1939-02-10

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

47 230-515-7-20-930RM AT 2:30.5.20-720 ₺ 9:30 PM. TODAY AND TOMORROW YOUNG BLOOD... POUNDING IN BAGER VEINS... KNOWING. AND GETTING THINGS IT WANTS!

JOEL

ANDREA

McCREA LEEDS

buth Takes a Fling

Duruthsa Kort - Frank Junku - Virginia Srag Grant Mitchell - fuchel Juanu - Marion Martin

NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

SUNDAY

AT THE QUEEN'S

"A MAN TO REMEMBER

Anne Shirley

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-3.13

7:15-9.30

Edward Ellis

SUNDAY

AT THE ALHAMBRA

"THE

STORM"

Charles Blokford Barton Melant

ORIENTAL

2DAYS TO-DAY

ZONLY

FLEMING ROAD

HẠN CHAI TEL 28473

TO-MORROW•

GREAT FUN SHOW WITH AN ALL STAR COMEDY CAST! Dao bit tune after another, a laugh every minute and the swiftest

novelty numbers seen in a decade, breath-taking a

glamour girls in novel surprises.

THE SMARTEST COMEDY THE SCREEN EVER PRODUCED!

A picture so glori- ously different that it's not only entertain-

ment

it's hot news!

Alice FAYE

* YOU'RE A SWEETHEART

GEORGE MORPHY ANDY DEVINE

LEN MORRAY WILLIAM GABGAY

and hip toog. OSWALE

CHARLES WINNINGER

SUN.

A NEW UNIVERSAL

Picture Directed by DAVID BUTLÉP

MON. MARK TWAIN'S BELOVED STORY

ALL IN TECHNICOLOUR!

'THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

O MATINEES: 20c-30c ❤ EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c.-70c. Q

DAILY

230.

520

780

9.20

STAR

TODAY ONLY

The intrigue of “Richelieu" The romance of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"!

The thrill of "The Three Musketeers"!-

CONRAD VEID

ANNABELLA

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

$7795

der the Red Robe

with

RAYMOND MASSEY - ROMNEY BRENT #FOPHIE STEWART - LAWRENCE GRANT

TO-MORROW

WALT DISNEY'S

FIRST FULL LENGTH PRODUCTION..

Snow White.

and the Seven Dwarfs

All in. Multiplane w TECHNICOLOR Darketed by RED-RADIO PICTURES

Today's Screenings

KING%

Hongkong

"The Shopworn Angel~ QUEEN'S-

"Youth Takes A Fling" ORIENTAL-

"You're A Sweetheart"

Kowloon

ALHAMSKA-

"Youth Takes "A Fling"

STAR:

"Under The Red Robe”, MAJESTIC:

"Bally, Irene And Mary"

KING'S:

Coming

"Three Loves Has Nancy" QUEENT

"A Man To Remember" URIENTAL:

""The Adventures

Sawyer"

"Call Of The Wild"

ALHAMBRA :

"The Storm"

STAR: +3

Of Tom

"Snow White And The Seych

Dvaris"

"Barretts Of Wimpole Street" MAJESTIC:

"Double Wedding"

CINEMA & GENERAL

STRANGE DEATH |Soviet Warns

OF CHINESE

YOUTH

sar-

IPOH, Feb. 1-News of the strange circumstances rounding the sudden death of a Chinese hoy in Tamban, a small town on the outskirts of Ipoh, has just resched herr

Through Film

"IF WAR SHOULD

COME"

alwar Should Come" forms the title of a new Russian film. Acclaim- ed as a counterblast to sugges tions that Soviet Russia is too weak

It appears the boy was having to play her part in international his breakfast with a number of stairs, the picture depicts an at- others the other day when all tack on the Soviet Union by of a sudden he moved towards European Power (Germany, very the window on the top floor, of thinly disguised) and a short. the building and without any sharp war ending with the Rus-. warning he is alleged to

have dians on the way to the enemy's Jumped from a height of about capital by air, on "house back, in 30 feet

tanks, and

foot, with Much to the surprise of many enemy's General Staff Ingloriously be picked himself up and walked captive in a clump of bushes, ex- a few paces when he was stopped pressting dismay in bad German. by some passers-by."

An easy and romantic triumph

fast

по

On being questioned about hist which sabre-waving cavalry and queer behaviour, the boy in a fast tanks play more," part than voice which was scarcely audible bombers and starvation. The Soviet replied that his mother, who was guns hit, and the German guns dead, had appeared to him beg-miss to convey the Impression that ging him to join her.

there is a war they are confident dropped down dead

to win it...

then

BRITISH FILM BANNED

Censors' Action Rouses Storm

Adapting Nelson's famous Trafalgar sigual into Britain Expects, as ite tile, the Pro-

"THE SHOPWORN ressive Film Institute, in con-

ANGEL"

"The Shopworn Angel," which opened yesterday at the King's Theatre, has a background which shows the first draft of World War soldiers as they marched away in 1017.

While the new flm has; a 'wal theme it does not go into the

battle scenes but attaches the pro- blem from the inside, showing the loves of three people in various walks of life.

her

Junction wth. several organi- sations, has produced a film indicting the Chamberlain Government's inderence to the havoc wrought to Bri- tish ships and the peril to their crew, by General Franco, the Reber Leader.

The film reveals how

British

To the Soviet people it says, "Don't worry"; to others it says, "If you attack us we shall fight you (on your soil, nut on ours."

The film contains scenes of resi manoeuvres, the most spectacular among which is a mass descent by parchute, behing the Fines,"

enemy's

SALLY, IRENE, MARY

There are stars enough, laughs.. tunes and gaga enough for a dozen big musicals, plus a screenful c romance and that extra zing and sparkle that make it Darryl F. Zanuck's top-hit show, in "Sally. Irene and Mary." 20th Century-

trade is being handed over to the Fox picture at the Majestic Thea-

Germans and Italians. Authentic pictures of the bombing cf Brl-

tre.

sh vessels and graphic diagrams Alice Faye and Tony Martin sing show that many

British trade the tunefullest songs you've ever routes are now within the radius heard. as only they know how. of German and Italian aerodromes With Fred Allen of radio's "Town on the coasts of Spuiri.

Hali To-night," twice as funny.

Margaret Sullavan does Anest emotional acting as the girl with a hard-boiled past who mar- ried a naive soldier boy on the

Gibraltar is shown ringed round face-to-face, they lead a whole eve of his departure for France.

by German long-range guns. It'who's-who' of pepper-uppers James Stewart is seen as the be- also shows how 'planes from Ger-frolicking to town...

aerodromes in wildered young Westerner who falls an and Italian

love with the gold-digging African, can cut across all British Spanish territory. European OT showgirl, unaware that she has an admirer in the person of Walter Pidgeon rich"

man-about-town. Nat Pendleton. Alan Curtis" and Sam Levene present a revealing picture of three soldiers.

Others

trade routes.

The British Censors have banned the film and this has raised a storm of protests.

"It appears from

the ban,"

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

in the cast includes Hattie Mr. Comments the General Secretary. ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS.")

Daniel, Meanor Lynn and Charile

D. Brown,

JACKIE COOGAN'S WIFE TO RESUME HOUSEKEEPING

don, that no film may be shown National Union of Seamen, Lon-

-St. Scholastica.

In this country which could offend AUCTIONS.-Condemned Police the susceptibility of Hitler and

and Fire Brigade Stores, at A. &B. Blocks, Old Victoria Gaol. Old Bailey Street, 11 a.m.; House Furniture, at 2 Con- naught Road Central, ground floor, 2.30 pm.

Solution No. 230

11.

17.

CINEMAS.-(See Column 3 of this

Page).

ACROSS: 1 Debts. 5. .Scrub. EL PASO, Texas, - Jackle Cco- Rye. 12. Agent, 14, Suspend. 3. Tight. 9. Llama. 10, Alive. gan, the grown-up one-time child Kitten. 19, Report. 22, Efforts. nim star, said recently that be 25. Poles. 28; See. 29, Tango. 30. DANCES.-Talkoo Recreation Club and his actress-wife Betty Grable Cameo. 31. Merit. 32, Allay. had "settled our

33, troubles" and Satin. DOWN 1, Delta 2, Brave would resume housekeeping as 3, Startle. 4, Egress. 5. Stays. 6. Boon as he returned to Hollywood. Raise. 7, Blend. 13, Grief. 15. Pup. Coogan is returning from New 16. Norse 18, Two. 20, Expects. Orleans...

21. Assure, 22, Extra. 23, Final. 24. Roomy. 28. Limit 27, Swoon.

CROSSWORD

NO. 231

ACRUSA

Shell fish

(4)

Money (4)

1.3

* Rubber

(6) "

0 Detama.

tory writ-

Ing (5)

11 Nobleman

(4)

12 Meant (8)

15 Tie (4)

Summer " felicacies (4)

18 Keep up

(7)

19 Frowre

(3.

20 Fuss.(3)

21 Potson (7)

23 Jetty (4) 24 Venti

lates (4) 27 "weller (8)

30 Poasesy

اد

(4)

31 Cries (b)

32 Reaping

implement (6)

33" Deed (4)

34 Danger (4)

DOWN

2 Bird (

3 Zone (4)

4 Pledge (4) 5 Trust (0) Yield (9)

7 Blice (4)

10 Terminals

(4)

13 Revealt

1.(7)

SOLUTION TO-MORROW":

14 Suffocated

譯

by water (7) 16 Stubborn

(9)

21 Take in

charge (6)

22 Bamboo (4)

Annual Dance; Hongkong Reel Club Children's Class, at Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5.30.

p.m. LECTURES. A.R.P., Lusitano Club 5.30 p.m.; La Salle College, 6 p.m.; Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; First Aid, Prof L. T. Ride, at F. W. D. Ocea 5.30 p.m.; at Ying Wah Boys' *College, 8 p.m.

MAILS -(See Page 16).

MEETINGS-Helena

May Rell-

glous Fellowship, 10.30 3.m.; Council of the University, in Legislative Council 5.30 D.. MISCELLANEOUS.

Chamber,

Y.M. C. A. Women's Bection, Bridge Class and Practice Play 10 am. Ca- thedral Women's Fellowship Jumble Bale, in Cathedral Hall 3 p.m. Vernacular Normal and Middle School Scholarships and Prize Distribution, 11 a.m. MOON.-Chinese II Moon, 22nd.

Day...

RELIGIOUS Confirmation Claka (Boys and Girls) Cathedral Hall, 4.30 p.m.

SOCIAL. Cheero Club Ping Pong. Billards "and Darts;" Whist Drive and Tombola in R.E., WO's and Sergeants' Mess; Wellington Barracks, 8.15 pm. SPORTS(Bee Page 2).

SUNRISE.-6.58 A.M.

6.11 p.m.

BUNSET.——

TIDES.High at 01.34 and 13.59.

Low at 07.03 and 20.11.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939. —PAGE 5

KING'S

TODAY ONLY AT 1.30, 530, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM

"MAYBE. THERE ARE

them on Broadwa

MEN LIKE YOU.. But i never

emper" was a "dreams #t" i

Margaret SULLAVAN Jana STEWART

"The

Shopworn Angel.

STAYING I

TOMORROW M.G.M. PICTURE:

BAKT

130 $.30

720 - 9.30

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