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VAIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. GET RID OF THAT SUMMER SLEEPING` SICKNESS -SEE THIS SCINTILLATING EXTRAVAGANZA OF GIRLS, WIT AND MUSIC!

The dean of American comedy

in a super-Fields Day of laught

NOCHELLE HUDSON

A Paramount Picture

FIELD

POPPY

TOGETHER WITH

A Better Than Ring Side Seat For

The Heavy Weight Battle of the Century!

MAX SCHMELING.·

V5.

JOE LOUIS

With Every Second of the 12 Exciting Rounds. Shown upon the Screen and with the Sensa. tional Fourth Round Repeated in Slow Motion.

NEXT CHANGE.

"THE ROAD TO GLORY"

FREDRIC MARCH-WARNER BAXTER-LIONEL BARRYMORE

4 SHOWS

DRILY

2.30-13

7.35-6.80

DAYS

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY SÖJE

ORIENTAL

THEATRE,

ONLY TO-DAY •

PENING

ROAD MANOMAI

TEL 2847*

TO-MORROW®

A LAUGHABLE, LOVABLE ROMANCE! You'll just go mad about these two grand screen stars in this refreshing tale of two hearts that beat as one on an income of forty cents a day.

AN OUTSTANDING CINEMA ACHIEVEMENT !

LEDERER

Gingth

ROGERS

Romanc MANHATTAN

The great over of the stage!.. Now the romantic idol of the screen!

FRI A BIG AUTOMOBILE THRILLER!

SAT.

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11 Wendy Barrie, Una Merkel,

SPEED" James Stewart, Ted Healy,

Ralph Morgan and others.

MATINEES: 20c.-30¢ ✪ EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c.-70c. ℗

A SHOWS

DAILY

1.30 $20

72030

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD

KOWLOON FAL.21222

(MATINEES, ZOŁ- 30%.o EVENINGS, 20%-30%-50%-70 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY✨ AN EXCITING GANGSTER DRAMA 1.

SHE WANTED THRILLSI HE WANTED HEADLINES

And crime land's newest menace gave them both!,

HUMAN CARGO

« #173 Picture wich

CLAIRE TREVOR

BRIAN DONLEVY

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! DOLORES DEL RIO • WARREN WILLIAM în “THE WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO"

WARNER BROS. BIOTOUS COMEDY BOMANCE !

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:

Hong Kong

QUEEN'S:-

"The White Angel"

"Poppy"

ORIENTAL:-

"Romance In Manhattan"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Meet Nero Wolfe"

MAJESTIC:

STAR:

"Human Cargo“

"The Trull Of The Lonesome

Pine"

Coming

QUEEN'S:-

The Road To Glory"

ORIENTAL:-

"Speed"

ALHAMBRA :---

"The Road To Glory"

STAR:-

"The Moon's Our Home"

MAJESTIC:-

"The Widow From. Monte

Carlo"

THE WHITE" ANGEL

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It is only a few decades ago that nursing "women's noulest calling." as the immortal Florence Night- Ingale termed it, was regarded with contempt by the respectable. In England, for example, during the middle nineteenth century nurses were untrained, callous to the sunering of their patients and generally ignorant of even the rudiments of ordinary personal hyglene.

Into such a world came Florence Nightingale. Fearless and yet hun- ble. she found her life's work in

BIG CINEMA DEAL

First Part Completed Of Agreement Involving £24,000,000

INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS MOVE

An agreement which will prevent a great British film concern, the Gaumont-British Picture Corpora- ilon, from passing under foreign control was "announced recently. One of the parties to the agree- ment stated that he had no fear of the threats coming from the United States of legal proceedings to stop the transaction)

The transaction is between the Gaumont-British Picture Corpora- tion and Associated British Picture Corporation, and the first part of an agreement between Messrs. Ostrer and Associated British Pic-. tures providing for the acquisition of the holdings of Messrs. Oster in the Metropolis and Bradford Trust, which has a controlling block of shares in the £8,000,000 Gaumont- British Corporation, has now been completed. It is the biggest deal of its kind m

the history of the British cinema industry and in- volves combined assets of £24,000.- 000.

Under the first part of the agree- ment the Associated British Pic- ture Corporation acquires the 250,000 B shares of the Metropolis and Bradford Trust, and it is stated that the shares have been transferred and the appropriate

part of the purchase consideration pald over. The second stage of the agreement in regard to the acquisi--| tion of the 5,100 A" shares of the Metropolls and Bradford Trust held by Messrs. Oster will be dealt with as soon as practicable.

MR.MAXWELL'S STATEMENT Mr. John Maxwell, chairman and managing director of the Asso- clated British Picture Corporation, I.td., said:

legal proceedings. In making this agreement I have been mainly in- fuenced by the destre to prevent the Gaumont-British company From passing under foreign con- trol, and this agreement · secures that. I took the view that if the contem- arrangement originally

com- plated with the American panies had been carried through it would have meant the passing un- der foreign control of a huge black of the British cinema and film fri- dustry. 1

"If that had happened there is no doubt that the other large American companies, in order to preserve their own interests, would have endeavoured to make similar arrangements-indeed, they were already trying to do so, with the result that in a short time the bulk of the cinemas in this country, and certainly most of the best ones.. would have passed under foreign control. Such a situation would have, been intolerable in any coun- try and, in my view, a humiliation that a great nation such as ours would have been compelled to stop. if necessary, by legislative med-

SureS

"This agreement does not in any way infringe the rights of the Fox Film Company, which is the other partner in the Metropolis and Bradford Trust."

Mr. Sidney R. Kent, president of the Twentieth Century-Fox Flim Corporation, stated:

"I am assured that the sale of the Ostrer shares is dependent on the sale of not less than one-half of the voting shares held by Twentieth Century-Fox Film and that the control has so far not

"I have no fears of the threats passed. When I know more I shall coming from the United States of ❘ be in a position to decide, whether our transaction being stopped by our rights have been infringed."

:

*POPPY"

No better vehicle could have been

ministering to the wounded and chosen for the triumphal return to dying during the Crimean war.

As the living embodiment of un- selfish service to humanity, Miss Nightingale has been the subject of much literature. Henry Wadeworth Longfellow's poem dedicated to her as a noble type of good heroic womanhood" is memorable. Many tributes have been paid to her, one of the greatest, "The White Angel," the First National picture "now playing at the King's theatre.

Warmly received by the public, it should interest doctors especially since it has been produced with amazing fidelity to historical and sclentine fact by Warner Bros., the same company which made last season's "Story of Louis Pasteur.”

The role of Florence Nightingale is played by Kay Francis, one of the world's most beautiful women, while the distinguished cast in- cludes Ian Hunter, Donald Woods. Nigel Bruce, George Curzan, Henry O'Neill and many others. William Dieterle directed.

'THE MOON'S OUR

HOME"'

In "The Moon's Our Home." Walter Wanger's production for Paramount, Margaret Sullavan áp- pears in one of her best roles. As

the screen of W. C. Fields, most beloved or American comedians, than the rioutous, colourful story of carnival life. "Poppy" which opens to-day at tne Queen's Theatre.

In "Poppy." Fields is a patent- medicine seller, vending his "Purple Bark Sarsaparilia" and doing his best to relieve the lush yokels of their burden of filthy luare." He is a grifter, an operator of a shell, game, a loveable old faker whose pomposity carries him through any eventuality.

The comedian appears as Pro- fessor Eustace McGargle, medicine man and guardian of "Poppy" an eighteen-year-old-girl

who has

been in his care since childhood and has known only carnival life. Poppy, played by Rochelle Hudson. falls in love with Richard Crom- well the "son of the village mayor. Meanwhile, Fields has scented 'money; he learns that a valuable estate in the town awaits the locating of its rightful heiress-a missing eighteen-year-old girl. He decides to palm off poppy as the

child.

His scheme, though successful, is exposed. The girl's one-day Cin- derella transformation faces, ab

takes a sudden turn. unhappy ending when the plot

Bary-tempered actress in the "MEET NERO WOLFE" comedy-romance which comes to the Star Theatre on Friday. the star has a fine opportunity to dis- play her talents,

Miss Sullavan's portrayal runs the gamut of human emotions, from gentle love to fiery hate, from raging tantram to absolute docility.

All of these characteristics are displayed by the star who, as a scréép "Actress in the alm drama- tization of the Faith Baldwin story, learns to despise s noted explorer- author, as he has learned to hate her, by reputation."

They fall ́désperately in love, however, when they meet under sssumed names. They marry and the clash of temperamenta begins, resulting in a heated quarrel on their wedding night with the bride walking out on the bridegroot When they relent, their efforts to locate each other "leads" them through many amusing adven GOTENT

As Miss Bullavan's leading man, Henry Forda w outstanding. | Others in the supporting cast are Henrietta Crosman, Charles But terworth. Lucien Littlefrid and Beulah BohidrThe bicture was directed by William A. Belter.

We recently finished reading of Nero Wolfe's exciting forays in crime detection in Rex Stout's latest mystery yarn "Fer de Lance," and ventured the guess that the partly detective would soon be re- leased from his confinements of black type to vent his genius in the real shadow world of the screen...

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. Anniversarica and Holidays,-8. African Union Parl, opened in 1910.

Cinemas.

King's "The White Angel.". Queen's-"Poppy." Oriecto!: Romance In Manhatian." World:Chinese, Picture." Lee:"Crime And Punisherent,'

Alhambra :-"Meet Nero Wolfa." * Majestic :—Human Cargo."

Stor:-"The Trail Of The Lone

Bone Pine."

Dances. Cheero Club, 8.00 p.m. Entertainuants, — A. D. C.' Play, "Night Must Fall," at China Fleet

Club Theatre,

bleetings-Kowloon Linion Women's Gulid, 10 a.m

Church

* Behearmis.—Make Believe," by Central British School Old Päpils, in Old School Hall, Nathan Road, 8.30 p.m.

Social-Whist Drive, Sailors' Home and Sewrep's Institute, 9.00 p.m.

Sports Football-Kolewall Cup, Royal Navy x. Army (Caroline Hill), 400 p.m.

Shooting-Hong Kong Rife Associa tion Spoon and Practice Shoot (Army Range, Kowloon Cisy), 2.00 p.m.

Moon.-IX Moon, 21st. Day. Sunrise.6.20 1.11. Sunset.5.44

SAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE &

SHOWING TO DAY AT 2.30, 6.10.7.15

SHE SPURNED ONE MAN'S ARMS

.TO EMBRACE ALL HUMANITY! The gallant story of the immortal war heroine whose blood-stained uniform became the red badge of courage of the Red Cross nurse!

KAY FRANCIS

HENGI

VIGILATNA, Ai Ein

The White Angel

From Warner Bros., producers of "Lauis Pasteur”, with IAN HUNTER ● 1000 OTHERS

NEXT CHANGE

M.G M. Picture

ROBERT MONTGOMERY in "PICCADILLY JIM

with Frank Morgan - Madge Evane

ALHAMBRA

ROON DAILYAF 10-470-730-430, JOATEN 56 ay

SHOWING TO-DAY

MERRIEST MIRTH AND - MURDER 17 REX STOUT'S FAMOUS BEER-LOVING, MURDER-SOLVING AMateur deTECTIVE!

Edward

ARNOLD MEET NERO WOLFE LIONEL STANDER A COLUMBIA PICTUR

"One of the best

murder myster lesfkava readin śwoniy yaurs!" -William Lyon Phaipa

morid-komaus sritie

-NEXT- CHANGE-

The Year's Most Impressing Smash Hit !"

"THE ROAD TO GLORY"

FREDRIC MARCH

JUNE LANG WARNER BAXTER

3 ta -Century Fox Picture.

NEWS FLASHES

George Bancroft Featured By .Columbia

George Bancroft, recendy placed under contract by Columota, fol- lowing his outstanding perform- Ance in "Mr. Deeds Воёз то Town," will be featured in two of the company a forthcoming pro- ductions. His next picture will be "Racketeers In. Exlie," based on a story by Harry Bauber. Recently he was assigned to the male lead in "Heart Flush" by William R.

p.m.

Lipman and Houston Branch Tiles. High at 14.34 Low at -7.13 The screenplay is now being pre- And 17.18.

pared by Malcolm Stuart Boylan.

After a long and successful Broadway stage career Mr. Ban- croft made his initial screen ap- pearance in. "Driven." His per- formance In this picture resulted Ilfe in the metropolis vividly in long-term contract with pictured in "Romance in Manhat Paramount, where he quickly rose tan" showing at Oriental Theatre to stardom. Some of his starring for to-morrow and Thursday. vehicles include "The Show Down," Attention to the most minute The Drag Net," "The World and detali in settings has given audien- the Flesh," "Blood Money," "Para- ces an Intriguing, intimate picture mount on Parade," "Rich Man's. of the sub-stratum activity of Folly," "Elmer and Elsie" and New York City, with dramatic Columbia's "Hell Ship Morgan."

"ROMANCE IN MANHATTAN”

(A T

"Romance in Manhattan." starring STAN LAUREL'S Francia Lederer and Ginger Rögers,

Seldom has the screen given audiences a truer picture of lower New York and the Manhattan water-front than is depicted in "Romance in Manhattan.”

We guessed right. "At the Alham- | glimpses of Ellis Island, night bra Theatre to-day, Nero Wolfe will police court and the steerage be introduced to his millions of sections of a great ocean liner in magazine admirers and to the countless others who have never made his acquaintance in the person of Edward Arnold. Appro- priately, the title of the new flm based on the aforemention "Fer de Lance" is Meet Nero Wolfe."

In the capable hands of Arnold, Wolfe comes to life as a lovable genuinely brilliant criminologist. Surrounded by his orchids and beer be delves into the mystery cloaking a series of murders and by sheer analysis unwinds the tor ture threads of drama and suspense to reveal the dramatic story of in- trigue and murder."

WIFE SAYS HE

IS "VINDICTIVE”

Declaring that she fears physical violence from her husband, Mrs. Virginia Laurel, wife of the Bri- tish-born, thin member of the

PORTRAIT AS KING

GEORGE MEMORIAL Laurel and Hardy" screen part-

nership, has petitioned

Q Los Manchester's memorial to King Angeles court for a restraining George will include a portrait of order against him. She says Stan him in olle by Mr. Oswald Birley has a vindictive temper.

This was announced recently She ta also saing him for s following a meeting of the King" | separate maintenance, says Rediter, Sharing the spotlight with George V. Memorial (Manchester) Claiming that Laurel earns 70,000 Arnold is Lionel Stander, as Archie | Fund.

dullurs for each flim, his wife de- Goodwin, Wolfe's indomitable aide- The portrait will probably be mands 1,235 dollars (about £300).

** hung in the Town Hall,

a month.

de-camp.

ESTARE

Delly at 2.30, 6.20.7.20 & 9.20 P.M. TO-DAY AND TOMORROW

Romance! Action! Drama! Filmed in NATURAL COLOR!

SYLVIA SIDNEY FRED MACMURRAY HENRY FONDA The TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE

· with Fred Stone » Nigel Mrves Entah Boudi » Robert Kärrut Mike Mcfucband-Actvolly

NEXT CHANGE MARGARET SULLAVAN in

"THE MOON'S OUR HOME"

MERENRY FONDA CHARLES BUTTERWORTH

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