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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 230-515-780 & 9:50 TEL 31453

SHOWING

Swell ...

TO-DAY

Together! In the Scream Drania

of the Turf... The Thrill Show of the Benson "l

"ME AND YOU... ARE THROUGHI Who'd Want An Old Tramp Like You.. For & Pop!"

WALLACE

MICKEY

CINEMA & GENERAL

Today's Screenings

KING'S

Hongkong

"Kentucky 'Moonshina"

QUĶEN'S

"Stablemates"

ORIENTAL-

"The Shop Worn Angel”

CATHAY

"Condemned Woman"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Empress Wu Chen Tien"

STAR:

"Wide Open Faces"

BEERY ROONEY MAJESTIC:

•

STABLEMATES

さいだい

NEXT CHANGE

Joan Crawford • Margaret Sullavan

THE SHINING HOUR"

io

4 SHOWS

DAILY

230-5.15

7.15-9.30

TAKE ANY TRAN ON HAPPY VALLEY PUB

Melvyn Douglas

ORIENTAL

"

"Mademoiselle Dostsur”

KING'S:

Coming

"Trade Winds"

QUEEN'S:

"The Shining Hour" ORIENTAL:

"Say It In French"

CROSSWORD NO. 282

ACROSS Carpenter's tools

5 Sooner than

8 Persian poet

12 Medley

13 Obtained

14 Quote

15 Famous

American Admiral: David Glasgow-?

2

2427282′′

30 31

$2

234

33

35

17 What town

in the Italian Plectmont is

36

37 33)

34 140

HI

noted for Its wines?

128

149.

.

St

152

53

SH

21 French city 23. Scottish cap 26 Aquatic

marmal

Arabia

183.Member of

the Caucasic race

19, race

3 Cut off thin

slicea

32 Poplars 33 Connected series

*34 Cause

» aversion

35 Digers

"The Adventures of Marco 36 Man's name

53 Stock

54. Snake

55 Retreat

18 DOWN

seat

1 Upholstered

2 Wingen

3 Sinewy

4 North

American rak!”

S* Urge, on

6 Russian coin

American.

Polo"

FLEMING ROAD

ALHAMBRA:

37 Native of one

of the States

7

To intend

(cial)

"Son Of Frankenstein” ·

39 What is the

8 South

TEL. 28473

CATHAY::

"Vivacious Lady"

capital of Tibet?

"Rebecca

Farm"

STAR:

"Naughty Marietta”

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

ON THE SCREEN

A COMEDY ROMANCE WITH LAUGHTER AND THRILLS:

See this girl with a hard-boiled past who married a naive "

soldier boy on the eve of his departure.

Margaret

Games

SULLAVAN STEWART Shopworn

Angel

THE

WALTER PIDGEON

ON THE STAGE

THE MAN OF ARGUS THE TALK OF

THE HOUR...

THE TOWN

THE WORLD'S MOST SENSATIONAL MYSTERY MAN

DOCTORS, LAWYERS,

PROFESSORS

all dumbfounded by his amazing gift of second sight.

WHILE BLINDFOLDED * he will describe any article and answer written questions.

THINK OF A MUSICAL SELECTION

he will play it on the piano.

YOU CAN'T PUZZLE HIM knows all, sees all, tell all, a man with a thousand eyes.

- DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS MARVELLOUS

SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION!

SHOWING ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

LOVE GOES ON AN INTERNATIONAL JOY-SPREE:··

IT IN

A Partment Pietere with

French RAY MILLAND

HELD OVER FOR

TWO MOLE DAYS

OLYMPE BRADNA

ARGUS THE SENSATION OF

HONG KONG

• MATINEES: 20z.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c.-70c. @

HANKOW

ISTARE

720

TODAY ONLY VÁ-ÚA BAGA UY CUBANK IDEAJ MEILLAS I

JOE E.

BROWN Wide Open Faces

TO

MORROW

KOWLOON

57.795

NAUGHTY MARIETTA

"Lord Jeft"

MAJESTIC:

ΟΙ Sunnybrook 41 What Italian

in English employ gave the name of Labrador's Land to what

"Racket Busters"

3 M.G.M, FILMS GET

BOX OFFICE FAME

" is now

Greenland?

46 "S-shaped

moulding..

48 Short wollen

fabric or shaw!

50 Ox of Celebes

51 New Zealand

parrot

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, |Hongkong office, has just received

word from their home-ice that 52 Seaport of

of the seven box office champions

for the month of January in the

United States, three of them were

| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures.

The three productions were "Sweet-

wood sorrels

9 Qucte

Incorrectly

10 Siamese coin 11 Portuguese

coln

16 What is the

Greek name for the

territory of Asia Minor forming the western part of the Turkish Republle?

20 Act of giving

out

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

22 Thing: in fi”.

24 Declare

25 Muddle

26 Crumbly clay

deposit

27 On the

* sheltered side

28 What French

emperor was born in Corsica?

29 Japanese

31

rice paste Concealed

33 Minerai

spring

35 Pieces at

meadow

38 What is the

chief commercial centre of Japan?

40 Chlef

42 Island group

in Ireland

43 Tolerate 44. Prits

45 Canvas

shelter

46 Idiot

47 African

... antelope

49. Matus

Solution No. 281 MESA STRIP PALL

hearts. "Dramatic School and DIARY OF LOCAL OVERSPRICETARIA

"Out West With The Hardy's,” the latter production starring Mickey Rooney currently playing in "Stablemates"

JOAN CRAWFORD GETS HER DIVORCE

LOS ANGELES, April 12 (Reuter)—Joan Crawford," the film star, who sought "a dis- solution of her marriage with Franchot Tone, was granted a divorce yesterday.

On the last date of hearing of the sult, Joan was not pre- sent in Court and the sult, was therefore rebeard yesterday.

£3,400 AWARD TO

FILM STAR

Elizabeth Allan Wins

Miss Elizabeth Allan, the film actress, in a court room crowd- ed with theatrical and legal 'celebrities, was awarded £3,400 damages against Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer British Studios, Limited, in her action for alleged breach of contract

She claimed

" that she was engaged to play the part of Christine in "The Citadel," WEJ. announced as having been engaged, and then, in breach of contract, the producers refused to engage her and chose somebody else.

The jury agreed that Miss Allan was entitled to £1,800 for loss of salary and £1,500 for loss of opportunity enhancing her reputation.

Of

Miss Allan was also given 100 ¡ in connection with the announce- ment that she was to appear as Christine,

Mr. Justice Singleton, in hia sum- ming-up, said that if the Jury found there was a contract, it was ' not disputed by the defendants that if had been broken.

"The real question is not, as between a Corporation, with or without body or soul, on the one. hand, and between Miss Allan, with her charm,, on the other,” he continued, "It is whether you believe Mr. O'Bryen (Mias Allan's husband) or Mr. Goetz‹ (head of the producing company) as to whether, a contract was made for Miss -Allan to play the part of Christine.

EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS.

-St. Hermenegild. CINEMAS (See Column 3 of this

Page)./ ENTERTAINMENTS.

YM.C.A. Amateur Dramatic Club's Pro- duction, "London Wall" 9.15 p.m.

LENSTLABEL WELD

ENDEMICTILUNATE NECTARINE111 DEBASE SECRETES EVILS WHALETALA

LOTTERADEE¶ION EKE NESTS LUNGE DEROGATE LINTER

111RESENTING111 ALTARS11INGRAFT COINTELANDIALOE

RANG ROUGETISLE EDGE TOKENINODS

Hotel

Chess Club, Peninsula 5.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS,' Y. M. C.A. Women's Section Mahjong for Beginners, 10 ̈a.m.

Day"

LECTURES.—“Running Repairs," at. Volunteer Hars, 11 am, ARP at Public Restaurant, Jockey Club, Happy Valley, 5.15 p.m.; First Aid for men (In Chi- nese), at Ambulance Hora, 7.50 p.m. at Queen Mary Hospital (In English), 6 p.m.; Ногде Nursing at Kowloon Hospitar MOON-Chinese Moon, 24th. Out-patients' Dept., 6 pm;! Theosophical Society, 6 pm. SOCIAL-St. Andrew's Club Whist Drive. 9 p.m.; Gheero Club Bridge evening; Public Works Recreation Club Tombals. Causeway Bay 3 pm: RA Dodwell's Offices, HK, & Shal, OB. (GLEY Club Whist Drive Bank Aldg., 11' am.; Bt. An-

Fellowship, 35 p.m.; Women's Bible Study Circle on "The Book of Reve-

MAILS. (See Page 18)

MEETINGS--Annual, of.. Balon Waterboat Co., Ltd., at Messrs.

drew's Women's

and Tombola, Queen's Bldg., Ice House Street, 830 p.m. SPORTS.-,(Sec Page 2).

lation," HK. Evangelical Fra- SUNRISE 6.07 m. SUNBET.

6.42 pm. ternity, 216, Nathan Road, 10,30; am: Victoria Chess Club, GIDU-] TIDES.-High at `1427.' Low cester Hotel, 57 pm; Kowloon 22.68.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

CATHAY

"Dally at 230, 5.15. 720 & 9.30 DH WANCHA ROAD, WANCHAI. TEL 26558

-TO-DAY, ONLY LAST 4 SHOWS!

●

A HEARTCRY FROM THE DEPTH OF A WORLD OF FOR :GOTTEN SOUL (ZA SENSATIONAL DRAMA, THAT DABES TO REVEAL THE INSIDE SECRETS OF A PRISON FOR WOMEN I

GIRLS

IN JAIL BREAK!

CONDEMNED

WOMEN

TO MUEHOW

SATURDAY VIVACIOUS LADY

ber

SUNDAY REBECCA

| Story

i play by Lom

GINGER ROGERS

SMATINEES: 20c 306.10. EVENINGS: 20e. -30% -50r. 70c-50c

at

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1989. -PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY AT LYN BIL

DONT LET THE WHISKERS FOOL YOU NE

NEXT CHANGE UNITED ARTISTS

Ritz Brothers

"nit-wittier than ever done

KENTUCKY MOONSHINE

A 20th Century Fox laugh-musical

TONY SEE MARJORIE

MARTIN WEAVER

SLIM SUMMERVILLE

JOHN CARRADINE WALLY VERNON BERTON, CHURCHILL · EDDIE COLLINS

ALSO ADVENTURE OF (1 CAMERA THRILLS

"MOTOR MANIACS"

FREDRIC MARCH ̈·

JOAN BENNETT - in

TRADE WINDS"

ALHAMBRA

JAN ED, MOURDORE

TODAY AND TOMORROW

THE DRAMATIC AND. THRILLING TALE ONLY. "WOMAN RULER !

OF CHINA'S

EMPRESS

VIOLET KOO

(Star of SABLE CICADA) in the Spectacular

Historical Romance

WUCHEHTIEN

Thousands in the Cast! With English Subtitles.

SATURDAY

New Universal Picture

710-1.30

Basil Rathbons Boris Karloff

Bola Lagost

in "SON OF FRANKENSTEIN"

MAJESTIC

THEATRET

MATINEES. 20133. • VE

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

THE THRILLING LIFE-STORY OF THE FAMOUS

„WOMAN-SFY !

DITA PARLO LODER

VON STROHE

MADLOISELLE DOCTEUR

CLAIRE LUCE

TOMORROW AND SATURDAY AGRIPPING GANGSTER DRAMA FULL OF THHILLS,

«HUMPHREY BOGART

GEORGE BRENT in

RACKET BUSTERS

Warner Bros. Thriller

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