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Andrea Leads - Samual $, Hinds

Lucille Ball

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Directed by GREGORY LA, CNA, Produced by PANDRO S.BERMAN.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1938-

TO-DAY AT THE EDMUND GWENN DIARY OF LOCAL

CINEMA

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31.

KING'Say

Brief Biography

Edmund Gwenn, who is seen as the Oxford, Dean in Metro- The Prince and The Pauper" Goldwyn-Mayer's A Yank at Ox- ford, with Robert Taylor, Maureen QUEEN'S:

O'Sullivan and Lionel Barrymore. was born in London, September 20, and for more than thirty years has been a celebrated figure of the London stage.

"Stage Door" ORIENTALE

"On Again-01 Again"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA—

"Fit For A King" STAR:

"Anthony Advcrse”

·MAJESTIC)--

"God's Country and The

Woman"

KING'S:-

Sunday

The Prince and. The

Pauper

QUEEN'S:

"Stage Door"

ORIENTAL:--

New Faces of 1937" ALHAMBRA

"Pit For A King" STAR:-

"On Again-of Again" MAJESTIC:-

"God's Country and The

Woman"

MARK TWAIN 'STORY NOW FILMED,

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The Prince and The Pauper," a First National Production and first talking" version of Mark Twain's immortal adventure-romance, being presented on the screen of the King's Theatre.

is

The well-known story is that of two bables born in London ut the samé moment in the 16th century one, of the young Prince Edward, who first sees fe in the palace; the other Tom Canty, who, opens is eyes la the slums, the son of a thief and villain. Their ves be- come" tangled because they look exactly alike,

The picture was directed by William Keighley, whose most re- cent triumphs have been "God's Country and "the" Woman" and "The Green Pastures." The screen play was by Catherine Chisholm Cushing and Laird Doyle.

JOE E. BROWN'S

NEW FILM

Educated at St. Clave's and King's College, London, he made his first stage appearance at the Public Hall, Tottenham, April 15. 1895. In Rogues and Vagabonds. He enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of the World War. and rase to the rank of captain. Gwenn's film career began in 1920 with The Skin Game, and in 1931 he made his talkie debut In George Bernard Shaw's How He Lied to Her Husband,

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There followed such films Money for Nothing. Hindle Wakes, Condemned to Death. Frail Women. The Skin Game, The Good Companions, in which, he played the celebrated character of Jess: Odkroyd, the Yorkshire cernenter I Was a Spy, Tell Me Tonight in which he won widespread American recognition: Channel Crossing and Felday the Thirteenth.

In 1933 he scored again on the London stage in J.B. Priestley's Laburnum Grove, taking the play to New York early in 1935. Thence he went to Hollywood te report to M-G-M for The Bishop Misbehaves, in which he made his first acqua-. intance with Maureen O'Sullivan, with whom he appears in A Yank at Oxford.

EVENTS

SATURDAY, JAN. 8 Anniversaries and Holiday St. Severinus, Abbot

Cinemas--(See Page 59, Dances-Royal". Engineers Old Comrades Association New Year Dance at Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.; Diocesan Old Girls' Assocta- tion Annual Carnival Dance, at "Diocesan Girls Bchool, 9: p.m.

Balls-(See Page 161. Miscellaneous-Annual Agricul tural Show of New Territories Agricultural Association, and Opening of Association's New Bullding by HE the Governor, it Fanling. 2.30 p.m.

Moon-X Moon, 7th. DAY. Social. Craigengower Cricket Club fortnightly Whist Drive and Tombola, 9.15 pan

Sports(See Fars 10). Sunrise.-7.06 am. Sunset.-5.55

D.m.

Tides. High at 00:18, and 13.57; Tow at 07.29 and 19.10.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 9. Cinemas. (See Page 53. Malls (See Page 16). Moon,--XII Moon, 8th."Day Sports (Seo-Page-10)— Sunrise.-7.05 a.m. Sunset.-5.54

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p.m.

Tides. High at 13.20. Low at 06.50 and 18.06.

PANAY DISASTER DESCRIBED

Cameraman Takes Pictures"

Throughout

The

coolness, effelency and courage of the officers of the US.S.. Java Head, First Division. Sylvia Panay, victims of Japanese bombs Scarlett. Anthony Adverse, the aim in the Yangtze River early in De- version of Laburnum Grove, Mad cember, were highly praised by. Holiday and Parnell then came in Eric Mayell, internationally-known rapid succession, South Riding.newsreel cameraman, in an inter- directed and produced by Victorview following his Saville. was Gwenn's most recent Shanghai. film prior to A Yank at Oxford.

WHILE A NATION MOURNED

C

“Little Tokyo Goes Wild

return

to

"I was seated on the upperdeck of the Panay," the veteran camê- faman stated, "when suddenly' I Saw over the port bow two columns of water shoot up into the air. It was accompanied by a ter- rifte

explosion. Just as all the sailors aboard jumped to their stations, I made a dash for my camera. Having been a camera- ran for 20 years, reaching for a camera when anything occurs, has become an instinct with me."

While a shocked world waited anxiously for further information of the regarding the death toll 1-fated USB. Panay, bombed and sunk by Japanese planes in the Yangtze River, rtotlous scenes of

noted.in revelry were

"Little Tokyo." or the Hongkew district of Shanghai, when the Japanese com- munity there celebrated the fall of Nanking. "Even as extra newspaper eded into a doorway. tions were sold as fast as they of the streets were issued on Shanghai, champagne, wine and beer flowed freely in "Little Tokyo," and the Japanese residents went wild with joy.

"With my camera safely in my hands. I then emerged on deck where I saw two men manning a machine-gun, and took 靄 few feet of film showing them in ac- tion. While I was, thus engaged; a loud zoom was suddenly heard overhead and I immediately duck-

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TAKE TO LIFEBOATS "The first bomb 'that struck" the Panay, rocked the whole ship, and our first reaction to it was that war had been declared between the United States and Japan. There Commencing at apon, the cele-

was no other way to explain such bration lasted through the after-

an unprecedented attack on an in- noon and well into the evening.nocent American "gunboat." A "victory" march was staged, and thousands of Japanese took part in it, singing their national hymn Kimigayo," and shouting "Banza!!", their spirits quite un- dampened by the dastardly crime committed by, their air force, and land batteries,

The "new Joe, E. Brown comedy, "Fit For A King." which opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-day, pre- sents the wide-mouthed comedian in one of his funniest pictures,..

Joe is cast as a newspaper man, When a story breaks about at tempia on the life of a visiting nobleman, Joe's editor assigns him to stick with the intended victim in the secret hope that the assassin may make a mistake. The trial leads to an ocean liner and Joe- stows away, to find later that rival news service has, assigned Paul Kelly to cover the same story. By the time the boat docks in France Kelly has taught Joe a few tricks about news covering and, incidentally, had him confined to the brig for the greater part of the trip. When the two learn in.

When the celebration was, at it's Paris that the object of the noble peak, the Japanese authorities man's visit was to bring back a took the opportunity to collect princess. Kelly again, scoops Joe funds for the building of more despite the fact that Joe had spent acroplanes!" the previous evening making love to the princess.

"STAGE DOOR”

Based on the highly successful play by Edna Berber and, George S. Kaufman, "Stage Door," the long-awaited. BKO, Radio picture tame which teams for the first Katherine Hepburn and Gloger Rogers, opens at the Queen's Teatre to-day: - .

POLICE CRITİCIZED

Lukewarm And Insincere Attitude

Mr. Mayell then said, that he came out from the doorway where he had taken refuge to and the sailors lowering a life boat. First

one boat then another was sent

out until practically everyone on board was taken ashore. Some chose to swim.

Continuing he said: "After the party had got ashore we heard one of the most blood-curdling noisės coming from the river. It sounded Ilke the screaming of Chinese be- ing bombed to death. We decided then that the best thing to do was to get further inland where we would probably be comparatively safe from another attack. Mr. J Hall Paxton, of the American Em- bassy, who was wounded in the leg, elected to go ahead since he spoke duent Chinese and could easily make all the necessary ar rangements for our progress.

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WILLIAM POWELL THE GREAT ZIEGFELD**

MYRNA LOY in

The Police of the International Settlement in Shanghai have been sharply criticized by the "Shanghai United "News," only Japanese lan- "One of the immediate obstacles The two glamorous stars add guage newspaper published-in that we had to surmount was the ob

for the new laurels to noteworthy careers city, for the manner in which taining of stretchers

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER SUPER-PRODUCTION

• in “ON AGAIN-OFF AGAIN” by their superb performances in they handled the bomb throwing wounded, some of whom were this remarkably compelling drama, incident in Nanking: Road, when quite unable to walk. We solved

Japanese troops staged a "victory" the problem by getting hold of reach a telephone, and get into half-starved, we, ate those fand- and share top honours

some blankets and making impro- Adolphe Menjou who, in the role parade through the Bettlement,

"The most tragic part of the of a Broadway producer, retails Their attitude was both "Juke-vised, stretchers from them. They touch with Anking. An American wiches with great relish, bis outstanding performance. in

warn" and "insincere," and the sufficed until we reached a small missionary relayed his message to

entire affair was the death of Mr. H.M.B. Beo, "God's Country and the Woman",

London, Jan. 7. Moming, Glory,”"* In which he wounding of Japanese soldiers is village-farther along the river

"Our plans at the time were Bandro Bandri, Italian journalist."; Warner Bros.' brilliant plcturiza-, Ben Foord, the South African played similar part. Otherdue largely to that attitude, the bank, and here, made more subs-

quite indefinite. We wanted to Mr. Mayell said. "I was loading reach safety more than anything my camera when Bandri stagger-. Won of the James Oliver Curwood boxer und former holder of the players who win distinct recogni-paper claims, and adds that the tantial ones out of Chinese beds. novel of the same nano-dealing British heavyweight title, left heretion are Gall Patrick, Constance incident shows that the local We then continued our trek inland. with a feud between lumber com- today for Hamburg where he will Colller, Andres Leeds, Bamuel E police are incapable of checking The wounded who could walk did else, and most of us had hopes of ed out of the C.P.O. wardroom, a sentirpents in so, while the sailors who had lost eventually getting to Hinkow, In-Large gaping wound in his abdo- pantes in the deep forests of the go into training for his forth Hinds, Lucille Ball, and a core of anti-Japanese

their shoes when swimming ashore, stead, we commandeered a couple men, crying, T'm hit, I'm dying." Great North-West-opens to-day at coming bout with Max Schmelling youngsters many of whom

are Shanghai. the Majestie, Theatro, with George the leading German heavyweight. [newcomers to the screen,

The newspaper also makes light bound their feet in regs to keep of junks and travelled by them There, was nothing any of us could

as far as Hanzhan. Here, we were da to save him.” Brent and Beverly Roberts in the hou, January 13.-

The gripping story is laid prin- of the fact that, a Chinese con-them, from becoming bruised. For- leading rolex

cipally in a theatrical boarding stable immediately shot the man tunately there was no rain and the informed by telephone that RMB. In concludion, Mr. Mayell paid house in New York and deals with guilty of the crime, and calls the walk wasn't as bad as it might Bee was waiting for us at Horien tribute to the bravery of Lieut. G. so we went back the same way we F. "Anders, executive officer of the the topsy-turvy careers of a group act the only, step" taken by the have been.

Pasay, who despite the fact that police to curb anti-Japanese ·ter- "We reached a spot near Hosten had come. such outstanding, favourites as bar- of stage-struck young ladies who

A TRAGEDY

he was wounded and had practica- ton MacLane, Robert Barrat, Allen have migrated from all sections rorism. It further tries to justify when night fell and here went to

reaching Hoslen once ally lost his volée, remained at his Hale, El Brendel, Billy Bevan and of the country. A vivid cross-the parade by drawing attention sleep on the ground. The next

more, we found the British waiting past until he was so exhausted Joseph King." Hundreds of real section of life is reflected in the to the fact that British forces day we resumed our walk, and it umberjacks appear in the exciting turbulent strings of these amb marched along the same route in was on this day that Mr. Paxton for us with sack full of sand- from pain and loss of bipod that

were all about he was unable to carry" "on: managed to secure a mule, also wiches. Since we

The thrillingly dramatic romance

of the story is heightened by the fact that the scenes -- almost all of which are in the open were photographed wholly natural colours,...

Brent and Miss Robert have an excellent supporting cast including

Transocean Newa Serwer

scenes.

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1927,

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