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IDIOT'S DELIGHT"
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Today's Screenings
KING'S:
"
Hongkong
Thanks For Everything"- QUEEN'S:
"The Kid From Texas"
ORIENTAL:
"Prison Break”
CATHAY:
"Hold That Co-ed"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Grand Jury's Secrets"
STAR:
"Rosalle"
*MAJESTIC:
"Test Pilot"
KING'S:
Coming
"I Am The Law" QUEEN'S:
"Idiot's Delight" ORIENTAL:
"Garden Of The Moon" "Romance & Rhythm" -
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY CATHAY
DESPERATE MEN IN A BREAK FOR FREEDOM!
An exciting murderous prison riot and wholesale jail break that gives you a thrill a minute.
Universal's Thrill Drama
PRISON BREAK
Barton MacLANE A Glenda FARRELL
2 DAYS ONLY-TOMORROW & SATURDAY
A SHOW WITH A THOUSAND HILARIOUS, MOMENTS! -
A big picture filled with song. bits, novelty and laughter.
PAT O'BRIEN · JOHN PAYNE MARGARET LINDSAY - Itmax FIDLER
THE WORLD'S SWANKIEST SWING SPOT
GARDEN of the MOON
• MATINEES: 20c.-30e ® EVENINGS: 20c.-30e.-50c,-70c.
DAILY
AT
2:30
$-20
720
HANKOW
KOWLOON
STARE
TODAY ONLY
ROSAL
STARRING
TO-MORROW
MOM Picture
Pilier EDDY Eleanor POWELL
FRANK MORGAN - EDNA MAY OLIVER
PAY BULECH, ILONA MAZSEY, HEYCUBIRT
REGINALD BWEN
57795
• Mickey Booney Spencer Tracy in "BOYS TOWN"
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS. w
CATHAY
DAILY AT
2,30,5.15.7.20,89.30.P.M.
• TO-DAY ONLY-LAST 4 SHOWS!" SPARKING AND LARKING SINGING AND SWINGING I WHAT FUN THE YEAR'S GREATEST LAUGH-RIOT FROM 20th CENTURY FOX!:
PACKED WITH PLAYERS PICKED FOR LAUGHS!
To-morrow
Saturday
18th JULY
HOLD
THAT CO-ED
JOHN BARRYMORE GEORGE MURPHY MARJORIE WEAVER JOAN DAVIS-JACK HALEY-
· DEOROS BÄRSEN - KOTH TREKY
| DONGALI MAROC-JOHNNY DOWNS
A 20th Century-Fog Picturs
The Mightiest Italian Production
SCIPIONE AFRICANO
7 super-productions.
begins SUNDAY ANOTHER NEW REVIVAL WEach for ONE day only!:
SUN: TOPPER" starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant MON: HAYTIME" starring Jeanette Has Donald, Nelson Eddy TUE: Treasure Island" starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper WED: BABES IN TOYLAND starring Taurel and Hardy THU: DAVID COPPERFIELD" with a cast of ch playera PRI JUZY starring Jean Harlow Franchot Tone SAT "The FIREFLY starring JEANETTE MasDONALD
CINEMA & GENERAL
"Peck's Bad Boy With The
Circus"
ALHAMBRA:
"Idiot's Delight"
STAR:
"Boys' Town”
"Trople Holiday” MAJESTIC:
"Citadel"
"THANKS FOR EVERYTHING”
AT THE KING'S
A cast of high and low comedy
experts, combined with some of
the loveliest red and blonde beauty on the screen, has tackled a fresh and original idea in "Thanks for Everything" and has whaled it Away into one of the most enter- taining pictures 20th Century-Fox has ever turned out
The King's Theatre where this film opens to-day, is enjoying the of "this scandalously presence funny picture and the bubbling anties of its cast of glamor, wit and nitwit that includes Adolphe
Menjon, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley. Arleen Whelan, Tony Martin. Bin- Die Barnes, George Barbier and Warren Hymer,
Everything"
ex
"Thanks for pounds the droll idea that there is such a thing as a Mister Average Man in this, our great country. Its plot, through its plotters-same being a saturnine Adolphe Menjou and a Doskish Jack Oakle-pro- ceeds to locate this specimen man. and then to probe and explore to see what makes him tick
GIVES PARTY IN AIR
CROSSWORD
NO. 359
ACROS
4 Stored (7)
8 Foreign (6)
Hauteur (7)
11 Fright (6) 14 Aged (3) 15 All (5)
17 Singly (5)
18 Encounter
(4)
19 Abrupt (5)
21 Teams (5)
25 Wooden
shoes (5)
28 Carry (4)
37 During (5)
28 Duck (5)
36 Inclined (3) 32 Quality, (6) 33 Mixed
fabric. (7)
34 Occupant
(6)
35" Blame (7)
1
DOWN
Afternoon
meal (7)
2 Wooed (7)
3 Navigator
(5)
5 Set of
8
three (4)
6 Taper (6)
7 Stretch (6)
10 Tumbler (5)
12 Decay (3)
13
Proportion (5)
18 Shelf (5)
20 Gum (5)
21 Slumbered
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Solution No. 358
ACROSS: 1, Poplar.",
Bestow
(5)
170
22 Reading (7) 23 Holy
men (7)
24 Select (6),
23 Holds
tightly (8)
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939. —PAGE.
LAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE "SHOWING" TODAY 17 136 516 7.
36 Wager (3)
29 Valleys (5)
31 Rend (4)
NEXT CHANGE
7. Partition 9, Shun. 10, Fort, 11, COMING EVENTS
Mixed. 13, Nickel. 14, Rested. 15, JULY
Stails. 17, Source. 19, Seven. 20 Reel 22, Lamp. 23, Dismissal. Tavern 25. Notice.
24,
DOWN: 1, Patson, 2, Lean Retall 4, Bitter. 5, Shop. 6, Want-. ed. 7, Purchased. 8. Noctural. 11. Meals. 12, Demon. 15, Strict.
18. Seamen. 17, Season. 21, Lime, 22, Last."
3.
16, Expire.
CZECH DOCTORS FOR BRITAIN
IJ
Fifty Czech doctors are to be Permitted to study in Britain with a view to obtaining the qualifica- tions to practise there.
The minimum period of study before they may be placed on the British medical register is three years. Until they are on the re- gister they cannot practise.
This is the arrangement which has been made between the Home Orice and the British Medical As- sociation. Their permit to stay in for the period of study only, and their residence here depends on their qualifying.
It is possible that a few others may be allowed to come to Britain. ior research and other special work in which they are qualified, but they will not be allowed to prac tase
Fifty Austrian doctors were admitted last year on the same principle of studying for the Bri- tish degree.
DUKE OF KENT AS "100 P.C. AUSTRALIAN"
bundred
ex-
As the Pan-American flying boat Yankee Clipper. carrying
A Hope that he would be re- U. B. Government ceived in Australia as a twenty-one observers to Southampton, droned per cent. Australian" was over the Atlantic at 5,000rt, the presed by the Duke of Kent at an passengers stood up to toast the Australia Club dinner in London
first guest of honour at the birthday party ever to be held over the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the fortieth birthday of Mr. Juan T. Trippe, president and general manager of Pan-American Airways, and the passengers threw the party, as a surprise.
The story was told when the Yankee Clipper reached Southamp ton after flying from New York via Shediac (New Brunswick). Botwood (Newfoundland) Foynes (Eire),
'and
Welcomed By Mayor The party was given a trič of by the Mayor reception Southampton, and Sir Francis Eheimerdine, Director-General or Civil Aviation, greeted them ou behalf of the Air Ministry. revealed Bi Francis
that Imperial Airways hoped to start their transatlantic service in August. -
Shortly before the Yankee Cipper, arrived at Southamp ton the Dicle Clipper, another Pan-American Airways - craft, left Fort Washington, N., on the first paring-passen KOF fish!
Worth
Atlantic.
Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin, who recently refurned to London to consult his medical advisers arrived back in Berlin on Tuesday,
on June 26.
"I remember the King after his in return from nis visit to you 1927, saying how pleased he had been when he realised that be was being received in the com- monwealth, not as somebody from Europe paying a visit, but as hundred per said the Duke.
EL.
13-Tides: High 5.25 8.1, and 7.10 p.m. Low 1.21 pm, and 11:26 pm,
Sunrise 5.45 am Sunset 1.11 p.m.
Women's Fellowship *Cathedral Bridge and Mahjongg Drive 3 p.m.
St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship Charity Whist. Bridge and Mahjongg 3.p.m
Art Exhibition at 81. Wyndham St. 10 am to 6 pm.
YMCA "Keep Fit Class
10.30.
a.m., Mxd. Swimming 6 pm, Badmin- ton 8.30 p.m.
5.
HK T's Men's Club Speaker: Mr. B. Tan The Romance of Photo-
Home" by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sin at 17, Kent Road. Kowloon, 7p.m. 3rd Exec. Comtee. Mtg. Sino-Ameri can Institute of Cultural Relations 5.30 p.m.
P
14-Tides: High 6.16 am and 8,23 Sunrise 5.45 am Sunset 7.11 p.m.
Low 1.07 pm. St. Paul's Girl Sch. Speech Day 6.30 p.m.
Art Exhibition at 61, Wyndham St. 10 am to 4p.m.
a.m
Women's Health League Classes for Children start at Kowloon C.C., 9.30 Crown Land Sale (D.O. South) 11 am.
Central British School YMCA
swimming Gala 9-11 m.
Preach National Fete: Reception at French Consulate, Peak Road, 11.80
of Painting But 18-Exhibition Cathedral Fall by Miss Liang Pao- tze.
Art Exhibition at 61, Wyndham St, 10 am to 8 pm.
HX and Y Ferry Co.'s Bathing Panlion at Bilver Mine Bay Opening 4 pm
Commerce.
Chinese Chamber of mection of Oficers
18-Y's Men's Club Launch Picnic. H.K. Cycling Club Outing 9.30 am. YMCA, Discussion Group 9 DAN. Speaker: Rev. D. Rosenthall,
-Military Police Mess Whist and
Tombala
8.30 p.0.
Criminal Bessions Open 10 am Crown Land Sale, P.W.D. 3 p.m. YMCA. Whist Drive 8.30 p.m.
18-Keyloon Union Ch, Mahjonge Drive. 3
TMCA
8.30 p.m.
Bridge 10 am. Badminton Mxd. swimming 6 p.m.
Cocktail Party on
Man 4 to 6 p.m.
Argentena
TMC Women's Sec Bridge and Mahjongg 10 min.
30-Crown Land Sale (D.Ö. Ping- shan) 11,30 am,
China Emporium Annual Mtz. 4 p.m. Christ Church Wedding-Goodban Simpson
YMCA Mtg. of Voluntary Helpers. re, St Andrew's Fair 11 s.m.
T-EKRA Ann Gen, Mtg. China Fleet Club 5.30 p.m.
YMCA Badminton 8,30 pm: Mixd. Swimming & pm
22-YMCA Launch Picnic 2,30 p.m. Entries close for All-Cycling
Military Police Meas Whist and Tembois, 8.30 pm.
Mig
28-HK.VDC. Annual Aquatic
cent. Australian Sports, V.RO.
31 Rates for Third Qtr. payable in advance.
CENTRAL
Daily at 12.30, 2.30, 3,15,
7.20 & 9.30 pm
PRICES: 46c., 580. #80c.
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Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going: West, 3 min. from stop opposite Queen's
TODAY AND TOMORROW
A sensational Drama of To-day!
The struggle for Liberty in s Totalitarian State!
Asia" Film of China Present".
NO GREATER SACRIFICE
AUS..R PRODUCTION HE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
"Mister Avera Nimself,
upping you average in the freshest fun-hit of the yourƐ
Thanks for Everything
ASOLINE
MENJOU OAKIE HALEY
TONT
·WHELAN - MARTIN • BARNES
ÖRORGE BARIKER - WARREN HYMER
Directed by Wilan A. Saber A 2016 Casturýlar Platoon
· Durrył F. Zusuck in Charge at Praduate
Also Vynyan Donner's
*FASHION FORECAST " in TECHNICOLOUR
Columbia Picture
EDWARD G. ROBINSON in
1 AM THE LAW"
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN SO KOWLOON-DARY ET 2. $5-5,20°
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