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"Captain Fury**
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"A Message To Garcia
ALHAMBRA
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"Three Smart Girls Grow Up"
STAR:
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Coming
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ORIENTAL-
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GENERAL
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939. PAGE
The Ormonde Sisters, who will head-line the opening of the
entertainment season at the Hongkong Hotel's Gripps.
Winter Entertainment Opens At H.K. Hotel
New Dance Band And Some
Excellent Floor Shows
To-morrow night, at the Hongkong Hotel's Gripps, Hongkong's society, will fill the reservations for the gala evening festivities which mark the opening of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Hotels winter entertainment season.
The parade of talent which will make their Hongkong debut on Saturday evening in the Gripps of the Hongkong
"CAPTAIN FURY" Hotel is internationally famous and definitely top rank in
AT THE KING'S
TO-DAY
Hal Roach, who has long been noted as Hollywood's producer of top-notch comedies will
the entertainment field.
Nick Korin's band of ten plece will make their bow to Hongkong's į dancing public. The Russian con- düctor has just completed an engagement with the French Club
COMING EVENTS
SEPT.
Shanghai and brings to the Gripps England's and America's am to-
latest swing and dance music.
U.S. THOMPSON
22-Tides: High 3.38 a.m. Low 11.30 Sunrise 6.12 am, Sunset 6.21 .02. AR.P. "Black-Out"
day present at the King's Theatre his first adventure
YMCA "Keep Pit" Class, 10.30 drama, "Captain Fury," which co-
U.S. Thompson, the negro tap-am: Mrd. Swimming. 6 p.m.; Bad. stars. Brian Aherne, Victor Mc-dancer, who was definitely born to minton. 3.30 p.m. Laglen and June Lang,
dance, will be on the boards dis-
Reel Guess for Children Helena
Annual Meeting of Hongkong Reel
Meeting of Foreign Station Radia Listeners 5 pm.
South China AA Swimming Cham-
pionship. 7.30 p.m.
The picture also features in sup- playing his educated dancing num-May Institute, 4.45 p.m. porting character roles such out-bers for your entertainment. And Club, Helena May Institute. 5.30 pm. standing players as Paul, Lukas, you will agree that man can John Carradine, George Zucco, dance!" Virginia Field. Douglas Dumbrille Hongkong has not seen the like and Mary Gordon,
in many years; this artist will "Captain Fury" which unfolds certainly tap his way to the local Dispensary, 7.30 pun; in English, Club. its story with lightning speed, sus- public's utmost approval, He will Lusitano, 6.30 p.m.; ip Chinese, Chin- penseful adventure and
be a sensation. Thompson former-ese Chamber, Y.W.CA Bonham Road. drama, was given both the produc-IP has tap-danced his way through tion knowledge and the masterful the United States and Europe. direction of Mr. Roach personally.
ORMONDE SISTERS -
swift
The story is laid in the pioneer And the plece de resistance will days of Australia, when the coun- be the graceful cavorting of the try was an open frontier land, Ormonde Sisters. These two clever grabbed up by robber barons who and accomplished English girls are were stealthily building huge head-lining the entertainment at feudal estates and administering traction in the Gripps during the them with all the horror and coming month.. cruelty of mediaeval tyranny.
NAZI SPY MICKEY
EDW. G. ROBINSON ANDERER-Gategy Sumours Pan Lotus Many tran
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ON THE STAGE
RAYMOND
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AND HIS HAWAIIAN ORCHESTKA. Supported by HULA HULA DANCER and
A WELL KNOWN SHANGHAI CROONER
ON THE SCREEN
AT THEIR GREATEST together
Wallace Barbara
BEERY STANWYCK FBOLES
A MESSAGE to GARCIA
"ALAN HALE, MONA BARRIE”
· HERBERT MUNDEN'
'TO-"ORROW; Cary Grant, Victor MacLaglen
KRO. Radio Mightiest
•GUNGA DIN” Pairbanks, Jr.
song.
ROONEY
A.R.P. Lectures.-Shaukiwan Public
7.30 p.m.: in English, St. Andrew's Church Hall. 8 p.m. in English, AR.P. in English, Diocesan Gh's Junior School 8 p.m.: in Chinese, Queen's College. 7.30 p.m.; Taumati Government School, 7.30 pm,
P
23-Tides: High 3.05 a.m. and 7.58
Low 12.30 p.m. and 11.44 pm.
Sunrise 8.12 zim. Sunset 8.20 p.m. Jockey Club Extra Race Meet- ing. Happy Valley.
Annual Outing for Blind Girls, 3
m
South China A.A. Swimming Cham pionship. 7.30 pan.
Football Haiphong v. Combined. Chinese, 5.30 p.m.
During the past six months they have been touring Calcutta, Bom- bay and Colombo their popularity has been famous and. after a limited engagement here, they are A.R.P. Lectures Cha Chinese) returning to England to fulfil con-¡Yaumati Government School, 7.30 tracts for a European tour.
pm, in Chinese, Queen's College, 7.30
And to the tunes of the new band, P.; (in Chinese) Chinese YM.C.A.
Bridges Street, 7.30 p.m. the interesting dancing entertain-!|
24 Tides: High 615 am, and 8.22
SINGS ment offered and the Hongkong pm Low Let p.m.
AT THE LIDO.
Sunrise 6.12 am. Sunset 6.15 p.tt. H.K.RA. Shoot, 9 am, " Football Haiphong 7. Rest of Co tony. 5.30 p.m.
YM.CA. Discussion Group 9 p.m.
Christian Attitude To Other "Faiths."
Lawn Bowls Pinal, 130 p.. 25-HK Cricket League. Annual"
Hotel's excellent menu offering, the Mickey Rooney's career as a song society set of the Colony will open writer is keeping apace with the winter season's rounds of en- his career as an actor. Contracts tertainment. are being arranged with Leo Felst for the publication of his second: Art Cameiro and his bands-Speaker: Dr. K. L. Reichelt on. "The men will do their pert At It is "Love on the Range." the Lido dancing club every Western prairie number, written evening, with the exceptiori of with Sidney Miller, his closest pal Mondays and Tuesday: the open- and severest critic. Their first ing date is set for September 28, published number was "Have a Saturday evening. And, of course, Heart"
Art is looking forward to welcom- Rooney and Miller manage to ing many old friends at the new create one new song during each stand at Repulse Bay's Lido... production in which they appear,
third
Will
"Love on the Range" was written Burg. Capt. G. V. Hobbs while they were making Metro-deliver his
lecture 02 Goldwyn-Mayer's "Andy Hardy "Anatomy" at the Y.M.C.A. on Gets Spring Fever."
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Crown Land Sale, P.W.D., 3 pi YMCA Bandaging Class, 10.30 FL: Flag Whist 830 p.m.
F.K. Singers. Rehearsal, Church, 6.30 p.m.
Union
28~YMCA. Badminton Meeting. 10.30 am. Mxd. Swimming 6 p.m.;. Badminton, 8.30 pm.
Urban Connell Meeting. 27-RERA Shoot, 143 p..
Y.M.C.A. Mahjongg, 10 am: Lecture by Burb. Capt. Hobbs on "Anatomy." 6 p.m.: Whlst Drive, 8.30 pm.
28-Claims against estate of Ernest Perdinand Oppenheim due. Andrew's Club
Annual Gen.
Mtg... Church Fall
Unveiling of Plaque at Morrison Hall by HE, the Governor, 530 LI
YMCA Mahjongg for Beginners, 10 am
29Claims against estate of Charles Harold Brangwin due.
Crown Land Sale (D.O. Bouth) 11
TMCA "Keep Pit Class 10 am, Badminton 8.30 p.m.. Mzd. Swimming 6 p.m
30Boy Scouts Asan Annust. Swim- ming Sporta, YR.C. 2:30 pm.
HK Land Investment and Agency Co. Ltd. Interest on 4 per cent De bentures payable.
SUMMER TIME EXTENDED
LONDON, Bept. 21 (Reuter) Summer time will be extended until November 18 or 19 this year, stated Mr. Anderson, in 2 written reply in the House of Commons.
It is understood that the de- cision is taken after consulting with the French Government who will take similar extension.
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