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KING'S:
CINEMA & GENERAL·
CROSSWORD NO. 277
ACROSS
1 Cougar
5 Guideo
8 Ancient
capital of the Toltecs
12 Newspaper
paragraph
13 Chopping
toni
મ
13
120 121
Pi
115
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CATHAY:
14 Three.
30
197
123
"She"..
banded
134
armadillo
Kowloon
15 Prontas of
57
ALHAMBRA:
with ras
MEND INS
"Secrets Of A Nursə”
17 Direction to
⚫ return to
100
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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939. -PAGE 5
KING'S
TO-DAY ONIN AT 238,
THEY'VE GOT WHAT HE CANES AND THEY ILTAKU, JAYENEY CAN! Pardon 'can? Youll laugh for n:ore!
RDON OUR NERVE
LYNN BARI
JUNE ONLI QUINH WILLIAMS MICHAIL WHALEN TROPHY
VIOLET KOO
0
(Star of SABLE OICADA) in the Spectacular Historical Romance
EMPRESS WUCHEH TIEN
Thousands in the Cast! With English Subtitles.
TO-MORROW
[email protected]. Picture
[4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-3.15
7-15-9.30
STAN LAUREL
OLIVER HARDY
in "BLOCKHEADS’
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ORIENTAL
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"Dark Journey”
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“A Might Case Of Murder"
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KING'S:
Coming
"You Can't Take It With You"
QUEEN'T:
"Blockheads"
ORIENTAL:
"
"Three Loves. Hag Nancy** "The Gladiator"
CATHAY:
"Four Men And A Prayer"".
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"Blockheads”
STAR:
"If I Were King"
"Mother Carey's Chickens
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“Lord Jeff"
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AND
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· Three great sters teamed together for the first time in a story brimming with lore and laughter.
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charging
the pitch
indicated
(mus.)
is Kind of beet
19 Tendon
Machines for
54 Beverage
55 kind of
ITFERNT COUTT
DOWN
1 Perennia
20 Tree
22 Mature
persons
24 Kind of fuel-
20
making joints
in sheet
3.
30. Pertaining
metai
to six
33 Journey
34 Side dishes..
36 Baseball
team
37 Amount paid
as rent
40 Simpleton
41 Group of eight
44 Plunder 46 Mass of lee 47 Omens
RATHBONE AND 50 Medley
VILLAIN ROLES
Breaking away from villain roles only to and himself the pivot around which villaing revalves, 15 the lot of Basil Rathbone in Uni- versal's "Son of Frankenstein" -
The odious Mr Murdstone of "David Copperfield," the coid- blooded murderer of "Love From A Stranger, the wicked King Louis XI of "If I Were King" has it last been cast in a role that considerable footage allows him
in the sympathetic character of a devoted husband and father. However, even in this picture, Mr. 'Rathbone does not entirely off his mantle of villainy. parts of the film he becomes a
cast Iri
scientific villain by tampering
with the unnatural in the shape
51 High priest
of Israel
52 Pain
herb of East Indu
* Member of an
indian tribe
Business
man
Oriental nurse
5 Scottish
Landholder Departure
6
7 LA
४
Amulet
9 Preposition.
10 Openwork
fabric
11 In a line ..16 Chinese
pagoda
19 Celestial body
20 Projecting
part of a building
21
Observed
public school
33
Permit
J
53 English
FEE
SA
NO
25 Plant alled
14
to wormwood
27 Proot
28 Smail
rockflan
29 Murdered 31 Bamboo-like
KISA
32 Japanese coin
35 Saunter
38 Nest of a
bird of prey
39 Column in à
Buddhist temple
41 Wind Instru-
ment
42 Member of a
European race..
43 Group of three
45 Flesh of a
calf
47 Seed of a
well-known vine
40 Definite
article
19 Place
SOLUTION TO-MORROW.
Solution No. 276 AFORET BESOME
OXALICTISOBAR
MIDOLOR BITE
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INNS SUR D11 VACA TED PIERS OR RECURICA UK WAYRUNIC LIE EB ON LEVEL NI LIGULA ARISEN CATER LOPED.
of the Frankenstein monster." meo, but instead, the murderous
Hisses and boos have 80 long Tybalt.
been Mr. Rathbone's screen lot So perhaps. ironically enough', that he bad despaired of ever get it will be "Son of Frankenstein,” ting a sympathetic role again. a picture synonymous with yil- Even in the film version of "Romeo ainy, that will be the first step and Jullet." Bas, a.stage Romeo toward more amiable
roles for of some repute. did not play Ro- Basil Rathbone.
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THE MAD-AN-A«HATTI
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TOMORROW AND SATURDAY
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FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW MICKEY ROONEY
"LORD JEFF
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ANNIVERSARTES AND HOLIDAYS: Maundy Thursday. Pure" Bright- ness (Ch'ing-ming). AUCTIONS. Household Furni
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LECTURES.—“Running Repairs" for Motor, Ambulance · Drivers. at Volunteer. Hars., 11 1. A.R.P... at Public Restaurant, Jockey Club, Happy Valley, 5.15 p.m.; First Aid (in Chinese), for men, at Ambulance Hrys., 7.30 p.m.; (in English), at Queen Mary Hospital, 6 p.m.; Home Nursing, at Kowloon Hospital, Outpatients' Dept., 6 p.m.; Theo- sophical Society, 6 p.m. MAILS. (See Page 16). MEETINGS. Annual. of
dren's Playground Assen., at the Chief Justice's Chambers, sự- preme Court, First floor, 5.15 Cathedral Scouts,, at Hara, Lower Albert Road, 5.30 p.m.; Women's Bible Study Cle- cle on "The Book of Revela- tion," HK. Evangelical Frater- nity, 218 Nathan Road, 10,30 am: St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, 3 p.
p.m.;
Chill-
Victoria
Chess Club Gloucester Hotel. 5 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pm. MISCELLANEOUS
Photogra-
phic Exhibition, Jacobean Room. Hongkong Hotel; Cathedral Wo- meh's Fellowship Party, -Cathe- dral Hall, 3 p.m.
| MOON. — Chinese · II Moon, 17..
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at 7.M.
Con-
| RÉLIGIOUS.—8t. Andrew's
Armation Class (Adults)," Lady Chapel, 530 p.m.
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WARNER BROSA
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER
JANE BRYAN ALLEN JENKINS - HUTH SUNNGLEY - WILLARD PARKER'
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in "IF I WERE KING
Lana Turner has been added to Eleanor Powell has seats resurrec Jo Ann Bayers, who had a leading the cast of "Dr. Kildare's Mistake" for every one of the ten pezzor. role in "Young Dr. Kildare," and "at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mances Leonid Massine and his has just completed a new part in studios. Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ballet Busse are giving in Las "Fast "and", Loose.” has signed an Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Angeles. The reason is thai; kiNE extended-term contract with Samuel Hinds and Emma-Dunn Powell is planning an extra spécial | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Another | have roles in this production, which ballet number in her next Metro- new company contract has been Harry. Bucquet will direct. The Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “Broud- signed with Rand Brooks, who is story is an original by Max Brand, way Melody of 1940." the included playing in “Come with the Wind," and the screen play was prepared ballet in her fint appearance and will next appear in the M-G- by Harry Ruskin and Willis Cold- | the, screen in "Bros Melod
M production of "Babes in Arms.”
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