1939-04-29 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY · PRESS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

47 2-30-315·7:20-9:30 RM AT 2:30-520-720 £ 9:30 PM.

SHOWING TO-DAY

HE SEARCHED LOVE'S HIGHWAYS

for a woman he had never found,..

SHE MET HIS CHALLENGE with a

past that queens vn- vied!. Together they dared life to its fast romantic thrill!

DAILY

AT

2:30

520

720

9.20

IRENE DUNNE CHARLES BOYER

ONE MAN..ONE WOMAN. together their lives one golden rood to

heaven!..Drama big

as life-deep as the heart!.

Love Affair

MARIA OUSPENSKAYA,

LEE BOWMAN - ASTRID ALLWYN

MAURICE MOSCOVICH

Produced and Directed by LEO MCGAREY

Screen Play by Delmar Doves and Donald Ogden St

STARE

TODAY ONLY

YOUR STAR

OF.STARS...

with STARS

and STARS! in her grandect musical by for!

REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM

ΤΟ. MORROW

·

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SHIRLEY

TEMPLE

RANDOLPH SCOTT

JACK HALEY GLORIA STUART PHYLLIS BROOKS BELEN WESTLEY Slim SUMMERVILLE 'Bill ROBINSO RAYMOND SCOFF QUINTET

Also DINEHART 3. Edward BROMBERG

A 201 Century foeftare,

6 HIT SONGS

by star bunks michel

: "SPAWN OF THE NORTH"

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TO-DAY ONLY LAST 4 SHOWS... LOOK AT THIS CAST FOR FUN AND. HEART THROBS! And all playing roles that you might have chosen for them yourself. in the delightful drama of a waterfront orphan and his adopted "family."

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WITH SIX SONG HITS TO THRILLING YOU!

The quaiutest, most lovabla

· folks you've ever mot....... In a

deep-down laugh drama of San

Francisco's happy “Dead End.**

BOBBY

BREEN

・

Fisherman's

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LEO CARRILLO HENRY ARMETTÄ

LII PATRICK.

LADIO

SLICKEN, The Smal FCTURE

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TO-MORROW - MONDAY - TUESDAY One of the most magnificent films ever made in ENTIRELY of TECHNICOLOUR!

SIXTY GLORIOUS YEARS"

starring ANNA NEAGLE & ANTON WALBROOK ·

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PRICES

MATINES 10. 20, 80 & 40 cents

NIGHT: 5, 15, 20, 85 & 5

SHOWING TO-DAY till MONDAY

WALT DISNEY'S

FIRST FULL LENGTH

› PRODUCTION

Snow White

and the Seven Dwarfs

"All In Miniplane" TECHNICOLOR

CINEMA & GENERAL

Radio War Worries Big

Today's Screenings

KING'B:"

Hongkong

"Kidnapped"

QUEEN'S:

1

"Love Affair"

ORIENTAL

Laurel and Hardy Variety Show CATHAY:

"Fisherman's Whart"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Love Adair"

STAK:

"Rebecca of

Farm"

MAJESTIC:

"I'll Give A Million"

KING'S:

Coming

Sunnybrook

"Smashing The Spy Ring" QUEEN'S:

"Son Of Frankenstein"

ORIENTAL:

"Paris Honeymoon"

ALHAMBRA:

""40 Naughty Girls"

CATHAY:

"Sixty Gieriotis Years" STAR:

"Spawn Of The North" MAJESTIC:

"The Gladiator" "The Awful Truth"

“KIDNAPPED"

| AT THE KING'S

which Kidnapped," the story Robert Louis Stevenson is sala to have considered his best, comes to the King's Theatre to-day, spectacularly produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, with a cast of 5,000, and pretty much of the pick of 20th Century-Fox's hit-making perts."

ex-

Unlike several other Stevenson storles, Kidnapped" never be- fore has appeared in either silent

or sound sims-something of

a

Hollywood

Studios

REMUNERATIVE

SIDELINE

There's going to be war soon between Hollywood and the biz "American radio organisations.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. -Sir Thomas Beecham born. of 1879. Birthday of Emperor Japan, 1901.

CINEMAS.—(See Column 3.of this

Page).

Concert,

And some complications are going to arise because the stars

DANCES-Softball Supper Dance, not likely to take too

Peninsula Hotel, 9 pm; YM.C.A. STE kindly to having a very remu- Badminton Club Cabaret Supper nerative sideline taken away

Dance, 8.30 p.m.; Kowloon Cric- from them.

ket Club Dance, 9.30 p.m. Sponsors of American broad-ENTERTAINMENTS.. → casts have been paying the stam

St. Paul's Girls' College, 7.30 as much for broadcasting as they

p.m.; Boys and Girls' Club get from film-making, and t

Assen. Gala Performanice, "Kid. been money for jam. Players like

napped" at King's Theatre, 9.30 Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Mar-

p.m. shall, Tyrone Power, Eddie Cantor

MAILS.—(See Page 16) are others pald and numerous

for MEETINGS. tremendously high salaries

Kowloon their radio appearances.

5.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.

Now the studios are beginning to kick. At first, they liked the idea It was good publicity for the stars. Now the publicity is defeating itself, for after hearing the stars frequently on the air, people s beginning to lose interest in the pictures,

BROADCASTING FORBIDDEN So a lot of stars will be finding when they come to sign new con- tracts, that they are forbidden to broadcast

Hollywood wonders if the radio people will take this lying' down. Maybe they retaliate by signing up some of the important stars at higher salaries than ever, on con-! dition that, they don't make films!

Of course, people like Cantor and Rudy Vallee, who are primarily radio stars, cannot be to ve up thetr expected broadcasting. But the straight; players, who have been getting Some nice pocket money out of radio, look like losing this source

of income.

Hollywood Charity

record In its a debut to-day For China

however, the stars. director and supporting cast appear to have been assembled with a lavish hand, for 'the

of the King's Theatre.

patrons

Every person conversant with so much as high school .English has thrilled to the adventure "in

Refugees

SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1939. —PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING TODAY. AT 2.50, 5.10.

7.35

9.30 P.M.

AR KAYOK" BASE 19' REBELLION. AT'ES COMCMANE

buse ame fiery gut tamad kuću unnsly. Incart!

Maravi kun baron, sabuni kačiowan,, se

13 qushant krave lagt noe kann, has constan

east du eut shared his dampen,

and

A velut Youth enhed kan kie la sera

Robert Louis Stevensons

Kidnapped

with a coat of 3,000 Maturing

FREDDIE

WARNER

at

Extmordinary, Indian Tennis Club.

Claims Cecilia

against the Estate of Palmira Branca Conceicao. 'Mär. ques Couper due; St. Mary's School Kowloon, "Mother's Day." 4.45 p.m. TOON-Chinese III Moon, 10th.

Day, PORTS-(See Page 2)..

s.m. SUNSET.

15. NRISE-5.54

6.48 p.m. TIDES.-High at 05.44 and 16.41.

Low at 10.13 and 23.48.

How To Get A Job In Hollywood

Here is a novel story of how one determined girl finally crashed the studios and got herself a job.

Eleanor Counts has been trying for more than a year to land a job studio inside the

gates with negative results.

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She was desperate and hit upon very novel Idea. Dorming a abbreviated costume she walked up and down in front of Paramount with a sign in her hand.

The sign read: "My legs are nice. see! But I can act, too! Give me a chance!"

Several Hollywood stars have Joined Bing Crosby in Holz- wood's oddest charity

Many stars walked past Eleanor For several years Crosby has and gave her a stalle of encourage-

"Kidnapped." so the picture is been sending stamps from hk fan ment but she didn't get any con- mail to the Mission Stamp Bureau crete results until Bob Burns came destined to meet & host of farmi-

at Spokeane Wash. The bureau aing. Har friends,

selis those stamps which have

He looked at her and remem- It will be these "friends" who collectors value and sends the bcred that he had met her at a will remember that the story had money to China for the support of meeting of the Arkansas Society: little or no "feminine interest"-missions maintaining orphaned recently. He is from Van Buren being chiefly the tale of the children.

and she from Little Rock

Bartholomew},

escapades of Alan Breck and David Recently Crosby received a letter

"Stick it out," he said, "And Balfour (portrayed on the screen asking if he could get other stars T see what I can do." by Warner Baxter and Freddle to send stamps there because of A' short time later the casting the pitiful condition in China due office sent for Eleanor and an hour after she was doing a role in to the war, Purists may try, therefore, to quarrel with Hollywood's Intro- Recently Andy Devine and Fred Burns new picture.

"You

hand visited Crosby on the

it to gotta duction Into the story of a Jean McMurray MacDonald, Highland Tass, who be- "Paris Honeymoon" set and Crosby Arkansas folks," commented Bob." comes enamored of Alan Breck. asked them to join him. They "Most people get dizzy once they The role is portrayed by an agreed promptly. Several other crash the movies. We folks from astonishingly vivacious and beauti-stars, including Pat O'Brien and Arkansas have to be dizzy before 111 screen

Arleen George, Raft, previously had joined they'll let us in." discovery, Whelan

Crosby in the odd charity.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Floods (7)

5 Applause

(5)

8 Make

amends (7)"

9. Mighty (5)

10 Swine (3)

12 Dominion

(6)

15

16. Secret

Control (6)

writing (6)

17

17 Food Bat

22

(4)

19 Fondles (4)

20 Extreme

(6)

22 Midday

Dap (6)

23 Soft (6)

58 Sphere (3)

28 Husk (5)

29 Keeps,(7)

30 Glossy.

fabric' (5)

31 Humiliv

(7)

DOWN 1. Architec-

tural form r5 2Loaded (5). 3 Avaricious

(6)

30

NO. 296

4 Decora-

tion(4)

13

14

5 "Mendicant

**(6)

6 Mean (7)

7 Vents"(7)

11 Egg dish

(6)

13 Perform

(3) Am

14 Seem (8)

17 Ceases (7)

18 Constitu-

10

SOLUTION'UN MONDAY:

15

ext" (7)

19 Writing

implement (3)

23... Purloined

(6)

21 Reposed

(6)

24 Falls Art

Crops (5) 25 Oxydised

··(5) -27 Edge

25

115:

Romero Accused Of Impersonating

•Himself

While Cesar Romero was making

a personal appearance in San Fran- cisco, he visited the famous Sky Room cocktail bar.

A comely miss staggered up to his table and accused him of Cesar to impersonate trying Romero, the movie star. When our bero insisted that he actually was the one and only,"the Uttle woman insisted that be prove it,

Thinking it better to Humour her than try and argue, Cesar.opened. his coat and showed the tailor's label with his name printed on. It. His accuser drew herself up to her full height, pointed, & finger practically in Cesar's eyes and hcoughed, "Bo-o-o, you're wear- ing a shecond band sult."

Then she passed out cold, Cesar Romero being a perfect' gent, carried her back to her table.

Solution No. 295

ACROBS: 1, Chain. 5, Sober 8, Earth, 9, Index, 10, Entry 11 Tepid. 14, Soda, 17, Sell 19, Special, 20, Less. 21, Arms, 22, Elastic, 2, Ends.

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10 Asses. 17, slick, 18, Lemon. 23. Eder, 24, Dross. 26, Inter. 27, Gorse: 28, Rely 29, Arch. 30, Halt...

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

THE GAYEST ROMANTIC ADVENTURE YOU'LL SEE ALL YEAR!

IT'S GRAND TO BE IN LOVE

IF YOU KNOW IT'S LOVE! and there's only one, way le find out!'

WARNER BAXTER

I'LL GIVE A MILLION

with

MARJORIE WEAVER PETER LORRE - JEAN HERSHOLT

JOHN CARLADÍNE - J. EDWARD BROMBERG

LYNN 'BARI · FRITZ FELD A 20th Century-Fox Picture

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"THE GLADIATOR'

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