iz
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION!
ON THE SCREEN
LOVE! LAUGHTER! MELODY! ►
*
GEORGE M. COHAN'I
+ SONG AND
DANCE MAN
A FOX part with
•
CLAIRE TREVOR PAUL KELLY
/MICHAEL WHALEN
ON THE ST. GE
AT ALL PERFORMANCES
An Entira'y New Progammo
'THE VIENNA CABARET'
with
DUO ROSSILIANO
and
THE GRUBEL TROUPE
NEW JUGGLING TRICKS BRILLIANT
DANCES -XYLOPHONE SOLOS--
MUSICAL SPECIALTIES
NEXT CHANGE ROBERT MONTGOMERY-ROSALIND RUSSELL
in "TROUBLE FOR TWO" M.C. M. Picture
ED THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY.
Each Love Living. Moment As Though. It Were Hor Last
BETTE DAVIS
Shatters every expec- ration of what she could do when her great role came along, in
DANGEROUS
The story of the kind of a girl that mon rograt
FRANCHOT TONE
MARGARET LINDSAY · ALISON SKIPWORTH": JOHN ELDREDGE DICK FORAN
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,'・ AUGUST 7, 1936.
G-Men
Films Choice of
MAE WEST ?-
NEVER!
Love Stories Leave Them Cold: They
Hate Music
MAE WEST and Greta Garba? Not on your
life say child, film-goers.
They refuse to believe such people exist.
They prefer G-men.
Said Mr. William Farr, acting general mana- ger of the British Film Institute at a London conference of the Public Morality Council and the Cinema Christian Council:
"Children bute above all 'horrific' films. It has been found that there are frightening qualities in many of the later Walt Disney car- ქgons.
THEY LAUGH AT, LOVE
"Love stories mean nothing to children. They just hưugh...
"They heartily dislike musical ms. "Screen falsification of stories they have read {noys the
"Why do children like G-men films?" asked Mr. Farr.
"Because they give excitement, sensation and suspense.
"We have to get under this liking; of prime Alma among chlidren, see what is it these films which ap- peals to the children, and then serve it up to them in a wholesome' farin.
Titori!
"Dramatic stories built up around such characters as an air pilot, a colonial administrator, a sea captain, or even a doctor, would be a great interest to children."
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RICHT AND WRONG
Mr. G. Kirkhum Jones, headmaster
of St. Andrew's Street Senior Boys' School. Battersea, added-
Are First Children
FARMYARD PARADE
While the farmyard rooster may have his suspicions, Mrs. Black Airphington is serenely happy with the brook of
ducklings she has adopted,
BANK NOTE CIRCULATION
NEW HIGH RECORD AT HOME
Goldwyn's Beauty Parade
-FOR MEN!
YOUR average male in Hollywood abhors, the idea of being con- sidered in the category of contest- entering females,
London. Aug. 6. The note circulation of $454,406,397, shown in this week's Bank of England. return, is a new high record.
Circulation at the same time last was £111,835,941, and, after
height of the holiday season year--the
the autumn decline, rose at Christmas to £424,506,785. Recent increases jn circulation have been in part due to If there is n "Miss Most Beautiful I listen to what the children saying, and have been associated with n Back," that's all right for the girls! foreign demand on account of hoard- Teeth" or a "Miss Most Gorgeous to ench ather. They love fighting rise in the last three months of about comedy, young animals, young peo£41,000,000 in the banks holdings of ple, rishi triumphing over wrong. happy endings to the stories of the
gold.--British Wireless. books they read.
"A close-up of kissing sends them into ts of laughter,
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ENGLISH WATER
RESOURCES
"They haje cruelty and besti- ality, and, Giank goodness, drunk-
London, Aug. 6. eness is no longer a Joke to them. Following the summer droughts of Beauty of scenery leaves them 1933 and 1931, a committee was ap-i
coln,"
Recently, however, maseruline ideals were suddenly commandeered. It happened when someone said to Samuel Goldwyn-"Suppose, Sam, that you were sitting on the judges' bench and the state proposed the question-pick a panel of mule beauty." -What would you do? Whom would you select?"
Here is Goldwyn's answer: pointed to enquire into better con- Head-Clark
TESOUTCES, in the hair.
summer for j
Gable. Excellently
Miss Isobel Morris, of the Mothers' servation and organisation of the shaped head with fine crop of darit Union, sald that it was a shock to middle of the wellest
water country's some of them to come across people of good education and strong Chris- Jian_principles who had “quite passion" for certain an stars.
years.
Eyes--Charles Boyer. Deep, dark
The committer's report has just yes, perfectly set in the head with heen
sued It recommends thema-torchæad-expressing-Ang-intell establishment of a central Advisory gener and sensitivity. Water Board to collect and marshol
Nose-Frank Shields.
Perfect
all available information about country's water resources and re-chiselling, nearest the Grecian ideal, Mouth-Gary Cooper. Finely mo-
The R.A. Sergeants'- Mess, Queen's quirements, and to advise as to any
Road, are holding a whist drive and schemes for improving the water deiled and extremely sensitive. tombola at 8.30 to-night.
supplies-British Wireless.
POPULAR PRICES:
ESTARE
SHOWINGS IN KOWLOON
70%, 40% 70% SERVICEBLEN 30%.
4 SHOWS DAILY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW •
THE MOST THRILLING FIlm in whicH KAY FRANCIS HAS EVER CAST HER GlamourOUS SPELL !
Bend
Vnice-Herbert Marshall. fully modulated and pleasing to the ear, with perfect diction.
Physique-Jon McCrea. Perfectly proportioned
ned body, with musetiae development.
excellent
PersonalityEddie Cantor. Fur many years the screen and stage's leading dispenser of personality: the years only add to his stort of it.
Virlilly-Edward Arnold. No one, befure the public to-day has greater degree of virility than this powerful actor, the foree of his per- soriality being tremendous.
EXCHANGE
*Selling
ALHAMBRA
RD, HOWLOON DAILY AT
7.30 ·TEL, 30030
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY THREE WISE GUYS AND A GIRL
Remember
"Little Miss Marker"? Here's another
hit from
DAMON
RUNYONIN
ROBERT
with
BETTY
YOUNG FURNESS
RAYYOND THURSTON BRUCE
WALDURN - HALL - CABOT
Based on Damon Runyon's Story Directed by George D. Seita Produced by Harry' Rapt
Pergj Godleym player merana.
who outsmarted them plenty! The breeziest romance in months!
ALSO - HEARST NEWS
&
CHARLEY CHASE COMEDY
TO-MORROW
"WE'RE IN THE MONEY"
* SHOWS
DAILY 2.30-$.19
1.13-0,30
JOAN BLONDELL & GLENDA FARRELL
TAKE ANY TRIM CR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
THEATRE A B
FLAMING
•ROAD WANDNAI
TEL. 0473
MORE TO-DAY⚫ TO-MORROW. DYNAMIC THRILLS AND LAUGHTER. ALTERNATE IN THIS SENSATIONAL "WHODUNIT” PRODUCTION.
A famous mystery thriller of the stage Is on tho screen with a thousand
shocks and
shivers!
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
with
GENE RAYMOND Margaret Callahan Erie Blora Erin O'Brien»Maore Moroni Gian (Grant Plitkaff
P&Ray Mayer.
• MATINEES: 20-30c1® EVENINGS; -20=,-30c.-50c.-70c,
DINNER
DANCE
GRILL
ROOM
• SUNDAY •
WILLIAM POWELL & JEAN ARTHUR
"THE EX. MRS. BRADFORD"
TO-DAY &
MAJESTIC 2.29 € 9.20 p.m.
TO-MORROW
"You silly girl, you around the block lor falling for a spooch liko 'I love you""
1 oughta slap
SUNDAY:-
Adelph
Zukor
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 &
Sylvia SIDNEY Herbert MARSHALL
ticcent youth
"CAPTAIN BLOOD"
with
ERROL FLYNN
The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain
Francis
I FOUND STELLA PARISH
„First Hatlanul, Picture, with her graatrij duit!
TAN HUNTER PAUL LUKAS • SYBIL JASON;
BARTON MacLANE EDDIE ACUFF
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY ANYTHING GOES
with BING CROSBY, ETHEL MERMAN,
·CHARLIE RUGGLES
A Paramount Picture.
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SERVICE
ATTACHES
WING COMMANDER KERBY TO GO TO PEIPING
London, Aug, 0, Wing Commander H. S. Kerby ins been appointed Air Attache to the Embassy Peining, in succession to Captain . P. Willock---Reuter. Captain It. II. von
London, Aur. 6.
The King has approved the up-
pointment of Captain R. H. Bevan as,
CABARET
ON
SATURDAY 8th-AUGUST
FINAL APPEARANCE OF
THE DUO ROSSILIANOS
ARTISTIC & ACROBATIC DANCERS OF CONTINENTAL FAME -
Admission $1,00
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