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SHOWING
Look “Too Hot to Handle'
out, Clark! She's
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Clark GABLE
THURSDAY
TO-DAY
Myrna Loy
TOO HOT
to HANDLE
WALTER
PIDGEON. CONNOLLY LEO CARRILLO
AT THE QUEEN'S · "FIVE CAME BACK" Chester, Morris - Wendy Barrie
TO-MORROW
AT THE ALHAMBRA SEGRET PATROL"
with Charles Stirreft
♫
HISTARE
TODAY ONLY
JOSEPH M. SCHINCK
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL. 57795
Cardinal
RICHELIEU
STARRING
GEORGE ARLISS
DARRYL ZANUCK'S
Production
with
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN,
2016 Centary Picture Released thru UNITED ARTIST?
TOMORROW
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KID MILLIONS ”
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THURSDAY
& FRIDAY
FLIGHT
FROM
GLORY
CHESTER MORRIS WHITNEY BOURNE
ANSLOW STEVENS
VAN HEFLIN
The Fastest Action Drama of To-Day!
RADIO
| Dennis O'Keefe
MGM Picture "The KID from TEXAS
Florence Rice
Chinese Aviatrix Makes Debut As Movie Actress
PLANE SHE FLEW MOTOR TORPEDO
WILL BE USED
IN PICTURE
47
BOATS
LONDON, Aug, 7 (By Air Mall)— Work has been begun at the Syd- Lee Ya-cbing, 'China's pioneer ney naval dockyard on the con- torpedo aviatrix, who makes her debut as struction of six .. motor
movie actress in Paramount's boats for the Australian Navy.
The boats, which will be 70 ft, "Disputed Passage,” also supply
the aeroplane to be used in the long and have a speed of at least 42 knots, will carry anti-aircraft picture, she revealed recently.
That is the agreement between guns.
ducer Harlan Thompson.
the lovely Chinese flyer and Pro-
,,cabin
A five-place Stinson
Solution No 290.
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ACROSS: 1, Temple. 4. Gratis. 8, monoplane, the ship is painted aj Ale. 9 Errand, 11, unison. bright red and on its sides are Cameo, 13, Chosen., 16 Wheat, 18. Inscribed the Chinese characters Hare. 19, Gained, 23, Caress 25, Tsung Kuo Shun Chien Chun" Plug, 28, Crane. 29, Easter. 31, "Spirit of New Oning.”
Board, 33, Tedium 34, Turned. 35, Keg 38, Hidden, 37, otated.
Mis Lee has town the plane
DOWN: 1. Trench 2 Mirror....... 3, many thousands of miles on per aerial tour of the United States Lance. 4, Glue, b, senown. 6. and Canada, since she took de- Tested 7, Senate. 10, Dangle, 14. livery of the ship at Wichita, Hay 15, Bedan. 17, Heans, 20, In- Kansas, shortly after her arrival sert. 21, Due 22, Bootch. 23, Candid. from China in October of last 24, Rebuke: 26, Innet 27. Graded.
30: Adult. Omen, year,
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Flight To Fame"
QUEEN'S:
Too Hot To Handle"
ÜBIENTAL.
"Angels With Dirty Faces" CATHAY:
"Fight From Glory"
ALUAMERA
STAR:
Kowloon
Too Hot To Handle"
"Cardinal. Richelieu". MAJESTIC:
**Thanks For Everything”
KING'S,
18
Coming
"While New York Sleeps"
QUEEN'S:
"Five Came Back"
ORIENTAL:
"The Devil's Party" "The Gracie Allen
Case"
CATHAY:
The Kid From Teza.** ALHAMBRA:
"Secret Patrol”
STAR:
“Kid - Millions”
MAJESTIC:
"Off The Record"..
CINEMA & GENERAL
THE "IT"" GIRL: DOROTHY. LAMOUR AS SUCCESSOR
TO CLARA BOW
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The cinema has had an intermittently, undesirable ronnta- tion. for an over cultivation of what is known se, sex, appeal.
It is quite a number of years since Elinor Glyn discovered that Clark How had more sex appeal than any other actress on the screen, and. Miss Bow was consequently named the "It" girl.
Now Miss Bow has retired with her husband to a ranch and it is a long while since anyone claimed, her place of honour, But the problem of sex appeal red large sums of money to appear. seems to be concentrating again in complete nudity at the New around one personality, that of York World's Fair? Miss Dorothy Lamour. That is to say, Miss Lamour's publicity, is "in- sisting on sex appeal, as, much as did Miss Bow's at one time.
WHAT IS "TT"? This claim brings to habitual picture-goers, the question, "what} is sex appeal?”
In Miss How's case It. sɛɛmed to be somehow connected with red hair, although there was nothing but black and white in her plc- tured.
In Miss Lamour's case it seems to be associated with the idea of a scanty sarong and bare limbs,
Such methods of publicity can do no cradle to sayone and are something of an insmit to public laste,
"Thanks For Everything" At Majestic
When the time came to produce "Thanks for Everything," the pic- ture which opens at the Majestic It is difficult to say that Miss Theatre to-day, and whose cen- Lamour has any marked ability tral character is no one else but Murder as an actress although rumour has the Average Man, 20th Century- it that site is anxious to attempt Fox found themselves astride the dramatic parts. and normal borns of a dilemma, to put it
milidly. clothes.
The Lupinos And The Theatre
Miss Ida Lupin will soon have a young cousin in pic- tures. Ida is the daughter of. Stanley Lupino and Antoinette, the debutante, is the daughter of Stanley's brother, Barry... It is understood that as a dim actress she would shorten
name to Tonie,
her
Ida and Antoinette are almost the youngest generation of a very remarkable family.
The Lupinos (then spelling their name Luppino), were at the end of the sixteenth century at the head of a puppet theatre in Italy
But her popularity "so far seems to depend on a ne figure such as might grace an artist's model.
comes
The question then back to this, is the quintes- sence of sex appeal to be look- ed for in a fint figure?
INSULT TO TASTE
The search for the Average Mar was narrowed somewhat when it was suggested that the country's big advertising photographers sub- mit their idea of what he looks like.
Well, says 20th Century-Fox, he looked Nke an actor by the name of Jack Haley. 6o Mr. Haley became
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1939. --PAGE 5
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
BROWING TODAY AT 126. 116 118 A MEM PROPELLERS WHINE A HYMN OF HATE FURY RIDES THE FUSELAGE MYSTERY RULES THE AIRT
Flight
to Fame
CHARLES FARRELL JACQUELINE WELLS,
Alexander D'Arcy "Jason Robards
Matti & Sumauni - Gavenda, & 2 COLEMAN M A COLOMBIA BITURI
SPORTS SHORT “URUSUAL HUNTING **
NEXT CHANGE 2th Century Fox Pictura
ALBO
COLOUR CARTOON '13 STOOGES COMEDY "FROG POND" "THREE MISSING LINKS" WHILE
MICHAEL WHALES
NEW YORK SLEEPS"
WITH
JEAN ROOKES CHICK CHANDLER
4 SHOWS
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As a matter of fact, would it not Mr. Average Man, and the studie⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•
be truer to say that there is more saw to it that he learned his role' sex appeal in Miss Claudette Col-well.
same restric-
bert than in either Clara Bow or Other members of the cast of **Thanks for Everything” who Dorothy Lamour?
And would it not be truer still aren't under the to say that the cinema would dotions, are Arleen Whelan, Adolphe Jack Oakle: Banh better if it were to eschew' sex ap- Menjou, peal publicity and not endeavour Barnes. Tony Martin, George to make capital out of statements Barbler and Warren Hymer. They. that Miss Lamour had been offer- don't have to act average, or
"Flight To Fame" At King's To-day
every normal.
COMING EVENTS
AUG.
22-Tides: High 2.22 ani, and 1.57 pm Low 4.15 am, and 7:50 p.m.
Sunrise 663 am. Sunsët 6.50 p.m. Meeting of Licensing Board 4
PIEL
Craigengower Co. Tambola 9 p.m. Murder mystery, revenge and YMCA. Bridge 10 a.m, Mrd. Swim- gay romance ride the skies as ming 6 pm. Badminton 8.30 p.m.
AR.P. Lectures (full course) Georgius Lupino
"Flight to Fame" brings Charles chinese, St. John's Ambulance Head- Georgius Lappiño came to Eng- Farrell back to the American quarters 7.30 pm; ARP. Volunteer land during the reign of James I screen after several years abroad. Headquarters, a am.-10 am: ARP with. his puppet theatre, Five The new. Columbia drama, an ex-in English, Club Lusitano, 5.30 p.m.; A.R.P. in Chinese, Chinese Chamber generations later Thomas Fred-citing, action-packed and of Commerce, 7 p.m. erick Lupino spelt his name as do thoroughly satisfying picture,
H.K. Rotary Club Tiffin 1 p.m. his present descendants.
opens to-day at the King's Then-Speaker: Mr. O. E. Moore, "Civic De Born in 1749 he died at the age | fre.
sign and Town Planning" or 26 in 1845. Barry arid Stanley "Flight to Fame" boasts of many 23-Tides: High 3.25 am and 5.42 Larping are of the tenth generation | fine flying sequences, Action and p.m. Low 11 am and 835 pm
Sunrise: 6.41 a.m. Sunset 6:49 p.im breath-taking photography: „ATE to appear in Englano.
Half-Mile Team Race Aren Stanley has probably made him and a wealth of interesting techni- |(Swimming) Stonecutters Is. 3.30 p.m. self the most famous of all by cal operations are shown, as TMCA (WB) Games Morning,
Whist running a play, "Me and My Girl" when a test pilot goes aloft, estab-10 am. Plag
Filipino Club Tombola, 8.45 pm. Govt School, 7.30 pm.
I
in a London theatre for close on tales contact with the ground ARP Lecture (Chinese) Yaumatt
1,000 performances and in it mak-crew, then follows the latter's in- ing the world-wide fame of "The structions as he puts the craftj Lambeth Walk,"
through death defying manoeuvres
CROSSWORD
NO. 391
ACROSS
1 Monstro-
alty (5)
5 Commence.
(5)
8 Birthday
*(5)
9 Rascal (5)
10. Narcotic
(5)
11 Bereaved
woshan (5)
14 Sailora (4)
20
17 Mountains
4
(4)
19 Gratined
20 Fuel (4)
21 Employed
22. Inborn (7)
(5) Recognised (14)
23 Dissolve
(4)
25 Digits (4) 23" Domesti
cated (5) 31 Subordin
ate (6)
32 Wirelin (5)
33 Dwell (8) 34 Vapour (5) 35 Universe
(5)
DOWN
Foremicet
(5)
12 Inactivity
را
18.
Grown-up
(9)
Portion (5)
23 Gland
** NO
swellings (5)
24 Thrust (5):
Command (5)
Collar fas- tener (4)
Pax (4)
6 Roast, (5).
7 Titles (5)
18 Notice (7)`
15% Venerate
(5)
* 16 | Exhausted
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
28 Vehicle (4)
23 Post (4)
30 Depicted
27 Chide: (5)
1.
Garrison Bergta. Mesa, Whist and Tombola 9 pm
St. John's Ambulance Brigade Mtg. for Officers and Surgeons 544 pm.
24-Tides: High 4.33 am, and. 7.30 pm. Low 12.20 pm and 19.15 pm
Sunrise: 5.05 am Sunset 648 pm, YMCA. Beginners Mahjongs, 10 am.
HK. T's Men's Meeting, St. Francis Hotel
1 p.m. Speaker: Dean J. L Wilson.
ARF. Lecture at Volunteer Hqra 9-10 am.
St. Andrew's Club "Open Night."
-Tides: High' 541 a.m. and 8.25 p.m. Low 1.87 pm and 11.10 p.m.
Sunrise: 603 am-Bunset 6.15 p.m. China Fest Charity Concert at Clab '9
pm.
YMCA "Keep Pit Class 10.30 am Med. 8wimming 6 pm; Bad- minton 8:30 D.m
Fourth Luncheon Meeting of sing American Institute of Central Rela tions, HK Hotel 12.45 pua
ARR. Lecture: (English) Club Lusitano, 4.30 p.m.; ARP. in Chinese Chamber of Commerce 7 p.m.; A.R.P. (Chinese) .W.CA. Bonham Road, 1.30 p.m. ARP. (English) 20 Tee House Street, 5.30 p.m.
26-St. Andrews Club Bathing Pic nin 8.30. p.m.
Zachusk Dinner Dance at C.BA, 8.30 pm
Baseball-International Series First Round-Portugal V. Britain.
HK Y's Men's Camp at Lantao. Island Leave HK 130 p..
27-Baseball International Series First Round Chins v. US.
28-St. Andrew's Club Moonlight Excursion 8.30 pitan
30 Area Marathon Team (Bwimming) Repulse Bay 3′pm..
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Race
A MIGHTY STORY UNFORGETTABLE IN ITS "GREATNESS! Cagney the tough returns to the slums to battle against crime to save the lives of the gutter-rats who never had a chance to go straight.
ANGELS
WITH
DIRTY FACES
JAMES CAGNEY PAT O'BRIEN
2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & THURSDAY
THRILLING LIFE IN THE WORLD'S MOST EXCITING CITY! A dramatic story of city streets paved with poverty and riches.
VICTOR McLAGLEN
in
The DEVILS PARTY
** WILLIAM GARGAN "PAUL KELLY BEATRICE ROBERTS FRANK JENKS “state Kiches Kot & Dwary" by Bürsten
A NEW UNIVERS
PICTURE
MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.
MAJESTIC
EES
THEATRE
TODAY AND TOMORROW
SCANDALOUSLY FUNNY COMEDY ABOUT
MISTER AVEBAGE MAN"1.
Mister Average Man Himself, so help us!
upping your laugh average in the freshest fun-hit of the year!
Thanks for Everything
ADOLPHE
JACKS MENJACKE
MENJOU OAKIE HALEY
ALLEEN TONY BINNE
WHELAN MARTIN BARNES
GEORGE BARBIER WARREN HYMER Dlected by Waltari 'A Saker
Dorry F. Zanuck in Charge of Pacian
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
PAT O'BRIEN THE RECORD JOR BLONDELL OFF
A&Warner Bros Comedy Hit
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