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Cinema Notes

"CRADLE SONG" KING'S THEATRE

Dorothea Wieck, the German ac itress, makes her debut in Holly- wood pictures in Paramount's "Cradle Song," how at the King's Theatre.

Miss Wieck, who created a son- sation in the German film, "Maeds- chen In Uniform," gives a remark- able spiritual performance, and is ideally cast as the nun-"Slater Joanna"-who finds an infant on the convent doorstep and is allow ed to adopt her. The foundling grows to womanhood and falls in love,

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The detalled life in the convent is most interesting with the ri tual and routine, and the back- ground of the story, laid in Spain, is a most colourful one.".

"DAMES"-ALHAMBRA THEATRE

Because he had he room to carry laggage on his epoch Bight over the Pacific ocean, from Australia, -Sir Charles - Kingsford- Smith, noted dyer, found himself with only one sult when he arrived in California: Bo, he hunted up a tállór, and here 'you ree him getting measured for a new sult in Los Angeles

SAVING THE CHARM OF HAMPSTEAD

DEATH OF “SEM”

His Caricature-Satires Of Famous People

BRIDGE NOTES:

Showing Strength

By Bids

by Ely Culbertson.

TADION

TODAY'S PROGRAMEE

• The...”- following programme will be Broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZR.W. on a wave length of 855 métres (845 KEDIA

1280-216. (p.m.--European - Pro grantme, there was

12.80-1 pm Recorded Music----- 1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Report.KASK

1.08 pm Recorded Music, ?.

I had passed three honour trioka and I had to show you the atrength of my hand," was the re mark of a rather Inexpert player to her partner after playing the 1.15 pan A Belly of the Orchestra hand below in the absurd contract from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room of four notrump. She thought she (by courtesy of the Management). was using the four-notrump bid in 1.30 pm Reater Press, Bulletins,

p.m.---Close, Down

its conventional meaning of show 215 m. Now, the ing two Aces and the King of a Dance Masia from Heng Kong Hotel

47 p.m. Chinese Programme,

bid sult, but her partner construed

Igramme,

It as simply making a possible 7-12 midnight European Pro- game practically impossible. In

7 pm London and New York Stock further extenuation of her un- and Commodity Quotations.

7.05-7.40 pm

usual bid, the lady continued: "I had support for both your suits and La Valse (Ravel) I never thought you would drop

Perhapa South, her partner on this unfortunate occasion, should have bid five clubs, which could have been made, but to him it was amazing that North could there, passed the opening bid and then, without either supporting a suit or showing one of her own, jump to four notrump. Slightly afraid of

The hand waa:" North Dealer

The supporting cast includes Louise Dresser as the Prioress, Sir Guy Standing as the Convent Doctor, Evelyn Venable, who is most suited to the role of the in- nocent fresh young girl who brings so much joy to "Sister Joanna,"

Nydia Kent Taylor, Westman, Gertrude Michael and Town Planning Schemes

•Georgia Caine,

Speaking at the annual banquet

The world-famous caricaturist such unusual things, he decided to was pass of the Hampstead Licensed Vic Sem," whose real name tuallera, the Mayor of Hampstead, Goursat, died at his home last Mr. B. S. Townroe, said Hampstead month

"Sem" was born 71 years ago at An all-star cast, supported by was quickly changing, but fortun- 300 of Hollywood's most beautiful ately the whole of the borough was Perigueux, in the south of France girls, are featured in Warner covered by four town planning. He was one of the most biting of Parisian and caricaturista Brothers' musical extravaganza. schemes. "Dames," the Alhambra Theatre's The first scheme protested Hamp Riviera society of pre-war daye, no International stead's most prized possession, the and there was. New Year offering.

Outstanding In the cast are Joan heath and its surroundings. It celebrity in the diplomatic, politi Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keel-had passed through all ta stagestcal, or sporting world who escaped er, Guy Kibbee. Zasu Pitta: and and was now effective. Already, the satire of his pencil

the erection of large blocks of flats Before the war he often visited Hugh Herbert.

The story, by the well-known near the heath had been stopped. Engiand he held an exhibition of playwrights, Robert Lord and Del- The three other schemes were still his works in London in 1908 but imer Daves, is a hilarious comedy in the interim, development stage, of late years he had remained in tinged with a glamorous romance, allowing for a greater degree of Parle.

It treats of a somewhat hypocri-jelasticity, and it was necessary to His albums contained caricatures |- tical and highly eccentric multi-exercise incessant vigilance to pre-of almost every crowned head in

East and West vulnerable

NORTH

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BRAGA, B. millionaire whose chief concern in vent estate developers coming into Europe, among them being the late 50 LAMMERT BROS. Day been appointed General Works who eventually gets drunk on two-roomed tenements, miscalled on terms of close friendship.

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-NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

TESSRS, H. RUTTONJEE &

girl.

cough medicine and is taken for a "inexpensive. flats-de-luze." "ride" by a gold digging chorus

Rerkeley, who created and stag-

ed the ensembles for "42nd Street,”

BRITISH BIRDS

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H-10 8 5 4 8 2 DK 1.7 C-10 65

10 b

H-K DQ 82 CAK 8.82

Ballet Egyptien Suite (Luigini)

8p.Local Time and Weather Report.c

7.40-8.80 pim-Variety. Vocal Duste

I Cover the Waterfront Mood Indigo STRAN

At BarLayton and Johnstone. ante vo Can't we talk it over. Now that you're gone.

Saat vang de Carroll Gibbonä. Vocal Shuffe off to Buffalo

You're getting to be a Habit with ine Band

Irving Berlin Waltz Banga Instrumental-

Liebestraüm (Love's Djólin The Blue Danubert Vocal Gema-Old Timera 745 Instrumental-

Sweet Hawaiian Dream GirlWaits 8.30-9.03 Band Maste Rakoczy Matter Damisation of Fazat"}

(arr.' Go@py)

Radetzky March (Strauss, Op. 228) Nell Gwyn Dances (Edward German) Humoresque (Dvorak): Matching with Sousa

Entry of the Gladiators March

(Fucik)\\

Sons of the Brave March (Bidgood) 9.03-9.30 p.m Scottish Selections. Songs-

O sing to me he old Beotch Senga

(Lenson) TALV Ye banks and Brass (arr. Lees)

Joseph Hislop (Tenor).

¡Band---

Reminiscences of Scotland (arr.. By Godfrey) Sanga

Wes Willie Winkle (Roberton) There's nae tuck about the Fonse

(arr. Macpherson).

Songs

1:

Boyd Steven (Soprano

Bonnte wea thing (Fo

MacGregor's Gathering (Lee)

Joseph Hislop (Tenor). 9.80 p.m- Ester Press Bulletins, London T... Stock and Commodity Quotations,

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"I never draw from life," "Sem" once said. "I watch and I listen, and then I go away into solitude The bidding: (Figures after gradually to await the crystallisa-bids refer to numbered explana tion of an impression in my brain. tory paragraphs.) “Gold Diggers of 1938," "Footlight

"Sometimes I have made any North... East South West Parade," and "Wonder Bar" has We have over 400 varieties of thing between 80 and 100 different Pass (1) Pass: 1 C (2) Pass 8 S (4) Pass something spectacular in this new British birds, numbering about drawings of the same subject, each 2NT (8) Pasa

0.85-12 midnight-A Relay of the production.

100,000,000 in all they include drawn from a slightly different ANT (6) Pass Pass (6) Pass

Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong The romantic interest is furn-some of the handsomest birds in position."

North should not have passed Hotel. Grill Boom (by courtesy of the this hand. The correct open Management) ing bid is one club,

10.80 p.m.Reater Press Bulletins, 2South's hand is barely more Rugby Mid-day Press New Farther than a minimum but fully London Stock and Commodity Quota-

tions. comes up to the requirements 12 midnight-Close own. for an opening bld.

M SON will move to Nour Dud-ished by Dick Powell and Ruby the world, like, omdator, char

dell Street, Ground Floor, on 31st Keeler. December. They beg to request their customers to be good enough to forward New Year orders to theft present address (15 Queen's Road, Central), before noon on that date.

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BOXING

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

LEE THEATRE

TO-NIGHT

AT 9.15.

"MERRY WIDOW-QUEEN'S

THEATRE.

1

finch, goldfinch, stonechat, phala- rope and teal; some of the sweetest singers, like blackcap, redbreast and nightingale: travel- lers to us from the Arctic, from

All the famous songs of the Africa, from the Baltic. Franz Lebar masterpiece, "Merry Widow," are presented in Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer'a musical romance

Hundreds of gorgeously costum-

TRAGEDY OF LOST BEAUTY

Disappointment And Suicide

of the same name, featuring ed players, hage and spectacular Mrs. Rigby, the wife of a retired Maurice Chevaller and Jeannette settings, and unique effects lend colliery manager, came to London MacDonald, now

from Nuneaton, to have beauty at the Queen's fresh glamour to the picture, Theatre.

treatment.

The hauntingly romantic "Vilia” "THE BOWERY” MAJEŠTIC

le sung by Miss MacDonald, as are

"To-night Will Teach Me to For-

THEATRE

North, having passed an open-

ing bid, la In some difficulty in finding a good call at this She chooses the fairly paint. strong bid of two notramp rather than showing immediate Bupport for the clubs, a

4-Of course, South is not inter-

ested in notrump with his dis-

FRIED EGG LEADS

TO COURT

Way Of Expressing Disapproval

An ogg led to a summons at Wok-

tribution, and now bide the ing police court recently. shaded spade suit, hoping to

The plaintiff was Leonard Her find an advantageous spot to bert Nind; grocery of Firbright, play the hand.

Surrey. He saidy "The defendant 5-Having support for both suite walked into my shop holding in his bids by her partner, North now hand a fried egg on a plate, and

Featherweight Championship of the Maxim's" and "Girls, Girls, Girls." ters, including Chuck Connors. at a London hotel and the Coron makes another strong, but verzakked me if I was going to change

.Colony.

A. B. PRANDY

She had an incision under the eyea and an injection on both aides of the nose, but she was dis-i get," "Melody for Laughter" and "The Bowery" bridged the roaring appointed in the results of the "Widows are Gay" Chevaller's romance of New York in the '80's treatment. songs include I'm Going to and '90's with its famous charac. She gassed herself in her room Mr. Ingleby Oddle, said at the in- Together, Miss MacDonald and Steve Brodie and Swipes. Chevalier sing "The Merry Widow The story is powerfully told with quest at Paddington. Waltz". A male bhorus renders Wallace Berry, George Raft and Thornycrofts. This craft will be 6

Jackie Cooper in the leading roles, "It is a dreadful tragedy that a Featherweight Champion Royal. Navy "We'll Go to Cafe De Paris"

In addition, the Franz Lehar Fay Wray has the part of lucky woman should take her life because music in its original form-embel-Calhoun, rescued from the white she is dissatisfied with her personal lishes the "Can-Can" ballet at slavers, while others in the cast appearance. She was apparently over, was that North and South Medd Sygrove, commercial Maxim's,

the Marshovian ballet, are George Waleb, Pert Kelton and absorbed in this vanity, and could had taken seven the huge Albertina Rasch waltz Lilian Harmer.

not grow old gracefully and accept and West six. In other words, the said "The plaintiff cold

four-notrump contract was defeat an egg which smelt so ballet and other spectacular de-

quietly the ravages of time." tails.

H.M.S. Kent

and Royal Marines

STOKER DEE

H.M.S. Medway

Bantam and Featherweight

Champion of Cornwall

10 Rounds Welterweight Content MAX BRILKA

Former German Welterweight

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A. B. APPLEBY

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6 Rounds Middleweight Contest CORPORAL FITZGERALD

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A. R CLARKE

H.M.S. Medway

6 Rounds Walterweight Contert

A. B. PARKER

H.M.S." Medway.

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"LADY KILLER ORIENTAL

Chevalier and Miss MacDonald head a huge cast which includes

THEATRE

Edward Everett Horton, Una Mer-

bad, bld.

the egg. Trepiled, "No He then Completely at sea as to exact threw the Ske straight at me, and ly what is happening, South though I tried to dodge it the plate decides to pass.

hit me on the ear Me? The result, when the battle was the defendant, Frederick

entricks and Exat far of Brook House,

it was fried that the

Kitohen

me first and I threw the

late at his face in the ensuing

He recorded a verdict of Suf-ed three tricks. cide while of Unsound Mind. The hand plays' best at í

The husband, Mr. Harold Rigby, club, which cannot be defeated. "Lady Killer," a melodrama fes- said his wife, who was 51, was 4 four-spade contract would kel, George Barbler, Sterling Hollo turing James Cagney and Mae rather sensitive about her appear set if a club were opened, by West,

The bench, In view of the con way, Donald Meek and Herman Clarke, is Warner Brothers curance. He understood that she had allowing East to trump It; but Bing.

rent release at the Oriental Thea- some treatment in London from even a four-spade contract, though Aleting evidence, dismissed the tro

* Mr. Bell, the result of which was unsuccessful, could not be criti- case

eized. But anotrump contract The picture, based on a story a great disappointment..

had no chance to succeed,

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and so prevent

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1.774

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1,784

Rounds Welterweight Contest

1,725

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Had North's subsequent bidding been correct, she would not have auffered at all from her unfound original pass of a strong hands She was fortunate in that her, Sir John W. Lorden was the prin partner opened the bidding. cipal speaker at a der stration gave her a chance to show her

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