1939-05-22 — Page 5

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QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

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KOWLOON"

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

DRAMATIC FIREBRAND...

fighting for life and love on

America's toughest street!

...one third

SYLVIA SIDNEY

"

of a nation”.

Opis

EI ERIKSON

Primi tofoane

AT THE

QUEEN'S ONLY

PARAMOUNT SPECIAL NEWSREEL OF

ADDED

THE ELECTION

AND

CORONATION

OF

POPE

PIUS XII

WEDNESDAY

AT THE QUEEN'S

"BOY SLAVES"

Anne Shirley

嘲

Roger Daniel

AT

THE ALHAMBRA ONLY

GRAND STAGE SHOW

“HOLLYWOOD

ON PARADE"

J

An Intimate Revue with COWAN & BAILEY, THE TAYLEURS, LAURELL GAINES, DOLORES DEE. LUCILLE NICHOLSON, FLORENCE CHAPPELL,

MARITA. ESTELLE COWAN

WEDNESDAY

AT THE ALHAMBRA "The ADVENTURE of ROBIN HOOD"

TAKE ANY TEASE CIL'SLAPPY VALLEY BUB

[4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30

ORIENTAL

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Today's Screenings

KING'S.

Hongkong

"We're Cluing To Be Rich" QUEEN'S:

“One Third, Of A Nation” OBIENTAL:

“Artists and Models Abroad" CATHAY:

"Block-Head"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA..

"One Third Of A Nation"

STAR:

The Citadel" ·

MAJESTIC:

"Three Blind Mice"

Coming

*

KING'S:

"Hold That Kiss" QUEEN'S:

"Boy Blaves" ORIENTAL:

"Naughty Marletta"

"Adventure's End"

CATHAY:

"Wings Of The Morning" ALHAMBRA:

"The Adventures Of Robin

Hood.

STAR:

"Spring Madness"

"Nothing Sacred"

MAJESTIC:

"Pardon Our Nerve"

WE'RE GOING TO

Norma Shearer Enjoys Her Role In "Idiot's Delight"

two

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"..

Norma Shearer, costumed In spangled tights as a little acrobat for a scene in Idiot's Delight, swung diszily by her treth for a brief minent. Director Clarence Brown mopped a moist brow and rolled. “Cut!" · From the wings,

burly for adventure. She not only "prop" men rushed out to lower swings by her teeth, but if later the star safely to the stage. sequences of the picture, finds Of the 50 people on the act, excitement posing as a Countess. Miss Shearer seemed to be the After' Marie Antoinette, Miss Jönly one thoroughly enjoying her- | Shearer's transformation. is

self

the more startling, blonde hair "This is fun." she said. "Most worn in a Byzantine bab, exotic of my recent characters have been owns and a Russian accent such sincere ladies.

"Although I have played vir- They were interesting to play, but condning, tuous and shady ladies of all ages on the screen," Miss Shearer re- because to me, to be sincere ts to

marked. "Irene is different from be simple. Now, for 3 change,

WON ACCLAIM

I am playing a heroine who anything I have done before."

13 completely a fake. That is what (makes her so fascinating as a

challenge to characterization. Shearer has

1}]

Several times in the past, Miss

מפיד

acclaim for

am permitted a few tricks, like following stage stars in their swinging by my teeth."

favourite plays, notably Katharine

As Irene in the motion picture Cornell in Rome And Juliet and adaptation of Robert Sherwood's The Barretts of Wimpole. Street, Pulitzer · Prize* winning play, Jane Cowl in Smilin' Through,

| Miss Shearer portrays a member Gertrude “- Lawrence in Private

jor a vaudeville troupe, who yearns Lives, Ina Ciaire In The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, and now Lynn Fon- tainne in Idiot's Delight.

Clark Gable is co-starred with

"I'LL NEVER Miss Shearer in the Metro-Gold-

WEAR A HAT, NEVER

FRENCH STAR'S

DECLARATION

11

wyn-Mayer picture. "the first time they have appeared together since A Free Soul and Strange Interlude (also known as. Strange Interval). Ya both of those pictures." sald Miss Shearer, we had seri- ous parts, with very little oppor- tunity for comedy. But in this one we do everything but stand on our heads. While I do my aerial act, Clark has a song-and- If Corbinne Luchaire, lovely blonde dance routine that is riotously star of Alexander Korda's "Prison funny. We play the pláno" and Without Bars" had been born, we sing. We do a mind-reading The mountain couldn't get to reared and confined all her life to act. From start to Anish, the Mohamed.

Hollywood, one would not be sur-Picture Was A refreshing ex- Prised to hear her say: "No, I never Perience." |wear a‘bat, never." Because that Gable freely predicts that Miss sounds like the typical declaration Shearer's Irene will startle ber

fang as they have never been this time in one of the year's startled before by her versatility. most delightful comedy roles.

BE RICH

4

So they moved Hollywood - to

London to produce. "We're Going To Be Rich," now showing at the King's Theatre.

י

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY provided a few of the hurdles for

THE GAYEST AND FUNNIEST SHOW IN "MONTHS ! Crazy antics by the Yacht Club Boys, lavish style show, great song bits and a fun filled story.

Way Out est in Paris, France, with BUCK BENNY and bis

JACK BENNY JOAN BENNETT ...

Beautiful Buckarettes!

It's the dip-roaringast unlabes- Ben that ever hit pay foresl

"ARTISTS

AND MODELS ABROAD"

MARY BOLAND CHARLEY GRAPEKTY · SREEL FELD JOYCE COMPTON and TAI YRCHT CLUB HOTS

31 Mbiteli kasall

SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW! ONE DAY ONLY

ROMANCE AND THRILLS SET TO GLOBIOUS MELODY! See the Singing Sweethearts" in their best picture.

Janelle MDONALD ·

VICTOR HERBERTS

NAUGHTY

A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer seruzze

NELSON EDDY

MARIETTA

● MATINEES: 20c.-30¢ • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c.

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DAILY AT 2.30.5.15.7.20,&9.30.P.M. MATINEES 1-204, 106, 40%. -EVENINGS:-20 30% 804. 20

TO-DAY & TO MORROW-2 DAYS ONLY!

THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE COMICS

IN THEIR LAST PICTURE TOGETHER I THE YEAR'S COMEDY SENSATION |

1000 Laugh Packed In 90. minutes Of Screen Fun

HAL ROACH prescĀLES

ATAN

DIIVER

LAUREL HARDY

BLOCK-HEADS

MINNA GOMBELI

PATRICIA ELLIS

ADDED!

Wed. & Thu. Fox Colour Hit

BILLY GILBERT FINLAYSON

BILLY ROSE the Modern Vicki presents his "CABA MANANA REVUE”.

19 ANNABELLA

WINGS OF THE MORNING* Henry Fonds

of a typical Hollywoodite.

and

the

The mountain "in this case was

"But Miss Luchaire does her hat an array of complications in trying to get some of the British actors repudiating in Paris and London. She has yet to set foot within a and actresses to Hollywood. "Con-

The day she walked сд tracts for stage engagements and thousand miles of the world's

set as a "Russian Countess," He popular demand for Gracie. Fields, fim capital She was born

sald, we were speechless.” And (who packed London, theatres) reared in France.

when you can cause a sensation "She recently told an inter-th a motion picture studio, that's viewer: the producers to negotiate.

"I will not Weat any something." Monty Banks, who recently re- formal head-dress, even it, as you turned from England where" he say, hats are being

with directed Victor McLaglen, Gracle evening attire this season. and Brian Donlevy in “We're Going To Be Rich," explained how the 20th Century-Fox Production was achieved.

worn

"Perhaps I buy-a little fine net of the darkest red and wear it over my hair when I go out to dine. Or perhaps I wear a gold comb "The picture," he said. "may studded with pearls. Or two little have been made in Britain, but it bows of gilt ribbon. otherwise is a Hollywood product. True, it introduces Miss Fields.|

7.

ANTIPATHY TO HATS

"If This Is Art-Okay!"

hula girls and other Hawaiian Fredric March, surrounded by

beauties, was reclining on a couch preparatory to the starting of a

England's favourite entertainer to¦ "But I do not wear a head-dress, scene for Trade Winds," the cut-.

some of her first American audien- never:

rent Walter Wanger production in

I do not wear "Bowers in which he is starred with Joan Ben-

ces when It opened yesterday at the my hair, either. Sometimes in the nett. Els head was propped high King's Theatere but many of the day time. I leave my house in a other names are by-words in every hat and within five minutes it is city in the United States.

in my hand. In winter it is the same."

A

Solution No 314...

ACROSS: 1, Petal. 4, Subject. 8, Retinite 9. Apart. 10, Sense. 11. Cheaper. 13, Echo. 15. Deride. 17, Orders, 20, Nude. 22, Resists. 24, Aroma, 26, Flora, 27, Evening. 28, Endless, 29, Smear:

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DOWN: Perused. 2, Titan."3, Linseed. 4, Speech, 5, Blame. 6,

Example. T. Tutor, 12, Hood. 14. Cent. 16, Respond. 18, Reapers. 19, Stagger. 31, Ushers. 22. Ride, 23. Scale, 25, Olive,

on the pillows in deference to the requirements of the camera.

"Is this all right, Tay?" asked March,

Even in her plcture, "Prison "Certainly" Garnett assured Without Bars," Corinne reveals her him. "Why not? antipathy to hats. In Jeveral scenes in which she appears with hat it is not on her head, it is

in her hand!",

But who knows! It may be her polite way ot expressing the

"I have just been wondering."

said March, "If I look as uncom fortable as I feel But if this is

Art-okay!"

thought that some hats, and we DIARY OF LOCAL

have been a lot of ridiculous ones

lately, had better never been born

----nor worn,

CROSSWORD

NO. 315

ACROSS

1 Elected

body (7) Starchy food (4) Elliptical

(4)

9. Old (7)

10 Gossip (4)

12 Dimeult (4)

15. Muscular.

pain (6)

18 Superior

(5) (2)

10 Bond (5)

20 Drive forth

(5)

21 Twists. (5)

23 Kitchen

28 Kitchen

herb (5)

23 Young

animal (4)

29 Stitches (4)

31 Garbage (7) ·

32 Dandy (4)

33 Cattle (4) 34 Implore (7)

DOWN Whip (4)

Garment

3 Sore (5)

Dairy pro- duct (5).

5.. Unwilling

(4)

6. Den. (4)

19 Burning (7)

11 Garb (7)

13 Good-tern.

pered (7)

14 Risks (7)

116

SOLUTION, TO-MORROW

15 Badge (5) 16 To

administer (5) Throb (5) Custom (5) Cereal (5) On top (4) Valid (4)

Bullets (4)

At what

time (4)

EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. --Small Fallness (Hsiao-man). AUCTIONS, Crown Lands,

P. W. D. Offices, 3 p.m.

CINEMAS.-(Bee Column 3 of this

Page),

DANCES.-Cheero

8.30~p.m

Club Dance

LECTURES-First Aid, European- YMCA, 11 aim.; ARP. (Jockey Club) at new Hqrs, 20 Ice House

Street, 5.30 p.m.; in Chinese, at "g" Godown, of HK, and Kow- loon Wharf Godown". Co., Ltd., 7pm. Tung Mul Middle School, 127 Heard Street, Wanchai ̧ - 7| p.m.; Ying Wah College, Kow- loọn, 7.30 p.m; Chinese YMCA, Waterloo Road, Kowloon,7 p.m.; Home Naming in Chinese, Queen Mary Hospital, 8pm. MAILS.--(See Page. 10)..

at

MEETINGS.—St. Andrew's - Church

Medical War Working Party 10

am

| MISCELLANEOUS.—BL. Andrew's Church Teachers Preparation

Class. 7 p.m. ཐ

MONDAY, MAY 22, 1939. -PAGE 5

„AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

, SHOWING TODAY" AT..., 2.30, 510, 7.15

Get-rich-quick Vic and

spend-it-quick Belan battle it out over the ans-and- only Gracia Fields, the con- „tinent's queen of remedy

and malody!

NEXT CHANGETM

20th Century Fox Picture

P.M.

GRACIE FIELDS VICTOR MCLAGLEN

WE'RE GOING

TO BE RICH

BRIAN DONLEVY

A 20th

Century Fox

Also

Musical Mood in Technicolour “VOICES OF · SPRING”

HOLD THAT CO-ED"

JOHN BARRYHOBK

with. GEORGE MURPHY

1STAR

MARJORIE WEAVER

1040 KOVBOOK TEL

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

A doctor's secretiv

told by a doctor!;

A great hore/

a greater film ! ·

DONAT RUSSELL ~ITADEL

THE

with RalphRICHARDSON

Rex HARRISON Emlyn WILLIAMS AKING VÍDOR Production

- Screen Play by lan Dalrymple,Prank Waad, Elisabeth Hill • Additional „Dialogue Emlyn Wiliama • Band "on the novel "The Ciladal” by A. 1. Cronin Produced by Victoräsville

TOMORROW

M.G.M. Picture

730 -8.20

"Must I be ill be

coine to

for You

see me?

57795

"SPRING MADNESS

MAJE/TICI

THEATRE-

MATINEES. 2011: 3ÖKI VEHI

TODAY AND TOMORROW

A delightfully gay story of three beautiful girls who pooled their pennies and went places to

find out for themselves I MILLIONS OF GIRLS HAVE HAD THE SAME DREAM. only these bright-eyed lovelies do something about it!

Loretta

Joel YOUNG MCCREA

THREE BLIND "MICE

DAVID NIVEN STUART ERWIN

MARJORIE WEAVER PAULINE MOORE BINNIE BARNES JANE DARWELL

Drenched by Willan A Sele Bound an à play by Stephen Powys

Dari F Zanuck in Dings of Productta.

Smart clothes,

chance to be seen at the right places...that's all you need a bare. a millionaire at your ful Ab, romance! Ob, what fun!

20th Century Fox

Pictor

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

FAST-MOVING COMEDY REPLETE WITH LAUGHS I PARDON OUR NERVE "LINN BARY. JUNE GALE. MICHAEL WHALEN

"A" 10th ́ ́Century-Fox - Ficture

| MOON.-Chinese TV Moon, 14th

REHEARSALA-Hongkong Sing- ers, Union Church, Kennedy Road. 8.30 pm: HK Philhar- monic Society Orchestral | Sec- tion, at Seamen's Institute, 8.45

RELIGIOUS-St. Andrew's 'Church Fellowship of Youth, 5.30 p.m. SOCIAL-T MOLA... Whist⠀ Drive, | MEISTINGS, Fortnightly, tot

8.80 pm

Urban Counch, at Fost Office ROTARY MEETING. At Building. 4.15 p.m., St. Andrew's Your Hotel Roof Charden, 1 paz Church Mothers, Union 8 pm, SUNRISE 541 am SUNSETÄ Brownie Pack 330 pm, Church. 6.58 p.m. ko

|SPORTS-(See Page 2).

SUNRISE.--541--3am, SUNSET.- $0.59 pm at

TIDEB-High; at 00.07, and: 10.46.

Low at 0418 and 18:17:

TO-MORROW

MOON-Chinese TV Moon,

Day

Connell, 6.p.m. VDMA Com TIDES High at 10.02. Low at 03.40 mites, in the Hall, 8.45 p.m. and 17.28

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