1939-05-29 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Today's

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA Screenings

HONG KONG

AT 230-515-7×20·930RM_

KOWLOON

AT 230-320:720;&⋅ 9:50 PM.

SHOWING TO-DAY

||Limited' ROADSHOW ENGAGEMENT!

Everybody's cheering the multist musical since "The Great Ziegfeld!"

A Big Parade of love, laugh-a

ster, spectacle, music...

without equal?

IN MAGNIFICENT

TECHNI- COLOR!

JEANITTE

·

NELSON

MACDONALD EDDY

in VICTOR HERBERT'S

SWEETHEARTS

Golian Mayer

CTOR BERBIET

Love Songs! ["Pretty Ra A Pacture" "Sathers"

FRANK MONGAN RAY BOLGEN FLORENCE RICE RISCHA AVER HERMAN WINS KZODULE BARDOREN ...

NOTE-This Picture Will Not Be Showa Again in Hong

Kong for at least Six Months.

NEXT CHANGE

AT THE QUEEN'S SWING, SISTER, SWING" Ken Marray

Johnny Downs New Universal Piature

SHOWS DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-9.30

-

WEDNESDAY

AT THE ALHAMBRA .

THE ANGEL" Starring Chen Ton Shang

A Chinese Picturo

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ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD IWANCHAI

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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

FILMDOM'S GREATEST CHARACTER ACTORS! A grand show of laughter, heart-throbs and thrills.

"ME AND YOU... ARE>THROUGH! Who'd Want An Old Tramp Like You... For A Pop!”

THEIR

BEST

YET!

WALLACE

MICKCY

BEERY ROONEY

STABLEMATES

A SAM WOOD PRODUCTION

Screen May by browar 1. Phaskara

*

am. Richard Maibaum

duced 2, HARRY RAPE

FOR TOMORROW & WEDNESDAY

ANOTHER BIG DOUBLE STAGE, AND SCREEN SHOW I

SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTION · AT ALL PERFORMANCES.

COWAN AND BAILEY'S

ALL

NEW SINGING. DANCING AND MUSICAL BEVUE

BIG STAGE SHOW

TWO SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!

ON THE SCREEN.

SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF THE BIG TIME GAMBLING RINĠ 1

Meet the biggest

racketeer in town! He's the guy who takes four-ends out of every. nickel you put in the slot-machine...he neETRY gives a sucker a becak 1.

KING OF GAMBLERS

[Kaur pt the Slot Máčikálne).

A Fremment Pictory and

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Besides the two great stară în Teamed together for the first Blates bouats a really breath

taking array of names. The two time their sensationally sisters of Miss Davis are portrayed cessful careers, Errol Flyan, and by Anita Louise and Jene Bryan, Bette Davis come to the surten their parents are played by Henry of the Majestic Theatre to-day in Travers and Beulah Bondi, and Warner Bros., lavishly produced other important roles are filled by nim version of one of the biggest lan Hunter, Donald Crisp, Dick selling novels of recent years, The Foran, Patric Knowles, Lee Patrick Slaters,"

Myron Bring and Laura Hope Crews.

THE SISTERS the leading roles, the cast of "The

KING'S.

Hongkong

"Valley Of The Giants"

·QUEEN'S --

Sweethhearts"

ORIENTAL:

"Stablematex” ·

CATHAY:

*Hitting A New High"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA.

"Sweethearts”,

STAR-

"Block-Head.”

MAJESTIC:

"The Sisters"

KING'S.

Coming

"Bordertown"

QUEEN'S:

"Swing, Sister. 'Swing” ORIENTAL:

"King of Gamblers* · "The Off Of The

West"

CATHAY:

"A Family Affair"

CINEMA & GENERAL

ONCE A TROUPER

ALWAYS A TROUPER

Every time a new picture in the "Judre. Hardy" series is scheduled. Lewis Stone thinks back to the day, some four years ago, when he tried to retire from Alms.

For Stone is one of the outstanding examples of the yoteran character actors who all their lives had been looking forward to the day when they could, retire and have a good time. And when they reached that day, signed a new contract. Lionel Barrymore, Charlor Grapewin, Marjorie Hambeau are some of the others.

in

On the day when he was all

set to, enjoy the rest of his life VALLEY OF THE

སྙ.........

021

GIANTS"

in leisure, Stopé, lgned a "con- tract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "sold" to him by his friend, Louis B. Mayer. The latter talked

Wayne Morris and Claire Trevor him into staying in pictures. Now head the cast of "Valley of the that the fourth of the "Judge Giants" the technicolor picture Hardy" stories is in production, it based by Warner Bros, on the looks as if the Judge himself, Mr. famous Peter B. Kyrie novel of the Stone, will go on indefinitely.

same name now showing at the Lionel Barrymore wanted to King's Theatre." drop out of acting and become a It is the story of the successful director. He had been the fight waged to prevent the utter screen since 1909. So he began despoliation of California's famous

forest directing, made a name for him-redwood

by ruthless self with "Madame X." starring eastern lumber interests (repre- Bickford) by Charles Ruth Chatterton, and continued (sented with "The Rogue Song" and "Ten around the turn of the century. Golden Cents a Dance."

The picture has two of the most made Then plans were

for hair-raising sequences ever Almed. Norma Shearer to star in "A Free One depicts the rescue of the Soul," Lionel was persuaded to heroine from a runaway freight play the role of the lawyer-father, caboose just a moment before it Stephen Ashe. It won him the reaches a trestle which, with:

1931 Academy award of

and supports deliberately cut away by launched him anew as a star. the villain's henchmen, collapses. From the cast of Test Pilot" he under the weight of four fumber- Colum-laden flat cars. The other shows a has just gone on loan to bla for the stellar role of Grandpa terrific battle between villain and Vanderhof in "You Can't Take It hero atop a dam and the dynamit- Solution No 320

With You."

ing of the dam. ACROSS-1,-Rebate. 4. Bearts 8.

After thirty-seven years of vau- Supporting the two stars is one Leg. 0, Ledges. 11, Ardent. 12. deville and the stage. Charley of the most notable casts ever Spine. 13, Nearer. 16, Smell. 18. Grapewin came to Hollywood to assembled for such a production. But he was enlisted in including Charles Bickford, Frank Tame. 18, Abused. 23, Crisis. 25, retire. Erin. 28, Class, 29, Enrage. 31, The Shannons of Broadway," McHugh, Alan Hale, Jack La Rue. Spite. 33, Artful, 34, Ellent. 35, Ea. with the Gleasons, and although Donald Crisp, John Litel and Dick 36, Steady. 37. Chaste.

he announces his retirement regu-Purcel. DOWN: 1, Relent. 2. Bedlam. Sarly every year now, nobody takes These." Bean. 5, Egress. 6. him seriously any more. Since his Stewed. 7. Settle. 10. Sprays. 147 success as the old father in "The Eat. 15, Rears 17, Meter. 20 Good Earth," he finds he must ge Upsats. 21. Pig. 22. Scraps. 23, on.

ALHAMBRA:

"The Angel"

STAR:

"Mannequin”

MAJESTIC:

"When Were You Born'.

Castle. 24 Issued. 26, Ravens, 27,

Nestle, 20, Neigh. 33, Play..

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CROSSWORD

NO. 321

ACROSS

1 Flower (5)

5 Donations

(5)

8 Lawful (5)

9 Grand (5)

10 Moving (5)

11 Improve

:(5)

14. Night birds

(4).

17 Killed (4) 19 Cascade (7)

20 Continent

(4)

21 All singly

(4)

22 Lean back

(7)

23 Remainder

(4)

25 Drag (4)

28. Boundary

(5)

31 Sphere (5)

32 Buffcient

(5)

33 Performer

(5),

34 Nervous (5)

35 Compass.

potuit (5)

DOWN

1 Dance (5)

2.Appendage

(5)

3 Appeal (4)

4 Monster (4)

5 Please

$. Deadly (5)

7 Com stalk

(5)

12 Wonder (7)

13. Wanting (7).

15 Scrap (5)

18 Begin (5)

17 Precipitious

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

15

(5)

18 Surpass (5) 23 Correct (5)

24 Gale (5) 26 Above (5) 27 Blood

sucker (5) 28 Chlet (4) 29 Obligation

*(4)

30 Get by

work (4)

ISTAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

|:1000 LAUGHS IN 90 MINUTES)

PATRICIA ELLIS

¿MINNA COMBELL

BILLY GILBERT JAMES FINLAYSON

TO-MOBROW

The world's favorite comedy tem returns from the "wor-11:20. years late) Thousands chear THE'S

́Ole's wife that gives them the real receptioni

STAN

LAUREL

CLIVER

HARDY

JOANA

ROACH.

ADS

Meto

BPENCER TRACY

MANNEQUIN

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TU-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. -Whit Monday. Bank Holiday. CINEMAS, (See Column 3 of this

Pages. DANCES-Checro

6.30 p.m.

Club Dance,

ENTERTAINMENTS. Pianoforte Recital by Mr. Harry Ore's Pupils, in St. John's Hall, 5.30 p.m

LECTURES. — A.R.P.,

Cathedral

(Jockey

127

Club), at 20 Ice House Street. 5.30 pm; in Chinese, at "K" Godown, of HK. and Kowloon Whart Godown Co. Ltd., 7 p.m.; Tung Mal Middle School, Heard Street, Wanchal, 7" p.m.; Ying Wah College, Kowloon, 7.30 p.m.; Chinese YM.C.A... Water- loo Road, Kowloon, 7 p.m.; Home Nursing, at Queen Mary Hpa- pital, 6 p.m.

MAILS.-(See Fege 16). MEETINGS.Left"

Group. 9

Book Club

St. Andrew's Church Medical War Working Party, 10 a.mL MISCELLANEOUS,

Pilgrimage

of Catholic Associations to Wong Mau In, New Territories, from Police Pier, 6.30 a.m.; YMCA Launch Picnic, Launch Leaves Kowloon Police Pier at 10.30 am..Returning at 8.30 p.m.: St. Andrew's Church Sunday School Teachers". Preparation Class. 7 p.m." MOON.Chinese TV Mod, 11th.

Day."..

REHEARSALS. Hongkong Sin- gers, Union Church, Kennedy Road, 5.30. p.m.; HK. Philhar- monic Boclety Orchestral Béc- tion, at Seamen's Institute, 8.45 p.m. RELIGIOUS General

Armation at Catholic Cathedral, 1.30 am SOCIAL Y M.CA Whist

Con

Drive,

in the West Lounge, 8.30 p.m.:

St. Andrew's Club "Open" Night, 9 p.m...

|SPORTS--(8ee Page 2),

} SUNRISE—5,40 a.m. SUNSET.

7.01 p.m.

TIDES-High at 04.57 and 16.26.

Low at 10.20 and 22.58.

* TO-MORROW AUCTIONS.-Crown Lands

PW. D. Offices, 3 pm, House- hold Furniture, at No. 2, "Aber- mor Court," May Road, 11 am: | LECTURES,~ARP. First Aid Lec-

ture (Men Only), at YMCA,

8.p.m.

MEETINGS St. Andrew's Church *Brownie Pack, 3.30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. Congrega- Hon at Hongkong University, 8.30 pm MOON-Chinese TV Moon. 12th.

RELIGIOUS St. Andrew's Church

Boys Choir Practice, 8 pm. ROTARY MEETING At Hong- Long Hotel Roof Garden, 1pm. SOCIALS Cheero Club Whist

DRIVE, 8.45 pm

NRISE 539 am - SUNSET.

High at 05.47 and 17.BO. Low at 11:38 and 29.47.

MONDAY, MAY 29, 1939 -PAGE 5

KITY

VAIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

SHOWING TODAY AT 230, 518, 7.15 5 2.30 P.E

THESE TITANS TOWERED ABOVE. WERE ORDINARY MEN AS THIS FRIE TOWERS ABOVE ALL OTHER PICTURES!».

These mighty

adventurers wrote, history with their blood, carved em

pire with their fists! Their glory is the glory of all Americs!

VALLEY OF

THE QIANTS

Prenated by WAYNE

MORRIS

HEMALE CRISP. JACK CARU

WARNER BROS... CLAIRE

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

GREAT CAST. GREAT STORY ... GREAT PICTURE!..

Hers was a love that passes all understanding!

Heart-stirring

His was a love that... just passes on!

Man-wrecking

Flynn Davis

Mith

ANITA LOUISE 1AN HUNTE DONALD CRISP BEULAH BONDI

JANE BRYAN "ALAN HALE

DICK FORAN HENBY TRAVERS PATRIC KNOWLE 11.A ANATOLE LITVAK Prodo

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THE REFUGEES OF TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW SEE, The Unfortunate Victims of War and Persecution!

Owing to the immense popularity of the "Judge Hardy

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