1941-03-29 — Page 4

SHOWING

TO-DAY

KING'S

AT 2.80, 6.10,

7.15 à 9.30 P.M.

THE MUSICAL OF OUR EXCITING TIMES!

ALICE

MITT

FAYE GRABLE ́

TIN PAN ALLEY

JACK

JOHN

OAKIE PAYNE

ALLEN JENKINS ESTHER RALSTON NICHOLAS BROTHERS BEN CANTER

A 80th Century Tom Pirineo

AL80 Latest 20th Century FOX WAR NEWSREELS

Latest pictures of the North African campaign. Haile Selassie raises his standard on own soll. Britain seeking

to maintain sea lanes, introduces the corvette, Rushed by clipper plane, latest films show the British nireraft carrier "Ark Royal," which helped bomb Genoa, etc., etc., etc.

**THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE”.

NEXT CHANGE

With Allan Jones- Martha Raye-Joe Penner Rosemary Lane

Irene Hervey --A Universal Picture

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The Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made! The Most Human Story Ever Told!

Maurice MAETERLINCKS

THE BLUE BIRD

in TECHNICOLOR

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Shirley Temple • Spring Byington Nigel Bruce Gale Sondergaard Eddie Collins Sybil Jason and a brillant cast

Directed by Walter Lang Associate Producer Gene Markey Screen Play by Ernest Pascal. Additional Dialogue by Walter Butlock

A 20th Century Fox Picture

Darry! F. Zanuck in Charge of Production 典

SUNDERLAND

SKIPPER'S EXPLOITS

No page out of fiction, not even the imagination of Hollywood, could excel in thrills and romance the story of the exploits of a Flight Lieutenant, skip- per of a Sunderland flying boat, operating in Mediterranean.

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In five months Flight Lieuten. ant William Weir Campbell, D.F.C., has:--Sunk two Italian submarines and attached a third.

Been awarded an immediate D.F.C. for “skill, initiative, and devotion to duty."

Made a forced landing in Greek waters and been interned,

Met and married an English girl in Athens

Been set free from internment when Greece entered the war.

Returned to duty with his Sun- derland and her crew.

The story of the destruction of! the two Italian submarines by Campbell and his crew has al- reany been told. On two succes- sive days they dived out of the skies and destroyed their vic- tims with anti-submarine bombs In the second case Campbell de- ended to take back to his base something more than the photo- graphic record of the end of the sul marine

Was very

Although the sext rough, he taxied the flying bol amongst the wreckage and rescu- ed four Survivors While he was taking them back to safety and internment, he attacked another submarine, this time with ma- cheng-gun fire, his stock of bombs being exhausted.

Later, Campbell and his crew were themselves interned.

They

had engine trouble and were ob- ged to come down in Greek wat- 3. Taken in tow by a Greek warship they were interned Athens, and if Italy had not de- eded to make her rash attack on Greece, they would have been there for the “duration."* Mus- solini's great mistake made Greece the Ally of, Britain, and, amidst scenes of tremendous enthusiasm. Campbell and his crew were re- leased.

It was while the crew were in Greece that it was announced that their commander had been awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. Now they are back at duty in the Mediterranean, While they were in internment the Flight Lieutenant met many of the Greek and British inhabi- tants, and before he resumed the watch over the sea he married the daughter of a leading member of the British colony become engaged

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FAREWELL PERFORMANCES TO-DAY World's Most Sensational Screen Spectacle ! Adventures that have never been surpassed, thrills that have never been equalled and a picture that will never be forgotten Thrill Again To History's Most Beloved Rogues!

ALL IN TECHNICOLOR

The Adventures of

ROBIN

HOOD

ERROL

FLYNN

OLIVIA De HAVILLAND CLAUDE RAINS - Patric Knowles Cooper. Ian Hunter • Una O'Connor

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BASIL RATHBONE Eugene Pallette › Alan Hale - Stadville Provated by WARMEN DE

TO-MORROW AND

MONDAY

Brian Aherne's Greatest Screen Triumph!

The swellest comedy romance of the year-

The Lady in Question

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The Year's Scrap-Happiest Comedy of Young Love! JOAN BLONDELL DICK POWELL

"I WANT A DIVORCE"

A Paramount Picture

HIS AGE WAS A SECRET

Mr. Basil Bernard Watson, K.C.,

a closely-guarded

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Frieda INESCOURT

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TO-MORROW, Robert Montgomery-Rosalind Russell

M-G-M Picturs

in "FAST AND LOOSE"

So devoted to his duties was he that, since the intensification of the air war on London, he made his home at the court lest enemy

North London action during

the night should prevent his ap- pearance on the Bench on time the following morning.

A barrister of the Inner Tem- ple, he was called thirty-nine | years ago and took silk in 1923.

PLANS FOR NEW' CHURCHES

The Bishop of London. (Dr. G. F. Fisher) is to set up a commission to consider the restoration of the City churches damaged by bombs.

EVERYTHING THAT IS NEW IN MAGIC.

MAGIC STUDIO

Now on display t Inspection Welcomel Catalogue Free 314, Dna Vosux Road, Central

(1st Floor) H.K..

HORIZONTAL

1 Ireland

5 High: card

8 Infant

12 Arabian

seaport

13 Parcel of

land

14 Pertaining

to a period

of time

15 To taste

16 Yellow

mineral

18 High priest

10 Part of

infinitive

20 Timbre

21 Hawallan bird 23 Pronoun

24-To annoy ; 28 Implement

for holding

objects.

28. Stacks of hay 20. Posadsaive"^;

pronoun,

30 Siamese colit 32 Alt LAN 33 Male M

34 Appellation

A of Atheną '35 Wine cup

38 To posé

37 Recreation 31 To cultivate 4) Vessal

41 Sún god

43 Greek letter 44 Ox of Celebes

45 Latin con- Junction

47 To imitate 49 Baron's estate 51 Eggs

52 Accessories of

equipment

55 Allowance

for waste 56 Consumed

57 To irritate.

VERTICAL.

1 The Orient

2 Excesalve

stupidity Corded" cloth 4 Printer's

measure

6 Unaccom-

panied

To contend 7 Greek' letter

8 To exist

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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Part of "to be"

10 Upright rall

* support 11. Ancient

European Country

16 To-throw 17 Menageries 20. To seize 22 Upan. 25 Splendour-

29 Mineral. “ 27 Lively dance 28 Inlet

29 Head covering 31 To make lace 33 Wire

mbaluro 34 Samoan *** "seaport' 38 To undergo.

fake docline 37. Cipped:

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Armadillo

44 The Gill

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Dutch

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50 Bunker fence

51 Palm leaf

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silver