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* A Paramami Picture with JOHN HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL

H. B. WARNER

.

TOMORROW •

GLORIOUS

Directed by

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A WOMAN IS JUDGED BY HER WEAKEST MOMENT!

BETTE

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"That Certain WomanTM

"uits LAN HUNTER - ANITA LOUISE Donald Crisp witten and Directed by Edmund Maddung • Mesić by Max Steiner A First Refione Pine • Pravated by WARMER BROS

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A Worthy Successor to Victoria the Grest" ANNA NEAGLE * ANTON, WALBROOK in

"60 GLORIOUS YEARS "

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OF HUMAN HEARTS

CLARENCE

BROWN'S

Walter Hesto

PRODUCTION

Boutch Bondi

James Stew"}

Gay Kibb Charles Coburn: John Corradine Scrie 1919 27 Bradbery Foots Dirwered by Cursos Úrers

Prained by Jeka W. Considine,

*McGoug Hayere

JP.

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FOUR GREAT STARS IN A MEMORA LE PICTURE! A clever story between a man and a girl, three men

for such either and three men for a girl

TAYLOR JULLAVALITOKE YOUNG

THREE COMRADES

with GUY KISBEE · LIONELATWELL · HENRY HULL #

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KING'S THEATRE.

TO-DAY

THURSDAY, 2nd FEB. 1939

AT 5.10 P.M. "

Under the distinguished patronage of Lady Northcote

"THE SLEEPING BEAUTY".

Ballet.

" BY

THE GEORGE CONCHAROFF SCHOOL OF DANCE PART PROCEEDS IN AID OF HONGKONG 800FETY OF

PROTECTION TO CHILDREN

PRICE $4, 3, 2 & 1

CHILDREN & SERVICEMEN IN UNIFORM HALF PRICE EXCEPT $1 SEATE

BOOKINGS AT KING'S THEATRE.

Today's

CINEMA & GENEKAL

VALUE OF FILMS AS

Screenings PROPAGANDA

QUEEN'

Hongkong

KING'S

"South Riding"

"Arrest Bulldog

ORIENTAL-

Drummond"

"Of Human Hearts'"

Kowloon

ALILAMERA-

“That Certain Woman" STAR:

"One More Spring" MAJESTIC:

"Judge Hardy's Children"

KING'S:

Coming

"There Goes My Heart" QUEEN'S:

"Sixty Glorious Years" ORIENTAL:

"Three Comrades" "That Certain Age" ALHAMBRA:

"Sixty Glorious Years" STAR:

365 Nights In Hollywood" "White Banners"

MAJESTIC:

44

"Swiss Miss"

JUDGE HARDY'S

CHILDREN

Offsetting Foreign "Ballyhoo"

HOW JERUSALEM WAS RE-TAKEN

Silent Advance By

The Coldstreams

Detalis of how the 3rd Battalion. Coldstream Guards reoccupied Jerusalem last Oct. are related in The value of the documentary

the Household Brigade Magaz.ne him as an antidote to authoritarian for December. The extracts are propaganda was emphasised by Mr.

from a letter written by the John Grierson, the film producer, Commanding Oficer of the In a paper on "The Dramatic Fac-battalion to the Colonel of the tor in Education" which he read at the Education Institute of Scotland Congress at Perth recently.

The progressive teacher to-day. sald Mr. Grierson, saw the threat ol

authoritarian ideologies. and how easy with the modern wea pons of propaganda and persua slon, it was to sweep people oft

their feet.

"How." he asked, "shall the education system meet this threat to the democratie scheme of things, in which men are expected to resist the ballyhoo of the authoritarian viewpoint? How can it mentally equip its people to be proof against the fervours and the hatreds which endanger civilisation?"

The only way. "Mr. Grierson declared, was to Iustif a coun- ter set of values which would hold men loyal to toleration. To this end the teacher should be armed with every dramatic nid available to him. Two of these aids were the radio and the film.

"AFRAID OF" FILMS”.

regiment.

The Commanding Officer writes:| "The task given to the Coldstream Was not a pleasant one, FAJ one gathered there were. 400 armed and desperate gangsters inside the rabbit warren of a elty, while the sanctity of the place made it impossible for an advance to be covered by air bonbing and shel! fire, or even smoke bombs of

mortars

"Moreover, we were forbidden to 80 into the Temple area, which

dominated

to

an

extent

the

to

theatre of operations."

The Coldstream plan was drive a wedge between the Arab city and the Temple. It was really attacking on a four-yard front to a"depth of about a mile.

"We relled much on speed of advance and surprise, and were actually established on our objectives 90 minutes after starting, the Royal Northumberland Fusillers covering the walls of the Temple "Judge Hardy's Children." third

and the roof-tops with machine- ut Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's "Hardy

gun fire during our advance." Family" series, with Lewis Stone.

The Commanding Officer explains Yet many teachers were afraid of that canvas shoes were worn by Mickey Rooney. Cecilla Parker and

Blins. In Scotland the policy to-all ranks. That was essential, he Fay Holden, is the current attrac-

It is wards the use of films in schools writes, if men were to move quickly on at the Majestic Theatre.

sequel to "You're Only Young had been eaany" to the point of and silently along the narrow stone Once" and is the same type of in-simplicity.

alleyways and passages, and to "We offered you a dramatic wea-climb about on roofs. They found family down-to-earth comedy, this time taking the judge pen. sald Mr. Grierson. "not to in 1936 that nalled boots were quite teach the old geography, the old impossible in the Old City even and his family to Washington where the youngsters have flirta-history, and the old civics, but to when sightseeing. riens and the father outwits lob-teach the new "deography and his- tory and civics in terms of living bylats.

and dramatic relationships.

1t. was the Alm's power of

timate.

SOUTH RIDING Idramatic statement, not its power

The screen version of Winifred to illustrate-facts, that we regard Holtby's famous book. "Southed as important.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

Virgin

(Blessing

Riding." is being shown to-day at You insisted on the value of ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS the King's Theatre.

silent films. You wanted what you The screen version is a faithful called traching films, and that is reproduction of the book, which to say that you only wanted the was posthumously awarded the film to be an illustrative handmaid James Tait Black Memorial Prize, to, the old pedagogic process, not one of the most highly valued that explosive ald to interest and literary awards. The book was enthusiasm and loyalty which the first published in March 1936, and new education is so universally was the best seller of the year. calling for."

CROSSWORD

NO. 224

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Australian AUCTIONS.

Subscription pony, at the dock, Race Course, 5.15 p.m. CINEMAS.See Column 3 of this

Page).

DANCES.-"The Sleeping Beauty" Ballet, at King's Theatre, by Pupils of the George Goncharoff School of Dance. 5.10 p.m. ENTERTAINMENTS.

Annual Dramatic Performance at St. Andrew's Hall, 0 p.m. LECTURES:-Public Address by Rev, George Shepherd, on "Mme. Chlang 'Kal-shek and Her Work" at St. John's Cathedral

and Hail, 3.30 p.m..

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The Blessed Damozel?

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famous works

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25. Means of

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25. Troop of

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20. Skill in

30.

32.

performance Motive

Negative

33. Shooting

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54. Require

DOWN

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spring

2. Small boy

3. Constellation

1.

What woman versifier wrote Death and

Taxrs?

5. Tribunal

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by Charlotte

Corday?

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41. Cut off the "

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43 45.

Highwaymen

Festive.

49. Truth in the

Faerie Queene

50. Tree

51. Beasts 01

burden

9. Barcelona is '

the principal

city of what district of Spain?

10. PerformNS 11: Portuguese

coins

17. Elect

19. What con-

· temporary critic wrote Titans of Literature: Burton-

21. Central part

22. Leading city

in Holland 24. Bacchante

Barrier pre- venting flow of water 26. Opaque

matter

27. Malt kiln 28. What is the

missing part

of the name of the Ameri- can humorist: Edgar Wilson

31. One of the

elements

34

38.

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State in US.A.

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War," in St. John's Hall, Bon- ham Road, 7.45 p.m.: Theoso phical Society,

First D.m.;

Hors.. 7.30 Ald at Aribulance p.m.: at King's College. 8 p.m.: at Yaumati Government School: 8 p.m.

MAILS. (See Page 161.

''MEETINGS.—St. Andrew's

"WC-

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Photography, in 8. & ́8. Home Assembly Hall, 5.15 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.: Launching 01. the Breconshire, at Talkoo Dock- yard, 6.30 p.m.; Play Reading. in the West Lounge of European Y.M.C.A., 9 pm.

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MOON. Chinese XII Moon. 14th.

Day.

RELIGIOUS.-Confirmation Class- Lady

Bridge.

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Chapel, 5.30 p.m.

SOCIAL Cheero Club

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ALICE, FAYE JAMES DUNN

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(MATINEES. 20-302 • EVENINGS. 20, -30%: 50x702) TODAY AND TOMORROW ANOTHER GREAT STORY OF JUDGE HARDY'S

FAMILY!

“How Am I Doin', Folks?""

JUDGE HARDY'S

with

MICKIT

STONE ROONEY

CECILIA Z

FAY

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COMMENCING

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FASTER TELEGRAMS TO ISLE OF MAN

A Post Office radio station is to

of

The object is to obviate delay experienced in sending messages to and from the island.

Press messages have to walt

be erected at Crag-Na-Baa, Isle hours, particularly during the T. T. Man, to supplement "the jand Grand Prix races, and are submarine telephone cable and often delayed so long that they short-wave wireless telephony, become useless,

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