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SHOWING TODAY 0 The One Picture Of The Year You Won't Forget! Enthralling. Romantic. Comical!
Gay.
CLAUDETTE
COLBERT
and CHARLES
IT'S ROMANTIC! IT'S GAY! IT'S A PARIS, HOLIDAY!
BOYER TOVARICH
The comedy
that conquared
25 countries... at last reaches the screen!
** – tonighi's
night!"
BASIL RATHBONE ANITA LOUISE KELVILLE COOPER » IVANEL JEANS #aerie Carzarety 'Victor Eili AN ANATOLE LITVAK PROD'N
A WARNER BROS. PICTURE
Streca Play by Cawy Rokinuan Adapted from the Play by Jacq Theval - English Venina by Robert E, Sherwood Manie by Man Steiner
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BIS
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD HANGHAI
TEL 29473
PLAST 4 TIMES TO DAY.
YOUR FIGHTING HERO GOES TO SEA I
A rousing drama of yacht racing and a terrific battle with desperate ocean outlaws
FIGHTING ACTION AND EXCITEMENT EVERY MINUTE!
Roaring Adventure on
the Raging Seal
GEORGE O'BRIEN
WINDJAMMER
2 DAYS ONLY
TOMORROW & MONDAY
DON'T MISS THE SEASON'S GRANDEST COMEDY! The man who wrote "It Happened One Night" panica the world with another great comedy hit,
AN ALL STAR CAST PRESENT PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT!
ERROL FLYNN THE PERFECT SPECIMEN
JOAN BLONDELL
NDES HERBENT - LAW. EVĚKÉTT HORTON - DICK FORAN - BEVERLY FORKETS. MAY ROBSON - ALLEN
·ENKINE• Slovana na machKES, CURTIS A FLOST MATINONG MICVURE Smoked by WARNER BROS.
JOAN, YA COT
SOMETHING THERE!
SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY ! ONE DAY ONLY !
Jeanells
MACDONALD NELSON EDDY
Maytime
• MATINEES: 20c.-30e • EVENINGS: 20c-30e.-50c.-70c. →
GENERAL
GOVERNOR OF MACAO ENTERTAINED
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"52nd Street". QUEEN'S:-
**Tovartch"
ORIENTAL:-
"Wind Jammer"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:---
""Tovarich"
STAR:
“Stowaway"
MAJESTIC:-
"Thunder In The City"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Dead End".
QUEEN'S:-
"Victoria The Great"
ORIENTAL:-
""The Perfect Specimen" "May Time"
ALHAMBRA:-
"Blossoms On Broadway"
STAR:--
"Theodora Goes Wild" "The King Steps Out" MAJESTIC:-
"Public Enemy's Wife"
FAMOUS. STAGE PLAY NOW ON SCREEN
Tovarich" Is Splendid Comedy Drama "
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After a min of several years in New York, London. Parts and various other world capitals as a stage play, "Tovarich," a comedy dealing with a Grand Duchess and a Prince who were exiled from their native Russia by the revolu- tion, now comes to the screen It will have its Arst local showing today at the Queen's and Alhambra theatres.
Claudette Colbert plays the Grand Duchess and Charles Boyer the Prince. Other notable perfor- mers in the cast include Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Morris Car- novsky. Montagu Love. Reine Riano and Heather Thatcher.
Although the main characters are Russian, all the action of the picture takes place in Paris, to which city the erst-while nobles have fled.
They have brought with them. in trust, 40 billion francs in gold. They become servants in the home of a rich Frenchman in order to Live, and the story revolves around the efforts of various elements to get hold of the fortune, which the Grand Duchess and the Prince will not touch themselves.
EXTRAS HAVE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
"52nd Street" Studio Holiday
The Walter Wanger studios cer- tainly made te pleasant for Holly- wood extras during the timing of "S2nd 'Street," which is showing at the King's Theatre today.
The new Wanger production in- cludes a half-dozen night club se- quences that call for several hund- red side-line patrots on each oc- casion.
Not only were the extras enter- tained by the musical numbers of Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Sid Silvers, Pat Paterson, Colette Lyons and the array of night club. performers, but an orchestra pro-| vided dancing and the tables were. loaded with real food and filled wine glasses.
"52nd Street" is a new-style:
PARAGRAPHS im musical, the story of which
PERSONAL
Ramsey' the
Master
Jimmy
unwinds along Manhattan's famous swing street..
4.
Mr. and Mrs... F, J, Cellion. two young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. of the most popular residents of Ramsey of Waterloo Road, Kow- Macao, are here on a short visit DOUBTER ATTACKED loon, gave a party to a number of and are staying at the Gloucester his friends on Thursday to mark the Hotel. Mr. Gellion is head of the eleventh anniversary of his birth-Macao Electric Company and is day,
the British Consul in the Portu-
Mr. W. W. Barker, of London, Buese Colony.
Hair Of Prophet's Beard Causes Riot
A man who doubted the gen-
AT LUNCH
Guest Of Sir Vandeleur Grayburn
An informal huncheon party was given by Sir Vandeleur Orayburn,
Chief Manager
of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-
poration, 111
honour of H.E.
Dr. Artur
Tamagnini Dr. Barbosa Barbosa, Governor of Macao, at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday.
The following guests were pre-
sent:-
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Bolidays.--
0 J. Rhodes dled. 1902. St. Emmanuel.'
Claema.(See Column 3 of this
Page)
Dances.-Portuguese Coy.. E.K. Volunteer Defence Corps Dance, At Club Lusitano. 9.30 p.m.; U.S.R.C. Dinner Dance; Flannel Dance at Hotel Cecil, 8.30 p.m.
Entertainments-Variety Show at China Fleet Club Theatre. 9.15
2.m,
Mals-(See Page 18). Miscellaneous-Tennis Party on St. Andrew's Vicarage Lawn. 3 p.m.
Moon- Moon. 25th, Day. Social-Annual Dinner of Por- tuguese Co., Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, at Club Lusitano, T for 7.30 p.m.
Sporta (Bee Page 10). Sunrise. 6.23 3.m. Sunset.-6.36
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geotry Northcote, His Excellency the Governor of Macao. Dr. Artur p.m. Tamagnini Barbosa, Mr.
Alvam Brigadler
Blhante Laborinho, General V. Temudo de Vera, Vice- Admiral Sir Percy Noble.
Mr. N. L. Smith. Mr. D. C. Edmondsten. Mr. F. J. Gellion, Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, Lieut. B. de Abreu, Lieut. Col. Joel Vieira, Capt. S. H. Batty-Smith, Commodore Francisco Ropelo. Lieut. Commander P. Matheser.
VISIT TO THE UNIVERSITY
Tides-High at 16.38.
TO-MORROW
Moon.-II Moon, 28th. Day. Sunrise.-6.24 a.m. Sunset.—8.36
p.m.
Tides-High at 15.03.
UNCLAIMED CABLES
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at Cable and Wire-
At 3 pm. HE the Governor of less, Limited." Macan visited the University of
Hvoro Passenger Kolsarihind; Hong Kong, where Mr. D. J. Sloss, Borcie Gloucester Hotel: Mr. P. P. the Vice Chancellor, received him. F. Peninsula Hotel; Cantonese.
TRAINING GALLOPS
The following times were clocked during the morning gallops at the Race Course yesterday:-
.
Lancashire Lass
Macquarie River
Just in Time Sunlight View Astrik
Potentate
Humdrum Eve King's Bounty Discovery Bay.. King's Lead and
King's Coronation Royal Scot and Jober Courting Eve Valorous
Gold Coin King's Justice Cuban Love
Lily
Wenning
Piet Hein
Rob Roy
SATURDAY,
MARCH 26, 1938.-PAGE 5
KING'S
TODAY ONLY AT 2.3, 5.10 7,16 & 9.30 PM
He's busy and dizzy....... swifty and difty.........that's 32nd Street, the entertain- ment croter of the world! The brightest stars of swingdom sing and dance and jam in the homest Phythm session since tha dawn of time! What s story! What thrillst
STREET
·IAN HUNTER - LEO CARRILLO PAT PATERSON • ELLA LOGAN
SID SILVERS + ZASU PITYS
"
and KENNY BAKER Sersonsley by GROVER JONES
· Directed by HABOLD. YOUNG
RECEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS
Also Mickey Mouse in TechnicoloUR "MICKEY'S PO. () (EAM”
and Colour CARTOON
TOMORROW
UNITED ARTISTA
"THE WORM TURNS” SYLVIA SIDNEY in DEAD
END"
ISTARE
TODAY ONLY
UNDER THE RADIANT
CHINESE MOONI
GORDON & REVEL'S
LATEST SONG HITSI
Good Night MyLove" "I Wanna Go to the Zoa", "A Dreamland Choo Choote Lullaby Town", "You Cotta 5-m-1-1- to be H-a- Double-p-y"""On Never Knows. Does One"
Shirley
TEMPLE
STOWAWAY
ROBERT
ALICE
YOUNG FAYE
IRENE
DUNNE
THEODORE GOES WILD
with MELVYN DOUGLAS
"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHARI ROAD KOWLOOM TSL87222
(MATINÉES. 20« • 30% • EVENINGS, 20.-30.-50 270,
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY DYNAMIC ACTION IN ONE OF THE BEST
BRITISH PICTURES OF THE YEAR!..
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Dis- ist
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2nd Qr.
Last
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Picture
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Cape Comorin
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Honeymoon Eve
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Electron
Sea Urchin Lucky Seven.... Beat That Double Finesse Split Hand and Celebration Day New Star
Charybdis
BLACK.OUT RULES CONTRAVENED
3
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Edward G. ROBINSON
Thunder in the City
Produced bu DIRECLEO,
*** LULI DESTE ALEXANDER ESWAY
chota sa qe, p
به نام نوشی
TOMORROW AND MONDAY WARNER BROS. SHOCK-ORAMMED SEQUEL TO **PUBLIC ENEMY”
"PUBLIC ENEMY'S WIFE with PAT O'BRIEN, MARGARET LINDSAY
CAR TOOTING
ANNOYANCE
A report has been made to the Police by Mr. Cheung Man-sam.
POLISH JEWS EMIGRATE who had been here previously on The Hon. Eulogio Rodriguez, uineness of a hair of Mahomed's Mr. R. Tam, of No. 1 Bufolk a business visit, has returned
Warsaw, March 25. to Secretary of Agriculture and Com- beard caused a riot in Sarajevo, Road, Kowloon Tong, charged with About 1,000 Polish Jews will the Colony again after a short merce and ranking member of the Yugoslavia.
breach of the Black-out regulations leave Poland in the course of this trip to Shanghai. He is staying Cabinet of the Commonwealth of
The hair is the greatest trea- as 8.30 p.m. on the night of Febru-week, according to reports in the at the Gloucester Hotel.
the Philippines. is visiting Hong sure of the Bosnian Moslems and ary 28, failed to appear before Mr. Polish press. A number of these Miss Alerisa Boker and Miss Kong, He was entertained at i la kept in a mosque.
QA. A. Macfadyen at the Kow-emigrants will go to Palestine and Mary A. Brown, both of New York, dinner party at the Hong Kong
The doubter was immediately icon Magistrący yesterday, '..
the rest to Argentina. (Trans- attacked arid beaten by the She pleaded guilty by letter and ocean), arrived in the Colony on Thursday
bystanders. He called for help, was fined $10. by the a... President Cleveland. They FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE and other people took his 'side, Breach of Black-out regulations came from Manila and will be
The forthcoming marriage is an- and joined in the night.
cost Lau Lien and Woo Hoo, It was alleged that the defen-sarily, in staying at the Hong Kong Hotelnounced of Frederick John Willey, Many were injured before the drivers of the Kowloon Motor dants did not have the required cause annoyance, at Nathan Roadters at the Central Magistracy yes- as, to all was fined $5 by Mr. H. & But- until April 1, when they leave for book-keeper, of Blackheads. Tal police were able to restore order. buses No. 93 and 92, the sum of $5 screens over their head lamps and near the Majestic Theatre about terday when he pleaded guilty o 2 short visit to Japan, before koo Dockyard, and Veronica The doubter is being prosequetd cach. Shek Kong-ling, driver of that the lamp bulb of the head 12.55 p.m. on February 24 returning home to New York. Dorothy Thirlwell.
for a breach of the peace.
bus No. 115 was Aned $3.
driving in a road closed to trafię, lights exceeded 20 candle-power.
on March 2
Hotel Roof Garden last night..
Mr. C. Figueirco, of No. 1 Peace editor, that a metal watch with a Avenue, appeared before Mr. Q. A cold appendage belonging to him A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Mabas either been lost or stolen. gistracy yesterday 'on a charge of using the horn of his car unneceș-
such a manner
A fine of $3 was imposed.
Second-Lieutenant J. G. Chiver-
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