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"Hard To Get
KING'S:
IN THE LIVES OF BEAUTIFUL NURSES!
QUEEN'S:
Girls in White
with FLORENCË RICE. UNA MERKEL
ANN RUTHERFORD, MARY HOWARD. ALAN MARSHALL
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
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CARY GRANT
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VICTOR MOLAGLEN
RKO Picture
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7.15-830
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"Four Girls In White"
ORIENTAL.
"The Duke of West Point"
CATHAY:
CINEMA & GENERAL
Helen Gilbert, Hollywood's
New Cinderella
Hollywood's new Cinderella has broken the fee. With no „dramatic training and without ever betere facing a motion pie- ture camera, except once for a screen test, she has played her first scene and, has been adjudged “Sensational,"
She is petite blonde Helen Gübert; who played a 'sello in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's recording orchestra, before anybody ever. looked twice at her.
Now she plays the leading Dyte and others in the company. feminine role as Mickey Rooney's But not. Miss." Gilbert. She' re- dramatics teacher (without any hearsed the scene once without
"Peck's Bad Boy With The dramatic training for herself) in missing a cue or a word. Threa
“Circus"
"Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever." | "takes" were filmed and her per- Also, it is the biggest feminine formance was flawless. Her voice, role in any of the Hardy series." [the voice of a cultured person, was
The story of Helen Gilbert goes soft and low.
Kowloon
'ALHAMBRA:
"Ben-Hur"
STAR:
"Magnificent Obsession" MAJESTIC:
"The Lady Objects"
KING'S:
Coming
The Three Musketers” QUEEN'S;
"Gunga Din".
ORIENTAL:
"Four Daughters” *King Of The Underworld" CATHAY:
"Submarine Petrol" ALHAMBRA:
"Chunga Din"
CLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY STAR
A THRILLING STORY WILL KEEP YOUR PULSE POUNDING YOUR EYES SHINING., FROM BEGINNING TO THE END!
THE DUKE OF WEST POINT
LOUIS HAYWARD RICHARD CARLSON
TOM BROWN JOAN FONTAINE
2
DAYS
ONLY
TOMORROW — SATURDAY
A BRILLIANT, HUMAN, HEART-WARMING- THRILLING STORY!
Four Daughters
PRISCILLA LANE - ROSEMARY LANE LOLA LANE - GALE PAGE CLAUDE RAINS JOHN GARFIELD JEFFREY LYNN-DICK FORAN Frack McHugh May Robson Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ
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TOMMY KELLY
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PECKS BAD BOY
With the CIRCUS"
ANN GILLIS - EDGAR KENNEDY
DILLY GILBERT. BENITA MUNE
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[RKO RADIO Picture
► TO-MORROW & SATURDAY—2 DAYS ONLYA The Great Story Never Before Told Of Navy's Splinter Fleet
Richard Greena "SUBMARINE PATROL
Nancy Kolly
"Straight Place And Show" MAJESTIC:
“Garden Of The Moon"
"HARD TO GET" AT THE KINGS
Dick Powell and Olivia de Havil- land, an entirely new romantic duo, are', teamed in the leading roles of "Hard To Get," a breezy, fast-moving comedy with many farcical complications, produced by Warner Brothers, which opens to-
day at the King's Theatre.
Screen Test
back six months ago when W. S "You're okay.” Van Dyke assured Van Dyke I was directing “Sweet-her. "If we fall down on this. hearts.". In the front row of the picture don't let it discourage you, recording orchestra be noticed the You' click in others because pretty blonde musician.
you've got something." "
"One
of the most amazing things I've experienced in my forty "Have you ever had & screen years of acting."
sald Stone. "Here, after forty years, I still get She had not. and he urgently jittery and sometimes miss my. advised her to get one. He had lines, but not not even asked her name, and acted before in her life, but she forthwith he forgot her
test?" he asked her.
that girl. Never
Was she nervous?
Six months passed, "Andy Hardy has all the confidence and self- assurance that many old-timers Gels Spring Fever" entered produc- wish they had.” Hon with one difficult casting pro- blem unsettled. In the story is the character of Rose Meredith, Andy Hardy's high school dramatică I was at the studio at 6.30 this teacher who inspires Andy to write morning. I haven't even had any- a play and with whom Andy falls thing to eat and here it is noon."
in love, even to the serious stage of the 17-year-old boy proposing marriage to her,
"No I wasn't,? "said Miss Gilbert, "but I was excited, so excited that
Secret Ambition
Miss Gilbert became a 'cellist The picture was in production a when she was ten years old. She werk when the "front office” tele- | sdmits that in, the back of her phoned to Van Dyke on the set.. | head she has had the thought that
Dramatics Teacher
some day she would like to be an actress. Yet, at no time, did she "We've got the girl to play
ever do anything about it or Mickey's dramatics teacher," Van
divulge her secret ambition. Dyke "was told.
"Who is she?" the director asked "Helen Gllbert," he was told. "Never heard of her. what can she do?"
"She can play a 'cello."
"But this character doesn't know how to play a cello," Van Dyke
said. "Can she act?".
"She's never faced a camera-but her test was terrific."
"Better send her down here so I can have a look at her." Van Dyke suggested.
The name of Dick Powell means, of course, that there is some music in the production, but it is far from being a musical picture of the routine type, for. Dick sings When Helen Gilbert arrived on only two songs and they are both the stage, Van Dyke remembered Iritroduced plausibly into the action her as the girl he had advised to of the piece.
Ket a screen tešť, Besides. Dick and Olivia, the Her Brst scene was with the other important members of the stage and screen veteran, Lewis cast and it is to be noted that Stone, along scene with lengthy. they're all expert comedians dialogue in which Stone, as Judge Include Charles Winninger, Allen Hardy, implores the girl, not to Jenkins, Bonita Granville, Mel-hurt his son. Ville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Penny
Slightly. Nervous, Singleton, Grady Sutton and Before the scene, Stone was Thurston Hall.
slightly nervous, So were. Van
Then suddenly, without any dramatic experience whatever, a lucky star descends upon her and she becomes a 'featured actress un- der long-term contract overnight. "And, of all things, as a drama- tics teacher." said Miss Gilbert.
COMING EVENTS
AUG.
2.1.
Tides! High 10.40 a.m, Low) 6.05
Sunrise 5.55 am. Sunset 1.03 p.m. YMCA, Mahjongg for Beginners 10 am. Mag Whist 830 pm
T
HK. T's Men's Club Meeting, St. Francis Hotel 1 pm Speaker: DI
"China's Industries.” Cheero Club Contract Bridge B p.m.
T. Wong
Land Sale at Lammert's 3 pm St. Andrew's "Open Night" 9 p.m. Bt. Andrew's Boy Scouts Mig. 8 p.m. 4-Tides: High 12.08 sm. and 11.10 am. Low 25.05 am, and 6.69 p.m.
Sunrise 5.56 am Sunset 7.08 p.m. "Navsl Court Martini . co HMS. Tamer 10 am.
Troopship Dilwara due
Helena May Institute entertain- ment to Missionaries.
YMCA. "Keep Fit" Class 10.30 ain. Badminton 8.30 pm.; Mixed
WE HOPE YOU WILL NOT STOP HALF WAY" Swimming 6 p
Prominent Chinese Sends
Message To Roosevelt
DR. TSENG YU-HAO PROMINENT CHINESE JURIST AND EDUCATOR, HAS SENT A MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT IN RESPONSE TO US. GOVERNMENT'S DENUNCIATION OF THE 1911 TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION WITH JAPAN.
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Dr. Tsong is founder of the South China College, Kowloɑn, author of several books on Anglo-Chinese laws, over ten years chief justice of the provincial high courts at Anking and Lata- chow, and a former student of Columbia and Johns Hopkina Universities, U.S.A., with some 20 other Ph. D's and LLD,'s from American institutions of higher learning.
The message saysThe report
of your Government's notification
of abrogating the Japan-American
Treaty of 1911; it effectively cairt-
EXPLORER
ed out, may yet save over four FINDS NEW
hundred million inhabitants from
falling further to new disorder
of rape, piracy, pillage, incen- darism, demolition, blackmail,
ANIMALS4
kidnap, devastation, cannibalsmi, Fifteen, new mammals and 20 mass slaughter and reigns of ter-new plants are announced ror which will not ayold your own having been discovered in British countrymen It not prevented in New Guinea by a scientific expedi due time.
tion led by an American scientist.
"We hope that you will not stop halfway: You have not approved either the European' or Asiatic Munich prostrations. before Might. We believe that your present Oriental poller is a national one and sustatón of no party differences,
A Strong China
After travelling 40,000 miles to Dutch New Guinea and Australia and back, and spending 700 hours in the air, Mr. Archbold" arrived at New York in the flyingboat Guba.
The machine was chartered by, the Australian Government for a fight via the India Ocean to test the possibility of an alternative Australia-England-route în an
To help building China, a strong emergency, and independent state is not only
Land Sale (D.O. South) 11 s.m.
St. Andrew's Med. Working Party 10 ..
5-Tides: High 12.23 a.m. and 11.40 la_m. Low 646 am, and 6,90 p.m.
Sunrise: 5.56 a.m. Bunset: 7.02 p.31 All-Cycling Meeting at Caroline
HO
YMCA, Launch Picnic 230 p.m.
Wedding at Cathedral Horder-
3 p.m... St. John's,
Bolton
REO CA. Flannel Dance 8.30 pm. Equine Sports Club Cavalcade, to Bishopa Path,
{p.m.
Tides: High 12.49 am and 12,13
Low 630 am, and 6.58 p.m. Sunrise 3.56 a.m. Bunset 7.02 p.m. 7 Equine Sports Club Carricade to Orchard.
Lawn Bowls Interport Trial 3.30 |p.m.
7-St. David's Society Launch Pic- nte 2.15 pm
All-Cycling, iceting at
Caroline
8-Piring Practice from Stonecut- ters 6 pm-midnight,
Rotary Club Tin Mtg, HE Hotel 1.pm
་ ་
Crown Land Sale (PWD) 3 p.m. 10-Picing Practice from Stonecut- tex 8 p.m. to midnight.
HKT Men's Club M
Meg.. Francis Hotel 1 pm,
st,
11-Crown
in Land Sale (DO. Bouth)
11 ára..
14-HK and Shanghai Bank. Hal-
Yearly Interim Dividend payable,
Crown Land Bale, PWD3 pm. 13 Crown Land Sale DO. North. Talpo) 11.30 am;
16-8X Land Investment and Agency. Ltd. Interim Dividend pay- able
17-Star Fary Co., Ltd. Interim' Dividend payable.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939. -PAGE
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Dick Powell
Olivia D.Havilland
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* LADY UBJECTS
THE
LANNY ROSS GLORIA STUART
A COLUMBIA PIC
TOMORROW AND SATURDAY GARDEN OF THE MOON
WARNER BROS. MUSICAL HIT F
18-HK Tramways. Ltd., Interim History Of Theatre
Dividend payable.
Team
Race.
23–Area – Half-Mils swimming) Stonecutters 11 330 p.m. 20res Marathon Team Race (Ewuming) Repulse Bay 3 p.m.
FIRING PRACTICE Leaving San Diego, California, Firing practice will be carried your aim or that of Woodrow Will-on June 3 last year the expedition out from Stonecutters Island be- son: members of your opposition flew across the Pacific to Holtween the hours of 6.30 p.m. and the Borahs or the Houvers, when ardia, Dutch New Guinea. For 12 mid-night to-day.
in power, stood firm against acts nearly a year the Guba transpor- 12
of aggression to Cathay.
ted supplies to a number of scen- "We trust that by now you and tific ground parties in Hollandia,
A New Bird
your people have realized the flying over treacherous mountain the throat, hitherto unknown settlement of 60,000 natives, using meaning of Tanaka's inscript that regions to the interior. the conquest of China is but the
stone Implements, who had never first step toward the domination }; During hig 1.600ft ascent of been a white man. over other parts of the globe Mount Wilhelmina Mr. Archbold Mr. Archbold is Research As America cannot be safe for Demo- found a bird, slightly larger than soclate in Mammalogy at the cracy until East Asia is safe for a sparrow, with a blucish-black American Museum of Natural Republicaniam **
body and liant red patch on History A
In Gay Nineties
ENTERTAINING FILM AT THE MAJESTIC TO-DAY Music, and comedy are the tw basic ingredients of "Garden of the Moon," the Warner Bros, pro writing.
|duction based upon the Saturday
Evening Fost story of the Irene has sold three stories to name which opens to-day at the "Baturday Evening Post and Majestic Theatre with Pat O'Brien
Irene Franklin, the famous "Redhead""" of vaudeville and star of many Broadway musical suc Ces, has turned her talents to
is now completing a book called Margaret Lindsay and John
Little Trouper, a history of the in the featured roles, theatre in the Gay Nineties
Aside from the cont seen through her eyes up a child. terta
the
ment it - afford.
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