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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Racketeers In Edle."

QUEEN'S:

Som her Vizens

"Sum."

make him forget?

ORIENTAL:-

"THIN ICE"

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

Bu fees as be loves dangerously!

by Will any Water Balows, mudda

PAT O'BRIEN HENRY FONDA,

MARGARET LINDSAY - STUART ERWIN ́

O PARSELL MYDONALD One Piedsa washu-

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LESLIE HOWARD BETTE Davis · OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND in the year's funniest, fastest flm

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"IT'S LOVE I'M

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FLEMING ROAD

HAN CHAI

"Druegerman Courage." Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Dance, Charlle, Dance."

STAR:-

*"Winterset."

MAJESTIC:-

"Fire Over England."

KING'S:-

Coming

"It Happened In Hollywood" QUEEN'S:—

"Its Love. I'm After"

ORIENTAL:-

"Charlie Chan At The Circus" ALHAMBRA:-

"Night Club Scandal""

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MAJESTIC¦---

"Shall We Dance"

"Alter The Thin, Man"

NOTED SKATING STAR

IN NEW FILM

Thin Ice" Is Gorgeous

Alpine Frolic

TODAY

Anniversaries and Holidays.-

born,

1834. G... M.

E. Haeckel Trevelyan born. 1876. simus, Disciple of St. Paul

St. One-

Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this

[page]

Dances.-Kowloon Union Church Social and Fellowship Club Dance. 8.30 p.m.: Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 p.m."

Mails.--(See Page 16); Meetings.-Annual, of Diocesan Old Boys' Assen, at Chinese Mer- chant's Club, China Bldg., 5th floor, 7.15 p.m.: "9. & S. Home" |House Cummmittee, in Assembly Sonja Henle and Tyrone Power. Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Christ Church Com- popular favourites. come to the mittec. 6 p.m.; Kowloon Union screen again in "Thin Ice." musical Church Women's Guild Monthly flim soon to be released in Hong Business, 10 a.m.; Hong Kong Aquarium Society, at University Biology Department, 8.30 p.m.

Kong

SINGING IN AMERICA

Anthology Of Folk Poetry

Most of the songs in I Hear | America Singing: An Anthology of Folk Poetry, collected by Ruth

Miscellaneous. - St. Stephen's College new Preparatory School Registration for Boarders, 11 a.m.

Moon. I Moon, 17th. Day. Social-Chero Club Ladies' Com- mittee Bridge and Mahjong Drive, 13 p.m.: Diocesan School Old Boys' Annen. Dinner at Chinese Mer- chants' Club China Bldg., 8 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola, Gar- rlaon Sergts. Mess. Queen's Poad, 8.30 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.55 a.m. Sunset.6.20

0.00

Tides. High at 10.58 and 22.40.

Low at 04.28 and 10.01.

TOMORROW

A. Barnes (Chicago: John C. Winston Company. $2), as Car) Van Doren points out in a page or two of foreword, sing an ear- ller. simpler America than the "Thin Ice" is a gay and magni-America of, today. Acent musical that skima in shim- They chronicle the exhilarant. mering delight along the silvery days of the great trek westward p.m. Alpine slopes. Filled with dazzling over the railroads and canals and Tides. High at 10.27 and 22.01; spectacle and exciting beauty. Great Lakes, the days of railroad Low at 03.55 and 15.20. the picture, which opens at the building. of the gold rushes to

bring Sonja

King's soon, and Tyrone Power together.

Hente California

and Pike's Peak, of

Moon, I Moon, 18th. Day. Sunrise.-6.56 am. Sunset.-8.20

cowboys on the range, of home- make a logging world: choppers, Topping her triumph in "One steading the prairie and building 6awyers, loaders, skidders, road- cutters, teamisters. We learn of In A Million," Miss Henie is sod shanties.

divisions of winter more radiantly exciting than ever They sing the days of lumbering the seasonal

thrills.

"Tain Ice" concerns the romance

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HE WAS A MOBSTER MASTER MIND

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HERE HE IS! THE GOOF THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG!

as she displays new beauty, new in the North woods, of Yankee Cutting. spring floating to

sunumer rafting caring and new breath-taking ships on sea and lake, of the cot-booming yard,

ton fields of the South, of moun-down river. We know what these and their music. If men ate, what they wore, the songs A delightful romance of mis-tain men

songs like them are being made they sang, the stories they told. taken identity, which leads to

We know, too, that mothers had a many hilariously funny situations today, we don't know of it.

This collection was put together poor opinion of them as sons-in- of a beautiful skating star who by an enthusiastic schoolteacher law. A farmer they thought a

who has found that her boys like much better risk. falls in love with A man she

Most of these songs were made belleves to be a reporter but who, ballads. Every poem in it, she says.

was chosen by her boys. Other for singing, and we again make in reality, is a prince..

at their Three elaborate skating number boys will like these songs. They our perennial lament with hundreds of gorgeous girls intell a story of action. They sing divorce from the music. sensational ice revels are highlights of men doing the things boys like cost a pile to print music, the way to imagine themselves doing. The publishers shy away from doing it. of the film. In these numbers, Miss Henie executes many difficult language is simple: the thought, the Of course any wide-awake boy will know many of the tunes whose skating "routines. Weeks of inten- sive practice were necessary in order to execute these routines perfectly.

It must

sentiment easily understood.

Looking at these songs from an-words are bere given, Surely if he cther point of view, it is surprising hasn't heard Lawrence Tibbertt how much of the history of Ameri- sing "De Glory Road," he knows Arthur Treacher, Raymond Wal-can manners they contain. From the tune of "Poor Reuben Ranzo," them the historian could recon-"Blow the Man Down." "Old Black burn and Joan Davis head the

"Billy struct much of the past. Take, for Joe."

Boy" "Sourwood Important supporting cast, which also includes Sig Rumann,

instance. the section devoted to Mountain." Burely he has learned Alan Hale, Leah Ray, Melville Cooper, the shanty boys, the lumberjacks. some of these and others like them From it we learn that these men from listening to the radio. Maurice Cass, and George Givot.

from his fellows In got up at 4 a.m. -and worked in others the woods until dark. Then after school

ст camp.

and a hearty supper of beef, pork and roar words he reads here beans, bread. ple and molasses, to the proper tune. If he doesn't. they passed a brief hour of re-give him Carl Sandburg's "Ameri- 'creation in dancing and singing to can Song Bag" to go with this the accompaniment of fiddle and book. He'll enjoy both books, learn: Muir mouth organ.

DANCE, CHARLIE, :

DANCE

Stuart. Erwin. Glenda Farrell Allen Jenkins and Jean head an excellent cast that will

LOGGING WORLD

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DANCE CHARLIE DANCE

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STUART ERWIN JEAN MUIR GLENDA FARRELL ALLEN JENKINS

Directed by Frank McDonald, Manic and Lyrics by M. K. Jerome nod Jack Scholl · Á First National Planet+Presented by Warner Bros.

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from" them more than he realizes

of the past of America-and so

be seen today when Warner Bros. We know how many different will his parents. (R. M. H. in the farce. "Dance, Charlie, Dance" will kinds of occupations it took to Christian Science Monitor),

be shown at the

Alhambra

Theatre as the feature attraction.

#

boob

The story concerns from the country ("Stu" Erwin,

of course) who is induced by a cuople of phony

NEW WOMAN IN CHINA

No book about China and her have always loved their little girls Broadway people can, fall to be attractive at no less than their boys, theatre producers to put his the present crisis, and this is es- But while she shows by her 520,000 inheritance into 2 showpecially true when, as in this case, careful analysis how the new wo- they want to back. The com-the author has lived many years in man in China, as free of the old plications deal with how they the country, knows the language conventions as her feet are of the tried to trim the chump--and how, and literature, and, more impor-old bonds," has developed logically' In the end, he gave them the tant still appears to be equally from the woman of the past, she trimming of their crooked lives. sympathetic to the old and the remains aware of the greatness of Worked in with the comedy new ideals, writes Evelyn Sharp In the change that has take place. Farm are 4 group of musical the Manchester Guardian in a re- She quotes from an old Chinese numbers with ZATV elaborate view of Florence Ayscough's book, ballad this description of the well- settings. The presence of Collette Chinese Women: Yesterday, and to-do girl of ancient days: Lyons and Olive Olson, and a Today.

:

Ten and three, could weave slik

well-trained chorus all combine It is this sympathy and know threads;

to make the picture not only a ledge combined that makes Mrs. Ten and four, learned to cut out delightful laugh flim but a Ayscough's study of Chinese wo-clothes; musical of the first order.

men of real value, since it enables Ten and five, awept strings of "Dance, Charlie, Dance", was her to explain to some extent the k'ung how lyre; directed by Frank McDonald from apparent abruptness of the change Ten and six, hummed Haes of

screen play by Crane Wilbur that has taken place in their status Classics; "Racketeers In Exile." Columbia's and William Jacobs, based upon during the present century. dramatic story of a public enemys successful stage production by From being classed among the my Lord who makes religion a racket and George 8. Kaufman, when recen- most backward of women they can And as a modern contrast' one then falls prey to his owntly authored the Pulitzer Prize now claim to be the equals of their may take her account of the "en- Co-stars in the picture are Pat eloquence opens today at the winner comedy, "You Can't Take most advanced sisters, intellectual- chanting young person in" a long

as the feature attraction at the Queen's Theatre today.

O'Brien and Henry Fonda, The King's' Theatre. latter has the title role while the

nurse.

It With You."

Ten and seven, became wife of

Alexander Korda presents

FIRE OVER ENGLAND

An

ERICH POMMER production

with

FLORA ROBSON, LAURENCE OLIVIER, VIVIEN LEIGH

A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE !

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SHALL WE DANCE

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AN RKO RADIO PICTURE

Jy, politically, and socially-a blue velvet coat" who confessed former acts the part of "Red," who cast as Big Bl Waldo, a top- George Bancroft heads the large

change that only ceases to appear that she no longer had time to a miracle when we realise that the read the Tang poetry taught her teaches "Slim" the business.

BLACK COFFEE Chinese woman of the past really by her grand-mother because "I The girl whom they both love his home town sweetheart while flight racketeer. Evelyn Venable is

occupied a highly respected posi-am doing research on the parasite Is attractive Margaret Lindsay: Wynne Gibson is a city "moll."

Fontennay-le-Comte (France) tion, if her sphere was a limited which attacks the ears of mice." who plays the part of a hospital

A native soldier, Brahim Ben one.

There is so much knowledge and The role of "Big Bill" Waldo is Taleb, belonging to a. Tunisian Such evidence of her inferiority information in Mrs. Ayscough's There are a good index and the revolutionist Chiu-Chin, who Nine-tenths of the action of the strongest one Bancroft has regiment stationed in Fontenay-s is sometimes based upon the book that one could wish it had useful bibliography, and the book was executed for her principles in "Sum" is outdoors, and there are ever played. It is his first since le-Comte (Branch), has died after Chinese preference for boy children been a little better arranged. The as a whole provides a welcome 1907, explain much in the modern said to be many amazing scenes his memorable performance as the drinking ink in mistake for coffee, is explained away, for instance, by story is not continuous, and past addition to knowledge of liberated Chinese woman, and the, depicting the pèrils and thrills of newspaper editor in "Mr. Deeds

Seeing a large bottle containing the exacting requirements of the and present are occasionally '80 | China,

history of her final emancipation, the wire-stringers, who erect] Goes To Town."

ja dark liquid in an N.C.O.'s room, I cult of ancestor worship that can be closely associated. In the historic The stories of the ploneers wo" which is considered by the author towers. clamber up and down The film also marks the first Taleb supposed the contents to be satisfied only by male descendants; | portions that it is difcult to dis- men, from the earliest time of Li to date from the enlightened" policy, them, and put into position the reunion of Bancroft and Wynne cold black coffee and took a drink, when these are guaranteed by the tiriguish one from the other, This I-an the poetess, Kuan-fu-jen the of Sun Yat-sen and the establish- strands that carry energy, some- Gibson since they scored 50 He died a few hours later in birth of sons Chinese parents, ac-is a regrettable rather than a seri-painter, Hua Mu-lan the warrior,ment of the Republic, is full of times braving blizzards to do so. effectively in "Lady and Gent”. great pain.!

| cording to Mrs. Ayscough, love and ous defect.

Jarid many another, culminating in Interesting material

our

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