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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS THEATRE

HONGKONG. DAILY AT 230-515-720-9:30 PM. TEL 31453

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

TO-MOR-OW

M-G-M Pioture

Meuro

Welcome back, Bill and Myrna! Your new hit is the funniest of all your Mr. and Mrs. romances!

WILLIAM

MYRKA

POWELL · LOY

YOU AGAIN

with

FRANK MCHUGH EDMUND LOWE

Nick Carter Returns in a Thrilling Adventure

"SKY MURDER

WALTER PIDGEON -" DONALD MEEK.

LEE THEATRE

PERCIVAL ST. & LEIGHTON HILL RD,

THE

GALA

CHINA PREMIERE

FRIDAY, MARCH 7th, AT 9.30 P.M.

HE TALKS!

and how!

"One of the greatest ple-

tires ever made!"

—Damon Bunyon

Prices: 50 c. — 75 c.

Charlie Chaplin

in his new comedy

The Great DICTATOR

Produced, written and directed by CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Both PAULETTE GODDARD Jack One Haney Daniell REGINALD GARdeɣer · Sizer Gitaar

Maurice MosCOVICH

Released thru United Artists

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Suprise: 6.42 aum; Sunset: 6:28 paï Entries Close for Fanling Hunt and Race Club Meet at Kwantl: Entries for Race 3 clase on March 11.

HK. Rotary Club Tin Meeting. 1

Monthly Meeting of HK. Referees' Assen.. Hotel Cecil, 8 pm.

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English Assen Meeting. Helene May, 5.30 p.m.

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Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 p.m. Alice Memorial and Affilated Hos pitals Annual Pound Day, 11 am, te

p.m., and 2 to 4 p.m.

THE FIRST BALLOONISTS

The first human being to as cend in a balloh was Jean Fran- cols Pilatre de Rozier, a native of Metz, who was born in 1745 and died in 1799.

GENERAL

FROM BARBER TO BARBARIAN. It's Charlie Chaplin, playing sharply contrasting roles-first a pathetic little' ghetto barber, then a bombastic, bomb-exploding delator in “The Great Dieta- tor, his latest and greatest" comedy which will have. Its All- China Gala Premiere at the Lee Theatre on Friday, March 7.

"THE GREAT DICTATOR" SPEAKS AND SO DOES CHARLIE CHAPLIN

It will be amusing to which the discomfiture on many faces when Charlie Chaplin speaks on the screen for the first time as evidenced in "The Great Dictator," which United Artists is bringing to the Lee Theatre on Friday, March 7, The nearest he has ever come to speech in a picture was the Titina" number in "Modern Times" in which he sang a song in a sort of gibberish.

On the 15th October, 1783, Plia- tre de Rozier made his ascent in a captive balloon.

When Fresident Roosevelt inau- should have no voice. He was un!-- On the 15th September, 1784, gurated the N.R.A., some years ago versally known and understood in Vincent Lunardi introduced aero-Charlie made a radio broadcast in pantomime much as the mythical station into Great Britain.

its favour. There were many skep- characters of Santa Claus and The part of Vincent Lunardi' is tics who, because they couldn't see other people created solely from played by Laurence Olivier in him, went so far as to my that imagination are known and under- London Films epic, "Conquest of though Charlie was announced as stood.

the Air," now showing at the the speaker, they didn't believe it In "The Great Dictator." he de- Majestic Theatre.

was really his volce they heard. viates only. slightly in his inter- "Some, months later, on 7th Now, in "The Great Dictator,pretation of his character-wears January, 1785, Jean Pierre Blan-they can see as well as hear, and the same clothes, affects the same chard and Dr. J. Jeffries, an many will marvel that he stayed inimitable mannerisms that have American physician, made the first silent for so many years. As "the made Charlle tamous. balloon voyage across the English little tramp" Charlie, as well as Channel.

most of his followers, believed he

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7.00 London Belay-The News,

7415-Londen Belay--Britain Speaky. Talk by J.

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7.30 Portuguese Programme. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 An hour of Popular Classica. Chanson Triste (Tchaikowsky) Bournemouth Municipal Orch.

Cont'd Page 8, Col. 4

But the problem presented itself how was he to break his silence for the first time? For each për- son in a Chaplin audience had his. jown interpretation of a voice the little man would use. The trans. tion would have to be gradual- and most important of all-for a

reason

How Charlle bridged this barrier is only another tribute to his amazing ingenuity, and is one of the basic motives for the story. And HOW this is done is one of Lethe many surprises waiting for all the Chaplin fans who so eagerly look forward to his pictures.

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