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QUEEN'S

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

3 SHOWS DAILY AT 2.30, 5.15 & 7.20 P.M.

A Gallant Lover

Turns Into a Fiend-

ish Monster Before

Your Very Eyes!

Adoo Zakon

James

Dr. JEKYLL AND

Mr. HYDF"

A Rouben Mamoulian Production:

FREDRIC

MERIAM

ADSE

MARCH-HOPKINS-HOBART

Bared upon the novel by Rabert Louis

Stevenson. A Paramount Pictura

TO-NIGHT AT 9.20 P.M.

THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY..

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"THE ARCADIANS”

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MYSTERIOUS! ALLURING } EXOTIC! GARY COOPER - MARLENE DIETRICH in “MORO C C O "

FÁKE MY TRAM OR HAPPÝ YAULEY BUR

ORIENTAL

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE MAURICE SINGER DIARY OF LOCAL

CINEMA -

Hong Kong

KING'§:~~

QUEEN'S

"Public Enemy's Wife"

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" ORIENTAL:—

"ARCH-ROGUE"

Part In Alleged.

Share Fraud

References to Maurice Singer. "the arch-rogue of this fraud." were made by Mr. Gerald Howard The Case of The Black Cat" prosecuting in a case of alleged

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"A Successful Calamity". STAR:

"Ladies In Love"

MAJESTIC:-

"Good Dame"

KING'S:--

Coming

"Melody For Two" QUEEN'S:-

"Morocco" ORIENTAL:- ̈

"Saratoga" ALHAMBRA:-

"100 Men And A Girl" STAR:-

"On The Avenue" MAJESTIC:~~

"The Great O'Malley"

PUBLIC. ENEMY'S

WIFE

share-pushing at the London Guildhall Police-court recently.

Before the court on remand were Christopher Lawrence Allingham, 37, of Stalnash-trescent, Staines, Middlesex. Henry Raymond Brown- low, 86, of St. George's-road, S.W.; and Ernest Osman Harborow. 57. of Hall Park-avenue, Westcln-on- Sea. They were charged with con- spiring together to cheat and defraud members of the public who might be induced to part with money and securities to B. M. Clarke and Co.. Copthall-buldings, London, EC.

Mr. Howard said that the de- fendants were charged together and with another man. Louis Crum, who was not before the court. B. M. Clarke and Co. was an old-established business, and In October. 1931, Harborow became sole proprietor. In 1935 he was in the greatest possible financial difficulties

PERCENTAGE OF TAKINGS At that time, said counsel, Har- borow came in contact with a man An entirely different arid un- named Clements and was introdu- usual type of G-Man picture is ced to Crum and the other defend- scheduled as the feature attrac-ants. Re, was to collaborate with tion at the King's Theatre begin-them in attempting to sell Ordinary ning to-day, under the title of shares in Universal Carburation "Publie Enemy's Wife," a Warner Lid, and was to get a percentage Bros. production in which Pat of the takings. O'Brien. Margaret. Lindsay, Robert Armstrong. Cesar Romero and Dick Foran have the leading roles. The picture is said to be cram- med with thrills, including the

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫ over-powering of guards

A MUST EXCITING DETECTIVE THRILL PICTURE } Perry Mason, ace crook catcher, solves his greatest and most baffing mystery of his entire career.

2

YOU GET A LAUGH WITH EVERY THRILY.

WHERE THERE'S A WILL..... THERE'S A WAY...TO KILL! THE CASE OF THE

DAYS

ONLY

Black

Cat

RICARDO

CORTEZ

TRAVIS

Reg-Graig Reynolds · Keriyla Mascu, M.-Gordon

-Michel ballem Berkaner- & Taxi Mathai Protara

TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

JEAN HARLOW'S LAST SCREEN PRODUCTION! A thrilling romance of a girl who lost her heart

to a King of Gamblers she has worn to bresk.

A RACING ROMANCE THAT SPARKLES WITH EXCITEMENT!

Gable Harlow

SARATOGA

wira Lionel BARRYMORE Frank MORGEN Water PIDGEON U MERKEL Directed by Jach Conway Produced by Bernard It. Hymam Associate Producer John Emerson

A Matro-Guklwyn Mayer Berura

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2:30

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STAR

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HANKONE

ROAD KOWLOON TEL

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A STAR-STUDDED ROMANTIC COMEDY !

JANET GAYNOR

LORETTA YOUNG

CONSTANCE BENNETT SIMONE SIMON

in

“LADIES IN LOVE ”

with

Tyrone Power. Don Ameché - Paul Lukas

TO.

A 20th Century Fox Picture

-

DICK POWELL MADELEINE CABROLL

MORROW in "ON THE AVENUE"

on

а

Allingham and Brownlow were installed in an office at Copthall- buildings, and from September to December. 1935, together with Crum, they conducted a campaign on the usual lines of share-pushers Up and down the country, by means of letters and telephone conver- sations they disposed of 13,000 shares.

The only asset Universal "Car- buration ever possessed. said Mr. Howard, was some rights in &

train, and the escape of a gangster killer; the attempted murder of the bridegroom of the divorced wife of the killer: the kidnapping of the bride; a gun battle. between G-Men and the criminal band in their hideouts; the seizing of a ship. chartered by the gangster invaporiser. which they plan to Bee the country, taking the young bride and captured secret service opera- tives with them.

DELIGHTFUL PICTURE

SENT TO IRELAND

Counsel sald that one of the directors was a horse dealer, when

volutionise the motor industry."

things got a little difficult this director and a secretary were sent to Ireland by Maurice Singer, ap- Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March parently to be out of the way. are co-starred again for the first

He quoted from one of the letters time since their memorable "Mer-sent to the public which said. that rily We Go to Hell," in "Good the company was "engaged in a new Dame," the B. P. Schulberg-Para-industry which will, without, re- mount picture, which is showing

It was stated that a patent car- to-day at the Majestic. Theatre.

The results are happy. A breezy, buretter which would revolutionise fresh and well sustained comedy- the motor industry was being drama stands ready for your stamp marketed and the British Govern- of approval. This shouldn't be ment had placed an order, which long in coming. for the news of would absorb the whole of the the arrival of these two" screen output for six months. There was favourites in a delightfully enter- not a word of truth in it. taining picture, should travel fast,

screen

The supporting cast aids materi- ally in making the picture like- able

fare. Jack LaRue stands out in another of his. realistic menace roles. Noel Fran- ces. Kathleen Burke, Bradley Page. Russell Hopton and " William Farnum also do their bits in grand

style.

The story is a lively comedy- romance of the love of a "good" dame for a "bad" boy: It is spiced with sparkling dialogue and amus- ing situations which evoke stant laughter.

NORMA'S HUSBAND

LEFT £893,000

4!

con-

PRIME MINISTER- NATURALIST

EVENTS

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. Anniversaries and Hoilday* Jane Austen born, 1775. Beethoven died, '1827."

Auctions.—Crown Linds, at Land Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 3.DL.; Household Furniture, at Lammert's H.K. Sales Room, 2.30 p.m..

Cinemas (See Page 5). Dances-Reel Class for Childrén, at Hong Kong Union Church Hall, 5.30 p.m.

Entertainments. - "The Arca- dians." at Queen's Theatre, B.20 p.m.

Luctures."Handwork on Prints" by Mr. K. T. Moy, at S. & S. Home, 8 p.m.; Theosophical Society, 6 pm. "Understanding the Healer," by Dr. Arthur Fung.

Malls,(See Page 167.

Meetings-Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, 3 p.; St. Andrew's Club Committee," 8.30 p.m.; St. John's' Cathedral Women's Guild, 3 p.m.

Miscellaneous. Claims Against the Estate of William Taylor due; Christ

Ladies's Church

Gulla Sewing Party at 3 Duke Street, 10 a.m.; Demonstration of Educa- tional films for Members of Educa- tional "Department and of the Board of Education, at the Filmo Depot. Marina House Queen's Road Central, 10a.m.; Lady Northcote distributes Prizes at Bellics Public School, 10.45 8.0.

Moon-XI Moon, 14th. Day." Rehearsals. - YM.C.A. Panto-

mime, 6 pm.

Social St. Andrew's Club "Open Night," 9 Signals Dinner at Volunteer Head- p.m.; Machine Gun

quarters. 7.30 p.m.

Sports-(See Page 10). Sunrise.-8.56 a.m. Sunset---5.42

p.m.

Tides. High at 08.38 and 19.40. Low at 02.20 and 13.05.

FRIDAY, DEC. 17 Cinemas. (See Pago 5). Mails. (See Page 16), Moon-XI Moon, 15th. Day. Sports-(See Page 103. Sunrise.-6.55 am. Sunset.-5.41

p.m.

Tides. High at 07.29 and 18.53; Low at 01.32 and 12.18.

CRIPPLES HELP SAVE BOY

Relays To Pump Air Into "Iron Lung"

Crippled boys of the Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital, Alton, Hamp- shire. helped to save the life of nine-year-old Eric Marchant, or Andover, when the mechanism for operating an "iron lung,” in which he had been placed, broke down.

They took it in turn with doctors, porters and the boy's father to work the pump and now, in the words of Sir Henry Gauvain, medi- cal superintendent of the hospital. the boy "is improving enormously." Mr. W. E. C. Marchant, the boy's Up to the age of 18 Mr. Cham-father, in an interview said: "Had berlain used to leave Highbury, his it not been for the respirator I do father's house near Birmingham. not think my boy would have been at 5.30 every morning in 'order to

alive to-day." study birds and track down un-

A short time ago the boy, nor known calls to the bird in question.mally a healthy lad, was stricken His favourite song-bird is the by Infantile paralysis. He was blackcap, which he strongly pre- taken to Alton. At first only his fers to his second choice, the gar- leg and arm muscles were paralys "den warbler.

ed, but the disease spread to his respiratory muscles and he could hardly breathe.

Mr. Chamberlain is, or was, even keener on butterflies and moths than on birds,

BUTTERFLIES TOO

SEARCH IN LONDON Four doctors and nurses kept The Prime Minister's collection him alive by administering oxygen, of butterfiles began-like those of while search was made in London so many of us--at his preparatory for a "drinker"-a cylindrical tròn school. Unlike those of so many of lung which forces the patient in it The estate of Mr. Irving Thai- us, it continued until his marriage.to breathe. By the time one was berz, who died last year and who Those who have youthful and found and taken to Alton Eric left the bulk of his fortune to his exciting memories of hot summer had been unconscious for some wife, Miss Norma Shearer, has been nights with net and bull's eye hours. His heart was beating very proved at £803,802 gross and lantern will be interested to know faintly. £448,800 net. This is half of what that Mr. Chamberlain, too, used He was placed in the "ron film circles anticipated.

to have may a "angaring' ex-lung" but the machine could not pedition.

be started because the voltage was unsuitable.

"Sugaring" consists of painting patches of the bark of trees with a mixture of rum and sugar.

BISHOP E. D. SHAW

KING'S

PUBLIC

ASHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

Warner Bros:

"Shock- Crammed Sequel to "Public Enemy

ENEMY'S

WIFE

ALSO LATEST COMEDY

"SLIDE, NELLIE SLIDE"

with

PAT O'BRIEN

MARGARET

LINDSAY

ROBT. ARMSTRONG

CESAR ROMERO DICK FORAN RICHARD PURCELL

NEXT CHANGE. "MELODY FOR TWO"

Warner Bros.

with JAMES MELTON-PATRICIA ELLIS

ALHAMBRA

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TO AY & TO-MORROW

SEE HOW ONE FAMILY LAUGHED OFF THE DEPRESSION HE 'FAKED FALLURE & FOUND REAL SUCCESS !

THE GREATEST OF ALL ARLISS HITS

SATURDAY New Univerzal

Picture

4 SHOWS DAILY 230 520

| 730 -9 30

ARLISS

"A SUCCESSFUL CALAMITY"

with

MARY ASTOR KVALYN KNAPP

DEANNA DURBIN

IN

100 MEN & A GIRL"

Leopold Stokowski & Hia Symphony Orchestre

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD

KOWLOON TELJ7222,

(MATINEES. 20-30 EVENINGS, 2D 30-50x-70)

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY! RETURN OF AN OLD FAVOURITE"

SYLVIA SIDNEY FREDRIC MARCH GOOD DAME

a B. P. Schulberg production

#

A Paramount Picture

TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY A DYNAMITE-PACKED GANGSTER DRAMA !

"THE GREAT O'MALLEY with Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart

A WARNER BROS. PICTURE

"LITTLE SAVAGE": AGED FOUR

Exploits Told In Court

"If you saw him on the pictures you would not believe it, but here he is little savage.","

FIRE IN THE PANTHEON

Fire broke out recently in the Pantheon, the burial place of France's famous sons. The names were got under control in 45 min- utes.

The fire is believed to have begun,

trans- in the room containing former used for the lighting of the dome, An Inquiry has been open-

There are three trust funds on behalf of Miss Norma Shearer änd

"I secured, relays of people to her children, Irving and Kathrine (who receive £120,000 each),

work the pump by hand,” said Bir

This was the description given Henry. Mr. halberg left £73,200 to his

"We continued pumping by Mr. J. T Coggins, soliciter for parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Thai-

by hand for nine hours. By that

the N.S.P.C.C., in the children's berg, his sister, uncles and aunts.

time the engineers here had the court at Farnham, Surrey, lofa Irving Thalberg rose in a few

motor working properly and the handsome legitimate boy ageded into the cause of the fire, years from being a £3 a week

machine functioned for six hours. four years and three months, who typist to the most highly-paid and

The death has occurred at Mar-

Then it stopped again, and we had was described as out of control, successful producer in Hollywood low Bucks, of the Right Rev. Ed-

to go back to the hand-pumping

Some of the things be was stated REPORTER WHO MADE | reported Gladstone, Joseph Cham-He died suddenly at the height ward Domett Shaw at the age of

for nearly 16 hours.

to have done were: berlain and many other famous of his fame, and since then Miss. 77. He became the first Buffragan motor going again and it has been Smashed crockery and turned on

"Then the engineers got the Broken into three houses. LORDS ADJOURN

statesmen of the past.

Shearer has been living in retire- Bishop of Buckingham in 1914, all right since, One of his "stories was of one ment.

| the gas. and was from 1921 until his re- "The firm which helped us in Told his grandparents with occasion when he, as he claimed,

tirement. last year ment was carried at a very early Bishop and Archdeacon of Oxford now lent us a new machine; Eric them with an extraordinary flow Assistant-our search for an iron lung' has whom he Uved what he thought of

hour.

and Canon of Christ Church. aloud, "I think I am the only journalist He married in

is in it now. We got him out for of language. who has ever accomplished that, daughter of Alfred Gilbey, of Woo-his head is outside the fung. He from the ground when the proba→ Agnes, increasing periods dally now." Only Dived out of a window five feet and, needless to say, I was the burn, Bucks, and leaves one son is going on well, but will need the tion officer went to see him, and. hero or the Press Gallery that and six daughters, Three sons were machine another six weeks, per- evening." he said afterwards.

Went down a cesspool-but came killed during the war.

haps longer."

up again.

Mr. W. J. Murphy Dead

caused the adjournment of the MI. William Joseph--Tat"- House of Lords, During the de- Murphy, for 50 years a well-bate he feelingly said known Fleet-street Journalist, died "Adjourn." The Lord Chancellor, at his home in New Park Court; thinking that the request had Brixton-hill, B.W., aged 17.

come from a member of the House, As a Parliamentary journailst he put the question, and the adjourn

1891

The first chldren to be bom in the new Fulham Maternity Home, which has just been opened, were twin boys born to Mrs. Eva Bar- ratt, 27, of Fulham-road, 8.W.

He added that the mother was only just over 15 when the boy. was born.

The Bench decided to place the boy in the custody of the local authority pending arrangements for his future.

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