1939-06-03 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HỒNG KÔNG

KOWLOONE

4T 230-313-7-80:930 RM AT 830 +5°20-780 9:30 PM

SHOWING TO-DAY

THE UNFORGETTABLE DRAMA OF A PRIEST WHO GAMBLED HIS LIFE'S WORK... ON THE REGENERATION OF A BOY!

STARS OF "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS“ in their greatest hit! Drama that packs laughter and tears ...a mighty wallop at your hearti

LPENCER

TRACY RODNEY

NICKET

BOYS TOWN

NENEY

DENE

HULL · FENTON · REYNOLDS

At The QUEEN'S Only

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TO-NIGHT at 9.80 P.M.

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The entire surplus receipts for this performance of "BOYS TOWN" will be donated to the" Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children,

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Today's Screenings

KINGY.

Hongkong

"Four Daughters"

QUEEN'S:

"Boys' Town” ORIENTAL:

"Judge Hardy's Children" CATHAY:

"Law Of The Underworld"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA.

"Boys' Town"

STAR⭑

"Dodsworth"

MAJESTIC:

"Kentucky Moonshine"

KING'S

Coming

"Just · Around The Corner” "King Of The Turf"

QUEEN'S:

"Saint Strikes Back" ORIENTAL: "

"Sciashing The Spy Ring"

"If I Were King".

CATHAY:

"Way Out West"

"A Tale of Two Cities" ALHAMBRA:

"A Girl With Idens"

STAR:

"Three Smart Girls” MAJESTIC:

"Kidnapped"

“KIDNAPPED"

AT MAJESTIC ....

CINEMA, & GENERAL

From the world's great stories come the greatest motion pictures and "Kidnapped," "which Robert

•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY Louis Stevenson considered his

PAT MILLION LAUGHS FROM MICKEY RONEY!

A Block of heart-throbe and excitement as the Hardy family

takes you on their newort, grandest adventure. ·

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CEQUIA

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Directed by GEORGE E. FEITZ

Step out on NEW adventures, heart- warming and hilarious ...with MickeyRooney, the Kid who lacked America, and the rest

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Children

Another story of Judge Hardy's family - Metro Gouyn-Mayer nerus

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TOMORROW

Deanna Durbin in “*3 SMART GIRLS"

best, proves this axiom to the hüt to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre, where the, aim will be I screened.

With the typical lavish hand that ear-marks all the 20th Cen- tury-Fox productions which come under the watchful eye of Darryl F Zanuck, Kidnapped" brings an array of fine motion picture thrills to the screen in a romantic adventure story..

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Roger Converse's work short subject won him

PASCAL AND "G.B.S"

When Gabrial Pascal, pro- dacer of George Bernard Shaw's "Pyrmation." inter- viewed Shaw, he did not men- tion the object of his visit, merely discussed Alms in gen- GILLA Then they discussed "Tyrmalion” and Shaw cock- ed a critical car whila' he " listened to Pascal's idena.

A grin fitted across Pascal's face when Shaw said he could have the film rights on two conditions: That the film be produced in England and that the cast would be British.

When Pascal said that he in tended this anyway and that he in a had hoped to star Leslie Howard im-in the part of Professor Higgins, ¡portant assignment in "The the speech expert, Shaw became

Shining Hour." Frank Borzage, enthusiastic.

An

director of the new picture was Pascal not only signed. Leslie looking at a group of short sub-Howard, but also secured William jects in 2 projection room at P. Lipscomb, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, He

one of Hollywood's was most successful scenarists to write so impressed by the work Con-the script with Cecil Lewis. verse that he selected the young Wendy Hiller is co-starred with actor for the role,

Howard.

CANDID CAMERA CLIPS

"Golden Boy" was found and

Frank Capra started "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," to give Hollywood its most im- portant news-blue-eyed, brown-haired, 21 year-old William Hol- den of Pasadena was the "youth who ended Columbia's year- long quest for Clifford Odets' violinist-prizedghter hero.

"Golden Boy" enters production shortly with Holden, Bar- bara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou and Sam Levene among play- » ers chosen to date.

Rouben -Maroulian will direct.

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," after months of intensive preparation and the building of 43 elaborate sets, starta, of all places, in a tiny phone booth.

Claude Rains plays the first scene, and Jean Arthur and James Stewart are co-starred in the brilliant romantic comedy. Howard Hawks completed "Only Angels Have "Wings" just in time: he had been using the "Capra crew", the same cameramen.. electricians, grips, etc.. who have aided the prize-winning direc- tor on all his recent successes and the group, to a man, Was assigned to "Mr." Smith Goes to Washington."

Alexander Hall is organizing a coyote hunt. Hall, currently directing Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas in "Good Girls Go to Paris Too," has 18,000 turkeys on his Banta Susanna ranch, and coyotes lately have been making nightly ralds on the flock. Wesley Ruggles trained out for New York. He will take a vacation in Europe before starting "Arizona", the Clarence Budington Kelland novel starring Jean Arthur.

Fenny Singleton's many friends will be glad to know that ahe's better. The populer star of Columbia's "Blondie" series was removed to a Santa Monica hospital recently, suffering from bronchiaj "pneumonia,

Warner Baxter portrays in all his. swashbuckling, vigorous best, the never-to-be-forgotten Alan Breck, fugitive clansinan of the In E. M. Bupreme Court in "highlands.

Shanghal on May 29, before Judge And Freddie Bartholomew, a Sir Allan Mossop, a decree nist was size or two larger than when he granted to Mrs. Barbara McCann, last appeared so brilliantly on the who petitioned for the dissolution of screen, gives a fine performance her marriage to Mr. Edward Guy to the role of David Balfour, the Fuller McCann. Mr. J. R. Jones

appeared for the petitioner.

boy hero of the piece.

CROSSWORD

NO. 326

ACROSS

1 Stúff (4)

5 Farm

animals (4)

8 Come to (6)

9 Burdens (5)

11 Uncommon

(4)

12 Reveal (B) 15 Playthings

(4)

17 Dull pain

(4)

18 Chler town

(7)

15

19 Inquire (3)

30M

20 Not many

(2)

21 Foolish (7)

23 Partiality

(4)

24 As well (4)

27 Force (8)

31

30 Com

panion (4) Serpent (5) 32 Illuminant

(8)

DOWN Prepared (5)

Collection (4)

Spoken (4)

5. Com plant

(8)

33 Expert-

8 Without

enced (4)

value (9)

7 Behemé

(4)

34 Stone fruit

·(4)

SOLUTION ON MONDAY

:

129

10 Circular

plate (4) 13. Fad-'(7) 14 Gets (7) 16 Stubborn

(9)

21 View (6) 22 Cain by

toll (4).

25. Fewest (5) -23 Above. (4), 28 Flank (4)

29 Epent (4)

BRITISH NAVAL ARMAMENT

Order For 75 New Ships Sanctioned

LONDON, June 1 CT/Ocean)- The extent of British · naval armament is revealed in a sur- vey published by the "Daily Tele- graph" this morning in which it is pointed out that during the past two years orders have been given to the Clyde shipyards for 75, ships, having a total value of £53.000.0000.

At the present time nine *bat- tleships are under construction, tive in the 35,000-ton class "and four of 40,000 tons. The com struction of further battleships is planned in fullfilment of the British promise to Australia to place a battleship feet in the Pacific.

The work on the Ave battle- skip of the King George class is to be accelerated because these are regarded as necessary for maintenance of the naval balance jot power in view of the exten- sive construction programmes of Germany, Italy and Japan.

The Admiralty yesterday placed Jorders for the construction of the Arat two battleships of 40,000 tons. The two ships, according to the "Daily Telegraph" this. morning. ere to be named HMA. Lion and H.MS. Temeraire.

EAGLE WITH. WOODEN LEG

MILAN, May 10 An eagle captured in the Alps, which was put into a cage at Aosta raliway station, had a leg broken during Its capture, and this apparently caused the bird much suffering.

Solution No. 325

A will written in Chinese charac- The local veterinary *surgeon, ters with a brush was admitted to moved to pity, amputated the ACROSS 1 Cuper. 5, Cupid. 8, probate by the Register of Wills in broken leg and substituted a skil- Evoke. 9. Awalt. 10. Drell 11, Rue Philadelphia. It disposed of the fully made wooden one

12, Tense, 14, Modesty 17, Wealth $1,300 estate of Lee Kee and was The newspapers say that the 19, Actual 22, Steeple, 25, Marks, dated "Eighth month, 29th day of royal bird bore the operation 23, Far. 29 Easel. 30, Azure. 31/ the 27th year of the Chinese Re-well, and is now quite happy Award. 32, Mayor. 33, Ended public which was August 29, 1938. jumping about on its artificial DOWN: 1. Craft, 2, Plain. 3, Re-Wang Chao, a Columbia University leg, and showing its gratitude to treat. 4, Bolemn 5 Ceded. 6, Props, graduate, was called to translate the surgeon. It gets into 8. TREE 7. Delay, 13 Exert. 15, Eat. 16, the will. I left everything to Tong only when it seen the Thank 18, Le 29 Comrade 21. Shee, the testator's widow, and running about on the Deleat 22, 8team. 23, Fasay, 24, their son, Lee Sun, both of whom and crying the news-which Polar. 23, Round. 27, Speed. Fare living in Ching.

SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1939. -PAGE 5

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Everyone A Knockout.

Laurel & Hardy in their Funniest

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Naison Eddyn

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