASED IN IL STAYED TREPINE ESTATE NOTED
Dr Charles R. Dickson, founder of the Canadian Institute for the Blind and one of the pioneers of X-rays, has died at Toronto, aged 79..***.
He introduced X-rays into the Toronto General Hospital, and was blinded in 1914 as a result of his experiments.
One of the Arst graduates of the medical school of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, he organised the Canadian branch of St. John Ambulance Brigade.
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