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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

GENERAL

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS IN

QUEENS SHANGHAI WIPED OUT BY WAR

·DAILY AT 2:30·515·7·208 9:30 -TEL.3/455

OPENING TODAY • YOU'LL BE MAD ABOUT HONG KONG'S MOST POPULAR NEW SWEETHEART ... DEANNA WHO SINGS THE SONGS THE WHOLE WORLD LOVES I

DURBIN ....

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.305.15 7.15-9.30

DAYS

DEANNA DURBIN

NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

MAD ABOUT MUSIC

Herbert MARSHALL

GAIL PATRICK

ARTHUR TREACHER

William Frawley

**Spank 'ANG RAM on HAPPY VALLEY BUB-

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD

TEL 28473

2ONLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

A FUNNY SHOW OF LOVE," LAUGHTER AND SONGY.

With a wrestling match at one end and a 'duel at the other you'll get a flood of laughs and punches.

With the deft touch of an elephant . . .

Oakie the fixer steps

into their troubled love affair, and sets everything rior!

Hear him sing...in this laugh- riddled romance of kn opera star who fell for an enchantresz.

Directed by Bar Stool Produced by Albert Lewis

Ham

JOHN

BOLES

JACK

DAKIE

Fight FOR YOUR LADY

a play by Screen Pond.. EXOVENDIO PICTURE

Emen! For Herald.

IDA LUPINO Mahçʊf GRAHAME

Gordon Jones Erik Rhodes Billy Gilbert Pout Guilfoyle

STARTING SUNDAY

THE SCREEN'S MOST GORGEOUS ICE SPECTACLE!

SONJA HENIE in "THIN ICE"

● MATINEES: 20c.-30c

DAILY AT

2:30

520

720

920

EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c.-70c.

STAR

TODAY ONLY

GARBO

ROBERT

TAYLOR CAMILLE

with

LIONEL BARRYMORE BUZABETHALLAN - JESER RALPH" POKEY DANIELI » LINDILI ULING LAURA HOPE CLOYS Direcipe by Dearga Cukur Alena Goktunya Maya

TOMORROW >

M.G.M. PICTURE

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL 57795

THRILL of THRILLS!

Garbo in the arms of Robert Taylor1 A love, drama your heart will never, forgell

Joan Crawford

Robert Montgomery

NO MORE LADIES

mittances by overseas Chinese for

ان

TODAY AT THE Metropolis In Ruins As

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KING'S:

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"Double Wedding"

QUEEN'B -

"Mad About Music"

ORIENTAL:-

"Fight For Your Lady"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Ever Since Eve"

STAR:-

*Camlile"

MAJESTIC :-)

"Married Before Breakfast"

KING'S:--

Coming

Nine Days A Queen! QUEENS

Spring Parade”

ORIENTAL:-

*Thin Ice"

ALHAMBRA:--

STAR:

"Mad About Music" "Romance In The Dark"

**No More Ladies"

MAJESTIU:-

"Big City"

Japanese Strut Shamelessly Across Dark History

(This is the first of a series of three articles by

a special Correspondent who has just returned from a tour of North China).

NEVER BEFORE in the history of any conflict between two, na. tions has there been such a pitiable and woeful tale of war- crazed atrocity, plunder, pillage and cruelty on the part of the in- vader as in the, present Sino-Japanese war.

That is the conclusion I' havearrived at after a tour of North China over a period of two months.

I started on my tour from Hong Kong in one of the numerous coasting vessels that ply between the North and the South of China, the long stops at the various ports giving me ample opportunity to see for myself the real state of affairs in each place and the reac- tion on the people.

In the course of my trip I met and discussed the present hos- tilities with several influential men of both countries and what they had to say was at the same time illuminating and surprising. At Swatow, great anxiety is still Shanghal, the city which at folt over the likelihood of D one time over overflowed with Japanese invasion of the south. wealth-a city where every man The town is by no means as and woman had chance of crowded as it was in normal making a ving-13 today a dif- times, thousands of its inhabi-ferent place. tants having fled to Hong Kong, Business men look woefully "at:

Merchants in the city speak of you when you ask them about the effect this exodus has had on prasent-conditions.-The-Tanks-of↑ trade and all business but, are vagrants have been increased by nevertheless, just able to make those who lost everything they ends meet in their struggle for possessed during the fighting. Everyone tells you that Shanghai Here the tourist gets his first will never be the same city again.

ARMED SENTRIES to resist the Japanese invader.

The bridges leading from the

tected by sandbags and at various kew

are guarded by Japanese street corners sandbag shelters for armed sentries, and though per- mission has been given those y- Chinese troops, though not injing in Hongkew to return there

numbers. are large

frequently conditions are more or less in-

TOGETHER FOR existence.

THIRD TIME IN impression of preparations made

NEW LAUGH HIT All important buildings are pro- International Settlement to Hong-

Teaming Robert Young and Florence Rice for the third time. "Married Before Breakfast." direct- ed by Edwin L Marin, opens at the Majestic Theatre today for a 2 showing.

gun-posts have been erected

seen on the streets, but I was of tolerable for everyone except, of course unable to learn how far couse, the Japanesė.

As Tom Wakefield, a care-free able to hold cut against a landing bridge connecting Szechven Road the defences of the town would be- I stood for "one hour on the young Inventor. Young becomes

with North Szechuen Boad in enmeshed in a series of laugh-pro- by the Japanese.

From all I was able to learn, Honrkew. voking adventures with Kitty

Every Chinese W25 Brent, played by Miss Rice. Bar-however, there is not much like-stopped by a Japanese sentry and nett Parker, as Young's valet, is hood of an Invasion of the south his pass closely scrutinised; but responsible for much of the comby the Japanese at the moment what amazed me was that every edy. Other featured roles inculde they have their hands too full Chinese had to remove his bat June Clayworth as June Bayiin, with events in the North to think and kowtow to these sentries be-

of even extending their opera-fore approaching them. socially prominent finances of Wakefield; and Hugh Marlowe as tions to the south.

Cars, rickshaws, cycles and a Kenneth. the

SHANGHAI CONTRAST

conveyances had to stop beau of Kitty Brent.

And so on to Shanghai-and | examination and questioning by Patrons of the Majestic Theatre what a contrast to the Bhanghai the sentries a few were, turned will have the opportunity of seeing as I saw it for the first time in back for some reason or other. Kyra Roby and Harry, famous | Apeli 1937)

Continued on Page 11) Continental dancers, featured in a The newspapers told the world complete change of programme.

insurance-selling

as well as they could what the in-

for

These dancers have appeared habitants of the Parts of the East DIARY OF LOCAL

terrible

with great success at the Hong suffered during the Kong Hotel, and their first per-months last year when the formance in the Peninsula should Japanese launched their offensive not be missed.

against this great Chinese city, where nationals of every country in the world have business inter-

REUNION OF TWO ents.

COMEDY STARS

EVENTS

TODAY

Auniversaries and Holidays.- Today, when one views the Catholic "Mission first established scenes of destruction around the in Hong Kong. 1841. Fr. Theodore hub of this great business centre," Joset

first Prefect Apostolic.

Based on the stage auccess by one cannot but shudder at what Jewish Passover. 7th day- Ferenc, Molnar, famous Hungarian must have transpired there dur- dramatist.

"Double Wedding." ing the height of the fighting. with William Powell and Myrna Loy in the leading roles, opens at

the King's Theatre today."

"SNOW WHITE"

Auctions Household Furniture, iat Latimert's H. Bales Room,

2.30 punt

Cinemas (Bee Column 3 01.

These two stars, who have gain- OPENS ON MAY 6 this Page);

ed a large following. through their good work in "The Thin Man" and other pictures, continue in the present film in the romantic comedy tradition which has been such a success with audiences.

up

Powell plays an itinerant artist and Miss Loy a dress designer. The latter's friends try to break the unconventional attach- ment; and how the two pull through against all obstacles makes splendid entertainment.

DEANNA DURBIN IS “MAD ABOUT MUSIC"

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Walt Disney's first full length feature pic- ture, will be released in Ilong Kong on Friday, May 6.

It will be shown at the Queen's and Alhambra Thea- irts. Special prices will be charged.

PENINSULA HOTEL

CONCERT

ROYAL SCOTS BAND

Dances--Annual Cabaret-Din- ner-Dance of the Society of Yorkshiremen, at Hong Kong Hotel, 7.45 p.m.

Entertainments.—RAM.C. Con- cert "Walling for you," at Cheero Club, 8. p.m. N

Lectures—Mr. M. F.. Key on "Humours of Economic Nation- alism,” in Universitý Union As- sembly Room, 8.15 p.

1-

Mails (Bee Page 18). Meetings.--Helena May Chris- tlan Fellowship, 10.30 a.m.; St. John's Cathedral Finance "Com- mittee, Cathedral Office, 6.15 pm; Annual, of The British Legion (Hong Kong and China Branch)-in Board Room of Messrs. Jardine Matheson, 5.30 p.m.

Miscellaneous-Contract Bridge

TO PERFORM · The following programme will be rendered by the Orchestra of the Four songs three are new "2nd Battalion, The Royal Boots, Class by Women's Bection of Love to Whistle," "Berendde to the, at a concert to be given in the YMCA Chinese Art Exhibition Stars" and "Chapel Bells," and Peninsula Hotel on Sunday at 9 at St. Francis Hotel

Gounod's "Ave Maria" are sung p.m. by Deanna Durbin in her latest picture, "Mad About Music,” which is featured simultaneously at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres today.

The 15-year-old singing star is cast as a fatherless girl attending jà private school in Switzerland

Vieing with other children who are proud of their parents, Deanna in- vents a Actitious one.

The Ministry of Finance has: The Executive Yuan, at a meet-When she is forced one day to taken measures to encourage reing held on April 12 decided to produce this: "father," as proof of her stateinents, she persuades 'the the development of China's na lasue a mandate in commendation first man she meets to fill the tional economy, states a message of the late Fresident of the nost. And that's where the trouble to the Sin/Wan, Pao. Inpur Shanghal University;Dr. Herman beginst

suance with these measures, it. Liu,, to erect a memorial tablet Herbert Marshall plays the bas asked all banka to handle for him in the college and to "father," while the cast includes such remittances at nominal com-grant a suitable compensation to Gall Patrick, Artbür Treacher and missions,

his family.

Franklin Pangborn.

"

1-Overture, "Light Cavalry "

(Buppe) 2-Belection "Shall we Dance"

(Cezahwin). 3-Waltz, "Un Jour a Seville"

(Waldteuful). 4-(8) "Airs Tzigane" (Espejo); (b)Black Eyes" Ferraris). Solo Violin L. A. Albey. 5.--Selection, "La Traviata!

(Verdi), T

6. Selection, "The Firefly **

(Friml).::..

Moon-III Moon, Zad. Day. Social-Cheero Club Duplicate and Contract Bridge, & po Whlst Drive and Tombola in REW.O.'; and Bergts'. Mess, Wel- lington Barracks, 9 p.m.

|Sports--(See Page '10),

Sunrise-5.59 a.m. Sunset: -6.46 p.m.

Tides High at 12:56. Low 21:52.

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TOMORROW Moon-III Moon 23rd., Day, -7.-Comet-Solo, Belected,” Soloist Miscellaneous. ---- Annual, · Inter-

Lyc A. Weller.

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Boloist Bdsm, 8, Wille, 10.Selection of Russian

CHpay Airs.

pm

and

Tides:High at 03.10 and 12.08.: Low at 05:31 and 20,50.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938. -PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY AT 2,30, 6.10, 7.16 & 0.30 P.M. ITS. ROWDY! IT'S RIOTOUE ITS SWELLI

William

Myrna Loy

POWELL LO Double

Wedding

NEXT CHANGE

Gaumont British

FLORENCE RICE - JOHN MEAL

JESSIE "RALPH -

EDGAR KENNEDY

Karma Play by in Turning - Divated by Muhand Chorus » Prudured by laugh 1, Haldenber

« Mom-Goldwyn-Mayez versin

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NINE DAYS A. QUEEN with CEDRIC HARDWICKE-NOVA PILBEAM

ALHAMBRA

MATHAN RD, KOW

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

A HILARIOUS COMEDY' WITH 'SUCH INCOMPARABLE

4 STARS AS

MARION DAVIES MONTGOMERY

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EVER SINCE EVE

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·TOMORROW DEANNA DURBIN, Hong Kong's Favourite Star No. 1 "MAD ABOUT MUSIC

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HELMET MARSHALL -- AMEUR TREACHER

A New Universal Picture

MAJESTIC

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ON THE STAGE, AT EVERY PERFORMANCE 1- KYRA-ROBY-HARRY

SENSATIONAL

COMEDY ACROBATIC DANCERS.......

FINAL APPEARANCES IN A COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME !

ON THE SCREEN:

BIOTOUS COMEDY OF HIT-AND-BUN ERRORS

MARRIED

D BEFORE BREAKFAST

ROBERT YOUNG

FLORENCE RICE

SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY ABMASHING COMEDY: RAMA WITH A SURPRISE-CLIMAX

LUISE RAINER 17” BIG CITY”

SPENCER TRAOYding

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER HIT !

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