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Two Weeks Vacation at Camp Kare-free- And a Lifetime of Laughs for you!
A Broadway Stage Hit Hits the Screen! Ginger and Doug in the roles that made folks howl.
GINGER
DOUGLAS
ROGERS FAIRBANKS §.
Harwonderful
Time
Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball,
-Lee Bowman, Richard (Red)
Skelton, Ann Miller,
Donald Meek
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Walt Disney's Latest Silly Symphony
WYNKEN, BLYŇKEN & NOD"
TO MORROW AT 11.00 A.M.
A Real Treat For The Children
STAN LAUREL
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•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫
SPETACULAR ROMANCE WITH MUSIC, GAYETY LAUGHTER!
Three women in his life-and they kept him on the jump they thought he was a Lothario-bur nga woman knew better.
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Excapade
LUISE RAINER
- A Mera Goklonyra Majes merosa
DAYS TOMORROW & MONDAY
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MOST GORGEOUS OF ALL MUSICAL SCREEN SENSATIONS!
A magnificent production packed with greatness, one of the real thrill pictures of screen annals, glorious apertuele, wonderful song hits and grand fun.
THE MIGHTIEST ENTERTAINMENT THAT EVER THRILLED YOU!
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"STARRING'
NELSON EDDY ELEANOR POWELL
featurtag FRANK MORGAN EDNA MAY OLIVER Directed by W, E. VAN DYKE IJ A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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IRENE
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Joy
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DOUGLAS
FAIRBANKSJR.
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ALICE BRADY..
"Guy Kibban, Jaan Dixón,
Eric Biors, Lucille Bull, Warren Hymar.
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Lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDE
Directed by Tây Garnett. Produced by Felix Young, A Tay Garnett Production. Sarain play by Gone Tawai, Grubun Baker, Alfas Sect. Based on an original story
CO RADIO PICTUR
by Durolky and Harbert Fulda 21
NEXT CHANGE
Marlene Dietrich • Gary Cooper
in ... DESIRE
Hong Kong
KINGS:
"Four Men And A Prayer" QUEEN'S:
"Having Wonderful Time"
ORIENTAL:
"Escapade"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Rocket Ship"
STAR:
"Joy Of Living"
MAJESTIC:
"Laurel And Hardy New
Comedy Programme"
KINGS;
Coming
"Thoroughbreds Don't Cry** *
QUEEN'S:
"She's Got Everything". ORIENTAL:
"Rosalie"
"Bable Cicada"
ALHAMBRA:
"Love, Honour And Behave"
STAR:
"Desire"
MAJESTIC:
"The Return Of The Scarlet
Pimpernel"
HAVING
WONDERFUL' TIME
A romance that is nearly frus trated
by convention forms the pivotal situation of. "Having Wonderful Time." co-starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fair banks, Jr., which is showing at the Queen's Theatre today.
GENERAL
Loretta's Leading Men
These four good-looking young actors. George Sanders, Richard Greene, David Niven and William Henry, are appearing opposite Loretta Young in "Four Men and a Prayer," showing today at the King's Theatre.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1938-PAGE 5
STAR DUST DIARY OF LOCAL
Loretta Young. Alice Faye, Mar Jorle Weaver and Joan Davis are to be the four pilots in Tall Spin, Twentieth Century-Fox's feminine flying, Alm:
Undeterred by their failure last year. Fredric March and his wife mean to do another stage play this autumn, March will make one more film after There Goes My Heart, before leaving for New York.
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Warners are putting Humphrey Bogart and the Dead End Kids in story called "Concentration Camp." They insist that the action takes place in no particular coun-) try.
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries
and Holidays. St. Nicholas of Tolentino.
Cinemas.—(See Column 3 of this
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Mail See Page 10) Miscellaneous-Central
British
School Entrance Examination for New Pupils. 9 am.: "Air Hald Warning Period," 8.30 p.m.
Moon.-Full Moon, 4.08 a... VII
(Irte. Moon, 11th. Day.
Social-Diocesan Old Girls' Assen. "At Home," at the Diocesan Girls' School, 5.30 pm, «
Sports-See. Page 10). Sunrise.-6.08 am Sunset 6,32
p.m.
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TOMORROW Moon.-VIT Int'c. Moon, 18th.
Joe Pasternak has Deanna Dur-
Tides-High at 09.12 and 21,50 bin's pictures planned three in Low at 03.06 and 15.49. advance. After Three Smart Girls Grow Up. and First Love comes;
Day. ntalshed Symphony. Third is
Sunrise 6:08 a.m. Sunset.-6.33 about a slum girl brought up by a policeman, a priest and a cantor,
Tides. High at 08.12 and 21.33 learning to sing Catholle hymns Low at 02.28 and 15.18. and Jewish chants.
Sybil Jason, over whom a par ental lawsuit is being waged, gets apart in "Curtain Call," by re-
A young stenographer, embit tered with her prostac existance. encounters An ambitious law student working as a waiter atquest of the star, Kay Francis. the camp. Although girl has a job in the city. the young man has no prospects of employ-
a. summer
ment, and the happy, consumma- tion of their romance appears to be thwarted.
Jealousy and misunderstand. ings add to the futility of their love until the determind secretary takes matters into her own hand and proves to him that their love ́supercedes the old-fashioned pre-
cepts in regard to marriage:
When Mark Sandrich Radio, having Anished directing leaves Astaire and Rogers in Carefree, Jack Benny in Man. About Town. he'll go to Paramount to direct
Columbia are planning a sequel t: "There's Always". Toman." Melvyn Douglas will again
but with another leading lady, as Joan Blondell's baby is still too young for Joan to start work again
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"FLAMBOYANT" CAR GIRLS
The Rev. R. D. Cooke, Vicar of Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot,
show recently said:" speaking at the village flower
"One of the distressing things of our village life is to find it beset with a tremen- dous number of motor cars with rather flamboyant and excitable young women, whe go to the local inns and make our village fe horrible,
"I wish they would, stay away. or go, right out on Dartmoor and Jeave us alone to our quiet life. Brian Aherne is seriously, though, and not. spoll things and set a bad- own girls and a throat infection.
FOUR MEN AND not dangerously ill in Paris with example to our
A PRAYER
Loretta Young. the beautiful Hollywood star is teamed with" Richard Greene, a. young English. actor, in her latest picture, "Four Men and a Prayer."
Greene is the nephew of Evle Greene, well-known English tusi- cal comedy star, and his mother. Kathleen Gerrard. plays charac», ter roles on the London stage:
This latest romance features in the supporting cast such season- ed players as George Sanders. David Niven and C. Aubrey Smith.
ROCKET SHIP
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A thilling new note in adven ture yarns will be sounded when Universal's "Rocket Ship" opens at the Alhambra Theatre today.
The story has to do with a "mysterious force from Mars, which iz causing world ruin by drawing nitrogen from its atmosphere. Frank Shannon as a brilliant scien- tist sets out in his rocket ship to destroy this menace, accompanied by Buster Crabbe, his adventurer- assistant, Jean Rogers, his dancee. as well as a stowaway newspaper mian,
Travelling for cut into space, they are suddenly pulled to Mars by the same force which is deplet”- ing the earth's nitrogen. Here the earth people encounter a series of exciting adventures which sweep on to an amazing climax. ----
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ROCKET SHIP
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE,
LARRY BUSTER" CRABBE JEAN ROGERS
NEXT CHANGE
Warner Bros. Picture
4 SHOWS
"LOVE, HONOUR & BEHAVE"
'with
Wayne Morris Priscilla Lase
ROAD KOWLOON
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY!
"TWO HOURS OF JOY AND LAUGHTER |
PERIW
HAL ROACH STUDIOS presents A Double Portion of Fun!
STAN
OLIVER
LAUREL HARDY
In A Completely New COMEDY PROGRAMME
"DIRTY WORK",
"BUSY BODIES"
Including
Laurel & Hardy Comedy Laurel & Hardy Comedy
also "Our Gang” Comedy, Cartoons, Pete Smith Sport Specialties and other selected Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Short Subjects
THIS COMEDY PROGRAMME HAS NOT BEEN SHOWN
IN THIS THEATRE BEFORE 1..
TOMORROW & MONDAY
A GLORIOUS SEQUEL TO "THE SCARLET
PIMPERNELI
Barry K. Barnes in Baroness Orczy's THE RETORY OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNER'
A London Film. An Alexander Korda Production
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