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Luiss RAINER Fernand GRAVET Milita KORJUS

Solution No 288

CINEMA & GENERAL

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"When Were You Born?" QUEEN'S

"St Louis Blues"

ORIENTAL

"Nothing Sacred"

CATHAY:

"Parnell'

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"St. Louis Blues" · STAR:

"Arkansas Traveller"

MAJESTIC:

"Josette"

Coming

KING'S:

"The Sisters"

QUEEN'S:

"Cafe Society" -

ORIENTAL:"

"Men Are Such Fools"

"Night Club Scandal"

ALHAMBRA:

"Cafe Society? » CATHAY

"The Great Waltz".

STAR:

"Say It In French" "Three Loves Has Nancy** MAJESTIC:

"Holiday" "My Bib

S'HAI CONEY

IS. FOUND ON ROOF GARDEN

Deanna Durbin Is "Just

A Little Bit In Love"

·DEANNA DURBIN IS IN LOVE-"JUST A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE WITH MY FIRST BOY FRIEND," SHE SAYS But Deanna is laughing, too. Laughing at reports that she is planning to elope....

Deanna, seventeen-year-old itar of several outstanding alms, made. this statement after it had been reported trop Hollywood that she Trending to elope with assistant twenty-three-year-old

was

film director, Vaughn Paul.

wedding rumours,

"He is really very nice. If 1 WAS thinfldg öt mattldre, I think I would say 'Yes' IF he asked me. But even then, he " is only the first boy, friend my parents krb fet me go with," she said.

out

he has

"In fact," she added, "I have

Til never forget the first time firmly made up my mind to stay I saw him. He walked on to the single until I am at least twenty-set of the studio.one day seven one. I am just wild about these months ago. Someone introduced

him to me. Since then "Why, Vaughn is the first boy-assisted in directing my last three friend I have ever been out with alms. and I have" known him only seven months. Is it likely that I should marry him? He hasn't even asked me yet."

4.

SHE'D SAY "YES" IF But Bollywood thinks that it is likely, that Deanna, the childhood star who still goes to school" and receives proposals of marriage in every other letter of her fan mail, is just waiting until she is eighteen When, under Californian law, she will be free to decide for herself on marriage.

A NEW WESTERN

DRAMA

"Texas Stampedé," a new wes- "tern drama starring Charles Star- as the rett, with Iris Meredith femtatne lead and featuring those popular musical cowboys, "The Sons of the Ploneers," was recent- ly completed.

"I Uka him being near me when am acting.. and it's just lovely to go out with him. We've been to lots of dances together, but that's all."

"TYE KISSED HIM

And then Deanna, who has not yet been allowed to give and receive her first screen kiss, added. In a confidential

Want tone, "But if you secret. I've kissed him,"

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

In the cast are, Lee Prather, Bob Nolan, Kohler Jr.. Hank Bell, Ra-AUCTIONS.-CTOWE phael Bennett, Blackjack Ward, Eddle Cobb, Ed Hearn, Frank Aus- children tin. Ed Coxen and Dick Botiller. under the surveillance of excited Sam Nelson directed.

ladles sedate amahs,

Carefully wrapped

modestly

with

walking

1 their husbands

| ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS.

St. Anselm, Archbishop of Can-. terbury.

Princess Elizabeth born, 1926. Corn Rain (Ku- yli).

**..Lands,

at District Office South. Queen's Elds 2nd. floor, 11 a.m.; House- hold Furniture, 2 Connaught Road Central, 2.30 p.m. CINEMAS-(See Column 3 of this

Page).

Dress ELS a most DANCES. Grand Fancy represented

Charity Ball ..at Hongkong other ladies not so sedáte who unusual speciman about seven feet a head the size of an

Hotel Grill Room, 9 p.m. seem to be bound for no place in tall with

ENTERTAINMENTS. particular, urchins "whose Doses orange turns out to be a pitiful appear to have been neglectedIttle man from Shansi about four ever since winter began, rich men feet in height with a head not and coolles, all rubbing shoulders much larger than a man's fist.

Equipped with a wand he follows in a way that the most "sincere

clients about concession's démocrat would condone in theory the but shrink, from in practice--young mutely pointing out first one ex- and, old, good and bad, all losing hibit and then another, As one themselves for a time in a noisy leaves, a tiny claw-like hand is for the inevitable unreal world where the coolie's extended

towards the old style theatres. iman.

These throngs of Chinese wno nightly crowd the Nanking Road

eyes can see just as much as the cumshaw which the midget, jerk- ing his head in acknowledgment, millionaire's

quickly thrusts into a pocket.

turtles travel Two headed roof garden amusement resort give leisurely back and forth across ample evidence that Shanghai's their aquaria with the added aid population's still able to find the of four eyes and two noses in a coppers necessary for an evening's manner which leaves no doubt as

to their authenticity. entertainment.

A forlorn looking duck surveys Eleven cents,

cent one, collected from the price of each its audience with a self-conscious ticket for the refugees, will admit gaze and sadly rucles, the dirty covering, a peculiarly you to this varied collection of feathers

Annual Cinema Gala, in aid of Boys' & Girls' Club Assen., King's Thea tre, 9.30 p.m. LECTURES-AR.P. at Ambulance Hars, in English, 5.45 p.m.; in Chinese, 7.30 p.m. at Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 7. p.m.: First Aid Treatment for "Gasa-" ed Casualties, Ambulance Hqrs.. 5.30 p.m.; A.R.P. at Maryknoll Convent School. 4 p.m.; at Dio- cesan Junior Girls' School, # p.m.; USR. Club. Kowloon, 11 a.m.; Lusitano Club, 5.30 p.m.; La Balle College, 6 p.m.; Modi- fied Full Course, at Volunteer Hqrs., 11 am." First Aid in Chi- nese, at Queen Mary Hospital, 6 p.m.; Home Nursing in Chi- nese, at Ambulance Hqrs, 7.30

p

MEETINGS.-Helena May Chris- tian Fellowship. 10.30, a.m.; St. Medical War Andrew's Club Working Party, 10 am.

Wo- MISCELLANEOUS.—YMCA

men's Section "Keep Fit" Class, 10.30 am

spellbinders, professional and shaped posterior which is supplied MAILS-(See Page 161 otherwise. An extra charge of one with an extra pair of legs. These copper is also required if you oddities. and one small crocodile, choose to use a lift, the only alter- brazenly normal in structure, com- native being a series of crowded plete the collection contained in

the of

Garden's most stairways to the sixth floor where one

pretentious concessions. the resort is located.

There is something for everyone "FREAK SHOWS For five coppers one is permitted in such a Chinese Coney Island. to see various freaks just as and, ilke Coney Islands the world

in grossly exaggerated

the over, it's the people who pay to paintings put up outside the enter and not the people who are enclosure as they would be at any paid to stay that make a visit homeside carnival. The pin headed worthwhile.

CROSSWORD

NO.

ACROSS

3 Cricket

position (5)

8. Mineral (5)

* Scrapbook

(5)

10 Reason (5).

11

Gourmand

(7)

13 Instruct

(5)

14 Glass (4)

16 Zephyrs

· (7)

19 Cricket

extras (4)

21 Slight (4)

22 Pardon (7) 24 Abiye (4) 28 Crushed.

cereal (5)

28 Excuse (7). 23 Indian retired ACROSE: 1, Escaped. 5, Catch, 8.1 coin (5) recreation hall for

Metro-Goldwyn-Scarlet. 9, Nicer. 10, Art 12, Stress. 39 Charred wrestlers. The

remains. (5) Mayer actor announced that he has 15. Ermine. 18, Whence. 17, Tire,

made definite plans to do some-18, Asics. 20, Second. 22, Maiden, 31 Fruit (5), thing for the profession that arst 23, Reduce, 26, Led. 23, Exile. 29. 32 Tale (5) made him famous. "The place won't Entrust. 30, Tight. 31, Parsley.

be very large," explained the for-

DOWN: 1, Eases. 2, Chair. 3, 4. Data. 6. Tactics. 7, Polish mer wrestling champion, "just Harness. 11, Rector 13, Ewe. 14. cozy." "I am enlarging my garage Serene. 17, Tempest. 18, Raising be that it will accommodate thirty- 19, Add. 20, Select 21, Nectar. 24. five people comfortably."

Usual, 25. Exitry, 21, "uvep.

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2 Schemes

(5)

4 Incline (4)

17 Bari (5)

16 Put back

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18 Fashion-

able (5) 20 Prstens

tightly (7) 23 Happiness

(5)

24 One

different (5) 25 Precise (5) 27 Oxydise (4) 28 Nobleman

(4)

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MOON-Chinese III Moon. 2nd.

Day

Con- RELIGIOUS. --St. John's

firmation Class---(Boys and Girls), Lady Chapel, 4.30 p.m.; Chair Practice, Cathedral, P.m

SOCIAL-Whist Drive and

6.30

Tom-

bols in RE, W.O's and Sérgts' Mess, Wellington Barracks, 9.15 p.b

SPORTS.-(See Page 21.

SUNRISE-6-

6.45 p.m...

B.E. SUNSET.

TIDES.-High at 09.16 and 22.22.

Low at 03.20 and 16.09.

AUGUSTA SWING |ORCHESTRA TO

PLAY AT GRIPPS

Arrangements have been made by Mr Victor Hugo, manager of the Oriental Theatre, for the famous Bwing Orchestra of the UB: cruiser Augusta (Capt. Ma- grader) to play at the Gripps, Hongkong Hotel, to-morrow, even- ing,odmothe

As this orchestra from the flag- ship of the US Squadron in China water has the reputation of being one of the best in the Orlent, it is anticipated that there will be a very large attendance.

For his role in the opening scenes of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Sergeant Madden," which take place in the year 1919, Wallace. Betty wears a moustache for the Bist time since he appeared in "Dinner At Light, áli years ago, For moreth sequences of the pleture, he shaves it off.

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939. -PAGE

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WHEN WERE

YOU BORN?

NOTE!

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