SHOWING MY
TO-DAY
AIXECONDITIONED THEATRES
AT 2.30, 5.10,
7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
THE SCARLETT O'HARA OF "GONE WITH THE WIND" AND THE STAR OF "REBECCA" AND "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"!
TWO GLAMOROUS STARS MAKE A
GREAT PICTURE!
VIVIEN LEIGH LAURENCE OLIVIER
and with LESLIE BANKS
21 Day Father
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier team together crown- ing all their previous successes in this human production -Shai Times. of emotion, tenderness and understanding."
NEXT CHANGE
LLOYD NOLAN in "CHARTER PILOT'
A 20th Century with Lynn Bari-Arleen Whelan-Geo. Montgomery
Fox Picture
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1941.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2,30-5.20
7 20 -9,30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
TEL.87222
Matinees: 30c., 40c. - Evenings: 30c.. 40c., 60c., 70c.
✡
SHOWING TO-DAY
BRITAIN'S WAR AT SEA !!!
Supercharged Drama of Men Who Master Torpedo-
Torn Seas..and a woman who
couldn't master her
own heart!
CON
CLIVE BROOK
JOHN CLEMENT
EDWARD CHAPMAN
JUDY CAMPBELL
Distributed by RKO RADIO Pictures
Directed by PEN TENNYSON • Produced by MICHAEL BALCON
* NEXT CHANGE
JOHN BARRYMORE-MARY BETH HUGHES
"THE GREAT PROFILE"
20th Century-Fox Comedy-Sensation!
CATHAY & CENTRAL
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. At 12.30, 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
✡
TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY. War-time China's Greatest Screen Achievement! The Real Facts of the Internal Strength of
"Free China! Filled with Roars and Thrills!
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT STUDIO presents
份
"BAPTISM OF FIRE"
A Chinese Picture in Mandarin
WEDNESDAY AT THE CATHAY
YOU CAN'T FOOL YOUR WIFE"
with Lucille Ball, James Ellison An RKO RADIO Picture
recent bilized during a was This is how the assistant carried on next morn.
CIGARETTES AS USUAL. This little tobacconist shop London raid but the stock was not damaged. ing until temporary repairs were effected.
MR.
GETS
A. DUFF-COOPER
SPECIAL SPECIAL POST
IN FAR EAST
CHANGES IN THE British Cabinet were officially announced in London last night, most important being the appointment of Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, Minister of Information, to a special post in the Far East.
The changes are as follows:-
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secre- | tary for Foreign Affairs, becomes President of the Board of Educa- tion.
Mr. Brendan Bracken. Mr. Churchi 's Parliamentary Private Secretary. becomes Minister Information.
of
Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, Minister of Information, becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and is proceeding to the Far East.
Here he will examine, on ba- half of the War Cabinet, present arrangements for consultation
NAZI AIR
STRENGTH
CORRESPONDENCE
PRICE OF RICE
Sr. Relative to correspon- dence, leaders and reports deni- ing with this indispensible article read re- of food, which I have cently, in my humble opinion one of the most important factors in determining price has been over- looked. While freight charges extent, affect price to a limited Government possesses powers to bottoms for take over ships' transport, at it own figure.
Then there arises the question It is stated in certain of export. circles that Government has allowed the export of certain grades or qualities of rice under this is one of the permit, and chief contributory causes to high
While stocks are prices.
high, be low. It is an prices should economics question of supply and Russian diplomatic and demand.
IN RUSSIA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
cunce.
and co-ordination between the military officials en In view of the political tension East, not one various British authorities, mill-;
route to Moscow from prevailing in the
let alone hundreds and tary, administrative and politi cal, and will report to them how Berlin revealed in Ankara thousands of bags, should be ex- To say the these arrangements can be made yesterday there are three ported under licence.
least, the position is iniquitous. Lord Hankey becomes Paymas- German air fleets en-If rice of low grade or rice in a Mr. R. K. Law, becomes Under- gaged against Russia, the supposed deterforated
fourth being kept on the persons Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
western front.
more effective.
ter-General.
Mr. E. D. Sandys becomes Fin- ancial Secretary to the War Office,
becomes Under Mr. Thurtle Secretary at the Ministry of in- formation.
Colonel G. S. H. Watt becomes the Prime Minister's Parliamen- tary Private Secretary-Reuter.
state is allowed out of the Colony to feed residing outside Hong Kong, then it is at for consump- tion within the Colony: or again, German aircraft
production, if unfit for human food, then it they said, is between 20,000 and
be disposed of in limited
and 25,000 a year, and the Germans
under certain quantities
German
ENVOY REMAINING
IN MOSCOW
can
Mr. Herwald Ramsbotham be- are making feverish efforts to im-guarantees, within the Colony, as comes Chairman of the Unemoloy-prove 'plane types.
food for pigs and poultry, and re-
now pilots' training
The Colony is suffering from a ment Assistance Board
takes only half the time.-Inter-shortage of pigs and poultry, so ceives a barony.
producers Nicholson is ap-national News Service,
why not encourage Mr. Harold pointed a Governor of the B.B.C.
with the deteriorated article at u nominal figure, the quantity sold to producers being in relationship to the "heads" under production? There are other phases in the (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") rice price control situation which The U.S. State Department increase cost of the article and yesterday despite the which need exploration (charges martial evacuation of the U.S. for this, that, the other. Governs. Embassy staff in Moscow 1ment profits etc.) and if only to Kazan, Mr. Laurence Steinhardt, allay suspicion, restore confidence, the Ambassador, and the bulk of and still tongues, Government the American d'ploma's at pre should turn the spot-light of in- on this department sent do not intend to leave Mos- vestigation
International News Ser too.
DALADIER RESCUE PLOT!
THE GERMAN-CONTROLLED PARIS - RADIO LAST NIGHT VIRTUALLY ACCUSED .THE VICHY AUTHORITIES OF PLANNING TO MOVE-M, DALA- DIER AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS TO A PLACE WHERE THEY COULD BE RES- CUED BY THE BRITISH NAVY.
These prisoners, it was stated, are to be transferred from Bour- assal, In Central France, to the island of Porquerolles off the Mediterranean, coast near Hyeres, The announcer commented: "These gentlemen could not have been placed", nearer aBritish warship with their hospitable cabins. ***Reuter, vilk
declares
Crus*. -- vice.
STAR
TO-DAY ONLY
SANDY IS
LADY!
Tom Brown
Nan Grey
İP KWAI CHUNG.
SHOWS DAILY
At 2.30, 5:20, 7.20:&.9.20 P.M.
TO-MORROW LONE WOLF STRIKES Warren William Joan Perry