HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG
AT 250-515-7·90-930RM
KOWLOON 11
AT 230-5:20×720 £ 9:30 PM.
SHOWING TODAY
FROM M.G-M COMES
THE NEW HIT!
The Music! The Life!
CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
The Cowboy And The Lady" QUEEN'S:
"The Great Walt
ORIENTAL:
* "Love Finds Andy Hardy"
CATHAY:
“Breaking The Ics"-
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1939. -PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING · TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.30 P.M.
The Loves! Of "The World's Waltz King!"
THE
GREAT WALTZ
LUISE
starring
FERNAND
SLIZA
RAINER GRAVET KORJUS
with
HUGH HERBERT. LIONEL ATWILL
And Cast of Thousands!
Screw Play by Samúe! Hoffaentein and Walter Rolach Directed by Julien Duvivier
QUEEN'S
GALA
PERFORMANCE
TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M. ONLY
ON THE STAGE AS A PROLOGUE TO
"THE GREAT WALTZ " George Goncharoff's Ballet
TALES FROM VIENNA WOODS" PRICES: $2.20, 81,50, 75 cis. & 50 cts." INCL. TAX.
TAKE ART TRAM ON HAPPY VALLET BUB
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD [WANGHAI TEL. 28473
די
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"The Great Walts” “
STAR
"Emperor's Candlesticks" MAJESTIC:
"Little Miss Broadway"
KING'S;
"Josetta"
QUEEN'S:
Coming
"Partners In Crime"
ORIENTAL:
"Spawn Of The North": "The White Banner"
CATHAY:
"Victoria The Great" "Love And" Hisses" „
ALHAMBRA:
."Snow WhiteTM
STAR
CA"
"Bad Man Of Brimstone” MAJESTIC:
What happens when a spoiled society darling meets a handsome cow-puncher from the open range is the theme of Samuel Goldwyn's "The Cowboy and the Lady," co-starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon and featuring Patsy Kelly. Walter Brennan, Mabel Todd and Fumy Knight, showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
FIRST CHINESE FLYING PICTURE COMPLETED
The heroism of Chinese filerà in their eple air battles `agulfst their Japanese opponents will be depleted in "Wings of China," the full-length film devoted entirely to the Chinese Air Force which will shortly be released by the Central Motion Picture Studio of the National Publicity Board. armadas, of heroic sacrifices, of breath-taking escapes, of the Directed by Mr. Sun Yu well-romances of the pilots and the known Chinese director of schattermaths of the Japanese, air- pre-war hits as "The Wild Rose" raids. and "The Great Road," "Wings of ' One of the most interesting China" depicts the prowess of the scenes will show the actual planes
SAMUEL GOLDWYN.
FATTY MILIT
VERTER BESTELE SEEST KEJEST MANEL CA
22.3.
ALSO A WALT DISNEY Silly Symphony CARTOON IN TECHNICOLOUR
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MOVING
NEXT CHANGE 20th Century Fox
DAY
Don AMECHE · Simone SIMON • Robert YOUNG in
JO
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MAJESTIC
Bulldog Drummond In A Chinese fliers in the defence of and pilots which "bombed" Japan their nation's sky. It is a story of Proper on May 20, 1938, with anti- thrilling combata between air war handbills, After its first-run in Chungking, "Wings of China” will be shown in all west China, cities and in the South Seas where the loyal citizens
720.9.30 are longing for graphic accounts of their nation's growing air force.
"South Riding"
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⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY• “THE · COWBOY
TRE HARDY FAMILY ON THE LOOSE AGAIN! New adventures, new romance, new thrills, more trouble
and greater laughs than ever before.
LOVE FINDS
ANDY HARDY
The New Story of binilige Hatɗy's family wɔlh
Lewis STONE Mickey ROONEY Judy GARLAND Cecilia PARKER Fay HOLDEN
TOMORROW-MONDAY-TUESDAY
THE MOST SPECTACULAR THRILL DRAMA EVER MADE! Paramount's million d. llar romance of Alaska, harpoca guns
roar, knives flash, fists fly in this land where love, like life, is tough and swift
DRAMA AS SAVAGE AS THE UNTAMED NORTH!
SPAW
KA NORTH
GEORGE RAFT
HENRY DOROTHY
FONDA LAMOUR
Akim Tamita! - Jhe Berrymore · Leber Platt lynne Oymimar
MATINEES; 20c.-30e ● EVENINGS: 20-30c.-50c.-70c,
DAILY
AT
$30
520
720
920
HANKOW
STARE
TODAY ONLY
57795
Powell! Rainer
EMPEROR'S CANDLESTICKS
TO. MORROW
"LITTLE MISS
Mayer
PISTURA
'BULLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA" John Howard H. B. Warner.
BROADWAY
Shirley Temple always turns in
•
AND THE LADY”
Merle With Cary Cooper and Oberon as the stellar attactions in a swiftly-moving modern-day story, combining high comedy and impelling drama. Samuel Goldwyn's "The Cowboy and the Lady" opens at the King's Thea- tre to-day.
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Cooper and Miss Oberon, cowboy and the lady of this title. prove again that they ETE two of Hollywood's leading players. and their serio-comic portrayals will win them even more fans throughout the world. The cast is rounded out by such notables as Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan. Mabel Todd, Fuzzy Knight and Henry Kolker, H C. Potter has directed the picture, with vigor and liveliness, making the most of brilliant backgrounds and ef- fective lighting.
"Little Miss Broadway,” which |* opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre is the musical thing to
thrill to.
The grand group
of troupers
a fine performance as millions which aids and abets Miss Tem- of fans will attest-but this time ple is headed by that scintilla- she gives you the time of your ting
stepper. George. Murphy: :Utel
the irrepressible Jimmy Durante; She's a Shirley of surprises sim- gorgeous blonde Phyllis · Brooks ply surrounded by singing, danc-and Edna Mae Oliver, the popular, ing, romancing, fun making show prim and prudish grande dame people. And if you're thrillable, of filmdom.
She's a SHIRLEY of surprises in her latest 20th Century Fox pleture, "Little Miss Broad- way," the musical thrill-hit of the year, at the Majestic now.
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The cast of "Wings of China" includes such famous Chinese screen names as Hao Chan-fel, Chao Tan and Miss Pal Yarig. Many of China's leading war pilota also appear in the film.
Since the war started, the Cen- tral Motion Picture StudioTM has produced a number of pictures, in- ̈ cluding "A Blood-stained Chinese City," "Sons, and Daughters of |China." "The Mother of the Chin- ese Race." and many newsreels about China. at war. Working, side by side with the Central Motion Ficture Studio is the movie studio of the Political Training Board of the National Military Council, a post-war organisation which, with popular Miss Lily Lee as its star, is" the proud producer of "Defend Chur Territory," "Fight to the Last." The Lone Battalion," and other popular war films of great patriotic | value.--(Central).
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Hongkong
MISCELLANEOUS –Entries close Dog Show, Andrew's noon; st
Women's Guild. Jumble Sale, 8 p.m.; Diocesan Boy's School New Boys' Testa.
MOON ---Chinese I Moon, 14th.
Day.
SOCIAL-Craigengower, Cricket Club Whist Drive and Tʊmbola, 9.15 p.m.
SPORTS.--(Bee Page 2).
SUNRISE--8.43
6.28 p.m.
SUNSET.-
TIDES.-High at 08.59 and 20.27
Low at 02.33 and 13.52.
TO-MOKROW
Chinese Moon, 16th.
MOON
Day.
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"cussion Group, in
Lounge, 9 p.m.
SUNRISE 8.44 2.3. SUNSET.
6.28 D.m
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Low at 01:53 and 12.54.
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SHOWING TO-DAY ·
"THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STAR IN THE
MUSICAL THRILL HIT OF, THE YEAR!'
If you're thrill-able
.... HERE'S THE „MUSICAL FILLED WITH ALL THE THINGS YOU THRILL TO!!!
Six great songs by Bullock and Spina!
and are they HITS! #
Shirley Temple
LITTLE MISS BROADWAY
A 20th Century-forï Musical with GEORGE MURPHY JIMMY DURANTE PHYLLIS BROOKS EDNA MAE OLIVER George Barbler - Edward Ellis Jane Darwell Donald Moek • Patricia Wilder El Brendel Claude Gillingwater, Sr. Discred by Irving Cummings Associate Producer David Hempliced Original Screen Play by Harry Furu and sock Yellen,
Darryl F. Zanuck a
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k in Charts al Bucu
NEXT CHANGE
A Drama of Humanity Against & Background That
Only England Can Provide'l
SOUTH RIDING
RALPH RICHARDSON - BONA BEST - EDMUND GWEEN
A London Film - An Alerander Korda Production
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CATHAY
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"TO-DAY ONLY LABT 4 SHOWS
·A PICTURE YOU'LL FEEL SORRY TO MISSI
You'll with these two
amazing youngsters....
were your own!
BOBBY BREEN
BREAKING -the ICE
CHARLIE 'RUGGLES DOLORES COSTELLO
HOBERT. BARRAT "DOROTHY PETERSON PARISHLÝ DILBERT
CHARLE MURRAY.
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