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ENTERTAIN

QUEENS

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

NOTE THE SPECIAL TIMES at 2.30, 5.05, 7.20 & 9.30.

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SEE whole city built in SEE priceless galleons launch-

splendour to show you how "Blood" razed it with cannon

fre.

ed and munned to show you how "Blood" blew them to bits!

SEE the white slave markets SEE 1500 men risking their

of the Carritan repro duced in all their infamy to show you why" Blood" hurled defiance"ut an emperor!

lives before the on-

·slaught of eiuba and euthaas to show hu w "Blood" turned the Atlantic into a blood-red sea!

A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ADVENTURE packed into this miracle of motion pictures!

CAPTAIN BLOOD

With ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

„CIONSE ATWILL, BASIŲ RATHBONE

- NOTE :-Reservations will be held only until 10 minutes before the commencement of each performance.

* SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.12

7.73-530

TAKE ANY TRAN OR MANY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROMEO

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LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY

SHE DUG UP A SENSATIONAL STORY THAT WAS TOO HOT FOR PUBLICATION

A SHOW OF THRILLING ACTION!

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Bette's Biggest Hit Is Coming!

FRONT PAGE WOMAN

Warner Brgy," headline bit—

Two BETTE DAVIS · GEORGE BRENT

DAYS

•2 TO-MORROW & SATURDAY ❤

SPARKLING

ACE COMEDY STARS

THRILLING! HILARIOUS! with song

with romance with laughter ALL ROLLED INTO ONE SWELL SHOW!

HERE COMES & BAND

with

TED LEWIS and His Orchestra

YIRGINIA BRDCE TED HEALY NAT PENDLETON HARRY STOCKWELL DONALD COOK SPANKY MCFARLAND

•Metro Goldwyn Mayer

LAUREL-HARDY

SPECIAL

ADDED ATTRACTION LAUREL & HARDY IN THEIR SCREAMING COMEDY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936.

Children Of Fortune

TO - DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Last Of The Pagans"

QUEEN'S:

"Captain Blood"

ORIENTAL:-

..."Front Page Woman"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :—-

'"Annie 'Oakley”

MAJESTIC:-

"Cardinal Richelieu"

STAR-

"Smart Gr}"

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Last Days of Pompe!!" ORIENTAL:----

"Here Comes The Band"

· ALHAMDRA:~~~

"Gentle Julfa" MAJESTIC:--

STAR:

"Shipmates Forever"

"Alice Adams” "Rose Of The Rancho"

"HERE COMES THE BAND'

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Less than a year after they became film players, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland obtained the most coveted screen roles, of the year, as leads of the Cosmopolitan production "Captain Blood" which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day. Flynn came from the London stage-Miss de Havil’and "from High School— to become stars,

CAPTAIN BLOOD

Daring and debonair Peter Blood, immortalized by the novel Oi Rafael Sabatini, has brought to life on the screen hy been

Cosmopollian productions in "Cap- tain Blood" a mammoth production which commences to-day at the Queen's Theatre. as a First Nation- a release.

At The Oriental

Romance and melody bend in a delectable entertainment to bring the screen Ted Lewis, hugn- natted troubadour of syncopation. Famed entertainment keeps ball of merriment rolling in "Here Comes the Band" showing a: the Oriental Theatre on Friday and Saturday. The picture differs radically from usual mus.cals in that the lshman comparatively new to the story itself is wilsten about a key films but won th's role, consideż- song. "Headin' Home which isel one of the most important of pirated and restored to its owner through a court scene in which the "evidence" is music, by Lewis and his band and singers, showing the genesis of the sorg.

Ted Lewis introduces his own

The gentleman pirate of fortune is portrayed by Erro Flynn, a young

le year, over a score of famous actors after a series of screen tests.

The leading lady, portraying a beautiful noblewoman who is in love with the bold pirate, is none other than Olivia de

Havilland who leaped to fame over night by her work in "A midsummer Night's Dream."

In addition to these two there

famous specialties, such as "When My Baby Smiles," "Me and My Shadow," "Peanuts" and others

Lewis, hign hat and all, scores with, "You're My Thril," in which Spanky McFarland, "Out Gang" is an all star caal of more than comedian, acts as his singing partner, and in which bevies of dancing beauties figure in several dances created by Chester Hale. In the big parade number and the wartime sequence that serves as a prologue.

The story follows the fortunes of an aring band. from the Armis- ace to 1935, through their reunións and adventures. The cast includes Donald Cook, Addison Richards, Robert Gleckler, Henry Kolker. May Beatty and others.

Ted Healy and Nat Pendleton provide a hilarious comedy team, the elephantine. Pendleton being specially funny as a plecoio player. An uproarious-comedy sequence is the "amateur contest" in a radio station, and comedy is also provided by the "Army Band" number by actors, placed among the musicans, for funny "gaga" in the number itself. Many specta- cular settings

"THE NIT-WITS" plature.

● MATINEES: 20c.-30 EVENINGS: 20c.-30c-50e.-70c.

TO-DAY

ONLY

SIMI SOF

SCHENCK

DASRYE: ZANUCK

MAJETIO

THEATRES

CARD RICHELIEU

WOMAN TRAP

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

FRIDAY

DICK POWELL

RUBY KEELER

IN

SHIPMATES

FOREVER"

forty principas headed by Lionel A:will, Baal! Rathbone. Roas Alex- ander, Guy Kibhee. Henry Stepher- son, Robert Barrat, Hobart Cava-. naugh, David Torrence and J. Carroll Nalsh. Severa nundred bit players and extras take part in the mammoth scenes.

Packed

SMART GIRL"

with action, liberally sprinkled with comedy, "Smart" Girl," which opened at the Star Theatre yesterday, turns out to be drama of the modern girl and her a bright sophisticated romance

adventures in the business of love es well as in the business of mak- ing a living, proving avethe same time that business and romance have a strange way of mixing.

Ida Lupino, a blonde, well born.

"LAST OF THE PAGANS"

At The King's

"Last of the Pagans,” the romance of South Sens native lfe, is now enchanting audiences at the King's Theatre.

Saga of native life and 1 vanishing race, filmed on an un- charted coral island where the native life is as yet untouched by the white man's civilization, the new picture. is a charming native love story, of a boy and giri. separated through the trickery of white traders, and reunited through the heroism of the native warrior.

Played amid scenes so beautiful that they are literally breath- taking, embellished with such thrills as a potash mine cave-in a battle between Mala, the hero, and a wild boar, thrills of swordfis. and shark hunting, and a furious island typhoon, the picture covera the gamut of island fe from its Intimate family existence and Its fantastic native dances and cere monies to its most exciting mo- mebts. Thorpe's deft direction brings out each point with crtistry. Mala, the Eskimo hero, is superb as the South Seas warrior, and beautiful Lotus Long makes an ideal heroine. Interesting charac ters are the native playing the island chiet, the mother, and the small boy, Timee.

:

WORLD TRADE RECOVERING

mark the new personable young thing and her More At Work In First

Mr. Laszlo Schwartz who wil make his first appearance to the Hongkong publie on Friday the Lut when a double-crossing member 24th, and Saturday the 25th in- of the gang is wiped out he has stant, in the Roof Garden and How front-page reporters, spect- the "dope" long before the authori- Grit Room of the H.K. Hości. alizing in gangland crime, secure ties get the wind of the affair. their tips from underworld sources, There is, in the picture, an expose is illustrated in the opening seo the conflicting motives of pride quence of Paramount's dramm," and outrage which dominate the er gets the coveted assignment to

Woman Trap," next change at the proprietor of a powerfil daily. The the crime scoop of the year. Queen's Theatre,

owner is proud that one of his Others in the cast of players are George Murphy portrays the re-staff is so uneeringly to the Gertrude Michael. Roscoe Kerns, porter who gets a tip on a jewel know." There is ago humilation Akim Tamiroff, Samuel 8. Binds robbery. Not only does he know in the idea that a reporter is con- Bidney Blackmer and Dean Jag- who stole the registered diamonds, sorting with crimina's. The reporter

sister, Gall Patrick, brunette, also well born and glamorous, find themselves faced with the problem of earning a living after their father's loss of his huge fortune and inevitable suleide. Kent Tay- JOT,

but struggling

handsome young lawyer, pops into their Aves at this moment. Both girls, exacă opposites though they be, prompt ly fall in love with him. The eternal triangle is born when he marries the beautiful Miss Patrick

Quarter Of 1936

Geneva, Apr. 5.

An improvement in employment generally throughout the world is indicated by the returns of the International Labour Office for the first quarter of 1938, compared with the corresponding period of} 1935."

KINGS

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5. IC. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. THREE ATTRACTIONS IN ONE PROGRAMME

•

ALSO. AUDIOSCOPIKS

LAST

THE

Pagans

MALA AND LOTUS

Beauties in Cast of 5,000! ·

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "icture

NEXT CHANGE

THE BIGGEST NOVELTY SINCE TALKIES! PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE SCREEN, EXPLANATORY REMARKS BY

THE PETI SMITH. RED AND GREEN OLA SES SUPPLIED TO EVERY PATRON. AND

LAUREL & HARDY

IN THEIR

LATEST COMEDY

LIVE

GHOSTS"

"THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

RKO

PRESTON FOSTER ALAN HALE BASIL RATIONE PICTURE

ALHAMBRA

NATHAM RO, HOWLDON-BAKLY AT 2,30-32

-7,70 & 9.30 ·TEL. 5085*

SHOWING, TO-DAY

AN AUTHENTIC SPECTACULAR AND PÜLSE. STIRRING ATMOSPHERE OF BIG TIME OUTDOOR SHOW LIFE!

Out of the roaring Eighties, with Buffalo Bill's Wild Westi

Barbara STANWYCK ANNIE OAKLEY

NEXT CHANGE

with

PRESTON FOSTER MELVYN DOUGLAS Moran! Oling - Part Kaltan Andy Clyde

Directed by George Slawers Cliff Raid, $10. producer EXO. KADIO FICTURE

'JANE (GINGER) WITHERS in "GENTLE JULÏA”

JOHN MCCORMACK SINGS GOOD-BYE

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London, Apr. 8. Women wept at John McCor mack's Albert Hall recital yester day, and the great singer himsel pulled out his handkerchief as he sang-

"When I have sung my songs to"

you

Ill sing no more."

Be was in magnificent for.. The number of registered unem-

Out of twenty-five songs about ployed decreased in most European half were encores, and many were. countries, the British Dominions, old favourites which set the audi- and the United States. Ofthe, goldence cheerins.

hats for United States there were 12,628,-

who soon shows her true colors. In order to cater to her expensive tastes, her husband finds himself innocently selling phoney stock.

bloc countrien France showed a . After the performance he told In the meantime M.ss Lupino slight decrease in the number of me, in true Irish, fashion: "Yes, has taken her bruised hears into unemployed, and Switzerland and am retiring defnitely the business world and has become Holland an increase. In the less I change my mind. successful designing Joseph Cawthorn. a kindly mil 000 unemployed in February, 1936. words of my last song:--

"I expect you noticed the ast linery manufacturer. She dis- | compared with 13,058,000 in Febru- covers the stock swindle which ary, 1935. The index of employ-

That I could never sing nvolves her brother-in-law and meat in France (1930-100)

again Except to you." decides it is high time she really 72.6 compared with 12.5, but in "That means," he explained, live up to the title of the film. Holland it fell from 70,7 to 87.6, and turning to smiling Countess Me- Many amusing and dramatic la Switzerland from 71.6 to 68.7. Cormick, "that in future 1.zhal! b moments arise when this modern young miss starts working things out for herself.

WES

STARE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

"Listen sister, des...you may

be smart looking, but I'm smart

and you're not walking off with

the man I love!”

Adelph Zuker pres

SMART GIRL

Paramount Picture with

IDA LUPINO KENT TAYLOR GAIL PATRICK JOSEPH CAWTHORN

The only returns available for singing only to her. She's beauti- Germany are given as follows. Apful enough, isn't she?". plicants for work, including per- Somebody asked him which was Miss Lupino gives a splendid sons in casual work and on public his favourite song. performance as the typical self-rellet works, but excluding persons have thousands of songs in sufficient, impulsive, attractive in labour camps, numbered 2,883 my repertoire." he said, "and my | young business girl of to-day, 109 in March, 1936, compared with favourite is the one I happen to Gall Patrick's portrayal of another 3.250,464 in March, 1935. Unem-

be singing at the moment." kind of smart girl is particularly ployed, excluding persons in casual commendable. Kent Taylor makes work, on public relier works, or in

When he heard that Miss JostFRIDAY AND SATURDAY the role of young lawyer engaging labour camps, numbered 2,514,894 Collins was dangerously I' and plandble, while Joseph Ca in March, 1936, compared with 2-seemed very unzet

KATHARINE HEPBURN in thorn and Pinkle Tomin provide 764,152 in March, 1938 No Agures "She is a very old most of the comedy moments. for Italy are given.:

mine,” he said.

friend

bei

· Offered by Agürøy kealta * Walter Manger, Production-

ALICE ADAMS, RKO RADIO FICTURE

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