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"Always Goodbye” QUEEN'S:
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CINEMA & GENERAL
CROSSWORD
NO. 293
ACROSS
1 Find out
(8)
5 Metal (4)
B Army
rank, -(8)
9 Baking
place (4)
11 Actual (4)
13
Possessor (5)
15 Coin (4)
"Josette"
Kowloon
18
ALHAMBRA:
"Man's Paradise"
STAR:
"Perfect Specimen" MAJESTIC:
"My Bill"
KING'S:
Coming
"Kidnapped"
QUEEN'S:
"Love Afair"
ORIENTAL:
Special Mickey Mouse Variety
Programme
"Rose Marte"
ALHAMBRA:
"Love Affair””
CATHAY:
Fisherman's Whart"
STAR:
This Is The Life" "Josette"
MAJESTIC:
Laurel and Hardy Comedy
Programme
Volcano.
top (8)
20 Attend-
ants (6)
21 Metal (4)
23 Edge (3)
24 Vein of
coal (4)
28 Sour (4) 29 Deface (8) 30" Time
periods (4)
31 Emphatic
(8)
DOWN
· Adora ̈ (4)
2 Certain
3 Sea breeze
(5)
4 Empower
(8)
& Originated
7
(8)
Assembly (8)
10 Kitchen
utensils (4)
12 Land
measure (4)
14 Sword
sheath (8)
1224
MAT
15 Quickner (8)
17 Bare
19 Large "
deer (pl)
(4)
22 Shrewd (6)
25 Similar (5) 27 Opening
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Solution No 292
1
ACROSS: 1. Dingy, 4. Chips. 20 DIARY OF LOCAL
Robe. 11, Blue, 13, Symbol. 14. Repeat 15, Peer, 17, Two. 18, Umbrella, 21, Greeting. 23, Sir." 25, Prop. 27. Estate. 30, Fudges. 32; Iron, 33, Near. 34, Leash, 35, Hyena.
DOWN: 2, Idle. 3, Glee. 5. Hem, 8,
GEORGE FORMBY Propel. 7, Sole. 8, Merry. 8. Estimate.
DOES HIS BIT
"It's In The Air," the latest George Formby comedy, written and directed by Anthony Kim- mins, has had an honourable history even before its release, for it was one of two films (“The Ware Case was the other) which was shown at Sandring- ham to the King and Queen at Their Majesties' request.
11, Brute. 12, Uproar. 16, Princess. 19. Lascar. 20. Preen. 32, Expire. 24.Į Spine, 28, Oral, 28, Ting, 29, Tom, 31, Gas.
"ALWAYS
EVENTS
TO-DAY
| ÄNNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. Viscount Rothermere born, 1888. Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel AUCTIONS.
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Household Furni- ture, 2 Havelock Terrace, Kow- loon Dock, 10.30 am. DANCES-Cheero Club Dance, 8.30
:(,5
p.m.
ENTERTAINMENTS. Concert, St. Paul's Girls' College, (for
GOODBYE Students), 3 p.m.
"Always Goodbye" BEYN "hello!" to motion picture au- diences of Hongkong when it starts its run to-day at the King's Theatre. In the arrival of the 20th Century-Fox dra- matic production the fans are promised some surprising fea- tures.
And on its premiere in the West End, it was seen, by distinguished representatives of the Air Council. the Air Ministry and the RAF.. headed by Sir Kingsley Wood and Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall.
In making this comedy, Georgeeven-and- increasingly popular First, the picture co-stars those
Formby little thought that he would unconsciously play a quite experts of the deeper tones of important part in the general at-screen dramatics Barbara Stan- tempt being made. these days to Wyck and Herbert Marshall. strengthen this country's defences,
Then, Ian Hunter heads the fea- tured cast. Long" a film favo- for the Ministry has been so im- pressed by the film that they are rite, the actor's last 20th Century- collaborating with hundreds of Fox film was the memorable "To cinema owners in R.A.F. recruiting Mary-With Love." drives all over the country carried out in connection with its showing.
COOGANS' CONCILIATION
Next, it offers the debut of little Johnnie Russell, the five-year-old Brooklyn tot who, reports have it, plays the focal role of the story around which all the grown-up Ilves weave their destinies.
Following this, the motion pic- ture audience will meet again the
LECTURES.......First Aid in Chinese (for Women), at Ambulance Égzs., 7.30 pm; at Kowloon Chi- nese YMCA, Waterloo Road, 7:30 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Home Nursing Lecture, at the Church; 10a.m.; Home Nursing (in English), at Queen Mary Hospital, 10 k.m.; (in Chi- nese), at Kowloon Hospital, 6 p.m.; A.R.P. at Shaukiwan Public Dispensary (In Chinese), 6'
p.m.; Modineld Course, at Wah Yad "College, Robinson Road; 6.30 p.m. MAILS.—(See Page 18) MEETINGS --Annual, of Hong-
kong
Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd. at Jordan Road Ferry Pier, Kowloon, noon; Annual, of Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd... at P. & O., Bldg., noon; Annual, of Ministering Children's League, at Helena May, 10.30 am.; Gene- ral Committee, at a & S. Home, 5.30 p.m.; Leaders of St. An- drew's Organisations and ali interested in Annual Fete and Bazaar, in Bt. Andrew's Hall,
Women's Guild, 10 a.m.; Peace Pledge Union, Challenge Book- shop, Ice House Street, 5.30 p.m... Speaker: Rev. K b. Macken- zie Dow: HK., Sunday School Assen. at Kowloon Union Church or Hall, 5.45 pm. MISCELLANEOUS.
Jackie's Agreement newest of the "exponents of the 8.30 p.m.: Kowloon Union Church
With His Parents
lighter vein." Cesar Romero, who In one amazing role with Sonja Hente several months ago, took the cinemaddicts by storm with his humor-technique.
And what is claimed to be a re«! cord event is the introduction' in-
Jackle Coogan and his mother have come to terms. Last year he said he was "broke" at the time-he sued" his mother, and step-father.to the dramatic story of Holly for £800,000, claiming that he
wood's most pretentious fashion had earned this as a child star
show. 'and was entitled to it at 21.
Now the long legal struggle has ended with an agreement whereby Jackle and his mother share about £50,000 worth of property-the residue at Jackie's earnings.
Jackie's share), consists of non-income-bearing property, plus the rights of several of the Als in which he starred, says the B. UP...
£12 FOR HONEYMOON Ee married Betty Grable, the young film star and afterwards said his mother gave him only £12 for his honeymoon.
Recently the couple separated for a short time, because, states Jackie, he was too hard up to keep
home together.
His comment on the decision was:
"It's not a question whether it's a fair settlement or not. If we continued fighting this out in
miracles that have prompted court it might be years before the headlines throughout the past year. affair was finally settled, and to Betting for the weird situation fight it out would cost a great is laid when a witness who can. deal more money." identify the killer is blinded by
aeld thrown in his face. Bruce Bobby Breen, who just appeared Cabot, as a doctor who turns as a San Francisco Italian boy. A dead man will help to identify sleuth. orders a cornea, operation. fisherman in Fisherman's Whart
The
his own murderer to add the anal transferring the corneas of one American role, as a boy gaucho, bizarre touch to the latest chiller person's eyes to those of a blind and It Is Director Bernard dished up in Universal's. "Murder person. In "Murder in the Surgery Vorhaus plan to make him plenty in the Surgery.”.
the corneas of a murdered man tough. Vorhaus guided the sweat- voked youngster through his inst picture, and apparently able to get the very best out of Breen, has been signed for two more
operation COTIBIALA of will next be seen in a Bouth
What sounds like an invasion of ere transferred to the eyes of the the realm of fancy by the Crime blinded witness: Thus the murder Club writers actually was made victim, through the eyes of the possible
modern medical witness, Identifies his own killer. by
Women's Fellowship
Cathedral Working
Party, Cathedral Hall, 10 am. | MOON-Chinese III Moon, 7th, George Raft was kissed by Day. glicker the Seal in "Spawn of the SOCIAL-Whist Drive and Tom- North," and received the ribbing bola In Garrison Sergeante of his life; both from friends and Mess, 9 p.m. ¿ newspaper reporters. In "The SUNRISE-5.56 AID. SUNBET Lady's From Kenucky," his newest
8.47 p.m.. picture, Raft is made to kiss a very | TIDES,High at 02.09 and 12.37. young pig.
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“MAN'S PARADISE
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BONITA GRANVILLE
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BOBBY JORDAN JOHN LITEL DICKIE MOORE
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TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY In a Completely New
COMEDY PROGRAMME
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Short Subjects
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