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CINEMA & GENERAL
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939. —PAGE 5
Jean Arthur, John Barrymore, James Stewart and Edward Arnold in Columbia's best picture of 1938 "You Can't Take It With You" showing at the Oriental Theatre, to-day and to-morrow. Famous Palitzer Prize Play, Winner of 1938 Gold Trophy!
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
DAILY AT 9.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M..
Rico LATEST NEWS
OF
THE
DAY
Judge Hardy's funny kid..."Tank Ai Oxford's” sweetheart... the fighting man of "Bad Man all in one sidious romance! of Brimstons'
hold that kiss
with
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
TROEKNIS
BICKEY
O'KEEFE • ROONEY
Original Story and Screen Flay by Blaxley Bank Direeted by Edwin L. Maria
Produced by John W. Considian. Ir.
ADDED
-GRAND: STAGE SHOW.
LAST 2 DAYS
4 TIMES DAILY
AT THE QUEEN'S ONLY
HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE"
An Intimate
Revue with COWAN & BAILEY. THE TAYLEURS, LAURELL GAINES, DOLORES DEE, LUCILLE NICHOLSON, FLORENCE CHAPPELL, MARETA
SUNDAY
A Paramount
Picture"
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SYLVIA SIDNEY ONE THIRD OF A NATION"
4 s
TAKE ANY TRAM OR Mappy Valley Bus
FLARING
DAILY
LIKED
ORIENTALE
ROLD WANINI
TEL. 20473
ONLY TWO MORE DAYS! TODAY AND TOMORROW
THE OUTSTANDING COMEDY CLASSIC OF THE YEAR!
THIS FAMOUS OFFICIAL GOLD TROPHY WAS AWARDED
TO THIS PULITZER PRIZE PLAY BY THE ACADEMY OF ART AND SCIENCES AS THE BEST PICTURE OF 1938.
WINNING THE"
ACADEMY AWARD IS THE HIGHEST HONOUR THAT CAN BE BESTOWED TO ANY
PRODUCTION,
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
JEAN
LIONEL
JAMES
EDWARD
ARTHUR-BARRYMORE-STEWART ARNOLD
MISCHA AUER ANN MILLER Spring Byington · Samuel 5. Hinds Donald Meek-H. B. Warner Based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by George 5 Koufnten and Mess Hart - Seresina eru by Robert Riskan - Directed by FRACK CAPRA
·A -COLUMBIA PICTURE
MON. "ARTISTS AND MODELS ABROAD."
Jack Benny, Joan Bennett, Yacht Club Boys, 100 other stars.
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TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.
CATHAY
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A MOST POWERFUL DRAMA... "The Informer "atar and
an inspired cast in a picture that rains blows of passiona and emotions on your pounding heart!
THE CRY OF A
STIRRING AS
WOMAN IN TERROR!
VICTOR
WALTER
LAGLEN CONNOLLY PETER LORNE
NANCY STEELE IS MISSING!
JUNE LANG ROBERT KENT
TO-MORROW SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDA
THE WORLDS FAVOURITÉ COMICS: ** IN THEIR LAST FICTURE TOGETHER 1 THE YEAR'S COMEDY SENSATION F
HAL ROAZI! prevAILIN
PTAN
OUVER
LAUREL HARDY
BLOCK HEADS
MINNACOMBELI PATRICIA FIETS
MALTY CHUBERT FINLAYSON
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Hold That Kiss" QUEEN'S:
"Ambush"
ORIENTAL:
"You Can't Take It With You" CATHAY:
"Nancy" Steele Is Missing”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Ambush".
STAR;
"Walkik! Wedding"
MAJESTIC:
"Stablemates"
KING'S:
Coming
"We're Going To Be Rich" QUEEN'S:
"One Third Of. A „Nation" ORIENTAL:
"Artists and Models Abroad" "Naughty Marietta”
CATHAY:
"Block-Head"
ALHAMBRA..
"One Third Of A Nation"
STAR:
"A Family Affair"
"The Citadel"
MAJESTIC:
"Three Blind Mice"
PAUL MUNI
SURPASSED
It is a
Tare occasion in
Hollywood when any actor sur-
passes Paul Muni in theatrical
brilliance but that unqsual
こ
bonour must go to Brian Aherne
as the emperor Maximilian in **Juarez.”
งา
Not only does Aherne surpass Muni; but he also eclipses the usually outstanding Bette Davis ! who is his empress, Carlota, Miss Davis has a rather brief role and in only one scene where she loses, her mind worrying over the fate of her husband and of Mexico does she dominate the picture. "
Few will deny that Muni is a great actor but in the role of Jua rez, the Mexican liberator, he made an unfortunate choice of a part that gives him little chafice for anything but repressed, unemo- tional acting.
EMOTIONAL DISPLAY In a role retiring an emotional display of scientific or dramatic eagerness, fire, passion he un- beatable. Despite this criticism, it must be said thai Iew actors could have handled Juarez as "well as Mund
STAN LAUREL GETS DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, May 18 (Reuter)The film comedian, Stan Laurel, WILS divorced from his third wife, the Rus- stan singer. Vere Ileana, yes- terday.
oc
Laurel cited numerous casions on which his wife had left home and became intozi- cated. This, he said, inter- fered with his work.
Martha Raye Travels Incognito
'Hollywood's
well-known masquerading device colour-
ed glasses, worn by actresses
who wish to travel incognito
was supplemented with
NEW WALT . DISNEY SHORT
Walt Disney has a new short coin- |ing out soon which will introduce in a major role, Tootste, The Pengülk
Tootsie had a "bit" part once before but now he is a' «feature player. The short, is called "Donald's Penguin” and stars Donald Duck and Tootsie.
Quaint, nonchalant, utterly indifferent. Tootsie is a perfect foll for Donald's frenzied ravings. He waddles serenely along in fils frock- coated white"vest and his wide in- nocent eyes belle the clever fellow benind them...
He not only gets what he wants but makes Donald like it and the doing will give audierices plenty to laugh at and with
SHIRLEY IN
battered automobile by Martha TECHNICOLOUR
Raye,
Martha and her stand-in. Jea- FILM
nette Ruby, purchased 4 1927
mode] Chevrolet and are having 20th Century-Fox
announced.
it painted red for use around, that Shirley Temple is to do Hollywood. Autograph hunters another technicolour picture. It is won't suspect the star, who usually to be the famous Maurice Maeter- rides in a town car of riding, let linck story "The Bluebird". alone owning stich an ancient Published at the beginning of the | jallopy, Martha hopes.”
century, this play has been trans- Since she is allowed to drive lated into every language and the her larger and attention-attract-play has been presented in every ing limousine into the Paramount | country in the civilized world, grounds where she is working on It should prove popular for "Give Me 8 Sallor," Martha Shirley. Production will start some- hasn't yet been seen in the in-time in the fall formal bus.
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Next on her list is "Lady Jane"
CROSSWORD
NO. 313
ACROSS Pulverise (5)
5 Teret (5) 8 Similar (5) 9 Change (5) 10 Applause (5)..
11. Dance (5), 12 Two score
ເຈົ້າ
15 Scope (5) 13 Night bizd
(3)
20 Harbinger
(B)
21 Copper- coloured (8)
22 Arid (3) 24 Wrath (5) ZT Terminate (5)***
30 · Performer
7(5)
31. With force
(5)
In its desire to present the fue historical picture, the studio tries to cover too much ground and actually || the film has two separate stories that of Juarez and the tragic tale of Maximilian, and Cariota. Either would have been sufficient for a
37 Metal bar
(5)
6.
33 Cutting
> tool. (5)
full movie but both are too much,
uch 34 Paper
SUPPORTING CAST
money -(5) 35. Weapon
(5)
DOWN
1 Banter (5)
Witch (5)
2 Extreme
(5)
4 Wave (6)
5 Veto (5)
6 Cereal (5)
7 Solitary
(5)
Sea (5) Commerce (5)
Gentle pace" (5)
127
22 123
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
A THIN MAN
17 Begin
nings (5) 18 Queer (3)
19 Deposit (3) 23 Keep (6)
24 Ditto (5) 25 Monster.
(5)
26. Positions
'(5)
27 Weeps (5)
28 Corner (5)
Come in
Solution No 312
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BEERY ROONEY!
STABLEMATES
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY
A DELIGHTFUL ROMANTIC COMEDY !!!
LORETTA YOUNG:
JOEL MOOREA in THREE BLIND MICE
A 20th Century-Fox Picture
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. St. Peter Celestine, Pope. St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canter- tury. AUCTIONS.
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ligious Fellowship, «10.30 am. MISCELLANEOUS, — Y. MO. A. Women's section "Keep · FW?
·Class, 10:30a.m.--- MOON-Chinese IV Moon, 18%
The supporting cast is one of the best ever assembled for splc- tare, including John Garfield as Purario Diaz, Claude Rains as Louis Napoleon, Gale Sondergaard as the Empress Eugente, Donald Crisp as Marechal Dazaine ana
Household Furni» (Daye ACROSS: 1, Perforated. 7, Home, dozens of other "name" players. In describing a thin man' Ball 8, Alarm, 10, Dress, 13, Reef, 15,
ture; at 2 Connaughf-Road Cen-[RELIGIOUS-Bt. Andrewa Church Juarez presents the Mexican Rathbone told a story on himself Mend. 16, Legible. 17, Coke, 18, UINEMAS (See Column 3 of this SOCIAL Whist Drive and
tral, Ground Floor, 230 pm Full Choir Practice, 6.30 p.m. people and their struggle for Uber-which is worth repeating... Roar, 19, Smoking. 20, Arch 22,
Tom ty in a sympathetic light that Bome years back when he Emit. 24 Ashes. 27, Squib. 28,
"bola" in R:2,"*"W's and: Sorgts", should win high praise in that appearing opposite Mrs. Patrick Cargo, 29, Derendants.
Méss, Wellington Barracks, 8.15. country.
Campbell "George: Sands, in t
D. London, a friend sak Mrs. Camp DOWN: 1, Pinne, 2. Reed, 2, Bing Crosby, crooner de luze, bell about her leading man, Ogre, 4. Alas, 6. Erase. 6. Thirdclass. finished, "Doctor Rhythm" in time "Oh "" exclaimed the actress 9. Moderation, 11, Regions, 12 Sublime 14, Flesh. 15, Merge, 21, Cause 23 Marks, 24, Able, 25. Hold" (28; "Scansť
to teach George Raft to sing for "Ball's the most extraordinary
his role in "Spawn of the North" young man he looks like two pro at the same studio,
ales stuck together
Fager
the
DANCES - Bemi-finals of
"Garden of the Moon" --- Dance Contest at Hongkong Hotel SPORTS (Bee Page 2).
MAILA (Bee Page 16),
MESTINGE 84. Andrew's Club SUNRISE 5.42 2,m. SUNSET ---
Medical War, Working Party,] 0.51 p.m."
10 am.: Toc H. meets in the TIC3-High at 08.08 and 2190 Hall, 8 pm. Helena May Re- Low at 02.01 and 15.17.5
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