1939-01-05 — Page 5

HONG KONG, DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

A GRIPPING ROMANCE THAT BEGAN IN THE DIVES OF PARIS AND ENDED IN THE HOME OF A WEALTHY WOMANI

RUTH

CHATTERTON

ANTON

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A wealthy wwLILIK, bered by princes fade the manier në hat hourt in son of the Sewa dives of Parti.

WG KINE RAY MARY CLARI BEATRIX LEHMANN PELIX ATLMIR

Frodifced by Imperator Film Productions, Lid. RXQ-Radio Pictures Release

SATURDAY

A Paramount

Picture

Fred MacMurray

Ray Milland

in

MEN WITH WINGS

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[4 SHOWS

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2.30-5.15

745-9-30

ORIENTAL

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

A GREAT COMEDY KEEPS YOU IN CONSTANT LAUGHTER:

(A tighting tree climbing, scheming, wild woman'in the prûzier.

laugh show that nyer came out of Hollywood.

WOMAN CHASES MAN

MIRIAM HOPKINS

JOEL MS CREA

Charles Winninger Erik Rhodesi

{UNITED ARTISTS

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2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & SATURDAY

A BIG THRILL STORY OF THE IRISH REBELLION!

Pulsating romance of a man and woman from two waring worlds who risk their lives for love.

SAMUEL GOEDWYN presents

MelOBERON BAHERNE BELOVED ENEMY

HENRY STEPHENSON - DAVID NIVEN JEROME COWAN - KAREN MORLEY

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PARAMOUNT'S THUNDERING ROMANCE OF THE WINNING OF THE WESTI

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Joel McGrze

Frances Dee

LLOYD NOLAN HENRY O'NEILL "PORTER HALL ROBERT CUMMINGS RALPH MORGAN · MARY NASH - JOHN MACK BROWN - BARLOWE BORLAND

A Mirzani top PEAME LLOWE

TOMORROW

M.G.M. Picture

Lavalete Prades, NOTAM CITASIONE.

APARAMOUNT PIODINE

Robert Taylor Jean Parker MURDER IN THE FLEET"

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS.

-The Vigil of Epiphany.

STRUGGLE IN

DESERT

Dealing with a colourful struggle,

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CINEMA & GENERAL

1938 WAS YEAR OF UNPARALLELED.

Today's Screenings

KING":"

Hongkong

"Sally, Irene And Mary" QUEEN'S

"Thie Rat"

ORIENTAL·

"Woman Chases Man"

Kowloop

ALHAMBRA -

"Painted Desert"

STAR.

"Wells Fargo" MAJESTIC:

"Lancer Spy"

KING'S:

"Algiers" QUEEN'S:

Coming

"Men With Wings" ORIENTAL:

"Beloved Enemy"

ALHAMBRA:

"Men With Wings".

STAR:

"Murder In The Fleet" "Stamboul Quest" MAJESTIC:

"Blockade"

SALLY, IRENE

AND MARY

at

HORROR FOR JAPAN

Fire, Water, Wind Wreak Great Havoc In Country

„TOKYO,“ Jan. 4-The year 1938, goes down in Japanese re- cords as a year of great disasters. Fire, water azid" wind collą. borated to write a dark and bloody story of unparalleled horror, and perhaps to qualify the

most Island Empire as the world's dangerous country in which to live.

str

Even the Japanese, who regará earthquakes, typhoons and floods with an indifference born of long familiarity, were prised at the 'savagery of the elements. Virtually every known form of natural catastrophe appeared. Typhoon and floods headed the list. There were 1,000 recorded earthquakes. Long- slumbering volcanoes Feturned

to life, spewing lava and sulphurle

mud. Blizzards, dust-storms, electric storms and landslides took

a heavy toll of Hie.

Property damage." whille not officially stated, is estimated to

total about $1,000,000,000. If so, It FILM STUDIOS TO

would almost equal three-fifths

of Japan's 1938 expenditure for the China war.

The year had hardly begun be tore a tragic accident occurred

The

heavily in Tokyo.

show- laden roof of a crowded theatre dead collapsed, resulting in

70

and 180 injured.

In February, blizzards

uni

precedented proportions

BE MERGED

Single Control For Denham And Iver

Negotiations now proceeding are swept. expected to bring under a single

many

the north. More than 100 persons control the film studios at Den- ham, Middlesex. and Pinewood. were frozen to death. As more were crushed to death in Iver, Bucks.. avalanches.

MIDSUMMER RAINS Then came the June July rains, with accompanying landslides. collapse "of bulld. ings, rulged homes. The rain- fall broke every record in the

years since Japanese scientists have been keeping records,

Mr. Alexander Korda, chairman and managing director of London Film Productions, who own the Denham Studios, and Mr. J. Arthur Rank and Capt. Richard Norton, of Pinewood Studios Ltd.. explained. In a Joint statement. The greatest round-up of stars

that the merger would "achieve

and greater, rationalisation

eft. of any musical. a whole "who's- who of the screen's big names.)

ciency in the production of films,"

"The nim," Mr. Korda said, "is frolles with three sirens of swing

The rains struck Kobe, one of to create a new studio-operating in search of social security and #ind themselves sidetracked by Japan's great shipping ports. It company which will reduce over. love in "Sally. Irene and Mary," had been raining for four days: head charges, Increase efficiency. opening to-day the King's in hills behind the city, millions and thereby benefit both the of gallons of water collected, cut studios and the producers making Alice Faye and Tony Martin sing off from natural outlets by land- nims there.

tremendousi the most tuneful songs for a long sildes. Suddenly the

HEAVY PROGRAMME Line. They top the cast with Fred weight of water shoved these bar-

"We have a very heavy programme, Allen, star of radio's Town Hall riers aside, roared down the steep ahead of us at London Films. I To-night."

slopes, and fell ke a trip-ham-shall now be able to give my full The Cast includes Jimmy mer on the city. Eye-witnesses attention to it instead of devoting Durante, the street-sweeper who reported a wall of water," com-half my time to the studios." crashes into cafe society: Gregory ng faster than a horse could run. The composition of the new Ratoff, with a champagne bankroll The torrent ripped the heart board has not yet been announced. and a gleam in his eye: Joan Davis, į right out of the business district, "A Yank, at Oxford." "Victoria

and knee-action; levelling buildings

horaes the Great," "The Drum," and "The The Citadel" are among the flims made pub-at Denham during the last year.

362. "The Mikado" and "Pygmalion"

Theatre.

the

gazelle with

41

Majorle Weaver, the sensake a giant steam-roller.

Honey-death-toll has never been second shed. When it reached

o! "Sccond

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tion moon" now making

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sensation; · Louise Jovick. who official figures stopped. Kobe have been made at Pricwood. keeps Rena busy. and Barnett people place it at 861. Probably Parker and J. Edward Bromberg. It was well over 1,000.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939.-PAGE

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY

DAILY AT 2.30, 510, 7.15 AND. 9.30 P.M.

ALL THESE STARSI

ALL THESE LAUGHSI and so much ring and extra sparkle it's your top-hit musical.to datel

ALICE

TONY

FAYE MARTIN SALLY, IRENE and MARY

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

A BLOOD-RED CHAPTER IN MINING HISTORY}

THRILLING! EXCITING |

GEORGE O'BRIEN

IN

PAINTED DESERT

With LARAINE JOHNSON RAY WHITLEY Directed by David Howard. Produced by Best Gilroy, Screen Piny by Toba Rathmell god Óliver Drake.

SATURDAY

A Paramoont Picture

De-

air

Sco

It was reported that 300 people ed on a factory, and 58 workmen alone were killed" when a long and burled under 12 feet of 'at..

SECRET AGENT'S train was engulfed

BOLD EXPLOIT

The boldest venture 2 British secret agent ever faced. Imper- sorating an officer in the German high command, forced to gamble on the love of a woman whose business was betrayal, with the

TYPHOON TOLL On September 1, a typhoon - that shattered wind-velocity records for 36 years struck central Japan, taking 99 lives. Another hit Kagoshima, in the south. one month later, killing. 452 people.

were burned to death." In cember, Tokyo-Formosa liner was forced down Ten were drowned,

Coal mine disasters were worst of among many different kinds industrial accidents. In a Hok- kalde explosion, 180 colliers were buried alive. In Korea, 45 minera. |ded similarly.

November brought a "total Q

opportunity to strike the dead- There were two big aeroplanel 530 recorded earthquakes. There

llest blow of the Great War if

he lived, the theme of "Landisasters and countless small ones, was no loss of life and little pro- damage, but Japanese cer Spy." featuring Dolores Dell In August, a student pilot collid-perty

ed in mid-air with a commercial nerves were badly frayed. Rio, George Sanders and Peter {

linez.

a dark year." Both planes, burning, land- Lorte, which la showing to-day at the Majestic Theatre.

The fast-paced, thrill-packed story of this most extraordinary exploit, adapted by Philip Dunne Itom a novel by Marthe McKenna. finds a strong dramatic treat- ment in the direction of Gregory Rato, actor, dialecticlan and. author, who makes his debut 35 a director with this film

UNDERWORLD OF PARIS

to get possession of an immensely The Paris underworld forms the rich tungsten mine in Arizona, background, of the new dramatic "Painted Desert" DOW at the thriller. "The Rat." starring Ruth CINEMAS.(See Column 3 of this Alhambra Theatre, bringa George Chatterton and Anton Walbrook,

Page).

O'Brien to the screen in another now showing at the Queen's: DANCES.-H.M.S. Kent's Ship's action-packed outdoor picture. The central character. is an Company New Year Dance at Loraine Johnson, the dark-häir- | elusive jewel crook who charms his Feninsula Hotel, 8 p.m..

girl who played opposite C'Brien feminine victims and is thus able LECTURES. First Aid, at

St. in "Border G-Man," is again the to keep out of prison. His exploits John Ambulance Hqrs..

7.30 seroine, and the cast includes Ray are dramatically portrayed, with p.m. at King's College, for wo-Whitely. Stanley Fields, Fred the story's climax a sensational men, 8 p.m.; at Taumati Gov Kohler. Lee Shumway, Maude Allen murder trial in which the Rat ernment School, mixed

class, and William V. Mong.

following his own code of honour, English-speaking, 8 p.m.; Theo-

pleads guilty to a crime he did sophical Society, 6 p.m.

not commit. MAILS. — (Sec Page 10).. MEETINGS-St.

Andrew's Wo-

Ca-

men's Fellowship, 30 p.m.: thedral Scouts, at Hqra, Lower Albert Road, 5.39 p.m.; Victoria Chess Club, Gloucester. Hotel. 5 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.

Club, SOCIAL.-R.A.O.B (G.LE)

Whist Drive

and Tombola, Queen's Bldg. Ice House Street, 8.30 p.m.; Public Works Re creation Club Tombola, Cause- way Bay, 8 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge evening... Club,

SPORTS.-(See Page 2). Claims INRISE-7.04 a.m. 5.53 p. against the Estate of Cuthbert

TIDES.-High at 09.30 and 20:32. Bernard Parkes Parry due,

Low at 03.11 and 13.52. MOON. Chinese XI Moon, 15th.

TO-MORROW Day.

RELIGIOUS.-Universal Week of Prayer. St. John's Cathedral. 6.30 to 6.30 p.m.; Cathedral Wo- men's Fellowship Devotional Service. 3.30 p.m.

SUNBET-

Solution No. 199

ACROSS: 1, Bestow. 4, Served- 8, Rum. D, Balaam. 11, Reacts. 12, Taper. 13. Opened. 16, Genus, 18, Fore. 10, Cement. 23, Temper. 25. Omen. 28. Azure. 29. Voyage 31. Nicer. 33. Candid. 34. Linnet. 35, All. 36, Riddle, 37, Player, DOWN; 1. Blahop. 2. Suver. 3, Orate

4, Sure. 5. Emerge. 6, Vacant. MOON.-XI Moon, 18th. Day. 7. Desist. 10, Madcap. 14, Pot, 15, SUNRISE.-7.04. a.m. SUNSET.-- |Never, 17. Enjoy. 20, Marvel. · 21,

5.52 p.m.

Reg. 21, Cancer. 23. Turned, 24, TIDES,—High at-08,48 and 13.40 Mental, 26; Mainly: 27, Nectar. 30,

Low at 03,28 and 13.02.

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10 Appetiser

(5)

11 Beanfeast

(5)

14 Short

grass (4)

17 Trial (4) 19 Tanned

skin (7) 20 Advance-

ment (4) 21 Colleague"

(4)

22. Razed. (7) 23 Measure

of length (4)

25 Whirlpool

(4)

28 To the

side, (5)

31 AnxiouID··

(5)

32 Colouring-

pigment (5)

33 Storles (5) .34 Conditions

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7 Happen-

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12 Causes (7)

12 Abashed

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15 Junction (5)

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17 Commerce.

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18 Having

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23 Unmoving

(5)

24 A "smoke"

(5)

26, Ancient

bard (5) 27 Give up

(5)

28 Wilex (4) 29 Small

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BALY

130 £30

| 720 - 9.30

Fred MacMurray

Ray Milland

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in "MEN WITH WINGS

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

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• TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, STURDAY THE MOST SUSPENSEFUL SPY STORY EVER SCREENED!

THE MOST EXTRA A MAN EVER THE STRAN A WOMAN EVI

• From the chaos of

notions in conflict emerges the screen's most sensational spy story

hitherto un- told... joiting in its realism!

RY EXPLO

'LANCER SPY'

DOLORES DEL RIO - GEORGE SANDERS PETER LORRE - VIRGINIA FIELD • SIG RUMANN

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT

MAURICE MOSCOVICH

LIONEL ATWILL LUTHER ADLER Directed by Grüyür, Paluft Durry! F. Zanuck in finege of Prostortio

"

MO SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY ANJACTION-PACKED DRAMA, ALIVE AS TODAY'S HEADLINES)

MADELEINE CARROLL BLOCKADE "

HENRY FONDA in

A United Artista: Sensational Drama [

MORE BRITISH FILMS

WANTED

eslation to give greater encour

the

agement to local interests.

Many cinemas" throughout...£ country," states the memorandum,

A memorandum has been sent to "cannot show any British, finis be- the Government of New South cause American distributors force

Wales by several film organisations, them to take all their produce, which include some of the biggest "It is found on inquiry that" the producing compañías in Australia, exhibitors: in question have not Ther set out the disabilities which seen 'British nima, and have, no they are experiencing and ask for knowledge of their excellence." ~

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