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Here's One Of The Best Pictures You'll See This Year!
A New-slant Love Story Made To Order!
ADDED!
Little Dash of Ginger
Upsets a College Town! -
A priesturs drama of youth in love
‚ with ten dollara' worth of langhu.
GINGER ROGERS JAMES STEWART
VIVACIOUS Lady
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PICTURT LOKOROK STEVIKE.
PRODUCTION
JAMES ELLISON BEULAH BONDI CHARLES COBURN
WALT DISNEY'S Latest Silly Symphony
"MOTH & THE FLAME'
NEXT CHANGE AT THE QUEEN'S "LOVE, HONOUR & BEHAVE
Wayne Morris. Priscila Lane
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2.30-15
715.930
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SUPERBLY ACTED DRAMA OF GRIPPING POWER The most magnificent screen production this generation has ever known, it abonads with pathos, comedy and exciting thrills.
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SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents
DEAD END
Starring
SYLVIA SIDNEY · JOEL MCCREA with HUMPHREY BOGART The record-run stage trlumpå becomes an even greaser film! Released through Ualted Artists »
TOMORROW & MONDAY
A BIG CAST IN THE YEAR'S BIG PICTURE!
Tooth and claw with no holds barred they battle to the finish for the highest stage honours.
HEPBURN and ROGERS TOGETHER!
Stage Door
KATHARINE
GINGER
HEPBURN ROGERS
ADOLFNS
MENJOU
WHA GAIL PATRICK Constance Celler
Leeds
Andrea Samuel 5. Hinds Lucille Ball
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CHINESE SHY OF JAPANESE FILM
GENERAL
SHIRLEY TEMPLE SEES PRESIDENT
Today's Screenings
Hong Kong
KING'S:
"I Met My Love Again"
QUEEN'S:
"Vivacious Lady"
ORIENTAL:
“Dead End" ·
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Vivacious Lady"
STAR:
"Hollywood Hotel" MAJESTIC:
"Second Honeymoon"
KING'S:
Coming
"The Return Of The Scarlet
Pimpernel"
QUEEN'S:
"Love. Honour and Behave" "The Rage Of Parls"
ORIENTAL:
2
"Stage DopT"
Trouble In Morocco" ALHAMBRA:
"Born To The West" STAR:
"Personal Property" "Hooray For Love" "A Woman Rebels"
MAJESTIC:
"Merrily We Live"
RETURN OF THE
PIMPERNEL
Shirley
STAR DUST
ROOSEVELT
Talks About Salmon, Loose Teeth And Lamb Chops
Shirley Temple, stoppings Washington on her coast-to- coast educational, motor tour recently, was entertained by the two men she most wanted to see-President Roosevelt and the chief of the G-Men, J.
Edgar Hoover.
The child film actress kept Bette Davis is to play the nun in of the Treasury, waiting in a White Henry Morgenthau. Jr. Secretary Warner's production of The MiraHouse ante-room while she dis- cle. This will follow The Sisters. cussed such. "important". problems now in work with Errol Flynn re- as loose teeth, lamb chops she had
turned from his cruise.
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for luncheon, and a salmon she caught at Vancouver Liland.
Irene Dunne will make a picture
"I was so excited I could hardly for Paramount, under Wesley Rug-talk. Shirley confided to news- |gles's direction. In the autumn.
papermen outside the President's office. She exhibited an autograph book with the inscription. "TO Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt."
"This is a very important book now," she told reporters.
Paulette Goddard is going into a [summer stock theatre to play the
lead in "French Without Tears."
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Twentieth Century-Fox are pre-) paring "The Retum of the Cisco Kid" for Warner Baxter He did the original "Cisco Kid" eight years ago.
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Lubitsch has arranged to. direct | one pleture for M-G-M. It may be The Women, starring Norma Shearer.
Pressed to repeat more of her conversation with, the -Pre- sident, she recalled. "I told him 1 lost a tooth. It fell out last night while I was eating a sandwich. He told me about Sistle and Buzzie (his grand- children) losing their teeth." At the G-men's. laboratory, Mr. Lucille Ball has been promoted Hoover showed her around him- by Radio from feature status to self. She enjoyed being. finger- ro-star billing with Jack Oakfe in printed, but put her hands over
The Affairs of Annabel."
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One of the most popular chat- acters in modern action 1s brought to the screen again in M-G-M have paid, £7,000 for a "The Return of the Scarlet Pim-novel called "Kindling" which King pernel," which is now showing at vidor is expected to direct in the King's Theatre.
England.
Twenty years ago Baroness
Orezy was asked by a 'famous Universal have bolight Deanna publishing house to süpply a Durbin a story called "First Love." thrliling serial story in rather a
hurry. Within fifteen minutes of
cerving the commission she had sons Baroness Orczy altered it to formulated, mentally the story of the French Revolution. Since its "The Scarlet Pimpernel."
Arst publication the story has Originally the setting was to be been a best-seller in almost every Ir. Russia, but for diplomatic rea-language.
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An experiment in Japanese propaganda may be undertaken in Shanghai as the result of a Japanese motion picture company, rather ambiguously named the "International Motion Picture Cony- pany." taking over the premises of the former Chinese "Star Motion Picture Corporation" at Fenglinjao, in the outskirts of Shanghai, and planning to produce a picture to be called “Light From the East."
Advance reports of the scenario, body thus far, has been willing to say that it is based on the fictitious serve the company. experiences of two Chinese The local foreign language press 'students in Japan While they suggests that possibly if Japan's 31 Change are at their studies, the plot pro-ideals of Pan-Asia took a less vio funds- vides that they are brought under lent form and one more in line mentally the Doxious persuasions of two with the views of the "certain 34 Small rock Chinese political agents-one Kuo Japanese religious leader" to be 35 Sea eagle mintang, the
other Communist. portrayed in the aim, there might 38 Egyptian "But the two students, spurn such be a more enthusiastic desire by
lures toward "dangerous thinking." Chinese.
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fluenced by a certain Japanese
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broader
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them; and introduces them to the making ""The Covered Wagon," "benencent notions embodied in his fifteen-year-old ploneer epic,
"Pan-Asiatic Doctrine."
This they embrace, and after. their return to China they devote themselves to promulgating the doctrine and working toward the peace of the whole Far East.
GREAT SHYNESS Whether because of discrepan- cles between this scenario and
·Japan's current courses in China, or for some other reason. Chinese actors and directors have shown great shyness, despite Japanese efforts to persuade them to take part in the picture. In fact, no-
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SOLUTION ON MONDAY
her ears when her father tried out the rifle range.
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NOVA PILBEAM IN CRASH
Miss Nova Pilbeam, the young which her head went through a film actress described a crash "in tax window (though she could not remember. It in Kingston police court recently.
Ernest Arthur Hardy, of Rose- bery Avenue, New Malden, WIL fined £5, with £5 costs for driving a car without due care and atten- tion.
Miss Pilbeam was about to alight from a taxi at her home at Coombe Lane, Kingston Hill when Hardy's car collided with the tax. Her forehead was cut and she was thrown to the floor.
A summers against Hardy for dangerous driving was dismissed.
BERLIN. CHOIR TO VISIT CARDIFF
London, July 26." The Berlin Philharmonic Choir has been invited to visit. Cardi to take part in the Royal Welsh Musical Festival which will be held at the beginning of August.---- (Transoceani
GIRL'S SACRIFICE Gladys Alloway, a twenty-three- year-old Bath shop assistant, is to have part of another person's eye grafted on one of hers to restore its sight.
A similar operation on her other eye, carried out a few months ago by Mr. T. H. 8. Tizzard, hon, sur- geon at the Eye Infirmary, Bath has proved completely successful.
Ann West, a Frome (Somernot) girl, one of whose eyes had been plerced by an' arrow, gave it to Miss Alloway for her cure.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.- Accession of King Victor Em- manuel III of Italy, 1909.
Cinemas.--(See Column 3 of this
Page).
Mails-(See Page 16). Moon--VII Moon, 4th Day. Sports-(Bee Page 10). Sunrise 5.53 am Sunset 7.05 p.m.
Tides-High at 11.16. Low at 04.35 and 17.48.
TOMORROW
Moon-VII Moon, 5th Day. Sunrise.-5.53 a.m. Sunset-7.06
p.m.
Tides-High at 1030 and 23.45.. Low at 0346 and 17.12.
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1938-PAGE 5
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SHOWING
TODAY
DAILY AT 1.38, 5.10. 7.35 AND 9.34 P.M.
An ALEXANDER, KORDA
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PRODUCTION
BARRY K.
BARNES
The RETURN & SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Directed by 40,"COTT • JAMES MASON
with
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Direct from the Orchid Sinam of the Air THE HOLLYWOOD: HOTEL PROGRAM with
DICK POWELL ROSEMARY LANE HUGH HERBEAT
LOUELLA PARSONS
BENNY GOODMAN AND HIS SWING BAND
TOMORROW
M.G.M. Picture
4 SHOWS DAILY
150 $20
720-930
Jean Harlow Robert Taylor PERSONAL PROPERTY
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
$5
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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
SCREEN'S MOST EXCITING SWEETHEARTS REUNITED I
TYRONE POWER and LORETTA YOUNG Their love is news again!
Second Honeymoon
STUART ERWIN CERIES TREYOR MARJORIE WEAVER LYLE TALLOT
J. Edward KROMBERG:
TOMORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY MERRIEST LOVE-ANILLAUGH HIT SINCE TOPPER" CAME TO TOWN I
CONSTANCE BENNETT OF
BRIAN AHERNE in
"MERRILY WE LIVE"
A" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Comedy Hitt
MR. GORDON HARKER NANCY CARROLL'S
MARRIED
COMEBACK
Nancy Carroll is the newest Mr. Gordon Harker, the Cockney charactor, was married on July comer-back. She gets a big fea- 18 to Miss Christine Barry, the tured part with Virginia Bruce" actress, at the parish church of and Fredric March in There Goes- Monaton, near Andover, Hants. My Heart.
Nancy vanished from fims for a The ceremony, without hymns of year, five years back, and never muale, was performed by the rec managed to cut much lee since. tor, the Rev. J. M. Cobbett,
Her last flm was Lubitsch's last Mr. Harker's manager, Mr. W. J. drama, the very "excellent Man I O'Bryen, was best man, and the Killed. And that's nearly six bride was given away by Mr. B. E. years old. But Nancy, as well as Linnit, a producer and professional having fire, used to be both cute colleague of Mr. Harker.
and competent.
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