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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE WEEK-END RADIO | DIARY OF LOCAL

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:—

"The Good Earth"

QUEEN'S:--

"Wake Up And Lava"

ORIENTAL:-

"The Case Of The Velvet

Claws"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:—

Vindjammer"

STAR:

"Scarlet Pimpernel" MAJESTIC:-

"The King and The Chorus

Girl"

KING'S:-

Sunday

"The Good Earth" QUEEN'S:-

"Wake Up And Live" ORIENTAL:---

"East Living” ALHAMBRA:--

STAR!

"Windjammer

"Corppado"

MAJESTIC:--

"Personal Property"

WAKE UP AND LIVE

5

A riotous imbroglio involving Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie is the background of "Wake Up and Live," which tells the story of

PROGRAMMES

¡Continued from Page 4)

PARISTM

Call-fatters of the Station:- Wavelength; 19.68 metres T P. A ̈2. Wavelength: 25.24 metres TFA 3. Wavelength: 25.60 metres TPA 4. Wavelength: 25.24 n-11.885 Ko.

7 a.m. Radio-Journal of France (French Newa).-; 7,20 am. Gramo-. phone Records 7.30 am. Leading Press Articles. 7.45 am. Gramo- "phone Records. 8.15 am. Taik on French Events. 8.30 a.m. Gramo- a.m. News in phone Records. 9 French. 9.30 4.m. News in English. 9.40 a.m. News in Italian, 0.50 a.in

Records. Gramophone

10 B,.

Close down. Wavelength: 19.68 -15.243 Ke.

EVENTS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, Anniversaries and ·Holidays— Thom13 Chatterton born, 1752. Wm. Blackwood born, 1778. Cinema),—(See Page 5)...... Dances.-Hotel Cecil Dance, 830 p.m. R.A.M.C. Association Dance. Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Mails (See Page 18). Miscellaneous-Claims

against the Estate of Walter William Houte due.

Cricket

Moon.-X Moon, 18th. Day.

Social-Civil Service Club What Drive 9.30 p.m.

Sports—(8co Paro · 18). Sunrise.-6.39 s.. Sunset,-5.38

p..

Tides. High at 11.23 and 22.09; Low at 04.43 and 15.35.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21.

Cinemas (Seë Page 5). Malls. (See Pago 16).

Moon-X Moon 19th. Day.

Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.38 a.m.

p.m.

Sunse£-5,39

Tides.-High at 10.26. and. 2124:

THE GOOD EARTH

11. a.m. Gramophone Records. 11.45 4.m. Talk on French Events (In Jugo-Slav) by Mr. Dragul-Nicolitch. 12 noon. News in English. 12.13 p.m. Concert Relayed from Montpellier. 12.45 p.m. Gramo- phone Records. 1 pm. Concerty Low at 03.56 and 14.58. . Relayed from Toulouse, 1.30 p.m. News In French. Colonial Market Prices. 2 p.m. Message from Paris by Mr. F. Porche, 2.10 p.m. Judical Talk by M. Henri Delmont. 2.20 2.30 p.m. Gramophone Records. p.m. Concert with the Luclen Goldy Orchestra: Mrs. Thinelle Anys (Vccalist). 4 p.m. Close down. Wavelength: 25.24 m-11:885 Ke.

5.15 p.m. News in French, Market Prices. Rates of Exchange. 5.45 p.m. News in Arable. 6. pin. Concert Relayed from Limoges, 6.30

a small-time vaudeville performer. p.m. Concert Relayed from Nice.

7.00

The most distinguished motion picture to reach the screen since the inception of talkies is at the King's Theatre to-day. in

the

· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer photoplay version of Pearl S. Buck's widely- read novel, "The Good Earth.” Four years in the making. Its panoramic scenes necessitated the transformation of a California mountainside into a Chinese land-

gardens and villages.. "The Good Earth" is not only Gn artistic achievement but 18 one of the most stirring, most vibrating and gripping stories ever to be unfold- ed on the screen in the history of picture-mäking.

Jack Haley, who mus his big | 6.50 p.m. Colonial Talk by Mr.scape with acres of rice fields. radio opportunity when. at an au-P. Tetan.

p.m. Relay of dition, he gets "mike fright" arid Radio-Journal of France (French faints away. Grace Bradley, his News). 7.30 p.m. News in French, partner, deserts him for Walter Rates of Exchange. 8.10 p.m. News Catlett, a booking agent who gets in English. 8.20 p.th. News In her a night-club job.

Italian. 8.30 D.11. Relay. 10.30 Haley's sister. Patsy Kelly, is

pm colonial Market Prices. 10.45 Walter Winchell's "Girl Friday."am News in Portuguese 11. p.m. and through hr. e gets a job as a uniformed ide at Radlo Centre. There he meets and pesters Ben Bernie, selling him an occasional, "gag." and there also he meets the "Wake Up and Live" of radio. Alice Faye,' who sets out to help him overcome his mike fright.

"Wake Up and Live" opens the Queen's Theatre to-day,

at

THE ARCADIANS

Judging by the progress being made at rehearsals the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society will further enhance their reputation when "The Arcadians" comes to be pre- sented at the Queen's Theatre

during the week ending December

18.

The production is one of the most ambitious attempted. In the Colony for a number of years and entails a lot of hard work, not only for the actual performers but for a host of other helpers." On secount of the difficulty and expense of transportation the scenery is, 23 usual, being built locally; this has been designed by. Mr. T. V. Harman and its construction. has been in hand for several weeks. Preparing of costumes has also been, in pro- greas for a similar period and the task of providing and" training a sultable horse to play the part of "The Deuce" has kindly been undertaken by Mr. R. HL Charles proprietor of The Hong Kong Rid- ing School.

His Excellency the Governor who recently honoured the Society by becoming its Patron has graciously consented to be present, with Lady Northcote, at the performance on Friday, December 17.

WINDJAMMER

A smashing adventure-romance of the sea, replete with thrills, is enacted in. "Windjammer," George O'Brien's new RKO Radio picture. O'Brien, who in each new pic- ture reveals greater range as ад outdoor star, here abandons, the

realm of western pictures,,, and in his role of Bruce Lane, of the State's Attorney office, hag a part that offers him an opportunity for .action, in the open spaces, this

time on the wide Pacific.

O'Brien is called upon to serve a subpoena to a millionaire yachts- man who is engrossed in winning 31 California-to-Honolulu yacht "race; The thrilling sight of a

fleet of yachts leaving the harbour. at the beginning of the race is an

Europe, atarred in 27 big produc-episode in the film. tions there, he was unwilling to go until conditions were right.

Once O'Brien serves the sub-

Close Down.

Wavelength: 25.60 m.-11.720 Ke

11.15 p.m. Concert Relayed from Radio-Paris. 12.15 a.m. News in French. Market Prices. Rates of

a.m. Exchange. 12.40

News in Spanish, 12.50 a.m. News in

No Uttle of this is due the portrayals of its two stars Paul Munt, and Lulse Rainer in the roles of the poor respective Chinese farmer, Wang, and his obedient slave-girl wife, O-Lan,

Portuguese. 1. 'a.m. Gramophone day's play of the cricket match, Records. 1.15 am.. Close Down. New Zealand v. New South Wales. 3. a.m. Gramophone Records. 4. 5.30 p.m. Clase. 6.30 p.m. Chimes. a.m. News in French, Market Prices, A Summary of To-day's Markets. Rates of Exchange. 4.30 a.m. News 6.45 p.m. Sporting. News and Notes.. in English. 4.45 am Gramophone 7.10 p.m. New Zealand Mall Bag. Records. 5.45 am. News in Ger-7.20 p.m. National News Bulletin. man. 6 a.m. Close Down.

AUSTRALIA

3LR.-Wave Length, 31.34 metres;

**

Power, 1 Kilowatt; Frequency, 9.58 mégacycles. 12.45 p.m. Music. 1. p.m. Time Signal Victorian News Bulletin

7.30 p.m. 'Queensland and North Australian News Bulletin. 7.36 p.m. Sporting Highlights of the Week 8 p.m. Rolls Revue. 9 p.m.. The National Military Band-Con- ductor: Stephen Yorke. 9.30 p.m. Dramatised Version of a story bý Henry Lawson. 10 p.m. The Buda- pest String Quartet. 10.30 p.m. 10.50 Australasian News Service.

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PEARL

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A SCINTILLATING COMEDY OF COMPLICATION: IN LAW AND LOVE!

There are many strange con- tracts in Hollywood, but that of Fernand Gravet's probably is the strangest.

But not a single unpleasant in- turn back, but continues to Hono- The famous Continental star, cident marked the making of "The lulu with Orlen an unwilling whose Drst American nim, "The King and the Chorus Girl" in passenger. The presence on the King and the Chorus Girl," to which Gravet plays the role of a yacht of the millionaire's daugh- showing at the Majestic Theatre spendthrift ex-monarch who falls ter, charmingly played by Con- signed the novel agreement with in love with an American chorus stance Worth, gives O'Brien added Mervyn LeRoy, Warner Bros. pro-girl played by Joan Blondell,interest in the surprise, trip.. ducer, in Paris last summer. Mervyn LeRoy both directed and "Windjammer" operis at the Al-

Gravet had long declined offers produced the picture

hambra Theatre to-day. from Hollywood. Famous. in

1-

JEAN HABLOW, HOBERT TAYLOR

in "PERSONAL PROPERTY-

A METEO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, PICTURE

ONLY

HOWARD OBERON

"The SCARLET PIMPERNEL

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Jack Haley Betty Burgess Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra

Mack Gordon (right) and Harry Bevel, Hollywood's ace song- writing team, turned out nine musical smasholas for “Wake Up And Live," the Twentieth Century-Fox hit which features Walter Winchell, Alice Faye and Ben Bernie, now playing af the Queen's Theatre.

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