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Bob Burns' Pals

BOB BURNS

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THE

ARKANSAS TRAVELER"

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THERE GOES MY HEART"

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"My BillTM QUEEN'S:

"Arkansas Traveller"

ORIENTAL:

"Lord Jeft"

CATHAY:

A New Walt Disney

Programme

Variety

Kowloon

ALRAMBRA.

*Arizona Raiders"

STAR:

"Dark Journey"

MAJESTIC:

"The Shopworn Angel"

KING'S:

Coming

"Gateway"!

QUERN'S:

"Fisherman's Whart"

ORIENTAL:

"There Goes "My Heart" "If I Were King" CATHAY:

"The Life Of The Party" ALHAMBRA:

"His Exciting Night" "Fisherman's Wharf"

STAR:

14 M

"Bing Baby Sing"

"The King Steps Out" MAJESTIC: "*

"The · Adventurers

Polo"

Of Marco

THE SHOPWORN ANGEL

as

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"What does Sweet Sixteen' dream'about? She dreams of the day when meri full hard and fast for her, when she shall be crown-up enough to have the handsomest eligibles" gather aroutid, her in droves, but" Ilterally droves!

The question with the foregalug answer, were presented to pretty sixteen-year-old Helen Parrish,Į

who is now before the cameras with Deanna Durbin in Universal's

Three Smart Girls Grow Up."

Now, come Helen, is it true?” stum

was asked.

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"Yes, it is true,” Helen admitted with the amazing latterday frank- ness of the young.

"It's so much ran to be popular."

"And how does a young girl go about the business of making her self popular with the boys?"

ONCE HE WAS

"BIT PLAYER"

Gary Cooper A

Star Now

Once upon a time there was a young "bit player" who happened to get a pretty good role in a big picture and he was mighty ex- cited about it. He wore a 10-gallon "Well, frst," said the wise Helen, hat, dungarees, high-heeled boots "the must always look nice. I think and a shirt with fancy seamed boys like to date girls who dress pockets. His name was. Gary well and tastefully; it makes then Cooper.

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And it makes a girl feel| proud.

He told himself, and the rest good, too, to know that she has on of the cowboy players on the set, prettier dress than any other that maybe, if he worked hard girl at the party."

at this job, he might get to be a That must have been the reason movie actor after all. that Helen's scenes with. The Little Now Gary Cooper has a big fancy Tough Guys in "In Society" where dressing room of his own, and she wore her first evening frock make-up men and valets and prop shimmering metal goid cloth men hover about him. The old trimmed with shining metal lea-ntyver he used to drive to work ther gardenias, were played with has turned into 16-cylinder such assurance and verve, The streamliner about half

a block gorgeous evening frock, her first

long. venture into the realm" of really

Gary has become quite an actor gown-up clothes made her "feel since the days of "Barbara Worth." good.” And feeling good reflected But he's still the most "at home" itself in her acting.

man in Hollywood in cowboy toga. It is of interest to note that in his latest starring vehicle screened here recently, "The Cowboy and the Lady," Gary Cooper Was reatured In a rule that launched him on A successful screen

HOLLYWOOD NIGHT SPOTS

CLOSED

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. S. The career. closing, because of labour trou-

blea, of two more Hollywood night Bonita Is Generous

spots frequented by members of

Bonita Granville, chilo flm 'star, the film colony was announced to-with the consent of her mother, has day.

been giving her old clothes to needy young girls. But her charitable impulse has run away. with her and she can't wait to

With the famous Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel closed for the past week, it was announced to-night that the Biltmore Bowl and buy new clothes so that she can Biltmore Rendezvous will close on hand them out. Wednesday.

"The Shopworn Angel," at the Majestic, Theatre. has a back- ground which shows the irst draft of World War soldlers they marched away in 1917

war Walle the new Alm has" a

President Baron Long of the Bilt- This is all causing her mother theme it does not go into the

untold worry, since she can't shord battle scenes but attacks the pro-high wage scale demanded by the children of Hollywood and yet more Hotel gave the reason as a to buy new clothes for the poor blem from the inside, showing the

Musicians' Union." loves of three people in various walks of life.

Margaret Sullavan does her Brian Donlevy has been granted

doesn't want to interfere with Bonita's sense of charity.

anest emotional acting as the girl a 4-week leave from "Union Facine" DIARY OF LOCAL

with a hard-bolled past who mar

ried a naive soldler boy on the eve of his departure for France.

so he can make a round trip to England before "finishing in the railroad picture.

CROSSWORD

NO. 258

ACROSS

1 Who was the.

Norse god of strife?".

5. Pouch

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Shopworn

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Attractions:

NEWS OF THE DAY

and

TRAVELOQUE

COMMENCING FRIDAY

THE MIGHTY CAVALCADE OF THE WORLD'S MOST

ROMANTIC ADVENTURE 1

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27 What is the

longest river in Europe, 31 Something

embracing the ankle

33 Digging

underground 34. MLA. for Melbourne 35 Wet thor-

oughly. (UB.) 36. Catchword a 37 Remoteness 40 A Latin

version of the Scriptures

43 Boa engles

48 One of the

Great Lakes 47. Métric mea-

sure of area. Town In Italy

80 Edible sub-

stance from seaweed

SIGRID GURIB

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“THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO”

A United Artists Super-Production !

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quld

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56 Dutch

cheese

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1 Easy guit

2 Is Indebted to 3.What is the

"Blue Gras State".. 4. Insertio o 5. The legal

profesion

6 Fungus

↑ The regime

of what Vent- znalan president,

begun in 1910, marked the financial rehabilitation of his coun- try!

8 Fort in

Bydney Harbour

• Eager 10 Part of the skeleton

Episcopal units 12 Witnesses 19 What, next to

the Rühr, fa the greatest mining centre of Germany?

21 The letters of "What Prénch), SOLUTION TO-MORROW

RWYS

writer to her. children, have become very fabious?

23. Pillar in a

Buddhist building"

24 Exclamation

of disgust 25 Of each an

equal quantity. 28 Formally

authorised

29 African 30 Grow old 32 Books, of

Rccounts

33 Extinct

flightless bird 35 Who wrate

Tristram 'Bhandy?

38 Blemish

39 Long for 40 Flesh of a

cair

writer to 41 Force

onward

43 Division of

the Jurassic system

44 Vensel to

beat liquids 45 Kingdom

of Ala

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EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS

-Dame Madge Kendal born, 1849, CINEMAS.—(Beë Column 3 of this

Page). COMPANIES. — Raub Australán Gold Mining Co. Ltd.. Final Dividend on Register at Brisbane; China Underwriters, Ltd.. Share Call." DANCES.-Cheero Club Dance, 8.30

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p.m. LECTURES.— Home Nursing,

English), at Queen Mary Hop- pital, 2nd floor, North Wing, 10 a.m.; First Aid, (in 'Chinese), for Women, St. John Ambulance Hqra, 7.30 p.m.; A. R. F., (modl- fted course), at Wah Yan College, Robinson Road, 6.30 pm: "Ru ning Repairs" for Motor Am- bulace

Drivers, AL Volunteer Hars., 11 am.

MAILS.--(Bee Page 18). MEETINGS.-Annual, of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd, in Exchange Bldg., Des Voeux Road Central. 11.30 a.m.; General, of of the Hongkong Promotion Committee of the Chinese In- dustrial Co-operatives, at the Sports Club, Kings's Bldg. 5.15 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 am: Hong- kong Sunday School,Asscn in Kowloon Union Church or Hall, 5.45 p.m. St. Andrew's Hall Sub- Committee, 6 pm: Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild. 10 a.m.; Peace. Pledge Union, Challenge. "Bookshop. 5.30 p.m... Speaker, Miss D. M. Shilston. MISCELLANEOUS.-Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 10 am. MOON.—Chinese 1 Moon, 25th

Day.

SOCIAL-Whist Drive, and Tom-

bola in Garrison Sergeants" Mess," 9 pm

SPORTY-(Bee Page 21.

SUNRISE.-6.33 am

6.33 p.m.

SUNSET-

TIDES,--High at 17.24. Low at

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