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The screen's charming jomantion in à gay story of rival reportars-

GENE RAYMOND

ANN SOTHERN

RONDON JONES /

SFRANK JENKI

"RICHARD LAKE"

BRADLEY PAGE "TA

HONG KONG DALLY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE

KING'S

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"Good Old SoarTM QUEEN'S..

There Goes My Girl"

ORIENTAL

"My Pal The King"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

***** "You Can't Best Love" -STAR S

"Nancy Steele Is Missing" MAJESTIC:

"Of Human Bondage"

Coming

KING'S:-

"Hot Money"

Wendy Barrie

QUEEN'S:-

Procted by Jan Holaki, Induced by Willas"Šiztrak," RKO-RADIO PICTURE:

WINGS OVER HONOLULU”

Ray Milland

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'TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Dramatic | |!

Emotional!

Thrilling!!

STIRRING AS

THE CRY OF A

ALTER WOMAN IN TERROR!

TABLEN CONNOLLY PETER LORRE

NANCY STEELE

IS MISSING!

THURSDAY

LANG - ROBERT KENT

Mag West In “GO WEST, YOUNG MAN"

Wings Over Honolulu"

ORIENTAL:-

"Internes Can't Take Money" ALHAMBRA -

Loves Of A Dictato=""

STAR:-

"Go West. Young Man"

MAJESTIC:-

"USSR. of To-day"

GOOD OLD SOAK -

WHEN JEAN HARLOW DIED

SARATOGA,' WITH LAST REEL MISSING,

WILL BE SHOWN

Clark Gable To Pay Tribute.

When Jean Harlow died she had all but completed her latest picture, "Saratoga," with Clark Gable. A few short but vital scenes remained to be'made, teng

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Partly out of respect for a very actress, Mary Dees, Jean's former talented and lovable actress, stand-in. has been recalled to partly because of the Hollywood Culver City for this part of the legend which says there's nothing plan. so dead as a dead movie star." The other suggestion-and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced one which is growing more that the remaining sequences of favour every day-is that the film the film would ever be shot, the should be shown as it stands. whole plature would be scrapped. Recently they ́changed their mind. Some -time. this year Saratoga" will be shown-and Jean Harlow in it.

This decision is due entirely to the demands of flmgoers in BH- tain and America.

It was shot more or less in sequence so that only the last reel is missing. At the point where Jean died. Clark Gable will come on to the screen, pay a tribute to

of the story. Jean, and briefly recount the rest

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are

in-

clined to think that this would be At the moment they have whit the most digniñed and respectful tled their choice down to two solution to their problem. What- alternatives as to how the un-ever they anally decide, however, finished film should be completed. It is now certain that thousands One is that Jean Harlow's part of Jean Harlow's admirers will be shall be completed by another able to see her in her last role.

JAPANESE

MARRIAGE

PROBLEM

Wallace Beery is like a big, good. The Demand

natured. frolicsome St. Bernard puppy." He ambles onto the set. pushes back his hat, scratches his head, squints one quizzical eye. and, says. "Good moming, every- body."

For A Higher

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

Holidays.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 17. Anniversaries and Admiral Blake died, 1657. Honore de Balzac died, 1850.

Auctions. Letting and Sale of

Standard Of Life Crown Lands, District Office, Tal

The old Japanese saying that for

He selects a canvas chair with every prospective bride there ara regard to its structured security, eight oridegroom is not proving eases his massive frame into positrue in contemporary Japan. tion, and relaxes with a contented" For, according to the Japanese Press, there is a serious depression on the marriage market, and girls

sigh. This is accompanied by..a sound of tortured fabric

and

cracking wood. Wally wasn't or marriageable age Are ex-

oy for periencing difficulty in suitable partners.

nicknamed "Jumbo" as n nothing.

41

Beery walks into the role of Clem Hawley, "The Good Old Soak"

Anding

Po, 11.30 am.; Household Furni ture, 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon, 230 p.m.

Cinemas-(See Page 5). Commercial-Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd.. Interim Dividend payable.

Mails. (See Page 16). Miscellaneous Rotary Timia. Hong Kong Hotel.

Cricket Social-Craigengower Club Weekly Tombola. 9.20 p.m.; Cheero Club Whist Drive. 8.30 P..

Sports-(See Page 10). Moon.-VII Moon, 12th Day. Sunrise.-6.01 a.m. Sunset-8.54

This is not because of any dis- parity in the numbers of the two He plays a scene with Janet sexes. The cens of 1835 indicat Beecher as his wife, Matilda, Cleed that of the 70,258,000 inhabi is on the carpet and he konws it tants of Japan Proper 35,224,000 He acts like bashful boy caught

were males and 35,034,000 females. in the cookie far."

But certain shifts of population and changes in the standards 13.08. which some Japnese-girls-net-for- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18... future husbands are leading to

THERE GOES MY GIRL fewer marriages.

Young men in the farming and there are not enough girls left to fishing villages often complain that

p.m.

Tides-High at 04.58; Low at

Anniversaries and Holidays

Helena, Empress. Paul Louts Courer died, 1825: St.

Cinemas-(See 'Page 5), Dantes-Cheero Club Dance, 3

A pair of ace' reporters on rival newspapers, a boy and a girl, com bine to scoop the police in

go round, as wives. This is because p.m. the solution of a cryptic murder myttes for work in the cities, where many country girls And opportuni- stery in the new screen romance-pay is higher and ure more attrac- thriller. "There Goes My Girl" tive, as factory workers, clerks, which co-stars Ann Sothern and waitresses, conductors on buses, Gene Raymond.

and maidservants.

Mails-(See`Page 16),

Hockey Club, at HEC.C. Secre- Meetings Annual, of Hong Kong

tary's Rocm. 5.30 p.m.

"

Social-R.E.O.C.A. Whist Drive and Tombola, Garrison Lecture Hall, 8:30p.m.; Whist Drive and

Queen's Road 8.30 p.m. Tombola, Garrison Sergeants' Mess,

Sports-(See Page 10). Moon-VII Moon, 13th Day.. Sunrise.-6.61 am Sunset.-8.53

This is a fast-moving photoplay. CITY GIRLS EXPECT MORE ' with most of the action centreing around the exploits of a pair of hand, it is the women who and 11 In the large towns, on the other newspaper reporters and a hard- dificult to obtain suitable hus- boiled city editor. In it. Miss bands. Not only are there more Sothern and Mr. Raymond essay a women of marriageable age than more serious and dramatic vehicle men in the cities: but girls whom. than many of their past screen have had a taste of city life ex- offerings, which have been" ligh3] pect more in a 'material way, from low at 13.45.

comedies, for the most

and

Teamed in three previous mo who know nothing but the exact

their husbands than their sisters tion pictures, Ann Bothern Gene Raymond are now recognised

ing toil and few picasures of the as one of the most popular roman-Investigations carried out among

village, tic couples the" screen.

girls in the high schools show that the majority of them set as the minimum salary for a prospective YOU CAN'T BEAT LOVE bridegroom one hundred yen (ve and a half pounda) a month, while some ask for husbands with sala- Sparkling with romance and ries of two hundr comedy overlying a swift-moving dred yen.

-three hun- background of small-town politics, RKO Radio's "You Can't Beat the salary of the rage clerk or Even a hundred is tar above Love" at the Alhambra Theatre to Government employee who is in day, proves itself thoroughly de- his first years of employment. lightful entertainment..

OLD MAIDS ́AT 20 Preston Foster and Joan Fon-

The problem is further taine art co-starred" and their brilliant performances account for tonally marry youngAwgirl of

plicated because Japanese tradi

com-

a considerable share of the Dle twenty who unmarried is al

ture's excellence. The husky Foster's fair for light comedy, &

do

Tides. High at 05.55' and '21.27;

THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, Anniversaries. and Holidays.—— John de Wiit died, 1872. Orville Bertrand of Toulouse. Wright barn, 1871. St Lewis

Auctions-Letting of Earth and Stone Quarry by Public Auction, and Bale of Crown Lands at Land Ofice. Ping Shan, 11:30 am.

Cinemas.(See Page 5). Maila (See Page 18). Meetings Theosophical Society Lantern Study Group, 8 pm.; Tóc

7.30pm. Women's Guld, in H. Supper, at Seamen's Institute.

Cathedral Hall, 3 pm.

Bodal-Cheero Club Contract Bridge and Mah Jong, 8 p.m.; Civil Service Whist Drive, 9.20 p.m.

Sports(See Page 10). Moda VII Moon, 14th. Day. Sunrise 8.02 am Sunset-1.52 p.m.

Tides. High at 06.46 and 21.20. Low at 00.17 and 14.20.

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The Whole Town's

on a laughing Jag!

Wally heads the Sig Parade.

of Funatory in the pranet, shou mon comedy of the "old, sook" who comes fighting through and how! A rial' af laughe.......

earn and thrills, too!

DD OLD SOAK

GOOD

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FRENCH REACTION.

TO SHANGHAI

BOMBARDMENT

authorities were exceedingly per- turbed at the occurrence. The Oncial equity into the matter, it is declared, is not over, but it seems already to be clearly in dicated that the Chinese plots did not intend to bombard the build- Ings infquestion.

ready considered almost an old) quality his roles too seldom allow maid. him to reveal, has ample

The girls among the "Nisel" portunity in this offering, with foreignborn Japanese) have their grand results; while the lovely special marital problems. If, as is Miss Fontaine gives a portrayed in the United States or in usually the case, these girls have

Paris, Aug. 15. that emphatically confirms studio Hawail, their material standards

The bombardment of the Inter OF HUMAN BONDAGE of the limp which set him apart predictions for her imminent wide are far above those of the Japa

national and French Concessiónis jyse from other men. Sensitive and

London, Aug. 15. in Shanghal has been very an- popularity. the les agree that physical in- a' cheap and unserer enslaves his serious as the bestling average Japanese woman would town from Foynes, in Ireland to reports of the bombardment, but

Psychologists and medical au- idealistic, he becomes the victim of

For all the story's hilarity, there food standard of living to the vey fights across the Atlantic. has The pa

The Imperial Airways Eying-imatedly discussed in the French nese. What would seem a fairly boat, Caledonia, engaged on surpresa who takes his love, official connivance at gambling impress the Niel es aire poverty Arinities, frequently affect the

The papers published detailed mental attitude and cause sticted soul, and spenda his money, repay and other evils. The contrast, of Then the latter must adjust her hours 32 minutes. --- persons to be shy, extremely sen- ing him with scorn and unfaith

the comedy situations and thi

differed widely in the number sitive and lacking in self confulness

stated dead. It is stated the-For- fidence

"Of Human Bondage will be the background makes for unusual self to the Japanese family system,

realism, and conviction.

which makes the mother-in-law.

eign Consular Body will propose to It is from this human tendency attraction at the Majestic Theatre

the supreme arbiter of family

both the Chinese and the Japanese that much of the poignance of to-day.

that no planes ought to be used in Aghting in Shanghai, C

RKO Radio's, version of the Somer-

set Maugham novel ""Or Human Bondage" is derived, and r

་ ་ ་ ་

Botwood, Newfoundland," ing" 18"

The Figaro" reports the rumour

who believed that they were bomb the the planes were carrying American volunteers who did not know the geographical position of the International Settlement, and

ing the Japan Transocea

The

anairs. The young wife must but I would never marry a girl humour every whim of the elders who was born in America, because there a tendency for town in her husband's family, and I know how dimcult it is for her The question as to how the drop- the men "Wrongdoers fear the Lie dwellers to get back to the coun fatture to "Be up to family tradi-to become adjusted to Japanese ping of bombs came about at all they call The hero of the Em, played by | Detector" says an American detec- try. The only trouble according tion" cause for divorce in Japan ways and how alight is her chance has been very seriously discussed philos Leslie Howard, is a medical tive.

men have to motorists, is that they all try An merican-born Japanese for happiness

Japanese in the press, reports being publish- patent student who is painfully conscious known this for years

to get there on Sunday afternoons, once said "I am Niseloyself,family.

ed to the effect that the Chinese Pound,"

Some'

[ems ServicH.

phers "de

thou are al

dunberrie

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