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Reviews from Official Sources.
"3 GIRLS LOST."
The name of Loretta Young la always sufficient to bring this re viewer to a theatre with much anti- cipation. And when John Wayno, the meteoric hero of "The Big Trail" and the ever-delightful Low
Cody are also in the cast, the result
is apt to be extremely pleasurable.
This is the case with "3 Girls
own in the realm of motion pictures. She is universally recognised as the screen's leading comedienne.
Entering pictures in 1918 as an oxtra, Miss Fazenda became a mem- ber of the famous group of Mack Sennett artistes, which included Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson. In 1921, the actress joined Warner Bros., with whom she has remained.
LIBERAL LEADERS EXPLAIN.
(Continued from Fage 7.)
"We have to buy from abroad the food for the people of this The wage carners have to get the bulk of their food from
country.
abrond. If our financial credit goes and our currency depreciates There will be a rise in the pricca of food and a scarcity in what we can get from abroad.
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S 'PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day "from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355
metres:
6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 6-0.30 p.m.-Chineas Children's Programme.
7-10.30 pm.-European Recorded Programme of Columbia Recorde kindly supplied by the Anderson Music Co.
7.03-7.30 p.m.-Bond Selections. Rassinn Fantasy
(arr. Lange & Somers),
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.
I
Social Functions. To-day-Tea Dance at King'a Restaurant,"
To-night-Dinner Dances at Re- pulse Bay and Peninsula Hotels.
Entertainments. To-day Kings Theatre; " Lost Giria.”
To-day — Queen's Theatre;
"Daybreak."
Today Central Theatre; "The Iron Man,"
To-day
Petticoat Lane (arr. Parry)
Debroy Somers Band (9880). Voyage on a Troopship (arr. Miller),
Regimental Band of H.M."The Storm." Grenadier Guards (DXB). Paul Rubens Memories (P. Rubens), Ivan Caryll Memories (I. Caryll),
Debroy Somers Band (0882). 7.39-7.44 p.m.--Octeta.
Lost," Fox comedy drama which is now showing at the King's Theatre. Based on the story of Robert D. Andrews and directed by Siducy Lanfield, Girls Lost" turns out to be a highly diverting tale of a
"Now take the question of the trio of damsels from as many coun- dole. As I understand, one of the Largo in G (Handel arr. Sear), try towns, who go to Chicago to proposals of the present Govern-Rondo Capriccioso (Mendelssohn), seck the not Incompatible combinament, or the proposal at any rate tion of jobs and romance.
"DAYBREAK”
That love,
On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn),
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet (0276).
J.. H. Squire Celeste Oetet (9170). 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Report.
7.44-7.58 p.m.-Humorous Num- bers
on which the Labour Cabinet split, was to reduce the dole by 10 per eent. That would mean that 309. of dole would become 27a. Ja not 7.44-9.30 p.m.-A Selection of sooner or later, will that better than to any, in order Records kindly leaned by a Listen catch up with you, is the theme to be popular in the country, that er which is woven through the en-you will go on giving 30s., and grossing story of "Daybreak," the then to pursue a policy which will new Ramon Novarro Metro-Goldwyn- make that 30s. worth only 20s. or Mayer vehicle, which is showing at 1581 (Cheers.). the Queen's Theatre.
"What has brought us to the "Daybreak" deserves all the present pass? The fact that other praise it has been given as a stage countries believe that our national play. Novarro and the French expenditure is more than directer, Jacques Feyder, hage In-national income, that we are liv deed enhanced in the talkie the ing upon our capital; and unfor- original charm of this sophisticated tunately that is true, drama.
our
Because I Love You,
.Gracle Fields. My Blue Heaven Virginia (There's a Blue Ridge
in My Heart), He's Toll, Dark and Handsome,
To-day "Untamed."
Majestic.
Star
Theatre,
Theatre:
Home Mails: To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Suez (Naldera).
Friday Inward from Europe via Siberia (Vogtland).
Meetings.
To-morrow-Hong Kong Hort!- cultural Society, Jardine, Matheson Co.'s Board Room, 5.15 p.m.
Friday-Hong Kong and Cap- ton lee Manufacturing ·Co., Ltd., 2 Lower Albert Road, 10.45 a.m.
Lammerts' Auction. To-morrow-At Sales Room, 140 cases wine, 11 a.m.
Friday-At Sales Room, house- hold furniture, 2.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous,
3.30 p.m.
Monday-Sale of Work· (M.C.L. Sophie Tucker and Ted Children's Club), at Peak Club,
Shapiro, 7.58-8.28 p.m. Unfinished Symphony in B Minor
(Schubert),
The Royal Opera Orchestra Convent Garden Conducted by Eugeno Goossens. 1st Movement--Allegro Moderato. 2nd Movement-Andante con mota, 8.28-8,42 p.m.-Humorous Num.
Grace Fields.
le Hadn't Up Til Yesterday.
"The crisis is so great that I Novarro, as the Viennese lieutenam sure it cannot be met solely ant, Willi Kasda, is soen in a role by reductions of expenditure. quite different from the Spanish There will have to be taxation in lovers of his two most recent pio-some form or another, and Ibers. - turus, "In Gay Madrid" and "Call would ask people not to be misled How About Me? of the Flesh," As the immaculate by the fact that the propaganda (Oh, You Have No Idea, ly garbed lieutenant, with a monocle on the other side is suggesting Aren't Women Wonderful, in one eye, Novarro sends one's that the whole burden is to be memorics back to "The Student
Sophie Tucker and Ted Prince." Kusda, however, is a more
Shapiro. modern hero than the "Prince." He
8.42-9.09 pm,-Plano Solos.. IN an up-to-date love adventurer,
Ballade No. 1 in C Minor (Chopin), with so many conquests that he has
Robert Casadesus. "I believe that we shall come Staccate Etude (Rubenstein), come to think of love as merely a through this crisis as we have La Campanella (Paganni-Liszt), game, not at all to be taken serious- | come" through previous crises In
Mischa Levitzki. 17.
our history. We shall come Ballad No. 3 (Chopin),
Benno Moiseivitch. through it because the country really in a national crisis, unites Itself as a nation and overrides sectional feeling.
Supporting roles are ably played by William Bakewell, Karen Morley, Kent Douglass, Glenn Tryon and Clyde Cook.
"A CONNECTICUT YANKE.”
borne simply by the poorer classes, because I am sure it is not true. It cannot be so.
We Shall Come Through.
"I support this Government be- cause 1, believe it is the only way in which the crisis can be faced, Will Rogers, whose newest, Fox and that the Opposition to-day production, Mark Twain's "A Con- would lead to run and national necticut Yankee" opens on Saturday disaster." (Cheers.) Fat the King's Theatre. Rogers The Marquis of Crewe urged sprang from humble beginnings.that it was the duty of Liberals Born in Indian Territory, his to address meetinga in the country earliest work was that of ranch to explain the facts of the situa- hand. After considerable struggle tion and to expose Socialist fal- he obtained a small time vaudeville Jacies. booking.
Big time vaudeville scouts spotted him, and he rapidly climbed to fame an a headliner. From vaudeville he graduated to Ziegfeld productions.
When the talkies arrived Rogers became a star at once. He has made three of these for Fox, "They Had To See Paria," "So This Is London," and "Lightnin,"
After a discussion the following resolution was proposed:
9.09-9.30 p.m.—
Symphony No. 30 in E Flat (Mozart),
Berlin State Opera Orchestra. Ial Movt.Adagio Allegro, 2nd Movt-Andante, 3rd Movt-Minuet Allegretto. 4th Movt-Finale Allegro. 9.30-9.64 p.m.-Operatic.
Song-
Traviata (Verdi),
Gertrude John (Soprano)
(9700).
Vocal Gema
Maritana (Wallace),
Doris Vane, Francia Russell, Dennis Noble, Clara Serena and Chorus (9872).. Organ Solo.
The Valkyrics-The Ride of the
Valkyries (Wagner),
"That the meeting enthuslas-Song- tically acclaims the patriotic action of the leaders of the party in coming to the aid of the nation at a moment of crisis."
All the Liberal members of Par- liament and Peers supported the Selection of his present vehicle, | motion. which are Large, Boft and Natural, "A Connecticut Yankee," was an
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The funeral took place at Woking last month of Mr. Ernest Field, of Kingston-on-Thames, who for many years was honorary secretary of the Sailing Club. In 1879-89 he was one of the full-backs in the Cispham
Rovers team, which won the F.A. Cup, and he played for England
against Scotland from 1879-81.
· According to published statistics, 40 per cent, of all married couples in Germany ́ have no children, In Berlin the percentage is stated to be 54.
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