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United Artists Release #

ARKANSAS TRAVELLER" with Bob Burns

Fay Bainter

It's a strange coincidence, but For a scene in "Lucky Night at the letter "predominates in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Robert 'Metro-foldwyn-Mayer's "Calling Taylor plays a paint salesman.. His Dr. Kudare." That letter is not efforts in convincing a customer. only in the title but in the name that she should paint the interior of Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, of her house a vivid green to con- Lana Turner, Laraine Day and form with the outside lawn and Lynne Carver, who head the cast: trees does not meet with Director “Loq Ostaaw, producer; Lam, White, Norman Taurbg's approval. “Now esmeraman: Al Love, his assistant, let me show you how to sell paint," Louls Gures, head electrician: Lew Taurog suggests, you should tell Gæsley, prderly man and Dr. me how to sell paint?” Taylor in- Gilbert Lee, technical adviser, ¿caruple. That's how I paid my Everybody - hopes it stands for way through Pomona College selling paint during the summer.”

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Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Salling Along" QUEEN'S

"The Sulolag Hour” ORIENTAL:

"My BUI"

CATHAY:

"Nan-Stop New York”

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Son Of Frankenstein"

STAR:

"The Squeaker"

MAJESTIC:

"Alexander's Ragtime Band"

KING'S:

Coming

"When Were You Born?".

QUEEN'S!

"St. Louis Blues". "Cafe Society" ORIENTAL:

"Nothing Sacred" ALHAMBRA:

St. Louis Blues" "Café Society"

CATHAY!

"Parnell"

STAR:

"Arkansas Traveller” "Say It In French" MAJESTIC:

"Josette" "Holiday"

CINEMA & GENERAL

OPERA SINGER'S LAMENT:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1939 -PAGE 5

OFFERED £200 IN US. KING'S

Beniamino Gigt, well known opera singer and, the best of the great Ml-md-mi-hicans, arrived in "London from the United States recently with a lament. In the Metropolitan Opera: House, New York, the place which for 30 years has paid higher feez than any other opera house in the world, where Caruso's figure was normally £1,000, he, Gigli, has been asked to accept

£200.

"What on earth is the good of £200 to me?" he asked.

cepted it because it was, obvious- ly, all that the management could afford. But when I deplored the conditions which made me accept this

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ttle fee and said something | ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS, şad about the city in which once St. Crescentius; Primrose Day. singers had

nourished, my re- AUCTIONS-Valuable Curios, at marks were resented."

34 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30 D.MIL

He threw up his beautifully manicured hands. "Surely opera CINEMAS-Ser Column 3 of this must be languishing in America

Page).

if I am asked to accept Sees of DANCES-Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 that size? It is not a question of opinion, but of fact."

"BELIEVE ME......" Though his English is somewhat Italian, his meaning was crystal clear.

"If I were young singer, 1 might be prepared to sing in great opera house for nothing. Hollywood might offer me a con- tract, belleving me to be great because I had sung there. But to me. Gigli, to-day, what can the Metropolitan Opera House do for me except pay 'me?

"Today anyone with ane. lusty young voice will be hired by the Metropolitan. When first went there it was different.

It needed spinething than a fine voice to enable one to reach the footlights when Caruso occupied the stage and Scotti and

FEATURED ROLE Melba were about.

FOR ENGLISH ACTRESS

more

"Besides, with nothing of pres- tige to gain by singing there, I can nowadays make as much by singing at home in Italy without incurring the expenses of travel- Virginia Field, young English ling all that distance and stay- actress, has been assigned a fea-ing in expensive hotels, What I tured role in "Malden Voyage," said was not unkind, it was true." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production in which Annabella and Robert Young play the leading roles.

Miss Field; who made her name in "Lloyd's of London," is also ap- pearing in Hal Roseh's "Captain Fury, and therefore will double between the two pictures until the former assignment is completed. '

In "Malden Voyage" she joins a featured cast which also includes Walter Connolly, Billie Burke, and Reginald Owen. William Thiele is directing from an orginal story by Gottfried Reinhardt ånd Virginia Faulkner. Edgar Selwyn is the pro- Cucer.

Solution No 287 ACROSS; 1, Marriage, 5, Loam. 8, Loltered. 9, Spin. 11, Asps. 13. Upset. 16. Rent 18, Calico, 20, Oyster. 21, Open. 23, Blank. 24, Neat. 28, Ague. 29, Pinafore. 30, Deed. 31, Inverted.

DOWN: 1. Melt. 2. Rein. 3, Ideas,

4. Grease, 6, Opposite. 7, Monsters. 10, Duty. 12. Prop. 14, Scabbard. 15, Pleasure. 17, None. 19, Coke, 22, Ens gr. 25, Adage. 28, Boat. 27, Mend.

Listeners' First Choice: Variety

Variety performances on the wireless are first choice of 24,-" 000,000 listeners, the B. B. C. has found out

ke

About 13,500,000 people talis, 17,000,000 switch off if any- thing but light opera 1 on the alr.

Discoverer of these facts is the B.B.C.'s Listener Research. "Unit Their returns are based on votes from a representative cross-section of listeners who were shown a list of 21 programmes/sta

HOW THEY VOTED This is the order in which they voted:

1. Variety 2, Theatre and Cinema Organs; 3, Military Bands: 4. Musical Comedies; 5, Dance Music and Plays; 7, Light Music: 8. Orchestral Music and Brass Banda: 10, Talks: 11, Discussions; 12. Running Commentaries on Cricket; 13, Serial Plays; 14, Light Opera and Operettas; 15, Recitals-- Singers: 16, Running Commen- taries on Tennis: 17, Flano Recitals and Grand Opera; 18, Violin Recitals; 20, Serial Readings; and 21, Chamber Music, e

Other facts disclosed are: Three out of four families have

Fadio sets:

More apte are switched on between

8 and 9 o'clock in the evenings than at any other time: REMO Sets are switched or at or before

10.30 pm, between Monday and Friday; at 11 on Saturdays, before 10.30 on Fridaya Four out of ave of those at home enjoy the Child's Hour, par larly if they are over 20.

*:

p.10.

LECTURES-First Ald in Chinese,

for women, at Ambulance. Hara 1.30 pm; AR.P., at 'Shaukiwan Dispensary, in Chinese, 6 pm: Modified Course, at Wah Yan College, Robinson Road. 6.30 p.m.; Home Nursing in English. at Queen Mary Hospital, 10

Chinese a.m.; in

at Kowloon

MAILS.(See Page 18)

Hospital, 6 p.m. MEETINGS House Committee, at

8. & 8. 5.30 p.m.; Kawicon Unter Church Women's Gulid. 10 am: Kowloon Union Church

Com- mittee "of Management, 4.15 p.m. H.K. Peace Pledge Union. Challenge Bookshop, Ice House Street, 5.30 p.m.; Speaker: Rev. D. Rosenthall; H. K. Bunday School Assen, at Kowloon Union Church or Hall, 5.45 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.

Claims against the Estate of Wong Ka- mul, otherwise Wong Car-mov. due: Cathedral Women's Fellow- ship Working Party Cathedral MOON-Chinese II Moon. 30th.

Hall, 10 am.

Day

SOCIAL-Kowloon Union Church Bridge and Mahjong Drive, 3 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola, in Garrison Bergeants' Mass. 9 p.m.

a.m SUNSET.

Freddle Bartholomew is a con- stant visitor on the set of "Tarzan 3PORTS.-(See Page 2), In Exile" at the Metro-Goldwyn- SUNRISE,—6.02 Mayer studios, so as to get swim- ming advice from Johnny Weiss-TIDES High at 08.30 and 20.57. muller,

Low at 02.19 and 14.49.

6.44 p.m.

CROSSWORD

NO. 287

ACROSS

1 Wedlock

(8)

5 Son (4)

8 Lagged

behind (8)

9 Rotate (4)

11

Snakes (4) 13 Split (5)

16 Torn apart

(4)

13 Fabric (6)

20 Bivalve (6)

21. Exposed (4)

21 Unmarked

(5)

24 Trim (4) 22 Fever (4) 29 Dress

covering (8) 30 Perform-

ance (4) 31. Turned

over (8)

DOWN

1 Dissolve

(4)

2 Restrainier

(4)

1/3

14

177

W20

128

30

3 Notions (5)

4 Lubricant

(6)

6 Contran

wise (8) 7.Ugly

prodigies (8)

10. Obligation

(4)

12. Support (40

124

· SOLUTION TO-MORROW

14 Sword

sheath (8) 15 Enjoyment

(8)

17 Not any (4) 19 Fuel (4)

22 Flag((6)

25 Maxim (5)

23 Vessel, (4)·

27 Repair (4)

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