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"CHAINED QUEEN'S
THEATRE
Four noted screen players, Clark
King's Theatre Bldg., 5th Floor. Gable, Joan Crawford, Otto Kruger,
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Care Depression with Lecithin!
NEURA LECITHIN PEARLS
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and Stuart Erwin come to the Queen's Theatre in Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's romantic drama, "Chained".
Written especially for the screen and for the co-stars, as is the pre- Bent trend, by Edgar Selwyn, neted director and producer, the film story picks up the life thread of a wealthy shipping magnate. Otto Kruger, and the girl with whom he is enamoured, Joan Crawford.
With no break in either physical or dramatic movement, it sweeps from skyscraper to shipboard, where Joan meets and later falls in love with a young South American! rancher, Clark Gable, who is return- ing with his friend, Stuart Erwin, from a vacation in the States.
"THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD" -KINGS THEATRE
A battle of two Napoleons, the Napoleon of Waterion and Elba, and a Napoleon of finance, Nathan Rothschild, is set forth in mighty
Arliss who plays two roles here, Arst Q8 Mayor Rothschild, the father, and later as Nathan the son, has been given a magnificent
Robert per Young,
While nothing was said about their marital dificulties, Mary-Pickford and ber estranged husband, Douglas Fairbanks, both movie stars, did get together in Hellywood for a conference on the business affairs of a motion picture company in which they are interested. This photograph shows the fam- nun couple with their business associates at the meeting-left to right, seated, Min Pickford, Joseph Schenck, and Fairbanks; standing, Charlie Chaplin, Darryl Zanuck, and Samuel Goldwyn.
BEST OCTOBER FOR EIGHT YEARS
Busy London Shops And Hotels
PACKED THEATRES AND RESTAURANTS
London.
That is the
BRIDGE NOTES
ON DISTRIBUTION CASSUMPTION
by Ely Culbertson.
TWO MEN SAVE A COUNTRY
ABADIO"
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMIE
The following programme will ·
be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station. Z.B.W. on a wave length of 155 metres (845 K.C.'B) :—
·1-2.10 p.m. (Approx:)- European Programme,
1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- port,
1.03 p.m.-Recorded Music..
138 nm-Reuter Press Bulletins,
Rugby Press News, etc.
of
1.40 p.m. (Approx) - Relay Rotary Club Tin Speech from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden Sir William "Hornell on
"Diplomacy Old and New"
2.10 p.m. (Approx):-Close Down. Pianoforte Recital from the Stadia.
Talk by Mr. G. C. Pelham
4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-10.40 p.m. European Programme, 7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota. tions, London and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations.
7.08-7.28 p.m.- Excerpts from "The Mikado" (Gilbert & Sullivan)
The Sun whose Rays
Alice Lilley (Soprano).
2. Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day
"Alice Lilley; Nellie Walker; Dan Jones and Appleton Moore.
3. (a) Trio: Here's a How d'ye do
(b) Duct and Chorus: The Flowers
that Bloom
Columbia Light Opera Co.
4. The Mikado's Song '
Columbia Light Opera Co.
Appleton Moore (Baritone)
Check Locust Plague 5. Tt Willow
That Meant Ruin
BRITISHERS' INITIATIVE
6. Duet: There is Beauty in the Bellow
of the Blast
Finale, Act. II: For he's gone and
married Yam-Yum
Columbia Light Opera Co. 7.28-7.58 p.m.-Marek Weber and his Orchestra.
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re port.
7.53-8.38 p.m.Variety. Dwyer on Hobbies
Clapham and
Clapham and Dwyer.
and masterly manner in "The Most Powerful and Lasting Brain House of Rothschild," the sensa
and Nerve Restorer revealed tional historical drama which is and established by Georgé Arliss' greatest achievement
Many a contract at the Bridge MEDICAL SCIENCE.
since "Disraeli."
table is defeated because the De
How a British officer saved clarer, assumes, with or without Containing purest Lecithin in
reason, that the distribution of Egypt from another Plague of a) From Offenbach's Sample Box-- concentrated palatable form.
Fantasia (Urbach) "The best October since the boom the adversely held cards in a suit Locusts was revealed to a "Sun- Indispensable for improving bodily
Forest Idyll (Esslinger). will follow normal lines that is. day Express" representative in (b) The Hermit (Schmalstich) and mental freshness. Unsurpass cast with, more than 70 speaking year of 1926."
will break in the House of Lords, while the (arr. Henry Hall) able for treatment of Debility, In-parts, and including such screen unanimous report of the manage that if there are four cards the corridors of the Moses RoomViennees Memories of Lthat
there if
are are International Locust Conference somnia, Ansemia. Depression etc. luminaries as Boris Karloff, Loretta ments of London theatres, shops, outstanding, they
Young, Helen restaurants and hotels, all of which 2-2 or
five cards, they will break, 8-2-and was sitting.
The conference sought ways HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY.
some players are Bo trusting that On sale at all book-atalls and at the manently controlled by German Westley, and C. Aubrey Smith, are doing record business.
week-always a offices of the Publishers, 3A, Wynd-Government Chemical Test Office. Reginald Owen and Alan Mowbray. Motor Show
menace to which The story traces the rise of a busy time for the amusement and even when their own or the Dummy and means to combat the dead- Descriptive Sketch ham Street.
Sold in 1 size of 100 Pearls
is exposed, both Instrumental humble banking family from the catering tradea-comes in the mid-hand gives clear evidence of un- liest Obtainable at
ghetto of Frankfurt in Prussia, to dle of an already successful month,sual distribution, they still ex- agriculture
Joutside. the world-famous House of Roths- and has this year, in the words of pect their opponents' cards to be within the British Empire and
Landscape Black child. On his death-bed Mayor hotelier, "filled London to the over-evenly divided...
The hand below, played in The last locust plague was in Rothachild gathers to him his five flow mark."
A feature of the season which is Rubber Bridge game at Crockford's 1931. This is what happened: sons. They are at work, he tells
Major Jervis Bey, employed by them, for their race, and, fore-commented upon on all sides is the Club, New York, with one of the BROS.seeing the days of international large number of Dominions and country's leading experts sitting King Fuad as Governor of the
open foreign visitors. The Empire is South as Declarer, is an example Sinai Desert, awoke one morning Instrumental finance, he advises them to five banking houses in the great unusually well represented for this of failing to safeguard a contract to find the familiar golden desert My South Sea Sweetheart
". young Bon, time of year. Investigations pro: against unfavourable adverse dis- landscape black with eapitals of Europe with a Nathan, heading them from London. vided the following indications of tribution in playing for a doubled locusts.
vulnerable overtrick.
In a few days the "hoppers' From their positions as leaders of London's prosperity:
Garda Hall and George Baker. would develop wings and all West, Dealer
8.38-9 pm-A Philco Programme, Egypt's vast, rich fields. of cot-
The Phileo Symphony Orchestra. ton, rice, and fruits would be Prelude, Arlesienne Satte (Bizet) destroyed, and 14,000,000 pes-Dance (Neapolitan Scenes) (Massenet) Bants facing starvation.
Value Triste (Sibelius)
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at their Garage, Nathan Road, Kowloon A Good Selection of Second Hand Cars including:
the world's finance they are to Hotels report 20 to 30 per cent. devote themselves to helping their increase in business over last year. people break free from the ghetto Many theatres have this week! to live as human beings. And away
the loyalty of the five brothers to people and are booked undreds of
their father's trust that eventually ahead.
brings power to the House of Garages with capacity for hun- Rothschild and freedom to them dreds of cars have had to display and to their people at the conclu-"house fall" notices in the evenings. West-end shops report an ever- slon of the Napoleonic wars.
age increase of 25 per cent, in the "THE POOR RICH-MAJESTIC number of customers.
THEATRE
"We have been completely filled all the week and will be so all next
Edpa
Oliver, May
Edward week," the manager of one of the Everett Horton, and Thelma Todd biggest hotels said. "We attribute are starred in Universal's comedy the better business not so much to to a general increase in the circulation of drama, "The Poor Rich," now at the the Motor Show as Majestic Theatre.
Supporting the three stars are money. The amount of "Imported' Leila Hyams. Andy Devine, Grant wealth in London at present must Mitchell John Miljan and Una be much greater than at any time
during the past few years." O'Connor.
An incidental effect of London's
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North and South vulnerable
North
D-9
S.-K 10 8 4
H-K
CSAK 174 32.
S.-9-3
West:
H-9 5 4
·D.-J. 3 2
CQ 9 8.6 5 East:-
S.-Q 7
R.-Q J.10 7 4 3 2 D.-A K 85 Com
South:-
S-A 165 2 H-A 8 DQ 10 7 6 4 C.-10
Nasty Man
The Grasshopper and the ants.
The Four Bright Spark Vocal-
Melville Gideon Medley...
Molville Gideon (Baritone) Humorous Monologus--: The Llon and Albert
Blue Sparks,
Vocal Duet
Stanley Holloway.
Masters Hawaiians.
Musical Comedy Selection
Jervis telegraphed to Cairo. Dance Chinois (Tschaikowsky) The reply was to send another Freinde Act. 8. "Lohengkin" (Wagner)
9-9.20 p.m. From the Studio. Briton, Edward Ballard Bey, of
Topical Talks on the United King- the Ministry of Agriculture. dom" by Mr. G. C. Pelham
Together they mobilized every available native for miles around.Maritana" (Wallace) Deep trenches were dug. Tele-j grams were sent to Cairo for thousands of gallons of petrol.
"Army" Warned
The British military_author ties were asked to improvise flame throwers,
Forty-eight hours before the hoppers" would have become a winged plague, the "munitions" arrived.
Thousands of locusts returned
(R.M. Trade Commissioner) 9.20-9.30 p.m. Vocal Gems from
Light Opera Company. 9.30 p.m.-Rester Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity Quotations.
9.35-10:05 p.m. From the Studio. FilhoForte Recital by Harry Ore. 9.35-10.05 pm. From the Studio. 19.05-10.30 p.m.-Dance Music, Fox Trot-
I. Néver had a chance. Don't let your love go wrong Slow Fox Trot
The Breeze
It's all forgotten now,
Ballerina
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The bidding: (Figures after to the main invading army to Place Dobla good cars. G. MILNE,
The story, wrtten by Ebba Havez (All these cars are in running
of man. They changed their The Bouvelard of Broken Dreams order and most of them in first and Dale Van Every, and directed October activity is the congestion bids refer to numbered explanatory give it warning of the intentiona
course. by Edward Sedgwick, is one of the in the streets. Many motorists had paragraphs.)
For Trot Hong Kong, 29th October, 1984. class condition).
Fresh trenches had to be fever-Cupid..
Show is over On view from Monday, the 12th, funniest films ever shown in the the experience of being held up in West North
Colony.
ishly dug in a new direction 10,30 p.m. Renter Press Bulletins, November 1984.
The flame-throwers did the rest Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further Millions of locusts tumbled London Stock & Commodity Quotations
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“SILLY SYMPHONY”—ALHAM- 'BRA THEATRE
The inimitable Mickey Mouse and his adorable little wife Minnie come to the Alhambra Theatre in a full- The picture length feature fim.
which comes to the local theatre for the first time, shows Walt Disney, the creator of the carton, at his best, and offers the highest enter- tainment, especially to the children.
East South
1 H (1) 1 S
4 S (2) 5 H (8) 6,5 (4) PRES Dbl.
PASA Pass (6)
a huge traffic block in Lower Pass 10 Hegent-xtreet for eight minutes at Pass Pase theatre time one night.
Pass
RED CROSS ASKED
TO BAN WAR
Sensation Created By Soviet Delegate
Tokyo.
A bombshell was thrown into
In addition to Mickey Mouse, a the recent session of the 15th
led alive. East, not vulnerable, should into miles of trenches to be burn- have made a Jump Overcall, A contract of four hearts would have been defeated.only two tricks, and North and South, vulnerable might have had diffi- | culty in getting together, at any higher contract.
SHANTUNG COTTON MEASURE
Aid For Growers
First Mother Then Daughter. Rheumatism and Sciatica Cured
In Australia By:
Dr. Williams' Pink Pils.
the perves-neuralgia of the sciatle Six co-operative
societies, nerve it is sometimes called-and A rather strong bid, bat North's distribution is very favourable under the auspices of private in- rheumatism is attributed by most
pictorial record of the recent Mill-World Red Cross Congress sit--Had East bid four hearts on tereats, have been established in medical authorities to poisonous Reid
tary Tattoo is being shown.
"HELL AND HIGH WATER”.
STAR THEATRE
in the blood, numbers of irrefutable the first round, the attempted various sections of Shantunges of both maladies by Dr. Wil- sacrifice might not have been
province to assist cotton pro-lams Pink Pulls have been reported neccssary.
ducers to improve, their crope as from various parts of the world and This Slam bid is taking a great well as to find markets for their are on record, 1519
products.
deal for granted,
One of the most recent of these testimonies te from Australia, in s letter written by Mrs. P. Robinson,
of 175 Arthur Street, Fairfield Park,
ting here when Mr. Christian Rakovsky, head of the Soviet delegation, asked the Red Cross yesterday to pass a resolution for the prevention of warfare.
M. Rakovsky said that, until-With North's unusual distri-
bution, a Redouble would prob-1 stirring drama of the sea-
now, the Red Cross was mainly
ably have been warranted. Bouth played the Ace of clubs front is Paramount's current re-engaged in negative activities, lease, "Hell and High Water," star- helping sufferers only after the West's. Opening lead was the from Dummy, and when East fail- Melbourne. Mrs. Roblason states:
nerves were in a shocking condition. ring Richard Arlen and Judith calamity He suggested that a heart 9, and the King in Dummy ed to follow, the contract could not was terribly zum down and my Allen, is now showing at the Star more positive attitude would be held. The Declarer then led two be made, as South had to lose two Then I developed sciatics and re- cently had a very severe attack Theatre for the first time in the to go on record in opposition to rounds of trumps, and the diamond diamond tricks,
Hams' Pink Pills. I am very pleased Colony.
all wars and In support of peace-in Dummy was discarded on the Had East held one club, South, which decided my taking Dr. Wil- The story is written by the man ful settlement of all international Ace of hearts. The Declarer had of course, would have made an to any that after a short course of had all the luck up to this point, overtrick-worth 200 points. How these famous pills I obtained won who wrote "I Cover the Water conflicts.
having secured a favourable lead ever, the Dummy's distribution and derful results and have never felt so Front.
takes place on a Greyhound road and an even break of the adverse the fact that East had been bidding well I always remember what Dr. very strongly without the top Williams Pink Pilla did for my mother, who had rheumatism so cruiser en route to Hollywood from trumps
He now played the Ten of club, honours in hearts suggested the badly that she couldn't get out of New York. Robert M
as-strong probability of a freak.bed. A friend recommended these and when West did not cove who, is as darip
Nothing could defeat the conpilis and she was completely, cured.” med that
tract of six, so the club Ten should All chemist sell Dr. Willams' have been finessed as an additional Plak Pille Le you suffer from any forms of ill-health due to poor blood ox Blaardeïed nerves they will do you good
FUGITIVE LOVERS
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prod
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