1938-08-26 — Page 5

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

AT 2-30-515·7·20-930 RM AT 230-520-720 # 9:30 PM." FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY .

The First Heart-sock Drama Set To Swing Music! The Story of a Swing Band on the Rocky Road to Fame!

IT'S THE BEST MUSICAL

FRED MAC MURRAY

COCOANUT GROVE

HARRIET BASCORE - FIK PACKS CLUB NOTE, DEN KLEIN - HIFË NGUS - ORLY LEE

of 1938!

BEST becouse it's the first hitorique, sum-18-lite stany of Bawing band in tha rocky road sa famil

BEST trimane its

song hits are tire susrent topit ay andio's hit parade!

TOMORROW

Warner Bro

Picture

Bette

Davis

in her strongest, most haar role

JEZEBEL"

TAKE ANY THAN OR HAYWY VALLEY JUS

4 SHOWS

FLEMING

DAILY

2.305.15

7.15-0.30

DAYS

ORIENTAL

ROAD

HANCHAI TEL 28473

⚫2BALY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

MILLIONAIRES

DON'T PICK BRIDES OUT OF SHIRT FACTORIES! -

A shop girl born with a tin spoon in her mouth fought for a love beyond her reach, but she swore that she would eat off gold plates before she died.

j

SHE GRASPED AT ROMANCE AND LIVED DANGEROUSLY :

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THE HEART-STIRRING ROMANCE of a shop-girl and e millionaire... with your Joan and famed Spencer Tracy Iri- umphant together!

JOAN CRAWFORD SPENCER TRACY

Mannequin

with

ALAN CURTIS » KALPH MORGAN

A Frank Borzaga Production

Directed by Frank Borzage,

JA MARVELLOUS SHOW!

OF SUN. THE GIRL GOLDEN WEST

MON.

with Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

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● MATINEES: 20c.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c.-70c. Q

U.S. Schoolboys Get Good

Will Awards

The 11-year-old exchange system of fostering international understanding and good will through schoolboy fellowships for pre- pm.atory school graduates in the United States, England, and Germany, saw, 26 such grants awarded in 16 American prepara- sory schools recently."

The winners will leave for their English and German studies in the

Aquitania of the Cunard-White LADY HAMILTON'S

Star Line, on Sept. 14,

At about the same time, the win- ning, gradirates of German and

LOVE LETTERS

Since it was announced that 25 very quaintly spelt love letters by

GENERAL

STAR SPANGLED CAST FOR

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938.-PAGE. 5

THE ZIEGFELD GIRLTO

Today's Screenings Crawford, Sullavan,

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"King Of The Damned" QUEEN'S:

"Cocoanut Grove"

"Mannequin"

ORIENTAL:

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :

"Coceanut Grove"

STAR:

*You Said A Mouthful"

MAJESTIC:

"Romance For Three"

KING'S:

Coming

"The Divorce Of Lady X"

QUEEN'S:

**Jezebel"

ORIENTAL:

Bruce And Powell

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have been the apostles of multi-star pictures since Gränd. Hotel (Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford) and Dinner at Eight (Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Madge Evans, Billie Burke, Lionel Barrymore). No retting ready to spangle stars just as lavishly Girl

they are over. Ziegfeld

For the four leading "lädies will be Joan Crawford." Mar- great sullavan, Virginia Bruce and Eleanor Powell — all in the title role.

STAR DUST

Danielle

Darrier's secand

Miss Crawford gets her long- rumoured chance to sing, for she plays the Follies girl who begins as a waitress.

Miss Powell's dancing fits her American film will be a serious for the setting. She is the girl drama called Rio from а story who comes to Ziegfeld from 3 by Jean Negulesco.

ner Öland.

•

War-

convent.

Miss Bruce," the only actual Anna May Wong is having her Ziegfeld Follies girl of the four.

is natural casting as portrait painted. by Mrs.

a stage- struck society, heiress.

Miss Sullavan is unexpected. Tyrone Power is the latest sus-tic tone to what might be just But she is there to lend drama. for the part of Ashley another mammoth musical spec-

"The Girl of the Golden West" gestion ALHAMBRA:

"Jezebel":"

STAR:

"Gold Diggers Of 1933" "Duck Soup"

ALAJESTIC:

"Mannequin"

PRINCESS FINDS HER STOLEN CARAVAN

→Princess Paul

Troubetzkoy, of Davis-street, Berkeley-square, W.

and. Dick Turpin Cottage, Park

springs, Iver Heath, Bucks, gave evidence at Slough recently when Douglas Stewart Cross and George Percy Strike, of Ashford, were charged with stealing her motor-car trailer caravan, worth

£80.

The Princess said that she kept the caravani in the grounds of her cottage. While in Park-lane she saw it attached to a car with a battered hood. She telephoned the police..

Cross and · Strike were each sentenced to six months' hard labour, and the former received £4 further three months for failing to observe conditions on which he was placed on probat- ton for two years last May.

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TODAY

Anniversaries and Holidays. st. Zephyrinus.

Auctions-Crown Land, at Dis- trict office, South, Quen's Building, 2nd floor, 11 am.; Household Furni- ture. at Lammert's, 2 Connaught Road Central, 2.30 p.m.

Cinemas~~(See Column 3 of this

Page).

LecturesAir. Raid Precautions, Maryknoll Convent School, 'Kow- loon, 4 p.m.

Maths(See Faze 16), Meetings Extraordinary. Kow. Loon Cricket Club, 5.45 pm,

Moon.-VII Int'c. Moon, 2nd, Day. Social Whist Drive and Ton-

English schools will leave their Emma Lady Hamilton to her early bola in the "RE. Warrant Officers respective ports for a year's study protector. Charles Greville, were to more than two score of the fel-be sold at Sotheby's much interest

In America.

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was aroused.

lowships have been awarded an Recently Mr. Ernest Maggs nually since the system was devised by American headmasters on the fought hard, but. at £500 had to basta of all-round standing as well yield to Messrs. Spink, who act frequently for a cilent who endows as scholarship.

the national insitutions with such purchases..

JACK HULBERT TO RETURN TO STAGE

After the sale, Mesars. Spink stated that it is highly probable that the letters will go to the National Maritime Museam at Greenwich.

In 1924 one of Robert Burns's manuscript versions of that daring Satire "Holy Willie's Prayer" re- alised 2340. This contains the remarkable lines which Sir Walter Jack Hulbert is to return to the Scott found to be 'exquisitely stage after seven years in fime, severe."

Musical Play Plan

He will appear with his wife Cicely Thou that in the Heavens does Courtneidge, in a new musical dwell! Wha, as 1 pleases best play, of which he will be part Thysel

author. The production is to openSends che to heaven and ten to in the West End in the autumni. hell, ́

Mr Bulbert and Miss Court

neidge last played forether in

A' for thy glory.

Another manuscript of this, 'sent Folly to be Wise" at the Piccadil- by Francis W. Montagu-Dougian- ly Theatre in 1931. Miss Court Scott, reached £410 (Mackenzie). neldge Was in "Hide and Beek" at

the Hippodrome last. year.

The new show, which is yet by Lee Ephraim, who is now re- without a title is to be presented covering from pneumonía.

and Sergeants Mess, Wellington Barracks, 9 pm, Cheero Club Bridge Night,

Sportsidee Page 10). Sunrise-6.04 a.m. Sunset.--6.46

Tides High at 09.38 and 22.30: Low at 02:50 and 15.05.

pm.

TOMORROW

*

[Dukes in Gone with the Wind”? Jean Muir Is reported to have returned to Hollywood to make a test for Melanie.

*

Cary Grant, Douglas banks, junior. Victor and Joan Fontaine will Lex Gunga Din, with Clannel as the menace.

Fair- McLaglen be cast Eduardo

tacle. Her role is that of the wife of a violinist with whom she quarrels with the show going on over the wrecked mai.Inge.

The leading men to play op- posite these four have not yet been chosen. Wiliam Powell" will not repeat his performance S Ziegfeld, who will not appear;

William Anthony McGuire.

Clark Gable and Norma Shear-producer of The Great Ziegfeld, et. have the starring roles in Is however, again in charge. Idiot's Delight which has "gone

into production at M-G-M.

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C.

by

Roman Novarro's second fl for Republic, now in production. has been renamed A Romantic Rogue. Marian Marsh

15 the

On the point of returning to

from England. Hollywood Aubrey Smith was signed Alexander Korda to play Gener

al Burrows in The Four Fea-leading lady, with Eric Blore and thers.

1.

Margaret Tallichet in the cast.

CROSSWORD

NO. 91

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cereal grass

3

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14. Sheltered

side

15. Former ·

16.

secretary to

an Australian Prime Minis ter

What sea is

a part of the Indian Ocean between

. Arabla and **

India?

18" European trees 20. Bind

21. Behold!

22. Mother 24. Faction 26. Fall behind. 28. Insect

30. Doubling of a rope 32. Fibre of the.

palmyra palm

35 Guther

Crops 37. Rip 39. Russian vil-

lake com- munity

40. Strip of

feather

42. Portico Miscellaneous.-Y.M.C.A. Launch 44. Father Bathing Plenic. Launch leaves Police Pier at 3. p.m.

Moon--VII Int'c. Moon, 3rd, Day, Sunrise.-8.03 a.m. 'Sunset,-6,47

p..

Tides High at 6847 and 21.59; Low at 02.10 and 15.30

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47. What Dutch

genre painter is famous for

his Laughing ..Cavaller? 49. Like 51. One of the.:

Great Lakes

53 Araqunt at

which a per-

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the Govern- ment after the fall of

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60. Linguistic

stock of Indo-China

61. English

coastal town 63. Supply with

weapons $4. Exalt the spirits of

85, Ballor

DOWN

1. Craze 2. Metric mea- sure of area

3. Who was

the author of the Compro- mise of 18507 4. Prongs of an

antler

5. Biblical king

6 Member of

an Indonesian tribe

7. Wrongful

2.Ft

8. Gastropod

with a spiral shell

9. High priest

of Israel

· 10 · Actual 11,

City of Nevada

13. Principal

post at the foot of a

· stairway 17. Thrush 19. Native of

·Beotland

22. What is the

fourth of the :

planets re-

volving about

the sun?

SOLUTION TOMORROW

25. Digits

E ENE ENIE

VAIR-CONDITION:D THEATREY

TODAY ONLY AT 130, 5.16; 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.

MEN CONDEMNED TO LIVE

WITHOUT HOPE ON THE ISLE

THAT MAN FORGOT

Caged men revolt...on.

the Isle of the Damned Ruthless murdere appoints himself die- tator,.. selzei gor- ernor's daughter for his brids...

Then the sleepless vigil ... 24 hours a day... day after.day . . . 10. protect har from the manoce of murderous mutineers."

KING OF

THE DAMNED

CONRAD. VEIDT

TOMORROW

United Artists

DAILY AT

2:30

540

720

9:20

10 th

HELEN VINSON A Gaumont-British Production

MERLE OBERON-LAURENCE OLIVIER in “THE DIVORCE OF LADY X"

HANKOW

KOWLOON

STARE

Joe E BROWN

Ginger ROGERS

TODAY ONLYTM

"YOU SAID

SHOWS DAILY!

A

57795

Warner Bros.

Picture

NATHAN

TO. MORROW

MOUTHFUL "

Ous of the best musicals ever produced

'GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933"

MAJESTIC

THEATRE-

ABAO KOWLOON

TEL:87232

(MATINEES. 20.-30. • EVENINGS. 20%-30% 50.708)

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

HOT COMEDY WITH TRIPLE-POWERED ROMANCE! M-G-M's STAR-STUDDED ROMANTIC REVEL!

From Alp to Alpia with this: baruesomte of romancers and ·

zioters...it's the diasi. ̈est jay-ride you

ever howlacă at?

130 $20 720-9.30

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21. School of

whales

29. Tropical

plant

31. Besten way 33. Small seed

of an apple. 34. Constella- tion...

34. Having less colour

38. Below 41. Ostentatious display

43. What Fran-

ciscan mis- slon in Texas was the scene of a massacre in 18367 44. Concluding 48 Stocky

49. Recorded

proceedings

50. Region be

tween France and Ger- many

52. Book of the

Old Testa- ment

54. Species of

pler What is the missing part

of the name"

of the popu

lar comedian

57. Border, 58. Siamese

coin.

62. Myself

ROMANCE FOR THREE

Alsor News of the

Our Gang Comedy

Picture

"FRANKRE

ROBERT

MORGAN · YOUNG

MARY

ASTOR

FLORENCE

RICE

HENRY HULL

•

EDMA MAYAN

OLIVER

REGINALD

OWEN HERMAN BANG

Directed by Edward 21°. Bunnell, Produced by BAM ZIMBALIST

10 TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!

RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL. REQUEST!

JEANNETTE MACDONALD

&i

in

ALLAN *JONES

"FIREFLY"

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

SUNDAY, MONDAY TUESDAY

DRAMA OF A SHOPGIRL AND A MILLIONAIRE!

JOAN CRAWFORD

SPENCER TRACY

MANNEQUIN

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer HL1

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