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QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 2:30-5:15·7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31453

SHOWING

TODAY

The Story The World Wants To Know !

Child Brides! Lash Law Witch-craft Vengeance!

JOSEPHINE

HUTCHINSON GEO. BRENT

MOUNTAIN JUSTICE

HAR GUY KİRSEE + NOWA -

BARRIE

ROBENT BARRAT

Werner Brad, Kesa

The Secrets of The Mozatalza!

Directed by Michasi Curtiz A First National Picture

NEXT CHANGE

New Universal

Picture

(A SHOWS

·DAILY"

2.30.515

7.15-9.30

ALICE FAYE

in a new sing and swing musical “YOU'RE A SWEETHEART"

with George Murphy

AE ANY THEM OF HAPPY VALLEY BUE

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938.

Nelson Eddy

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Everything Is Thunder"

QUEEN'S:—

"Mountain Justice"

ORIENTAL:-

"West Bound Limited"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:~~-

"Marry The Girl"

STAR:-

"Her Husband Lies"

MAJESTIC:—

"The Gilded Lily"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Thin Ice""

FLEMING ROAD WANGHAI

QUEEN'S

TEL 29473

"You're A Sweetheart"

ORIENTAL:-

"David Copperfield"

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY ALHAMBRA

EXTRA! VAUDEVILLE STAGE SHOW! Four celebrated artists appear at all" performances

THE WORLD FAMOUS

ASTOR

TRIO

SENSATIONAL ACROBATIC

DANCERS

THE PERSONALITY GIRL

KATIE MAELTZER

EXTRAORDINARY DANCE .CREATIONS

2 SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE !

A THOUSAND LIVES AT STAKE ON A RUNAWAY TRAIN! Thunder and steel flying through the night, keen eyes glued to the twisting, shining track, a head-on collision with amashing steel roaring into blazing destruction.

A RIP ROAKING DRAMATIC ADVENTURE ROMANCE! ..

SINGING RAILS: LAUGHING LOVE! -

TENSE ADVENTURE!

WEST BOUND

LIMITED

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE with

LYLE TALBOT POLLY ROWLES HENRY HUNTER · FRANK REICHER ZENRY BRANDON • WILLIAM LUNDIGAM Lowes Por by Mavico Gargality

STAR

"You're A Sweetheart"

"Trouble In Paradise" MAJESTIC-

"Sung Of The City"

"EVERYTHING IS

THUNDER

Always Sang While Working

But People Did Not Like It

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TODAY

Anniversaries and Holidays- Ash Wednesday. W. Shaen, Work- Hollywood's most popular baring Men's College, died in 1887. tone can still remember a few Auctions-Old and Surplus Vic- people who had no 129e for his tualling Stores, at HM Kowloon voice,

Naval Depot, 9.30 a.m. Only a few years ago Nelson Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Eddy could not keep a job because Page).

he sang during working hours. Dances, Dancing Display AL Now, many a modern executive King's Theatre. by Pupils" of plays recordings by Eddy oven ujOKeefe-Montgomery School of public speaking system during restDancing, and Demonstrations by periods for employees. Music Miss Katherine Glover and Mem- brings relaxation. So the volcebers of Women's League of Health that once could not keep a job now and Beauty. 5.10 p.m.; Chero Club | helps to keep workers satisfied!

Dance, 8.30 p.m.

10

the

"It seems funny now, looking Lectures.-Social and Fellowship back on those days," Nelson says. Club, "The University of Nanking." "I went to work for an iron works by Miss Turner 3.30 p.m. In Philadelphia. They started me Malls.—(3re Page 18). out working a telephone switch- Meetings. Annual board. It was my misfortune, or Kowloon Bowling Green Club. 6 so It seemed, that I couldn't resist p.m.: Kowloon Union Church singing on the job. Some of the Women's Guild, 10 a.m.; Ladies's customers on the telephone line Church Ald, in S. and 8. Rome, thought I was pretty good.

10.30 a.m. "Apparently, a lot of others dick Miscellaneous-United

man

In

#

Sunday

not share the opinion. I think I School Teachers' Conference at lasted about one week. Then I re- (Kawloon Union Church, 5.45 p.m. celved å summons from the gentle- Evensong and Address. 8 p.m.

Lacking .command.

Moon-New Moon, 1.40 p.m. II. guilty conscience, I did not expect Moon, 1st Day. the information I received. Forth- with. I was no longer telephone operator."

room.

His next job was in a shipping Here Nelson had every rep- son to expect he might yodel to his heart's content, except that he did not yodel. He sang operatie numbers or anythjug else that ap- pealed to him--but in any event, good music. That did not parti- Among recent novels outstand-cularly sult the foreman. who pre- ing for thrills. suspense and ferred catchy rhythms or nothing romance. "Everything Is Thunder" at all.

Stirring Escape From Prison Camp

19 regarded as exceptional. It has It was not long before the un- now been made into 1 motion appreciated Nelson Eddy was look- picture with Constance Bennett. ing for a job again. Douglass Montgomery and Oscar Most people would prefer clip-) Homolka, playing the leading roles.ping coupons to writing obituaries. The picture, which is showing Need, greater than choice, led Nel- today at the King's Theatre, s son" to a newspaper office where!

he took

of

Religious. — "The Way of the Cross" at Catholic Cathedral, 5.30

p.m.

Sports. See Page 10).

Sunrke.-6.45 a.m. Sunset.-6.27

p.m.

"

Tides-High at 09.48 and 21.26 Low at 03.40 and 15.15.

TOMORROW

Moon. Moon, 2nd Day. Sunrise.-6.45 a.m. Sunset. 0.27

p.m.

Tides-High at 09.35 and 20.50. Low at 03.08 and 14.35

ALHAMBRA COMEDY IS A WINNER

Frank McHugh Appears over the lowbest

In Marry The Girl”' editorial tasks, doing "obits."

"Mary The Girl" the new Alham- Before long he became known astra Theatre feature, has a novel the singing reporter, and then he setting-the offices of a great turned to advertising writing. At

newspaper syndicate. This is pre- With Hugh McGrath escape is a this stage of the game Nelson besided over by Hugh Herbert, the mania. He concentrates all his gan to receive encouragement, and "aut," and his sister, Mary Boland, wits on plans to escape. Three before long began serious study of the "brains." attempts, were unsuccessful. On music.

concerned with the escape from a prison camp of a British officer and the love that overtakes him in his danger.

did he

to do:

SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW! ONE DAY ONLY! detailed to follow him, and then became one of the biggest hits in and back to work; induce Aian

ONE OF THE GOLD MEDAL PICTURES OF THE "PAST!

CHARLES' DICKENS GREATEST STORY !

TO LIVE FOREVER IN YOUR HEART (

DAVID

COFFERFIELD

Two Years to Make! Cast of 651 -

Metro Coldwyn Mayer

W. C. FIELDS LIONEL BARRYMORE EDNA MAY OLIVER LEWIS STONE FREDDIE BARTHOLMEW BOLLAND YOUNG MADGE EVANS MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN FRANK LAWTON 50 OTHER SCREEN AND STAGE CELEBRITIES,

EVENINGS: 20e.-30c.-50c.-70c. ❤

● MATINEE5: 20c.-30c

DAILY

AT

8:30

5.20

720

9:20

STAR

TODAY AND TOMORROW

She wanted more

than his gifts... she wanted him!

Adolph Inker Brosánil

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

57795

Her

Lies

Husband

A Purament Picture with

Gall Patrick - Ricardo Cortez

Akim Tamtroff · Juan Martul Town 3.7, SCRILICIA Pradestina

Frank McHugh is general handy- liis fourth he kills a sentry, after Close to ten years of constant man of the organization. He has which he is hunted on a murder work preceded his debut in aims, three Jobs

get Hugh charge. He gets to Berlin safely. but when

appear in O'Connell. the syndicate's best right under the nose of a detective Naughty Marletta," he suddenly

cartoonist on the water-wagou falls into the hands of pretty pictures

Mowbray, an eccentric writer on Anna, a street walf who takes him Eddy's next screen appearance psychiatry, to sign a new contract to her flat thinking that he is a will be as Dick Thorpe. football and prevent the marriage of Carol German soldter ini desperate hero of West Point, in Metro-Hughes, whom he loves. to Mischa trouble. Together they brave Goldwyn-Mayer's musical flm many vicissitudes before they Rosalle. Eleanor Powell dancing Ail wind. up in the crazy Anally arrive in England.

"

sensation of "Broadway Melody"

WENT MAD TO

Auer:

psychiatrist's santorium before

triple task.

"Marry the Girl" is a winner come- amongst the season's new dies. and is a "must" on your entertainment list.

Jocelyn Lee Hardy mixed fiction tame, is co-starred with Eddy in McHugh is half-way through his with autobiography in the writing this film, which is due to be releas- of the story, since he himself ed here in the near future. cscaped from 3 prison, camp. Every fallure at a getaway found him back in another camp, each more difficult to escape, but he. finally got across the border and returned to the front. where he lost a leg in battle.

TYRANNY IN THE MOUNTAINS

Queen's Pictures Shows Backwoods Life

MUSIC

What Swing" Does

CLAUDETTE COLBERT IN NEW COMEDY

"The Gilded Lily' Comes To Majestic

Mob hysteria caused by the music of a famous swing" orches- tra brought psychologists and

The Gilded Lily." new Clau- other mental specialists to New dette Colbert picture which comes York's huge Paramount Cinema today to the Majestic Theatre, is recently to observe and make a romantle and frothy comedy. } notes,

Assisted by Fred MacMurray

The cinema. seating 3,000 and Ray Milland in the principal Rarely does a modern motion

WES packed with screaming supporting roles. Miss Colbert is. picture present such strong, stir audiences writhing, grunting" and cast as a pretty stenographer who ring situations and characterisa-dancing in front of their seats is dead set against marrying tions as those in "Mountain Jus-and in the aisles tice the First National melodrama There was such confusion in the co-starring Josephine Hutchison cinema that a riot call brought ten and George Breat, which opens at mounted pollee and scores of foot the Queen's Theatre today.

places and people in the United

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY ar 2.30, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ONLY

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION ON THE SCREEN

"Constance BENNETT

DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY Qocar

HOMOLKA

EVERYTHING THUNDER

Production."

ON THE STAGE

AT ALL PERFORMANCES

TABLE TENNIS EXHIBITION

by

WORLD CHAMPION TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS M. SZABADOS AND I. KELEN TODAY

AT 5 P.M. ONLİ

MISS DAISY O'KEEFE DANCING DISPLAY

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN PO, KOWLOON-DARY AT 2,30:570.330 & 4,35 -TEL. 56885

SHOWING TODAY

THE BUGHOUSE COULDN'T HOLD EN... SO WE PUT 'EM IN THIS SHOW!

MARY BOLAND HUGH HERBERT FRANK MCHUGH CAROL HUGHES ALLEN JENKINS MISCHA AUER

with Alan Mowbray Teddy Hart

Marry the Girl

& Wristers

NEXT CHANGE

"YOU'RE A SWEET HEART"

A'ion Faye

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.30 520 720 930

George Marpby-Andy Devine

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON

TEL. 97222

MATINEES. 20. -30%.° EVENINGS. 20, -308-50%-70%) TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY ! RETURN OF A LONG AWAITED "OLD FAVOURITE"!

"WHEN LOVE HITS ME, I'LL START WALKING

THREE FEET OFF THE GROUND"

... that's whot she thought! But when it did, it hit her so hord, she didn't know what struck her!

Adelph Zukur prasentr

Claudette COLBERT

THE GILDED LILY:

with

Fred MacMurray Ray Milland

C. Aubrey Smith • Edward Craven,

A Yaramount Picture

Directed by Wesley Ruggles

TOMORROW & FRIDAY TWO SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!

ON THE STAGE:

A GRAND VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT!

"THE ASTOR TRIO" and KATIE MAELTZER

SENSATIONAL ACROBATIC AND COMEDY DANCERS 1.

ON THE SCREEN: “

A: DRAMA FULL OF ACTION AND THRILLS! MARGARET LINDSAY · di JEFFREY DEAN

,

in "SONG OF THE CITY

# millionaire. Her idea of con- nubial bliss is a husband who is poor and struggling. someone whose hardships she can share. police, who tried vainly to quieten She thinks she has found the The picture brings home to the music-crazed mob.

man of her dreams, but when he audiences the fact that there are "GET HOT! SWING IT" turris out to be a wealthy English Psychologists described the nobleman travelling incognito in |States whose codes and standards scenes, as "perfect examples of the United States she drops him

are entirely different from those of mob behaviour." and compared in a hurry. more populous communities. them with those at religious re- The resulting publicity she

Miss Hutchison plays a young (vival meetings.

receives brings the obscure little Bedlam girl from a remote hill Hamlet who

broke loose in the secretary into the limelight and has had a brief interlude of lie cinema as soon as the swing or makes her the most sought-after in the outside world, so that she chestra conducted by Benny Good-woman on two continents. realizes the ignorance, fanaticism man started playing.

A highspot of the picture is and unhealthiness of her native Swept by the music into | Miss Colbert's singing of a ‚ZER, backwoods community."

hysteria, people danced in the song "Something About Ro- She aspires to remedy these cinema's aisles, and some even mance." conditions but her cruel, ignorant leapt on the stage, dancing the father is against her. He is set Big Apple, and screaming loudly.they're all writhing in unison. against all "furrin" ways. He does "Get hot!" yelled a young girl Their screams are like the noise of Two special stamps to comme- not hesitate to cuff his daughter leaping from her seat and flinging excited goats.

morate the 250th anniversary of or even to lash her with a bull- herself into a wild execution of the "Most of the audiences are young Emanuel Swedenborg are to be

Imprisonment" for debt may be MOTHER OF MICHAEL ARLEN

whip.

Big Apple. "Bwing it!" "Feed it and are maturing sexually with no issued by the Swedish post office. There is a

outlet for their emotional urges. final struggle. In out!" screamed others:

Swedenborg, famous

abolished in New Brunswick, if a Mme. Kouyoumdjian, mother of the family to England he was only this, nghting for her life. Miss Etanding in the aisle with "Music and the darkened thea-religious doctrine and

a recommendation by the Barristers' Mr. Michael Arlen, the novelist, five years of age. After his educa Hutchison kills the miserable old notebook the noted psychologist, tre have broken down their in-prominent scientist, was born on Society here is adopted.

tion at Malvern College he became died recently at Southport,

Dr. George-Vetter of New York hibitory checks. Played in this Jan. 29, 1688. a naturalised British subject and "Mountain Justice" is perhaps University, commented:...

atmosphere music is just as power- The stamps. of the 10 oere and prisoned, and not many of these She was an Armenian

whose for literary purposes changed his the best thing Josephine Hutchin-

EXCITED GOATS

ful in its effect on the nervous one crown denominations (about remain in gaol for more than a husband established a business in name.

"I've seen food riots and strikes, system an whisky.”

days. Bon, has done for the screen, ever

14. and 1-), have been designed by few

Hundreds or debt Manchester many years before the His mother, who was widowed, exceeding her notable work in “Oil, but I've never seen the mob mind A cinema oficial said: "I think the Swedish artist Torsten cases, however, are heard" in the war. When Mr. Aried came with leaves four sons and one daughter: For the Lamps of China.”

working so beautifully. Note how they're Just plain nuts!”

Schonberg..

province- every” month,

FRI.

KAY

FRANCIS in "TROUBLE IN PARADISE"

tyrant.

A

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER THRILLER.

SWEDENBORG STAMPS

for

his

alse

PRISON FOR DEBT May Be Abolished In New Brunswick

In fact, few debtors are im-

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