1938-10-14 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS

DAILY AT 2:30-515·7-20£9:30 TEL 31453

TODAY AND TOMORROW, Crime Schools Where To-day's Kids Are Turned Into To-morrow's Killers!

A Startling Drama 1

"AFTER THIS WE'RE

GOIN' STRAIGHT

A Shocking Revelation 1

Yes, Straight to the Electric Chair)

CRIME SCHOOL

THE DEAD END KIDS

HUMPHREY BOGART

ADDED! Sybil Jason in "THE LITTLE PIONEER"

SUNDAY

RKO Picture

A Featurette in Technicolour

"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"

Ruby Keeler Anne Shirley SPECIAL MORNING SHOW SUNDAY, 16th Oct., at 11.00 A.M. Our Second VARIETY PROGRAMME

including

COLOUR CARTOONS

CHARLIE CHASE COMEDIES

KRAZY KAT and SCRAPPY CARTOONS

and

THE THREE STOOGES

PRICES: 50 c. 85 c. & 20 c. : Children 35 c. & 20 e. : Incl. Tax Complimentary Tickets will not be valid for this show.

230 $30

710 - 030

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

(MAINEES. 20%.30« • EV©INGS, 20%-30«< $

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

AN IMMORTAL MASTERPIECE. RETURNS TO THE SCREEN!

NORMA SHEARER

First Lady of the Screen, returns in the grandest of all love stories!

with FREDRIC

MARCH

LESLIE

HOWARD

SMILIN THROUGH

COMMENCING TOMORROW M-G-M'S GREATEST TRIUMPH OF PAGEANTRY

ND ROMANGE!

Greta GARBO Charles BOYER

MARIE

WALEWSKA

with REGINALD OWEN, ALAN MARSHAL, HENNY STEPHENSON, LEIF ERIKSON, DAME MAY WHITTY, C. HENRY GORDON, VLADIMIR SOKOLOFF

DAILY

AT

2:30

$20

720

920

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TOMORROW

Warner Bros.,

∙Picture

TODAY ONLY

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

57795

BOLT OF BRAMA THAT'LL BLOW THE FUSEST

BETTE DAVIS

TEAMED FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH

FRANCHOT TONE

DANGEROUS

Errol Flynn CAPTAIN BLOOD

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Woman Against Woman"

QUEEN'S

"Crime School"

ORIENTAL:

"Cocoanut Grove"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Smashing The Racketa"

STAR: F

"Dangerous"

MAJESTIC:

"Smilin' Through"

KING'S:"

Coming

"Live, Love And Learn" QUEEN'S:

"Mother Carey's Chickens" ORIENTAL: "..

"Merrily We Live"

ALHAMBRA:

"Mystery

Or

The

Museum"

STAR:

"Captain BloodTM MAJESTIC:

Marle Walewska"

CINEMA

What The Stars

Are Doing

M-G-M's production of Northe Warners are

consulting

west Passage, with Robert Taylor, group of sociologists about. just Spencer Tracy and Wallace how grown-up Bonita Granville Beery has been put off, until ought to be as the typical atx- next spring on 'account of the teen-year-old "American giri early fall of snow in the moun- tains, Beery and Taylor go" in- stead into Stand Up and Fight.

·

in her “Nancy Drew Leries. They want to know whether she should be allowed to use upstick. smoke or have a regular boy-

W. C. Fields starts work this friend. “ week on You Can't Cheat an Honets Man, an original story of his own.

2

Jack Carle and his wife have separated. Jack Okkie is con- ing to Europe for a long holiday "Kentucky," Twentieth Cen- and his wife, Venita Varden. tury Fox's race track picture star-will return to the stage. ding Don Ameche, is to be made in Technicolour.

·

Howard Hughes denies that he John Stahl is trying to get the wil make a picture about Amelia rights to remake. Noel Coward's Earhart. The rights to her life- Altter

Sweet. Herbert Wilcox story are owned by David Selznick, made it in England, ve years Howard, dwns Ave stories, but ago, with Anna Neagle and only one deals with fying. Fernand Gravet.

*

Joan Bennett has been re- Ann Gill and Tommy Kelly, leased from her contract Wax child-stars of

with "Tom Bawyer." Walter Wanger, but are to be teamed again in "Peck's still seen everywhere

they are together. Bad Boy at the Cirena”

Charles Boyer's last picture on his Wanger contract will be The

SMASHING THE UNDERWORLD

The clever methods employ by 1 special prosecutor for a grand Jury in obtaining evidence against the members of # gigantic racketeering ring. sre drama- tically depicted in "Smashing the Rackets," which opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-day.

With Chester Morris, Frances Mercer. Rita Johnson and Bruce Cabot

heading the cast. the story traces the activities of a determined G-Man in bringing to justice relentless criminals.

The dramatic action of the story is counter-balanced by a romance between Chester Morris and Frances Mercer, which encoun- ters complications when the young lady's impetuous, sister becomes involved with the underworld and faces a murder charge.

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.-- Battle of Hastings, 1086; De

Valera born, 1882.

CINEMAS.—(See Column 3 of this

Page).

DANCES. - Reel-

Practice, at

Helena May, 5.30 pm LECTURES. --First Ald Lecture, by Prof. LT. Ride. at P.WD. Om- ces, 5.30 p.m.; Full Course Anti- Gas Training at Police Reserve Emergency Unit: Hq.. 20 Ice House Street,. 5.30 p.m.; St. John Ambulance ARP. for Women, Mrs, Steele-Perkins, 5.30 pm.. and Indian Division' and Eng- lish Speaking Unit, Mr. Hooper, 5.30 pm.: Maryknoll convent Kowloon, 4 p.m.

MAILS.-(See Page 16). MEETINGS. Helena May. Re- ligious Fellowship., 10.30 a.m. MISCELLANEOUS.-Jumble Bale

in Assembly Hall of Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, 2 p.m. MOON-VII Moon. 21st. Day, REHEARSALS — YMCA. Pan-

tomime, e p.m. SOCIAL-Whist Drive and Tom- bola in RE Warrant Officers' and Bergeanta Mess, Wellington Barracks, 9.15 p.m.; Cheero

Club Bridge Night. SPORTS.--(Bee Page 10).

SUNRISE 6,19 a.m. SUNSET.-

6 p.m.

1:

TIDES.-High at 13.26. Low t

06.47 and 17:29.

TO-MORROW

MISCELLANEOUS - BL.

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Cathedral "Michaelmas Fair at Volunteer Headquarters,

pm.

3.15

MOON VII Moon, 22nd. Day. SUNRISE 5.19 a.m. BUNSET.-.-.

6.01 p.m. 1 „TIDES.-High at 12.16 and 23.20,

'Low at 03.50 and 16.57.

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In Max Reichardt's Festival Illusionist" from a Bacha Cultry production of "Faust" Conrad play. Nagel and Lenore Utric leading parts.

have

Darryl Zanuck is borrowing Myrna Loy to co-star with Alice nine! Faye in Tall-spin, the story about York women pilots,

Warners have signed up little boys from the New waterfront to take the place of the Dead End kids who have grown up too rapidly.

After her part in The Lady and returns the Cowboy, Gale Sondergaard to M-G-M to play the witch in The Wizard of Oz.

•

*

•

views of

Frank Capra has had five pre

"You Can't Take it With Your in the effort to 't down to the right length.

get

her

Gloria Dickson will get best chance yet opposite. Joha Garfield in They Made Me a Criminal

*

•

Spencer Tracy's first big film hit. "Up the River," is to be re- made under the title "Hard to Get.with Preston Foster in the old Tracy part.

*

Hal Roach is planning a story of prehistoric times to be called have been going on for When Life Began. Experiments almost

a year for processes by which, tổ reproduce

glant prehistoric animals. Roach will recruit his cavemen actors from the athletic world.

Slough Urban Council have ap- proved the establishment of a new Katharine Hepburn is contem- aircraft factory and aerodrome on plating a refarm-to the stage: 200-acre site at Langley, Bucks. She would put up the. money The factory is to be built by Haw herself for a new play by Eddie kez Aircraft Ltd, of Kingston-on- Dowling.

Thames.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938.-PAGE 5

SHOWING

TODAY

DAILY AT 2.38, 5.10,/^7.15 " AND IN PI

WIFE vs.

EX-WIFE in a true story that's thrilling

HERBERT MARSHALL Tirania BRUCE Mary ASTOR

WOMAN Tgainst WOMAN

4

Poop Pay and Pauza e dive

UPWAND CHODOROV

Directed by ROBERT B SINCLAIR

NEXT CHANGE:

Robert Montgomery-Rosalind Russell-Robert Benchley

IN

LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN „A..........Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN BP. HOWLG01-DARY AT 2, 30-320-750 € 900×14-**

TODAY AND TOMORROW

The Underworld Is On The Run

As One Man Crashes Down

SMASHING

THE RACKETS

CHESTER MORRIS

RADIO

FRANCES MENCER - RITA JOHNSON - BRUCE CABOT

Directed by LEW LANDERS: Prodicní by J. P. Foamin. Screen Mar de Lisnat Malib

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SPECIAL RKO-PATHE CHINA WAR NEWS

(Taken by Pathe Cameraman, A. T. Hull)

also

LATEST MARCH OF TIME

SUNDAY

Warner Bros. Picture

LIONEL ATWILL”

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM”

with FAT WAT

SPECIAL MORNING-SHOW SUNDAY, 18th⋅ Oct ́, ́at-11.00- A.M.

A Rare Treat -For the Children!...... ALICE IN WONDERLAND " Prices: 506., 856. 20c.: Children 35c. & 20e. : Incl Tax Complimentary tickets will not be vaid for this show.

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4 SHOWS

DAILY

29. A fixed

practice

32, Fuss 33. Colour of

tmiform of British

soldfér 34. Before 36. An unctuous

preparation 37. Full of

chánka 38. Indite 39. Imitate 40. Not loud 42. To set 45. Sepulchrul Inscription 47, Contestants

for speed . 49. Unpolished 50. One that

smooths

51. Most recent 53. Milder

54. Beverage 56. Signal for silence ST. Within 58. Flat-bet-

tomed boat 60. Produces as

clear pront

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2.30-5.15

7.15-0.30

DAYS

ORIENTAL

PLEMING ROAD LANGU TEL. 28473

201 TO-DAY • TO-MORROW•

15 FUNNY COMICS IN A GREAT SHOW ! IT'S GREAT BECAUSE it has Fred MacMarray as a swing band leader who swings his fats, the Yacht Club Boys at their funniest, Ben Blue dafier than ever, Harriet Hillier Radio's singing star and a terrific cast.

SUN SMO

KPatamanat ficista with

FRED MACMURRAY

COCOANUT

GROVE

THE BEST MUSICAL OF 1938)

MARKET MILLIARD - THE YACHT CLUB BOYS #HEN BLUE- RIFE DAVIS-BILLY LEE HARRY DITENS and die Hegel Harakas fisk, “

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