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RUTHLESS RULER OF THE RACKETEER WORLD... Who found himself up against something
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TAMIROFF IS TERRIFIC!
"RIDE A
CROOKED MILE"
ADDED!
AKIM TAMINGFF LEIF ERIKION FRANCES FARMER LYNNE OYERMAN
J. SL KERNIZAN - JORN BELIAN
Directed by A2.1982 8. DONNE
CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Marie Antoinette”
QUEEN'S:
*Hide A Crooksą Mile"
ORIENTAL:
"Men With Wings"
CATHAY*
"There's Always a Woman"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
STAR
• Hara's « Tamirali
you're nowar saan ha-
fore la u mom klad
"MY ARTISTICAL TEMPERATURE".
TO-MORROW
AT THE QUEEN'S
"TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE"
Donald O'Connor
-
June Travis
A Paramount Picture
EVILY
MAT
2:30
520
720
920
A Popeye Cartoon
TO-MORROW.
AT THE ALHAMBRA **MEN ARE SUCH FOOLS" Wayne Morris Priscilla Lang
A Warner Bros. Picture
HANKOW
KOWLOON
STARE
TODAY ONLY
PRESENTS
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Samuel Goldwyn DEAD END
Starring
"SYLVIA SIDNEY:
JOEL MCCREA
and the KIDS
A United Artista felease
TOMORROW
SHIRLEY TEMPLE in “LITTLEST REBEL
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JOAN
BLONDELL
Watch her
anddle up
and bury a dagger in
his back!
MELVYN
DOUGLAS There's Always a Woman
A COLUMBIĄ PICTURE
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Bobby Breen in “BREAKING THE IGB".
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
College, B p.m." Ambulance ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS Hars, 8 p.m.
Bazaar,
מן.
MEETINGS.-Kowloon Chess Club
Ride A Crooked Mile"
"Dead End“ MAJESTIC:
"The Baroness and The But-
KING'S:
Coming
"The Gladiator" QUEEN'S:
"Tom Sawyer, Detective" ORIENTAL:
"Doctor "Rhythm" "Love Finds Andy Hardy" CATHAY:
"Breaking The 'Ice" "Sally, Irene & Mary" ALHAMBRA:
"Men Are Buch Fools" STAR
"Littlest Rebel" MAJESTIC:
"The Cluod Earth”
PERFECT LADY,
PERFECT BUTLER
The gay, dignified swish of petrage and its coming a cropper. in a middle-European New-Deal offers a delightfully exciting theme for "The Baroness and the Butler,' which opened on Sunday at the Majestic Theatre.
This Darry! F. Zanuck production for 20th Century-Fox co-stars William Powell and Annabella in a bilthe screen version of the stage hit that had half of Europe agog.
The supporting cast of "The Baroness and the Butler features Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson. Joseph Schildkraut, J. Edward Bromberg. Nigel Bruce and Lynr
THEY COULDN'T AFFORD DELAY
It wasn't cheering news to Dick Powell when Warner Bros. took out a $100,000 insurance policy to protect the company against possible delays in production in
be
was injured in the steeplechase scene of his new picture "Going Places:"
case
Powell had considerable hard riding to do and a split that kept him away from the cameras for any length of time would have meant a big money loss. The policy provided for payons in proportion to the time lost, in case Dick fell off his mount.
Even the horses were insured. Their owners, in fact. always insure themselves against. Ines whenever, a star gets into a saddle.
BRITISH TELEVISION SUCCESS
LONDON, Feb. 25 (Reuter)—" Following the successful reception in cinemas of the Boon-Danahar fight television broadcast, officials of Gaumont British and Baird Television have decided to pro ceed with the production of tele- vision apparatus to be installed in 350 British cinemas.
It is stated that British officiais
Peninsula Hotel, 6.30 p.m.; Dio in New York are negotiating with famous artistes and sporting per- cesan School Old Boys' Assen. Annual Meeting, Chinese Mer-sonalities to visit. England, and chants Club, China Eidg., 7.15 appear in future television, broad- PUL
9. Romanus. Viscount Hall-MAILS-(Bee Page 16). sham born, 1872. Sir John Simon born, 1873. AUCTIONS, Household, Furni- ture, at No. 11, Duddeli Street (Rutton Building, Room No. 4). 10 a.zz. BAZAARS. Charity
King's College, Bonham Road. CINEMAS—(881 Column 3 of this
Pago). LECTURES-Prof
Lauten- Schalger on "Christ and Bo- St. Paul's Church. ciety," at Glenealy 7.30, p.m.; MissÈ, Bancroft on "Mistonkry Work Among the Boat People of Cheung Chau Island," at St. Andrew's Hall, 8.30 p.m.; Anti- Gas VA Course, at Volunteer
Solution No; 244- 8 TOFT VIATAS BA HONE.TERRY ELP AMENT¶KIDPA 8
Et. Andrew's Mothers Casts. Union, 3 pm., First Mtg new- ly elected Church Council of St. Andrew's, 6 p.m.; LCA, at 8. & 3. Home, 3 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. — 8:
Claims against the Estates of Mary Eleanor Grondahl, and Henry Malpas Hall, due; Open Day at Maryknoll Convent School at 10 am for Intermediate Classes, at 2.30 pm for Upper Classes, at 5.30 pm. Distribution of Prizes.
Hars, 10.30 am, at UBR. Club, 11 am; at Diocesan Junior Girls' School, 6 p.m.; ARP, at Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; at Lugitano Club 5.30 p.m.; at European YMCA,
MOON-Chinese I Moon, 10th.
Day. RELIGIOUS-St. Andrew's Church Confirmation Class, 6. p.m.; Boys Choir Practice, 8 pm.
Club Whis
6 p.m.; at La Salle College, SOCIAL. —- Cheero
@p.m., at Ambulance Here., · Drive, 8.45 p.m.; YMCA Wờn 1.30 p.m.; First Ala at Queen's men's Section Sewing Bee, College, 7.30 pm at King's SPORTS (6ce Page 2).
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Low at 07.00 an 112.51;
NORMA SHEARER
IMPROVING
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26 (Reu- ter)---Norma Shearer, who is ili, is reported to be much im- proved to-day.
Har temperature was down to 100, and she had a better night
THE HUMAN
SIDE OF... HOLLYWOOD Sometimes when you feel like envying a famous SEAP.. think" of this, ... Hs has no friends, In case you dis- agree, I'll prove it to you this WAY, SAFE a writer in Holly- wood.
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN'S
DESCENDANT
Benjamin Franklin's blood is in the motion
to-day. pletures running through the velns of a red- headed siren, of all people
There isn't a more direct line of descent from that famous old philosopher and statesman than the one represented in this genera- tion by Rosells Towne, new Warner Broş 'star.
Her mother's name ts Viola Franklin and from her the Ene traces right back on the paternal side, with even a second-cousin- marriage to bind the relationship Fighter."
*
Rosella, screen-tested 185 an Ingenue fresh from high school, almost immediately became a siren. Most of the stars in Holly. Maybe the red hair had something wood-in fact a good majority to do with it. Her latest example of had, once upon a time, only very strenity is in "Secret Bervice of limited Incomes. They were
the Air" with Ronald Reagan as known in those days and they the lured. had to work the way (the rough and troublous way) up the ladder of fame until they reached the stage where the cente +didn't. matter....only the dollars count-
ed.
But
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In the early days of their fim carcer these stara had friends. Good, genuine friends who liked them not for their money, but for what they were.
Then-
When their income rose from two to three, four, five figures a week, they left those friends way behind them.
Even when they tried to keep them they couldn't; the friends didn't feel confortable with them any more.
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ROBOT HORSE CAUSES TROUBLE
Pas O'Brien was the first and the last to try out Dick Powell's mechanical horse.
The mechanical horse was a prop an a set representing Powell's New York apartment in "Cowboy from Brooklyn.”
Steve Gibson, is the idol of the Powell. portraying Wyoming
nation 19 supposedly from the western state. a crooning cowhand Actually he is deathly afraid of horses and the closest he ever geta to a horse is the mechanical one.
Without some sort of equality and reciprocity, friendship doesn't work,
O'Brien was like a small boy the Their new friends wanted some-He had to try it out, and try it out Arst time he saw the hobby horse. thing.
-with
They were agents who he did. wanted commissions, relations who wanted jobs, gossip writers who wanted paragraphs and in- terviews, producers who wanted profits and....oh, so many such like persons all wanting some thing....grabbing.
Some time or other most stars begin to think they are really worth the vast, fortunes they are
paid.
Director Lloyd Bacon, Powell and other members of the cast and crew watching he pressed à button and the hobby started the motions of a walk In succession he pressed other buttong and the hobby trotted, loped and galloped.
Then he pressed another button and, to the amazement of the on- lookers, he left the saddle, salled crashed into a light settee. over the hobby's head and
And after reading this, I'm sure you'll agree with me that the stars really deserve the huge, salaries they get. They've well When the company returned earned them. When one thinks from lunch there was a beat row of the many battles and strug or tacks, points upward, in the gles they're up against, even saddle. But 'It seemed an when fame and power is theirs, unnecessary precaution, because one doesn't
Envy them over O'Brien and the others were much.
through hobby riding.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1939 PAGE 5
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BEYOND BELIEF
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23 MOVIES OF TRILEST
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TYRONE
SHEARER POWER
With LOHR BARRYMORÉ » ROBERT MORLEY ANITA, LOUISE • JOSEPH SCHILDKEAUT Gladys, Charge • Hoary Stephanon • Directed by W. S. VAN DYKE # • Produced by HUNT STROMBERG
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"
JOE E. BROWN in
THE GLADIÄ OR”
ith DICKIE MOORE JUNE TRAVIS
MAJESTIC
THEATRE. MATINEES. 20€-30€ • EVENINGS.
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY-
The
laugh rippling romantic comedy sensation of the year ... they're so perfectly sensa tional together!
ROAS
TOL SVERI
William POWELL
ANNABELLA
(in her first American-made picture!)
*The BARONESS
and the BUTLER"
za Cenoury Fox Picture with HELEN WESTLEY • HENRY STEPHENSON JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT » NIGEL BRUCE 1 EDWARD BROMBERG • LYNN BARI
Directed by Walter Lang
Darryl F. Zanuck in Change of Productm
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY
RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQUEST! JUISE KAINER
PAUL MUNI in THE GOOD EARTH"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Super-Production i
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