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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939.
GIRLS ARE "EARS"
7.15 & 9.30 p.m. OF SECRET CONTROL
FULL OF TOMFOOLERY.. BURGLARS AND JOOLERY!
The mystery
is curious!
The comedy is furious!
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THERE'S THAT WOMAN AGAIN
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LORETTA YOUNG
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"WIFE, HUSBAND AND FRIEND"
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CITEMENT MARKS THE PLOT:
in your merriest murder mystery!
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One NEW YORK
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FRANCHOT TONE UNA MERKEL Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
An M.G.M. Picture "THE CROWD ROARS"
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CLARK GABLE
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Directed by Jack Covery
Greta CARGO, Robert TAYLOR in
"CAMILLE"
WEDNESDAY: DOUBLE ATTRACTION !
"A MAN to REMEMBER" with Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis RAYMOND LUI and his HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA
ON THE STAGE:
ROOM
Telephone giris working in shifts covering twenty-four hours are the "ears" of the most closely-guarded
secret room in London.
They sit in eighteen telephone booths, specially sound-proofed. Their job is to take messages from A.R.P. group centres and relay them to the Control Centre, London Regional where vital decisions which may affect the lives of hundreds of people, have to be made quickly.
In the control room work eight men.
They are the administrative staff of the Control Centre, which was set up early this year to deal with the whole of the civilian defence activities within the area roughly corresponding to the Metropolitan Police district.
In war time the centre is controlled by two regional commissioners-Sir E. Sir Edward Gowers and Admiral Evans (Evans of the broke)-and a senior regional commissioner,
BOMB-PROOF
The location of the control room is kept strictly secret. It is gas-proof, air-conditioned, blast-proof and splin- ter-proof.
For civilian defence purposes, all the local authorities in London have nine each been divided into with
communicating centre group with the local A.R.P. headquarters in their district.
It is from these group centres that reports are telephoned to the girls in the telephone room, who in turn pass on the message.
FACTS AT A GLANCE
LUSITANIA SURVIVOR
Mr. Robert Timmis, a cotton broker, who gave his lifebalt to a woman passenger when the Lu- sitania was sunk in the Atlantic during the Great War, has died at his home at Gainesville, Texas, at the age of 74.
Mr. Timmis, who was already blind in one eye, last the other when the sinking liner carried him to the bottom and he was Ho freed struck by wreckage. himself and reached the surface.
the Lord Mayor of London, for instance, the exact position at any glven movement.
He would be able to do that by a glance at two huge floodlit maps of the Metropolis which cover the whole wall of the Control Room.
front The eight men sitting in of these maps mark them with pins and keep the most careful records of the situation.
Thus, these maps would show at any given moment what dis- tricts are affected by high explo- sive, gas or fire, or what roads and bridges are obat ucted.
UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL
An underground operating theatre. for use in war-time is being built into new block of the foundations of a buildings under construction at the An officer in charge reports by tele-Hospital for Sick Children, Great Or- printer to the Home Office any events | mond-street, London. which are considered of more than reglonal importance.
He also has the job of receiving Important visitors, and explaining perhaps to the War Minister or
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