1938-06-28 — Page 5

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

GENERAL

JOAN CRAWFORD AND NELSON

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938. -PAGE 5

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"Second Honeymoon" QUEEN'S:-

"Ex-Lady"" ORIENTAL:-

"The Mummy"

Kowloon

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STAB:-

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"Way Out West"

KING'S:-."

Coming

"Dinner At The Ritz"

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The Man In Blue" " ALHAMBRA ;-----

"College Swing"

STAR:-

"Sing, Baby. Sing" "Change Of Heart" MAJESTIC:--

"Maytime"

IN AND OUT OF LOVE

In Algiers Role

JOAN CRAWFORD AND NELSON EDDY together in an opereita - 13 M-G-M's answer to a lot of things. `It answers the troublesome question of how to give Crawford a change of type as well as the one about what to do with her newly-acquired operatic talent, writes

film correspondent."

There's a hope it may answer the pleas of: Eddy's masses of ad- mirers for better material for him. And it's an interesting outcome of the reported split-up of the MacDonald-Eddy"team.

Incidentally Joan has signed on for another five years, straight 'with M-G-M, which disposes of some recent alarms. She gets per

mission to do one stage play a year.

The first Crawford-Eddy duet! Give and Take Continues the new might be The Chocolate Soldier,policy of glorifying the hair on Sweethearts or Show Boat, which | Taylor's chest rather than his M-G-M_bought from Universal | widow's peak. He'll

be a boxer Whole proposition sounds like kill-who kills an opponent in the ring. ing or curing twe song-birds with Maybe there is no happy medium one Alm

when it comes to a line of exploita-

SYLVIA SIDNEY went a bit too tion for Taylor. Anyway. Give far when she refused to play in and Take precedes Northwest Pas- Algiers with Charles Boyer andjsage which waits for Spencer Hedy Lamarr. Whatever they're Tracy's return from Europe doing to the story the part couida't

be worse than most she's had lately.

TIME OF HIS LIFE Dick Foran should have the time of his life in the name part of The Now Walter Wanger's so cross Drunkard. Wamers plan a heavy with her that he's ready to sell version of this immortal melo- Wuthering Heights to Warners for drama, to be booed and hissed in Bette Davis. Purchase would be the spirit of Young England. expected to keep the present. War- ners-Davis trouble from the courts. Sigrid Gurie finally gets the part

This is the Argerican "Maria Martin" which has been running in Hollywood for five years on end...

in Algiers, after Sidney, Merle A shortish him of it was made Oberon and Paulette Goddard had two years ago. all been nibbled at.

But Warmers mean to make it MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN'S stock a slap-up occasion, with Claude seems to have risen by tens of Rains as the villain (ripe tomatoes points since A Yank at Oxford.for him), Anita Louise as the pure What is described as the merriest M-Q-M have cast her opposite young heroine.., and George Brent romance of the year is showing Taylor again in. Give and Take. as her noble brother. today at the King's, Theatre. Maureen used not to get such Akim Taniroff will star in a re- "Second Honeymoon" is the name responsible jobs in the old days make of one of the earliest and of the picture, and it stars Loretta But she lately did some nice work most famous gangster dramas, Young and Tyrone Power, who 'n Port of the Seven Seas. Fer-Underworld. It belonged in the. played together in such hits asaps at long last she's going to days when Hollywood discovered "Love Is News" and "Cafe Metri- 18 her promise of The Barretts lose! von Sternberg's genius and pole."

Swiftly paced entertainment touched with hilarity marks this excellent screen play, which was adapted from the Red Book Maga-| zine story by Philip Wylle.

In the supporting cast are Stuart Erwin. Marjorie Weaver, Claire Trevor and J. Edward Bromberg.

Wimpole Street.

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What is publicity"" " "Something we get when we do the wrong thing."

CROSSWORD

NO. 40

ACROSS

B 4

1 Quickly

14

6 Segments

of circles

10 Performs

14 Clayey

15 A river duck 10 A shred of

waste silk

17 Rudimental

19. A Spanish

American pot 20" Profound

21 Fillet at top of shaft.

22 A bay or recess

23 A portico

25 Spread-grass

for drying

HANKOW

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28 Jewel

31 The twelfth

part of a

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foot

"SING. BABY, SING"

CALM RESTORED

IN SANJAK

Antioch, June 27. Calm has been restored in the Sanjak to the extent that Arab shops were able to reopen yester- day.

Rumours that Turkish troops would arrive today has brought a great dumber of peasants from the surrounding country to the city, where they hope to witness colourful spectacle.-(Trans-

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of tents

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roofing material

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bluish grey

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conception

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baseball

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golf mound 42 Appellation 45 Fresh tid-

ings

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falsehood

51 A préparation.

of vegetables- Dr, fruits

52 A substitute for soap

54 A headdress 56 Consumed 58 Dry

60 Whirl

82 Fine ravel-

ings

63 Fly aloft: 64 Bolely 66 Distance

made by vessel on one

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SOLUTION TOMORROW

believed in it:

George Bancroft became a star overnight in the part Tamiroff takes on. and Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook in their hey-days were the other leads

Gall Patrick takes over from Evelyn Brent and Lloyd Nolan from Brook. That leaves those of us who want to see Tamiroff get * break in a straight part still wanting.

He and Gail Patrick..could take 1 break together without hurting anybody, not even the box-office

Edward G. Robinson la still dog- ged by murderers, but he's no longer one of them. He goes. to Columbia for the clean-up picture originally intended to put Thomas Dewey on the screen.

New version has Robinson as an absent-minded professor called in by the racketeers as a stooge publie prosecutora sort of Atterbury Dodd of the underworld.

Professor,

of course, ands his mind and sets his students to cleaning up the town No title- inspiration so far.

Eddie's next for Warners has..a title, Murder for Two Cents, and some laughs.

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