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BULLDOB DRUMMONDS BRIDE

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JOHN HOWARD HEATHER ANGEL

H. B. WARNER Directed by James Nagan

CLARK GABLE

111

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in TOO HOT TO HANDLE"

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MYSTERY OF THE WHITE ROOM

BRUCE CABOT HELEN MACK

A CRIME CLUB

PRODUCTION

Directed by OTIS GARRETT Produced by IRVING STARE A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

TO-MORROW

Clark Gable

M-G-M PICTURE

in

Myrna Loy "TOO HOT TO HANDLE".

DARLY

HANKOM

BAT

320

720

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TODAY ONLY TAMIROFF IS TERRIFIC!

"RIDE A CROOKED MILE"

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Broded by ALPERO JE WRITES,

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THEY FORME ROMANCE IN THE MIDST OF MURDER!

SAM LEVENE TRANCES MERCEN STANLEY RIDGES WHITNEY BOURKE

Begins SUNDAY

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BARBARA

STANWYCK HENRYFONDA

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The MAD

MISS MANTON

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The GREAT AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE

20th Century Fox

IN OLD CHICAGO” "Super-production

Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don. Amecha

LARAINE DAY ADDED TO CAST

OF “NORTHWEST PASSAGE”

the cast

"Northwest Laraine Day has been added to

and Spencer. Fassage,” co-starting vehicle for Robert Taylor Tracy which will shortly go into production at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios.

Many of the scenes for this picturization of Kenneth Roberts' best-seller will be made in the mountain pragg" of Idaho and Nerada. King Vidor is the director, and picture is being bro- duced by Hunt. Strombers.

"

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Kentucky"

QUEEN'S:

CINEMA & GENERAL

U.S. MOVIE GROUPS TRAVEL FAR

Every time Hollywood conclusion-drawers get ready to bury the time-honoured custom af long film locations, up pops a ple- ture to make them hesitate, says the “Oregonian.”

Not so long ago it was "Jesse James" In the MEsouri Ozarks. Until recently it was "The Light That Falled" "along, the Rio

To-day it Grande, doubling for the Nile, in New Mexico. "Northwest Passage" in Idaho.

Outside of these few, locations

"Bulldog Drummond's Bride" are confined to the area in and THE COWBOY AND

ORIENTAL·

"I Am The Law"

CATHAY:

+

"The Mad Miss Manton"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

"Mystery Of The White

STAR:

round Hollywood.·

That beautiful English" farm of "Wuthering Heights" was built along the hills near Chatsworth.

THE LADY”'··

Samuel Goldwyn's "The Cowboy

For deserts, Hollywood still has to and the Lady" which will be go to Yuma, Ariz

"screened at the Majesty' Theatre is a romantic love Sherwood Forest, so named be- to-morrow. cause it was it used for the story richly endowed by the pre- Arst-class cinema Gary Cooper and Metle Room'origial "Robin Hood," is still the sence of two Jungles for such films as the Tar-stars,

Oberon zan thrillers

All fans, who love pictures em-

"Ride A Crooked Mile" " MAJESTIC:

"The Firey"

KING'S:

Coming

"Flight To Flame"

QUEEN'S:

"Too Hot To Handle"

ORIENTAL:

"Angels With Dirty Faces" CATHAY:

"In Old Chicago"

ALHAMBRA:

"Too Hot To Handle" STAK:

"We're Going To Be Rich" MAJESTIC:

The Cowboy And The Lady"

"Kentucky" At The King's: A Pre-View

The story which forms the back- ground of the film "Kentucky," a 'pre-view of which took place at

Theatre King's

yesterday the morning, is similar to that of "Romeo and Juliet" It deals with two young people who fall in love, but cannot be trends as much bad feeling has existed

between

FRENCH COAST

this new

The seacoast of France is only bellished by a strong dramatic 50 miles away: it is called Laguna story, top-notch acting, beautiful superb direction and flows settink», Mississippi beach. The serenely near San Francisco; its bright dialogue, will pronounce comedy- Goldwyn name is the Sacramento,

Examples are many; suffice to romance one of the highlights of say southern California still can the new film season.

The second leads are capably double for most places on earth.

Units still go to the far corners played by Patsy Kelly and Walter to get long shots, then "Hollywood Brennan, who turn in some ex- locations carry on for close-ups. cellent comedy scenes; the acting The day may really be past when is further strengthened" 'by the a "Ben Hur" goes to Italy, an capital performances offered by "Eskimo" to the real frozen north, such well-known featured players. à "White Shadows" to the south as Fuzzy Knight, Mabel Todd, and seas or a "Trader Horn to Afri- Henry Kolker.

C&

After all, the rocks of Chats-

worth have been many a distant

place, such as China for The COMING EVENTS

Good Earth" and Khyber Pass for "Lives of a Bengal. Lancer.".

"COME NOW, GIMME REALISM"!

Directors differ on

many things, but there's one phrase you'll hear, sooner or later, on every set.

"Come

rimme on, now, realism." the head man will bellow

AUG.

18-Tides: High 1135 am. Low 4.45 am, and 5.35 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.01 a.m. Sunset 8.53 p.m. HX.

Interim Tramways

Ltd. Dividend payable."

St. John's Ambulance ARP, Lec- tures (English) at Hgra. 8.48 p

urd

HK Y's Men's Club Social at No. 9. Norfolk Road, Kowloon, Tong, 7.30 Crown Land Sale (D.O. South) 11 a.m.

"Keep Fit" Class 10.30 Y.M.C.A am; Swimming p.m.; Badminton. 8.30 p.m.

ARP. Incendiary Bomb Demon- stration at P.W.D. offices, Lower Albert Road, 5.30 p.m.

11

ARP. Lecture (English) Club Luni-

Colony Swimming Championship at Inter-port Water Polo Trial at

There was none of that the other tano 5.30 pm: (Chinese) Chamber of their two horse-breeding families day, however, where they're film-Commerce 7 p.m. ever since the time of their great ing Warner's new horror opus.v.RC

"The Return of DI. X" great grandfather in 1881.

The scenes were between Hum-VRC. However, instead of seeing the hero and heroine perish at the phrey Bogart-who is dead" but end of the play, as in "Romeo and lives, after a fashion, on someone p.m. Low 5.40 a.m. and 8.10 p.m. Jullet," we find the young couple else's blood-and Rosemary Lane, happily united and the bad feel-who is very much alive and wants ing which has lasted for so long to stay that way. gone for ever.

Perfect Horror

}

Miss Lane had a look of perfecti The two popular stars, Loretta Young and Richard Greenie, play horror on her face as the gray- the main parts and give very good skinned Bogart stood over her, a performances. In supporting roles knife poised,

Then, as she walked off, she con- are Walter Brennan, Douglas Dum-

Aded: brille and Karen Morley.

а વ "Kentucky"

Twentieth That man used to terrify me; Century-For production and just seeing him. in pictures. He's photographed in beautiful techna-nice enough to know. I've found colour. It will be shown at the cut, but when he raised that knife King's Theatre from to-day and we and looked at me with that look, attract large the way I used to feel came right! predict that it will

back to me." crowds. Pearl Chen.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pastime (5)

4 Month (5)

10 Measure of

length (4)

11 Slice (4).

13 Freed

from (6)

14 Small

plece (6)

15 Courage-

ous man (4)

17 Tree (3) 18 Toller (8)

21 Part-moon

*(8)

23 Alling (3) 25 Field pro-

duce (4)

27 Alm at (67 30 Conquery

(6)

32 Om top: (4) 33 Dread (4). 34 Acid fruit

(5)

(5)

35 Cranium

DOWN 2 Outdoor

game (4)

3 Cheat

.botes (4)

NO. 388

30

34

Yes (3)

6 Secret

writing (6)

7. Detest (41

& Fool (5)

9 Depend.

ence on (8)

11 Dirty .mark 12 Bowman

(6)

16 Limit (8)

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

Solution No. 387

₤29

19 Draw forth

Slumber (5)

29 Bover-

eignty (6) 24 Mock (5) 28 ESL-

shaped (4) 28 Bundle (4)

Small loaf -(4)

31 Pair (3)

ACROSS: 2 Enclose. ?, Flax, 8, DOWN: 1, Alto 2, Exit. 3, Canto, 12, 4, Often B, Eddy. 6, Fair. 10, Draw. 9, Ignited. 10, Cost, Yard, 15, Count 18, Altar, 18, Classes, 11; Situate. 13. Arising. Omits. 20, Aided. 21. Shams. 22, 14, Descend. 15, Crush. 16. Under. Alive 23; Hardy, 26, Slew, 29, 17. Today, 24. Amend. 25, Dunce. Aged 31, Eternal. 32, Maid 33, 27, Leap 8 Wed, 29, Alps. 30,

| Kachi Pick 34. Sadness,

19 Tides: High 12.05 a.m. and 13.20 Sunrise 6.02 am Sunset 6.52-p.m. A.R.P. Lecture (Chinese) Yammati Govt. School, 1.30 pm.

YM.C.A. Launch Picnic

p.m.

2.30

St. Andrew's Club Bathing Picnic 3 p.m.

Vesper Service at Hop Yat Church 8.15 p.m.

Colony Swimming Championship at

V.R.C.

Baseball at Caroline HM 2.30 p.m. Equine Sports Club Cavalcade for Lawn Bowls League. beginners.

Craigengower C.O. Whist and Tomi-. bols 8.15 p.

20-Tides: High 12.48 a.m. and 120 p.m. Low 6.38 s.m. and 642 p.m.

Sunrise 6:02 am. Bünsét 6.51 pm.

Stanley, Conference at VDMA 49.30 p.

HK Commercial Institute-Exercises and Concert, Queen's Theatre 9 a.m.

Equine Sports Club 20th Cavalcade, for advanced riders.

Pilipino Club Tombois il a.m. YMCA. Discussion Group 9 pm. Speaker: Rev. Charles Strong on “The Church and the Bator.

21-Claims Against Estate of Henry George Baker due.

Rosary Church Wedding-D'Almada

e Castro-Reed, 11 am.

Crown Land Bale, P.WD, 3 p.m. Criminal Sessions Open.

YMCA Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m. St. Andrey's Chib Committee Mtg., 8.30 p.m.

St. Andrew's Club "Open Night"| 22-Meeting of Licensing Board 4

p.m.

Craigengower C.C. Tambola 9 pm. YMCA.Bridge 10 at Mxd. Bwim- ming 6 p.m. Badminton 8.30 p.m.'.

ARP. Lectures (fhil course) in Chinese, St. John's Ambulance Head- quarters, 7.30 pm; ARP, Volunteer Headquarters, 9 am-10 sm; A.R.P. In English, Club Lusitano, 5.30 pm: ARP. in Chinese, Chinese Chamberi of Commerce. 7 p.m.

23-Area Half-Mile Team Race (Swimming) Stonecutters Is.'3.30 Dân. YMCA (WA) Games Morning, 10 am. Flag Whist

24 YMCA Beginners Mahjongs 10a.m.

25-Charty Concert at China Fleet Club 9. pa

YMOA Keet Class" -10:30 am; Mx Bwimming 6 p.m.; Bad- minton 8.30 p.m.

25-St Andrew's Club Bathing Ple nic 8.30p.m." KATAN

Zachuski Dinner Dance at OBA 18.30 p.m.)

28-8 Andrew's Club Moonlight Excstrsion 2.30 pm..!!

30—ATER MIRration) Téal Race (Bwimming) Repulse Bay 3pm.

WIN

$50

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·Barbara O'Neil John Boël. Wendy Barrio Otto Kruger

STARTING

Am The Law

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MacDONALD The Firefly

ʼALIAN JONES » WARREN WILLIAM

A POBERT Z. LEONARD Production Mosted by Robert Z. LEONARD / Pradoned by HUNT STROMISCHES

COMMENCING TOMORROW

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MERLE ORERON IN THE COWBOY AND THE LADY“

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