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QUEEN'S

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SHOWING TO-DAY

A REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT AND BRIGHT ROMANTIC COMEDY |

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Three Blind Mice"

QUEEN'S

CINEMA & GENERAL

"The adventure. of Robin

Hood"

ORIENTAL:

יני

CROSSWORD

NO. 273

ACROSS

1. Bitter vetch.

4. What island

in the Gulf of

་

"Radio City. Revels”

Kowloon

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MT

54

15050

Bothnia was awarded to

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20

Finland in 1021

21 22

123 124

26 27

by the Council

"A Slight Case of Murder" CATHAY:

of the League

20

130

of Nationa?

9. What is the

52

33

missing pari

53

56

of the name of

the popular

30

39

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40

screen star:—

ALHAMBRA :

42

143

24.

Francis?

"A" Galaxy Of Ten New Dis-

12

Tear

7

"

ney Shorts In One Pro- gramme”

13.

What active

volcano is in

5%

STAR!

Martinique?

"The Good Earth”

14.

Poem

MAJESTIC:

15

Present day

42 Finds the

"Alexander's Ragtime Band"

world figure

SUTTI

17.

Quarrel

44. Steal from

18

Rowing im-

plement

45. In what man-

her

KING'S:

19 Mother of

47.

"The Duke Of West Point”

"Helen of Troy

52. The kava

21

English

QUEEN'S:

53. Opponent

writer on

54.

**Ambush**

French Revo-

Month of the year

ORIENTAL:

lution

55.

PLEMING ROAD

Chatter

"Flight Into Nowhere"

23. Leases

11

CATHAY:

28. Help

58 Chip of

stone

TEL 28473

CAR BENNETT...

Service de Luxe

VINCENT PRICE

Charlie RUGGLES· Helen BRODERICK

Mischa AUER Joy HODGES

2. A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

A ROWLAND V. LXZ Production ..

NEXT CHANGE

"EMPRESS WU CHER TIEN

A Chinese Historical Drama with English Subtitles

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-930

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

CLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®

."

A GANGSTER GOES HIGH-HAT

WITH BULLET PROOF VEST, AND TOMMY GUN!

You'll scream with laughter when some wise guy plants four stiffe in his bed room and his daughter goes goofy over a young and handsome cop,

Edw. G. Robinson

I WARKER BROS."

A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER

JANE BRYAN - ALLEN JENKINS

RUTH DONNELLY - WILLARD PARKER,

He's Puttin' On His Top-Hat

.White Tie...and

Tommy-Gun!

A Bint Mat Piskore » Directed by LLOYD BACON ‹terson play by Karl Baldvin & sorogh Bhrank »

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JUNGLE ADVENTURE WITH A 1000 THRILLING MOMENTS!

Flight

FLYING THRILLS!

JUNGLE TERRORS!

JACK HOLT

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Paul

Luise

MUNIRAINER

THE

GOOD EARTH

with WALTER

CONNOLLY Tilly Losch

Charley Grapewin!

Jessie Ralph

Based on the Naval

by Paul S. Busk Adapted for the secr

by Ouren Dania m

· Donal Devis « Bireded

by Sidney Frankdia

A Matro-Goldwyn-

* Meyer Picture

10-MORROW : "LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS,

-April Fools' Day, St. Hugh, Bishop.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"

Equine Sports Club : “Bums” (Trampa) Party, at Clubhouse, Shatin, B

D.M.

CINEMAS.--(See Column 3 of this|MAILS.—(See Page 16),

Page). DANCES.-Kowloon Cricket Club Dance, 930 p.m. Hongkong Chinese Women's Boldiers, Re- Het Assen. Charity Ball #t Hongkong Hotel, YMCA Hoc

Coming

"Joy Of Living"

"Snow White And. The Seven

Dwarfs"

ALHAMBRA:

"Trail Dust"

29. Panegyrical

31.

funeral ora - tion

Pronoun

32. "Price of

་་

fered

STAR:

33. Abandon

"Letter Of Introduction": MAJESTIC:

34. Negrito

35

"Call Of The Sun"

to

PILLOW HITS

ד'

DEANNA

Seven dollara worth of goose feathers recently Interrupted production of Universal's “Three Smart Girls Grow Up." and provided Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey and Helen Farrish with an hour's recess from Work and caused much mixed pro- fanity on the studio's Stage 7. where the picture is in production under Henry Koster's direction.

35

Supposed hypnotic force

38. What

French general captured Paris in 1849: Prince de-?

37. Scheme 38. Cut for in-

sertion into a mortise

40. Nare of

country

Make clear

57. Grow nic

DOWN

1. Make a rais-

take

2 City in

Brazil

3. Tracked

4 Mimicry

5 Bulgarian

coin

6. Beverage

8

7. Feminin

name Cleanse

9. What is the

sacred scrip- tures of the Mohamme- dans?

10. Fuss

11. European

evergreen

SOLUTION ON MONDAY

Did You Know

That..?

A teen age doll has been de- signed in the likeness of Deanna Durbin!

The interruption and recess came during scenie wherein Nan Grey and Helen Parrish hurl pillows at Deanna she sings "Here Comes The Bride" to embarrass Nan, who has just „announced she is in love. When it struck Deanna, one of the pillows burst, filling the set with a veri- alm, "Rio"!- table blizzard of fine feathers.

and stopping the scene.

*

•

Anatole Litak will direct Danielle Darrieux in her next American

Frances Robinson Was brides-

་

are

SQ

Bob Lozalo, property man, and | maid at the wedding of Ida Lupino Wally Kirkpatrick, his assistant, and Loul, Hayward!. tried to sweep the feathers from the floor, but they flew in every direction. Henry Koster seeing that it woud be na small task to rid the set of feathers, declared a production recess.

Lozalo and Kirkpatrick Anally employed a powerful wind ma- chine to blow the feathers from the set. Picture making was then resumed but with pillows which were examined thoroughly to guard against any more defective seams,

He Knows His Shakespeare

Ralph Bellamy is probably the best versed actor in Hollywood

Best versed, here, is used in its original sense, meaning an actor well schooled in Shakespearean blank verse. He started memo- rising complete plays of the Bard while still in high school; and his earliest stage experience was with a Shakespearean com- pany.

When the latter visited his na-

then tive Chicago, Bellamy,

joined

and later toured

country.

17, the

This popular actor's latest Co- lumbla pleture la "Smashing the 8py Ring." "He is co-featured with Fay Wray and enacts, the role of an undercover federal agent assigned to smash an inter- national spy ring.

SOCIAL-Oxford and Cambridge Bociety Dinner, at Hongkong. Hotel, 8.30 pm; Farewell Cock- tall Party to „ Captain' T.-M. Johnstone, on board the Anshun, MISCELLANEOUS,'!! Photogra-

5.30 p.m.; Cratgengower Cricket phic Exhibition, Jacobean Room,

Club Whist Drive and Tom- Hongkong, Hotel,

bola, 9.13 p.m. MOON-Chinese II Moon, 12th SPORTS-Bee Page 2).—-~~

Day.

SUNRISE-6.18 a.m. BUNSET,

8.38 p.m. Cathedral Cathedral, | TIDES.-High at 07.12. and ~1834;

Low at 0034 and 11,42.

key Club Cabaret Supper Dance, RELIGIOUS-Lenten Mission at

Catholic & D.px.

Peninsula Hotel Rose Room, 9 p.m.

Dorothea Hent's hands small she buys her gloves in the children's department!

"Three Smart Giris Grow Up". will feature Charles Winninger

Deanna Durbin's father!

•

as

Jackle Cooper and the Tittie Tough Guys are now before the camera in "Newsboys' Home!"

•

+

•

•

16. Condiment

20 River in England

A1. What Itulion

in English

employ

**

34

reached NoELI

America in 14972

22. Continue

23. Thin

24. Cut off the

final "syllable

28. Primeval delty

27. Remain. 30. Baking

structore 33. Marvels .34. State of

U.S.A

36. Food fish

37. Drudge..

39. Rich retired

Anglo-Indian

41... Gridiron 43. Slide 45. Ugly'old

Woman 46... Eggs 48. Grape-like

'frimt

49. Wolframite 50. Label 51. Sense organ

Solution No. 272 ACRE ETAPES LAB BOONIMASONITALE UNASSUMINGTOPEN TENETTDERELICT 11 MO1RETA WED 11 LIMBA TELEVE ACT ANILSTONERITAW

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GREAT ROMANCE

... “Alexander's Ragtime Band" is Igreater than they said it, was,

Periodically Hollywood produces a picture that stands out as « beacon along the highroad of motion picture progress—and such" a picture is Darryl F. Zanuck's production of Irving Berlin's great saga of three decades. In the mach of America,

Add" story to cast and direction Edgar Bergen considers Charlie and the 20th Century Fox" film at McCarthy as just his business, the Majestic Theatre amounts to that a movie camera is his hobbyfja pleture that for years to come will be remembered as a turning It takes four hours to apply point a new trend, the utiliza- Boris Karloff's make-up for his tion of memorable melodies in a role of the monster in "Son of dramatic story of the screen's Frankenstein!

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Loretta

THREE BRIGHT, EYED LOVELIES

Joet

YOUNG MECREA

THREE BLIND MICE

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SHOWING TODAY

For The First Time In Kowloon 1

A "GALAXY OF TEN NEW DISNEY SHORTS

100 MINUTES OF GLORIOUS ENTERTAINMENT

Sunny& FEATURES

Walt

1939

RELEASES

COLF

TECHNICOLOR

MAJESTIC:

HITHEATITU

MAINEES, 20 - DI

TO-DAY, TO-MORROW MONDAY

THE GREÅTEST - MUSICAL OF THE TEARSHI

Greater

THAN THE PRAISE

THAT HAS ACCLAIMED IT

Irving

Berlin's

ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND

An American Cavalcade

ATYRONE ALICE

DON

POWER FAYE AMECHE

ETHEL MERMAN - JACK HALEY JEAN MENSHOLT KELEN WERTLEY, JOHN DAKRAQIBE - FAJL-HIRATION WALLY VEHHAN." KOTA TERRY". (BOISLAS FOWLEY "- ERNIE COLLINS'EMEK SHANDLES: Dached by Hoary King

Dawry) 8. Zaveske 'in Durys of Prudenten

A 20th Century-fox Fidura.

TUESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY!

The Body Beautiful" Cult in the Sunny France CALL OF THE SUN

Camera Around Nudist Ban

With

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