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"MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW'
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Kabul, Sept. 27. After having d'éappeared for four weeks, while on a flight from Ans! and Suchow; to Kabul, the
glarit German Lufthansa plane
"Rudolf von Thine", in charge of Alr Captain Untucht, and carrying the Director General of the Luft- hansa, Freiherr von Cablenz and the wireless mechanic Kirchhoff. arrived safely in Kabul, all those on zoard being well."
The plane, it was stated, had been compelled to undertake An emergency landing near Chotan in 6nklang. Here the plans was.con- fiscated and the inmates arrested by the Tunguse. They were not oven allowed to communicate by wireless with Kabul. Ultimately
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Theodora Goes Wild" QUEEN'S:-"
"Make Way For To-moITOW" ORIENTAL:- "
"Green Light”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
"Wings Over Honolulu",
"Rose Marle" MAJESTIO:-
"Are We Civilized?"
KING'S:-
Coming
"The Great O'Malley": QUEEN'S:—
"Easy Living"
ORIENTAL:-
"Last Train From Madrid" ALHAMBRA:-
STAK
"Easy Living"
"Our Relations"
MAJESTIC:-.
"Green Light"
THEODORA GOES WILD
"Theodora Goes Wild." a rol- Hcking Columbia production which serves
to introduce Irene Dunne to motion picture fans in her first comedy assignment, will be shown for the first time at the King's Theatre starting to-day.
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Supported by an exceptionally strong cast. Miss Dunne is. per: mitted to run laney through sprightly, tale of a 'small girl who wins, her big city man in a big city. Melvyn Douglas appears op- posite Miss Dunne In the leading male role, with Thomas Mitchell Thurston Hall, Rosalind Kelth, Spring Byington. Elizabeth Riedon and Margaret MeWade rounding cut the cast.
Irene Dunne in "Theodora Goes Wild" showing at the King's Thea- tre.
ARE WE CIVILIZED?
Barbara Read Bas a leading role in "Make Way for To-morrow", now showing at the Queen's Theatre.
MAKE WAY FOR TO-MORROW
Vina Delmar, author of the best- sellers, "Bad Girl". "The Marriage Racket" and, other best-sellers of modern youth and its problems, brings a powerful, provocative and. highly entertaining story of Amer- ican family life to the screen in "Make Way for To-morrow." the drama which is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Anniversaries and Holidays.- Lord Roberts born, 1832. Allies occupied Damascus. 1918. St. Jerome. Doctor of the Church,
Auctions-Leasehold Property, nt China Auction Rooms. 3 p.m. Cinerias. (See Page 5): - Cominercial,-Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd.. Four Per Cent. Debentures Interest for six months, payable.
Malls. (See Page 36),
Meetings, Shanghal Brownles living in Hong Kong at Sandi- lands Hut. 230 p.m.; monthly, of Hong Kong Philatelic Society. "S. C. M. Post" Board Room, 5.30 p.m.: St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship. 3 p.m.; Hong Kong Hockey Association Council. St. Andrew's Church Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous. Entries close for Hong Kong Telegraph's Amateur Photographic Competition, 5 p.m.; Art Exhibition, in Hop Yat Church, Bonham Road, 10a.m. to 7 pm.
Rehearsals "The Arcadians," t Cathedral Hall 8.45 p.m.
Soelni. Cheero Club Contract Bridge and Mah Jongg. 8 p.m.: Civil Service Whist Drive. 9.20 p.m.; St. Andrew's Club "Open Night," 9 pm.
Sports. (See Pare 10). Moon.-VIII Moon. 28th. Day.
Sunrise.-8.14 3.m. Sunset-6.13
p.m.
Tides. High at 05.30 and 19.45 Low at 12.48...
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1.
Cinemas. (See Page 5). Malls. (See' Paže 16). Sports. (See Page "10). Moon-VIII Moon, 27th. Day. Sunrise.-6.14 a.m. Sunset.-6.14
b.n."
Tides. High at 04.05 and 19,18 Low at 11.58 and 22.48.
50,000 MORE
"Make Way fox To-morrow" is SPINSTERS WILL
BE WANTED
The future is rosy for the girl prepared to wait six years before becoming a bride. In 1943 the marriage market will welcome her with open arms. There'll be such a shortage of spinsters then that she'll be able to pick and choose.
the story of revolt between the generations. Not only does it "pre- sent the ase of a girl in her 'teens, daughter of a modern bridge playing mother who hasn't the time to sympathize with and un- derstand her daughter, but it also turns a frank and searching light upon the relationship which exists between the generation represented by the mother and the generation represented by the mother's par- ents. In this it is an important motion picture with a real message despite its light-hearted humour.
Peering into the future, he told a galety and genuine "homespun" | British. Association meeting in qualities
ROYAL "FILM FAN"
Sir William Beveridge, famous economist, says so. He should know
Nottingham:
"Assuming that marriages take place at the average
age the "trough" for spinsters will arrive 1943, and that for "bachelors from 1943 onwards.
in
"The
I referred recently to the partia- Ey of the King and Queen for
bachelors of 1943 will, private showings of films at Bal- therefore. be conscious of a short- moral, Sandringham" and Bucking- age in the supply of spinster of the ham Palace, writes a Home corres-usual age at least 50,000 short
Once in a long while therepondent: comes to the screen a production
Undoubtedly the most ardent that, through its inherent dra-film fan" among crowned heads, matic power, timeliness of subject, however, is the King of Italy. He and unusual handling of mis also an illustration of the material, makes it significant. attraction exercised by the Bims over the most serious minded people."
Such a picture is "Are We Civil- ised?," the Edwin Carewe produc- tion presented by Raspin Produc- The King of Italy, in spite of tions, Inc., which is showing at being a very busy man, is a great the Majestic Theatre. Here is reader. particularly of histories. drama of to-day. of yesterday, of He is also one of the six leading all time, based on a theme that is authorities on numismatics, and as old as civilization itself the has produced volume after volume Inallenable right of Man to govern of annotated catalogues of nis his own actions, to express him- private collection, which is pro- self freely, in speech and in writ-bably the finest in the world.
ing.
That distinguished actor of stage and screen, William Farnum does a magnificent piece of work as Franklin, Sr., head of a world- news syndicate, the central char- acter in this dramatic epic. He la ably supported by Anita Louise and LeRoy Mason who supply the. love interest, and Frank McGlynn of "Abraham Lincoln fame as the Chief
the Censorship Bureau.
The story of "Are We Civilised?" is an original by Harold Sherman, who has turned out a script that deals humanly and grippingly with a big theme.
of
REHEARSING AT 79
On top of all this he likes to see every big new film as it comes out. At certain times of the year he averages one film a night at the Villa Savola, his house out- side Rome, which he normally uses in preference to his oficial fe- sidence, the Quirinal.
the chief part in this play in Londoni.
Mr. Maude, a small, bearded. man, now in his eightieth year, went to Russla ot the age
of sixteen, taught English in Moscow, Iemained. there twenty-three years. ARGUED FOR AN HOUR He became
"Spinsters will find themselves unsually in demand.”- me
Sir William added: "There will be a depression in all the trades affected by the making of new homes in the four or five years about 1945"
The English public school 18 primarily and essentially an insti- tution evolved out of the British character for turning barbarians into citizens.
It is the function of schools to teach boys and girls to avoid the tnconsiderateness and selfishness of the reckless motor driver, the litter flend, the building speculator and all who subordinate the Inter- ests of the puble to momentary personal convenience or pecuniary gains.
Sir Frank Fletcher said recently.
EDITH WHARTON
Death Of Well-Known Novelist
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that
Edith Wharton, American nove- list who satirised the "Four Hun-
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IRENE DUNNE
Theodora
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MELVYN DOUGLAS Thomas Mitchell
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ERROL FLYNN "GREEN LIGHT"
ANITA LOUISE IN
"...... A FIRST NATIONAL, PICTURE
AMERICAN MEN Growing Bigger Than Their "Ancestors
more
American men, on the average, an intimate friend dred" society into which she was, are definitely bigger and of Tolstoy and remembers vividly born, died
brawny than their ancestors, at her eighteenth their first meeting.
Mr. Jacob M. Franklin, pre century villa, the Pavilion Colom- Maude had just read "What be, a Saint Brice-Sous-Foret, near soclation of Clothing Designers, sident of the International As- The Shall We Do?" disagreed Parla Mr. Aylmer Maude, classic trans-with the author's conclusions and
revealed this at the Association's the airmen succeeded in regaining | lator of Tolstoy's works is having | had the temerity to tell him so.
The 75-year-old author of annual meeting at Rochester, New their freedom, and proceeded to his first practical experience of Tolstoy, instead of snubbing him than Frome" "The House of York
the English stage. He is," super- sat down and argued with him Mirth" and "The Age of Innocen- vising rehearsals of "The
Live for more than an hour while the ce." died of a heart attack which
followed six weeks Corpse" or "Reparation" which rest of the company were listen»
01 critical fllness. the Southend Repertory Companying to music. is producing.
Mr. Maude has' just completed : Her weakened condition pre- This is the first production of a ten years' work on a twenty-one, vented completion of a volume of Tolstoy play in England since-1919. volume-centenary edition of short stories on which she was when Mr. Henry Ainley played Tolstoy's works.
working.
Kabul.
The plane had carried out obser- vatton flights from Kabul to Bu chow, in order to establish whether the projected regular fight. from Berlin via Turkey and Afghanistan to China would be possible.--. Fran-ocean News Service
PRINCE BERNHARD IN PARIS
Paris, Sept. 27. Prince Berhard, consort of the Netherland's Heir Apparent, Prin cess Jullana, arrived here, incog- nito, this evening, and paid a visit to the Dutch Pavilion. In the evening the Committee of the World Exhibition gave a private. reception in the Prince's honour. Transocean News Service
He gave statistics to prove to size 36 would, at the average man American girls that the "big be-of Ave feet seven inches. men their grandmothers' praised" Mr. Franklin 'attributed the are more prevalent now than they growth to the fact that "boys of were 100 or even 50 years ago. to-day get a chance to develop To-day, for a man five feet eight their muscles in schools" and inches tall, the average (sult size | do not have to go to work at an la 38; a quarter of a century ago, I early age as to stunt their growth.
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