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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
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"BING
JOAN
CROSBY BLONDELL MISCHA AUER
East Side of Heaven
TO-MORROW
M-G-M PICTURE
NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE.
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Marie Antoinette"
QUEEN'S
"East Side Of Heaven"
ORIENTAL·
"Four's A Crowd"
CATHAY:
"Thanks For Everything"
ALHAMNRA
Kowloon
"Mutiny On The Bounty"
NELSON EDDY
VIRGINIA BRUCE
STAR:
in
"LET FREEDOM RING”
"Message To Garcia" MAJESTIC:
CINEMA & GENERAL
CROSSWORD NO. 406
ACROSS
12
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1 Coarse hair
5 Beverage
8 Looplike
structure
12 Pledging of a
vessel as
security
17 Parcel of
land
18 Myself
22 Symbol for
tellurium
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50 Palm leaf
51
Amazement
54 Actual being
55 Insect
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On the shel-
29 luminated
31 Receptacle
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tered side
DOWN Counterfeit
32 Chinese
,,2 Pertaining
"The Romance Of
Wood"
The Red liquid sauce
33
Section of a
3 Imitate
window
"Stand Up And Fight" ALHAMBRA
34
Beverage
35 Declare
"Let Freedom Ring" STAK:
"Three Blind Mice" MAJESTIC:
"There Goes My Heart"`.
fully
39 Quantity of
36 Rule
-37 Sing cheer-
8 By
9. Nothing
10 Calming
paper
40 Symbol for
11 Poker player's
stake
45
iran
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"Hard To Get"
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KING'S:/
FLEMING
ROAD WANGHAI
TEL. 29473
Coming
"The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt"
QUEEN'S:
Let Freedom Ring"
ORIENTAL:
"Trade Winds"
23 Loop with a
running knot
26 Exact coun-
terpart
27 Becomes
withered
28 Grate
to marriage
4 Depart
5 In that place
6 Wriggling
7 Air herO
26 Maintair,
27 Mineral
spring
38 Happiness
30 Number
* 32 Posed for a
portrait
33 Fuel
35 Slumbered
36 Lariat
38 At home
30 Smiling
40 Visage
41 Greek god
of love
43 Woodland' plant.
44 Succulent plant
4 SHOWS:
DAILY
2.305.15
7.15-9.30
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ORIENTAL
PAYS TO-DAY
⚫ZONLY
TO-MORROW⚫
HERE'S A COMEDY YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS!
They wanted to get married the worst way
and they did! Mad, merry and "funny show.
ERROL FLYNN
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND ROSALIND RUSSELL PATRIC KNOWLES
FOUR'S A CROWD
STARTING
SUNDAY
ON ANY HONEYMOON
and
...WE KNOW!
WALTER CONNOLLY-HUGH WERBERT
„Started by Michael Danie
MELVILLE COOPER WHEN Mes Petr
TRADE WINDS'
IN" FREDRICK MARCH
JOAN BENNETT.
• MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20-30c.-50e.-70c.
DARY
AT
$50
5:20
720
9.20
ISTAR
TO-MORROW
20th Century Fox Picture
TODAY ONLY
HABBOW
1040 COMMILDONT TEL:
57795
SUBLIME WITH COURAGE! LUSTY WITH LAUGHTER!
A MESSAGE BEERY to GARCIA
WALLACE
BARBARA
STANWYCK
JOHN
BOLES
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in
willy
ALAN HALE - MONA BABRI
HERBERT JAUNDIN
■ DARRYL F. ZANUCK
20th Century Production Presented by Joseph Al. Schunță '
Loretta Young Joel McCrea
THREE BLIND MICE"
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DAILY AT 2.30.5.15,7.20,89.30.P.M. MATINEES 11. DÖLÜ 206, 40%. EVENINGS 1–20%... 306, 60s, 70c #02-
TO-DAY ONLY
1939's FUN INNOVATION 2. WITH THE YEAR'S
GREATEST FUN COMBINATION!.
ASCANDALOUSLY FUNNY PICTURE
ABOUT 'MISTER AVERAGE MAN'!
TOMORROW
MONDAY
Thanks for Everything
FACK
MENJOU - OAKIE: HALEY
TOWY S
WHELAN MARTIN BARNES ZNA Tā 200 Connery-Fax, Picturs.
M-G-M's Mightiest Drama of Love & Danger!!!
SAZURE- EO
STAND UP AND FIGHT" Wallace Beery
Robert Taylor
CATHAY:
"Marie Antoinette”
Opens At The
King's To-day
42 Compass
Volcanic turf
14 Perfume from
point
· flowers
43
Sanction
19
Christinas
44 Indian mad-
carol
21
Pronoun
46 Metric mea- sure of area
24 Large bag
window
der
Twenty years of dramatic his 48 Fold of cloth tory, four years of intensive pre- paration and three months before the camera have been compressed into two hours of thrilling enter- tainment in "Marte Antoinette." the spectacular new picture star- ring Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power, which opens to-day at the King's Theatre."
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Norma Shearer
her. resumes brilliant motion picture career as Marie Antoinette, a girl who look- ed upon her marriage to the Dauphin of France, played by the young English actor, Robert Mar- ley, as the great adventure of her life. Instead, she found herself wedded to a dull clod, soon to be- come King Louis XVI who gave her neither love nor protection the from her many enemies at Palace of Versailles.
In setting and costume, the ple- ture, directed by W. S. Van Dyke elaborate II. depicts the most period the world has ever known.
Featured in the supporting cast of 162 players are John Barrymore as King Louis XV, Anita Louise as Princess de Lamballe, Joseph Schildkraut “ Duke d'Orleans, Gladys George as Madame du Barry and Henry Stephenson as Count de Mercey, and others.
25 Month SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Solution No 405 RAIN URED MIR ONDE POPULATE CABOT TAPETRL
TALS PACE DRY SHY WATT LOTS HE RISES WIGHT AMBITS VENEER MARCHIDEA DISO
AHHEIR GID
LAT PENNIMATI AL PERICE D'AR MADAGASCA-RITO BEE STEELE EM
X'MAS FUNDI STARTED BY
"OUR GANG"
Members of "Our Gang," who have made, thousands laugh at their antics on the screen, have started on campaign to spread joy by their off-screen activities,
SHAPE OF FILMS play between scenes
TO COME
Action With Minimum Dialogue
Narrow road
47 Being in the
most abstract sense
49 Meadow
50 Lubricaté
52 Symbol for
selenium
53 -Symbol for
tantalum
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COMING EVENTS
SEPT.
*-Tides: High 3.10 am, and £10 D. Low 11.30 am and 810 pm
Sunrise 6.0 at Burke chung Thiên YM.C.A. "Keep Fit Class 10.30 am. Mixed Swimming & p., Bad- minton 8.30 pm
club
AR.P.
Lectures-(English) Lusitano, 5.30 p.m.; A.R.P. (Chinese) Chinese
Chamber of
Commerce, 7 p.m.; ARP. (English) YWCA, Bon- am Road, 7.30 pm.; ARP. in Eng- lish, 20 Ice House Street, 5.30 pm.; A.R.P. in English St. Andrew's Church Hall, 6 pm.
Cheero Club, Bridge and Mahjongg
3 pm.
Drive High 125 am. and 7.10
الابيو
D. Low 122 pa and 10.57.p.m. Sunrise: 6.08 am Sunset 8.33 pan. HK. Police Club House Opening -3.30 p.m.
Seventh Day Adventists: Dedica Sory Service of China Pioneer Memo- Hal Church, Ventris Road, 245 p.m. AR.P. Lecture at Taumati Govt- School 7.30
10 Tides: High 545 am and 7,50 p.m. Low 1.10 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.08 m. Sunset 6.32 pan. Races at Macno.
Lawn Bowls Patra Pinal, Civil Ser
vice
Club, 3.30
Rosary
wp.m
Church: Wedding. Hussain- Macintosh, 3.30 p.m.
YMCA Discussion Group -p.m. Speaker: Prof. R. Robertson on "Na-
the
International
They are building a Christ- mas fund for needy children. Spanky McFarland suggested the tionalism and
of Metro-Ideal" Goldwyn-Mayer's "Gang Insar- ance." The others were so en-pm thusiastic that donations began' pouring in immediately after the furid was started.
PENNY A DAY
The average weekly allowance given members of the gang ́18] Out of that twenty-five cents. they have agreed to contribute Action pictures with a minimum one penny a day, plus any toys of dialogue is what the Paramount or games of which they have tired. Film Studios have planned for the Their teacher, Mrs. Fern Carter, next year, according to Mr. F. V. consented to act as banker and Kennebeck, Manager Paramount also store all the toys in her Flims of India Ltd., who arrived in | garage. Ceylon recently.
Mr. Kennebeck was met by Mr. Jabir Cader, Managing Partner of the New Olympia Theatre and Mr. NV. Krishnan. Paramounts" local 1 agent.
Speaking to an "Observer" re- porter, Mr. Kennebeck said that the public taste in films was for stories full of action with a min
Club Tambals 11 an. Tides: High 6,52 1.m.`and 3.28 | Low 12.27 am and 2 pm Sourier: 4.08 m. Suntet £71 p.m. Miccesan Boys School *Term starts
St. Stephen's College Term Starts. Diocesan Girls' School Term starts: HK Singers Rehearsal, Union Church Kennedy Road 620 p.m.
HK. University Opens Crown Land Bale, P.W.D. 3 p.m. YM.0.A.-Bandaging
Class 10.30 Flag Whist Drive 830 p.m. "Military Police Mess Whist Drive (aggregate) 8.45 pm.
able
12 Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Stor age Co. Ltd., Interim Dividend pay. T.M.C.A. Bridge 10 a.m.; . Mxd. p.m.; Badrainton 9.30 Swimming 8 Then, the week before Christmas, 13YMCA. Lecture by Burg. Capt.
G. V. Hobbs on "Anatomy" 6 p.m. the gang plan to spend their en-
YM.C.A. Flag Whist and Mah- tire collection on groceries for Jongg 10 am: Social Whist Drive 8.30 deserving youngsters and along p.m.
with the toys, begin distributing EKRA. Opening Rifle Shoot 145 their goodwill around Hollywood.
Tard
14--Area
Inter-Unit Swimming Championships at VEC, 2 pm..
Lecture on Home Nursing (English) "French Without Tears" with Ray at Queen Mary Hospital §. p.m.-Lec- "At Confuetus Milland and Ellen Drew, "Bean tirer: Dr. (Mrs.) 13. Dovey
to Mr. Haleo
Fu-chen Y.M.CA-Mahjongg Class-10 s.XL* WS. Committee Mig: 10.30 am
15-Area Inter-Unit ·Swimming Championships at V.R.C. 3. p.m.
Patries
imum dialogue. Mr. Kennebeck Geste" with Gary Cooper and service
close for Trinity College of Music Examination sta
said that Midnight" shown - "Rulers of the Sea" one of the cently was one of the anest comedy biggest madtime films with Douglas films of the vear. The "highlight" Fairbanks Jr. "Gullivers Travels" of the series was Cecil de "Mille's a full length reature cartoon made "Onion Pacific"-depicting the in technicolour by Max Fleischer.
YMCA "Keep Fit" Class it am "wedding" of the Oceans, so to "The Light that Failed" based on speak. The star roles were taken Kipling's book
with Ronald Mad Bwimming 6 pm: Badminton
8.30
D.m by Joe Mcrea, Barbara Stanwyck. Colman, and an unusual techni-
15-Police and Prison Dept.
Aquatic Akin Tamiroff.
colour film "Dr. Cyclops."
Sports at VRO
Old Girls #Dorothy Lamour in "Disputea "London After Dark and Thei Passage," "Man About Town" and Admirable in a technicolour, film "Typhoon" Charles Laughton, Mr. Kennebeck were some of Paramount's out picked out as extraordinary films. A "classic" in the shape of the standing productions of the year. :
story of the life and love of Victor NEXT YEAR'S FILM The studio had planned out Herbert the musician and "Ger- Afty-eight alms in all for the next on me the story of the chief of the Apache Indians of Arigona, year, he said.""
They included a popular play he said were in the making m
ABSOL
Crichton" starring First Aid (Chinese)
at Queen Mary Hospital 8 pm-Lec turer: Dr. (Min) P. C. 14.
23-Jockey Club Extra Race Meet Ing. Happy Valley
Annual Outing for Blind Girls, Hongkong League
Football Season starts,
28-Claims against estate of Ernest Ferdinand Oppenheim" due. Glass Claims against estate of Charles Harold Bmarwin "due.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939. -PAGE 5
MRITORY
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
SHOWING TODAY
DAILY¤ AT 12.00, 14.30, 7.10 & 9.40 PM.
NEVER BEFORE, SUCH UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM
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same to Hollywood —"Maria Autoinette.**
*Pazdano & STARAN,
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"A triảmph là gia nour and reallem, a damaling vities for the rotara of Norias Chakree."
As
COMEDIEN BEHALLERT, Los Angeles Timme Destined to make ninqradio history, foiluftsly splash-making na thu tunnuning of tho Queen's Mary,"
-PLANE MITTANEL,
Los Angeles Trouing News "The picture taken more than ? herein the Belling and when I say it weerand ilke no movie than 15 ruinuten thai la the grontah complimont I can pay this superb motion picture."
-LOUILLE O. Pamos,
Low Angule. Examiner "A antable trampå for Norms Bhoszer, tha
entire cast and 'M-473,"
Casilanny Missa,
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Los Angeles Daily News ***Mare Antoizotts' is a lavish, “spectacular
triumph. Nothimi ja left to be dirait."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER "Destined to win universal aceiala si 305 of the imperative and sportscular dim after luge of all time."
—Ivan Rumar,
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MUTINY
ON
THE
BOUNTY
CHARLES
staring
LAUGHTON CLARK GABLE
FRANCHOT TONE
A Frank Bayd Production
TO-MORROW, NELSON EDDY. VIRGINIA BRUCE MGM Picture in "LET FREEDOM· RING.
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON TEL:72??
MATINEES. 202-30; • EVENINGS, 20%:30&50-700
TODAY AND TOMORROW.
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HEART "THERE GOES KY
United Artists Comedy: Benantion
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