HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 230-515-7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31453
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
Her Future Was Shadowed By A Notorious Past! AELURING.......COURAGEOUS...COMPASSIONATE!
A WOMAN IS JUDGED BY HER
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Drum”
QUEEN'S
"That Certain Woman"
ORIENTAL-
||
CINEMA" & GENEKÄL
"The Amazing Dr. Clitter-
house"
DRAMA OF NORTHWEST FRONTIER
WEAKEST MOMENT:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938.-PAGE 5
KING'S
"COME ON...
SHOWING TODAY DAILY AT LAD, 5.10, 7.15 AND 18 P.M.
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**NETTE
DAVIS
HENRY
FONDA
"That Certain Woman"
sit LAN HUNTER - ANETA LOUISE - Donald Crisp - weftiam and tractail by Edmund Boulding • Blazic by Wax Stolnar · A First National Picture - Pratonted by WARNER BROS.
TO-MORROW.
A Paramount Picture
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30.5.15
7.15-9-30
"GRAND NEW YEAR ATTRACTION
RONALD COLMAN
in "IF I WERE KING"
TAKE ANY TRAM DA KAPHY VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
ROAD [WANGHAI
TEL. 28473)
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
SUPER-DOCTOR 1 SUPER-CROOK | SUPER-MAN! He practises medicfue by day, crime by night, steals jewels, ateals beurts, plays with 'death and laughs at killers.
ETA & ROBINSON
Amazing
"THE
Dr. Clitterhouse
Exper
Doctori
Super
CLAIRE TREVOR HUMPHREY BOGART - ALLEN JENKINS
· TOMORROW—MONDAY-TUESDAY
A GIGANTIC MILLION DOLLAR HOLIDAY PRODUCTION! The most exciting and spectacular of all thrill dramas.
THE
SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents
HURRICANE
With Dorothy tomeur, Jon Hall, Mary Astor,
C. Aubrey Smith, Thamas Milichal, laymend Massay. Stary by Nordhed and Hel, watkan |'idutiny onthe Lesnty'. Directed by John Ford
✪ MATINEES: 20c.-30c
DAILY
AT
2:50
5:20
720
9.20
EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
HANKOW
STARE
TODAY ONLY
Sing Me
La Love
Song
דיניו
KOWLOON
JAMES MELTON
PATRICIA ELLIS HUCH HERBERT ZASU PITTS ALLEN JENKINS NAT PENDLETON Asn Sheridan • Walter Cadi»tk-Habari Cavanaugh
Alana Nahast Parlan
TO-MORROW & MONDAY
GRAND NEW YEAR ENTERTAINMENT
DEANNA DURBIN
** NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
MAD ABOUT MUSIC | Harbert MARSHALL
GAIL PATRICK - ARTHUR TREACHER William Frawley
REFUGEE PROBLEM
DISCUSSION
London, Dec. 30.
Solution No. 196
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA -
"The Road To Reno"
STAR:
"Sing Me A Love Song"
MAJESTIC:
"Test Pilot"
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QUEEN'S:
Coming
"If I Were Wat" "The Rat"
ORIENTAL:
"The Hurricane"
" "Woman Chases Man”
ALHAMBRA:
"If I Were King" "Painted Desert"
STAR:
"Mad About Music” "The Invisible Man"
MAJESTIC:
"You're Only Young Once" "She Married An Artist"
SHE MARRIED AN ARTIST
Sabu, of "Elephant, Boy" fame. Valerie Hobson and Roger Livesey in a tease moment from "The Drum." Alexander Korda's excellent technicolour film showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
Shoeshine Boy Reveals
Stars' Character
Believe it or not, your shoes can give you away. Bob Cox, shoeshine boy at a Hollywood studio, claims that he can tell more about people by looking at their shoes than he could by any number of bumps on their skull, or lines in their hands.
"Yes, sir, shoes can certainly person is alive, wide-aware, loves give a person away." Bob said as to dance, and is barely sta he applied a sponge to a parti- second.
cularly stubborn spot Take Joan "Lew Arres." Bob went on, "is Crawford's shoes. for example. the dreamer type. His shoes are You can tell she's active, just by always scuffed up at the toes, looking at the soles. The heels both of them. That means that are never worn. only the soles he is the type of fellow who en- are joys long walks so that he can the think. In fact, he is thinking so
John Boles, Lull Deste, Frances at the tip. Whenever shoes Drake, Helen Westley and other worn like that, it means that well-known Hollywood players, are seen" to-day nt. the Majestic Theatre in "She Married an
Artist," an up-to-the-minute story SOLD JAPANESE
of New York's Greenwich Village.
Comedy and romance are deftly interwoven here into one of the best pictures of the season, and John Boles has never been better in any picture.
On the stage, Queenie and her Hawaiian entertainers will make merry, Queenie has just conclud- ed a very successful season at the Gloucester Hotel
SONJA HENIE CO-DEFENDENT IN LAWSUIT
Chicago, Dec. 30,
Sonja Henie, the former ice- skating champion of the world and now a popular film star, has been named co-defendant in an action for $3,000,000 damages.
RAINCOATS
FINED
London, Dec. 30.
The well-known Kensington stores of John Barkers, were fined £10 and twenty guineas costs in the West London police court yesterday on s charge arising from the sale of F raincoat made in Japan, which did not bear the neces sary marking..
would be
deeply that he usually kicks what- ever in his way without realiz lng it, whether it be a rock or an old tih "can."
SHY JAMES STEWART
James Stewart, so his shoes re- veal, is just as shy of the screen as on.
"It's always the toe on the right. shoe that needs the most atten- tion," Bob explained. "It isn't really scuffed, just worn where he unconsciously grinds it around in the dirt. He has this same man- nerism on the screen. Watch him.”
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ยะ
As for Clark Gable, Gable" al- ways knows exactly where he's going and takes a direct route, The defence asserted that every-Bob explains that this shows up thing possible was done to comply in the fact that the soles of his with the Merchandise" Marks Act. shoes are worn evenly. JI For ten years Barkers had pur- "A person who 18 Indecisive chased British raincoats, but never has shoe soles worn evenly." owing to a shortage in October Bob said. "They are always thin-' they accepted a supply of Japanese Iner on one side or the other coats which were equally good." the person sways back and forth
In his decisions." They 'were supplied without labels, and Barkers
SHOESHINE PSYCHOLOGISTS The action brought on behalf of entitled to sell them in that Fred Walton, ex-vaudeville artiste, state, but having applied their
That Bob, the shoeshine boy, alleges that the Twentieth Century own label, they should have in- can atudy character by shoes is -Fox Film Corporation and four dicated their foreign origin.
not to be questioned. He subsidiary companies pirated a
tell whether or not a person is The magistrate declared that it vain by the stretch of the film plot.
last: was vitally important that legis- whether he is sensible by the cut Walton declares that the film lauon should be respected, not of the vamp or the height of the "Thin Ice" starring Sonja Henie, only for the protection of the heel; whether he is careful or was taken from a story which, he public, but it was of great impor- careless by the condition of the cialms, was written by him and tance to traders when faced with soles. rejected by a film-story agent two the kind of competition they were
He claims, further, that he alone years before "Thin Ice" was pro- up against from Japan and others not gifted with the ability of duced.-Renter.
\ countries-Rauter.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Weapon
• (5)..
4 Fen (5)
10 Whip (4)
11 Tribe (4)
13. Flat-fish
(0)
14 Cleric (8)
15 Microbe
(4)
17 Female (3) 10 Puta into
office (8) 21. Valued
highly (8)
23 Total (3) 23 Heath (4) 27 Place in
30. Flower
·dust (6) ACROSS: 4, Slumber, 8, Trowel. 32 Disport
L4)
9. Martial. 11, Rotten. 14,. Fit. 15, Mr. George Rubice, director of Ruled. 17, Poker. 18, Lean. 19, 33 Spare (4) the Inter-Governmental Refugee Giver 21, Organ. 25, Spoil. 26, 34 Shelf (5) Office in London, will, according to Weep. 21, Spite. 28, Tulip. 30, End. the "Evening News," shortly leave 32, Eagles. 33, Greased, 34, Reveal, for Berlin, accompanied by experts 35 Leisure DOWN: 1, Sterile 2 of the refugee committee.
Portray. 3, Level. 5, Loaf, 6, Mutton.
I believed, says the paper, 7. Enamel. 10, Ripen. 12, Tun. 13, that the plan for facilitation of Negro 16, Digit. 20, Value, 21, Jewish emigration, submitted by opens, 22, Replied, 23, Epistle. 24. Dr. Achacht, President of the Red- chabank, will be suitable as a basis Sparse. 25, Steals. 28, Wig. 29,
Label, 31, Dear, for discussion-Trans Ocean.
35 Bearing
weapons (B)
DOWN.
2 Ruse (4)
3 Tom (4)
5 Ating-
sphere (3)
NO. 197
#2
119
6 Catchy
3
10
phrase (6)
* Detest (4)
8 IXsgrace
(5)
Bared (8)
19. Hanging knob (6)
20 Friendli- —Deis (5)* 22 Royal set
(6)
24 Tiny (5)
11. Riné (5)
12. Approach
26 (em (4)
(6)
16 Wrapper
(8).
SOLUTION ON TUESDAY
28 To box (4)
29 Chide (4)
3 Dally (3)
can
analysis, but that it is shared by the brotherhood of shoeshine boys everywhere.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. -New Year's Eve. Hogmanay, CINEMAS,—(Bee Column 3 of this
Page
DANCES, Kowloon Cricket Club New Year Eve Ball, 8.30 .10. Cruigengower Cricket Club Pre- sident's Dance, 9.30 p.m. LECTURES-First Aid
St. John
Ambulance Hqrs., 3.30 p.m.
· MAILS,—(See Paze. 16)
MOON-XL Moon, 16th. Dag. RELIGIOUS. The Deum and
Benediction in Catholle Cathe dral,' 6 p.m., and
Watchnight
Services in all Hongkong Chur- ches, from 1t p:m; to midnight. SPORTS-(Sec Page 2). SUNRISE.—7.03 a.m SUNSET
5.49 p.
TIDES-High at 02.35 and 1617
Low at 09.29 and 23.59.
TO-MORROW
MISCELLANEOUS.-Y.M.C.A. Dis- West cussion Group, in the Lounge, p. MOON-XI Moon, 11th, Day.
| SUNRISE-7.02 m. SUNSET,—
5.49. p.m.
TIDES, -High at 0121 and 15:32;
Low at 08.45 and 22.20,
The
DRUM
in Chris Tullamon...$3.
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And rest as the core » HOLTAN KONDA
ALSO
A WALT DISNEY'S CARTOON Silly Symphony IN TECHNICOLOUR
MODERNTINVENTIONS
Featuring DONALD DUCK ·
'SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES TO-MORROW AND SUNDAY AT 12 NOÒN
Latest COLUMBIA VARIETY PROGRAMME
ALHAMBRA
0,30 ⚫TEL
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY EX-WIVES EAGER FOR ANOTHER FLING! They Címe:,. They Naw. . And Were Conquerert !
TO-MORROW
THE NEW UNIVERSAL PRESENTE
A Paramount Picture
4. SHOWÝ DAISY
350 & 30 720-30
Randolph SCOTT
THE ROAD TO RENC
co-starring Hope HAMPTON
Helen BRODERICK » Alan MARSHAL
Glenda FARRELL-Samuel S, HDSDS-David OLIVER
GRAND NEW YEAR AT RACHION RONALD COĻMAN in "IF I WERE KING”
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
(MATINEES. 204-30€ • EVENINGS. 20. •30«•50270
SHOWING TO-DAY
THIS YEAR'S GREATEST HITUSE NOT SINCE "SAN FRANCISCO"
CLARK
GABLE
MYRNA
LOY
SPENCER
TRACY
A VICTOR
FLEMING production
such death-deiva non,soul-stirring rollen.. Not since "Grand Hope,
- such a arand sitr cash!
TEST PILOT
WIS LIONEL
BARRYMORE
Borean Play by Vincent Lawrenos and Waldemar **- Young • Original Story by Trak Was J
· Directed by VICTOR FLEMING Prodsoed by LOUM D. LIGHTON
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
NEXT CHANGE
GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION
ON THE STAGE :
Queenie and Her Hawaiian Troubadours
SINGERS, MUSICIANS. HULA-DANCERS ON THE SCREEN : "SHE MARRIED AN ARTIST
with JOHN BOLES, LULI DESTE
A Columbia Picture
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