The large attendances at the King's Theatre yesterday for the film "Maytime" provided ample testimony of the popularity of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald, seen above in a scene from this enter- taining musical film.
Evelyn Venable, motion picture star, is shown with her 4-day-old daughter, Rosalia Venable Mohr, who weighed eight pounds, four ounces. The daddy is Hal Mohr, former motion picture cameraman and now a director. The proud parents insist she won't become a motion picture actresa,
THE CHINA MAIL, MA
COAL STRIKE CON
CONCILIATORY
ATMOSPHERE PREVAILING
London, To-day.
The threat of an immediate national coal strike has been averted, and it is stated that pros- pects of a settlement of the dispute are now dis- tinctly more hopeful.
AFTER A SIX-HOUR CONFERENCE BETWEEN CAPTAIN H. F. C. CROOKSHANK, SECRETARY FOR MINES, AND THE
THE EXECUTIVE OF
MINE WORKERS “FEDERATION YESTERDAY EVENING, IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE EXECUTIVE WAS PREPARED TO SUSPEND FOR A FORTNIGHT, FROM MAY 8, THE HANDING IN OF NOTICES IF CAPTAIN CROOKSHANK CALLED A · CONFERENCE OF THE THREE PARTIES CONCERNED.
Captain Crookshank has invited
the parties to confer and will again meet the miners' executive morrow.
to-
LOCAL WEDDING
Miss Efimoff And
Mr. G. M. Gillard
The projected truce now depends on acceptance of Captain Crook- shank's invitation by the Notting- hamshire coal-owners and the
Miss Sophia Efimoff, daughter of Nottinghamshire Industrial Union. the late Mr. S. Efimoff, was married
The executive has informed the to Mr. George Michael Gillard, as Secretary for Mines that their sistant manager of Cafe. Wiseman decision was made in response to and son of the late Mr. G. B. Mr. Stanley Baldwin's appeal in the Gillard, at the Registry this
Wednes- ning.
Commons
on
House of day.-Reuter.
New Buses In Kowloon
mor-
The ceremony was conducted by Mr. T. S. White-Smith, Registrar of Marriages, in the presence of Mr. Peter H. Sin. well known "local solicitor, and Mr. W. C. Simpson.
Star Ferry Raised
New buses have been introduced by the Kowloon Bus Company on several of their routes in Kowloon. The feature of the new vehicles is in the arrangement of the second- The Star ferry, Night Star, after class seats which run lengthwise nearly three weeks under water, was along the sides of the body, leaving raised by the Kowloon Dock salvage a wide open area which gives re- crew last night and taken to the markably increased roominess.
TUDEBANER
Dock.
CHALLENGING ALL CARS!
See the Excitingly New
STUDEBAKERS
First!
The Spotlight Cars of 1937
Inspection Invited
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