1939-02-18 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S Today's

EDALY AT 130-515+7·20 £9:30 TEL.31453-

SHOWING TO-DAY At Roadshow Prices!

N.B...

This picture will not be shown elsewhere

in this Colony for at least six months!

STAGED ON A SCALE THAT BEGGARS WORDS!

Out of the string glory of Kipling's India they

comat, Thune red-blood and gunpowstor

herous

for lavet

Boating for baltin or randy

GUNGA ΠΙΝ

Storing

CARY GRANT-VICTOR McLASLEN

and

„DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr.

* Kay Jeff » Laris Cisteet!

Jan Fe

SKO RADIO'S TOWERING

...» SHOW OJ-SHOVISI

PANDRO S. SELMAN in charge of production Produced and directed by GEORGE STEVENS.

· From a story by Jan Hecht and Charles MacArtur Screen Play by Jos) Sayre, and Fred Guiol.

4 SHOWS

-DAILY

2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30

"RAKE ANY TEAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUB

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD [WANCHA)]

TEL. 28473

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

SCREEN'S FUNNIEST. COMICS IN THE FOREIGN LEGION} With soul-killing disciplino, forced marches, harsh officers, sandstorma

and marching natives they blunder through it all.

A LAUGH EVERY MINUTE IN THIS FUNNY SHOW!

LAUREL

LOUVER

HARDY

BEAUHUNKS

TOMORROW MONDAY TUESDAY

SENSATIONAL BARGAIN IN SUPER-ENTERTAINMENT"! "A mighty screen production shown for the first time in any theatre at popular prices.

A MAGNIFICENT SHOW YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS!

PENROD'S MOLECU

DOUBLE

TROUBLE

Mauch Twins

BILLY and BOBBY

DICK PURCELL-KATHLEEN LOCKHART-GENE LOCKHART

A FIRST KATIONAL PICTURE » Directed by Law Setter » Prosented by MADRIDE MOS.

#1

© MATINEES: 20c.-30e • ́EVENINGS: 20e.-30c.-50e.-70c. Q

· 1/

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS.

-Chinese New Year Eve. 'CINEMAS.—(Bee Column 3 of this

Page),

A NEW ANGLE ON FRANCES DRAKE

Sir Henry Morgan, · binckest son of the Jolly RogDT to

piratical romp his

WAT On the Spanish Main; is being blamed, some three centuries ister, for the sad piight · of many Hollywood motion' nio,

•• tire starS.

DANCES.-Kowloon Cricket Club Dance; REO.C.A. Grand Carni- val Dante and Foxtrot Competi- tion, at Peninsula Hotel. LECTURES.----First Ald, at St.

Frances Drake, the screen love- John Ambulance Headquarters ly who descended from air Hears 3.30 p.m

is now engaging in a bit of subtle MAILS. (See Page 18).

piracy on her own, known in movie MEETINGS-Extraordinary Gen- circles as “"picture-stealing.

D.m.

4

Screenings

KING'S Hongkong

"Th Give A million"

QUEEN'S:

"Guoga. Din".

ORIENTAL:

"Beau Hunks”

CATHAY:

"Snow White And The Beven

Dwarfa"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

**The Autocrat

Dynasty"

STAR

"That Certain Age”

MAJESTIC:

"The Drum"

KING'S:

QUEEN'S:

Coming

10

Ch'o

"Alexander's Ragtime Band"

"Say It In French"

ORIENTAL:

"Penrod's 'Double Trouble" *"The Invisible Ray"

CATHAY:

Tazan's Revenge"

ALHAMBRA:

"Gunga Din"

"Say It In French"

STAR!

"Wings On The Dark" MAJESTIC:

"There's Always A Woman"

Solution No. 237

ACROSS: 1. Fright. 4. Ballad. 7. Cofident. 9 Rood. 10. Drab. 11, Bevel. 13, Senile. 14. Rotate, 15, Ac- Less 17, Halmet. 19, Tuber. 20, Slew. 22. Anew. 23. Different. 24. Tender.

Sanity. DOWN: 1 Färta, 2. Good 3. Toffice 4. Badger 5, Eand. 6. Double. 7, Connected: 8, Trest- ment, 11 Blast. 12, Lover. 15, Assist 16. Suter. 17, Hearts. 18, Tawdry. 21. Wild. 22, Anori.

MOST CONSTANT

MOVIE GOERS

Contrasts In Habits On School Children

SAN FRANCISCO More than 80 per cent, of all school children between the ages of 10 and 14

are consistent week-end movie

with goers

a preference for gangster films and "wild west- eras" with plenty of action is them, a survey of the Motion Picture Research council reveals.

Information on the movie-going habits of 31.000 grade school chil- dren in San Francisco and Oakland public schools was the result of a council study of the effect oi movies on school kids.

WEEK-END POPULARITY Or 22,000 pupils in the fourth to eighth grades, 87 per cent, went to the movies during the period from, Friday evening to Sunday, the "sur- vey showed. The largest number. attended on Sunday afternoons.. Saturday afternoon ranked second in popularity, Saturday evening third and Friday evening fourth-

Among parochial school children. poiled, the survey showed an even larger percentage confined their attendance at movies to week-end. dates.

Questionnaires submitted to 3,000 pupils in the fourth to eighth grades of archdiocesan schools in the bay area disclosed that 97.7 per cent. were week-end movie fans. Peak attendance for this particular group was Saturday afternoon.. Other popular movie-going day was Friday.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS Five private schools co-operate in the survey and each showed a similar high percentage of those attending neighbourhood movies during the week-enda. However; eral, of The Wing Lock Ltd., at On the Hollywood Main in this among private school children the Hotel Cecil, Royal Bldg., 1.18 twentieth century Miss Drake is survey showed that most were ac-

known as one of the best picture companied by their parents where MOON--Chinese XII Moon, 30th. pirates in the business. She's as, in the public schools, most of

Day.

been making other players look the children were accompanied by RELICIOUS. The Last Day or to their laurels ever since she schoolmasters of similar age.

the Chinese year: High Mass entered pictures ---

Private school children showed a at 1.50 2.m, followed by Te From another ancestor, the preference for film stories adapted Deum and Benediction of the famous clergyman-poet, Francia from popular novels rather than Elessed Sacrament, at the Ca- Morgan Dean, her grandfather, the gangster or western-type tholic Cathedral.

Mi Drake inherited her love movies, the survey disclosed. SOCIAL Cralgengower Cricket for beauty, her artistic talent and

Clab Whist Drive and Tombola. spiritual well-being. 9.15 p.m.

SPORTS (806 Page 2).

SUNRISE.-4.54 am SUNSET.--

6.21. p.m.

HER LIFE.

More than 70 per cent of the children in all groups except the private schools went to the movies once or more a week. Half as

A native of New York City, many reported that they went where she was born on October twice a week or more often in TIDES-High at 10.08 and 21.04. 2nd, Miss Drake spent most of | some cases.

Low at 03.14 and 14.33.

her youth in Toronto, Canada, Thrcent for the private school MISCELLANEOUS. — YM.C. A. where her father had mining children, only one-third of the

Discussion Group, in the West interests.

children in each group were, ac Lounge, 9 pmn.

Later, she attended a finishing companied by their parents. MOON-Chinese I Moon, 1st. Day. school at Arundel, England, with BUNRISE 4,35 am, BUNBET-no thoughts of a stage career

621 pm.

until the subject was broached and actress, Through her kin's TIDES-High at 49.44 and 20.29. by her cousin, Jerry Dean, the good oudce she received her Arst

Low at 02.42 and 13:49.

well-known English

right, stage" opportunity,

CINEMA & GENERAL

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939. —PAGE 5

Alice Faye, Tyrone Power and Don Ameche have the leading roles In "Alexander's Ragtime 'Band” which comes to the King's Thea-

tre to-morrow.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Colour (7)

8 Com2

mazds (6)

9. Came (7)

11 Dungeon (8)

14 Swine (3)

15 Lymph (5)- 17 Breaks (5),

18 Fat (4)

19

Shating, floors' (5)

21 Mineral ·

test (5)

25 Welcome

(5)

26 Warmth

(4)

27 County (5)

28 Black bird

(5)

30 Number (3)

32 Mourn (6) 33 Despatch

(7) ·

34. Mend (6) 35 Endure (7) DOWN

1 Encircle

(7)

2 Coun

selled (7)

3 Betore-

hand (5)

DARY

230 520

NO. 238

5, Fish (4)

A Rules over,

(8)

1 Free.frum

(8)

10 Dangerous

.. (5)

12 Fixed (3)

13 Toad (5)

16 Hoarder

(5)

20 of birth

(5)

3

113

SOLUTION ON TUESDAY

21 Stadium

(5)

22 Army

leader (7)

23. Height (7)

24 Royal

seat (8)

25 Animat

sounds (6), 26 Border (3) 29 Male at-

tendant. (5) 31 Sins (4)

HANKOW

ISTARE

720

TODAY AND TOMORROW

KOWLOON

Deanna DURBIN

That CERTAIN AGE

MELVYN DOUGLAS

Jackie Cooper Irene Rich Nancy Carroll John Halliday

A NEW UNIVERSAL, PICTURE

MONDAY AND TUESDAY

AT ALL REGULAR PERFORMANCES |,

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#4 ALL TECHUCOLOR REELS

BETTY BOOP" Cartoon

COLOUR CARTOON

And Other Interesting Shorts

KING'S

SHOWING TOBAY AT E39, K16, 7.1K AND IM

Love..

Turbulent as the

times...glorious as the musle that

Inspired-Wi

Irving Berlin's ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND

·TYROHE

•

ALICI

DOM

POWER FAYE AMECHE

1

ETHEL MERMAN · JACK HALEY

JEAN HERSHOLT - MELEN WESTLEY.

The Admission Prices of the 1.30 show during the showing of "Alexander's Ragtime Band' will bo ⚫increased to same as the evening.

NOTE:

ALHAMBRA

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720 & 9,30 *TEL:58 853

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

A CHINESE HISTORICAL DRAMA!

COLOURFUL I

SPECTACULAR ↑

THE AUTOCRAT OF CH’O

DYNASTY”

Starring WANG YUAN LOONG CHING 800 CHENG. With Superimposed English Subtitles

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"GUNGA DIN”

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FIRST FULL LENGTH PRODUCTION

Snow White

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POPULAR PRICES

Matinees: Stalls 200, Circle 300, Evenings 20cm 80c, 500, 70d.

SERVICEMEN 40c. to Circle & Stal

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