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HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON"

AT 9:30-515·7·20-930 RM AT 230+ 5°20-720 & 9:30 PAL

SHOWING TO-DAY

LIMITED ROADSHOW ENGAGEMENT!

Everybody's cheering the mightiest

musical since "The Great Ziegfeld!"

A Big Parade of love, laugh

ter, spectacle, music.....

without equal!

IN MAGNIFICENT

TECHNI-

COLOR!

JEANETTE

NELSON

MACDONALD EDDY,

VICTOR HERBERT'S

SWEETHEARTS

A Metro-Goktuyn-Maye

VICTOR BERBERT"

Love Songs!

**Pretty As A Payne!"

Smany more!

FRANA MORCAR RAY BOLBER FLORENCE RICE MISCHA AMER HERMAN WING REGINALD BARGSTEN

NOTE This Picture Will Not Be Shown Again in Bong

Kong for at least Six Months.

THURSDAY

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

TO-MORROW

"AT THE ALHAMBRA·

**

Ken Murray

=

Joonny Downs

THE ANGELT Starring Chen Yun Shang

New Universal Picture

4-SHOWS

DAILY

$30 $20

.720 - 8.30

A Chinese Picture.

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD

| KOWLOON

TEL 47222

MATINEES: 20-30% EVENINGS, 20%-30%: 50:700

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

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

Hers was a love

that passes all understanding!

Heart-stirring

ERROL

Flynn

with

ANITA LOUISE

LAN HUNTER DONALD CRISP

BRULAH BONDI JANE BRYAN

ALAN HALE DICK PORAN HENRY TRAVERS. PATRIC KNOWLES. 'g ̈Âa ANATOLE LITYAK Prod's

"

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

Man-wrecking

Davis

The SISTERS

A WARNER BROS. Screen Eventi

[$25003000)

CONTEST

From the Navel by

MYRON LEINIG

Pay by

Sunday

Star Sulner

TOMORROW AND THURSDAY 'WHEN WERE YOU BORN" MARGARET LINDSAY, ANNA MAY WONG Warner Bros. Astrological Sensation la

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS. w

CATHAY

DAILY AT 2.30,5.15.7.20.69.30.P.M. MATINEES 1.20%, 30%. 4«., EVENINGS 1–262, 30%, 50s, 70c. Hội, TO-DAY & TO-MORROW 2 DAYS ONLY L Introducing JUDGE HARDY'S FAMİLY in the Very

First One of a Series of Pictures }

A STORY FOR EVERY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER AND

EVERY FATHER'S SON !

LIONEL BARRYMORE

A family Affair

Metro

THURSDAY

with Mickey Roone?]

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers in

1 day only "ROBERTA” starring Irene Dunne

•

FRE "LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD Chester Morris

SAT.

Anne Shirley

MISSIONARY | ONE YEAR OLD! Barbara Stanwyck, star of Cect William A. Wellman, director-

B. De Mille's "Union Pacific" now producer of the technicolour epic. to production at Paramount, had of aviation, "Men With Wings" took two early ambitions to be either Penny Forbes of the cast to lunch a missionary to China or a dancer daily for a week, but key-holers Uke Isadora Duncan,

will be let down when they learn She did become a dancer- that Perny is only one year old!

Penny Broadway but the closest she ever

This year-old actress plays the

came to being a missionary was

when she taught. Sunday School Bart of Lówlé, tamplia and

In Brooklyn

| FZED MACKENFray'% MANERLEF

Today's Screenings

KING'S.

Hongkong

"Valley Or Thé" Glânts" QUEEN'S:

'Sweethheart”

ORIENTAL:

"King Of Gamblers" CATHAY:

"A Family Affair"

Kowloon

'ALHAMBRA.

"Sweethearts" ·

STAR.

"Mannequin“

"MAJEŠTIC:

"The Sisters"

KING'S.

Coming

"Bordertown"

QUEEN'S:

"Swing, Sister, Swing"

ORIENTAL:

+

"The Girl Of The

West"

CATHAY:

"Roberta"

ALHAMBRA:

CINEMA "&" GENERAL

Advice From A Young Lady Who Knows

"Every girl" should work, at least until she is married.” Florence Bice was sincere sa she made the statement. She works despite her father's protést, for Grantlang Rico wants her to travel with him as he "cover" the bigtest sports events In America....

"I decided upon secting when I was a little girl." the actress con- tinued. "At that time, it was the glamour of the theatre, not the prospect of a job, which appealed to me. Lately, seeing so many

MUSICIANS HELP GOVERNMENT

LUCKNOW -Musicians are

be-

girls ill-equipped for anything. I thg dngaged at Government ex- know that every girl should plan pense in the United Provinces her life so that, if necessary, she to help in the work of rural de- could take care of herself:"/

velopment.

Miss Rice has risen rapidly on They will tour the country in the screen in the past year with vans and entertain the villagers such pictures as "Navy Blue and with Vocal and instrumental Gold," "Romance for Three" and music. other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 'pro- ductions.

It is stressed that songs and re- citations should have по com- "When I graduated from high munal or political bias. school, every speech told of the The Government is understood Importance of a boy having a to have sanctioned a frant of vocation, of being prepared to 2,070 rupes (about £156) to earn his living. Nothing was said nance this work for three. Golden about girls. That's all wrong. To-

"Law Of The Underworld"

11

"The Ange?"

* "Boys Town" STAR:

"Artists And Models Abroad" MAJESTIC:

"When Were You Born" "Kentucky Moonshine"

LATEST · CINEMA EQUIPMENT

DEMONSTRATION

IN SINGAPORE

day, it is just as important for "a girl to know how to do some particular thing well as it is for a boy,"

A Distinction

Joe E. Brown Back Again:

The actress draws a distinction Joe E. Brown is back at. the between jobs and a career. She Gower Street, studio,, eager to be feels that a career is important gin "Spook House" with his next enough to occupy the strictest laugh riot. Joe's dressing room attention of man or woman, but will adjoin Buster Keaton's. The that a job is something which latter will star in a series of acts as insurance against poverty.comedy shorts.

"It is a terrible thing to see One big picture is often sum- girls, married as soon as they leave, cient to tax a studio's research high school, forced to support facilities, so Columbia, with three' themselves and in many cases, epics in preparation, has had to familles

enlarge its department...

It isn't poor girls alone who The Alms are "Tree of Liberty" should have a trade or occupation "Arizona," and "The Lost Atlantis" to fall back on. Many girls, of (fabled lost continent); wealthy parents, have seen

fortunes wiped out. They are more

helpless than their poorer sisters. DIARY OF LOCAL

for they aren't prepared to work. nor to sacrifice the luxuries which

At the invitation of the Wes-made life so appealing. tern Mectric Company of Ašiš,

"If I had my way, I would have a large number of people gather-every girl, when she entered high

school, choose some ed at the Adelph! Hotel in Singa-

trade, pore, recently, to see the latest occupation or profession which models and equipment which the she must learn as thoroughly as Company has, produced.

of

'These' included specimens the equipment which will be in-

her other lessons."

stalled at the new Cathay cinema NEW PICTURES

were

in Singapore, including the super. simplex projector, which is

Edith Fellows is to star in the the last world in cinema apparatus.

famous "Five Little Peppers" Also in the exhibition

novels of Margaret Sidney Lothrop. Western Electric hearing aids and Columbia has acquired nine of the medical equipment. Mr. F. P. works and will present Edith in Young of the Western Electric three annually.

Company, and Mr. F. 3. Woods, The same lot is the scene of of the Scientific Instrument Com-Richard Arlen's latest picture, and pany, and others demonstrated a serial based upon the fascina- the various exhibits to the visitors, ting Mandrake, the Magican:**

Solution No 321 :

Arlen La being featured with Rochelle Hudson in- "Missing | Daughters" which includes Marian

Marsh and Isable Jewell

ACROSS: 1, Tullp. 5, Gifts. 8,

"Mandrake" is being brought to Legal. 9, Noble. 10, Astir. 11,fe in the person of Warren Hull, Amend. 14, Owls. 17, Slew, 19. Tor- who draws Doris Weston as his rent. 20. Asía. 21, Each 22, Re pretty leading lady. cline 23, Rest 25 Full 28,-Hedge, 31, Globe. 32, Ample. 33, Actor, 34, Timid. 35, North,

Helen Twelvetrees, currently DOWN: 1, Tango, 2 Label. 3.Pammount, won first fame with featured in "Me and My Car at Plea. 4, Ogre. 5. Glad. 6, Fatal, her dramatic performance in the Straw. 12. Miracle. 13, Needing. 15,

Broadway Waste. 18, start. 17, Steep. 18, American Tragedy."

production of "A Excel. 23, Right. 24. Storm. 26, Up- Broadway and Hollywood.

At present per. 27, Leech. 28, Head. 29. Duty. 30. Earn

CROSSWORD

NO: 322

ACROSS

1 Selects (7)

5 Pattern. (5)

8 European

country (7)

9 Wilful

firing: (5)

10. Ship's

record (3)

[12] UBBR. «(6)

15 Garland (8)

16 Mad (6)

"17" "At that

time (4)

19 Dry (4) 20. Frighten- Wing (6)

22 Sword (6) 23 Filched (8)

26 Colour (3)

28 Likeness

(5)

29 Dreary · (5)· 31 Quality (7)

DOWN

22

120

6. Hopeless.

Dess (7)

7 Ate meal

(7)

11 PossessorE"

2 Fertile

1 Beat (5)

apot (5) Etre

(6). (4)

13 Evil (31

14 On Jand (8)

Buinted (6)

17 #thred (7)

131

#

SOLUTION TO-MORROW:

16

13 Define (7)

(A

19 Confusion

20 By this (6) 21 Irritates

24 Bour fruit

(B)

25 Prod (5) 27 Defy (4)

EVENTS

TO-DAY

Whit

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS.

Decoration Day, ~ (UBA) Tuesday, St. Joan of Arc, AUCTIONS.--Crown Lands,

Pt

P. W. D. Offices, 3 p.m.; House- hold Furniture, at No. 3, "Aber- mor Court," May Road, 11 am. CINEMAS.-(See Column 3 of this

Paja). LECTURES.-A.R.P., Modined Full Course at United Services Re- creation Club, Kowloon, 11 am.; at La Salle College, 6 p..: at Queen's College, 7 p.m.; at St. John's Cathedral Hall (for HK. firms) 5.30 p.m.; Lusitano Club. 5.30 p.m.; Diocesan Junior Girls' School, 6. p.m.; Maryknoll Con- vent School, 4 p.m.; in Chinese at Queen's College. 7 p.m.;·· Taf. Tung School, Kak Hung Tsun

·Road. 1 p.m.; Chinese YWCAL Bonham Road, 4.30 p.m. First Aid (men only), at European YMCA, 6 p.m. MATA(Bee Pege 16),

·MEETING. . www Rotary Meeting, Hongkong Hotel-1-p.m. Hon- kong Jockey Club Half-Yearly Meeting of Voting Members, at Club House, Happy Valley, 6.30 p.m. Kowloon Chess Club, in Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m. MOON-Chinese VI Moon 12th.

Day.. RELIGIOUS.—Prayer and Fellow- ship Meeting at S. & 8. Home, 8.30 p.m. SOCIAL-Y.MCA Bridge, 10 am: Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45. p.m.; Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola, 9 p.m.; Gather- ing-at-Club Lusitano, in honour of. Dr. Alvard Brilhante. Dabo- rinho, on the occasion of his transference to Johnnesburg. 5.30 p.m.

SPORTS (Sea Page 2). SUNRISE-5.39 · am-·

7.62 D.M.

SUNSET.

TIDES.-High at 07.12 and 20.21.

·· Lów at 00.30 and 13.57,

________TO-MORROW

MEETINGS, St.-Andrew's Club Medical War Working Party. 10a.m.; Cathedral Bocial and Pastoral Committee Meeting, On- thedral Hall 5.80 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 10 am; Yi Mỗ Q A Women's Bection:" Bandaging demonstration, 11

MOON-Chinese TV Moon, 18th,

Day.

SOCIAL-Whist Drive and Tom- bola in Garrison Sergeants!

|SUNRISE"=539 am SUNSET...

7.02.pm/

TIDES High at 08.31 and 19.12.

Low at 13.04.

will play stile

TUESDAY MAY 30, 1939-PAGE 5

\ AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING. TODAY AT 136, 120, 1.35 J

THESE TITANS TOWERED ABOVE MERE ORDINARY MEN AS THIS FILM 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 America!

VALLEY OF

THE QIANTS

WAYNE

MORRIS

S'HAN RENDER DERALD CHIP.

JACK LORUE

WIR KEIGHLEY.

WARNER BROS. „ RINOLATRÉ

ALSO LATEST

MUSICAL COMEDY

NEXT CHANGE Warner Bros.

Picture

TREVOR

ALAN, BALK

LUM LATEL

SEE

ing Cafiferus's Juences!

MOVIE MANIA

PAUL MUNI

BETTE DAVIS in

BORDERTOWN"

ISTAR

ΤΟ MORROW

4 SHOWS

DAILY 230-500

TODAY ONLY

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

Joan CRAWFORD Spec TRACY MANNEQUIN

ALAN CURTIS RALPH MORGAN

A FRANK BURZAZE, Production - ›› Dowetod by FRANK BÚRISAE

Jack. Benay

Joan Bennett

"ARTISTS AND MODELS ABROAD

TAKE ANY THAM OR HAPET VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

3 ROAD

EXTRA SPECIAL FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

GIGANTIC STAGE AND SCREEN SHOW COMBINED TWO BIG SHOWS

FOR THE PRICE OF ONE APPEARING ON THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES

COWAN AND BAILEY

and their big American Vaudeville Revue company of. singers, dancers, comedians and musical artists,

HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE

BiG. STAGE SHOW

ON THE SCREEN

PARAMOUNT'S BIG THRILL SENSATION!

thousand dollar a minute was the pay-off.

[THE PICTURE ILLUSTRATES HOW THE GAMES ARE FIXEDÍ

amazing inside story

d-a-year

racket

KING OF GAMBLERS

CLAME TREVOR LLOYD NOLAN

·ARSA TAMIROFF - LARRY CRABBE HELEN BURGESS PORTER HALL

DAY ONLY BY REQUEST

Nelson Eddy and

sence of others

THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST":

MAT:tf

* EVENINGS: 20c. 13c.-Jun.-70%.

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