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2:30-515-7:20-9:30PM AT 230 5 20:720 & 9:50 PM.
SHOWING TODAY
She Captivate you in "Three Smart Girls” She Enchante I you in “100 Men and a Girl" She Fascinated you in "Mad About Music"
Now
'wait till you see This!
Deanna DURBIN
NEXT" CHIANGM
AT THE QUEEN'S "INVISIBLE MAN
with Claude Rains
That CERTAIN AGE
MELVYN
DOUGLAS
Jackie Cooper • Irene Rich Nancy Carroll John Halliday
·A-NEI UNIVERSAL- PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE AT THE ALHAMBRA PASSPORT HUSBAND "
Stuart B: wn P. Moore
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW E
TO-MORROW, at 11.00 A.M.
An R.K.O. VARIETY PROGRAMME
including
COLOUR CARTOONS
& COMEDIES
AT USUAL POPULAK PRICES Complimentary tickets not valid for this show
QUEEN'S
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4 SHOWS
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2.30.3.15
7.15-9.30
ORIENTAL
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®
BONITA IN A NEVER.TO'. BE - FORGOTTEN PICTURE!
A very intense story of bad girls from good famlies spoiled by too much money.
Beloved Brat
WARNER BROS Pěture wil
BONITA GRANVILLE
DOLORES COSTELLO DONALD CRISP
Directed by ARTHUR LUBIN
Screen Play by Lawrence Kimble
TOMORROW-MONDAY AND TUESDAY
ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY I
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The screen's most thrilling and spectacular prod etion
RONALD
COLMAN
the PRISONER
ZENDA
Released The United Artists
WITH
MADELEINE CABROLL Produced by DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr.
er Basera of Honzoun
KING'S.
QUEEN'S
Hongkong
What The Stars
Are Doing
Greta Garbo, back in Hollywood. Miliza Korjus will probably play will make the comedy, "Ninotchka" in M-O-M's musical version of "There's Always A Woman" before Madame Curte." If, as "The Guardsman." It was Arst seems likely. the nim can be intended for Dona Massey and finished before Gone with the Nelson Eddy, Wind" starts, George Cukor will direct and Clark Gable co-star in Garbo's first comedy.
That Certain Age"
ORIENTAL-
"Beloved Brat"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA.
"That Certain Ags"
STAR:
"British Agent" MAJESTIC:
"Lost Horizon”.
KING'S:
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Waldemar Young, who worked on, the screen plays of "Sign of the Cross," "Bengal Lancer" and "Test Paul Mun is arranging to see Pilot." among others, has died in Toscanini in the hope of persuad Hollywood. He had been in the Ing him to conduct the orchestra business since 1917 and was under for "The Life of Beethoven," contract to 'M-G-M. Muni's next picture after "Juarez:"
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Buck Jones is coming out of his Barbara Stanwyck has
cowboy costume to play a straight her contract with Twentieth part in Paramount's "Vice Squad." Century-Fox and signed a new one with Paramount. She has also Sam Goldwyn wants Laurence commitments to Radio.
Olivier to play Heathclize in "Wuthering Heights" and Would naske Vivien Leigh to play the
heroine's sister, Isabella.
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Philadelphia University **The Adventures of Tom Saw-started a "course in motion picture
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appreciation It comes under the. heading of "hobby courses."
"Judze Hardy's Children" QUEEN'S:
"Invisible Man"
ORIENTAL:
"The Prisoner of Zenda" ALHAMBRA:
"Passport Husband"
STAR:
"Coronado"
"Duck Soup"
MAJESTIC:
"Yellow Jack"
LOST HORIZON
"Lost Horizon," "that lovely idyl of Shangri-La from the pen of James Hilton, returns to the Majestic Theatre for short engagement beginning to-day.
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Leopold Stokowski is at work on the second of six recordings he's making for one of Disney's full- length cartoons.
Among the cast supporting Norma Shearer and Clark Gable in "Idiot's Delight"
are Charles Coburn, Lana Turner and Virginia. A record has been made as part Grey.
of the "Motion Pictures Are Your. Best Entertainment" campaign. Universal have bought two new It includes "Piccolino" sung by possible stories for Danielle Dar-Ginger Rogers; "Song of the rieux. "Halt American." and "Man-Marines" by Dick Powell; "Thanks hattan Masquerade" and will for the Memory"" by Bob Hope; "Medley of Hits" by Shirley Tem- ple: "The Man the Flying Mae West is trying to get Basil Trapeze" by Gable and Claudette Rathbone, as her leading man in Colbert; music of "Singing in the "Catherine the Great." Her other Rain" and a speech by Will Hays. production plans Include a musical with the well-known singer. John In "Dramatic School" Lulse Charles Thomas, and a comedy Rainer will do scenes from "Romeo starring Ned Sparks.
and. Juliet" and from "Maric Antoinette."
choose between them.
Paramount has invited Alexander
It is estimated that the picture. Woollcott. the critic essayist. to which stars Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, H Play himself in "Café Society”
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Darryl Zanuck, who is making "The Three Musketeers") as a musical with the Ritz Bro-
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Errol Flynn is the latest star to
be considering a Western," Dodge' City."
B. Warner, Isabel Jewell, Margo and others, must have been seen by nearly every cinema-goer in Hongkong at least once, Some have seen it twice, three times thers, will also re-make another LEAGUE MEDICAL or more. So great is the appealMark of Zorro," as a musical.
famous Douglas Fairbanks film.
of the film that it never tires..
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This story of a land where youth never ages
and where content- and happiness abide ment without question the best Holly- wood production during the past Ave years
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Jack Oakie goes for the first time to work at M-G-M in "Zleg- feld Girl."
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WORK IN CHINA
TO BE CONTINUED
London, Deci 9 The necessary credit will be in- cluded in the League of Nations
Ben Hecht is writing the screen budget for 1939. for the main- play of Nelson Eddy's next solo tenance of the present anti- starring picture, Let Freedom epidemic" work in China and the Ring." It is a ploneer story about
continuance of technical colla- the rivalry between farmers and boration in accordance with the railway interests. There is no part scheme of the Chinese Gover- far Jeanette, so Eddy will have no
ment submitted to the Assembly singing partner and do all his sing-in September and which was then ing with male choruses.
accepted in principle.
This answer was given by MI. Warners will re-make "The Old R.A. Butler. Under-Secretary for Curiosity Shop" with Claude Rains Foreign Affairs, to a question in as the shopkeeper "and Janet the House of Commons yesterday Chapman as Little Nell. It was by Mr. Robert Morgan, who urged made four years ago in England join action by the Powers to alle- with Ben Webster and Elaine viate the misery and sufferings Renson
of Chinese civilian Reuter
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Ancient Chinese Play
Has London Premiere
London, December 8.
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30 Openwork fabric
Mr. S. 1. Hatung's translation of "The Romance" of the Western 31: Small bird Chamber," one of the most famou Chinese plays of the 13th Century. 32 Withered was produced at the Torch Theatre in London last night before a 33 Part of a crowded and most" appreciative audience. W
curved line 34 Prohibit
Mr. Hsiung himself produced the play, which was given accord-35 Ziels ing to the strictest convention of Chinese stage symbolism...
The lack of scenery was compensated for by the gorgeousness of the costumes, which were specially made in Bhanghal under the direction of the famous Chinese actor, Mei Lan-fang..
The part of Ying Ying was charmingly played by Maiste Dar- rell, creator in London of "Lady Precious Stream," Geoffrey Ed- wards bore the long and exacting part of her lover. Chang, with Impressive effect.
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Marjorie Gayain, as Ying Ying's mother, gave a brilliant im- personation of the great society lady who schemes unsuccessfully to part her daughter from the unknown and humble student, but un- doubtedly the favourite of the evening was Joyce Redman in the delightful.comedy part of Ying Ying's maid.
London is now well used to the peculiarities of the Chinese stage. and the play was enthusiastically received.
Mr. lung is giving all his share of the profits to the Chinese relle funds-Reuter
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38 Upon 30 Twilight
40 Moral tale 44. Prophet
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an electrical murrent
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prince
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2 Nurse 111 Indta
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4 Obliteration
5 Eager
6 City in Brazil
7 Touching
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27 Casualty 31 Large drink-
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32 Spanish
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part of a building
41 Bathe 42 8-shaped moulding
43 Microbe.. 44 Mineral
spring: 45 Bring forth
young
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DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
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ANNİVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS,
-St. Eulada.
CINEMAS,—(See Column 3 of this
Page).
DANCES,
REOGA Supper
Dance. Peninsula Hotel.
ENTERTAINMENTS Ministering
Chlidren's
League Children's
Fair, at Volunteer Egra, 3 pin. LECTURE-First Aid, at St. John
Ambulance Hqrs, 3.30 p.m.
{MAILA-(Bee Page 16).
MISCELLANEOUS-Speech
Day
and Distribution of Certificates at Heep Yunn School, Kowloon City, 4 p.m.; Exhibition of Ple- tures in Gloucester Arcade;" Opening of Modern Cintres Painting Exhibition at the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library, HK. University. 10 am.. MOON-X Moon, 19th. Day. RELIGIOUS-Triduum of Prayers and Sermon,. in Catholic Cathe- dral. 5.30 p.m.
SOCIAL-Kowloon Cricket Club "At Home" and Lawn Bowls Match, 230 p.m. SPORTS-(See Page 2),"
SUNRISE.-6.52 -0,
5.40 p.m.
SUNBET.-
TIDES.-High at 12.15 and 23.00.
Low at 05.34 and 16,20,
TU-MORROW : LECTURES. YMCA Lantern Lecture on "The Arctic Expedi- tion 1935-6," by Capt, Whatman, Member of the Oxford Univer- sity Expedition, in the West, Lounge, 9. p.mi. MOON-X Moon, 20th. Day, SUNRISE-4.51 am. SUNBET.-
5.39 p.m.
: TIDES-High at 11.23 and 22.11,
Low at 0450 and 15.35,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1938.-PAGE
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TO-MORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY
Vivid Romance Beneath a Trople Moon-in the Shadow of Death!
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"YELLOW JACK"
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