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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

CINEMA & GENERAL

UEEN'S Today's Broadway Play Brought

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

3 SHOWS AT 2.50 5,15 & 7.20 P.M. ONLY

HEAR Judy scog: "Zing

weit the strings

of my heart ("

SEE Fredche agi

As Cupid's little heißert

TRAILL-ID 3 rajhan

tic new love team!

GAILY. YOURS!

Freddie and Judy pick a man for Mom...end as drizzle puss need apply!. It's grand!

Listen Darling

FREDDIE

JUDY

BARTHOLOMEW » GARLAND

Mary ASTOR" Walter PIDGEON ALAN HALE. SCOTTY BECKITY Directed by EDWIN L. MARIN Prodused by JACK CUMMINGS

A Metro Goking-Mayer MATUKI

TO-NIGHT AT 9.30

A MODERN CHINESE DRAMA

TOMORROW

FRED ASTAIRE

GINGER ROGERS

in

THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE ".

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-9.30

DAYS

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WATCH OUT! THEY'RE ON THE LOOSE AGAIN!

It's a private fight, but you're invited to a ring side seat to see the funniest of romances.'

WILLIAM

POWELL LOY

to aav..

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16

DOUBLE FUNI DOUBLE ROMANCE!

That "Thin Man" couple's on the loose again! it's Rowdy! Riot- Mount Swell!

in

DOUBLE WEDDING

FLORENCE RICE. JOHN BEAL

EDGAR KENNEDY JESSIE RALPH

FOR SUNDAY-MONDAY-TU ́SDAY

MOST VIVID EPISODE EVER TOLD IN ADVENTURE HISTORY!

WALTER WANGER presents

ALGIERS

Starring CHARLES BOYER

with Sigrid Gurin und

Hedy Lamar

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

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An hilarious honeymoon with love, loughs and

4 Crosby hit songs!

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PARIS HONEYMOON

Bing Crosby - Francis Gaal Akimi

MORROW

Shirley Ross

Marx Bros. in "ROOM SERVICE"

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

Cathedral Hall, (for H.K. Arms), ANNIVERSARIES and FOLIDAYS. 5.30 p.m.; Ambulance

Coronation of King George VI

Har... 5.45 pm; at Maryknoll Con- 1937. First Anniversary of the vent School, 4

p.m.;

Dloce- Foundation of the Hongkong

Ban Junior Girls' School, 6 pm; Branch of the Chinese War Lusitano Club. 5.30 p.m.; La Orphans'. Protective Asscz.

Salle College, 6 p.m.; Volunteer CINEMAS.(See Column 3 of this, Eqre, 11 am.; "Gassed Casual-

Page).

ties," at Ambulance Hgra., 5.30 LECTURES-A.R.P.

p.m.; First Aid in Chinese, Queen Mary Hospital, 6 p.m.; Home Nursing in Chinese, Am- bulance Hqrs., 7.30 p.m.

מן

Chinese,

Com-

at Queen's College, 7 p.m.; at Chinese Chamber of merce, p.m.; at Tai Tung School,

Kak Hang Tsun Road, Kow-MAILS-(See Page 18),

To Screen: All-Women

Screenings Cast For M.G.M. Picture

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Topper, Takes a Trip" QUEEN'S:

"Listen Darling" ORIENTAL

"Double Weddinə” CATHAY:

"Three Blind Mice"

Kowloon

ALBAMBRA:

"Safety In Number" STAR:

"Can This Be Dixie"

MAJESTIC;

The Broadway success play "The Women" has been bought by M-G-M for screen production and will co-star Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.

This play has an all-women cast and proved to be a tremen-" dous hit.

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The private lives of the women: One sounds just like a tom-tom and their struggle with each other beating and the most odd of all to keep their husbands provides is the cry of the Rhinoceros Bird. plenty of fast moving repartee and A pair of these very rare birds are comedy.

reported to have cost the farm $45,000.

Others selected are Rosaling Rus. sell and Phyllis Povah. The entire casting has not been completed.

The talking birds have speaking voices which sound exactly like humans and they often

,

'cause

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939-PAGE

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.10.

TOPPER

They

HAL ROACH

RARE BIRD FARM One of the greatest bird farms much merriment among visitors in the world is located at Santa because of the conversation they' Catalina Island just across the have learned to carry on. Isthmus from Los Angeles harbour also whistle like humans. "You Can't Take It With You" Eight thousand rare birds are in

HISTORIC CROSSING captivity there and recently-a- One of the most interesting"and" sound crew from "The Wizard of most complicated sets to be built Oz company spent several days is now under construction at Paru- recording the sounds of all these mount studios. It is to be an ac- feathered rarities, 15,000 feet of curate reproduction of the engine sound track was made of indivi-room of the Sirius, the first boat The Story Ot Vernon & Irene dual songs and mass singing.

Castle

to cross the Atlantic under steam This will be dubbed in for sound power. effects in certain scenes of the This event occurred 101 years picture. Some of the sounds are ago. The engine in the doughty very unusual, "

KING'S:

Coming

"Hold That Kiss" QUEEN'S:

ORIENTAL:

"Algiere"

The Bohemian Girl"

ALHAMBRA

"The Story Of Vernon & Irene

Castle"

CATHAT:

"Sky Glant".

"Empress Wu Cheh Tien"

STAR:

"Room Service"

MAJESTIC:

"Spring Madness"

"TOPPER TAKES

A TRIP"

Hal Roach's "Topper Takes A Trip" which will have its premiere to-day at the King's Theatre, through United Artists release, 'is

one of the gayest and most up- roariously funny comedies to reach

the screen this season, Beautifully staged: briliantly directed and played expertly by a hand-picked cast, this new film production deserves to be placed conspi cuously on every screen fan's Best Ten List

The cast, which reads like a Hollywood "Who's Who," includes Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Ver- ree Teasdale, Alexander D'Arcy. Franklin Pangborn, Paul Hurst and Armand Kaliz. Roland Young again plays the role of Cosmo Topper, the bewildered banker, who is about to lose his prim and conven- tional, wife, played by the ever delightful Billie Burke. Constance Bennett. beautiful and glamorous, portrays again the ghostly Marion Kerby, who is anxious to assist the unhappy Toppers in regaining marital happiness.

Sirtus, was built in Scotland, and turned over her 20-foot side pad- dle wheels at 32 revolutions per

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THE ANVIL BIRD The Anvil Bird, for instance, makes a sound like an anvil being minute. struck. Another's song duplicates With 450 tons of coal aboard, the growl of the larger cat family she started across the Atlantic while still another sounds like the from Cork, Ireland, but before meow of a domestic cat.

reaching New York, 18 days later,

the crew had had to burn resin, part of her spar wood and even. some of her deck planking. Solution No. 306 -

This historic crossing gave birth ACROSS: 1. Types. 5, Sight. 8, to transoceanic steam navigation Cunce. Uvula. 10. Tramp. land will be reenacted in the plc- Ropes. 14. Ties. 17, Deny. 19. ture "Ruler of the Seas," which Closure. 20, Zero. 21, Iris. 22, will star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Resting. 23, Glen. 25, Need... 23, Will Fyffe and Margaret Lockwood. Impel 31, Equal, 32, Union. 33, ANNA MAY WONG SINGS Legal. 34. Duels 35, Lathe, DOWN: Another bit of news from Para-

i, Trust. 2. Pause. 3, Soar. 4, Snap. mount says that Anna May Wong, Opossum. 31, Erudite. 15, Ideal. 17, make her singing debut in "Island 5. Sets. 6, Grave. 7. Tipsy. 12, popular Chinese star player, will Deign 18, Noise. 23, Greed. 24. of Lost Men." This will be inter- 29. Page. 30, Lull. Elude. 26, Exist 27, Dunce. 28, Ils. esting.

CROSSWORD

NO. 307

ACROSS

1 Tempest (7)

Destruc-

5

tion (5)

8 Choose (7)"

9 Freshen up

(5)

10 Feminine

"pronoun (3) 12 Shelves (6). 15 Inborn (6) 18 Sufficient

(6)

17 Fruit (4)

"YOU CANT TAKE 19 Old (4)

IT WITH YOU”

Hollywood is slowly awakening

an

to the fact that Capra, whose latest flim is "You Can't Take It With You," which opens at the Majestic to-day, is building epochal screen treatise "on the pursuit and capture of happiness.

The title. "You Can't Take It With You," strikes the keynote of the entire Capra series. "You Can't Take It With You"* might as aptly have titled "It Happened One Night," "Mr. Deeds Goes to TOWN," or "Lost Horizon" as it does the current comedy of the ir- resistible eccentrics who refuse to take a smothering from the world about them. Yet nothing more Varied than the locales, the characters, and the stories of the- preceding pictures could be de- sired.

What has happened is that a motion picture director has struck

rich vein of philosophy, has learned to use it to flavor his pictures without obtruding on their principal mission of entertaining the public, and is following that veln wherever it leads in the felds of comedy, rothance and drazna,

Medical War: Working Party, for the Chinese wounded soldiers, 10 am. MISCELLANEOUS, Y. M. C.A.

"Keep Fit" Class, 10.30 a.m. MOON-Chinese III Moon, 23rd.

Day. RELIGIOUS, St. John's Con- Armation Class (Boys & Girls), Lady Chapel, 4.30 p.m.: Choir Practice, Cathedral, 5.30 p.m. SOCIAL Whist Drive and Tom- bola in RE, W.O.'s and Sergta' Mess, Wellington Barracks, 9,15

APORTS-(See Paxe 2).

urd;

loon, 7 p.m.; at Ambulance Head MEETINGS.-Helena May Rell SUNRISE 5.46 a.m. SUNSET

quarters, 7.30 p.m.; at Wah Yan

Colleg. Nelson, Street, Mongkok, :pim:: in English at St. John's

glous Fellowship, 10.30

a.m.; 6.54 p.m.

Toc H in Chater Room, Bt. An- TIDES.High at drew's 6p.m.; Bt. Andrew's 2129

13.15. Low st

20 Way (6)

22 Very cold

(8) ·

23 Stretch (6) 26 Ocean (3) 28 Smithy's

block (5) 29. Mild (7) 30 Dawile (5) 31 Domains

(7)

DOWN

1. Track (5) 2 Speedy (5)

3 Got up (8) 4 Declara

tion (4)

5 Acclama-

+

KNEW 20

20

26

tion (6)

& Selling (7)

18 Reveal (7) 19 8k (3)

7 Cattle

minder (7)

11 Machine

(0)

13 Jewel (3)

.14 Consola-

Hon (8)

17. Country-

Inan (7)

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

20 Lose (6)

21 Anticipate

(8) 24 Throw

out (3) 25 Stone

fruits (5)

27 Land

measure (4)

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THREE BRIGHT-EYED

LOVELIES ON THE

LOVE PATHI

Loretta

Josel YOUNG MCCREA

in

THREE

BLIND MICE

• SUNDAY & MONDAY-2 DAYS

DAVID NIVEN

STUART ERWIN.

'MARKYRIE WEAVER

FADLINE "MOORE

BINNIH BARNES

JANE DARWELL,

20th Century Fox

A Mighty Air Show With A Heart Tug For Every Thrill! An BKO Radio Air Thrill

“SKY

GIANT

ONLY!" ●

Richard Dix

Joan Fontaine

2 Chinese Picture

Tues, & Wedges EMPRESS WIDE IN th English Subtitles

Violet Koo in

7.15

STEPS OUT

9.30

P.M

in Paris!

TOPPER TAKES STRIP

CONSTANCE BENNETT ROLAND YOUNG

BILLIE BURKE

Hold your sides, everybody ➡bere comes Topper again! ...with his spook girl friend bounding him, all the 'way

from. Fick Avenue' to the Frasch Riviera. Even famalar than "Topper", the picture that cocked the world!

ALSO "UNUSUAL, OCCUPATIONS" (Colour Novelties)

CORINNE LUCHAIRE in "PRISON

NEXT CHANGE UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE

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WITHOUT

BARS !!". with "EDNA BEST. BARRY K BARNES

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN DO. KOWLOOFT DAILYET 2.X

*720 & 920 ·TEL.: 5 6 8 5

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY WHERE THERE'S A JAM, THERE'S A JONES

AND VICE-VERSA

720.

The

Jones Family

America's ever-so-lovable folks in their newest ever-so-laughable hit!

SAFETY NUMBERS

TOMORROW

in

GINGER ROGERS

THE STORY OF VERNON & PENE CASTLE

FRED ASTAIRE

MAJESTIC

THEATRES

((MAINEES. 20.4*30% EV@M653

SHOWING TO-DAY

NOTE SPECIAL TIMES: 2.30, 5,10, 7.20 & 8.40 P.M.

THE BEST PICTURE OF TH

FRANK CAPRA ́S

NEXT CHANGE

YEARĮ.

Love, Laughter and Youth is a Modern Romance 1 Maareen O'Sullivan and Lew Ayres in

SPRING MADNESS

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer icture

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