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MOTHER CAREYS

CHICKENS

ANNE SHIRLEY - RUBY KEELER

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WALTER BRENNAN

Frank Albertson

Alma Kruger

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MARX BROS.

M.M. Picture "A NIGHT AT THE OPE A"

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LEE TRACY IN LONDON ROLE Recently Raymond Massey was a acter-in fact, he is a more obvious member of the audience at the choice than his predecessor," Apollo. He saw Lee Tracy play All that need be said is that Harry Van, the American "hooter" "Idiot's Delight" is still the most in 'Idiot's Delight," the part e artesting and the beat actés, may created in London and which he 'London. Mr. Tracy's interpreta- "has been playing throughout the "tion is perhaps a little lighter in

successful run.

texture, but it is as finely in the

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Live, Love And Learn"..

QUEEN'S:

"Mother Carey's Chickens"

ORIENTAL:

"Thoroughbreds Don't Cry"

Kowloon

STAR:

MAJESTIC:

CINEMA

!

RICHEST GIRL'S DREAM

HOUSE NOW READY

Cost £100,000, Is Like Super Cinema Set

A £100.000. dream home built to please the richest girl

in the world by a husband who fell in love with her at first sight has been completed. It is in Honolulu and

the home of Mr. James Cromwell and his twenty-six-year-old wife, formerly Miss Doris Duke, whose dally Income, #3 heiress tu a £30,000,000 tobacco fortune. is £1.800.

THE RETIRING

GARBO

two

The building bas taken years and the result is described 03 partly a Roman emperor's villa, partly a Greek temple, with 's dash of a Spanish castle · and a hint of a. French chateau the whole constituting some

More Rumours About or Hollywood super-set.

ALHAMBRA:

"Mystery Or The

Museum"

Wax

Vivacions Lady"

Marle Walewska"

alm

Coming

with

KING'S:

"Flight Into Nowhere"

QUEEN'S:

"Beloved Brat"

ORIENTAL:

"The "Plainsman"

ALHAMBRA :

"The Life Of Emile Zola „

STAR:

"A Night At The Opera"

MAJESTIC:

"The Devil Doll"

MILITARY SCHOOL

7J

Her Plans

sort

Among its most striking fea- tures are

Miss Greta Garbo, so

A fern-lined courtyard studded I have been informed by an American with orchids, a walk paved with distributor-not connected .cient Chinese granite blocks,

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-will and a white marble,

wall with soon retire from the screen, writes Jade Inlays:

Home correspondent.

A disappearing pinte-glass

She is going to settle down, he wall twelve feet high; ays, to the modest seclusion of a A music room with several Swedish castle on the $1,000,000 or thousand gramophone records so she is believed to have saved in kept in air-condit’oned vaults: Hollywood.

A swimming pool with a diving The four biggest stars on the board equipped with lift : screen. according to another A theatre with coloured. Per- American, are an animated car- sian columns; toon, an ice-skater, a nine-year

An aquarium with artificial

old child and a wooden dummy-lakes and streams ; Edgar Bergen's Charlie McCarthy, A living room with an oak seen in "The Goldwyn Follies." floor brought piece by piece .Garbo. I learn from a confiden-from a sixteenth century French tial Italian. is going to retire from chateau ; the screen and settle down in (a) villa at Capri.

A harbour for, yachts, with artincial breakwaters, made of java.

ITALY'S FAVOURITE STARS An Italian authority. tells me Within the house are art tren- that the favourite foreign film saves, rare woods, Persian and stars in Italy are Jean Cabin. Indian" marble, band-carved Charles Boyer, William Powell, Moroccan cellings, German Iron- bunch of the First Quite a

Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper. Clark grill work, French tapestries, National-Warner younger players get a field day in Brother Rat, the Gable, Robert Taylor, and, perhaps. Chinese draperies.

ahead of them all. Laurel and The Cromwells will move in gn screen version of the play, now

Hardy.

January 1. They were mur- in production at Burbank,

Laurel and Hardy, who have lost red three years ago after a Most prominent of them are some ground in the United States mance which Mrs. Cromwell Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane, and England, are as popular as described 25 "Just falling in whose names have been linked ever with Italians. This is ac- leve at first sight and getting romantically-probably because counted for by their simple panto married." they are among the studio's mime, eastly understood., and the

inherit favourite "white hopes for this

year.

The Alm is a typical story American youth with A setting

In a military academy. You know what those stories are

is a little different.

this one

ro-

Mrs. Cromwell" will not fact that their voices are very skil- all her father's wealth until she fully "dubbed" in comic Italian is thirty. When she is not with an English accent.

joying her home. in Honolulu she A French film magnate has ar will be helping her husband ived in Venice with the interest-his social work among America's ing inteligence that Garbo will unemployed.

toon leave the screen. He says she has been trying to cancel her con

direct films In Sweden.

Also in the cast are those pro-tract with M.G.M, so that she may! mising young players Jane Bryan, Gordon Oliver and Jane Wyman That clever negro actress. Louise Beavers, also gets 2 nice role, that of an affectionate

di course.

mammy

The only comment of an Ameri- can is an offer to bet 100 dollars that when M.G.M. have bigger and better mother roles Garbo will be playing them.

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ro-DAY ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.-- St. Luke, the Evangelist. Jewish Rejoicing of the Law. CINEMAS,{See. Column 3 of this

Page). LECTURES.-St. John Ambulance Brigade Arst Aid by Dr. Arculli, at Ambulance Hqrs., a p.m.; Full Course Anti-Gas Training at. Police Reserve-Emergency Unit Hors, 20 Ice House Street, 520 p.m.; Maryknoll Convent School, Kowloon, A.R.P., 4 p.m. MAILS.--(Bee Page 181, MEETINGS. -

Rotary Meeting. Hongkong Hotel, 1 pm; Kow lcon Chess Club, at "Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; Extraordinary,- of the Hongkong Football Club, 8, p..; in the Club House; St. Andrew's Council, 6 pm MISCELLANEOUS --St. Stephen's Girls' College Annual Speech Day, 6 p.m.; Exhibition of Hong- kong Telegraph Amateur Pho- tographie Competition, SC. M. "Post Bldg, 10 am, to & p.m. MOON-VIII Moon, 25th. Day.

| REHEARSALS. YMCA. Pan-

tomime, 9 pm: RELIGIOUS-Prayer and Fellow- Balp. Meeting in 8. & 6. Home. B p.m.

SOCIAL-YM.C.A. Sewing Bee, 10 am.; Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45. p.m.;' Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9:15 pm.: Whist Drive and Tombola at China Light ́and Powër Recita- tion Club, King's Park, 6,48 pm. SPORTS.—(Bee: Page -10).

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THE MYSTERY OF THE

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THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

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DEATH IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND!

The

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DEVIL DOLL BARRYMORE

LIONEL

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