1938-05-26 — Page 5

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 230-515-7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL. 3/453

TODAY AND TOMORROW

The Screen's Most Terrifying, Mystifying Melodrama ! Karloff's Supreme Triumph!"

in Paramount's

"THE

INVISIBLE MENACE

BORIS KARLOFF

MARIE WILSON - EDDIE CRAVEN Bare tail dry Inbo Barrow » Sccưng Play Dry Frame Wiken - Jonas Bar May By Raluh Spencer Zað – A WARNER KROG – Pump

GENERAL

THE GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL

TODAY AT THE

KINGS:-

CINEMA

Hong Kong

"Lost Horizon"

QUEEN'S

"Invisible Menace"

ORIENTAL:-

"California Straight Ahead"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Love Is On the Air"

STAR:-

"Merry-Go-Round Of 1938"

Coming

"Marie Walewska”

THERE'S MURDER

IN THIS EYE...

MAJESTIC:-

SATURDAY-

Tarzan Escapes"..

W. C. Fields

Dorothy Lamour

Martha Raye BIG BROADCAST OF 1938"

KING'S

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES A Popeye Featurette in Technicolour

QUEEN'S

"Big Broadcast Of 1938"

The Barrier”

"Big Broadcast Of 1938" STAR:-"

ADDED :

SHOWS

DAILY 2.30-5.19

7.15-9.30

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VASLEY RUN

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD HANGHAI

[TEL 28473]

•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•

DRAMATIC ACTION PICTURE PACKED WITH THRILLS!

A sensational conflict between railroads and trucking companies in a transcontinental race for delivery of war materials for Chinh.

3,000 MILES OF ROMANCE-ACTION!

CALIFORNIA

STRAIGHT AHEAD!

Featuring

JOHN WAYNE LOUISE LATIMER HORENT WADE TULLY MARSHALL A NEW UNIVERSAL PIČTZEL

DAYS TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

ONLY

MASTER, PRODUCTON HY THE MASTER TORY TELLLE! A thrilling romance of the gold-mad Yakon days.

Rex Beach's

"THE

BARRIER

A faremount Picture

A Patemount Picture

with'

LEO CARRILLO

JEAN PARKER JAMES ELLISON OTTO KRUGER ROBERT BARRAT ANDY CLYDE Addison Richards and Sara Haden

MATINEES: 20c-30¢ EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.

ISTARE

+

TODAY ONLY

57795

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

MERRY-GO-ROUND of

TOMORROW

srid SATURDAY

66

“With the 4 MARKENEN O'MILARITY

Jimmy Savo

Billy House Alice Brady

Mischa Auer Joy Hodges Louise Fazenda - John King Barbara Read Dave Asolion US Produced by 9.6.00SYLVA CHARLES R. ROGERS

Eve Tica froident

11 CHANGE OF PRODUCTION -

Elizabath. Bergner AS YOU LIKE IT

A 20th C. Fox Picture

BIG TAX CLAIM ON FILM STARS

BY U.S. BOARD

£50,000 DEMANDED Fifteen Hollywood film stars are, Gilbert. involved in the bearings ordered Hearings will open on June 13. recently by the United Stater One of the principal issues to be Board of Tax Appeals into alleged settled is the amounts which film tax deficiencies

stars. may deduct for "business The Government seeks to col-entertainment." motor-car expen- lect more than £50,000 from, ses, wardrobe expenses, and the among others, Mr, Charles Laugh-cleaning and pressing of their ton, from whom 228.888 is claim clothes prese

ed; Miss Marlene Dietrich, E10. The disallowance of a deduction 512; Mr. Adolphe Menjou, £6.016 of about 540 for wardrobe, and Miss Madge Evans, £101 motor car, telephone and telegraph There is also a claim of £4,079 expenses is an inene in Mr. Laugh- against the estate of the late John ton's case.

ORIENTAL:—

ALHAMBRA !--

"As You Like It"

MAJESTIC:-

"Dark Journey" "Between Two Women'

"LOVE IS ON

THE AIR"

EXPOSITION

Circulatory Traffic System

ON TREASURE

ISLAND

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DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TODAY

-Anniversaries" and

Hoildaya.—

Queen Mary born, 1867: Ascension Day. Holy Thursday.

Cinema (See Column 3 of, this Page)

Lectures-Theosophical Society:

6 p.m

Mails(See Page 18),

Meetings-Victoria Chess Club, at dloucester Hotel, 5 ph; Hong. Kong Philatelie Society, in 8 C. M. Post Boardroom, 5.30 p.m. St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship 3

Streamlining and free wheeling! Those two terins borrowed from the "automobile world aptly de scribe the traffic circulatorypt system which will prevail

Miscellaneous. —- Claims Against Treasure Island. San Francisenthe Estate of Mrs. Kot Tang Shi, Bay site of the 1939 Golden Gate allas Anna Kotwall, due: Chinese International Exposition.

Painting Exhibition at French The key to the even flow of Convent Chinese Middle School, trafe at the Exposition site is Caroline Road; Exhibition of contained in the term "diffusion of Graphic Art at Chinese Chamber magnets." That means that the ot Commerce Library. 85 Con-" pulling power of various, attrac-nau-ht Road.

Areas

tions has been carefully analyzed Moon.--IV Moon, 27th, Day, and then spaced to assure Rellrious. Feast of the Ageen- smooth Bow of traže from one jalon of Our Lord, outstanding point of interest to Suciety. Stu Andrew's Club another.

"Open Night." 9 p.m.; Official Din- devoted to commercial ¡der at Government House; Cheero exhibits, for example, are sur-Club Bridge and Mahjong, 8 p.m. rounded by highlights' in visitor Sports (See Page 10) attractions, and the finest vistäs of Sunrise.-5.40 am. Sunset.—7.01 the $50,000,000 Fair are framed by p.m buildings housing industrial di«- plays.

There will be no dead end streets or other traffic blockage factors with which to cope on Treasure Island, Clear and simple routes connect scattered points of focal

An unusual mystery' plot is un-faterest, yet the visitor in going folded in the radio drama, "Love from one to another will änd Is On The Air," which opens at the encouragement at every step to Alhambra Theatre today.

pause and inspect the wares af exhibitors.

Tides. High at 06.10 and 18.50. Low at 00.00 and 13.18.

TOMORROW Moon.-IV Moon, 28th. Day. Sunrise.-5.40 am. Sunset.-7.01

p.m.

Tides. High at 05.36 and 17.28. Low at 12.23.

opposite the main entrances Treasure Island,

to

MARINE, PAGEANTS The 40-acre 'Midway and the Theatre of the sky are longitud-

A featured news broadcaster. played by Ronald Reagar, taking

It is the object of the plan to portable radio equipment to enll-

saturate the Exposition evenly drens' playgrounds, stumbles on a throughout: Thus, outstanding clue that leads to the solution ci governmental groups including the Dally opposite the Port of the the mysterious disappearance and $5,000,000 California buildings, the Trade Winds, to be the scene of murder of a prominent business-$1,500,000 United States Govern- ment group and the colourful A thrilling gun battle between Pacific Basin project are laterally police and gangsters is the climax of the closing scenes, and excite- ment runs high in this episode in the picture.

man.

11

REVISION OF FIVE-SUIT BRIDGE

Need Of Better Scoring Table

I learn that the scoring and rules of five-sult bridge, contract and auction, are shortly to he reyised, writes the "Daily Telegraph' and Morning Post" Bridge corres- pondent.

Both in this country and the United States the new game is be- ing played at present with "the scoring and rules framed in Vienna by Dr. Marseilles, the inventor of the game, and Dr. Paul Stern, captain of the team that won the bridge world chainpionship.

It is felt that the Viennese scoring, based on necessarily mi- ted experience, could be improved. There has now been a fair amount

WHO TOLD YOU THAT?

Mystery Unvelled-A man "looking at some neckties toss- ed one or two aside contemp- tuously. Lingers after hav- ing made his purchase, he noticed that the malesman put those he bad so positively re- jected in a separate box.

"What becomes of those?" he inquired.

WO-

"We sell them to the men who come in here to buy tles for men.”

the marine pageants and water sports during the Exposition.

Every visitor must necessarily traverse the compact island, from end to end and from side to side, by different routes. Thus every section, of, exhibit space will share maximum- attention,

L

It has been possible to achieve near-perfection in trade" circula- tion because the ·Golden Gate International Exposition is being bullt on a 400-acre artificial island designed especially for the playposę, No compromises with existing street plans or groupings were necessary. This has been true of "no other world's fair. Treasure Island, in short, will be the site of a magic city where every street will be the "main stem.”.

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more satisfactory scoring table. The Portland Club are not in- volved in this movement. They have not recognised the new game, 23 Sun god and I learn that the timpression that they have tried it out is erroneous. They have, in fact, not played it at all.

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The Americans, too, are satisfied with the Viennese scor- ing. A committee has been formed in the United States with instruc- tions to canvass public opinion and so frame revised scoring, and rules.

It is to be hoped that co-opera-| tion between the American com- mittee and the English committee, which has yet to be formed, will be possible, so that the same rules may obtain in both countries.

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SOLUTION TOMORROW.

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938. —PAGE 5&

KING'S

TODAY ONLY

SPECIAL TIME AT 2.30 6.10. 7.25. & '9.40 P.M.

FRANK CAPRA'S MIGHTIEST ACHIEVEMENT!

James Hilton's

superb novel. becomes the yout's greatest motion picture

HORIZO

EDWARD EVERETT,HORTON - H. 15. WÄRNER. • JANE WYATT • SAN JAMA JOHN HOWARD • MARGO - ISABEL JEWELL. • THOMAS MITCHELL From the novel by Janson Hillon 4 Seroon play by Robert Rakin

COLUMBIA PICTURŽ

Owing to the length of this programme, patrons are requested to note the alteration of time. For best entertainment, patrons should see the film from the BEGINNING! Special Added Attraction ::

Special Nawaroel of Hankow's welcome to Chinese Airmen after fight over Japan.

GRETA GARBO — CHARLES BOYER in

TOMORROW

M.G.M. PICTURY,

"MARIE

WALEWSKA".

ALHAMBRA

NATHON 26, KICHU LOOP » DİGİVİ

TODAY AND TOMORROW SOMETHING NEW & MIGHTY DIFFERENT WHEN RONALD REAGAN TAKES THE AIR!

"At the Stroke of the Chima:

WWW Be Exactly. LIVE UE!,

LOVE

is on the AIR

RONALD REAGAN - JUNE TRAVIS - Eddle Acuff • Ben Wilder » Bubert Bwiat - Directed by

Nick Grinde-Firstfiať! Pichuru+Presented by Warner Bros. ¦ Servon Park, Karina Dezert. From a Flory by dry Chman!==

SATURDAY

BIG BROADCAST

W. C. Fields

ADDED:

+ SHOWS

DAILY

130 $20 720 - 9.30

'Dorothy, Lamour

OF 1938

Martha Raye

"ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES

A Popeye Featurette in Technicolour

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

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"RETURN SHOWING OF THE GREATEST OF ALL THE TARZAN PICTURES!

TARZAN

IT'S NEW! IT'S AMAZING! Two years to make the grandest of all the Tarzan pictures!

ESCAPES

Y WEISSMULLER DO'SULLIVAN

TOMORROW AND SATURDAY

A Tense Spy Drama Full of Excitement ! CONRAD VEIDT

VIVIEN LEIGH

in

DARK JOURNEY

A LONDON FILM PRODUCTION

SIR TINSKIP ON MISS BAYLIS'S

BIBLE REVIVAL

Sir

Thomas Inskip, Minister

WILL

Miss. "Lilian Mary Bayla, C.E

for the Co-ordination of Defence, Hon. MA, Hon. LLD, of Block- addressed 10,000 people in the well Park Road, B.W. and The Albert Hall, London, recently, Old Vic Theatre, Waterloo Road, and pleaded for a revival of Bible B.E., and Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, EC., well known reading in daily life.

The occasion was a rally of the for her work for The Old Vic and Scripture Union Bir Thomas sald Badler's Wells, lett £10,037, with that the influence of the Bible of net personalty £8,281.

the character of our forefathers

was the foundation of Britain's develop the habit of reading the

Bible." greatness. TOM

"We hope and pray," he went

Mr. Lindsay Glegg, chairman of

on, that that greatness. May be the Scripture Union Committee, preserved. But it will be pre-said; "The great need of England served and strengthened only if today is God, not gun; the Bible, this generation can maintain and not bombs.**

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