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◄ SHOWS

BUL.

1.30–5.15

T.15-8.20

TAKE VACY we YAKAY VALLÈ• Bus

ORIENTAL

GATHEATRE:

ORIENTAL:-

"Coronado"

"East of Javu"

ALHAMBRA:—

"A Tale of Two Cities"

Coming

ENTERTAINME QUEENS

SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 a 9:30

An Euntional Sock that whips, up "Dramatic Suspense and Delivers an Amazing Wallop at the enda Truly Sensational Melodrama

"4 Hours to Kill"

Paramount's Drama with

RICHARD BARTHELMESS

NEXT CHANGE ··

4

PAT JEAN JAMES FRANK O'BRIEN MUIR MELTON M©HUGH in "STARS OVER BROADWAY"

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936.

A

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S :-

"Every Saturday Night"

QUEEN'S:

"4 Hours To Kul"

ORIENTAL:-

"Trowelling Baleslady"

Kowloon

"Whispering' Smith Speaks”

ALHAMBRA

MAJESTIC:-

"East of Java"

STAR:

"The Informer"

TRAINING GALLOPS

Snidier of Britain Macaroni

Young Chap

Ythan

Humber

? 38" 1.13 1.44

1 33.1 1.05.4 1.38 -

33 2 1.03.4 4.31.1 141

38

SHOWING TO-DAY

KINGS

The following time were clocked at the Valley yesterday morning,

Dis- 1st 2nd 3rd 4th -15th Last tance Qг. Qr. Or. Qr.

Qr.

29.9 1.00.4 1.31.2

30.3

31..

Soldier of Germany Tinsmith Boxing Eve

32.1

27,2

Double Chanet

1.17,1 1:51.4 2.34.4 1.13.4. 1,47

33

31.1.

31.4 1.03.3 1.34.4

31.1

Mersey.

# 91.4 1.03:3 1.34.4

31.1

Ranger

I 33

1.02.2 1.31.3 1.58,4

27.1

Copper Idol

1 37

1.14.2 1.50.3 2.22.2

31.4

Ocean View

1

42

1.20

1.55.4 2.27.1

31.3

Hertot

1 44

1.26.4 2.08.2 2.40

31.3

Stopwatch

1

43.1

1.28.4 2.10.3 2.48.1

37.3

Valorous

37.4

1.13.2 1.45.2

32

#36

1:08.4 1.40.4 211.3

30.4

51.3 1.37

Rose Evelyn

1 43

Brutus

2.08 1.35 2.02.4 2.35.8 31.258.3 1.27.2.

31.

32.4 28.4

'Sadko

Ribble

3 332 1 34

1.08.2 1.42.2 2.13.1 1.06.2 1.39 2.10

30.4

31

with JUNE LANGTHOMAS BECK · JED PROUTY NEXT

KING'S:

King's Sceptre

"A Tale of Two Cities" QUEEN'S:-

King's Warden

King's Bounty

"Stats Over Broadway" "Collegiate",

The Drinlin

1 36.2 1.10.4 1.442 2.13

I 37 1.11.4 145.3 2.13.2

1 42.2 1.22.3 1.59.2 3.26.3

1.02 +31

1.34.4

28.3

28.

Get happy

with this happy/

scrappy family!

At 9.30, 5IL,

7.15 & 1.30 P..

EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT

RONALD COLMAN in A TALE OF TWO CITIES."

M.G.K. PICTURE

90,1

92.4

Valley View

Merry Jester

1 35. 1.09.4 1.44.3 2.16.4 11 45

+1

32,1

1.30" 2:11 2.47.4 3.19.1

31.2

FLEMING ROAD

WANCHAN

CENTRAL:won

Rose Queen

Strathroy

1 37.21.12.1 1.47.3 2.18.1 1 32

30.

1.01.2 1.30.2 1.57.3

27.1

Celebration Time

1 35

1.13 1.51

2.28.2 3.01

$2:3

Pontiac Bay

1 37

1.12 1.45

2.15.2

30.2

Mistake Bay

-1 37

1.12

1.45

2.15.2

30.2-

1

31

1.04.3 1.35.4 2.06

30.1

1 54

1.45 2.24 2.49.1

25.1.

1 40 1.15

1.46 2.18.2.

30.2

7 34.3 1.08.2 1.38.2

30

3 39

1.12.2 1.41.3

31.1

39

1.12.2 1.4:3

311

30:4

1 39 1.15.1 1.50.1 2.22.2

32.1.

1 37 1.10.4 1.42

2.11.2

29.5

Lucky Strike

1 31

1.08.4 1.42.4 2.18

33.1

42.2 1.20

1,50.1

30.1

1 37

1.14.3 1.49.2 2.19.3

30.1

Cassius

+36

1.10.3

1.42

-312

Estray

3 38

1.10.3 1.42

31,2

What A Chance Racing Boy Shamrock Miracle

1 44

1.20.2.1.55

2.25.3

30.3

1 39

1 35

1.14.3 1.49.3 2:21.3 1.45.2 2.17.3 1.11. 1 33.4 1.09.2 1.41.4 2.13.3

32

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44 1 1 44

1.22.4 1.58.1 2.31.1 1.32.4 1.58.1 2.31.1

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1 423 119.3 1.53.4 2.25.3

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33.3 1.04.1 1.35.1

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33.2 1:07.4 1.41.1 2.13.2

32.1

1 37

1.13.2 1.48.2 2,31

32.3

1 35.3 1.43

1.48.3 2.20.2

31:4

4 28.2 56.2 1.24

27.3

ALHAMBRAIN THEATRE

NATHAN RD, KOWLOON DAILY AT 2,30:5200720_`E 9,30

TO-DAY & 10-MORKOW

Ride with George O'Brien to the res- cue of a girl aboard

a roaring, runaway, record-breaking locomotive!

George

O'Brien

WHISPERING SMITH Speaks

IRENE WARE KENNETH THOMSON » Directed by David Howard

From the story by PRANK HE SPEARMAN

A Fox Relia

€ 34

1.05.1

1.35.4

30.3

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1.05.1

1.35.4

30.3

1 35:3 1.11

*1.47 2.21

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38.2 1.10

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31.2

1 34.1 1.11.4 1.48.2 2.19:4

33.2

1 34.1 1.11.4 1.46.2 2.19.4

33.2

1 38'

I 38

1:16 1.16

1.51.2 1.23:3 ·*

32 1

1.51.2 2.23.3

32.1

NEXT.. CHANGE

Dawn Star Old Star Mike

1 36

1.12.2 1.45

2.16.4

31.4

1 36

1.12.2 1.45

2.16.4

31 4

1 45

1.22 1.59

2.32

33

Gold Sovereign

1 42

1.22.4 2.01.2 2,30,3

29.1

Hawthorn

1.42

1.20

1.58.1 2.36.1

.38

1 32

103.3 1.36.3

33

TO-DAY:

ΤΟ SATURDAY

1 37

1.1.1 1.45.2 2.17

31.3

Metro's Giant Hit!

RONALD COLMAN in

"A TALE OF TWO CITIES"

MAJESTIC

mathemaneman J^ HEATRE=aman

At 2.80, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•

THE FAMOUS GIMME GIRLS IN ANOTHER RIOT OF LAUGHTER!

THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER'S ON THE ROAD!

DAYS

Traveling Saleslady

JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELL

2 ONLY TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

JOHNNY

A Breezy, Modcup Musical Timed to e Tempo That's FASTI

Adolph Zekor pronunta.

onado

DOWNS - BETTY BURGESS - JACK HALEY

EDDY DUCHIN ANDY DEVINE

A Foramaunt Picture

MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-3 -50c.-70c-

STARE

TO-DAY, 10-MORROW,

BATURDAY!!!

The Best Picture of 1985Į

Soul-stirring drama,

brutally reall

The

with VICTOR

McLAGLEN

HEATHER

ANGEL

PRESTON

FOSTER.

MARGOT

GRAHAME.

• Wallace Ford

Une O'Connor

A John Ford Production "From the novel by Liim 2'Flaherty

57 Ausociate Producer, CB Rad

RKO RADIO

ADDED ATTRACTION COLOUR CARTOON

SUNDAY AND MONDAY

MARION DAVIES. DICK POWELL VIN. GLORY"

PACE MISS

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Appeal Unlost

MAJESTIC:---``

"The Gay Deception"

STAR:-

"Page. Miss G.ory,"

THE INFORMER

Produced by the same studio and staff that made fim history wish The Lost Patro." and pre- senting Victor McLag en, the sam star, Lam O'Flaherty's widely- read novel, "The Informer." coines to the screen.es a John Ford pro- duction for RKO-Radio, Awarded the first prize by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (and acclaimed the best picture of 1935 by the Association of New York Critics).

Accounted one of the greatest character studies and sorbing stories known ture. "The Informer" affords Mc- he Laglen what considers the "finest role of his entire career. While the drama centres closely about one character, roles of ex- traordinary power

and human

qualities are carried by Margot Grans me." Preston Foster, Heather Ange!, Wallace Ford, Una. O'Con- nor J. M. Kerrigan, Joseph Sauers, Nell Fitzgerald; May Botey. Grize'de Harvey, Donald Meek. and other men,bers of the large supporting cast

Having Dublin, Ireland, as its locale, and the troubled years following the World War as Its period, the story centres round the dramatic theme of betrayal. Gypo Nolan, a giant in stature and a pigmy in intellect, "informs" on a pad for a price. His weak- ness for a beautiful blonde woman motivates the act.

Herod

Vixen Tor King's Lead Wadebridge King's Jubilee King's Justice

Rousseau Mayflower Gladiator

Philanderer Rugby Star

Royal Highness Cyclamen Bay Strathalan Plain View Shooting Star High Speed High Honour' Unicorn Belmont Star Paymaster Burgomaster · Balion

Blue Ribbon

Hopscotch Tiny Star

"CORONADO"

1 41.3 1.20.3 1.59.3 233.1 3:04

With 20 pounds in h's pocket. Betty Burgess, 13-year-old-Los- and the worst crime known to Angeles high school girl whose

"EVERY SATURDAY

NIGHT'

is

One of the happiest, scrappiest

the family pictures of

year, "Every Saturday Night." the new and hilarious Fox Comedy-drams typical American family, which 14

the now showing: at King's Theatre.

of

a

th:

The story of "Every Saturday Nigh depicts the trials and tribulations found in the modern,

his compatriots on his conscience. frst mction picture engagement Gypo becomes à man relentless sands her starred in Paramount's pursued by fate. Altemately Coronado," can sing, dance, draw ifted Lis drucken heights of

paint in olls, knows something grandeur delusions, tortured by

plays about scu ptre and and mad fear. torn by remorse,

Diano. harried by superstition he is

opposite Johnny Batty is seen carried from one dramatic situn-

Downs who was the "Al-American Boy" of the first "Our Gang" All of the action of the pictare comedies, in "Coronado, and dan-American home. The Evers family. takes place in one eventful night ces as well as sings to the music composed of Mr. and Mrs. Evers, into which is crowded the drama of Eddy Duchin and his Orchis two daughters, three

boys and to the times granny, are all up except dad. He had old-fashioned ideas as to how to bring up his children and his continual rectur

A preview of "A Tale of Two tion to another. Cities" at the King's Theatre yes

terday revealed that despite the years and the constant repetition од both stage and screen the Dickens masterpiece has not lost Its appeal -

of life and death, love and hate.

1 tra. hope and despair.

The setting for the story is one Comedy rellet highlights the That the well-known tale can stark drama of the story, and a of the world's most fashionable still interest 20th century film softer romance,

between Preston beach resorts the Hotel Coronado audiences is due largely to the Foster and film's excellent handling and the vides contrast to the attraction Burgess plays the part of an en-

presents

EAST

OF

JAVA

CHARLES BICKFORD.

ka Universal's Amazing AdTENEURS DESEZAİ

Heather Angel pro in Southern California where Missing dampens the fun of his Sunday:-Francis Lederer in "The GAY DECEPTION"

carefully selected cast in which between McLaren none is better chosen than Ronald Grahame. Colman who plays Sydney Carton on lines, which if not strictly Dickensian, will add to the already long list of Colman, admirers.

"Colman's

Miss

FOUR HOURS TO KILL

tertainer with Duchin's orchestra. Youthful, handsome Johnny Downs is the son of a millionaire auto- mobile manufacturer who comeɛ to the hotel and falls in love with the orchestra's singer, but through a series of "tinfortunate, circum- stances the rich boy fails to con- the Queen's Theatre: is the screen vince the gir from the other aide adaption of the success.ul Broad- of the tracks that he is wild about

tier. way stage hit, "Small Miracle."

"Four Hours to Kill!" the new showing at Paramount film, now

bipod.

of the

Every Saturday night proved to be a thorn in Dad Evers' side. Late dates, reckless driving and the high speed activities of his children kept him in sour humour throughout the week. One parti- cular Saturday Night, the Evers portrayal of the

home is beset with a series of Wastrel Carton has been infused

critical situations and when Dad

ster with many light touches that are

Evers

how

children hia so well played that they do not

shoulder the responsibilities be far on the intensely tragic story

begins to realize that in compari- The action of the story taker! and bring the macarbe and sordid

son to his neighboure children, revolution scenes into sharp rellet. place almost entirely in the lounge

STARS VER BROADWAY his brood is not as bad as he He is assisted well in his light of a Broadway theatre and depicta

made them out to be. scenes by Reginald Owen and the unusual drama that occurs in

The Parton sistema, vocalizing of Harry Warren and A Dus n. the ives of a group of people in Billy Bevan

a catchy tune during one of the Elizabeth Allen is a charming the space of four hours. Heading ace song writers, have composed figure as Lucy and a good actress the well-rounded cast are Richard four new hits for Stars Overnight club scenes is one and Claude Gillingwater and Edna Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Helen Broadway the new Warner Bros, highlights of the film. May Oliver are splendid in their Mack. Gertrude Micheal, Dorothy musicomedy, coming this week-end

to the Queen's Theatre, Tree and Roscoe Karns, roles.

concerns The songs include "You Let Me dame" with James Melton, the The plot of the story In contrast to silent films of the same story, Charles Darnay is not Barthelmess a condemned murder- Down," a torch number: "Where famous radio singer, who makes a doubled part with Carten buter. who spends the last few hours Am I?", a novelty and a character his Am debuit in this dim," is played in this aim by Donald outside, prison, manacled to the novelty. "At Your Service. Ma- The number Warner and Dubin wrote as Melton's solo is where Woods who bears a somewhat writ of his detective watching dame."

Jane Froman, who recently was Am I?" In addition to this song. striking resemblance to Colman. Broadway musical. A

Among the many others who He effects bis, escape, and chan- named the most popular star sin-Melton sings "Celeste Aida Carry have much to do is Basil Rath-ges the lives of the others in the ger of modern songs in a poll Me Back to the Lone Pri bone, Mitchell Lewis, Henry B. theatre. His escape is not for conducted by radio editors of the other numbers. The picture is

drama with Walthall, H. B. Warner and a freedom but for revenge and how United States and Canada. will thrilling comedy brilliant newcomer, "Blanche be achieves revenge is brought out introduce You Let Me Down.". In music, with an all star cast

productions staged by Bobby Concluding Pat O'Brien, Jean Turka, who as the fanatical re-in a cleverly conceived climax. volutionary woman, paints a hor- The romance is carried out by nolly, brilliant dance director, the Miss Froman Melton. Fran rible figure.

"B." Joe Morrison and Helen Mack. will sing, "At Your Service, Ma-High and Marie Wor.

"

s

and

12 NEW AIR LINERS FOR EMPIRE ROUTE

EACH WITH TWENTY SLEEPING BERTHS

World's Finest Flying Fleet

liners, in, serviss, this speed is sufficient at the present time.

The liners are no die for de- livery for some months. They are intended for European and Ima perial services, and will certainly Le used on long stages involving night Sying.

FOUR 720-HP. ENGINES

They will be, four-engined mallo planes, with 720/760 hp: Tiger engines, and normally accom modating 27 persons, with sleeping berths for 20.

It is possible, however, that, some" of them may be equipped for near ly 40 passengers for short, stages.

Whom at the end of the year... many of the new Short, flying-boats London, March 12.

are in service, and the new air- Twelve air liners, each with liners are being delivered; & time- sleeping berths for 20 persons, aro table of two days to India, four being built by Messrs. Armstrong days to the Cape, and seven days Whitworth for Imperial Airways to Brisbane will be hear.

These, with the 20 Blying boats re- The new. Armstrong Whitworth forced to in The Daily Telegraph' type embodies the latest repentch. yesterday, will complete a fleet of 1 and will be a fine sample of Bri- 41 great passenger aeroplanes un-tish aeroplane design and com equalled throughout the world⠀⠀⠀ struction,

Like the flying bonds, the pow It is a high wing manoplane; planer will have a cruising speed with the engines set in the landing of about 160 miles an henr. edge of the wing The under Although there are a few faster air carriage is retractable

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