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BETTE
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"That Certain WomanTM
"uits LAN HUNTER - ANITA LOUISE Donald Crisp witten and Directed by Edmund Maddung • Mesić by Max Steiner A First Refione Pine • Pravated by WARMER BROS
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A Worthy Successor to Victoria the Grest" ANNA NEAGLE * ANTON, WALBROOK in
"60 GLORIOUS YEARS "
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Qae of the screen's antable.contributions to the world. and one of the bost dramatic stories over written.
OF HUMAN HEARTS
CLARENCE
BROWN'S
Walter Hesto
PRODUCTION
Boutch Bondi
James Stew"}
Gay Kibb Charles Coburn: John Corradine Scrie 1919 27 Bradbery Foots Dirwered by Cursos Úrers
Prained by Jeka W. Considine,
*McGoug Hayere
JP.
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FOUR GREAT STARS IN A MEMORA LE PICTURE! A clever story between a man and a girl, three men
for such either and three men for a girl
TAYLOR JULLAVALITOKE YOUNG
THREE COMRADES
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KING'S THEATRE.
TO-DAY
THURSDAY, 2nd FEB. 1939
AT 5.10 P.M. "
Under the distinguished patronage of Lady Northcote
"THE SLEEPING BEAUTY".
Ballet.
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BOOKINGS AT KING'S THEATRE.
Today's
CINEMA & GENEKAL
VALUE OF FILMS AS
Screenings PROPAGANDA
QUEEN'
Hongkong
KING'S
"South Riding"
"Arrest Bulldog
ORIENTAL-
Drummond"
"Of Human Hearts'"
Kowloon
ALILAMERA-
“That Certain Woman" STAR:
"One More Spring" MAJESTIC:
"Judge Hardy's Children"
KING'S:
Coming
"There Goes My Heart" QUEEN'S:
"Sixty Glorious Years" ORIENTAL:
"Three Comrades" "That Certain Age" ALHAMBRA:
"Sixty Glorious Years" STAR:
365 Nights In Hollywood" "White Banners"
MAJESTIC:
44
"Swiss Miss"
JUDGE HARDY'S
CHILDREN
Offsetting Foreign "Ballyhoo"
HOW JERUSALEM WAS RE-TAKEN
Silent Advance By
The Coldstreams
Detalis of how the 3rd Battalion. Coldstream Guards reoccupied Jerusalem last Oct. are related in The value of the documentary
the Household Brigade Magaz.ne him as an antidote to authoritarian for December. The extracts are propaganda was emphasised by Mr.
from a letter written by the John Grierson, the film producer, Commanding Oficer of the In a paper on "The Dramatic Fac-battalion to the Colonel of the tor in Education" which he read at the Education Institute of Scotland Congress at Perth recently.
The progressive teacher to-day. sald Mr. Grierson, saw the threat ol
authoritarian ideologies. and how easy with the modern wea pons of propaganda and persua slon, it was to sweep people oft
their feet.
"How." he asked, "shall the education system meet this threat to the democratie scheme of things, in which men are expected to resist the ballyhoo of the authoritarian viewpoint? How can it mentally equip its people to be proof against the fervours and the hatreds which endanger civilisation?"
The only way. "Mr. Grierson declared, was to Iustif a coun- ter set of values which would hold men loyal to toleration. To this end the teacher should be armed with every dramatic nid available to him. Two of these aids were the radio and the film.
"AFRAID OF" FILMS”.
regiment.
The Commanding Officer writes:| "The task given to the Coldstream Was not a pleasant one, FAJ one gathered there were. 400 armed and desperate gangsters inside the rabbit warren of a elty, while the sanctity of the place made it impossible for an advance to be covered by air bonbing and shel! fire, or even smoke bombs of
mortars
"Moreover, we were forbidden to 80 into the Temple area, which
dominated
to
an
extent
the
to
theatre of operations."
The Coldstream plan was drive a wedge between the Arab city and the Temple. It was really attacking on a four-yard front to a"depth of about a mile.
"We relled much on speed of advance and surprise, and were actually established on our objectives 90 minutes after starting, the Royal Northumberland Fusillers covering the walls of the Temple "Judge Hardy's Children." third
and the roof-tops with machine- ut Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's "Hardy
gun fire during our advance." Family" series, with Lewis Stone.
The Commanding Officer explains Yet many teachers were afraid of that canvas shoes were worn by Mickey Rooney. Cecilla Parker and
Blins. In Scotland the policy to-all ranks. That was essential, he Fay Holden, is the current attrac-
It is wards the use of films in schools writes, if men were to move quickly on at the Majestic Theatre.
sequel to "You're Only Young had been eaany" to the point of and silently along the narrow stone Once" and is the same type of in-simplicity.
alleyways and passages, and to "We offered you a dramatic wea-climb about on roofs. They found family down-to-earth comedy, this time taking the judge pen. sald Mr. Grierson. "not to in 1936 that nalled boots were quite teach the old geography, the old impossible in the Old City even and his family to Washington where the youngsters have flirta-history, and the old civics, but to when sightseeing. riens and the father outwits lob-teach the new "deography and his- tory and civics in terms of living bylats.
and dramatic relationships.
1t. was the Alm's power of
timate.
SOUTH RIDING Idramatic statement, not its power
The screen version of Winifred to illustrate-facts, that we regard Holtby's famous book. "Southed as important.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
Virgin
(Blessing
Riding." is being shown to-day at You insisted on the value of ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS the King's Theatre.
silent films. You wanted what you The screen version is a faithful called traching films, and that is reproduction of the book, which to say that you only wanted the was posthumously awarded the film to be an illustrative handmaid James Tait Black Memorial Prize, to, the old pedagogic process, not one of the most highly valued that explosive ald to interest and literary awards. The book was enthusiasm and loyalty which the first published in March 1936, and new education is so universally was the best seller of the year. calling for."
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Page).
DANCES.-"The Sleeping Beauty" Ballet, at King's Theatre, by Pupils of the George Goncharoff School of Dance. 5.10 p.m. ENTERTAINMENTS.
Annual Dramatic Performance at St. Andrew's Hall, 0 p.m. LECTURES:-Public Address by Rev, George Shepherd, on "Mme. Chlang 'Kal-shek and Her Work" at St. John's Cathedral
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MAILS. (See Page 161.
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Photography, in 8. & ́8. Home Assembly Hall, 5.15 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.: Launching 01. the Breconshire, at Talkoo Dock- yard, 6.30 p.m.; Play Reading. in the West Lounge of European Y.M.C.A., 9 pm.
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ONE MORE SPRING"
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ALICE, FAYE JAMES DUNN
365 NIGHTS IN HOLLYWOOD'
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“How Am I Doin', Folks?""
JUDGE HARDY'S
with
MICKIT
STONE ROONEY
CECILIA Z
FAY
PARKER HOLDEN A
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COMMENCING
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FASTER TELEGRAMS TO ISLE OF MAN
A Post Office radio station is to
of
The object is to obviate delay experienced in sending messages to and from the island.
Press messages have to walt
be erected at Crag-Na-Baa, Isle hours, particularly during the T. T. Man, to supplement "the jand Grand Prix races, and are submarine telephone cable and often delayed so long that they short-wave wireless telephony, become useless,
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