1938-09-27 — Page 5

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This Little Gold Digger Went To Paris

And Cried "WHEE] WHEE}" All the Way Home! Vive La Dance! Vive La Romance! Vive La France!

GOLD

TAGGERS

IN

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RUDY VALLEE

ROSEMARY LANE - HUGH HERBERT - ALLEN JENKINS

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GLORIA DICKSON - MELVILLE COOPER - MAKEL TODD » FRITZ FÜLD » A WARNER BROS. Picowe + Directed by RAY ENRGHI • Musical Numbers Crested and Directed by Busby Berkeley Tiram Par by, Kuch Kaldvin má Varma, Dad » Mary by Jury Walk, Kimbers Maming, Maarten San com on Tàmh by Jurj Korwin and Janda Beynone ''Waar ind Letter by Hang Masal and Al Dudin

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Yesterday they plan ned a home. Today the death cell clangs be hind him!

WE WHO ARE

ABOUT TO DIE

-Directed by Chofety Cobanno

THURSDAY 20

A Univerzal Picture

PRESTON FOSTER

- ANN DVORAK

JOHN BEAL

Edward Small Prodančius – NOO-RADIO MOTURE”

Claudetre Ou bert IMITATION TLIFE

CINEMA & GENERAL

NEW FILM

FILM OF IDEAS

OF IDEAS CAUSES GREAT CONTROVERSY

Today's

Screenings Walter Wanger Experiments

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Blockade" QUEEN'S:

"Gold Diggers. In Paris" ORIENTAL:

"Dracula"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Undersea Kingdom"

STAR:

"Love And Hisses"

No

With Anti-War Theme

In "Blockade"

one has yet arisen, or seems likely at the moment to arise, to do for the motion picture what Ibsen and Shaw did for the theatre—that is, to take it out of the domain of entertain- ment solely as such and TUZO It as a medium for the expression of ideas. To-day, only few question the enrichment Ibsen and Shaw brought to the "thestra, The motion picture, how- ever," which succeeded to many departments of the stage la public esteem, has yet to show itself the" equal of alther litern- turs OF the stage as a purveyor of ideas,' wyites Frank Daugher- ty in the "Christian Science Monitor."

verstal subject):"

"

contro-

. Walter Wanger, in launching being taken immediately, however "We Who Are About To Die his fim. "Blockade." an anti-war mistakenly, for such Д MAJESTIC:

flim having Spain 'as its back ground,found himself' faced quite squarely with this fact. It seems to be one thing to have idena.. and another thing to present them so that others are moved by them.

KING'S.

Coming

"Silent Barriers"

QUEEN'S:

"To-morrow's " Children" "The Texans"

ORIENTAL:

"100 Men And A Girl"

All Quiet On The Western

Front"

ALHAMBRA.

"The Texans"

STAR-

"Imitation, Of Life" MAJESTIC:

"Navy Blue And Gold"

NAVY BLUE

AND GOLD

Makers of the early. and later Ruslan films which were exhibited in the United States were successful in rous- ing the enthusiasm of their partisans, but those who didn't like these films or the ideas they presented simply stayed away.

Unfortunately. with a picture such as Mr. Wanger's, which has had a general release to audiences all over the country. these audiences were not afforded the same choice. They had no rea-

This makes the sudden. fanfare of excitement which has met the alm from both partisans and i antagonists a matter which can- not be explained by the eder- tiveness of the flim as a produc- tion. Mr. Wanger Was unfor- tunate in giving the impression that he W35 champloning the cause of Loyalist Spain; his friends have cheered him for this, son to suspect that Mr. Wanger's dim would not be as innocuous In and his opponents are objecting

intent as the pictures they were strenuously to it.

accustomed to viewing in neighbourhood movie.

their

UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

This gave Mr. Wanger воте any thing

of An unfair advantage called

in the presentation of his" anti- He also

war Alm, and may account in to show

uniforms cist it has received

large measure for the severe crit!- in some Franco's

it is not quarters. Nevertheless.. difficult to sympathise with Mr. Wanger when he says:

In his own defence. Mr. Wan- ger has said that he employed a technical expert on the set at Ell times to see that the Alm soldiers never appeared In uniform which could be authentically Loyalist. made it a point never the enemy or to allow Love being the most popular approximating those of of all themes and football recur- troops to be used in the ring 35 3 competitive topic On the other hand, both his once a year, Metro-Goldwyr-story and his scenario were by Mayer has combined the two and a well-known playwright whose scored a box office touchdown sympathies

for Loyalist Spain are a matter of record.

in "Navy Blue and Gold."

This picture opens to-day ati

Lim.

"It is not Blockade they

are

ghting against but against the fact that if 'Blockade' L # suc- cess. 1 food of stronger and TWO, OPPOSITE CAMPS stronger films will appear, and the Majestic Theatre. Robert Film audiences have never the Alms will not talk but say Young, James Stewart, Lionel demonstrated that they want something" Barrymore, Florence Rice,, Blife ideas in the film for which they Burke, Tom Brown and a group pay. In fact, they

have often

of other notable players present divided quickly into two opposite the story.

.

.

camps whenever anything ap- "Navy Blue and Gold" is the proaching a controversial subject story of three. midshipmen at An-is set upon the screen. Mr. Wan- napolis Naval Academy.

Was unfortunate in

ger's Alm

CROSSWORD

NO. 118

ACROSS

5 No, he was

a British

General (6)

8 Famous chess

player (10)

9 Italian town in

which English

ladies used to

be seen (6)

10 A machine for

producing cir- culars obvious-

ly (10)

13 Famous

cricketer (5)

18 Famous ten-

nis player (7)

17 A tropical

plant (5).

18 An imported horse (5)

19 A misnamed

college nowa- days (3).

20 One of the deer

family (3)

21. This age is a crime (5)

22. This is con-

sumed in the tea tents (5). 23. Commonly a

fine specimen of

its kind, perhaps a snake (7)

25 Tennis player

whose name is often drunk (5)

28 No, cook does

"not make pud-

dings of this weed (10)

31 A magic word

(8)

32 Sorrow

thoroughly Endly (10)

33 A change for

#Ronald (6)

DOWN

1 This fabulous

creature would

-be lost it

upset (5)

37

Thus the cross- word enthusiast looks for his puzzle (5)

3 Exclamation of grief, feminine by the sound of it (4)

4 Forbidden by

one of the Com mandments (4)

5 is the spur

that the clear spirit doth raise" (Milton) (4)

A famous per- son but it is not cleverness that has made him (10)

Epithet for the wilful three- bottle man? (10)

11 This cast be-

comes of valuö

if upset (5)

12 O.T character

(3)

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

13 Famous flyer

(8)

14 Nc "The Ladies'

Mirror" is not printed on this

·(10)

15 The right part

of London for Instruction to road-makers

(10)

18 Irish bay (8) 20 Feminine name (5).

24 In one.word

as well (3)

28. Fighting 15

.1

the one end of

this Indian

trooper (5)

27 Volcano (5) 28 Common com- plaint (4)

29 Is this part of

a fortification not straight- forward? (4)

30 The punished disagree with

the name of this punish- ment (4)

[Note: "Blockade" is being shown at the King's Theatre).

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY Anniversaries and Holidays Jewish New Year. 2nd Day.

Auctions Crown Lands at Dis- trict Office," Tai Po. 11.30 a.m.

Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Page)

Lectures.-Air Raid Precaution, Maryknoll Convent School. Kow- loon, 4 p.m.; Dr. H. el Arculli on First Aid,(for men and women) and A.R.P. Course, at St. John

Ambulance Headquarters. 8

Malla (See Page 16).

Meeting. Meetings. Rotary, Hongkong Hotel, 1 p.m.; Softball. tague, at Hote! Cecil, 5.30 p.m.; Annual, of Kowloon Chess Club, 1t Peninsula Hotel, 6 p.m.; Fete Committee, at St. Andrew's Vicar- age. 0 p.m.; St. John's Cathedral Church Council, in the Hall, 5.15 p.m.; Quarterly, of the Bible Union of China, Kwangtung Branch, at Emmanuel Church 218 Nathan Road, 5.30 p.m.

Moon.-VII Moon, 4th Day. Rehearsals. -- Y.M.CA. Panto-

mimic, 9 p.m.

Religious-Prayer Meeting in 8. and 8. Home, "8 p.m.

Cricket

Social → Craigengower Club Weekly "Tombola, 9.15 p.m.;

Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45 pm.

Sports. (See Page 10).

Sunrise-6.13 a.m. Sunset-8.15

0.01

Tides-High at 11.56 and 23.10. Low at 05.10. and 16.51.

TO-MORROW

“Moon.-VIII Moon, 5th. Day.

Sunrise-6.13 m. Sunset---6.18-

p.m.

|

Tides-High at 11.10 and 22.44 Low at 04.26 and 10.24.. -

/SOLUTION HI

Across 3, Crust. 3. Magic. ?, Terins. 10, Idler. 11, Comrude, 13. Wrath 14. Area. 16, Foresee. 19 Lent. 21, Rash. 22, Bolicit 24 Heré 28, Straw. 23 Bimilar. 29. Remit, 30, Guide. 31, Class 32, 6poke. Down: 1, Major. 2. Tlára. 4, de

Stew. 8, Terrier. 7, Amity, 10, Idiotic 11, Cable, 12, Méans. 15, Deficit 17, Easel. 18, Cheer 20, Towards. 23, Stout. 24. Hilly," 25. Raise 27. Weep. 28. Sink:

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