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SHOWING TO-DAY
GLORIOUS STARS!
GLORIOUS ROMANCE I
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SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET by a love 10 great they could not evade it!
Beylikingly rabed. Tarry Ketay - Rock- Lesly hold Michal Karnay, Sablew against klara—bour!i ygalmat Kiful
Petera Bing Screen Play by Dalmar Dovera
and Doest Ogden kewen
WEDNESDAY AT THE QUEEN'S
"SON OF FRANKENSTEIN "
Basil Rathons
-
Bela Lugosi
and Boris Kartof
SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30
IRENE CHARLES DUNNE BOYER Love Affair
MARIA QUSPENSKAYA
LEX BOWMAN » ASTRID ALLWYN
MAURICE MOSCOVICH Prodnoad and Directed by
LEO McCAREY·
TO-MORROW
AT THE ALHAMBRA "40 NAUGHTY GIRLS"
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Kidnapped"
QUEEN'S:
"Love Affair"
ORIENTAL
"Paris Honeymoon”
CATHAY
"Sixty Glorious Years"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Love Affair"
STAR:
“Boolog"
MAJESTIC:
"The Gladiator"
KING'S:
James Gleason - Zain Pitts An RKO-Radio Picture
FACK_ANY TEAM OR KAPPY VALLEY BUI
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD WANGHAI
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Coming
"Smashing The Spy Ring"
QUEEN'S:
"Son Of Frankenstein" ORIENTAL:
"Modern Times" "Invisible Menace”
ALHAMBRA:
"40 Naughty Girls” "Pirates Of The Skies"
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY CATHAY:
CROSBY'S LATEST AND BEST MUSICAL LAUGH SHOW!
A BANG-UP
BINGEROO
with 4 bigtime Crosby hit tunas!
PARIS HONEYMOON
with
BING CROSBY - FRANCISKA GAAL AKIM TAMIROFF - SHIRLEY ROSS
Directed by finnk Tuttle
A Paramavn) Picture
SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW! ONE DAY ONLY !
THE "KING" OF COMEDIANS IN HIS FUNNIEST SHOW!
ใ
CHARLIE
HAPLIN
Modern Times
FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY “
BORIS KARLOFF INVISABLE MENACE
IN
MATINEES: 20c.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c,
Eleanor Powell, World's
Fastest Tap Dancer
"
"King Kong" STAR:
"Wings In The Dark" MAJESTIC:
The Awful Truth”
CINEMA & GENERAL
FAMOUS SCREEN TEAM
MAY PART COMPANY
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A report from Hollywood states that Jeanette MacDonald, before leaving the film colony for a coneart tour, would not put her signature to another long-term contract. This means the break-up of a brilliang musical partnership' which had its climax only last week in the spectacular musical show "Sweet- hearts." "One of the sweethearts, seemingly, is tired of it all.' In future Miss". MacDonald is com... going to devote herself ta
The head cfice of Metro-Gold- certs, putting in a flm here and there when she
feels inclined. wyn-Mayer in London had This is not due to any personal news whatever of any change of misunderstanding between Jen-plans by, the two stars. nette and Nelson Eddy, though "It is a complete mystery to she has indicated a preference for us," It was stated.
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grossed heavily at the Ameri- can box-omce.
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far $5
a more frequent change of screen we know there will be no break- partners than she has been get-up of the famous team, They ting.
(will co-star as usual.”
Nevertheless, a
film, new
"Katinks." has already been THE "GLADIATOR”
scheduled for the MacDonald- Eddy team. This followed the sensational SUCCESS of "Sweethearts,” which has
GALA FILM · SHOW
Besides being the funniest show- in town, Joe E. Brown's "The Gladiator at the Majestic Theatre boasts the most unusual comedy idea that ever survived a Holly-“ wood story conference. It deserves to be called nothing less than ter- rtc. But what is more important. the picture's premise has been so His Excellency the Governor, adroitly paced and timed. In its air Geoffry Northcote, was pre-development by Director Edward sent on Saturday night at the Sedgwick and so superbly délinea- gala performance of the film.ted by Brown & Co. that "The "Kidnapped," at the King's Thea-Gladiator" may unblushingly be tre, in aid of the funds of the called the most entertaining film Boys' and Girls' Club Associations. of the season...
A repeat performance was pre- Joe E. Brown, Homo Sapiens. sented by Mr. Goncharoff. and 1936 model, is supercharged by a
the his pupils of
ballet inter-mysterious serum into a superman. pretation of Strauss's "Tales from Joe's at college when the trans- the Vienna Woods," which ear-formation takes place. He becomes led a great deal of applause."
Dignity Pays Little Dividends In Hollywood
have
HOLLYWOOD,-Certain semblances of dignity which been injected into the movie business during the past few years have been afflicting a good many of the young players, and handicapping there, too
a gridiron sensation, a flash on the track and a weight and discus thrower who would make the gods of Olympis scratch their marble heads in wonderment.
Solution No 296
ACROSS: 1, Deluges, 5, Bravo. 8, Redress. 9. Great. 10, Hog. 12. Canada, 15, Manage. 16, Cypher, 17, Dlet, 19, Pets. 20, Severe. 22, Siesta. 23, Tender. 26, Orb. 28, Shell 29, These smug glamour people-traffic on a busy corner. From Retains. 30. Satin, 31, Modesty. together with many of the pink where she stood at the intersec-
DOWN: 1 Doric. 2, Laden. 3. juveniles who want to be leading tion, Miss Crawford could see the Greedy. 4. Bash. 5, Beggar. 6. men, profitably could take some marquee of the State Theater, but Average. 7, Outlets. 11. Omelet. 13, hints from the early behavior of she scarcely could have guessed Act. 14, Appear. 17. Desists. 18. their established betters, the stars. how soon her name would be on Element. 19, Pen. 20. Stolen. 21,
When Gloria Goofus comes out in lights.
Rested 24, Drips, 25, Rusty. 27, Brim here from Clay Centre, where sh belonged ta the high school dramatic club and played the feminine lead in "Charley's Aunt," she immediately elevates her nose a-couple of notches.
11
First thing you know, she wants to give interviews comparing the histrionic integrity of the cinema and the legitimate dray-ma.
Without much pressure, she also will confide her ambitions-which inevitably are
serious-and her determination" not to be pushed into unbecoming roles by directors, or into indignified poses by the. still photographers,
ANYTHING-PROVIDED
GOOD
IT'S
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CROSSWORD
ACROSS
3
Game (5)
8 Follow (5)
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Method (5)
10 Esteem (5)
11 Figure (7)
13. Trifect (5)
14 Give
forth (4) 16 - Projectile
(7)
Gloria declares earnestly that she will welcome any part, however small, so long as it is meaty and so long as it is not in one of those terrible B pictures.
But will not pose in bathing, 21 Way, but
(4) suits, or astride mammoth
79 "So (4)
akyrockets, or flirting with Santa 22 Strew (7) Claus. And she detests those 24 Lake (4) publicity romances...
28 Protect (5)
So the publicity boys at the Gloria, and the don't photographers
take
Girls, if you want to become the object balanced on the head. In studio ignore world's fastest feminine tap dancer, order to keep it in place, It is keep your feet close to the ground. absolutely essential to keep the pictures, and the casting director
That's how Eleanor Powell did it. motion of the body to a minimum: vague when she asks about 30 Joliica- writes a correspondent, · ·
something to do." Bóbbing up and down or swaying The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dan-from one side to the other will cing star never has found an throw off the book."
NO. 297
6 Syrup (7) 7 Flower (5) 19 Change (7) 11 Birds!
28 Pupil (7)
any
29 Roval
party (5)
41
ance (4)
31
32
tirim (5) Quaint (5) Verity (5)
DOWN
1 Year (5)
2 Bent (5)
4. Chime (4)
5 Disturb
Option time comes around in. s' months, and nothing happens, and orchestra that can play music as As an example of what the M-Miss Goofus goes back to Clay fast as she can dance to it. Her G-M star means, she suggests that Centre where she tells all the folks own personal accompanist, Walter those who are interested watch that Hollywood has no sotil.
JOAN CRAWFORD Ruick, regarded as the fastest plano her head instead of her feet when
The attitude of asdrants was player in Hollywood, is many min-she goes into one of those rapid utes behind in the perpetual con-tap routiès" It will be observed dinerent in the days when Joan test of dancing and playing speed that the level of her head is not Crawford, wearing a tight sweater that these ton have carried on for altered even a fraction of an inch and shorts, directed-and jammed their own amusement.
during such a dance.. "Compactness of motion and co- Miss-Powell's ambition to become ordination of the feet and the the world's fastest tap dancer was mind is the secret of fast tap dan- formulated when she was thirteen cing explained Miss Powell, just years old and visited. Fort Totten, as it is the theory of speed in New York, with her mother to every form of athletic achievement, witness a stiam military battle. The longer the step, the longer The rapid rat-tat-tat-tat of the time it takes to make it. Tap dan-machine guns fascinated her, and cing is a matter of control of the she determined to learn tr
reproduce the effect with her feet. feet and balance,
"One method of developing this She has succeeded, and the achieve- compact style of dancing is to ment has brought her fame that is practice with a book or some other worldwide...
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and EOLIDAYS. May Day, St. Philly and St. James. German National Day. Royal Academy opens,
tal, in Chinese, 8 pm.;· ARP. Warden Course at Tung Mal Middle School, 127 Heard Street, Wanchal, 7 D.M. MAILS.-(See Page 16)
CINEMAS. (See Column 3.of this MEETINGS St. Andrew's Church
Page).
DANCES.-Cheero Club dances, 8.30
p.m.
› LECTURES. --
YMCA.
Section, AR. P. F
Bible
Fellowship of Youth and Reading Fellowship, 8 p.m.
at German SOCIAL-Reception
Club, 4th Floor, Connaught Road Central, 12.30 p.m.; Busy Bee Working Party Bridge and Mab- jong Dilve, at Cathedral Hall, Service Men 3. p.m.; Y.M.C.A.
the Whist Drive, in
West
Lounge, 8.30 p.m.; 8t Andrew's Club "Open Night," 9 p.m. SPORTS--(See Page,2). SUNRISE 5.53 a.m. SUNSET-
-6.48 D.m.
TIDES -16.32 and 18,04 : Low at
11.58.
TO-MORROW.
MEETINGS.-Kowloon Residents' Association Meeting, at St... An- drew's Church Hall, 5,30 pm. St. Andrew's Brownle Pack, #30 p.m
Medical War Working Party for MOON-Chinese III Moon, 13tu. the Chinese Wounded Soldiers, Day, no ma
10 am,
3. RELIGIÓTS—St. Andrew's Church Women's | MISCELLANEOUE-St. Andrew's Boy's Choir Practice, & p.m.
Ald, 11 Church Sunday School Teach- ROTARY. MEETING.–At Hongkong | a.m.; First Aid (Chinese), Ying era Preparation Class, 7 p.m. Hotel Roof Carden, 1 p.m. Wah College, Kowloon 7.30 p.m.;|MOON-Chinese III Moon, 12th. BUNRIS
am SUNSET. Chinese YMCA. at Waterloo Day
Road, Kowloon, 7 pm; Homs RELIGIOUS-8t. Andrew's Church TIDER. High at,.07.12 and 19.16. Nursing at Queen Mary Hospi- Holy Communion - -7.30
Low at 00.37 and 13.08.
homes (5) 12 Less (5) 15 Extract (7)
17 Elect (5)
18 Bullock (5) SOLUTION TV-MURROW
20 Bright red
·(7).
23 Young
animal (5)
24 Lament (5) 25 Gathering
(5)
27. Fleet
W
animal (4)
28 Forwarded-
(4)
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The historic events of The Charge of the Light Brigade: The Crimean War-and the fall of Khartoum, welded into a panoramio masterpiece studded with great start and filled withi humanity, sincerity, drama and romance:
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MONDAY, MAY 1, 1939. —PAGE
KING'S
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