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The Greatest Picture Of All Time! Adventures That Have Never Been Equalled!
The Adventures of
Robin Hood
Errol FLYNN
Blighty adventure that thruled the B... now lives. forever in „TECHNICOLOR
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N.B.--This picture is being released at Roadshow Prices and will not be shown elsewhere in Hong Kong for at least 6 months.
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They're men of the deep-deep in trouble-when a "danie
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RICHARD DIX. DOLORES DEL RIO CHESTER MORRIS
They're
brates at the bottom
of the ocean or in a women's
armas."
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A COLUMBÏMPICTURE
JOE B. BROWN'S
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Today's Screenings
Hongkong
KINGS:
"Woman Chases Man" QUEEN'S:
"The Adventures Of Robin
Hood"
ORIENTAL.
"Devil's Playground”.
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"
CINEMA & GENERAL
"The Adventures Of Robin
Hood"
STAR
"One In A Militon”
MAJESTIC:
"The Squeaker".
KING'S.
Coming
"The Goldwyn Follies" QUEEN'S:
"Crime School" ORIENTAL:
"Wide Open Faces" ALHAMBRA.
"Over The Wall" STAR:
"Girls Dormitory" MAJESTIC:
"Three Comrades”
BUSÍ WORKING
FIGHT AGAINST
MALARIA
Bandoung Centre Of Quinine
Have you never remarked how
al your triends mi. the East Indies DAVE spent a longer or shorter time at Bandoung?
This has always led one to think that 'Bandouing must be consider- es as the centre of the Dutch Fast Indies, the town where everyone is happy, the Pearl of the East Indies.
Although places like Batavis and Sourabaya are much more
Greta Garbo is acting in a film.important and have much greater
of the life of Madame Curle, the discoverer of radium.
EDMUND LOWE IN FINE ROLE
the
populations, Bandoung Is the town where holidays are. spent, old where one suddently meeta friends after years of hard work In the bush and where health may be restored in a perfectly healthy and magnificent mountain 'climate in one of the most beautiful reglots of Java, that of the Preang Regency. An exceptionally strong cast ap- Above all, Bandoung is pears in the new London Film, centre of mountain cultures, such The Squeaker," which comes to as tea, coffee and cinchona, which the Majestic Theatre ∙to-day. have reached a degree of prosperi- Edmund Lowe, the popular Holly-ty, hitherto unkown in the Preang wood star, has the chief role as ex-district. Cinchona plays a parti- Inspector Bartabal of Scotland cularly important part, for this Yard, a brillant detective brought culture has been able to develop region, owing he who, captures the mysterious to the favourable nature of the underworld gure known and des- soli and the ideal climate. pised as "The Sqeaker."
ADVENTURES OF to the verge of ruin by drink. It is perfectly in this
"ROBIN HOOD
Of all the heroes of fact
and
fiction, there is none so beloved
Appearing cpposite Lowe in the
INDISPENSABLE REMEDY or dashing as Robin Hood, the principal feminine role is Ann Whilst being the centre of the outlaw of Sherwood Forest. Cele-Todd, the talented young British cinchona culture, Bandoung 14 brated in song and story, in opera actress who is rapidly rising to the equally well known by reason of
Her fiancee in the film is the quinine which is extracted be and in the silent movies. Robin top.
now
!!
appears in brand new guise Sebastian Shaw, who created a big¦ing an indispensable remedy. This In "The Adventures of Robin impression as Captain Reld in that may be concluded from the re- Hood." a Technicolour fim at very fine picture "Farewell Again," commendations 'of the Malaria the Queen's and Alhambra Thea-
Commission, set up by the League tres to-day.
of Nations according to which a dally dose of 15 to 20 grains of quinine should be given, from 5 to 7 days to cure cases of malaria,
Sam as a preventive measure, a
This Commission advises that dally The dose of 6 grains of quinine
Marian.
COWBOY GETS LADY
As time marches on, and
the
Errol Flynn, a veritable rein- carnation of the legendary Robin, plays the title role. Handsome, young and adventurous, Flynn makes the perfect Robin Hood Sharing honours with him is the Goldwyn hovers between demure, lovely Olivia de Havilland. (Cowboy and the Lady and The should be taken throughout portraying his lady love. Maid Lady and the Cowboy as the final fever-season
title of his Merle Oberon-Gary Action and plenty of it is ram-Cooper picture, the
The interest that Hes in quinine Alm .comes does not just stop at its use pant throughout, from the jous closer to completion.. ting tournament at Nottingham
against malaria; this product la Castle to the wedding of Robin and
The story is about a very rich also of the greatest importance
wilful and Mald Marian.
young lady, Merle s
preventive Sherwood
of influenza. Forest, Nottingham Castle, and rodeo, falls for comboy Gary Coo-is required.
Oberon, who goes slumming at a For this a daily dose of 3, grains the countryside of medieval England are faithfully reproduced and marries him, after letting!
Since science has discovered him believe that she's just an that such dangerous and annoy- ordinary girl. The rest of the ing maladies as Influeriza colds supremacy between the two
by taking a small dose of the Alan In addition to Merle and Gary, natural product. qulatne,, every Hale (who played in the original the cast contains those two.
day, the number of possible ap- Fairbanks version). Melville
in
vast sets, breath-taking in their beauty and opulance.
The splendid cast also includes story is about the struggle for and influenza can be prevented
Claude Rains, Ian Hunter,
Patric
Knowles, Eugene Pollette,
€X-
3
spate Brennan.
ex-
Con- cellent character players. Patsy plications of this substance per. Una O'Connor. Herbert. Mun- Kelly-always good for
tracted from cinchona has been din, Montague Love, and the pre-of laughs-and Walter
doubled. sent world's champion archer, who can be, as quaintly. Western Howard HIL
as any radlo range crooner.
· CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pertaining
to birth
8 Insurgent
NO. 127
15
11 Pulpy fruit-
Đá
of a herb
10.
20
12 One of the
planets
27
23
14 By
33-
27
15 One of the
20
United States
30
3+
17 Myself
18 Alcoholle
37 33
134
35
beverage
35
NO
20 Sink in the
21 Sleeveless
middle
M
4
garment
29 One spot in
Cards
23 Wigwam
25 Fondle
26 School"
assignment
28 Banqueters
30 Make lacH
3: Beetle
32 Metal used to
“Join metallic"
surfaces
35 Kind of
clover (pl.), 38 Open
(poet.)
39 Take
exception
41 Period of
time
43 Thing: In lew 43, Lowbred
Dresuming Derson
44 Posed for .: Dortraft
45 Birthplace of Abraham
46 Changed for the better
ان
46
152
>>
50 Symbol for
tantalum
51 Embarked
53 Heavy or dull
55 Declare
56 Church
office:
DOWN
1 Observe
2 Part of
"to be"
3 Label
4 Consumed
5 Relay
6 Hardy
↑ Biblical name
8. Bound made by sheep
9 Half an em 10 Timber 11 Braid made
from Manila hemp
13 Chafts 16. Smart blow 39 Lies close and snug SOLUTION: TO-MORBOV
16
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124 137
21 Places where
Apes are kept
23, Carzied 21: Kind of duck 27 Downcast 29 Incline the
ment
32 Heap or
cluster
33 Musical drakyan
34 Retreat 35 Mix
confusedly 36 Funnel-shaped
opening of s volcano
37 Prince of
darkness
40 Human being
Winged part. Encountered Elongated fish
Father
Pronoun Buffs down
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.—
The Most Holy Rosary. CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this
Page).
DANCES.
Equine Sport Club Cabaret Dance to Peninsula Hotel: Beel Practice ht Helena May, 5.30 pm; National Women's Relier Assen Charity Ball, at Hongkong Hotel, 8 pm. LECTURES-First Aid, at St John's Cathedral Hall, 10.30 a.m.; Prof. L. T. Ride on First Aid, at
R.W.D. Offices, 5.30 p.m. MAILS.-(See Page 18). MEETINGS. Helena May Religious Fellowship, 16.30 nm; Extraor- dinary, of the Hongkong Football Club, at the Chub House, Happy Valley, 6 p.m... MISCELLANEOUS HE the Gov
ernor's Informal Visit to. Dio- cesan Boys' School, 8.25 a.m ARP. (Lecture) Examination for Instructors, Grade I. at St. John Ambulance Hera., 6.30 p.m. MOON-VIII Moon, 14th-Day.
REHEARSALS - YMCA Pan-
tomime, § 5m,
SOCIAL. Buy Bees Working Par- ty Bridge and Mabjong Drive in aid of St. Dunstan's and local Charities, at Hongkong Hotel, 3 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola in RE WOs and Serts' Mess, Wellington Barracks. 9.15 p.m; Cheern Club Bridge Night.. SPORTS(See Page 10).
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Samuel Goldwyn
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