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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

Today's

GENERAL

GIRL WAS BLIND,

QUEEN'S Screenings NOW SEES WORLD

DAILY AT 250-515·720&9:30 ·TEL.3/453

SHOWING. TO-DAY

An Attractive Musical Entertainment and A Diverting Comedy Lavishly Produced with The Star of TELL ME TONIGHT"!

KIEPURAS

MARTHA

EGGERTH

NEXT CHANGE

RKO-Radio

Picture

A SHOWS

'DAILY

230

£20

720-30

MY HEART IS CALLING

GINGER ROGERS

“VIVACIOUS LADY'

with James Stewart

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

_ROAD. KOWLOON

TEL27272

(MATINEES. 20€-30€ • EVENINGS. 20«*30« 50-70 TODAY AND TOMORROW

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GAY EXCITEMENT RETURNS TO THE SCREEN!

Romance races with mystery ...

...as Arsene Lupin

and an American G-Man

match wits...to win a girl... and solve a double murder!

ARSENE LUPIN Returns

MELVYN DOUGLAS VIRGINIA BRUCE WARREN WILLIAM JOHN HALLIDAY NAT PENDLETON

Directed by GEORGE FITZMAURICE Produced by OHN W. CONSIDINE J

THURSDAY," ONE - DAY ONLY!

THE BIGGEST “OLD FAVOURITE" OF ALL TIME!

"ALL"QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”

A Universal super-Production!

¿

ISTARE

TODAY ONLY

KOWLOON

THE GIANT HIT! ON THE SCREEN at last?”

TOMORROW

3.M. Picture

The great

love story

you have!

waited

2 years to

see on the scrmon!

Ronald COLMAN

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

"with a cost 49,000 faeluding: Elzabeth Allan. *.. Edsa May Oliver Meziald Owen - Basil Rathbona Blancİsa Tarica - Barry B. Walthali

A Moti Gokhiig Mayer meruiä.

"PICK A STAR

Patsy Kelly

Jack Haley

Hong Kong.

KING'S:

The Woman Alone'

QUEEN'S:

"My Heart Is "Calling". ORIENTAL:

"Professional Soldier"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Mysterious Avenger"

STÄR:"

"A Tale of Two Cities" MAJESTIC:

"Arsene Lupla Returns”

KING'S:

Coming

"I Met My Love Again"

QUEEN'S:

"Vivacious Lady": ORIENTAL:

"Dangerous To Know" "The Last Trail"

ALHAMBRA:

"Expensive Husbands"

STAR:

"Annie Oakley" -Pick A Star"

MAJESTIC:

"All Quiet On

The Western Front"

-AND WEEPS

For twenty-two years trees, clouds, the sky were merely names to her, the sun meant only warmth; "colour," "beauty," were just words that stirred her imagination. She was born blind.

Now this girl from a world of darkness has been given sight through a series of operations performed by a brilliant West of Eng- land surgeon. Mr. E. Colley, of the Royal United Hospital" and the Eye Infirmary. Bath, writes a special, correspondent in the Daily Mirror.

When Brst she saw the indistinct glimmer of a nurse's white apron she was overjoyed.

But as her vision grew and she was able to distinguish faces, there came disappointment. wept for long hours.

She

The world which you and I could see was poor exchange. after all for her dream world.

She

D

LIKE A BABY

From the age of ten to laeteen

school, where she was happy. the girl was educated in a blind

Then she returned to her home where there were six brothers and

For the first time the girl began sisters whose sight was normal.

to long for the gift of sight and In 1932 she went to the hospital to ask if anything could be done.

A few months ago a series of

was greatly disappointed with faces. She said she had thought all people were beauti-operations were performed and

ful and bad "happy-looking faces." Mr. Colley tells of the case in the "British Medical Jourrial."

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JAN KIEPURA'S NEW MUSICAL

slowly her vision began to return.

At first like a baby-she had no appreciation of distance and thought cars, and people wdre coming straight at her. Gradually this feeling adjusted itself.

ELEPHANTS SEEMED SMALL

Her ideas about what size ob- jects would be were always ex- Jan Klepura, singing star of aggerated. She had imagined that "Tell Me Tonight," that record- bears were as large as elephants, making musical, is seen again at and elephants much larger still. the Queen's Theatre today in "My She was taken to the Zoo to see Heart is Calling," in which he has them. as his leading lady the famous "Coloured pictures at first ap German actress, Marta Eggerth.

peared just a mass of colour, but The Alm

.appeal to now she is able to a large extent all cinema fans. Rapid action, to make but the subject of the She likes bright things and fune interpretation make and thinks flowers' are beautiful the picture memorable.

writes the surgeon.

TERRORISTS IN sustained interest, excellent songs pleture.

LONDON

Sonnie Hale, the British come- A tense and gripping melodrama dian, plays a leading part and is entitled, "The Woman Alone," star-responsible for much of the

ing Sylvia Sidney and Oscar humorous situations. Homolka, is presented here for the first time today, at the King's Theatre.

Here is another outstanding fro directed by Alfred Hitchcock, whose very name is synonymous with different and absorbing entertain- ment.

The story teils in broad. swift, dramatic strokes of à band of ter- rorists who have made'• London thett stamping ground, plotting a reign of death and destruction.

THE MYSTERIOUS

AVENGER

"The Mysterious Avenger" opens at the Alhambra Theatre today. The picture tells an up-to-the- minute story of cattle rustling" on the Texas plains.

Charles Starrett is starred as a Texas Ranger called upon to ap- prehend the cattle-thieves. He goes about his assignment in a straight- forward. direct manner, risk- ing his life in hazardous exploits. using ingenious ruses to outwit the alert rustlers, and avalling himself of modern resources to track his

prey.

Joan Perry, as Starrett's leading lady. is attractive and talented as well as versatile.

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BAYREUTH OPENS WITH TRISTAN”.

Bayreuth, July 25. The annual Bayreuth festival opened here yesterday with the presentation of Wagner's "Tristan and Issolde.""

sent

Special festivities are being ar-" ranged in connection with the pre- season, since it marks, the 125th anniversary of Wagner's birth(Transocean),

Now the girl has been able to start work in a factory and take part in games.

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DIARY OF LOCAL 15 Drunkard

EVENTS

TODAY.

Anniversaries and Holidays.-

Q. B. Shaw born, 1856. Vimy Memorial Unveiled, 1938, St. Anne, Mother of Our Lady.

Auctions. Crown Lands, at Dis- trict Office, Tai Po, 11.30 p.m.

Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page).

16 Negative

terminal of an eléctric source

18 Game at cards

20 Places for safe keep- Ing

21 Compare critically

25 Inclines

of war 27 Swift

rodents

Lectures-Air Raid Precautions, 26 Greek god Helena May. Garden Road, (First Ald) 11 a.m.; Hong Kong Women's International Club, Houcester Bldg. 6 p.m.; Indian Recreation 29 Insane Club, Sookunpoo Valley, 5.30 p.m.30 Measures Maryknoll Convent School, Kow-

out

loon, 4. p.m. Gas Mask Drill 31 Cushion Volunteer Headquarters, 10 am. to 34 showed concer

noon.

Malls (See Page 16)

35 Unaccom- panled

animal"

Meetings Christ Church Fete Committee. at St. Andrew's Vicar-36 Desert age, a p.m.; Volunteer Corps Rite club, at Headquarters, 5.45 p.m.

Miscellaneous. - Rotary Timân, Hong Kong Hotel.

39 More offen- sively filthy 41 Coral

islands

Moon. VI Moon, 29th Day. Religious-Prayer Meeting in 43 Correlative

the "S. and 8. Home," 8 p.m.

Social. Craigengewer Cricket 41 People who

Club Weekly Tombola. 8.15 pm.

Sunrise.-5.51 am. Sunset-7.07

p.m.

of neither

preceded.

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in Mexico

Tidés--High at 07.55 and 21.53.46 Large pill Low at 01.30 and 15.18.

for a horse

· TOMORROW

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mouthed pitcher

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2 Greek letter

3 'Pipe..

through which liquor is -drawn

4 Odours

5 Member of

an Algon- quian tribe 6 - Exclama-

tion of

despair

7 Tells

Secrets

8 Market place

9 Burdened 10. Squeeze 12 Malay

canoe

17 Garden

Implements

19 Different 21 Rotating

piece on a machine

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28 Work with

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30 Polo ticks 31 Hawaiian

food

32 Beverage 33 Beetle

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an Indian tribe

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1938.-PAGE 5

AIK

· CONDITIONED "THEATREN

SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 510, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.

A GREAT STORY.. AND A GREATER LOVE STORY I

SYLVIA STONEY OSCAR HOMOLKA

The WOMAN

ALONE

A JOHN LODER - DESMOND TESTER from the grząt naval by the

NEXT CHANGE UNITED ARTISTS

Mile-a-Minute Melodrama... Directed by

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

who gave you Robert Donat in "The 39 Steps"

IN

JOAN BENNETT - HENRY FONDA in

I MET MY LOVE AGAIN ”

ALHAMBRA

THITHAN ED. MONDTOOK ORES of 2 30×520-720. € 9,30 -TELA...

TODAY AND TOMORROW ANOTHER ROMANTIC ADVENTURE. YARN OF BRAVE MEN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

a new PETER B. KYNE

picture!

THE MYSTERIOUS AVENGER starring Charles Starrett

THURSDAY

A Paramount"

Picture

45

weh, Joan Perry

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

EXPENSIVE “HUSBANDS ”

Patric Knowles

Beverly Roberts

VLEMING

BOAS

PEMONTA

TEL. 26473

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TAKE ANT TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB

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One of the best of the old favourites

A GREAT PICTURE SPIKED WITH EXCITEMENT:

· Machine-guuner, danger-runner, standard-bearer, of roving glory, a bullion with the ladies who fights for the fun of it and the price it pays.

Victor

McLAGLEN

Freddie

BARTHOLOMEW

DAYS

PROFESSIONAL

SOLDIER

DARRYL F. ZANUCK

2017 CENTRZY PRODUC Colm

Prosta

20

2ONLY TO-MORROW & THURSDAY GUN-PLAY AND GANG-PLAY

A fearless gunner of

the open spaces clash- es with modern gangsters and shows them new tricks abour their own racket.

FOX FILM prasante,

"ZANE GREY'S

The

LAST TRAIL

49 Weight of India

Sereno play by Stuart Aurkbuy

SOLUTION TOMORROW

George O'BRIEN

CLAIRE TREVOR

EL BRENDEL LUCILLE LA VERNE

Directed by

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