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CLEOPATRA

Romance written in words of fire deep in the hearts of the lovers of "the world!

That's one of the descriptive phrases used to herald the coming of Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount production, "Clepatra," which is at the Majestic Theatre to-day

The Alm, a modern screen treat ment of one of the world's greatest love stories, has Claudette Colbert Warren William and Henry Wilcox- On in the principal parts. Wilcoxon is the young Englishman DeMille brought to Hollywood for the role of Mark Antony, the noble Roman who gave up his life for love of the Egyptian queen while "Empires tottered about him."

BRITAIN'S MOTHER

CHURCH%

For the first time since the dis solution of Glastonbury Abbey at the time of Henry VIII, holy com- munion was celebrated recently in the ruins of Bt, Joseph's Chapel on the site of the ancient Wattle Church

PANIC AT WEDDING FEAST

Roast Pig Explodes

There was panic at a wedd feast in the village of Gakovo, Itar Sombor, when a huge roast pig ex.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE MONGOL BLOOD

KING'S:

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"Rembrandt"

QUEEN'S:-

The Great. Gamhin!” ORIENTAL:-

"My American Wife"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA¦-

"Hotel Haywire" MAJESTIC;—

"Cleopatra”

KING'S:-

Coming

"Polo Joe" QUEEN'S

"Charlie Chan At The

Olympics"

ORIENTAL:-

"Walkik! Wedding"

·ALHAMBRA :---

"Taras Bulba" MAJESTIC:-

"Our Relations"

REMBRANDT

Rembrandt."" produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, the producer- star combination that gave you the memorable "Private Life of Henry VIII," is on to-day at the King's Theatre.

The first Gim to depict the life of the great Dutch artist for whom love and inspiration always went hand in hand, "Rembrandt." offers Laughton another great human characterization.

The actor, who went to Amster- dam to absorb atmosphere for this

colourful portrayal, is said to bear a remarkable resemblance to the man whose love of beauty was equalled only by his genius.

HOTEL HAYWIRE

The season's "screwlest" comedy, "Hotel Haywire," opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-day. Ex- ceptionally fine performances by Leo Carrillo, Lynne Overman, Benny Baker and Collette Lyons,

a. great yarn by Preston Sturges and a really grand production by

Paramount, make "Hotel Haywire" an uproarious comedy and first

class entertainment for the entire family.

IN US. INDIANS?

Expedition

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 Anniversarica and Holidays- Ben Jonson died, 1837, James Loeb born, 1867. Transðguration of Our

To Conduct

Racial Research Lord

An exploration party organized by the Japan Racial Science Society will visit the North Kurties and in Karafuto (Japanese Sagha- llen) for two months this summer to conduct a large-scale investiga- tion into the relics of ancient in- habitants of these islands, „from the anthropological, pre-historiu and racial points of view. ·

Auctions.Household. Furniture, at Lammert's H.K. Bales Room. 2.30 p.m.

Cinemas. (See Page 5), Mails. (See Page-16),

Meetings. Annual, of Kowloon Football Club, & pm. Football, Re- ferees, Room 205 Gloucester Bldg. 5.30.p.m.

Baotul Cheero Club Duplicate: and Contract Bridge, 8 p.m.; R.W.F.W.O's and. Sergis, Progres-

Whist Drive. 8.30 p.m.: R.E.W.O's. and Sergts. Mesa, Whist Drive and Tombola, 9.15 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10).

Moon, ist Day.

Moon-New Moon, 18.37 pm. VII

Sunrise.-5.57 a.m. Sunset.-7.02

p.m..

The party will be subdivided in-sive to three groups according to the special lines along which these researches will be carried out опе group will be led by Dr. Kodama, an anthropologist, who is professor of Hokkaido Imperial University, another by Dr. Baba, and the other by Mr. Oka, who represented Japan at the first Congress of the International Racial Science Society, held in London in 1034. At this Congress the decision was reached that the Committer of Thquiry into the culture of extreme Northern races should be organized and that the countries concerned should co- operate in these researches.

It is said that Mr. Oka will pur- | Memphis. U.S.A., due. sue his studies on the assumption that the North Kuries. inhabited in ancient times by a race similar to Esquimaux, If this assumption proves correct by the study of relies to be excavated by the exploration party, much colour will be lent to the theory that American natives had the blood of the Mongol race in their veins and that Asiatic and Pacific civiliza- tion spread to North and South America by way of the Kuriles.

Tides-High at 08.45 and 23.26: Low at 01.58 and 15.45.-

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 ..Anniversaries and Holiday, Royal Academy closes. Bir We Hart- Dyke born, 1837.

were

WHEN PEOPLE PAID TO SEE LUNATICS "Penny Gates" At A Hospital

The days when the public paid to view lunatics were recalled by

Miss Elisabeth Macaulay, matron of the Kent County Mental Hos- Pital, at the International Con- gress of Nurses at Central Hall. Westminster.

Cinemas- (See Page 3). Malls (See Page 15). "Miscellaneous. — Claims against. the Estate of Chew How, late of

Social. Craigengower Cricket Club fortnightly Whist Drive, 0.20 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10); Moon.-VII Moon, 2nd. Day. Sunrise.-5.51a.m. Sunset.-7.01

p.m.

Tides-High at 09.35 and 22.57: Low at 02.45 and 18.18.

SUNDAY, AUGUST & "Anniversaries and "Holidays.— Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.

Henry Spahlinger born, 1882. Be- ginning of Autumn. (Li-ch'lu). Cinemas (Seo Page 5). Malls(See Page 18). Miscellaneous.-Y.M.C.A. Discus- sion Group, in the West Lounge, 9 .p.m...

LI

Sports. (See Page 10). Moon.-VII Moon, 3rd. Day, Jew- Ish New Moon.

Sunrise.-5.58 a.m. Sunset.-7.01

p.m.

Tides.High at 10.20 and 23.26;

Low at 03.31 and 16.50-

ROYAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND

an astrologer who tal nursing, she said that in 1247 Carrillo, as

Discussing the evolution of men- makes other people's misfortune

a priory of the Order of St. Mary

London, Aug. 4 pay him, induces Benny Baker and

of Bethlehem was Collette Lyons, out-of-work vaude-

The King and Queen received a fourided in ville team, to become detectives. Bishopsgate and in 1400 a number stirring welcome on their arrival of Insane men were used there. in Aberdeen from London this He gets ellents for them in the per- In 1675 the institution was moved morning. They drove through the sons of Lynne Overman and Spring to Moorfields, and a hospital ac- decorated streets thronged with Byington, 'who have been happily married, until Spring is led to commodating some 208 to 300 in-thousands of spectators into the doubt him as the result of a sane persons was erected there. It country and practical joke..

was one of the sights of London gally decorated towns and villages "Hotel Haywire" is further com- and there were gates called "the to Balmorala "distance of about plicated by the romance between penny gates," no doubt from the 45 miles. It is announced that Mary Carlisle and John Patterson,

fact that the public were admitted their Majesties have decided to pay a romance that finds itself in a to view the lunatics on payment of a visit to Lancashire next mav rollicking mix-up with Mary's a small fee. That continued till British Wireles

father.

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WAIKIKI WEDDING "Waikiki Wedding." a comedy of love and music in the South Seas. brings Bing Crosby, Bob Burns and Martha

Raye to the Oriental Theatre for Sunday and Monday.

This time Bing is a press agent ploded, smothering the guests wlta-for a pineapple cannery pieces of hot meat,

Hawaii-and in the furtherance of In the panic a nine-year-old his campaign to keep Waikiki sold

glamour child ran away to hide in a stable as the

spot of the and was kicked by a horse and universe it becomes necessary for killed. A child of seven received him to fall in love with Miss Ross severe injuries when she was who is about to walk out on a knocked down and 'trampled on, well laid publicity scheme of his

It was discovered that someone concoction.

in

had hidden a cow's horn, filled When Crosby discovers that he with gunpowder, in the pig, and really is in love with the blonde

were

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“LOVER OF DEAUTY" *PRINCE OF SHADOWS" the world called him!

And now the world kosen him with a motion picture masterpiece such as only his own exotic life could paint!

ALEXANDER KORDA

presents

CHARLES LAUGHTON

REMBRANDT

CENTRODE LAWRENCE » ZEGA LANCHESTER

́ESHWARD, CHAYILAM

A LONDON FILM PRODUCTION RELKÄSED TEBU UNITED ARTLÁTS

ALSO "TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS

A Silly Symphony in Technicolopr

JOR E. BROWN in POLO

SUNDAY WAESER B108.

JOE

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN RA, HOWLDONI, DAUN AT 2,3

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW UPROARIOUS COMEDY OF

A RIPPING,

AMERICAN

LIFE AS IT'S LIVED!

A ribbing, uproarious

farce of American life

in a nutshell!

HOTEL HAYWIRE

SUNDAY A. EMPICO RELEASE

& SHOWS

DAILY.... 1.10 $20

with Lon Carrilla - Lynse Overmas - Mary Baker - Spring Byington - John Patterson

& Frankwood Pickers",

TARAS BULBA" with a mighty continental cast

MAJESTIC

720-930 travelled through

TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSINGS

1777, and an income of £400, a year was obtained from those fees. At the beginning of the nine- teenth century the insane kept chained to the walls in dark

London, Aug. 4 cells with only straw to lie upon.

The American flying boat, Clip- They were often naked or in rags. They were dropped into "surprise Der III left Southampton this baths," bound in rotary chairs, morning for Foynes, Ireland in confined in fron cages, and frereadiness for her return crossing quently flogged and starved. "If of the Atlantic which will be com- one were found dead the jury at menced at 4 a.m. on Friday. This the inquest would return the ver-will be the first daylight crossing diet "Death by the visitation of since the experimental fights were

begun. God."

Turning to present methods, The Imperial Airways dying Miss Macaulay said that in the boat, Cambria, is expected to make majority of mental hospitals' occu- her return crossing to England pational therapy had been intro- simultaneously- duced with the greatest benent to

British Wirdesk. the patients. Other forms of re- cuperative treatment were phy-

lit a long fuse leading into the beauty and that he must choose sical culture classes outdoor and powder. The guests were Just pre- between losing her or see his Indoor games, patients' entertain- paring to help themselves to the scheme go boom, the climax is ments, debating societies, and smoking hot meat when the pig exploded and the bits were scat- tered all over the room.

· BRAVEST DEED OF

THE YEAR ·

reached.

FL

THIRD POLAR FLIGHT

San Francisco, Aug. reading classes. Almost every "A' third flight from Moscow to mental hospital now had its own Ban Francisco by way of the

North Pole will shortly be attemp ted

THE GREAT GAMBINI | circulating library.

Akim Tamiron, nominated for the Academy award for hils per- formance as "The General Who "Died at Dawn,” is seón, again in "The Great Gambini," showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

At York House, the Duke of Gloucester, President of the Royal Tamiroff plays the part of 8 It is the mother church of Bri-Humane Society, presented the mind-reading mystic, who finds tain and is said to have been built Stanhope Gold Medal for the himself right in the middle of a bravest deed of the year, to Mr. murder case which has the police by Joseph of Arimathea.

The celebrant was the Bishop of Noel Kinch, of Tiverton-street, baffled.. "Taunton. Dr. (7. A. Hollis,

Cleethorpes, Lincs, who had rescued a shipmate falling overboard from Fleetwood trawler in the North Atlantic

Signor Mussolini recently played

The Duchess of Gloucester also a game of dominoes with a school-congratulated Mr. Kinch. boy. One theory is that he had to,

do if to get bia name in the news, papera.

adline.

Mis J. P. Watt, inspector to the Queen's Institute of District Nurs- The Soviet Consul-General here ing, said that there were to-day stated to-day that preparations over 8,700 district nurses on duty have been completed and the in the cities, towns, and villages of the plane is now awaiting favour- the British Isles, and the service able weather conditions was maintained by 4.000 district The Consulate added that after. associations. Each year about 100 August 16, conditions were, no new associations, were formed and longer favourable for nying over 190 Queen's nurses were added to the North Folar diatrieta – the active strength. The demand Reuter. for them had always exceeded the supply and 1,500 more were need cd to bring the whole service, to 100 per cent, adequacy,

When Tamiroff pronesles that Marlan Marsh, planning to be mar- ried the next day, will not marry her fance, it is first considered It was announced that the con- merely a bad joke, but when the gress for 1941 would be held in the fance is found murdered the next United States of America morning, the case takes on a more serious aspect.

Akim Tamiroff heading a large

"Poultry thieves" elude" police,” | cast: of film" favorites, as, John The latest in cocktails is called Trent, Mariam Marsh, Reginald "Dual Personality Presumably Denny and Genevieve Tobin and when you've had one you feel like many others.

another.

According to a musician, the runa “piano is Aghting for its life. And | appears that they broke into ́with its back to the wall-

SEASIDE RESORT

SOLD

The ground tenta secured upon practically the whole of the town of Latham St. Annes, Lancashire, which tofal about. £21,000 a year, have been sold by Mr. Henry, Clifton, of Lytham Hall

The Clifton family has owned the land since the Middle Ages.

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON * TIL G7212

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The Flaming Chapters

of Her Life Blaxed with the Names of Conquerors.......! Adolph Zakor presents CECIL B. DeMILEE'S

CLEOPATRA

SA Paramount Pichurn with CLAUDETTE COLE WARREN WILLT HENRY WILCOX JOSEPH SCHILDKRA

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!

STAN LAUREL

OLIVER HABDY is “OUR RELATIONS"

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE

NEW R.L.B.A.

PRESIDENT Youngest For 103 Years

ORGAN OF JUNK

Strains of music attracted lunch- time strollers in London recently Mr. H. S. Goodhart Rendel, who to an organ" made completely

The construction," has been elected president of the from Junk Royal Institute of British Archit-mounted on a set of perambulator ects, le fifty, and is thus the young wheels, was a conglomeration of est architect president in the 103 stretched strings attached to keys. years history of the institute.

A grandson of the late Lord Ren- del, his architectural work is main ly ecclesiastical. and domestic, and includes, St. Wilfrid's Church, Brighton

The were several electric light switches, and the bellows which looked suspiciously, like canvas stretched on to wooden frames were worked by foot pedals, Two sets of piano keys and a xylophone were also provided.

The make

He is also an accomplished mu sician, and has published various compositions He is a director of The maker and his instrument the Royal Academy of Music, and have been filmed and televised. is member of the executive of the and it is expected that they Old Vic, and Badkar's Wells, He is shortly appear in a radio also an historian and an author.

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