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THE GRANDEST ROMANCE EVER (FILMED! *
SORAID COLMAN, green of alt memantic stars, un Procesin
Vilna, prerroque who dared to
Love this Retreat lay in Fren
THURSDAY
AT THE QUEEN'S
R. Chatterton
THE
RAT
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4 SHOWS]
DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-9:30
Flaming Adventure Glorious Romance!
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RONALD COLMAN
DEFRANK LLOYD
IF I WERE KING
A Pamong Penzu wick
Frances Dee Basil Rathbone Ellen Drew. CV. France · Heary Wilcoxo
Produced in Durestal de Frysk Lord
THURSDAY
AT THE ALHAMBRA PAINTED DESERT" Geor,e O'Brion
Ray Whitley
TAKE ANY THAN OR HAPPY YALLIY SUE
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
ROAD WANGHAI
TEL. 28473
CINEMA & GENERAL
EPIC LUCKNOW FILM BARRED
BY CENSOR BOARD
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Drum"
QUEEN'S
"If I Were King ORIENTAL
"The Hurricane"
Kowloon
ALHADINEA-
"II I Were King" STAR:
"The Invisible Man" MAJESTIC:
"She Married An Artist"
KING'S:
Coming
"Sally. Itene And Mary" QUEEN'S:
"The Rat" ORIENTAL:
"Woman Chases Man! ALHAMBRA :
"Painted Desert
STAR:
"A Night at the Opera" MAJESTIC:
"You're Only Young Once" "Lancer Spy"
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•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY RONALD COLMAN
A HAVOC WRECKING HURRICANE IN ALL ITS FURY!
Nature hurls her raadness upon her idyllic paradise! Howling wind pelting rain, humanity uprooted by the havoc of the gal that wrecks terror and destruction.
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THE SCREEN'S MOST THRILLING SOUTH SEA ROMANCE!
FOR HER LOVE
...
HE FOUGHT
through miles of raging ocean.. he defed man's law..A turbulent story of primitive passions by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty"
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
presents
THE HURRICANE
WNER
Dorothy LAMOUR • Jon HALL Mory ASTOR C. Aubrey SMITH Thomas MITCHELL Raymond MASSEY
Directed by
JOHN FORD UNITED ARTISTS
TOMORROW & THURSDAY
THE SEASON'S BEST AND FUNNIEST COMEDY |
WOMAN CHASES MAN
MIRIAM HOPKINS
JOEL M* CREA Charles Winninger Erik Rhodes
(UNITED ARTISTS,
RELEASE
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DAILY
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The
OUTSTANDING
"II Were King," which is being shown at the Queen's and Alham- bra Theatres, marks the outstand- ing achievement in the careers of Hollywood figures LWO great Ronald Colman, whose portrayal of Francois Villon tops all the roman- tic figures of history and fiction he has played, and Producer-Director Frank Lloyd. whose latest work even surpasses his "Cavalcade" and "Mutiny on the Bounty."
For three months Maurice Elvey, the film director, had worked hard to prepare the filming of "The Relief of Lucknow," based on the siege of the Lucknow Residency during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. His intelligence officers had scouted out every possible detail of the slege; he had marshalled Edna Best and Wilfred Lawson to play the leading parts; he had trenches dug and battlements built ready for going into action. Finally, he sent a script to the British Board of Film Censors,
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Hitler Under Morphine
For 14 Hours
Herr Hitler took 14 hours to rally from a morphine steep when he underwent a throat operation four years ago and caused some "concern." doctor has revealed.
his
Dr. Carl Von Elcken, who performed the operation to re- move an obstruction from the Fuehrer's
throat spoke in
before Philadelphia recently the American Inter-state Post- Graduate Medical Association...
He said that some persons first thought Hitler's trouble was, cancer but an examina- tion revealed a polyp a small malignant growth, on one of the vocal cords.
An average amount of mor- phine used for the operation, the doctor said, had an “un- usually pronounced“ effect in Hitler's case, because he neither smokes nor drinks.
Just as Elvey and his colleagues were toasting the success of the production, a message came from the Censors: "We have been ad- vised by the India Office that such a film would revive memories of the days of conflict which it has been the honest endeavour of both countries to obliterate. In these circumstances the Board thinks t right to advise the producers that it could hold no hope of the m being certificated."
LEGENDARY CHARACTER
Bitterly Elvey recalled how much time he had spent trying to trace the legendary Jessie Brown, who is supposed to have dreamt that she heard "The Campbells are Coming" during the siege; how he had tried to track down the son of Henry Cavanagh, V.C. so that he could act the part of his father. Grumbled Elvey: "It is not true that, the authorities in India are unanimously against preserving memories of the Mutiny. It, they were, how is it that the Lucknow Residency is still maintained in ruins. with its dag never hauled down day or night-the only flag in the Empire on which the sun never sets?
"
INDIAN DEFENDERS "How is it that the boys of Lo Martinlere College have just cle- brated the anniversary of the Re itet by marching past with their
The BBC Is colours--the only school flag in the
Broke
Mr. Frederick Ogilvie, the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion's quiet Director-General, 'fs holding daily conferences at Broadcasting House in a des- perate attempt to find a way out of threatening financial disaster, says the "Sunday
Chronicle."
The picture is outstanding for Colman's spirited portrayal of the poetic rogue who became ruler of France for one glorious week; for
"The B.B.C. s. broke.' 'It has Its pulsing love story of a vagabond been living beyond its means," it and a royal princess-for Lloyd's is declared. Rescue plans now un- magnifcent handling of mob der consideration include: a £500, scenes and, finally for the per-1000 loan; demand to the Treasury' formance of Basil Rathbone, who tor a refund of some of the £12. makes Louls X1, one of the stran-000,000 deducted from radio 11- gest characters of history, a living cences during the lifetime of the Corporation; demand for a grant from the Board of Education.
person.
A private report is to be sub-
Empire with battle honours on it? "Further, my scenario makės „a special point of the fact that the majority of the 3,000 defenders of Lucknow were natives of India and that both races stood shoulder to shoulder against the mutineers. "The Drums" and the Four Feath- era” to ̈ name two films only, both show British troops in con- flict with natives, yet no objection has been raised against them."
The two women in Villon's life aro played by Frances Dee and Ellen Drew. Miss Dee is the royal princess whose kisses inspire the mitted by the B.B.C. to the Gov-a vagabond to save France and Miss ernment. Drew is the tavern-wench who worships him. Others in the cast are C. V. France. Henry Wilcoxon, Stanley Ridges and Ralph Forbes.
Solution No. 197 · ·
FORTUNE AWAITS
AL CAPONE
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Al Capone, ex-King of the Chi- ACROSS: 1, Sword. 4, Marsh, 10, Lash. 11, Clan. 13, Turbot, 14, Rec-cago Underworld, will leave Alca- tor, 15, Germa, 17, She, 18, Appoints. traz Prison next year with a for- tune of $8,000,000, While "Scar- face" has been serving his sentence
21. Esteemed. 23, Sum, 25, Moor. 27, Insert. 30. Pollen 32, Play. 33, Lean.
34. Ledge. 35, Armed, DOWN: 2. Wile, for a £60,000 income tax evasion,
3. Rens. 5. Air. 6. Slogan. 7, Hate his brother Ralph ("Bottles") and his lieutenants have been looking 8. Shame. 9, Stripped, 11, Orust, 12,
ALIEN'S NAME KEPT SECRET
ཡ།མ
Refugee From Germany
A man who stood in the dock in London police court recently was described by his solicitor, Mr. Kerstein. as "a Jewish refugee fom the new persecution."
Mr. Kerstein asked that the name of the accused should not be published, as he had a father in Germany, "and I shuder to think what might. happen to him if the name were published and the report reached Germany."
The man was charged with hav- ing landed in the United Kingdom without leave.
BORN IN BERLIN
Mr. Herbert Metcalfe, the magis-
Access, 16, Covering. 19. Tassel 20 after his interests on the stock trate, read the statement, in which
Amity. 22, Throne. 24, Small. 26, Opal, 28, Spar. 29. Rate. 31. Lag.
markets.
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"A NIGHT AT THE OPERA"
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the accused said he was born in Berlin, where his father, u Russian, still lived. He carried on business as an estate agent from 1931 untu last July. Then, being in fear of being placed in a concentration camp, he left for Antwerp.
On Nov. 14 he told a sailor at the docks that he was afraid to return to Germany, and asked if the sailor could get him to England. Later he gave the sailor a sum of money, and he was taken on board a ship and put ashore in this country.
Mr. Metcalfe decided not to re- commend the man for deportation, and remanded him on bail in £2 to report to the Allens Office as required.
ABBOT CHAO KUNG REFUSED VISA BY HUNGARY BUDAPEST. Dec. 29 (Havas)- The Home Ministry here has re- fused the request of the famous adventurer Trebitach Lincoln; who wanted to re-enter his country of origin, it was announced here to- day,
Trebitsch Lincoln, who is now a Buddhist priest and resides in Shanghai under the name of Abbot Chao Kung, applied to the Han- gurian authorities in July last, stating that he was an old man who would like to spend his last days in the village in which he was
barn."
His request was transmitted to the authorities here by the Bud- dhist monk, Tao La
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1939. -PAGE
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ON THE STAGE:
QUEENIE
and her
HAWAIIAN TROUBADOURS
SINGERS. MUSICIANS AND HULA-HULA DANCERS
ON THE SCREEN:
A Gay and Romantic Comedy About Artists and Models!
WIFE VERSUS MODEL!{
SHE MARRIED
AN ARTIST
JOHN BOLES... LULI DESTE
*Frances Drake Helen Westley Alexander D'Arcy - rectes Dy Mation Gering - A Columbia Pictule
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY The Most Suspenseful Spy Story Ever Screened?' DOLORES DEL RIO GEORGE SANDERS
in LANCER SPY"
A 20th Century Fox Ficture
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
Union Party Committee, 3 pm.
Dress Re- -Miscellaneores,--Full "Anniversaries and Holidays.— | Chinese National Holiday. (New hearsal of Naval Landing Parties Year.) Banks and Consulates at Happy Valley, 10 am to 11.30 closed St. Genevieve,. (Patron of a.m.; YM.C.A. Women's Section; Paris.)
Charity Sewing. Bee 10 am.; St. Cinemas-(Bee Column 3 of this Stephen's College, (Stanley) new term for Middle and Preparatory School,
Moon-Chinese XT Moon, 13th
Page).
Lectures. Anti-Gas, at Y.M.C.A. Kowloon. 6 p.m.; First Aid, at
King's College, for men, & p.m.; st Day. Queen's College, 7.30 p.in.: at Am-
balance Hore. (Dr. H. el Arculli) & Religious Prayer and Fellowship p.m.; A.R.P. for General Public at Meeting at 8. & S. Home, 8.30 p.m.; Ambulance Hars., 7.30 p.m.; Mary- Universal Week of Prayer, St. knoll Convent School, Kowloon, 4John's Cathedral, 5.30 pm to 6.30 p.II.
p.m.
Mails(See Page 10). Meetings-Rotary Meeting, Hong- Kong Hotel, I p.m.; The Hongkong Branch of the English Assen., at Helena May, 5.30, p.m. ("History in p.m. English Poetry", (by Mr. D. J. Crozier); St. Andrew's. Mothers' "Low at 00.54 and 11.09.
SocialCraigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 9 p.m.
Sports (Bee. Page 2). Sunrise.-7.03° a.m. Banset—5,51
Tides High al 06.10, and 17.58.
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