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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme wil be broadcast to-day from the Hoar Kong. Broadcasting Station ZEW. ön a wavelength of 555 metros [(845) 'E.C:6);—–
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programmé. · 7-11.80 p.m.-European Pro gramme.
7-9.30 p.m.-A programme of
by Mesars. Anderson Music Co.
7-7.33 p.m.-
"Why don't you cleanse your Jack Oakie is here again In mind, and cleanse your soul?" SoTouchdown" the Paramount fea-Columbia records kindly supplied says "Frisco Kitty to Captain ture at the Oriental Theatre. MéVeigh, who has Inveigled her. The production, which is a de- into his cabin for the purpose of dication to the memory of the late forcing his attentions upon her. Knute Rockne, provides innumer-
FURTHER EXTENSION This is only, one of the many grip-able thrills and sustained interest,
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Enigma Variations. (Elgar, Op. 36), Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the
Halle, Orchestra DX322/DX325. 8 pm Local Time & Weather
Oh Me 'nah..
ping scenes in the "Sin Ship" now in particular for football enthus- Report. running at the Queen's Theatre.. iasts. Richard Arlen heads a cast 7.33-8.35 p.m. Variety,
Louis Wolheim, who also direct-of present and former football play-Orchestral ed the film, plays the part of the ers in America, to give appreciative Carry On, he-man, swashbuckling captain of audiences all the breath-taking play asailing vessel, who, attracted by of a first-rate football game the wife of a minister, accepta Jack Oakie, with his usual enjoy them aboard his ship as passen-able nonsense, barely keeps the au- gers. Beautiful Mary Astor 1 dience from becoming hysterical Frisco Kitty, but the captain does
not learn of this until she had suc-MAIL REVIEW ceeded in reforming him.
The plot is simple but good, and the realistid acting of a strong cast assures a pleasant evening's entertainment to the public.
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"WICKED"-KING'S THEATRE.
“WINGS”—CENTRAL THEATRE.
One of the most remarkable sound) synchronisation films ever made was presented at the Central Theatre yesterday. "Wings" is the Para- mount epic of the "Aces" of the
World War (War), and is, a marvel- "Wicked," Fox'a Istest release luas piece of realism that records starring Elissa Landi and Victor for all time, the war as it was McLaglen, is enjoying phenomenal fought in the air in 1917 and 1918. success at the King's Theatre.
The tramping of thousands of of Miss Landi," of European stage feet: the falling of stricken aero- and screen fame, has definitely planes; the .rapid blazing of proved her worth as an artist of machine-guns and musical accom: great dramatic ability and joins in paniment of heart-stirring beauty, the long ranks of stars who have have well-merited the unanimous captured audiences and held them plaise વ newspaper critics apell-bound. In "Wicked" she throughout the world. transcends the most enthusiastic The production is a stupendous anticipation of her success.
achievement of Director Wellman, Victor McLaglen who plays the and is, one which nobody should leading male role needs no intro-miss. duction or praise. His vital and
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HONG KONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Orders issued by Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S0, OBE, Cons manding'H.K.V.D.C.
PARADES
Battery.
The Officers Commanding the ündermentioned Units will issue. their Orders separately to their on Commands ':------
There will be a lecture Thursday, August 18, at Head- quarters at 6.80 p.m. on "General Principles of Gunnery. Every body is expected to attend as this The Masqueraders CB40 is the arst preliminary lecture of Today I Feel so Happy
the training season. Just Because I Lost my Heart to You,
Corpe Signals. Renate Muller (Soprano) DB687., Parades at Corps Headquarters Vocal Duet
at 5.30 pånt on Tuesday, August One of Us is Crazy,
16, and Friday, August 19, for Signalling Instruction.
She's Lazy. She'a Lousy and She
Loves It, Chick Endor and Charlie Farrel!
(Comedians) DB852
Song
Orchestral
White Horse Inn-Selection,..
London Theatre Orchestra DX246.
Snuggled on Your Shoulder, Love, You funny Thing:
Kate Smith (Comedienne) Descriptive Sketch
In Davy Jones' Locker,
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Musketry practices will be fired at the Peak Range on Sunday, August 21. Firing will commence at 9.30 a.m.
Armoured Car Section. There will be a parade for the whole Section at Headquarters on DB871.Monday, 15th instant, at 5.30 p.m.
A.A.L.A. Company.
The Jolly Old Salts DE842. Band
Irving Berlin Waltz Songs-Medley,
Derby Somers Band DX220 Vocal Duet
Roses at Dawning, The Voice in the Old Village Choir,
Layton & Johnstone DB846. 8.35-9.10 p.m.-Concert Items.
Song
Ships That Pass in the Night (Longfellow & Stephenson), Vale (d'Arcy & Russell),
Madame Clara Serena
(Contralto) 6316.
Piano Solos-
(a) Waltz in A Flat'(Brahms), (b) Spring Song (Mendelssohn), Plano Solo-
Liebestraum (Dream of Love)
No. 3 (Lizst),
William Murdock 9274
MRS. MALLORY NOW Choru
PENNILESS.
Former Tennis Star As Shop Assistant.
The charming innocence of Miss Joan Bennett, and the awkward, overwhelming love-making of. While the tennis queens are gaily Spencer Tracy cleverly ex holding the limelight at Wimbledon ploited in Fox's romantic drama, Mrs. Mallory, who once rejected an "She Wanted a Millionaire which offer of £20,000 to. become a teunis will be presented at the King's professional, is working as a shop Theatre on Sunday next.
assistant. in a New York depart- The annual Miss America, beauty ment store. contest gives Joan the long hoped-
on their
summer
"I am working," she said, “be for opportunity of meeting and cause I am broke." marrying a millionaire. She I found her selling tennis and realises her ambition for clothes, golf frocks to wealthy New Yorkers mansions, Paris and luxury, but about to leave within a short time, discovers that holidays. she has given herself into the "There isn't much to say about keeping of a madly-jealous hus- me," Mrs. Mallory said, “I had band, who had sadistic tendencies no money. My husband's business It is then that the dog-like devotion failed, and he is not well..... of Spencer Tracy comes to free her I got a job." from a terrible situation.
And she added with a brave twin-
The breeziness with which Mr.kle in her eye, "I like it. It is Tracy portrays the role of the amusing, and I plan to continue as hick-town lover cannot fail to de-long as hard times last." light the public, Mr. James Kirk- Mr. Franklin Mallory, her hus wood as the mad millionaire is band, was injured in a motoring as adequately terrifying. Miss Una cident some years ago. He is stil Merkel also, gives an excellent per recovering in hospital from his in- formance as the man-hunting press-juries. agent for the beauty contest.
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(a) Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow. (b) Billy Boy (arr. Terry), Island Sheiling Song
(Hebridean Song),
I-Engineer 'Company, v I-Machine Gun Troop.
Motor Machine Gun Section. IV-Machine Gun Company... VScottish Company. VT-Anzac Company.
Allotment of Lecture Room. Lecture Room will be allotted to the following Units—-—-—-
Monday, August 15-Armour- ed Car Section.
Thursday, Battery.
August 18-The
Thursday, August 25 The Battery,
·
Allotment of Kennedy Road Range. Kennedy Road Range will be al- lotted to the following Units:-
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Monday, August 15-Motor
· Machine Gun Section.
Monday, August 22-Armour ed Car Section.
Promotion.
No. 1 Section, A.F.C., and No. 2 Section, H.K. Electric-The-usual weekly instruction parades are suspended till further notice. In No. 1862 L/Cpl. J. D. H. Craw- stead, the two Sections will parade ford, Machine Gun Troop, promot together on the first Thursday of ed Corporal with effect from each month at A.P.C. Installation, August 12, 1982. North Point, at 5.30. pin. Mem-
Transfer.
bers are strongly urged to attend No. 1694 Pte. B. A. Gray; intermediate parades as often as Machine Gun Company Headquar» possible with No. 3 Section, Centers, is" transferred to Reserve tre, lat Headquarters every Mon-Company as from August 6, 1982. day at 5.30 p.m.
Struck Off The Strength. Other Sections will parade ac- Having left the Colony cording to the following time 1268 Pte. A Reid, No. 7 Platoon, table:-
as from August 11, 1932,
No. 8 Section, Centre, at Head- quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 15th instant.
No. 5 Section, Kowloon Cricket| Club, at Kowloon' Cricket Club at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 16th instant.
No. 4 Section, Kowloon Dock, at! Greenock Male Voice Chair 4523. Kowloon Dock at 5.30 p.m. on Fri- Violin Solow.
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Czardas (Monti), Madrigale (Simonett!},
Song-
Yvonne Curti 5290,
O That it Were So!
(Landon & Bridge); Here in the Quiet Hills (O'Reilly & Carne),
A. Robert Pools (Baritone), 9.10-9.30 p.m.-Octets. Souvenir (Drdla, arr. Willoughby), Phantom Minuet (Hope).
day 19th instant.
Portuguese Company.
No.
Having been dismissed:No. 1475 Bdm. R. A. Crestejo, Corps Band, as from August 10, 1932.
Strength.
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The following have been taken on the, Strength
No. 1928 Pte. E. V. Critchley, Motor Machine Gun Section.
No. 1929 Tpr. W. A. Mackinlay, Machine Gun Troop.
Leave.
No. 1519 Pte. A. T. Braley, No. Platoon, granted" 1 month's on sick leave from July 26 to August
The course of classes and lec-i tures on interesting and instruc tive subjects will be continued 1 during the month of August, [Tuesday evenings at 5.80 p.m. in|25.
the Lecture Room... All N.C.Os are expected to attend, and any other member of the Company who
W. E. G. GOATER, CAPTAIN, ADJUTANT, H. K. V. D. CORPS.
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet DB809. 18 interested, may do so. When AMERICAN AIRMEN
Toreador et Andalouse
Rubinstein, arr. Sear,
Romance
Rubinstein, arr. Sear,"
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet 5218. Memories of Chopin
(arr. Willoughby),
1
commences,
the training season the position regarding existing N.C.O's and promotions generally, will be reconsidered in the light| of the attendances at these lec- tures.
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JH. Squire Celeste Octet DX128. The sixth lecture will be on 9.30-11.30 p.m.-Dance Pro-Tuesday, August 16. Subject:-
It is reported in Moscow that the SQUEAKS gramme kindly supplied by The "Field Engineering with parti Brunswick House.
cular application to defence sys-American airmen, Mattern and my shoes are made. tems of an Infantry Battalion" by Griffin, had to undergo a severe by a new process:---- cross-examination such as Pangborn Gentlemen's Shoes an Instructor, R.E.
and Herndon underwent in Tokyo from $6.00: pair. 6304. (Continued from previous Column) and for a similar reason, The So-
Siboney
.4954.
Carino Gaucho ...
80
Fox Trot-
Madrid.
Hello! Gorgeous,
"My Mom Three-Step-
Tango
Love's Golden Dream,
Caminito,
The Dorothy
6303.
Tango-
My Only Love, Tell Me Waltz
Kiss Me Goodnight, Fox, Trot
Fox Trot
Can't Forget,
6182.
Holding my Honey's Hand
Lullaby of the Leaves,
Good-bye Bluer
Waltz
I Don't Suppose
6258
Lazy Day,
Fox Trot-
Evening
6811:
I Surrender, Dear,
When the Lights are Soft and
Low,
Tango
Night
6209.
Tell Me Why You Smile,.
Fox Trot
Mona Lisa?
'Neath the Silvry Moes
M12367.
The Peanut Vendor,
African Lament
'6894.
Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long,
Waltz
A Moment in the Dark
6300,
(Continued in next Column.)"
Mrs. Mallory has not played ten nis for two years. She abandoned the game when her knee gave trou- ble.
"It cost money to play tennis," she told me. "That's why, I have never made any from the game." My husband always financed my trips An ex-pugilist striving to come after we were married. I have al back; an adored and adoring ways been an amateur, and played small son; and the age-old dilemma only for recreation and the love of of selfish love or heroic ascrifice the game. If I am broke now This is the human
well, it's just the depression." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's vivid new drama, "The Champ" which will be presented at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday next.
Interest in
Wallace Beery, whose villainõus portrayals in the past have never ceased to hold and provoke, to mirth appreciative audiences throughout the entire globe, is the former fight champion. Little precocious Jackie Cooper of "Our Gang" fame, is his. small son. The scene is laid in a Mexican town miraculously set up in a Hollywood studio.
"
It is impossible to depict ade- quately on paper the pathos with which Beery finally makes his de cision to give his son the proper advantages and environment of life. With him, the audience is torn between the selishness, of parent Jove and the desire to give a beloved son the chance for betterment,
The Champ is a
" and "does: infinite :/
or the director
Rition, the autho responsible for thas
Waltime
Fox Trot
GARDEN
OPEN-AIN ČINEKA”
viet authorities stipulate that aero- planes crossing the Soviet frontier 6264. must follow a clearly indicated aerial thoroughfare. Mattern and Griffin crossed the frontier, many miles south of the stipulated 8810. thoroughfare.
6301.1
What happened at the examina-
With Summer Coming On... M12377. tion is of course not divulged, but
It is believed that the answers of
the airmen were satisfactory and
Who'll Buy my Violets 1. M12112. that the incident is now closed.
6809. My Bilent Love,
Chyle & I Can't Belive It's True
THEATRE
·TALKINO ŠĮPICTURES-
LAST 2 PERFORMANCES TO-NIGHT 7.30 & 9.30.
LAURA LA PLANTE and JOHN BOLES
IN UNIVERSAL'S GREATEST SCREEN SPECTACLE
"CAPTAIN THE GUARD"
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If I Had my Way Bout Crazy People'
Masquerade,
6308.
It is reported that after the ex- amination two members of the So vlet Commission, both well-known M12381. pilots, expressed great interest in my Sweetie, the details of the sight
· M12888. | American "airmen and assured ther
that everything would be done to facilitate s new round the world fight next year.
Griffin and Mattern recently did some flying in Russia in a Soviet Beroplane.
While We Danced at the Mardi.
* Gras SLAG, SUIVRE M12380, 10.30 p.m.-Rugby Mid-day Press
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