1938-04-15 — Page 5

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 230-513-7·20 & 9:30 TEL. 31453

TODAY AND TOMORROW The Laugh Riot Of The Year With Versatile Katharine Hepburn As An Unpredictable Madcap & Cary (The Awful Truth) Grant Sharing The Fun!

·

Laugh-Riddled Romancel;

RADIO

THIS IS

MARY"

ADDED:

.

KATHARINE

CARY

* HEPBURN GRANT

fu @HOWARD HAWKS Production

Bringing "Up Baby

wA CHARLIE RUGGIES, Sorry Fitzgerald,

May Robson, Walter Catlett, Fritz Fold

Walt Disney's BOAT, BUILDERS"

with Mickey Mouse" DOWALD DOCK

SUNDAY

Bob Burns Jack Oakie. Kenny Baker - Ann Miller in RKO-Radio's Rousing Laugh & Rhythm Show

RADIO CITY REVELS"

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-9-30

DAYS

TALE ANY TRAN DA HAPPY VALLEY BUI

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD HANGHAI

TEL 28473

2ONLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW•

THESE FAMOUS CONTINENTAL COMEDY ARTISTS HE ENGAGED FOR TWO MORE DAYS! Appearing on the stage at all performances in an estire change of comedy and acrobatic dances.

SPROTAL, VABBEVILLE! NO ADVANC

IN PRI ES!

KYRA-ROBY-HARRY

GENERAL

TODAY AT THE New J. C. J. L. Far East Liner

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"The Hurricane.”

QUEEN'S :—

"Bringing Up Baby"

ORIENTAL:

"Married Before Breakfast”

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Alcatraz Island"

STAR:-

"Wake Up And Live"

MAJESTIC-

"A Day At The Races"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Dark Journey"

QUEEN'S:

"Radio City Revels"

ORIENTAL:--

"High Flyers" ALHAMERA:—

"Radio City Revels"

STAR:-

"Breakfast For Two"

MAJESTIC:

"Broadway Melody Of 1938"

Criminals Of The Alr"

The keel for a new liner for the

Displacement will be 17,150 tons

| Java-China-Japan Line was laid while the engine will be a Stork- on March 5 on the slipways of the Hesselman double-function, two- Netherlands Shipbuilding Com-stroke motor of 8.000 horsepower, pany. Holland. The new vessel, which will enable the ship to go, of 17,000 tons capacity, will be even when fully loaded. at a ready in February 1939 and will speed of 15 miles an hour. be put on the express service...be- Accommodation will be provid- tween Hatavia and Amoy. via ed for 64 first class passengers. Hong Kong and Mantia.

55 second class "A" passengers. Named the "Tsitjalengka." the 100 second, class "B" passengers new ship will be 480 feet in length and about 1,200 deck passengers, with a width of 66 feet and a depth. measured up to the upper deck, of 40 feet.

*SAMPLING HIS MASTER'S VICE

Ship and engines will be bullt according to Lloyd's Al specifica- tions..

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938. -PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 6.10. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

FOR HER LOVE HE FOUGHT

through miles of raging ocean,” ha defied man's law..A turbulent, story of primitive passions by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty"

SAMBEL GOLDWYN

presants

THE HURRICANE

wich

Dorothy LAMOUR • Jon ́HALL Mary ASTOR • C. Aubrey SMITH Thomas MITCHELL Raymond MASSEY

Directed by

Enlaced thru

•

JOHN FORD UNITED ARTISTS

ALSO LATEST WALT DISNEY'S CARTOON IN TECHNICOLOUR "MAGICIAN MICKEY"

NEXT CHANGE United Artists

DARK JOURNEY with CONRAD VEIDT-VIVEN LLIGH

J!

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AÐ, HOWLOON. DAILY AT":

TODAY &

9,30 #TEL, 56666

TOMORROW

ALCATRAZI THE FEAR OF ALL RACKET-ERS!

Here Is The World's Most Dreaded

ISLAND

SEE America's angry answer

to gangland's ruthless challangef

SEE why every rat in the U. S. A.

lives in deadly fear of Alcatrax!

SENSATIONAL

COMEDY ACROBATIC DANCERS

SPECIAL FOR TODAY! FREE TO THE LADIES!

Every lady will receive a special trial tube of Richard Hndant's "Three Flower Vanishing Cream.

|ALSO SHOWING EXTRAORDINARY SCREEN PRODUCTION!

A COMEDY WITH A THO SAND LAUGHS

He had a fortune to share...

she had o heart to lose! Wait till you "see

the bargain they make... and the riot they

cause... in the season's hoppiest, romance!

MARRIED BREAKFAST

ROBERT YOUNG • FLORENCE RICE JUNE CLAYWORTH - BARNETT PARKEE Sween Play by George Oppenheimer and Everon Freeman Directed by Edwin 1. Marin • Produced by SAM ZIMBALIST

Meto Follwyn

Mayt

Ястия

◆ MATINEES: 20-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c. ☺

DAILY AT

2.30

5-20

720

920

STAR

TODAY AND TOMORROW

HANKOW

ROAD KOWLOON TEL 57795

SWELEGANT WAKE UD

AND LIVE

The Most

di

GALAMOROUS,

GALORIOUS,

HOWLARIOUS

MUSICAL EVAH!

BUNDAY

RKO-Radio

Pioturo"

SHO WO‘A

THE

OF

SHOWS!

ALTER

WINCHELL

BEN BERNIE ALICE FAYE

PATSY KELLY --HEN -

-SPARKS - MACK MALEY

Barbara Stanwyck - Herbert Marshall

· BREAKFAST ́FOR

TWO"

“HURRICANE” IN HONG KONG

PRISON STORY IS AT THE ALHAMBRA

CURIOSITY Lad a cit, bus ikia deg survived a kout with a bestle the other day. 1. 1 mont Et the hotties of this 2. Um-mellan 1. And taste nien! *4. I. obertainly ish_nieb? 5. How long have X' been salnap!. Well, if nobody's looking mi In Dale và như men thì an Las do

BEAUTY BOOTHS ROUND THE WORLD. COMPLETING the links in a chain

of beauty salons encircling the world, Mr. and Mas. Thomas M. West, beauty specialists from the "Alcatraz Island." 1 Warner

Max Factor Make-Up Studios, Bros. melodrama, is

to have its Hollywood, California, are at pre first local showing today at the

sent in Hong Kong. Alhambra Theatre.

of

DIARY OF LOCAL

M

Page).

EVENTS

TODAY

Music,

of

Joseph's

Anniversaries and Holidays:—— Good Friday. General Holday. S. S. Titanic foundered, 1912, They are finalising arrangements

Cluemas-(See Column 3 of this It is said the story isn't merely for the establishment of beauty ons of life behind the stone walls booths in two of the Colony's lead-

Entertainments: --Concert Pacific-washed

Religious

St. prisoning emporiums. the There's plenty of action on the The idea behind this world-wide Church, 8.03 pm. mainland, both before and after scheme, Mr. West explained yester- Mall-(See Page 16). the protagonistone Gat Brady. day, is to provide ladies with the Meetings:-Helena May Chris- played by John Litelis 'confined latest information about make-up tian Fellowship, 10.30 a.m.

Miscellaneous:--United Open what to use and how to use it. for income-tax evasion

The story itself deals with a Mr. and Mrs. West are staying Air Demonstration of Christian powertul racketeer, (John Litel), at the Repulse Bay Hotel and Witness, opposite Alhambra Thea- who is forced to remove his daugh- probably will leave on May 1 for tre, 11.30 a.m.; "The Passion of ter (Mary Maguire), from an ex-Salgon. From there they will go Our Lord according to St. Mark." clusive boarding school, and take to Singapore and Java

her to live with him. When he is

Imprisoned for income tax evasion.

his one wish is to get out as soon

as his term is up to rejoin his GLASGOW EMPIRE daughter, now in love with a dis-

trict attorney (Gordon Oliver) and his Own Aweetheart (Ann Sheridan),

How this desire is thwarted time and again by a former mobman accking revenge brings us through

EXHIBITION

King Suggests Site For Opening Ceremony

London, April 13.

sung by United Choirs of St. John's Cathedral and St. Andrew's Church, 9 p.m.

Moon:-Full Moon, 2.21 8.m, 1

Moon, 15th Day.

Religious:-Adoration

of the

Cross all day; Three Hours Service of the Passion at St. John's Cathe- dral, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; "The Seven Words" in English, et Rotary Charch, Kowloon, 3 p.m.; Preach- ing of "The 14 Stations, of the A site for the opening ceremony Cross" at Catholic Cathedral. 6 the various prisons in the story. jof the Empire Exhibition In pm.; Procession with the Etatue thus forming as powerful a back-Glasgow has been suggested by of the "Dead Christ" att, ground as has been seen in a long the King, declared the President Tereza's Church, B p.m. while.

of the Exhibition, at a luncheon of Social:-Cheero Club Contract "Alcatras Island" was directed the Royal Empire Society yester-Bridge, 8 pm; Whist Drive and by William McCann, from an day.

Tombola in R.B.W.O's and Bergts' Mesa, Wellington Barracks, 9 p.m.

Sports-(Bes Page 10). Sunrise: 6.04 am. Sunset: 60.43

..

original screen play by Crane His Majesty has suggested the Wibur. Included in the cast are Rangers Football Club ground be Dick Purcell, Vladimir Sokolo, used for the opening ceremony so Ben Welden, Addison Richards, that 100,000 spectators, which the Peggy Bates, Ellen Clancy and Club's ground could accemmodate, George E. Stone.

would be able to be present. (Reuter Bulletin).

1938 BROADWAY MELODY

As a holiday feature, the Majes- tic Theatre will screen the popular

Dorothy Lamour and "Jon Hall produced by James Basevi. the "Broadway Melody of 1938" tomor- take the leading roles in United genius who created the earthquake row. Artists "The Hurricane showing to "San Francisco."

Terangl

ין

TOLL OF ROAD IN BRITAIN

London, April 13. The number of deaths on the road The picture stars Robert Taylor in Britain during the first three

a

..

Tides High at 09.35 and 22.40. Low at 03.10 and 15.56...

"TOMORROW

Moon---III Moon, 18th, Day. Sunrise: 6.05 a.m. Sunset:-8,43

Tider:-"High at 09.03 and 21.56 Low at 02.40 and 15.16.

"

CHINA RECOGNISES ANSCHLUSS

Berlin, April 13. The Chinese Ambassaör, has in- fornied the Foreign Office that

ALCATRAZ ISLAND

A COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION

A First National Picture

SUNDAY

"RADIO CITY REVELS"

BOB BURNS—KENNY BAKER-JACK OAKIE-ANN. MILLER

An R.K.O. Picture

7308 30

MAJESTIC

ETHEATRE

NATHAN ROAD

KOWE.COM

TEL. STEIT

(MATINEES. 20%-30%• EVENINGS. 20.-30.50«70).

TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY !

„THE GODFIEST, CRAZIEST, COCKEYEDEST

COMEDY OF THE YEAR!

MUSIC AND

ני

#;

OroMADNESS AND GIRLS AND GUFFAWS!

MARX BROS

Chico

Harpo

A DAY af the RACES

with ALLAN JONES ** MAUREEN Ð'SULLIVAN

COMMENCING TOMORROW

THE GREATEST OF ALL THE "BROADWAY MELODIES"! ROBERT TAYLOR

ROBANDS POWBL in "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938"

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER SUPER - PRODUCTION I

at the King's Theatre today. They The picture is produced by Samuel play the parts of Marama and Goldwyn, adapted from Charles and Eleanor Powell, the famous months this year were 1,199, which Nordhoff and James Norman Hall'stap-dancer, and the supporting is 53 more than in the first three. It is a picture of native love, saga. The cast includes Mamo cast includes such well-known months last year. ....

players as Sophis Tucker," George The number of persons injured | China has decided to recognise the JON HALL is the native bridegroom whispering sweet nothings. drama, and is known for its ple Chark, Morita Castenada, C. Aubrey Murphy, Binnie Barnes, Buddy were 3,000 higher than the corres- anschluss, and will replace its to his bride, Dorothy Lamour in this scene from Samuel Goldwyn's turesque setting and the amazing Smith, Mary Astor, Raymond Ehsen wille Howard Charles ponding period last year, which Legation at Vienns with Con-The Hurricane" at the King's Theatre tomorrow. Al Kikue com- spectacular climax. The hurricane. Massey, John Carradine arid Grapewin and Raymond Walburn stood around 45,500/-(Reuter);" |sulate Gene with its fail destructive power, Jerome 'Cowan,

-(Router).

| plates the picture.”~~*

Page 5Page 6