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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

VEEN'S

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

SENSATIONAL REVIVAL BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Idol of Millions

Screen Favourite of Two

Decades Agn in a Flaming Desert Romança!

"RUDOLPH VALENTINO

was three Gables and four or five

Taylors rolled into one1"

Today's Screenings

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"Little Miss Roughneck" QUEEN'S:

"The Sheik" ORIENTAL:

"Love, Honour and Behave"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"San Quentin” ·

— sayı Damon Runyon

STAR:

45 Fathers".

RUDOLPH VALENTINO

1)

THE SHEIK

ADDED! Latest Paramount News

TOMORROW

A Pamount Picture

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-930

DAYS

& Popular science la Colour.

SHE'S NO

LADY"

Ann Dvorak John Trent

JAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY RỪN

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD

TEL 28473

2ONLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

FIRST SHE SUCKS HIM IN THE EYE THEN SINGS "BEI MIR BIST, DU SCHOEN"

HERE'S THE BIGGEST LAUGH HIT OF 1988;

HE LOVES

*EM

AND

LEAVES

EM.

Black and

Blue!

FRI.

“LOVE.

HONOR

and

BEHAVE"

KRATKINS

WAYNE MORRIS

PRISCILLA LANE

FRE "NAVY BLUE AND GOLD"

SAT.

Robert Young, Ilonel Barrymore, Billie Burke.

MATINÉES: 20c.-30c ℗ EVENINGS: 206.-30e.-50c.-70c. ✪

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WITHERS

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THOMAS BECK LOUISE HENRY

The HARTMANS

A 20th Century-Fox Pittore

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LLOYDS OF LONDON

MAJESTIU:

"The Good Earth"

KING'S:

Coming

"Stand In"

QUEEN'S:

"She's No Lady"

ORIENTAL:

"Navy Blue and Gold"

ALHAMBRA:

"On Such A Night"

STAR:

́» “Lloyds Of London" "

"The

Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo"

MAJESTIC:

Escapade"

NEW CHILD STAR

"Little Miss Roughneck," in the person of irresistible Edith Fellows, will provide the plece de resistance of this week's new pictures. It upens today at the King's Theatre.

Edith is the slight, dark haired 14-year-old dynamo who was the bane of ...Melvyn Douglas' existence in "She Married Her Boss and who sent Bing Crosby. scurrying into fomance in "Pennies From Heaven." As"a result of her deft comic trouping in these filins. she was rewarded with her first important featured role. that of the impossibly impertinent screen- struck. child star, Foxine LaRue; in "Little Miss Roughrieck."

Disease May Be Cured By Nicotine

After a year of research, scientets have disclosed that nicotine may hold the secret of recovery for victims of pel- lagra, the dreaded disease

in

known as Lombardy leprosy or Italian leprosy, which af- flicts thousands of agricul-"

Southern turak, workers. Europe and America. Chemists have succeeded in pro- ducing a drug known as nico. tinic acid which is claimed to be of value in the treatment of pella-

After the auccessful laboratory tests it was demonstrated to the medical profession for the first time at an exhibition at Fly- mouth recently for doctors from all over the world who attended the British Medical Association's conference.

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The new drug can be admi-- nistered in tablet form, and is claimed to supply the vital deficiency in, vitamin which:

is belloved to be the cause of. the disease in under-nourish- ed people.

DIARY OF LOCAL ON THE AVENUE Pellagra

EVENTS

TODAY

CINEMA & GENERAL

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938 -PAGE 5

NEW PLAY FOR MERLE OBERON

Miss Elsa Maxwell To Write Scenario

Miss Elsa Maxwell. the American Journalist' and hos- tess, is to work for London

Alm Prodactions

M Alexander Korda met her at a dinner she recently gave of the Riviera to the American Ambassa- dor, and was so limpressed with her personality that he gave her contract. She is now writing a story for Merle Oberon, and will play a part in it. «.

Miss Maxwell has written two books and a play, and was recently commissioned by a New York publisher to write the life of the Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow.....

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As a cobake to late dinner guests she once sent around vehicles to pick them up in whatever, state of dress they happened to be in at the moment.

shel organised a party in Paris after the Armistice, went as Mr. Lloyd George and was mobbed in

$5

the streets. A guest came Marat being murdered and had

to be hauled around the floor in a papiermache bath while a young woman dressed as Charlotte Cor- day polsed a knife above his neck, She has criticised the "British aristocracy for want of courtesy in America, and made up a list of She is noted as a giver of lavian the 10 greatest gentlemen in the and often eccentric parties. At world in which only one English- one reception at the Waldorf-man appeared-Sir Johnston Astoria she had hors

charging Forbes-Robertson,

across the dance floor, called by Ohio's champion hog-caller, and she la said. to have invented "the "murder" party, the buffet supper party. and the go-as-your-fa- vourite-alm-star" party.

PRESENTATION

Shield presented to Sir Ro- bert and Lady Ho Tung by the New Territories Agricultural Association at a reception last week.

5.

STAR DUST

Jed Buell is planning another all- | midget film, to follow "The Terror of Tiny Town" The new one will be about lumber jacks.

*

M-G-M have bought Four Cents a Word, an unproduced play by the author of Three Men on a Horse.

Groucho Marx's illness has been holding up production on “Room Service" for the second time.

Lene Hervey and Janet Beccher have joined the cast of Bay it in French, the new title for "Sou- brette," starring Olympe Bradna

After completing his part in “King of Alcatraz,” with Lloyd Nolan, Porter Fall is leaving Paramount for freelancing and stage work

Irne Dunne's next picture will be Love Affairs, produced and directed by Leo McCarey for Radio. It is due to go into productios in the middle-of-September

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SHOWING TODAY FOR ONE DY ONLY

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** AT 2.30, 5.10, 715 AND 13 PM THE YEAR'S SURPRISE STARLEY IN A THRILL-FUN FUN FESTI

"LITTLE MISS ROUGHNECK"

with EDITH FELLOWS LEO "CARRILLO

Jacqueline Wells George Mckay

Scott Colton

TOMORROW COLUMBIA

"A Columbia Picturs

LESLIE HOWARD

JOAN BLONDELL in

STAND IN"

ALHAMBRA

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

Meet Pat O'Brien,

The Tame Guy I

He has to tame a prison full of rioting men and to tame an armful of darling dynamite! Hear Ann Sheridan Sing “How Could You?'

OTS EASIER TO FIGATI TEN PERSON

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DAZTY DAMÉ !**

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TOMORROW

Revenge rides the crest of the flood! ON SUCH A NIGHT"

Grant Richards Karen Morley A Paramount Picture

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of America was settled by the Latter Day Saints?

21. What is the

scriptures of the Moham- medans?

23. What motion

picture star recently por trayed the title Tole in Rembrandt?

which is colloquially known as rough-skin, was intro- 27. Therefore The magic phrase, "Words and duced into Italy and Spain about 28. What maiden music by Irving Berlin," proved to the middle of the eighteenth -is addressed in be the deciding factor in inducing century.

the famous Anniversaries- 'and Hoildays-Dick Powell to star in the Twen-"

'Scottish love" Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist:tleth Century-Foxproduction,

'song?"— Ember Day; H. G. Wells born, 1866; "On

the Avenue," now

Laurie." Cinemas-(See Column 3 of this Majestic Theatre.

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When he heard that the Berlin Dances-Cheero Club Dance. melodies would play an important 8.30 pm. Flannel Dance at Kow- part in the new picture, his loon Union Church Hall. 9 p.m. choice "Lectures—First Aid, at Helena Dick May, 5.30 p.m.

Mail(See. Page 16). Meetings-House Committee, at 8. and 8. Home, 5:30 pm.

Miscellaneous Sale of Child- ren's Work at 153 The Peak, by the Peak Branch of the M.C.L, 4 p.m.; Loloma Kindergarten Classes reopen, 9 a.in.

Moon.-VII Intc. Moon, 28th

Day.

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· Mes, Queen's Road 9 pm, Sportà~~(See Pare 10). Sunrise-6.12 am Sunset.-6.21

all for doing the film before. The even read the script or heard. who was going to be in the cast with him.

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TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY

RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQÜEST!

NOTE SPECIAL TIMES: 2.30, 6.00, 7.30 & 9.45 P.M..

THE

EARTH

STARRING

In all show history, there has been nothing to compare with the giant picture it took M-G-M. three years.......... two forfunes...to make from Pearl Buck's world-famed hovell

MUNIRAINER

with WALTER CONNOLLY, TILLY LOSCH Charley Grapewin, Jessie Ralph ....... dan the Novel by Four) 8. Buck • Adayand for the Saga by-

Davis and Donald Devis + Ditracted by fidever Franklin

● TOMORROW, FRIDAY, SATURDAY

TWO GREAT STARS IN A BRILLIANT BOMANTIC COMEDY;

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LUISE RAINER

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