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The King and The Chorus

Girl"

QUEEN'S:—

"Men In Exile"

ORIENTAL:-

"China Seas" :

Kowloon

ALHAMBRARI

"I'll Fix It" STAR:-

"There Goes My Girl: MAJESTIC:-

"You Said "A Mouthful".

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The screen's charming romantics

in a gay story of zívał zuportar-

GENE RAYMOND ANN SOTHERN THERE GOES MY GIRL

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BRADLEY FAQE

Directed by Ben Holusi, Produced by William Sitron, AKQ-RADIO PICTUEL

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MORROW :"DON'T TELL THE WIFE"

KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL

Dollars fly

out the windows when movie kings come on the

MRS. RAYMOND MASSEY.

A daughter was born recently to Mrs. Raymond Massey--Miss Adrierine Allen, the actress-at her country house, Rosing Farm, near Horsham. Sussex. It Was Bet. Wheres ordinary cinema mor-stated later that mother and child

were "doing well."

Shortly after the child was born,

tals can move in ordinary sur- roundings, royalty must be shown

against a properly regal back-Mrs. Massey telephoned the news ground.

to her husband at Hollywood.

"The Case of The Velvet

Claws"

QUEEN'S:-

"Crime Over London" ORIENTAL:-

"The Postal Inspector" 'ALHAMBRA:-

STAR:

"Emperor of California"

"Don't Tell The Wife" MAJESTIC:-

"Man's Castle"

POSTAL INSPECTOR

Patricia Ellis and Michael Loring renew a cineromance in Universal's "Postal Inspector"

(Showing at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.)

MICKEY MOUSE'S

DIRECTOR

Mr. Roy Scott In Singapore

Mr. Roy Scott, foreign Alm director of the famous Walt Disney and Mickey Silly Symphonies Mouse Cartoons, is making, a short stay in Singapore" before proceed- ing by the Australian route for Hollywood.

Of

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TUESDAY? SEPTEMBER 21. Anniversaries and Holidays St. Matthews. H. G. Wells born. 1888. Tabernacles. 2nd day.

Auctions.-Household Furniture,

at 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30 p.m.

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Cinemas. (See Page 5). Malls.--(See Page 16). Meetings Mothers' Union. in Cathedral Hall. 3. p.m.; St. An- drew's Church Council, 6 p.m.

Miscellaneoys.. Rotary Tiffa.

Swirling flood waters rush

Mr. Scott is making a survey in through streets seething with

the Orlent with a view to investi-Hong Kong Hotel turmoi in "Postal

possibilities Inspector" gating the

in- Social. Craigengower Cricket showing at the Oriental Theatre |troducing foreign languages, apart" Club Weekly Tombola,” 9.20 p.m.: to-morrow and Thursday. The

from the existing Prench, Spanish, Cheero Club Whist Drive. 8.30 p.m picture presents an exciting story

and Italian languages, in the Silly Sports. (See Page 10). about a $3,000,000 mall robbery Symphonies.

Moon.-VIII Mooh, 17th. Day. carried out during a torrential

Sunrise.-5.12 am Sunset 6.21 flood. The gang hopes to get away in the confusion of the down rushing waters that threaten an entire city.

Ricardo Cortez is featured as the postal inspector who hunts the thieves in spite of hail. high waters and personal dar.gers. Bela Lugosi portrays a night club owner who plans the robbery. Patricia Els Is a singer in his club. in love with a bank clerk. enacted by Michael Loring.

До

I'LL FIX IT

dashing. spicy, romantic comedy of love and politics un assumingly makes its way into the Alhambra Theatre to-day.

"I'll Fix It" is the clever title of the new Alm tenant which boasts of the ever-popular Jack Holt in the starring role.

Produced by Columbia Pictures from a story by "Leonard Spigel- gass and adapted to the screen by Ethel Hill and Dorothy Howell, "I'll Fix It" presents Holt as an eminently successful and genial political "fixer." He strides leisurely enough through the web of political Intrigues with 2 Emiling assurance of power, but meets his first real obstacle when a winsome young school teacher refuses to be bribed into altering Holt's kid brother's algebra marks.

MEN IN EXILE

"Men In Exile," an intriguing romantic adventure story of an inland paradise in the Caribbean, has its first showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

A First National production. "it marks the first directorial effort ot John Farrow, novelist and writer, who finally has screen been persuaded to combine his writing talents with directorial responsibility.

He has a story, packed with thrills romance and action for his first effort.. With

а cast headed by Dick Purcell, June Travis, Alan Baxter, Margaret Irving, Victor Varconi, Olin How- land. Veda Ann Borg and others, he has succeeded in turning out a number one entertainment.,

SHOWGIRL

Two

STOWAWAYS

show girls, Joyce Stanton, aged 17, attractive United States

a tall platinum blonde, and Alice Delmar, golden haired, were refused

permission to land when

the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary reached Southamton from New York.

The girls stowed away in the

England without passports. ship at New York and arrived in

That's why the usually com- placent row of Mervyn LeRoy, Brilliant young Warner Bros. director and producer, was deeply furrowed before and during the role of a happy-go-lucky spend- making of "The King and the thrift, ex-monarch who falls vio- Chorus Girl," showing to-day at lently in love with an American the King's Theatre, the comedy chorus girl, Joan Blondell. His a time when theatres were closing romance in which be introduces high-pressure courtship. In her his new Continental atar. Fernand obstinate refusal to take royalty Gravet, to American audiences. seriously, provides the swift hu-

In the picture, Gravet plays thee I mourr

They had tried in vain to and Jobs in New York's theatreland at

down for the auramer,

Their cabin was closely guarded and they were sent back in the liner.

In the course of an interview with a Tribune representative, Mr.

that Seott revealed

Mr. Walt Disney will be bringing out a new feature. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," a story based on one of the world's most famous fairy tales. It will be the first feature-long cartoon, and will be completed next year.

p.II.

Tides.-High at 09.31 and 21.41: Low at 03.16 and 15.46.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. Cinemas. (See Page 5). Mails. (See Page 161. Sports. (See Page 10. Moan.-VIII Moon. 18th. Day. 'Sunrise:--6.11a.m Sunset.-6.22

p.m.

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"Mickey Mouse is very popular and is known all over the world," Tides.-High at 08.43 and 21.10: sald Mr. Roy Scott. "Everywhere † Low at 02.34 and 15.15. people like him, from children to old folks. Mickey Mouse will be exactly nine years old this month." HOW THEY ARE MADE Explaining how. Walt Disney's productions are made, Mr. Scott said:

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"Mr. Walt Disney has school which serves as a testing ground of a good artist. Artists from all over the world are taught how to animate, for everyone can- not be good animator. If after the course an artist is able to animate is taken in the Studio. This is a very unusual school where you can learn and at the same time he paid. They meet and discuss art and see

how the various char- acterisations are done,

"Our stories are all laid out in series of sketches which ате

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pasted on a board, being first dis- cussed by group of artists before the pictures are made. Another thing of note is the perfect `ehar- acterisation of the cartoons. Sometimes artists are called upon to draw objects which they have no prévious knowledge and order to overcome this difficulty. live animals such as

In

YOU SAID A

MOUTHFUL

Never in the memory of the most ardent Joe E. Brown fan has there been such a riot of fun and laugh- ter packed into six reels of enter- tainment as in "You Said a Mouth- ful." at the Majestic to-day.

With an inborn timidity about amounts water that

almost to phoebla, Joe finds himself mistaken by the girl of his dreams-at least; he starts dreaming about her as soon as he meets her for the champion swimmer of Canada, Joe Holt, who is the favourite in the forthcoming swimming race from Catalina to the California main- land, a mere twenty-seven malles away.

Ginger Rogers is a piquant and charming leading lady.

An able cast furnishes first-rate support, including Walter Walker. Edwin Maxwell, Harry Gribbon, Oscar Apfel. Sheila Terry, Frank Hagney. Guinn Williams and WII- penguins, liam Burress. Lloyd Bacon direct. and racoons are introduced to ed the picture with masterly skill studying their gait and posture.

The finished picture gives a life-

like animation. Mr. Walt Disney Chinese Girls Marry"

insists that his characters should be perfect,"

Too Early

Continuing, Mr. Scott said that these animations were done by Chinese girls get married too cartoon drawings, "Girls do all early, thus depriving themselves of the inking and painting on the the opportunity to render active celluloids. Every action of a pie-service to society, declared Miss ture including the background has Ishiwara à Japanese Journalist, to be made on separate celluloids. who is studying the feminist move- All these celluloids pieces together ment in China. give you a picture."

"It takes anything from eight to 12 months to complete a cartoon, 750 feet long, and it costs any- $75,000 thing from $55,000 to (gold)."

Chinese girls, she said, generally became housewives soon after they' left school, and their contributions to society were, therefore, limited On the contrary, she said, Japan. ese girls usually completed their Mr. Scott concluded by saying middle schoof education before 19 that the controlling room' in 'Mr. years of age, and spent from three Walt Disney's studio has been to four years working, before equipped with the latest apparatus. | marrying.

"It is one of the finest in Holly. Vocational education for girls.. wood with over 600 employees, in- [She added, had not received so

all nationalities." cluding about 400 to 500 artiste of much attention in Chine, as it

deserved.

少

CORONATION BABY

Death Of Boy Born In Natal

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Jack HOLT Oll fix it!

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SPENCER TRACY MAN'S CASTLE"

LORETTA YOUNG IN

AN OLD FAVOURITE" FROM COLUMBIA

PROTEST AGAINST "CANNED MUSIC"

Ate Cheese And Garlic In Theatre

Two hundred musicians went to been decided to present the gift to the Palace Theatre, New York, the bereaved parents.

once' a first-class variety hall, but The birth took place at the now cinema, and sat eating Maritzburg Sanatorium where a lumberger cheese and garlic. radio set had been installed on They were protesting against Natal's Coronation hahy a boy Coronation Day for the benent of "canned music" and trying to force born in Maritzburg, almost at the the patients. At the moment the management to employ a re-l precise hour when the King was when the King was crowned and orchestra between the pictures. crowned in Westminster Abbey, the vast assembly in the Abbey But if they expected limberger died recently A

cried "God Save The King" the and garlic to drive out the patrons, The baby had ben awarded the baby came into the world, and the they had reckoned without Ginger allver Coronation souvenir due to fact was duly certifed by the Rogers and Fred Astaire. the baby born nearest the Corona-medical practitioner in Etten- These two stars, combined with tion hour of 1.31 p.m. It has now dance,

the efforts of the management,

who turned on the ventilating system, full blast, held the aud lenca, despite the atmosphere,

When the show was over the musicians stuck to their seats, and the management, in despair, agreed to let them remain so long.. As they kept quiet.

But the garlic-eaters must have been thirsty, for the drinking water' was cut off.

"I went to every shop in town' and couldn't get what I wanted,”

Fé complains a correspondent. probably wanted credit.

A famous, actor says he would like to spend six months just let- ting the rest of the world go by. Ee should try touring, in a second- hand car.

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