HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Today's
UEENS Screenings
DAILY AT 2:30-515-7-20 £ 9:30 ·TEL. G1453
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY Crime Schools Where To-day's Kids. "Are Turned Into To-morrow's Killers !..
A Startling Drama |
"AFTER THIS WE'RE
GOIN' STRAIGHT ..
A Shocking Revel»tion !
(Yes, Straight to the Electric Clasic!
CRIME SCHOOL
THE DEAD END KIDS
HUMPHREY BOGART,
ADDED! Sybil Jason in "THE LITTLE PIONEER"
TOMORROW
RKO Picture
•
A Featurette in Technicolour
"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"
Ruby Keeler Anne Shirley
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW
TO-MORROW, at 11.00 A.M.
Our Second VARIETY PROGRAMME
including
COLOUR CARTOONS
CHARLIE CHASE COMEDIES
FRAZY KAT and
SCRAPPY CARTOONS
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and
THE THREE STOOGES
PRICES: 50c.. 35 c. & 20 c: Children 85 e. & 20 e. ; Inch Tax Complimentary Tickets will not be valid for this show.
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RU KOWLOON-DRILY #T 2.30-320:
9.30 TEL. 50856
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
The Underworld Is On The Run
As One Man Crashes Down!
SMASHING
with
THE RACKETS
CHESTER MORRIS
EXO
RADIO
Picture
FRANCES MERCER · RITA JOHNSON - BRUCE CABOT
Directed by LEW LANDÉES, Produced by B. P. Fluaman, Screen May by Lionel Hinarne,
ADDED
SPECIAL RKO-PATHE CHINA WAR NEWS
(Taken by Pathe Cameraman, A. 2. Hull)·
also
LATEST MARCH OF TIME
TOMORROW
Warner Bros. Picture
LIONEL ATWILL
MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM"
with FAY WAY
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW, at 11.00 A.M.
A Rare Treat For the Children !
46 ALICE IN WONDERLAND "
Prices: 500.. 370. 200. : Children 3&c. & 20c, : Incl Tax Complimentary tickets will not be valid for this show.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.-
St. Teresa of Jesus (1582). AUCTIONS. Yacht
p.m. RA.M.C. Assen. Annual
am. SUNSET.—
Dinner. In Hotel Cecil, 8 pm for 8.30 p.m.: Tombola at Liga Por- tuguesa, Kowloon, 9 pm. Carpenter A1, at Royal HK Yacht Club, SPORTS-(See Page 10).
SUNRISE.-8.20 North Point, 5. p.m.
5.50 p.m CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this
TIDES--High, at, 09.16 and 14,48. Page!.
Low at 0754 and 18.05.
TO-MORROW
KING'S:
HongkongTM
"Live, Love And Learn" QUEEN'S:
"Crime School"
ORIENTAL:
"Cocoanut Grova"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Smashing The Rackets"
STAR:
"Captain Blood"
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CINEMA
CROSSWORD
NO. 134
ACROSS
Catchword's
5. Short 'dis».
Lance
9. Find the
married
12. Dill
14. Beverage
15. Having little
13
16
20 29
Juni
20
12. King whom
Gudrun
2
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24 25 26
27
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31 32
33
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colour
16 What bio-
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grapher wrote
Elizabeth and Essex?
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Coming
18. What is the
most impor-
30
1
62
tant port of
China?
63
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53
20. Charity
11
53. Thing in
Law
MAJESTIC:
· Marie Walewska"
-KING'S:
"Start Cheering"
QUEEN'S:
"Mother Carey's Chickens" ORIENTAL:
"Merrily We Live"
ALHAMBRA:
"Mystery
Of
The
Wax
Museum"
"The Life Of Emile Zolz
STAR:
20 Million Sweethearts"
MÁJESTIC:
"The Devil. Doll":
LIVE, LOVE AND
LEARN
Teaming Robert
Montgomery
and Rosalind Russell for the third time. with Robert Ben- cheley featured in one of his funniest characterizations and with Helen Vinson as the "other woman."
the
at
21 Noah SW
22. Narrow
woven band
24. Former gold
cola
27. Scolded 30. Of each an
equal quan- tity
31 Who was the
great adviser
or President
Wilson:
Colonel Ed- ward--?
33. Biblical
}]
name
34. In what
дет romantic comedy, "Live. Love and Learn opens to-day the King's. 40. Theatre.
2
group are
Tripoll, Al-
geria and Tripoll, Al- states?
54. Secure a
vessel in place
55. Require
DOWN
23. Spheres of action
24. Small
quantity
25. Truth in the
Faerie Queene What ex- plorer dis-
1. Coverings for
the head
26.
2. What state
3.
of America
was settled by
the Latter
Day Saints? Feminine
name
4 Earthy sub-
stance used as pigment
5. Officer of
rank in Turkey
6. Specles of
pler
7. Hydrous
silicates of cerium
8. Greek letter
covered the Grand Canyon of the Color- ado River?
27. Purchase
28. 3ooner than
Who was the Roman god of
22.
the under-
world?
The whole #
course of what stream is in Venezuela?
35. Finest 37. Prayer
One of a Turkoman
39.
tribe in
36. Serse organis 38. Prefix: half- 39. Sense organ
Greek god of “
WI
9 10. Suppose
Sports stars
Bokhara
11. Periods of
time
40.
Genus of
trees of the
maple family
41.
Actor's part
metal trumpet of India
Placed largely in the colourtu. 42. Curved. atmosphere of Greewich Village's Bohemlan art. colony, "Live. Love and Learn" develops sparkling story of the married ufe of a penniless artist and the girl who forsook wealth and so- clety to marry him,
47. Manages 49. Cleansing "substance
50. Tone in
Guido's scale 51. Trans- actions
The role of Julle, Mont- gomery's wife, is" said to offer Rosalind Russell a telling oppor 52. Preposition tunity to display the talents for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer A few weeks ago accorded her star- dom.
MOTHER CAREY'S
CHICKENS
Bubbling with humour and naturalness that made the original Kate Douglas Wiggin story one of the best-sellers of its day, the film version of "Mother Carey's Chic- kens" opens at the Queen'a Theatre to-day.
Closely following the book, the film deals with the Interesting careers of the Careys.. The head of the family, a naval officer, dies during the war with Spain, and
his wife and four children, left penniless save for a scanty pension, try to carry on as their father would have wished,
Through the efforts of a young
17. Fine grade
of Cuban tobacco
19., What name
was given to
New York city by Wash- ington Irving? SOLUTION ON MONDAY
FOUND NECKLACE IN HER LUNCH Mrs. Theodore Summer! order-
ed half a dozen oysters' in a Holly- wood California) restaurant re- cently and as she was about to eat the first she noticed something In it--a peari
She looked at the other oysters. There were pearls in them, too. She collected 18 in all, two as big as peas. She is going to have them strung in necklace.
4.SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.19 715-8-30
43. Female voice
44. Not any
45. Opening for passage
46. Footless 48. Male sheep..
Solution No. 133
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STORERÍPOTIAGES TOWERSTEASTPERT
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school teacher who is in love with LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•
the older daughter. the Careys leave the tenement in which they are living and take over an old, tumble-down house in the country. They remodel it as a teachers' boarding house, but unforeseen complications arise just as they complete the task. The climax is charged with hilarity as the family adopts a unique method of dis possessing ́an unpleasant couple who claim their house.
Anne Shirley and Ruby Keeler, as the daughters, are cast roman- tically opposite Frank Albertson and James Ellison, respectively. Fay Bainter portrays the highly sympathetic mother.
GRETA GARBO'S TRIUMPH
FUNNIEST SHOW SEEN IN A LONG "TIME ! Fred Ma Ma-ray with his fascinatin', syncopatin' sous of swing, Radio's singing sweetheart Harriet Hilliard, funny Ben Blue, crazy Yacht Club Boys and 20 other stars.
IT'S THE BEST MUSICALE
FRED MACMURRAY
COCOANUT GROVE
HERES TRANS-EN TÍCHT CNE SETS
of 19381-
BEST B it's
The firna H, tempore,
BEST
the "2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & MONDAY-
Greta Garbo ́reaches greatest heights of her acting career in "Marie Walewska" which opened yesterday at the Majestic Theatre and in which she is co- starred for the first time with at Charles Boyer in a memorable portrayal of the role of Napoleon Bonaparte.
ENTERTAINMENTS.St. John's Cathedral Michaelmas Fair, at Volunteer Parade Ground, 3.15 MISCELLANEOUS.-Y.MCA. Dis- p.m.; opened by. Mrs. A. W. cussion group. in the West
Lounge, 9 p.m. Bartholomew, LECTURES, St. John Ambulance MOON-VIII Moon, 23rd. Day.
A.R.P. Field Etretcher Delil, SUNRISE.-8.19 am. SUNSET Corpl, Sando, 2.30 pm:
6. pan. MAILS.(Bee Paze. 18). -
TIDES.-High at 13,26, Low MISCELLANEOUS.—Exhibition
08.47 and 17.29; Oli Paintings and Watercoloury. by Mr. Tchun Po-yl, at St. John's Cathedral Hall, 10 am to 7 pm. MOON-VIII Moon, 22nd, Day. RELIGIOUS - Bolemn Requiem.
of
Mass for all the deceased Priests
HELP FOR CHINA WAR VICTIMS
London Oct. 14. Over 22,000 in 'thinks offerings
of the Mission of Hongkong, at for cur peace" have reached the
Catholic Cathedral, 7.30 am. Tondon headquarters of the British SOCIAL-
CTAL Anual Reunion, plader and for the fellet of distress in
Here is acting" of a new high | order. As the young Polish coun- į teas, Marie Walewska, who en- courages the, infatuation of Na- poleon to further the interests of her own country but ultimately falls in love with him herself, Garbo once again stands out as
of the Royal Engineers, in the China during the past few daya the most distinguished netress on Peninsula Hotal, 7.65 p.m. for 8.30 Reuter,
the screen to-day?
NINE SWELL FUN-STABS IN A BIG LAUGH KIOT!” Story of a Dowager with a passion for reforming tramps.
pung until her daughter fell in love with one HAL ROACH HAN presenti
BENNETT AHERNE
Merrily We Live
@MATINEES: 20c.-30c • EVENINGS
-30c.-50c.-70C.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938.-PAGE
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE SHOWING TODAY.
"DAILY AT 1.30, 5.30, 7.15 AND 9.20 - PAL
HT FUN STARS
Robert MONTGOMERY
in
Rosalind RUSSELL
Robert BENCHLEY
LIVE LOVE and LEARN
HELEN VINSON
* MICKEY_ROONEY??
"MONTYAWOOLLEYS
ALSO LATEST MUSICAL COME V
“GIRL'S BEST YEARS"
· NEXT CHANGE COLUMBIA
START CHEERING' with JIMMY, DURANTE --- JOAN PERRY.
ISTAR
TODAY ONLY
ERROL FLYNN
with
Olivia de HAVILLAND
Basil RATHBONE
TO. MORROW :
4 SHOWS DAILY 230 $20 720.930
HANDON ROAD
KEWŁOCKE TEL 57795
CAPTAIN
„1000's in anar ve
névnstven deali Werner Bros.) MITtos-dollar
BLOOD
A Warner Bros. Picture
“20 MILION SWEETHEARTS"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL 37222
MATINEES..20. • 30¢ • EVENINGS. 20% -30%-50%-70%)
SHOWING TO-DAY
TWO BRILLIANT STARS IN THE GREATEST TRIUMPH OF PAGEANTRY AND ROMANCE!
ROMANCE... INCOMPARABLE!
Garbe
Charter,
Boyer
ALA CLARENCE,
BROWN
production
MARIE
Never has the aursen blended dramą, pageantry, usoul - stab- bing theill...ta aqual thili star- studded semantic trampli
WALEWSKA
MIGHTY CAST OF THOUSANDS!
Molding
ALAM
REGINALD OWEN MARSHAL HENRY STEPHENSON LEIR
CHERRY GORDON
ZA VLADIMIR "SOKOLOFF - Screws Play by Swanni 20
CLARENCEBRO
RODIÍCED BY BEVRLAND R. WYM
A YEAR TO PRODUCE
NEXT CHANGE RETURN SHOWING TOH ONE DAY ONLYU
HARRYMOR
"THE LEVIE BOLL"
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