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Edw. G. Robinson
WARMER BROS.”
'A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER
JANE BRYAN - ALLEN JENKINS RUTH DONNELLY - WILLARD PARKER
Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"TT Give A miliony
QUKEN'S:
"A Blight Case of Murder”
ORIENTAL:
"Bean Hunks”
CATHAY?
"Battle of Broadway"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
Autocrat of
Dynasty**
STAR.
*
Ch'o
He's Puttin' On His Top-Hat
...White Tie...and
Tommy-Guni
TOMORROW
"GUNGA DIN”
AT ROADSHOW PRICES!
"Madame Dubarry"
MAJESTIC:
CINEMA & GENERAL
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and
CROSSWORD
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939. -PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY DAILY AT 238, 518, 7.35 AND 8.30
This season's gayest entertainment from hit-making 20th Century-Fox
WARNER BAXTER I'LL GIVE
A MILLION
MARJORIE WEAVER PETER LORRE JEAN HERSHOLT
JOHN CAREADING · A EDWARD BROMBERO LYNN BARI · ́FRITZ FELD
4 30c Chatery-Parc Platova-
NEXT CHANGE-20th Century Fox proudly presents for the Chinese New Year Attraction
"ALEXANDER'S
RAGTIME BAND”
with TYRONE POWER ALICE FAYE DON AMECHE
ALHAMBRA
TATKAN RD, HOWLO
201.2,30-320-230_2°9.30»TEL.
TODAY AND TOMORROW
A CHINESE HISTORICAL DRAMA!
COLOURFUL I
SPECTACULAR!
LA Completely New Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Comedy Programme
KING'S:
Coming
"Alexander's Ragtime Band”
QUEEN'S:
"Gunga Din"
"Say It In French"
ORIENTAL:
"Penrod's Double Trouble”.
The Invisible Ray"
CATHAY;
"Snow White And The Seven
Dwarts"
ALHAMBRA:
"Gunga Din”
"Say It In French"
TAKE ANY TRAK OF HARRY VALLEY BUB
STAR:
4 SHOWS
FLEMING
DAILY
2.30.5.13 7.15-9.30
DAYS
ORIENTAL
ROAD HANGHAI
"That Certain. Age”
"Wings On The Dark"
MAJESTIC:
TEL. 28473
•20NLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW•
THE FUNNIEST PICTURE OF THEIR ENTIRE CAREER! A hilarious burlesque on the Foreign Legion, "You'll wornam at thèse funny comics trying to do. their very best and making bush of everything, THEY'LL KEEP YOU IN AN UPROAR OF LAUGHTER !
OLIVER
STAN
LAUREL HARDY
**The Drum"
"There's Always A Woman”
Solution No. 236
ACROSS: -1, Birch. 5, Staff, 8.: Allot. 9, Infer. 10, Raiso, 11, Drake.- 12. Fiery. 15, Which. '18, Pew. 20, Dilute. 21, Enigma, 22. Age. 24, Three. 27, Stalk, 30. Tenet. 31. Pinch, 32; Abide. 39, Event. 34, Cower. 35, Equal. DOWN: 1, Brief. 2, Rife. 3, Hardy. 4, Please, 5, Strew. 6, Alibi, 7, Flesh 13, Irish. 14. Route. 16. Holst, 17, Camel, 18, Fea. 10. Wee. 23, Ginger. 24. Topic. 25, Renew. 26, Ether. 27. State. 28, Adieu, 29, Kneel,
Don Ameche in" "Alexander's Bigtime Band” commencing Sun- day at the King's Theatre.
ACROSS
1 Alarm (8)
4 Folk-song
(6)
7 Trusting
(A)
9 Land
measure (4)
10 Dull (4)
11 Sloped
edge (3)
13 Impaired
by age (6)
14 Revolve (61
15 Admission
(8)
17 Head, gear
(6)
19 Under-
ground!
stemi (5)
20
Killed (4)
22 Afresh (4) 23 Other (9) 24 Soft (6) 25 Mental
health (8) DOWN
1 Coquettes
(8)
2. Virtuous
(4)
3. Sweet-" meat (8) 4. Wild
animal (6)
▸ Earth (4)
Twofold (8)
d
7 Joined (9)
Method
applied (9)
11. "Gust (5).
12 Wooer (5)
-15
Ala (8)
18 Feel Pain
(6).
17 Card suit (6) ..
18 Gaudy (8)
Untamed
(4)
22 Later on
(4)
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Their greatest laugh success
་་
"BEAU HUNKS”
STARTING SUNDAY
WE WILL UPSET ALL THEATRICAL TRADITIONS BY SHOWING
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY THEATRE
BIG IMPORTANT PRODUCTIONS AT POPULAR PRICES!
Mauch Twins
I'M BILLY
'I'M BOBBY'
リ
Dick Purca
Cans Lackbart
Kathison Lackiert.
Brycied by Lee Seller
Á PRES MATE PICTURE PRESENTES Sy WARNER WHOS.
in PENROD'S DOUBLE TROUBLE
© MATINEES: 20c.-30¢ ● EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c. Q
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS -
TO-DAY
MAILS. (See Page 18). ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYB. | MEETINGR.--Annual," of Hong- -King Albert died, 1934, Bleas kong Tramways Ltd. at Messrs. ed Francis Clet, Martyr' (in Ho nan, 1920) CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this
P&gc).
“DANCES.—HK, Reel Club
Hollywood Flashes
Clark Gable and Andy Devine |"Intend—to-go-into-partnership
in the importing, and breeding of South American ponies.
*
Rosemary, Priscilla
#
DARY TAT
and Lola
2:30
**
520 720
9:20
Lane are to appear again -screen sisters. They will star in
the film, Fly Away Home..
*
Ignoring objections by Ger- many, and Italy, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer is planning to make a Sinclair Lewis's book about dic- tatorships, It Can't Happen Here. Lionel Barrymore will play the leading role.
•
Because he thinks his present house is too full of great open spaces, Don Ameche is bufiding one half the size, and he and his wife and their two children will move in soon. The house will be two minutes away's, from the home Don built some time ago' for his father and mother.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
OF THE STARS Charlie McCarthy positively re- solves not to lose patience with Edgar Bergen in 1939. "Edgar Ber- gen has promised to make Char- lle the glamour boy of the screen next year "TU- give Gable, Tay- lor and Power a run for their money," says McCarthy.
The Mayor of Van Nuys, Call- Jardine, · Matheson's' Offices,fornia, makes the firm resolution noon; Helena May Religious that in 1939 he will only take one Fellowship, 10.30 a.m.; Volun- scoop of ice cream with his apple teer Omicers' Mess Meeting, at ple. He wants to get his weight Chi-Headquarters. 6.30 pm down to 256. The Mayor's name
MISCELLANEOUS, Cheero.
Club is Andy Devine.
dren's Class, at Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5:30 p.m.; Hong- Kong Club Bali, 9.30 p.m. tod ENTERTAINMENTS. Hongkong
Chamber Music Club Concert, in
Helen Parrish vows that in 1939.
Jumble Bale, 2.30 p.m:: YMCĻA. Women's Bection, Bridge Class and Practice Flay, 10 am she wil never be late on the set.
Fung Ping University, Library, MOON-Chinese XII Moon, 27th Hongkong Univerity 8 pm;
For the rest of 1938, however, she
reserves the right not to begin on well time until 1939,
Russian Musical Evening and| SOCIAL-Whist Drive and Tom- Dance, at St. Ar'drew's Hall.9
LECTURES.RP at Lasitazio
bols in RE, WO's and Bergt's "Mischa Auer makes a 1939 / TE- Mess, Wellington Barracks 9.15 | solution not to make any resolu- tion: says he doem't keep them p.m.
anyway Dy
Club, 5.30 p.m.; et La Salle SPORTE (8ce Page 3). College, 8 p.m. at Maryknoll SUNRISE. Convent School, Kowloon,
p.m.; First Aid Pro L. T. Ride, At P.W.D. Omces, 6.30 pm, 21 "Ying Wah Boy's College, 8 p.m.
SUNSET.———
6.20 p.m. TIDES, -High at 09.21- and 19.50
Low at 02.11 and 12.58.
„Jackle Cooper has resolved that m 1939 he will develop his boxing to a point where he can whip all the Little To:
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-MORROW & SUNDAY
Deanna DURBIN
That CERTAIN AGE
MELVYN DOUGLAS
Jackie Cooper « Irene Rich
Nancy Carroll John Halliday
A NEW UNIVERSAL?
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
"SINDBAD THE SAILOR! "ALI BABA & 40 THIEVES” AUNT GRAMPY
Popeye Colour Cartoon
Betty Boop Cartoon
Z BIZZY BEE"-
"COBWEB HOTEL "*.
· LITTLE STRANGER ”
(Colour Cartoons)
Other Interesting Shorts
ALL PERFORMANCES I
THE AUTOCRAT OF CHO DYNASTY”
Starring WANG YUAN LOONG "CHING SOO CHENG With Superimposed English Subtitles
·COMMENCING SUNDAY
GRAND CHINESE NEW YEAR ATTRACTION
"GUNGA DIN”
AT ROADSHOW PRICES!
4 SHOWE
DAILY: 110320 7203
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL. 12722
MATINEES: 202–309 EVENINGS. 20.-30.50:70c
TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY!
THE LAUGHS ARE GUARANTEED!
LAUREL HARDY
Completely
NEW COMEDY PROGRAMME
Including:
Laurel and Hardy Comedies, Charlie Chase Comedy, Musical Revue, Cartoons and Refe, Smith Specialty All Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fictures
COMMENCING TOMORROW
THE GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT OF THE YEAR!
Tás
THE DRUM
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