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QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 230-515-7·20 & 9:30 -TEL. 31453
FINAL SHOWINGS. TODAY Here's a Distinguished and Unusual Film !
A stirring Battle against Infantile Paralysis!
A MAN TO REMEMBER
ANNE SHIRLEY
EDWARD ELLIS
LEE BOWMAN WILLIAM HENRY
The drama of a lighting man
af medicine.. against a hos- tile town!
TO RADIO MUTA
ADDED! LATEST MARCH OF TIME
covering
Starts TO-MORROW
(1) Prelude to Conquest (2) Father Divine's Deal
EDWARD G. RUBINSON
"A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER"
Er
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“PURNING
4 SHOWS
DAILY
1.30-3.15
7.19-9,30
ORIENTALE
HAL THEATRE
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SPECIAL SHOWING FOR TODAY ONLY!
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THE BEST OF ALL TÄRILLING COMEDY DRAMA'SI MEN FOUGHT LIKE MANIACS FOR GOLD AND ROMANCE! If you see something you need grab it, take it away from
the other fellow, no matter how, just take it!" EXCITING STORY OF A LAND THAT KNEW NO LAW!
THRILL FOLLOWS THUNDERING THRILL!
Joseph M. Schanek prezente
20th
CENTURY FICTURE
The wild, primitive life of the Klondike... Romance and greed living side by side... Men hunting, starving, fighting, dying for gold
and WOMEN!
CLARK GABLE
in JACK LONDON'S graciest story
CALL of the WILD
LORETTA
YOUNG
Directed by WILLIAM WELEMAN
with
JACK
OAKIE
Raisosad ikru UNITED ARTISTE
2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & THURSDAY
MOST SENSATIONAL OF ALL DETECTIVE STORIES! Drummond plays his game of life and death with ruthless spies in mysterious Morocco.
"BULLDOG
DRUMMOND
IN AFRICA”
JOHN HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL H.B. Warner: 1. Carrol Naish E. E. Clive Reginalo Denny Anthony Quinn
JOHN HOWARD
HEATHER ANGEL
ER
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KEGINALD DEANY
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ANTHONY QUINN
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NELSON EDDY in
"MAY TIME
Today's Screenings
KING'S-
Hongkong
"Love Is A Headache"
QUEEN'S
"A Man To Remember"
ORIENTAL.
CINEMA & GENERAL
CROSSWORD
NO. 234
ACROSS
1 Humble
14.
5 Enormous
(4)
Come out 161
9 Blaze (5)
11 Slave (4)
"Call Of The Wild"
12 Guides (8)
15 Vermin: (4)
17 Always (4)
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA -
"The Storm”.
STAR:
"Barretts Of Wimpole Street"
MAJESTIC:
"Double Wedding"
KING'S:
Coming
"I Give A million"
QUEEN'S:
"A Slight Case of Murder" ORIENTAL:
"Bulldog
Africa"
ALHAMBRA:
"Border Law"
STAR:
"May Time"
MAJESTIC:
18 Ever-
lasting (7) 19 Clinging
plant (3) 20 Fuss (3) 21 Naval
chlet (7)
23 Shell Osh
14)
H. Land
measure. (4)
27 Clerical
garment' (B)
30 Conceal (4) Decease
30
DOWN
2 Precise (5)
3 'Eager (4)
4 Dandy (4)
5 Container
(8)
G Give in (9)
31
(5)
.32 Stinging
7 Distant (4)
plant (6)
10
Flower (4)
1
33 Experi-
13
Visionary
Drummond
In
enced (4)
.
(7)
34 Summit (4)
14 Middle (7)
"Of Human Hearts"
"LOVE IS A
HEADACHE"
The story of a vitriolle Broad- way columnist and stage star, "Love Is a Headache," which opens at the King's Theatre to-day, offers Gladys George and Franchot Tone in a delightful melange of romance and comedy,
"Love is a Headache" ́concerns Miss George as a beautiful stage star Involved in a mix-up over some orphaned children, Mickey Rooney and Virginia Weidler, caused by Broadway's ace column- Ist, Franchot Tone.
After
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Solution No. 233
ACROSS:
Beart. 1, Choir. 5,
&, Ediet. "9, Robes. 10, Odour, 11, Eln. 12, Later. 14,"Aimless. 17. Swolen. 19. Pewter. 22. Treason. 25. Tramp. 28, Sir. 29, Mouse. 30, Adder. 31, Panic. 32, Dwelt. 33. To-day. DOWN: 1. Coral 2, Orbit, 3. "Reserve. 4, Dismay, 5. Storm. 6. Above. 7, Forms, 13. Alter. 15, Low. 18. Steam. 18, Len. 20. Extract. 21, Insane, 22. Timid, 23. Elude. 24, Swept. 26, Alded. 27, Party.
OF HUMAN
16
Announce publicly (9)
21 Away (6)
22 Shoe tle
(4)
25 Halt 15
25 Reverber-
ate (4)
28 Compas- sion (4)
20 Notion (4)
ENGLISH GIRL TO PLAY IN NEW FILM
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. The long search for a film Sear- lett O'Hara was ended on Jan. 14. The part at the.. southern belle in the techal- colour. "Gone With the Wind," goes to Vivien Leigh, pro- nounced Lee, of the British stage and screen.
Producer David *0. Selznick. announcing the choice, said he had
HEARTS kept his original promiss
identi- cast a girl who was nct ded in the minds of the public
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1939. -PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 23#, K.10, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.
FLASH! If you like your romance, rowdy.(with a howl for every heart-beat . HERE'S A GRAND SCREEN TREATI
GLADYS GEORGE FRANCHOT TONE
trading kicks and kissas in gayest love-battle!
Love is a Headache
Love in a
with MICKET
TRANK
HEALY ROONEY JENKS
TED
Ralph MORGAN
Jusale RALPH
Directed by Biokard Thorpe Produced by TREDERICK STEPHANI
AND LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY
NEXT CHANGE
20th Century Fox
Aino
"A CRIMINAL
IS BORN"..
Crime Docs,'t Es)
WARNER BAXTER is I'LL GIVE A MILLION " with Marjorie Weaver Peter Lorre Jean Hersholt
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN 30, KOWLOOR-DAILY AT 2.30-320*730 £ 9,30 ·741.50000
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY RUGGED MEN
OF THE SEA
...who loved to fight and fought for lovel
THE STORM
of
the
with
actresses
and
Charles
"O! Human Hearts." Walter Hestou's first screen appearance since his triumphs in "Dodsworth," with other roles. and who was a
physical counterpart, is the attraction coming to the Majestic Theatre to-morrow with original Scarlett, James Stewart, Beulah Rondi Scores of and an elaborate character cast, nonprofessionals were considered having played in the
The picture marks the film debut for the part, talent scouts search- Broadway comedy success, "Per- of Leatrice Joy Gilbert, daughter of ing in all parts of the country. sonal Appearance." Miss George the late John Gilbert. Also pront- especially the South. Early this has been seen in heavily dramatic nent in the large cast are Guy week Paulette Goddard and Jean were considered strong roles. This is her first comedy Kibbée, Charles Coburn, Gene Arthur motion picture, and she glories in Lockhart, Ann Rutherford, Arthur contenders. The final choice was the part. Tone, too, shows a wide Aylesworth, Clem Bevans, Charley based upon film tests made by scope of comedy. With such fine Grapevin, Gene Reynolds, Stering George Cukor, who will direct the comedy troupers as Mickey Rooney, Holloway, Charles Peck, Robert Dicture. Ted Healy, Frank Jenks and Ralph McWade, John Carradine. Leor Morgan, the picture is one of the Roberts and Minor Watson. best of its kind. Virginia Welder. Much of the pleture was filmed Jessie Ralph, Fay Holden, Barnett on a replica of an Ohto village Parker and Julius Tannen com- where the company of 200 was on plete the cast.
l'ocation for weeks,
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"LISTEN.
CHISELLER,
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"YEAH, SUCKER,
BUT HAS SHE
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The Legion has landed... right on Louise's doorstep! ... And the situa- tion is well out
of hand]
BATTLE OF BROADWAY
A 201k Camxy-Fox Picturn will-
VICTOR McLAGLEN
BRIAN DONLEVY LOUISE HOVICK
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Clark Gable will be Rhett But-" ler, with whom Scarlett constant- ly clashes, Leslie Howard will be Ashley Wilkes, her first great love. and Oliva De Havilland will play
Melanie.
While Miss Leigh is compara- tively new to American audien- ces, she has had leads in English stage plays, among them "Henry VIII" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and has played in the British films "Fire Over England," Storm in a Tea-cup," and "A Yank at Oxford."
to
She was born La Darjeeling. India, Nov, 5, 1913, and went school in Paris. London, Switzer- land, Italy, and Germany. Among her schoolmates was Miss Max- reen O'Sullivan. She is married
to Leigh Holman, London bar- rister, and they have a daughter.
Swanne.
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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man Go New Places - Do New
Things To Bring You New Love, Life and Laughs !!!
mertua
WILLIAM
POWELL LOY
别
DOUBLE FUN! DOUBLE ROMANCE!
That "Thin Man" couple's on the lose again! ' Rowdy! Riot
Your Swell!
in
DOUBLE WEDDING
FLORENCE RICE • JOHN BEAL
EDGAR KENNEDY • JESSIE RALPH
TOMORROW AND THURSDAY One Of The Most Beautiful, Most Human Love
Stories Ever Brought To The Screen!
OF HUMAN HEARTS". WALTER HUSTON • JAMES STEWART BEULAH BONDI
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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