1939-04-22 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

47 230-515-7-20-9:50 RM_ AT 230-5-20°720 8 9:30 PM.

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

GA GAY, ROMANTIC TRIP DOWN OLD MAN RIVER WITH A CREW OF MAD, MERRY

SHOW BOAT ENTERTAINERS

66

BG:

·SONG HITSE:

COME ONE COME ALL...

hore eaman that skambant loaded to the gooʻla with Musissippi zkythen soil rommamen?

"St. Louis

Blues"

DOROTHY LAMOUR-LLOYD HOLAN

STO CREAR - JEUNE GIRAN - JESSE KALPE – WILLIAM CRAWLEY

MACY PAREÏ- MATHE DELNIN-QUET MIZANIK-THE KID'S MEN

→ MATYY MANDE and BrocƐnd My End-Warb

ADDEN

HOSPITALIKY" A Popeye' Cartoon

TOMORROW

Madeleine Carroll Fred MacMurray Shirley Ross

in

CAFE SOCIETY'

TARK ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-9.15

7.15-9.30

ORIENTAL

3.

| FLEMING

ROAD WANGHAI

TEL 28473

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

HERE'S A MARVELLOUS TECHNICOLOUR COMEDY SENSATION 1

A very funny romance with the greatest hand-to-hand and the best "knock-down fight between man and woman ever flied.

BILETICH ENVERMATICS£&E's leachad TROENIORKOT Časady

NOTHING SACRED"

Comode LOMBARD

Fredric whe

CHARLES

WINNINGER WALTER CONNOLLY

SCREEN PLAY ET

DESFASUR TELE

PORTER ARSYETE

2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & MONDAY

GREAT STORY WITH PLENTY COMEDY AND ACTION |

MEN ARE SUCH FOULS”

WHY ARE WOMEN SUCH FOOLS ABOUT THEM?

WATNE

.* PRISCILLA

MORRIS

LANE

HUMPHREY

BOGART

HUGH

HERBERT

ŠAYS - PENKÝ SMILETON - Directed by Husky Backalry » A Warner Bros. Picture

MATINEES: Z0c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.

CINEMA & GENERAL

Today's Screenings

KING'S

Hongkong

"The Sisters" QUEEN'S

"St. Louis Blues"

ORIENTAL:

"Nothing Sacred"

CATHAY:

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Bt. Louis Blues" STAR:

"Say It In French" MAJESTIC:

"Holiday"

נוי

KING'S.

Coming

"Always Goodbye" QUEEN'S:

"Cafe' Society"

ORIENTAL:

"Men Are Such Fools"

"Night Club Scandal"

ALRAMERA:

"Cafe Society” .....

CATHAY!

"Josette"..

The Great Walta"

STAR:

**Three Loves Has Nancy" "The Shopworn Angel”

MAJESTIC!

"My Bill"

NEW HEPBURN!

די

"THE SITE”

AT THE KING'S

TO-DAY

15

Taking Their

Advice

Motion pictures are steadily im- "The Sisters" which opens to proving because of the growing of calling technical day at the King's Theatre is three-practice point entertainment news. It co-advisors in during the time films stars Hette Davis and Errol Flynn are being written rather than when for the arst time; it is the nic- they are in production, according to turization of Myron Brinig's novel andre. Marsaudon, supervisor of which has been one of the best French court-room sequences, now sellers of recent years;" and it

working in Parmount's "Midnight.” as vigorous a drama as this cine-

Marsauden, author, lawyer, actor and technical advisor, declared matic year has produced.

that contrary to usual practice he Flynn and Miss Davis do

the has worked for three weeks on the most striking acting Jobs of

preparation of court-room scenes their respective and brilliant for "Emile Zola" and "Madame careers in roles that are

com-x" as well as acted in them. pletely new departures for them "Motion picture producers are both. The starring combination gradually awakening to the fact is a truly happy one, and Alm that it is easier to write pictures audiences will undoubtedly be authentically than it is to patch clamoring for more,

them up during the production Besides the two stars, others period," he declared "The result who stand is there are less movie boners, aa of the splendid cast out are Anita Louise, as the thrill-they are called than we had a seeking sister: Jane Bryan, as couple of years ago."

the home-body; Henry Travers In "Midnight." Marsaudon has and Beulah Bondi, who do super- been called in to see that the lative work as the parents of the French courts are not ridiculed in girls; and Donald Crisp, Alan any way.

Hale, Ian

Foran, Hunter. Dick Patrie Knowles, Laura Hope Crews: and Lee Patrick."

mance, tragedy and comedy rub-

Laurel's Wife Sues,

A full-bodied drama, with ro- Says He Tried To bing elbows, even as they do Bury Her Alive

in

real life, it is a memorable en- tertainment experience for the whole family.

KAY FRANCIS' FIANCE ACCUSES

NEW

A COUNTESS

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF, April 12- | Alleging among other things that her husband had tried to bury her alive in their backyard; Meana Laurel, Russian wife of the well- known movie comedan, Stan Lau rel. to-day filed a suit for separate maintenance.

She demanded that Stan pay her $1,000 a month and divide their YORK-Baron Raven common property. A new Katharine Hepburn, glow-Barnekok, a distant relative of the In the complaint; Mrs. Laurel also ingly human, gloriously, moden!

ex-Kaiser and fiance of film alleged that, on their honeymoon, Defying the conventional world of actress Ray Francis. asked Las Laurel took his ex-wife along. society because she's in love. Angeles District Attorney's once nieana added that he once knock- new Cary Grant, his madcap

the other day to issue aslandered her out, with the result that humor bubbling beneath the weight

of a career he wanta"to discuss complaint against Countess Do-she had to stay, three days in a

rothy di Frasso, who, he alleged. hospital. called him a Nazi spy.

A

red-

A bine-blooded girl'and blooded boy prove that what the world needs is a bigger and better| "Holiday!"

The baron, who prefers to be called mister. sald: "She called

The Columbia production of me a Nazi spy, but I am as Philip Barry's brilliant stage com- American citizen." edy romance is at the Majestic

LAUGHING

JACKASSES

Film Directors At Their Wits' End

But the authorities refused to Issue the complaint...

A STREET FOR EVERY FILM STAR

The theory that the Rue Col- bert now commemorates the famous French-born Hollywood

is

"I never heard of such a thing." film star and not Louis XIV'S

Anance said the countess, one of Holly- celebrated

minister wood's most popular hostesses propounded in a Parls woman's

mad. must be

magazine which claims to have certainly never said anything of found a street name for every

actor who deserves this honour,

"Some one

the sort

I

undoubtedly named after Claude Charlot who built houses there in 1627.

"I do not know what polities Charlie Chaplin, of course, in- the are and I must say I care less." herits the Rue Charlot, as

The allegation was all the more French affectionately call him LOS ANGELES.-Hal Roach, a

inexplicable for the countess This street, however, which runs United Artists director, June Lang. Victor McLaglen and Brian Aherne because, she said, it was at her through an old quarter now the are nearly at their wits end over house that Baron Barnekow first centre of the jewellery trade was the Hollywood production of "Cap met Miss Francis. tain Fury" an Australian story.

An integral part of the script is the laughing of KookaburrAJ (laughing Jackasses), but the four birds which were specially obtain- ed refuse to laugh. Several people have tried by laughing at them, but the only response has been a glum stare.

Disgusted, Roach had the sound equipment dismantled. No sooner was it done, than all four. birds burst Into sardonic" peals of laughter, but stopped before the equipment could be remounted. They have not laughed since...

By way of contrast, Kookaburras recently brought from Australia, as exhibits at the San Francisco Golden.... Gate. Exposition hare hardly stopped laughing in the last mouth.

ACROSS

A TREE THAT "PRAYS" CALCUTTĂ---A remarkable

phenomenon of nature--a "praying" palm tree which is sald to lie down on the ground during the day and BASUMA an upright position at night is creating some- thing of a sensation near Tarakeswar, "Bengal.

The tree is situated at a small village. Every day crowds flock there to see the tree and satisfy themselves that the odd behaviour with which it Is credited is really a fact.

19

16

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

CATHAY

DAILY AT 2:30.5.15.7.20,&9.30.P.M. MATINERS 20%+ 506, 40%,, EVENINGS 1-20%, 30%. 80s, 70s. Be

TO-DAY ONLY-LAST -4* SHOWS!" FEARLESS FIGHTER GREAT LOVER HEROIC PATRIOT I The Story of the Uncrowned King of Ireland-with the Tender Beauty of Irish Love and the Fiery Pace of Irish Anger 1

CLARK

GABLE HiprodLOY PARNEL

Je Moner

TO-MORROW - MONDAY - TUESDAY

M-G-M PRESENTS WITH FRIDE ITS NEWEST BIT!

A dozen melodies! Bolos! Choruses! Huge Orchestra!

# Luise RAINER

Fernand GRAVET Miliza KORJUB

"THE GREAT WALTZ"

In addition to the two Chinese Milton Bren has signed a long- cigarette factories in Bangkok, one term contract as producer with at Sala Daeng and one at Wat Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Brea was Liab, which closed down shortly formerly with the Hal Roach after the promulgation of the studios in the capacity of executivę Tobacco Act, the British-American producer, turning out "Topper" anu Tobacco Co. (Blam), Lida factory "Merrily We Live" during his as has also followed "sült.

sociation there.

CROSSWORD

NO. 290

5 Fright (5)

8 Right

above (8)

9. Stupid (5)

10 Motherly

(B)

11. Scenes (5)

14 Space (3)

16 Spite (8)

17 Number

(a)

18 Adam (3)

20 Pinions (5)

24 Unfores

seen happen- ing (8)

25 Answer (5) 28 Lonely (8) 127 : Commence (5) ....

DOWN

1 Spacious

(5)

2: Moor (5)

3 Portion (5)

4 Soft fruit

6 Judge (8)

25

12 Plain (8)

13 Peculiar

7 Famed (8)

19 Staymg

device (8) Imitate (5) 22 Foot rest

(6)

23 Re

(8)

14 Jewel (2)

15- Enclosure

(3)

SOLUTION ON MONDAY

Paris, the magazine, adds, also commemorates Robert Taylor:

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS.

St. Senorink de Basto;

and Saints Soter and Catus,

CINEMAS.~(See Column 3 of this

Page).

DANCES—League of Pals

Cami- ́val Dance, Rose Room, Peninsula

Hotel, 8.30 pm. MAILS.—(Bee Page 16) MEETINGS... Annual, Bank of Canton, Ltd., at Head Office, 6 Des Voeux Road Central, 3 p.m.

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| MISCELLANEOUS, T Refugee Children's "Flower, Day”; Scout's Rally for the Prince of Wales Banner, at Diocesan Boys actiool, 2.50 p.m.

| MOON.—Chinese III Moon, 3rd.

Day

SPORTS.-(Bfe Pago 21. SUNRISE-5.59

6.46 pia.

a.m.

M

SUNSET.-

TIDES.-High at 10.23. Low at

04.17 and 17.36.

TO-MORROW.

MISCELLANEOUS, -Y. M. C. A. Discussion Group, in the West Lounge, 9 pm.

MOON Chinese III Moon, 4th

Day.

SUNRISE 5.59 a.m. SUNSET --

8.45 pm.

TIDES-High at 0947 and 23.09.

Low at 03.48 and 16.51.

SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1939. -PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY" AT 2.30, 510, · `735

A Na Has Could Tame

ALSO

9.30

P.M.

A Man Ko Humaine Could Hill

THE MOST EXCITING STAR MATCH

OF THE DECADE!

The men galiane boven, und indee dangazama inily off the screen, na kui ia, anch what's semi?

ERROL FLYNN

BETTE DAVIS

AMITA LOVE - LANG HUNTE DONALD CRUSH - 9EUN ALE MON

JANI BAYAN - ABATILIMLE DICK PORAN (HONAY TÉMA PATRICKLES » Janan ve d

As ANATOLE LITVAK PRODU

Pred by WARNII “ICL

State Moran the wher

LATEST CARTOON.

Je Nyemm Zanig's

THE SISTERS

"THE"

RECORD" BREAKER Co-starred for the first time with the

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER

NJ

1936 1938

IN “TECHNICOLOUS “JUNGLE JITTERS

2

NEXT CHANGE BARBAKA STANWYCK · HERBERT MARSHALL

20th Century Fox Picture

4 SNOWS

DAILY

a 30 20 720.930

in "ALWAYS GOODB › E”

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

MATH AN ROAD

KOWLOON

18L87121

MATINEES, 20Ľ. 30; * EVENINGS,20%-30%-50«70) »ETO-DAY, TO-MORROW, MONDAY

YEAR'S GREATEST ROMANTIC COMEDY !!! Laughing at Life Eager for Love ・・・ ‚ Hungry.

for "Happiness!

KATHARINE CARY

HEPBURN GRANT

HOLIDAY

DORIS

بدین

EDW. t.

HINNY

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

ANDERSON JEAN

NOLAN AYRES • HORTON • KOLKER BARNES • DIXON

Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart %. Siöury Buchman. From the siege play try Philip, Bery produced by Action Hopes Diristed by GEORGE CUKOR Produced by Eratati Riskin TUESDAY "AND WEDNESDAY

Au Intensely Human Picture ...... - That Everybody Will Be Happy to Have Seen!

KAY FRANCIS in "MY BILL'

& AT

A Warner Bros. Picture

ISTAR

TODAY ONLY

HAMMONI 1040

TEL:

57795

-b

Solution No 289.

ACROSS: 3 Blips., 8, Chaik. 0, Album 10. Cause. 11, Glutton. 13, Teach. 14. Lens. 16, Breezes. 19, Byes, 21, 8lim. 22, Respite. 24, Over. 28. lpur. 28, Pretext. 20, Rupee..30, Ashes, 31, Peach 32, Story.

DOWN: 1, Whole. 2 Plots, Lean, 5, Past. 6, Bleeves. 7, Lunch, 10, Corrupt. 11, Globe, 12, Under, 15, Restore 17, Slave, 18, Smart. 20 Secures 23, Other, 25 act 27 Hust 28. Peer.

Say it in French

TO

MORROW

Ray Milland Olympe Bradna Irene Hervey Janet Beecher, Mary Carlisle

saet Gaynor R. Montgomery Franchot Tone "THREE LOVES HAS NANCY:

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