1939-08-22 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

1.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

AKOWLOON

4T 9:30-315 20:930RM AT 230-520-720 $9:30_PM ·

SHOWING

Look “Too Hot to Handle'

out, Clark! She's

Ripped from the hazardoan Hron of newsreel thrill-kuntase comes this drama-swapËromasón fut the wall sweethearts of "Tant Pol! Gable as a “lone-wolf" cameraman.....and Myrna as the gid... who made the lone wolf---lonesome i

Clark GABLE

THURSDAY

TO-DAY

Myrna Loy

TOO HOT

to HANDLE

WALTER

PIDGEON. CONNOLLY LEO CARRILLO

AT THE QUEEN'S · "FIVE CAME BACK" Chester, Morris - Wendy Barrie

TO-MORROW

AT THE ALHAMBRA SEGRET PATROL"

with Charles Stirreft

♫

HISTARE

TODAY ONLY

JOSEPH M. SCHINCK

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL. 57795

Cardinal

RICHELIEU

STARRING

GEORGE ARLISS

DARRYL ZANUCK'S

Production

with

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN,

2016 Centary Picture Released thru UNITED ARTIST?

TOMORROW

Eddie Cantor in

KID MILLIONS ”

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.w

CATHAY

DAILY AT 2.30.5.15,7.20.&9.30.P.M. MAYINIZ-30%, 30%, 40%. EVIKINGS:-206 30%. Bör. 784. 80%.

■ TO-DAY & TOMORROW-2 DAYS ONLY!

Electric Action! Amazing Air Stunts! Thundering Thrills.. Exciting Romance...e outlawed pilots fly the "death route" over the Andes!

THURSDAY

& FRIDAY

FLIGHT

FROM

GLORY

CHESTER MORRIS WHITNEY BOURNE

ANSLOW STEVENS

VAN HEFLIN

The Fastest Action Drama of To-Day!

RADIO

| Dennis O'Keefe

MGM Picture "The KID from TEXAS

Florence Rice

Chinese Aviatrix Makes Debut As Movie Actress

PLANE SHE FLEW MOTOR TORPEDO

WILL BE USED

IN PICTURE

47

BOATS

LONDON, Aug, 7 (By Air Mall)— Work has been begun at the Syd- Lee Ya-cbing, 'China's pioneer ney naval dockyard on the con- torpedo aviatrix, who makes her debut as struction of six .. motor

movie actress in Paramount's boats for the Australian Navy.

The boats, which will be 70 ft, "Disputed Passage,” also supply

the aeroplane to be used in the long and have a speed of at least 42 knots, will carry anti-aircraft picture, she revealed recently.

That is the agreement between guns.

ducer Harlan Thompson.

the lovely Chinese flyer and Pro-

,,cabin

A five-place Stinson

Solution No 290.

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ACROSS: 1, Temple. 4. Gratis. 8, monoplane, the ship is painted aj Ale. 9 Errand, 11, unison. bright red and on its sides are Cameo, 13, Chosen., 16 Wheat, 18. Inscribed the Chinese characters Hare. 19, Gained, 23, Caress 25, Tsung Kuo Shun Chien Chun" Plug, 28, Crane. 29, Easter. 31, "Spirit of New Oning.”

Board, 33, Tedium 34, Turned. 35, Keg 38, Hidden, 37, otated.

Mis Lee has town the plane

DOWN: 1. Trench 2 Mirror....... 3, many thousands of miles on per aerial tour of the United States Lance. 4, Glue, b, senown. 6. and Canada, since she took de- Tested 7, Senate. 10, Dangle, 14. livery of the ship at Wichita, Hay 15, Bedan. 17, Heans, 20, In- Kansas, shortly after her arrival sert. 21, Due 22, Bootch. 23, Candid. from China in October of last 24, Rebuke: 26, Innet 27. Graded.

30: Adult. Omen, year,

Today's Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Flight To Fame"

QUEEN'S:

Too Hot To Handle"

ÜBIENTAL.

"Angels With Dirty Faces" CATHAY:

"Fight From Glory"

ALUAMERA

STAR:

Kowloon

Too Hot To Handle"

"Cardinal. Richelieu". MAJESTIC:

**Thanks For Everything”

KING'S,

18

Coming

"While New York Sleeps"

QUEEN'S:

"Five Came Back"

ORIENTAL:

"The Devil's Party" "The Gracie Allen

Case"

CATHAY:

The Kid From Teza.** ALHAMBRA:

"Secret Patrol”

STAR:

“Kid - Millions”

MAJESTIC:

"Off The Record"..

CINEMA & GENERAL

THE "IT"" GIRL: DOROTHY. LAMOUR AS SUCCESSOR

TO CLARA BOW

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The cinema has had an intermittently, undesirable ronnta- tion. for an over cultivation of what is known se, sex, appeal.

It is quite a number of years since Elinor Glyn discovered that Clark How had more sex appeal than any other actress on the screen, and. Miss Bow was consequently named the "It" girl.

Now Miss Bow has retired with her husband to a ranch and it is a long while since anyone claimed, her place of honour, But the problem of sex appeal red large sums of money to appear. seems to be concentrating again in complete nudity at the New around one personality, that of York World's Fair? Miss Dorothy Lamour. That is to say, Miss Lamour's publicity, is "in- sisting on sex appeal, as, much as did Miss Bow's at one time.

WHAT IS "TT"? This claim brings to habitual picture-goers, the question, "what} is sex appeal?”

In Miss How's case It. sɛɛmed to be somehow connected with red hair, although there was nothing but black and white in her plc- tured.

In Miss Lamour's case it seems to be associated with the idea of a scanty sarong and bare limbs,

Such methods of publicity can do no cradle to sayone and are something of an insmit to public laste,

"Thanks For Everything" At Majestic

When the time came to produce "Thanks for Everything," the pic- ture which opens at the Majestic It is difficult to say that Miss Theatre to-day, and whose cen- Lamour has any marked ability tral character is no one else but Murder as an actress although rumour has the Average Man, 20th Century- it that site is anxious to attempt Fox found themselves astride the dramatic parts. and normal borns of a dilemma, to put it

milidly. clothes.

The Lupinos And The Theatre

Miss Ida Lupin will soon have a young cousin in pic- tures. Ida is the daughter of. Stanley Lupino and Antoinette, the debutante, is the daughter of Stanley's brother, Barry... It is understood that as a dim actress she would shorten

name to Tonie,

her

Ida and Antoinette are almost the youngest generation of a very remarkable family.

The Lupinos (then spelling their name Luppino), were at the end of the sixteenth century at the head of a puppet theatre in Italy

But her popularity "so far seems to depend on a ne figure such as might grace an artist's model.

comes

The question then back to this, is the quintes- sence of sex appeal to be look- ed for in a fint figure?

INSULT TO TASTE

The search for the Average Mar was narrowed somewhat when it was suggested that the country's big advertising photographers sub- mit their idea of what he looks like.

Well, says 20th Century-Fox, he looked Nke an actor by the name of Jack Haley. 6o Mr. Haley became

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1939. --PAGE 5

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

BROWING TODAY AT 126. 116 118 A MEM PROPELLERS WHINE A HYMN OF HATE FURY RIDES THE FUSELAGE MYSTERY RULES THE AIRT

Flight

to Fame

CHARLES FARRELL JACQUELINE WELLS,

Alexander D'Arcy "Jason Robards

Matti & Sumauni - Gavenda, & 2 COLEMAN M A COLOMBIA BITURI

SPORTS SHORT “URUSUAL HUNTING **

NEXT CHANGE 2th Century Fox Pictura

ALBO

COLOUR CARTOON '13 STOOGES COMEDY "FROG POND" "THREE MISSING LINKS" WHILE

MICHAEL WHALES

NEW YORK SLEEPS"

WITH

JEAN ROOKES CHICK CHANDLER

4 SHOWS

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY MAR

DAILY

2.30-5.15 7-15-6-30

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD WANGHAI

TEL: 28473]

As a matter of fact, would it not Mr. Average Man, and the studie⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•

be truer to say that there is more saw to it that he learned his role' sex appeal in Miss Claudette Col-well.

same restric-

bert than in either Clara Bow or Other members of the cast of **Thanks for Everything” who Dorothy Lamour?

And would it not be truer still aren't under the to say that the cinema would dotions, are Arleen Whelan, Adolphe Jack Oakle: Banh better if it were to eschew' sex ap- Menjou, peal publicity and not endeavour Barnes. Tony Martin, George to make capital out of statements Barbler and Warren Hymer. They. that Miss Lamour had been offer- don't have to act average, or

"Flight To Fame" At King's To-day

every normal.

COMING EVENTS

AUG.

22-Tides: High 2.22 ani, and 1.57 pm Low 4.15 am, and 7:50 p.m.

Sunrise 663 am. Sunsët 6.50 p.m. Meeting of Licensing Board 4

PIEL

Craigengower Co. Tambola 9 p.m. Murder mystery, revenge and YMCA. Bridge 10 a.m, Mrd. Swim- gay romance ride the skies as ming 6 pm. Badminton 8.30 p.m.

AR.P. Lectures (full course) Georgius Lupino

"Flight to Fame" brings Charles chinese, St. John's Ambulance Head- Georgius Lappiño came to Eng- Farrell back to the American quarters 7.30 pm; ARP. Volunteer land during the reign of James I screen after several years abroad. Headquarters, a am.-10 am: ARP with. his puppet theatre, Five The new. Columbia drama, an ex-in English, Club Lusitano, 5.30 p.m.; A.R.P. in Chinese, Chinese Chamber generations later Thomas Fred-citing, action-packed and of Commerce, 7 p.m. erick Lupino spelt his name as do thoroughly satisfying picture,

H.K. Rotary Club Tiffin 1 p.m. his present descendants.

opens to-day at the King's Then-Speaker: Mr. O. E. Moore, "Civic De Born in 1749 he died at the age | fre.

sign and Town Planning" or 26 in 1845. Barry arid Stanley "Flight to Fame" boasts of many 23-Tides: High 3.25 am and 5.42 Larping are of the tenth generation | fine flying sequences, Action and p.m. Low 11 am and 835 pm

Sunrise: 6.41 a.m. Sunset 6:49 p.im breath-taking photography: „ATE to appear in Englano.

Half-Mile Team Race Aren Stanley has probably made him and a wealth of interesting techni- |(Swimming) Stonecutters Is. 3.30 p.m. self the most famous of all by cal operations are shown, as TMCA (WB) Games Morning,

Whist running a play, "Me and My Girl" when a test pilot goes aloft, estab-10 am. Plag

Filipino Club Tombola, 8.45 pm. Govt School, 7.30 pm.

I

in a London theatre for close on tales contact with the ground ARP Lecture (Chinese) Yaumatt

1,000 performances and in it mak-crew, then follows the latter's in- ing the world-wide fame of "The structions as he puts the craftj Lambeth Walk,"

through death defying manoeuvres

CROSSWORD

NO. 391

ACROSS

1 Monstro-

alty (5)

5 Commence.

(5)

8 Birthday

*(5)

9 Rascal (5)

10. Narcotic

(5)

11 Bereaved

woshan (5)

14 Sailora (4)

20

17 Mountains

4

(4)

19 Gratined

20 Fuel (4)

21 Employed

22. Inborn (7)

(5) Recognised (14)

23 Dissolve

(4)

25 Digits (4) 23" Domesti

cated (5) 31 Subordin

ate (6)

32 Wirelin (5)

33 Dwell (8) 34 Vapour (5) 35 Universe

(5)

DOWN

Foremicet

(5)

12 Inactivity

را

18.

Grown-up

(9)

Portion (5)

23 Gland

** NO

swellings (5)

24 Thrust (5):

Command (5)

Collar fas- tener (4)

Pax (4)

6 Roast, (5).

7 Titles (5)

18 Notice (7)`

15% Venerate

(5)

* 16 | Exhausted

SOLUTION TO-MORROW

28 Vehicle (4)

23 Post (4)

30 Depicted

27 Chide: (5)

1.

Garrison Bergta. Mesa, Whist and Tombola 9 pm

St. John's Ambulance Brigade Mtg. for Officers and Surgeons 544 pm.

24-Tides: High 4.33 am, and. 7.30 pm. Low 12.20 pm and 19.15 pm

Sunrise: 5.05 am Sunset 648 pm, YMCA. Beginners Mahjongs, 10 am.

HK. T's Men's Meeting, St. Francis Hotel

1 p.m. Speaker: Dean J. L Wilson.

ARF. Lecture at Volunteer Hqra 9-10 am.

St. Andrew's Club "Open Night."

-Tides: High' 541 a.m. and 8.25 p.m. Low 1.87 pm and 11.10 p.m.

Sunrise: 603 am-Bunset 6.15 p.m. China Fest Charity Concert at Clab '9

pm.

YMCA "Keep Pit Class 10.30 am Med. 8wimming 6 pm; Bad- minton 8:30 D.m

Fourth Luncheon Meeting of sing American Institute of Central Rela tions, HK Hotel 12.45 pua

ARR. Lecture: (English) Club Lusitano, 4.30 p.m.; ARP. in Chinese Chamber of Commerce 7 p.m.; A.R.P. (Chinese) .W.CA. Bonham Road, 1.30 p.m. ARP. (English) 20 Tee House Street, 5.30 p.m.

26-St. Andrews Club Bathing Pic nin 8.30. p.m.

Zachusk Dinner Dance at C.BA, 8.30 pm

Baseball-International Series First Round-Portugal V. Britain.

HK Y's Men's Camp at Lantao. Island Leave HK 130 p..

27-Baseball International Series First Round Chins v. US.

28-St. Andrew's Club Moonlight Excursion 8.30 pitan

30 Area Marathon Team (Bwimming) Repulse Bay 3′pm..

WIN

$50

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Race

A MIGHTY STORY UNFORGETTABLE IN ITS "GREATNESS! Cagney the tough returns to the slums to battle against crime to save the lives of the gutter-rats who never had a chance to go straight.

ANGELS

WITH

DIRTY FACES

JAMES CAGNEY PAT O'BRIEN

2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & THURSDAY

THRILLING LIFE IN THE WORLD'S MOST EXCITING CITY! A dramatic story of city streets paved with poverty and riches.

VICTOR McLAGLEN

in

The DEVILS PARTY

** WILLIAM GARGAN "PAUL KELLY BEATRICE ROBERTS FRANK JENKS “state Kiches Kot & Dwary" by Bürsten

A NEW UNIVERS

PICTURE

MATINEES: 20c.-30c EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.

MAJESTIC

EES

THEATRE

TODAY AND TOMORROW

SCANDALOUSLY FUNNY COMEDY ABOUT

MISTER AVEBAGE MAN"1.

Mister Average Man Himself, so help us!

upping your laugh average in the freshest fun-hit of the year!

Thanks for Everything

ADOLPHE

JACKS MENJACKE

MENJOU OAKIE HALEY

ALLEEN TONY BINNE

WHELAN MARTIN BARNES

GEORGE BARBIER WARREN HYMER Dlected by Waltari 'A Saker

Dorry F. Zanuck in Charge of Pacian

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY

PAT O'BRIEN THE RECORD JOR BLONDELL OFF

A&Warner Bros Comedy Hit

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