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THE STORY OF
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FREG
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"One Third Of A Nation"
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WU CHIEH TIEN
Starring: VIOLET KOO
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TO-MORBOW «
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Begins Bat
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""Ambuak”
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"One Third Of A Nation"
"Gone With The Wind:" Additional Members
Of The Cast
Victory Jary will play the part of Jonas Wilkerson, overseer of the O'Hara plantation, in "Gone With The Wind" Selick International's technicalour production which Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer will release. The picture stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland ander Victor Fleming's direction,
Jory replaces Robert Glecker who died recently. Jory was the "Injun Joe" of "The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer." which David O. "Selznick produced in technicolour. A former prize-fighter, profes- sional athlete and "strong man," Jory for ten years has been play- ing the part of Allesandro, in the the "Ramona" pageant given an- nually at Hemet, California. In this play, however, he forsakes his usual screen villain roles, and takes the part of a virtuous young hero.
Jory recently returned from Australia where he went to act in motion picture dramas of the Aus- tralian bush,
HOWARD HICKMAN Howard Hickman... whose great- grandfather gave the family name to the town of Hickman, Kentucky,
been signed to
has
FILM CENSOR
AT WORK
List of films alleged to have' been banned by the Censor In "England:"
Chicago LIL (NB.O. Corp.) Excessive gun-play.
~~Macbeth,~~~~(Gaumont - Fid- dish). Excessiva dagger-play.
A Mution Kiteek. (Wigan Films,) Excessive lip-play.
The Battle of Bannockburn, (Bloomstein Scottish Inc) Po- "Utical.
Nults d'Amour. (Plume de ma Tante, S. A.)
play the DIARY OF LOCAL
"You Can't Take It With You" part of John Wilkes, father of
Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard),
Hickman, who has been with the theatre since 1903, is a graduate of the ploneer Blm city of Inceville. where he played in "Civilization," produced by Thomas Ince in 1913. "Ann Rutherford, cousin of th celebrated Shakespearean actor, Richard Mansfield, "has been selected by David O. Selznick to play the sister of Scarlett O'Hara. Miss Rutherford is cast in the role of Curreen. O'Hara, youngest daughter of Gerald O'Hara, ..
STAR:
"The Awful Truth" MAJESTIC:
"Stablemates"
CHARLIE WAS
50- AND DIDN'T
KNOW IT
NEW YORK.-Charles Chap- lin, the man who made the world laugh. was 50 years old on April 16, but there were no cards, no greetings, no candled
cake,
"
EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. --Rogation Day: St. Paschal Bay- Jan
CINEMAS.(See Column 3 of this
Page). DANCES.-Cheero Club "Dance
8.30 p.m. LECTURES.-A.R.P., Modified Full Course, American Club, 11, a.m.: Wah
Yan College. Robinson Road, 6.30 p.m.; First Aid in Chinese, Kowloon Chinese YM. C.A. 7.30 p.m.; Ambulance Hqrs., for women, 7.30 p.m.; AR.P., Public Dispensary, Shau- kiwan, 7 p.m.; Yaumati Gort School. 7 p.m.; Home Nursing in Chinese, Kowloon Hospital, b.m.
SCORES OF INTERVIEWS After scores of interviews, and the comparison of hundreds of photographs, two actors who looked enough alike to" play the twins. Stuart and Brent Tarleton. were found by Selznick International studio. They are Fred Crane and George Bessolo Crane ylli play Stuart and Bes-MAILS.-(See Page 16). solo has the role of Brent.
Chaplin, as white-haired 8.3
Aside from the colour of their Bernard Shaw these days, was hair-Crane's is brown and Besso- ignoring his birthday. In fact, it is lo's black-the two men's features professed at his studio that he com-jare remarkable similar, and they pletely forgot it was his birthday are nearly of a size. Crane is IX
FIRST ROLE
"He's too busy with his new feet one inch, and Bessolo a halt picture. to remember such inch taller, but Bessolo is fiva unimportant things" said one of pounds lighter than Crane's 185. his squad of aldes.
Both men have green eyes. Though his studio was bombard- ed for · BÖLG sort of birthday Crane is from New Orleans, statement it confined itself to this: Louisiana and is playing his first "Mister Chaplin has almost finished role in pictures. His only theatre work on the script of his new experience was amateur work, with picture. We believe it will be the a Loyola University organization, fulfilment of his mission, a devastat- the Loyola Thespians. ing diame
irony under which dietstors will shrivel and 80 years, and is a native of Ashland, Bessolo has been in California 10 out of the world to the accom-Kentucky. Although this is his paniment of searing laughter."
first picture. role, he worked three years with the Pasaderia munity Players under Brown. He has been a band leader and singer.
of.
LIBBY HOLMAN MARRIES
Libby Holman,
Com- Gilmor
of
ex-Broadway torch singer and widow of the Billed on the Continent as "the tobacco heir Smith Reynolds, new Garbo," red-haired Swedian married 23-year-old Ralph Holines, film-stär Zárah Leander lles in a actor son of Taylor Holmes. The Berlin hospital 23 three singer's 6-year-old son was born Germany's greatest eye specialists Several months after Reynolds fight to save her sight. She was died of a gun woynd. In 1935 blinded when a powerful lamp was the child received 13. $7,000,000 turned full on her face. The trust fund after & court battle operator fiad forgotten to put the over a share of his father's estate. protective screen on the lamp.
CROSSWORD
NO. 311
ACROSS
1 Male deer (4)
5 Cylinder (4)
9 Union (6)
9 Vanity, (5)
11 Askew (4)
12 Sends fory
ward (8)
15 Viewed (4) 17 Bin (4) 13 Mikes use of (7)
19 Behave (3)
* Pig's Den (3)
21
Wooden
'meshwork (7)
23 Feline
animal (4)
24 Noble title (4)
27 Begging (8)
30 Bagging. (4)***
31 Restrict (5)
32 Hard glass (6)
33 Flock (4)
34 Always (4)
DOWN
NANCY STEELE IS MISSING!" Victor MoLagian 2 Two occasions
“BLOCK - HEAD"
Walter Connolly. Laurel & Hardy's Last Together
(5)
3 Dell (4)
4. Gérman.
S
party (4)
5 Worries (6)
6 Counsellor ((9)
7 Monkeys (4)
10 Finished. (4) 13 Uppermost '(7)'
14 Snarled (7)
18: Spécial (9), SOLITION TO-MORROW
41 Khocked
\lightly (6)
22 Despatched. (4) 25 Sprightly (5) ́· 26 Unpunctual (4) 28 #Charity: (4) 29 "small
Island (4)
MEETINGS. Kowloon Union Church Women's Gulid, 10 p.m.; Honkong Sunday School ASSCT., Kowloon Union Church or Hall. 5.45 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. —— Members" HK Peace Pledge Union
of meet at Jordan Road Ferry, Kowloon, for a visit to the Social Settle- ments, 5.45 p.m.; Cathedral Wo- men's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Eall 10 am MOON-Chinese TII Moon, 18th.
Day.
SOCIAL-Kowloon Union Church Mahjong and Bridge Drive, 3 p.m.; YMCA. Women's Section. Social Morning (Military Whist and Mahjong at 10 a.m.); Whist Drive and Tombola in Garrison Sergeants' Mess, 9 p.m. SPORTS-(See Page 2). SUNRISE.-5.43 a..
6.56 p.m. TIDES.-High at 07.34 and Low at 01.27 and 14.36"
TO-MORROW
MEETINGS.--81.
SUNSET.-
20.38.
Andrew's Wo- men's Fellowship, 3 p.m.; Vic- toria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30
MISCELLANEOUS.
***T.M.C.A. Gramophone Recital,
8 p.m.; YM.C.A. Women's Section Mah- fong for Beginners, 10 am. SOCIAL-St. Andrew's club "Open Night" 0 p.m.; R.A.0.B. (GLE.) Club Whist Drive and Tombals, Queen's Building, Ice House Street, 8.30 up.in.: Public Works Recreation Club Tombola, Cause- way Bay, B p.
SUNRISE 5.43 A.D. SUNSET.
6.56 p.m..
TIDES. High at 07.09 and 19.44;
Low at 09.52 and; 13.56.
Sacha Guitry, French film actor. director, was granted a divorce in Paris from actress Jacqueline Delubac on grounds of mutual blame. Guitry announced plans to wed Genevieve de Saint Jean, youthful actress who is his latest alm discovery.
Solution No,
310
ACROSS 1, Widow. 5. Ditch 8, Heave. 9. Irate. 10., Bouts. 11. Ear. 12, Tread. 14, Eatable. 17, Outlet. 19, Treble 22, Heretic. 25, Grace.) 28. Tar. 20. Cabin 30, Earth: 31, Ghost. 32, Bongs: 33, Bolar, DOWN: 1. Whist 2 Drake 3, Wheedle. 4, Hatred. 5, Debut, 6, Thumb, 7, Haste. 13, House, 15, Ale. 16, Lilac 18, Lie. 20, Regrets, 21. Action, 22, Hacks 23 Robin. 24, Tongs 26, April. 27 Ether.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1939. -PAGE 5
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MICKEY ROONEY in STABLEHATES
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