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Eleanore Whitney Robert Cummings William Frawloy Roscoo Karni John Halliday Elizabeth Peterson and Billy Lee A Paramount Picture
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Flute Solo-Fantaisle Caracteristi- que (Andersen)....Edith Penville; VocalWhen evening's .twilight
DECEMBER
When Christmas Festivities Upset
1936
Upset KINGS
The Imaginings of to-day become steadfast and true |
(Hatton) ....Sweet and low (Tenny Your Children
the inventions of to-morrow. "Ful-
arr. Bidgood)..... Grand Bands; Bands-Mira-
lon's Folly developed into a palatial Massed Dran
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Baby's Own Tablets
steamer and afterward into a de luxe strel Memories (art. Rimmer); Will Put Them Right.
in wayside Sanctuary Idyll (Mac- ocean liner. Balloons, deemed in-
kenzie) .Grand. Massed Brasa sanity Hille more than a century
At this festive season children fre have evolved into dirigibles Bands Vocal-Annie Laurie (Trud, quently, ent more rich food than is ago, which fly across the Atlantic. Pre-arr. Batten)....Heddle
Nasli,and good for them with consequent sent day selentists have actually Male Quartette: Bond-Blaze away-digestive upset. To counter the
March (1lolzmann) ....Columbin effects of such over Indulgence, and experimented with rockets in
this your 19
1930, an
having been
German Band.
quickly to restore normal well-being. Attempt made to bitch gliders behind rockets 8.30 p.m. Troise and His Man-all. that is needed generally is a dose
or two of Baby's Own Tablets, In a mail carrying lest. Experi-, dollers, with Don Carlos. ments are continuing in this dires- 9 p.m. Nows and Announcements.
0.20 p.m.
Keep this ideal children's medicing From the Studio. handy for use in all cases of health being tion, even as these words are read. Nothing, however,
has.
been "Music Light and Gay.".
irregularities in little children such Mary Gray (mezzo-soprano), Olga as constipation, wind', billousness, tried in the way of reaching other planets, as Flash Gordon does in his Morgan (Piano), Prue Lewis (Vio-feverishness, colds and croup, diarr Journey to Mongo, a mythical planet lin) and Geston d'Aquino (Tenor), hoen, worms. ruled by Ming Flash, here of a 10 p.m. Big Ben.
They 10 p.m. Marck Weber and Illaume, alloying pains almost as if by thousand hair-breadth escapes
are splendid at teething Alex Raymond's newspaper strip. | Orchestra. has not only made his way in
magic. Children like the tablets on Reminiscences of Grieg (arr. Ur-account of their sweet taste; safe and recket ship to the planet of Mongo, bach); Sulte Orientale (Popy); Falth effective, they are easy to give, being but to the imaginative realms of Almdom as well. He and his comchen (Heykens); Columbine's ren-accuracy of dosage is assured by the ful Jumping Jack (Heykens); Stand-readily crushed to powder, whilst panions will be seen in Universal screen play "Flash Gordon", widezvous (Heykens); Song of Paradise lozenge form in which they are put. Harking back to other imaginutive 10.30 p.m. Dance Music.
in
which
WHEN | (King). at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
Kindred
stories, Finsk Gordon is n spirit of the tending figures in H. G. Wells' tales of adventure in stronge spheres. such
The Tline Machine," "War of the Works," "First Men in the Moon" and "In the Days of the Comet."
"Romeo and Juller"
In "Romeo and Juliet", showing to-day at the King's Theatre, the loom of the great Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer studios, with its array of creative personalities, has brought forth a work of expression embel- lished with alumnents of appeal, with mingled charm and thrill, that de monstrate again the motion as the dominant art-the best m of narration, re-creation that
has
yet erolved. The perennial modernity of the
love theine, and the curious capnelty of the screen to make all that ever was in any yesterday a liv ing event of to-day and now. has never been more acutely exemplified thun in this "Ronco and Jullet." Core and thought devoted to the pro- duction through long months of
pre. and after the shooting start- paration ed are reflected in every department. The music score by Herbert Stothart is rich, sympathetic and effective. The dialogue, departing only slightly and altogether judiciously from the text of the play," retains in ful! men- sure the deft
gery of the play
costumes wright. photography plainly manifest the time and money expended upon them. Performances by the principals. shoulder each other for mention. Norm Shearer's Jullet is
and
11 p.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
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4,500 *.*.
Wavelength
49.59 metzea $1.53 met ren 11.30 tre 23.02 metres
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4:80
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14,750 1.c.
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15,260 k..
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19.12 Målves 26.84 meizes 13.97 metres
19.45
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19.30 meires
13.310 kr. 19.80 atres Transmission 1
(..., 0.9.0.)
4 p.m. Elle Iten Empire
No. 18,
Farsign Affaire,"
421 p.m.
Magaalne,"
4.it p.m. The G.B.C. Empire Orchestra. 6.40 p.m. The News and Annesinesmenis.
Greenwich Time Blanul at 2.15 pm,
Transmission 2
(6.9.0
7 pm.
8.8.41)
x bien. Quentin Maclean, at the Urzan of the Trocadero Cinema phant and Castle. London.
7.15 p.m. Forelyn Affairs." 7.30 am. Danes Mbale,
Mandellere,
7.35 .. 'Nerves" and "Anniveralty,
30 pm Traine And Tim
with Don Carlow, The_News_and_Anhounermenia. Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 p.m.
• p.m. 9.20 p.m. A Violonselta kecital by Douglas
Cameron.
Transmission 3 46.8.0.. GS.F., 8.5ML)
# 10. 5.m.
Grosvenor tЯoprano). 10.15 b.m.'Empire Exchange.” 10.30 p.m. The Northern Ireland
Hard.
up.
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"THERE ISN'T TIME..!"
(Continued from Page 6.)
iwenty minutes here. You do the inside and I'll do the outside," And In this modern time-saving manner they "dk" building in which on old-fashioned tourist would Have
spent half the day.
Those Americans, who hnd reduced
| time-saving to such a fine art, were
typical of their generation. By not wasting a minute anywhere they were probably able to see our coun- try in two weeks, all Europe in two months, and the whole world in less than a year. And by the end of tlini time they would know less about
Hem. A Recital by Aune the world than they could have learnt by sitting quietly at home arid Breading Stevenson and a few other writers for whom the present genern- tion has "no time."
11.30 p.m. Euery Hopeful's Party. 19.15.m. Orchestral Musle.
12,30 kn. The News and Announcemania, Greenwich Time Rigna) at 12.45 a.m.
17,50 km. The Western Brothers Kenneth The Miser's Hoard
and Georg.
ren and Leslie Howard's Romeo compares more than favourably with any of his justifiably famous pre vious portrayals. Jolin Barrymore's Overman, Sam Hardy, Frank Me minutes, reading a headline instead Seeing a show-place in twenty Mercutio amply confims advance re-alynn, Sr., and Craufurd Kent, ports of its excellence
and Basil
of an article and an article instead Rathbone's proud, ruthless Tybalt is Alexander Hall, who has directed
sound, dramatically
consistently ane productions since of book, using a train instead of a powerful his entry into that field a year ago, coach, a car instead of train, and an characterization. Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, Violet Kemble Cooper, with this one. It was produced by the means by which we add to the bas outstripped even bis best efforts aeroplane Instead of a car-these, are Edna May Oliver and Henry Kolker B. P. Schulberg for Paramount, and amount of time at our disposal.. And
others who distinguish them- the screen piny and dialogue are selves in the picture.
art
"Little Miss Marker"
credited to William R. Lipman, Sam most of the time saved is promptly Hellman and Gladys Leliman.
lost again.
·
If you are one of those myriad millions who subscribe to the oft-
"Back To Nature"
The old misers used to live in quoted aphorism about good things coming
North, South, East and West, the squalor in order that they might save i sinail packages, you happy, scrappy Jones Family travel every possible penny. But as they should go to the Majestic Theatre, the trail-in adventure and romance never spent their money it was of no where Danio Runyon's "Little
MIS
liss in "Back to Nature," new Twentiethnot have saved it. We live at brenk- to them and they might as well Marker," is now showing. This par- Century-Fox hit which is showing neck speed in order that we may save ticular good thing's name ts Shirley to-day at the
mple.
Alhambra Theatre. Although She's
barely five Featuring Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, every possible minute. And wa weighe little more than forty Dixie Dunbar, Tony Martin,
pounds, we'll wager that you never | Byington, Kenneth Howell never stop in think that if we do not;
June Carlson,
make wise use of the time thus saved it, is no more use to us than gold
was to the misers.
What is the good of reducing the can make some profitable use of the time taken over a journey unless we
time we save? And where in the
before saw so much personality, such Ernest, direct straightforward and admirable Roberts and Billy Mohan, "Back to neting as this divinely dimpled little Nature" is the rialous story of the charmer lends to her role in
whim sient and vastly entertaining chre-more thrilling, mare exciting, and
Joneses on a vacations
vacation nicle of little-known
wn Broadway. more riotous than your own. James Topping the cast are the suave ond Tinting directed the im, with Max sense of saying, "There isn't time for Inimitable Adolphe Menjou; gorge Golden associate producer, Robert it in these days?" If there isn't time nus Borothy Dell, who made her Ellis and Helen Logan wrote the for a thing in these days, when was motion picture debut in "Wharf sercen play, on original story based there ever time for it? Angel, und such seasoned perform on the clintacters created by Kather- ers as Charles Bickford, Lynne ine Kavanaugh,
Robert Manning
• COMMENCING TO-MORROW
HI FOLKS!! Alexander Botts
APPROACHING!"
Stopping right out of the uproarious Saturday Evening Post stories.....to shake the screen with the daßrious adventures of the world's "super- salesman" (he admits it himselft
BROWN
JOE E.
EARTHWORM TRACTORS
JUNE TRAVIS GUY KIBBEE
DICK FORAN CAROL HUGHES GENE LOCKHART.
OLIN.HOWLAND JOSEPH CREHAN Directed by kaymond 'fre
AND SPECIAL TECHNICOLOUR SUBJECT CHANGING OF THE GUARD
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1938.