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VEEN

SHOWING TO-DAY" at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

High-flying Coast Guards- men...fighting sky rocketeers and battling

each other for

the some girli

Adolph Zukor presents

"BORDER FLIGHT"

with Frances Former - John Howard · Roscoe Karns · Robert Cummings-Gront Withers - Samuel S. Hinds *A Paramount Picture

SATURDAY

"THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE"

In Breath-taking Natural Colour Fred MacMURRAY

Sylvia SIDNEY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.

"TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Bulldog Jack"

IN

QUEEN'S:

"Border Flight“ ORIENTAL:-

"Broadway Melody of 1938"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :----

"Nobody's Fool"

MAJESTIC:-

"Tailspin "Tommy"

(Chapter L)

STAR:-

"Anna Karenina"

"

Coming

KING'S:-

"It Had To Happen"

"The Trail of The Lonesome

Pine"

ORIENTAL-A

"Let'em Have It"

QUEEN'S:-

Henry FONDA

At 2:30, 3:20,

THEATRE-

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

TO-DAY MAJESTIC

ONLY

CHAPTER

TAILSPIN TOMMY

FRIDAY

"TAILSPIN TOMMY" FINAL CHAPTER

ESTARE

*TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY I

CHEERS and TEARS

for a

able

GARBO MARCH

FREJA ! C

FCE 0₤

BARTHOLOMEW

the romance of two who loved against the world... inimor- talized by Carbo in mighty screen drama,

ANNA

KARENINA

jaro folluyn Mayer mer MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN MAY ROBSON BASIL RATHBONE PRODUCED BY DAVID O. SELINICK A CLARENCE BROWN PRODUCTION

TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY! MADELEINE CARROLL

•

GEORGE BRENT

in "THE CASE **

AGAINST MRS. AMES:

TSANGSHIH RAILWAY

Plans For Construction

SUNDAY

SHIRLETE" TEMPLE

"CURLY TOP"

"BORDER FLIGHT"

Aerial Combat Thrills

At The Queen's

"Border Flight" (Paramount), show.ng at the Queen's Theatre is

a thrilling drama of fights between

the U.S. Coast Guard and a gang of ur smugglers operating of the

coast of California.

The cast is headed by John Howard and Grant Withers who are seen as buddies of the corps

ALHAMBRA:-

"The Trail of The Lonesome

Pine"

MAJESTIC:—\"

"Talspin Tommy"

(Final Chapter).

STAR;-

Curly Top

"The Case Against Mrs.

Ames"

SPANISH WAR STORIES

MARLENE COMES TO LONDON

Fear Of Excitable English"

Priests Battered

To Death

DAUGHTER TO GO TO

ነ

SCHOOL HERE

Priests being battered or shot to death by Communists who had got out of hand, nuns fleeing in dis- guise from burning convents, and looting valuables armed women from captured military barracks these were among happening de- scribed by some of the 87 Britons who reached Plymouth in the City of Hong Kong on July 31.

These people had been repatriat-monstrative English. ed from Barcelona,

(By CAMPBELL DIXON).

London, July 31. Marlene Dietrich has come Engiand half appreciative, half apprehensive of the excitable, de-

Others, told of mass shootings of Fascists, the desecration of ceme- teries, and of indiscriminate snip-out ing in the streets.

Reports were also brought back of a Briton and an American killed during the fighting while they were on their way to bring in re- fugees from an outlying suburb.

According W most of the re- fugees. However, British nationals were

respected once they made their nationality known. The chler danger to them was from stray bullets and from young Com- munists who were going about the streets in commandeered cars or ing indiscriminately.

The majority of the refugees ar- rived nearly destitute, having had to leave everything they possessed. They Were met by amicials from the Mistry of Health; who sup piled any of them with rail vouchers.

Those without friends to go to were provided with temporary ac-

to

"In California it is so nice be- any notice. cause nobody takes and you can go anywhere, with- USB, and nobody dreams of taking A pleture with- out asking permission," she said. eyeing a photographer with re- proach.

"In Paris, too, the people were so happy and so charming"-even though the French police, it ap pears, did have a little trouble in holding back pestering "fans" with both arms, and at the same time presenting their own auto- graph books for signature.

At Folkestone the reception was intimidating-- cordial, but not about a score of people crying. "There she is! That's Mar.ene!" (coremonty pronounced Marleen) as a golden head was seen on the bridge adorned with something in red velvet midway between a hab and a beret.

'

The Mald of Kent docked, and the keen-eyed watchers proved. right. Down the luggage gang- way walked Miss Dietrich, in a

GARBO FILM ATcommodation at Plymouth until black velvet jacket and skirt, sur-

THE STAR

"ANNA KARENINA,

When Garbo dances, that alone should be news-lor Greta Garbo actually dances the mazurka in her, Tenth Anniversary picture "Anna Karenina," which is at the Star Theatre.

as a

Although every new Garbo plc- ture is an event; the Swedish star's Tenth Anniversary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star has been rewarded by her greatest film in many years..

"Anna Karenina" Leo Tolstoy's immortal novel, has been brought to the screen as her most colour- ful production, at least. In it she has Fredric March as her £fteenth iover of the screen and she is supported by more than featured players.

forty

David O. Selznick has spared no effort in making the picture as authentic and as full of produc tion values as he d'd "David Cop- perfield."

i'

Clarence Brown, who has direct- ed Garbo more than

any other director. again has established who become rivals for the affec- possibly the greatest star-director

tions of Frances Parmer. Withers' stunts lead to his expulsion from

team of the screen with " "Anna Karenina" serving as his sixth

the corps. In anger. he joins the directorial assignment with her..

smugglers.

Through a trick of the smug- gers. Withers and Frances are kidnapped and concealed in isolated shack. The attempt of the corps to rescue them leads to the final pitched battle.

Robert Cummings, Roscoe Karns and Samuel S. Hinds are in the supporting cast.

"BULLDOG JACK"

Jack Hulbert's chin may not be the most prominent part of the im "Bulldog Jack" but it is very much in evidence and carries him ound many a tight comer, show- ing to-day at the King's Theatre.

As a substitute for Bulldog Drummond, who has been dis abled in one of the most thrilling rar "accidents" the average per- son has ever witnessed, Bulldog Jack does remarkably well in the sleuth line.

In the cast we see such notab'e players as Maureen O'Sullivan, paying a sister-in-law to Garbo: Freddie Bartholomew, playing her small son: Bas1 Rathbone, playing. her husband; May, Robson, as March's mother; Reginald Owen, as Garbo's brother: Phoebe Foster.

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another sister-in-law: Oyles Isham, an English idol: Reginald Denny, as a gallant young officer. and a score more familiar names.

"NOBODY'S FOOL"

Horton In Bright Film A1 Alhambra

li

To-day the chuckle brigade be- gins its march of laughter to see Edward Everett Horton in the Universal picture. "Nobody's Foo!" at the Alhambra Theatre. Horton sa a small town waiter, goes to New York to give the big town his ideas on the building of model homes.

other arrangements could be made, FORTNIGHT-OLD BABIES Firty of the party were women. two of them nursing fortnight-old bables. There were 23 children in the party.

Among the refugees was Mrs. G E. Vaughan, wile of the Vice-Con- sul at Barcelona, and her Infant daughter. She told a representa- tive of The Daily Telegraph that on the day after the revolution broke out a party of Communists went into the garden of the vice- consulate.

A Government guard pointed to the British flag above the house and warned them off.

The men left and went to a neigh- bouring house, where they opened fire on the occupants.

Parties of young Britons in mo- tor-cars, she said, scoured the dis- trict, bringing" in refugees. At times were 20 refugees shetering

in her house. They were later transferred to the cruiser London. and then to the City of Hong Kong.

All the refugees expressed their gratitude for the treatment they received from the officers and men of the London.

Was

mounted by a mink coat, looking more like her glamorous screen self than any star I ever met.

At Victoria, news of her arrival having leaked out. the crowd had grown in numbers and thrusting power, and had to be contro ́led by a few policemen and an official

in a silk hat.

..

TWO UNIQUE QUALITIES Miss Dietrich has leit her 11- year-old daughter Marla in Paris

my

"She is used to being left--my work in Hollywood, prevents seeing as much of her as I should ilke.' she said to me. "That is why I shall not mind leaving her

at school in England for a year or two when I retum to Holywood.

"I have

Dr not decided

the school. But it will have to be a modernistic one. Marla is an of games American child, fond and films and liberty. I think it is good for her."

Miss Dietrich has been in, Lon- don only once before and then for. but one day when she attended five the premiére of 'Morocco' years ago. "I knew nobody and was very sad." she confessed.

This time she will stay a week or two to discuss with Mr. Korda the script at "Knight Without Aromur." in which she will play opposite Robert Donat under the direction of Jacques Feyder.

She is enthusiastic about her latest 1km. "The Garden of Allah." and tells me that she knows nobody who does not look more beautiful-in colour.

She has no recreations except a little tennis, she thinks work is the most enjoyable, thing in te,

unique and she is

among m

Mr. Henry Payne, a 95-year old member of the Plymouth Brethren Mission, who had been in Barce- lona for 67 years. said it broke his heart to have to leave, but the camage Was dreadful. Nearly every church in Barcelona burned to the ground,

"Never in my long life was I so thankful for the British flag than when I saw it on the London." he said. He was met by his son, with whom he travelled to Sheffield.

LOST EVERYTHING Mr. R. V. Fulford. a school-tea-stars for at least two reasons-she cher, who returned with his wife. has no love of cooking and infant child, mother and two sis- desire to play Camille. ters, said that he was now com- pletely stranded. He had left al his money in Spain and all his be- longings.

} # When Barcelona was awakened by the rattle of machine-gun fire With that a Communist shot him early on Sunday, July 19, he said.

dead. Another priest was held by the inhabitants found that anti-

two men and battered to death Government forces had occupied with a rifle butt. most of the strategic points in the

SHOT DOWN BY MACHINE-GUNS Carmelite con- city. Including a vent in El Diagonal, adjoining the

Mr. B. Smith, of Calle Provenza, Pompeya church, the Peldralbes an importer who had been 17 years Barracks, and the Hotel Colon, Lạ

in Barcelona, said: the centre of the city.

The nuns In the convent were kept prisoner by being tied up with cords. Finally they escaped in civilian clothes.

DO

He replied: "Thanks, but you might as well shoot me if Spain is going pagan."

"I saw Communists set fire to a and as the Carmelite church. priests who were inside hurried out they were shot down. There were about 20 priests and some Fascists At the barracks officers shot sheltering there, and all of them down soldiers who refused to join were mown down" by machine- in the revolution.

guns. There were no survivors." "When the Government realised Mr. Ian Houstoun, of Paisley. Then he becomes interested in the position," he said, "they decid- Glasgow. who arrived back with of one ed to arm their extremist suppor- his mother and five brother and

The self-sufficient know-it-all becomes involved in a battle be tween two groups of real estate racketeers. He does not realize he is belag kidded, and that makes the situation even funnier,

I he is put off the scent by mistaken clues it is only in the early stages of his investigations. and those episodes are so really funny, because they are acted in consort with that sublime por- trayer of silly ass roles, Claude Hulbert, that the tense moments

real drama are perrectly gang, who Dings wisecracks at his ters, and all available arms were sisters, said that their home was

right commandeered. balanced with rippling laughter.

of

Glenda Farrell, member

supporters under

Within A few close to the Peldralbes Barracks. ** they bounce head. But

"I went to the barracks after the back. Things begin to pop when hours there were 15,000 Govern- Horton crosses battle-axes with ment

arms, Fascists had been bombed out. Cesar Romero chilet of" & rivat Strong bands of Communists at There were bodies lying every

carrying arms, tacked all the anti-Government where, Women, chiachwang have been mapped crowd. out by the Economic Affairs and Horton, Hollywood declares, has strongholds, and before nightfall were looting the omicers' silver and the Communications Committees an excellent role in which he is there were 1,500 dead in Barce-other valuables, Piles of arms and

ammunition were stacked outside! of the Hopel-Chahar Political the central figure of a swift suc- lona.".. Council, it is learned here. The cession of

situations. Mr. Fulford said that when Com-the building and all supporters of were invited to two committees will "shortly call Bes'des Glenda Farrell and Romunists entered" Belen Church. in the Government a joint conference to further mero, important supporting players the Ramblas, on Sunday, they shot help themselves. study the draft scheme before in "Nobody's Fool" include Warren the priests down as they rushed One 80-year- Peiping, August 3 submitting it to the Hopel-Chahar Hymer, Diana Gibson, Nan Gray, from the building, Plans for the construction of Political Council for final appro- Florence Roberts, Ed Gargan and old priest was told that he was too

old to worry about. John King. the projected Tsangchow-Shih-val-(Central News).:

Mapped Out

Iudicrous

"I saw priest taken away ina car. The Communists with him said they were taking him off to shoot him."

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TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

A Tube full of Laughs and Thrills!

Jack

HULBERT

in

Bulldog Jack

in

FAY WRAY

CLAUDE HULBERT RALPH RICHARDSON A Gaumont-British Rokure

Directed by

WALTER FORDE

CERT U

-TO MORKOW GEORGE RAFT AND ROSALIND RUSSELL

IT HAD TO HAPPEN"

A 26TH CENTURY FOX PICTURE

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ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AD, HOWLOC

SHOWING TO-DAY

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with

HIS FUNNIEST

GLENDA FARRELL » CESAR ROMERO

Edward

Everett

PICTURE!

'HORTON

IN A UNIVERSAL PICTURE ·

Nobody's Fool

SATURDAY

• Fred MacMurray Henry Fonda Sylvia Sydney

LONESOME PINE" THE TRAIL

in

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"LET 'EM HAVE IT

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