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The Theatres
THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND" - KING'S AND
ALHAMBRA THEATRES
Telling the true story of the most tragic figure in American history, this picture has Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart in the leading parts and a supporting cast of over a thousand.
Dipping into the hectic days fol- jlowing the cost of the Civil War. the picture depicts the assassina- and tion of President Lincoln
to the the flight of his assassin country home of Baxter, a doctor. For the unintentional crime of setting the broken leg of a man about whom he knew nothing, Baxter is arrested. In the hys- teria that follows, Baxter is sen- tenced to the Federal Frison on the Dry Tortugas.
LONDON'S NEW LIDO-
"This is no mere bathing pad dle, as are so many of those with which London is surrounded," de- clared Earl Howe last month, Lido when he opened the new Country Club and bathing .es. tablishment at Ruislip, Middle-
The Lido is within easy reach of London-15 miles from Marble Arch. It stands on the shores of a 75-acre lake, in thickly wood- ed country.
BRIDGE NOTES
LOSING AN ACE
By Ely Culbertson
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
LAWSUIT OVER MICE
Adelaide. The longest lawsuit in South Australia's history ended recent- ly with "the Government paying £17,500 compensation for damage caused to wheat stacks early in 1917 by a plague of mice.,
The Victorian and New South Wales Governments, met similar claims at the time, but, South Australia declined to pay.
The following programma' wil be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZBW. on a wavelength of 355 metres ($45 ECT.
Helay of Hong Kong Hotel Dance kilogyelem Orchestra
ZEK. PrograMERE.
12.30-215 pm-European recorded ¿rogramme.
12.30 pm-Albert Sandler and his
from ZEK, on a Frequency of
TRIGGER TEST IN COURT
Child Shot During Struggle
SUGGESTION DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL
The suggestion that the child's death
was accidental was "put forward at Croydon last month, when William Young, aged 34, a 40 bricklayer, was charged
mand with the murder of Kath- Parvey, aged 3, by
on re
shooting her.
The charge was reduced to one [of - manslaughter, and Young was committed for trial at the Old
$.05 pmLight Orchestral Music.leen Mand Delibes in Vienna (arr. Walter). Love's Last Word (Cremieax). Le Chaland Qui Passe (Bizio) Entry of the Spring Flowers :
(Rockert).
(Stolz) 1.03 p.m.-Variety-Lusenare Sing-Milestones of Melödy ing
Orchestra.
1 p.m.-Local: "Time: Signal and You shall be the King of my heart Weather Report.
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|Bailey, being allowed bail in 525 and one surety of £25. He plead-
8.30 pm Excerpts from "Tonighted not guilty and reserved his 1.20 p.m. Selection from "Great at 8.20 (Noel Coward) sung by Ger-defence. Das.
trade Lawrence and Noel Coward. A long queue had gathered out- 1.30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins, 8.55 pm-"Love, forever I adore side the court. and about 100 and you" and "Ninon" played by Reginald people, nearly all women, чете Local: Weather forecast, time Announcements.
and his Orchestra, with Cavan admitted as spectators. 1,40 pm-The J. H. Squire Celeste O'Connor (Tenor).
2 p.m.Dance Music.
King
and
Inside the court three rifles, Announcements alleged to have been found st Young's hotne. were propped up
9 : Belay of the Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright by Beater).
9.20 p.m.-Variety and Dance Music against the witness box While Hong|For-Trots--
2.15 pm-CLOSE DOWN. 5-8 pim-European Programme, 5-7 pm-A Relay of the Kong Hc Dance Orchestra.
7pm-A Violin Recital by Yekudi Menshin,
The number of hands lost by sheer funk would compare. I am In stark, terrifying fashion the sure, to the number lost through Octet picture reveals the physical and technical errors. Curiously, this spiritual agonies of this unjustly lack of courage usually manifests 'sentenced man, his desperate at-itself in the defense of hands, tempt at escape, his courage pn-rather than in declarer's play der the brutal degradation of pri-Frantic cashing of aces and kings, son life.
or conversely, holding on for hear Finally a devastating epidemic life to an honour that were much of yellow fever brings a turn in better sacrificed in a good cause, 2. This fortunes. With the prison are the marks of a player who is
doctor ill with the fever, Baxter not only far from expert, but 3. is temporarily restored to his faint-hearted as well. former position as he fights to West, in today's hand, was 304.
stem the tide of death. A happy coward. climax brings to a close of this
profound saga of courage strength.
and
John Ford, whose, direction of "The Informer" has won the high- est honours, directed this pictare.
"THE MOON'S OUR HOME”— QUEEN'S THEATRE
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Hungarian Dance No. 6 in B fat
minor (Brahms).
Radio Times..
The Phantom of a Song
Song
the magistrates were considering their decision they tested the Įtrigger of the gun which is said to have been fired. People lower- Joan Cross (Soprano)ed their heads as it was levelled
round the court.
Say that you will not forget
Romanza ...Andaluza (Spanish Quick-Step-
Dance) (Sarasate).-
Who's been polishing the Sun
I couldn't be mean to you Vocal
Minstrels (Debussy); Flight of Fox-Tro
the Bumble Dee (Rimsky- Korsakov).
Danse Espagnole (De Falla).
715 Dm.The Three Men Suite" (Eric Coutes).
Jump on the Wagon
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Me and the. Old folks at home
The Hill Billies.
128 A Recital by Richard | Faz-Trots- Crooks (Tenor) and Wilhelm Back- haus (Pianoforte)-
1. Songs-Killarney (Balfe).
Good-Bye (Tosti).
Pianoforte Solo- Military March
in E flat (Schubert). Songs-Machla (Rowe).
Too Late to-morrow (Langenberg)
4. Pianoforte Solos Moment Musi-
cale in F Minor (Schubert). Impromptu in B flat (Schubert).
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This picture, starring Ma garet Sullavan and Henry Fonda, is the story of two internationally famous persons who learn to hate each other by reputation, but fall desperately in love when they North meet ander assumed names. They 1H.
(Continued from Next Column) Antonia Moreno. Laurel and Hardy "mothering" the child over marry, and the clash of tempera-2H a period of years again arrive atments results in a heated quarrel 5C the castle of the child. While on their wedding night, with the she is about to be flogged by the bride walking out on the groom. dummy won with the king.
West opened the diamond queen, The minions of her father, who hates Relenting, their efforts to all gypsy vagabonds for the great each other create many amusing ace, and the heart led up to singleton spade was led to South's TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tragedy they brought him, he re- that claims against the estate conises token establishing the
NOTICE
with Laurel and Hardy rewarded for caring for the girl
situations.
find
dummy.
The screen dramatisation was made from a Faith Baldwin story' West was
somewhat "on the
Crosman, Charles which case failure to put up the Butterworth and Beulah Bondi.
of CHARLES BULMER JOHN-identity of the now grown girl as SON, deceased, should be sent to his child. Thus all ends happily and was directed by William A. spot." The bidding told him that Hastings & Co., Marina House
Seiter. Those supporting Miss there was a decided chance of In the supporting cast Moreno Sullavan and Fonda in the cast South holding only one heart, in has one of his best parts as the are Henrietta romantic gyPSY with whom Mrs. Hardy elopes Mac Busch plays Mrs. Hardy, Jacqueline. Wells of "Coronado" plays the Princess and other supporting roles are filled by James Finlay- son. Darla Hood and William P. Carleton. The production
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“RIFFRAFF”—MAJESTIC THEATRE
Calleia,
I
ace would almost guarantee that it would "go to sleep." But West figured, this was not the only consideration involved.
In "Riffraff" Joseph
the ace were played, where was reckless the setting trick coming from? It one of the. appears as deep-sea men of the Pacifc tana was obvious that East had a great. fleet, hard as a marlin-spike and many spades, including, probably, directed by James W. Horne, and the relentless enemy of Spencer, some high ones, and that the de- Charles Rogers.
W3S
"THE MILKY WAY" STAR THEATRE
5. Song-Nirvana (Weatherly).
8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Wes- ther Report, Stock Quotations
| Announcements.
Tracy in savage competition for clarer would undertake to ruff out the love of Jean Harlow. It is a the spade suit. If the declarer's virile story of a life that the world hand was a true two suiter, with is unfamiliar with, and Calleia is five trumps, the case appeared But there east in a role that gives him hopeless in any event. Harold Lloyd timidly makes his way from milkman obscurity toy opportunity to display his was a distinct possibility that the
talent.
trump suit was only four long. fighting fame in his new Para-
“Riftraff,” directed by J. Walter and the play of the heart ace, set- mount picture, "The Milky Way."
Ruben," teams Miss Harlow and ting up two good heart tricks, un- He bridges the gap between Tracy for the first time. With doubtedly would make declarer's self-doubt and the instincts of the them is a notable cast headed by line of play easier. So West killer. Trouble comes to the spec Una Merkel and Joseph Calleia, ducked, and the heart king won tacled comedian when two 'drum-
and including Victor Kilian. the trick Now the cross-ruff One swings at him but Lloyd, both
Roger Imhoff, Juanita spade proved its undoing. When frightened and fast on his feet. manages to duck. The middle- Quigley. Paul Hurst, Vince Bar-South regained the lead by ruffing nett, Dorothy Appleby and Judith a heart, he naturally tried to cash his king of spades for a diamond discard in the dummy, but: West Truffed. Dummy overruffed, but
the-situation was hopeless. could not be prevented from
“NACET”ken fighters take a dislike to him. Mickey Rooney, J. Farrell Mac-was started, but West's singleton
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weight champion gets the
full
brunt of the blow intended for the
out.1 milkman, and is knocked Lloyd takes credit for the punch, and henceforth must make good
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"THE BOHEMIAN GIRL”......
ORIENTAL THEATRE
and repeat his prowess in the 'ring Gypsy in atmosphere, the locale
And
Fast
oze of
as a title contender. Hilarity is of "The Bohemian Girl" is mid-discarding two spades while de- the keynote of this picture.
continental Europe. As an inci-clarer ruffed the fourth and fifth The supporting cast of players dent in Hardy's herpecked life heart, and over-ruffing declarer's
Menjou, Adolphe
his shrewish wife kidnaps a little last spade lead. Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, Princess as she elopes with the West's insignificant trumps William Gargan, Dorothy Wilson handsome Devilshoof, played by counted for the other, and setting and George Harbier..
(Cont at Foot, of Preceding Col) trick. The direction was handled
consists of
by
Leo MacCarey, who calls Lloyd
the most genuine comedian of the
century.
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A growing reluctance to enter with scale increases and careers in which the conditions security of tenure, as well as a re- are insecure is noted in the annual luctance to consider other forms ¡report of the Headmasters Em-lof employment that, rightly or ployment Committee. This is alwrongly, are thought to offer less body representative of the Incor- certainty of reasonable prospects porated Association of Headmas and security." ters of Public Secondary Schools, This is probably due, it is.ang- working in co-operation with the gested, largely to the infiresce Ministry of Labour.
of parents, many of whom still re tain a lively recollection, of the “Taken as a whole," it is stated, insecurity of certain occupations. {"candidates evinced a marked pre- Since its inception in 1918 the
ference for posts that carry re committee has placed latively high salaries, combined 16,000 boyz.
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and
3.06 pm- Belay from the Ko Shing Theatre (Chinese).
Song of the "Cello. You give me ideas Song-
My shadow's Where my sweetheart used to be--Sam Browne (Baritone) Fox-Trot
Scene Described
At the last hearing the child's parents・・ described * scene in Young's cothire in John-street, South Narwood. Mrs. Purver | said that she had left her husband and was living at Young'a address. On May 3 her husband called and assaulted her. -Young entered the room
with a gun, and both she and her husband grabbed it. Her hasband: put his fist out and |Young went back. The gun then
Alone at a table for two Waltz-Lovely Lady
10 pm BIG BEN from Daventry. went off. ICLOSE DOWN.
NINE TIMES LORD MAYOR
Mr. A. Rawlence, defending, suggested that the girl's death was accidental, and that the charge should be dismissed. "Quite ob- vionsly," be added, "there was a Sir Crawford McCullagh was scrimmage going on between the installed as Lord Mayor of Bel-three people and somehow the
8.05-10 p.z.-European Programme fast recently for the ninth year.
gun went off." -
1936
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