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TO-DAY
ONLY
KINGS
“THEIR'S NOT TO REASON WHY
TO DO AND DIE
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. THEIR'S BUT
The Screen-Trembles With The Thunder Of Immortal Hoof Beats And The Heart Best Of A Deathless Love!
ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA de HAVILLAND
The CHARGE of the HGHT BRIGADE
Seremmed by Farm Bros. from Fennyson's-Heroić-Prem; with......... PATRIC KNOWLES. HENRY STEPHENSON. NIGEL BRUCE Donald Crisp • David Niven Robert Barrat · Directed by Michael Curtis “ALSO LATEST CARTOON IN TECHNICOLOUR
"I WANNA PLAY HOUSE
TO-MORROW Warner Bros.
Presents
“SATAN MET A LADY”.
with BETTE DAVIS-WARREN WILLIAM
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1937.
СИКА МАТ
The STORY of by FRANK C. PAPE
THE CROWN JEWELS
The JEWELLED STATE SWORD
THIS IS THE SWORD WHICH IS DELIVERED INTO THE KING'S RIGHT HAND
AT THE CORONATION.
-IT-SYMBOLIZES-THEJUPHOLDING OF JUSTICE, THE DEFENCE. "OF GOOD ORDER, AND THE RESTORATION OF WHAT IS AMISS.
AFTER A BENEDICTION BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY "THE KING RISES FROM THE CORONATION CHAIR, UNGIRDS ¿ THE SWORD AND PLACES IT UPON THE ALTAR
THIS SWORD, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND VALLIABLE IN THE WORLD, WAS MADE FOR GEORGETV. ON HILT AND SCABBARD COSTLY JEWELS FORM DESIGNS OF THE ROSE THE THISTLE AND THE SHAMROCK, WITH OAKLEAVES AND ACORNS – EMBLEMS OF THE UNITY AND
STRENGTH OF THE EMPIRE ...'
SHOWS DAILY
SPECIAL
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BU
ORIENTALE
TO-DAY ONLY
THE BEST OF ALL
BY REQUEST
SPECTACULAR COMEDY MUSICAL SHOWS !
FRED
ASTAIRE
ROGERS
in the musical gen of the ocean
TOLLOW
THE
FLEET
With salty songs and tingling tunes by IRVING BERLIN:
RANDOLPH SCOTT
HARRIET HILLI
ASTRID 'ALLWYI
DAYS TO-MORROW & THURSDAY.
ONLY
THE YEARS BIGGEST COMEDY SENSATION !
POWELL · TOMEH
MY MAN Godfrey
UNIVERSAL PIC
© MATINEES: 20c.-30c ✪ EVENINGS: 20c.-Rüc.-50c. ·70c
THE 1937
DOLLAR DIRECTORY
NOW ON
ON SALE
PLACE YOUR ORDER WITH
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE,. LTD.
3A, WYNDHAM STREET.
ENLARGED PORTION OF DECORATION ON SCABBARD
THE EMERALD IN THE HILT
·IS WORTH
£2700.
DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA THIS PRICELESS SWORD WAS MISLAID!
AFTER MANY YEARS IT WAS FOUND BY
· CHANCE AT THE BACK "OF
...A DISUSED
CUPBOARD!
BRITISH VILLAGE
BEAUTY
Coronation Body's Suggestions
To make and keep Britain
land
POST OFFICE VAN ROBBED
Theft of A Murder Dossier
Robbers captured a Post Office of beautiful villages is the object van at Aixen-Provence while it was of the latest booklet issued by the on its way to the railway station. Coronation Planting Committee. The driver of the van was made to Photographs of some of England's descend and enter the robbers' car, loveliest villages add to the attrac- while one of the robbers took charge tion of its pages.
of the van.
van
As a part of their campaign to When a deserted spot was reach- encourage planting and amenityed the van driver was dropped and schemes of all kinds in honour of the robbers made off with the van the Coronation, the Committee are and its contents, which amounted to sponsoring a Village "Beauty Com-over 1,000,000 francs. No trace of petition" with a prize for the village them has yet been found. which does most to increase its Following so closely, upon similar beauty during Coronation Year, The robberies at Nice and Antibes, the booklet is intended to help Parish affair is causing much anxiety. Councils and other local" organiza- Among the contents of the tions with practical recommenda, was the dossier of the case against tions towards achieving this end. Veyrac, the train attendant who It is pointed out that individual has been under interrogation ́in owners of cottage gardens can play connection with the murder of an important part. Decorative hed-Mme. Garola in the Marseilles-Ven- ges of flowering shrubs and small timilia express on November 15. overflow gardens on spare patches This was recovered when five of of ground, such as a sloping bank the stolen bags were found floating just outside the gate, are among at the mouth of the river Huveaune, the ideas put forward. Again, many near Marseilles. Three of the bags pretty gardens are spoiled by un-were empty. The van was abandon- sightly backgrounds, and it is auged by the robbers in the outskirts gested that a coat or two of colour-of. Marseilles. ed wash can do much to make 3 dull building clean and gay.
Coronation Memorials
SUICIDE AT 75
A verdict of suicide while of un- Proposals for both individual and
sound mind was recorded at a Lon- corporate efforts, as well as for spe- don on 75-years-old Charles Pickers- cific Coronation memorials, are offer-
at removing
mining en-..
ed. Many of the suggestions aim gill Smith, a retired
For instance, gineer, of Chalfont-road, South
Norwood. #iron Mr. Smith
ugly honelled signs on shops, and other unsight train at Holborn Viaduct station b was found dead in a ly advertisements which spoil the with a bottle of solium cyanide in charm of many a village can be taken his pocket. A nephew stated that down under the County Council Bye he had been suffering from neuras- Lawa. Neatness, is another import thenia....”
ant point, and recommendations are
made for the provision of litter or for the creation of new ameni- Lins and well-hidden' dumps, where ties. In addition to giving many old tins, crocks, scrap iron and other specific ideas for tree-planting, the rubbish can be deposited out of recommendations range from the sight.
improvement of village greens and
In dealing with permanent com- ponds to providing bowling greens memorative schemes, the booklet and swimming pools. In fact the argues that Coronation memoriala booklet is most comprehensive and might well take the form of a fund deals with almost every aspect for the upkeep of existing beauties, from which the village might as well as for the planting of trees improved and kept beautiful.
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