HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Today's
UEENS Screenings
DAILY AT 230-515·7-2089:30 TEL 3155
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY STARS OF "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS"
TRACY ROONEY
MICKEY
in their greatest hit! Drama that packs
BOYS TOWN
HENRY
LESLIE
with
GENE
'HULL - FENTON · REYNOLDS
TO-MORROW
laughter and tears' ...a mighty wallop at your heart!
"SAINT STRIKES BACK"
BKO Picture • GEORGE SANDERS WENDY BARRIE
4 Sexows
DARY
TAKE AMY Tram on Happy VALLEY BUB
ORIENTAL
ROAD
WANONAI
TEL. 20472
SPECIAL FOR TODAY ONLY! RETURN ENGAGEMENT
"LAST SEASON'S MOST OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION!
The story of a romantic rogue from the Paris underworld
who became ruler of France for ene glorious week. PRESENTED BY A CAST OF OVER 2000 PLAYERS!
RONALD GOLMAN, genten d remantle Hors, es Francois Viden, poetragen who dured in lore the faire body in frames!
Flaming Adventure
Glorious Romance!
Adalyà Zukur pesonate
RONALD COLMAN.
la FRANK LLOYD'S
“IF I WERE KING"
A Paramount Pancet wide Frances Dee' Basil Rathbone Das Drew C.V. Francs - Himacy Wilesson. Produced and Directed by Food Linyd
2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & THURSDAY
ALEXANDER KORDA'S MASSIVE PRODUCTION!
.. LONDON PAZY) predom
HA ALEKANDER KORDA
PRODUCTION
BARRY K.
BARNES-
The RETURN of the SCARLET PIMPERNEL
SOME SIEWAKT MARGARETTA SCOTT
JAMES MASON
ag the kay M BONES GAELI
Tome 4UANDER ROADA and ANMOLO PRI SIRALAGA E Card by ml). SCITA ANTZ
STARTING FRIDAY
THE BIGGEST PICTURE IN SCREEN, HISTORY! FIRST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES!
"THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD'
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MATINEES: 20c.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30.-50c.-70c. •|
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.
CATHAY
DAILY AT 2.30.5.15.7.20, &9.30.P.M. MATINEES -30% 20%, 40%. EVERINGS-204 306. 10. 20% 80%, Presenting the Best Pictures from the Leading Producers: M.G.M. R.K.O. RADIO - 20th CENTURY FOX
ONE DAY ON THE THIRD OF THE OLD FAVOURITES" OF
DOM-G-MT REVIVAL WEEKE
ONE DAY ONLY! TO-DAY
MUSIC AND MADNESS AND GIRLS AND GUFFAWS!
Orducho Chico
MARX BROS.
ADAY at the RACES
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
Swing tunes Sing tunes 1 Dancers 1. Romancers Heroes!: Villains Race Horses Clothes Horses! Girla Galore! Tip-top Musical core1 Big Time Entertainmenti
*** The FOURTH of the "Old Favourites"
TOMORROW": BT of MG-M's Revival Week:
x2
Norms Shearer & Leslie Howard in ROMEO & JULIET ” THU. Laurel & Hardy as Twins Brothers in “OUR RELATIONS"
·FEL Lobert Taylor & Margaret Snilayan in "8 COMRADES? SAT.Jeanett MacDonald & Nelson Eddy in "MAYTIME".
B
KING'S.
Hongkong
"King Of The Tur"
QUEEN'S:
"Boys' Town”.
ORIENTAL:
"If I Were King”
CATHAY:
"A Day At The Races"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA,
"A Girl With Ideas
STAR-
CINEMA & GENERAL
"The Private Life of Henry
VII"
MAJESTIC:
"Kidriapped"
KING'S
Coming
"Secrets Of An Actress"
"Just Around" The Corner"
QUEEN'S:
"Saint Strikes Back"
ORIENTAL:
"The Return Of Scarlet Pim.
pernel"
"The Adventures or Robin Hood"
CATHAY:
"Romeo And Juliet"
"Our Relations"
ALHAMBRA:
"The Frontiersman”
STAR:
"Roman Scandals" "Roberta"
-MAJESTIC:
"You're Only Young Once"
"KING OF THE TURF" AT THE
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" is the most elaborate screen production of the year, showing at the Oriental Theatre on Fri- day, Saturday, Sunday and Mon day. This is a Technicolor film and has a huge cast headed by Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havil land and Basil Rathbone.
Georgia Caine Joins Cast Of Gone With The Wind
GEORGIA CAINE, WHO BECAME FAMOUS in the title role of The Merry Widow on Broadway before the World War, and whose soldier relief work during the war is remembered gratefully by veterans, has been signed for a role in Selinick International's technicolor production Gone with the Wind, which Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer will release.
Miss Caine will play the part of a motion picture entitled. Soak Mrs." Merriwether, one of the the Rich.
Atlanta matrons who made life In the cast was a talented young difficult for Scarlett O'Hara in the player, Mary Taylor. production that stars Clark Gable, Hecht, now in Hollywood. is the Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard and author of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Olivia de Havilland, directed by Lady of the Tropies, starring Victor Fleming.
Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr.
A native of San Francisco, Miss
In the picture, Taylor has "a
KING'S TODAY Cune appeared on the stage when flancee, a millionaire's daughter.
Adolphe Menjou, star of some of last season's most notable screen successes, and Roger Daniel, al- ready being hailed as the juvenile screen" find of the year, head the cast of Edward Small's new roman- tie film drama, “King of the Turf,!"" which will be screened at the King's Theatre to-day.
Small also hand-picked a sup- porting cast to assist his top players including Alan Dinehart, Dolores Costello, Walter Abel, Wi- Mam Demarest, Harold Huber, George McKay and Tom ́ Hanlon.: "King of the Turf" was directed by Alfred E Green who recently directed the successful hit. "The Duke of West Point "
In order to reproduce faithfully and authentically the many aspects of the far-flung race track busi- ness, Producer Small sent to the far corners of the country for men who could be counted on to make his picture entirely true to life in the eyes of the millions of mo- tion picture fans who are well acquainted with the racing game.
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DOWN: 1, Crown, 7, Ring. 3, Etna. 4, Tube. 5, North. 6, Far- tridges. 9, Disclosure. 11, Reverte 12. Dungeon. 14. Dress. 15, Terse. 21. Mouse. 23. Heir 25, Nuts, 26, Amen,
**THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD"
The world's biggest motion ple ture "The Adventures of Robin Hood" first time showing at popu lar prices at the Oriental Theatre, commencing on Friday, for an en- gagement of four days, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia'de. Havil-'
land in the roles
Rich in lore is the
story
of how a Saxon noble, Sir Robin. of Locksley, the ablest archer in all England, gathered a band of stalwarts around him to harass the cruel Norman knights: How the outlawed Robin Hood plunder- ed the rich and fed the poor has been sung and re-sung in ballads and has come down through the centuries--an incomparably fas cinating story
The picture contains no end of. battling with bows and arrows, quarter-staffs, pikes and broad- swords and has a particularly thrilling duel between Robin and Sir Guy, Immense scenic sets were bullt for The Adventures of Robin Hood described as the most elaborate aim of the year. It is accompanied by a superb musical score composed by Erich Wolgang Korngold.
a child, and at 15 was a regular member of her father's troupe...
Lady Of The Tropics
The search for the girl friend was a trying one until Hecht had an inspiration. He recalled Mary Taylor, the studio sent for her and tested her
Back in the days when he was alm producer with Charles And now she is the girl whom MacArthur, Ben Hecht turned out Taylor its to marry Hedy Lamarr,
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS Under- neath (5)
5. Mopes (5)
8 Allow (5)
> Poets (5)
10 Weight (5) 11 Military
body (6)
12 Not fresh
(6)
18, Novel (3) 20 Artists's
room (6)
21 Joined to
(8)
23 Endeavour
(2)
24 Noble (5)
27 Metal (5) 30 Tender (6) 31 Precious
stone (5)
32 Follow on
(5)
33 Bird of
prey (5)
34 Gloss (5)'' 35 Live in (5)
****DOWN
1 Infants (5) 2 Insect
DAILY
2:30
stage (5)
3 Scrap (5)
4' Place upon (6)
5 Halts (5)
6. Spear "(5)
7 Page: (5)
13 Teacher (5).
14 Loaded (5)
16 Tooth (5)
17 Vegetables
(8)
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939. —PACE
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
P.M.
· SHOWING~÷TODAY' " AT "2.38.
A great actor plays his fin- est role, the portrait of s father as mighty in its emo tional pull as the portrait of the mother in "Stella Dallas”.
EDWAED SMALL
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ADOLPHE MENJOU
KING
of the TURF
DOLORES COSTELLO - ROGER DANIEL WALTER ABBL - ALAN DINEHART HAROLD HUMBER • WILLIAM DEHAREST
Also Colour Novelties 'UNUSUAL OCCUPATION"
MEXT CHANGE "SECRETS OF AN ACTRESS"
KAY FRANCIS
Warner Bros: Picture
with
GEORGE BRENT
ALHAMBRA
NATUAN RO, KOWLOON ORILY AT 2,30-3170-750 & 950 FILELIS AS DO
TODAY AND TOMORROW
CRUSADE SMASHED OPEN BARRIERS
HER PAPER'S
THURSDAY:
328.
A Paramount
Picture
BOLUTION TO-MORKOW
180
..
16
127
128
18 Negative
(3)
19 Direction (3)
23. Shelter, (6)
24 Barriers (5) 25 Fruit (5) 20 Twelve (5) 27: Stock (5) 28 Church
path (6))
29 Purloin
ROAD
ISTARE
TO MORROW
TODAY ONLY
LONDON. FILMS
present
577.95
Charles LAUGHTON
The Private Life of HENRY VII
"ROMAN SCANDALS"
to reveal
the man
she lovedi
WENDY BARRIE WALTER PIDGEON - KENT: TAYLOR DOROTHEA KENT » GEORGE BARBIER 'A NEW UNIVERSAL FICTURE :
WILLIAM
GIRL with IDEAS
..in
BOYD
"THE FRONTIERSMAN"
MAJESTIC
ETHEATRES
MARINEES 20%* NI VEIK
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
A NEW TRIUMPH IN BIG-PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT!
THE STIRRING STORY OF LOVE AND ADVEN. TURE THE AUTHOR OF "TREASURE ISLAND" ALWAYS CONSIDERED HIS BEST!...on the sareen for the first time!
20th Century Fox Picture
Robert Louis Stevenson's
Kidnapped
with of east of 5,000 featuring - WARNER VASE FREDDIE
BAXTER BARTHOLOMEW ARLEEN WHELAN C. AUBREY SMITH - REGINALD OWEN JOHN CARRADINE NIGEL BRUCE - MILES MANDER RALPH FORBES HLB WARNER
Duected by Alfred Worker BOU Decryl Canuck in Charge of Production
TOMORROW ONE DAY ONLY The Second Picture of the PopularJudge Hardy's Family Beret Brought Back by Public Demind
YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE
CKEY BOONEY LEWIS STONE CECILIA PARK
*Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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