HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
QUEENS
ADDED!
DAILY AT 2:30-5·15·7-2089:30 -TEL:31453
SHOWING "TO-DAY
Romance Races with Mrs
in the screenst
"POPULAR SCIENCE'
in Technicolour
NEXT CHANGE
"BULLONG DRUMMONDS BRIDE
A Parmens Pichare with
JOHN HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL
H. B. WARNER Directed by James Nagas
CLARK GABLE
MGM PICTURE
in
•
4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.15 .7.15-9.30
MYRNA LOY
TOO HOT TO HANDLE"
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD WANGHA
TEL. 28473
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Boy Meets Gil"
QUEEN'S:
CINEMA & GENERAL
"Bulldog Drummond's Bride ORIENTAL
"Highway Patrol" CATHAY:
"The Notorious Sophile Lang”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Heritage Or The Desert"
STAR:
"Garden Or The Moon"
MAJESTIC:
"The Kid From Texas"
KING'S:
Coming
“Kentucky"
QUEEN'S;
"Too Hot To Handle"
ORIENTAL:
"I Am The Law"
CATHAY:
"The Mad Miss Manton" ALHAMBRA: •
"Mystery Of The White Room'
STAR:
DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW MAJESTIC:
ONLY
A PICTURE THAT'S FULL OF EXCITING ACTION!
Thrill-packed romanos... as he takes time out of a war to the denti............ão tamis a millionaire's pampered pet!"
HIGHWAY PATROL
Robert
Jacqueline
PAIGE WELLS
2 DAYS ONLY! FRIDAY & SATURDAY EDWARD G, "I AM THE LAW BARRIE
ROBINSON
" WENDY
MATINEES: 20c.-30e @ EVENINGS: 20ɛ.-39c.-50c.-70c.
DARY
AT
$30
5:20
720
WELCOME TO THE
STAR
TODAY ONLY
GARDEN of
the MOON
A Managed by
PAT O'BRIEN
Publicked by
MARGAREY LINDSAY
Besalfed by
HANOW
ROVID KOWLOON TEL 01
57795
JOHN PAYNE.
Gossip by
JIMMIE FIDLER
JOE VENUT!
TO.
MORROW COME OUT OF THE PANTRY
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS. W
CATHAY
DAILY AT 2.30,5.15.7.20,&9.30.P.M) KATINKES 1-2014 20%, 40%; EVENINGS-3062 3860, $94, 196, BOLĄ /!\
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW-2 DAYS ONLY! The First & the Best of the Sophie Lang Séries Fast Moving Detective Drama Packed with Laughter and Action!
·She lived dangerously... beautiful woman turned odventures...for the thrill of it)
The
NOTORIOUS Sophie Lang
Parambait Hierufa,wdk GERTRUDE MICHAEL *PAUL GAVANAGH • LEON ERROL
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
ADDED: BETTY BOOP CARTOON
LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda in
RKO
THE MAD MISS MANTON Plture
"Come Out Of The Pantry"
"The Elephant Boy" "Firefly"
SCIENTIST ROLE FOR: KARLOFF
SEMI-ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD REPORT: FOREIGN FILMS
SLUMP: 149 FEATURES
HOLLYWOOD-Weekly reports on the state of the cinema "are all very well—or at least we hope so-bat it taken a six- month, survey to get things in their proper perspective. With our ušual sense of duty, brávely enduring the heat and the auspicion that no one gives a darn anyway, we bare tolled through the ales for the first half of 1539, adding, subtracting and never reaching the same answer, and have emerged limply with a few statistics on the screen yest
They may not mean a'thing, but here they are, and bolster- ing them is a qualitative analysis, offered for what it is worth, Domestic production declined.pictures, the rest being exhumed Hollywood turned out 149 features from the dles and sent out into during the last six months as the world under new titles. Mr. against 173 for the comparable Moto, Charlie Chan, Torchy Blane period the year before. Imports and Shirley Temple still are in-
previous dustry staples. rose to 154 from the year's figure, 140: There were
DISCREDIT SIDE seven documentary films,
On the discredit. side of the Total of all classes: 310: total Hollywood ledger we must men- for the same period in 1938: 322. tion St. Louis Blues," "Ice Follies German pictures still head the im- of 1939," "Broadway Serenade," port list with 45. Mexico was "The Three Musketeers" and ""The"] next with. 23, France third with Gorilla” (both with the Ritz 16. England fourth with 13 and brothers), "Zaza," "King of China- Russia fifth with. 12. There were town," "The Sun Never Sets," 11 Spanish dimis, 10 Hungarian. 8 "Lucky Night" and "You Can't Get Italian, 5 Swedish, 4 Folish, 3 Yid-Away With Murder." dish and one each from Argentina, the Ukraine, Cuba and China.
MOST ENJOYED "Approximately in the order of their arrival, these were the ple- tures we seem to have enjoyed the! most,
There probably were worse plc- tures produced during the year and during other years, but this would be a nice batch not to see. So ends the semi-annual report.
January: Jesse James, Gunga AT THE KING'S:
Din The Great Man Votes, Trade Winds, There's That Woman Again,
February: Idiot's Delight, Made for Each Other, Yes, May Darling and Daughter, Wife, Husband Friend, Cafe Society.
March: Stagecoach, Love Affairs, Three Smart Girls Grow Up, Story
"BOY MEETS
GIRL"
Reunited after a screen separo- tion of almost three years since they made "Celling Zero," James
of Vernon and Irene Castle. Let Cagney and Pat O'Brien are co- starred in "Boy Meets Girl," the Us Live,
April Story of Alexander Gra-Warner Bros, comedy about Holly- wood which opens to-day at the ham Bell, Midnight Housemaster
King's Theatre. (Eng.), Wuthering Heights, Juarez, Eight years ago Hollywood "dis-Man of Conquest, Dark Victory. covered" a tall, dark gentleman Confessions of a Nazi Spy.
Teamed before in pictures which were mainly grim and serious, Jim: and Pat on this occasion played
with a Russian name and an Eng- May: Union Pacific, Only Angels lish accent, who, paradoxically, Have Wings. Goodbye, Mr. Chips their roles entirely for amusement had been appearing in motion (Eng.) East Side of Heaven. pictures and on the Los Angeles stage for eleven years. tleman was Baris, Karloff...
June: The Mikado
value, for the first time in their (Eng.), careers, they put on a lampooning" The gen-Young Mr. Lincoln, Clouds Over show of two typically wacky Holly.
Europe (Eng), Daughters Courage Wood writers. Although he had played count-ous, Mar About Town, Bachelor
Mother, less minor roles and was in de- mand for his flawless characteriza tions, Karloff attracted little at-
FOREIGNS SLUMP Foreign pictures appear to have
a
In "Boy Meets Girl" they head cast which also includes that pretty. blonde comedienne, Marie Wilson, in her first leading role- said to be a "natural" for her
tention unti Columbia engaged slumped rather badly this season, Ralph Bellamy, in what is reported
from those
France
especially. him to play a featured role in
to be his best part since "The Aw- "The Criminal Code." Overnight Sacha Guitry's "Champs-Elysees" he skyrocketed to -stardom,
and another called "Boys' School" ful Truth," Dick Foran and Frank McHugh, Others are Bruce Lester, Gallic pictures Last week, Karloff returned to were the only
James Stephenson, Dennie Moore Russia sent and Penny Singleton. Columbia "Studios to play the star-worth remembering.
the Eisenstein ring role in "The Man They Could uver "Friends":
film. "Alexander Nevsky" and Not Hang." portraying a kindly -scientist, whose love for humanity! Just recently, "Lenin in 1918,"
turns to hatred when convicted which is brilliantly performed if COMING EVENTS
of a crime of which he is not. guilty.
little else.
AUG.
and
England must stand on "Good- 16Tides: High 0.46 am, and 10.48 bye, Mr. Chips" and "Clouds Over pm Low 1.10 a.m. and 4.23 p.. Sunrise 6 am, Bunset 6.55 p.m. Europe" with a shaded vote for
HK
Investment Land "The Mikado" (To head off an ob- jection, "Pygmalion" arrived last Agency, Ltd, Interim Dividend pay- December, not this year.) | FOLKSY PICTURES
A.R.P. Lecture (Chinese) Yaumati Government School 7.30 pmL.
Y.M.C.A. Hockey Section Annual Meeting 6.30 pm
45.
TM.C.A. Mahjongg 10 am.
Golf at Bhek-Over 45 vs. Under
Cheero Club Dance 8.30 p.m. Pilipino Club Tombola 8.40 p.m. Tennis: Thailand vs Hongkong,
THE STORY The story concerns the scientific theory and experiments recently broadcast and printed throughout the world, that the dead can be brought back to life. Convicted These appear to be the only and hung for murder, the scientist readily discernible trends, al- is revived through, his own dis- though there lingers from last year covery and wreaks revenge on the penchant for folksy pictures-the men who sentenced him to death. Judge Hardys, the "Four Daught
Prominent in the supporting er series, the Deanna Durbin cast of the thrilling melodrama is pleasantries, the wistful
Lawn Bowls Pairs Championship Roger Pryor, Robert Wilcox, Lorna human comedy types exemplified semi-final 4.45 p.m. Gray, Ann Doran, Don Beddoe, by "Made for Each Other." "Love 17-Tides: High 10.36 am. and 11,25 Charles Trowbridge, Bryon Foulger Affair" even. "Invitation to Hap-p.m. Low 3.57 am and 5 p.m. and Joseph de Stedani. The pic-piness" and "Bachelor Mother." ture is being directed by Nick The G-men and criminal law- Grinde under the supervision ofyers continue to supply most of Wallace MacDonald.
of the material for the B and Cam
CROSSWORD NO. 386
ACROSS
1 Pulsate (5)
4 Burn the
dead (7)
8 Thing (7)
9 Male rela-
tion (5): 10.Run away
· (6).
11 - Paying
one's way (7)
13 At that
time (4)
15 Plen (6)
17 Middle (6)
20 Bo be it (4)
29 Burst (7)
24 Spectre (5)
26 Decision (5),
27 Visualise
(7)
23 Plant
thread (7)
29 Noble bird' ::
DOWN
1 Acrobat's
awing (7)
2. Proportion
(5)
3 Pails (7)
Fold (6)
35 Par (5)
16: Old (7)
7. Upright (5) 12. Formerly
14 Top (4) SOLUTION TO-MORROW.
15 Leader (7)
18 Etch (7
19 Most Te
mote, (7)
-21 Bervile (8) 22 Precise” (5) 23 Bemor (5)
Due
and 3.30
Sunrise: 6.01 am. Bunset 6.53 p.m. Star Ferry Co., Ltd. Interim Dividend payable.
ARP. Lecture at Volunteer Hars 9
Bt John's Cathedral Women's Pel- lowship Bridge and Mahjongg Drive
CA Mahjongg for Beginners 10 Pieg Whist Drive 8.30 p.m. HK. Ys Men's Club Timn Mig. 1 Dm. Speaker: Dr. Shanglin Fu "The Universities in the South-Western Frontier Territory,”
HE The Governor and Lady cote to visit Little Blaters of the Poor
Kowloon,
at
HE The Governor and Lady North- cote go into residence at Mountain Lodge.
Glenochy To Be Launched trom Taikoo Dockyard 10 am.
p.m
Tombola and Dance at C.BA: 8.45.
Cheers Club Contract Bridge & p.m. Lawn Bowls Singles Championship. third round.
Colony, Swimming Championship at
18-Tides: High 11.25 am Low 445 a.m. and 5.35 pm.
Sunrise: 6.01 am. Bunset 6.53. p.m. HK Tramways, Ltd, Interim Dividend payable.
St. John's Ambulance A.RP. LAC |tures (lnglish) at Fers, 8.44. DJI.
HK Ti Men's Club Bocial a NA 9. Norfolk Road, Kowloon Toug, 7.30
Crown Land Bale (D.U. Bouth) 11 TMCA
"Keep Fit Class 10.30 m: Swimining pra: Hadminton 8.30 1.3)
ARP Incendiary Bomb Demon stration at P.WD. offices, Lower Albert Road: 5.30 pini
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1939 -PAGE
ARP Lecture (English) Club Lu!- tano 5.30 p.m.;.. (Chinese) Chamber of, Commerce 7.p.m.
Colony Swimming Championship at TR.C
Inter-port VRC
Water Polo Trial at 1YMOA. Launch Pienie 130
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
KORD WENGTO
THE LAUGHS COME FAST SUT THE CROWDS COMF FASTER
-SW THEFE WILL BE A
RIP-ROARING
2nd
JAMES
WEEK
FOR
BOY
GIRL
+ Penh Yes Braga Pig hoded as bouT AME
Klona chored it on the stagel itions, sin ræsing shout it on the serons becomes it's Warner Bros. Flat Co-Staring Show Since “Calling Zera? for
PAT
CAGNEY O'BRIEN
FRIDAY
goth Century-Fox Picture
*
and
KENTUCKY” in Technicolour
with LORETTA YOUNG • RICHARD GREEVE
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD.
5. 9.30 +TEL. 568 84
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY CRIP-ROARING ROMANCE OF THE OLD WEST !
HERITAGE
OF THE DESERT
A Parent Picture with
Donald Woods Evelyn Venable Russell Hayden - Robert Barrat Sidney Tolar · pound by Landiny Kalender
(« Harry Sherman Production » & Paramenet Platura
TO-MORROW New Universal
Picture
LE
MYSTERY OF THE WHITE ROOM"
with
BRUCE CABOT HELEN MACK
MAJESTIC
B HEATH O
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
THE COWHAND AND THE HEIRESS! FAST! FUNNY ROMANTIC 1
THE KID FROM TEXAS
You'll thrill and laugh as DENNIS O'KEEFT, mankees love to FLORENCE RICE
• TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY BETURN OF AN “OLD FAVOURITE ” !
SABU "THE ELEPHANT BOY
A LONDON FILM PRODUCTION
Vesper Bervice at Hop Yat Church 6.15 p..
Colony Swimming Championship at V.R.C.
20-VDMA Conference at Blaney, 4430 pm.
BK Commersial Institute Exercisen and Concert Queen's Theatre 9 a.m.
1-Claims Against Estate of Henry Gange Baker dedestr
Rosary Church Wedding--D'Almada e Castro-Reed, 11 am.
Crimma Sension, Open.
22 Meeting of Licensing Board 4 Half-Mile Tykin Race 23—Area (Swimming) Stonecutters la 330 p.m. Charity Oncert at Chins Fleet Andrew's Club Bathing Pic
86 Andrew's Club Bathing Pense 3
pertania 8.30, p.zs.
pian
Zachuski. Dinner Dance at CE 3.30 p.m.
28 St. Andrew's Club Excursion 8.30 p.m.
30-Ares Marathon (Bwimming) Repulse Bay 3 pm.
WIN
$50
See an
Page 5Page 6