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SHOWING TO-DAY
More than a Love Affair
A story as deep, oș strong
: ALBO:
a woman's heart...!
IRENE
•
FRED
DUNNE MacMURRAY
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INVITATION
TO
HAPPINESS
LATEST POPEYE CARTOON
ADDED!
Produced and Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
A Paramount Picherz
At the QUEEN'S Only "FRENCH GAUMONT NEWS”
NEXT CHANGE
AT THE QUEEN'S "BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S
BRIDE"
4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.30-8.15
7.15-9-30
with
NEXT CHANGE AT THE ALHAMBRA "HERITAGE OF THE DESERT"
JUHS HOWARD
EVELYN VENABLE
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ORIENTAL
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A De LUXE COMEDY THAT'S EXCITING AND FUNNY!
Ses fascinating Connie go to work on Broadway's newest "
romantic idol, its filled with thrills and laughter.
Code BENNETT
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Service de Luxe
The
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TODAY ONLY LAST 4 SHOWS! THE MOST INTERESTING OF THE OHAN STORIES! Death Fires The Starting Gas and you'll be breathless
TO-MORROW, MONDAY &
TUESDAY MGM Picture
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at the finish:
CHARLIE CHAN at the OLYMPICS
Warner OLAND
KATHERINE de MILLE • KEYE LUKE PAULINE MOORE - ALLAN LANK
C. HENRY GORDON ♣
The Greatest and Most Spectacular Motion Picture
Ever Made 1300
THE TRIUMPHANT ~ “BEN-HUR'
RETURN OF
KING'S:
Hongkong
Wuthering Height"
QUEEN'S:
"Invitation To Happiness" ORIENTAL
"Service de Luxe". CATHAY:
"Charlie Chan At Olympics"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Invitation To Happiness"
STAR:
"Four Daughters"
MAJESTIC:
"I Am The Law"
KING'S:
Coming
"Boy Meets Girl". QUEEN'S:
"Bulldog Drummond's
ORIENTAL:
"Ride A Crooked Mile "Elephant Boy" ALHAMBRA:
CINEMA & GENERAL
Will Bette Davis Win Academy Award Again
"Dark Victory", the Warner Brothers picture, recently shown in Malays, presents Bette Davis as the ill-starred heroine of one the tenderest,- one of the most poignantly beautiful romances ever un folded upon the screen. It la a story of great love and dauntless courage, bath pitted against an implacable fate, and it offers the brillant Miss Davis what gffers the considers the greatest role of her very impressive career.
Compelling Role
.
While the character portrayed by Miss Davis might still dominate the narrative even if played by lesser actress than the matchless Bette so compelling is the role- the production is by no means a one-woman tour de force. It has Bride" a supporting cast that is full worthy of its gifted star, and the brilliance of her performance serves to inspire them all to a superlaive pitch of excellence.
"Heritage Of The Desert” CATHAY:
"Ben-Hur
STAR:
"The Road Back" MAJESTIC
"Four's A Crowd"
“FOUR'S A CROWD" AT THE MAJESTIC
HE WHO
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1939.-PAGE S
LAUGHS GRY
LAST-
The wity" Ernst Lubitsch met has Waterloo when he attempted his first "gar" on Garbo, during the filming of Ninotchka at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer.
He brought a book, the cover of which read "Parisian Nights," to the set. Inside the book was an apparatus that exploded a small cap with a loud pop when the book was opened.
where Garbo would pick it up, Lubitsch placed it carefully and gleefully waited.
Meantime. someone tipped Garbo off. She arrived on the set, apparently started to pick up the Douglas, as thougn her attention book, then turned to Melvyn had been distracted..
Every few minutes she started to waited in tense anticipation, then pick up the book, while Lubitsch
pretended to have her attention directed to something else.
seemed on the verge of opening Finally, she picked it up and it. By this time, Lubitsch was frantically chewing the one cigar he is allowed dally by his doctor. Again Garbo spoiled his fun.
Playing opposite Miss Davis is George Brent.
Another love of Bette's, albeit a frustrated one, is
By five o'clock she had tanta- played by Humphrey Bogart, and his lized Lubitsch almost to the point portrayal of An uncouth but of nervous prustration. .Then. honest and genuine Irish horse- just before she left for home, she trainer, different from, anything opened the book and let him have he has done previously on the the laugh he had waited for all for It proves that he is not only screen is fraught with interest,
day. |an
BICE bad man. but a superb actor.
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FIRE IN CHINESE QUARTERS IN HAVANA CHUNGKING. August 11 (Cen-
of
TO - MORROW
An Irish Lass Errol Flynn loves Ollvis de Havilland, who has a yen for Pat-personality in the cast, aside from Perhaps the most Interesting ric Knowles, who is that well-the star, is an Irish lass named trall-Generalissimo Chiang Kai- known way about, Rosalind Russeli Geraldine Fitzgerald, who has the shek. sent a cable to the Chinese who goes for Errol-but big! And second most important feminine Legation in Havana to-day inquir- thereby hangs the tale of "Four's role even though this is her first ing after the recent large fire in A Crowd." the every-minute-a-American picture. Trained on the the laugh
Chinese quarters comedy that will
the keep stage in Dublin and with some Cuban capital on August 5. Majestic Theatre audiendes roll-experience in English pictures, she
Generalissimo Chiang said he was, ing in the aisles when it opens was signed by Warner Bros. after deeply concerned over the disaster there to-morrow.
a sensational New York stage de which befell the Chinese residents Flynn, Miss de Havilland and but last year and is regarded as in Bavana and would like more Knowles, who so recently covered destined for certain stardom.
detalls of the unfortunate ac- themselves with glory m the Technicolor production "The Ad-impressive. cast
Other members of the truly
cident ventures of Robin Hood" prove to players
include such be just as effortlessly at home in Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon COMING EVENTS
Ronald Reagan, ultra-modern comedy. Rosalind Dorothy Peterson, Virginia Brissac, Russel borrowed from another Charles Richman studio for the role, is perfectly (Rawinson. Unquestionable assur- cast as a feminine newshawk with ance that the talents of these a sense of humor. Add to that players
are utilized Walter Connolly at his highly ex-utmost is the fact that the product
to plosive beat, Melville Cooper and tion"
wag directed Hugh Herbert in stand-out
by Edmund Goulding, famous director of many acting line-up unequalled in any Banners". comedy this year.
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12-Tides: High 5.56 am and 8.15 p.m. Low 143 'p.m.
Sunrise 5.58 a.m. Sunset 6.58 p.m.
Government School 7.30 pm. A.R.P. Lecture (Chinese) at Yauma-
HK. Chinese Journalists
Asati. Sports Meeting.
Chinese
comedy bits, and you've got an hits, the last of which was "White Dividend Estates, Lid., 2nd Interim
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According to reports from Manual. 21, Assert. 22. Let 24. German officers have arrived a large number Strew. 27. Vanom 30, Agile. 31. China, and the majority of them Organ, 32, Incur. 33. Talon. 34. have joined the Japanese forces. Myths, 35, Spree,
DOWN: 1, Sabot. 2, Regal. 3 the famous "Condor" troops that They are all former officers of Pleas. 4, Armour. 5, Teeth. 6, Ruins, 7, Witty. 13, Apart. 14. Franco in the Spanish Civil War. fought on the Bide of General Exude, 16, Aisle. 17, Torso, 18, AH. 19. Cat. 23. Edible, 24 Storm. 25. July 171.
(Mediterranean Press Right. 28, Wants. 27, Velns. 28.
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(5)
7 Reptile (5)
10 Power (5) 13 Hearing ala) organs (4)
18 Fold (4) 18 Bingle time
SOLUTION ON MONDAY
20 Bonds (4)
22 Wise men
(5)
Errand (7) 25 Decorated
·Faithful (5)
Agency:
Goddess (5)
30 Smell (5)
St. Andrew's Chub: Launch Picnic 3 .p.m.
Equine Sports Club 12th Cavalcade to Shing Man River.
13-Tides: gh 8.59 am and a p.m. Low 12.27 a... and 2.29 pm.
Sunrise 5.59 a.m. Bunset 6.57 p.m. YMCA Discussion Group 9 p.m. Speaker: Prof. 8. Lautenschlager- "Challenge To West China."
Equine Club Cavalcade for Advance Riders Point-to-Point Course..
Club Tombola 11 sm.
upino High 7.56 am and 8.31
p.m. Low 1.24 am and 3.09 p.m.
Sunrise 5.59 am Sunset 8.56
8.56 pm HK, and Shanghai Bank Half- Yearly Interim Dividend paraple.
Crown Land Bale, P.WD. 3 b.m St. John's Ambulance First Aid Les- tures start in "3.C.M.P.” Board Room, 5.45 p.
V.RO. Extraordinary Mig, re EX- tension Scheme 6 p.m.
St John's Cathedral Women's Pel- lowship Committee Mtg: 10 am.
YMCA Whist Drive 8.30 p.m. Tennis:
Thailand vs. Hongkong. Bt. Andrew's Club Open Night Military Police Mess-Whist Tom-
and 1st Night, 8.30 p.m. 15-Tides: High 8.51 am and 8.10 Low 2.19 am and 3.46 p.m. Sunrise 6.59 am and 6.50 p.m. Crown Land Sale (D.O..' North, Taipo) 11.10
bala
HK. Rotary Club Tiam 1 YMCA 10 am. Mrd. Swim- ming pm.
8pm Tennis: Thailand vs. Hongkong. HE the Governor to Open Long Distance Telephone Service 11 am.
18-HR Land Investment and Agency, Ltd. Interim Dividend pay. Able:
YMCA Hockey Section Annual Meeting 6.30 p.m.
45.
YM.C.A. Mahjongg 10 a.m.
Golf at Shek-O-Over 45 va.
17-Star Ferry
Under
Ltd, Interim Dividend payable, pa
St. John's Cathedral Women's Fel-
lowship Bridge and Mabjorgy Drive
'w'd
YMC.A. Mahjongg for Beginners in a.m. Flag Whist Drive 8.30 pm.
HE. The Governor and Lady North-
cote to visit Little Sisters of the Foor
at Kowloone J
HE The Governor and Lady North- cote into residence at Mountain Lodge
To Be Launched from Taikoo Dockyard 10 am..
18-HK Tramways, Ltd. Dividend payable.
Interim
St. John's Ambulance ARP. Lec- tures (English)' at Hqrs. 5.43. p.m.
HR. Y Men's Club Social at No. 9, Norfolk Road, Kowloon Tong, 730 p.m
YMCA
"Beep
Fit Class 10.30 a.m. Swimming 6 pm: Badminton 8.30 pm.
18-YMCA, Launch Pients 2.30
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TODAY AT 1.38, 5.16, 7.15
I cannot bear the Torture of seeing you in his arms !
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
of Story of Kungful, Therasted Love MERLE OBERON-LAURENCE OLIVIER - DAVID NIVEN Also Colour Science Novelties UN USUAL
NEXT CHANGE A Warner Bros. Picture
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DAILY
AT
2:30
5.20
720 9-20
OCCUPATIONS"
BOY MEETS GIRL" with JAMES CAGNEY."
PAT O'BRIEN
HANKOW
KOANLOON
STARE
TODAY » ONLY
IT TOUCHES EVERY EMOTION! Superb story by Fannie Hurl Brilliset performances by three
sensational newcomers!
"Four Daughters
TO-MORROW
New Universal
Picture
wich PRISCILLA LANE ROSEMARY LANE-LOLA LANE GALE PAGE »"CLAUDE RAINS
·JOHN GARFIELD JEFFREY LYNN -DICK FORAN
Frank McHugh May Robson, Bierced by MICHAEL, CURTIZ Presented by WARNER BROS.
PALELLA, JAME
Seeman Pie der Juler 5. Buania and Lens Cle From the Crosspathia Magufen bawy » Masie by Man Batman v. 4. When Mbant, Man
CONSTANCE BENNETT
in "SERVICE DE LUXE
with Vincent. Price
•
Misoba Auer
MAJESTICE
THE ATL O
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
THE SCREEN'S MOST DYNAMIC STAR IN THE
- MOST EXCITING THRILLER OF THE SEASON!
IRILLER
EDWARD G.
ROBINSON
Otta
I Am The Law
Lizzia Causas
Hahsing pro
riory they
TO-MORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY
The Thrilling Lovers of ROBIN HOOD together in
Merry, Mad, Modern Romance L
EBBOL FLYNN
in
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND "YOUR'S A CROWD"
Warner Bros. Comedy-Hit!
21--Claims Against Estate of Henry George Baker due. W
23 Area Hak-Mile Team Race (Swimming) Stonecutters I, 2.30 p.m. 25---Charity: Concert at Chins Fiest Chub 9
258t. Andrew's Club Bathing Ple- nlo: 8.30 p.m.
St Andrew's Club Bathing Picnic 35 28-St. Andrew's Club)
Excursion 8.30 pm
Moonlight
Race
20-V.D.M.A. Conference at Stanley.20-Area Marathon Team
A(Bwimming)epulse Bay 8 pm
WIN
$50
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