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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Today's

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The Adventures of

Robin Hood

Out, Mara Muus 1 (40)

Cougar Robin Hoovit-

parring

Rogus at Rogu##«««. Hero of Heroes...

Picture of Pictures!

ERROL FLYNN

in be-gasın TECHNICOLOR,

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

BASIL RATHBONE CLAUDE RAINS

PATRIC KNOWLES ← EUGENE PALLETTE ALAN HALE » MELVILLE COOPER IAN, HUNTER UNA O'CONNOR Presented by WARNER, BPOS,

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ALHAMBRA

RATHAN RD, KOWLOON-DAILY AT 2.30+3,20:720 € 9,30 TEL. 56656

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

A TOAST TO LOVE-DEFIANCE- PLEDGED WITH

THE MOST DEADLY GERMS!..

He Won Love With Another Man's Name!

THE CRIME OF

DR. HALLET

with RALPH

BELLAMY

JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE:

COMMENCING TOMORROW

For The First Time in Kowloon !

"A GALAXY OF 10 NEW DISNEY SHORTS IN ONE PROGRAMME” ·

4 SHOWS

DAILY

230515

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TO-MORROW®]

PUBLIC ENENY No. 899 IS NOW IN THE 400! We want you to meet his mob, they'll kill you with laughter as they gang up on Society with tommy guns.

→ YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A FUNNIER PICTURE!

BUN

MON.

"Little Caesar's"

Gangin' Up On Society Now!

Top hat, white the and sompany.

He's dressed to kil!-

Edward 6.

Robir.son A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER

Will Give You A Slight Case

of Hysterics!

Dresante dhe WERKEN AUGA mth JANE BRYAN ALLEN JENKINS RUTH DONNELLY WILLARD PARKER

à Fest Nat'l Plant » Diowded by Hoyd House •, Sean'

May by Karl Bulbule, and Jerryk Siensk • From a Fu.

PL BE DAMON MORTON WAS HOWARD LINDSAY • Mait.

mad Lepotis by pit, K. Jerans and Josh Behati + 'a

JACK HOLT.

"FLIGHT INTO NO WHERE DICK PURCELL

Bensational picture with a thousand thrills.

MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30.-50c.-70c.

KING'S:

Hongkong

Three Blind Mice"

CINEMA & GENERAL

QUEEN'S 1

wwwhe

Adventures of

Robin

Hood"

ORIENTAL:

"A Blight Casa of Murder" CATHAY:

"Radio City Ravels"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

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The Crime of Dr. Hallet”. STAR:

“Hitting A New High" MAJESTIC:

"Battle Of Broadway"

KING'S

Coming

"The Duke Of West Polat"

QUEEN'S:

"Ambush”

ORIENTAL:

"Paris Honeymoon”

CATHAX:

"Joy Of Living"

ALHAMBRA:

"A Galaxy Of Ten New Dis-

STAR:

ney Shorts In One" Fro- gramme"

"The Good Earth"

"Letter Of Introduction"

MAJESTIC:

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" "Call Of The Sun"

IRISH NOVICE LEADS WITH LAUGHTON

CROSSWORD NO. 272

ACROSS

1. 180 SquaIE.

rods.

5. "Public

storehouse.

10 Thick slice.

14

Benefac-

tion.

15. Worker' in

stone,

18. Narrative.

17. Retiring.

19. Unab-

structed

20. Doguia.

21 Abandoned.

23. Watered ap-

pearance.

26. Struck with

roverence,

Bordered.

1

27.

30.

'set to bed-

From sun-

time (poetic).

31. Feign.

34. Bource of

Indigo.

35. Device for removing "

hard seed of fruit.

37. Prepare

38.

sking for gloves.

Meditator. 40. Social -

.sect

41. Steeple. 43. Division of

geologic time,

44. Remove

+

restraint from.

47. Roam.

22123124J

62153

66. Employs.

87. Number of

hills on which. Rome" was buli.

68. Commune in

Italy,

69. Endure.

70. Cornered. 71. Pack.

DOWN

1. Border on.

2. Solid. taper- frig body.

3. Colour of horse.

4. Together.

5. Largest, ex- isting bird.

8. Cap.

7. Apart

8. Johnny-

Care.

9. Mark with Incisiona

10. Garment for neck and shoulders.

48. Ribbed

49.

fabric." Conducted.

50.

Part of woman's

headdress.

Entreaty. Wrapped

$5

dead body. -Annoyer. "

58.

Country of

13. Inclination.

Africa.

Maureen O'Hara, an 18-year-old

the 52. Dublin girl has obtained British Alm plum of the past 54.

year.

This unknown actress is to be leading lady to Charles Laughton. Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams and Robert Newton, with Alfred 62. Hitchcock as director, in Mayflower Pictures "Jamaica Inn," which 63. has just gone into production."

Though her only previous ex- perience is in plays from Radio Athlone and the chorus of the Ballet, Dublin Operatic Society her part is longer than Laugh- ton's.

A year's secret schooling under the personal supervision of producer Erich Pommer and Charles Laughton Les behind the choice.

Her real name is Fitzsimmons. She went to the Abbey School of Acting at 14, and won elocution prises at Irish festivals. She passed examinations at London Guildhall School of Music and Drama at 18: At 17 she won a beauty competi- tion prize of a film test, and walk- ing-on part in a British fun.

Then she returned to Dublin. Erich Portmer saw the film, sent for Maureen and has been training her ever since.

MOST BEAUTIFUL BLONDE

Anita Louise has been voted "the most beautiful blonde "Alm actress" in another far-flung pre- cinct-Finland. according to

The largest continent. Fleeting.

11. Act of ston-

ing.

12. A fish pickle,

18, Portico.

22. Jugs.

24. Belonging to

that thing,

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

Solution No. 271- TSATAN 18 LATE. 1, SATIRETTAMERS AMETISLAM TARA, FATESTATES TA EROBET METCOTE ARCIRE PAPAT

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COPE

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25. Detain.. 37. More

crippled.

28. Pass into

1130.

29. Uses,

wrongly.

30. Coax. 12. Sculpture,

38. Chirping

note.

38. Single per-

son.

.89. Governis.

42. Bringa

about.

15

45. Tidlest.

And not

45.

51. Rots by" ex-

posure

63. Slightest. 54 Entreat,

55. Heavy ham-

50.

mer.

Волев.

57. Invariably.

59. Fit one

within an

other in a series.

60. Within.

61. Ball.

64 Born.

65. Consumma-

tion.

CRYING CONTEST ON SET

A crying contest on a flm set have determined two things: (a) Young actresses

slower sre at turning on the tears and then Veteran can't stop so soon; (b) actresses can cry sooner, produce more tears and stop quicker,

Priscilla Lane and Fay Bainter furnished the "tear statistics" on

CLARK & CAROLE the set of Yes, My Darling

MARRIED

KINGMAN (ARIZONA), Mar. 30 (Reuter)-Clark Gable, who was recently divorced from his wife, Mrs. Rhea. Gable, was married to-day to the film star, Carole Lombard.

Daughter" at Warner Bros.

Neither had to have men- thol blown into theix eyes. They did their crying by thinking mid thoughts.

Miss Lane took one minute; 15 seconds by the script girl's stop- watch before she wept enough to start the tears rolling down her cheels, Then Director William Keighley gave a signal, and the scene started

Laraine Johnson, who has the word received at the Warner teminine lead as Wallace Beery's

Miss Bainter had to start dry- Bros. Studio. It WES Anita's adopted daughter in Metro-Gold-eyed and cry as soon as possible forty-fourth "most

beautiful" wyzi-Mayer's "Sergeant: Haddan,” after the scene had started. It selection on record; this time by aleo has, ambitional anal wallet, took her 52 seconds!" She stopped Finland's National Society of She is working between scenes of weeping Immediately after the

Artists and Sculptors..

a. one-act play

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HERE COMES THE BIG SHOWE

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TADIO

KENNY BAKER - ANN MILLER

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Kwan VICTOR MOORE « MILTON MERLE

IRENE DUNNE

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scene was ofer: While she was ut it teary-streamed from her eyes. Mike Lerle; off the other hand, couldn't stop for nearly five minutes.

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Loretta

THREE BRIGHT-EYED LOVELIES

YOUNG MECREA

THREE BLIND MICE

DAVID HIVEN STUART BRWIN MARJORIE WEANEX - PAULINE MOORE BINNIE BARNES JANE DARWELL Directed by Wilson A. Sener Dury Zack Cong of Pediatr

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THE DUKE OF WEST POINT"

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EVER GLORIFER

... and that's what the fights. are all-about!

BATTLE OF BROADWAY

"Reudy, ristmas and uproariously Junny!"

VICTOR MCLAGLEN

BRIAN DONLEYY "LOUISE HOVICK

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RAYMOND 'MORBURN « ́LYNN RARI JANI DARWELL - ROBERT KYLLARD'

TO-MORROW, SUNDAY, MONDAY THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF THE TRAR Irwing Berlin's

“ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND

TIROKE POWER ALIGE FATH - DOY AMEVÁH

30th Century-Fox Picture

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MOON-Chinese II Moon, Lith

Day... RELIGIOUS St. Andrew's Chrlanch Litany, Prayer and Meditation, 10.30 am: Confirmation Class (Young Men), 6 pm, Full Choir Practice. 8.30pm.

SOCIAL-Whist Drive and Tur

I RE, WO's and Serve Mees, Wellington Barracks, 9:15

MESSTINGS. et. Andrew's Club Medical War Working Party, 10 am; Helen May Religious Fel-EPORTS (86 Pake lowship, 10:30°ETIL.

SUN MISCELLANEOUSLY MCA, WO- 6,38 pm men's Bection Bridge Clam: 10 TIDES,

Low at 09 27

SUNBE

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