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QUEEN'S
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAY
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"BULLDOG DRUMMOND
ESCAPES
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Guy Binding Houthur Angel,
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TO-MORROW
BARBARA STANWYCK in SEAN O'CASEY'S
THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS”
With Preston Foster"
DAEW
7.15-0.30
RKO-Radio Picture
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1937
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:—
"Give Me Your Heart" QUEEN'S:—
"Bulldog Drummand
Escapes"
'ORIENTAL;—
"The Gay Desperado"
KowloonTM
ALHAMBRA:-
""Reunion". MAJESTIC:-
"Tarzan Escapes"
STAR:
"One More River"
Sunday
"Sons O' Guns"
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KING'S
S
PLEMING
ROAD
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TEL. 20473
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY | A FIESTA OF FUN AND GLORIOUS MELODY! Nino Martini, famed Opera star, in unforgettable songs, you'll roar with laughter at the gay antics of Leo Carrillo and be thrilled, with adventure Old Mexico.
A RIP ROARING RED - BLOODED
COMEDY ROMANCE |....
MANY PECKSONO POTESSE C. LØSKY
cufent
Nino MARTINI
Gay
THE
DESPERADO
with TOA LUPING LES CARRILLO
"TOMORROW MONDAY TUESDAY• MILLION DOLLAR MUSICAL SURPRISE HIT!
J. »
A Seranalul Of Starst DICK POWELL
An Eyeful of Girlsl"
An Eerful Of £bythmi
An Hour-And-A-Haï-ful
Of Startling Surprises,
JOAN BLONDELL
GOLD DIGGERS
OF 1937
VICTOR MOORE GLENDA
FARRELL-LEE DIXON OSGOOD PERKINS ROSALIND MARQUIS
Musle and Lyrics by Harry Warren & Aa Dubin and zervid Arian & R.Y, Harborg a Musical Number Created and Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY » A First Matsonal Picturé. Directed LLOYD BACON
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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
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FRANK LAWTON, JANE WYATT, MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, COLIN CLIVE, Lionel Atwill, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Alen Mowbray. Screenplay by R. C Sherriff. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE presented by Carl Laemmle.
QUEEN'S:—
INVESTIGATION OF STRIKES
Resolution Squashed
Washington, Apr. 8.
A resolution` calling" for `the in- vestigation of sit-down strikes by . spécial committee of Congress was killed by oral vote in the House of Representatives to-day after four hours of heated debate.
The resolution was tabled, which means that it cannot come up again for consideration without a special motion.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
SATURDAY, APRIL 10. Anniversaries and Holidays.--St. Mechtilde.
Cinemas,
King's "Give Me Your Heart." Queen's: — 'Bulldog Drummond
Escapes"
Central: "The Littlest Rebel” Oriental:--"The Gay. Desperado." World:-"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra:-"Reunion" Majestic:-"Tarzan Escapes.”. « Star:-"One More River." Representative G. Withrow, De- Miscellaneous---Kawicon Cricket mocrat, Wisconsin, subsequently Club Annua) Smoking Concert and refused to give the unanimous con-
Presentation bf Prizea, 0.15 p.m.; sideration of the resolution con- Amateur Photographic Exhibition demning the sit-down striker, in Sailors and Soldiers' Home. passed by the Senate by a large 5.30 p.m. majority yesterday.
"
Social-Annual Dinner of Volun- Meanwhile, Mr. John Lewis, lea-teer Infantry Corps, at Club Lust- der of the Committee of Industrial | tano, 7.30 p.m. Organisation, has accused the Ford *Sports—(See Rage 10).
Motor Company, of preventing its workmen from
Sunrise.-6.08 a.m. Bunset.-6.42
joining trade p.m.
unions by a system of intimida- Tides High at 8.20 and 21.01; tion and coercion. "Ford's big Det-Low at 225 and 14.45. "The Plough and The Stars" rolt factory in Detroit in the past ORIENTAL:-
has been an arsenal and still is to-day," he declared.
"Gold Diggers of 1937" ALHAMBRA:--
"Reunion"
MAJESTIC:-
STAR:
"Tarzan Escapes"
"My American Wife"
CIO, organisers are enrolling Ford employees, Lewis added.
Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation of La- bour, rival of the C.I.O... has au nounced the calling, or a special meeting of the Federal Labour Council to consider the permanent GIVE ME YOUR HEART expulsion of the ten unions su- spended last year for joining Lewie CLO- Reuter.
H
"Give
Me Your Heart." poignant screen drama pased on the famous stage play by Jay Mallory, "Sweet Alose," is the fea- ture attraction at the King's Thea- tre, with glamorous Kay Francis in the stellar role.
The picture, a Cõimopolitan DM- duction released by Warner Bros., which is said to give Miss Francis the Anest dramatic opportunity at her career, presents her altra modern young. Englishwomar who seeks happines in glorious sur- rounding in London, "New York and
{taly
as an
The plot is daring, the situations novel in the extreme, but most striking of all is the treatment which is frank and brilliant, but clean and in good taxte
TARZAN ESCAPES
to
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AGREEMENT REACHED?
Lansing, Apr. 8.
It is relably reported that an agreement has been reached in the strike of 10,000 employees of the Hudson Motor Company, the only large strike still unsettled in the US. automobile Industry. Reuter.
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GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED
'Oshawa, Ont., Apr. 3 The Committee of Industria: Organisation has spread its motor strike to Canada and 'the branch of the United Automobile Workers' Union here has ordered a generat atrike in the General Motors Cor- Mus poration plants in Canada. 37,000 men have been thrown into idleness.
VIOLENT OUT BURST
Toronto, Apr. 8 In a violent outburst against the organisers of the automobile strike
SÜNDAY, ARPIL 11. Anniversaries and Holidays.- Second Sunday after Easter. Leo the Great.
KINGS
TO-DAY ONLY
DÄILY" AT· 2,80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. SHE HAD A RIGHT TO WONDER IF ANT MAN WAS WORTH, LOVING 1
Never Before Has Any Picture So Fearlessly Exposed
A Woman's Innermost Heart of Hearts!
KAY FRANCIS
GIVE ME YOUR HEART
with
GEORGE BRENT
Jaland Yorma a Parte Kaambém
Henry Begampada a Blade Hammart
A Wage Beva. Potone » à Carmel
Take | Žanal by 181258 6, MAYO -
ALSO COLOUR MUSICAL COMEDY KING OF THE ISLANDS”
JOE E. BROWN SONS O GUNS"
64
St.
TO-MORROW
WARNER BROS.
Cinemas. King's:-"Sons O' Guns" Queen's: "The Plough And The
Stars"
Central:---"The Littlest Rebel" Oriental: "Gold-Diggers Of
1937"* World:Chinese Picture" Alhambra:-"Reunion" Majestic "Tarzan Escapes" Star: "My American Wile" Sports. (See Page 10). Moon--New Moon, 1:10 p.m. I Moon, 1st, Day.
Sunrise.-6.07 a.m. Sunset.-8.42 p.m. :
Tides-High at 8.56 and 21.55; Low at 2.58 and 15.30.
* MONDAY, ARPIL 12. Anniversaries and Holidays.- St." Julius.
Cinemas.
King's:-"Sons 'Guns"
"Queen's:——"The Plough And The
Stars" Central:-"The Littlest Rebel" Oriental:-"Gold-Diggers Of
1937"
World: "Chinese Picture" Alhambra:-"Reunion" Majestic:-"Tarzan Escapes" Star: "My American Wife" Dances.-R. A. M.C. Association Farewell Dance in Peninsula Hotel Rose Room, 8.30 p.m.; Cheero Club Dance, 8 p.m.; Royal Ulster Rifles Ladies' Hockey Club Dance, China Fleet Club. 8 p.r.
Kong
"The company has apparently. All over the world people have agreed to bargain on all demands thrilled to the adventures of Tar- Thade by the union. but expresses zan, mighty ruler of the jungle. no intention of recognising the In the books of Edgar Rice Bur-unlon as a sole bärgaining agency. roughs, and on the screen, where Tarzan is personified by Johnny Weissmuller, greatest of swimmers, the character has appealed miillons.
And now Tarzan comes once more to the screen. with Welss- muller reunited with Maureen O'Sullivan, who plays his mate, as In the two previous Tarzan plot
have brought tures that made dramatic history. United States almost into a state ion, in Gloucester Building
The picture is "Tarzan Escapes," of anarchy." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's thrilling · “This la the first attempt of Lewis adventure romance coming to-day and his foreign agitators to as- the Majestic Theatre. This sume a position of dominating and time Tarzan narrowly escapes dictating to Canadian industry. We civilization. A white hunter believe the time has come for a captures him, puts him in a cage show-down." and plans to take him to London to exhibit. But the faithful Jane, and the jungle animals who are Tarzan's friends, upset that plot.
in Canada, Ontario's, Liberal Pre- mier, Mr. C. Hepburn, declared he Kong. Canton and Macao Steam-
Meetings. Annual, of completely concurred with the Ge- neral Motors Corporation's refusal boat Co., Ltd., at Queen's Build- to deal with the agitators who, ating. noon; Half-monthly, of Hong the moment.
to
́"REUNION”
10- Francis Lederer MY AMERICAN WIFE" triumph, which
MORROW Ann other in
"THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS"
BULLDOG DRUMMOND
ESCAPES
and
the
The Premier added that no re llef payment of any kind would be made to the strikers.
"There" will be no illegal sit- down strike dor illegal picketing. All persons desiring to resume their duties will be given adequate pro- tection.
"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will maintain order," he concluded.— Heuter.
Kong Football Referees' Associa
xd
Miscellaneous-Creditors' claims
with "JOAN BLONDELL
in
ALHAMBRA
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SHOWING TO-DAY
THE MOST SENSATIONAL PICTURE WITH THE "QUINS
THE GREATEST TOPIC OF INTEREST TO-DAY
DRAMA
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WHEN THE COUNTRY
DOCTOR'S 3,000 GROWN-UP
“BABIES" COME HOME!
NEXT 'CHANGE
New Universa Picture
8
4 SHOWS DAILY.
720-30
THE DIONNE
QUINTUPLETS
REUNION
JEAN HERSHOLT
ROCHELLE HUDSON - HELEN VINSON SLIM SUMMERVILLE - ROBERT KENT,
Depathy
BREEZING
Patürban ‹ Jokes Qualen
HOME' *with_Wm. Gai gân • Binnie Barnes * Wendy Barrie
MAJESTIC
2.30 $20 against Tsang Foo and Co., Ltd.. due; Badminton Presentation Night and Dance, at Club de Recreto, 9.15 p.m.
Rehearsals. Philharmonic So- ciety, "Street singer." Cathedral. Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Social-Whist Drive, St. An- drew's Club; . Kowloon, 8 D.m.. European Y.M.C.A. 9. p.m.
Sports.--(See Page 10). Moon. III Moon, 2nd.; Day. Jewish New Moon.
Sunrise.-6.07 am Sunset-0.42
p.m.
Tider-High at 9.35 and 22.50; Low at 3.30 and 18.20.
GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT
GENERAL MOTORS
16
Surprise follows dramatic sur- prise, romantic secrets are reveal- ed and tangled lives set straight when the Country Doctor's 3,000 grown-up. "bables" come back to ahare their joys and tears with the man who brought them into the world in "Reunion," Twentieth Century Fox's latest
всгеед the opers at Alhambra Theatre to-day.
The plcture which stars the world famous Dionne Quins and
Ontario, April 8. four thousand are idle, but there features Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, Helen Vinson, Blim Bum-
Premier Hepburn is expected to are no disorders and no sit downs, merville, Robert Kent, John throw the full force of the Gov-though two hundred Canadian Qualen, Dorothy Peterson
ernment behind General Motors mounted police have been ordered Based OR one of the most
Captain Hugh Drummond; bet many other players, boasts the in an effort to prevent domination to Toronto as a precautionary dramatic events in Iteland's his tory, the, "Uprising of Easter ter known to the world as "Bulldog year's most important cast in the of the Canadian automobile in measure, Week. 1936. The Plough and the Drummond," master sleuth and sesson's most unusual drama. Stars" which opens at the Queen's soldier-of-fortune, at the Queen's The Quins' Dr. Luke, played by Theatre to-morrow, is a romantic Theatre to-day, and by far the Jean Hersholt, on the verge of re- arama of great emotional power breeziest of the famous series, tirement from the burdens he has "Bulldog Drummond Escapes.". carried for a generation, decides .splendidly balanced between tragedy and comedy. Barbara Drummond, played by Hay Mil-to call back from all over the Stanwyck, who is starred, and land, drops Into London out of the globe the three thousand men and Preston Faster and Una O'Connor, fog in his latest opus, and im- Women whom he assisted into the in featured roles, head an excep-mediately finds himself chin deep world. From all over the country tional supporting cast.
in mystery. He solves it, sees that and from many foreign lands they Taking its title from the emblem the miscreants get their just de- un the fag of the Irish Citizen sorts and wins the girl-an in eight Army. the story is uncompromis- action-packed hours.
Beck, in an interview with the
day for the aerial attacks His old pal, "Algy," is portrayed ing and borders always on the
"Paris Boir." states that there is tragic. Yet, as in the play, fresh, by Reginald Denny, and Inspector
no truth in the rumour of his im- Spanish Insurgent aircraft on the typically Trish comedy stirs the Nielson of Scotland Yard, his
pending resignation. Asked what British destroyer, Gallant. Instruc- audience to uncontrollable laughter friendly. enemy. 15 excellently The following guests are staying he thought of the rumours that tions have been issued to General throughout the film. This blend-enacted by Bir Guy Standing. The at the Hong Kong Hotel: Dr. H. were current in London, that a Franen's airmen to exercise”, very ing of the hilarious with theglil in the case is charming-14 Huang (Amoy), Miss Ivy Allen: rapproachment was being tried be-
great care in the future trazio is one of the characteristics Heather Angel, and the villain is Perth Australia), Mr. and Mrs. tween Cermans and Soviet Russiamini identity marks of war- that won Bean Casey the re- that most villainous of screen vil- Crittenden (Hollywood), K. E. Col. Beck said he failed to see rea- putation of being Treland's greatest lains, Porter Hall-this time with Lobb, and Miss Jean Lobb (Bydney son for such a step-
ships in Spanish, waters. Australia and Mrs. J. Gow
Transocean News Service.
British Wireles Ilving playwright.
beard!.
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come, the rich and the poor. the high-placed and the lowly, to take part in the reunion.
HOTEL GUESTS
dustry by Mr. John Henry Lewis. Mr. Homer Martin is flying from
The strike” in Oshawa has Lansing to address a mass meet- spread to another General Motors ing of the strikers tonight. plant in, Windsor. Altogether Heuter.
COL. BECK DENIES RUMOUR
Paris, April 8.
SPANISH APOLOGY
London, Apri 8. The insurgent Military Gover-
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A THUNDERING DRAMA OF ADVENTURE! NEVER SUCH A THRILL AS THIS ONE!
TARZA
NEXT
IT'S NEW! IT'S AMAZING! Two
years to make the Erandest of all the Tarzan pictures!
ESCAPES
Jo WEISSMULLER DO'SULLIVAN
A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
SUPER-PRO· UCTION I...
CHANGE
A THRILLING" ROMANCE WITH THE SCREEN'S' PERFECT LOVERS!
JOAN CRAWFORD CLARK GABLE IN
"CHAINED
AN OLD FAVOURITE" FROM M-G-M 1
The Polish Foreign Minister, Col. nor of Majorca, apologised to-work should not be as pleasant to
by
In
The engagement is announced between James Chalmers Miller, Hong-kong, eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs.
The pleasure of writing yerae is so great that the poet finds it dimcult to understand why his
George Miller, Newfield, rend as it was to writer. Robert Barnton, Midlothiari, and Shena, Lynd.
e'der daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Mitche'l Graham, Redcliffe, Mur- "Daddy, we went by bur to two-¦ rayfield," Edinburgh. The marriage will take place at Murrayfield terminuses
"Not "terminuses," termini, son." | Parish Church on Thursday, April
29, at 2.30 p.m. "Yes, on two different othzibi."
"Among distinguished visitors to this country on Monday was Mr. Anthony Eden.
"If we can escape the next three years I do not think war la inevi- table." Lord Plymouth.
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