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BULLDOB DRUMMONDS BRIDE
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JOHN HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL
H. B. WARNER Directed by James Nagan
CLARK GABLE
111
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in TOO HOT TO HANDLE"
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MYSTERY OF THE WHITE ROOM
BRUCE CABOT HELEN MACK
A CRIME CLUB
PRODUCTION
Directed by OTIS GARRETT Produced by IRVING STARE A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TO-MORROW
Clark Gable
M-G-M PICTURE
in
Myrna Loy "TOO HOT TO HANDLE".
DARLY
HANKOM
BAT
320
720
920
STAR
TODAY ONLY TAMIROFF IS TERRIFIC!
"RIDE A CROOKED MILE"
TO-MORROW
26th Century Fox Picture
A Parent Paten in
AKIM TAMIROFF · LEIF ERIKSON
FRANCES FARMER-LYNNE OVERMAN
& M. KERRIGAN - STEN MILJAN
in
Broded by ALPERO JE WRITES,
GRACIE
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you've never bees f face in how kind'
of picture shrill!·
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WE'RE GOING TO BE RIGH
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A New Kind of Marder-Mystery Love Story... Come and Laugh through Your Exciting Fears!!
with
THEY FORME ROMANCE IN THE MIDST OF MURDER!
SAM LEVENE TRANCES MERCEN STANLEY RIDGES WHITNEY BOURKE
Begins SUNDAY
day doh and a backing vowshwind get heather on
BARBARA
STANWYCK HENRYFONDA
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The MAD
MISS MANTON
·FADIC
The GREAT AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE
20th Century Fox
IN OLD CHICAGO” "Super-production
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don. Amecha
LARAINE DAY ADDED TO CAST
OF “NORTHWEST PASSAGE”
the cast
"Northwest Laraine Day has been added to
and Spencer. Fassage,” co-starting vehicle for Robert Taylor Tracy which will shortly go into production at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
Many of the scenes for this picturization of Kenneth Roberts' best-seller will be made in the mountain pragg" of Idaho and Nerada. King Vidor is the director, and picture is being bro- duced by Hunt. Strombers.
"
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Kentucky"
QUEEN'S:
CINEMA & GENERAL
U.S. MOVIE GROUPS TRAVEL FAR
Every time Hollywood conclusion-drawers get ready to bury the time-honoured custom af long film locations, up pops a ple- ture to make them hesitate, says the “Oregonian.”
Not so long ago it was "Jesse James" In the MEsouri Ozarks. Until recently it was "The Light That Falled" "along, the Rio
To-day it Grande, doubling for the Nile, in New Mexico. "Northwest Passage" in Idaho.
Outside of these few, locations
"Bulldog Drummond's Bride" are confined to the area in and THE COWBOY AND
ORIENTAL·
"I Am The Law"
CATHAY:
+
"The Mad Miss Manton"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Mystery Of The White
STAR:
round Hollywood.·
That beautiful English" farm of "Wuthering Heights" was built along the hills near Chatsworth.
THE LADY”'··
Samuel Goldwyn's "The Cowboy
For deserts, Hollywood still has to and the Lady" which will be go to Yuma, Ariz
"screened at the Majesty' Theatre is a romantic love Sherwood Forest, so named be- to-morrow. cause it was it used for the story richly endowed by the pre- Arst-class cinema Gary Cooper and Metle Room'origial "Robin Hood," is still the sence of two Jungles for such films as the Tar-stars,
Oberon zan thrillers
All fans, who love pictures em-
"Ride A Crooked Mile" " MAJESTIC:
"The Firey"
KING'S:
Coming
"Flight To Flame"
QUEEN'S:
"Too Hot To Handle"
ORIENTAL:
"Angels With Dirty Faces" CATHAY:
"In Old Chicago"
ALHAMBRA:
"Too Hot To Handle" STAK:
"We're Going To Be Rich" MAJESTIC:
The Cowboy And The Lady"
"Kentucky" At The King's: A Pre-View
The story which forms the back- ground of the film "Kentucky," a 'pre-view of which took place at
Theatre King's
yesterday the morning, is similar to that of "Romeo and Juliet" It deals with two young people who fall in love, but cannot be trends as much bad feeling has existed
between
FRENCH COAST
this new
The seacoast of France is only bellished by a strong dramatic 50 miles away: it is called Laguna story, top-notch acting, beautiful superb direction and flows settink», Mississippi beach. The serenely near San Francisco; its bright dialogue, will pronounce comedy- Goldwyn name is the Sacramento,
Examples are many; suffice to romance one of the highlights of say southern California still can the new film season.
The second leads are capably double for most places on earth.
Units still go to the far corners played by Patsy Kelly and Walter to get long shots, then "Hollywood Brennan, who turn in some ex- locations carry on for close-ups. cellent comedy scenes; the acting The day may really be past when is further strengthened" 'by the a "Ben Hur" goes to Italy, an capital performances offered by "Eskimo" to the real frozen north, such well-known featured players. à "White Shadows" to the south as Fuzzy Knight, Mabel Todd, and seas or a "Trader Horn to Afri- Henry Kolker.
C&
After all, the rocks of Chats-
worth have been many a distant
place, such as China for The COMING EVENTS
Good Earth" and Khyber Pass for "Lives of a Bengal. Lancer.".
"COME NOW, GIMME REALISM"!
Directors differ on
many things, but there's one phrase you'll hear, sooner or later, on every set.
"Come
rimme on, now, realism." the head man will bellow
AUG.
18-Tides: High 1135 am. Low 4.45 am, and 5.35 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.01 a.m. Sunset 8.53 p.m. HX.
Interim Tramways
Ltd. Dividend payable."
St. John's Ambulance ARP, Lec- tures (English) at Hgra. 8.48 p
urd
HK Y's Men's Club Social at No. 9. Norfolk Road, Kowloon, Tong, 7.30 Crown Land Sale (D.O. South) 11 a.m.
"Keep Fit" Class 10.30 Y.M.C.A am; Swimming p.m.; Badminton. 8.30 p.m.
ARP. Incendiary Bomb Demon- stration at P.W.D. offices, Lower Albert Road, 5.30 p.m.
11
ARP. Lecture (English) Club Luni-
Colony Swimming Championship at Inter-port Water Polo Trial at
There was none of that the other tano 5.30 pm: (Chinese) Chamber of their two horse-breeding families day, however, where they're film-Commerce 7 p.m. ever since the time of their great ing Warner's new horror opus.v.RC
"The Return of DI. X" great grandfather in 1881.
The scenes were between Hum-VRC. However, instead of seeing the hero and heroine perish at the phrey Bogart-who is dead" but end of the play, as in "Romeo and lives, after a fashion, on someone p.m. Low 5.40 a.m. and 8.10 p.m. Jullet," we find the young couple else's blood-and Rosemary Lane, happily united and the bad feel-who is very much alive and wants ing which has lasted for so long to stay that way. gone for ever.
Perfect Horror
}
Miss Lane had a look of perfecti The two popular stars, Loretta Young and Richard Greenie, play horror on her face as the gray- the main parts and give very good skinned Bogart stood over her, a performances. In supporting roles knife poised,
Then, as she walked off, she con- are Walter Brennan, Douglas Dum-
Aded: brille and Karen Morley.
а વ "Kentucky"
Twentieth That man used to terrify me; Century-For production and just seeing him. in pictures. He's photographed in beautiful techna-nice enough to know. I've found colour. It will be shown at the cut, but when he raised that knife King's Theatre from to-day and we and looked at me with that look, attract large the way I used to feel came right! predict that it will
back to me." crowds. Pearl Chen.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pastime (5)
4 Month (5)
10 Measure of
length (4)
11 Slice (4).
13 Freed
from (6)
14 Small
plece (6)
15 Courage-
ous man (4)
17 Tree (3) 18 Toller (8)
21 Part-moon
*(8)
23 Alling (3) 25 Field pro-
duce (4)
27 Alm at (67 30 Conquery
(6)
32 Om top: (4) 33 Dread (4). 34 Acid fruit
(5)
(5)
35 Cranium
DOWN 2 Outdoor
game (4)
3 Cheat
.botes (4)
NO. 388
30
34
Yes (3)
6 Secret
writing (6)
7. Detest (41
& Fool (5)
9 Depend.
ence on (8)
11 Dirty .mark 12 Bowman
(6)
16 Limit (8)
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Solution No. 387
₤29
19 Draw forth
Slumber (5)
29 Bover-
eignty (6) 24 Mock (5) 28 ESL-
shaped (4) 28 Bundle (4)
Small loaf -(4)
31 Pair (3)
ACROSS: 2 Enclose. ?, Flax, 8, DOWN: 1, Alto 2, Exit. 3, Canto, 12, 4, Often B, Eddy. 6, Fair. 10, Draw. 9, Ignited. 10, Cost, Yard, 15, Count 18, Altar, 18, Classes, 11; Situate. 13. Arising. Omits. 20, Aided. 21. Shams. 22, 14, Descend. 15, Crush. 16. Under. Alive 23; Hardy, 26, Slew, 29, 17. Today, 24. Amend. 25, Dunce. Aged 31, Eternal. 32, Maid 33, 27, Leap 8 Wed, 29, Alps. 30,
| Kachi Pick 34. Sadness,
19 Tides: High 12.05 a.m. and 13.20 Sunrise 6.02 am Sunset 6.52-p.m. A.R.P. Lecture (Chinese) Yammati Govt. School, 1.30 pm.
YM.C.A. Launch Picnic
p.m.
2.30
St. Andrew's Club Bathing Picnic 3 p.m.
Vesper Service at Hop Yat Church 8.15 p.m.
Colony Swimming Championship at
V.R.C.
Baseball at Caroline HM 2.30 p.m. Equine Sports Club Cavalcade for Lawn Bowls League. beginners.
Craigengower C.O. Whist and Tomi-. bols 8.15 p.
20-Tides: High 12.48 a.m. and 120 p.m. Low 6.38 s.m. and 642 p.m.
Sunrise 6:02 am. Bünsét 6.51 pm.
Stanley, Conference at VDMA 49.30 p.
HK Commercial Institute-Exercises and Concert, Queen's Theatre 9 a.m.
Equine Sports Club 20th Cavalcade, for advanced riders.
Pilipino Club Tombois il a.m. YMCA. Discussion Group 9 pm. Speaker: Rev. Charles Strong on “The Church and the Bator.
21-Claims Against Estate of Henry George Baker due.
Rosary Church Wedding-D'Almada
e Castro-Reed, 11 am.
Crown Land Bale, P.WD, 3 p.m. Criminal Sessions Open.
YMCA Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m. St. Andrey's Chib Committee Mtg., 8.30 p.m.
St. Andrew's Club "Open Night"| 22-Meeting of Licensing Board 4
p.m.
Craigengower C.C. Tambola 9 pm. YMCA.Bridge 10 at Mxd. Bwim- ming 6 p.m. Badminton 8.30 p.m.'.
ARP. Lectures (fhil course) in Chinese, St. John's Ambulance Head- quarters, 7.30 pm; ARP, Volunteer Headquarters, 9 am-10 sm; A.R.P. In English, Club Lusitano, 5.30 pm: ARP. in Chinese, Chinese Chamberi of Commerce. 7 p.m.
23-Area Half-Mile Team Race (Swimming) Stonecutters Is.'3.30 Dân. YMCA (WA) Games Morning, 10 am. Flag Whist
24 YMCA Beginners Mahjongs 10a.m.
25-Charty Concert at China Fleet Club 9. pa
YMOA Keet Class" -10:30 am; Mx Bwimming 6 p.m.; Bad- minton 8.30 p.m.
25-St Andrew's Club Bathing Ple nic 8.30p.m." KATAN
Zachuski Dinner Dance at OBA 18.30 p.m.)
28-8 Andrew's Club Moonlight Excstrsion 2.30 pm..!!
30—ATER MIRration) Téal Race (Bwimming) Repulse Bay 3pm.
WIN
$50
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Kentucky
The fire of man "romance! The proad sport of klugs! "A pic ture big in theme and emotion... with the Kentucky Derby its {spretacular climax}/
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EDWARD G.
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·Barbara O'Neil John Boël. Wendy Barrio Otto Kruger
STARTING
Am The Law
“Little Caesar" furas fighting prosecutor.. to turn in his greatest amionunci. in the story they wild was "too hot to handle!"
SUNDAY "ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES"
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MacDONALD The Firefly
ʼALIAN JONES » WARREN WILLIAM
A POBERT Z. LEONARD Production Mosted by Robert Z. LEONARD / Pradoned by HUNT STROMISCHES
COMMENCING TOMORROW
NOTE SPECIAL TIMES: 2.30, 6, 7.20, 9.45. TWO GREAT STARS IN THE FIRST GOLDWIN HIT
OF THE NEW SEABOR LA
GARY COOPER
MERLE ORERON IN THE COWBOY AND THE LADY“
AUnited Artistes Ficti
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