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ENTERTAINM
TO
QUEENS
DAY AT THE
CINEMA
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1936.
TRAINING GALLOPS
SHOWING TO-DAY
The following times were clocked at the Valley on January
SHOWING, TO-DAY at 2.80, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.in. LOOK OUT! GIRLS AT WORKI Those gimme girls you loved in "Kansas City. "Princess
are at it again in the riotous Warner's
romantic hilarity hit
"TRAVELING SALESLADY"
YOU MUST SEE
JOAN
BLUNDEL).
GLENDA FARRELL
with HUGH HERBERT-PATSY KELLY - GRANT MITCHELL
NEXT CHANGE: "OLD MAN RHYTHM"
KING'S:
Hong Kong
"Charlie Chan's Secret" QUEEN'S:—
"Travelling Saleslady" ORIENTAL:-
"Bonnie Scotiana"
Kowloon
Merry Jester Ideal Day and..
Celebration
Paymaster -and
Lancashire
27 and 39:-
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11
Dis- 1st tance Qx.
And 3rd 4th Sch 6th Last QI, Qr. Qr. QT.
QI.
January 29
Strathalan
1
Shamrock
40.3 1.19.2 1.58 1 43.1 1.30.2 2.20 2.05 1.22 1 43
1.27.4 3.02 2.39.2 9.11.3
314
3.30.2
34.3
32.1
35.3 Time 1
1.10.2 1.43.1 2.18.4
35.3
Loom 38
Cassius .....
1
1.14.1 1:46.3 48.2 1.29
322
2.08.1 238
29.4
ALHAMBRA:---
Busbridge and
STAR:-
This Is The Late"
MAJESTIC:—
"The Whispering Shadow""
"Lilies Of The Field"
Peter Davy
38.3 1.12.2 Blue Ribbon 4 34.3 1.11 Heriot
1.46 1.46.3
53.3
95.3
4 34.1 1,05.2 1,39.3
34.1
January 27...
FROM FAI.
KINGS
Coming TO THRILL YOU
CHILL YOU!
WARNER OLAND
IN
CHARLIE CHAN'S
SECRET
At 9.30, 5.10. 7.45 & 9.30P.M.
ALSO BUSTER KEATON "TARS AND STRIPES”
LATEST FOX MOVIETONE NEWS
FREDRIC MARCH-OHARLES LAUGHTON
in "LES MISERABLES"
20TH CENTURY
PICTURE
The Gorilla Gold Sovereign ... 1
...... 1
38.2 1.16.2 1.52.3 224
31.2
38.2 1.12.4 1.46.2 217
30.3
Coming
Ballos....***
ROAD
Hawthorn
WANGHAI
TEL. 28478
Gold Engle Gunsmith
KING'S:
"Les Miserables" QUEEN'S:
Silver Lining......1 Unicorn & Judea 1 41
1 42
43
45.3 1.27.2 2.10.1 2.43.2 138.4 1.12.4 1.45.4
41.3 1.16.1 1.20.3 1.26 1.17.4 1.52.3 2.23.4
33.1
33
1.50 2.24.2
34.2
1.57.2 2.30.2
33.
2.02.2 238.3
34.1
31.1
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
NATHAN RD, HOWLOON DAILY AT
"Old Man" Rhythm"
GRIFFINS
January 27
H
SHOWING TO-DAY
Laughing Buddha Laughing Girl140 Miracle Silversmith
34.
1.06.4 1.14.3 1.48
1.39.2
32.3
2.21
2.52.3
ANOTHER SURPRISE!
313
237
1.11 1.40.4
29.4
39.3
1.16.1 1.50.2 2.21.3
31.1
A totally new "Ginger ""
STAR-
"HI Gaucho!"
"The Glass Key"
January 29
displays her manifold
Boolat Bay and
Tyne.....
1 34.4 1.08 1.40.1 2,113
31.2
Thunder Bay and
35 1.09 1.42 2.11.4
29.4
talents in a new Song and Dance
Drama!
35.2 1.07.4 1.37.1
29.2
14 42.3 1.22
Benerth
Estray
1
46.2 1.29 33.4 1.64.3 1,39
1.59.2 2.32.3 3.04 2.08.1 2,38
31.2
29.4
34.2
and
·14 40
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
4 SHOWS
FLEMING
DAIL 1.30-5.13
715-20
ORIENTAL
POSITIVELY
THE LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY FAREWELL PERFORMANCES
OF THE FUNNIEST PICTURE EVER MADE YOU WILL NEVER SEE IT'S EQUAL AGAIN!
THEIR BIGGEST
ST Laff
FEATURE
LAUREL HARDY
Bonnie Scotland
Presented by HAL ROACH Moandomneyn-Mayes HOTUM
SPECIAL
FOR TOMORROW & SATURDAY ANOTHER GREAT SCREEN TRIUMPHS
THEY MADE HIM A PAUPER... AND HE BECAME A KING!
MONOGRAM PICTURES
LIONEL
ATWILL
BEGGARS ERMINE
BETTY FURNESS
HENRY BWALTHALL JAMIESON THOMAS
Prices Matinees 20 c.--30 a. Evenings 20 c-80 c—50 £—70 e.
STARE
TO-DAY ONLY
WINIFRED
SHOTTER
Lilies of the Field
with ELLIS
JEFFREYS
DIRECTER BY NORMAN WALKEA
TO-MORROW
GEORGE RArt — EDWARD ARNOLD
IN THE GLASS KEY"
OLD MAN RHYTHM
TRAVELLING SALESLADY
ORIENTAL:-
"Beggars In Ermine"
"In Callente" **Arizonian" "She" "Nit Wits" ALHAÑIBRA:---
LES MISERABLES”
1.
Darryl Zanuck is producer great for anticipating social up- heavals in his "screen entertain- ment. His The Public Enemy". was the forerunner of the fate Which befel Dillinger... and served as the first gun, in directing public attention to the man who becamÉ · known as Public Enemy No.1.
His "Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang" called attention to the condilons in penal institutions of watch the recent San Quentin prison outbreak, in the course o Which Tour convicts kidnapped-the State Parole Board and attempted. to use them as shields, was an out- growth
"When Victor Hagó fictionized the adversities of Jean Valjean in 'Les Miserables,' he was raising a powerful cry against the In- humanities of the parole system then existing in France. To-day the pendulum has swung the other! way. Instead of being too drastic and oppressive, our system is too lax.
There are two sides of the question to be argued. But in our picture, we do not intend to argue. Our business is to entertain.
!
Bear Claw..... 1 King's Lead Honeymoon! Eve
and Royal Wed- ding Eve
. Dawn Star
Old Star
Sarle
Violet Queen Tinamith
Ranger
Strathroy
January 27
11
139.3
I 41.1
1.18.3 1.53.3 2.21.4
2 34
1.07 1.34.2
January 29
28.1
27.3
1.27 2.07 1.46.2 3.23,3 3.57.2 33,4
AUSTRALIANS
1.15.2 1.50.4 2.24.2 2.57.3, 3.27.2 29.4
A BARREL OF FUN. AND ADVENTURE! This is the LIFE!
JANE WITHERS
JOHN MCGUIRE SALL
SIDNEY TOLER • FRAN
11 40 1.15 1.47.3 2.18.4 2.48 11 46.2 1.20.2 1.53.3 2.25
29.1
2.53,2.
28.2
Holiday Eve
37.3 1.11.3
1.39,2-
27.4
Brutus and Rip-
por Tor
145 1,25
Electron
1 33.4 106.4
2.02.4 2.38 1.37.2 2.06
3.06.4
28.4
28.3
29,2
30.4
29.4
1.47 2.15.2 2.09.2 2.37.2 2.05 2,32.3
29.2
28
27.3
47.3 1.33.1 2.15" 2.45.4
Centre Court... 137.3 1:15 1,50 2.23 2.52.2 Lancashire Lad... 1 Moonlight... 1 Silver Streak ..... 1 Merry Time ..... 1 A Grand Time... 1
35 1.10.2 1.45.1 2.15 38.4 1.15 49.3 1.33.4 47.3 1.20.4
FUNERAL SCENES TO BE SCREENED LOCALLY SOON
Film Rushed To Colony
4
Local cinema fans will be glad
NEW THAMES TUNNEL
Work To Begin This Year
"Fredric March, as Jean Valjean, represents unfortunate humanity, while Charles Laughton, as the detective. Javert, symbolizes the letter of the law, relentless in its to know that through the good and At The Queen's
criminal. pursuit of the
The efficient services of the Paramount lesson is there to the criminals Film Company scenes of the "Travelling Saleslady," one of
about which the public reads on funeral of King George, which the freshest and liveliest comedies the front pages of its newspapers. were photographed in London on
London, Jan. 11. of the season, opened its reason at Between the screen and the news- Tuesday will be screened in & local.
Work on the Thames tunnel be- the Queen's Theatre yesterday to
papers, the public can draw its theatre in 14 days' time. delighted audiences; with Joan own conclusions and direct ïts The photographs were taken at tween Dartford, Kent, and Pur- Blondell heading the all star cast. sentiments to the end that the the funeral in London developed fleet, Essex, will be started this Women will be especially delighted question of Paroles shail be and printed over-night, and left year. This with the picture, for it shows how effectively settled."
Croydon for Paris yesterday, officially yesterday by the Minis- a girl with initiative and par-
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, brilliant There, they are to be connected try of Transport. sonality "gets the better of her male English stage and screen star, is with "Air France" mail direct to rivala in the business world. The story is very breezy and whimsical, co-starred with March and Laugh- Hanol. They will then be tran- with bilarious situations and a ton in this Darryl Zanuck produc- shipped to Hong Kong. Most unusual climax, The dialogue snappy and the action swift moving from start to finish.
tion, showing on Friday King's Theatre, which Bolesaws directed for through United Artists.
i.
at the The news-reel is expected to ar- Richard rive in Hong Kong on February 10 release and will be screened the next day at the Queen's Theatre...
LILIES OF THE FIELD
Joan Blondell, in the title role is as full of pepper and ginger as ever. Her acting is snappy and full of nerve and she handles every situation with skill and artistry.
William Gargan plays opposite Miss Blondeli as the star salesman
Cameras, "mikes" and all equip- of a rival concern whom the worsta
ment of the twentieth-century at every tura. The story is not without its romances and share of talkie producer were strange vin- i love tangles for Glenda Farrell tors to the old-world gardens of appears on the scene as the jealous Westwell Manor near Oxford, when rival of Miss Blondell for the affeo the exterior scenes of "Lilles of the tions of the handsome Gargan. | Field” were filmed.
THE CHILDRENS CINEMA SHOW
Children. just love the pictures! And Grownups can be assured that the programme arranged for the King's Theatre on Friday morning will be enormously appreciated by the younger generation,
Ambulance
was
announced
I understand that the work will take approximately four years to complete. Continuous, employ- ment will be provided for hun- dreds of men. The cost is esti- mated at £3,000,000
In addition, arterial roads will be built linking the tunnel with existing highways.
The tunnel will provide a much- needed artery from north to south of the river, and relleva congestion in Blackwall Tunnel and on Wool- wich Ferry. It will
TO-DAY
ONLY
MAJESTIC
At 12.80, 2.80, 5.20,
THEATRE-
The
7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
BELA LIGOSI WHISPERING SHADOW
SECOND CHAPTER
ford by-pass and Watling-street on the south.
A HANGMAN WITH A
GRIEVANCE.
Amnesty Causes Loss Of Income.
Relieve traffic congestion in
The first task will be the sink- the City of London.
ing of a plot tunnel and shafts. Save the Journey through The only engineering difficulties East London for traffic south of are expected on the north side of the lower river to the docks.. the river. where special works will "Allow trame to travel between be necessary owing to the un-
Warsaw, Jata. 12. centres in the North to towns in satisfactory nature of the strata.
An action probably without the South without touching Detalls of the internal fittings (parallel is about to be brought in
of the tunnel have not yet been the Polish courts by the -London; and V
worked out, fully, but a great deal hangman. of help, will be derived from the experience gained in building the Mersey tunnel
Thanks to the generosity of the Miss Farrell adds no end of humour. The Manor, mentioned as a farm King's Theatre management, and to the picture. Hugh Herbert has in Doomsday Book, was Jent to never boen funnier as the inebriated British and
Dominions by the of the Flim Distributors concerned inventor. Grant Mitchell doej sx-
Association, Every ellent work as the conservative wner, Sir Sothern Holland, a well-all the proceeds are for St. John known figure In the City, who trothpaste "manyfacturer, All Shean Plays the role of the rival
granted full facilities for "shoot body knows what wonderful work that well-known society does for
Increase the Importance of -to-date manufacturer and is a ing" in the grounds and did all he
the sick and poor in the New Ter-
the docks at Tilbury Charles (Buddy) Bogora, whoaugh riot. Ruthr Donnelly also could to assist in the filming. As
Field" isritories, and they are in urgent abandoned Hollywood some yenrads to the comedy as the mother a result "Lilies of the Take as the height of his stardom to of Miss Blondell,
noteworthy for some really de- need of funds just now.
Please buy tickets for your terial roads between London and lightful English garden and coun-families. It will be such a treat Talbary on the north of the river, tryside scenes brilliantly photo for them, and you will have the
and between Erith, Dartford, Gra- graphed by Cyril Bristow. romantic headliner of RKO Radio's gut in on the romantic tangle, Strangely enough, the problem satisfaction of knowing that you vesend and Strood on the south are helping sick children at the increases the importance of the smart musical comedy, "Old Man with delightfully absurd results.
before Norman Walker, the direc
tunnel: Rhythm." coming attraction at the Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore retor, was not to take full advantage same time.—“DEA"
become one of the nation's most
popular dance orchestra leadera,
has returned to the serest as the
"
The recent construction of ar
Stale
Last week the Government pro claimed an umnesty, commuting all death sentences to imprisos”- The depth of the tunnel below ment for life. The hangman now the Thames will presentan proposes to test in the courts his urgent problem. One authority claim for indemnification from has suggested that 35 feet would the Government because of the be sufficient but the general feel-loss of his main source of income, lag, I understand, is that 40 feet It is revealed that in the past ne should be the minimum. PILOT SHAFTS....
has been paid a" "per, - capitem" mah batte sinembered for their comedy parts of the facilities, but to make the
**The Light and witty the story is based in
In some parts of the world the bum for each execution. Gay Divorce and scenes rather less magnificent than
The tunnel 'will be 11 miles east, dredging or estuaries has been in- Fangmen, be contends, should un a unique relationship that develoberta and were lately seen in they actually were surely a unique Manor had regretfully to be left
of Purdeet and 15 miles below terfered with by the presence of he comulted or warned when un lops between a father and son when the Astaire-logera musical "Top the latter succumbs to the wiles of Hat have the major roles, Barbara position for a fim director! The outp
chonide receivé ® full. seductive gold digging college Tent, Grace Bradley, George Bar- script demanded a country vicar- Lilies of the Field" is the at-Tower Bridge. It will link up under-river subways Buch a sit amnesty is proposed, girl. He closes his business desk Bier, Dave Chason and Betty Grable age, so some of the most beautiful traction at the Star Theatre to directly with the London-Tilbury uation will be guarded against proclaime
road on the north and the Dart in building the Thames tunnel damages for loss of earnings gvenues and rock-gardens of the day," and enrolls as a college freshman to are featured in the cast,
Queen's Theatre.
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