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THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY
"The
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SEE THEIR MAJESTIES IN AMERICA I Special Newsreel from "NEWS OF THE DAY" Rushed by Clipper for Exhibition in the Colony ! FRICES-STALLS 100 CIRCLE: 200 LOGE: 40
"BLACK WELL'S ISLAND" AT
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For the first time; the wall-nigh That alone would Incredible conditions existing at make the new nim both interest
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Girls' School”
QUEEN'S:
CINEMA & GENERAL
Theatre Week In Vienna
"You Can't Chest An Honest.
Man"
ORIENTAL:
"Arrest Bulldog Drummond”. CATHAY:
"The Royal Tour"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"The Lady Fights 'Back”. STAR:
Affairs Of Annabel"
MAJESTIC:
"Always Goodbye'
KING'S:
Coming
"Submarine Patrol"
QUEEN'S:
"Ico Follies Of 1939": “Légend-Of-Mang-Keung”
ORIENTAL:
"Zaza"
CATHAY:
"We're Going To Be Rich"
ALHAMBRA:
"Ice Follies Of 1939" "For Love Or Money" STAR:
"Listen, Darling” "The Shining Hour” MAJESTIC:
"Blackwell's Island” "Soviet Border"
LUISE RAINER
010
Luise
01 wealthy father, Rainer was taken by his travell- ing around the world, but when she was 15 the family fortune dis appeared, and a year later she be gan
the stage, appearing in Max Reinhardva productions Born in Vienna, Austria, "she" has brown hair and eyes and is 5 ft 3.Ins, in height. Her films include "Escapade," "The Great Ziegfeld," Emperor's Candlesticks,” "The Good Earth," "Big" "City, "Dramatic School," "The Great Waltz."""The Toy Wife" (knowin in England as "Frou Frou").
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ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS
JACK LONDON STORY
IS FILMED.
Lovely Jean Parker, who starred in PSequoia,” returns" " to the big timber country in her latest Columbia picture FRomance of the Redwoods." Charles Bickford is co-featur- ed with Miss Parken in the new film, which is based upon a famous Jack London story. "Romance of the Redwoods" is set against America's timber belt, the Pacific Northwest It is mild to be a beautiful Alm, possessed of all the breath-taking beauty of the backwoods country, with its great trees, its rivers and mil
towns."
"Romance of the Redwoods"" is primarily concerned with the emo- tions which struggle within the breast of one man a, rugged lumberjack, who is torn between friendship and love
The logger, admiring a young backwoods girl, watches her fall in love with the city-bred youth with whom he himself has formed a close friendship. When the boy accidentally dies, the lumberjack is accused and tried for tha murder.
He is freed, but his fellow- Joggers are unconvinced of his innocence. Their rejection of his frieady is terminated only with the onrush of a spectacular forest
the New York City jail on what ing and exciting, but it gains large and exceptionally well-
is now called Welfare Island be conside
bly more intere be lected cart, whi in additio
fore they were exposed and cor cause it presents John Carfeld, Garneld, ind Tected in 1934 are fully, vividly undoubtedly the screen "find" of as Ros narys Lane, and authentically depicted on the year, in
the screen in the Wamer Bros bad in
picture entitled Blackwell They
Claudette Colbert and Her-.- bert Marshal in “ZAZA” show- ing at the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
OPERA, MUSICAL COMEDY & PLAYS
Vienna, the capital of old "Austria, the city of musió and' zalety and the birthplace of so many front composers and autors, was chosen this ¡ycar for the annual German theatre festival.
The famous theatres and national buildings were deco- rated for the congress, which, KS - DARĀ,
was attended by several members of the Helch Government.
This annual cóngress is arranged with a view to bringing together the leading figures in the theatrical profession and representatives of the cultural departments of the Government to discuss the past year's work and make plan's for the new season. Dr. Goebbels, who is of all art and culture head
“ZAZA” AT THE organisations in Germany, was the
ORIENTAL
new
chlef speaker:
The programme included per- "Zaza," the daring story of the formances of opera, musical comedy private life of a French music and plays, illustrating the year's State Opera hall wench, is the
starring productions. The vehicle for Paramount's top ac-House and the Burgtheater gave tress, Claudette Colbert. It comes performances of Haendel's opera to the Oriental Theatre on Friday "Julius Caesar." Richard Strauss's "Day of Peace." and Wagner's and Saturday.
“Tannhaềuser." and the drama
י
As gay as the Edwardian. era Included Goethe's "Faust I,' and as sparkling as the cham-
Schiller's "Mary Stuart," and. pagne the night suppers." "Saza".
Shakespeare's "Richard tells a half-comic, half-tragic tale here was also one musical com- of the music hall darling's madedy and one light play. infatuation for a man of the upper]|
II.”
classes, her risking society's frown A number of visiting actors and for the sake of love and her actresses took part in the per- altimate disillusion. Herbert Mar-tormances The ensemble of the shall, Miss Colbert's screen sweet-Hamburg State Opera took part in heart for the first time, plays the "Jubus Caesar," and the Berlin suave "Dufresne" the man of so- guest players were to be seen in clety whose double life brings Faust I" the rest of the casts all tragedy to her sweetheart and came from the Viennis stage. A himself."
'ceremonial presentation was made Others in the all-star cast are to Richard Strauss, the composer, Including Bert Lar, Helen West who will be 75 this year, at the ley, Constance Collier, Genevieve performance of his opera "Day of Tobin and Walter Catlett,
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TOMORROW:
SUBMARINE PATROL
Richard Groses » Nancy Kelly
Geeega Bendreh• Silas Simmmerville › John Carradian. *** Joan Valeria › Hoary Jematha • J: Farrell MacCanada. Warren Mymer Dowglas Fowlay - Mazda Rovnakkonen
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ALHAMBRA
TODAY AND TOMORROW ROMANCE IN A MODERN ARCADIA !
STORY of ELEMENTAL LOVE
CROSSWORD
NO. 341
The
LADY
FIGHTS BACK
SATURDAY
M.G.M
with
KENT TAYLOR. IRENE HERVEY NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
„JUAN CRAWFORD JAMES STEWART "THE ICE FOLLIES OF 1989" with "INTERNATIONAL ICE FOLLIES"
8 Flower (7)
9 Egg-
shapes (5)
11 Disclosed
(4)
12. At that
place (5)
14 Inclined (5))
15 Trial (5) 17 Delayed (4) 19 Insurrec-
tion (6)
21 View (6)
24 But this (4)" 27 Foremost
-- (5)
29
Gathering (5)
33.4
31 Crevasse
(5)
20
PICTURE
24:23
32 Pind «(4) " 33 Better (5).
Perform- ances (5)
18 Grain (4)
20 Sculls (4).
6 Sweet pro
22 Hooter (5).
34 Weariness
35 Decease
DOWN
2 Opposita
(7)
3 Fruit (5)
4 Jewel (6)
duct (5)
7 Fut of (5)
10 Charm (5)
13 Stringed.
trument
16 Fasten up
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
23: Gather (7) 25 Male T
lation (8)
26 Deride (5} 27 - Entertain...
ment. (6) 28 Likeness
(5)
Living (5)
ISTARE
tor Jory and Dick
Conw
stup this picture: Perz
MORROW!
and it's played to the hilt
Island," which opens to-day at its the Majestic Theatre.
FINAL SHOWINGS
MAJESTIC
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
A GREAT HEART-DRAMA FIRED BY INSPIRED
BARBARA
PERFORMANCES !
STANWYCK
"Shala Dalick for of be great
HERBERT
MARSHALL
most inspired dramatic par
Always
Goodbye
JAN HUNTER CESIN BOWERS LENK BARI
BUTE LES MLN BISSELL
AND
SATURDAY
KAFFAIRS OF ANNABEL
LISTEN DARLING
TOMORROW
THRILLING GANGSTER DRAMA FULL OF ACTION
JOHN GARFIRED BLACKWELL'S ISLAND
ROSEMARYALA
Bensations
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