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QUEEN

AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW. AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

$1,000 REWARD

MAN

in thrills and laughs... to everyone join- ing history's maddest .

HUNT

The shooting's not the

half of it! It's the fun that nearly kills you with laughter!

4 SHOWS

DAKY

1.30-13 7.1JLIG

•2DAYS

A Warner Bros. Hit'

With RICARDO CORTEZ MARGUERITE CHURCHILL “CHIC” SALE « WM. GARGA"'

THURSDAY" -- RETURN OF SOPINIE LANG"

A Paramoout Picture

-Take any ThaN OK HAPPY VALLEY BUR

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD

WANCHAS

TEL 16473

ZONLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW ANOTHER DOUBLE FEATURE SHOW! STORKS MASS PRODUCTION!

AMOUS

QUINTUPLETS"

THE WORLD'S GREATEST BABIES

NOT FIVE BABIES ANY LONGER, BUT FIVE BIG GIRLS,

NOW IN THEIR SECOND YEAR!

At birth their combined weight was less than ten pounds, to-day their gross tonnage is about 175 pounds. They have an income

of $100,000 a year THEY ARE

THE HIGHEST PAID MOVIE STARS TO-DAY! Last year they received $70,000 to appear in a movie, they were before the camera 38 minutes a day for six days, that's 343.87-a minute for each baby, not bad for a bunch of kids! ALSO SHOWING A DELIGHTFUL COMEDY MYSTERY PICTURE

TWO IN THE DARK

WALTER ABEL MARGOT GRAHAME

● MATINEES: 20c.-30¢ EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c-70c,

SHOWS

DAILY

7.10 · 20

720-930

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD

KOWLOON

TEL:7222

(MATINEES: 20-30. EVENINGS. 20%-30«50c70%)

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY !

*:

THE FIRST OF THE SERIES OF "OLD FAVOURITES" TO BE SHOWN IN THIS THEATRE. Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!

An RKO

RADIO Picture

of course!

KING KONG

Cooper

Schoedtack

rodaction

He an ideo conceived by Edgal, Wallace and Marian Cooper, With FAY WRAY, ROB. ARMSTRONG, BRUCE CABOTI Dand C. Selenich

· emaciative produce,

TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY

A MYSTERY-THRILLER JAMMED WITH ACTION I

"UNKNOWN WOMAN”

with MARIAN MARCH, RICHARD CROMWELL.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE TWO BRIGHT BOYS WITH

KING'S

CINEMA

Hong Kong

The Lady Is Willing"

QUEEN'S:-

· "Man' Hunt"

ORIENTAL:

"The Famous Dicnne Quin-

tuplets"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :-

'O'Malley ot The Mounted"

"King Kong"

MAJESTIC:—..

STAR:

"She Married Her Boss"

KINGS:-

Coming

"Sins of Man" QUEEN'S:-

"Return of Sophie Lang" ALHAMBRA :---

"Special Investigator" MAJESTIC:-

"Unknown Woman"

STAR-

"Two Fisted"

"Splendour"

"O'MALLEY OF THE

MOUNTED"

A lovely miss in danger and outlaws who test the mettle of the Roya. Mounted Police furnish per and adventure aplenty for George O'Brien in "O'Malley of the Mounted." the action-crammed Fox drama now at the Alhambra

Theatre.

Adapted from an original story by Two Gun Bill Hart, leading star of the silent screen, the new. picture is a crackling drama of a "mountie" who rides and shoots with a bandit gang in order to trap them and bring them to Justice.

In the title role. O'Brien finde. more than he counted for when he falls in love with Irene Ware, whose brother is a member of the gang. With her aid, he manager to prepare a reception committee of "mounties" for the gang on their most daring raid. Justice triumphs in the smashing roman- t'e climax, and O'Brien and Miss Ware finds a clear road ahead tor "the'r romance.

David Howard directed this Sol Lesser production which features Vic Potel and James Bush In the supporting cast.

MAN HUNT"-

Man Hunt" the Warner Bros. thriller opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre. The story concerns the pursuit of an escaped bank robber by Federal agents and the part taken in it by a small town re- porter and his sweetheart, a school teacher; the big city newspaper- men and a doddering. romancing

ex-sherin.

There is a large and talented cast, which is headed by Ricardo Cortez who gives his usual finished and convincing performance as the escaped bandit, Marguerite Chur- chill, as the country school teacher and sweetheart of William Gargan. small town reporter and Charles Chic) Sale ex-sheriff who has told so many tales of his battles" with the James and Dalton boys' that

he really belleves them.

TWO GRAND PIANOS

HONG KONG HOTEL ATTRACTION

BOB AND BERTY HELLMAN

With music in their souls and rhythm coursing through their bodies to the very fingers' tips, Bob and Berty Hellman, baillag from the Land of the Blue Danube, have been engaged by the management of the Hong Kong hotel to fire the imagination and tickle the musical palates of those who ascend to the Roof Garden .of this famous hotel for refreshment-physical, mental and, of course, moral,"

They play on two grand pianos,

do Bob and Berty, and they will commence their season on October

3

According to all accounts their programmes are ea culated to make the afternoon's on the Roof Garden just sheer delights, and the evenings even more 50. Special gala rights are being arranged, and Bob and Berty f have Intimated that they are determined to play their dual way into the hearts of those discerning people who appreciate the bouquet of smart and subtle entertainment.

STAR THEATRE

STRATOSPHERE

Expeditions And Explorations

The frat ascent into the stratosphere was made by Dr. Piccard, five years ago. But some of the properties of this strange. region had been known for seve- rafvegrs jefore. It was at the end of the last century that Teis- serenc de Bort discovered. by us- ing amal sounding-balloons carry- ing self-registering apparatus. that a region of constant tem- perature begar. at a height some

General Amusements seven miles above the surface ui

Take. Over Lease

Mr. C. S. Rosselet, mänager ef

the earth. The existence of this région came as a very great sur arise. for it had always been as- sumed that increasing height was the present operators of the General Amusements Co., accompanied by decreasing tem- Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

theperature, and all practical experi

ences supported this assumption. informs us that his company has | All balloonists and mountaineers could confrm it.. But science has taken over the lease and manage-

of become shy

extrapolation.

ment of

of

the popular. Kow.con

theatre, the Star, as from to-day. tinue the same policy of providing The new management will con-

select programmes, and it is re- ported that comprehensive plans have been submitted to

Modern discoveries have destroyed consists merely in carrying our the bellef that scientiae advance

measurements to another place of decimals. Both atoms and stars the bave revealed the unprecedented. authorities for the complete re- and it is no surprise to find that modelling of the premises, both even our atmosphere holda exterior and interior.

prises for us,

TERKIFIC GALES

The interior w be re-decorated and special attention paid to the

This layer of dir. the stratas- accoustical treatment: These al-phere, surrounds the whole earth terations will shorty take place to a depth of several miles. Its and there will be no interfering temperature is not perfectly uni- with the performances.

"THE LADY IS

WILLING'

form, but it varies within surpris- ingly narrow limits about a mean 01-55 degrees Centigrade. Yet, In spite of its rarity, and the unl- formity of its temperature, there is evidence that it is the seat of Leslie Howard is cast as a suave.

truly terrific gales. From observa- tions on the vaporised tails of engaging and fascinating rogue With a flair for fun and a weakness is calculated currents of air, tra- meteors traversing that region it for women in the Columbia picture, velling at two hundred miles an "The Lady is Willing." showing at hour. exist: Expeditions into the the King's Theatre to-day.

AIR-

ן

-CONDITIONED THEATREY

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

Directed by GILBERT MILLER

Screenplay by Gay Baliy

NEXT CHANGE

20TH CENTURY FOX

“THE LADY

IS WILLING”

SHE WAS MAD ABOUT HAR LOVER-EX WAS STAD ABOUT UN-BCT HER HORFARD WAS TH MADDEST ONE, UP AL

! with

Leslie Noward

JEAN HERSHOLT in SINS OF MAN"

ALHAMBRA

"NOTUAN AÐ. HOWLOON-DAILY AT 2,30+5,20-220_&_ #30 +TEL, 308 30

SHOWING TO-DAY

A minute-a-thrill picture with Georde O'Brien

GEORGE

O'BRIEN

Two Gun' Bill Hart's theller i

O'MALLEY

MOUNTED

NEXT CHANGE

4 FQX Kalone week **

IRENE WARE STANLEY FIELDS Deacted by David Howard

RICHARD DIX in SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR"

an R-K-O Radio Picture

But his weakness for women is should expect, that it is traversed

stratosphere have shown, as we DIARY OF LECAL more than equally combatted by by cosmic rays of very much grea- the

lady's weakness for bis. Howard, as Albert Latour. Hidnape

ter intensity than anything that the lovely Binnie Barnes, who play cold. Its rarity. Its gales, and pro- reaches our atmosphere It is Helene Dupont, wife of a wealthy financier, and holds her for ran-bably its cosmic rays, make it, of som. But things don't turn out course, a region altogether unfit- that way!

ted for human beings. Neverthe- less, human beings have entered it. made observations of it, and descended safely to earth.

'His charms win her so

com-

pletely that she wants him to hold her captive forever-while he ran- soms the lady for himself with his own kisses!

EVENTS

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Anniversarier Rod Holidays...RL.

Giles.

Cinemas, King's The Lady L Willing." Queen's ;—"Man Hunt."- Oriental "Two In The Dark.". World: Chinese Picturo." Alhambra :-O'Malley of The.

Mounted."..

Majestic "King Kong." StarShe Married Her Boss." Miscellaneous. Dioce

Boys' School New Term starts at 8.30a.m.; Rotary Tiffin, Hongkong Hotoi.

Rehearsals.-Hongkong Singers, "King Ola" (Elgar Union. Church, Kennedy Boad, 5.30 p..

FOR WHAT PURPOSE? The account of these expedi- Sir Cedric Harwicke is cast 23 tions is one of the most fascinat- pupont. Sir Nigel Playfair, Nigeling sections of Mr. Gerald Heard's Bruce and W. Graham Browne, book. *Exploring the strato- make up a comedy trio.

sphere On his first ascent Dr. Piccard reached a height of nine and three-quarter miles, and on h's next attempt, a year later, he ascended to ten and a half miles. We know now that Dr. Plecard was amazingly fortunate on these have not been so lucky. Both the 8.30 p.m. attempts. Subsequent explorers Dancing, in West Loung," Y.M.C.A.,

experienced disaster, and it is less Russians and the Americans have

SCHMELING-LOUIS FIGHT FILM.

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the

ly fools her helps him to hide in Queen's and Alhambra Theatres

an abandoned shack.

The gullible school teacher in- Paramount Fams announce the trigued by the guave, soft-spoken Schmeling-Louis fight fim will be jail breaking bandit who complete- shown

Ari simultaneously

on September 9. The running Her lover has a bad time con- time of the film is 31 minutes and than a year ago that the French vincing her of her error, but final- covers the entire 12 rounds and by aeroplane utterly falled, Never

attempt to reach the stratosphere ly with the aid of the ex-sheriff also the sensational fourth roundtheless, successiul ascents have effects the capture of the robber in slow motion. and his accomplices.

"

"THE PRINCESS

"TWO IN THE DARK”

been made, in Russia. and in the United States, and observers have Teached a height of over fourteen miles. As Mr. Heard says, such

COMES ACROSS" attempts will doubtless continue.

Two murders

4500

Bocial-Cheero Club Whist Drive, 9.00 pm Buffet Supper on root, and

Sports SwimmingMixea. Bathing in the Y.M.CA. Swimming Bath, from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m.

Moon-Full Moon, 8.37 p.m. SU

Sunrise.-3.06 .. Sunset. 0.40 p.. Tires-High at 8.33 and 21.35; Low

2.11, múd 15.27.

Moon, 18th. Day.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.. Stephen, King of Hungary.

Anniversaries and Holidays.—St.

AuctionsCrown Land, at District Office, North, Taipo, 11.30 a.m.

Cinemas."

King's "The Lady. Is Willing" Queen's "Man Hunt." Oriental:-"Two In The Dark." World:"Chiness Picture." Alhambra :--''O'Malley' Of The

Mounted."

ESTARE

TO-DAY ONLY

BY SPECIAL REQUEST!

GRAND

IN HER

GREATEST!

CLAUDET I]

COLBERT

SHE MARRIED HER BOSS

ALTERNA POL 199

TO-MORROW': TWO FISTED"

with LEE TRACY AN

ROSCOE KARNS

Moos-VI Mon, 17th. Day. Sunrise,.00 am. Sunset.-6.40 p.m. Tides. High at 9.24 and 22.65; Low At 3.0 and 18,02,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

Cinemas.

King's :-**The Lady Is Wilhug". Queen's Beturn of Sophie Lang,”* Oriental :-"Barbary Coast. WorldChinese Picture Alhambra tim?O'Malley "Of The

For what purpose? Doubtless the Imagine a man gripped with the

in mid-Atlantic sheer love of adventure will play terrifying fear that he, unknown. to himsel has

and the high-powered sleuthing of great, even if an unacknowledg- committed a brutal murder, and, convinced in detectives are merely minor inci-ed part. Also, observations on, the the belief turns detective to track dents in the plot of "The Princess cosmic rays will doubtless be of himself dow.

Comes Across" at the Queen's great scienting interest. But the generally comprehensible Upon this intriguing situation is Theatre.

reason, as Mr. Heard points out. Is hased "Two In The Dark" show- For the picture is essentially a

that such expeditions, will enable ing at the Oriental Theatre to-day romatic comedy, bringing together us to forecast the weather with and to-morrow, RKO Radio's Fred MacMurray and Carole Lom much greater accuracy than is baffing mystery drama which bard for the first time since their Doss ble at present. reaches for new heights in blood-smashing success in "Hands Across knowledge will enable us to save tingling suspense, and pulsating the table." In a story perfectly hundreds of millions of pounds. romance.

fitted to their type of romance, the Walter Abel, popular New York pair clinch their position as to- stage actor, plays the lead and day's "Number One Screen Sweet- | wise-cracking. Margot Grahame, lovely English | hearts." actress plays the role of a down- All action of the story takes place Olga, and William Frawley man- Social-Whit Drive at and-out show girl who aids Abel on a transatlantic super-liner en ager for MacMurray's band, backs Home and Seamen's Instituto Paris.-6.06.m. Supset.6.41 p.n. In the search for some shred of route from Le Havre to New York up the stars. Included are Dou

An unusually the supporting glas Dumbrille, Porter Hall, George castled by Allison Skipworth as a Barbler and others,

proof that will exonerate him from his tragic pight.

And auch

Majostle Unknown Women" "Star-Two- Fisted,” “

Dances. Cheero Club Dance, é p.m.. Meetings.-L.C.A., at Wesley, 15 "Ventris Road, 3.15 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Women's Guil3, 10 am.

Miscellaneous.—"Parents": Evening in St. Andrew's Church. Hall 6.30 former trouper p.m.; Claims against the Hetale of "lady-in-waiting", for Princess James Harrop dus

Racing Entren

Raes Morting, pla

Majossie :-'Unknown "Women" Blar poinTwo Fisted." Sports Tenals!C! Division, Kowloos. In f.dian, TC, E, Club de Heoreio.” Moon--VII Moo, 18. Day.

Tidesign at 7,40 and 21.00; Low

"Macso” at 1:20 and 11:55

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