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At last on the screen ...the powerful best- selling novel This story of a young doe tor's temptation...told by a doctor.is.one of the great film dra- mas of all time!
ROSALIND
DONAT RUSSELL-
THE
CITADEL
with RALPH RICHARDSON - REX HARRISON - EMLYN WILLIAMS A KING VIDOR PRODUCTION
Hysed an the ouvel "The Citadel”” by A., I., Crania » Produced by VietBI, SAVILLE
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AT THE QUEEN'S
AT THE ALHAMBRA
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Lew Ayres -- Maurson O'Sullivan
Charles Starrett - Barbara Wocks
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ORIENTAL
CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Young In Heart" QUEEN'S="
"The Citadel”
ORIENTAL:
"The Storm"
CATHAY:
"Room Service”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
“The Citadel”.
STAR:
"Doctor Rhythm” MAJESTIC:
"Three Loves Has Nancy"
KING'S:
Coming
"Three Bund · Mice” QUEEN'S:
"Spring Madness” ORIENTAL:
"Bride of Frankenstein"
The Lone Wolf In Paris"
GATHAY:
"Call Of The Sun? ALHAMBRA:
"Two Fisted Sheriff" STAR:
“Invisible · Menace" “Lilles Of The Field"
"A Family Affairs
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY MAJESTIC:
NEVER BEFORE SUCH THRILLING SCREEN. SPECTACLEI From Singapore to Frisco, from wave-jarred wrecks, ice-hacked' hülle and blasting flames these daring he-men - of the nos battled with denth”
RUGGEL MEN OF THE SEA WHO LOVED TO FIGHT!
STORM
THE
Charles
Barton
Preston!
BICKFORD • MacLANE · FOSTER Tom BROWN-Nan GREY· Andy DEVINE Frank JENKS Samuel S. HINDS
SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW! ONE DAY ONLY
A MAN MONSTER A LADY MONSTER
A MONSTER THRILLER!
If you can enjoy thrills, chills and spino tingling sensations, while your hair stands on end, see this screen shocker that thrilled the entire world.
CARL LAKMMER 0"
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KARLOFF
THE
Bride of FRANKENSTEIN
A MONIVERSAL PICTURE
MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c. Q
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9:30
$20
780
920
STAR
TODAY ONLY
NANCY"
LIONEL BARRYMORE LIKES COWBOY PICTURES
After thirty""years" in' motion pictures, Lionel Harrymors has decided that. Western dizus teach a better moral' lesson"," than any other type of, film, and teachey it painiomly. “It's the one type of picture,"tors the final reel. More power
them. said the veteran Metro-Goldwyn- 'te
The youngsters. Mayer actor, "in which audiences | mean, So fong as boys are can be sure that the villain will terested in emulating the Western set his just desserts.
type of hero, there's hope of the up. After planeer spirit prevalling; · · Bo
"Youngsters eat It
in-
too
all, they're the ones who demand never treat the Westerns that the hero shall be spotless | Bightly. They do a lot of good" and the 'heavy' a deep-dyed rat who will be punched or shot be-
FILM AWARDS
IN 1939
FIRST, EXPERIENCE
It was in 1909 that Barrymore. then a stage star, was induced by D. W, Griffith to try his luck on the screen in "Friends" His
· Arst experience in a Western was In "The Yellow Streak” in 1915 During the filming of "Boome-... rang Bill" in 1922, Barrymore's
broken knee-cap was.
kicked him.
"He never completely recovered from the in-
...Oatstanding techntial work in last year's fim productions was honoured at the recent Academy horse: Dinner as follows:
when
$1
Best Writing. Original Story-jury, but that has not destroy- Dore Shary and Eleanore Grimned his love of Westerns.
for "Boys Town,' produced by Lionel knew the actual wild and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
woolly West. Travelling in Texas
saw
For Best Screen Play and Dia-as a youngster with his father, | logue-George Bernard Shaw; Maurice Barrymore, He once
n Texas marshal shoot an actor who had been getting too rough.
adaptation W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis and Ian Dalrymple. for "Pygmalion." produced by Metro-"I think my respect for Western Goldwyn-Mayer,
wyn-Mayer.
A LOT OF GOOD The righteous Western héroes have done a lot of good in the world" He went on "Perhaps
heroes dates to that time," he ad- For Best Art Direction-Carl mitted. "I know when I've watch- Thomp- Weyl. "The Adventures of Robin ed Bill Hart and Fred Hood." Warner Bros.
son and some of those other old- For Best
time stars. I've often Cinematography —
thought Joseph Ruttenberg... "The Great back to that Texas epidsode.” "THREE LOVES HAS Waltz, produced by Metro-Gold-
Paradoxically enough. Barry- more's own Western pictures were Best Sound-Recording-T. T. made in New York. It was not Smartly dialogued. brimming Moulton, "The Cowboy and the until 1926, one year after "The with laughs, and offering finish-Lady," produced by Samuel Gold-Iron Man," that George Hill lured ed and believable characteriza-wyn.
him West to appear in "The Itions by such stellar, performers Film Editing-Ralph Dawson Barrier."
as Janet Gaynor, Robert Mont-The Adventures of Robin Hood." gomery and Franchot Tone, Best Musical Score-Alfred New. "Three Loves Has Nancy" open-man, "Alexander's Ragtime Band." ed yesterday at the Majestic Thea-Twentieth Century Fox. tre as one the most refreshing and Best Song-Ralph Rainger and for that every reason; Westerns original romantic comedies seen Leo Robth. "Thanks for the are, the one type which have, per- here in some time.
Memories," from Big Broadcast of aisted right straight through, un- of 1938," Paramount,
affected by so-called cycles of The Best One-reel Short Sub-pablfe taste; ever since Bronco" ject"That Mothers Might Live," | Billy-Anderson popularized, them Janet Gaynor Is excellent as | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In 1902, The Clansman, dist! the small-town girl who puts Best Cartoon-Ferdinand the of the great eples, her trust in the non-too-rellable Bull," Walt Disney.
sj zlorized "Western"" hands of her newly-found metro- The actress Bette Davis win the dozena of action politan " friends Montgomery statue for her performance in then, though they plays the debonair novelist to the "Jezebel" and special" mention is by that name and classification hilt, and Tone is ideally cast as made for Mickey Rooney.
Boy and girl-condict-shooting- the somewhat bibullus, publisher. Inaugurated several years ago-riding chase and never forget to "carry on the ideals represented | that "virtue triumphs. Do it sin- Annabella will have the femin- by Irving G. Thalberg," the Thai- cerely and it's infallible.". ine lead, opposite Robert Youngberg Award for the most consis-}"
The story is that of a fippant novelist who gets into difficulties with a Broadway actress
was just a So have been dramas since haven't gone
in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Malden tently high quality of achieve DIARY OF LOCAL
Voyage," an original story by ment by an individual producer. Virginia Faulkner and Gottrried based on pictures he has person- Reinhardt Be Burke, Reginald ally produced during the preced- Owen and Walter Connolly are ing year, was given to Hall B. other players in the cast.
Wallis of Warner Brothers.
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DOCTOR
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TO-MORROW.
Boris Karloff in “INVISIBLE MENACE”
JEAN ARTHUR" FOR
CAPRA PRODUCTION
Jean Arthur has been assigned the leading feminine role in Frank
WALLACE BEERY DIVORCED
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actors
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chamber in a fortification Bize of type
Mrs. Arleta Gillman Beery, wire
Wallace Beery, screen actor, has 48. tablished residence in Reno, it 48. Sweetsup was disclosed several weeks ago. 49.. Loathe... on her future plans, but she and
Mrs. Beery refused to comment 53. Choose......... her husband in Los Angeles "an-
54. Biringed"
vefnstrumenta · [nounced they had agreed on a "plan",
Capra's · latest production tenta- tively titled, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," according to an a nouncement by Columbia Studios,
While the noted directoris care amicable settlement of their 55. Of small fully selecting a prominent roster domestic affairs.
of players, preparations are under
way at the studio for the produce,
ti
stature.
56. Female
the run
tion to start soon. To secure data belushed with the characteristic Capra spent considerable time in. Capra treatment in presenting the 57. Blightest Washington, D.C., with Sidney human, humorous and dramatic 58 Unit Buchman, writer of the screenplay, phases of life. It is expected to be 59. Weight
India "The picturizations of F.“Mac Bmith-jonge of the outstanding cinematic Goes To Washington" will be en-bighlights of the year.
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EVENTS
TO-DAY.
ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYE. John Bright died, 1889, St. John of Damastus. Doctor. AUCTION.-Crown Lands, at PW.D.
Offices. 3. p.m.
CINEMAS.-(See Column 3 of this
Page).
DANCES-Cheerb Club Dance, 8.30
p.m.
LECTURES,—AR P., 'Chinese YM. C.A., Waterloo Road, Kowloon, 7 pm.: Home Nursing (in:Chinese; at' Queen Mary Hospital, 6 pm: First Aid at Volunteer Hors„ 11,30
am
MAILS-(See Page 18). |MEETINGS.---Anmal of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock 0b, Ltd; 3 Queen's Bldg,, noon; General of Pun Yuen Co., Ltd.; (in ilqulița- tion), at Holland House, fourth floor, Queen's Road Central 3 p.m.; Diocesan Conference, ^in Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Bad- minton Club, st§. and S. „Home, 7.p.m; 8. Andrew's - Church Medical War Working Party, 10
a.
MISCELLANEOUS—St. Andrew's Church Teachers Preparation Class, 7 p.m. MOON-Chinese 'II Moon, 7th Day. RESEARSALS.-Hongkong- Singera," Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5.30 pm.; HK Philharmonie Bo- clety Orchestral Bection; Beal men's Institute, 8.45 p.m.” RELIGIOUS-St. Andrew's Church
Fellowship of Touth, 6 pm.
|| SOCIAL. "MC.L. Bridge and Mani Jong Drive at Peninsula Hotel, 3 p.¤L: YM.C.A.' Whist Drive, 8.30 pm:
|SPORTS-(See Page-2),
SUNRISE ---6.22 am, SUNSET.
6.37.p.m:
TIDES.-High at 61.54 and 12.57.
Low at 06.06 and 20,47..
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KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 236, 6.16,
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BULGAROS SRITI TARVITÉS JIRENDEZ
PABLESTO
GODDARD
"POPULAR SCIENCE"
(Colour Science Novelties)
NEXT CHANGE 20th Century
Fox
SELE BURKE
COLOUR CARTOON
"MARY'S LITTLE LAMB"
LORETTE YOUNG • JOEL MCCREA in "THREE BLIND MICE'
MAJESTICE
S THEATREM MATINEES. 20%-
TODAY AND TOMORROW
THREE GRAND STARS IN THE SURPRISE BIT OF THE SEASON!
3 Stars!3 Loves! 3 Cheers!
JANET GAYNOR
· Robt. MONTGOMERY FRANCHOT TONE
Three LOVES HAS NANCY
GUY WIKKEL
CLAIRE DODD REGINALD
OWEN
Moti
Owing to immense Popularity of the “* JUDGE HARDY'S FAMILY". Pictures We Are: Bringing" Back Every Picture of This Series, Beginning With the Very First One!
Do Hot Miss Your Opportunity of Seeing, "& Family,' Affair", “You're Only Young Ones "”, “Judge "Hardy's "Children"! andTM" Love Finds Andy Hardy. -Bach - of These... Pietares. Will
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"A FAMILY AFFAIR"
LIONEL BARRYMORE, MICKEY ROONEY, CECILIA PARKER- A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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'TO-DAY ONLY LAST 4 SHOWS!
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ROOM SERVICE
MORROW
LUCILLE BALL
ANN MILLER
FRANK ALBERTSON
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CALL OF THE SUN
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