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"There's Always. A Woman”

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ORIENTAL·

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"The Last Train

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Directed by Joseph Santley, Produced by William Sistram, Screen play by Charles Kaufman, Paul Yawibe Viola Brothers Shore, Harry Segall,

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QUEEN'S:

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ORIENTAL:

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"The Prisoner · Of Zenda”

ALHAMBRA:

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STAR:

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MAJESTIC:

ArentTM

“Stamboul Quest"

Brian Aherne To Act

As Maximilian

Brian Aherne won't be doing that Australian thriller for a while yet.

Hal Roach Is loaning him to Warners to play. Maxi- millan to Bette Davis's Cartotta in Paul Muni's Juarez.

There's a part called Diar too, tor John Garfield, so a slice

of the picture may turn out to be him,

Aberne's a wonderful likeness to the portraits of Maximillan.

SHIRLEY'S NEW "LEADING MAN”

After that, Aherne will do Cap-

the tain Midnight,

Australian melodrama, and after that, Roach has another story for him called The Housekeeper's Daughter, which

Shirley Temple in a scene with sounds frivolous enough.

Charles Farrell

former screen partner of Janet Gaynor, from the

new 20th Cen- film lury Fox "Just Around the Corner."

That'll be a long way ahead, rut Roach seems to do mote of the pictures he

most producers.

announces

than

S. S. VAN DINE, detection-writer. is being commissioned to write a story for Sonja Henie. Five thou- sand pounds Zanuck is reported to be paying him for doing so,

Zanuck must have caught on to the general idea that Sonja needs a story that's more than an iced musical comedy.

Van Dine's just written a mur- der mystery specially, for Gracie Allen. so, nothing ought to cone difficult, after that

Wonder if they call it The Sonja Henle Murder Mystery?

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

| ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS, -Feast of the Immaculate Can-

THERE'S ALWAYS THE LAST TRAIN ception of the Blessed Virgin

A WOMAN

Mary; Golden Jubilee of the In- the Cathedral

auguration of FROM MADRID

Columbia Studios, which have A powerful drama of ten lives been responsible for the produc- thrown together to work out their tion of many ane comedies, has 'destinies winda 12 pours in a city again succeeded with "There's Al- under heavy bombardment makes ways a Woman," which opens to "The Last Train From Madrid." day at the King's Theatre.

'which is slowing at the Majestic Joan Blondell plays the part of Theatre to-day one of the most a dime-novel detective with a so- vital, gripping and thrliling films ciety complex, while Melvyn Doug-to emerge from Hollywood.. las, as her husband. contributes Played by a brilliant cast of an equal portion of fun to the bill. players which includes the glamor- The splendid supporting cast inous Doothy Lamour. Lew Ayres, cludes Mary Astor, Frances Drake Gilbert Roland, Karen Morley. and Jerome. Cowan,

Lionel Atwill, Helen Mack, Robert Cummings, Olympe Bradia, An- SINGAPORE CENSOR thony Quinn and a host of others, "The Last Train From Madrid' is CUTS NEWSREEL the first drama which has modern Singapoore, Dec, 7war-torn Spain for a background. Sequences referring to Ger- many's anti-Jewish drive and the Paramount Newsreel by the Singa- appeal issued by Baron de Roths- pore fim censor yesterday.-Reu- child мете expurgated from a ter.

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32 Daydream

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of President Rocsevelt?

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spirits of

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compound

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ancient Rome

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34 Flower 35 Bense organ 37 Who in the

Bible asked "What is truth"?

38 Wise sayings 39 Or the least

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43 To cut 46. Seaport in

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of the Immaculate Conception, 1888; Great Snow. (Ta-hsueh). AUCTION.-Old Curios, at 35 Han-} kow Road, Kowloon,; 2.30 p.m. CINEMAS.(See Column 3 of this

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ENTERTAINMENT. Concert at St. Patrick's Club, Garden Road.. in Celebration of the Golden Jubilee. 9 p.m. LECTURES. Theosophical

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So- ciety. 6 pm. "Buddhism," by Mr. R. K. Laing: First. Ald, at King's College, for women, p.m.; at Yaumati Government "School, Mixed Class, English Speaking. 8 p.m. at Ambu- lance Hora., 7.30 p.m. MATLS-(See Page '15). MEETINGS.-Victoria Chess Club,

Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; Kow- loon Chess Club, Peninsula Ho- tel. 5.30 p.m.; Cathedral Wo- men's Fellowship Committee Mtg., 10.30 -2.1.1 . Cathedral Scouts, at gra, Lower Albert Road, 5.30 p.m.; Et. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, 3. p.m.; St. Andrew's Club, 9 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.

Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party. 10 a.m.. Exhibition of Pictures in Gloucester Arcade; Closing date for local collet- tion of Articles of Chinese Handwerk (for Sale and Exhi bition In Paris and New York) at H.K. Chinese Women's Club, 22 Wyndham Street; Ying Wa Girls' School- Annual Speech Day, in the School Hall; 5.30 p.m. ¡¡ MOON.-X Moon, 17th. Day. REHEARSALS-“Rudd gore," H. K Philharmonic Society, China Fleet Club Theatre, 8.45 pm.. RELIGIOUS.-HE Bishop Valtor- ta performs the Consecration of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Caine Road, commencing 6.15 a.m.. Maase, in the Belfry 6 a.m. and 7.30 a.m.; Pontifical Mass at 10 am; Triduum of Prayers and Sermon. 5.30 p.m. SPORTS.-(See Page 2). SUNRISE.-6.50 a.m. SUNSET.-5,39

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Chungking Dec 7. Upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Executive Yuan decided yesterday to appoint Mr. Henry K. Chang, Chinese Minister to Chile, 2.8 special envoy to offer felicitations to the Chilean Government on the occasion of the inauguration of the new President of 'Chile Benor Pedro Aguirre, on December ‘A— Central News.

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WALKING DOWN BROADWAY

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