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THE ROMANTIC TRIUMPH OF THE SEASON A POIGNANT STORY OF LOVE AND DECEPTION!
BERGNER
REDGRAVE
Stolen Life
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“MOMENTS OF CHARM”
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PACKED WITH JOLLITY
FRIVOLIT!
The Season's Gayest Gambol of Youth on the "
Loos and Stars on Parade!
KING'S:
Hongkong
"The Return
Kid"
QUEEN'S:
"Stolen Life"
ORIENTAL:
CINEMA & GENERAL
Of The
Cisco.
“Start CheeringTM
CATHAY:
"Straight, Place and Show"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"If I Were King"
STAR:
"Honolulu MAJESTIC:
"Bordertown"
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NEWCOMER WITH PROMISE: ANN MORRISS ON ROAD
TO SCREEN FAME
Ann Morrise was able to take advice, and now she b on the road to screen 'fame : When she was first given a screen test at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stüdios, Billy Grady, talent scopt, agreed that she was beautiful and had talent, but explained to her that she needed more dramatic experience. "Come back in a year," he said.
Exactly twelve months to the day, the young girl reported to the studio. She had been appear- Ing in amateur plays and little theatre shows. She took another test, and this time it was a new atory. Not only did she win a
MEN TIP MORE LIBERALLY
long-term contract, but a lead for THAN WOMEN
her film debut.
She appeared opposite Dennis O'Keefe in The Chaser." Since then she has had featured parts in "Spring Madness," "Honolulu,” "Within the Law." "Society Law- yer," and other dims:
Studied Music
Miss Morriss was born in Tampa. Florida, August 5. As a child she no idea of following at screen
"Men tip more liberally than women, but women for over- board in Christmas gifts to various beauty operators who attend them during the year."
This amazing fact was brought | to light recently at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios where & survey of the beauty shop tipping
career. She studied music with situation was made for scenes in
the hope of becoming a concert THE WOMEN, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and artist, She is till continuing
Rosalind Russell Some eighteen
her music with the idea that some
What Survey Revealed,
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"THE RETURN OF THE CISCO KID
“Only one army to catch the Cisco Kid? Amiros, it is to laugh!" So boasts Cisco, and it is to laugh, indesa, uproariously in fact) when
In the first place. the survey "The Return of the Cisco Kid
revealed, women stick closely by opens to-day at the King's Theatre. Warner Baxter, starred as the
the 10 per cent required, whereas character that made him famous,
particular, go as high as half the has re-created for the screen o
men, in the case of manicures in
total check Women are not Henry's immortal Robin Hood at the Rio Grande, for this 20th Cents, horseback riding and sailing inclined to make a bountiful show tery-Fox picture, and it is one of
She can handle any type of sall- of themselves in these matters and the most entertaining, action-pack-boat up to an eight-meter, and usually slip the tip into a pocket ed romances this reviewer bas has been in several races. She of the attendant, of leave it tuck- seen in a long time of reviewing.
collects gramaphone records, in-ed beneath some item on The Cisco Kid was first brought cluding everything from classica to dressing table, while men flaunt
their generosity to the world.
But what the girls lack in tips during the year, they more than make
time. Christmas up at
day she may go on a concert tour. Hoensed operators, appearing as She attended grade school in technical advisers, brought various Dallas, Texas, and finished her conditions of Lupping to the fore. schooling at Hollywood High School, where Cecilia Parker, Lana Turner and Loretta Young were once students. Ann is obtaining a college education by attending lectures at night and during the day when she's not working.
Ann's favourite sports are ten-
to the screen in "In Old Arizona“
swing:
the
a decade ago. It was Warrier Bax- ter's first big chance on the screen and he made the most of it.
The performance won him the William Powell; Metro-Goldwyn Women, generously endowed with Academy Award, His donning Mayer star, has concluded his the holiday spirit, often give more again of the same sombrex and wood-chopping vacation at Lake costly gifts to their beauty opera- silver-mounted pistols in "The Re-Arrowhead, part of the exercise tors than to their friends, on the turn of the Cisco Kid" appears to routine to complete his recuper-grounds be on the same plane as that first tion, and has moved back to his luxuries triumph.
Beverly Hills home.
CROSSWORD NO. 372
associates.
that the girls need more than their
comes first. As gifts, money Next in line® is expensive lingerie, Occasional fur coats. costly perfumes, bags and ac- cessories. Small cars, brand new. have also been known to bob, up, more frequently than one would suspect, as gifts from customers.
FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939 -PAGE
AIR CONDITIONED THEATREY
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O. Henry's gay bandit... most gallant jun-fighter of them all...wolcoming naw and greater danger ...with the original Cisco
Kid In his famous role!
*
WARNER BAXTER THE RETURN
OF THE
CISCO KID
LYNN BARI: CESAR ROMERO
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SOKALU COLISAIL grouted wi ali combatte stars, the France in Vilen, jomiopus selon dared in
Flaming Adventure Glorious Romance!
RONALD COLMAN
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"IF I WERE KING"
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The best cartoon of 1939 in beautiful technicolour!
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TO-MORROW "CAMILLE"
ACROSS
2 Interrupt
(7)
7 Space (4)
(4).
R Apartament
9 Annoyance
(7)
10 Capable
(4)
14 Unhearing
... (4) ..
15. Incline (5)
18 Nip (5)
19 Rejoice (5)
20 Less com
- mon (5) 21 Cerulean"
15),
22 Slah (5)
23... Unused
- ground (5)
26 Vortex (4)
29 Muddle (4)
31. Wed (7)
32 Greet (4) 33 Central
·line (4) 34 Reading
desk (7)
DOWN
1 Crustacean
(4)
3 Mar (5)
4 Of the
town (b)
5 Reared (4)
& Roman
robe (4)
10 Mollity (7) 11 Lacks-
daisles (7) 13. Dodging (7)
14. Chains (a
18 Land
measures (6) 17 Buccinct (5).
24 Jellied
dish (5)
25 Parley (3)
27 Clock face
28 Loud cry
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2 Stone fruit
(4)
15 Virago (5)
29 Petty (4) 30 Rotate (4).
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The Funniest, Fastest and Maddest Comedy Riot of the Year!.
·HAY-HAY}· HAY-LARITY! They're Salmy aver the hang-
'fails sow! 26"
The RITZ BROTHERS
Runyon's STRAIGHT, PLACE and SHOW
RICHARD ARLENE.
Walt Disney's
BUN, MON
FEATURES
1939 Releases All in Tech
Solution No 371
ACROSS: 1, Droop. 4, Popular. 8,
Granite. 9, Woman. 10, Exert. 11|TO.MORROW
Strokes, 13, Ever. 15, Stride. 17, Ironic 20, Bame. 22 Aspects. 24, Sable, 26, Ghost. 27, Useless. 28, Refere. 29, Timid.
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A Man Without a Heart Caught in the Silken Snures of a Woman Without a Soul
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COMMENCING TOMORROW
Sweeping Drama of the FamousSplinter Fle
Tiniest Craft Eyer to Bee Action
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RICHARD GREENE NANCY KELLY PRESTON FOSTE
A 20th Century Fox Super-Production f
COLONY HEALTH
BROADCASTING
PLAN FOR MALAYA
RETURNS
scheme for providing two Thirty-one cases of tul radio programmes, one European nve cases of enter ö and the other Aslatic, each of cases of dysentery, "A Day at the Circus, starring from 8 to 9 nours a day has cholera and two the Marx Brothers, has some into been submitted to the Straits were notified to the production at the Metro-Goldwyn Bettlements Government by the partment on July 26. Mayer studios. The cast includes British Malaya Breadcasting Cor- Kenny Baker, Florence Rice, Nat poration Pendleton and Margaret Dumont operates Eddie Buzzell is directing the one short-wa
pore production from a story by Irving Sings Bresher. Bobby Connolly is staging pa the dance numbers, and Mervyn
Kom te other LeRoy is the producer.
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