1939-02-09

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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YOUNG BLOOD... POUNDING IN EAGER VEINS ....... .KNOWING *** AND GETTING THINGS IT WANTS!

JOEL

ANDREA

McCREA LEEDS

Youth Takes a Fling

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"A MAN TO REMEMBER " Anna Shirley Edward Bills

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KORDAR SMASH COMEDY, HIT IN TECHNICOLOUR! WHEE! This is sure a funny picture! She stole his bed, his pajamas, his breakfast and then vanished. DEAR HOW TO TAME A MAN IN 5 MASY LESBONS!

ALEXANDER KORDA

PERSENTE

MERLE OBERON

The Divorce of Lady X

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Today's Screenings

KING'S

Hongkong

"The Shopworn Angel"

QUEEN'S

"Youth Takes A Fling"

ORIENTAL.

"The Divorce of Lady"X"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA-

"Youth Takes A Fung"

STAR:

"Moonlight Bonata” MAJESTIC:

"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife"

KING'S:

Coming

"Three Loves Has Naricy" QUBENT:

"A Man To Remember' ORIENTAL: "

"You're A Sweetheart"

"The Adventures Of Tom

Sawyer"

ALHAMBRA:

"The Storm"

STAR:

"Under The Red Robe "Snow White And The Seven

Dwaris"

MAJESTIC:

"Sally, Irene And Mary" "Double Wedding"

"BLUEBEARD'S

CINEMA & GENERAL .

"Debutante Goes To Town”

Soon To Be Staged

"Debutante Goes to Town," a musical play by Ronald Vlas cent Hastings will be presented at the Queen's Theatre' on March 1, 2 and 3 under the auspices of the Chinese Youths' Belle! Asso- ciation. The play is being produced by Mr. O'Yang Yu-chen, who directed "The Romance of the Western_Chamber," staged some time ago, and the performance enjoys the patronage of Madame C. C. Wa.

Rehearsals are now proceeding satisfactorily under the direction ¡of Dr. Rhodes, of Lingnam Univer-

sity.

NEW FORM OF ANESTHETIC

Coroner Told Of "Great Discovery"

The leading roles are taken by Miss Grace Cheng, of Shanghai; and Mr. Bankey Yip. Others in the east include the Misses Jeanette, Kathryn and Bo-wah Ma, Dora Chow. Mary Chan, Eate Wong, Priscilla Ho, Beatrice and Elsie Law and Salina Luk, and An anaesthetic called cyclopro Messrs. George Chow, Herbert pane, which. it was stated, had Tong, Gordon Lee and Fred Jung. only' recently been introduced in The play is interspersed with Britain was described at a West; musical numbers, the dance en minster inquest recently. sembles being arranged by Miss Daisy O'Keefe. Booking will open at the Queen's Theatre on Febru ary 15.

Miss

concerned The inquiry Beatrice Rosa Leigh, 18, Civil servant, of Caulley-avenue, Clap- ham, who died while undergoing an operation in the Grosvenor

"THE SHOPWORN Hospital for Women, S. W

ANGEL"

Margaret Sullavan In Fine Role

Dr. John Neville Cave, an anaesthetist, said that cyclopro pane was a readily diffusible gas with which a very high percentage [of oxygen-05 per cent could be given. It was a non-irritant to the chest and was very quickly got rid of when an operation was over. It also gave more relaxation,

Dr. John Taylor, pathologist, when asked why cyclopropane was not used more frequently, said it was quite a recent innovation in this country,

"The Shopworn * Angel," which opened yesterday at the King's Theatre, has`a back- ground which shows the first draft of World War soldiers as they marched away in 1911. While the new Alm has a

The coroner (Mr. Ingleby Oddie): theme it does not go into the It sounds a great discovery?--Yes battle scenes but attaches the it la problem from the inside, showing A verdict of death by misadven- the loves of three people in various ture was recorded. walks of life.

Margaret Sullivan

does her

EIGHTH WIFE" nest emotional acting as the girl

Showing At The Majestic

AN EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE A distinguished hospital anaesthe- tist stated that cyclopropane was now boing fairly frequently used in this country for lung and other chest operations. It was an Ameri- still much can invention, and more expensive than other anaes-

thetics.

with a hard-boiled past who mar ried a naive soldier boy on the ere For his departure for France..

James Stewart is seen as the bewildered young Westerner who falls in love with the gold-digging Although the new Claudette Showgirl, unaware that she has an

"Cyclopropane is a gaseous anaes- admirer in the person of Walter Colbert-Gary Cooper comedy.

Pidgeon, rich "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," now

man-about-town,thetic, Wke the nitrous oxide used showing at the Majestic Thea- Both actors play their roles ex- by dentists," he said, "but, it is very tre. draws parallel between pertly, adding ingratiating comedy much more powerful. Nitrous oxide a modern man-of-the-world and to a drama of realism. Supporting 19 administered in a proportion the legendary ogre of the fairy tale roles are well handled, books. Producer-Director Ernst

of about 80 parte to 20 of oxygen. whereas with cyclopropane the

Lubitsch hastens to assure movie- BULGARIANS AND percentage is more or less reversed.

goers that they should not expect too close a resemblance between the ancient wife-killer and the -suave actor who plays the modern

"Bluebeard" in the Paramount | picture.

This makes it valuable for opera- tions where it is important that the patient should get the máxmum amount of oxygen. The mixture is, however, explosive, and special

KING BORIS

Public Restless As To His Whereabouts care has to be used in administer-

BUDAPEST, Feb. 8 (T/Ocean)-

ing it."

Gary Cooper, the "Bluebeard" of this play, has seven wives whom he The Bulgarian public, according..

puts out of the way by the modern to the Budapest newspaper, "Pest! DIARY OF LOCAL

method of divorce. Miss Colbert, in Naplo" are becoming restless ow- the role of a lovely young Frenching to the mysterious silence offi- aristocrat who becomes his eighth cially maintained as to the pre- spouse, puts him at her mercy by sent abode of King Boris of Bul- using artillery as effective as that garla whose address

not has

EVENTS

TO-DAY

-Birthday of Celestial Dra gon. (Tien-lung-tan).

of the resourceful young lady of been disclosed since January 23 ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. the legend, even though it is more when he attended the wedding subtle. She scorns him, browbeats of, Princess Marla of Savoy and him. makes him jealous of other] Prince Ludwig of Bourbon- CINEMAS. See Column 3 of this men and in a thousand little ways! Parma in Rothe.

Page).

Modified

makes him realize that, after The paper believes that in the LECTURES-Anti-Gaa getting rid of seven wives, he hasj near future an official Bulgarian Full Course, at Volunteer Eqrs.. finally met a woman who can beat statement is to be expected

10.15 am.; First Aid, at Am- him at his own game,

the Rome journey of King Boris. balance Hars.. 7.30 p.m.; at King's College, 8 p.m.: at Yau- mati Government School, 8 p.m.: Theosophical Society, 6

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FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT

ACROSS

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owing (5)

5 Wash well (5)

8 Becure (5)

9 S. Ameri-

can animal

(5)

10 Animate.

11 Cereal (3)

12 Factor (5)

14 Hang:

down (7)

17 Young

animal (6)

19 Rumour

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CHUNGKING, Feb. 8 (Central)

At a regular meeting held hers-i yesterday, the Executive Yun ap- pointed Mr. Fang Tseh, Commis- sioner of Civil Affairs, to be con- currently as Acting Chairman of the Honan Provincial Government in the absence of General cheng Talen on important duties.

Solution No, 229 BETALAW¶G OBJ OMARTEVATODER SULLIVANTVELE.

LED LEEDS 11 WHEN IM OD JE S.K A HAY THUNELAND ITT LOGTIC ETA D TENORILOTTA VE ERICSSON 1 BRED 11 PIETY TLACIT"

SUBTROMANTIC

ITER TULEDITA CED ETT A TI SCAR

(5)

22 Attempts

(7)

25 Masts (5)

28 Perceive

(3)

29 Dance (5) 30 Carved

stone (5)

31 Worth (5) 32. Assuage

(5)

33. Glossy

tabria (5)

DOWN

1 River mouth (5). "2 Herolc (6).

3 To alarm

(7)

4 Exit (8) 5 Remains

(5) +6 Haul up

(5)

7 Merge (5) 13 Borrow (5) 15 Young

animal (1)

10. Scandina-

vian (5)

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

18 Number

(3)

29 Antici-

pates (7)

21 Give con-

Пdence (8)

22 Äddı,

tional (5) 23 Last (5) 24 Spacious

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28. Boundary

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27 Faint (5)

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MAILS. (See Page 10). MEETINGS.-Kowloon Chess Club and Victoria Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel; Cathedral Scouts, at Hors.. Lower. Albert Road, 5.30 p.m.; st. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, 3 D.M.: Y's Men's Club, St. Francis Hotel, 1 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. Y.M. C. A Debate on Z.B.W. Programmes, 8.30 p.m.; Cathedral Hall Wo- men's Fellowship Working Party, 3 p.m.

MOON-Chinese XII Moon, 20th

Day.

(Adults).

RELIGIOUS-Confirmation Class Lady Chapel, Bt. John's Cathedral, 5.30 p.m.

Women's

SOCIAL,

Section,

10 a.:

Y.M.C.A. Competitive Crames, St. Andrew's Club Whist Drive, 9 Din; Cheerd Club Bridge Evening: RAOB. and (G.LE) Club Whist Drive Tombola, Queen's Bldg., Ice House Street, 8.30 p.m.; Public Works Recreation Club Tombola, at Causeway Bay, 8 p.m. SPORTS(Boa Page 2). SUNRISE.-4.59 a.m. SUNSET.-

6.18 p.. TIDES.--High at 00.38 and Low at 86.32: and 18.57. –

TO-MOBKOW Chinese XII Mcon, 22nd.

MOON

Day.

13.15.

SUNRISE 1a.m. SUNSET.-8.15

Pro...

TIDES, High at 1234. Low at

95.59, and 17.58.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1939. —PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY AT 1.30," 5.10, 7.18 AND 920 PAL

"MAYBE THERE ARE ·

MEN LIKE YOU.

But I neopt met Huon

Dempe Deby Mahad

Margaret SULLAVAN Jane STEWART

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DALY AT

9:30

5:20

720

920

"The

Shopworn Angel.

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