THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1938-
Alice Faye in a scene from "You're A Sweetheart,” now show- ing at the Queen's and Alhambra.
LESS OFFICE WORK FOR COLONELS
More Time To Train Men
It is understood that at the next
meeting of the new Commanders Council something may be done to relieve unit commanders of so much office work so that they may spend
UNIQUE Y.W.C.A. CONCERT
Under the auspices of the Y W C. A., & Concert in the form Dramatic and Singing Contest will be held to-night at £30 pm at St. Stephen's Girls' College..
The programme comprises four short plays and five songs, which will be rendered by the members of the St. Stephen's Girls' College, the St. Paul's Girls' Collegs, the Ying Wah Girls' School, the Heep! Yun Girls School, the True Light| Girls' School, the Sam Kwong and the Gun Kwok Wah Kwong Clubs.
The purpose of the Concert is twofold-first to commemorate the Eight Anniversary of the Wah Kwong Club, and, secondly, to give
an
opportunity to the affiliated Clubs to work in co-operation" for some worthy cause. Half of the pro- ceeds will be donated to the War Relief Fund and the other half to the free schools organised by the T. W. C. A
The honorary judges for the choir singing will be Prof. Gerald Sydney and Mr. Rupert Baldwin, and those for the four plays will be Mrs. Huang Sui Feng, Mr. Chan Kwan Po, and Prof. Hsu Ti-shan.
Mrs. Kan Chia Hou will distribute
the prizes at the conclusion of the
concert."
QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
2) HONGKONG
AT: 2-50-515 7-20-930 PM. AT 230
SHOWING TO-DAY •
9:30 PM
A MILLION DOLLAR WORTH OF FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT IN SWINGTIMÈ HISTORY!
Now she's a DANCING Alice!
Alice FAYE
YOU'RE A SWEETHEART
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE
AT THE QUEEN'S Marion Davies R. Montgomery
in
With GEORGE MURPHY KEN MURRAYSWALD SHARLES WINNINGER: ANDY DEVINE WILLIAM GARGAN
NEXT CHANGE At The ALHAMBRA J. Hutchinson Geo. Brent-
more time supervising the training FRANCESCA DENIES EVER SINCE EVE" "MOUNTAIN JUSTICE"
of their men.
The Council held its first meeting recently. Its members include the general officers commanding in chief and military members of the Army Council.
DENIES RECITAL®
On March 16, at the China Fleet. Club, Hong Kong, music lovers will have one of their rare opportunities of hearing a fully trained opera singer. Mdme. Francesca Denies, dramatic so- prano, is giving a recital, the entire A diminution in routine office
proceeds of which are going to the work is held to be of great benefit Hong Kong Chinese Women's Soldiers & Belgian to regimental officers. They com-Relief Association. As plain that the greater part of each de. Denies is no stranger to
horrors of war and invasion. Late in day must be devoted to preparing 1914 whilst the forts on the outskirts reports, compiling tabulated state-of her native city, Antwerp were hold- ments and generally doing working out valiantly, she and her parent left the city with the last batch of re- which leads nowhere, while the fugees. A day or two later Antwerp training of their men takes a subor-surrendered. After wanderings dinate place."
the
in
Flanders and Holland, the family a5- rived in England just before Xmas. "We are rightly held responsible untrained and immature as it was at- During the period of exile, her voice for the efficiency of our men," ob-tracted attention and she was in con- served a unit commander, "but we are denied reasonable time for that important duty because we are con fined to the office with all sorts of trivial matters.
stant demand at Charity concerts in aid of the many relief funds then being raised. Her last juvenile appearance was at a ship's concert on s.s. "Khyber" on Xmas Day, 1918, as the ship thread- ed her way cautiously through the minefields of the North Sea taking back the first batch of exiles to Bel- gium.
The recital on March 16 includes a
"Every day there is an accumula- tion or irritating inquiries that have to be answered and reports pre-number of great Arias, English songs. pared about inconsequential things, while the officers essential duty has to be neglected.”
and a group of Flemish Ballads that jhave been encored again and again both in Europe and the Far East. The accompanist will be Harry Ore.
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THE YEAR'S GREATEST NEWS FROM THE HILARITY FRONT
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Eddie CANTOR
really goes to town in his first picture for hit- making 20th Cent
ARA GOES
w with all these
merry-making entertainers
TONY MARTIN ROLAND YOUNG JUNE LANG LOUISE HOVICK JOHN CAPZADINE VIRGINIA FILLAS ALAN DINEHART RAYMOND BOOTS Quizist
Lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry
NEXT CHANGE, FOR ONE DAY ONLY!·
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