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ROLLICKING ROMANCE!

THREE'S A CROWD........AND WHAT A CROWDI

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SWARTHOUT JOHN BOLES BARRYMORE

JONA

America's singing sweethearts gives two rollicking Romeos the somanke run around!

"ROMANCE

IN THE DARK

CINEMA

Idiot's Delight Will Star Greta

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:-

Hong Kong

"Nine Days A Queen". 'QUEEN'S —

"Romance In The Dark"

·ORIENTAL:-

"Daughter of Shangha!” Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

Garbo And Gable

Clarence Brown To Direct

Clarence Brown passed through London recently on his way to | Switzerland and Italy (not, as he assured the press, to see Garbo).

- Meeting Brown, ons recognisas very clearly the man who directed Ah. Wilderness and Of Human Hearts.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TODAY..

Honesty shines trợm his face, his Anniversaries and Holidays, manner and bis just appraisal of St. Peter Canisius, Doctor of the

the work of his company, self and Church, "Romance In The Dark"

STAR:-

"Ruggles Of Red Gap" *MAJESTIC:-

"Head Over Heels In Love"

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IF

Coming

KING'S:-

'on noun CLAIRE DODO FRITZ FELD, CURT BO13. O by C. G

-NEXT CHANGE

The Miracle of 1938 Technicolour

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GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND "IT "

George Brent Olivia de Havilland

Warner Bros. Pictur

TAKE ANT TEAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUS

Claude Rains

EORIENTALE

ODAYS

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ONLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

UNDERWORLD COULDN'T SEAL THIS GIRLS LIPS.1

The secret service challenge to the alien smuggling ring told in breathless adventure.

YOU'LL ENJOY THIS THRILL-A-MINUTE PICTURE!

The waddle woul Inhuman racke exposed in an

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ONE FALSE MOVE MEANT DEATH!

"DAUGHTER

OF

SHANGHAY

ANNA MAY WONG Philip Ake Charles Blekfard Larry Krabbe • Caci Cynningham A Carrot Naish • Anthony Chakan

John Patterson · Ivalyn Brant

FRE "EVER SINCE EVE

SAT.

MARION DAVIES ROBT. MONTGOMERY

Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda.

MATINEES: 20c.-30c ℗ EVENINCS; 20e.-30e.-50c.-70c. ❤

EDUCATIONAL

FILMS

The Chick And The Liverfluke

Three new Gaumont-British in-

JESSIE MATTHEWS SINGS SIX HITS

Jessie Matthews comes to the

Majestic Theatre today in "Head

Over Heels in Love," a musi- ecmical romance in which GB's dance-sing star plays a Parisian cabaret entertainer.

Because of an exceedingly vivid structional films about to be i5-temperament and a penchant for sued, one dealing with the develop-causing a commotion in public, ment of a chick within the egg she loses both a radio contract and and another with the life-history her handsome sweetheart, played

Auctions-Household

Page).

Dances-Cheero 8.30 pm.

stars.

Furniture. For two hours this distinguished at 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30 director, looking rather like p.m.; Shop Fittings, at 18 Queen's benevolent bear, stood answering Road Central, 10.30 am. questions about all the great stars

Cinemas--(8cc Column 3 of this he has directed.

"Gurbo and Gable are the oddly

Club Dance. contrasted two he says he would "You Can't Have Every- rather work with than any others. Entertainments--Gala Perform- "Miss Garbo is the greatest artistance. Boys' and Girls' Club Assen. we have" and "Gable is the helluva at King's Theatre, 9.30 p.m. great guy." What they have in common, it seems, is the speed and smoothness with which they work.

thing"

QUEEN'S:-

"Gold Is Where You Find It" ORIENTAL:-

"Ever Blace Eve." ALHAMBRA;—

STAR:

"Gold Is Where You Find It”

"Private Worlds" MAJESTIU:-

"52nd Street"

STAR DUST

.

Frances Farmer may come back to a fresh, start in Hollywood when

-Mails. (See Page 18).

Meetings-Annual, of Minister- ing Children's League, at Helena May, 10,30 am:

Annual, of BETTER than LUNT

League of Nations Society, Hong After his holiday. Brown will Kong at Helena May, 5.30 p.m.; direct Norma Shearer and Clark Kowloon Union Church Women's Gable in Idiot's Delight. He belleves Guild, 10 am: Social and Fel- Gable will be even better than lowship Club, 8.45 p.m. Alfred Lunt in the part.

Miscellaneous-Chinese Art Ex-

This smart modern comedy willibition at St. Francis Hotel: St. be something of a holiday for all Mary's School Drill Display, in

School grounds, 5.15 p.m.

three.

One more plan Brown enthuses the stage run of "Golden Boy" over. He will re-make The Flesh winds up. Both Warners and Sam and the Devil, one of his favourite Goldwyn are interested in the film Garbo pictures, with Hedy Lamarr rights of the Odets play.

101 Extase, whom he regards së thë The hero's a boxer, so Warners great hope of M-CLM's continental want it for Wayne Morris, and (crop, in the Garbo part Sam might like it for Jon Hall, "I've never seen such photogra- Whichever gets it will probablyphic beauty in my life," he said bid to borrow Frances for her earnestly. "In that part, where the original part.

girl steps off the train from nowhere, we should be able to put her over just as we did Garbo."

Nobody wanted Frances much when she stalked off to Broadway, thanks to her lordly ways. But she put one over on everybody, being the only screen star to suc- ceed on Broadway this season. And there's nothing Hollywood forgives like success

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Judy Garland's getting to be а Dusy young lady. M-G-M have

He also reassured about Miss Lamarr's · accent, saying her English is already in working order.

Moon-II Moon, 27th, Day, dates' Meeting in St. John's Cathe- Religious Confirmation Candi- dral, 5.30 p.m.

Social-Garrison

Mess

Sergta. Weekly Whist Drive and Tombola, Queen's Road. 9 p.m.

Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-5.55 a.m. Sunset.-6.48

p.m.

Tides High at 07.10 and 19.15. Low at 01.00 and 13.30,

TOMORROW

Meetings Hong Kong. Canton and Macao Stamboat Co. Ltd. Annual Meeting, Queen's Building, Noon: Chamber of Commerce Before that, Hedy Lamarr gota Meeting to Nominate Member on

loan to Walter Wanger for Legislative Council, 430 p.m. Algiers, with Charles Boyer..

on

H

bought the "Wizard of Oz" from BONITA GRANVILLE 5.30 p.m.; Official Dinner

Sam Goldwyn and will star her

in it as the heroine, Dorothy.

They've also bought Topsy "and Eva, the musical comedy of “Uncle Tom's Cabla," formerly made by

REFORMS IN

WHITE BANNERS

at

Moon-III Moon, 28th. Day. -SocialFarewell Tea Party to Rev. HW. Baines, Cathedral Hall,

Government House, 8.15 p.m.

Sunrise 5.55 am. Sunset.-8.47.

Tides-High at 88.52 and 18.08. Low at 00.25 and 12.41,

"NINE DAYS A QUEEN”

The most outstanding thing the Duncan sisters. Judy's Topsy about First Nationals White Ban- of course, and Betty Jaynes, an-ners is the fact, that Bonita Gran-" other chanting child we haven't ville not only gets a really big seen yet, will be little Evs.

part for the first time since her Evidently M-G-M are trying to sensational success as the horrid make up for lost time and race child in These Three, but also gets Judy neck-and-neck with Deanna a sympathetic one. Durbin. Lucky for them the two. Also prominent in the cast of A powerful drama

White Banners are Claude Rainsmakers and court intrigue is told of kings Jackie Cooper, Kay Johnson and in "Nine Days A. Queen" (The Spring Byington has been book-Fay Bainter. Miss Johnson, after Story of Lady Jane Grey), co-star- ed by Frank Capra to play the a considerable absence from the ring Cedric Hardwicke and Nova part of the mother in You Can't screen-the used to be one of Pilbeam and showing today at the

are on slightly different tracks.

spot,

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of the Ilverfluke, show the remark-by Louis Borell Mr. Borell is ↑ Interesting to see what Capra Bains, too, in this picture...

able progress made with the native of Holland who has been scientific films and suggest how singularly popular on the London useful it may become in education, stage..,

"The Development of the Chick," "Head Over Heels in Love" also In particular, denotes a great ad-marks the first screen appearance vance. The diagrams used ino Robert Flemyng, playing an earlier films of the kind are here tothér, romantic lead. Flemyng is replaced with pictures of the living young, handsome. charming and embryo itself, from the rapid rapidly making a name for him- growth during the first hours of selt.

incubation until the moment when

the chick is ready to peck its way GLORIA SWANSON

out

The Alin shows the formation of arteries and the first appearance of the heart, the movements of the growing embryo," and gradual extension of the embryo until ans the whole space within the shell

TO STAGE COME-BACK-

Gloria Swanson, having failed to close

& deal with M-O-MOT Columbia, gave a farewell party to Hollywood. She was going, with all her furniture, to take up re- sidence in New York.

She caught the train and went

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King's Theatre.

Take It with You. Nice work for Cecil B. de Mille's favourite lead- Ma Jones, who's never given a ling · ladies—is now coming back bad performance yet.

steadily, and showing a nicer sense

With all the pomp and pagean- Capra seems to be breaking new of humour than she used to reveal, of "The Private Life of Henry ground with his casting of this Fay Banter is in the Spring VIII," this romantic drama of 16th one. He's already arranged for Byington class as a portrayer of century. Tudor England surpasses Columbia to borrow Ann Miller for kindly mothers, elder sisters and in sheer power and suspense the the part of the daffy ballet-dan-aunts as you'll agree if you recall best efforts of the most imagina- cer. Una Merkel was up for this her work in Quality street. She tive action writers.

take care of Bonitä, and Claude This fascinating chapter in Eng- lish history has been somewhat White Banners is adapted from a neglected by writers and flm- and lesser-knowns. Nobody can story by Lloyd Douglas, who wrote (makers because its drama and ro- say the big directors aren't trying the original, best-selling novels mance was overshadowed by the to make pictures pay without star [from which Magnificent Obsession glamour of Henry VIII's reign, im- and The Green Light were taken..mediately preceding it. However, Robert Stevenson has fashioned the historic events that led up to the marriage and brief rule of Lady Jane Grey into an excellent film.

does for a cast of character actors

names.

1939 Golden Gate

International Exposition

Treasure Island Visitors

ARTERIES AND VEINS Regarded merely as a series of pictures, with its patterna -of

East. but with the furniture wext 1938 will be invited on special trips to Treasure Island to preview the More than 150,000 visitors to the San Francisco Bay ares during beautifully traced arteries and.

ja brand-new, last-minute; longish- veins and the transparent rudi-term contract with Republic. She'll mammoth palaces and towers nearing completion for the 1939 Golden mentary organs, the alm is ze start work on it in June with Ex-Gate, International Exposition. markable enough, but its real Love, a divorce comedy. achievement is in the fact that Gloria has been in pictures most the embryo la alive, that the heart of twenty-five years.

́is seen to beat, and the limba put

Plans for the Exposition side trips are being planned in coop- eration with the Convention and Tourist Bureaus of San Francisco. and Oakland, which report 190 conventions will be held in the two cities during the pre-Exposition year.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE AND HER BAND

DURANTE IN CAST OF LATEST PICTURE

For her next Twentieth Century-. Fox picture, Little Miss Broadway, back to the orphanage goes Shirley Temple.

But, in a Shirley Temple film. the story's - the least important thing: it's what Shirley has to do that matters. Here she appears as the brightest spot in the orphan-

forth, and that growth takes place droppings, its attachment to a before one's eyes.

The convention bureaus estimate Island, unique 400-acre man-made age band, but wise himgoers will | guess that she does not remain a "Pascoal." which tells the life-water-mati, its division within the lantio attendance at the 100 con- site of the coming Pageant of the walf all the time. story of the Liverfus, tells anall into several larvae still more ventions. Familles of delegates. Pacific in the centre of Ban Fran-

Perhaps as symptomatic of the much more complicated story in developed, to its walt, as a cyat tourists, foreign dignitaries, and cisco Bay.

growing-up of Shirley as her new quite acusably, to diagrams but again into the animal to complete bout who win de multed to pror word-of-mouth, advertising for the of the supporting cast. It contains great detail, resorting, at times, on damp grass, until its passes personages arriving by train and

Exposition officials feel that hairdressing style is the strength dealing wherever possible in plots. growth and start another Treasure Island during 1938, Pros San Francisco World's Fair will three front-rank comedy specialists *The third film is "Moorlands","" Exposition officials stated materially help to swell tourist in Jimmy Durante, Edna May an Interesting though less am- Presidents of organizations plan- travel to the entire West during Oliver and E Brendel, who is It is net first full grow in the bitinus aim which crampires the ning 1938 conventions in the Bay 1929. It is conservatively estimated coming back these days,

"ormation of moon and their cities will be invited to set aside that the minimum attendance at The hero is played by George, liver of infected theep and flora and fauna and is suitable for time for delegates to sample in the Exposition in 1938 will be 20-Murphy, whose love interest la followed through the whole cycle from the release of the err in ordinary "interest" programme, advance the allure of Treasure 000,000,

Phyllis Brooks,

tures of the liverfiuke in all stagės beneath the microscope.......

DIVISION INTO 'LARVAR

family.

bably will number another 25,000

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938.-PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING

TODAY

DAILY AT 2.30. 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

GALA

BRIDE · QUEEN - MARTYR all in nine days

HARDWICKE Nova PILBEAM

WakGovt.

Nine Days a Queen

Production

PERFORMANCE

TONIGHT at 8.20 P.M.

(Under the Distinguished Patronage of .E. the Governor) On The Stage

"BAND OF 2ND BATTALION ROYAL BOOTS" In Aid of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION

IISTARE

TODAY

ONLY

57795

CRANDEST ROUND-UP OF COMEDY STARS EVER CORBALLED.

Edging you the grand, bumen diarocter al Harry Lee Willana's femore horest

RUGGLES

OF RED GAP"/

CHARLES LAUGHTON MARY BOLAND CHARLIE RUGGLES ZAS PITTS Roland Young » Lalla Hymensi

·TOMORROW-

Claudette Colbert in "PRIVATE WORLDS"

730 +1:30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE...

ROAD

KOWLOOM TEL. ST238

MATINEES. 20-30<* EVENING% 20c÷30x50-T

TODAY AND TOMORROW THE BEST BRITISH MUSICAL ROMANCE

OF THE SEASON!

JESSIE MATTHEWS

HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE

SONG HITS BY GORDON & REVEL Directed by Sonnie Halə

PRODUCTION

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

A WORTHY SUCCESSOR TO ́"42ND STREET" 1.

WALTER WANGER'S "59 STREET"

with IAN HUNTER, LEO CARILLO, PAT PATERSON

A UNITED ARTISTS MUSICAL COMEDY !

ANDREA LEEDS FOR STARDOM

IRENE DUNNE'S

LATEST

Of all the recent-comers to the

Irene Dunne, won't make Letter screen, none stands a better of Introduction with John Stahl chance of achieving stardom dur after all Madame Curie will pay ing this year than Andres Leeds her debt to Universal, which leaves

about. She is retiring, unassuming thy and Adolphe Menjou. of person a publicity man dreams for Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCar

Andres is by no means the sork Stahl looking for a leading lady

and quite surprisingly norinal

Already she has proved herself. What Irene will do is another worthy, she attracted attention by comedy with Leo McCarey. Its her striking "bit" in Come and some kind of a sequel to "Gentle- Get it, and made a memorable im. men Prefer Blondes," only the pression as the tragic girl in Stage heroine will be brunette Dorothy

Door.

Instead of blonde Lorelet

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