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ENTERTA

QUEENS

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 x 9.30

Kay at her loveliest in the

KAY FRANCIS

story of a woman who

nover knew what love THE GODSE AND THE SANDER

was until she had to light.

to win back hor, mon!

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

& Warmer free Hall worth

GEORGE BRENT GENEVIEVE TOBIN RALPH FORBES

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

AL 2.80, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

A GHOST TOWN

of terror in the angry moun« tain night.

HELLDORADO

Friday:

with

RICHARD ARLEN MADGE EVANS and STEPIN FETCHIT

with

“Thundering in the Night" EDUND LOWE

CENTRALTARE

THEATRE

10-DAY ONLY.

At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 9.20 P.M.

DOUBLE ATTRACTION

ON THE STAGE The World Famous

CHIN LOO

30 Minute of Thrilla! Wonderful Aurobatic Tricks!

Bensation Halancing! Marvellous Bar Work

ON THE SCREEN

FIGHTING! SHOOTINGI RIDINGI

As no Western star,

not even Buck Jones

himself, has ever

done beforel

BUCK JONES

Crimson Trail

POLLY ANN YOUNG ÄID BOND - CHARLES FRENCH IL STOCKDALE • BUB OSUGENE BUCK JONES PRODUCTION

A UNIVERSAL MOTURE

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THE GOLDEN VOICE THAT THRILLED A MILLION HEARTS

Now thrills yours!

HERE'S TO ROMANCE

JESSE L. TASKY production with

NINO MARTINI

GENEVIEVE TORIN AMITA LOUISE MARIA GAMBARELLI SCHUMANN-HEINK REGINALD DENNY VICENTE ESCUDERO Dised by L. GREN

A LOVE STORY A FOX PICTURÉ THAT SINGS

GARY

ANNA

COOPER and STEN

in "THE WEDDING NIGHT"

HONG KONG "DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

TODAY. AT THE THE GOOSE AND

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Break of Hearts"

QUEEN'S:-

THE GANDER

At The Queen's

k

One of the gayest and yet most exciting comedy dramas, invo.v-

The Goose & The Gander" mng both the theft of herrts and ORIENTAL:

"The Silver Streak"

CENTRAL:-

"The Crimson Trak"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

Thanks A Million" MAJESTIC:-

"Helldorado"

STAR

"Here's To Romance"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Ah Wilderness" QUEEN'S:-

"Mary Burns Fugitive" ORIENTAL:-

"The Informer" MAJESTIC:-

STAR:

"Thundering In The Night"

"The Wedding Night"

Wallace triumphs

3.3

of costly Jeweis, made its local premiere at the Queen's Theatre yesterday under the title of "The Goose and The Gander."

ex-¡

MARCH 19, 1936.

MUI FONG COLLEGE

Trustees For The Indemnity FundsTM Grant

H

SCIENCE APPARATUS ACQUISITION

very

Kay Francs and George Brent, who made such a hit in "Living

Some time ago, the Board of Administration On Velvet," are again teamen Trustees for the the romantic lends They make of the Indemnity Funds remitted an excellent pair of screen lovers by the British Government de- and carry out their characteriza-

cided to make a gift of Science tions with great artistry.

Apparatus to some of the biggest Miss Francis. stately and beau- schools both in China and over-

It is learned that tiful, plays the part of an

seas, husband millionaire wife whose

recently a set of these apparatus had fallen for the wies of for Chemistry and Physics has

married her and beer. "granted to the Mul Uretty blonde. then attempts to flirt with his Colege in Hong Kong. Apparent- the Board. ly, the members of both British and Chinese, have a good impression of this

therefore school and have pressed their willingness of fur- ther support,

first wife.

Kay, seeks revenge and manages to get "the husbard to visit her und at the same time manoeuvres wife number twb and an escort. bound on a philandering trip to a mountain resort a under the same roof. Accidentally, a gen- and his tlemanly jewel robber "mell" réso are sidetracked into the lodge. There follows a series of episodes that are most exciting and at the same time uproarious ly funny. The untangling of the marital mix-up, as well as lewwi robbery, leads to a surpris

H

122 this Eugene

"BREAK OF HEARTS"

as screen. ||

her

the

very

Fong

ex-

the

The

gent

TODAY'S CONCERT

The Mui Fong College, estab- shed nineteen years ago, is in- deed worthy of favourable com- ment. Last month the girls again the Championship of the won Basket Ball Open League for the This fourth year in succession.

their month.

GITS Guides-the Kong Sixth Hong

Company- "AH WILDERNESS”

have handed in the best Chinese essays for the Competition of the Teaming LNG

greatesting climax. of the

S.P.C.A. Cup. This is the second gurest scrven to-day in a

me this Company have won this great story this merapy the

trophy. In a circular recently cross- and America drama

issued by the Girl Guide" Head- section of Average lite

quarters the following lines are nation. "Ah Wilderness"

former found:-"The 6th Hong Kong of famly Transcending all O'Neil's great drama

the triumphs, Katharine Hepburn, should be congratulated on ove, and Lie. adolescent

comes Da flashing genius of the films, comes best essays on the whole, marcii of the years,

to the screen of the King's Thea-handwriting is good and

very systematic Saturday to the King's Theatre.

fresh from tre to-day in "Break of Hearts" and the essays Beery,

Seas,"

one of the most powerful and and very good style." “Chia in

been "O'Shaughnessy's. Boy" and other, beautiful stories that has hits, stars

Uncle Sid, the screened in many years. Her co- lovabe, ineffectual inebriate, one star is the magnetic Charles Boyer, of O'Neil's most human charac-idol of the French stage and ters, with Lionel Barrymore

The Alm tells the story of a the father. Nat Miher, the role played on the stage respectively dashing maestro, Franz Roberti, and the the toast of New York, who falls by George M. Cohan

n love with and marries a strug- late Will Rogers.

with The

deals

angling young composer, Constance story American family in a small New Dane. After an ecstatic European England town in 1906, Barrymore honeymoon, Franz. finds himself

the

Els son caught up in the whirl of his old p'ays

father.. graduating from high school, and life and surrounded by the scores first love Af women who always pursued in the throes of his

the trans- num. He becomes entangled in a afar, goes through ports and despair that each boy romantic association with Didi there is A Lennox-Smith, a young divorcec. lives through, and parallel in the romance of middle Learning of the affair, Constance ite, between Beery, the shiftless tells him that he belongs to the reporterm and Aline MacMahon, world, not to one woman, and re-(Contralto), Tony Lorena (Plano- love proaches him with the fact that forte). whose aunt maiden

Flute-Jack Suiter never ripened into marriage be- her love apparently means nothing

Accompanists: Genevieve Evelle.. her to him. Then she leaves him. cr.use of the inefficiency of 'over and his taste for drink.

The fall of Roberti from the Irene Miller, Fred Alveg. human touches include heights to the depths without her Deft

THE PROGRAMME the quaint high school gradua- love and his regeneration when

Steam Constance Anally renounces pros- | 1-Violin Solos: tion, the ride in the old

July pacts of a wealthy match to re- (a) Melodic car, the town's Fourth of

(b) Czardas celebration and plente and simi- turn to him. make a soul-stirring lar whimsical oddities.

2.-Contralto Bolos:

(a) In Questa Tomba..Beethoven Stoudella (b) Pieta, Bignor........ (c) "Che faro senza Eurydice?"

(Orfeo)

..... Gluck.

the

the

story.

The picture is primarily a bean- tful love story, and the scenes be- tween Hepburn and Boyer are lovely beyond description.

The dramatic highlights include the boy's despair when the girl, forced by her father. writes him that she will never see him again:

in adventure the saloon

A secondary love affair is fur- inspired by the stungster's th-nished by John Beal as a wealthy efectua desire to do something young man who is in love with to show his manhood; the great Constance but who never reveals scene where Barrymore, dramatic sphech that rivals intensity in "A Free Soul." sets

in 2 his

his adoration until her marriage goes on the rocks and she is in desperate need. Another delight-

the feet of the erring boy haul character is portrayed by Jean on the right path, and the heart- Hersholt, as Roberti's old muse gripping episodes between Beery teacher and advisor. and Miss "MacMahon. Though teaching a great moral lesson.

Wilderness!" 15 "Ah

never preachment, but teaches while it the entertains by placing. before audience, actual human life. un- disguised by any fictional trap pings.

MARY BURNS," FUGITIVE

"MONSTER" OF THE FILMS

Boris Karloff In England

London, Feb. 20. Boris Karlot, the "monster" of Walter Wanger's latest Para-"Frankenstein" and other success-

"Mary dram

Burna, ful horror films, arrived in Lon- Fugitive" is the next change at don yesterday. He is to star in s the Queen's Theatre.

Gaumont-British production, "The In "Mary Burns, Fugitive."

Man Who Changed His Mind." Miss Sidney, playing the stellar

Mr. Karlot-in private life Mr.

mount

a

At Helena May Institute

Another musical treat is in store for music lovers to-day when an excellent programme of music and songs has been arranged for the

The artists are:--- Helena May Institute's Concert.

Elsa Alves (Soprano), Soloman i

Lockhart (Violin), Helen

Bard

1

Gluck-Kreisler Monti

3.--Pianoforte Solos:

(a) Polonaise in C Minor, and

Chopin (b) Two Preludes --Soprano. Solos:

(a),The Gypsy and the Bird, -*

and

(b) La Capinera. Julius Benedict

Violin Solos:

(a) Meditation (from Thais)

Massenet

(b) Canzonetta. (from the

Concerto) Tschaikowsky 6.-Contralto Solos:

(a) Dream Valley Quilter (b) From the Tomb of an

unknown Woman (Songs from, the Chinese)

Bantock

(c) "When Childher Plays**/

Walford Davies 7-Planoforte Solos:

(a) The Spinning Wheel....Raft (b) Danse Creole ......Chaminade 8-Soprano Bolos:

(a) Ave Maria, and (b) La Berenata

Tosti

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KINGS

A DRAMA AS VIVID AS THE GORGEOUS, CLOTHES SHE WEARS!

Charles BOYER

THE IMPARSION RD STORY OF A HEADSTRONG GIEL, HEAD-OVER-

HEELS, IN HEAVEN!

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JEAN HERSHOLT.

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in

"AH WILDERNESS!"

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It's got fun! It's got stars! It's got rhythm!

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THE

SILVER STREAK

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Victure

2 DAYS TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

ONLY

THIS PICTURE WAS AWARDED 1st PRIZE

AS THE BEST PRODUCTION OF 1935."

The Informer

VICTOR McLAGLEN HEATHER ANGEL PRESTON FOSTER MARGOT GRAHAME Wallace Ford • · Une O'Consor Prices: Matlabes 20 e-80 a.

DEATH MYSTERY OF FILM STAR

Evenings 20 6.30 6.—506—70 5,

where she had been working on x nim adapted from the play "Dono- goo, went to the Bat of a friend, Miss Els. They were joined by two other young women friends. and all appear to have had a merry evening. "To-night I want to live, I want to enjoy myself," Miss Lys saint during the evening, one of them stated to-day.

TOMORROW & SATURDAY fole, is an innocent girl. hounded William Pratiwas born in Lon- by the law, declared guilty of adon, and is proud to be still a crime of which she is innocent. British subject after, 27 years in he said, "they simply want signed Through a harmless association America. Tall and very dark, he photographs, but it is interesting with an ex-football hero who she is a quiet, gentle-voiced man with to find that when they offer any is unaware has turned gangster, great charm of manner, as unlike comment it is nearly always an

Sudden Collapse At Miss Sidney is convicted on cir-

his screen personality as Jekyll expression of sympathy for the character. I play-the monster in

Paris Party cumstantial evidence and sen~

was to Hyde. tenced to a prison térm

"The interest in horror pictures | Frankenstein,' for instance, des-

London, Feb. 18. Breaking jall, she becomes

seems to be as keen as ever," he troyed, as the children astutely

The sudden death of Monna Lys, CHANGE OF PROGRAMME girl fugitive, vainly trying to

said to me. "I am under contract noted, through no fault of his the attentions of her escape

to make five on my return to own." former sweetheart,

Mr. Karloff is an enthusiastic one of the best known of French the public enemy who pursues her through Hollywood in May.

"In two I shall have to wear cricketer. The Hollywood team, cinema actresses, after a mysteri-lapsed. Her friends serit, for When a wealthy.

Miss Lys was 25. and at the came known in Paris theatrical the headlines.

or two of the others, I hope, I plays matches against 12 other caused consternation when it be dead

Height of her popularity among circles to-day. famous..but bind scintist fals in elaborate trick make-up. In one consisting mainly of film people. ous collapse at a supper party, doctor, but in an hour she was love with her. she is faced with a

gather.

Her pistinum dramatic problem Many thrill-shall have an opportunity to play clubs, travelling as far as San

an actor instead of just a has the best grounds and the best A number of small packets. stated cinema goers.

French screen and her death is nacked situations bring her ad-a more or less straight part and Francisco. Hollywood, I ventures to art exciting angle, be

players, the star performer last to contain cocaine was found in blonde hair was well known on the year being Desmond Roberts, who her bag., CHILDREN'S LETTERS

considered to be a great loss for Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, monster."

the French film world. Pert Kelton, Wallace Ford and

Most of Mr. Karlors letters played in "Journey's. End" on its come from children. "As a rule," English provincial tour. Brian Donlevy are in the cast.

The management of the Queen's A school examiner asked a little boy how many days there are in a Theatre announces that owing to year. After receiving seven as the the delay in the arrival of the Alm, "Four Hours To Kill," due to answer, he remarked: "I said a

the steamer by year, not a week. Now, try again," fog holding up

The boy appeared nonplussed which it is being brought to the for a minute, and then replied: Colony, the picture will be re- "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, placed by "The Goose end the starring Kay Francs Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Gander." Sunday, and if there are any more The film was screened yesterday

and will terminate to-morrow. I've not heard of them."

William K. Howard directed.

On Sunday evening Miss Lys. who returned recently from Berlin

At two o'clock she suddenly cul-

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