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SHONG KONG

DORIS

WESTON

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

KOWLOON

AT 230-515-7·20-930 RM. AT 8:30-5:20·7·20 & 9:30 PM.

FINAL SHAWINGS TO-DAY .

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THE

SINGING MARINE

Косм

HERBERT

LEE DIXON

DICK Po

Jane Darwol-Allon Jenkins · Larry Adler Doctor Rockwall Bread by Hay Earlefl, + Moabod› Humbers Créated and breasted by Handy Buchele Main and Lyrics by Barvy Marron and 36 Duble à A Muroor Seat. Mbali

-TO-NIGHT at 9.30 P.M.

At the QUEEN'S & AL IAMBRA "THE LAST STAND". Presented By The Entire Group Of South China Moviedons ALL THE STARS! AL THE DIRECTORS

Released Through The Chinese Relief Fund Association. USUAL CINEMA PRICES! ALL PROCEEDS FOR RELIEF!

ETC., Erc.

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TO-MORROW

CAROLE LOMBARD FRED MacMURRAY

A Paramount

Picture,

in TRUE CONFESSION "

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UNLIKE ANY PICTURE HOLLYWOOD EVER MADE!

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CIMADAME MAY WHITTY · ALAN MARSHAL MERLE TOTTENHAM KATHLEEN HARRISON

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6

MERRY WIDO

BY

REQUEST with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald.

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FILM PRODUCER GETS DECREE

Mr. Norman Lee Cites An Army Captain.

A decree nisi was granted by Mr. Justice, Hodson, in the Divorce Court, to Mr. Norman Lee, the producer, of Thrift Croft, Stan-. borough, Herts, because of the adultery of his wife, Mrs. Lily Lee, with a Captain Macpherson, who was cited as co-respondent.

ways denied adultery," the judge continued.

✡ IN HIS FAVO

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1938.

TO-DAY AT THE K.C. AND WITNESS DIARY OF LOCAL

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S

"Elephant Boy"

QUEEN'S:-

"The Singing Marine"

ORIENTAL:-

"Night Must Fall"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"The Singing Marine”

STAR:

"Mountain Music"

MAJESTIC:-

"History Is Made At Night"

KING'S:

Coming

"Cafe Metropole” QUEEN'S

"True Confession" ORIENTAL:-

The Merry Widow" ALHAMBRA :-----

"True Confession" STAR:-

"Men In Exile": MAJESTİC:—

"Love From A Stranger

ELEPHANT BOY

of

at

the the

SING BEFORE JUDGE

In Copyright Action

By A Yodeller

EVENTS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18.

· Anniversaries and Holidays. St. Peter's Chair at Rome,

Cinemas-(Sec Column 3 of this

paga).

"I Get Up And Compose Inish, and by Mons. Montargis in

My Pyjamas"

Mr. Justice du, Partq was enter- tained in the King's Beach Dirl- sion to singing by a K.C. and a witness,

The witness, a. theatre musical director, gave the K.C. a **pass" for his effort

The singing took place during the hearing of an action brought by a yodeller who told Mr. Justice du Pared that, when he composed his songs, he sometimes had an inspiration at 3 of 4 ain.

In such case, he added. he would get up. and, in his pyjamas. would write down what was in his mind.-.

Then he would play a "kind of melody to it the words" on A mouth organ. and. when he thought it was correct, he would sing it to a musician who would take it down line by line.

band, and claimed damages.

Except for one occasion, in 1933, Macari and van Lewin dented any infringement. and they also denied that the works were copy- right.

"YODELLING SOLOMON" The yodeller, George van Dusen, of Tudor-road. Edmonton; alleged that his copyright in certain songs The elephants' dance, a sight no had been infringed by Mr. "A. man has ever seen before, is aj Macari, conductor of "Macari and thrilling highlight of "Elephant his Dutch Accordion Serenaders.” Boy."

Alexander Korda's screen and van Lewin, vocalist in that Kipling story. "Toomai Elephants," which is on King's Theatre to-day.

Sabu, handsome native Hindu boy. whom Robert Flaherty and Zoltan Korda found in the jungles of India. plays the small hero

through whose eyes Kipling described this amazing spectacle.

The story, which was adapted to the screen by John Coiller, follows the adventures of little Toomal, the elephant bay, who was burden. ed with a desire to become a great elephant hunter.

How he gets his opportunity to

Originally the action was brought also against the B.B.C.. but it was stated that the pro- ceedings against them had been stayed on terms.

Mr. Leslie J. Solley.. for тап Dusen (who in private life, is Thomas Harrington, and uses the pen name of Fred Farrell), "sald he claimed to be the owner of the

Lecture. Radio. Address on *Tongking," by Mr. Lay in Eng

French, 8 p.m. and 8.15 p.m. res- pectively.

Mails(500 Page 10), Meetings.-Members and Credia tors

of the Welted Manu- facturing Co., Ltd. (in liquidation), at 24 Fleming Road, 2 p.m.; Kow- loon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; st Andrew's Church Mothers' Union, 3 p.m.; St. John's Cathedral Mothers' Union," 3 p.m.

Miscellaneous. —

Hong Kong Hotel: Exhibition of

Rotary T Tonkinese Arts, Crafts, and Tour- ism, at French Bank Bldg., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Moon.-XII Moon, 17th. Day.

Social. - Craigengower. Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 9.20 p.m.; The Little Flower Club Mahjong Drive: Checo Club Mahjong.

p.m.

cl

Sports.(See Page 10). Sunrise.-7.06 am. Sunset.-6.03

KING'S

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5,10, 7 15 & 9.30 P.M.

ALEXANDER KORDA MACHINES

ELEPHANT

BOY

Based on

"Toomai of the Elephants" by

RUDYARD KIPLING

United Artista Released. ALSO SPECIAL NEWS OF THE DAY THE “PANAY BOMBING"

p.m.

Tides. High at 11.36 and" 22,50, Low at 04.58 and 16.03.

NEXT CHANGE

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20th Century Fox

· WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19 Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this page).

DAILY

CAT

Malls(See Pare 16). Moon. XII Moon, 18th. Day. Sports. (See Pare 10).

9:30

320

720

9:20

Sunrise.-7.06 am Sunset 6.02

p.m.

Tides. High at 11.00 and 22.02.. Low at 04.20 and 15.15.

THE KING OF SWEDEN

take part in an elephant bent and copyright in the songs "Mountain His 30 Years' Reign

proves the hero of the occasion is thrillingly depicted against the natural backgrounds of the jungle.

HISTORY IS MADE

AT NIGHT

Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur. the screen's newest team of film romancers. come to the Majestic Theatre to-day in Walter Wanger's "History is Made at Night."

This smart, fast-paced romance casts Boyer in a totally new type of role as Paul Dumond, dashing most man-about-town and the popular head walter on the Con- tinent, while Jean Arthur is seen as a lovely New york mannequin. They meet in Paris under thrilling circumstances. The pair become involved in a gay, ultra-modern romance that carries them from France to America against a series of stunning, ultra-modern settings, including a crack luxury liner and the smartest restaurants of New York and Paris.

Leo Carrillo and Colin Clive are featured in the supporting cast, which also includes Ivan Lebedef, George Meeker, Lucian Prival, Georges Renavent and others.

"He has it in his favour, how-THE SINGING MARINE

ever, that he did make his wife

an allowance for a very long time. Dick is a Marine-a modest buck "So far as his own adultery is private at the San Diego base- concerned, there was a long period and he can sing. So his comrades when he was living with another get up a purse to send him to New woman. which came to an end in York to have a try at "Major

Rawes" amateur hour.

The petition was undefended. *The marriage was in October, 1914,

at a London register office, and | 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Lee afterwarda. lived at various London addresses.

Mr. Lee's case was that he went to Bouth Africa with a war-time revue in 1918. His wife followed him. She returned in 1919, and he came back the following year, but they never lived together -sgain.

"That was about the time he

At the same time, on her own, discovered that his wife had been Dick's sweetheart essays to enter associating with another man, her voice into the competition. whose identity has never been This is Doris Weston, a lovely and definitely, established.

talented newcomer to movies.

"He is a military gentleman whom Mr. Lee thought he saw with his wife in London some years before.

She doesn't get by. The Major's famous gong stops her. But Dick becomes a tremendous success.

Refrain," "Yodelling Blacksmith," and "Yodelling, Solomon." and of

King Gustaf V. of Sweden recent-

a special arrangement of the musicly celebrated the 30th anniversary

to "Silver Threads Among the Gold,"

AN UNDERTAKING

It was alleged, said Mr. Solley. that there had been infringements during the last three years,

of bis accession to the Throne. The Arst King of the present Royal House of Sweden. Karl Johan, was Napoleon's Marshal Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte Crovo, who was elected Hereditary Prince of Mr. R. F. Levy, K.C. (for the Sweden in 1810 when the defence), sald that, except for last king of the House of one performance of "Mountain Vasa died, leaving no issue. This Refrain," Macari and van Lewin foreign origin can, however, be said had not infringed. They had to have disappeared in the second played numbers which could be generation of the Royal House, with obtained from publishers and the the result that the present Royal copyright in which was provided Family is truly Swedish.

name Gustaf-which is also that of the present Crown Prince-is as- sociated with the Vasa kings of glorious tradition:

for

were

Other numbers were written by themselves, none of which Infringements of copyright.

Except for "Mountain Refrain," van Dusen's songs were unpublish- ed, and if Macar! and his band did play anything similar it was arrived at independently and was In no sense an infringement.

After the infringement in 1933 Macari gave an undertaking not to perform that number again, and he had not done so.

MR. JUSTICE SWIFT LEAVES £25,201

it

Clerk Asked To Examine Private Papers

Bir Rigby Philip Watson Swift, of Klons, Crowborough, Sussex, Division, who died on October 19 last, aged 83, left, £25,201 58. 5d. (net personalty £4223) |

Probate of the will, dated Fept. Just too bad! It goes to Dick's 23, was granted to his late wife's PLEA FOR DISCRETION "He found she had committed head. Spoiled by the adulation niece, Vera Mary Walmsley, of the Mrs. Lee was alleged to have adultery at Bognor in 1954. and of innumerable women, and the same address, who was bequeathed

fawning of chiselers who sur- £5,000, stayed at a boarding-house in would perhaps, have been in a

round him, the young Marine. Biz Riby's books, furniture and Bognor with Captain Macpher- better position there to brisa forgets his comraded out on the robes were left to his clerk,

petition, but his wife disappeared. Mr. Lee asked for the discretion and he committed adultery with a number of other women before he of the court in his favour.

Mr. Justice Hodson, giving judg- discovered her whereabouts, and 'ment, said he had had a little dif-instituted proceedings." ficulty in seeing how he could-pro- perly exercise discretion. Mr. and Mrs. Les parted in 1919 on the ground that they did not get on well together.

aon in 1934.

"Although Mr. Les says he sus- pected, very soon after that that his wife had committed adultery, he was not in a position to estab- lish anything, and, indeed, she al-

Pacific Coast

:

Mr. W. H. E. Kemp, of Welling- Lon-street, Bexleyheath has been awarded the Imperial Service Medal on retiring from Woolwich Arsenal, after 46 years' service.

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WIFE'S ALLOWANCE Mr. Lee, however, had said that if he were granted a decree he would continue to make the pay- ments to his wife that he was at one time under covenant to make. Mr. A. Denville, M.P., who lives at

A decree mial was granted and Bouth Hill-avenue, Harrow, recent the Judge ordered that Mr. Lee ly posted 17,000 Christmas cards should pay his wife £2 per week at Harrow to his constituents in

Central Newcastle-on-Tyne, until further order.

Archibald Evans, who was asked td examine all the judge's private papers and correspondence at the Law Courts.

a-

The residue was given to Vera Mary Walmsley. There was direction that if the estate prove Insufficient to pay the legacies they

should abate proportionately

that

Postmaster General announces telephone service is now available with Haiti..

The

On account of the delicate health of his father, Oscar E, King Gustaf, while Crown Prince, took an active part in the government of the realm, particularly, during the criti- cal year of 1905, when Norway broke away from the union with Sweden. The conduct of the King and the Crown Prince on this occasion con- tributed strongly to a peaceful set- tlement, and the final dissolution of the union was carried out in a way that has led to lasting friend- ship and increased confidence-be- tween the two peoples.

CHANGING TIMES

On his accesston in 1907 King Gustaf showed that he had master- ed the problems of the day and un- derstood the change in the position of the Monarchy which had taken place as a result of the advance of democracy. The King did away with much of the pageantry of State occasions, dispensing in fact with the Coronation ceremony, and introduced, by way of setting a good example, greater simplicity in his daily life.

During the Great War King Gustaf played an important part, especially in safeguarding the post- ton of the three Scandinavian kingdoms. In December. 1914, he Invited the Kings of Denmark and

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THE HAPPIEST ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE YEAR!

Morning, Noon or Night-IT'S TOPS! :

it happened one night-la

Tarikan Bayer meets giri

and the grandest remançe

la ogus makes history! WALTER WANGER-

Jaa

BOYER ARTHUR HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT2

wit lon CARRILO and Colin Clive

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY

THE MOST THRILLING SPINECHILLER OF THE SEASON I ANN HARDING

BASIL HATHBONE in "LOVE FROM A STRANGER"

A UNITED ARTISTE FICTURE

Norway and their Prime Ministers among the three countries. Let result that the foundations of the ing in Malmo At, this meeting a one of the old kind, but a union The progress of democracy during and Foreign Ministers to a meet us form a new union,” he said, "not Monarchy in Sweden stand firm. common policy of neutrality and based on mutual understanding the present generation has inevit

was and goodwill, the vitality of ably to some extent, circuiascribed mutual economic assistance Inaugurated which was continued which, I trust, will be of a more the Royal prerogative, but no es- and strengthened as the strain permanent character." It is im-sential alterations have been caused by the War increased. Thus, possible fully to estimate the im-effected.

King Gustaf, though 79 years of during the later stages of the War, portance of the co-operation thus formed practically a single area of tries, but it is certain that all his reign in perfect mental and the three Northern Kingdoms Inlitated between the three coun-age, has reached the 31st year of

production with free exchange of three have benefited from it and bodily health. He has always been commodities. ANAT

will continue to do so.

a keen sportsman, and as every- PEOPLE AND MONARCHY ane knows, he la a good lawn-ten- King Gustaf has shown great | nis player. Even now he can play acumen in his judgment of mod-against-and defeat younger op- em political conditions, with the ponents of repute.

The meeting at Malmo was fol- lowed by another at Oslo: In 1017. at which King Gustaf made-an up- peal for a new kind of unity

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