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The world's best-loved Mr. and Mrs.

CHARLIE RUGGLES MARY BOLAND

ADOLPHE MENJOU

Wives Never Know

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KING'S:-

"The Gay Desperada" QUEEN'S:-

"Wives Never Know"! ORIENTAL:-

"Magnificent Obsesalon”

'Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :—'

"The Girl On The Front

Puge"

MAJESTIC

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"We Went To College"

"Billy Billies"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Gold Diggers of 1937" QUEEN'S:-

"Go West--Young Man" ORIENTAL:-

"For The Service" ALHAMBRA:---

"Can This Be Dixie"

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IRENE DUNNE ROBERT TAYLOR

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

A JOHN M. STAHL Production from the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, with Charles BUTTERWORTH BETTY FURNESS

A Universal Picture presented by Carl Escrumle

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"Last Of The Pagans"

FOR THE SERVICE

The most colourful period in the history of the United States forms the background" for Buck Jones newest scarring feature, "For The Service," Universal's drama of the poncer West show- ing at the Oriental Theatre Friday and Saturday.

Un

Wagon trains and scout encamp ments, Indian settlements and trading posts are faithfully re- produced in this stirring story of the United States expansion of domain from coast to coast.

The story concerns a rugged scout whose sole ideal is service to his country and whose only idol

WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL

Interest Shown By The King

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

„THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Anniversaries and Holidays, ---- Blessed Stephen, John and Comps, Mm. of Tank ng, and China,

Auctions-Old and Surplus Naval Royal Luterest in the new West-Stores, at EL M. Naval Yard, H.K. minster Hospital, which is arising ( and at Kowloon' Naval Depot and around St. John's public gardena, Royal Naval Armament Depot 9.30. Westminster, was demonstrated at am. and noon; Crown Lands, at the Mansion House at the festival Land Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 a.m. dinner in aid of the rebuilding

Cinemas fund The Lord Mayor of London, Sir George Broadbridge, presided, and the principal guest was the Duke of Gloucester,

The Duke of Gloucester, who de- putised for the King, said that the dinner was one which his Majesty had promised to attend when Duke of York, and the first to which he had sedt one of his brothers in his place."

"MY FATHER'S OLD FRIEND" "In asking me to take his place," the Duke added, "the King bade mie 85sure you that he is in full sympathy with your work. Ho wishes you all success in your re- building scheme, which our brother (the Duke of Windsor) Inaugurat- ed and to which he gave

Buch generous support and encourage- ment."

The Duke referred to Lord Wigram, who is administering the details of the rebuilding scheme,"

"my father's old friend and ad- viser." and added, with a smile. "I have every reason to know that the work could not be in more capable hands."

"As a soldier," the Duke added, "I am very conscious of the im- portant part which the doctor plays in our Army, either at peace or in war.

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"When a captain of the R.A.M.C. seeks to attain the rank of major he takes his post-graduate course of instruction at the first of all voluntary hospitals-the minster Hospital."

"West-

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, described the voluntary hospitals as mounments to the strength of the voluntary princi- ple.

GAS-PROOF WARDS

is his captain. The narrative pre- Lord Wigram said that the hos- senta a situation wherein he dis-pital now required only £200,000 covers the cowardice of the cap- of the £850.000 needed for the re- tain's son, who betrays the tradi- building scheme. tions of the service. In a thrilling climax Buck succeeds in protect. Sir Frank Smith, Secretary of ing the son from disgrace and the the Department of Scientific and father heartbreak.

Industrial Research, said that the CUfford Jones heads the sup-hospital would contain a covered porting cast which includes Beth road, which, in the event of war, Marion. Edward Keene. Fred could be transformed into a gas- Kohler, Frank McGlynn, Sr., and proot shelter, connecting with air- Ben Corbett

conditioned gas-proof. wards with splinter-proof windows.

THE GAY DESPERADO

A rare treat is in store for music lovers when Pickford-Lasky's "The Gay Desperado," brings Nino Mar- |tini, famous singing star of opera, radio and films, to the King's Theatre to-day.

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King's "The Gay Desperado." Queen's:-"Wives Never Know" Oriental:-"Magnificent

Obsession"

World:"Chinese Picture." Alhambra: "The Girl On The

Front Page" Majestic:-"We Went To College" Star:--"Suly Billies"

Lectures.-Theosophical Society,

6 pm. "Is Beauty the Goal of the Arts?" by O. M. Parkinson; Mus- trated Lantern Lecture by Rev. H. |A. Wittenbach, St. Andrew's Hol, 9

p.m.

Meetings-Annual, of Hum. phreys Estate and Finance · Co., | Ltd. at Hong Kong Hotel, noon; Council Meeting of Society of St. Vincent de Pau!, in Mission House, Caine Road, 5.45 p.m.

Miscellaneous--St. Andrew's Wo- men's Fellowship, 3 p.m.; V.D.M.A. Visit to the Blind Girls Home.

Rehearsals. Philharmonis So- clely. "Street Singer," in Cathedral Hal, 8.45 p.m.

Social.-Y.M.C.A. Ladies' Night, in the West Lounge, 9 p.m.; Y M.C.A. Members' Mah Jong morn- ing in the West Lounge. 0.45 am. to 11.45 am: Cheero Club Bridge and Mah Jong, Drive, 8 pm: Civil Service Cricket Club Whist Drive, 9.20. p.m.

Sports

(Engineers'

Billards. Junior Championship: Wong Pun-chi v. Man Chun-man or L V. Antonio Institute). 8.30 p.m.

Moon-First Quarter, 11.50 x.m. I Moon, 8th. Day.

Sunrise.-6.54 am Sunset -8.21

P.m.

Tides.--High at 2.52 and 14.30; Low at 7.15 and 22.25.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19. Aniversaries and Holidays— Rain Water. (Yu-shui). Ember Day.

Auctions-Old and Surplus

Naval Stores, at HM Naval-Yard, H.K., and at Kowloon Naval Depot and Royal Naval Armament De- pot. 8.30 a.m. and noon.

Cinemas.

10.30 *.m,

Kinga: "Gold-Diggers of 1837′′ Queen's;—“Wives Never Know," Oriental:-For The Service World: "Chinese Picture." Sir Frank added that the bos-

Alhambra:-"The Girl On The pital had decided to dedicate “a

Front Page" Majestic:-"We Went To College" Coronation wing." at a cost ot

Star: "Yours. For The Asking" £25,000. to be borne by subscrip-

Entertainments. Special Per- tions at the dinner and in the

fortnance of "The Blue Stockings." period before the Coronation.

Mr. W. M. Goodenought, Lord for Sen'or Students, 6.30 pm, at Macmillan and Mr. Bernard the University.

Lectures.--Helena May Christian In additons to the original songs Docker, chairman of the nospital, written for Martin, there will be also spoke. A collection taken by Fellowship Meeting. several operatic solos, and a num-

Sisters and a band of helpers or- Speaker, Bishop Hall.

Miscellaneous.--Central British ber of Mexican folk songs.

ganised by the Hon. Anne

School Annual Phys'cal Training "The World Is Mine Tonight," | Wigram, daughter of. "Lord

Display, on the playing fields, 5.15 written for

£10,500, the picture by the Wigram, raised British composers, Holt Marvel and assures the building of the first P.m.; Training Group, St. Paul. George Posford, is already popular ward of the proposed Coronation College Hostel 7.15 p.m. on the air. Another original num- Wing. ber. "Aldos Mi Tierra," was com- In addition, the secreatry bas posed by the singer's own accom-received £1,000 from Col. Graham panist, Miguel Sandoval,

Rees Mogg and Mrs. Rees Mogg The Verdi Aria, "Celeste Aide," and £500, from Mrs. Reynolds Al- will be the highlight of the opera- bertini, who were unable to attend the music and three famous Mex- the dinner.

can songs, "Cielita Lindo," "La-

mento Gitano” and “Estrellita" will

which

complete the stär's diversified re- WIVES NEVER KNOW pertory in the picture.

Ida Lupino and Leo Carrillo are featured in the gay romance which Rouben Mamoullan directed for release through United" Artists.

BARRYMORE "YOURS FOR THE ASKING" tainly the

THE GIRI ON THE FRONT PAGE

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Sports

Badminton-Mixed 'Doubles: Bt. John's v. Kowloon Tong: Univer-

alty v. Recreio "B": Recreto "A"

Iv. Free Lancers.

Billiards. Junior Championship: J. C. Remedios v. A., A. Lewis (Civil Service C.C.), 8.30 p.m.

WE WENT TO COLLEGE

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·A thoroughly delightful hilarious comedy of married life, "We went to college," whether "Wives Never Know." which is you did or not, is a post graduate showing to-day at the Queen's course in the

art of hilarious Theatre, and It brings to the comedy. local screen that charming and It will appeal to every type of Inimitable screen husband and theatre audience because it has 1 wife, Charlie Ruggles and Mary laugh for all ages. Boland.

The story concerns a

typical

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THERE'S LOVE!

MARY MĚKIDAS

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THERE'S

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Thallepacked with intéresinosene, it has eversthing a

punue needs to set the while world calking, and take that meet for it. "The Gay Desperado" is surt to be the most talked-aboue picture of the year!

"Nino Martini""

GAY DESPERADO

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WE WENT TO COLLEGE

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SILLY BILLIES

Perhaps the funniest, and cer- most orignal, of all Wheeler and Woolsey's acreen of- "Wives Never Know" is a story ferings is "Silly Bulles," now at of a happlly wedded pair whose back to his old college to attend the Star Theatre,

romance goes on the rocks when a retinton, Primarily, he wants person is ripe for plucking, they The two comedy clowns tap a they take the advice of suave Adol- to sell the trustees an order of

Removed From Palace send a representative to demand virgin field in using the pictur- phe Menjou, cast as a novelist who bricks for a new building, but the

Furniture and personal effects The methods of blackinail rings | victim.

nonsense. :narried but is free enough with side, for diversion. exclusive help goes on to another ting for their riotous

In the roles of a pair of quack! his wild-eyed theories on what Be takes his wife with him and that have been revealed in news-

were taken by road from Bucking- dentists they set forth to pull all constitutes happiness in marriage. joins the old gang. One of his paper headlines of the past were This

ham Palace, to Windsor Castle, bright little scheme is the teeth in the wild and woolly He urges the husband to make classmates, now a staid professor, the former director of ballet in St. Not long ago M. Nicolas LegBE, rarely more ingenious than

where they will be stored. states the finally squastied by the managing West, and quite naturally they his wife jealous so that she may is married to an attractive_girl Petersburg, who has died in Lon the "Daily Telegraph." plans developed by the "Thursday editor of the citys's leading news- And themselves Involved in known the joy which comes with who has wearted of Club" in Universal's offering, "The paper. The editor's role is port- trouble up to their necks.

college don, told his story of his discovery

'At the same time the Duke of "forgiveness. Always anitous to routine. What begins as a flirta- of Nijinsky.

Gloucester's offices were transfer. Get on the Front Page," which rayed by Edmund Lowe..

Petite. Dorothy Lee. who has please, Ruggles takes the advice, tion almost becomes a college winter morning a woman has its run at the

red from the Palace to York House Alhambra

-Gloria Stuart is seen as "The

played the feminine lead in near-getting himself into a series Theatre to-day.

of scandal, but is averted by the with a snjall boy of 11 entered the The Duke and Duchess are ex- Girl on the Front Page." Shey all the famous mirthmakers scrapes and complications that humorous intrusion. of a loyal Imperial Ballet School in St. | "pected to take up residence there .The blackmailers succeed

in portrays the heiress who inherits pictures, again supplies the love work into a side-splitting climax classinate.

Petersburg. At that time a com-

about the middle, of March. entering the employ of the most the newspaper and who engages on her way to the California goid finding himself tricked into the casts

interest as a young schoolma'am which ends with the wise one One of the most notable comedy mittee sat in the school

No date has yet been fixed, for prominent wealthy famlites in the love quarrels with the manag-, fields, Harry Woods and Ethan bonds of matrimony.

ever assembled. features thoroughly examined all candi-

the King and Queen to take up an butlers, personal" maidsing editor.

Charles Butterworth, Walter Abel, dates before accepting them as

residence at Buckingham Palace. Laidlaw make a formidable pair and household servants. They The blackmailing butler is play-of renegade heavles, and

Ruggles and Miss Boland carry Hugh Herbert, Una Merkel, Edith pupils, in the ballet school. anoop for acandal and improvise ea by Reginald Owen who does" Delmar Watson, Chief Thunder-able manner which has

little the leading roles. In the Infmit- Atwater, Walter Catlett, Charles The committee rejected the boy. air. He leapt like a rubber ball, It where it does not previously excellent work in this picture.

en-Trowbridge, and Tom Ricketts............ M. Legat noticed that his legs descending with ease and grace exist.

bird and Jim Thorpe, the noted deared them to millions. The cast The play was written by Richard were extraordinarily strong. al- "I shall not allow this boy to u Gloria Stuart and Edmund Lowe Indian athlete, head the support so includes brunette Vivienne Malbaum and Maurice Rapf. from though the rest of his body look turned away," the director said to Working in several homes almul- are supported by Reginald Owen, Ing cast along with the largest Osborne as the "other girl." This an original story by George Op-ed weak, and asked permission to the committee. I have a strong taneously, they meet on Thurs-Spring Byington. Gilbert Emery, group of extra players ever to picture marks Miss Osborne's ré-penheimer and Finley Peter make a final test. days to compare notes and ad- David Oliver, Clifford Jones, and appear in a Wheeler and Wool- turn to nims after an absence of Dunne, Jr., son of the late creator

feeling that I can make a 2001, M. Legat then asked the boy to' vance their schemes. When some Maxle Reiner.

dancer out of him." sey picture.

of the famous Mr. Dooley.:

take a few steps and leap into the He did.

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