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THE MYSTERY OF THE

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"COCOANUT GROVE

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EMDEN'S " LONG CRUISE

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THESE GIRLS ARE SMASHERS

DANIELLE DARRIKUX

Today's Screenings

"

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"""Man-Proof"

QUEEN'S:

"The Mystery Of The Wax"

ORIENTAL:

"The Kid' From Spain"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"The Milky Way"

STAR:

Museum"

"When You're In Love"

MAJESTIC:

"Riptide"

KING'S:

Coming

"King Of The Damned"

QUEEN'S:

"Cocoanut Grove"

ORIENTAL:

"Ex-Lady""

"ALHAMBRA:

"Cocoanut Grove"

STAR:

"She Married Her Boss" MAJESTIC:

"Big City"

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RIPTIDE

Norma Shearer.comes. to the motion picture screen 15 the glamorous heroine of "Riptide." | her new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle which opens to- day at the Majestic Theatre,

Familiar in daring sophistry to her famous characterizations in "The Divorcee." "A Free Soul," "Strangers May Kiss" and "Strange Interlude." the new Shearer vehicle brings to the screen 'a romance smartly Cortin- ental in locale and sensational in triangular motivation.

But What A Contrast

In Careers!

Pleking stars is a chancy business. You never know what will happen, says Thomson's Weekly.

When two of Hollywood's newest started their American screen careers, one had everything in her favour. The other was faced with a

ber chances. situation that was enough to rain

But things didn't work out that way.

One of these stars was Simone | how wonderful she was. She Simon, the other Hedy Lamarr, starred in two or three American each specially imparted into Holly-films. wood.

Hedy Lamarr arrived practically in secret from Vienna-and there burst out around her a blaze of publicity that the studio would have given anything to do with out.

For Hedy was Hedy Kefiley, the southful star of the sensational Continental and banned "Ecstasy." with its nude bathing scenes and other things.

For months her studio hid her away. She saw, no Inter- viewers. She was in a sechu- sion deeper than Garbo's. The studio prayed that the name Hedy Keisley would be forgat- ten.

Then, with a changed name.

And now her studio has not renewed her contract," and she is salling for France, where she is to make a picture.

Simone's studio was too quick with her. It told the public she was a star before she was, for the public discovers the stars, and dislikes having it any other way. And the studio was too quick in not renewing the contract. For with her newest picture, in which she sings, Simone is breaking into the star class now,

A little more patience, and she would have been a good return. for that million dollar" publicity campaign.

and after learning English, she DIARY OF LOCAL

went to work in "Algiers." which

has just been released in - Am-

L'erica.

EVENTS

TODAY

And over there it is a smash hit, and Hedy is sharing with Danielle Darrieux the biggest praise as a

Anniversaries and Holldaya. ----- glamour girl that the critics have at Philip Benizi. handed out to anyone in years.

And Simone?

Unlike Hedy, Simone went to America heralded as a star, with publicity men telling the world

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Cinemas--(See Column 3 of this

Page),

Lectures.-Gas Lecture at Helena May, 11 a.m.; A.R.P., at Maryknoll Convent School, Kowloon, 4 p.m.

Mail (See Page 15). Meetings.-Kowloon Chess Club at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pan.

Miscellaneous-Rotary

Tin Hong Kong Hotel: New Air Bald Warning Siren Trial, 2.30 p.m. Moon.-VI Moon,"28th. Day. Religious-Prayer Meeting in S. and S. Home,

Social, Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 1.15 pm; Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45 p.m.

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Man-

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TOMORROW

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Robert Montgomery, who has appeared in a number of Miss Shearer's previous screen suc- cesses, share leading man honours with Robert Marshall in the new Alta. Montgomery, last appeared | in "Fugitive Lovers" and "Mystery of Mr. X" Marshall was seen re- cently in Solitaire Man" and 17 Counterfeits "Four Frightened People."

19 Cheek of an Included in the impressive cast animal are such famous stage and screen 20 Exist again names as Mrs. Patrick Campbell 21 Message by Skeets Gallagher. Ralph Forbes,

telegraph Laiyan Tashman, Arthur Jarrett. 23 Fish of the Earl Oxford, Helen Jerome Eddy,

mackerel George K. Arthur, Baby Marilyn

family Spinnert, Phyllis Cochlan, Howard Chaldecott and Halliwell Hobbes.

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THE PROLIFIC

Three New Plays

35 Plant used in

medicine

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Force

one

Mr. J. B. Priestly is not only of our best dramatists; he is also the most prolific. He has three new plays which to be presented before Christmas:

Are

"Music at Night," to be pre- sented next month at the Mal- vern Festival.

"Wedding Group," a Yorkshire comedy.

#Johnson Over Jordan,"

which

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vessel

38 Gasp

39 Obtain

40 Plunderer

43. A staple food

crop

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sible

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part of any- thing

The Earl of Athlone, president left Wilhelmshaven recently for a of the London. Mendicity Society. speaking at its meeting at BeiCruise, during which she will visit he considers the most ambitious49 Foul cavez- grave-square, W., recently, referred Norway. Iceland, Spain.

to the harm done to genuine chari- ties by bogus charity scheme promoters.

25.

Greece play he has written

ing on iquid

50 Perching

54 A wild ass

and Mediterranean ports. She The last two are to be produced will return to Germany for Christ- by Mr. Basil Dean.

Mr. Dean and Mr. Priestly "are "also presenting In partnership 58 Atever of

Train South." the first malarial

the ..character. The fact that they sought the novelist. The scene is in Russia 59 Renewing They gave themselves £1,000 ds help of a chief constable led to in the early days of the revolu-

tion. salary," and after paying rent of their undoing.

The society's report, he said,

quoted a case where two men

collected £1,700 in five months.

offices expenses, there was little "Last left for the charity.

play R. C

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40 A plan of a

town site

41 Leares

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tableland

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52 Field of

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"RIPTIDE

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

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