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QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 2:30:5′13-7:20 8.9:30 -TEL:31455.

SHOWING TO-DAY

3

Men Staked Their Lives for Just One Look at the Thrilling Beauty of This Tiger Woman!

Savage, untamed, exotically lovely...guarded from men by all the terrors and tortures of a trackless, iropic forest...a prize for the first man to find her!

She had a horde of ba- hoons for an army and stawny tiger for å matal

Thru to the romanen el- the one man with courage an win through and cuprare ile

love of this jungle ques-

4 SHOWS

DAILY

1.30-512

7:15-8.50

ONLY

Dorothy Lamour *The JUNGLE

PRINCESS"

with RAY MILLAND • AKIM TAMIROFF LYNNË OVERMAN-MOLLY LAMONT NALA

Paramovar Plusumu, dinnatud ky-Ukam-Thiele

TAKE MY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUR

ORIENTAL

THEATRE.

VALLNING

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- MANCHAI

TEL 20475

2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW. THE BIGGEST SHOW IN TOWN! ON THE STAGE ON THE SCREEN

with

SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE

ATTRACTION

SUPERB PHOTO PLAY PRODUCTION"

2 BIG SHOWS

FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!

Barbara

1

Robert STANWYCK TAYLOR "HIS BROTHERS WIFE

JEAN HERSHOLT JOSEPH CALLEIA

a W. S. VAN DYKE production

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BIG SPECIAL VARIETY SHOW

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S

"Adventure In Manhattan"

QUEEN'S:—

"My Man Godfrey"

ORIENTAL::

His Brother's Wife"

Variety Show.

CENTRAL:

*

"White_Angel",

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:----

"Under Two Flags" MAJESTIC:----

STAR:

"Manhattan Melodrama"

'Till We Meet Agnin""

KING'S:-

Coming

"Old Hotel" QUEEN'S :----

"The Jungle Princess" ALHAMBRA¦***.

"The Jungle Princess" CENTRAL:-

"Angkor" MAJESTIC:—

""Top Hat"

"TILL WE MEET AGAIN"

THE GOLDEN DIARY OF LOCAL

ARROW"

TROJ

the

Bette Davis; who Academy of Motion Picture Arta

EVENTS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 Anniversaries and

Holidays.

Cindinas.

and Sciences award for the best | St. Paul Hermit. ⠀⠀ performance by ́ ́any" actress' to 1935, is coming to the Star Theatre on Sunday in the “First National production. "The Golden AFTOW.”.

For once, this great actress de- parts from the gnister charao- terizations that made her famous in "Or Human Bondage" and "Dangerous." She follows her success" in "The Petrined Forest,” which was A tragic" although sympathetic role, with an entirely new portrayal—that of a charm- | ing young American girl who yearn for romance,

The picture is based on the play by Michael Arlen, noted English playwright, and is a story of love

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In

Man-

King's:-"Adventure

hattan Queen's The Jungle Princess" Central:-"White Angel."-- Oriental:-"Els Brother's Wife." World:-"Chinese Picturo.” Alhambra:---The Jungle

Princess."

Majestic:-"Manhattan Melo-

·drama.” d

Star:-"Till We Meet Again” Dances ----Talkoo Club Dance, 9 Cm.

Lectures-Helena May Christian Fellowship Meeting, 10.30 am.”

Meetings-St. John's Cathedral Training Group, Cathedral Office, 7.15 p.m.; RAMC. Association

in high society, set in a back-annual general meeting, Urban ground of luxurious yachts and resort hotels.

Miss Davis plays the part of a girl who is reputed to be fabulous- ly wealthy and who is surrounded of high and

by fortune hunters of

low degree,

Į

Council room, -5.30° p.m.

Miscellaneous-Diocesan

Girls" School Prize Distribution. 5.30 p.m. Bocial-Hong Kong Ladies' Hoc- key Club Annual Supper Dance, at Peninsula Hotel, 8 pm: Cheero Club Duplicate Contract Bridge, 8 pm). Whist Drive and Tombola, Reading Room, Kowloon Doèka, 9 pm: St. Andrew's Club entertains YPS. of Kowloon Union Church, 8.45 p.m.

Sports.

Bick and tired of their blandish- ments, she persuades a shy young reporter to marry her, on the pre- sumption that it is to be, a mar- riage of convenience, in order to protect her from the Importuni- ties of the fortune seekers. Really

Badminton-Mixed Doubles Lea- in love with the youth, she tries gue. Club de Recreio" "A" Y to win his affections, only to 'Aad | University; St. John's v. Club Re- that an unbending pride and a creio "B": Free Lancers Y. Kow hatred of wealth on his part|loon Tong. effectually keep them spart.

.. George Brent has the role at the young reporter. Carol Hughes The heartaches of lovers, torn

a vivacious Irish brunette Dick apart by their devotion to their Foran, the singing cow-boy, for respective countries, are drainati- sakes his boots and saddles, in cally brought to the screen in "T this picture for tails and a high |

We Meet Again," which la show- ing to-day at the Star Theatre.

WTH We Meet Again" shows two happy lovers, stars of the theatre in London, Herbert Marshall and

his-Viennese sweetheart, Gertrude Michael, whose wedding plans are wrecked by the declaration o war. Marshall, as a loyal Englishman, Joins his colours, and Miss Michael, who, unknown to her sweetheart, is a member of the German Secret į Service, places herself under the orders of her commanding officer. Marshall is assigned to the Bri- tish Intelligence Service, and en- ters Germany, disguised as a Ger- man soldier. Miss Michael is also stationed in Germany, and when, accidentally, she meets her lover, realizes that her love for him is so great that she cannot betray him.

she

Unconsciously, however, gives him away to the German authorities, as an English spy. Then she forgets her loyalty to her country, risks death before a Aring-squad to save him.

The way in which the sweet- hearts outwit the German agents and make their successful escape across the border, into a happler world of peace and love, furnishes the unforgettably thrilling climax. Lionel Atwill, Rod LaRocque and Frank Reicher head the excellent supporting cast. Robert Florey directed.

Barda. McEwan Younger

Garrison League,

Bergeants H.R.S. Bde.; RA.M.C. v. R.A. (L); BAQ. v. RUR, RN.Y.P. R.W.F

p.m.

a.m. Bunset-8

Sunrise.-7.06.

hat, and Eugene Pallette has the Moon-XII Moon, 3rd. Day. role of the father of the ol Tides. High at 11.46 and 22.48; heiress. Others in the cast in- | Low at 5.25 and 16.20. clude Catharine Doucet. Craig Reynolds, Ivan Lebedeff, G. P. Huntley, Jr., Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry O'Neil, Eddie. Acum, Farie Foxe, Rafael Storm. E E. Clive and Sarah Edwards.

"ADVENTURE IN

MANHATTAN'

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 Anniversaries and Holidays- St. Marcellus

Cinemas.

King's:—“Adventure In Man-

hattan."

Queen's:-"The Jungle Princess.” Central.-"The White Angel.” Oriental:"White Angel" World: "Chinese Picture."

· Alhambra:-"The Jungle Frin-

*cess.

1

The beauteous Jean Arthur em- barked on a series of gay román- tic screen adventure with Gary

Majestic:Top Hal.-. Star:-"Till We Meet Again," Cooper in "Mr. Deeds Goes, to

Entertainments.—Chinese Choral Town," picked up Wiliam Powell

Great Hall, en route to romp happly through Society Concert, in "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" and to University, 9 p.m.

Miscellaneous.--St. Andrew's An- day at the King's Theatre she is with Joel McCrea to entertain her nual Party for the Poor Chinese, fans in a wild, hilarious laugh-in the Hall. 4 p.m.; Opening of the drama called "Adventure in Man- January Cabaret at Gloucester hattan."

Hotel.

Religious St. John's Cathedral Miss Arthur portrays a Broad- way star who unwittingly aids her Retreat producer a master criminal, in perpetrating a series of robberies of valuable art treasures. McCrea the Colony Badminton Champlon- is seen as a successful writer of ship Tourney at Noon. crime novels who uncannily pre- dicts these robberies before they are committed, These strange circumstances involve McCrea and Arthur in some highly entertain- ing adventures.

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Sports.

Badminton-Entries

close for

Bowls-Inter-Society Match, 8t.. Andrew's v. St. George's (Kowloon Bowling Green Club), 245 pm. ^

Cricket-First Division: Nary v. Indian R.C. (L); University V. Army (L); Civil Service C.O. v. Hong Kong C.C. (L); Craigengówer CC. Y. Kowloon C.C.; Second Division, Indian R.C. v. Navy (L); Kowloon C.C. v. Cralgengower C.C. (L); Hong Kong C.C. v. Civil Ser- vice C.C. (L); Army "C" V. Uni- versity (L); Police R.C. v. Army "A", (L),

"JUNGLE PRINCESS"

The charge of a hundred mad- "MARY OF SCOTLAND" deed elephants upon a bamboo Malayan village, the death-leap of an Infuriated man-eating tiger, and a battle in the treetops by a Hockey European YMCA V horde of baboons are a few of the Radio (YM.C.A), 4 p.m.; Grupo thrills that make "The Jungle Desportivo Argonautas v. Waseda Princess" whien opens to-day at University (Navy ground, King's the Queen's and Alhambra Thea-Park), 4 p.m.; Caer Clark Cup tres, one of the most thrilling and Ladies v. Recreio (Y.MO.A.), 245 exciting stories of the current sea p.m.; St. Andrew's 7. CBA),

(CBA), 3° p.m.

A queen whose destiny was writ- ten before she was born--and whose foreordained tragedy est tablished her as one of the most glamorous women of all time-18 portrayed by Katherine Herburn In the title role "Mary of Scotland' showing at the Oriental Theatre | son

on. Bunday, Monday and TuesdayThe friendship of a jungle girl which co-stars Fredric March, as with a tiger and giant chimpanzee, the Earl of Bothwell

and the love which is born between The treachery," the murders, the her and a white man lost in her political manoeuvring to control dangerous domains, keep the story her marriages, the whisperea¦ moving at lightning speed, and alander branding her an immoral form the romantic background for murderess that helped blast her the thriller. Dorothy Lamour, re- from her throne, and all the cently" of the radio," makes her

‚N THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES dramatic incidents traced in the film debut as the girl, and Ray

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"MANHATTAN

Powell. They are reared together by a kindly old man whose son

now

MELODRAMA

Two Invely Scotswoman was a

Racing-Entries close for the Annual Race, Meeting, 300 m. Moon. XII Moon, 4th. Day. Bunrise 7.06 a.m. Bunset-6.01

Tides-High at 12.16 and 23.35; Low at 8.00 and 17.05.

CENTRAL

THEATRE deck and

you ma

Kay Francis

THE

film were made inevitable because Milland is the man whom she two blood relatives were born with | lover. Others in the cast are Akim the taint of illegitimacy—Elizabeth | Tamiroff. Lynne Overman, Molly of England, her cousin, and James Lamont and Mala, the latter the Stuart, Earl of Moray, her half handsome Eskimo remembered for TO-DAY & TO-MORROW brother.

his portrayel in "Eskimo," muhát: 2.30, 5.15, 7,20 & 9.20° P.E”. pérished in the Slocum, disaster.

Milland goes into the Malay AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES They are fast friends, inseparable. Moving with dramatic power Their friendship endures through constant threat to Elizabeth. She jungle to investigate rumours held a hereditary claim to the that there is a witch in the through a series of unusual situ- the intervening years, and in carly English crown, and many powers forest who can change herself alons, "Manhattan Melödrama” is | middle age Gable is a big-shot

showing at the Majestic gambler, a powerful and dramatic within and without England were from a beautiful girly into dra Theatre to take its place among figure of the city's night life throne. Hence she became the that tiger and is about to be mauled eager to give Mary her cousin's | ferocious tiger. He is attacked by

the hit pictures of the year.

Powell, still his friend, is the dis-

target for Elizabeth's plotting, to death when the girl appears and Clark Gable, William Powell and triet atornsy. '.'' Myrna Loy are the stars..

Between them, a New York play pawn in the cleverest intrigue of calls the tiger off. From the opening scene, the pic girl who loves them both, is Myrna Moray could never become king, ture is absorbing' entertainment. One of the most thrilling scenes

Out of this strange set or cir. but only satisfy his lust for power ever filmed is the prologue which cumstances comes the body of the by becoming regent, Mary was met re-enacts the are and panic story a plot which never lacks under her own roof, to the end Jungle, and the civilized, thrill- THE WORLD'S WEIRDEST with murder, slander, and intrigue aboard the excursion steamer Gen- | for-dramatic moments and sus bral Slocum in New York harbour pense. Powell is chiled upon to that she might be driven out or hunting white man, follows. ⠀ in 1904 a tragedy in which more sacrifice his career, he false to his subjected to his will

"Jungle Princess" is a beautifully MYSTERY BEGION REVEALED than 1,000 were killed oath of office, or to demand theth. Ian Keith, plays Morey, and especially notable for introducing

Florence Eldridge plays Eliza-produced and directed thrilinim. IN A STARTLING PICTURE Out of this horror emerges | legal execution of his friend. And Blackie Gallagher, played by Clark Gable's final scenes, will not spon Gable, and Jim Wade, played by be forgotten.

Loy.

J.

the age. Because the illegitimate

she has ever seen, to her cave and She takes Milland; the first man

nurses him back to health Ar amazing romance between these two, the wild, untamed girl of the

John Carradine, Rizzio, in the huge a new beauty to the screen in the supporting cast of forty principhia, lovely person of Dorothy Lamour.

WHITE ANGEL"

LAN HUNTER

SUNDAY MONDAY

ANGKOR

KINGS

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. “Also Bosman: Snapshot" BrauTTÉS ON Tau Šoken** Free gifts of Max Factor'a Face Powder, Lipstick and Rouge will be

distributed to Laly Patrons of the Theatre on Saturday, 16th. Jan.

JEAN ARTHUR

JOEL MECREA

台

Plinture in Manfrotton

SUNDAY M.G.M. PIOTRUZ BA

REGINALD OWEN

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OLD

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ALHAMBRA

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UNDER TWO FLAGS

TO-MORROW.

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VICTOR

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"THE JUNGLE PAINCESS' with Dorothy Lamour

Ray Milland

MAJESTIC

THEATRE."

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IN THEIR BEST TOP HAT”

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DAILY

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720 9:20

WITH EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

STAR

TODAY & TO-MORROW

HANKO

Torn apart on their wedding night.,,they meet again' as enemy spies in the services of their countries!'

Adalah Zakos provo

HERBERT

Marshall

VILL WE MEET AGAIN

GERTRUDE MICHAEL LIONEL ATWILL ROD LAROCQUE Directed by Robert Floray A Paramount Picture

ENCING BETTE DAVIS in "THE GOLDEN ARROW

BUNDAY

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