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...one third
SYLVIA SIDNEY
"
of a nation”.
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Primi tofoane
AT THE
QUEEN'S ONLY
PARAMOUNT SPECIAL NEWSREEL OF
ADDED
THE ELECTION
AND
CORONATION
OF
POPE
PIUS XII
WEDNESDAY
AT THE QUEEN'S
"BOY SLAVES"
Anne Shirley
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Roger Daniel
AT
THE ALHAMBRA ONLY
GRAND STAGE SHOW
“HOLLYWOOD
ON PARADE"
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An Intimate Revue with COWAN & BAILEY, THE TAYLEURS, LAURELL GAINES, DOLORES DEE. LUCILLE NICHOLSON, FLORENCE CHAPPELL,
MARITA. ESTELLE COWAN
WEDNESDAY
AT THE ALHAMBRA "The ADVENTURE of ROBIN HOOD"
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Today's Screenings
KING'S.
Hongkong
"We're Cluing To Be Rich" QUEEN'S:
“One Third, Of A Nation” OBIENTAL:
“Artists and Models Abroad" CATHAY:
"Block-Head"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA..
"One Third Of A Nation"
STAR:
The Citadel" ·
MAJESTIC:
"Three Blind Mice"
Coming
*
KING'S:
"Hold That Kiss" QUEEN'S:
"Boy Blaves" ORIENTAL:
"Naughty Marletta"
"Adventure's End"
CATHAY:
"Wings Of The Morning" ALHAMBRA:
"The Adventures Of Robin
Hood.
STAR:
"Spring Madness"
"Nothing Sacred"
MAJESTIC:
"Pardon Our Nerve"
WE'RE GOING TO
Norma Shearer Enjoys Her Role In "Idiot's Delight"
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Norma Shearer, costumed In spangled tights as a little acrobat for a scene in Idiot's Delight, swung diszily by her treth for a brief minent. Director Clarence Brown mopped a moist brow and rolled. “Cut!" · From the wings,
burly for adventure. She not only "prop" men rushed out to lower swings by her teeth, but if later the star safely to the stage. sequences of the picture, finds Of the 50 people on the act, excitement posing as a Countess. Miss Shearer seemed to be the After' Marie Antoinette, Miss Jönly one thoroughly enjoying her- | Shearer's transformation. is
self
the more startling, blonde hair "This is fun." she said. "Most worn in a Byzantine bab, exotic of my recent characters have been owns and a Russian accent such sincere ladies.
"Although I have played vir- They were interesting to play, but condning, tuous and shady ladies of all ages on the screen," Miss Shearer re- because to me, to be sincere ts to
marked. "Irene is different from be simple. Now, for 3 change,
WON ACCLAIM
I am playing a heroine who anything I have done before."
13 completely a fake. That is what (makes her so fascinating as a
challenge to characterization. Shearer has
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Several times in the past, Miss
מפיד
acclaim for
am permitted a few tricks, like following stage stars in their swinging by my teeth."
favourite plays, notably Katharine
As Irene in the motion picture Cornell in Rome And Juliet and adaptation of Robert Sherwood's The Barretts of Wimpole. Street, Pulitzer · Prize* winning play, Jane Cowl in Smilin' Through,
| Miss Shearer portrays a member Gertrude “- Lawrence in Private
jor a vaudeville troupe, who yearns Lives, Ina Ciaire In The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, and now Lynn Fon- tainne in Idiot's Delight.
Clark Gable is co-starred with
"I'LL NEVER Miss Shearer in the Metro-Gold-
WEAR A HAT, NEVER
FRENCH STAR'S
DECLARATION
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wyn-Mayer picture. "the first time they have appeared together since A Free Soul and Strange Interlude (also known as. Strange Interval). Ya both of those pictures." sald Miss Shearer, we had seri- ous parts, with very little oppor- tunity for comedy. But in this one we do everything but stand on our heads. While I do my aerial act, Clark has a song-and- If Corbinne Luchaire, lovely blonde dance routine that is riotously star of Alexander Korda's "Prison funny. We play the pláno" and Without Bars" had been born, we sing. We do a mind-reading The mountain couldn't get to reared and confined all her life to act. From start to Anish, the Mohamed.
Hollywood, one would not be sur-Picture Was A refreshing ex- Prised to hear her say: "No, I never Perience." |wear a‘bat, never." Because that Gable freely predicts that Miss sounds like the typical declaration Shearer's Irene will startle ber
fang as they have never been this time in one of the year's startled before by her versatility. most delightful comedy roles.
BE RICH
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So they moved Hollywood - to
London to produce. "We're Going To Be Rich," now showing at the King's Theatre.
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY provided a few of the hurdles for
THE GAYEST AND FUNNIEST SHOW IN "MONTHS ! Crazy antics by the Yacht Club Boys, lavish style show, great song bits and a fun filled story.
Way Out est in Paris, France, with BUCK BENNY and bis
JACK BENNY JOAN BENNETT ...
Beautiful Buckarettes!
It's the dip-roaringast unlabes- Ben that ever hit pay foresl
"ARTISTS
AND MODELS ABROAD"
MARY BOLAND CHARLEY GRAPEKTY · SREEL FELD JOYCE COMPTON and TAI YRCHT CLUB HOTS
31 Mbiteli kasall
SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW! ONE DAY ONLY
ROMANCE AND THRILLS SET TO GLOBIOUS MELODY! See the Singing Sweethearts" in their best picture.
Janelle MDONALD ·
VICTOR HERBERTS
NAUGHTY
A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer seruzze
NELSON EDDY
MARIETTA
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TO-DAY & TO MORROW-2 DAYS ONLY!
THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE COMICS
IN THEIR LAST PICTURE TOGETHER I THE YEAR'S COMEDY SENSATION |
1000 Laugh Packed In 90. minutes Of Screen Fun
HAL ROACH prescĀLES
ATAN
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LAUREL HARDY
BLOCK-HEADS
MINNA GOMBELI
PATRICIA ELLIS
ADDED!
Wed. & Thu. Fox Colour Hit
BILLY GILBERT FINLAYSON
BILLY ROSE the Modern Vicki presents his "CABA MANANA REVUE”.
19 ANNABELLA
WINGS OF THE MORNING* Henry Fonds
of a typical Hollywoodite.
and
the
The mountain "in this case was
"But Miss Luchaire does her hat an array of complications in trying to get some of the British actors repudiating in Paris and London. She has yet to set foot within a and actresses to Hollywood. "Con-
The day she walked сд tracts for stage engagements and thousand miles of the world's
set as a "Russian Countess," He popular demand for Gracie. Fields, fim capital She was born
sald, we were speechless.” And (who packed London, theatres) reared in France.
when you can cause a sensation "She recently told an inter-th a motion picture studio, that's viewer: the producers to negotiate.
"I will not Weat any something." Monty Banks, who recently re- formal head-dress, even it, as you turned from England where" he say, hats are being
with directed Victor McLaglen, Gracle evening attire this season. and Brian Donlevy in “We're Going To Be Rich," explained how the 20th Century-Fox Production was achieved.
worn
"Perhaps I buy-a little fine net of the darkest red and wear it over my hair when I go out to dine. Or perhaps I wear a gold comb "The picture," he said. "may studded with pearls. Or two little have been made in Britain, but it bows of gilt ribbon. otherwise is a Hollywood product. True, it introduces Miss Fields.|
7.
ANTIPATHY TO HATS
"If This Is Art-Okay!"
hula girls and other Hawaiian Fredric March, surrounded by
beauties, was reclining on a couch preparatory to the starting of a
England's favourite entertainer to¦ "But I do not wear a head-dress, scene for Trade Winds," the cut-.
some of her first American audien- never:
rent Walter Wanger production in
I do not wear "Bowers in which he is starred with Joan Ben-
ces when It opened yesterday at the my hair, either. Sometimes in the nett. Els head was propped high King's Theatere but many of the day time. I leave my house in a other names are by-words in every hat and within five minutes it is city in the United States.
in my hand. In winter it is the same."
A
Solution No 314...
ACROSS: 1, Petal. 4, Subject. 8, Retinite 9. Apart. 10, Sense. 11. Cheaper. 13, Echo. 15. Deride. 17, Orders, 20, Nude. 22, Resists. 24, Aroma, 26, Flora, 27, Evening. 28, Endless, 29, Smear:
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DOWN: Perused. 2, Titan."3, Linseed. 4, Speech, 5, Blame. 6,
Example. T. Tutor, 12, Hood. 14. Cent. 16, Respond. 18, Reapers. 19, Stagger. 31, Ushers. 22. Ride, 23. Scale, 25, Olive,
on the pillows in deference to the requirements of the camera.
"Is this all right, Tay?" asked March,
Even in her plcture, "Prison "Certainly" Garnett assured Without Bars," Corinne reveals her him. "Why not? antipathy to hats. In Jeveral scenes in which she appears with hat it is not on her head, it is
in her hand!",
But who knows! It may be her polite way ot expressing the
"I have just been wondering."
said March, "If I look as uncom fortable as I feel But if this is
Art-okay!"
thought that some hats, and we DIARY OF LOCAL
have been a lot of ridiculous ones
lately, had better never been born
----nor worn,
CROSSWORD
NO. 315
ACROSS
1 Elected
body (7) Starchy food (4) Elliptical
(4)
9. Old (7)
10 Gossip (4)
12 Dimeult (4)
15. Muscular.
pain (6)
18 Superior
(5) (2)
10 Bond (5)
20 Drive forth
(5)
21 Twists. (5)
23 Kitchen
28 Kitchen
herb (5)
23 Young
animal (4)
29 Stitches (4)
31 Garbage (7) ·
32 Dandy (4)
33 Cattle (4) 34 Implore (7)
DOWN Whip (4)
Garment
3 Sore (5)
Dairy pro- duct (5).
5.. Unwilling
(4)
6. Den. (4)
19 Burning (7)
11 Garb (7)
13 Good-tern.
pered (7)
14 Risks (7)
116
SOLUTION, TO-MORROW
15 Badge (5) 16 To
administer (5) Throb (5) Custom (5) Cereal (5) On top (4) Valid (4)
Bullets (4)
At what
time (4)
EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. --Small Fallness (Hsiao-man). AUCTIONS, Crown Lands,
P. W. D. Offices, 3 p.m.
CINEMAS.-(Bee Column 3 of this
Page),
DANCES.-Cheero
8.30~p.m
Club Dance
LECTURES-First Aid, European- YMCA, 11 aim.; ARP. (Jockey Club) at new Hqrs, 20 Ice House
Street, 5.30 p.m.; in Chinese, at "g" Godown, of HK, and Kow- loon Wharf Godown". Co., Ltd., 7pm. Tung Mul Middle School, 127 Heard Street, Wanchai ̧ - 7| p.m.; Ying Wah College, Kow- loọn, 7.30 p.m; Chinese YMCA, Waterloo Road, Kowloon,7 p.m.; Home Naming in Chinese, Queen Mary Hospital, 8pm. MAILS.--(See Page. 10)..
at
MEETINGS.—St. Andrew's - Church
Medical War Working Party 10
am
| MISCELLANEOUS.—BL. Andrew's Church Teachers Preparation
Class. 7 p.m. ཐ
MONDAY, MAY 22, 1939. -PAGE 5
„AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
, SHOWING TODAY" AT..., 2.30, 510, 7.15
Get-rich-quick Vic and
spend-it-quick Belan battle it out over the ans-and- only Gracia Fields, the con- „tinent's queen of remedy
and malody!
NEXT CHANGETM
20th Century Fox Picture
P.M.
GRACIE FIELDS VICTOR MCLAGLEN
WE'RE GOING
TO BE RICH
BRIAN DONLEVY
A 20th
Century Fox
Also
Musical Mood in Technicolour “VOICES OF · SPRING”
HOLD THAT CO-ED"
JOHN BARRYHOBK
with. GEORGE MURPHY
1STAR
MARJORIE WEAVER
1040 KOVBOOK TEL
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
A doctor's secretiv
told by a doctor!;
A great hore/
a greater film ! ·
DONAT RUSSELL ~ITADEL
THE
with RalphRICHARDSON
Rex HARRISON Emlyn WILLIAMS AKING VÍDOR Production
- Screen Play by lan Dalrymple,Prank Waad, Elisabeth Hill • Additional „Dialogue Emlyn Wiliama • Band "on the novel "The Ciladal” by A. 1. Cronin Produced by Victoräsville
TOMORROW
M.G.M. Picture
730 -8.20
"Must I be ill be
coine to
for You
see me?
57795
"SPRING MADNESS
MAJE/TICI
THEATRE-
MATINEES. 2011: 3ÖKI VEHI
TODAY AND TOMORROW
A delightfully gay story of three beautiful girls who pooled their pennies and went places to
find out for themselves I MILLIONS OF GIRLS HAVE HAD THE SAME DREAM. only these bright-eyed lovelies do something about it!
Loretta
Joel YOUNG MCCREA
THREE BLIND "MICE
DAVID NIVEN STUART ERWIN
MARJORIE WEAVER PAULINE MOORE BINNIE BARNES JANE DARWELL
Drenched by Willan A Sele Bound an à play by Stephen Powys
Dari F Zanuck in Dings of Productta.
Smart clothes,
chance to be seen at the right places...that's all you need a bare. a millionaire at your ful Ab, romance! Ob, what fun!
20th Century Fox
Pictor
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
FAST-MOVING COMEDY REPLETE WITH LAUGHS I PARDON OUR NERVE "LINN BARY. JUNE GALE. MICHAEL WHALEN
"A" 10th ́ ́Century-Fox - Ficture
| MOON.-Chinese TV Moon, 14th
REHEARSALA-Hongkong Sing- ers, Union Church, Kennedy Road. 8.30 pm: HK Philhar- monic Society Orchestral | Sec- tion, at Seamen's Institute, 8.45
RELIGIOUS-St. Andrew's 'Church Fellowship of Youth, 5.30 p.m. SOCIAL-T MOLA... Whist⠀ Drive, | MEISTINGS, Fortnightly, tot
8.80 pm
Urban Counch, at Fost Office ROTARY MEETING. At Building. 4.15 p.m., St. Andrew's Your Hotel Roof Charden, 1 paz Church Mothers, Union 8 pm, SUNRISE 541 am SUNSETÄ Brownie Pack 330 pm, Church. 6.58 p.m. ko
|SPORTS-(See Page 2).
SUNRISE.--541--3am, SUNSET.- $0.59 pm at
TIDEB-High; at 00.07, and: 10.46.
Low at 0418 and 18:17:
TO-MORROW
MOON-Chinese TV Moon,
Day
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