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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

THE CRY OF A

PEACE STIRRING AS

WOMAN IN TERRORE

A WALTER EVICTOR

CONNOLLY PETER LORRE

MOLAGLEN

*NANCY STEELE IS MISSING!'

JUNE LANG - ROBERT KENT

"JOHN" MEADE'S WOMAN

TO-MORROW

Edward Arnhold

CHIL

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE

KING'S:

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"After The Thin Man" QUEEN'S:-

"Nancy Steele Is Missing ORIENTAL:-

"Bulldog Drummond' Escapes'

Kowloon

'ALHAMBEA:

We Have Our Maments" MAJESTIC:

"Give Me Your Heart" STAR:-

"White Hunter"

Francine Larrimore

KING'S:

4 SNOWS

TAKE UNE TRAM ON MARRY VALLEY BUM

SLIMINA ROAD WANGHAI

1.30-5.50

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY'

auspense

A sensational · and' laden comedy Scotland Yard mystery.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND DESCAPES:

with Ray Milland, Sir Gay Standing, Heather Angel, Parver Hell, Reginaldi Poney, Bosed in the play "Bildeg Drommand Agmin" by H. C (Supper)

WED. & THUR. Barbara Stanwick, Gene Haymond 'THE BRIDE WALKS OUT?

TBONMON,TUES.

20 of the screen's funniest comies in a giant show Of music.madness,

College Holiday

JACK BENNY GEORGE BOAKS

GRACIE ALIEN

MARY BOLAND MARTHA RAYE

FRIDAY & SATURDAY Bette Davis, Warren Williams "SATAN MET A LADY"

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WARNER

BAXTER JUNE LANG

White Hunter

GAIL PATRICK

Sunday

"After The Thin Man" QUEEN'S:-

"John Meade's Woman" ORIENTAL:-

"College Holiday" ALHAMBRA:-

"Park Avenue Logger" MAJESTIC:-

"General Spanky"

STAR:-

LINDBERGHS

THIRD BABY

Visitors To Clinic

The report that a son was born to Mrs. Lindbergh, wife of Col Lindbergh, the airman, on Corona tion night, was confirmed on May 25.

It is understood that Mrs. Lind- bergh and the baby are in the London Clinic, Devonshire-plice, W. It is stated that Mrs. Linda bergh has registered under the name of Mrs. Charles Col. Land- bergh's Christian name is Charles. Mrs. Bingham, wife of the Unit- ed States Ambassador in London. called at the clinic yesterday. An- other visitor was Miss Overman, of the United States Embassy, Col. Lindbergh has paid frequent visita to the clinic in the last fortnight:

It was reported that a perambulator had been delivered | at the Lindbergh's home, Long Barn, Sevenoaks Weald, Kent.

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The Lindberghis returned' only last month from a nine weeks survey tour by 'plane. They had flown as far

as 'India. Shortly after their return they left their Kent home for an unknown de- stination.

After the tragedy of the "Lind- "Bulldog Drummond Escapes" their baby boy Charles was kid- bergh Baby Gase," in 1932. when

napped and murdered, the couple have led a life of seclusion. They

AFTER THE THIN MAN came to England in 1935 with their son Jon, who is now nearly five. to avold publicity.

"After the Thin Man." starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, opens at the King's Theatre to-day, a sensational sequel to "The Thin

Man", produced by Metro-Goldwyn- WOMAN WINS

Mayer in response to remarkably

public demand for another mystery

by Dashiell Hammett.

Powell and Miss Lay excel their stellar performance in the original

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DIARY OF LOCAL

...

EVENTS

SATURDAY JUNE 12 Anniversaries and Holidaya.--- Magnetic Telegraph. patened, 1837.

Cinemas ---(See Page 5); Dances Charity Dance at. Hotel Cecil in aid of Dojima Fund. 2 p.m. Social. Cralgengower Cricket Club fortnightly Whist Drive, 9.30 p.m.

Sports-(See Fage 10), Moon-V. Moon, 4th. Sunrise.-5.38 a.m. Sunset.-7.07

p.m.

Tides-High at 00.45 and 11.12; Low at 04.23 and 18.30.

SUNDAY, JUNE 13

Third Sunday after Trinity. Cen- Anniversaries and Holidays.—

tenary Match at Lord's "1887. Dragon Boat Festival.

Padua. Eleventh Anniversary of chung chieh). Anthony

(1928). the Consecretation of Mgr. Valtora

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St.

Cinemas-(Seo Page 3).

(Tien-

of

Miscellaneous.-Y.M.CA. Discus- Bion Group, in West Lounge, 9 p.m.

Sporta (See Page 10). Moon-V Moon, 5th. Day. Sunrise.-5.38 a.m. Sunset-7.08

p.m.

ม

Tides High at 01.32 and 12.01; Low at 05.09 and 19.14.

MONDAY, JUNE 14. Anniversaries and Holidays.--- G. R. Chesterton died, 1938. Cinemas (Bee Page 5). Dances-Cheero Club Dance, 8

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Social|--YMCA. Service Men's Whist Drive, in the West Lounge, 9 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10). Moon-B Moon; 6th. Day. Sunrise-3.38 am, Sunset--7,08

NEWDIGATE p.m.

and the story is even more. Intri Poem Composed In

guing. A first rate supporting cast includes James. Stewart Elissa Landf. Joseph Callela, Jessie Ralph and Asta. the smart little wire- haired terrier that played such a clever role in "The Thin Man."

NANCY STEELE IS MISSING

Hospital

Oxford's most coveted award, Gir Roger Newdigate's prize for Eng- lish verse, has this year been won by Miss Margaret Stanley-Wrench, of Somerville College, writes a

Home" correspondent.

She is the first woman to win the prize since 1930. A woman' The screen's most intense' and

undergraduate won the prize for searching character actor. Peter the there years preceding 1930. Lorrë, enacts the most telling

Miss Starley-Wrench, who is the portrayal of his career as Profes-daughter of Mrs. Mollie Stanley- gor Sturm in Twentieth Century- Wrench, the author, is in her Fox's compelling screen drama. second year at Somerville. "Nancy Steele Is Missing," showing November, soon after she decided Last at the Queen's Theatre today.

to enter for the prize, she was The conflict between McLaglen, taken ill and spent some time in who tries to restore the lost Nancy Radcliffe Infirmary. It was while Steele to her father, and Lorre, she was convalescing that she who would substitute a false claim-sketched out her poem roughly. ant of his own, bullds to a tense, dramatic climax, paving the way for a powerfully emotional сол- clusion in which McLaglen redeems himself for the crime of twenty years before.

June Lang and Robert Kent are featured in the supporting caat, which includes Shirley Deane, John Carradine, Jane Darwell and Frank Conroy.

WE HAVE OUR MOMENTS

Sally Elers and James Dunn have returned to the screen with a picture that is a fine prescrip- tion for the relief of jaded spirits.

“BULLDOG DRUMMOND ESCAP_S" Their new vehicle, Universal's "We

MORROW. Sir Guy Standing

COLLEGE HOLIDAY

The all-important job of picking ideal mates from a host of hand- some young college students is placed in the hands of no less com- petent a person' that Gracie Allen. screenland's most famous nitwit, In "College Holiday", the all-star comedy which comes to the Orien- tal Theatre to-morrow, Monday and Tuesday.

It seems that Grace has an in- stinct and to test it, Mary Boland, a crackpot faddist and Etienne Giradot, who plays the role of her father, take over the fashionable but bankrupt hotel where Jack Benny la boss. Jack doesn't like the Idea any too much, but he has to get the hotel out of the red..

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Hay Milland

JOHN MEADE'S WOMAN

Have Our Moments," which has its run at the Alhambra Theatre to- day; la gay, stimulating comedy drama.

year was "The Man in the Moon" The subject of the poem this

Miss Stanley-Wrench said to me: I did not go out and study the moon at nights to write my poem. It deals largely with folk-lore, and legends concerning the "Man in the Moon', I have always been in terested in folk-lore. such a dry subject as some which It is not

have been set In previous years.”

The poem is written in blank verse and in its introduction "deals with the moon's Influence on fer- tility. Miss Stanley-Wrench paints

vivid picture of wild life and of a shepherd tending his lambing fold at night.

THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL

The following have arrived by the Tatsuta Maru, and are staying at the Gloucester Hotel

The story is about a school tea- cher who tires of her small town surroundings and goes on a lack

Mr. H. & Dunn, Mrs. F. 8. to Europe. Aboard ship "she be

Baker, Mrs. W. R. L. Currie, Mr. The awakening of a powerful in comes the unwitting catspaw for Glasgour, Mrs. E. Webster, Miss dustrialist to the fact that he is

a band of dinner-jacketed crooks Lots Savage Miss A. Elliott, Mrs. entirely wrong in his evaluation of and gets into serious complications J. Parsons, Mrs. B. J. Kenna, Mr. women is the basis of "John with the law. Around this plot K. R. Quick and Miss B. C. Bhel Meade's Woman a powerful love has been woven picture of ton Francine Larrimore, which opens has been placed on the modern story with Edward Arnold and sparkle and charm. Emphasis at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. treatment of lightness, artfully Arnold, as John Meade, the in-handled by Director Alfred Werker. "dustrialist, revels in the notion that yet

all women have their price, He

discovers that his fiancee, played GIVE ME YOUR HEART by beautiful Gail Patrick, is un- faithful to him and in order to

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"WE WISH YOU HAPPINESS”.

Scots Ex-Soldiers

Write To Duke

Members of the Bellshill (Lan- arkshire) ex-Service men's Club, who celebrated the Duke of Wind- sor's marriage with a social func tion, have sent him a letter which stated:

"We, the ex-Service men of Bell. shill, send you our good-wishes on the occasion of your forthcoming marriage, and we wish you every happiness.

The lecte is signed...From you!

Service Men's Cluber my f old comrades, the Bellshil Ex-

1933, by the Duke of Windsor (then The club was opened in April.

Prince of Wales) when he visited Belishill during his Scottish tour.

.. He algned the club membership book, and was the first man to

he was accompanied by Lord Weir become a member. At that time

and Sir James Knox.

DRAGON BOAT PRACTICE

A certain amount of excitement was caused on the 9.30 am. ferry yesterday when the passengers saw one of the Chinese Dragon boats, practising for the races which will be held on Sunday at North Point and Aberdeen. ...

The boat which was seen yester day morning, was a very long one, and at the stern of the boat there was a coxswain, beating time with a drum, while his ten oarsmeri were rowing according to his beats.

At the head of the boat there was a large head of a dragon, which was done in gold, and look- ed very picturesque.

King George To Make Masonic History

masonry

humiliate her he marries Miss Lar-poignant screen drams based on cial Grand Lodge of the United taken an active interest in

"Give Me Your Heart," a The King is to attend an Exper¡ until his accession, and has always rimore, a poor country girl trying the famous stage play by Jay Grand Lodge of England at the to make a go of it in the big city Mallory, "Sweet Aloes," has been Albert Hall at six pm on Wed the day before he was to marry booked as the feature attraction nesday, June 30, to be invested as

D FIVE DISTINGUISHED · Mes Patrick,

1. PREDECESSORS ARE Miss Larrimore loves him but

at the Majestic Theatre to-day, Past Grand Master, states a cor- The title of Past Grand Master when she discovers that he has used with glamorous Kay Franels in the respondent in the Daily Tele-bas, in the 200 years, history of her merely as a pawn in his game, stellar role. rengen wraph

Freemasonry in England, been con- her love turns to hate.

The picture, a Cosmopolitan pro- The investiture will be made by ferred upon only five distinguished duction released by Warner Bros. the Grand Master, the Duke of personages which is said to give Miss Francis Connaught

King Edward VIL and King the anest dramatic opportunity of It will be the first occasion on | Edward VILL before they acceded

sent at a Masonic meeting.

Lovers of thrilling outdoor dra .ma, sprinkled with comedy and his virile personality is seen at Its her career, presents her as an which the Sovereign has been pre-- to the Thrones

best.

romance, will welcome the current George O Brien adventure picture, "Park Avenue Logger, a George A. Hiriman Production for EKO Radio release, which opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.

Crammed from start to finish with exciting action, the new vehi cle offers O'Brien a role In which

ultra modern young Englishwoman The story is laid in the glant who seeks happiness in glorious timber country of the Northwest surroundings in London, New York where O'Brien is seen as a new- and Italy comer in the logging busines, but whose excellent physical condition and sledge hammer fists soon com mand respect among the hardy lumberjacks.

The plot is daring, the altuations novel in the extreme, but most striking of all is the treatment which la frank and brilliant, but clean and in good taste.

The King's acceptance of the rank of Past Grand Master was announced in March by the Earl of Harewood, Pro Grand Master

His Majesty when Duke of York, was Senior Grand Warden of Eng land in 1923 and Provincial Grand Master, for Middlesex from 1924

The Duke of Connaught: King Oscar II of Sweden; and The Crown Prince of Denma afterwards Eing 1

Like the Duke King Edward VIL Came Grand Man

be an active member of when he became Sovereign.

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION! ON THE SCREEN:

A PICTURE THAT EVERY WOMAN WILL WANT SOME MAN TU SEE!

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KAY FRANCIS

GIVE ME YOUR HEART GEORGE BRENT

• ROLAND VÕRRE "PATING KNOWLES » MARY STEPENISONE – PENDA. DESCOUT-

ON THE STAGE:

THE WILHELMINE REVUE"

6 TALENTED ARTISTS

SENSATIONAL BALLET PROGRAMME!

TOMORROW AND MONDAY

"GENERAL SPANKY WITH SPANKY

MOFARLAND

A METRO GOLDWYK-MAYER PICTURE

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