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SHOWING TODAY.
THE GREATEST OF FUN-MAKERS
IN THEIR
LAST PICTURE TOGETHER I
1000 LAUGHS IN 90 MINUTES! The world's favonte comedy feem ratura from ike, wat... 20 years late! Thousands cheer—but it's Ollie's wile that gives them the real reception
STAN
LAUREL
OLIVER
HARDY
BLOCK
with
PATRICIA ELLIS MINNA GOMBELE BILLY GILBERT.
JAMES FINLAYSON
ADDED!
E
HAU ROACH presents
EADS
'CINEMA & GENERAL
Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"You Can't Take It With You" QUEEN'S
"Blockheads"
ORIENTAL:
"Three Loves Hag 'Nancy**.......
CATHAY:
"Four Men And A Prayer"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Secrets Of A Nurse"
"STAR:
*
If I Were King"
MAJESTICI
"Lord
Meso- Mayer
Coming
KING'S:
"Kentucky Moonshine"
(BILLY ROSE the Modern Ziegfeld)
presents his CASA MANANA REVUE"
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN KO KOWLOON: DAILY AT 2,30:330:720 & 9.30 TEL. 90054
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY. GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION
At All Performance. I
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ON THE SCREEN,
Secrets of A NURSE
EDMUND LOWE HELEN MACK DICK FORAN
90 Minutes of Screen Fan 1: STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY
in “BLOCKHEADS
SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS. Selected Paramount Variety Programmes ⠀
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AL QUEEN'S
the
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(BETTY BOOP)
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(COLOUR CLASSIC)
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'SAILOR SNORTY"
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(SPORTLIGHT)
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(COLOUR CLASSIC) GATCHING PROCE
(SPORTLIGHT) TWILIGHT BOOK
(MUSICAL)
PRICES for 70, 500, 306 & 106. Ici, TAX N.B. Interchange of Programmes on Sunday & Monday,
SUCCESS IS ASSURED FOR
PAULETTE
QUEEN'S:
"Stablemates"
ORIENTAL:
"The Gladiator"
"Big City"
CATHAY:
, ༔
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" ALHAMBRA:
"Blockheads"
STAR:
"Mother Carey's Chickens. "Maid's Night Out" MAJESTIC:
บ
"Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm"
QUEEN MARY
A FILM SET
ON
Visit To Studios At
Denham
A scene from “You Can't Take It With You,” which opens at the
King's Theatre to-day.
MOST DIFFICULT TYPE
OF ACTING
What have Boris Karida, "Doper,” Charlie McCarthy and Harpo Marx in common? Thay're the only actors appearing in talkior pictures without talking. Sole screen exponents of the pure det of pantomime, they muster what is probably the most difficult type of acting.
McCarthy beally doesn't count, {growls. These Karlot! himself because Edgar Bergen n'is Charlie's must temper to at the required mouth with plintery spleen. emotions of his required sceries... Nevertheless, neither Charlie 'mor Director Rowland V. Lee calls the mute member the "Seven him "Puff 'n' Grunt" Karlof, but Dwaris" troupe actually speaks. not without admiration for the Sa pantomime, a Branch of artistry of the man who withour theatre that is sold to have speaking a line, has transformed a' originated in ancient Rope and fantastic monster into a hair- which flourished, right up to the risingly believeable character.
advent of sound aims, is carried
on to-day only the red-wigged. | eye-rolling Mardan and
menacing monster of Universal new.shöcker, "Son of Frankenstein.A
HARPO'S SILENCE
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
-TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS. -Good Friday, St. Epiphany, Bishop and Martyr. Bank Holi- day.
Harro's silence in an integral and long-accepted part of the Marx routine, with his amazing musical talent, his "beep" horn and other props and his comedy expressions Alling the dialogue CINEMAS.—(See Column 3 of this
Page),
Queen Mary recently visited film studios at Denham and stayed more than two hours. For part of the time she watched Mr. Barry vold.
י,
K. Barnes and Miss Valerie Bob- Karlo's muteness, while elli-LECTURES-ARP., at Ambulance son performing in a dramaticuating the burden of memorizing | scene for the fim "This Man in script lines, imposes on him the Paris,"
difficult task of conveying by After being presented to the careful movement, expression and producer, Mr. Anthony Havelock implication the menage of the Allen, the director, Mr. David Mac- | monster charcterization. donald, and to Miss Hobson and Jack Plerce's ingenious make-up Mr. Barnes, Queen Mary took a spirit gum and applied direcly to} seat on the set.
the face, allows for flexibility of Three times the scene was shot, expresalon that would be timpossible and after the first Queen Mary re-f the monster were masked. marked to Miss Hobson that her And the putty-covered weighted hat was too far forward on her eyelids convey the necessary sinis- head, Miss Hobson explained that ter, half-closed look in the mon-
ster's eyes.
the scene was a "continuity” of one' when her hot was knocked to that angle during a struggle.
+
heap
12L8 MAKE-UP
Yet the twelve-pound After tea at the studios Queen 'make-up merely helps Karlon in a Mary visited the laboratories and small measure towards successful saw films being developed. Then rendition of the role, probably she went into what is called the Hollywood's most difficult 1938 "dubbing" theatre, where sound, is assignment.
recorded," and there saw' about 70 Through the original "Franken- men," many of them Arabs, who stein," the subsequent "Bride of were singing in Arabic a song "The Frankenstein" and in the 1938 Four Feathers.” She also met Sa-horror entry. "Son of Franken- bu, the young Indian actor.
Before leaving Queen Mary saw A film which had been taken of her arrival two hours before.
I.
LORD JEFF
The drama of the Britian Mer- chant Marine serves to team Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney in a gripping story in "Lord Jeff." Latory of England's future sallora, now playing at the Majestic Theatre.
Its locale, the Russell-Cotes:Nau- tical School, one of the famous English institutions grouped in the Barnardo Homes where orphans are trained for the future, the new picture depicts Freddie as a youngster, the tool of crooks, re- presented as a scion of nobility. who is taken from his dishonest guardians and trained at the school
-Studio oficials and fans alike were feeling more sorry than any- thing else for Bidney Toler when be was assigned to 'All the role of Detective Charite Char. Everyone felt that there was just no re There's one girl in Hollywood but then the critics of Hollywood placement for the work of Warner whose success seems assured-and and Hollywood itself discovered Oland as Charlie. The first Chan that girl is Paulette Goddard, that a new atar had been born picture since Toler was given the Charlie Chaplin's favourite girl-Mas Goddard Immediately went part was previewed the other friend of the past few years. into "Dramatic School," co-star- night, and it is reported Paulette came out of the clouds, red with Lulze Rainer. Com-Toler is every bit as good so to speak. With almost no pleting that, she is standing by as Warner Oland. He made no fanfare, she was cast in an im now, thumbing through a pile of attempt to copy Olond's acting portant role in David Belznick's offers that would make Holly style, but went out and made a "The Young in Heart." Nothing 'wood's most established star a style for himself and it's exec- much was sald until the preview, little envious.
tive.
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Har.. in English, 5.45
p.m., in Chinese, 7.30 - p.m.," at Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 7 p.m.; First
Ald Treatment for "Gassed Casualties," Ambulance Headquarters, 5.30 p.m.: ARP, at Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m. Diocesan Junior Girls' School, 6 p.m.; UB.R. Club, Kow- loon, 11 a.m.; Lusitano Club, 5.30 p.m.; La Salle College, 6 p.m.; Modified Full Course, at Volunteer Hqrs, 11 a.m.; First Ald in Chinese, at Queen Mary Hospital, 6 pin.
MAILS~(See Page 18). MEETINGS.-Helena May Chris-
tian Fellowship, 10.30 a.m MOON-Chinese II Moon 18th.
Day.
RELIGIOUS. Et. John's Con- firmation Class (Boys & Girls), Lady Chapel, 4.30 pm.; Choir Practice, Cathedral, 5.30 p.m. 6OCIAL.—Whist Drive and Tombola in RE, W,O,'s and. Sergeots' Mess, Wellington Barracks, 9:15. p.m
stein." Karloff has had to undergo physical and mental rigors in walking the hairline between a convincing and a non-convinc- 'SPORTS.——(Bee Page 2). ing characterization. This without SUNRISE-6,12. am. a line at dialogue,"
8.40 p.m.
SUNSET.—
The only sounds the monster TIDES.High at 10.32 and 2347.
| makes are unearthly moana and Low at 04.09 and 18.58.
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LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD GREENE
GEORGE
DEVID
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Dimesed by John Ford
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A Programme of Varisties, Colour, Cartoons, Comedies, etc.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1939. —PAGE 5
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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
ARTHUR SARRYMORY STEWART ARNOLD
OWING TO THE "LENGTH OF THIS PICTURE PATRONS ARE REQUESTED TO BE HERE ON TIME FOR THE OPENING OF EACH PERFORMANUE
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TO-MORROW
THE SURPRISE COMEDY HIT OF THE SPAS NÍ Hilarious relations of adventures encountered by a small-town girt with three men seeking her hand. APRIOTONS ROMANTIO LAUGHING RUN-A-ROUND!
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