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Ducted by Jaszok Sandley, Produced by William Sutrom. Screen play by Charlet Kashman, Paul Yowitz, Viola Brother Shore, Harry Sagall.

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Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Smashing The Spy Ring"

QUEEN'S

"Son Of Frankenstein". ORIENTAL-

"Invkalble Menace”

CATHAY:

"King Kong""

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Pirates Of The Skies"

STAR:

"Blond Cheat" MAJESTIC:

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

KING'S:

Coming

"My Lucky Star"

QUEEN'S:

"The "Adventures of

Food"

ORIENTAL:

"The Young In 'Heart" "Give Me A Ballor"

ALHAMBRA:

The Adventures

Hond**

CATHAY:

“Mald's Night Out" STAR:

"I'll Give A Million" "Rosalie"

MAJESTIC:

New Film: Doin' The Lambeth Walk - Oi!

"The Lambeth Walk," the film version of the highly success- ful London musical show, “Me and My Girl,” Absed at Pinewood Stadios, ́Iver, Bucks, will be released in London very soon.

With Lupino Lane, star of the | sell the rights," he says, "because original stage production heading I preferred to dispose of them to a the cast, and, with 'Sally Gray as- British company when the right signed to the feminine lead, the offer came "along." film was directed by Albert de Cmirville" with Anthony ("This Man is News") Havelock-Allan as executive-producer.

The screen play has been written by John Paddy Carstairs, and Capt, Richard Norton, managing director of Pinewood, charge of production.

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ROYAL APPROVAL "The Lambeth Walk" song "and dance has become an international sensation and the seal of 'Royal approval was conferred upon it re- cently when the King" and Queen "Did the Walk" at Balmoral,

. Hundreds of thousands of of the gramophone recordings number have been sold in the British Isles, and "Lambeth Walk" gramophone recordings are cur rently best-sellers in the United States where the dance is now the

rage.

EVERYTHING IN FAVOUR "The Lambeth Walk" according to Cast Norton, should emerge as one of the biggest box-office hits in the history of British filma,

"Everything." he says, "is in our

In France, under the title of “La favour. As a stage show "Me and Marche Lambeth. It is an out- My Girl" has proved a phenomenal standing hit. success at the Victoria · Falace,

Latest converts to the dance are Robin London. Noel Gay's song-and-the Norwegians, Danes and Dutch. dance hit has swept the world. The familiar ery of "Oil" ag an ex- doubt if there is a country in pression of approval is now rival- which "The Lambeth Walk" is unling the American "OK" in these

countries,

known.

"..

Even Mussolini is reported to have succumbed to the lure of this democratic dance.

"All this gives us a tremendous Of Robin natural advantage right from the start. That is why we have plan- ned the film on an ambitious scale

for the international market." Wallace Ford, who enacts the Ever since "The Lambeth Walk" featured male role in "Backdoor began to catch the public fancy to Heaven," has one of the most and add to the galety of nations, unusual hobbles of any actor in Lupino Lane has been bombarded the films Frequently he invites almost daily with offers from a dozen or more of his friends to American and Continental film dinner and prepares the entire producing companies for the meal himself, He learned to" cook while he was in an orphanage in But Lane held out. "I refused to England.

"The Duke Of West Point".

NARROW ESCAPE screen rights of the show.

FROM DEATH

"Three motion picture stunt men were saved from possible death by Cary Grant and Vic- tor McLaglen recently, when an aatomohlle driven by John Alban, former double for John Barrymore, rolled over a rocky embankment near Lone Pine, Call, and plunged into a mountain creek eight feet deep. Alban, with two companions. David Sharpe and Tom Metzetti was returning from Lone Pine to the mountain location where RKO Radio was filming "Gunga Din." Grant and McLaglen were föllow-12 ing them in a second car.

Blinded by the lights of an ap- proaching car, Alban drove his machine too far to the right. The wheels missed the edge of the nar- row dirt road, and the car rolled fifteen feet down the rock slope into the waters of the creek.

Grant and McLaglen leaped from their car, scrambled down the bank ripped the door of the sub- merged car open and helped the dazed men to safety. None of the three was hurt beyond' a

few bruises and a thorough soaking.......

CROSSWORD

NO. 300

ACROSS

1 Balt (5) 8 Letter (7)

9 Ankle cov

erings (5)

11

Volcano (4) Top (5)

14 Dried fruit

(5) -

15 Inexpen

sive (5) 17. Surface (9 19 Put on-(8) 21 Diminish

(6)

24 Halt (4) 27. Precious

stone (5)

29 Sea (5) 31 Bodily

organ (5) 12 Opulent (4) 33 Robe (5),

deep (7)

"I'm Tired Of Being 34 Dis

A Star," Says Leslie Howard

Lesile Howard, "fed up with lite as a movie star" has refused to take his part in "Intermezzo,” his new Hollywood fum, unless he is made associate producer,

So David Selznick signed him ou in that 'capacity.

Howard insisted that he must have a share in the responsibility for his own picture. He first did

this in "Pygmalion."

"Hollywood simply will not think

35 Tender (5) DOWN

2 Goods sent "abread (7)

3 Frequently

(5)

4 Mar. (6).

5 Chop finely..

(5

6 Bend (5)

7 Flower (5)

10 Vapour (5) 13 Torn

shreds (4)

18 Nimbus (4)^

18 Residue (4)

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

Solution No 299

20 Incite (4), 22 Age (5) 13 Investi.

gate (7)

25 Desig-

nated (8) 28 Loose (5)

27 Turn aside

(5)

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939 -PAGE 5

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

Outpatients'. · Dept. 6 pm ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. Theosophical Society, 6 pm..

Anniversary of the Beginning of MAILS-(See Page 16)

the Chinese Student Movernent | MEETINGS.-General Committee, in 1919. Chinese Youths' Day. of Royal Engineers Old Com St. Monica, Mother of St. Augus- rades Asscn., in Juntor N.C.O's tine.

Dining Mess, Wellington Bar- racks, "D.m.; Outport Rotarians, in the China Building, 12.45 p.m.; Cathedral Bcouts, at

AUCTIONS.-Household

Furn-

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Page),

LECTURES.-A.R.P., Modined full Course, at United Services" "Re- creation Club, Kowloon: "Run- ning Repairs, Volunteer Hors, 11a.m. First Aid, in Chinese, (for men) at Ambulance Hiqre, 7.30.p.m.; at Tung Mul Middle, School, 127 Heard Wanchai, p.m.; in English at Queen Mary Hospital. a p.m., A.RW in Chi- nese; at "E" Godown of Hong- kong, Kowloon Wharf Godown Co. Ltd. 7 p.m.; Home Nursing at Kowloon Hospital (in English),

Hars.,

plays who keep Hollywood on the map, while the stars pose and take bows."

Cecil B. DeMille, confined to a stretcher since he collapse on the set of "Union Pacifio redent- ly, has surprised his "physicians by dismissing his stretcher, bearera, and resuming direction in a ver- tical position. They hal expected. the 57-year-old veteran to remain strettcher-bound for three months.

Lower Albert Road, 5.30 pm. MOON-Chinese III. Moon, 15th. V.D.MA. Annual Meeting, Cathe-

Day,

dral Hall, 8 p.m.; St. Andrew's RELIGIOUS-St. John's Cathedral Women's Fellowship, #3 p.m.;

Confrmation Cisse (Adults), Lady Chapel, 5.30 pm.

Women's Bible Society Circle on

The Revelation, H.K. Evan-SOCIAL-R.A.OB. /(G.LE). gelical Fraternity, 216 Nathan Road, 10.30 a.m.; Victoria Chess Club, Gloucester Hotel. 5 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS.-Y.M.C.A.

Hummers Mahjong, 10 a.m.; Ca- thedral Women's Fellowship- Working Party, Cathedral Hall. 5.30 p.m.

Club Whist Drive. and Tombola. Queen's Bldg, Ice House Street, 8.30 p.m.; Public Works Be- creation Club Tombola, Cause- way Bay, 8 pm. Be-SPORTS.-(See: Page 2).

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