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CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Holiday"
QUEEN'S:
"Pacifc Liner"
ORIENTAL:
"If I Were King"
CATHAY:
"Passport Husband"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA.
"Young Fugitives"
Robert Donat • Rosalind Russell
in "THE CITADEL"
STAR:
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN ED. HOWLDOS, DARY AT 2.30%
Four Men And A Prayer"
MAJESTIC:
"Penrod's Doubla "Trouble"
KING'S:
Coming
"Marie Antoinette"
QUEEN'S:
9.30 TEL. 50856
TODAY AND TOMORROW
His life
had a dark fature
until a blond
wandered
into it!..
YOUNG FUGITIVES
A New Unreal Phezure with Derülhan Kant · Robert Wilens Larry Blake Harry Davenport
Pleben Brom Laka
Jake #polias"
Survey Arusha,
Art Frauior
She
drifted down
open highways until
love anchored her
in the hearts of two man!
THURS. :
Edward G. Robinson "A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER"
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2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
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"The Citadel"
ORIENTAL:
"Stella Dallas”
"Letter Of Introduction"
CATHAY:
"The Good Earth"
ALHAMBRA :
"A Slight Case of Murder?'":
STAR:
"You're A Sweetheart"
MAJESTIC:
"The Last Gangster"
"PENROD'S DOUBLE
TROUBLE"
Ciro's Shuts By Candle
Light
Jack Harris... "the dance-band leader, and his wife-shè sa testys—
sat by candle-light in the cocktait! bar of Ciro's Club, Orange-street. W. on March 1: four hours after a receiver had been called in and the club closed. It may re-open in a few days.
1
PLAYWRIGHT
WINS CASE
*London After Dark' Film Rights
Judgment for Mr: Walter Hackelt, the playwright, with coats, was giựệm lại the King's Ranch Division in an action nainst him concerning the film rights of his play, "London After Dark."
The plaintiffs, Excelsior Film
the
Creditors, and the receiver, who Production Ltd., maintained that.
had secured
rights nad earlier roamed across the club's they deep carpets, had gone. A solitary through an agreement reached on candle, standing in a porcelain Feb 8, 1938, with O'Bryen, Linnit ashtray, dickered shadows on the and Dunfee Ltd., Mr. Hackett's delicate pastel shades of the paint agents in the matter. work. The electric light" had been Jeut on
}:
Mr. Hackett denied that the agents had any authority to accept Jack Harris said: "After Peter the offer made by the film com- contended that any obtained pany, and Ratazzi, the manager, £2,108 17s damages against the agreement made was not a cen- club for wrongful dismissal, all the cluded bargain. company's creditors turneri here."
LAWRENCE TIBBETT
up
!}
He also pleaded that just Drior to the alleged agreement he dis- posed of the film rights for 10 years to Gainsborough Pictures (1928) Ltd. on the terms that he should receive £1,000 down and £1,000 from the profits of the film. Those terms were similar to "Just call me 'Pendulum," said the terms which, the plaintiffs noted baritone and operatic star. alleged, were agreed by them with Lawrence Tibbett, as he rushed Mr. Hackett's akents
NO BARGAIN from train to plane at Pittsburgh,
Mr. Justice Lawrence found that recently.
A "PENDULUM"
The new name, Tibbett explained, the agents had no authority to will fit in well with his new con- conclude a contract of sale on Mr. tract which keeps him, he says, Hackett's behalf, and that there swinging from coast to coast like was no concluded bargain a transcontinental shuttlecock.
"I'm on my way to Los Angeles
to sing
OR 3
radio programme Sunday evening." he added, "Then I've got to be back in New York for a rehearsal Tuesday night. -
The radio programme in the West Coast calls for his appearance
In his view Mr. Hackett had said he would "see the plaintiffs' cheque and agreement first," and, when a proposal was sent by the plaintiffs
contained the provision that the agents were to hold the £1,000 as trustees pending the carrying out of the legal formalities.
Those two most valuable ingre on 16 of 28 programmes, and in In those circumstances the plain- enter-between, "Pendulum" pointed out, tlfs claim for specific performance
dients of motion picture
tainment-humour and extite-
he rust swing back and forth to or damages failed. In the event or ment are both present in cop and from New York to squeeze in his being wrong in his fading, the
Jous
"Penrod's in measure
his other work. Double Trouble," which opens at
the Majestic Theatre to-day,
Judge assessed the damages which
"I was raised more or less in the might be payable to the plaintin horse-and-buggy era, and I still at £1.000...
It is also the second in which can't believe I can scoot back and
the uncannily similar Mauch twins forth across the continent like DIARY OF LOCAL
⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY brother Bobby
THE GRANDEST LOVER THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN:
This poet-rogue, this daring hero of a thousand scrapes would win a fight with the twist of his sword and win a lady's heart with the twist of a phase.
STIRRING STORY OF FRANCOIS VILLON MASTER
.
OF HEARTS!
RONALD COLMAIL, ponovnat ol gli menvalle stori, en fransnis
Vilen, post-rogue who dared in
Save the faint body in Fromex!
Flaming Adventure Glorious Romance!
Ašniph Zukar penobuca
RONALD COLMAN
Is PRANE LLOYD'S
“IF I WERE KING'
A Parmanant Bones with
* Frances Dee'- Bazil Rathbone
Ellen Drow - C. V. Proses - Jony Vikaon
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EVENTS
TO-DAY ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS died. -Sir Ralph Abercromby 1301. Vernal Equinox (Ch'un- fen). St. Benedict.
are co-starred, and again they this." demonstrate that two beads better than one,
CLAN CHIEF IS ILL The leading roles are played by Billy Mauch as Penrod and "Sir Iain Colquhoun, the 52-years- Danny and old chief of his clan, and Lord they are ably supported by Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire, was Jackie Morrow as Rodney Bitts reported to be critically in the and ebony-hued Phillip HurbicHenry Brock Hospital, Alexandria, | CINEMAs—(Ses Column 3 of this as Verman, as well as 2 large Dumbartonshire. Lady Colquhoun
and returned from London. group of lesser known boy giri actors.
Sir Jain, a former amateur boxer, Long considered, Hollywood's is chairman of the National premier director of child actors, Advisory Council for Scotland on Lewis Seller
anew *proves
his physical training, and was Lord right" to that distinction with High Commissioner to the General his direction of "Pentod's Double Assembly of the Church of Scotland Trouble."
in 1932.
CROSSWORD
NO. 263
ACROSS
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Paga). LECTURES.--Gas
:
Chamber De
monstration at Volunteer Hqro.... 4.20 p.m.: A.R.P., Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; Luzi- tanp Club, 5.30 p.m. European Y.M.C.A., 8
Salle p.m.; La College. 8
Anti-Gas. "V. p.m.; A. Course, Volunteer Hqra.. 10.30 3.m. UAR Club, 11 a.m.: Diocesan Junior Girls' School, 6 p.m. MAILS.--(80s Page 16), MEETINGS." - Rotary Meeting. Kow- Hongkong Hotel, 1 p.m.: loon Chess Club, Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m; Annual of the Salvation Army Home for Wo- men and Girls, at 2 Embank- ment Road Kowloon, 4.30 pm;: Church Council. St. Andrew's
6 p.m.: Annual, of Hongkong Brock Baseball League, at the Club, 5.30 p.m.; Ladies Church Ald, In Assembly Hall, 6, 6
Andrew's Home, 3 p.m.; St,
Church Brownle Pack; 3.30 p.m.- MISCELLANEOUS.
Y.M.C.A..
Women's Section, Charity. Bew-
16
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20
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222
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Day.
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With JOHN BOLES
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bird of prey
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an Indian
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON
tribe
3. Pour on
gently
28.
TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939 -PAGE 5
KING'S
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10 7.15 & 9.30 PM.
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YOU CAN TAKE YOUR $30,000,000 AND GO TAKE A GOOD FLYING. LEAP FOR YOURSELF!.. E'VE GOT YOUR DAUGHTER
WE'RE YOUNG ... WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR FLING NOW("
Holiday
4 COLUMNA SICTENE
ALSO “SCARY CROWS" (Colour Cartoon)
"TO-MORROW
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NORMA SHEARER TYRONE POWER in
MARIE ANTOINETTE ·
MAJESTIC
THEATREJ
(MATNESS, 20% 20. •REA SIG
TODAY AND TOMORROW ADVENTURES OF JUNIOR G-MEN!!!
"I'D THINK-
I WAS YOU. IF I DIDN'T KNOW YOU
WERE ME!"
And when Penrod (or is it Danny ?) gets natib ed by kidnap- pers.. caff out the Ir. C Meu!
And look out fur double thrills!
PENROD'S
Come Lackhart
Kathiew Lockhart
DOUBLE TROUBLE } /// .......... MAKHLE BROS.
THE Mauch Twins
Vitograph, lec,
"PELLENTEN D
BILLY & BOBBY
● THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY GREATEST THRILL DRAMA SINCE LITTLE CAESAE"' !
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#
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65
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The story of a tawdry common woman shows what
happens to love when respect is lacking,
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THRILL TO THEIR PLEDSE............ THEIR QUEST... THEIR COURAGE!
TO-MORROW
*
Cintury Fox
Four Men
and a Prayer
LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD GREENE
Susictional paw sine-discoyney 1.
GEORGE SANDERS
DAVID NITEN
Pich CAUBREY SMITH
YOU'RE A SWEETHEART
21. Confined
existence
34. Place 36. Buriene "" sprite"". 37. Bize of type, 28. Weird·· 39. Pig pen 40. Armed
combats
41. Reposes 43. Thigh of a
hog
44. Game at
cards
46. Barren
งา
tract
49.: Rodent
60. Zealous
62. Linguistic
stock of Indo- China
53. Literary
miscellany
54. Farmi
Implements
55. Sense Organ
DOWN
4. Manufac
tured
Fruzen
water
6. Greek letter Different
8. Harvestin 9. "Plant whope.
ract, is used in dyeing 10. Native
compound
11. Convert into leather
16. High in the
scale
18. Is carried 20 - Special
abilities
21; Analyse
grammatically
22. Growing
put
SOLUTION TO-MORBOW
26. Threadke
- structure
26. Abounds,
Downcast
29." Siamese coin
31, 'Stratum
32 Negative 35. Printing
mistakes
37. Matured
gern.cell
39. Take
legally 40. Existed 421 Short
distance 43. Possessive
pronoun
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Tin recep- tacle.
46. Moisture on
plants 47-Beam
18. Bizd
51 Depart
Moon, 9.40 am." RELIGIOUS.--St. Andrew's
firmation Clase (Young Women) 5.15 p.m.: Fellowship, and Pray- er Meeting at 8. and & Home. 8 p.m.
SOCIAL. Cheera Club Whist Drive, 8.45 pad.; Craigenzower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9. p.m.
| SPORTS.—(Bee Page 21.
SUNRISE, 1.27 am. BUNSET.-
6.34 p.m.
TO-MORROW
MISCELLANEOUS. Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 10 am | MOON=Chinese TT -Moon, 52nd.
Dey., SUNRISE.-6.28
6.34 p.m.
sm, SUNSET
TIDES.-High at 09.29 and 21.15.
Low at 03.05, and 14,59.||
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