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TODAY AND TOMORROW
3 SHOWS AT 2. 0 5.16 & 7.20 P.M. UNLY ·
The Adventure and Romance of Mark Twain's
Mississippi Days....... Alive on the Screen!
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TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M. Chinese Youths Medical Relief Association Presents
“DEBUTANTE GOES TO TOWN”
Prices: $10,00, $5.50, $4.40," $3.80; *2.20 and $1.10.
SATURDAY
M.G.M." Picture
Luise Rainer Fernand Cravet - Miliza Korjus in "THE GREAT WALTZ"
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4 SHOWS
FLEMING
DAILY
230-2.19
7.15-0.30
Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Gladiator"
QUEEN'S:
"Tom Sawyer, Detective"
·ORIENTAL:
"Doctor Rhythm”
CATHAY:
"Breaking The Ice"
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Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
""Men" Are Such Fool"
STAR
"Sally, Irene & Mary* MAJESTIC:
“There's Always A Woman"
KING'S:
Coming
CINEMA & GENERAL
CHARLES SPENCER CHAP- LIN who will be fifty next" April
CHAPLIN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
On April 16 Charles Chaplin | will be fifty years old. On that
"The Cowboy And The Lady" day exhibitors all over the world
QUEEN'S:
"The Great Walty"
ORIENTAL:
"Love Finds Andy Hardy" "Spawn' Of The North"
CATHAY:
"Victoria The Great"
ALHAMBRA:
"The Great Walta"
STAR
"Navy, Blue And Gold" MAJESTIC:
"Little Miss Broadway".
are planning to show Chaplin cemedies in their theatres, ss a birthday tribute to the man who has entertained millions.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS
Sir. T. Bodler born. 1543. Horace Walpole died, 1797. Fast of water (Jewish), AUCTIONS. — Hourshold Furni- ture, at 2 Connaught Road Cen- tral, 2.30 p.m. CINEMAS.--(Bes Column 3 of this
Page).
ENTERTAINMENTS,
"Dapu-
-tante Goes to Town,” at Queen's
Theatre, 9,30 p.zr.
Modified
| LECTURES--Anti-Gas
Full Course, at Volunteer Hora... 18:15 am; First Aid at Am- bulance Hora.. 7:30 pm. at King's College, 8 p.m.; at Yau- mati Government School, 8 p.m.; Theosophical Society, 6 pm. MAILE.-(800 Page 10)." MEETINGS. — Extraordinary, of Kowloon Chess Club, in Penin- aula Hotel, 6 pm: RLOB. (GLE) Club, in Queen's Bldg... Ice House Street, 7.30 pm:
St. Andrew's Women's Fellow- ship, 2.45 p.m.; Cathedral Trus- tee Meeting, Cathedral Office, 5.30 p.m.; Cathedral Scouts, at Hara, Lower Albert Road, 5.30 p.m.; Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 pm: HK Branch of the Kwangtung Fro vincial Bank (Hotel Cecil), 3 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.-Entries
close Hongkong Horticultural show, noon.
In America, Exhibitors Pictures Inc., is planning special show- ings of the first twelve of Charles Chaplin comedies to which music is now being synchronisea,
Theatres are planning to de- corate their lobbies and dress their ushers in Charles Chaplin MOON-Chinese I Moon, 12th. costumes, on April 16.
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ORIENTAL
ROAD WANGHAI
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•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®
FILLED WITH SURPRISES AND LOADS OF LAUGHTER! Bing and bis gang of comedians in a jumbo of a musical show with more laughs than a car-load of monkeys..
DOCTOR RHYTHM
BING CROSBY
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RELIGIOUS-St. Andrew's Club Lenten Discussion Group, in the Vicarage, 6.30 p.m.; Cathedral Women's Fellowship Devotional Service, 3 p.m.; Confirmation Class" (adults) Lady Chapel. St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 p.m. SOCIAL-RAOB. (GLE) Chub Whist Drive and Tombola, Queen's Building, Ice Hogre Street, 8.30 pm; Public Works Recreation Club Tombola, Cause- way Bay, 8 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge Evening.
SPORTS. (See Page 2)
BUNRISE 8.40
6.27 p.m.
a.m." SUNSET.—.
TIDES.-High at 06.39 and 17.10.
Low at 00:12 and 09.05.
COMEDY HIT
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939. -PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10.′ 7.35 & 9.30 P.M.
"YOU, TOO, CAN BE A SUPERMAN”, SAYS THE MODERN HERCULES ...
JOE E.BROW
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ALHAMBRA
TODAY AND TOMORROW When one girl two-times two guye"
It's hilarious romance!
MEN ARE SUCH- FOOLS"
**There's
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Always Columbia's Joan Blondell-Melvyn Douglas comedy at the Majestic Theatre, might have sub-titled,
Thunder Over "America," so loud have been "the laughs, cheers and bravos that have greeted its exhuntai
Woman,"
AND YOW THE CIRI
ADORE IT!
been
WAYNE
MORRIS
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Bing, the old Doc of
Rhythm... Captivating... Mary Carlisle,
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The screen's favourite family finds its son in the angs of puppy love.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
The Move Story of Jodes Hardy's Family - ...
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JIMMY DURANTE A: 20th-Century Fox Picture
'NAVY, BLUE AND GOLD" with Robert Young James Stewart
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19 Melody
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SOLUTION TO-MORROW
ERROL FLYNN IN
-A FIST FIGHT
Errol Flynn, Isiah motion plc-.] ture actor, is known to use his fist frequently, but his latest en- counter cost him the price of a costly dental bridge.
On the Jack Whitney, estate in Pasadena," a cocktail party WAI in session. Alden Roark, star and Alm
following scanarist kept Flynn around, casting spurious remarks about him," witnesses say that Flynn pretended not to hear them, but walled until all the guests had departed, then let by several of the fistic rights and tefte that he was noted for. Edward G. Robinson who has Arrangements have been cam- faced hundreds of audiences in his pleted with Warner Bros. by Flynn was showing, no
mercy career on the stage and in public Prentice-Hall, text-book publisher, for Roark ghen a man unknown appearances between starring en-as a result of which the film's ynn Intercepted and" struck | gagements, buffered stage fright historical featurettes will be made him in the jaw, loosening his when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt the basis of a series of books, bridgework Flynn then really visited the set where he was working At present Hollywood is ex-broke loose, and Roark hit the recently. Robinson retired into a perfencing a current, cycle of Fraas three times before the al- corner and had to be dragged outdoor and western pictures and teretion could be stopped. out to meet the first lady, who had this has brought about a booms in Flynn remarked that this might Inquired for him, the Alm city's armament mart-175 be a lesson to those who were "Just nervouness," he admitted 000 sounds of ammunition were I expectin to cast remarks about very sheepishly later.
fused within two weeks
himg, which were not true.
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34 Short jacket - 37' Bodles of water
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At home
In the splendid supporting cast. are such topnotch players se Mary Astor, Frances Drake, Jerome Cowan and Robert Palge, each of whom performs his appointed stint with polish and eclat. Needless to say, Blondell. Douglas & Co. are superb comedy purveyors, appear- ing to better advantage in "There's Always a Woman" than ever before. Alexander "Hall directed the im.
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BOBBY BREEN BREAKING -the ICE
CHARLIE RUGGLES DOLORES COSTELLO
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BELLY GILBERT-İ CHARILE MURRAY
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A High-Spirited, Thoroughbred Comedy in the Mad, Merry Manner of “The Awful Truth"!-
JOAN
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Living sappily ever after.IN In the gayest love-and-laugh hit since "The Awful Truth"!.
MELVYN
DOUGLAS
THERE'S ALWAYS
Woman
MARY AS TO
DE FRANCES
DRAKE From the papular Amaricon stagezime sery by Wilson Callison » Screen play by Oladys Lehman Diracled by Alexander Hall » Prúduced by Willan Factors • A Columbia Fichera
COMMENCING
SATURDAY
The World's Number One Star In the Musical Thrill-Hit of the Year 11 SHIRLEY TEMPLE LITTLE MISS BROADWAY
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