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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938.

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 2:30 - 515 · 7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31453

LAST 3 TIMES TODAY

3 SHOWS AT 2.30. 5.15 & 7.20 P.M. ONLY

HE WAS ON THE TRACK

OF CRIME TILL A CUTE TRICK SIDE-TRACKED HIM!

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE ·

WENDY BARRIE KENT TAYLOR MISCHA AUER DOROTHEA KENT

TONIGHT AT 9.15 P.M. GALA PREMIERE

of

"VICTORIA THE GREAT"

With the Fall Band of the 1st Bu. Seaforth Highlanders. By kind poriniasion of Et.-Col, R. A. Wolfe-Murray, p.s.o., M.C., & Officers

Admission Prices: $2,20, $1.50, 75 c. & 50 c.

SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-0.30

TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLIT BUA

FLEMING ROAD

TEL. 38473

ORIENTAL

DAYS* TO-DAY TO-MORROW

ONLY.

A SURGING DRAMA OF GOLDEN GREED! You'll be amazed at the violent vi of daring who made today's great fortune out of blood and tears.

DAYS WHEN DOG ATE DOG TO POSSESS WEALTH !

The story of a glamor girl who queened it over Wall Street's robber barons" in the raging days when moneyed giants battled for possession of America,

SUN. MON.

EDWARD ARNOLD

CARY GRANT FRANCES FARMER JACK OAKIE

ROBBER BARRONS

·ELEPHANT BOY"

Directed by

Rowland V.Leo. An Edward Small Produe tion.... RKC- RADIO PICTURE

JUNGLE THRILLER

Rudyard Kipling's famous story of mystic India"

• MATINEES: 20c-30c ® ́EVENINGS:"20e,-30e.-50c.-70c. @

ISTARE

TODAY & TOMO BOW

When a tightwad goes on a spending spree, Oh boy i

WILD MONEY

SUNDAY

Warner Bros. Picture

in

"And we thought

he was a pikeri

DICK POWELL -

FRED WARING VARSITY SHOW"

SONJA HENIE

New Film Contract For Three Pictures

year.

Queen Victoria at Last Comes to the Screen

TODAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

The Painted Vel"

QUEEN'S:-

"Prescription For Romance"

9.15 p.m. Victoria the Great"

ORIENTAL:

"Robber Barons"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :-

STAR:

"Talent Scout"

"Wild Money"

MAJESTIC:-

"Thirty Day Princess"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Eycrything Is Thunder"

QUEEN'S

"Victoria The Great" ALHAMBRA :---

"Victoria The Great"

STAR:-

"Varsity Show"

SYLVIA SIDNEY AS PRINCESS

Comedy Romance At Majestic

?

The above scene was taken on

of Victoria the Great." the studio set during the making DIARY OF LOCAL

Left

to right: Herbert Wilcox, direc- tor-produces, laton Walbrook. Anna Sengle, Ralph, Hanbury, R.K.O.-Radin executive, and H. B. Werner,

VICTORIA

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WILL BE REMEMBERED

Overstatement is a common fail- ing among film publicity men, but all that has been written both dur- ing the preparation and since the first screening of "Victoria the Great" was borne out at a special preview yesterday of this truly great picture.

Normally. condensation Into G space of two hours or so of eventful happenings. over such a long period as dealt with in this story. Would present im- mense difficulties, but by expert direction and the clever merging Herbert Wilcox has scenes, managed most successfully to achieve the passage of time with out interrupting in any way the continuity.

of

Affairs of state must naturally play a great part in any story of the life of Queen Victoria, but, by the deft interweaving of touches of lightness. the interest of the au- dience is held right up to and through the concluding sequences, so magnificently filmed in colour.

Naturally main attention is cen- A charming. breezy comedy tred on the superb acting of Anna romance about a girl who pre- Neagle as Queen Victoria and An- tends to be what she is not. full tan Walbrook as Prince Albert, but of chuckles. sly humour, bright there is nothing lacking in the dialogue and superb acting, Sylvia portrayal of the supporting roles. Sidney's latest starring picture for Those who see "Victoria the Paramount, "Thirty-Day Princess," Great," and none should miss it. comes to the Majestic Theatre will see a picture, which, for its today.

perfect and tasteful presentation Miss Sidney appears as a shy and for its high entertainment princess of an obscure, little, value, will lang be remembered. European kingdom, who is trans- Most will probably wonder why ported to America to create good-screen productions of this standard will for her country. In the are so rare. background is a ruthless, banker,

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who stands to profit by 2 pro- posed $50,000,000 bond issue for her kingdom.

Edward Arnold, Lucien Little- field, Henry Stephenson and Edgar Norton are excellently cast in the supporting roles.

PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE

GRETA GARBO'S REAPPEARANCE

Somerset Maugham's Story At King's

ap-

Two of the screen's greatest players make their frst pearance together in "The Faint- ed Vell," the film adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel which is being shown at the King's

Theatre.

One, of course, is the incom-

EVENTS

TODAY

Anniversaries and Holidays.-- St. Ethelbert. King (d. 819).

Auctions. Chinese Art Curios, at Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.

Cinemas. See Column 3 of this

page)

#

Entertainments."French With- aut Tears." at China Fleet Club Theatre, 9.15 pm; Recital of Rus- slan Church Music by the Rusalan Orthodox Church Choir, at St. An- drew's Hall, 9:15 p.m.

Photographic

Mails. (See Paze 16). Meetings-Helena May Christian Fellowship. 10:30 pm,

Miscellaneous, Exhibition at Cathedral Hall, noon to 9.30 pm. Central British School Prize-Giving by H.E. The Governor, in the School Hall, 5.30 p.m.;

Detachment Volunteer Nursing First Aid Demonstration, at P.WD. Offices, 5.30 p.m.; Training Group, at St. Paul's Hostel, 7.15 p.m.

Moon.- Moon, 26th. Day. Social-Cheero Club Duplicate Bridge, 8 p.m.; R.E., W.O's. and Sergts'.. Mess. Whist Drive and Tombola, 9.15 p.m.

Sports,-(Bee Page 10). Sunrise.-6.49 am. Sunset-8.25

p.m.

Tides. High at 17.50. Low at 06.55.

TOMORROW

Moon.-I Moon, 27th. Day.

Sunrise.-6.49 a.m. Sunset,-0.24

p..

Tides High at 16.40 Low at 00.01.

MACHINATIONS OF

FILM MAKING

"Talent Scout" At Alhambra

If you're at all interested in the machinations of movie-making. "Talent Scout," a First National picture which has its run at the Alhambra Theatre today, will give more than a share of the inside Information.

Done in an airy manner, the comedy, starring Donald Woods, and veterans of last year's Gold Diggers Air Tour-Jeanne Madden, Fred Lawrence, and Rosalind Mar- quis. is the story of a young singer

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.16 & 9.30 PM.

AND ONLY.

arbo

ALSO

The PAINTED VEIL

HERBERT MARSHALL

GEORGE BRENT:

Metro Gold

Mayer Pictu

A TRAVELOGUE SPECIALLY MADE FOR HONG KONG

"HONG KONG THE HUB OF THE ORIENT"

in TECHNICOLOUR CONSTANCE

NEXT CHANGE Gaumont British

BENNETT in

"EVERYTHING IS THUNDER "

ALHAMBRA

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NATHAN RD, KOWLOON-DAI

2,30 3,10+7, 20 - 0,30-TEL. 56855

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

YOU MAY

BE THE NEXT

Talent Scout

STAR HE'LL FOOD!

DONALD WOODS /-" - LEARNE MADDEN ROSALIND MARQUIS-FRED LAWRENCE

Directed by WILLIAM CLEMERY * First National Picture - Presented by Warnes Dras.

TOMORROW VICTORIA THE GREAT”

Anna Neagle Anton Walbrook B. B. Warner An R.K.O. Radio Picture

+ SHIGINS BASKY

·230 5.30 720-930

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

ROAD KOWLOON

TEL 87279

MATINEES, 202 •30‹ • EVENINGS. 20.-30.50<-70,

TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY !

AN "OLD FAVOURITE” THAT YOU SHOULD

NOT MISS !

SYLVIA SIDNEY

HER REIGN WAS, SENSATIONALLY SHORT BUT SHE GOT A LOT DONE!

"THIRTY-DAY PRINCESS"

with

CARY GRANT

B. P. SCHULBERS Production

Pictur

TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQUEST | William Powell, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery

in

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNET

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER COMEDY-EIT!

HORSEBACK

GRAVELY ILL

**

Comedy Romance With Wendy Barrie In Lead Glowing with tempestuous rom-parable Greta Garbo. The other who makes good in Hollywood ance, which blooms against the is the brilliant English actor, through the shrewd effort of a HEAVY DAMAGE

gay background of Budapest, and Herbert Marshall, who is in great fast-talking and faster thinking 62 MILES IN 4 HRS. ON GENERAL PERSHING sparkling with the wit which has demand nowadays as many lead-talent scout.

Before the civil war endurance

New York, Feb. 23. Two large fires kept members of

Woods plays the part of the scout lifted Mischa Auer and Frank ing feminine stars desire him as

General Pershing, Commander of the Shanghai Fire Brigade" busy

Jenks into the top flight of come their leading man

who takes a group of chorus girls tests for Spanish army orders, about midnight one day last week.

dians, Universal's "Prescription For The story deals with a young across the country in a bus, an idea who rode relays of horses, used to the American Expeditionary For- ces in the Great War, is seriously The first fire occurred" In Yang- Sonja Henle. the Norwelgian Romance". 18. showing at the woman who, refusing to marry the originating from the airplane trip be an annual event.

Capt. Fernando Gonzalez-Gordon, in with complications of gheumat taepoo In Lane 231, Chemulpo skating Alm-star, has been given | Queen's Theatre today.

man picked for her by her parents, made by the "Gold Diggers of 1937."

one of the seven sons of the Mar-iem and heart disorder (Reuter) Road, where two Chinese houses a new contract by Twentieth Cen

Superb settings which emphasize weds a physician and comes with Woods in fred by his boss on ac- were gutted and three others badly tury-Fox for three pictures this the glamour and charm of this him to China, where the husband count of his extravagance. Soon qués de Torre-Soto and a member damaged.

historic city in Hungary form a neglects her and she accepts the afterward he discovers Jeanne of the famous Jerez family, has Madden singing in a small town ridden from Jerez to Seville, about The Sinza district experienced Although no actual figures are sparkling background for a roman- attentions of another man.

62 miles, in four hours. The story rises to great drama- amateur night contest. the other blaze, at an electric bulb given, it is thought that she wutic comedy, wherein the white

A smart and light script written He used elght horses and estab- factory in Lane 509, Tatung Road be paid about £25,000 for each shoulders of beautiful women, glittle heights during a native riot Houses 4, 0, and 8 in the lane were (picture:

tering Jewels and the pageantry of and the destruction of a plagued by George Bilson and William | lished a new relay record.

Capt. Gonzalez-Gonion -the Here Garbo and Jacobs, and directed by William gutted by the flames. No-one 'was "Her first film, "One in a Million" gay uniforms, medals and decora-city by fre

contribute the heat Clemens,, the picture is especially "Gordon; his British mother's bees bombarded 12 milles east of made early in 1937 carried hertions vie for the intense interest Marshall

name and according to Spanish Valencia, according to a wireless £10,000, and for her two sub-created by the unusual and amaz-performances of their respective interesting because of the manner

in which it gives us the lowdown usage is placed after the paternal message pleked up by the local

station—(Reuter). George Brent also gives a man- on Hollywood's inner workings. name-1 3 and 5 fine polo player. BOY KICKS GRENADE: sequent films she is said to haveing situations that unroll in this carpers.

fast travelling screen story.

At one time na used to be re- Betting the pace for the love tefly characterization" as "Town- Mias Madden, who being con- KILLED

sidered by the Metropolitan Opera garded as the best back in Spain Bellville at Bantander. He escap- sceries, the vivacious Wendy Barrio send, the "other man."

Company: Fred Lawrence, and and frequently played in King Aled execution by pretending to be appears opposite Kent Taylor, and

an English journalist, deception pert little Rosalind Marquis sing tonistid over hefe

One of his brothers, Ricardo, which no doubt his perfect DE several Hft numbers witten by M.

Jerome and” Jack-Schooll,

Captured with Mr. Rupert lish enabled him to maintainin

injured

been paid £18,000

Chungkmg, Feb. 24. grenade. The grenade exploded One was killed and seven in- and instantly killed the boy while

of at Chungking' on Tuesday a number jured

onlookers were when a Chinese, boy kicked a handį wounded-(Reuter),

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they are supported by anch finish. Samuel B. Hinds, Frank Reicher, ed performers as Gregory Gaye, William Lundigan, Constance Moore Dorothea Kent, Henry Hunter, and Christian' Buk

ANOTHER FRENCH SHIP BOMBED:

Tangler, Feb. 23. Another French steamer has

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