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THE ROMANTIC TRIUMPH OF THE SEASON

A POIGNANT STORY OF LOVE AND DECEPTION!

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Stolen Life

Subyens Chauve ščetke Korvath Herters

Paliane med Disaster by PAIL CZARER

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Produced by SOLIESSER, Directed by Edward F. Cisa. Sean Pay by Al Mertin, David Boehm, Jabat Hesta.

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"Road Demon"

CINEMA & GENERAL

ROCKY ROAD TO SCREEN SUCCESS: VIRGINIA GREY'S

"FIRST LEADING ROLE

FROM LITTLE EVA” TO BEING PICKED UP BY THE NAPE' OF THE NECK AND DROPPED OFF THE END OF A WHART IN HER FIRST BIG LOVE SONGE! That may not seem, to most girls, like gobig anywhere in partimular along the rocky road' to screen succción. But Virginia Grey thinks It's great.

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that final fade-out, Susan Thorson really marries Rocky Blake, she will be virtually # kislem belda. Either that, or Cameraman Jołu Selts wasn't looking!

"No girl can look very pretty in a predicament like that," said Miss Grey, "But if she can ever get in It, maybe she can convince her audience that she is an actress. And being acclaimed as an 'actress should be the goal of every girl ini · Miss Grey gives one the impres- pictures. A great many girls are mom that the only one with whom beautiful, either by accident of she is really in love is Busan birth or by choice of clothes and Thorson herself. The part fits the make-up. But it takes more than ambitious young actress perfectly. that to be an actress-years of pre-Up to now," Virginis has played the paration, training, determination siren, other woman, the glamour

giri. Boy With The and plenty of hard work" Hackneyed Way

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Rio Grande Ranger"

STAR:"

"Peck's Bad

Circus"

MAJESTIC:

"Girls SchoolTM

"BORDERTOWN"

Mits Grey is one who does not

More Human "There's something more human,

(think it necessary to fall into more real, about Busan Thorson.** clinging Hollywood clinches with Miss Grey déclared. "She's first of all a fighter. She has known the Clark Gable or Robert Taylor, to portray a love scene. "That," she hard life of the daughter of a of tugboat owner. When the WEI says, the hackneyed way doing it. Being picked up by the comes right up to the very cabin

collar and dropped into the water |

of the boat she has known as

AT MAJESTIC TO -MORROW - Once again Paul Muni comes to the screen with a blazing picture bo of real life life that touches the Afloat, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer always been in close contact with the studios, this is the first major rough, raw edges, but is so plesaga of submarines and subchasers, turesque and colourful that it will which finds the blonde Virginia leading part she has had. And, she grip the attention of every spec- and the dapper Chester battling prefers it over many that were lost tator at the Majestic Theatre their way toward a long-delayed to her by the last-minute selection where it will be shown to-morrow. caress in the final fadeout in the of another giri.“

by Chester Morris may not be home, It finds her better prepared quite so conventional, but it will to meet it than it does those men make the audience sit up and take she loves who are called out to

light in it." rotice."

The "love scene" if such it may brought up in Hollywood, and has Although Virginia was born and called," occurs in Thunder

The story is full of red- blooded action and it doesn't pause en route for sentimental love scenes. In fact, if, after

The picture is "Bordertown," picture which stars Wallace Beery. suggested by the stirring novel by Carroll Graham. Warner Bros; in this latest starring vehicle for Paul Muni have chosen a plot that is startling in its emotional intensity.

He instills both life and fre into the character of a foreign youth who is torn by conflicting emotions in his desperate battle to win success and love against in surmountable odds,

There is an exceptionally talent. ed supporting cast which includes Eugene Pallette. Robert Barrat, Henry O'Neill, Hobart Cavanaugh, Gavin Gordon, William Davidson, Arthur Stone, Vivian Tobin and Soledad Jiminez,

Solution No 370

ACROSS 1. Livid 5, Tasks. 8,

"It Was sometimes heart- breaking to lose those other parts I thought were about to be riven me," she said, “Bat How I'm glad. I would rather blay Susan Thorson with Wal- lace Beery and Chester Morris than any part for which I have ever been considered.””

GOES INTO PRODUCTION

Reach. 9, Globe, 10, Rouse. 11,HERE'S YOUR CUE"" Gusto. 12, Traps 15, whelp. 18, Umn. 20. Adopts. 21, Enable. 22, Eat, 24, Meals: 27, Stack, 30, Pulse. 31, Maize. 32, Faste. 33, Arena. 34, Cheek, 35, Loyal.

14,

With the start of his latest

| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer specialty, DOWN: 1, Light. 2. Viola. 3,

HERE'S YOUR CUE. Pete Smith Dregs. 4. Hawser.5, Throw. Introduces his audience to a very Sauce. 7, 8teep. 13, Ridge,

much sought after college pro- Papal, 16, Heart. 17, Lilac, 18, Use.

fessor. 19, Net. 23, Allied. 24. Mink, 25, He is Charles C. Peterson, one of Abide, 26, Speak 7, Sepal, 28, the world's greatest billiard players Assay. 29, Kneel

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sag (5)

4. Well-liked

(7)

8 Hard stone

(1)

9 Female. (5)

10 Use force

(5)

11 Lashes (7)

13 Always (4)

15. Long pace

(8)

17 Sarcastic

(6)

20 Similar (4) 22 Views (7) 24 Fur (5)

26 Spectre (5)

27 Of no

value (7)

28 Umpire (7)

29 Nervous

(5)

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DOWN

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2 Declaim (5)

3 Coloured

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6 Baby lamb

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'7 Lauder

steps (5) 12 Neat (4)

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TO-MORROW.

SATURDAY

ROAD DIMON

A Sports Adventins HENRY ATTRUS JOAN VALERIE HENRY ARMETTA TOM BECK

BILL ROBINSON

#BITZ BROTHERS in their Funniest"

AIGHT PLACE and SHOW

SUN-WALT DISNEY'S FEATURES-41939 All-Colour Releaser

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and for eight years an instructor of billiards in various colleges."

Peterson retired 'trom' petitive play after winning several national and world's titles, to devote his time to teaching the fine points of the game. He has visited 1400 schools in the United States, setting up class at each, and invariably unable to accommodate all that wish to study under him. In the new one-reeler which Felix E. Feist is directing, he shows all his tricks plus a quick-action course in "Ho To Play Billiarda."

Julian Hochfelder wrote screen play.

the

COMING EVENTS

JULY

27 Tides: High 6,13 a.m. and, 830 pm, Low 140 p.m. and” 11,57. p.m. Sunrise 5.52 am, Sunset 7.06 pm, Legislative Council Mtg. 2.30

p.m

Cath, Women's Fellowship

ing Picnic at Stanley,

Bath-

H.K. Y's Men's Club Mt. St. F. Hotel 1 pin. Speaker: Miss Ida Pruitt

Lectures Wardens and. Tughmictors' Class Tun Mul Middle School in Chinese 7pm. Diocesan Girls' School, in Engilsh, 8 p.m.

Requiem Mass at. Bt. Theresa's Church for late Fr. Pedarant 7.30

St. John's Ambulance Brigade Mem bers Meeting 7 p.m.

Cheero Club Contract Bridge 7 pm. Lawn Bowls Rinks

Semi-final st Cralgengower 0.0.

Wedding

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28-Tides, High 7.04 am and 11.20

p.m. Low 2.20 pm

Sunrise 6 5.52 am Sunset 7.08 pm, Bino perican Institute Ktg. HK Hotel. 1 p.m.

H. K, V. D. C.

Annual Aquatic Sports VRC 9.30 p.m.

ARP Lectures Instructors' Clas St. Paul's College, in Chinese, 1.30 p.m.: Wardens and Instructors Class, Tum Mus Middle School, in Chinese 7 p.m. Diocesan Girls School, in

pm. |English,

29-Tides: High 7.50 am, and 9.56 pm. Low 13.54 am, and 353 p.m.: Sunrise 5.3 am. Bunset: 7,06 pm, Lectures At Haid Warden in Chiness, at Chinese TMUA., Bridges Street, 7.30 p.m. A.R.P. Instructors Class FWD. Board Room, in Chinese 3 pm.

Baseball at Caroline Hill 3.30 p.m. 30 Tides: Figh 8,33 am and 10.26 pm. Low 140 am, and 3.26 p.m.

Bunrise 8.53 ́à ̧m Brinset 7.05 p.m. Baseball at Caroline Eur 10.30 am. Y.M.C.A. Dicasion Group Meeting Rev. 1 Short 9 pm and 10.55 31–Tidet: High. 8,10-8.m. and/ p.m. ||Low: 228 km; and:1,57 pm.

Aunrise. 5,53′ 8.m; Bunsét 7.05 pm:

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RONALD COLMAN

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THE JUX OF GAY. YOUNG GIRLHOOD

LEARNING HOW TO LIVE AND LOVE

TASTE THE FEUDING.....LOYING

OF YOUTHFUL, ZESTFUL GIRLS!

GIRLS SCHOOL

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RETURN SHOWING OF AN OLD FAVOURTIE

BETTE DAVIS PAUL MUNI

BORDERTOWN'

A Warner Bros. Flobera

Cedilla Parker and Mary Beth "Thunder Afloat" Hughes have signed new contracts Wallace Beery, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mas before the cameras at the ker, well-known for her role of Goldwyn-Mayer – studios, pun,

Mari in the Judge Hardy series, supporting cast, headed by Che ARF Lestures, Wardens and

be:

ndy Getų Morris and Virginia Grey Includ Instructora Class "Tum Mil Middle Schools in Chinese 7-pay

Fever Spri

Hughes Regis Toomey, Douglas Dumbri Final Lecture on ARP Voluntary has bean. stud

istics. 16 Clem Bevans, Jonathan Hale an the acudio "school"

Phlip Terry, George Beltz is director

Course by Mr. Peters at TM,

for her screen debut.

YMCA, Whit. Drive 5.30 pm.

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