1939-09-21 — Page 3

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Take a Vacation From Gloom and Worry By Seeing One of the Maddest, Merriest

Marital Mixups!

Mego

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SATURDAY

VACATION from LOVE

Desnis O'KEEFE - Florence RICE Reginald OWEN - June KNIGHT

Directed by Guergi Fikœmaari.co Produced by John W. Considine Jr,

LUISE RAINER & PAULETTE. GONDARD

M.G.M. Picture in “DRAMATIC SCHOOL"

ALHAMBRA

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GIRL AND THE GAMBLER

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LEO CARRILLO TIM HOLT STEFFI DUNA

MARCH OF TIME" "The Mediterranean "

DEANNA DURBIN -

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*3 SMART GIRLS GROW UP"

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GERTRUDE MICHAEL PAUL CAVANAGH LEON ERROL ARTHUR BYRON ALISON SKIPWORTH

A

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WALKING ON AIR"

with Gene Raymond Ann Sothern

MAJESTIC

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

PRIMITIVE PASSIONS UNLEASHED IN THE

GREAT NORTH WOODS!

CHARLES BICKFORD" JEAN PARKER,

Screenplay by Michael L. Simmons

Directed by Charles Vidor

A COLUMBIA" FICTURE

"JACK, LONDON'S THRILLER' OF THE NORTHERN WILDS!

ROMANCE REDWOODS

OF THE

TOMORROW AND SATURDAY

The First Picture of the Series That Will Be as

- Popular as “Judge Hardy's Family |"

YOUNG DR. KILDARE”

LEW AYRES and LIONEL BARRYMORE.

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

GENERAL

QUALIFICATIONS FOR STARDOM:

Today's Screenings

KING'S

Hongkong

"Nows Is Made At Night" QUEEN'S:

"Vacation From Love".

ORIENTAL:

"Code Of The Streets"

CATHAY

"A Man To Remember"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA

SINCERITY, HARD

WORK & PERSONALITY

13

-

HE COULD WHITE A BOOK ON WHAT IT TAKES TO BE- COME A MOTION PICTURE STAR. IN FACT, PERHAPS HE—— BILLY GRADY, HEAD OF METRO GOLDWYN MAYER'S TALENT DEPARTMENT-OUGHT TO WRITE A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT BECAUSE IT WOULD SOLVE A LOT OF FERPLEXI- TIES AND SAVE A LOT OF CARFARE FOR FILM-STRUCK YOUNG WOMEN,

זר הד

Bitten by the, movie-star bus.

the young lady would merely have to measure herself against the book like someone checking herself against Venus de Milo. If she didn't match the movie model, she could spend her, caiface, on a holiday trip in- stead of Hollywood and get some good out of the jaunt. There's personality. for in-"brings us up against the next stance Grady tosses the defini- qüalification," the ability to work tion off with the dictum that if hard. Nobody. gets enywhere you can make people like you, na without hard work and that goes" matter what you're doing or how double for the picture business. you look, then your've got the lona Massey put in an entire "The Girl And The Gambler"

personality for a Star. STAR:

Norma year

and of studying English "The Notorious Sophie Lang" Shearer as Marie Antoinette, and music all day, six days a week. Greta Garbo as the spy in "Mata and the study of screen Harly for example, played fun-technique before the studio as- damentally unsympathetic roles, signed her a co-starring role with but the public took them to ita Nelson Eddy in a forthcoming heart. In each picture because picture. Virginia Grey "works con- their personalities shone through. | stantly to improve, and: Eleanor Powell, whom I founa dáncing in Then comes sincerity as the Atlantic City, used to practise her accopið, necessary attribute. That routines all day and then do a would seem at first glance to be show every night. She still keeps merely a subdivision, of the per-up her incessant study and work” "Confessions Of A Nazi Spy"sonality requirement but, accord- With the most important of all ing to Grady. It has a place by the itself

MAJESTIC:

"Romance Of The Redwoods"

KING'S!

Coming

"Captain Fury"

QUEEN'S:

"Dramatic School"

ORIENTAL

“Man's Heritage"

CATHAY:

"A Message To Garcia" "Gunga Din"

ALHAMBRA;

"Three Smart Girls Grow Up" STAR:

"Walking On Air MAJESTIC:

"Young Dr. Kildare”

“PYGMALION"

TO BE SCREENED

SINCERITY NEXT

He has seen naming по names-any number of sud- den, flash successes come to aqiresses, possessed of vivid

to personality, only

fade away very quickly when the public sensed that the player was conceited.

necessary qualities held out until the end. Grady listed as the tenth, attribute On his list-a

screen star to be a born actress.

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Without that urge to act. the other nine "qualities· are highly commendable but use- Iess

stepping stones to stardom, Any girl who gives herself an The stars who пате been honest character check against established for years are the these.. ten attributes sought by ones who remain human beings, Grady and "finds she has a passing sticking very close to the normal grade might very fell run-tot pattern of life.

walk-to the nearest place where Appearance is another thing she can get acting experience. And The screen version of George that has a lot to do with screen Bill Grady will catch her, if she Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," the screening of which has been an- stardom, although not as much as doesn't watch out."

It had afteen or twenty years xiously awaited in Hongkong, has

20. Nowadays, given a been fixed for showing at the

foundation on which to work. Queen's Theatre on Oct. 8:

The film will also start a sea-Grady has at his command mas- SEPT. son at the Alhambra Theatre on seurs, hairdressers, make-up ar-

Oct. 7.

ON OCT. 6

good COMING

tists, trainers, and doctora to pound and slap and decorate a girl who shows ability.

But no studio is looking for

"Young Dr. Kildare" ugir ducklings to change into

At The Majestic

Tomorrow

EVENTS

21-Tides: High 238 am, and 5.56 p.m. Low 10.15 am, and 7.23_3.m.

Sunrise all am Sunset 622 p.m. Lecture on Home Nursing (Eng- ah) at Queen Mary Hospital, 6 p.m. Lecturer: Dr. (Mrs) LJ. Dovey,

YMCA.

Mahjongg Class 10 a.m.: Annual Winter Programme Mtg., 5.15

5.30

swans, and beauty or at least

| p.m. prettiness is something for

St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship which the talent director looks. Annual Mtg at St. Andrew's Hall, s

P.L. when he goes scouting.

ARP

Lectures-Volunteer Head- EXPERIENCE & HUMOUR quarters, 9-10 am.: Warden's Course. The drama tnat exists behind

Experience is also high up on Bt. John Ambulance Headquarters, the scenes in a great hospital is Grady's roster of helpful "qualities

pm; in Chinese, Queen's College. 7.30 p.tt.: Taumat! re-enacted with rare power in The staze is the best apringboard School, 7.30 pm.

Government "Young Dr. Kildare," which opens into pictures. Radio work doesn't HK. Y's Men's Club: Chinese Din- at the Majestic Theatre to- mor- help much for the screen because ner at Chinese Merchants' Club.

HK" Civil Service Cricket Club An- It is difficult to learn timing in

nual Meeting. 5.30 p.m. Lew Ayres is excellent in the radio, and dramatic coaching title role, with a uniformly fine doesn't mean a lot, elther, unless cast featuring Lionet. Barrymore, it is accompanied by actual stage Lynne Carver. Nat Pendleton, Jo work before an audience. Ann Bayers and Samuel S. Hinds.

The story presents # realistic view of life inside the walls of a metropolitan hospital to-day.

row.

The story has been treated with dramatic restraint and the tech- nical and artistic effects are all that could be desired. Harold Bucquet's direction places him

most among the

able. men of his profession.

A sense of humour is vitally necessary, Grady feels, beeanst If the applicant för scree fame can't get a laugh out of life, the grind of picture-mak- ing and the sixteen-hour day of a picture star would soon turn her into an Involuntary "Jitterbuz."

•

HARD WORK "And that," Grady

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cave (8)

4. Shrill cry

(5)

8. Mineral

spring (3) 9 Immature

(6)

11 Attack (6)

12 Unmoving

1 (5)

13. Rears (6)

16: Kitchen

vegetables (B)

18 Alkali (4) 19 Mean (5) 23 Heavenly

body (8)

25 Orient (4)

28 Foreigner

(6)

29 More dim- -cult (6)

31 Attempted

(5)

33 Three fola

(B).

34 Round (6)

35 Consume

(3)

36 Take

notice (6) 37 Of neither

sex (8)

NO. 417

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FA

DOWN

1 Morsels (6)

2 Changed

(6)

3 Quick (5)

Box (4)

5. Noble

dwelling (01 8"Rubbed out

(6),

7 Annoy (5)

10 Flag (6)

14"Quarrel (9)

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SOLUTION TO-MORROW

130

15" Bird (5) 17 Come in. (5)

20 Tie (6)

21. Employ (3)

22 "Governo

(6)

22-Tides: High 3.38 am. Low 11.30

am the

Sunrise 6.12 am Sunset 621 am ARP. Black Out"

YMCA, "Keep Fit

Class 10.30 a.m.; Mad. Swimming. 6 p.m.; Bad- minton, 8.30 p.m.

Reel Class for Children at Helena May

Institute, 4.45 p.tn.

Annual Meeting of Hongkong Reel Club, Helens May Institute, 5.30 pm

Meeting of

of Foreign Station Hadio Listener, 5 p.m.

South China AA Switüming Chara- plonship. 7.30 p.m.

D.m

ARF. Lectures-Shaukiwan Public Dispensary. 7.20 p.m.; in English, Club addea, Lusitano, 5.30

in Chinese, Chia- ese Chamber, Y.W.C.A. Bonham Road, 7.30 p.m.; in English, St. Andrew's Casech

Fail, p. in English. ARP in English. Diocesan Girig Junior School, p.m.; in Chinese, Queen's College, 7.30 pm: Taumati Government School, 730 p.m.

23 Heaping up (6) 24 Deer's horn

(6)...

- 28. Arrange. (8)

27 Dealer (8)

30 Love (5)

31 Peruse (4)

23-Tides: High 5.05 mm. and 7.58 pm. Low 12.30 p.m. and 11.44 p.m. Sunrise 6.12 an. Sunset 6.20 p.m. Jockey Club Extra

Race Meet- ing. Happy Valley.

Annual Outing for Bind Giris, p.m

South China A.A. Swimming Cham plonship. 7.30 p.m.

Football Haiphong v. Combined

Chinese, 5.30 p.m.

24-Tides: High 6.15 am and 8.22 p.m. Low 1.02 pm.

Sunrise 6.12 am. Sunset 8.19 p.m. HKRA. Shoot, 9am.

Football-Haiphong v. Rest of Co- lony 5.30 p.m.

01

25 HK. Cricket League Annual Meeting

Crown Land Sale, P.WD., 3 p.m. 27-HKRA Shoot, 1.45 p.m.

28-Claims against estate of Ernest

Perdinand Oppenheim" due.

St. Andrew's Club Annual Clea Mtg

Church

EaIL

Unveiling of Plaque at Morrison Hall by HE the Governor, 8.30 p.m.

29 Claims against, estate of Charles Harold Brangwin due.

Crown Land Sale (DQ. South) 11

6.DL.

30-Boy Scouts Assa, Annual Swim- ming Sports, V.RO. 230 pm.

HR. Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd. Interest on 4 per cent De bentures payable"

Solution Do 416-

ACROSS: 1, Populace, 5, Fair. & Ceremony. 9, Clip. 11, Sham, 23," Paths. 16 Pale, 18, Deluge. 20, In- botn 21, Oxen 22, Catnál, 24, Neat. 28, Thin 29, Vigilant. 30, Sign. 81, Attended.

DOWN 1, Pact, 2, Fort

| Lymph. 4, Cinema. 6, Ablution. 7. Reposing. 10, Open. 12, "Apex, 14, Educates. 15. Elimming. 17, Line, 19, Goir. 22, Enfist, 25, Agile, 36, Band, 27, Bud.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1939. -PAGE 3

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ON THE STAGE

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LUL

AND HIS HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA

... Supported by

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Secrets of a family auctor: po

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ANNE SHIRLEY EDWARD ELLIS LEE BOWMAN ● WILLIAM

A MESSAGE TO GARCIA

SATURDAY to TUESDAY: "GUNGA DIN"