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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS

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3 SHOWS TODAY.

AT 2.30, 5.15 & 7.20 PM, ONLY

Hunger for Freedom !

Dreim of Escape ! Startling! Terrifying! Revealing

TONIGHT IS THE

NIGHT...

Some Desperate

Convict Has Chosen to go

OVER

THE

WALL

Written by

WARDEN LEWIS E. LAWES

A COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION - A WARNER BROS, PICTURE

-TÖNIGHT ̈Âo · 9:30 · P.M.

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE .

DON COSSACK CHOIR

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HAVING WONDERFUL TIME”

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A Thrilling Detective. Drama Replete with Action and Suspense !

SYLVIA SIDNEY'S MOST DRAMATIC ROLE,

SYLVIA SIDNEY

OSCAR HOMOLKA

The WOMAN

ALONE

ON THE STAGE, ADDED ATTRACTION! Return Engagement of

PETE, FIFI and CARMENCITA

GENERAL

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938. PAGE 5

OH! MR. SHAW.... BUT IT WAS

Today's Screenings

Hong Kong

KINGS:

"Smilin' Through"

QUEEN'S:

"Over The Wall"

ORIENTAL:

"The Kid Comes Back?

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Woman Wise"

STAR:

"Ex-Lady"

MAJESTIC:

"A Woman Alone"

"KING'S:

Coming

"Four Men And A Prayer" QUEEN'S:

"Having Wonderful Time"

ORIENTAL:

"Escapade"

ALHAMBRA:

"Rocket Ship" -

STAR:

"Oil For The Lamps Of China” "Joy Of Living”. MAJESTIC:

**Thirteen"

OVER PRISON

WALLS

PASSED BY THE CENSOR

"NOT BLOODY LIKELY”

The above classic line in Bernard: "Shaw's "Pygmalion,” which shocked London - theatre-goers thirty-tfirse TOKIS 179, bas been included in the film version of the G.B.S. play which has just been completed at Pinewood by Pascal Productions,

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And it has been passed by the Censor!--

In case the Censor objected to "To Americans the word is just

it, the producers took the precau- a quaint and amusing English tion of Alming two versions of the expletive." says co-director Les- scene in which the line is spoken lle Howard.

by Biza

George Bernard Shaw

In one scene the line DELS retained, in the ather omitted. Censor has decided that there is no harm in 'allowing cine- ma audiences to hear it.

The line is in the US. copy, because there it has not the game significance.

"

"WOMAN-WISE”

Cigarettes To Pay Judge's Salaries

Chile's "Finance Minister, Senor Garces" Gana, has pro- posed that cigarettes shall be sold in smaller packets and shall be more heavily taxed to finance higher salaries for judicial officials.

"

The bill providing for these..sa- lary rises is now before the jus tice Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and Senor Gana is faced with prospect of finding seven million pesos (£58.000) to pay them.

Senor Gana's proposal has been accepted in principle,

.. Adoption of the proposal will mean packets of 10 cigarettes, in- stead of the packets of 14 now current in Chile.

Practically all tobacco manufac- turing is controlled by an An- glo-Chilean combine.

NORMA SHEARER

Written by no less an authority on the subject than Warden Lewis E Lawes. Sing Sing's own fearless head, "Over the Wall" the fast- moving drama of the penitentiary smacks of an authenticity never yet reflected on the screen.

The story has an unusual twist The laugh-provoking story of a in the fact that Dick Foran, who newspaperman who thought he capably plays the lead. literally knew all about women, until he sings his way out of prison, after met a little spitfire, making good he has been incarcerated on ajat a man's job. "Woman-Wise."

the Twengeth Century-Fox pro-| frame-up.

Bitter against all except his duction which "opens at the Al-

That a thing of beauty is a joy sweetheart. the lovely June Travis, hambra Theatre today, moves ex- he soon becomes an incorrigible, citingly through the worlds of news forever on the screen is reaffirmed at the King's Theatre, where the With the aid of a tough but kind- and sports. ly prison chaplain, ably portrayed by the versatile John Litel, Foran Joins the prison choir. Broadcast ing over the air. Foran soon gains a tremendous following.

RETURNS

In roles which demand an un-return' engagement of " Norma dramatic triumph, usual range of ability. from drama Shearer's

to romance to comedy, Michael "Smilin' Through," being played Whalen and Rochelle Hudson gain in response to overwhelming public new stature heading a strong cast demand.

This beautiful story, which has From then on the story gains in which also features, such reliable interest until it reaches a thrill-performers as Thomas Beck, Alan stirred the hearts of countless ing climax. It is at the Queen's Dinehart." Douglas Fowley, Astrid theatre-goers since Jane Cow! first

Allwyn and Chick Chandler, presented it on Theatre today.

the New York Jetage, takes on a new glow under the witchery of Norma Shearer's acting

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With such sterling actors, as Fredric March and Leslie Howard, in the support "Ballin' Through" still works its spell of tears and smiles, stil spays the heart by its moments of pathos which precede and follow the lighter moments of galety

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TUDAY

Anniversaries and

Holidays.

Nativity of Our Lady; White Dew (Pai-lu).

AM-CONDITH NED THEATREN SHOWING TODAY:

DANY AT 2.26, 518, 735 AND

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN IT.... FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN.... Metro-Goldwyn-Moyer presents

once more the beautiful First Lady of the Screen in the most heart-stirring of all romances!

Norma & nearer

FREDRIC MARCH LESLIE HOWARD

SMILIN THROUGH

ALSO

LA EST NEWS OF THE DAY

NEXT CHANGE "FOUR MEN AND A

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with LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD GREENE

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ALHAMBRA

NATHA

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HE was WISE... But SHE WAS WISER!

"GRAFTER"!

"CHEAT"

FIGHT-FIXER:

Accused of the sport fraud he fought in ex-

Į posa .......... only the pratty queen of the sport poge believed he was on the up- and -up i when he made a shake-down gang shell out

WOMAN-WISE

win Rochella

HUDSON Michael WHALEN

THOMAS BECK ALAN DINEHART DOUGLAS FOWLEY

Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzal • Dricted by Allan Denn

NEXT CHANGE

New Universa} Picture

Most Sensational in Film History

“ROCKET SHIP”, Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Jean Rogers

Comedians, Dancers and Novelty Artists IN A COMPLETELY NEW PROGRAMME !

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY *·

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A Mostlm THIRTEEN"

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The First Soviet Russian Dramatic Picture To Be Presented in This Colony !

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Bette DAVIS

Gene RAYMOND

in

"EX-LADY."

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This picture is not recommended for

Children under 16

BENTICHING AS YOUNG LOVE-

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Lectures-Volunteer Nursing De- tachment, at P.WD. Offices, for those undergoing examination.

Malls-(See Page 16).

Meetings Council of the Hong Kong Football Assen., in s. CM. Post Board Rooin, 5.30 p.m.; Royal Engineers Old Comrades Aasen. Quarterly Mooting, Wellington Bar- racks, 8 pm; Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, $ p.m.

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Behearsals-Hong Kong Philhar- monic Society, in China Fleet Club ¡Theatre, 845 pm.

Sports-(Bee Page 10).

Sunrise 6:08 am. Sunset-5.34 p.m.

Tides-High at 08.00 and 21.20 Low at 01.45 and 14.45,

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