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Although he doesn't like being referred to as a "collector," Edward G. Robinson has one of the finest collections of modern art on the Facing: Coast. The actor now starring in "Bullets or Ballots the First National production which is showing at the King's Theatre, gathera valuable paintings "for the fun of it" rather than as invest- ments.
In "Bullets or Ballots," Robinson playa the part of a detective whe breaks up one of the greatest racket rings in New York, headed by leading citizens.
Others in the cast include Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Bum phrey Bogart, Frank McHugh and Joseph King.
William knighley directed the picture from the screen play by Setor L Millör, based on the story. by Martin Mooney and Miller.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
| Hong Kong
KING'S
"Bullets or Ballota" QUEEN'Sa
"A Woman Rebely". ORIENTAL:
"Piccadilly Jim".
İİCENTRAL:-
"Fra Diavolo"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:- "Pepper" MAJESTIC:--
"Women Are Trouble"
STAR:--
"Heart's Destra"
KING'S:—
Coming
"Little Lord Fauntleroy": QUEEN'S
"To Mary, With Love" ORIENTAL:-
"Silly Billtes"
ALHAMBRA 10
"Champagne Waltz"
CENTRAL:
"Clive of India" MAJESTIC:-
STARI
"Piccadilly Jim"
"Walking Dead"
"TO MARY, WITH
LOVE"
A love story, gallant and glorious, of two modern sweet- hearts, hiding their tears and "holding back their hurts, romanc- ing lightly yet loving deeply, "To Mary, With Love," Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox triumph, opens at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.
Co-starring Warner Baxter and. Myrna Loy for the third time, and providing them with a story and background which enables them to surpass the heights they reached together in "Penthouse" and "Broadway Bill," the picture is an Important arid appealing story of love to-day, a splendid love that takes its place with the screen's great romances
Based on Richard Sherman's widely discussed novel of the same title, "To Mary—With Love"
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Kicking shins, burling tomatoes, busting windows and getting everybody in an uproar, Jane Withers, in all her glory, goes on a riotous rampage "of mischief and merriment in "Pepper" her now, Twentieth Century Fox picture, which opens to-day at the Alham- bra Theatre-
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
SATURDAY, JANUARY.23.. Anniversaries and Holidays.-- St. Raymond.
Cinemas.
King'a:-"Bullets Or Ballots." Queen's:——“A Woman Retels."
· Central:---"Pictura Snatcher.” - Oriental:-"Ficçadilly Jim.” World:-""Chinese Picture.” Alhambra:--"Pepper." || Majestic:"Women Are Trouble" Star"Heart's · Desire.” Dances-REO.C.A. fortnightly
Alded and abetted by Irvin 6.. Cobb and slim Summerville, “Gin- ger" Jane puis the "rifss", în mis- chief, the "pep" in "Pepper" and the laughter in your life as a half- pint Robin Hood of lower New York who, when she isn't provid-dance at Peninsula Hotel 8.30 ing a volcanic eruption of excite-p.m ment in the neighbourhood. cures Meetings-Final, of the China a dyspeptic old millionaire, rights Corporation, Ltd., at Messrs Lowe, wrongs, and exposes a gang of Bingham and Matthews' omces, fakers posing as nobility."
Mercantile Bank Building, nodn.
Miscellaneopa.—Memorial service in remembrance of Late Mrs. R. Huang, in Munsang College Hall, Kowloon City, 3 p.m.
"..
Social Craigengower Cricket Club Whist Drive and Tombola, $:30 p.m.
Celebrating the Fourth of July by leading a crowd of kids through the streets, Jane comes upon a family being evicted. Jane rushes to the rescue, bat inds that the young mother needs eleven dollars to pay the rent
Jane dispatches her gang on u
Sports. collection tour, but a meeting later Badminton-Entries for Open discloses that they have raised only | Championships close. sixdollars. Disconsolate, Jane is walking through the streets when she passes a palatial mansion.
Jane is trying to talk ber. way past the gateman when Irvin 8. Cobb, the owner, drives up. He refuses to even talk to the kids and they retallate by pelting him of overripe
with A collection vegetables.
Jane crawls into the house through a window, and, by threa- tening Cobb with her unerring aim, she blackmails him out of the necessary five dollars.
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Cobb, harrassed by his daughter, doctor and servants, sees a kindred spirit for fun in Jane and they wind up at Coney Island, shooting the chutes, riding the roller coas-, ter and having a high old time in generall
Cricket-First Division: Civil service C.C.. Indian RC (L); Craigengower C.C. v. University (L): Hong Kong C.C. v. K.C.C. (L); Navy v. Army (L); Beccnd Division: Kowloon Co. v. Hong Kong C.C."(L); University v. Craigengower C.C. (L); Recreto 7. Navy (L); Army "A". Civil Service C.C. (D); Indian R.C. V Police R.C. (L).
Football-First Division and shield Re-play, St. Joseph's" v. Club de Recreio (King's Park), 4 p.m.; First Division, South China "A" v. Police (Caroline "0), 4 p.m.; Eastern V Club (Causeway Bay), 4 pah Royal Ulster Rifles v. Navy (Chatham Road), 4 pm; Kowloon V South China "B" (Kowloon), 4 p.m. Chinese Athletic v. Kowloon “C” (Bookun- Division, poo), 4 p.m.; Second Royal Artillery "L" V. RA. "8" (Happy Valley), 400 p.m.; Eastern "A WOMAN REBELS" Cab (Causeway Bay), 230
The tragic results of a woman's defiance of hidebound conventions are woven into & fascinating drama for Katharine Hepburn an. Herbert Marshall in "A Woman Rebels."
Miss Hepburn sensitively por- woman who refuses meekly, to trays the role of a young English swallow the dictum that she shall wed whomever her father selects, that she shall consider herself in ferior to măn, that she shall not enter business.
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is a love letter to: every theatre- The crisis involved is that her goera love letter of a romantic courageous antion threatens to af- foot the career of the man she couple and their years together. bitter-sweet with hurt and-happi-oven, played by Marshall.
ness.
Opening with the wedding of Baxter and Miss Loy, the film moves swiftly through the hectic days of the late twenties when in- dustrial empires were rising and the nation lived and laughed as the crest of fortune mounted ever higher.
Best man at the marriage is fan Hunter who idolites the bride,
Myrna, but grins with happiness as he sees her ecstacy in the arms
of Baxter.
Scarcely their honeymoon over than Baxter plunges into business, I bistent on amassing one
Her fight for, happiness presents a tragedy touched tale that gives colourful rules to Elizabeth Allan as her sister, Donald Crisp na her father, Doris Dudley as her daugh- tor. David Manners her brother. in-law and Van Heflin na the man in her past
The story originally appeared as a novel, "Portrait of a Rebei,” by Netta Syrett, British authores. and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Veiller and Ernest Vajda.
In their first screen appearance together, Miss Hepburn and Mar shall are directed by Mark Sandrich pa a Pandro S. Berman production for RKO Radio.
"A Woman Bebels" has its run
of the huge fortunes that are to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
rising everywhere. Baxter Insists
be cannot take a vacation, and
Myrna goes off to Maine alone.
p.m. Kowloon v. South China (Kowloon), 2.30 p.m. Chinese Athletic v. Kowloon "C" (Sookun- Doo), 2.30 pm; Third Division, Seaforth Highlanders v. R.W.F. (Happy Valley), 2.30 p.m.; Joseph's. v. Recreio (King's Park),! 2.30 p.m.
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Hockey.-European Y.M.C.A. V. Kumaon Rifles (Marina ground), 4 P. Nomads v. HMS. Berwick (Happy Valley), 4 p.m.
Rugby-Triangular Tournament. Club, v. Army (Happy Valley), p.m.; Club "A". XV v. HMS. Berwick (Happy Valley), 2.45 pm.
Moon-XII Moon, 11th, Day. Bunrise.-7.05 am. Sunset.-8.05
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 24. Anniversaries and... · Holidays... Septuagesima Sunday.
Cinemas. Kings:-"Little Lord Fauntle-
roy."
'Queen's:-"To Mary For Love.".
Central: Fra Diavolo." Oriental:-"Billy Billies." World:"Chinese Picture Alhambra:"Pepper.” Majestic:-"Piccadilly. Jim" Star: "The Wa'k'ng Dead." Miscellaneous--YM.CATM Discus- ston Group, la the West Lounge, 9 p.m.9
Sports. Cricket-Craigengewer cc. v.
Returning, she finds that, Baxter WOMEN ARE TROUBLE Kowloon C.C. (F), 11 am.
OF
In the parlance of their craft, rë porters refer to particularly generous journals as “a newspaper man's newspaper.". By the same reasoning, they may now poet their claim on a picture.
hasn't attended
strictly to business-a compact, lingerie, are proof of his guilt. "Things like that happen all the time," BAYB Myrna, in effect. "You see them on the stage, you read about them In books-but they only happen once to
me." This is the first crisis in their marriage. For the first time they really begin to Theatra.
to each other.
Baxter plunges even more fren-
Footbal Governor's Cup: Hong Kong Football Association Y. Chinese Amateur Athletic Feders- (Caroline Hill, 3.30 pm.: tion Second Division: Navy, v. Royal Ulster Riftes (Causeway Bay), 2.30 pim; Third Division: Police "C" Women Are Trouble" is its title v. RAMC. (Kow.com), 4 pm and it is showing at the Majestic | RAO.C. v. 14ga (Sookunpoo), 4 p.m.; Kwong Wah v.: R.ASC.
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understand how much they mean It is a story of modern report (Kowloon). 2.30 pm; RAP. V. ing in an average American city. Its artistry lies in the fact that Kumaon Rides (Prince Edward ziedly into high finance. A series never is it overplayed. Whatever Road), 4 pm
Golf-Annual Match, Shatin of Park Avenue apartments, in-they say outside, newspaper men
Club v. Country admit among themselves that there Golf
Club creasingly beautiful, reflect the is fun in the business, it not for- (Sheungahul). rising tide of Baxter's wealth.
tune," Otherwise they would quit Hunting Fanling Hunt (Lok Baxter is on top of the world. it for some more tranquil profes Ma Chau), 11 am. Ian Hunter looks on, pleased that sion, such as hauling nitro-glycer Myma bas the things she always ine or airplane testing. dreamed of having; regretting Stuart Ervin enacts the star xe. Baxter's evident neglect of his porter admirably and without af lovely wife..
lection. Florence Rice, the daugh Their baby is born and diester of Greatland Rice, famous the market crashes: Baxter is newspaper sports writer, plays the girl reporter true to type and Paul Whipped, beaten, unable to cam-
Anniversaries and Holidays LORD HANWORTH Kelly is the city editor whose only. prehend. They move to a shabby fear is his weekly alimony pay Conversion of St. Paul suburban cottage. Myrna gladly mant. The balance of the chet band, but Baxter fails to fully with the story. because of her love for her hus gives a performance in keeping
understand what has happened. Ee blindly insists that former conditions will return-and takes to drinking.*
Hunter snaps Baxter out of it. finally, when Myrna discovers her husband accepting money from his friend. Filled with good in- tentions, Warner gets a job as clerk in a department store.
end of a rushing day, Baxter finds a note in his envelope discharging him. Disconsolate he starts for home and meets Catre Trevor, bls former girl-friend. Caire and he have a drink-another--and final- ly wind up in a night club,
at home, Myrna zobs over her
A celebration is planned for Christmas Eve. Dead tired at the ruined dinner.
Tidea-High at 9.15 and 19.30; Low at 215 and 12.20.
MONDAY, JANUARY 25.
Auctions Crown Land, at P. W. D. omces, 3 p.m.
Dances Cheero Club Dance. 8 p.m.
Meetings ---Ride Club Meeting in Volunteer Lecture Room, 530 pm Annual, of Hong Kong Football Referees' Association In Room 205. Gloucester Hotel Building. 8 p.m. Rehears Street Bingers in St. John's Hall
Social-YMCA Service Men's Walit Drive 5 pm in the West Lounge: Burns' Dinner, at Penth sula Hotel “
A METRO-GOLDWYŊ-MAYER PICTURE
LEAVES £45,000
Viscount Hanworth, Master of the Rolls from 1923 to 1935 left £45,395, with net personaity £44.- 934.
his sister-in-law Phyllis Julia Fol- lock, and his nephew, Colonel Ralph Charles Geoffrey Poll 250 each to R. J. Salt and Farrer, and his niece. Katt Dians Rivers Pollock;£100 Thomas Alexander Anderson, who was in his employ when Master the
Rolls: £50 to his brother,
Be left 21000, his effects not Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Nor-
and his wich; £25 to Ann Fishersmith, “6 otherwise bequeathed leasehold house in Victoria square an acknowledgment of her lon to his wife; £1000 to his daughter and faithful service to me and ar in-law, Alice Joyce Pollock £209 | family"; and the residue to to his daughter, Maricre Farrer wife during widowhood and on (having made provision for her death or remarriage to his grand during his lifetime), $100 each to son David.
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