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Presenting The American Debut Of A New Star DANIELLE DARRIEUX Whose Exciting Beauty Is The Talk Of The World
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A NEW VINERJAL PICTURE
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AT THE QUEEN'S MAID'S NIGHT OUT
Joan Fontaine
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
THAT'S PARIS IN HER EYES!
America, invaded by a giel of a
thousand new moods of femininity!
DANIELLE
DOUGLAS
DARRIEUX FAIRBANKS, JR.
THE RAGE OF PARIS" *
MISCHA AUER «LOUIS HAYWARD
HELEN BROCS MICK DIRECTED BY HENRY KOSTER PRODUCED BY 3. . » SYLVA Original cars and acrean play, by Bruto Manging and Salia Jachian
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many
CHARLES R. ROGERS, kurum Yourdougies in Charge at th
Alan Lane
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AT THE ALHAMBRA "WILD HORSE MESA” Randolph Scott - Sally Blane
TAKE ANY TRAM DR HAPPY VALLEY KUB
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD
HANGHAI
⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®
CINEMA
Student Groups Travel Country
Enlightening Peasants
Today's Screenings
Hong Kong •
KING'S:
Escapade"
QUEEN'S:
"The Rage Of Paris"
ORIENTAL:
"Wise Girl".
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
The Rage Of Paris”
STAR:
"First Lady" MAJESTIC: "Held!"
KING'S:
Coming
"Beau Hunks"
QUEEN'S:
"Mald's Night Out-
ORIENTAL:
"Happy Landing"
"Prisoner of Shark Island” ALHAMBRĄ:
"Wild Horse Mesa"
STAR:
"
"San Francisco"
MAJESTIO:
*When Thief Meets Thief"
AUSTRALIA
KEEPS OUT
Innovation In West China
To Build Greater Unity
N ANCIENT Chinese Institution, the theatrical troupes which tour the towns and villages to entertain the public during the festival season of a particular community, are now being replaced in West China by bands or groups of students.
The chief object of these student tours is to enlighten the pool ple of the interior as to the present national `situation. 'so
as to strengthen the support from the rear of the fighting line, but they also enable the students to come into contact with the farming con- munities who are the backbone of the country' and form more than 88 per cent," of the nation's strength,
This leads to a greater under- standing between the people of the
farms, and the cities as many of What The Stars
the college students in China still
come from urban families.
Are Doing
A band or group usually consists o 20 or more college or middle school boys and girls, at times nc- Edgar Bergen and his famous companied by professors and In-dummy, Charlie McCarthy, are in structors, who take this opport-the cast of Irene Dunne's "A Letter unny to study the problems of the of Introduction." It is described rural districta with a view to im- as a dramatle musical with a New proving the conditions of lying as York stage background. Adolphe one of the great needs for the Menjou is one of the leading men future prosperity of the nation.
•
The students sing, act, lecture Kay Francis will do a re-make and demonstrate to enlighten and of "Gambling Lady," which starred entertain the country folk and, as Barbara Stanwyck four years ago. they always have good "advance All about the daughter of a famous agents" or assurance of support gambler carrying on his business from local people before a visit. when he dies. this innovation has met with great!
success.
Often these bands have musical instruments and mo- tion picture equipment with them and some farm boys and girls get their first glimpse of foreign and Chinese progress.
Freston Foster has signed a 'two- picture-a-year contract with Uni- versal His first picture will be "The Lady in the Morgue.”
་
James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff, authors of 'Mutiny on
MAGAZINES. The Ministry of Education and the Bounty and "Hurricane" are
the University of Nanking have co-asking £20,000 for the screen
Of 30 magazines submitted re-operated in the production of a rights of their new story. "Darkl The other two, added to- I cently to the Commonwealth Book series of educational films intended River."
for use in rural districts.
gether, only cost £14,500.
Committee-28
from
Censorship TEL 28473
the United States. one from Great Britain. and one from New Zealand-20 have been banned from the Country as "specializing in crime. gangster, and horror stor- les. with a smattering of sex."
HERE'S A REAL FAST ACTION COMEDY SHOW:
With a barrier between them as thick as ber bank book they fight out romance to a finish.
MIRIAM
HOPKINS
RAY
MILLAND
IN
Wise Girl
WIN!
WALTER ABEL HENRY STEPHENSON
2 DAYS TOMORROW & MONDAY
ONLY
A SKATING MUSICAL OF SUPERLATIVE SPLENDOUR:
A show aglow with joy-laden wonder winging from gay Norseland festival to New York's festive Winter time
ice spectacle and gorgeous ballet.
HENIE Sonja
Don AMECHE
happy landing
Sangs! Sawgs/Sawgst |
by Pokemo and Vallen!
with
JEAN HERSHOLT
ETHEL MERMAN
CESAR ROMERO
• MATINEES: 20c-30c ● EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c,-70c.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversarles-and. Holidays.— Transfiguration of Our Lord.
Cinemas-(See Column 3 of this
Page):
THEOLOGICAL-
THESIS DISCOVERED
Announcement of the ban was made in the House of Representa- tives, and at the same time it was sald that banning of similar Aus tralian magazines that might be issued to all a vacant market would be a matter for the States
11 to decide.
SNOW WHITE WED TO 'PRINCE" BROWN
Walt
Disney was right. Snow White die walt for her "prince" | and he did come. But the prince went one step further than ever Mr Disney with all his gag men could imagine. His name was
RIOWA.
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NANKING WAR LOSSES Non-combatants killed in Napking since the start of hostilities number 12,000, while material damage sustamed in the vacated capital amounts to $246,000,000, according to Investigation made by the In- ternational War Relia? Associ- ation.
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*
Spanky MacFarland is retiring from “Our Gang." having reached the age of eight. He has been with them since he was 18 months Fold.
*
Director J. Walter Ruben and writer Dore Schary have gone to Boystown, the settlement for homeless boys founded by Father Flanagan near Omaha. They are collecting material for the film of the same name, which M-G-M will put to work shortly with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney.
CROSSWORD
NO.74
ACROSS
1 Feminine
As a teacher, Miss Snow White amused her Fresno school pupils with her name until two years ago. Then she married her "prince." 11 Who is the Although she has left the teach- ing profession, she continues to amuse her friends as Mrs. Snow White Brown
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country Ascend
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17 Who wrote
the novel
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25 Before
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27 Part of a
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Alumni at the annual San Jose State College homecoming day. 14 where reporters discovered this 15
nusual name combination, de- clared that doubtless Mrs. Snow White Brown would add.consider- able "colour" to the affair
ROCKEFELLER
CENTRE SEEKS
"NEWS" PANEL 21 Murdered.
23. Methods"
Centre Rockefeller
recently 25 Period of opened itself to the field of nation
time al competition for the Arst time in
26 Always announcing a contest for a bronze
28 Seraglio theme. of 30 Manufactur- panel depicting the
News" for the main doorway to
ing city near the Associated Press Bullding now
Boston U.S.A. under construction:
Texas
24 Collect
The competition; which will 33 City, in close on Sept. 30, will be open only to sculptors who are American citizens, with $1,000 for first prize, $500 for second, and $250 for third.
In addition, approval of the ce sign will open to the winner a $8,500. commission for carving his panel above the doorway,
35 Who was the "Inventor of the sewing machine?
36 Timid 37. Journey The panel must illustrate "News 39 Narrative
1 terms of its collection and dis. 43 Personal
A quodlibet, a theological distribution throughout the world, putation compiled by Jan Huss, the and its dimensions will be 18 by Bohemian reformer and martyr. Is 23 feet.
Entertainments. Charity Con- said to have been discovered re- cert by Prof. Wel Chung-loh at cently in the archives of the Hong Kong University, in aid of National Museum in Prague. South China Refugees.
Malls-(See Page 16).
Moon.---VII Moon, 11th. Day
This docunient, dating from about 1410, is a defence of the University of Prague and of. Huss's
Social-Whist Drive and Tom-advocacy of the doctrines of John bola at Craigengower Cricket Club, Wycklife, the English reformer,
9.15 p.m.
Sports(See 'Page 10).
Sunrise -5.56 a.m. Sunset.-7.02
p.m.
Tides-High at 05.23. Low at
13.09.
TOMORROW
Moon VII Moon, 12th. Day..
against attacks from foreign seats of learning.
Sunrise 5.58 a.m. Sunset-7.02 D.IO. "
Tides-High at 04.25 and 18.48; Low at 1212 and 21.40.
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pronoun
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water
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1. Ethical
2 Old womanish 3 Abyssinian
prince
4 Feminine name
5 By
ייי
7 Hawlian food
8 Lofty
mountain
9 Fibre of the
palmyra palm
10
Jeered
11
What is the first name of the design architect of the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson US?
13 Machine for
converting mechanical into electrical energy
18 Who is con-
sidered the father of English Socialism?
19 Roman house
hold delty
22 Marries
24 What drama-
tist wrote
The Simple-
Unexpected
Isles?
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man's suit
29 Greek god
of war
30 Golf club
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31 What college
did President
Coolidge
attend?
32 Place 33 Easy galt
35. Strike
38 One who
engages in a speed contest
40. Remain in
a place
41 Mallet of a
presiding
officer
42 Amative
Totes
45 "Feminine
:name
48 Greek letter 49 Catch sud-
denly (colloq.)
60 Japanese
statesmen
52 Return a ball
curve⠀⠀
Hebrew
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1938.-PAGE
-CONDITIONED THEATRE SHOWING TODAY DAILY AT 2.538, 5,10, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.
WHO WAS THE BEWITCHING BEAUTY THAT POSED FOR THIS ROMANTIC RASCAL?
All the Wives of Vienna - We Jealous➡ All the Husbande SuspiciousTM of The Masked Charmer Who Became an Artist's Model for an Hour! ¿e's
WILLIAM DAY, Madcap, Gong!
POWELL
ALSO LATEST NEWS OF ... THE DAY
NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. Picture
with
LUISE RAINER
FRANK MORGAN
REGINALD OWEN
MADY CHRISTIANS VIRGINIA BRUCE A Robert Z. Leonard Production
*Produced by Bernard B. Hyman
LAUREL & HARDY in BEAU
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1STAR
TEL
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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
A Comady Knockout-
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KAY FRANCIS First Lady
with PRESTON FOSTER - ANITA LOUISE WALTER CONNOLLY
BEBE VIMIDALE • MOTOR JRRY » LOURDE FAZENDA, « Dhosted by STANLEY LOBME
TOMORROW
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TODAY
NOW A
THE STORY LOVED BY MILLIONS-
PICTURE WE KNOW YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!
THE PICTURE YOU WANTED HER TO MAKE!
One of the world's most be-
loved stories springs to laughing, loving life! Ideally cast...gloriously played... entertainment so heart- warming we know you will
remember it always,
Shirley TEMPLE HEIDI
A 20th Centuryži
JEAN HERSHOLT
ARTHUR TREACHER
·HELEN WESTLEY PAULINE MOORE - THOMAS BECK: MARY MASEL - BDNEY BLACKMER MADY CHRISTIANS - SIG RUMANN Diend by Alan Des
nes Platby Water Find a Sergean -Treat the fame stars fer Sabrana Byza
NEXT CHANGE
Thrilling Story of a “Human Fly" Burglar!
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. and VALERIE HOBSON
in a high
in
name for
God
ton of the
SOLUTION ON MONDAY
WHEN THIEF MEETS THIEF
A United Artists Mystery-Thriller!
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