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Don't Tell The Wife

GUY KIBI UNA MERKEL

LYNNE OVERMAN

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With "MAJOR BOWES AMATEURS OF THE AIR"

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The World's "Heavy-weight

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JAMES

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Aux Sothern" Gene Raymond

'THERE GOES MY GIRL'

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ORIENTALE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937.

TO DAY AT THE CHEAPER

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"More Than A Secretary" QUEEN'S:-

"Don't Tell The Wife" ORIENTAL:

"Sea. Devils"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Oh, Doctor!”

MAJESTIC-

"Trouble In Marocco”

KING'S:-

Coming

"Good Old. Soak"

QUEEN'S:-

"There Goes My Girl"

ORIENTAL:-

"Stage Struck" ALHAMBRA:

STAR:

"You Can't Beat Love"

"Step Lively. Jeevest" MAJESTIC:

"Mary Stevens, M.D."

DON'T TELL THE WIFE

Featuring three of Hollywood's most popular comediana in 0 rollicking screen play bubbling over with entertainment and humour. RKO Radio presents

THEATRE

TICKETS

"Guild Of London” Scheme

MR. RONALD · ADAM'S)

CHALLENGE

A scheme for cheaper prices in London theatres was put forward by Mr. Ronald Adam of the Em- bassy Theatre, at a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel.

It is very largely a challenge to the "two-for-one" or "privilege- ticket" system.

Among the guests was Mr. Walter Payne, chairman of the Society of West End Manager, who wished Mr. Adam success in his new venture.

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According to Mr. Adam's scheme, "Theatre Guild of London" is.. to be founded, members of which will be able to buy seats for any play produced under its auspices at reduced prices. These will, for the present, include all plays pro- duced at the Embassy, where he guarantees 12 new productions a year, and in the West End, where he guarantees an anaval minimum of five new productions.

The reductions will range from a sixth, in the more expensive seats, to a quarter off the normal price. More advantageous terms will be arranged for junior mem- bers between the ages of 14 and 21. "PRIVILEGE TICKET" DEFECT

Mr. Adam said that although the ticket" aystem had

2DAY TO-DAY TO-MORROW "Don't Tell The Wife," which has "Drivilege

ONLY

THE FIGHTING MARINES ARE AT IT AGAIN! "Eay of my girl" smarls Bo'sun's mate Vic...

fun and fights begin in this roaring comedy.

Toast Guard Baddas

ballin lus the igro ni✨

a fame!.......whouser!

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McLAGLEN

PRESTON

FOSTER

IDA

LUPINO

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SEA DEVILS

DONALD WOODS'

and the

DAYS SUNDAY & MONDAY

ONLY

DICK POWELL-JOAN BLONDELL-F ANK MenUGH THE FUNNY YACHT CLUB BOYS

STAGE

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A thousand laughs in a most novel show.

MATINEES: 20c.-30 O EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.

DAILY

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RE-OPENING

Sunday, August 15th

with

GANGLAND'S IN A DEUCE OF A DITHER!

STEP LIVELY JEEVES!

with

ARTHUR TREACHER

and a cast of fun-makers

ROYAL FRIENDS OF THE UNDER-DOG” Unusual Tribute To The

King And Queen

Our King and Queen are friends of the under-dog, states the Bishop

of Chelmsford (Dr. Henry Wilson)

in a letter to his diocese.

beth and, what is more, the poOT folks of this country know it. They can do what no Monarch and, even

its run at the Queen's Theatre to-done good to the theatre in bring- day."

ing people in. it had the disad- Seldom is such a trio of laugh-vantage of dissociating the play provokers as Guy Kibbee, Una from its parent management" and Merkel, and Lynne Overman as- theatre. so that the progress' and sembled in a photoplay that gives continuity of the company were full rein their respective talents., forfelted. He much preferred. too. Moreover they are supported by a that everything should be done in cast of the same fine timbre-in- the operi. People who had paid full cluding Thurston Hall, Guinn Wil- prices and found themselves sit- liams, Harry Jans, former Broad- ting next people who had got in way musical comedy' star: Battle more cheaply should, he thought. McDaniels of "Showboat" fame: know how and why it had hap

pened..

Frank M. Thomas. Hollywoods busiest actor: Harry Tyler, screen veteran: William Demarest and George Irving.

OH, DOCTOR!"

Mr. Walter Payne said that the "two-for-one" system was uncrea~ tive, and, in fact, dependent upon existing prices. It was never pos- sible unless play was already a success. and it really thrived upon. the money risked by others. No new play of value could be origin- ally produced at a profit in the West End on "two-for-one" terms.

Mr. Adam's scheme is. in re- spects on the same lines as Miss Nancy Price's. People's National Theatre. which has helped to the of "Lady Precious Stream and "Whiteoaks."

In "Oh, Doctor! which opens at the

Alhambra Theatre to-day, Horton portrays 筵 fellow wha thinks he has every sickness in a patent mediciie" almanac. Re signs over his inheritance to a band of sharpers for a $50,000 cash advance. A beautiful young long runs nurse outwits the crooks and helps save Horton from their scheme. When a fival sultor rouses Hor- ton's jealousy, the star drives racing autos, wrestles bears and goes through they gyrations of a human fly on the window ledge of a tall, building.

The cast includes Donrue Leigh- ton, William Hall. Eve Arden. Thurston Hall, Catharine,, Doucet and William Demarest.

MARY STEVENS, M.D.

EGYPTIAN RUNS AMOK

Glasgow, Aug. 11. Six persona are dead following a grisly shooting' drama here, in which Upendra. Mamjan Filswas, described as handsome and popular Egyptian physical training instructor, allegedly turned into a mass murderer.

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY. AUGUST 13. Anniversaries and Holidays:- Sir A L. Liberty born. 1843 Florence Nightingale died. 1910. Our Lady Refuge of Sinners.

at

Auctions Crown Lands, at Dis- trict Office, South, Hong Kong 11 a

Household Furniture. Lämmert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 2.30 pm.

Cinemas-(Sea Page 5). Mails-(Sea Eage 15). Meetings.-Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Hall, 3.30 p.m.

Miscellaneous Mr. Clifford Lewis on "Life's Greatest Question," at St. Andrew's Hall,

Social. Cheers Club Duplicate and Contract Bridge, 8 p.m.; Part- ner Whist Drive. Fusiliers' Ser- geants' Mess. 8.30 pm.

Sports (Ses Page 10). Moon-VII Moon, 8th. Day. Sunrise.-5.59 am Sunset.-6.57

p.m..

Tides High at 01.22 and 13.47: Low at 07.48 and 19.07.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14. Anniversaries and Holidays.— Jeffries died. 1887. St. Eusebius. J. Galsworthy born, 1867. Richard

Pope and Canon.

Cinemax(See Page 5). Cecil, 8.30 p.m.

Dances-Flannel Dance at Hotel

Mails (See Pare 16). Meetings.-Final, of Members of The Hong Kong Finance Co., Ltd.. at Messrs. Lowe. Bingham and Matthews' Ofces, 1230 p.m.; final, of The Hong Kong Trading Co. (1931) Ltd., at 8 Des Voeux Road Central, first floor, noon

Miscellaneous.Inauguration

of St. Teresa's Chinese Young Men "Society's new

premises at 998 Valtorts. 5 p.m.; Y.MC.A. Launch Waterloo Road, by Mgr. Bishop H.

Bathing Picnic. Launch leaves the Police Fier at 3 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10). Moon-First Quarter, 10.28 a.m.. VII Moon. 9th. Day.

16

Sunrise.-1.59 a.m. Sunset.-8.56

p.m.

Tides-High at 02.00 and 15.26: Low at 09.18 and 1925.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 15. Anniversaries

and Holidays.— Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, T. E. Shaw born, 1888. The Assump- tion of Our Lady.

Cinemas (See Page 5). Malls.--(See Page 15). Miscellaneous.-Y. M. C. A. Dis- 'cussion Group in the West Lounge,

p.m.

Religious. Rev. GH Bateman of "Always More Ready to hear than we to Bray." at Evensong in St. John's Cathedral,

Sports-(See Page 10), Moon.-VII Moon, 10th. Day. Sunrise-5.58 am, Sunset.-6.56

p.m.

Tides-High at 0251; Low at

11.06.

SLUM CLEARANCE®

TJ

London. Aug. 11. The Government's great sium clearance and rehousing campaign 14 still gathering momentum. During July the local, authorities delf-comprising 4,760 houses and re- declared the clearance of areas,

presenting the displacement of 19,446 persons

as against 4,747 houses and 16,173 persons.

At the end of June there were 84,108 houses, under construction

and 60,326 at the end of April. against 61,954 at the end of May

The great majority of these houses are being provided för re-housing persons displaced in connection with the slum.clearance schemes. British Wireless,

Does a lifetime of looking after sale murder plot with great

He apparently planned a whole- sick people, saving most of them beration and completed the plan and helplessly watching others die within few minutes. despite all their skill, destroy or He first shot his 17-year-old harden the innate love for chil- English wife, who had taken re- dren

and their loved ones in fuge. at her father's home, and doctors? In other words, what is then his own' baby daughter, Sub- the true feeling of a doctor parent sequently he shot his father-in when he loses his own child?... law. his sister-in-law and a tax Physicians, it is true," have driver who tried to interfere with learned to mask their feelings in the greatest courage. such cases. We sort of expect it

In the end he shot himself.

in male doctors. However, how Beuter. about a woman physician? Does long medical practice entirely sub- merge the mother Instinct that is a woman's natural heritage, when death takes a woman physielan's child? There are some who, may Bay "yes, but "Mary Stevens, MD," a Warner Bros. pleturé which comes to the Majestic Theatre to- day, with Kay Francis playing the title role presents a pretty strong case for the other side.::

MORE THAN A SECRETARY

more emphatically, no Dictator la High comedy, seasoned with the Europe can do they can wall paprika of satire, the salt of farce unattended and in perfect safety and the sugar of romance, des through the poorest streets in any cribes the spicy entertainment on town in the land.

view at the King's Theatre where "Probably the most loyal people | Columbia's "More Than A Secre in the country are the poor," he tary opens to-day. adds, "for they know that the Jean Arthur and George Brent

King George V and Queen love and service which the King hold down the principal roles, Mary," he writes, "created a new

and Queen give to them is entirely olded and abetted in their hilari

ous mischier by Lionel Stander, Ruth Donnelly Reginald Denny Key and Dorothea Kent, Their collec-

ideal of kingship. Not a single good disinterested." cause which almed at the uplift of human life was ever overlooked by These greatest of public servants,"

A bookmaker is alleged to have tivé tomfoolery in the name of "There are no better and truer sworn at a client for nearly half health and romanes hits the sea- friends of the under-dog than an hour. He seems to have had a son's, high-spot in riotous roman- King George VI and Queen Eliza-lot to come."

tics and exhilarating comedy.

A scene from Columbia's More Than & Secretary," 00- starring Jest Arthur and George Brent, commencing to-day at the King's Theatre,

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.90, 5.1C, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

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"Will That B

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COLUMBIA PICTONI

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Take a stun ning steno who knows all the an- swers... a boss who can't spell Love..... drop them into Manhat tan in April...and you've got the side-splitting set- ting for the newest howl- arious hit from the produ cers of "Theodora Goes Wild"!

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A WARNER BROS. COMEDY-THKILLER !

ADVENTURE BY ITALIAN

Circumnavigating

The Globe

to

Rome, Aus 11 An adventurous, attempt: circumnavigate the globe is being made by an Italian named 'Bor- renting who sailed from Naples to-day in his little two-master

Expero"

In the course of his journey round the world, which is anti cipated to take from four to Ave years, Sorrentino hopes to .cover some 8,000 miles and visit the principal ports,

POLAR FLIERS IN PARIS

Paris, Aug. 11, The Soviet Russian Polar fiters were received to-day in the Air- Ministry in Paris by the Under Secretary of State, M. Andraud off behalf of Air Minister M. Pierre Cot, who is at present absent from and the Sorter Embassy arranged Paris The French Communists

a banquet in honour of

Pranzoran News Server

the

proceed to Tangier, Rio de Janeiro, Hawall, New Zealand, Japan, China and India.

After leaving Colombo, "Sorren- tino interida to sall around Africa and through the Straits of Gibral

The first port of can will be tar into the Mediterranean from Bizerta

coast of Tunis where he started

on the

from whence the two-master will Tranincems News Service.

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