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The Triumph of PAUL MUNI
"For the first time at popular prices.
maka and the truly great productioșa al all kimu
Mr. Paul MUNI
THE LIFE OFT
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·SOARES IN MARK DRIVES AND A CLUSTER
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"EMILE ZOLA
GALE SONDERGAARD JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT
Glorja Holile j.. Duan Dušo - Erin OrienMonte - Hesty šíbet Lewis Caffera – Maria Garnowsky – Denetid by William Dirteity.
SUNDAY, 18th
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
A Broadway Stage Hit Hits the Screen! Ginger and Doug in the roles that made folks howl.
GINGER
DOUGLAS
ROGERS FAIRBANKS/.
Having
Wonderful
Time
Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball, Lee Bowman, Richard (Red)
Skelton, Ann Miller,
Donald Meek
RKOURADIO FICTURE. Ofraced by Alfred Sontell,. A Pasdro 5, Baman Production. Semen slay by Arthur Kobar from the plavas produced by Mere Connelly.
ADDED AFTRACTION
Walt Disney's Latest Silly Symphony
·WYNKEN, BLYNKEN &" NOD"
SUNDAY
KRO_Picture.
DAILY AT
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Richard Dix Chester Morris
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TODAY ONLY.
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These Two Were Innocent Yet They Were Tossed Into The Inferno Of Men's Maddest Passions I
Sulvia
Spencer
SIDNEY URY PRACY
TOMORROW
M.G.M. Picture
Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy
MAYTIME"
Ann
CINEMA
Sheridan, Beauty Contest
Today's Screenings
Hong Kong
KING'S:
"Thoroughbreds Don't Cry"
QUEEN'S:
"The Life Of Emile Zola"
ORIENTALI
"Fools For Scandal”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Having. Wonderful. Time"
STAR:"
"Fury"
MAJESTIC:
"The Bride of Frankenstein"
KING'S:
Coming
Winner, Gets Starring Part
Ann Sheridan gets her first real starring part in Life Begins at Beno. For this Warners paid down: £3,000 to an Amèrican soclety divarene.
The story's supposed to deal with the anonymous lady's BWN divorce. That's what Hollywood calls edifying,
One real chance is all she needs. said to be of Nelson as a boy, was Of course, as Clara Lou Sheridan, Įtaken from a bank vault recently she won a beauty contest once to Mr. Glen ille's dat. }which is generally fatal to fame.
YOUNG AS STAR
But since she became Ann she's i Robert Young and not Franchot developed an almost Stanwyck-Tone will be the star, with Tone Ike honesty. So one thought in stepping Into Young's spot In San Quentin and Alcatraz Island. Three Loves Has Nanay.
Lew
QUIETLY GROOMED '
Ayres, Miss Hussey and Ruth Hussey gets a break as Lana "Turner, Mervyn LeRoy's leading lady of M-G«M's B's Now young hopeful are in support. And cr Never. That's the new title for Reinhold Schunzel makes his "White Collars."
American debut as director.
„Schunzel is the man who turned an orthodox German Alm into a comedy burlesquing Nax-ism. - He
Miss Hussey, brought from the | stage, has been quietly groomed in small parts in Holy That Kiss, Judge Hardy's Children and Man had to escape with his lie and a Froot.
copy of the film. Since then he's
A slightly bigger one in Marie (been attending the English classes Antoinette is responsible for the at M-O-M. present chance. It mayn't look
big when we see the picture but it DIARY OF LOCAL
was enough for the studio execu-
"The Emperor's Candlesticks" tives. QUEEN'S:
"The Shefk"
ORIENTAL: *Held!" -ÁLHAMBRA
"By Giant"
STAR:
"Maytime" MAJESTIC: "Rosalie"
Film History Made In The Commons
4
Shots" Of Speaker's
Procession
I stood in the Lobby" of the House of Commons recently and watched film history be- ing måde.
.....
For the first time the strict rule prohibiting photography in Parliament was relaxed, and cameras recorded the Speaker's procession, fluminat- ed by a blaze of arc lamps, writes a Dally Telegraph cor- respondent.
The scene was being "shot" for
the first Of B series of "shorts"
י.
Quite a lot of interesting names crop up in connection with It's Now or Never.
at
MISSING_FOR
100 YEARS
LOST PORTRAIT IN RUINS
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.-- Ember Day.
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Auctions-Motor Cars, at the United-Delivery Co.'s-Garage-In Lockham Road, 11 am,
Cinemas-(See Column 3 of this
Pare)
Dances-First Reel Practice Dance at Helena, May, 5.30 pm.
Lectures. - Maryknoll Convent School, Kowloon, Air Raid Precau- tion 4 p.m.
Mails-Bee Page 16) Meetings.Helena May Institute Religious Fellowship. 10.30am.; Annual, of the Hong Kong Reel Club, at Helena May, 5.15 p.m.
Miscellaneous.-Kowloon Union Church Jumble Sale, 3 p.m."
Moon-VII Int'c. Moon, 23rd,
· Chamber
Found clutched in the hand skeleten walled-up in Kumainham Castle, .near Dublin, in 1916, a portrait of Lord Nelson was sold to a barman for B pint of beer and four shillings. Recently Shaun Glenville, Irish comedian,
£10.000 deposit paid on the picture, belleved by ex-
Social-Chinese perts to
be a genuine Romney Commerce Tifa Party at Kam valued at £40,000.
Day.
of
* One hundred years ago it was Indian Medical Mission, ↑ p
Loong Restaurant, in honour of the slashed from its frame in the cas-Members of Indian Community of tle hall by thieves. It was never Hong Kong, "At Home" to the In" seen again until a workman found dian Medical Mission, at Gloucester it during repairs building in 1916. Not knowing it Drive and Tombola in R. E. War- Hotel 8th floor, 5.30 pm.: Whist value, he passed it on to Mr. Rrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess Flanegan. then, barman of" a local inn. enam
to
the old
·Finnegan · brought It to London, had it valued and insured. Recently he told Glenville about the
Shaun
picture.
Wellington Barracks Mess, Wel lington Barracks 9 pin.; Cheer Club Bridge Night;
Sports. (See Page 10)... Sanrise,-8.10 am. Sunset 6.27
p.m.
Tides. High at 00.36 and 14.33 "Knowing the castle and loving Low at 0804, and 18.25,
TOMORROW
Heavily
an offer." Moon:-VI Inc. Moon. 24th "The deal Day.
Tides. High at 13.08. Low at guarded, the portrait. 106.51 and 18.00.
which Gaumont-British Instruc-art. associated with mynative: tional Films are hoping to make so country. 1 made him that the world may see forms and Mr. Glenville said. ceremonies, men and manners, at was made, and now I am going Sunrise.-6.10 am, Sunset.-8.23 the Mother of all Parlaments. to hang it in an honoured position p.m.
"There is a great deal of totall in my fat." tarian propaganda being put out these days," the producer, M. H. Bruce Woolf. remarked to me. "We think the world would like to see how things are done at the fount of democracy, Westminster." Certainly the scene was demo- cratic enough. Scores of M.P.3. curious visitors of both sexes and "all ages, including Americans, a Japanese, policemen and "Alm technicians in their shirt sleeves, were gathered In the Lobby to see the Speaker pass.
"HATS OFF, STRANGERS”
In accordance with custom, the Speaker, Capt. the Hon. E. A. Fitzroy, left his quarters at 10.59.
A cry of "Hats off, strangers!". gave warning that the procession was approaching the Lobby, the cameras began to turn, the bat- tery of lamps blazed, and, preced- ed by the Mace, the Speaker turn- ed right again into the chamber and reached the chair just as Blg Ben began to strike the hour.
The members present gave a chorus of good-humoured "Hear, hears" as he passed, and even the policemen were so captivated by the novelty of the proceedings that their faces relaxed Into Brailes.
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