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KING S
WILLIAM
POWEL
At 2.30, 5.10,
7:15 & 9.30 pm.
DOUBLE FUN! DOUBLE ROMANCE!
That "Thin Man couple's co the loase again! It's Rowdy! Riot- Sous! Swell!
LOY DOUBLE WEDDING
FLORENCE RICE • JOHN BEAL
EDGAR KENNEDY JESSIE RALPH
NEXT CHANGE Gaumont British
4 SHOWS DARY 2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30
"NINE DAYS A QUEEN”
with CEDRIC HARDWICKE-NOVA PILBEAM
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JAMERICAN
ATTACK ON
GRACIE
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1938.
Acensed Of "Vulgarity"
"SEVEN DWARFS GO INTO WHANGPOO
VICTORIA ALSO FALLS
Gracie Fields accused of "vulgarity" in an amazing attack A mishap occurred at the wharf on her in an American news just below the Customs Jetty in magazine which circulates in Bri- Shanghai last week as cinema pic- tures were being placed aboard the Augusta motor launch. It seems, The page on which the attack that just at the moment the prints jappears had been removed from were about to be handed to the the copies on sale in London, but boatsman the motor boat somehow remained in the copies received by pulled away from the wharf and direct subscribers.
the coolie handing the prints to the boatsman let go and down went "Snow White" and Victoria the Great."
Under the heading
"Caruso's sor, the magazine says: *Sheer animal vulgarity. makes her a frantic success British music-halls.
in
Lient Wolsiefer immediately notified Cmdr. C. E. Braine, of the Augusta and arrangements were "So while King George receives made for divers to try and locate only some 550,000 dollars per the "Dwarfs" and "Victoria." The year, chiefly for being dignified prints could not be located as they Miss Fields last year received a evidently had been washed away, reputed 750,000 dollars. for being by the swift Whangpoo currents. both undignified and vulgar
Could Afford
•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®ich she alighted from her replacement of the lost copy to be
A SHOW OF ACTION AND BIG LAUGH EPISODES ! Fun starts right from the beginning and never slackens until the very finish.
John BOLES
Jack OAKIE
FIGHT YOUR LADY
Ida Lupino Margot Grahame
Gordon Jones, Irik Rhodes, Silky Gilbert, Paul Galfoyle
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Screze Plov er Eriver Pagine, Häer Sagal and Harold Karoll":
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"Snow White" had just been in- sured through Mr. Bruce Jenkins, local insurance agent, for the Fields (alias Mrs. Archie largest amount ever placed on a Selinger) could well afford the motion picture. Arrangements by fancy gown and long kid gloves cable have been completed for the limousine at Buckingham Palace sent from Hollywood by Clipper mail, which will reach Shanghai in time for the Shanghai opening. "The most famed of 187 per Postage cost for this print will sons who had come to receive from the hands of George VI, the amount to approximately US$350. stars, orders, and ribbons award- ed in the New Year honours. she curtsied demurely while the
King-Emperor pinned the rose- PROTECTED AGAINST coloured ribbon and the badge of
a Commander of the Most Ex- cellent Order of the British Em- pire
Mr. Bert Azz, the manager and life-long friend of Miss Fields, told a “Sunday Dispatch" porter:
re.
WATER
Fabrics Treated With New Chemical
Clothing made of fabric treated- with a new chemical is not only "Gracie is away -on holiday, protected against water, coffee, and somewhere on the Continent fruit-juice stains, but can be clean- Even I don't know where.
ed simply by a brisk shaking.
"But I do know she would not care tuppence about the article. She will just laugh at it when she hears about it.
"Anyway, it won't cut any ice in Britain."..
PERSONAL
Bathing suits so treated will dry almost at once, and silk dresses and sheer stockings shed ram, muddy water, and other liquids by the easy expedient of shaking them out. Usual waterproofing methods close with the spaces between threads some such material as rubber.
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The new chemical combines with
MARY-Rest is good for you. All the surfaces of, the fibres, causing concerned approve. But must liquids to run off them as rapidly see you at once to discuss im-as from a red-hot strove. It is re- portant matter in connection ported to be equally successful with children.“
wool, cotton, silk or rayon.
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BOB and JOAN ARE IN LOVE AGAIN!
It's their gayest
romanes
Robert MONTGOMER
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