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A COTE-Foz • IN SHAKESPEARE'S "AS YOU LIKE IT'

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1937.

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"A Tale of Two Cities”

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Downland

Ten Years Of Negotiation

As a result of ten years of patient, friendly negotiations bo- tween Brighton Town Council and Cuckfield Rural Council, nearly 12 square miles of Downland around Brighton are now permanently preserved,

The preservation includes New- timber Hill. Walstonbury, and the west, Alde of Ditchling Beacon, and extends to the foot of the north side of the Downs, Poynings and | other old-world, villages below the Devil's Dyke also come into the scheme.

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EVENTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4.

Anniversaries and Holidays.-- St Andrew Corsini, Bishop. Be- slaning of Spring. (Li-ch'un).

Auctions. Household Furniture. Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.

Cinemas.

King's: "Down The Stretch." Queen's:-"Without Orders." Central:"A Tale Of Two

Cities."

Oriental: Murder By An

Aristocrat." World:-"Chinese Picture." "Lee:-"Angkor."

Alhambra Laughing At

Trouble."

Majestic: No More Ladies." Star:-"The Iron Duke" Lectures.-Theosophical Society.

The guiding spirit in the long negotiations has been Alderman Sir Herbert Carden, on whom the Brighton Council some years ago conferred the Freedom of the Borough for his outstanding, aer- vices in securing Brighton's "green"¦8 p.m., belt" of Downland extending from secluded Telscombe in the east to Upper Portslade in the west.

As regards Downland preser- vation, Brighton is an actual land-

to the

12.000 extent of

Owner

acres.

Hospital Doctor's Suicide

"Very Popular Officer'

A verdict of suicide while of un-

"Mickey Mouse"-Programme sound mind was returned at the inquest at Woking on Dr. R.. N. B. McCord, deputy superintendent medical officer at the Surrey County Mental Hospital, Brook-

DOWN THE STRETCH

Lae

A Dew First Nadlonal drama dealing with the sport of kings,

Down

Stretch." opens RC the King's Theatre to-day, with Mickey Rooney, Patricia Ellis and Dennis Moore in the leading roles. The story is built around a boy who is unable to get a job with any stable because his father, a famous jockey had thrown a race, but is finally taken under the wing of 3 woman owner of a famous Kentucky rac.ng stab.e.

Even then he is given no op- pertunity to ride because of the prejudice of the trainer, He has made friends with cat considered bad but pleads in vain to race it. But when the horse depended on to win the Derby has been in- jured, a chance is taken on the youthful Jockey and the horse as the last chance. The two streak under the wire to win, upholding the traditions of the stables for which they run.

wood.

He was found dead in a gus- Billed room at his house in the hospital grounds on Monday. He had been at Brookwood for 16 years.

Mrs. McCord stated that on the

he was

day in question her husband was D duty and said that going to have a day in bed. He had only a cup of tea at lunch time. She went to visit friends. and on her return at 7.30 she found the house locked and in darkness. She climbed through a window, but the inside door was locked, and she got in touch with Dr. Johnson,, who entered by the scullery window and discovered her husband lying on the scullery floor:

On the previous day, she said., her husband complained of pains in the abdomen. He had had fit o^ depression for the last two years and or Christmas Day he felt de- pressed. He had often threatened to take his life when he was n such a mental state,

Mickey Rooney has the part of the jockey and Mixs Ellis that of

Dr. J. A. Lowry, medical superin- his sponsor while Dennis Moore

tendent. said there was no quea- is cast as her husband. Others tion of any trouble at the hospital

William Best are

Dr. McCord's work was appreciated Corden Hart. Gorden Elllott, Vir by the "committee and the staff ginia Brassac Charles Wilson, and he was a very popular doctor. Joseph Crehan and Mary Treen.

in

the

cast

William Clemens directed the

Meetings-Toe H Supper Meet- ing at Seamen's Institute. 7.30 p.m.

Miscellaneous.~~~~A. D. C. Play Reading at YM.C.A.. 9 p.m. Kowloon Women's Charity Games afternoon. at St. Andrew's Hall, 3 p.m.

Rehearsals. —Philharmonie So- clety, "Street Binger." in Cathedral Hal, 8.45 p.m.

Religious. -Solemn Eucharistic Triduum in Union with the Inter- national Eucharistle Congress of Manila, at Catholle Cathedral. 5.30 p.,

Social-Cheero Club Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, 8 p.m.

Sports. Billards Junior Championship: A. A. Lewis v. Lee Chi-choh (Club Lusitano); C. Strange V Mul Chan-ted (Catholic "Union); L V. Antonio v. Pus. R. Evans (South China A.A.); M. A. Baptista v. Chan Hon-shu (Engineers' Insti- tute), 8.30 pm.

Hockey-St. Andrew's v. HMS. Tamar (C.B.A. ground).

Moon-XII Moon, 23rd. Day. - Sunrise.-7.01 a.m. Sunset.-6.13

r.m.

Tides. High at 1.35 and 15:10: Low at 7.30 and 23.45..

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5.

Anniversaries and Ho'ldays.- St. Agatha, tortured in Sicily, 251: Auctions-Postage Stamps at

Mears. Lammert Bros.' Auction Rooms. 5.16 p.m.

Cinemas.

King's: "Down The Stretch" Queen's:Without Orders." Central:-"A Tale Of Two

Cities."

Oriental:-"Flash Gorgon." World:"Chinese Picture." Lee: "Angkor."

Alhambra:-"Laughing At

Trouble."

Majestic: British Agent." Star: The Iron Duke" Entertainments - Helena · May, Concert, 5.30 p.m. Concert by Diocesan Girls' School, in ald of

production from the original story FISHERMAN FREDDIE M.C.L.. in St. Andrew's Hall. 5.30

and screen Jacobs."

play by

William

WITHOUT ORDERS:

The good work of bredde Bar- tholomew's schooling in tought ess is continued in Captains Cour- ageous. He could hardly have a more expert teacher than Spencer Tracy.

The rugged, mountainous coun-

The picture is adapted by Marc. try of the Northwest forms the Connelly from Kipling's famous setting of "Without Orders," RKO story. Freddie, appears ageir 1.8 Radio's exciting romance of com- the pampered prunc-and-prisma mercial aviation showing to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

The producers have packed plenty of thrills and a notable amount of heart interest into the screen version of this Peter B.

CHANGE with ROCHELA" HUDSON • A Paramount COMIETKyne story.

LAUGHING AT TROUBLE

A woman newspaper editor, fair and forty-ish, whose joy in life is to help others out of their troubles while she laughs away her own, is the zestful and hilarious central character in “Laughing At Trou- bie." Twentieth Century-Fox's new laugh- and thrill-packed feature opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.

ing players.

Allan Lane, attractive youth in love with Delma Byron, is arrested and convleted of the mystery mur- der of the town philanthropist. Editor Darwell, sensing a great in- Justice, carries on a relentless,

summasing crusade in her newspaper to bring about Lane's exoneration and find the guilty person. She discovers that the murdered man, shortly before his death, placed in als will a $10,000 bequest to a charitable institution. With this

and a finely-chosen cast and excellent direction. com- bine to make the picture an out- standing offering.

parents. pet. of rich

Bent to England for a "hange of climate. he gets more change than they bargained for.

and proper man.

The precious, infant is washed overboard and picked up by Cap- tain Tracy's fishing schooner. This pernickely youngster is the queerest catch the Cape Cod 3shermen have ever made. and Spencer Tracy's · disciplinary me The plot centres around the pro-thods put him through some rough fessional rivalry of two transport times before he emerges as a new flyers and their personal rivalry over a pretty air hostess. One of the pilots, the son of the owner company after a sensational career of the lines, comes to work for the

as a stunt flyer, but his unfitness to handla s big transport plane is evident to everyone but his doting father. The flyer twice endangers the lives of his passengers by his fool-herdiness and cowardice.

Lionel Barrymore is another old

salt, and Mickey Rooney's presence ance more act as a spur to Fred- dle to forget those nice manners directs.

p.m.

Lectures-Helena May Christian Fellowship Meeting. 10.30 a..

Meet'ngs-Annual, of the "Star" Ferry Co., Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s Office.. 11 a.m. Monthly, of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Chamber's Premises. Connaught Road Cen tral, 2.30 p.m.: ' Annual of the Sports Club. in the Club House, 5.30 p.m.; Hong Kong Aquarium: Boclety, Blol Dept.. University.. 8.30 p.m.

Social Cheero Club Duplicate Contract Bridge, 8 p.m. Sports...

Badminton.. - Mixed Doubles League: University V. Free Lancers: Club de Recreio "B" Y. Kowloon Tong.

Billiards. Senior Championship:

Sinh Hon-yat v. A. Osmund (Civil Service Cricket Club), 8.30

p.m.

1).

Moon-XII Moon, 24th. Day. Bunrise 7.02 a.m. Sunset-6,12- p.m.

Tides-High at 0.35 and 13.41; Low at 7.00 and 20.04.

Mid-Ocean Preview

KINGS

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

THE BIGGEST THRİLE

SINCE 'BROADWAY BILL'I ...is this dramatis story of a boy and a horse ...who gave up fame and glory to square debt with a double-crossing world? ..

PATRICIA ELLIS

MICKEY ROONEY DENNIS MOORE

William Bart - Clarian - Hari Gerdon Blen Joseph Crokan Mary Treen Posted by Willem Komen

A firar porers? Trous

DOWNE STRETCH

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THE KEY WOMAN IN A MURDER TRIAL THAT TURNED THE TOW

She

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UPSIDE DOWN!

...and

OUT GUESSED EVERY MAN!

LAUGHING TROUBLE

with JANE DARWELL; and a great cast 299

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IN

A WARNER BROS. PICTURE

NO MORE LADIES ·

In a story that fairly bubbles with comedy, Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery are coming

to the

CENTRAL

THEATRE

Majestic Theatre to TODAY & TO-MORROW

the. day in "No More Ladies"

At. 2.80, 5.15. 7.20. & 9.30 P.M. Meter-Goldwyn-Mayer production AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES

directed by Edward H, Griffith.

Adapted from the Broadway

are

as a clue the robust. two-fisted.

A cloverly-handled romance, and gally determined "woman exposes

a gripping climax when a plane is Brilliantly cast in this swit- the real murderer by playing upon lost in a storm over the Idaho

The first instance of a mid-oceanLurtine during his return voyage stage hit, the film retains all the paced story are Jane Darwell, Sara

the jealousy of a woman in love mountains and the reckiena pilot preview became known in Holly to the mainland.

fne drama and sparkiing humour Haden, Lola Wilson Margaret with unscrupulous lawyer, deserts his post, afford absorbing wood upon Bing Crosby's return Hollywood regards this as the of the original with the addition Hamilton, Pert Kelton, John Car-Meanwhile she stands off single moments to fim-goers.

from a vacation in the Hawaiian first instance of a preview being of one of the finest screen casts of radine and many other outstand- handed an enraged mob which has Robert Armstrong and Sally Islands.

conducted on shipboard on the the year. pursued Lane to her home after Eilers in the romantic roles of an

Crosby, "departed for the balmy high seas

Prominently featured with the he breaks jail. Pitting her brains and courage

Charlle Ruggles. experienced pilot and his stewar-sands of Waikiki Beach after com- On Thursday, October 15, Crosby co-stars against a murderer, to save an Your heart will skip a beat, you'll desa, turn in finely characterized pletion of Columbia's "Fenies Introduced on his regular broad- Franchot Tone. Edna May Cilver. innocent bay from the electric

find a lump in your threat, and portrayals. Both are pilote in real from Heaven," in which he heads east, the fir new songs of the Gull Patrick, Reginald Denny and Each sagaciously chair, Jane Darwell laughs and | then-you'll roar with laughter at life.

the cast with Madge Evans, Edith picture John Burke and Arthur many others. fights her way through a glorious | this distinctly different pletürel Vinton Haworth, a newcomer to Fellows, Donald Meek, Louis Arm- Johnston, well-known songsters, cust. thess polished experts have "battle to cheat a malignant fate | Darryl F, Zanuck, Twentieth Cen- pictures from the radio field gives strong and others. -

are credit with the songs "So Do created a beautiful photoplay from of its prey. There's breath-taking tury-Fox Production Chief, select an excellent performance as the Director Norman McLeod ar- L" "Let's Heart A Heart" the rich materiál granted them. suspense, uproarious laughs and ed Frank R. Strayer to direct with ex-stunt flyer, and the various ranged to have a print of the "Dae, Two, Button Your Shoe," appealing love in the heart-warm-.

Max Golden associate producer. supporting roles are uniformly well | picture forwarded to. Crosby when "Skeleton in The Closet." and the ing tale of small town ife. Its Robert Ellis and Helen Logan wrote played, with Charley Grapewin, editing was completed, and the title song of the picture. "Pennies trumphs and turmoli, sorrowa and the screen drama based on a play Frances Bage, Arthur Loft and King of Groom held a sheak pre- From Heaven.“ gayėties,

by Adelyn Bushnell,

Ward Bond being outstanding. view aboard the returning 8/8

Emanuel Cohen is the producer,

We have always believed in the proposition that the world is get ting better...

...and then slang came those crooners.

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