1939-09-23 — Page 3

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Today's

QUEENS Screenings

LUISE

·DAILY AT 2-30-5-15-7-2029-30 - TEL.31455

SHOWING TODAY

BEHIND THE SCENES

with four beautiful

girls who wanted fame--at any price! NOW SHOWING

PAULETTE

RAINER GODDARD

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.30-5.15

7.15.9.30

Dramatic School

ALAN

MARSHAL

ANA

Also

TURNER

ANN

STEPHENSON - RUTHERFORD

HENRY

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M-G

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Mayer

PICTURE

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Selected

M-G-M

Shorts

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

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TEL 28473]

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

SOUL STIRRING PICTURE! TARILLING ENTERTAINMENT! Drama to stir the soul! Gaiety to gladden the heart!

ACHIE COOPER

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW

MAN'S HERITAGE

New UNIVERSAL Picture

TOMORROW MONDAY-TUESDAY

THE SCREEN'S MOST ELECTRIFYING SENSATION!

RED-HANDED!

EDW. G. ROBINSON

Confessions of a

NAZI SPY

FRANCIS LEDERER-Grorys Sanders- Pouf Lankan Hawry OʻRG Brend by ANATOLE LITVAR · Presented by MARKER BRIK. Scream Play by Jian Krim and Jabu Wakey • Technical equate Leon C. Iuven, former Quitam » Best Plastoval. Plature

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

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

CATHAY

DAILY AT 2.30,5.15, 7.20, 89.30.P.M. MATINEEN, 10-20, 30, 40c. EVENINGS 1–20%– 30% 60% 70% 80%.

STARTING TO-DAY-FEW DAYS ONLY! •

RKO RADIO'S GIANT SHOW OF SHOWS! AN EPIC OF SUBLIME HEROISM! More than a year in the making.. thrill for a thousand movi s in one mighty picture!

HERE THEY COMEI... The reckless

WEDNES.

ONLY

Fox Picture

THURS.

ONLY

Fox/Picture

fusty, swaggering sons of the thundering guns e.... in the towering drama Inspired by Kipling's barale lines.

GUNGA DIN

CARY BRANT VICTOR CLAGLEN DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr.

With Low Laffe » Libaario Cantelli

Fredric March, Warner Baxter, L. Barrymore

"The ROAD to GLORY"

Tyrone Power, Alice, Faye, Don. Ameche

"IN OLD CHICAGO"

most entertaining, action- packed romances this reviewer has

"The Return Of The the

Cisco Kid" At The Majestic To-morrow.

seen in a long time of reviewing.

Back into old Arizona rides that

gallant caballero, the Cleco Kid.

the gayest gun-fighter of them all. "Only one army to 'catch the Bullets can't touch him, Jalis can't Cisco Kid? Amigos, it is to hold him, posses can't find him laugh!" So boasts Cisco, and it was and, with a thousand senoritas to laugh indeed (uproariously insighing for him, he can't have the fact) in "The Return of the Cisco one girl he really wants! The Kid", which opens to-morrow at screen play by Milton, Sperling, 18 the Majestic Theatre,

Warner Baxter, starred as the -character, that made him famous, has re-created for the screen D. Henry's immortal Robin Hood of

a merry, dashing "afair and the excellent cast takes hilarious ad- vantage of every situation, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond, C. Henry Gordon

the Rio Grande for this 20th Cen-. and Robert Barrat are featured in tury-Fax picture, and it's one of support of Baxter.

KING'S

Hongkong

"Captain Fury" QUEEN'S:

"Dramatic School"

ORIENTAL

"Man's Heritage"

CATHAY:

"Gunga Dip"

Kowloon

ALHAMERA:

"Three Smart Girls Grow Up"

STAR:

"The Great Ziegfeld"

MAJESTIU:

"Young Dr. Kudare"

KING'S:

Coming

"Let Us Live"

ORIENTAL·

"Confessions Of A Nazi Spy"

"Prison Without Bars”

CATHAY:

"The Road To Glory"

ALHAMBRA:

"The Devil's Paradise"

STAR:

"In Old Chicago"

MAJESTIC:

"The Return Of The Cisco Kid"

Rare Treat At Oriental This Month

NEW SERIES OF FLOYD GIBBONS

PICTURES.

Floyd Gibbons is America's ace commentator. He is more news

is the leading that-be than

and every "Headline Hunter" story that

comes from Gibbons carries with it enough thrills for even the "toughest kind."

ADVENTURE-SEEKER

GENERAL

Supres

Hollywood gossips say thery' is a linx on heroines in a Chaplin film, that they never make hits in other ims. Vince Paulette Goddard played the heroine in Modern Times, she has done nothing in films. But recently' Hollywood was surprised when she signed a contract with David Seirick She will be tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the film version of Gons With the Wind.

"Great Dictator" Is Chaplin's New Film

Adventures Of "Furor" Hinkle And General Herring Of Ptomania

At the Charles Chaplin Studios Los Angeles shooting has begun, on the most discussed picture for 1940. "The Great Dictator," written, produced, directed and acted by Charles Spencer Chaplin with Pauline Goddard and vil- lainous Henry Daniell in supporting roles. Among the speculators on what the slue-footed little Charles will do to Adolf Hitler is noted British cartoonist David Low.

"The Great Dictator" is" a "dramatic composition in five acts and an epilogue entitled "The Dictator" by Charles. Spencer Chaplin,-subtitle "A story of a little sh in a shark infested ocean." If Mr. Chaplin sticks to his script (he usually gets plenty!

Ideas on the set), the "Greatį Dictator" will open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania variation Bacteria) against the After я series of "Alllars,” Chaplinesque trend experiences, Charles returns home to Pto- mania's capital. Ptom, soon anda everything being run by a lttle cock-of-the-walk Bunkie

shunds

from

VIRGINIA FIELDTM

The romantic lead opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in "The Sun Never Sets" is played by Virginia Field Born in London she was sent to a public school in Paris until she was 14. and then went to Vienna to finish ber school

career. While walkinız along the street in Vienna a man seized her by the arm and asked her if she would like to go on the stage. Virginia liked the idea and the

the impetuous stranger, Viennese impressario, gave her a role in a pisy in Max Reinhardt's Theatre. She kept the rehearsals a secret from her family and not until the opening night of the show did she cable her father who

very strongly protested in reply. She appeared with

Lesile Howard in "The Lady is Willing" and later was given the lead in "Victoria Regina" on Broadway. Since then she has appeared in 14

filess.

COMING EVENTS

〃

War correspondent in France for the "Chicago Tribune" during the 1914-1918 world conflct, Gibbons

When "Furor" Hinkle appears has made it his business to go to any place that adventure might all cry hall and even the dach- must ralse their legs. be found. Thus he was in the heart of things when the Spanish Hinkle's aidekick is Dictator Mus- Revolution broke out and even semump of Ostrich, an egomaniac he who stops traffic when he wants now the chances are that

dirty joke. A rebe! preparing to leave for Europe to tell a again and get his own personal against this regime Charlie is sent

a concentration

camp, taste of modern warfare, and to bring back with him thrills and which he escapes in Stormtroopers

mistaken for the SEPT. adventures For his very large uniform, is

23-Tides: High 5.05 am, and 7.58 "Puran," with the real Furor im-

p.m. Low 12.30 pm and 11.44 p.m. prisoned as an imposter mas~; Sunrise 6.12. a.m.-Sunset 620 pm. When not away from the coun-querading Charile is involved by Jockey Club Extra Race Meet- try on one of his thrill-seeking his Air Minister, Hering. in an 'ing Happy Valley, 2 p expeditions. Floyd Gibbons con- ducts a weekly broadcast of true sent in adventures from stories to him from all parts of the world, He dramatises these stories and puts them over in such a way as to hold his listeners spellbound right through the time he is talk ing over the air,

following.

PICTURES MADE Warner Brothers saw the large

In

adventure scope

these true broadcasts and invited Gibbons to make pictures from his stories. Gibbons acceded and the result

bumble1

7.30

aggressive campaign to

Annual Outing for Blind Girls, 3 the neighbouring state of Vanilla. D.

South China A.A. Swimming Cham- It is to the people of Varilla, plonship, 730 p.m. soon hunibled, that old pantominist

Football Haiphong v. Combined Charles ritakes his first big Chinese, 530 pm

APP Lectures. (In Chinese) speech. 'I do want to conquer everybody. I want to do good by Yaumati Government School,

[p.m.; in Chinese, Queen's College, 7.30 everybody, because this is a big pm: (in Chinese) Chinese V.M.CA. world, and there's plenty of room Bridges Street, 7.30 pm. for all of us in it. Yes, even for Dictators. Even for Hinkle. He wants to do right. He's just full of bitterness and hate that's all."

This is all, with Vanilla cheerį

ELK. Hotel Winter Entertainment Season Opens.

24-Tides: High 615 am and 1.22

1.02 pm. pm. Low

Sunrise 8.12 sm. Sunset 6.18 pm. HKRA. Shoot, § 8.m.

Football-Haiphong v. Rest of Co-

5.30pm

Is that a series of pictures have and happy song echoing in his Discussion: “Group 9 pm.

been

Dr. K. L. Reichelt on "The made. and in one of them ears, Charles wakes up back in the concentration camp, a storm-

Christian Attitude To Other Falths. the person who sent in his story trooper "glowering down on him.i Lawn Bowls Final, 3.30 p.m. to Gibbons actually appears in the Charlie smiles and the storm- 25% Tides:- High 7.05 am. and 1.38 picture.

trooper smiles back. Then his lips Am. Low 12.44 am, and 138 pm

Sunrise: 6.12 am, Sunset 6.18 p.m. freeze and

he belows Charlie K Cricket League Arnual Chaplin's curtain ime, "Get up Meeting.

Crown Land Bale, P.WD. 3 p.m. you Jew! Where the hell do you

10.30 YMCA. Bandaging think you are."

Union

the

With his usual enterprise, Manager Vie Hugo, of the Oriental Theatre, has booked series for his picture house and states he will put them all on one programme towards the end of the month.

himself does all Floyd Gibbons

Universal are trying to borrow the commentating" in these pic-Paulette Goddard from Charlie tures and his lightning-speed talk Chaplin for the leading role op- is sure to take local cinema fans posite James Stewart in their by storm.

Western, Destry Rides Again,

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9-30

5:20

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ROAD KOWLOON TEL 57795

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HE GREAT

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Tyrone Power-Alice Fare-Don Ameche

p;

Play Whit 130 ASS

HK. Singers Rebraisal, Church, 5.30 p.m.

ARP. Lectures-In English, Club

5.30 p.m.; in English, Dio

| Lusitano,

cesan Girls Junior School. 6 pm; in Chinese Queen's College, 1.30p.m. Yaumati "Government School, 7.30 Shaukiwan Public Dispensary,

p.m.;

1.30 p.m.

p.12.

26 Tides: High 7.55 am and 9

low 1.30 am, and 299 p.m. Kowloon Chess Club. Annual Mtg.. Peninsula Hotel. 6 p.m.

Meeting,

Y. M. C. A. Badminton 10.30 · B... Mxd. Swimming 6 pm; [Badminton, 8.30 p.m.

[by.

6

Urban Council Meeting.

—RKRA Shoot, 1.45 p.m.

TMCA Mahjongg, 10 a.m.; Lecture

Surb. Capt. Hobbs on "Anatomy,” ⠀

Whist Drive, 8.30 pm,

28-Claims against estate of Ernest

| Ferdinand Oppenlight, ul. Gen.

St. Andrew's

Mtz... Church Han

Unvelling of Plaque at Morrison Hall by BE the Governor, 5.30 p.m.

YMCA. Mahjongs for Beginners,

10 B

29 Claims against estate of Charles Harold Brangwin dus.

Crown Land Bale (DO. Bouth) 11

7MLOA. "Keep P" Olese 10 am. Badminton 8.30 p.m. Mzd. Swimming

30-Boy Scouts' Assn. Annual Swim- ming Bparte. V.RO. 2,30 pm

HK Land Investment and Agency

Co, Ltd. Interest on 4 per cent De

IN OLD CHICAGO bentures payable aga

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1939. -RAGE 3

3.30 PM

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

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Columbia Picture

Tye proted my Fighteraf

Puy' chosen my woman.

.. Soon this wilderness will be mine)*!

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"SINBAD THE BAILOR'

LET US LIVE AU with Maureen O'SULLIVAN • Henry FONDA

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AD: 4QWLDỐT. DAILY AT 2.30°520-700 & 980

SHOWING TO-DAY

Aglow

WITH ENTERTAINMENT MAGIC!

Deanna DURBIN

Flan

GREY PARRISH

3 SMART GIRLS GROW UP

Robert CUMMINGS Charles WINNINGER William LUNDIGAN

A NEW UNIVERSAL PISTURE “The Last Ruse of Summer", Hear Deanna Sing *Invitation To The Dance", "Because" & "La Capinera

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

CONEES. 20%*30T MEDIA.

FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY

THE BEGINNING OF NEW SERIES ALREADY AS POPULAR AS "JUDGE HARDY'S FAMILY $5 PICTURES!

Like Another "Men in White"!

Secrets of a great hospital -acmance ofman in white! Women in sabləri Drama -- Hike ́a siren's scream)

Young

DR.KILDARE

Plays

Leur AYRES

BARRYMORE

- LYKKE CARVER - MAT PENDLETON

'JO ANN SAYERS - SANGIEL

COMMENCING

S. BINDS

G TOMORROW WARNER BAXTER

in the Role That Made Him Fan

THE RETURN OF THE CISCO KID

20th Century For Picture