HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
QUEENS
DAILY AT 230-315+7:2029-50 TEL 31453
⠀⠀ SHOWING TO-DAY
A THRILLING "GREAT. ZIEGFELD" ON ICE!-
THE
ICE FOLLIES
STARRING
JOAN CRAWFORD
with JAMES STEWART
DEW AYRES · LEWIS STONE
OF 1939
Stars! Romance) Musici Dailing ice spectacles! Cast of Thousands! M-G-M's show world
'sensation!
AND "THE INTERNATIONAL ICE FOLLIES"
}4 SHOWS
DARY 2.30-5.15 7.13-9.30
DAYS
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20NLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.
AN EXCITING, RAVISHING, DAZZLING PICTURE!
A show of laughter, song, and romance with a frisky flavour, the famous Tiller Girls and a hundred other beauties and noted specialty performers.
COLBERT ZAZA
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that ovat en that rackles,
ravishing women in love.....
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FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY
THE COMEDY OF LIFE IN NEW YORK NIGHT CLUBS!
Madeleine Carroll
"CAFE SOCIETY" Fred MacMurray.
MATINEES: 20%.-30c • EVENINGS: 20e.-30c.-50c.-70c.
DAILY
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Listen Darling
JUDY
FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW • GARLAND
Mary ASTOR - Walter PIDGEON ALAM HALE - SCOTTY BECKETT Dfrosted by EDWIN L. MARIN Produced by JACK CUMMINGS'
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THE YEAR'S LAUGH-RICH, SONG-KICH, THRILL-RICH HIT! Get-rich-quick McLaglen and spend-it-fast Donlevy battle it, out over Gracie Fields, the continent's song-and-comedy, queen, now, delighting. YOU A
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GRACIE FIELDS - VICTOR McLAGLEN
WE'RE GOING
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BRIAN DONLEVY
Today's Screenings
KING'SË
Hongkong
"Submarine Patrol"
QUEEN'SI
Ice Follies of 1999"
ORIENTAL:
"Zaza
CATHAY:
"We're Going To Be Rich"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"The Lady Fights Back'
STAR: "
"Listen, Darling”
MAJESTIC:
"Blackwell's Island¬
KING'S:
Coming
"The Lady Objects"
QUEEN'S!
"Legend Of Mang Keung"
ORIENTAL:
"Cafe Society”
"Border Town"
CATHAY:
"My Lucky Star"
ALHAMBRA:
"Ice Follies Of 1939) "For Love Or Money" STAR:
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"The Shining Hour"
"You're Only Young Once"
MAJESTIC: »1
"Sovlet Border”
"SUBMARINE
CINEMA & GENERAL
SHOWING AT QUEEN'S TO-DAY
Joan Crawford and Lewis Stone in "The Ice Follies of 1939"
FLYING FILM NEARING COMPLETION: MONTHS
OF PREPARATION
The Howard Hawks production, the final title of which is Only Angels Have Wings (formerly titled “Planë No. 4”) is in its final stages at the Columbia 'Studios.
Months of preparation and shooting hava gone into this Cary Grant-Jean Arthur vehicle, Tremendous sets-the largest in the world-were constructed for the background and locale. «
A complete, true-to-detail South; American banana port was bufit and placed under canvas.
Daring flying scenes, thrilling toj
PATROL" AT THE watch have been Almed despite
KING'S TO-DAY
Twentieth Century-Fox's "Sub- marine Patrol" opens to-day at the King's Theatre, which is: to say that one of the best pictures of the year has come to town. The audiences were treat ed to a genuine proof of the in
dustry's current slogan, "Motion
Pictures Are Your Best Enter- tainment," and by now the word must be spreading. The Picture deserves it.
ever present danger and hajardous risks. Other scenes, including breath-taking crackups, are to be filmed on location shortly, -
FILM TAX REMOVED
INDUSTRY'S PROTEST
SUCCEEDS
LONDON, June 22 (Reuter)
An impressive cast, which in- cludes, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth. Thomas Mitchell, Jöhn, Carroll, Allyn Joslyn, and many others, have worked for weeks to the House of Commons yesterday. make this picture one of Columbia'sir John Simon, Chancellor of the outstanding productions of the chequer, announced that he had decided to drop the proposed Excelse. Duty Howard Hawks, director and pro-
on cinematograph films. There
be ducer, famous for his ability to
minor
year.
of his greatest achievements.
would
This is a sequel to the strong
country, which threatened to pass on the increased film tax to their
Here is an amazing drama of siders Only Angels Have Wings one protest from the film fndustry of the tum out spectacular successes, con- adjustments to the customs duty. the strangest, most fll-assorted crew that ever manned in ight- ing ship-tue civilian oddi - - and ends aboard one of the Navy's flimsy cockshells of the "Splin- tér-Fleet.” The film is amazing both for the tale It tells and the fset that it has never been told before"
From Actress patrons or to curtall the length of
the progammes, to cut news flüss to the minimum and to produce. TX fewer films, thus putting thousands
To Aviatrix
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HEIGHTS"
GLADYS SWARTHOUT may be out of work the next glamour girl of the film The awe-inspiring glory that colony to turn aviatrix attends the big super-dread-But not till she finishes her naughts and the fast, sleek des current picture for Paramount troyers and cruisers has all but The studio made that plain to the obscured that branch of the ser- Metropolitan opera star after she vice that saw some of the most had taken her first" flying lesson perilous and exciting action of from Garland Lincoln, commercial | the War
pilot, in a Fairchild cabin mono- LARGE CROWD OF
George Bancroft, John Carra-plane near Topango canyon dine Joan Valerie and Henry recently d Armetta are also included in the Plane, pilot and pupil were fine cast. Darryl F. Zanuck" was all on location for the crime in charge of production, with thriller, "Ambush," in which Misa Gene Markey associate producer. Swarthout is featured" with. Lloyd | Rian James, Darrell Ware and Nolan. The impromptu lesson took Jack Yellen wrote the screen place between scenes," when the play from a book by Ray Milholartress expressed a long-felt wish land.
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FAMOUS PEOPLE AT PREMIERE IN LONDON“
Before
ons of the largest aissemblages of spofaltes, stage and . screaŃ celebrities, government offcials and foreign ambassadors -ever seen at a London premiere, Samuel Goldwyn's "Wather- Ing Helghts" starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven, opened to spi- rited audience response at the Gaumont Theatre, Lon don, recently.
N.
Sharing the spotlight with those who attended-were U. 8. Ambassador. Joseph P. Kennedy, Merle Oberon and James Roose- velt vice-president of Samuel Goldwyn Productions Aggie.
The reviews reminiscent of those which followed the recent New York premiere of the same picture, were highly, enthusiss- tie, praising all concerned in the making of the Emily Bronte classic.
NEW DANCE BY GINGER ROGERS
Reviving
one of
most
striking song and dance numbers that ever graced the American stage, Ginger Rogers will bring the screen Bessie McCoy's famous singing-dancing, mecialty" "Yama Tema Mah
The unusual routine will be an important Yeaħtre, of RKO Redio's: current_almusical, The Castles.” 10-starring Miss Rogers and Fred Astaire.
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