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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 2-30-515-7-20 8, 9:30 - TEL. 31453

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

Sparkling Comedy!

Glamourous Romance !

THEY'RE WHAT LOVE IS

ALL ABOUTI

BRIAN AHERNE OLIVIA DėHAVILLAND "The Great Garrick”

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON - MEKI VILLE COOPER-LIOPEL ATWELL-Ā VARIOUS BEDS PICYCIE » Panasady Ingushed by 2023VYKLOT

GENERAL

DISTINGUISHED GATHERING”

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. -PAGE

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10. T.15 AND PA

YOU'LL YELL "Swell"!

BECAUSE... it has the star, writers, di- rector and producer of tip-top Topper" BECAUSE... # S grand cukupe go to town... and bowl., in many marinom with 100 more howit..... and mook more romance.. than even "Topper"

PLAY.

SOACH

TOMORROW

A Paramount

Picture

DANGEROUS TO KRÓW* with

• `Akim Tamiroff - Gall Patrick -Anna May Wong

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BỪN

4 SMOWS

FLEMING

DAILY

2.305.15

7.15-9-30

ORIENTAL

ROAD WANGHAI TEL. 23473

The new A.D.C. production of James Parrish's play, "Distinguished Gathering, "will have its first night tomorrow. From left to right:-Nigel Waymouth as Felix Montague: Evelyn Teversham as

Caroline Beckwith and W. A. Cornell, who designed the settings.

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Merrily We Live"

•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY QUEENS

SPECIAL FOR TODAY ONLY!

THRILLING ADVENTURE IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA | Another of the good okl favourites that's" filled with excitement, comedy and spellbound action.

Paul

ROBESON Leslie

BANKS

Edoch Wallace's

SANDERS

Dircked by 201TAN KORDA

În ALEXANDER KORDA Production"

OF THE

RIVER

LA NIMA MAE MCKINNEY

EXTRA! EXTRA!!

FOR TOMORROW AND THURSDAY

SPECIAL MOVING PICTURES WITH ACTUAL SCENES

OF THE

"BATTLE OF TAIERCHWANG"

CHINA'S MOST VICTORIOUS BATTLE AGAINST INVADERS

5 THRILLS WARFARE 5

6 CAMERAMEN RISK THEIR LIVES TO MAKE IT 6 SHOWS DAILY 6

2.30-3.50-5.30-7.00-8.30-9.50

GREATLY REDUCED PRICES FOR ALL PERFORMANCES

STALLS

FRONT 10c

BACK STALLS

20€.

DRESS

CIRULE 30c.

STARE

TODAY ONLY

VICTOR MʻLAGLEN

MYRNA LOY DAVID BOLLINS RUY D'ARCY,

Directed by JOHN FORD

· Story dy Talbot Mandy

The BLACK WATCH

TOMORROW : "I MET HIM IN PARIS"

TRIPLE TRAGEDY BEFALLS MOTHER.

of

A triple tragedy befell an Armenian woman whose three children were killed in a few minutes in a sequence accidents in Beirut.

Her eldest boy, aged 7, in the course of play accidentally stabbed his brother, aged 5.

Hearing cries the mother rushed from washing her baby. The eldest boy terri- fied, ran and fell on the knife which killed him in- stantly Returning to the house, the mother, found the baby drowned in the bath.

KING OF YEMEN ISSUES DECREE

Cairo, May 16..

The King of Yemen has issued a decree forbidding his subjects to leave the territory of Yemen for journeys abroad, declares a re- port here from Sana, the capital of the Kingdom of Yemen."-

"The King's Tédical measure, which is practically unprecedent- ed, is said to be due to the fact that the Yemenites have abandon- ed their native customs and adopt- ed foreign, ones which "endangered the social structure of the coun try." during their fourdeys abroad.

-(Transocean),

"The Great Garrick" 1.. ORIENTAL:-

"Sanders Of The River"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:--

"Penrod And His Twin

Brother"

STAR:-

"Black Watch"

MAJESTIC:-

"The Awful Truth"

KING'S:-

Coming

"My Dear Miss Aldrich": QUEEN'S:—

"Dangerous To Know" "College Swing" ORIENTAL-

"Battle of Talerchwang." ALHAMBRA :-----

"Dangerous To Know"

STAR:--

"I Met Him In Paris" MAJESTIC:-

"Seventh Heaven"

WHO TOLD YOU THAT?

Did you know that the Queen of Spain once thought of or- ranising a society for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals in her country? She confided in a high official of the Court. "He..suggested, "The first thing we must do "In order to raise funds, is to organise a big ball Oght for it.”

“MERRILY WE LIVE"

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

BOOKINGS FOR MAY AND JUNE

May 15-16.-King Solomon's Mines (Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee) (20th-Century Fox).

May 17-Sanders of the River (Faul Robeson, Leslie Banks) (United Artists)-By special re- quest.

ol

May 18-19-Battle

Taler- chwang (Special-wor Alm China's bravest soldiers in actual warfare in their greatest "victory against Japanese invasion).

Double practicality was a feature of the streamlined stage set on which "Merrily We Live" was film-Bros.-1st National. ed. This picture, co-starring Con- stance Bennett and Brian "Aberne. opens today at the King's Theatre.. In the first place, details of the lavish mansion were so faithfully carried out that a family could move in set up housekeeping and entertain on a big scale.

May 29-21-Go-Getters (George Brent. Anita Louise) (Warner

May 22-23.-Firefly (Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones) (M.G.M.)

"The other practical advantage ci the set was in a technical phase. It departed from 'tradition in its streamline plan. The rooms of the mansion led from one to another instead of being constructed in helter-skelter fashion in different parts of the stage.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE"

CROSSWORD-NO. 3

ACROSS

1 Intrepid

5 Instrument

for piercing holes

13 City in

Brazil

15

13

15

8.On the ocean

120

21

12 One of the *

Great Lakes

22

23

24

12. FIFT

28

14 What Quaker

32

33

133

was the

founder of. Pennsyl-

37

150.

34

40

A

42

45

45144

(41

246

4750b1

was shot by Charles :

52.

36

105

54

165

17 Elect

57

60

18 Jeer

10 What Ameri-

vania?

15 What US.

president

Gulteau?

can general

was known

as Light Horse Harry?

21 Feminine

name

22 What is the

former name of Regens- burg where ȧ famous battle was fought in 18097..

25 Stout club

28 Common or profane

29 What slave abolitionist led a famous raid on Ear- per's Ferry?

32 Plane

surface

34 Printer's

measures

36 Winged parts 37 who brought

about the.. nomination of McKinley for president of U.S.A.?

39 Diseaes of fowls,

41 Sooner.

than

42 Pertaining

a country

45 Period of time

47 Fall along

after

48. Amount at which per- son, is rated

52 In addition

54 One of a cla including the roundworms,

56 State of min 57 Bantu

dialect

58 Pen-name of

Charles Lamb 59. Be in process of adjustment

00 High in the

-scale

61 Rodents

DOWN

1 Asks alms

2 City in Algeria

3 Italian coins

4 Postpone

5 Exist

6 What actor

was the star

of The Thin

Man (two

name's)?

7 Rock Assures filled with

mineral,

8. Imitate 9 With what

.tribe' did the

U.S. coduct

O

61.

16. Persia

20 Decliné 23 Digit

24 Anglo-Saxon

coin

25 Exclamation * of disgust 26 Constella-

tion 27. Who wrote

Idylls of the King?

30 Armed

31

combat

Born

33 Of each an

equal, quantity

35 Transgres-

sion

B Siamese coin

40 Estuary of

Brazil...

43 What was

the ancient name of the western portion of Asia Minor? 44 More tardy 45" Moist 46 Fragrant resin

49 Weight of

May 24-Prince and the Pauper (Errol Flynn and Mauch Brothers; (Warner Bros.-1st National)--By special request.

May 25-28. California Straight Ahead (John Wayne, Louise Lat mer, Robert McWade) (Universal).

May. 27-28. Barrier (Leis Car rillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison) (Paramount).

May 29-30.-Public Enemy's wife (Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, (Warner Bros.-1st National).

May 31-Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple. Victor McLaglen) (20th-Century Fox)-By special request.

June 1-2-Madame X (Gladya, George, John Beal, Warren Wil- Ham) (MOM).

Mayer

K

Constance..

BENNETT

Brian AHERNE

Merrily We Live

AND LATEST MUSICAL-

SHORT IN TECHNICOLOUR “SUNKIST STARS AT PALM SPRINGS " NEXT CHANGE 'MY DEAR MISS ALDRICH

wath EDNA MAY OLIVER-MAUREEN USULLIVAN WALTER PIDGEON-BITA JOHNSON A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ricture

ALHAMBRA

SID, KOWLOON DAILY AT 2,30,5.20-720 £ 9,30 *TEL. 3 0

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

A Programme That Is All Entertainment

Picture For The Whole Family !

Two All-Acaarican Boys for All American Boys!

PENROO

and his TWIN BROTHER

Starring the

Mauch Twins Billy & Bobby

*** FRAJER CRAVEN - SPRING BYINGTON • ztrouška zy Winan Metzen • J. WALMER 'DONO, Viera Sarson Pier ler Willum Invako mnd High Consalega - Hoone on the Potrod Stories by Doanh Varkingson

'SHOWING WITH

June 3-4-The Awful TruthSybil Jason in "A DAY AT SANTA ANITA'

(Trene Dunne. Cary Grant) (Columbia).

June 5-6. Come and Get It (United Artists); '

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TODAY

Anniversaries and Holidays... Daylight Saving Act passed, 1918. 8t. Paschal Baylon.

Auctions. Crown Lands, at Dia- trict Office, Talpo, 11.30 a.m

Cinemax-(See Column 3-of this

Page)

Entertainment HE the Gov- ernor and Lady Northcote attend Dr. Mei Lan-fang's Performance at Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m.

Malc-(8éé Page 181

Meetings. Kowloon Chess Club. Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; Mothers' Union and Women's Guild Combined, in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 3 p..

Miscellaneous. Rotary Tiffin, Hong Kong Hotel

Moon-IV Moon. 18th. Day. Rehearsals YMCA, A, D. C. Rehearsal. 8 p.m.

Religious-Prayer Meeting in Chaplain's Room of the 8 and 8. Home.

Social Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 9.15 p.m.; Whist Drive" and Tombola Bergls, Mess, Nanking Bta., Sham- jahuipo, 8.30 p.m.

Sports (See Fage 10)

Sunrise-5,45 am Sunset,—-0.57

p.m.

*;་

Tides-High at 00.12 and 10.15, Low at 04.00 and 17.33.

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Indian war? Feminine

name

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thickly SOLUTIÓN TOMORROW

WED JATENAPALI

A Technicolour Featurette That's A Show In Itself!

TOMORROW

A Paramount Picturs

"DANGEROUS TO KNOW"

wilä

Akim Tamiroff - Gail Patrick - Anna May Wong

MAJESTIC

MATINEES

THEATRE.

· EVEN

·TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY RETURN SHOWING A

IRENE DUNNE CARY GRANT

SPECIAL REQUEST:

THE

Awful

MATHAM ROAD KOWLOON

TELLSTERE

Truth

BALPH - BELLAMY · ALEXANDER WARGY

CECIL CUNNINNEEN JA LEO McCAREY, SSPRODUCTION

4. Columbia Plotura

TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!

EETURN OF ANOTHER FOLD FAVOURITE "/

SIMONE SIMON JAMES STUART în

SEVENTH HEAVEN"

A 20TH CENTURY-FOX PICTURE

S.C.A. A. DINNER ON THURSDAY

The South China Athletic As-, Federation. Cochinchinoise de sociation will hold & dinner at the Football Basociation's

football team and to celebrate the winn-

Kam Ling Restaurant, 400, Queen's

mu za ing by the 8,C.A.A. of the Hong Road West, on Thursday, at 3 pm Kong Senior Football League and In honour of the visit of the the Challenge Shield

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