HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 230-515-780 & 9:50 TEL 31453
SHOWING
Swell ...
TO-DAY
Together! In the Scream Drania
of the Turf... The Thrill Show of the Benson "l
"ME AND YOU... ARE THROUGHI Who'd Want An Old Tramp Like You.. For & Pop!"
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MICKEY
CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S
Hongkong
"Kentucky 'Moonshina"
QUĶEN'S
"Stablemates"
ORIENTAL-
"The Shop Worn Angel”
CATHAY
"Condemned Woman"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Empress Wu Chen Tien"
STAR:
"Wide Open Faces"
BEERY ROONEY MAJESTIC:
•
STABLEMATES
さいだい
NEXT CHANGE
Joan Crawford • Margaret Sullavan
THE SHINING HOUR"
io
4 SHOWS
DAILY
230-5.15
7.15-9.30
TAKE ANY TRAN ON HAPPY VALLEY PUB
Melvyn Douglas
ORIENTAL
"
"Mademoiselle Dostsur”
KING'S:
Coming
"Trade Winds"
QUEEN'S:
"The Shining Hour" ORIENTAL:
"Say It In French"
CROSSWORD NO. 282
ACROSS Carpenter's tools
5 Sooner than
8 Persian poet
12 Medley
13 Obtained
14 Quote
15 Famous
American Admiral: David Glasgow-?
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17 What town
in the Italian Plectmont is
36
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HI
noted for Its wines?
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21 French city 23. Scottish cap 26 Aquatic
marmal
Arabia
183.Member of
the Caucasic race
19, race
3 Cut off thin
slicea
32 Poplars 33 Connected series
*34 Cause
» aversion
35 Digers
"The Adventures of Marco 36 Man's name
53 Stock
54. Snake
55 Retreat
18 DOWN
seat
1 Upholstered
2 Wingen
3 Sinewy
4 North
American rak!”
S* Urge, on
6 Russian coin
American.
Polo"
FLEMING ROAD
ALHAMBRA:
37 Native of one
of the States
7
To intend
(cial)
"Son Of Frankenstein” ·
39 What is the
8 South
TEL. 28473
CATHAY::
"Vivacious Lady"
capital of Tibet?
"Rebecca
Farm"
STAR:
"Naughty Marietta”
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
ON THE SCREEN
A COMEDY ROMANCE WITH LAUGHTER AND THRILLS:
See this girl with a hard-boiled past who married a naive "
soldier boy on the eve of his departure.
Margaret
Games
SULLAVAN STEWART Shopworn
Angel
THE
WALTER PIDGEON
ON THE STAGE
THE MAN OF ARGUS THE TALK OF
THE HOUR...
THE TOWN
THE WORLD'S MOST SENSATIONAL MYSTERY MAN
DOCTORS, LAWYERS,
PROFESSORS
all dumbfounded by his amazing gift of second sight.
WHILE BLINDFOLDED * he will describe any article and answer written questions.
THINK OF A MUSICAL SELECTION
he will play it on the piano.
YOU CAN'T PUZZLE HIM knows all, sees all, tell all, a man with a thousand eyes.
- DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS MARVELLOUS
SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION!
SHOWING ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
LOVE GOES ON AN INTERNATIONAL JOY-SPREE:··
IT IN
A Partment Pietere with
French RAY MILLAND
HELD OVER FOR
TWO MOLE DAYS
OLYMPE BRADNA
ARGUS THE SENSATION OF
HONG KONG
• MATINEES: 20z.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c.-70c. @
HANKOW
ISTARE
720
TODAY ONLY VÁ-ÚA BAGA UY CUBANK IDEAJ MEILLAS I
JOE E.
BROWN Wide Open Faces
TO
MORROW
KOWLOON
57.795
NAUGHTY MARIETTA
"Lord Jeft"
MAJESTIC:
ΟΙ Sunnybrook 41 What Italian
in English employ gave the name of Labrador's Land to what
"Racket Busters"
3 M.G.M, FILMS GET
BOX OFFICE FAME
" is now
Greenland?
46 "S-shaped
moulding..
48 Short wollen
fabric or shaw!
50 Ox of Celebes
51 New Zealand
parrot
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, |Hongkong office, has just received
word from their home-ice that 52 Seaport of
of the seven box office champions
for the month of January in the
United States, three of them were
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures.
The three productions were "Sweet-
wood sorrels
9 Qucte
Incorrectly
10 Siamese coin 11 Portuguese
coln
16 What is the
Greek name for the
territory of Asia Minor forming the western part of the Turkish Republle?
20 Act of giving
out
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
22 Thing: in fi”.
24 Declare
25 Muddle
26 Crumbly clay
deposit
27 On the
* sheltered side
28 What French
emperor was born in Corsica?
29 Japanese
31
rice paste Concealed
33 Minerai
spring
35 Pieces at
meadow
38 What is the
chief commercial centre of Japan?
40 Chlef
42 Island group
in Ireland
43 Tolerate 44. Prits
45 Canvas
shelter
46 Idiot
47 African
... antelope
49. Matus
Solution No. 281 MESA STRIP PALL
hearts. "Dramatic School and DIARY OF LOCAL OVERSPRICETARIA
"Out West With The Hardy's,” the latter production starring Mickey Rooney currently playing in "Stablemates"
JOAN CRAWFORD GETS HER DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, April 12 (Reuter)—Joan Crawford," the film star, who sought "a dis- solution of her marriage with Franchot Tone, was granted a divorce yesterday.
On the last date of hearing of the sult, Joan was not pre- sent in Court and the sult, was therefore rebeard yesterday.
£3,400 AWARD TO
FILM STAR
Elizabeth Allan Wins
Miss Elizabeth Allan, the film actress, in a court room crowd- ed with theatrical and legal 'celebrities, was awarded £3,400 damages against Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer British Studios, Limited, in her action for alleged breach of contract
She claimed
" that she was engaged to play the part of Christine in "The Citadel," WEJ. announced as having been engaged, and then, in breach of contract, the producers refused to engage her and chose somebody else.
The jury agreed that Miss Allan was entitled to £1,800 for loss of salary and £1,500 for loss of opportunity enhancing her reputation.
Of
Miss Allan was also given 100 ¡ in connection with the announce- ment that she was to appear as Christine,
Mr. Justice Singleton, in hia sum- ming-up, said that if the Jury found there was a contract, it was ' not disputed by the defendants that if had been broken.
"The real question is not, as between a Corporation, with or without body or soul, on the one. hand, and between Miss Allan, with her charm,, on the other,” he continued, "It is whether you believe Mr. O'Bryen (Mias Allan's husband) or Mr. Goetz‹ (head of the producing company) as to whether, a contract was made for Miss -Allan to play the part of Christine.
EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS.
-St. Hermenegild. CINEMAS (See Column 3 of this
Page)./ ENTERTAINMENTS.
YM.C.A. Amateur Dramatic Club's Pro- duction, "London Wall" 9.15 p.m.
LENSTLABEL WELD
ENDEMICTILUNATE NECTARINE111 DEBASE SECRETES EVILS WHALETALA
LOTTERADEE¶ION EKE NESTS LUNGE DEROGATE LINTER
111RESENTING111 ALTARS11INGRAFT COINTELANDIALOE
RANG ROUGETISLE EDGE TOKENINODS
Hotel
Chess Club, Peninsula 5.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS,' Y. M. C.A. Women's Section Mahjong for Beginners, 10 ̈a.m.
Day"
LECTURES.—“Running Repairs," at. Volunteer Hars, 11 am, ARP at Public Restaurant, Jockey Club, Happy Valley, 5.15 p.m.; First Aid for men (In Chi- nese), at Ambulance Hora, 7.50 p.m. at Queen Mary Hospital (In English), 6 p.m.; Ногде Nursing at Kowloon Hospitar MOON-Chinese Moon, 24th. Out-patients' Dept., 6 pm;! Theosophical Society, 6 pm. SOCIAL-St. Andrew's Club Whist Drive. 9 p.m.; Gheero Club Bridge evening; Public Works Recreation Club Tombals. Causeway Bay 3 pm: RA Dodwell's Offices, HK, & Shal, OB. (GLEY Club Whist Drive Bank Aldg., 11' am.; Bt. An-
Fellowship, 35 p.m.; Women's Bible Study Circle on "The Book of Reve-
MAILS. (See Page 18)
MEETINGS--Annual, of.. Balon Waterboat Co., Ltd., at Messrs.
drew's Women's
and Tombola, Queen's Bldg., Ice House Street, 830 p.m. SPORTS.-,(Sec Page 2).
lation," HK. Evangelical Fra- SUNRISE 6.07 m. SUNBET.
6.42 pm. ternity, 216, Nathan Road, 10,30; am: Victoria Chess Club, GIDU-] TIDES.-High at `1427.' Low cester Hotel, 57 pm; Kowloon 22.68.
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
CATHAY
"Dally at 230, 5.15. 720 & 9.30 DH WANCHA ROAD, WANCHAI. TEL 26558
-TO-DAY, ONLY LAST 4 SHOWS!
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A HEARTCRY FROM THE DEPTH OF A WORLD OF FOR :GOTTEN SOUL (ZA SENSATIONAL DRAMA, THAT DABES TO REVEAL THE INSIDE SECRETS OF A PRISON FOR WOMEN I
GIRLS
IN JAIL BREAK!
CONDEMNED
WOMEN
TO MUEHOW
SATURDAY VIVACIOUS LADY
ber
SUNDAY REBECCA
| Story
i play by Lom
GINGER ROGERS
SMATINEES: 20c 306.10. EVENINGS: 20e. -30% -50r. 70c-50c
at
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1989. -PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT LYN BIL
DONT LET THE WHISKERS FOOL YOU NE
NEXT CHANGE UNITED ARTISTS
Ritz Brothers
"nit-wittier than ever done
KENTUCKY MOONSHINE
A 20th Century Fox laugh-musical
TONY SEE MARJORIE
MARTIN WEAVER
SLIM SUMMERVILLE
JOHN CARRADINE WALLY VERNON BERTON, CHURCHILL · EDDIE COLLINS
ALSO ADVENTURE OF (1 CAMERA THRILLS
"MOTOR MANIACS"
FREDRIC MARCH ̈·
JOAN BENNETT - in
TRADE WINDS"
ALHAMBRA
JAN ED, MOURDORE
TODAY AND TOMORROW
THE DRAMATIC AND. THRILLING TALE ONLY. "WOMAN RULER !
OF CHINA'S
EMPRESS
VIOLET KOO
(Star of SABLE CICADA) in the Spectacular
Historical Romance
WUCHEHTIEN
Thousands in the Cast! With English Subtitles.
SATURDAY
New Universal Picture
710-1.30
Basil Rathbons Boris Karloff
Bola Lagost
in "SON OF FRANKENSTEIN"
MAJESTIC
THEATRET
MATINEES. 20133. • VE
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
THE THRILLING LIFE-STORY OF THE FAMOUS
„WOMAN-SFY !
DITA PARLO LODER
VON STROHE
MADLOISELLE DOCTEUR
CLAIRE LUCE
TOMORROW AND SATURDAY AGRIPPING GANGSTER DRAMA FULL OF THHILLS,
«HUMPHREY BOGART
GEORGE BRENT in
RACKET BUSTERS
Warner Bros. Thriller
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