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HUMPHREY BOGART
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THE
DEVIL DOLL
BARRYMORE
with
Maureen O'SULLIVAN Frank LAWTON ¿Directed by Tod Browning.
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IT'S THE BEST MUSICAL of 19381
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HARKET MILIARD - THE YACHT CLUB BOYS
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BRADY PATRICK DIXON. PALLETTE A MOWBRAY.
·Based on the naval by Bric Hich Directed by Gregory LaCava / CHARLES E. MOGERS
TO-MORROW Bette Davis in "DANGEROUS
GERMAN - MINISTER
IN NEAR EAST
Istanbul, Oct.-12.
CINEMA
GREER GARSON GIVEN TEST
Today's Screenings
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KING'S:
Hongkong
"Woman Against Woman" QUEEN'S:
"Cilme School"
ORIENTAL:
"The Devil Doll"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Over The Wall" Star:
"My Man Godfrey"
MAJESTIC:
"Smilin' Through"
KING'S:
Coming
"Live, Love And Learn" QUEEN'S:
"Mother Carey'. Chickens" ORIENTAL:
"Cocoanut Grove"
ALHAMBRA:
"Smashing The Rackets"
Star:
"Dangerous"
MAJESTIC:
Marie Walewska”
FOR SCREEN ROLE
Jean Arthur Getting
Really Busy Again
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938.
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Greer Garson was spirited off the London stage to Hollywood by douts B. Mayer last year. Since then she has been languishing among M-G-M's immigrant, players, rich enough but quite, iifle,
Nobody asked for her until she went into hospital for an opera- tion. Soon as she came out she was tested for a part in Dramatic School, with Luise Rainer, due to Märt Immediately, writes a Home Alm correspondent,
།
Greer's standing on our stage was Can't Take it With You Appre high and her personality vivid. It priately she's coming out of the hadn't occurred to me that her shell she went into, during her long round features and red head could quarrel and beginning to answer resemble Luise Rainer...
the telephone again.
But the studio portraits sent from
SOUTH SEA ROMANCE Hollywood suggest that the camera brings out a resemblance which the Goldwyn lot for a session, tak- Dorothy Lamour is going back to may well have been queering hering her sarong for luggage. Sam pitch. Possibly she's playing Rath er's sister at that."
thousand?
י
made a pocket with The Hurricane- and, means to cash-in by teaming Lamcur and Jon Hall again in an other Bouth Sea romance.
UNION PACIFIC Jean Arthur's talking business with Cecil B. De Mille over Union Beems Dorothy won't be allowed Pacifc. Business is right. Jean's tu pack that sarung away for good. sald to want £30,000 for the job although an American reviewer' of and De Mille only to be offering Spawn of the North does use the £25,000. What's # paltry Ave headline 'Elthour Okay in Clothes."
Also comments "substituting furs Yes, I know. Claudette Colbert and heavy woollens for her usual was announced to star in this one sarong. she proves herself a first- Announced by Paramount with rate dramatic actress " more pride than Claudette's pre- Sam was afraid he might not get vious skirmishes In De Mille fan-Lamour from Paramount, but he's swapped her for Joel McCrea for Jean, on the other hand, was alone picture. United Artista must grand "Calamity Jane" in The be getting like a South Sea resort COMES BACK
Plainsman and De Mille thinks with Jon Hall and Sigrid Gurle also Few motion pictures are able to she'd look well among his pioneer preparing for South of Pago-Pago. stand the test of being reissued trains Claudette anyway is going
to Radio to do Memory of Love, A.. following their initial release but Norma Shearer's triumphant impart Hepburn once coveted."
NORMA SHEARER tasias warrant, to my mind.
version of the famous stage classic, "Smilin' Through," in which she is supported by Fredric March and Leslie Howard, is one of those rare productions which have lingered in the hearts of moviegoers the world over.
So great has been the demand upon the part of the public to see
Nice to know Jean's getting really WOMAN AGAINST
busy again, with The Water Gypsies for Hal Roach and plenty more.
ned up at Columbia to follow You
CRIME SCHOOL
Sometimes amusing, sometimes
WOMAN
The age-old triangle of a man and two women still finds novel and up-to-the-minute treatment in "Woman Against Woman," showing at the King's Theatre to day.
In this instance the man, Her-
this picture once again that Metro-tragic, and always exciting, "Crime bert Marshall, is a husband, and Goldwyn-Mayer is bringing Sm-School." which is showing at the the women, Virginia Bruce and
...
in Through" back to the screen of Queens Theatre to-day, contains a Mary. Astor, are his second and the Majestic Theatre.
powerful indictment of unthinking. first wives respectively, with the brutal, out-moded methods of deal arst determined that his marriage ing with juvenile crime.
to the second shall not be a suc-
TURNS HER BACK ON PAST It is in the polgnant story of "Smilin' Through" that Miss Shear- Effectively utilizing the talents of cess er Krst turned her back on her the six New York boys who became screen past for in this production famous in both stage and screen story takes on telling conviction. In the hands of this trio, the she has a role far removed from versions of "Dead End," as well as with Marshall turning in a per- those which took her along the such adult players as Humphrey formance that rivals" that of his bypaths leading away from conven- Bogart and Gale Page the picture father role in "Mad About Music." tion. The role a forerunner of her makes a strong case for its basic brilliant portrayal of the poetess, theme-that the old type of boys' Elizabeth Barres, in "The Barretts reformatory is in fact a crime of Wimpole Street."
school.
CROSSWORD
NO. 132
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pronoun
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manner
15 Boundary', 17 Approach 18 Correlative
of either 19 Freezes 20 Celestial body. 21 Mineral
spring'
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23 Versifler
24 Part of
"to be"
25' Hebrew name
for God 26 Close noisily 27 Brag
28 Comes Inte
view again
36 Hard, durable
wood
32. Narrow road 33 Exclamation -35. Famous
American Caricaturist
36 Orami
37 The kava 38 Two-winged
Insect
39 City in
England
40 Beverages 41 Month in
the Jewish calendar
HOME MUNICIPAL
ELECTIONS
London, Oct. 1
42 Dialect from Dr. Walter Funk, German Minis-At the beginning of November, ter of Economich, who is on a Vidiúnicial elections replacing oneSakrit. here, arounced to aky that he had third of the local councils will Be As it desid accepted Invitations of the Greek held in nearly 400 boroughs county
44 Follte and Rumanian Governments to pay ang non-county--throughout Eng-
47 Utlüge visits" to "those, countries, Trans-land and Wales, but excluding
London-British Wirelessi.
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↑ Pay a perBON'S
expenses.
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implement Excist's
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SOLUTION TO-MORROW
23 Drama
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27 Bidge of earth 28 Blushing' 29 Every
·Individual
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face of a draft
Panama
money of account.
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34 Speed
36 Scale, in the
flowering
plume in
grasses
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40 Part of
"to be"
12 Fedp 43 Beast of
burden
Pronoun First note in Guido's scale.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
| ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.—
St. Edward the Confessot.
| CINEMAS.—(See Column 3 of this
Page).
LECTURES. --- Finer Points of Hockey, at European Y.M.C.A.: Theosophical Society. (Rt. Rev. Hall, Bishop of Victoria, on "Church of England"), 6 p.m.; St. Folin, Ambulance ARP. First Aid and Home Nursing Practice for Nurses, 7 pm Stretcher Drill; Corpi, Sando,.7.30 p.m.... MAILS-(See Page 16). MEETINGS. -- Victoria Chess Club, à Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, at Penin- sula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.;
MISCELLANEOUS, Clalins against the Estate of Anna Margaret Major and John Hercules Mur. cay Moorhead. due
| MOON.---VIII Moon, 20th. Day.
REHEARSALS. *Ruddigore,"
Hongkong Philharmonic Society, at China Fleet Club Theatre, 8.45. D.IL: Hongkong Bingers,: at Union Church. Kennedy Road. 5.30 p.m. SOCIAL-Public, Works Recreation Club Tombola, Causeway Bay, 8 p.m.; YMCA, Ladies' Games "Moining, 10 am; did Badmin- ton, 8.30 p.m.; Cheer Club Bridge Night.
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WIFE VS.
EX-WIFE
in a true story that's-thrilling!"
HERBERT MARSHALL Urania BRUCE Mizzy ASTOR
WOMAN Tgainst WOMAN
Serra Play and Prudvond by EDWARD CHODOROV
Directed by ROBERT B. SINCLAIR
NEXT CHANGE Robert Montgomery-Rosalind Russell-Robert Benchley
.. IN
"LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
ALHAMBRA
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· FINAL" SHOWINGS TODAY Intense Prison Drama Shockingly Revealed!
For a Deadly Moment with the Man Hle Hates. For a Fleeting Hour with thỏ
TONIGHT SOMe Ontan He Loves,
CONVICT WILL GÖ
OVER THE WALL
* WARGEN
LEWIS E. LAWES
A COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION · A WARNER BROS.
TOMOBROW
The Story of a one-man war with-gangland "SMASHING THE RACKETS" Chester Morris Frances: Mercer
BKO Picture
3304 30 720-30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE:
MATINEES. 20-30** EVENINGS, 20, 3050-700
TODAY AND TOMORROW
AN. IMMORTAL MASTERPIECE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN !
NORMA SHEARER
First Lady of the Screen, returns in the grandest of all Jove, storie si
FREDRIC MARCH LESLIE HOWARD
SMILIN THROUGH
COMMENCING SATURDAY
M-G-M'S "GREATEST TRIUMPH OF PAGEANTRY
AND ROMANCET
G GARBO BOYER
MARIE
WALEWSKA
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