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KING'S:

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"The Camboy And The Lady" QUEEN'S:

"The Great Walts"

ORIENTAL:

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"Victoria The Great'

Kowloon

ALHAMERA: -

The Great Walls"

STAR

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MAJESTIC:

"Little Miss Broadway"

KING'S:

"Josetta'

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Coming

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The White Banners" "Last Gangster" CATHAY:

"Love And Hisses" ALHAMBRA:

"Snow White” -

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"BadMan Of Brimstone" "Man Proof" MAJESTIC:

"South Riding”

VIRGINIA BRUCE AND HER DELUGE

Virginia Bruce shivered realis-

Woman

MILLION DOLLAR · COLOUR PLANT ARRIVES. IN

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Telco Corporation will build a million dollar Alm development plant in Hollywood during 1939, for the application of its patent- ed addictive colour proČEES,

This process is mechanical rather than, chemical" - Aniline dyes mixed with a celluloid bags are applied to: the film without the extraction of silver. Patents on silver processing and film sur- facing machines arrived recently.

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Construction of the plant marks the end of four years' experi- ments with the colour process invented by Robert Hoyt, who will be President of this new Arts.

Six thousand fest of film, run through this process were com- pleted in four hours time, with experiments showing final print.

MRS. CLARK GABLE |A SHOCK FOR SUING FOR DIVORCE

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, Mar. 5 (Renter)-Mrs. Clark Gable is suing her husband for divorce alleging desertion. In previous separation suit Clark Gable settled $288,000 on his wife.

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JEWELS

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CHAS. LAUGHTON |

Charles Laughton, having

I recently completed work in "St. Martin's Lane,” was resting in

his vibok-end hide-out, 'deep' in the Surrey woods, and had turned on the radio for the news bulletin.

He refused to belleve his ears when over the radio came the double" of the voice of his brother Tom from Scarborough,

The item which featured the voice so closely resembling that of his brother's, was called "Hotel Splendide," but Charles's astonish- ment grew as hist, the familiar accents of the head walter of the

For ten days members of the Pommer-Laughton "MayLower" unit working at Elstree on gt. Royal Scarborough, then the chef.

house-keeper

thie the

and Martin's Lane," were puzzled as

chambermaids followed and to the identity of a mysterious

gradually all lingering doubts were stranger

the get. No one

removed, for Laughton knew the aeemed to know who he was, or

voices, too well to make Any what bie Was doing there.

mistakes, about them he should later Was

revealed that

do, because most of them he has detective and his

from

in childhood known object was to keep a watchful eye Scarborough, where the Laughton

£10,000 worth. of jewellery ∞n

family own the Royal, the Pavilion worn by Vivien Leigh in certain and the Holbeck, three of the sequences of the dim.

he

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England.

the

business hotel.

until an L an amateur

tically and spoke her lines with Everyone in the studio, with the largest hotels the North of teeth-chattering chill

as fully exception of Tim Whelan, the Charles himself was destined for clothed, she emerged from a show-director, and Vivien Leigh, were er bath comedy sequence in Co-under the impression that the

appearance Jumbla's "There's That

Jewels worn in the, sequence were Again."

made of paste. Actually they were performance of "Hobson's Choice" at a theatre turned his thoughts "Splendid plece of acting," came

some of the most expensive "props":

to other channels and. to the the chorus of tribute from mem-ever used in a film aequence the dismay of his family, he adopted

staff, bers of the cast and

as bracelet alone was worth £7,000 Director Alexander Hall, with a while the rings and ear-rings broad smile of appreciation, or amounted to another £3,000. dered the scene printed.

But the drenched star, drip-

ping a hurried path to a sound

a stage career.

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THE BROADCAST

The broadcast featured a day in the life of big hotel All the roles were played by members of

stage heater, shook her ist Bruce had warmed up-and her the hotel staff of the Royal Hotel. whimsically at Harry Hopkins, suspicions had cooled of. Then with the exception of the guests' propertyman, who had been he admitted he had instructed parts which were filled by regular handling the shower mixer.

Hopkins to give her the shock of actors.

blankets. They crossed me up.

Miss

"I wasn't acting," said Miss an icy shower in order to get the Tom's explanation why he had Bruce as they wrapped her in proper reaction to the scene.. not notified Charles about the Bruce, co-starred. with broadcast was that he was afraid After promising a warm shower Melvyn Douglas in the picture, he would be a bad radio actor, they turned on cold water." takes the unanticipated bath in and that he would have been

Director Hall "waited until Mias | a scene with Stanley Ridges.

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*much too nervous if he had known his famous brother was istening and maybe criticising..

Charles, on the contrary, la the with pride at bursting successful radio debut of Tom Laughton, & medium of which even Charles le nervous. Tom. after his triumph, has no thoughts or inclination to leave the hotel business and is back at work attending to the comfort of his guests at the Royal

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ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYB. -Elizabeth Barrett Browing born, 1808. Excited Insects. (Ching-che). Shuahan Purim (Jewish), AUCTIONS. - Crown Landa, at

F.W.D. Offices, 3 pm CINEMAS)-(See Column 3 of this

Page),"

- TMCA DANCES.

Dance, p.m.; Dance, -9.30 p.m. LECTURES.-A.R.P., Chinese Y.M, CA, Waterloo Road, Kowloon, 7 pm. First Ald. Volunteer Hara, noon; at Ying Wah Boys' College. 8 p.m.; at EL.John Ambulance Hqrs., 7.30 p.m. MATLO-(See Page 18). MEETINGS. - Hongkong

minton Club at Sailors & Soldiers' Home 7 pm. St. An- drew's Church Medical War Working Party, 10 am... MISCELLANEOUS, Diocesan Boyg School new term: St. Andrew's Church Teacher Preparati Class, 7 pm MOON-Chinese I Moon, 16th.

Day Full Moon, 2 a.m. REHEARSALS.-Hongkong Bing- ers, Union Church Kennedy Road, 5.30 p.; HA Philhar- monic Society Orchestral Sec- ton, Et Seamen's Institute, 6,48

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MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1939 -PAGE 5

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