1939-03-21 — Page 5

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TYPHOON... MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS!

LOVE OF A TERROR SHIP

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CINEMA & GENERAL

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Holiday"

QUEEN'S:

"Pacifc Liner"

ORIENTAL:

"If I Were King"

CATHAY:

"Passport Husband"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA.

"Young Fugitives"

Robert Donat • Rosalind Russell

in "THE CITADEL"

STAR:

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN ED. HOWLDOS, DARY AT 2.30%

Four Men And A Prayer"

MAJESTIC:

"Penrod's Doubla "Trouble"

KING'S:

Coming

"Marie Antoinette"

QUEEN'S:

9.30 TEL. 50856

TODAY AND TOMORROW

His life

had a dark fature

until a blond

wandered

into it!..

YOUNG FUGITIVES

A New Unreal Phezure with Derülhan Kant · Robert Wilens Larry Blake Harry Davenport

Pleben Brom Laka

Jake #polias"

Survey Arusha,

Art Frauior

She

drifted down

open highways until

love anchored her

in the hearts of two man!

THURS. :

Edward G. Robinson "A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER"

SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-9.30

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ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD

TEL 28473

"The Citadel"

ORIENTAL:

"Stella Dallas”

"Letter Of Introduction"

CATHAY:

"The Good Earth"

ALHAMBRA :

"A Slight Case of Murder?'":

STAR:

"You're A Sweetheart"

MAJESTIC:

"The Last Gangster"

"PENROD'S DOUBLE

TROUBLE"

Ciro's Shuts By Candle

Light

Jack Harris... "the dance-band leader, and his wife-shè sa testys—

sat by candle-light in the cocktait! bar of Ciro's Club, Orange-street. W. on March 1: four hours after a receiver had been called in and the club closed. It may re-open in a few days.

1

PLAYWRIGHT

WINS CASE

*London After Dark' Film Rights

Judgment for Mr: Walter Hackelt, the playwright, with coats, was giựệm lại the King's Ranch Division in an action nainst him concerning the film rights of his play, "London After Dark."

The plaintiffs, Excelsior Film

the

Creditors, and the receiver, who Production Ltd., maintained that.

had secured

rights nad earlier roamed across the club's they deep carpets, had gone. A solitary through an agreement reached on candle, standing in a porcelain Feb 8, 1938, with O'Bryen, Linnit ashtray, dickered shadows on the and Dunfee Ltd., Mr. Hackett's delicate pastel shades of the paint agents in the matter. work. The electric light" had been Jeut on

}:

Mr. Hackett denied that the agents had any authority to accept Jack Harris said: "After Peter the offer made by the film com- contended that any obtained pany, and Ratazzi, the manager, £2,108 17s damages against the agreement made was not a cen- club for wrongful dismissal, all the cluded bargain. company's creditors turneri here."

LAWRENCE TIBBETT

up

!}

He also pleaded that just Drior to the alleged agreement he dis- posed of the film rights for 10 years to Gainsborough Pictures (1928) Ltd. on the terms that he should receive £1,000 down and £1,000 from the profits of the film. Those terms were similar to "Just call me 'Pendulum," said the terms which, the plaintiffs noted baritone and operatic star. alleged, were agreed by them with Lawrence Tibbett, as he rushed Mr. Hackett's akents

NO BARGAIN from train to plane at Pittsburgh,

Mr. Justice Lawrence found that recently.

A "PENDULUM"

The new name, Tibbett explained, the agents had no authority to will fit in well with his new con- conclude a contract of sale on Mr. tract which keeps him, he says, Hackett's behalf, and that there swinging from coast to coast like was no concluded bargain a transcontinental shuttlecock.

"I'm on my way to Los Angeles

to sing

OR 3

radio programme Sunday evening." he added, "Then I've got to be back in New York for a rehearsal Tuesday night. -

The radio programme in the West Coast calls for his appearance

In his view Mr. Hackett had said he would "see the plaintiffs' cheque and agreement first," and, when a proposal was sent by the plaintiffs

contained the provision that the agents were to hold the £1,000 as trustees pending the carrying out of the legal formalities.

Those two most valuable ingre on 16 of 28 programmes, and in In those circumstances the plain- enter-between, "Pendulum" pointed out, tlfs claim for specific performance

dients of motion picture

tainment-humour and extite-

he rust swing back and forth to or damages failed. In the event or ment are both present in cop and from New York to squeeze in his being wrong in his fading, the

Jous

"Penrod's in measure

his other work. Double Trouble," which opens at

the Majestic Theatre to-day,

Judge assessed the damages which

"I was raised more or less in the might be payable to the plaintin horse-and-buggy era, and I still at £1.000...

It is also the second in which can't believe I can scoot back and

the uncannily similar Mauch twins forth across the continent like DIARY OF LOCAL

⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY brother Bobby

THE GRANDEST LOVER THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN:

This poet-rogue, this daring hero of a thousand scrapes would win a fight with the twist of his sword and win a lady's heart with the twist of a phase.

STIRRING STORY OF FRANCOIS VILLON MASTER

.

OF HEARTS!

RONALD COLMAIL, ponovnat ol gli menvalle stori, en fransnis

Vilen, post-rogue who dared in

Save the faint body in Fromex!

Flaming Adventure Glorious Romance!

Ašniph Zukar penobuca

RONALD COLMAN

Is PRANE LLOYD'S

“IF I WERE KING'

A Parmanant Bones with

* Frances Dee'- Bazil Rathbone

Ellen Drow - C. V. Proses - Jony Vikaon

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эге

EVENTS

TO-DAY ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS died. -Sir Ralph Abercromby 1301. Vernal Equinox (Ch'un- fen). St. Benedict.

are co-starred, and again they this." demonstrate that two beads better than one,

CLAN CHIEF IS ILL The leading roles are played by Billy Mauch as Penrod and "Sir Iain Colquhoun, the 52-years- Danny and old chief of his clan, and Lord they are ably supported by Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire, was Jackie Morrow as Rodney Bitts reported to be critically in the and ebony-hued Phillip HurbicHenry Brock Hospital, Alexandria, | CINEMAs—(Ses Column 3 of this as Verman, as well as 2 large Dumbartonshire. Lady Colquhoun

and returned from London. group of lesser known boy giri actors.

Sir Jain, a former amateur boxer, Long considered, Hollywood's is chairman of the National premier director of child actors, Advisory Council for Scotland on Lewis Seller

anew *proves

his physical training, and was Lord right" to that distinction with High Commissioner to the General his direction of "Pentod's Double Assembly of the Church of Scotland Trouble."

in 1932.

CROSSWORD

NO. 263

ACROSS

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4. Smaller.

Fundused tad Dirvone by Bnal Liepi

9. Witticism

12. Consumed

13. Sharp

14. Constellation

শি

Paga). LECTURES.--Gas

:

Chamber De

monstration at Volunteer Hqro.... 4.20 p.m.: A.R.P., Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; Luzi- tanp Club, 5.30 p.m. European Y.M.C.A., 8

Salle p.m.; La College. 8

Anti-Gas. "V. p.m.; A. Course, Volunteer Hqra.. 10.30 3.m. UAR Club, 11 a.m.: Diocesan Junior Girls' School, 6 p.m. MAILS.--(80s Page 16), MEETINGS." - Rotary Meeting. Kow- Hongkong Hotel, 1 p.m.: loon Chess Club, Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m; Annual of the Salvation Army Home for Wo- men and Girls, at 2 Embank- ment Road Kowloon, 4.30 pm;: Church Council. St. Andrew's

6 p.m.: Annual, of Hongkong Brock Baseball League, at the Club, 5.30 p.m.; Ladies Church Ald, In Assembly Hall, 6, 6

Andrew's Home, 3 p.m.; St,

Church Brownle Pack; 3.30 p.m.- MISCELLANEOUS.

Y.M.C.A..

Women's Section, Charity. Bew-

16

ID

20

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222

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Day.

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27. Insect

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With JOHN BOLES

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bird of prey

44 45

46

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god

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23. Scottish cap

an Indian

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON

tribe

3. Pour on

gently

28.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939 -PAGE 5

KING'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

"KATHARINE

~CARY

"HEPBURN GRANT

· POSIT URLAN - SEW XELER CURLED SOLETY KOFTAM.

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YOU CAN TAKE YOUR $30,000,000 AND GO TAKE A GOOD FLYING. LEAP FOR YOURSELF!.. E'VE GOT YOUR DAUGHTER

WE'RE YOUNG ... WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR FLING NOW("

Holiday

4 COLUMNA SICTENE

ALSO “SCARY CROWS" (Colour Cartoon)

"TO-MORROW

M.G.M. Picture

· 780 - 6.30

1

NORMA SHEARER TYRONE POWER in

MARIE ANTOINETTE ·

MAJESTIC

THEATREJ

(MATNESS, 20% 20. •REA SIG

TODAY AND TOMORROW ADVENTURES OF JUNIOR G-MEN!!!

"I'D THINK-

I WAS YOU. IF I DIDN'T KNOW YOU

WERE ME!"

And when Penrod (or is it Danny ?) gets natib ed by kidnap- pers.. caff out the Ir. C Meu!

And look out fur double thrills!

PENROD'S

Come Lackhart

Kathiew Lockhart

DOUBLE TROUBLE } /// .......... MAKHLE BROS.

THE Mauch Twins

Vitograph, lec,

"PELLENTEN D

BILLY & BOBBY

● THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY GREATEST THRILL DRAMA SINCE LITTLE CAESAE"' !

EDWARD G.. "THE LAST GANGSTER

ROBINSON in

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#

2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & THURSDAY

65

THE GREATEST EMOTIONAL STORY EVER TOLD!'

The story of a tawdry common woman shows what

happens to love when respect is lacking,

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DAILY

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520

720

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STAR

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THRILL TO THEIR PLEDSE............ THEIR QUEST... THEIR COURAGE!

TO-MORROW

*

Cintury Fox

Four Men

and a Prayer

LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD GREENE

Susictional paw sine-discoyney 1.

GEORGE SANDERS

DAVID NITEN

Pich CAUBREY SMITH

YOU'RE A SWEETHEART

21. Confined

existence

34. Place 36. Buriene "" sprite"". 37. Bize of type, 28. Weird·· 39. Pig pen 40. Armed

combats

41. Reposes 43. Thigh of a

hog

44. Game at

cards

46. Barren

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tract

49.: Rodent

60. Zealous

62. Linguistic

stock of Indo- China

53. Literary

miscellany

54. Farmi

Implements

55. Sense Organ

DOWN

4. Manufac

tured

Fruzen

water

6. Greek letter Different

8. Harvestin 9. "Plant whope.

ract, is used in dyeing 10. Native

compound

11. Convert into leather

16. High in the

scale

18. Is carried 20 - Special

abilities

21; Analyse

grammatically

22. Growing

put

SOLUTION TO-MORBOW

26. Threadke

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26. Abounds,

Downcast

29." Siamese coin

31, 'Stratum

32 Negative 35. Printing

mistakes

37. Matured

gern.cell

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legally 40. Existed 421 Short

distance 43. Possessive

pronoun

44. Pericd

Tin recep- tacle.

46. Moisture on

plants 47-Beam

18. Bizd

51 Depart

Moon, 9.40 am." RELIGIOUS.--St. Andrew's

firmation Clase (Young Women) 5.15 p.m.: Fellowship, and Pray- er Meeting at 8. and & Home. 8 p.m.

SOCIAL. Cheera Club Whist Drive, 8.45 pad.; Craigenzower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9. p.m.

| SPORTS.—(Bee Page 21.

SUNRISE, 1.27 am. BUNSET.-

6.34 p.m.

TO-MORROW

MISCELLANEOUS. Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 10 am | MOON=Chinese TT -Moon, 52nd.

Dey., SUNRISE.-6.28

6.34 p.m.

sm, SUNSET

TIDES.-High at 09.29 and 21.15.

Low at 03.05, and 14,59.||

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