1939-02-18 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS Today's

[DAILY AT” 2:30-313-7-20 & 930 ·TEL31453-

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 shering glory of Kipling's testin they

com Three red-bloat and gunpowdhur

harges, ranting for bantu or candy for love!

GUNGA ΠΙΝ

Starring

CARY GRANT-VICTOR McLAGLEN

ond

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Ir.

Sam Jaffa · Elkaria Elazneli

RIO LADIÓS TOWELING

SHOW OF SHOWTI "-

FANDRO S. BERMAN in charge of production Produced and directed by GIORGE STIVENS, From a day by Ben Hecht and Chodes, Machstur Screen Play by Joel Sope and Fred Quial.

14 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-9.19

7.15-9.30

YAKE ANY TEAM OR HAPPY VALLEY DUN

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD HÀNG HẢI TEL. 28473

CLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®

SCREEN'S FUNNIEST 'COMICA IN THE FÖREIGN LEGION! With soul-killing discipline, forced marcbes, harsh officers, sandstorms and marching natives they blunder through it all.

A LAUGH EVERY MINUTE IN THIS FUNNY SHOW!

STAN

17

LAUREL

"DEVER

A

HARDY

"BEAU HUNKS"

TOMORROW-MONDAY-TUESDAY.

SENSATIONAL BARGAIN IN SUPER-ENTERTAINMENT!

A mighty screen production shows for the first time

in any theatre at popular prices.

A MAGNIFICENT SHOW YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS!

PENROD'S

DOUBLE

TROUBLE

Mauch Twins

BILLY and BOBBY

DICK PURCELL-KATHLEEN LOCKHART-GENE LOCKHART

A FLEST NATIONAL PICTURE - Glescted by Low Saber - Pemented by WARNER BROS.

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

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY "ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS:

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

Page).

DANCES. Kowloon Cricket Club Dance; REO.C.A, Grand Carni- tal Dante and Foxtrot Competi- tion," at Peninsula Hotel, LECTURES.-First Aid, at Bt.

John Ambalance Headquarters,

3.30 pm, MAILA-(See Paze 16). MEETINGS.—Extraordináry

A NEW ANGLE ON FRANCES DRAKE

to

on

Sir Henry Morgan, - blackest son of the Jolly Roger romp his pientical way the Spanish. Main, is being blamed, some three centuries Later, for the sad plight of many Hollywood motion' plo- túra 'stara.

Frances Drake, the screen love-

Screenings

KING'S;

Hongkong

"I Give A million"

QUEEN'S

"Gunga Din"

ORIENTAL:

"Beau Bunka"

CATHAY:

""Snow White And The Seven

Dwarfs"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

The Autocrat or Ch'o

· Dynssky"

STAR.

"That Certain Age”

MAJESTIC:

"The Drum”

KING'S: """

Coming

“Alexander's Ragtime Band"

QUEEN'S:

"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, Confident..9 Rood. 10, Drab. 11. Bevel 13, Senile. 14, Rotate. 15, Ac- Less 17, Helmet. 19, Tüber. 20, Blew, 22. Anew, 23, Different. 24. Tender.

Sanity DOWN: 1, Fürts, 2. Good 3. Toffee 4, Badger. 5, Lard. 6. Double. 7. Connected. 8, Treat- ment, 11 Blast. 13, Lover. 15, Assist 16. Suffer. 17. Hearts, 18, Tawdry. 21, Wild, 22, Adón:

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 goers with 3 preference for gangster films and "wild west- erna" with plenty of action in 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

movies on school kids.

WEEK-END POPULARITY"

CINEMA & GENERAL

·SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939. —PAGE 5:

Alice Faye. Tyrona Power and Don Ameche have the leading roles, in "Alexander's Ragtime Band” which comes to the King's Thẹn-

tre, to-morrow.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Colour (7)

8 Com

mands (8)

NO. 238

{10

9 Came (7)

11 Dungeon (6)

12

13

14

14 Swine (3)

15 Lymph (5)

17 Breaks (5)

18. Fat (4) 19 Shating

P

21

fours (5) Mineral

test (5)

25 Welcome

(5)

26 Warmth

"(4)

27 County (5)

28 Black bird

(5)

30 Number 133»

32 Mourn (6)

33. Despatch

(7)

34 Mend (6)

35 Endure (7) DOWN

1 Encircle

(7)

2 Coun-

selled (7)

3 Before-'

hand (5)

DAILY

AT

230

520

of

790

920

· Of 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 chlidren. polled, the survey showed an even larger percentage confined their attendance at moyles to week-end dates.

Questionnaires submitted to 8,000 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 Kroup Was Baturday afternoon. Other popular movie-going day wa 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-ends. However,

ly who descended from air Henry is now engaging in a bit of subtle piracy on her own, known in movie Gen- circles as "picture-stealing." eral, of The Wing Lock Ltd. at On the Hollywood Main in this among private school children the Hotel Cecil, Royal Bldg., 1.15 twentieth century Miss Drake is survey showed that most were ac- b.m.

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 uf

Day

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

the Chinese year: High Mass entered pictures.”

Private school children showed ‘a preference for film stories adapted from popular novels, rather than the gangster or western-type movies, the survey disclosed,

..

at 1.30 h followed by To From another ancestor, the Deum and Benediction of the famous clergyman-poet, Francis Blessed Sacrament, at the Ca- Morgan Dean, her grandfather, tholle Cathedrák:

Mas Drake inherited her love SOCIAL-Craigengower Cricket for beauty, her artistic talent, and

Club Whist Drive and Tombola, spiritual well-being. 3.15 pm SPORTS (See Page 2)...

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 sa many reported that they went where she was born on October twice a week or more often in TIDES High at 10.08 and 21.94.2nd. Misa Drake spent most of some cases

SUNRISE.-6.54 am SUNSET.- A native of New York City,

6.21 p.m

Low at 03:14 and 14.33:'

har youth in Toronto, Canada. Except for the private school MISCELLANEOUS, Y.M.C.A. where her father had mining children, only one-third of the

Discussion Group, in the West interests. Lounge, 9 pm, jumla MOON-Chinese I Moon, ist. Day. SUNRISE 6.05 a.m. SUNSET

6.21 pm TIDER-High at 09.45 and 20.29,

Low at (2.42 and 13.49.

children in each group were, ac Later, ahe attended a finishing companied by their parents. school at Arundel, England, with

no thoughts of a stage career dit the subject was

brokched | and actress. Through-hez © kin ́s by her cousin, Jerry Dean, the good office she received her first well-known : English playwright · stage" opportunity,

5 Fish (4)

* Rules over

(6)

7 Free from

(6)

"10 Dangerous

. (5)

12 Fixed (3)

13 Tend (5)

16 Hoarder

(5)

20. Of birth

(5)

SOLUTION ON TUESDAY

21 Stadium (5).

22 Army

jeader (7). 23 Height (7) 24 Royal

seat (6) 25 Animat

sounds (8) 26 Border (3)

29 Male at-

tendant (5) 31 Sins (4)

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

STAR:

TODAY AND TOMORROW

57795.

Deanna DURBIN

That

CERTAIN AGE

MELVYN DOUGLAS

Jackle Cooper Irene Rich Nancy Carroll John Halliday

NEWP UNIVERSAL PICTURE

MONDAY AND TUESDAY

AT ALL REGULAK PERFORMANCES ¦ ̧

POPEYE Sindbad the Sailor"

ALI BABA 40 THIEVES

AUNT GRAMPY! BIZZY BEE

COBWEB HOTEL" LITTLE STRANGERS'

4 ALL TECHNICOLOR REELS

BETTY BOOP Cartoon

COLOUR CARTOON

And Other Interesting Shorts

KING'S

SHOWING" "TODAY "AF" 220; £18, 7.15" AND " 9.30 ·P.M.

Love.

turbulent as the times.......glorious as the music, that,

inspired- HI

Irving Berlina ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND

TYRONT

ALICI

POWER FAYE AMECHE

BOK

ETHEL HERMAN - JACK HALEY

JEAN MERINOLT HELEN WESTLEY

NOTE:

AC

during

the

The Admission Prices of the 230 show showing of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" will be increased to same as the evening.

ALHAMBRA

HAN 3D, HOWLOON

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

A CHINESE HISTORICAL DRAMA!

COLOURFUL!

SPECTACULAR !

́ THE "AUTOCRAT OF CH'O DYNASTY” Starring WANG, YUAN "LOONG, CHING 800 CHENG

With Superimposed English Subtitles....-

COMMENCING TOMORROW

GRAND CHINESE NEW YEAR ATTRACTION

"GUNGA DIN

AT ROADSHOW PRICES!

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HADDY VALLEY BUS

CATHAY

Daily at 2.30 5-18, 7.20 £936 RHC

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SHOWING TODAY WALT DISNEY'S

FIRST FULL LENGTH PRODUCTION

Snow White

TECHNI

POPULAR PRICES

Dwa

Matineen - Stalls 20c. Circle 300, Loge Evenings 200,, 30c, 50c, 700

ge BUC.

SERVICEMEN 40c. to Circle & Stalls

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