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The Music! The Life!

The Loves Of "The

World's Waltz King!”.

THE

GREAT WALTZ

KULEX

Starting PEINAND

MILAZA

RAINER GRAVET KORJUS

with

HUGH HERBERT. LIONEL ATWILL

And Cast of Thousands! Screen Play by Samuzi Hofzanesia, ped Walty Reinch Directed by Julien Derivier

TO-MORROW

A Paramount Picture

31

"PARTNERS IN CRIME with Lynn. Overman Roscoe Karns

KING'S:

Hongkong

Josette QUEEN'S:

"The Great Walta" ORIENTAL:

"The White' Banners” CATHAY:

"Love And Hisses”

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA.

"Snow white"

STAB:

"Bad Man Of Brimstone” MAJESTIC:

"South Riding

KING'S:

Coming

"Rebecca of Sunnybrook

Farm"

QUEEN'S:

"Partners In Crime"

ORIENTAL:

"Michael Strogoff""

ALHAMBRA:

"Last Gangster" CATHAT:

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4 SHOWS

FLEMING

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DAILY"

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715-9.30

ORIENTAL

DAYS TO-DAY

2ONLY

TO-MORROW.

HERE'S A PICTURE THAT MADE SCREEN HISTORY I

All the armies of the world could not defeat this small but

brave family who lost everything except their courage and faith in each other.

ARE YOU DISCOURAGED?

THIS MAN WASI...

Until he learned how, en turn white flags of deleat into white bannars af victoryl

FRI. 1 'SAT.

Directed by Edmund Benlding ACOGIDOPOLITAN PRODUCTION - Presented by MARKET BROS.

WHITE BANNERS

- LLOYD G. DOUGLAS Esserepeilias Magaden Bartel, with

CLAUDE RAINS

FAY BAINTER. JACKIE COOPER BONITA GRANVILLE

HENRY OʻKEILL « KAY JONKSON JAMES STEPBERSON

THE LAST GANGSTER

....

** EDW. G. ROBINSON JAMES STEWART

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

4 SHORUS

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FINAL SHOWINGS, TODAY

A Drama of Humanity Against a Background Which Only England Can Provide

SOUTH RIDING

RALPH RICHARDSON EDNA BEST EDMUND GWENN

ANN TODD JOHN CLEMENTS

Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA and VICTOR SAVILLE

TOMORROW AND

th

Taking Adventure

With Intrigue!

On

FRIDAY

Night Alive

THE LONE WOLF IN PARIS” FRANCIS LEDERER FRANCES DRAKE

A Columbia Sensational Thriller

"The Law. West Of Tomb-

stone"

STAR:

"Scarlet Empress" MAJESTIC:

The Lone Wolf in Paris"

WESLEY RUGGLES FOR COLUMBIA Wesley Ruggles,

noted

JEANETTE MACDONALD COMBINES MARRIAGE

AND A CAREER

"Marriage and a career can be combined,

Not in ali

cases, mind, but in every case where a woman is abię to 're- gard both with an equal amount of Importance. In most COLSCE women ATO apt to favour the home in attention. This is not only natural, but permissible, providing she doesn't to overboard and entirely neglect her work. Falling the

other direction, i just na Intal, Being so the wrapped up in a career that the home suffers means disaster. · To manage both successfully, interests should be equally divided."

“Managing a home was some- thing brand

for Before my marriage, that end of living had always been taken care of by my mother. tending Naturally, at first,

This is the opinion of Jeanette MacDonald, who admits that she speaks principally from her own experience, and casually from her observations of others.

star

"It is perfectly possible for a woman to and happiness in bet home without a career," the Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer stated. "But it is impossible to find well-balanced happiness in a career, without a home."

Since her marriage to Gene Raymond, Jeanette MacDonald has divided her life into two de- finite careers. She treats them

J

MARCE

to menus, watching the mar- the hundred keting, doing and one Httle things that managing a home implies. was difficult. It was then that I sat down and budgeted my time, Mviding It Into équal parts between my home and my work.

"Now, even during

work

days

separately and with individual at the studio. I have time to at- Importance. One is never per-tend the duties the

of

house. mitted to infringe upon the other. Menus for the next day are made

TWICE AS INTERESTING

"And I've found life twice As interesting,” she added.

“JOSETTE” AT THE KING'S

out at night. Marketing lists also occupy a few moments of an evening hour.

most

They say that nothing suc- ceeds like success," she continú- ed. "I think that is more true of managing a home than of anything else. When all of the little wrinkles began to disap pear, when I had convinced myself that I could do it, troubles It's vive l'amour in naughty New just faded away. At first I Orleans! It's vive Don Ameche! vive found & million intricacies in Simone Simon! and vive Robert the job, now I can't fine ona.” direc- Young! tor, was aigned recently by

For that matter it's vive "Josetta" work is one of the star's

That complete happiness colours Columbia Pictures to a producer-in Hongkong as long as the King's contract. His latest directorial Theatre runs this co-la-laughingest

firm contentiona. eDort was "Sing You Sinners." love escapade by 20th Century-Fox. "When you are successful and His first production under this

It all starts gally on its way when encouraged in one venture, it new agreement with Columbia Don and Bob decide that their gives you more confidence to at- will be announced shortly.

Papa is too ardently cherchezing la tack another," she said "My Coming from the stage. Mr. Femme Josette, The fact

that

husband "is my only audience. Ruggles started his screen career Simone is innocent of all gulle as and my most important one, as an actor with Mack Bennett, regards Papa-and that there is for my career as a home-maker. but he soon gave up adting and another woman in the case-only When I succeed in that role, it finally became a director, afadds to the merry madness.

13 easier to please my other au- branch of the industry. which Three new song hits by Holly- diences with performances on was more to his liking. He was wood's ace tunesmiths are featured the screen, I'm absolutely con- a success from the start, and in the musical background of the vinced that happiness is the among his early pictures were film. These, which already are keynote of sucċert.” included, "Cimarron," "Tm No crowding the kipcycles, are "May Angel," "Street Girl," "Shoot the I Drop A Petal In Your Glass Of

Works." "College Fumour." "The Whe?" "In Any Language and DIARY OF LOCAL

Guided Ly" and *Are These "Where i The World."

Our children." Later he direct- Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, e- ed "Accent on Youth," "The Bride sational new comedy team first Comes Home," "T Met Him in seen in Love And Hisses," head Paris," and "True Confession." the featured cast of "Josette

CROSSWORD

NO. 252

ACROSS

I What king

was compelled

to sign the Magna Carta? ·

5. Who was the donor of the faryouts Planetarium in New York?

11. Japanese

gateways

12 Small area

16

22

23

P5

127 126129

12 Paste of ·

bigment and rum water

197

14 Who wrote

LECO

47

The Call of

the Wild?

431

15 Air hero

16 Draw along

47

17. Italian

" after

goddess of harvesta

18 Part of the

"mouth

20 Personal pronoun

21. Leg joint"

22 Moral

24 Receive

Instruction

25 Fall behind

26 Lair

27 Who was the

second daughter of King Lear?

30. Earnest

entreatles

34 Hawk raised

:

1non a fledgling

35 Cut grass

30 Angle

between a

branch and It. sten

"The Story of Ban Martin” [a] "Babes in Arms,” Metro-Gold- announced by Warner Bros, as the wyn-Mayer's adaptation or the 37 Though second featurette in its forthcoming Rodgers and Hart Broadway 33 Immerse Pan-American series, “Heroes of musical success of the same name, 39 Poem! the Western Hemisphere."...

will start production at the 40 Beetle; | San Martin was the great soldier studios In the near future. Mickey and statesman of 1812 who is Rooney. ·Judy · » Garland, Betty idolized a South American Jaynes and Douglas McPhail 45 Without hero for his contributions to the have been selected for top roles, treedom of Argentine, Chile and land Arthur Freed will be the pro-

Peru

ducer.

42 Lessmed in - intensity

breaks

between tones

46 -The ruins öt

Carthage are 10 miles from what African sity?

47 Bolled slowly 48: Masculine

name.

DOWN

Who was the younger son of Jacob and Rachel?

2 Fragment

3. Fasten

4 Nothing

5. Circles of

light

6 In a line

7 Japanese cofn

8. What was the beat of the cidest of the Greek oracles?

9. One who runs

off with a Cover

10 What Aretic

explorer was a recipient of the Nobel peace award? 11" Implied, but

not expressed,"

49

13 Ballow BOLUTION TO-MORROW

[51 32:59]

36

34

1. Segame 19 Masculine rame

20 Ugly old

woman

21 What colony

was formerly the British East Africa Protectorate?

23 La able

24 Meadow

26 Free from

moisture

27 Repulses

28 Loophole 29; Place for

storing cam

30 Light blow 31 Foreign #182 - Drives

Winter vehicle

35 Who killed

John the Baptist?

38 Network

Chame at *g*marbles

Consumed Prickly wa envelope of

Bird of the

cuckoo family

་་་་་

EVENTS

*TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS --Williăm m died, 1762. Comt von Zeppelin died, 1917. All Women's Day.

AUCTIONS.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1939. —PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY

DAILY AT 2.30, 6.10, 7.15 & 9.30 F.M.

It's Vive l'Amour in Naughty New Orleans!

DON

•

SIMONE

ROBERT

AMECHE SIMON YOUNG JOSETTE

SHE'S GOT ZISI SHE'S GOT TAT

4 2014 Comtery Fas Pienare with

·BERT LAHR - JOAN DAVIS FAUL HURST WILLIAM COLLIER, 5. TALA, BIRELL

TERKY-TOONS

ALSO

"TRAILER

LIFE"

#

Gayer than o Mardi Gras

... and merry with Gordon

& Ravel's

newest hits!

MAGIC CARPET

WESTERN GRANDEUR”

-NEXT CHANGE

SHIRLEY TEMPLE in REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM

with RANDOLPH SCOTT GLORIA STUART · JACK HOLT A: 20th Century Fox Picturs

ALHAMBRA

KAYETTE, LO KOKURS

TO-DAY, FOR ONE DAY ONLY •

·RETURN SHOWING BY POPULAR DEMAND!

WALT DISNEY'S

TO-MORROW

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DANCES.-Bervicemen's Dance In 8. & S. Home, 8.30 p.m.: Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 p.m. ENTERTAINMENTS. — H. K. A D. C. "The Shining. Hour,” at China Fleet Club Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

LECTURES "Running. Repairs" for Motor Ambulance Drivers, ät Volunteer Hars.. 11 SIL First Aid, St. John Ambulance Hars, 8 p.m.

"

MAILS.—(Bes Page 18).

MEETING.--Annual, of Hongkong Realty and Trust Co., Ltd, at Fxchange Bldg. 2nd floor, Des Voeux Road Centrál, Ï1.30 am; Women's Organisation, at Hele- ná May, 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.; Hongkong Sunday School AssCo., in Kowloon Union Church or Hall, 5.45 p.m.; "Bt. Andrew's Church Council, 6 .p.m.

MISCELLANEDUS-Air Raid Ex- hibition at Peninsula Hotel, Arst floor Balcony, 2.30 p.m. to 7 pm; Cathedral Women's Working Party, in the Hall, 10 a..

MOON-Chinese

Day.

Moon, 18th

SOCIAL--Whist Drive and Tom- bola in Garrison Sergeants Mess, 9 p.m.

SPORTS. (See Page 2)..

SUNRISE 6.40

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2.m. SUNSET.

TIDES High at 10.39 and 22.58.

Low at 04.18 and 26.17.

· Solution No, 251

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MYRNA LOY

FRANCHOT A ROSALIND

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