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Today's Screenings
KING'S
Hongkong
"There Goes My Heart”
QUREN'S
"Bixty Glorious Years"
ORIENTAL
"That Certain. AgeTM
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA-
"Sixty Glorious Years" STAH:
"Casino Murder Case" MAJESTIC:
"Swiss Mis"
KING'S:
Coming
"The Shopworn Angel" QUEEN'S:
"I Were King"
ORIENTAL:
"The Divorce of Lady X" "You're A Sweetheart" ALHAMBRA:
"Arzona Mahone?"
STAR:
"Big City" MAJESTIC:
"Naughty Marietta"
THERE GOES. MY HEART
CINEMA & GENERAL
One of the fastest, merriest come- dy romances that the screen has. known in many years is now show ing at the King's Theatre. "There Goes My Heart," starring Frederic March and Virginia Bruce, is the gay tale.
Virginia plays the part of a madcap heiress who despises her fortune and goes to work in a bargain basement, mixing with other working girls and sharing their joys and tribulations.
Her romance with a newspaper columnist forms the backbone of the story
CEYLON PRAYS
RAIN
FOR
Dr. Jean Masson, Archbishop of Colombo, has ordered the clergy to recite special prayers for rain.
In a circular to the priests he states:-
*The Rev. Fathers of the Archdiocese are hereby informed that the prayer Deus, In vivimus, No. 16, ad petendam pluviam shall henceforth be said at all Masses amquam pro re gravi simpliciter. whenever rubrics permit it, in place of the prayer 'pro gratiarum actione.'
WONDERS OF THE MODERN CIRCUS
"Human" Animals
At Olympia
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6,
BRITISH FILMS
FOR WORLD
MARKET
£500,000 For Six Pictures
The animals are so uncomfortably A plan to produce six Aims cost- clever at untiring humanity at ing £500,000 in England was men- White this year's Bertram Mills' Circus,] tioned when the Cunard which opened recently at Olympia, Star liner Queen Mary arrived W. that one begins to wonder at Plymouth recently, bringing the human beings can possibly with her many prominent repre- redress the balance with their sentatives of the film industry. skill,
Among them were Mr. Herbert They can-triumphantly.
Al-Wilcox the British Alm pró- though the familiar figure of Mr. ducer, who has just concluded a Bertram Mills, the founder, is not contract with Radio-Keith-Or- there with his all-seeing eye, his pheum for the release of his sons, Mr. Cyril Mills and Mr.films to American cinemas; Miss Bernard Mills, have splendidly Anna Neagle, Mr. Adolph Zukor, maintained the high tradition. head of Paramount Pictures; Mr.
David Rose, new head of the Para mount
in organisation
Great Britain, and Dr. Herbert Kalmus. president of the Technicolour,, Motion Picture Corporation.
As Mr. Cyrli Mills put it la the course of a tribute to his father at the luncheon which preceded the show: "We are helrs to the opportunity to give pleasure to many.” The opportunity is not missed About those animals. A Swedish gentleman, called "Little Fred," stages a
of soccer. The players are a group of French bulldogs, wearing striped Jerseys and shorts. Even the "goalies" are dogs,
game
Mr. Rose stated that he planned to make alx fibng costing £500,000 in England, Mr. Zutor added that these pictures would be designed for world release."
"There are plenty of able actors and actresses in England." he sald. "I want to give them the chance to develop their personali. tles."
BULLDOGS AT FOOTBALL The way in which the canine head the ball into goni, tackle one another, and, on occasion, even known tune on the horns with his "debag" one of the opposition nose.
would cause many a. high-priced
TIGHT WIRE FEATS Soccer professional to apply The two Reverbos are generous immediately for a transfer at a young men. What they, do-rings purely nominal fee.
circling ankles, plates twisting on teeth.' Indian clubs whirling Improbably in all directions would be entertainment enough
On terra
Just Irma.
to prove their complete superiority. they do it all on a tight wire, and without a mistake,
And there tre some sea's trained by a Mr. John Roland. After seeing the devastating satire of a hula-hula by a seal-grass skirt, swaying, hips and everything-one never wants to see & South Sea dance again.
The Lord Mayor, Sir Frank One of the seals even developed Bowater, who attended with the а horribly human attack of Sheriffs, declared the circus open. temperament. He refused a musical The Earl and Countess of Athlone Instrument a set of tuned motor-were prevented by the weather horns. It was placed before conditions from being present, as a confrere. He promptly extracted were the Earl of Lonsdale, the hon. one of the biggest laughs of the president of the show, and Mr. L. afternoon by playing à very well- Burgin, Minister of Transport.
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KING'S
SHOWING TO-DAY
DAILY AT 3.39, 5.18, 7.18 AND 9.39 F.M
FREDRICARG VIRGINIA BRUCE
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SHE TRIED TO LAUGH OFF A MILLION DOLLARSI
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There God My Heart
PATSY KELLT - "ÄLAN MOVIRAY NANCY CARROLL - BUGDE PALLET
ETHERN GIRARDOT
'NORWECAN SKETCHES" (Travologae) AND A WALT DISNEY CARTOON "LITTLE HIAWATHA "
Silly Symphony in TERNICOLOUR
NEXT CHANGE
M.O.M. PoroRE
DAILY AT
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MARGARET SULLAVAN
JAMEN STEWART in "THE SHOPWORN ANGEL"
HARRIONAL
STARE
TODAY
STARTING FRIDAY AT LOEW'S
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TO-DAY
CINEMAS, (Bee Column 3 of this
Page).
DANCES-Cheero Club
8.30 pm.;MC.A. Dance, 9 p.m.
MAILA (See Page 16). MEETINGS.-Council, of
Hong-
18 What Is the
largest city of Idaho?
20. Babylonian
delty of the supreme triad 21 Printer's.
ineasure
23 Unit
kong FootBali Association. 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Church Medi-24 After whom
cal War Reiter Working Party.
10 a.m.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Women's Section,
Class, "Renovations."
Y.M.C.A.
Millinery
in the
West Lounge, 10 a.m.; Bt. An-
drew's Church Teachers"
electric current named?
was the unit
of Bow of
28 Explosive sound
Pre- 30 Empties
paration Class, 7 p.m. MOON-Chinese XII Moon. 18th.
Day.
RELIGIOUS,-St. Andrew's Church Bible Reading Fellowship and Fellowship of Youth, 6 p.m. SPORTE(See Page 2). SUNRISE-7.02 a.m. BUNSET -6.13
p.m.
TIDES High at 10.05 and 21.22:
Low at 03.38 and 14.40.
TO-MORROW
MEETINGS.-St. Andrew's Church
Brownie Pack, 3.30 p.m.
33 Sweetsop
34 The self 35
Pillars in
Buddhist
buildings
36 Bulky - 39 Hasten
40 What seaport formerly Austrian, was ceded to Italy by the treaty
56 Who
commanded Napoleon's
forces against Russia?
57 Allmentary
canal
*58 European
ermine
50 Colour
DOWN
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in India
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fruft
3 Clothing
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to a lofty mountain
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compound
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of St. Germain ?
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the hea
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MOON-Chinese XII Moon. 19th. 43 Chopping tool
Day.
RELIGIOUS.-St. Andrew's Church
Boys' Choir Practice, 8.30 p.m. ROTARY MEETING.—At Hong- kong Hotel Root Garden, 1
SOCIAL, -T.M.C.A. Women's
Section, Sewing Bee, 10 8.01. Cheero Club Whist Drive; · · 8.45 p.m."
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DATHAY THEATRE
SUNRISE-7.02 am; SUNSET.
6.14 p.m.
TIDES-High at 10.42 and 22.10.
Low at 04.14 and 16.30.
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branch of the Dravidian race,
47 Following 50 Part of a book 51 Cyprinod fish 54 South
American
wood sprṛel 55 The east wind
11
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19 Not strict
Period of time
17 Pertaining to
the Pope
ID Hawaiian
bird
20 Australian
birzi
21
Period added
to the lunar calendar.
12 That which
imparts SOLUTION TOMORROW
motion
24 What Argen-
tine volcano ··· is the highest point in the Western Herdsphere? What Eskimo settlement in
20
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Greenland was
the base of
Peary's expe- dition to the North Pole?.. NetwoTH
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was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth?
Persian fairy
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33 Wasted
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domesticated
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45 Tropical plant
46 Whe was the
Swedish Nightingale?
47 Pez to hold
nalis 48 French coin
49 Indian
memorial post
50 Place
52 Former
governor of Algiers 53. Sense organ 55 Plural suffix
THEY'RE SOUSE-TRAP
SALASMEN IN "THE ALPS—and
are the mig -happy!
HAL ROACH presen
OLIVER
LAUREL HARDY Swiss Miss
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Added Attractions: "NEWS OF THE DAY" 'OUR GANG" COMEDY
and
WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY
RETURN SHOWING BY POPULAR DEMANDÍ JEANETTE MACDONALD
NELSON EDDY in
“NAUGHTY MABIETTA”
An Old favourite" from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Solution No. 226 ISABELLATYAFT
REVISION ST MAE
ERODETBOOMIRE NEW RAJARARAT EDBIRDADAGE
Showing the complicated nature. of the difficult work done by pub Uc splitted people and authorities in relieving beggars in Bhanghai, seven beggary detained in a refugco
116 ENLISTIYORamp in Route Hervé de Sieyes by the French police authorities, es- RANEET ESSEN
caped from the filmsy structure by MANNSNEWTON
piercing a hole through its robot. AMEERILEAN18 A CARTESTRITOHM They escaped because they could not obtain theif "black rice,” the nick nime which option addicts Live to cplum..
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