HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
KOWLOON
HONG KON
47 950-315:7-20-930 RM
AT 230-520-720 & 950 PML
SHOWING TO-DAY
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A Big Parade of love, laugh- ;
ter, spectacle, music.......
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IN SACRIFICENT
TECHNI-
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JEANETTE
HELSON
MACDONALD EDDY
VICTOR HERBERT'S
SWEETHEARTS
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
VICTOR BERBENT
Love Songs
· Prog Ás A Picture"
**Sarotkaarta"
ne more?
FRANK MORGAN WAY BOLGES FLORENCE "RICE MISCHA ABER HERMAN BING ZEROZALI CAEDMEN
photographed im Tackin]owler!!
NOTE-This Picture Will Not Be Shown Again in Hong
Kong for at least Six Months.
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AT THE QUEEN'S SWING, SISTER SWING” Kon Murray- Johnny Downs New Universal Picture
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THE SISTERS
BETTE
DAVIS
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Wallace
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ELIZABETH BERGNER
in
CATHERINE THE GREAT
with
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JB.
TO-MORROW
M.G.M. Picture
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STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY
BLOCKHEADS
BEULAH BONDI SIGNED UP BY
COLUMBIA
Benian Bond was selected by the romantic leads, while Edward Columbia for one of the principal Arnold, Guy Kibbes, Claude Rains characters In the new Frank and Eugene Pallette will also be Capra, picture, Mr. Smith Goeg to seen in leading parts," Washington.
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'
Miss Bondi will enact the role is based on a story by Lewis R. of "Ma ́ Banith mother of James Foster entitled "The Gentleman Stewart Jean Arthur and James from Montana. It was, prepared Stewart were recently engaged for for the screen by Bidney Bachman
Today's Screenings
KING'S.
Hongkong
"Garden Of The Moon" QUEEN'S:
'Sweethhearts”
ORIENTAL:
"The Sisters"
CATHAY:
"Kentucky Moonshine"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA.
"Sweethearts"
'STAX.
"Catherine The GreatTM MAJESTIC:
"The Shining Hour"
KING'S.
Coming
"Valley Of The Giants" QUEEN'S:
"Swing, Bister, Swing"
ORIENTAL:
"Stablemates"
"King Of Gambler"
CATHAY:
"Hitting A New High"
"A Family Affair"
ALHAMBRA:
"The Angel" STAR:
"Block-Heads” "Mannequin"
MAJESTIC:
· "The Bisters*-
CINEMA & GENERA
JOSEPH CALLEIA'S ROLE
IN "GOLDEN BOY"
Joseph Callela, prominent character
actor
and feature
player, has been engaged for the important role of "Fuselli". In Columbia's forthcoming pletare version of Chifford Odets' 'In- ternationally successful stara play “Golden Boy".
With young William Holden; selected for the title role, after
virtually a year's search for a
suftable player for the part: Bar- bara Stanwyck as the feminine star and Adolphe Menjou and. Bam Levene in feature parts, Director Rouben Mamoultan is all set to start shooting within the next few days.
Going to England from Malta, where he was born, Mr. Calleta soon gained fame as an actor on the English stage and as a concert | singer. Several years later he came to New York and appeared in many successful Broadway musical and dramatic stage productions.
3 YEARS WILL
DECIDE FATE
OF EUROPE
Mr. Lloyd George Gloomy Picture
The European haus will be decided one way or another within three years, declared Mr. Lloyd Georgs in the House of Commons on May 8 during the debate on Labour's amend- ment to the motion for the second reading of the MINtary Training Bill
His first important role in pic- tures was in "Public Hero No.1" then followed feature roles in such pictures" as "Rifras." "Exclusive Story," "Tough Guy." "Robin Hood of El Dorado." "Sworn. Edemy,"
Mr. Lloyd George painted "After the Thin Man" and many gloomy picture, maintaining that other films. More recently he was without the help of Russia the seen in "Sinner Take All," "Man guarantees to Poland, Rumania, the People." "Bad Man of and Greece were the most reckless Brimstone," "Marie Antoinette" commitments into which and "Algiers,'
**
any country had ever entered. Con- sidering the great gap between the
A number of Tibetan youths are forces on the other side and the undergoing rigorous training in forces at our command, it was mad- Lanchow in preparation for activeness to decide to build up 200,000 war-time services. Tibetan women conscripts in leisurely instalments in Hslaho, in west Kansi, it is of 50,000, learned, will form a "comfort" party to visit the soldiers at the front
GARY COOPER ON DRAWING
ROOM CLOTHES
WEAR WHAT `IS COMFORTABLE
PATRIOTIC SCHOOL
CHILDREN KWEIYANG, May 24 (Central)
student
Patriotism among the class in Kwelchow has risen to a new height as a result of the ad- mirable examples set by several of them in serving the country.
He also stressed the menace to our Eastern Empire from Japan. which had marched 2000 miles nearer the frontiers of India, since the present Government came into power.
LOANS TO FILM COMPANIES
Probable Terms Of Settlement
The recent case brought by the Westminster Bank against 15
Gary Cooper says that be feels perfectly at home in any
Two middje school students, insurance companies, including drawing room if he can just Wen Yu-ming and Jun Sung-kao, two insurance-firms in China, in wear his high heeled boots. and three primary school pupils respect of loans made to film com
"Drawing rooms always 16- Tan Liang-tsing, Tal Klu-kwel pantes has aroused.great interest mind me of the dressed up and Yang Chu-chen in Tenchu, in in the City.` pictures I've made. Every
east Kwelchow near the Hunan time I sat down" there'd be border, recently asked for permis-tlement were not announced, it is Although the terms of the-sec- half a dozen wardrobe wrang- ston to enlist in the Chinese army believed that the bank consented to lers bustling around keeping. to nght the Japanese. A rousing pay over to the insurance com the press in my pants.
send-off was given them by the pantes a sum of around £20,000. "That's just one reason why I've people in the town when they left enjoyed working In The Cowboy to join the fighting service. and the Lady': for Samuel Gold- wyn, because Merle Oberon wore the Sincheng Primary School in Li Fen, an 8-year-old pupil of
This amount represents nearly half the interest paid to the bank
on its loan of approximately
all the fashionable clothes, while Tsunyi, in northern Kweichow, re- £1,000,000
I was allowed to stick to my riding cently pants, and flannel shirts,
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1;
"No matter how elegant the fend for the purchase of a plane Panies involved amounts drawing room of the set, I could to be christened as
sit down and be comfortable.
"Chinese
donated $10, representing that the loss to the insurance com- It can therefore be calculated This candy money saved, towards a
in the aggregate to more than £900,000.
Such a gure can be calculated by deducting from the total sum insured the inital premium of 5 per cent. less commission and
Children."
"Maybe somebody will start TAIL wearing
boots regularly.....
with pants that are slim like
cowboy's without any crease. In clothes is when there's nobody the bank's £20,000 contribution. Maybe I could be that somebody around to see them.
since those Faris tallors picked! "I'm no clothes" reformist and
me-of all people-as one of those I don't mean to set styles although DIARY OF LOCAL
so-called "best dressed' fellows some women copied the costumes
FREEDOM OF DRESS
I wore in Marco Polo. I'd just
"Men, have arranged freedom like to wear what is comfortable in every other line of life, ercept and gives me the least trouble.
EVENTS
-TO-DAY "-
that they've overlooked the only even it I have to be lonesome to ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. time that they can be really free do it."
CROSSWORD
NO. 320
ACROSS
1: Discount
(8)
4 Animals (6)
18 Limb (3)
9 Shelves (6)
11 Keen (8)
12 Backbone.
(5)
13- Closer (6)
16 Perfume (5)
18 Docile (4)
19-Ul-used (8)
23 Crucial
point (6)
25 Ireland (4)
23 Category,
(5)
29 Irritate (6)
31 Malice (8)
33. Cumming (6)
(B)
34 Quiet (8)
35 Organ of
hearing (3)
(a)
30 Reliable 37 Pure (6)
DOWN Bölten (61 Med house
3 Those bera
14
12.
124
$25.26
30
5 Way out (6) 6. Bimmered
TA Fix (5)
10 Branches
14: Consume
15 Brings up
17 Measure
"4 Legume (4)
Spill (8Y SOLUTION ON MUNDAY
21 Hog (3)
22 Morsels (6)
23 Noble
manxion (6) Gave ont
(6)
Black
birds (6) 27 Cuddle un
90 Horse's cry
32 Disport (4)
→St. Bede.
AUCTIONS."
SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1939.-PAGE 5
MAMATORY
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 510, 7:35 AND 9.30 PM.
"“TES 15 Crimesca Fathe
MOOSE YOU, PŘETTENS OF THE BEN PÅSTORES....
GARDEN OF THE MOON
Savondly VARJUN SUNG,-Kning.
PAT O'BRIEN JOHN PAYNE MARGARET LINDSAY
JOR VENUTI and bi SWING, ATS-Johnnie Doria - Jury Celestate.
~JIMMIE FIDLER
Also Travelogue in Technicolour HOLLANDERS"
TO-MORROW Warner Bros. Picture
780.,8.30
"VALLEY OF THE GIANTS"
TER SUPREME TRIVETE OF TECERIDOLOUR with WAYKE MORRIS
CLAIRK TREVOR
MAJESTIC
THEATRE »
MAINEES. 20.30 EVBOKS 23 NSDC)
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
THE YEAR'S FINEST CAST IN THE YEAR'S MOST DARING ROMANCE !
* She danced...ON MEN'S HEARTS!
Joan'i'a dancing bride and soul-stabbing drama follows in her gay footstepaf Da Ing love adventure glorified by the Year's Star Cast['
CRAWFORD Margaret SULLAVAN
ROBERT
MELVIN
YOUNG DOUGLAS
TABANTER
Shining Hour
Frank Bezugs Production
Sarees Play by
Jane Marfin and Ogden Wash Flags: Directed by Frank Borsego
Pendtied by Josepå L. Mankiewicm
TO-MORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY
Great Cast
Great Story Great Picture ! ! !
ERROL FLYNN Household Furni-
BETTE DAVIS
at 134 Austin Road, first floor, Kowloon, 10.30, a.m.
BAZAARE.. Chinese Methodist Church Hall, Hennessy Road, 11
a.m"
| CINEMAS.—(See Column 3 of this
Page),
DANCES. - Kowloon
Bowling
Green Club Flannel Dance, 9 p.m. LECTURES,Mr. Peter V. Ross on "Chritalan Science," at European YMCA West Lounge, 4.30 p.m.; ARF at Yaumati: Government School. 3 pm MALLS(See Pege 16). MISCELLANEOUS.
Claims against the Estates of John Lambert Thomson, and Florence Nicholls, due; "At Home" and Distribution of Prizes for Bad- minton Winners, in the grounds of St. Andrew's Vicarage, from 4.15 pm.
MOON-Chinese TV Moon, 9th.
Dây
SPORTS (See Page 2).
| BUNRISE.-—=5.40 a.m." SUNSET..
7.01 p.m.
TIDES.High at 04.03 and 1457.
Low at 08.09 and 22.02.
Solution No 319
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"THE SISTERS"
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