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ENTERTA,

TAINME

QUEENS

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.3

5.16, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M,

IN THE ROLE THAT WON FOR HER THE ACADEMY ... AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTING OF THE YEAR

Look out for this woman! She's

DANGEROUS FRANCHOT BETTE DAVIS

with

TONE

Warner

In a bolt of drama that'll blow the fuses!

-NEXT CHANGE--

'GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION

On the Stage

The GRUBEL TROUPE DANCERS-MUSICIAN-JUGGLERS,

DIRECT PROX Eakork

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Fury" QUEEN'S :-

"Dangerous"

ORIENTAL:-

"Frisco Kid"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:—

The Lady Consents"

MAJESTIC:-

"Red "Salute"

"Captain Blood"

Sunday

STAR:-

in

On the Screen-

BARTON MBOLANE PUBLIO ENEMY No. 1

"MAN OF IRON

KING'S:-

The 39 Step="

QUEEN'S :-

ESTARE

4 SHOWS DAILY ®

SPECIAL TIMES AT 2.30, 5,1:0, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, MONDAY

A NEW STAR FLASHES TO TRIUMPH! As the Glorious Scoundrel Whose Name Became the Terror of Kings!

Thrilling As the Ring of Steel on Steel Romantic As Red Sails in the Sunset The most amazing adventure a man ever lived becomes the great adventure of the screen as Warner Bros. pack

■ million dollars worth of excitement into RAFAEL BABATINI'S immortal romance of the valiant scoun- drel who fought a'king's armada to win a woman's kiss!

CAPTAIN BLOOD

ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA

•DE HAVILLAND

LIONEL ATWELL-BASH RATHBONE Hooding Cust of 1000'

YOU'VE SEEN GREAT ADVENTURE PICTURES

ONE

SUT THIS CAPS THEM ALL!

TUESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY

AN OLD FAVOURITE" FROM "WARNER BROS.

"Dangerous"

ORIENTAL:-

"Robin Hood Of El Dorado"

ALHAMBRA:-1

"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"

STAR:-

"Captain Blood"

MAJESTIC:-

"Let 'em Have It"

||

CAPTAIN BLOOD

1

Daring and debonal: Peter Blood, immortalized by the novel of Rafael Sabatini, has been brought to life on the screen by Cosmopoll- tan productions in "Captain Blood," mammoth production which

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comes to the Star Theatre to-day, as a First National release,

The gentleman pirate of for- tune is portray by Errol Flynn, a young Irishiman comparatively new to films, but who won this ole, considered one of the most Important of the year, over a score of famous actors after a se- ries of screen tests.

Tall, broad-shouldered, hand- some, with a dashing and mag- netic personality, Flynnn has lived something of the life of Peter Blood, not as a pirate, but as the soldier of fortune, for he has sought adventure ali over the world

Yola and Paul, Internationally famed dancers who will appear for

a short season at the Alhambra Theatre from next Thursday

WEEK-END RADIO.

PROGRAMMES

(Continued from Page 4.)

SUNDAY

9.30 p.m.-Big Ben. His Majesty the King unveils the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge, in the presence of the President of the French Republic.

10.30 p.m.-The BBC Northern Or-

chestra, Carnival

DANGEROUS

AT THE QUEEN'S

"Dangerous,*** starring Bette. Daviy and Franchot Tone, is the. latest screen attraction at the Queen's Theatre, which should draw crowded houses in view of its immense human appeal.

The story centers around Bette Davis as Joyce Heath, a beautiful und brilliant actress, whose am- Overture bitions and selfishness leaves (Dvorak). Suite of Ancient trall of broken hearts and wreck- Dances (Le Rot s'amuse) "(De-ed lives behind her

(Johann Strauss). 11.05 p.m.--A

"

A

libes!. Waltz. the Emperor Because of Her doings she was finally Ared from her job and was Religions Service. one day found by Franchot Tone as Don Belows, in a cheap gin How Franchot Tone tried his best to reform her and his infatuation for her

ja vividly portrayed on the screen.

Mnally when Tone proposes murrage the went to her hus band, John Eldredge as Gordon, Heath "and asks him for a divorce which was refused. Through an accident in which Bette Davis was the prime mover, she and her husband are reunited together despite the fact that she has genuinely fallen in love with Tene who incidentally went back to his Briancee.

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from the Keswick Convention Tent. Order of Service: Byran. | niill Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven (Hymns of Consecra- tion and Faith, 363)...Prayer by the Rev. W. H. Aldis, Chairman of the Trustees of the Keswick Convention. Reading. St. John IV, vv. 4-14, and VII, vv. 37-39, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop J. Taylor Smith, KC.B, O.V.O., D.D. Hymn, None but Christ can Satisfy (Hymns of Consecration and Faith, 190). Address by A. Lindsay Giegs, JP. Hymn. I Heard the Voice of Jesus, Bay (Hymna of Consecration, and Faith. 251). Prayer. Blessing.. p.m.-Weekly Newsletter, Sports Summary, and An- nouncements.

The leading lady, portraying a beautiful noblewoman who falls In love with the bold pirate, is none other than Olivia de Havil-11.55 land who leaped to fame over night by her work in the Max

Reinhardt production of "A Mid-Midnight.-Greenwich Time Signal,

summer Night's Dream."

In addition to these two there is an all star cast of more than forty principals, headed by Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Al- exander. Guy Kibbee, Henry Ste- phenson, Robert Barrat, Hobart Cavanaugh, David Torrence and J. Carroll Nakh. Several hundred bit players and extras take part in the mammoth scenes.

The story opens during the pe- riod when the Duke of Monmouth was leading an abortive rebellion

FLIRTATION WALK against King James E. Dr. Peter

WITH..

DICK POWELL AND RUBY KEELER

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

THEATRES

At 2.80, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.X.

Barbara STANWYCK=

"

Red Salute

AZZ YOUNG

WITH

Sunday:- LET'EM HAVE IT" RICHARD ARLEN

***FURY**

Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy are the brilliant co-stars of "Fury," the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture now showing at the King's Theatre

VIRGINIA BRUCE

riage. Tracy, as the man, is ar rested as

Kidnap suspect

Blood runs afoul of the soldiery and soon thereafter Ånds himself a slave in the West Indies and later the captain of a, pirate ship.

His calm efrontery wins the attention, then the hatred and finally the love of the beauti- ful young noblewoman, This vig- orous young daredevil puts down mutinies and scuttles ships with "desperate coolness, saving his warmth for the ardor of his love. Lionel Atwill has the role of a plantation and slave owner who later becomes the governor of Ja- maiça; Basil Rathbone is the pl- rate Levasseur, who, unlike the gentlemanly Blood is not only cruel but treacherous, and who is eventually slain" in a duel by Blood for that treachery: Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbeɛ, Robert Barrat, Frank McGlynn, Br., and David Torrence are fellow slaves of Blood, who escape with him and form part of his pirate crew.

the subject... of mass lawlessness. and apparently burned to death In addition to its social value, by a furious mob that storms and | however, It is tremendous screen fires the prison in which he ta fare, acted with unusual skill by held..

the co-stars and a cast that in- cludes such sterling performers äs Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot,. Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan, Georgo Walcott, Frank Albertson and many others.

His life wrecked, and his mind twisted by the horror he has been And in this powerful screen through, he ges into hiding and play, directed by Fritz Lang, they contrives to have twenty-two of give performances that will linger, the monsters convicted of his long in your memoryl

murderi

The narrative, based on an original story by Normani Krasna. has to do with the tragic cireum- stances that separate two young lovers on the eve of their mar-

See "Fury" you! It is a grand As a hard-hitting indictment of -treat in the acting, photographie,” a national shame, "Fury"" stands directing and story departments--i vut as one of the fine pictures of a personal triumph for Fritz Lang, the year, for its power lies in its who sends it forth as his firs altogether objective approach to American picture.

The picture is a moving dramă, well acted and above all played understandingly by the cast.

gramme of songs and dances.

Preceding the main feature is an excellent musical short entitled 12.15 am.-Troise and his Man Trouble In Toyland," in which the doliers, with Don Carlos future stars of the silver screen are (Tenor). Waltz, Espana (Wald-seen to good advantage in a pro- teufel). Margarita (Schmitz), Preludio (La Traviata) (Verdi, arr, Cowlrick). Song of Paradise (King). Sulte espagnole, Im- pressions d'Espagne;, (1) Cor- tege (2) Serenade (3) Sous les Oi ganers (4) Bolero (Bau- cheron). Maureen O'Dare (Mascheroni).

Sogno I am.-Close down.

-(Ramsay)

Mazurka

Amoroso (arr. Troise); Grand- mamma's Spinet (Ravriers).

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30. 5.10, 7,15 & 9.30 P.M. "ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES

+

OF THE YEAR!" -Hollywood Reporter

· And hard-bölled, Walter Winċhall, famous andamnist, raves: ***Turyʻia bat- far than Tegitive, from a Chain Gang '1" The nation clears the most powerful and timely picture of American life ever madel

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SIDNEY

SPENCER.

TRACY

Goldwyn

Mayer

PROTUKE

FUR

TO-MORROW

CAUMONT - BRITISH

PICTURE

ROBERT DOÑAT-MADELEINE CARROLL in

"THE 39 STEPS"

ALHAMBRA

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

FUARDING

CONSENT

TO-MORROW.

GARY COOPER & JEAN ARTHUR

in "MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN"-

TAKE ANYTHAM OR HAPPY VALARY BUR

4 SHOW

DALLY 2-30-5.15

FLEMING

ROAD

WANDAL

TEL. SEATE

7.36-4.30

ORIENTAL

Solo per te, Lucia (Bixio) Faz OLAST 4 TIMES TO▪DAY®]

How the artists secs "Captain Blood," hero of Rafael Sabatini's. "Immortal story of adventure, on the high seas, as portrayed by Etrol Flynn in the Cosmopolitan production "Captain Blood,” now showing at the Star Theatre as a First National release

HERE'S COMEDY, ROMANCE, LAUGHTER WITH PLENTY OF THRILLING EVENTS |

BIGGEST OF HIS 5 BIG HITS OF 1935.

JAMES

as the

CAGNEY FRISCO

MIRZAMEL LAUGAS

KID

TO-MORROW-MONDAY TUESDAY-

STAN

ANOTHER DOUBLE FEATURE SHOW!

OUVER

LAUREL HARDY

LAUREL & HARDY

IN THEIR "NEWEST

COMEDY RIOT

THICKER

THAN

WATER

THE GREA | EST OF OUTDUOR SPECTACLES WITH THOUSANDS IN THE CASTI

WARNER BAXTER Robin Hood

OF EL DORADO'

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