1938-11-04 — Page 6

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SHOWING TODAY INTRODUCING A TRULY GREAT" PICTURE !

MAGNIFICENT

HUMAN ADVENTURE

Letter of

INTRODUCTION

with

ADOLPHE MENJOU, ANDREA LEEDS

EDGAR BERGEN and "CHARLIE McCARTHY

CEORCE MUAPHY

NEW MUSFERSAL PICTORI

À JOHN M. STAHL Production

NEXT CHANGE

Jack Oakie

RKO-Radio Picture

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• Lucille Bal OF "ANNABEL "

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW

SUNDAY, 8th Novy at 11.00 A.M.

A PARAMOUNT NEW VARIETY PROGRAMME

including

POPEYE the sailor

•

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KRAZY KAT and other Colour Cartoons

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

HE WAS A ROUGH-AND-READY ROMEO.

But she was rougher and lots readier!

Marriage is a laugh” ing matter, and this

comedy proves ill

CHANGE of HEART

GLORIA STUART • MICHAEL WHALEN DELMAR WATSON LYLE TALBOT

JANE DARWELL Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel

Directed by James Tiling

TOMORROW

"LETTER OF INTRODU: TION"

Adophe Menjou-Andrea Leed-Chas. McCarthay

A Universal Picture

SPECIAL MORNING "SHOW

SUNDAY, 6th Nov., at 11.00 A.M.

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POPEYE the Sallor

Comedies and Colour

BETTY BOOP

atoons

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Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Lancer Spy"

QUEEN'S/

"Letter Of Introduction" ORIENTAL:

"Rage Of Paris"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Change Of Heart" STAR:

"Over The Wall" MAJESTIC:

B

"Merrily We Live"?

HING'S:

Coming

"Yellow Jack"

QUEEN'S:

*Affairs Of Annabel" ORIENTAL:

"The Buccaneer"

ALHAMBRA:

"Letter Of Introduction” "Swing Your Lady" STAR:

"Roberta"

"The Mystery Of The

Museum"

MAJESTIC:

"A Yank At Oxford"

"Start Cheering"

INTRODUCTION

CINEMA & GENERAL

SIAMESE CATS' BLUE EYES

MAKING A 350

Hue Much Deeper In British Climate

British climatic conditions. have produced a depth of pure blue in the eyes of Siamese cata never before equalled in the history of the breed.

ACRE LAKE

Progress On Vast New Reservoir

London's vast new reservoir at Staines, Middlesex, which will hold 4,100,000,000 gallons and will cost £1,250,000, is be- ginning to take shape.

This was the view recently of two Last summer this site of almost judges at the 15th annual cham-400 acres was farmland. 'To-day it plonship show of the Siamese Cat is a vast, dusty plain, with the 50ft Club, held at the Drill Hall, banks already rung." About 1,000 Chenles-street. W

men, working night and day on Mme. d'Ollone, of New York, a 10-hour shifts, are labouring" on member of the New Jersey Cat the project, which the Metropoli- Club, who crossed the Atlantic tan Water Board expects will be specially to judge at the show, completed in about 30 months. said: "The eye colour is superta- The total area of the new re- tive. This is the loveliest collection servoir at top-water level will be of cats I have ever seen." She has 350 acres and the depth will be been a breeder for more than 3050ft. years.

נ'.

In the construction of the bank,

The other judge who noticed the which will be 3 1-3 miles around, deeper eye colour was Mrs. Barnes-7,000,000 tons of soll will be used. Lawrence, who comes from Stam. while 680,000 tons of paddled clay She was chosen because of her will be used to form the water-re- birth nationality to award a new taining core wall of the embank- prize for the kitten with most ment. The Inside of the embank- charm, regardless of show points.ment will be lined with concrete

slabs. "The English 'ellmate has some- thing to do with the deeper blue of reservoir from the Thames, and Water will be pumped into the the cats" eyes," she said. "When the system will be able to supply Wax the cats come to Siam the eyes be-any part of London through pump- ping stations at Kempton Park and shown--3 Hampton.

TO ENJOYMENT

come paler."

There was 182 cats record-・ and the prizes were! Mr. F. W. Ireland, the resident presented by Miss Elsie and Miss engineer. described the two new Dorls Waters."

high-speed excavating machines which were brought from America for work on the "scheme.

Lord Ashfield. Chairman

They plough the soil on to a

of moving belt." he explained. "From

Fine dramatic situations and the "London Passenger Transport the moving belt the soil drops into hilarious comedy moments

march Board. presenting bars to "Safety wagons pulled by caterpillar trac- across the screen in "A Letter First" medais held by 100 bus-tors. There are two two-ton of Introduction," which is being drivers

with 15 years'. freedom wagons to a unit and they are fill- shown at the Queen's Theatre from accident, said: "These driversed in 90 "seconds. They in turn to-day.

have covered 27,000,000 miles intake the soll away and dump it on Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds London streets without a single to the bank. By this system and George Murphy provide the person being injured-a magni-everything is on drama. The comedy is excellent-cent achievement."

and

ly taken care of by that remark- able pair, Edgar Bergen Charlie McCarthy, whom you saw in "The Goldwyn Follies.

Andrea Leeds and Adolphe Menjou carry the story of an aging actor .who "discovers. through a letter of introductiori. that he is the father of a grown daughter, the role played by Miss Leeds." The actor's" ego, coupled with the fear of losing his screen-idol popularity, promnts) him to conceal their true rel^tion- ship from the world. Through this deception comes a succession of unusual events.

whole time."

the move the

CROSSWORD

NO. 151

DIARY OF LOCAL 14. Imitate

EVENTS

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FU-DAY

Anniversaries and Holidays.

St. Charles, Archbishop of Milan.

Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page).

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Who became

commander of

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forces in Europe at the outbreak of the World Lectures. ARP., Maryknoll

War? Convent School Kowloon, 4 p.m.; 24. Island of Full Course Anti-Gas Training at

the Aegean Police Reserve Emergency Unit 25. Legal pro- Hqrs., 20 Ice House Street, 6.20 p.m.; A.R.P. for Men and Women: 27. by Mr. J. G. Hooper, at St. John Ambulance Hqrs., 5.45 pm...

4

fessio Feudal estate

29.

Mall-(See Page 16).

Meetings-Helena May Religious Fellowship, 10.30 a.m.

31.

South Ame- rican wood so rel Stringed in- struments

Miscellaneous, Sale of Work in Union Church Hall, Kennedy Road, 33 opened by Mrs. B. Wylle, 3 p.m.; YMCA. Ladies' Bridge Class 10 a.m.

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135.

Men work- ing aboard ship

Symbol for oleurn Reflexve form of it

Moon IX Moon, 13th Day. Rehearsals, — Y.M.C.A" "Panto- 36. mime in the West Lounge, 9 pm.

Social-Whit Drive, and Tom-38. Both Ame- bola, in R. E, Warrant Oncers' and

rican blanket Sergeants' Mess. Wellington Bar-10. Myself Ontero Club 41. Tells 2

falsehood 43. Garden

Ahrub

racks, 9.15 p.m.;

Bridge" Night; Government House

Ball. 9.30 p.m.

Sports-(See Page 101.

Sunrise.-6.29 ́a.m. Sunset 6.45 44. Constella-

Frinda warned lim that the foved fim,

p.m.

rund was he glad

FEDRIC

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SUNDAY

MARCH

Cecil B. DeMille's - most - spectacular production,

• MATINEES: 20c-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c.

Tidas-High at 05.51 and 19.00 Low at 00.40 and 12.36.

TO-MORROW" Moon-IX Moon, 14th. Day. Sunrise-8,20 am. Sunset.-5.49

p.m.

Tides-High at 04.35 and 18.50. Low at 12.00.

"Solution No. 150 SLATILACTALAR TINY ORA 1 BAKE OVER1BARTERIN.

PETALS ISLAND

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ONE TRACETIDO PARBET DAPPLED

TITREATERTUT

FINEST CROWDS ANEW ASHI PEAT GENEYPIETERIE BEED TERRTREET

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46. Entreaty

48. Fibre of the palmyra pair

49. Masculine.

..

name

51. What was

the ancient capital of Trish mon- archs?

53. Insect ex 55. What is the

base of the British Medi terranean fest? 57. Drams tra-

Vestying scenes from Ufe 69. 'Buffix: per-

taining to

63. Thorough-

fare

65. Beast of

burden

66. Make a

murmuring sound

67. Catalogue

DOWN

1. Having the

colour of un- bleached stud

2 What is the name for.. members of the religion introduced into Scotland by John Knox?

3. Bymbol in

chess

4. Mineral

spring

11

5. Old English

type line

6.

Who wrote

The Native's Return and Dynamite?

7. Note of the

scale

8. Consumed 9. In Gulliver'i Travels what is the name for a brute "having man's

form and vices?

10: Members of

a religious

denomination:

11. Dry; said of Swines

17. Pronouns SOLUTION. TO-MO

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19. Note of the

scale

21. Bene

organs

23. Weights of

India

26. Lively dance 28. Perceive by

touch

30. Fish sauce 31. What is the

capital of

« Peru? 32 Slide 34. Mandatory

process under seal

37. Stuff of

matted wool 39. Masculine

mine

42. Machine for.

making joints

in sheet

metal

45. What medi-..

eval kingdom ¦. was nearly @equivalent to

Lower Bur- gundy? 47, What alry

spirit appears in Shakes. peare's "Tem- pest"?

50, By 52. Part of "to

be."

54. Allowance for waste 55. Extinct

flightless bird. 56. Serpent 58. Cloth inea-

Bure

62. Greek letter 4. Three-toed

Bloth

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LANCER SPY

201

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SUNDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER, AT 10.30 A.M.

The Wu-Han Songsters

2

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For a Fleeting Hour with the Woman He Loves

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· TODAY, ONE DAY. ONLY! RETURN OF THE FUNNIEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR!

KELLY

Condance

BENNETT

AHERNE

We Live

Merrily We

b

Xédia Moras and Jack LeeLA "Directed By NORMAN E. MOLXOD

MITCH 3. BREN

Ezopative Producer:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer nexumé

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ROBERT TAYLOR

"A TANK AT OXFORD"

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture)