1939-03-11 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

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KOWLOON

AT $30-915-7-90-930 RM AT · 230 - 5·20-720 & 9:30 PM.

SHOWING TODAY

ZAZA the incomparable

ADORED

BY

the inimitableTM

brought to thrilling, glorious life!

EVERY MAN...ENVIED BY EVERY WOMAN!

ADDED!

EXTRA!

- Zaza-crushzag men's hearts

under her twinkling ro

herself helpless before

the passion of an all- consuming love!

Claudette Colbert

“ZAZA” Herbert Marshall

́LITTLE SWEET PEA ” A Popeye Cartoon

AT THE QUEEN'S ONLY Special News Items Concerning His Late Holiness Pope Pius XI

NEXT CHANGE AT THE QUEEN'S ARKANSAS TRAVELLER

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ROBINSON THE LAST GANGSTER

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« Mean Gollige Haya sun

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KAY FRANCIS

In

"ONE WAY PASSAGE”

A Warner Bros. Picture

TO-MORROW:"BEAU HUNKS

Eddie Cantor has signed & CON-- tract to do one picture for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, the title to be This will be annnunced later.

his first screen vehicle since "All. Baba Gomes to Town." and his first flim at the M-O-M studios. Among Cantor's exriser ⠀⠀ SETGELE releases were "Kid Boots,” “Whoo- pee,"

*The Kia “Palmy: Dava,” From 8pain," "Roman Scandals," "Kid Millons" and "Strike Me Pink"

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CINEMA & GENERAL

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Rebecca of Sunnybrook

Farm"

QUEEN'S:

#Zaza"

ORIENTAL:

"Last Gangster'"

CATHAY:

"Lancer Spy"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA,

*Zaza”

STAR

"One Way Passago" MAJESTIC:

""Love Finds Andy Hardy"

KING'S:

Coming

"My B0"

QUEEN'S:

"Arkansas Traveller" ORIENTAL:

"Drums"

"Lord Jer">

CATHAY:

"Carefree"

ALHAMBRA:

“Arizona Raiders”

STAR:

"Beau Hunks"

"Of Human Hearts" MAJESTIC:

"Three Smart Girls”

GABLE - LOMBARD

MARRIAGE

Spain Frees British 'Scarlet Pimpernel'

The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Spanish war. Captain. Edwin Christopher Lance. D.$.0., who for the best eight months had lived in a prison under the dally threat of the execution squad, arrived secretly in England recently.........

NO MORE "PERFECT WIFE

ROLES

Myrna Loy is suing for divorce.... But don't miṣan- derstand`ber.

L'

Captain Lance was accused by the Spanish Goverment of having smuggled out of the country more than 100 men and women of moble birth, wealth, or political hostility.

"I was regarded as the most dan- gerous man in the country," he said. “I had two crime sheets. No. 1 accused me of being a spy, No. 2 of being an accomplice."

"At the moment I am the The kind of divorce that Miss)

most ignorant man in Europe. 1 Loy is seeking is a divorce from do not know what has been too mang males as the perfect wife happening for the last year and although

spared the

19 she

marital yoke in her new picture half. When I crossed the French border with the British Minister with Clark Gable, "Too Hot to in Barcelona, Mr. Ralph Stevenson, Handle.

I had to ask him who was King,

"I have not wearied or the of England now.

marriage roles but I have reached the decision that too many of them is detrimental in a motion pleture career,"

declared popular actress in 題 Interview.

“PERFECT WIFE"

LOST EVERYTHING

"I have lost everything I had the except my“gold signet-ring. recent

"Recently, when things were get- ting bad, there were 2,000 of us im- prisoned in a former monastery near Figuersis, El Collel Before

"It was the 'perfect wife' charac- that there had been only 300. terisations that saved me from

SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1939.-PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING - TODAY AT 2.30, K.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

STARS ALMAROUND HER

RONGINGING KARN

OMBAY STRES

BANEIN

KRING STABS

ALSO

7

•You'd armor beans the oût berm Center's ed ... with the Emined Revie

Shirley TEMPLE REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK

FARM

A 200h Conner Pot Papuana with

*RANDOLPH SCOTT

*JACK KALEY ..GLORIA STUART

•PHYLLIS RADOKS

*NELEY WESTLEY

*SLAM SUMMERVIELE

*BELL RERUSON · RAYMOND SCOTT QURTEL *ALAR DOXERAKT

*1. EDWARD KOOMBERG

BARNYARD BOSS'

CC

KAY FRANCIS

TERRY-TOONS "Seven others were packed, with near oblivion sa I am very grateful me in my tiny cell. Before that was in the Uraguay, the prison. for them." said the star. "I played

Once of

30 many vampire roles that I ship in Barcelona port. thought that I was doomed to play twice, during air raids, we were taker for a cruise round the Mediterranean...

nothing else. Then Director W. S. Van Dyke made The Thin Man with William Powell and me, and

I was saved from the vampires.

"As a diversion, I enjoy roles

"I was arrested three times, on each occasion for explonage, the last time în Madrid in 1937. I owe my escape entirely to Mr. Stevenson, that permit me to be a little who saw Dr. Negrin, the Prime naughty and pugnacious ne Minister, on several occasions to present one with Clark Gable in plead for me.”.

my

Clark Gable, the American mo- "Too Hot to Handle permits me tion plcture actor, is at present) to be. In it I'am a tomboy, a devil- | very busy with the filming of "Gone may-care woman fler who enjoys With The Wind,” in which he takes a good, fight and gets into several the lead as Rhett Butler. However, of them before the picture comes Miss Carole Lombard, at present to an end." resting between pictures, is im- patient for a break in Mr. Gable's work so they enn be married:

"When Clark gets a few days off and I am not busy perhaps we will streak away and have the ceremony performed." she said, when in formed that, his second wife, Mrs. Rhea Gable, had been granted a

final divorce decree.

"LOVE FINDS

ANDY HARDY" Judge Hardy's family is turned loose for the fourth time in Tove Finds Andy Handy," which opens at the Majestic Theatre to-day...

M. G. M. GIVEN THEATRE AWARD

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer received Among Miss Loy's tomboyish the first of the New Year Cinema escapades in "Too Hot to Handle" awards from London, where the are the crashing of her plane as it Cameo Theatres announced that arrives in China, dying Gable the M-G-M short subjects won through a night fog to make a the distinction of being "The most newsreel of a burning liner at sea. consistent entertainment in short rescuing her brother from a savage pictures for 1938.”- tribe the South American The Cameo Theatres, showing jungles and getting tangled up in only short subjects and newsreels, a New York gang war.

buy some two hundred and fifty shorts each year, have decided to zun a special "Award' Week" in honour of Metro'a progressive enterprise in shorts.

new episode, with important add tions to the cast in Judy Garland

The selected five best shorts are; and Lana Turner, making this the the humorous satire. "No Place most pretentious of the series, Like Rome;" Robert Benchley's "A With George Seitz again direct-Night At The Movies," Pete Smith's ing, an inside story of the drama "Modelling For Money:" Fitz- The same group which won wide which is to be found in every Patrick's travelogue "Czecho- recognition for its work' in “Judge | American family is unfolded in analovakia On Parade;" and "A Hardy's Children,” is found in the amusing and realistic manner

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a stake.

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27. Chums. 28. Farewell

29. Rank

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39. Stupid

person.

40. Beat in a

church.

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note.

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SOLUTION ON MONDAY

537

150

27. Open,

champaign

country.

28. Wolf-

hound. 30. Armomed

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31. Exhibit 32, Voter

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American Manimal,

40. Squad. 42. Exist.

43. Bun god.. 45. Diminutive

of Deborah. 40. Edible seed 47; Greek letter. Accomplish. 51. Action

(law).

Criminal Is Born" from the "Crime Does Not Pay" series,

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS Sir Malcolm Campbell born. 1885 Earl Beatty dled, 1936. St. Colette,

CINEMAS.~~~(See Column 3 of this

Fage).

Old (mo-

DANCES.-Royal Engineer's

Comrades Assen. Waltz dern), Competition, at Penin- sula Hotel, 8.30 p.m... ENTERTAINMENTS. "The Pre- vious Night," at Et, Pari's Girls' College Hall. 8 p.m.; "The Shining Hour," at China Fleet Club Theatre; 9.15 pm.: Kowicon Cricket Club Smak- ing Concert and Presentation of Prizes, 9.15 p.m. LECTURES.-Mirst Aid St. John

Ambulance Hqrs, 3.30. p.m. MAILS.-(See Page-18), MEETINGS.Annual, of the Bank of East Asia, at 10 Des Voeux Road Central, 3 p.m. - MISCELLANEOUS.

Entries

close. for Trinity College Theo- retical Examination "(paper work); Claims against the Estates of Paul Henry King. Retired Commissioner of "Gus- toms, and Major R. Scott, due; HKSP.C. Flower Day; Exhi bition of Paintings in Queen'a Bldg., (Chater Road entrance) 10 am to 5: p.m.; · Air Raid Exhibition at Peninsula Hotel, 104 sm to 7pm.; Annual Prize Distribution of. Wah Yan College, 10.30 a.m. Moon-Chinese

Day,

I Moon.

21st.

SPORTS. (See Page 2). SUNRISE 9.38 am. SUNBET

$.30 p.m.

TIDES HIgh at 00.38 and 12.18.

Low at 05.47 and 18:45.

Maxte Rosenbloom, ex-champ. and fighter le now on the screen, In case you don't know, Maxie, In his spare time off studio shota, is planifing a gymnasium for news- boya: Generour fellow, Maxis,

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LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY

The New Bory of Judge Hardy's Familyreith

ROONEY · GARLAND

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HOLDEN

Bones Play by

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