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JOE BROWN
WIDE OPEN FACES
LYDA ROBERTI
KAMALISON SKIPWORTH
JANE WYMAN
Presented by Bärvid Loew
MUSICAL SHORT “COMMUNITY SING”
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"THREE COMRADES"
with Franchot Tone--Robert Young
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4 SHOWS
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MOST BEAUTIFUL ROMANTIC PICTURE EVER MADE ! Songs, Fandanges, Fiestas, Laught er, Secret Trysts, Mission Bells, Stolen Kisses, Feasts, Tears, Love, all true to life in this marvellous * colour production.
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LORETTA YOUNG
DON AMECHE KENT TAYLOR and a cast of thousands
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
THE DRAMATIC SENSATION OF THE YEAR !
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MADELEINE CARROLL DOUGLAS PAIRBANKS, Jr.
NORMA SHEARER
“RIPTIDE
Robert Montgomery.
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.
A MUSICAL
: Giving
PHENOMENON
巍 programme ranging over a wide area, with...all the earthy humour of the Cossack, all the mysticism and grandeur of his folk-songs, and the lively spirit of a festive season, the Platoff Don Cossack Choir, which opened its season at the Queen's Theatre last night, provided a tremendously moving performance unlike
any- thing ever previously heard in the Colony.
No praise can be too high, for it required all its magnificent team- work, dynamic execution, perfect intonation and precision to rise triumphant above the acoustic peculiarities of the theatre, though its height was admirably calculat- ed to bring out the utmost sonority of voices.
Detailed review of the pro-
would be more
gramme
-MEXICAN-
PRESIDENT'S DECISION
Mexico, City, To-day. President Cardenas, in opening the Mexican Parliament, referred to the expropriation of foreign oil properties, and declared: "No further concessions on Mexican soil, whether oil or mineral, will be granted.”
He added that payment for oil- fields taken would be made by means of petroleum products.--- Reuter.
POLICE GIVE FRESH WARNING
The case in which newspaper sellers were charged with collect or lessing money for charity, on behalf meaningless. It is sufficient to say of the Newspaper Peddlers' As- that the audience was served with sociation, was concluded at the exalted musical interpretations im- Kowloon Magistracy this morn- mensely satisfying and striking ing when they appeared, on re- effects in tone colour which were a mand, before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- revelation to those who had the fadyen. privilege of listening. To the rich
Mr. L. H. C. Calthrop, Divisional harmony of the whole
was added
Superintendent, Kowloon, who pro- the exceptional solo qualities of secuted, said that street collection. several of the performers and the had been prohibited by the Com- audience "ate it up."
missioner of Police, and a state- musical sense, the Donment making this quite clear was Cossack Choir is a phenomenon, published in the newspapers and a sheer delight.
In a
FAKED ROBBERY SENTENCED
BO
that defendants could not say that they did not know whether or not the man who instructed them to do what they did, had received per- mission from the police.
He was quite satisfied, continued Mr. Calthrop, that the money col- lected was employed for a lawful purpose otherwise defendants.might Chui Kwan-kan, aged 20, was be charged with obtaining money this morning sentenced to four by false pretences. The money tins months' imprisonment at the would be returned to the Associa- Central Magistracy when he tion. He would welcome a warning pleaded guilty to giving false in-through the press that a very se- formation to the Police.
vere view will be taken if there are Sub-Inspector Darkin said that any further, cases. at about 6 a.m. yesterday morning, a police constable on-patrol in Lee Tung Street was called into a shop and there saw. defendant with a gag around his neck. Defendant told him that he had been robbed by three men of his mother's money. $172, which was contained in a drawer, and that he had been bound and gagged.
First defendant was discharged.. while the second and third defen- dants were each fined $10.
SMALL FINES
Twelve other newspaper sellers, including four boys and four girls under sixteen years of age, were nett with a similar offence. charged before Mr. K. M. A. Bar-
:.
Police found it not possible for any person to enter the room and go to the drawer without waking It is understood that the boys the four persons who were sleep- and girls were each fined $1 in the ing there.
Juvenile Court. The: four other de-
Detective-Sergeant Sykes prose-,
Later, after a lot of questioning, fendants were fined $3. defendant admitted that the story was false and that he had spen'cuted. the money on girls, taking to them to pictures and dinners to create a good impression...
TAIKOO THEFTS
DRUG TRAFFIC
Arrested in possession of 949 heroin pills at the Yaumati Ferry wharf, Chan Kin was fined $1,000 Ip Shing, 81, was charged before. Edwards at the Central Magis
or six months' hard labour by Mr. Mr. H. R. Butters this morning, tracy this morning. with the theft of three brass orna- ments from Mr. H. C. Higgs, at No. 10 Stanley Terrace, first floor, one clock and two razors from Mr W. Greenberg, at Taikoo Dock, No. 8 Club Chambers, and a safety razor" from "Mr. M. Colgan, of No. 6 Club Chambers, 5
Choi Luk, aged 20, was fined $250 or four months' imprisonment, for possession of 2.2 taels of non- ing a divanat No. Government opium and with keep- 61 Graham Street.
Sentence of three months hard Arbuthnot
Miss Kwok Sau-fong, of No. labour was imposed on each charge.watch while travelling in a
oad, lost her wrist
sha In Connaught Road • yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. J. M. Dobbs, of No. 18 Mac- donnell Road, fined $8
Leung
ang, coolie at the Kow.