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OPENING FRIDAY
The Greatest Picture of All Time !
THE ADVENTURE OF ROBIN HOOD"
A Warner Bros. Picture in Technicolour
Starring ERROL FLYNN
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Edgar Wallace's most sensational detective story of super-crooks that baffed the satire staff of Scotland Yard..
Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA
Edmund The LOWE
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by
EDGAR WALLACE
SEBASTIAN SHAW
TAMARA
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EXTRA ADDED FEATURE ATTRACTION
SPECIAL Tortolie and the Hare
OFSNEY ACADEMY
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CINEMA
Robert Montgomery To Star In
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"In Old Chicago"
QUEEN'S:
"Swing Your Lady"
ORIENTAL.
"The Squeaker"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :
"China To-Day" STAR:
Hawall "Calls"
MAJESTIC:
"Naughty Marletța”
KING'S.
Coming
"Weman Chases Man". "The · Goldwyn Follies" QUEEN'S:
"Robin Hood" ORIENTAL:
"Devil's Playground"
Wide Open Faces” ALHAMBRA.
"Robin Hood". STAR:
"Stingaree" MAJESTIC:
"Deluge"
"The Squeaker"
SWING YOUR
"Swing
LADY
Earl Of Chicago
Another Chance For Isa Miranda At Paramount
anc-
Robert Montgomery in at: 8pencer Tracy part sounds prising. Not so very perhaps, In view of Tracy's rapidly soften- ing side and Robert's successful bid for sterner things, writes a film correspondent.
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Anyway, Montgomery is to do sharpest business-women. F Th Eart of Chicago. David generally believed to have saved Selznick bought it and wanted more money than any other star. Tracy. Couldn't get him so sold
ANOTHER CHANCE the story to M-G-M who OWD Isa Miranda will get, another Tracy and Montgomery.
chance at Paramount. They're All about a gangster who settles taking
Hotel Imperial off its among the English lords and shelves again and giving her one ladies, so it should be light. If more try. strong, for Montgomery.
Your Lady," a Warner Bros. farce -comedy dealing with life among the hillbillies of the Ozarks, will have its opening at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
The story is of & cham- plon wrestler and his entourage who get stranded in a hill ham- let The wrestler, to get them out has to take on a match with
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This one was a silent with Pola NOT LOMBARD
Negri. Was then to be 2 Janet Gaynor, not Carole Lom- Lubitsch-Dietrich effort. three bard is the "big. feminine star" years ago. Atter grandiose ex- likely to head Myron Selznick's penditure, Dietrich refused. Mar- next co-operative production unit. garet Sullavan was then to do it.
Janet works for her brother but broke her arm.
1 local "ground-scuffier.” and this battle is said to be ore of the funniest things thrown.on a screen this season.
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WEDNESDAY
David but on no very fast-bind- Isa Miranda bas been at Ing terms. If Janet Gaynor Pro-Paramount many months since ductions Inc. materialises, Its first coming from Italy. Was to star picture will be called Forever. in Záza but gave way to Colbert
Contrary to her sweet and owing. according to mixed yielding appearance. Janet's mours, to Illness. accent of quar- known to be one of Hollywood's reis with Nazimova.
The wrestling champ is none other than Nat Pendleton. the actori who at one time held the Olym- bic heavyweight title. and the i hillbilly is Dan'l Boone Bavage.
Humphrey Bogart play Pen- dleton's manager, Frank McHugh is his trainer. Penny Singleton is Bogart's heart-interest, Louise Fazenda is 3 lady blacksmith. and the Tamed vaudeville of the Weaver Brothers and Elviry are hillbillies.
team
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Bobby Clark and Ella Logan are seen above in an incident in "The Goldwyn Follies," Samuel Goldwyn's lavish Technicolour production, which opens on Saturday at the King's Theatre.
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Bobby BREEN
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IRVIN S. Coas
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.-- Jewish Day of Atonement. Arini- versary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Portugal. AUCTIONS, Household Furniture. Lammerts: Action Rooms, 36 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30 pm. CINEMAS.---(Bee Column 3 of this
Page).
DANCES Cheero Club Dancé, 8.30
LECTURES. Mrst Aid, at Helena
May, 5.30 pm; *~*~ MAILS (Bee Page 16),
MELTINGS. Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild Business, 10 a.m.
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STARDUST
Fay Bainter is to do one film M-G-M. They have given her a choice between The Shin- ing Hour, in which she would play Joan Crawford's stern spinster sister-in-law, and School, with Lulse Rainer.
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Otto Kruger has had to turn down an offer to play on the Lon- don stage and also delay the next of his Associated British films, because of his part in Hol- lywood in "Thanks "for the Memory."
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Switzerland
20. Wigwan 21. Otherwise 23. Flery
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28. Established
value
M-G-M have bought the rights 29. Next of a
bird of prey
to Beau Brummel from Warners,
aho starred John Barrymore in
It. M-G-MM plan touse it for.. Robert Donat in England.
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Carl Esmond has been' under 33. Symbol for contract to M-O-M without
manganese making a picture. He has дот 34. Nocturnal been released and will play his - mammal first "heavy" one of the German 38. Pinch fyers in Warners' "Dawn Patrol. 37. Regard
studiously Irving'
Asher Lg to pro-
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conveyance Examination for Instructors, i ham
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scale. 39. Greek letter Grade I, at t. John Ambulance The first Columbia Denham pro-
40. Decline Hars., 5.30 p.m.
duction will be Q Planes. It goes 41. What Stake- MOON-VIII Moon, 12th. Day.
into immediate production, with
spearian char- Olivier Laurence,
and Ralph SOCIAL-Monthly Bridge and
Richardson in the leading parts Mahjong Drive of the Prison
and Tim Whelan directing. Branch of the M.C.L at Stanley, 3.15 p.m. Weekly Whist Drive and Tombola at Garrison Ber geants' Mess, Queen's” „Road, § p.m.
SPORTS (See Page 10),
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Michael Balcon's second pro- duction at AT.P............. "The Ware Case will have in the cast, be- sides the stär Clive Brook, Jane
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11. City in
Brazil
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volcano is in- the north- western part of Martinique?
20. Canadian
city
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
measure of capacity
23. Prepared
thigh of a hog 25. Which of the
Apostles was **called Peter"
20. In what
State of Ame~! rica is Look- out Mountain?
28. Through
28. Serpent
31. Hearsay
32. Long narrow
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-the spa 37. City in
Oblo
39. Weird
40. Existed 42. European blackbird
43. Compensates
44 Supplied
with food
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meanire of area
46. Marry 41. Booner than 50. Note of the
scale
picked its wĒTIK from "bride" ships
and "pisales malad
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LOST FEUDIRAS. AREA TERSELAGO TUTITLETTIDER:
MOTHER AGAIN.
The next Kay Francis film will be Warner's Curtain Call.. Kay again plays one of those self-sacrincing mothers who risk; their careers, for baby's Ƒsake.........
There are several
among
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