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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 230·5·13·7·20 & 9:30 - TEL.31453 FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

THE VOICE THE WORD ADORES THE THRILL, OF A GAY ROMANCE SET TO FRIML'S MUSIC!

"Tito Gay Desperado" Gayıı Than

With masle by

RUDOLF FRIML

Iver With Holly.Nino MARTINI

wood's Girl of

Tour Dreams

and other great composers

ADDED:

TO-MORROW

Warner Bros. Picture

4 SHOWS

.DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-9.30

in His Amm

MUSIC For MADAME Jon FONTAINE

ALAN MOWBRAY BILLY GILBERT ALAM HALE GRANT MITCHELL

ERIK RHODES - LEE PATRICK ROMO VINCENT,

"SELF-CONTRO." with DONALD DUCK

A Walt Disney Coloured Cartoon

GEORGE BRENT

H

ANITA LOUISE THE GO-GETTER" Based on Peter B, Kyne's Fimed Story of "CAPPY RICKS"

TAKE ANY TRAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUR

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

GENERAL

Malaria The Greatest Enemy Of Greece

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The Awful Truth" QUEEN'S:—

" "Music For Mudaine" ORIENTAL:-

"Thrill Of A Late Time"

Kowloon

ALHAMBÏA:-

"Life Of The Party"

STAR:-

"Perfect Specimen"

MAJESTIC:-

"Melody For Two"

Coming

"The Women Men Marry”

KING'S:-

QUERN'S:-

"The Go-Getter"

"Back In Circulation"

ORIENTAL:-

ALHAMBRA

"Wild And Woolly'

FLEMING

ROAD WANCHAT

STAR:-

TEL 28473]

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

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FORTIFYING A NEW GIBRALTAR OF THE EAST!

A DOZEN OF THE SCREEN'S CRAZIEST. COMICS!

In a grand show of music, song 'and (duri ter.

· Adolph Lobor provata

THRILL of a LIFETIME

The YACHT CLUB BOYS JUDY CANOVA - BEN BLUE BETTY GRABLE JOHNNY DOWNS ELEANGHE WHITNEY • LEIF ERIKSON

DOROTHY LAMOUR LARRY CRABBE

The world's' traziosi comica "giving you the time of their lives!)

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United Artists

Helensa

BRIAN AHERNE

MERLE OBERON in "BELOVED ENEMY"!

JANE WITHERS' MERRIEST

But Quinine Curbs Frightful Scourge

In spite of all the knowledge that has been acquired during centuries of learning and the costly measures that have been taken for dealing with malaria, this malady still remains one of the most terrible-If not the most terrible-enomics of humanity. In olden It was thought that times, before quinine was known, and when

certainly the every illness as a sign of God's wrath, malaria was greatest scourge that affected the health and accounted for the death of so many people, belig-in this respect-- even more fatal than the plague.

Ancient Egypt and Palestine were severely affected by malaria.

But the death roll was not to be DIARY OF LOCAL

compared with the ruin created by malaria in ancient Greece; „"

We learn from the writings o historians that during the fish century, BC a severe epidemic of malaria broke out which ravag.. ed and decimated the population of Attica, especially in Athens which at that time stood in the midst of marshes. This was the beginning of the end.

EVENTS

+

TODAY

Anniversaries and

St. Francis of Pauia,

Holidays.

Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page

Dances-Central British Assen. Cabaret Dance at Peninsula Hotel; The Great Hippocrates, the Corporals' Club of the Royal Army Car- father of medicine, must have had Medical Corps First Grand

a good knowledge of malaria, fornival Dance at Hotel Cecil, 8.30

treatises he described | p.m. to 1 a.m. his minutely the symptoms of chronic

In

never

"Broadway Melody Of 1938-malaria and shows that people who live in low-lying, damp and hot districts, are sickly, feeble and

and young listless, die manage to bring up their children to adult age. He thinks that t Illness is caused by drinking marshy water.

"Beloved Enemy"

"Ebb. Tide",

MAJESTIC:

"Dead End" "Slave Ship"

THE LIFE OF

THE PARTY

MUSICAL · COMEDY AT ALHAMBRA

Today, two 'thousand years later, Greece is still devastated b the scourge of malaria. But one is no longer powerless to deal wit this malady, for an effective wea pen-quinine-is now available.

The Malaria Commission "of the League of Nations recommends for malarla prophylaxis a daily dose

Malls (See Page 16).

Moon.II Moon, 2nd Day Jewish new Moon.

Whist

Social-Hong Kong Oxford and Cambridge Society Annual Dinner Gloucester Hotel: Cralgengower Cricket Club fortnightly. Drive and Tembola. 9.15 p.m.

Sports(See Page 101. Sunrise. 6.15 ara. Sunset-6.39 p.m.

Tides. High at 09.53 and 22.55. Low at 03.58 and 18.34.

TOMORROW

Moon-III Moon, 3rd. Day. Sunrise.-618 an Sunset.-6.38

grains during the whole p.m.

malarial season, and for treatment

Tides-High at 09.23 and 22.05." a daily dose of 15-18 grains during. 5-7 days. After treatments are not Low at 03.20 and 15.50. streamlined romantic theme given, but all relapses are treated blends with rippling comedy and in the same way as the acute at-

ting melody to make "The Life tack. of the Party," one of the most

Thanks to this powerful medi- scintillating musical comedy enter-cine it will be possible to stamp tainments which is showing at the out malaria, and perhaps Ancient Alhambra Theatre today.

like Grecct.

the legendary Star-studded from the top of Phoenix, will rise from its ashes the cast to the bottom, the Aim more beautiful than ever! nas Joc Penner. Gene Raymond,

Parkyakarkus, Vivtor Moore. Har-

Hilliard Helen' Broderick,

Billy Gilbert. Anr. Miller, Frankiin MELODY FOR TWO

Pangborn. "Ann Shoemaker and Margarget Dumont in the principal

roles.

The story involves the romantic tribulations of a beautiful, girl

Handsome Tenor

LAYING LAWNS

LIKE LINOLEUM

Sheets Of Pre-Sown Seeds

It

PROOF AGAINST

BIRDS

will shortly "be possible to That important question: "Should buy grass seed in sheets, like who, despite the, efforts of an radio stars go into the movies?"inoleum or wallpaper, and to put a new lawn as linoleum ambitious mother to baft a wealthy seems to have been given added down

The laid, states The Times. man with the girl's pulchritudinous testimony cr. the affirmative sides

yesterday at the Majestic Theatre, sheets look like crinkled white charm, seeks a singing career.

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An accident brings together the where the Warner Bros musical paper.

Taey are actually a vegetable songstress and a happy go-lucky comedy "Melody For Two," featur- playboy. who can't affort to take ing James Melton, had its local pre- substance, and it held up to the romance sericusly because of a miere

light are seen to have seeds em- three-million-dollar bequest which "Melody For Two" is a musical bedded in rows three-cights' of an he loses it he marries within three comedy with a new angie-based jinch apart. years.

upon the stiff competition be- The site for the lawn having The six musical hits were tween musical organizations and peen drained and levelled in the written by Allie Wrabel and Herb individuals, especially for the usual way, the sheets are spread. Magidson, Ben Oakland and lucrative spots on the nationwide jover. it and covered with about George Jessel; the screen play was broadcasts that everyone

eight of an inch of Ang soll. written by Viola Brothers Shore, daily or "nightly. That's quite fitting They can be cut with scissors ta Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. for Melton, who has been on ft curved or irregular spaces. and William Setter directed this several of them. R.K.O. Radio Picture.

ORIENTAL THEATRE

PROGRAMME

Excellent Line-up For April

The following schedule of Lea- tures for April, with the dates of screening. is announced by the Oriental Theatre:-

Thrili

with

Lifetime," of a Dorothy Lamour, Larry' Crable and

hears an

18

it is

The owner of the garden then Winifred Shaw, whose husky contralto is familiar to all since walts for the grass, seed to ger- minate. Meanwhile the vegetable her "Lullaby of Broadway,"

decomposing; medlun the other woman," and a dan

sald to disappear entirely within gerous one, too. She has two num- bers, "Jose O'Neill, the

Cubano to three weeks of planting.

There Heel" and "An Excuse For Danc-

appears to be a fature for -pre-50wn seeds, as

Mr. V. ing."

Harley, the inventor, calls them. Looking ahead, one can imagine the idea extending to other parts of the garden besides the lawn.

MUSIC FOR MADAME

The herbaceous border. for example: once certain dificulties about varying seasons and depths cleared for planting have been away-and it is difficult to believe they will prove unconquerable, Weaving a gay romance for in face of such ingenuity as Mr. may one day be Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor the glorious voice of Nino Martini, Hartley's--it

Betty Grabble (1st and 2nd).

"Broadway Melody of 1938," with

(3rd to 5th),

"Night Key" with Borris Kartof, (6th and 7th).

"Wells Fargo," with Joel McCrea and Frances Dee (8th and 9th).

"Kid Galahad," with Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis 10th and 11th),

Martini's Voice

"Music for Madame" showing a feasible to buy a whole border in the Queen's Theatre today. Joan the flat and plant it complete. Fontaine

opposite If flowing shrubs and trees can be persuaded to come to birth cast and deftly in the same way a new age will turned story, and enhanced with have arrived the era of songs that range from operatic ready-to-wear garden.

is featured

With

fine a

Martin

the

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938.—PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY AT 2,30, 5.10 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

THE YEAR'S 'FUNNIEST

SUNNIEST .

BONEVEST OF COMEDIES!

IRENE DUNNE CARY GRANT

NEXT CHANGE M.G M. Pictur-

THE

Awful

*THE

Truth

RALPH BELLAMY ALEXANDER PALET CECIL CONRINORAM

TA LEO McCAREY- PRODUCTION

Directed by Ed McCARET

A Columbia Plature WM-N MEN

MARRY"

with GEORGE MURPHY-JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON

ALHAMBRA

KATHAM RD, KOWLO

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

1.E PENNER GENE RAYMOND

FARKTAKARKUS

VICTOR MOORE HARRIET HILLIARD HELEN BRODERICK, BILLY GÜLSENT

RADIO

ANN MILLEN

The Greatest Comedy Cast Ever Assembled For One Picture!

The LIFE OF THE PARTY

· SEX SWELL SOMBS!....... A Motime of lauri...A the romance and "glamaqt and stating trainass Your toujlag hear! ezu stand!

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HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY "

A Walt Blaney Technicolour Cartoon

JANE

WITHERS. in

WILD & WOOLLY?".

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

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A SWELL MUSICAL CO EUY FULL OF LAUGHTER

MELODY FOR 2

«. The manmechs of

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rock the world with

laughter and song?.......

JAMES MELTON-PATRICIA ELLIS

MARIE WILSON - FRED KEATING-DICK PURCELL - WINIFRED SHAWN Craig Reynolds: Charles Foy Gordon EMion=SECTED BY LOUIS KINGA Warner Bros. Pictures MUSIC AND LYRICS BY HALY WARREN E AL DUBIN AND M. I'RHOME & JACK SCHOLE

TOMORROW &

MONDAY

THE MOST EXCITING GANGSTER DEAMA OF THE BEASON!

SYLVIA SIDNEY

.

JOEL MCUREA in "DEAD END”

A UNITED ARTISTS' PICTURE

CAPPY RICKS

YARN

CANADA 1938

That brascible but lovable old Official Handbook of character created by Useful Facts Out West." with Stan selections to modern ballads, the Then anyone too busy. or lazy Peter B. Kyne, Cappy Ricks, comes

"Way Laurel and Oliver Hardy only).

(12th

make the

to make his own garden will be

seafaring

picture promises to noted Italian singer even more of invited to choose one from the to life on the screen in "The Go- THE result of an effort to sur- current Canadian which opens at the ves Getter,"

the Pattern booka or, "Mountain Justice" with José-a screen favorite than his former seedsmen's

Queen's Theatre tomorrow.. situation-comprehensively but at Aims "Here's To Romanice" and preferably, visit their showrooms phine Hutchinson and George

Charles Winninger, well remem- the same time succinctly-in a The. Gay Desperado."

jand

see the full-size garden Brent (13th and 14th).

bered as the Cap'n Andy of both popular and attractive form, an "Married Before Breakfast," with Hollywood forms the settling of itself hanging on the wall-like

the stage and screen versions of official handbook entitled "Canada Messrs. French's sheets of scenery Robert Young and Horence: Rice the story.

"Show Boat," plays, Cappy in this 1938" has just been issued by the (15th and 14th).

With the story especially written for amateur theatricals-nicely "High Flyers, with Wheeler and to fit his talents, Martini scores coloured to show how it ought delightful picture. George Brent Canadian Bureau of Statistics.

Giving A brief and readable Woolsey (17th and 18th).

brilliantly. Joan Fontaine, RKO to look when the seeds buried and Anita Louise carry the roman- tic interest of the show, But

form the statistical record of the A wild buckaroo out where the midnight chasing city gangsters "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." with Radio's new "discovery," protrays in the paper have come up. neither can steal away the au- recent progress and present econo-

dience's affection for old Cappy.

mic condition of the Dominion, West begins. "Ginger" Jane With-on a stagecoach and roping young Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur (19th the heroine in charming fashion,

Apart from the starring trio.

this book provides a well-rounded ers begins where the wild West lovers into romance, Jane packs only).

The RAMC. Corporals Club the cast includes such players as picture of Canada today, from the leaves off in her merriest comedy, plenty of action into the film. "Wild and Woolly," which opens The story deals with the peren-Henry Fonda (20th and 21st).

"Daughter of Shanghal" with will hold its first carnival dance at Henry O'Neill, John Eldredge. at the Alhambra Theatre tomorrow, nial efforts of Jane's grandfather,

Riding runaway trains, getting played by Walter Brennan, to de- John Boles and Jack Cakic (22nd Anna May Wong (27th and 28th), the Hotel Cedi tomorrow evening Joseph Crehan, Gordon Oliver. Atlantic to the Pacifc.

"Ever Since Eve," with Marion from 8.39 pm to 1 am. Jimmy Eddle Acuff, Herbert Rawlinson, her gun-toting grandfather, into a feat a candidate for sheriff and to 23rd).

Thin Ice." with Sonja Henie Davis. and Herbert Bogart (29th and His Boys, from HMS. Suffolk, Mary Treen. Helen Lowell, Helen duci, acaring the wits out of the folling by Jane and her friends

Valkia and Minerva Urecal, will supply the music. and Tyrone Power (24th to 28th)., and 30th), tenderfoot pals in a graveyard at of an attempted bank robbery,

"Blim." with Pat O'Brien' and

with "Tighht for Yur Lady,"

Copiously illustrated, its low cost makes

possible the use of this publication on a large scale.

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