1938-10-07 — Page 5

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

47 850-515 7-20-930RM AT 830-3:20 720 & 9:30 PM „SHOWING TODAY

AT ROADSHOW PRICES!

The Greatest Picture Of All Time! Adventures That Have Never Been Equalled!

The Adventures of

Robin Hood

Errol FLYNN

Blighty adventure that thruled the B... now lives. forever in „TECHNICOLOR

OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND" BASIL RATHBONE CLAUDE RAINS Patric Knowles Eugene Falleroe Alan Hale⚫ Melville Cooper. Ian Hunter - Uns O'Connor • Romanová by WARNER, BROS • Diewed by MICHAL CURTIZ 100 VIG KEIGHLEY" - Original Servon Pay by Norman Rally Kalar zad Soton 1. Millig Lemon Aveiras Roba Hook Legends'? Maan by Beich Wolfguss Korsgold » A. Naw Nacional Piezare

N.B.--This picture is being released at Roadshow Prices and will not be shown elsewhere in Hong Kong for at least 6 months.

NEXT CHANGE AT THE QUEEN'S "CRIME SCHOOL"

with Humphrey Bogart "Dead End" Kids

NEXT CHANGE

AT THE ALHAMBRA 'OVER THE WORLD" Dick Foran

Warner Bros. Picture

་

Juno Travis

SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS

SUNDAY, 9th Oct. at 11.00 A.M.

A QUEEN'S

The

Wize in Wonderland

Jan Chalata Hany

PAR MAMA MULT HOME.

At

The

ALHAMBRA

A PA AMOUNT VARIETY SHOW

INCLUDING "POPEYE the SAILOR

&

BETTY BOOP

A Real Treat, 'For The Children!

PRICES: 50 c. 85 c. & 20ę ÏChildren 3c. & 20e.: Incl. Tax Complimentary Tickets will not be valid for this show.

TAKE ARY TRAN DR HAMPY YALLEY BUB

4 SHOWS

DAILY

FLEMING ROAD HANGHAI

TEL. 28473

2.30-5.15 7.15-9-30

DAYS

ORIENTAL

2ONLY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW•

SUN.

SURE WE KNOW DAMES AREN'T EVERYTHING

BUT MAKE US A BETTER OFFER!.

They're men of the deep-deep in trouble-when a "danie

two-times these" fightin' sons of the sea.

RICHARD DIX. DOLORES DEL RIO CHESTER MORRIS

They're

brates at the bottom

of the ocean or in a women's

armas."

DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND

Dlected by Erle C. Kentan

A COLUMBÏMPICTURE

JOE B. BROWN'S

"WIDE OPEN FACES LAUGR RIOT

◆ MATINÉES: 20c-30c ● EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c. →

Before the end of the year it will be necessary for Royal Academicians to find a new prest- dent. Bir William Leewellyn. reaches the retiring age of 75 on Dec. 1. An idea exists in some quarters that an architect, not à painter, stands the best chance of being elected. Sir Edwin Lutyens, whose latest greatest design, the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool, is "now steadily being translated into solid form, is "favourite" for the office

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Today's Screenings

Hongkong

KINGS:

"Woman Chases Man" QUEEN'S:

"The Adventures Of Robin

Hood"

ORIENTAL.

"Devil's Playground”.

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"

CINEMA & GENERAL

"The Adventures Of Robin

Hood"

STAR

"One In A Militon”

MAJESTIC:

"The Squeaker".

KING'S.

Coming

"The Goldwyn Follies" QUEEN'S:

"Crime School" ORIENTAL:

"Wide Open Faces" ALHAMBRA.

"Over The Wall" STAR:

"Girls Dormitory" MAJESTIC:

"Three Comrades”

BUSÍ WORKING

FIGHT AGAINST

MALARIA

Bandoung Centre Of Quinine

Have you never remarked how

al your triends mi. the East Indies DAVE spent a longer or shorter time at Bandoung?

This has always led one to think that 'Bandouing must be consider- es as the centre of the Dutch Fast Indies, the town where everyone is happy, the Pearl of the East Indies.

Although places like Batavis and Sourabaya are much more

Greta Garbo is acting in a film.important and have much greater

of the life of Madame Curle, the discoverer of radium.

EDMUND LOWE IN FINE ROLE

the

populations, Bandoung Is the town where holidays are. spent, old where one suddently meeta friends after years of hard work In the bush and where health may be restored in a perfectly healthy and magnificent mountain 'climate in one of the most beautiful reglots of Java, that of the Preang Regency. An exceptionally strong cast ap- Above all, Bandoung is pears in the new London Film, centre of mountain cultures, such The Squeaker," which comes to as tea, coffee and cinchona, which the Majestic Theatre ∙to-day. have reached a degree of prosperi- Edmund Lowe, the popular Holly-ty, hitherto unkown in the Preang wood star, has the chief role as ex-district. Cinchona plays a parti- Inspector Bartabal of Scotland cularly important part, for this Yard, a brillant detective brought culture has been able to develop region, owing he who, captures the mysterious to the favourable nature of the underworld gure known and des- soli and the ideal climate. pised as "The Sqeaker."

ADVENTURES OF to the verge of ruin by drink. It is perfectly in this

"ROBIN HOOD

Of all the heroes of fact

and

fiction, there is none so beloved

Appearing cpposite Lowe in the

INDISPENSABLE REMEDY or dashing as Robin Hood, the principal feminine role is Ann Whilst being the centre of the outlaw of Sherwood Forest. Cele-Todd, the talented young British cinchona culture, Bandoung 14 brated in song and story, in opera actress who is rapidly rising to the equally well known by reason of

Her fiancee in the film is the quinine which is extracted be and in the silent movies. Robin top.

now

!!

appears in brand new guise Sebastian Shaw, who created a big¦ing an indispensable remedy. This In "The Adventures of Robin impression as Captain Reld in that may be concluded from the re- Hood." a Technicolour fim at very fine picture "Farewell Again," commendations 'of the Malaria the Queen's and Alhambra Thea-

Commission, set up by the League tres to-day.

of Nations according to which a dally dose of 15 to 20 grains of quinine should be given, from 5 to 7 days to cure cases of malaria,

Sam as a preventive measure, a

This Commission advises that dally The dose of 6 grains of quinine

Marian.

COWBOY GETS LADY

As time marches on, and

the

Errol Flynn, a veritable rein- carnation of the legendary Robin, plays the title role. Handsome, young and adventurous, Flynn makes the perfect Robin Hood Sharing honours with him is the Goldwyn hovers between demure, lovely Olivia de Havilland. (Cowboy and the Lady and The should be taken throughout portraying his lady love. Maid Lady and the Cowboy as the final fever-season

title of his Merle Oberon-Gary Action and plenty of it is ram-Cooper picture, the

The interest that Hes in quinine Alm .comes does not just stop at its use pant throughout, from the jous closer to completion.. ting tournament at Nottingham

against malaria; this product la Castle to the wedding of Robin and

The story is about a very rich also of the greatest importance

wilful and Mald Marian.

young lady, Merle s

preventive Sherwood

of influenza. Forest, Nottingham Castle, and rodeo, falls for comboy Gary Coo-is required.

Oberon, who goes slumming at a For this a daily dose of 3, grains the countryside of medieval England are faithfully reproduced and marries him, after letting!

Since science has discovered him believe that she's just an that such dangerous and annoy- ordinary girl. The rest of the ing maladies as Influeriza colds supremacy between the two

by taking a small dose of the Alan In addition to Merle and Gary, natural product. qulatne,, every Hale (who played in the original the cast contains those two.

day, the number of possible ap- Fairbanks version). Melville

in

vast sets, breath-taking in their beauty and opulance.

The splendid cast also includes story is about the struggle for and influenza can be prevented

Claude Rains, Ian Hunter,

Patric

Knowles, Eugene Pollette,

€X-

3

spate Brennan.

ex-

Con- cellent character players. Patsy plications of this substance per. Una O'Connor. Herbert. Mun- Kelly-always good for

tracted from cinchona has been din, Montague Love, and the pre-of laughs-and Walter

doubled. sent world's champion archer, who can be, as quaintly. Western Howard HIL

as any radlo range crooner.

· CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pertaining

to birth

8 Insurgent

NO. 127

15

11 Pulpy fruit-

Đá

of a herb

10.

20

12 One of the

planets

27

23

14 By

33-

27

15 One of the

20

United States

30

3+

17 Myself

18 Alcoholle

37 33

134

35

beverage

35

NO

20 Sink in the

21 Sleeveless

middle

M

4

garment

29 One spot in

Cards

23 Wigwam

25 Fondle

26 School"

assignment

28 Banqueters

30 Make lacH

3: Beetle

32 Metal used to

“Join metallic"

surfaces

35 Kind of

clover (pl.), 38 Open

(poet.)

39 Take

exception

41 Period of

time

43 Thing: In lew 43, Lowbred

Dresuming Derson

44 Posed for .: Dortraft

45 Birthplace of Abraham

46 Changed for the better

ان

46

152

>>

50 Symbol for

tantalum

51 Embarked

53 Heavy or dull

55 Declare

56 Church

office:

DOWN

1 Observe

2 Part of

"to be"

3 Label

4 Consumed

5 Relay

6 Hardy

↑ Biblical name

8. Bound made by sheep

9 Half an em 10 Timber 11 Braid made

from Manila hemp

13 Chafts 16. Smart blow 39 Lies close and snug SOLUTION: TO-MORBOV

16

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MAR

124 137

21 Places where

Apes are kept

23, Carzied 21: Kind of duck 27 Downcast 29 Incline the

ment

32 Heap or

cluster

33 Musical drakyan

34 Retreat 35 Mix

confusedly 36 Funnel-shaped

opening of s volcano

37 Prince of

darkness

40 Human being

Winged part. Encountered Elongated fish

Father

Pronoun Buffs down

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.—

The Most Holy Rosary. CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this

Page).

DANCES.

Equine Sport Club Cabaret Dance to Peninsula Hotel: Beel Practice ht Helena May, 5.30 pm; National Women's Relier Assen Charity Ball, at Hongkong Hotel, 8 pm. LECTURES-First Aid, at St John's Cathedral Hall, 10.30 a.m.; Prof. L. T. Ride on First Aid, at

R.W.D. Offices, 5.30 p.m. MAILS.-(See Page 18). MEETINGS. Helena May Religious Fellowship, 16.30 nm; Extraor- dinary, of the Hongkong Football Club, at the Chub House, Happy Valley, 6 p.m... MISCELLANEOUS HE the Gov

ernor's Informal Visit to. Dio- cesan Boys' School, 8.25 a.m ARP. (Lecture) Examination for Instructors, Grade I. at St. John Ambulance Hera., 6.30 p.m. MOON-VIII Moon, 14th-Day.

REHEARSALS - YMCA Pan-

tomime, § 5m,

SOCIAL. Buy Bees Working Par- ty Bridge and Mabjong Drive in aid of St. Dunstan's and local Charities, at Hongkong Hotel, 3 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola in RE WOs and Serts' Mess, Wellington Barracks. 9.15 p.m; Cheern Club Bridge Night.. SPORTS(See Page 10).

SUNRISE-6.16 a.m.

6.06.p.m.

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TIDES.-High at 0.28 and 20.18.

Low at 01.36, and 14.00, -

TO-MORKOW

MOON-VIII Moon, 15th. Day

3.16 am.” BUNBET.

Low at 00.53 494-12-22-

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1938. PAGE

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CONDITIONE

TODAY ONLY AT 1.38, 118, 7.38 AND

WILD WILD WOMAN

the trung ban memakes me ha

hong van in merc

Samuel Goldwyn

PRESENTS

WOMAN CHASES MAN

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