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Luiss RAINER Fernand GRAVET Milita KORJUS
Solution No 288
CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"When Were You Born?" QUEEN'S
"St Louis Blues"
ORIENTAL
"Nothing Sacred"
CATHAY:
"Parnell'
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"St. Louis Blues" · STAR:
"Arkansas Traveller"
MAJESTIC:
"Josette"
Coming
KING'S:
"The Sisters"
QUEEN'S:
"Cafe Society" -
ORIENTAL:"
"Men Are Such Fools"
"Night Club Scandal"
ALHAMBRA:
"Cafe Society? » CATHAY
"The Great Waltz".
STAR:
"Say It In French" "Three Loves Has Nancy** MAJESTIC:
"Holiday" "My Bib
S'HAI CONEY
IS. FOUND ON ROOF GARDEN
Deanna Durbin Is "Just
A Little Bit In Love"
·DEANNA DURBIN IS IN LOVE-"JUST A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE WITH MY FIRST BOY FRIEND," SHE SAYS But Deanna is laughing, too. Laughing at reports that she is planning to elope....
Deanna, seventeen-year-old itar of several outstanding alms, made. this statement after it had been reported trop Hollywood that she Trending to elope with assistant twenty-three-year-old
was
film director, Vaughn Paul.
wedding rumours,
"He is really very nice. If 1 WAS thinfldg öt mattldre, I think I would say 'Yes' IF he asked me. But even then, he " is only the first boy, friend my parents krb fet me go with," she said.
out
he has
"In fact," she added, "I have
Til never forget the first time firmly made up my mind to stay I saw him. He walked on to the single until I am at least twenty-set of the studio.one day seven one. I am just wild about these months ago. Someone introduced
him to me. Since then "Why, Vaughn is the first boy-assisted in directing my last three friend I have ever been out with alms. and I have" known him only seven months. Is it likely that I should marry him? He hasn't even asked me yet."
4.
SHE'D SAY "YES" IF But Bollywood thinks that it is likely, that Deanna, the childhood star who still goes to school" and receives proposals of marriage in every other letter of her fan mail, is just waiting until she is eighteen When, under Californian law, she will be free to decide for herself on marriage.
A NEW WESTERN
DRAMA
"Texas Stampedé," a new wes- "tern drama starring Charles Star- as the rett, with Iris Meredith femtatne lead and featuring those popular musical cowboys, "The Sons of the Ploneers," was recent- ly completed.
"I Uka him being near me when am acting.. and it's just lovely to go out with him. We've been to lots of dances together, but that's all."
"TYE KISSED HIM
And then Deanna, who has not yet been allowed to give and receive her first screen kiss, added. In a confidential
Want tone, "But if you secret. I've kissed him,"
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
In the cast are, Lee Prather, Bob Nolan, Kohler Jr.. Hank Bell, Ra-AUCTIONS.-CTOWE phael Bennett, Blackjack Ward, Eddle Cobb, Ed Hearn, Frank Aus- children tin. Ed Coxen and Dick Botiller. under the surveillance of excited Sam Nelson directed.
ladles sedate amahs,
Carefully wrapped
modestly
with
walking
1 their husbands
| ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS.
St. Anselm, Archbishop of Can-. terbury.
Princess Elizabeth born, 1926. Corn Rain (Ku- yli).
**..Lands,
at District Office South. Queen's Elds 2nd. floor, 11 a.m.; House- hold Furniture, 2 Connaught Road Central, 2.30 p.m. CINEMAS-(See Column 3 of this
Page).
Dress ELS a most DANCES. Grand Fancy represented
Charity Ball ..at Hongkong other ladies not so sedáte who unusual speciman about seven feet a head the size of an
Hotel Grill Room, 9 p.m. seem to be bound for no place in tall with
ENTERTAINMENTS. particular, urchins "whose Doses orange turns out to be a pitiful appear to have been neglectedIttle man from Shansi about four ever since winter began, rich men feet in height with a head not and coolles, all rubbing shoulders much larger than a man's fist.
Equipped with a wand he follows in a way that the most "sincere
clients about concession's démocrat would condone in theory the but shrink, from in practice--young mutely pointing out first one ex- and, old, good and bad, all losing hibit and then another, As one themselves for a time in a noisy leaves, a tiny claw-like hand is for the inevitable unreal world where the coolie's extended
towards the old style theatres. iman.
These throngs of Chinese wno nightly crowd the Nanking Road
eyes can see just as much as the cumshaw which the midget, jerk- ing his head in acknowledgment, millionaire's
quickly thrusts into a pocket.
turtles travel Two headed roof garden amusement resort give leisurely back and forth across ample evidence that Shanghai's their aquaria with the added aid population's still able to find the of four eyes and two noses in a coppers necessary for an evening's manner which leaves no doubt as
to their authenticity. entertainment.
A forlorn looking duck surveys Eleven cents,
cent one, collected from the price of each its audience with a self-conscious ticket for the refugees, will admit gaze and sadly rucles, the dirty covering, a peculiarly you to this varied collection of feathers
Annual Cinema Gala, in aid of Boys' & Girls' Club Assen., King's Thea tre, 9.30 p.m. LECTURES-AR.P. at Ambulance Hars, in English, 5.45 p.m.; in Chinese, 7.30 p.m. at Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 7. p.m.: First Aid Treatment for "Gasa-" ed Casualties, Ambulance Hqrs.. 5.30 p.m.; A.R.P. at Maryknoll Convent School. 4 p.m.; at Dio- cesan Junior Girls' School, # p.m.; USR. Club. Kowloon, 11 a.m.; Lusitano Club, 5.30 p.m.; La Balle College, 6 p.m.; Modi- fied Full Course, at Volunteer Hqrs., 11 am." First Aid in Chi- nese, at Queen Mary Hospital, 6 p.m.; Home Nursing in Chi- nese, at Ambulance Hqrs, 7.30
p
MEETINGS.-Helena May Chris- tian Fellowship. 10.30, a.m.; St. Medical War Andrew's Club Working Party, 10 am.
Wo- MISCELLANEOUS.—YMCA
men's Section "Keep Fit" Class, 10.30 am
spellbinders, professional and shaped posterior which is supplied MAILS-(See Page 161 otherwise. An extra charge of one with an extra pair of legs. These copper is also required if you oddities. and one small crocodile, choose to use a lift, the only alter- brazenly normal in structure, com- native being a series of crowded plete the collection contained in
the of
Garden's most stairways to the sixth floor where one
pretentious concessions. the resort is located.
There is something for everyone "FREAK SHOWS For five coppers one is permitted in such a Chinese Coney Island. to see various freaks just as and, ilke Coney Islands the world
in grossly exaggerated
the over, it's the people who pay to paintings put up outside the enter and not the people who are enclosure as they would be at any paid to stay that make a visit homeside carnival. The pin headed worthwhile.
CROSSWORD
NO.
ACROSS
3 Cricket
position (5)
8. Mineral (5)
* Scrapbook
(5)
10 Reason (5).
11
Gourmand
(7)
13 Instruct
(5)
14 Glass (4)
16 Zephyrs
· (7)
19 Cricket
extras (4)
21 Slight (4)
22 Pardon (7) 24 Abiye (4) 28 Crushed.
cereal (5)
28 Excuse (7). 23 Indian retired ACROSE: 1, Escaped. 5, Catch, 8.1 coin (5) recreation hall for
Metro-Goldwyn-Scarlet. 9, Nicer. 10, Art 12, Stress. 39 Charred wrestlers. The
remains. (5) Mayer actor announced that he has 15. Ermine. 18, Whence. 17, Tire,
made definite plans to do some-18, Asics. 20, Second. 22, Maiden, 31 Fruit (5), thing for the profession that arst 23, Reduce, 26, Led. 23, Exile. 29. 32 Tale (5) made him famous. "The place won't Entrust. 30, Tight. 31, Parsley.
be very large," explained the for-
DOWN: 1, Eases. 2, Chair. 3, 4. Data. 6. Tactics. 7, Polish mer wrestling champion, "just Harness. 11, Rector 13, Ewe. 14. cozy." "I am enlarging my garage Serene. 17, Tempest. 18, Raising be that it will accommodate thirty- 19, Add. 20, Select 21, Nectar. 24. five people comfortably."
Usual, 25. Exitry, 21, "uvep.
30
46
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coverings (7)
1. MAÍ (5) 10 Vile (7) 11 Bphere (5) 12 Beneath
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DOWN
1 Total (5)
2 Schemes
(5)
4 Incline (4)
17 Bari (5)
16 Put back
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'SOLUTION TU-MURROW
18 Fashion-
able (5) 20 Prstens
tightly (7) 23 Happiness
(5)
24 One
different (5) 25 Precise (5) 27 Oxydise (4) 28 Nobleman
(4)
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MOON-Chinese III Moon. 2nd.
Day
Con- RELIGIOUS. --St. John's
firmation Class---(Boys and Girls), Lady Chapel, 4.30 p.m.; Chair Practice, Cathedral, P.m
SOCIAL-Whist Drive and
6.30
Tom-
bols in RE, W.O's and Sérgts' Mess, Wellington Barracks, 9.15 p.b
SPORTS.-(See Page 21.
SUNRISE-6-
6.45 p.m...
B.E. SUNSET.
TIDES.-High at 09.16 and 22.22.
Low at 03.20 and 16.09.
AUGUSTA SWING |ORCHESTRA TO
PLAY AT GRIPPS
Arrangements have been made by Mr Victor Hugo, manager of the Oriental Theatre, for the famous Bwing Orchestra of the UB: cruiser Augusta (Capt. Ma- grader) to play at the Gripps, Hongkong Hotel, to-morrow, even- ing,odmothe
As this orchestra from the flag- ship of the US Squadron in China water has the reputation of being one of the best in the Orlent, it is anticipated that there will be a very large attendance.
For his role in the opening scenes of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Sergeant Madden," which take place in the year 1919, Wallace. Betty wears a moustache for the Bist time since he appeared in "Dinner At Light, áli years ago, For moreth sequences of the pleture, he shaves it off.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939. -PAGE
KING'S
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WHEN WERE
YOU BORN?
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