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FLASH! What Queen of Cala
Society is acting blase, bet is rantly
pins burning, because a eggy gal is make- hers
CURCE
ing goo-goo eyes at her gaga gʊy?
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"Cafe Society
Marrias
hocke
MADELEINE CARROLL FRED MacMURRAY - SHIRLEY ROSS
..... CLAUDE CELINOWATER - JESSIE RALPIE: ALLYN JOSLYN · proti Mary and karton Pa to Teplita. Yan Tay
A Colour Cartoon Classic
ADDED! HUNKY & SPUNKY"
TOKORR
A Mar Fleisher Production
AT THE QUEEN'S “March of Time".showing with
GREAT MAN VOTES" John Barrymore K. Alexander
TO-MORROW
AT THE ALHAMBRA
14
MAN'S PARADISE" Epic of Ball & Fagan Love
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Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Sisters"
QUEEN'S:
"Cafe Society"
ORIENTAL:
"Night Club Scandal"
CATHAY:
"The Great Walts"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Cafe Society"
STAR
"West Point Of The Air" MAJESTIC:
"My Bill"
KING'S:
Coming
Man's Place Is In The
Home
BLONDIE MEETS THE BOSS
Woman's place may have been in the bome in the old days before houses were mo- dernized with things as elec- tric refrigerators, thermosta- tie ranges, automatic washers and electric vacanum, sweepers, writes a correspondent.
These devices baffle the average
Blondie, for example, can operate
t.
NEWLY MARRIED FILM STARS WILL VISIT AUSTRALIA
HOLLYWOOD,
April 24. (Reuter) Tyrone Power and Annabella, well-known screen stars in Hollywood, were mar- ried to-day. Tyrone. Power declared that they would later visit Australia,
JUST A PRACTICAL JOKE
Paramount's Stagę 4 is a dimly lighted cavern of gloom Director Louis King, is ready to shoot the famed graveyard scene in "Tom Sawyer, Detective," the Mark Twain classic.
a vacuum sweeper-who can't?.... but she has never learned how to dump one, She can't oll or greasë the washing machine, She's afraid to turn on the gas range oven because once the pilot wasn't work ing and it nearly exploded. She constantly asks me about the cold control when she wants to make ice cream in the refrigerator.
These and other modern devices. Billy, Cook, as Tom Sawyer, and that only a clever, mechanical Donald O'Connor as Huckleberry Special Mickey Mouse Variety minded fellow like myself can cope Finn, creep through the grave.
with, are the main things in an They step carefully over a grass up-to-date home. That is why I grown mound, believe the modern man's place is
QUEEN'S:
"Always Goodbye"
"Great Mah Votes"
ORIENTAL:
Programme
"Rose Marle”
ALHAMBRA:
"Man's Paradise" CATHAY:
"Josette"
STAB:
"Perfect Specimen" MAJESTIC:
Lawel and Hardy's
Programme
Trick Shot In Filming
Suddenly the youngsters shriek in the home. That is why, in our in an alarm by no means simulated. second Columbia. picture, Blondie The green carpet of imitation grass Meets Boss, I'm going to have no has come to life beneath their feet. trouble at all in running the house. A
•
WHY NOT Blondie, you understand, is going Comedy to take a whirl at my job as a salesmani Why not? She can talk, more than I want to hear, many times. Talking ta a sales- man's principal asset. So, as long
DDAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW "Ice Follies"
ONLY
BREATH-TAKING SUSPENSE !
PULSE. POUNDING EXCITEMENT!
He kills before your eyes then pin his crime on an innocent man.
You know he is a murderer but the police don't.
Murder!
PLANNED IN A NIGHT CLUB......... COMMITTED IN A BOUDOIRI Amph Zur Zemonti-
NIGHT CLUB
SCANDAL
A Paramount Picture with
JOHN BARRYMORE
Lynne Overman - Charles Bickford · Lovise Campbeli · Elizabeth Patterson Harvey Stephans - Cecil Cunningham - Evelyn Brant - Qleached by Ralph Múcphy
THREE DAY 'REVIVAL OF OLD FAVORITES! THUB MICKY MOUSE VARIETY SHOW.
FRI
SAT.
"ROSE MARIE"".
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THE GREATEST MUSICAL TRIUMPH IN SCREEN HISTORY! The Life! The Loves! Of The World's Waltz King! Over a dozen world-beloved molodies Solos! Choruses! Huge Orchestral Cast of Thousanda!
The M-G-M
Studios
proudly pres неде сь
acrosa's now
cat triumph
of romance, drama and the gloriousTM music of
Jobann Strauss, II.
MILORA
RAINER GRAVET KORJUS The
GREAT WALTZ
*** HUGH HERBERT • LIONEL ATWILL A-METRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURE
• TO-MORROW & THURSDAY-2 DAYS ONLY! ..
Three delightful stars in the sanciest escapade in the History
of Love! And what's sauce for them is sauce for those" gooses, Bort Lahr and Joan Davi.
DON AMECHE
SIMONE SIMON
ROBERT YOUNG
JOSETTE"
Spencer Tracy, who is up for an
-Academy Award on the strength
director"
ROOM OF MIRRORS
man raises his head and shoulders through the carpet. He is made up like a skeleton.
It is Ed. Pawley, indulging an impish sense of humour, aided and abetted by a makeup mån.
"Throw the fm away." orders! Director King, "but keep the
as that boss of mine, Dithers, thinks soundtrack. We'll never get my young wife is such a whirlwind screams like those again." salesman, why let her have a whirl jat it.
I'll try running the Bumstead "MY BILL” AT
manor.
There are all kinds of things around the house, that I suspect needs fixing in one way or another. The first thing I plan to do is to
THE MAJESTIC
My Bill," with Kay Francis, Bo- nita Granville, Anita Louise, Bobby
Jeanette MacDonald's sola starring film, "Broadway Sere- nade." is now about halfway through production at the M- G-M studios, while "Sweet-take off all the water taps and put Jordan and Dickle Moore head-. -hearts," her most recent picture new washers in them.. I've done it ing the cast, will with Nelson Eddy, is awaiting
be shown to- before. It's true that I flooded both day at the Majestic Theatre, "My release. It has just been shown the kitchen and the bathroom and Bill" in the West End of London,
was adapted from Tom we had to send for a plumber. But Barry's stage play, "Courage." Supporting Jeanette are Lew practice makes perfect; I'll keep Ayres, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter, trying and learning.
Sacrificing that intangible asset Virginia Grey, Rita" Johnson and
generally, termed glamour, which I'm going to put a few other has heretofore been the bulwark William Gargan. Robert Z. Leonard tricks of my own domestic science of her career, Kay Francis has I acting both as producer and into effect. For instance, in dish-taken the opportunity presented by washing. I've always considered it this picture to prove that she is, Metro's cameramen, who recently a lot of nonsense to fill up a dish- first and discovered a new method of pan. Hold'em under the running
foremost. an accom- photographing ice for "Ice Follies." water of the kitchen tap; that's
plished actress. are now feeling pleased about a my aystem. Then, if there's still 2
She has dared what few motion photographic trick which they are little grease left on the dishes, wipe would consent to do that is, to pleture actresses. Iri her position using in this film,
it off with the drying dish towel.play a woman who is older than That way I never have any soap her real self and is the mother of The writer of the script had set left on the dishes. I just don't use
four children, of whom the eldest 2 scene in ✡ room composed soap. entirely of mirrors. More than As far as the meals are concern-is supposed to be sixteen years of anything else, mirrors present aned, they are going to be a cinch for almost insoluble difficulty to me, I can make coffee and fry cameramen. the reflections from eggs. I'm an expert on hamburger. the lights bouncing off from a I can't fix salads ke Blondie does; TWO M.G.M. FILMS hundred different points into the but who wants salads. We'll have „GET BOX OFFICE® lens.
fried eggs for breakfast, and bam Electricians expected hours of burger and eggs for dinner. For
RECOGNITION work, before the scene .could be lunch I can fx Baby Dumpling and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Hong- shot: Instead, photographer Ollle myself a nice midnight sandwich kong office has been informed March started his camera without That's made by mixing up raw by their Home Once that of the a' moment's hesitation,"
hamburger and egg and trying it. six Box Ofica champions for It appeared that he had had a For a change, you just chop up raw the month of February in the smallscale replica of the set made onion with the mixture. That's my United States, two of them were some days before, and that in. the specialty.
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer produc- evenings he had been working out Home Hfe? Running a house? tions. all the non-reflecting camera angles You have to agree that such am- which could be used inside the ployment is Dagwood Bumstead's mirrored room,
dish.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Duli (5)
(5)
4. Splinters
10 Dress (4)
11 Colour (4)
13 Sign (6)
14 Do again
(0)
15 Nobleman
À (4)
17 Number
(3)
18 Weather
protection (8)
23 Title (3)
Bert Labr Joan Davia A For Hit
21 Welcome
(B)
25 Support
7 Domain '(8)
Solution No. 291 ACROSS: 4, Crystal. 8, Redeem.
of his work in "Boystown, will, Monster. 11, Peered 14, Mat. 30 Crests (8) 15, Rated. 17, Serge. 18, Easy 32 Metal (4) play the title role in MG. M's 19, Madam. 21, Total. 25, Finer. 33 Close br picturization *of the life of 26. Damp. 27, Haven. 28, Seven: Thomas Edison. If plans
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30. Ago. 32, Senate. 33, Supreme. 34 Restrainer 34, Novels. 35, Verdant, DOWN:
35 Wil
(4)
ariimal (5)
DOWN
2. InColent
through as anticipated, it will be
1, Prophet, 2, Adverse. 3, Beset Spencer's meatiest part in his 5, Room, 6. System, 7, Avenge."" ́screen career. At the same time 20, Nasal, 12, Ray. 13, Demon. M. G. M. is working on an idea 16, Dates. 23, Dares, 21, Tinge.
which owuld feature Mickey Rooney as "The Boy Edison, “
22. Manager. 23, Appease. 24 Salute, 25, Feared. 20. Den 29, Venom. 31, Omen:
(25:
NO. 292
30
#2
13
2
3 Merriment
(4)
5 Fold (3)
6- Drive for. ..ward (0)
7 Only (4)
B Jolly (5)
9 Calculate
11 Beast (5) 12. Confusion
·(8)
(8)
19 Coloured
seamman (6) 20 Smooth
feathers (5) 22 Dié (8)
Backbone. (5)
Spoken (4). 28 Wee (3) 29 Tattered
(4) Vapour (3)
Royal lady SOLUTION, TO-MORROW
age.
"Idiot's Delight" and "Pygma- The two productions were
llon," the latter production an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play." Both these pro- ductions are due for release in the near future in Hongkong.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. --Anzac Day. St. Mark, Evan-
gelist. Gallipoli, 1915. Princess Royal born, 1887.
AUCTIONS. Crown Lands, at Dia-
trict office, Tal. Po, 11.30 am. CINEMAS.--(See Column 3 of this
Page)... LECTURES.-Air Raid, Warden (in Chinese), at V.W.C.A., Bonham Road, 4,30; ARP Public Restaurant, Jockey Club, 5.30 p.m.; Chinese Chamber of Com- merce in Chinese), 7 pm.. Voluntary Ald. A.R.P. Course, in Voluntee Eqrs. 10.30 a.m.; U.BR. Club, 11 am.; Diocesan Junior Girls' School, 6 pm.: First Aid (in Chinese) at Tai Tung School, Kâk Hang Trum Rd.. Kowloon, 7 p.m. MAILS (See Page 181
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1939.-PAGE 5
KING'S
TO-DAY ONLY AT 23, K.14 1.15 AND 9,30 PM.
† Homar No Man Could Time
A Max Ni Wormare Could Hold
THE MOST EXCITING STAR MATCH
OF THE DECADE! The most pear, the basies dangerome lady vë she serves, ne last in such schèch, some!",
ERROL FLYNN
BETTE DAVIS
ANITA LOUISE › IAN HUNTIN DONALD CLIP · RIKULÁR BONDI
JANI BAYAN - ALAN HALE
DICK PORAN - MENKY 'TRAY; Ri ** PATHIC KNOBSES » Muut by Alan Front
„Á ANATOLE LITVAX PRODʻN
Presented by WARNER BROS
ALAO LATEST CARTOON, 64
in Myron Brimig's
grand story
THE SISTERS
TEK
RECORD DEWATER ERBOL YLYNN, -
Do-starred for the first time with
BETTE DAVIS-
TE: ACADEMY AWARD WINNEB
I 1935 nd · 1968
IN TECHNICILOUR “JUNGLE JITTERS"
TO-MORROW
20th Century-Fax
BARBARA STAN WYCK · HERBERT MARSHALL
Picture in "ALWAYS GOODBYE"
. 720 × 1.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE.
MATINEES. 20%+30« •
TODAY AND TOMORROW
An Intensely Human Picture". That Everybody «
Will Be Happy To Have Seen
KAY
as in
KISSABLE!
That's the KAY
in WARNER BROS.'
MY Bill
wil
KAY FRANCIS
BONITA GRANVILLE
ANITA LOUISE.. BOBBY JORDAN JOHN LITEL DICKIE MOORE
- Directed by JOHN FARROW
THURSDAY, ONE DAY ONLY!
STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY
In a Completely New
COMEDY PROGRAMME
的
Of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Short Subjects
ISTAR
TODAY ONLY
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER presents.
TOMORROW
Warner Bros. Picture
WALLACE
HARSCOM
KEAM.DON TEL. 57795
BEERY
"WEST POINT
OF THE AIR,
EBROL FLYNN JOAN BLONDELL 'PERFECT SPECIMEN "
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Low at 15.47 and 2027.
MEETINGS. Monthly, of photo-RELIGIOUS-Prayer and Fellow
graphic Society of Hongkong: Rotary Meeting, at Hongkong Hotel, 1 D-Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Hotel, 130 p.m.; | St. Andrew's Mothers' Union, 3
p.m
MISCELLANEOUS, Official In
spection" of New Central Market, 11 a.m.; Laying of Wreath at the
;'ז'ין
ship Meeting at S. and 8. Home, 8.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Con- firmation Class, 5.15 p.
Madeleine Carroll, the perfect SOCIAL-YMCA Women's Bec-blonde," takes a Ave mile ride on tion Bridge, 10 am and "Moan aquaplane behind a 50 mile, an dern" Mahjong Drive, 3 pm; hour speed-boat in Paramount a Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45 "Cafe Bociety," a story of the p.m.; Craigengower Cricket Club people that are making a Cone Weekly Tombola, 9 p.m.
Island out of Long: Ijsnd,
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