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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

"KING'S;—«

"Craig's Wife"

QUEEN'S:

"The Beloved Vagabond" ORIENTAL:-

"Down The Stretch"

Kowloon

'ALHAMBRA:~~

"North of Nome"

MAJESTIC:-

"Adventure In Manhattan"

STAR:-

"Peg of Old Drury"

KING'S:-

Coming

"The Green Pastures"

· QUEEN'S :—

"Charile Chan At The

Opera"

ORIENTAL:-

"The Devil Is A Bissy' ALHAMBRA:---

"The Holy Terror" MAJESTIC:

STAR:

"The Garden of Allah"

"Invitation To The Waltz"

THE BELOVED VAGABOND

'Maurice Chevaller's "The Be- loved" Vagabond." a continental comedy romance based" on the famous novel by W. J. Locke, is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

The irrepressible Maurice IN surrounded in this Toeplitz pro- duction with an impeccable cast of international favorites, among them Betty Stockfled, Margaret Lockwood, Desmond Tester

and Austin Trevor. Kurt Bernhardt directed the film from a screen play treatment of Locke's novel by Hugh Muls, Walter Creighton and Arthur Wimperis,

The story, readers of the novel will recall, is set against the con- trasting backgrounds of tinseled London court lite and the French peasant country-side. It concerns the gay,

carefree Gaston de Nerac, played by Chevaller, who renounces his claim to the hand' of Joanna Rushworth in favour of he wealthy rival, the Comte de Verneuil. who is in a position to save her father from Anancial ruin. In an effort to forget the disappointing love affair, de Nerac roams through France, meets up with the gentle Blanquette, and joins with her in her vagabond "Orchestre Paragot." singing and dancing for coins in village streets and country.

CRAIG'S WIFE

Amazing Abdication DIARY OF LOCAL

Story

(Continued from Page 1)

PRO-GERMAN

"A story was circulated that Edward was pro-Germani arid that Mrs. Simpson was the Nazi mis- stonary. It derived wholly from Edward's natural affinity for the race of his origin,, his respect as a soldier for a vallant enemy and Mr. Simpson's private personal friendship with the German Am- bassador, Herr Joachim von Rib- bentrop, and his friends, it was; powerfully used, sub rosa," to in- fluence trade-union circles against King Edward.

EVENTS

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

- Anniversaries and Holidays:~ Birthday of Emperor of Japan. 1901. 33rd Day of Omer. St. Peter, Martyr. General Boulanger born, 1837. Bir T. Beecham born, 1879.

Auctions.-Household furniture, at Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.

to

Cinemas.

King's: "Craig's Wife."

Queen's: The Beloved Vaga-·

bond."

Oriental:"Down The Stretch." World:-"Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"North Of Nome." Majestic:"Adventure In Man-

hattan"

Star:-"Peg. Of Old Drury." Lectures Theosophical Society,

Medicine," at Hong Kong

"Edward lost friends. He bo- haved brusquely to old faithful 6 p.m.; Professor Carl Wiggers 011 servitors of his father. At Sand-"Some Applications of Physiology ringham, especially, he fred (dla- missed) old retainers with a high- University, 5.30 p.m speed American emciency that i could hardly endear the neighbourhood. He brought American chefs into his household and at the end of a month he pitched them out as being in- efficient."

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Meetings, H. K Philatelic him to Society, "S. C. M. Post" Board Room, 8.30 pm; Victoria Cheks Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 pm; Toc H Supper Meeting at Seamen's Institute, 7.30 p.m.; Annual Meet- Ing, H.K.LT.A., 5.30 pm

Miscellaneous. Claims "BROKE HIM DOWN"

igainst the Estate of Alfred Samler Brown Edward, according to his present due; St. Andrew's Club "Open friendly examiners, never under- Night," 9 p.m. stood the English people and never Social-Reception at Japanese appreciated the immense hidden consul's Residence, M Conduft strength of the middle class and Road, noon to 1 p.m.; Civil Whist their canons of respectability. Drive, 9.20 pm.; Cheero Club Con- "They broke him down as they tract Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, broke down Parnell and Wilke." 8. p.m.; Women's Guild Games the authorS report of Edward.afternoon, in St. John's Cathedral "All the ballyhoo of forty years Hall, 3 p.m. and he was Prince Charming all the way did not survive ten days of full blast calumny. Mothers, who had seen in their own sons p.m. offended by the sudden knowledge a replica Prince of Wales.

that he was about to marry a wo

bands and an American.” man who baq, divorced two hus-

were

Bishop Bitint, of Bradford, whose of churchliness, were converted by remarks about King Edward's lack

the British Press into a criticism

simpson, was unwittingly a tool of of the King's relations with Mrs.

to Messrs. Owen and Thompson. more important people, according

that "an understanding, maturing To them it now appears plain into a plan, had Jong been in ex- stence between certain powerful leaders in the community to bring the King to a more 'subservient that, unless his wings were clipped state. The view was expressed now, there would be more serious trouble later.

Sports. (See Page 10). Moon.-III Moon, 19th. Day.. Sunrise-5.53 am. Sunset.-8.49

Low at 04.25 and 18.20.

Tides. High at 00.24 and 10.31;

St.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30. Anniversarles and Holidays:-

Catharine of Siena, Franz Lebar born, 1870. A. E. Housman died, 1936.

Auctions-Household

furniture,

at 5 Algburth Hall" May Road, 10 am.

Cinemas.

King's: "Craig's Wife" Queen's: "The Beloved Vaga-

bond." Oriental:-"The Devi Is A Sissy" World: "Chinese Picture." Alhambra North Of Nome" Majestic:-"Adventure In Man-

hattan" Star:-"Invitation To The

Waltz"

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A COLUMBIA PICTURE

WHAT WAS THE SIN OF SHAICKS WIFE?

Bahiad drawn curtains the fowa whispered about kuras she Hvad her life of sham in a kunsa locked to the world!

ROSALIND

JOHN

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IN THE

CRAIG'S WIFE

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OLUMBIA PICTURE

Old

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SATURDAY

Dances. Diocesan School Boys' and Old Girls' Association "It is impossible to believe. that Supper Dance. at Peninsula Hotel all the implications of the wing- Rose Room

Entertainments. Órgan been

Fund clipping business had not

thought out. thoroughly

The Concert, at St. John's Cathedra' situation Was studled-and the Ha). 8 p.m. man. The plan went forward."

ham

#BANGED THE TABLE"

negotiations that led to Edward's The authors detail the complex

abdication. One night at Bucking- Palace Edward banged his fist on a table and shouted to his Prime Minister: I am the first man in the land, and apparently the only man in the land who is not permitted to marry the woman

A transformed Rosalind Russell makes her appearance an Colum- bla's picturization • of George of his choice." Kelly's Pulitzer Prize play, "Craig's Wife," showing to-day at the King's Theatre with John Boles in the male, lead. Instead of a charming, star is seen in the role of a grim, implacable woman who sweeps relentlessly ta the goal that is her ruin.

But the bogey of a King's party was brought into operation, and thereby Baldwin's Tories won the co-operation of Clement R. Attlee's Labourites "who have lived with the ghost of Fascist dictatorship to long that they cannot discern the very substantial form of Mr. Baldwin's dictatorship." The`re- sult was that "King Edward was pushed from his place with less fuss than Mr. J. H. Thomas."

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Lectures. Helena May Christian Fellowship, 10.30-a.m.

Meetings. Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.

Miscellaneous.-Creditors claims against The Hong Kong China Dock Co., Ltd. due.

Socia.-Y.M.CA. Sukiyaki Even-" ing, in the West Lounge. Chow at 7.30 p.m.

Moon.-III Moon, 20th. Day. Sports-(See Page 10). Sunrise.-5.54 a.m. Sunset.-8.49

p.m.

Tides. High at 10.08; Low at 4.02 and 17.35.

NATIONAL GALLERY FINDS "OLD MASTER"

A Veronese Work In Its Own Storeroom

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Mr. Kenneth Clark, the Director of the National Gallery recently told the story of Paolo Veronese's Owen and Thompson are critical picture, "The Magdalen Laying of the voluntary censorship which Aside Her Jewels," which, having Fleet Street imposed on the Simp-lain in a storeroom for 60 years. son case until the abdication crials has now been himg in Room 18 broke. They quote the "New York in the newly opened East Wing of Herald Tribune" as saying that the Gallery.

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this conspiracy of silence exploded "The painting came to the in a governmental crisis that might National Gallery in 1875 as part never have been allowed to deve of the Wynne Fills bequest," Mr. lop if the British Press had treated Kenneth Clark said. It was ini

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SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY MARLENE DITEICH CHABLES BAYER in THE GARDEN OF ALLAH'

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MIETENS MOS DEVIL IS A SISSY NEW ZEALAND

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Freddie Bartholomew apparently

Movie-goers, have known Miss Russell since the middle of 1935, when she made her first screen appearance in the comedy success "No More Ladles." She has subse- quently been seen in light roles in "Forsaking All Others." "China, Beas," "Rendezvous," "It Had To Happen," and "Under Two Fags" Supporting Miss Russell and Boles in "Craig's Wife" are. Bullie' NORTH OF NOME Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wil- son, Alma Kruger. Thomas Mit- Bleak Alaska, which has grimly chell, Raymond Walburn and refused to bend to the will of Robert Allen, Mary C. McCall, Jr..

MOST BEAUTIFUL civilization, provides the back-wrote the screen play. ground for Jack Holt's new Colum-

SPOT IN WORLD”. A crying-room for bables is being bla picture, "North of Nome," installed in the new Regal Picture which opens at the Alhambra

Says American Author Theatre at Gosford, a sea-side Theatre to-day, holiday resort, about 50 miles from The story

Auckland, N.Z-“I have found Sydney. It will be the first in Newpoacher named John Reglan, who

Becking to draw a moral from who had copled: Veronese's style on Friday and Saturdar the most beautiful spot drin. the Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, cannot understand why he should South Wales.

In the picture of contemporary not be permitted to hunt seals on handsome a screen team as ever observe that Edward was a Prince few saw it:

the whole sorry tale, the authors We kept it in the storeroom, where boyhood in the great titles, Fred-word," says Bitzhugh Green, noted the islands owned by large cor- charmed an audience, romp gaily whose "tame and reputation had

dle co-stars with Jackie Cooper who has returned to New Zealand American, author and, biographer, "But ever since I first saw it and Mickey Rooney. Ian Hunter to take up residence at the house porations. In an effort to alude through the season's most diver been built up for forty years by had my suspicions. I said nothing and Peggy Conklin provide the he has had bult on the Tongariro his arch enemy, Haage, who hasting comedy-romance, "Adventure all the weapons of modern pro about them, however, until the romantic interest in a touching River, near Lake Taupo, world- been hi-jacking his furs, Bagian 1 Manhattan," which opened paganda. In ten days he was des- picturewas clearned and a num-story that enters into the adven- atrands himself оп Here, daring a heavy

Laland. yesterday at the Majestic Theatre. troyed. They simply pulled away ber of experts had been consulted.turous narrative of the boys storm. Raglan le able to rescue the sur- umphs in Mr. Deeds Goes to chy-the Tory party, the Churching's authenticity beyond doubt as Kathleen Lockhart, Sherwood Bal

In the wake of her personal tri- the props from under the monat The cleaning settled the paint-

Others in the cast are Gene and vivers of a foundered ship, among town" and The Ex-Mm. Brad and the ""heavy" government an earlyxample of Veronese's whom are a director of the cor- ford, Jean Arthur once again dis Press and down came the King."" | work...

ey and Buster Blavin The story poration owning the Island, his plays her clever versatility as a Bitterly the authors conclude one

as written by Howland Brown daughter, her suitor and several dramatic actress and subtle come-. others.

dienne.

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The room will be cleverly con- structed to "ermit mothers with fretful bables to hear and see the talking Als while no sound can escape into the theatre itself.

It is, believed, that the Windsor Theatre, in Melbourne, is the only other theatre in Australia which has this feature.

No theatres in Sydney have s far been equipped with crying rooms. An enterprising showman In a small town in Ontario, Canada, the province which owns the Dionne Quintuplets, was the first in the American continent to in-. sball- this improvementzen den

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How Raglan works out the sal- vation of all concerned reportedly makes for a dramatic, action filled picture. William Nigh direct ed "North of Nome.".

ADVENTURES IN MANHATTAN

Mrs. Simpson by sounder standards | rather dirty condition, and excels in any role that cones his of news values. The authors echo critics and ordinary-lovers of way, now appears as a modern the "Herald Tribune's" comment: painting never thought much "It is a lesson worth remember- about it. It was regarded as ing."

rather fine painting by an artist

&

Amongst the most famous of of the most remarkable books pub Paolo Veronese's pictures are ""The lished in England this year family of Darius at the Feet of Bupporting Miss Arthur and Me- nobody belleves any more in the Alexander." in the National Gal- Crea are Reginald Owen, Herman theory of the Church's anointed, lers, the "Adoration of the Magi. Bing. Thomas Mitchell, Victor do not blame the atheists or the in the Dresden Gallery, and the Kilian, John Gallaudet and George anarchists. Send the bill for that Feast in the House of Simon the

to the Archbishop.”**

Pherisee" in the Louvre.

Cooper.

urchin of New York's lower East Bide in "The Devil Is A Blasy!! showing at the Oriental Theatre

With reference to the mysterious man who is sald to go about throw- ing colna at dogs in Bigbrate it is said that local children are learn ing to bark

famed tabing resort, Mr. Gree

whole winter. A history of the came last year to spend ten days -and ended by remaining for the

pristed States Navy and biogen- phies of prominent men are angat his works

An essayist wonders bow some of our Bunday paper gossip writers manage to write their pages. Others merely wonder why.

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