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Zaza--crushing men's hearts under her twinkling toes herself helpless before the passion of an all. consuming love!
Clandelte Colbert
“ZAZA”
Herbert Marshall
'LITTLE SWEET PEA
A Popeye Cartoon
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A THRILLING PANORAMA OF SWIFT EXCITING ACTION! Fighting, living perilously, loving dangerously to the throb of a vage drum'in the Khyber Pass.
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A saga of brave men
and the brave, women, who follow them.....to the barbaric outposta of India's savage frontier.
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STIRRING NEW DRAMA THAT'S PACKED WITH LAUGHTER! -A heart-stormy comedy drama of men in the making. THEIR GREATEST"ADVENTURE!
Freddie Mickey
BARTHOLOMEW - ROONEY
LORD JEFF
CHARLES COBURN - HERBENT MUNDIN” GALE SONDERGAARD +4 Baik Weed Production
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The Sweethearts of 8 Comrades" in the Year's Most
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CINEMA & GENERAL
|MINNIE TO HER HUSBAND;
Today's MISS MYRNA LOY TO YOU! Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"My BillTM QUEEN'S:
"Zaza" ORIENTAL:
"The Drum"
CATHAY:
"Carefrom"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA,
“Arizona Raiders"
STAR:
"Live, Love And Learn" MAJESTIC:
Three Smart Girls'
QUEEN'S:
Coming
"Fisherman's Wharf" "Arkanses Traveller"
ORIENTAL:
"Lord Jeff"
"There Goes My Heart"
CATHAX:
A New Walt Disney Variety
Programme
ALHAMBRA:
"His Exciting Night"
STAR:
"Dark Journey"
"Sing Baby Sing"
MAJESTIC:
"The Shopworn Angel”
WARNER BROS.
1939 FILMS
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They Arst met during the making: "There's nothing vain about The of "Night Flight.” That was £ve years Queen, either. She has tons of ago and she wasn't a star then, freckles on her face but you will but Gable says she has not changed never catch her trying to hide. a whit sinee. They were together them, not even for...a big evening. also in "Manhattan Melodrama,"
OPEN AIR LIFT
"I have never seen her embar-
Wife Versus Becretary, "Par nell,"
"Men in White" and "Test Pilot". They are at it again rassed and I wondered why. I found out. In her childhood she In "Too Hot to Handle.”
"At first I was a little afraid of lived in the wide open spaces of her," Gable admitted I thought the cow country in Montana. She she was mysterious but I soon rode her in the saddle side by side learned that there was no mystery with her dad, a big raw-boned That companionship about her at all I found her to be cattleman. down-to-earth folks, treating the must have left a lasting impression lowliest worker with the same on her for to-day she has the respect and friendiness as those mind of a man about pictures, in the upper brackets. Anybody "In her home; where I visited can talk to her and she listens, several times, she lives a Intently.
informal life. When she has guests, "She is a comfortable person," she does not herd them around asserts Gable... "She has definite like eattle nor permit them to be ideas and is always nonchalant stuffed shirts. She insists that about them. She also gets what she every guest be right at home and wants for she has à perfect success do what he or she wants to do. system.
It's typical of The Queen.”
“MY BILL” AT THE KING'S TO-DAY
Warner Bros. picture "My Bill,”
"THREE SMART GIRLS"
very
Dainty Deanna Durbin, comes to
opens to-day at the King's Theatre, the Majestic Theatre to-day in with Kay Francis demonstrating Universal's gay. comedy drama, anew why she is one of the screen's "Three Smart Girls." greatest stars, and little Dickie Surrounded by a cast of Moors vieing with her for acting tablished cinema favourites includ- Thoroura.
Ing Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady.
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1939.-PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TUDAY AT 12.30, 3.10, 735
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They are merely, however, the Ray Milland. and Charles dominant characters in what is Winninger. this youthful newcom- truly a scintillating cast, which in-er to the screen lives up to advance cludes such accomplished juvenile notices of her musical gentus. players, as Bonita Granville, Bobby "Three Smart Girls" tells the Jordan, Anita Louise and Maurice amusing story of three daughters Warner Bros, studios began the Murphy, and such competent adults of a rich New Yorker who upset new year with a special produc-as John Litel, Elisabeth Risdon and their father's May-December ID- Mon of five major pictures. The Helena Phillips Evans.
mance with a gold-digging blonde. studio's first 1939 pictures went!
Even if Miss Francis does not| The title roles are played by little before the cameras early in give a compelling performance, her Miss Durbin, Nan Grey and Bar-
appearance in "My Bill" would still bara Read. constitute a matter of more than
January.
The five pictures are:
"Confessions of a Nazi Spy," ordinary Interest to picture-goers,
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which will have an all-star cast, for the role she plays is altogether DIARY OF LOCAL
and a script on which Leon Tur- unlike any she has ever before rou, G-Man. who wrote a series of essayed on the screen. articles on the uncovering of a Nazi
spy ring. has collaborated.
"PLANE NO. 4”
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"Each Dawn I Die," in which James Cagney will star, with Ann
30 Sheridan as his leading lady. The are the latest additions to the Im- screen play will be an adaptation pressive cast Columbia is bringing AUCTIONS.-Household Furniture. of Jerome. Odlum's best-seller.
together in support of Jean Arthur at 2 Connaught Road Central, "Beethoven," in which Paul Muni and Cary Grant in their first star-2.30 pm. will star as the famous composer ring picture. "Plane No. 4," now CINEMAS,~~{Bee Column 3 of this as soon as he completes his current being directed by Howard Hawks. Page). work in "Juarez”. .
Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hay- COMPANIES. - Raub Australian "Battle of City Hall," in which worth, Thomas Mitchell, Sig Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Final Divi- the "Dead End" boys and Hum-Rumann, Anthony Quinn. Noah dend on Register at Singapore. phrey Bogart will expose a big Beery, Jr., and Don Barry, are LECTURNS-ARP, at Public Re- town's political dirty work.
among those now appearing in this
staurant, Jockey Club, Happy "Fly Away Home," in which an feature. Jules Furthian, William
Valley, 5.15 prh, Maryknoll Con- all-star cast will bring the Broadway Rankin and Beanor Grimn fur-
vent School, 4 p.m.; Lusitano stage success to the screen." "nished the screen play.
Club. 5.30 D.IL; European Y.M.C.A. 8 p.m.; La Salle College, 6 m.; "Ambulance. Headquarters, 7.30 p.m.: Anti-gas V. A. Course, Volunteer Headquarters, 10.30 a.m.; USR. Club, 11 am. Dio- cesan Junior Girls' School, 6 p.m.; First Aid Queen's College, 7.30 p.m.; King's College. 3 p.m.; Ambulance Headquarters, 8.p.m MAILS.—(See Page 16). MEETINGS.-General, of Hongkong Aquarium Society, at Bank, or East Asia Bldg., 3rd, floor, Room 310, at 7.30 p.m.; Botary Meeting: Hongkong Hotel, 1 pm: Kowloon Chess Club, Peninania Hotel 5.30
p.m.;
St. Andrew's Mothers' Union; 3 'p.m., and Pre- sentation to Mrs. R. Baldwin; English Methodist Church Quar terly, Meeting in Assembly Hal! of A and S. Home, 8.15 p Christ Church Committee in the Vestry, 8 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS-Exhibition of Paintings, in Queen's Bldg., (Chater Road entrance), 10 am. to 5 p.m.; Y.M.C.A. Women's Fee tion, Sewing Bee, 10 am... MOON Chinese I Moon, 24th. Day. KELIGIOUS-Prayer and Fellow- ship Meeting at 6, and 8. Home” 8,30 pm
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Ona Munson
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