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ENTERTAIN

QUEENS

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ONLY at 2.30.5.15.7.20v 9.30

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The Fastest, Funniest Fight to-a-Finish Love Story You've Ever Seen I

'The BRIDE COMES HOME"

Paramount's Comedy with

FRED

CLAUDETTE.

ROBERT

COLBERT MacMÜRRAY YOUNG“

NEXT CHANGE

The Outstanding Drama of the Seisou

FOUR HOURS TO KILC" with RICHARD BARTHEL JESS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1936.

TO - DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:--

"Rinral"

QUEEN'S:-

"The Bride Comes Home"

URIENTAL:-

"Top Hat"

CENTRAL:-

"East of Java"

"Kowloon

Escape From Devil's Island"

ALHAMÉRA:-

MAJESTIC →

STAR:-

"Princess Charming"

"Werewo.t of London"

Evelyn Laye as she appears in the Gaumont-British Picture "Princess Charming that will have its premiere showing at the Star Theatre

to-day. “

SHOWING TO-DAY

NEXT CHANGE

5

KINGS) 5:10,

7.35 & 9.30 P.X. SHE MAY NOT BE A "LADY":

but she's all woman from the heart out!"

Jean with "boney-brown" hair! ["

-in a new thrill romance!

Her Dad idlig Rube

Jean HARLOW

RIFF RAFF

SPENCER TRACY

UNA MERKEL JOSEPH CALLEIA

KATHARINE. HEPBURN-CHARLES BUYER

"OF

"BREAK

HEARTS"

EKO

• RADIO

4 SHOWS

DAIL

2.30–5.19

1.15-8.50

Park and TaSH OR MARRY VALLEY BUB

ORIENTAL

THEATRE DE

FLEMING

ROAD

WANCHAL

TEL. 28473

ONLY 2 MORE DAYS

OF THIS

MASTER MUSICAL COMEDY! THE BEST SHOW YOU EVER SAW!

With Edward Evereff Bertan,

Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes,

Erie Blore, Directed by MARK SANDRICH. Fandro S. Burzmarý Production

FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS

-in

TOP HAT

With gay and rackless tunes by IRVING BERLIN

RED.RADIO PICTURE

A GIANT SPE TACULAR PRODUCTION OF GAIETY, SONG, MUSIC, GIRLS AND LOTS OF LAUGHTER AND BEAUTY.

Pricas: Matinees 20 c.30 c. Evenings 20 e 30 c-50 c.-70 a.

ESTARE

SHOWING TO-DAY One of the Best British Musicals! Initial Showings in Colony !

Hraunting! EVELYN LAYE

YVONNE ARNAUD GEORGE GROSSMITH in a new musical version of.

Princess Charming

WAN MAX MILLER · Maukiol River Digues a delightful musical romance. -NEXT CHANGE

GLENDA

JOAN

BLONDELL and FARRELL

IN

"TRAVELING SALESLADY”

MR. HENKY W."KERR R.S.A.

RIFFRAFF"

At The King's

حمود

A vivid. sparkling new Jeau Har- low came to the screen yesterday with the opening of "Rifraft' at the King's Theatre.

Miss Harlow is teamed with Spencer Tracy who, as her dish- ing, swaggering, two-fisted lover, gives one of his finest character! zutions.

KING'S:-

Coming

"Break of Hearts" QUEEN'S:-

"Four Hours To KI MAJESTIC:

"Helldorado"

STAR:--

Traveling Sales Lady"

ALHAMBRA:-

"Sever Keys To Baldpate"

"THE BRIDE COMES HOME

At The Queen s

The fame v buss Claudette Col belt ist:'t

america connned where she was given the Academy o. Motion Picture Arts and Scien- Les Award for the best feminine performance of 1934

Miss Colbert was notified recent. y that she has been accorded a new honour.this time the Scroll of Honour presented by, the Asso- ciated Society of British Cinema- tograph. Patrons. Miss Colbert was at Paramount studios completing scenes for her latest starring pic ture, The Bride Comes Honie, when she received word of the award,

The picture is now delighting audiences at the Queer's Theatre The Society, headed by Lond Gorman Garthlaxton, has a wide membership, throughout Great Bri- tain and possessions.

THE BRIDE COMES

HOME"

PRINCE CHARMING

ask

this

The cynic will find much to Emuse him in "Princess Charm- ing." the musical comedy featur- ing Evelyn Laye that is showing at the Star to-day. The story has to Princess. do with a King and a Although the cynic will find the Princess a charming girl, he will be more interested in the King as represented by George Grossmich He will

what time monarch of a mythical kingdom found to devote to affairs of State when an affaire of the heart. lead- ing to love in a hunting lodge and ceremonial demanded so much ol his attention. His capers are in strange contrast with royal hap- penings in a real Fingdom. George picturesque Grossmith makes and lively figure of this particular musical-comedy king

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SEVEN KEYS TO

BALDPATE

The old adage thas "truth is stranger than fiction" is given confirmation in ample

"Seven Gene Ray- Keys To Baldpate."

RKO for

mond's

new

feature

Radio, coming to the Alhambra on Tuesday.

The blond Raymond enacts the role of a successful writer of ad- venture stories. Retreating to a supposedly deserted mountain inn in midwinter to turn out a new book, he plunges headlong into a and foregathering of gangsters other mysterious persons whose "We are living i an age ofrantle pursuit of an elusive for- realism, and what is there that we really want to see most-the actual life that is going on about us,"

The story the chronicle of a The emotional content of every- great love that survives every rest day life, will serve the principal Both Miss Harlow and Tracy have medium for motion pictures in the taken full advantage of its pathos,uture, says Ernst Lubitsch. its laughs, its swift flowing action, to produce a picture which stands out as entertainment above the ordinary.

The first of "real living stories he brought to us with "Design for the Living," now he has given us a second in "The Bride comes Home."

tune leads to far stranger inci- aents than he had created for his wwn novels,

With this exciting plat as a basis around which are woven a charm-

zumance and ing

innumerable comedy situations, "Seven Keys To brand-new Baldpate" provides a type of thrill for the picturegoer. Its spooky atmostphere and the slowy setting of the Adirondacks nake the film vividly realistic, and

SCINTILLATING DANCE MUSIC

At The Hong Kong Hotel

Eddie Harkness and his band are booked to provide the dance mu- si at The Hong Kong Hotel Gril Room Dinner Dances on Friday and Saturday next, March 20 and 21, and as on a previous occasion there are promises of an excep- tional treat for the dancing public.

Eddle Harkness and his Orches- tra, formerly of the St. Francis and Mark Hopkins Hotels in San Francisco, also the principal radio stations of the U.S., have appeared with great success have an origin- al style of music which has cap- tivated dance lovers throughout 'the Orient, and their Radio pro- grammes in Hong Kong, and Mani- la are always looked forward to as an innovation,

LADIES GOLF

Results Of Recent Competitions

Last Thursday week, Mrs. New- bigging beat Mrs. Cassidy by 3 and 2 to win the Ladies Championship.

Mrs. A. "K. Mäckenzie won the Railway Cup by beating Mrs. New- bigging 3 and 2 in the final.

A

Mrs. Macgowan beat Mrs. W. 8. Hiller by 2 up to win the Ross Cup.

Mrs. W, 8. Hillier beat Mrs. A. K. Mackenzie 'by 7 and 6 to win the Taggart Cup.

Mrs. W. S. Hilller also beat Mrs : C. Webb by 3 and 2 to win The Captain's Cup.

The presentation of prizes takes

In this picture which depicts the notable cast including Margaretplace on Thursday the 19th inst. real te which we are surrounded | Callahan.

Erin O'Brien-Moore!

Surrounding the team is a not- able cast. Una Merkel, whose re- cent hits in "Broadway Melody of 1936" and "It's in the Air" have by, we see beautiful Claudette Col-Eric Blore, Moroni Olsen. Grant established her more firmly taan bert and Fred MacMurray together Mitchell and Ray Mayer contribute ever as one of the screen's fore- again.

to the acting excellence of the pro- Hamilton directed this screen ver- "The Bride Comes Home," is a duction.

sion of the Earl Derr Biggers novel most comediennes, shows her ver- saulity by portraying a down-trod-

Edward story that has been specially writ-

William and the George M. Cohan play, skill, ten for Miss Colbert and is some- den wife, with consumate who complains that all she got what on the same lines as the out of marriage was two chlidren "Gilded Lily." The whole theme is and the lumbago."

sc real and points to every problem that confront the young lovers of to-day and who, of course, should not miss the picture at the Queen's Theatre to-day.-C.A.

As Nick Lewis, wealthy, domi- neering cannery ownet, Joseph Callela plays a difficult role with unusual power. In this picture he makes good all the promises of "Public Hero," but in a more sym- pathetic part, which gives him the opportunity to display his skill as iu coinedian as well as an actor of

dramatic paris.

•

In the large and notable sup- are Victor Klijan parting cast

Death Of Edinburgh Artist

London, Feb. 18. Mr. Henry, Wright Kerr, R.S.A., R.S.W., the well-known Scottish artist. died at his residence, 14 Mickey Rooney, J. Farrell Mac- Edinburgh, yes! Donald, Roger Imhoff, Juanita crday. Mr Kerr, who was 79, was Quigley, Paul Hurst, Vince Bar- one of the cldest members of the sett, Dorothy Appleby and Judith Royal Scottish Academy.

Scotland Street,

A native of Edinburgh, he re-. ceived his early education in Dun-

1 Wood.

A

dee, afterwards taking an appolat- in this, respect among his best ment in Leith and attending the work. urts classes of the Board of Manu- factures and the Life School of the Royal Scottish Academy.

in

Mr. Kerr first attracted notice

Later he earned a considerable reputation as a portrait painter in olls, and gave life-like impressions of many prominent Scots, among

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FOUR HOURS TO KILL

Richard Barthelmess, absent for months from the screen, return to play the gun fighting desperade who lays down his life to get a Paramount's "Four squealer in

Hours To KUL" next change at the Queen's Theatre. An escaped murderer on his way back to the roose. Barthelmess makes a suc- cessful break in a theatre where

he and a detective are spending the time between trains

While police search franctically for him, Dick makes a call that lures his victim to the theatre and lies in waiting for him.

In the meantime, other small dramas work out in the theatre and lles in waiting for him; a cloakroom boy steals and faces ar writer; rest,

by delicately handled little heads them the Jate William M'Taggart, water colour, the medium in RSA; the Very Rev. Emeritus- time he generally; Principal Alexander Martin, D.D.: which for a worked. His colour schemes were Laing Waugh, the Scots raditionally Scottish, and he ren- Dr Guy, former Dean of the Den- dered with sympathy and appre-tal Hospital; the Rev. Dr. Thomas or

and Sir James Simpson, clation of their best aspects types Burns,

of Scottish character. Such plc-88.C.

Lures as "The Kirk Collection,"

All of these dramas centre, on that of the escaped convict when this victim suddenly enters the theatre" and stands before his hiding place

He was elected an Associate of

Academy 10 A crashing lightning-like cliraax "The Minister's Man," and is the Reval Scottish Day at the Plate" were character 1893 admitted a member of the changes the figures in the drama

Water Colour Só- | and brings it to Its conclusion istic. Many of them were made Royal Scottish familiar by reproduction, while his clety in 1889, and elected an Acade-. illustrations of Dedn Ramsay's mician in 1909. Mr Kerr who was

Scottish Life and Character" end umpled, had Galt's "Annals of the Parish" were al for a long time.

been S

poor

Joe Morriston, Helen Mack, Ger- rude Michael and Dorothy Tree: aupear in the principal supporting rules of Four Hours To Kill,"

Killy and

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ALHAMBRA THEATRE

NATHAN RD. KOWLOON-DAILY AT 2,30

9.30 TEL. 56856

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

HUNTED by killers ...

TRAILED by bloodhounds

•• two dara defy the doom of Bavil's Island 2

Escape FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND

VICTOR JORY

FLORENCE RICE

NORMAN FOSTER A Columbia. Picture

Ducted by Albert Royali,

TO-MORROW

A THOUSAND SHOOKS!

A THOUSAND THRILLS! :

"SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE”

TO-DAY

&

MAJEANC

TO-MORROW THEATRE———————

Wednesday:

At 2.80, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

Carl Laemmle presents A Universal Picture

WEREWOLF

OF LONDON

with

HENRY HULL WARNER OLAND VALERIE HOBSON

RICHARD ARLEN

* HELLDORADO " with MADGE EVANS

ADMIRAL'S FLAĠ IN A` CATHEDRAL

Portsmouth, Feb. 23.

At the morning service to-day an "admiral's flag, once down in HMS. Iron Duke and untu тecеnty in H.M.S. Victory, was ceremon.ally deposited in Portsmouth Cathed-

Fal

The flag, in the charge of a na- val excort and colour party, was brought to the west end of the choir alle during the ainging of the opening verses of Kipling's E. Captain W. "Recessional" Parry, R.N.. addreasing the Blahop and the Provost, as representa- tive of the Commander-in-Chief at the port and of the relatives of the late Admiral Robert Coote, { aaked permission to deposit the flag in the Cathedral He anla that it was presented to Admiral Copte when he was Commander-i In-Chief of the China Station in 1881, and was originally flown by him in the Iron Duke on that sta- the tion and subsequently by Commander-in-Chief

Ports-

mouth in E.M.S. Victory.

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The fag was brought into the Cathedral, and after being de- dicated by the Bishop was escort- ed to the Lady Chapel, where it was hoisted by Captain Parry while the escort presented arms and naval buglers sounded the Ad- miral's salute. The flag hangs in the Cathedral near the White Eu sign that was flown by H.M.8., Vin- the Falk-

"Gladys who will make her apparaten at the Hong Kong Hotel dictive at the Batte

fand is ande· · during the coming week-end.

CENTRAL

THEATRE "OPENS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 * 9.20 P.M. FIRST SHOWING IN THIS COLONY AND" IN CHINA 1 ADVENTURE WITH

A VENGEANCE!

-(GARL LA

PRE

EAST OF JAVA

alerting

Charles BICKFORD

POPULAR FIEST ROY Prices Loge: 800.; Back Circle/80 Back Balls: 400; Front Stalls 200. /

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