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QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 230-515 7:20 & 9:30 TEL 31453
TO-DAY, at 2.30, 5.15 & 7.20 p.m. Only
in Weber's
Winsome LILIAN HARVEY
IN A GAY ROMANTIC MUSICAL FANTÁRY
"INVITATION to the WALTZ”
with CARL ESMOND * RICHARD BIRD
TO-NIGHT, at 9.20 P.M.
HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
Presents
"THE STREET SINGER'
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.
TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"The Devli Doll" QUEEN'S:-
"Invitation To The Waltz”.
CAUSE OF FLU NOW KNOWN--
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Immunisation A
Stage Nearer
The primary cause of influenza has been finally determined by ORIENTAL:-
research work carried out during "Charlie Chan At The Race the recent epidemic.
Track"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"A Doctor's Diary" MAJESTIC:-
"The Longest Night" STAR:-
"Roadhouse"
KING'S:
Coming
"Mama Steps Out"
QUEEN'S:-
"When's Your Birthday?" ORIENTAL:—
"Racing Lady"
"Champagne' Waltz"
ALHAMBRA:-
|SUNDAY :
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JOE E. BROWN in WHEN'S YOUR BIRTHDAY ?"
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STARTING SUNDAY
HALFWAY ROUND THE WORLD. HE RACES NECK AND NECK WITH DEATHI
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK
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Based on the character
"Charlie Chan" cradled by
Earl Derr Biggers
"CHAMPAGNE WALTZ"
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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
VIOLET LORAÏNE
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Roadhouse
AILEEN MARSON EMLYN WILLIAMS HARTLEY POWER AGAUMONT BRITISH PICTURE Coated by MAURICE LIVEY
SUNDAY
CHARLIE RUGGLES MARY BOLAND
"Gold Diggers of 1937"
O SPAJAL.,
INVITATION TO THE
WALTZ
A young man in love will make every kind of ingenious attempt to further his acquaintance with the beloved, but there are not many instances where the duenna has been an elephant.
Lo "Invitation to the Waltz," which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day, Carl Esmond plays the role of a young alde-de-camp to the Duke of Wurtemburg who meets and is captivated by Jenny Peachey, a little dancer in the ballet at Drury Lane.
There are two related but dis- tinct strains of the influenza virus -human, and swine. It has been found that the human type of virus was the primary cause in this winter's epidemic in Man- chester.
The virus was isolated from 13 cases of epidemic influenza. All the strains examined were iden- tified as of the human type.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 16.
Anniversaries and Holidays-St. Benedict. Labre.
Auctions.Jade and Diamond Ring. and Diamond and Peart Bar Brooch, at Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 3 p.m.; House- hold Furniture at Lammert's, Dud- deli Street. 2.30 p.m.
Cinemas.
King's: "The Devil Doll" Queen's:--"Invitation " To The
Waltz"
Oriental:-"Charlie Chan At The
Race Track". World:-"The King Steps Out" Alhambra: A Doctor's Diary".. Majestic-"The Longest Night” Star:-"Road House,"
Dances Seafarers' Dance. at Sailors' Home and Seamen's In- stitute. Gloucester Road, 9 p.m.
Entertainments. "The Street
Tests made provide a possible method for determining immune persons from those who are suscep- tible to the disease. These tests may prove valuable when a satisSinger," at Queen's Theatre. 9.20
factory prophylactic, or preventive, is available.
p.m.
"
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Meetings.-Annual of Union In- The researches were carried out surance Society of Canton, Ltd.; by "Mr. Leslie Hoyle and Dr. W: The 'China Fire Insurance Co... Fairbrother, of the Department of | Etd.; and British Traders. In- Bacteriology and Preventive aurance Co., Ltd., at Head Office, Medicine, University of Manches- Union Buliding, 2.30, 2.50 and 2.55 ter..
p.m. respectively: Creditors, of The Kworig Wah Printing Co. Ltd. 380 Des Voeux Road West, 3 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; St.An- drew's Club Committee, 8.30 p.m. winter, with the strain which has Miscellaneous. His Excellency now been maintained in ferrets for the Governor, Str" Andrew Calde- three years by "Medical Research | cott and Lady Caldecott sail for Coucil workers at Hampstead.
Chain Of Proof Among the facts they recorded the identity of strainst
of virus isolated in Manchester this
WILS
The "British Medical Journal" commenting on the account of the work which Mr, Hoyle and Dr. Fairbrother contribute to the cur- rent issue, says:
Attzi-
"As the cause of widespread epidemics this virus now stands fully accepted.
"Among items in the chain of of accidental proof is the case transmission back from ferret to man, which is now put on record Jenny has been well brought up, in the annual report of the however, and upon their second Medical Research Courell. meeting is inclined to ignore him.buted to the sneeze of an infected They meet in the Zoological ferret, this attack was fully studied Gardens where Jenny is wonder- ing round looking at the animals and eating her lunch, which con- sists of sandwiches. Jenny, in spite of her fairy-like proportions, has a healthy appetite and is try- ing to make the most of her some-phylactic vaccination may soon ba what meagre meal. She pauses to admire the elephant and to throw „a Infinitesimal portion of sand- wich in his mouth, and her ad- mirer, watching her, is seized with
a brillant idea.
THE LONGEST NIGHT
"The Longest Night," adapted from the Cortland Fitzsimmons mystery ..thriller. "Whispering Window," teams for the second time Robert Young and Florence Rice, who appeared together to such advantage in "Sworn Enemy.” Young appears аз Charley Phelps, heir to the Phelps Depart- ment store, where practically all. of the action of the story takes place.
from the serological standpoint, and there are other good reasons for regarding this as its true origin."
Mr. Hoyle and Dr. Fairbrother write:
"Recent work indicates that pro-
available for general, application.
If it is possible to differentiate immune from susceptible persons, the application of active isation will be assisted."
Home.
SocialCheero Club Duplicate Contract Bridge. 8 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Mah Jong Drive, 3 p.m.
Sports. (See Page 10). Moon. Moon, 6th. Day.
Sunrise.-8.03 a.m. Sunset,-8 43
p.m.
Tides.-High at 01.58 and 12.26; Lowy at 5.35 and 20.09.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17.
Anniversaries snd Holidays.--St. Anicetus.
Cinemas.
King's: The Devil Doll" Queen's: "Invitation To The
Waltz"
Oriental:-"Charlie Chan At
The Race Track" World:-"Chinese Picture."
Alhambra:-"A Doctor's Diary" Majestic-The Longest Night" Star:-"Road House".
Street
Entertainments.. --- "The Street immun-Stager," at Queen's Theatre, 8.20 p.m.; Entertainment at St. An- drew's Hall, s p.m.
Miscellaneous. —-- Annual Sale of Flowers in aid of SP.C.; Claims against the Hong Kong Finance Co., Ltd., due: Wah Yan. Past Students' Association Lecture and Dramatic Entertainment, at the Alma Mater, 7.30pm
THE DEVIL DOLL
Familiar and beloved though he is to patrons of the screen, Lionel Barrymore is recognizable only by Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Devil Doll," his inimitable artistry, in Metro
which opens to-day at the King's Theatre.
Barrymore impersonates an an- clent woman. In wig and skirta and petticoats, the veteran master of chare :terization achieves some- thing that he has never attempt- ed before. His change from the
he is, to the character of a being old woman 1s a miracle of the screen.
Social, Craigengower Cricket
tombola, 9.15 p.m. Club fortnightly whist drive and
Sports.--(Bed Page 10). Moon-II Moon, 7th. Day. Sunrise.-5.04 a.m. Sunset.----6.13 |
p.m.
Tides-High at 00.48 and 11.38; Low at 05.04 and 19.02.
BOXING'S TRAGIC
SIDE
Florence Rice is a salesgirl in the store, who first meets Robert Young balancing a cane on the end of his nose. Her sister, a heavy-browed, shaggy-haired man salesgirl in the jewelry depart- ment, is played by Julle Haydon, best remembered for her work op posite. Noel Coward in "The The story concerns the career of Scoundrel". Miss Haydon's sweet- a half-mad scientist who con heart is Leslie Fenton, member ofceives а formula that reduces consider "the greatest fighter of a gang of warehouse robbers head- animals and human beings to a ed by the department store's buyer sixth of their natural size but (Paul Stanton). The Alm dis- leaves them hopeless morons, closce a racket by which these thieves dispose of their goods to the department store under the gulse of wholesale jobbera
DOCTOR'S DIARY
The conflict which confronta young doctor-duty to the woman
in "WIVES NOVER KNOW" he loves versus his devotion to the
Battleships Cost 2/- Per Pound
highest tenets of the code of the code of medical ethics, forms the plot of "A Doctor's Diary,” an intimate portrayal of the inside workings of a large metropolitan
Alhambra Theatre to-day.
To build a battleship costs near-, had been improved and torpedo-hospital, which has its run at the ly 2s for every 11h weight, compar- carriers had increased in attack"
John Trent, former ace flyer.
ed with 3d per lb. for the average capacity and numbers of types who takes his appearance in a
Those "gutes The same statements applied ge- merchant vessel. were given by Sia Westcott Abell-nerally to mines.
leading role in this film, is a young doctor with refreshing at the annual meeting of the In- Admiral the Earl of Cork and notions on how hospitals should stitute of Naval Architects in Lon-Orrery, discussing Mr. Goodall's be run He is kept from expound-| don recently.
remarks on uncontrolled weapons ing them by his society sweet- Mr. S. V. Goodall, Director of and their ability to inflict damage heart, whose father is head of the Naval Construction, In a paper on to the underwater structure of à Hospital, and by his tear of losing uncontrolled weapons pointed out ship, said that although ships his job. His nurse, played by that the treaties limiting naval were better protected caraint Helen Burgung adigmasedoghen armaments had left certain a-under-water attack they could the criticizes the administration pons free to be developed while never be proof againggit and res for neglecting 'patient. When a restricting the sizes of various main vulnerable. Although the charity, patient in the person of a classes of ships and the calibres modern ship might be to some young violi genius Inses his arm
guns.
extent unsinkable, her propellers through neglect, Trent quits. His Fan terpado.. mine, and sierraft | and rudders walk will expouse stid society? Fanselham PLN zablokončen remained uncontrolled. Torpedoes easily rendered useless.
breaks their engagement.
subject to the will of their insane master. The laboratory, with its macabre scenes of tiny humans is one of the tremendously startling spectacles in which Barrymore has ever participated.
HONG KONG HOTEL
The following visitors are staying at the Hong Kong Hotel:
Mr. and Mrs. E. Stephens. (F00– chow).............
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel. Lieut.-Comdr. and Mrs. Kincald (Colombo)...
Miss B. Heineman (Singapore)}{/ Mr. A. Maravia (Canton); Mr. R. Calzatu: 23
Mr. and Mrs. Alex J. Cook (Shanghai);
Sam Langford, whom many still
them all." is now blind and a bog- car in Harlem (states a New York message): Tapping through the familiar streets with his came he sells photographs of Jos Louis,
MORE SHIPS BUILT
A substantial increase in the world's output of new, shipping in 1936 is shown in the annual sum- mary issued by Lloyd's Register.
The total tonnage building has risen from 1,543.153; at the begin- ning of the year to 2,251,221 - an
increase December 31, 20
01 708,068 tons. The figures for the United Kingdom show an increase of 220,556 tons-nearly 30 per cent-at December. 1936.
Tonnage launched last year throughout the world was 2,117,924 gross. Of this, British yards put adoat $56,257 tons, or 40.4 per cent of the aggregate. World tonnage launched in 1936 showed The following visitors have ara 82.7 per cent. Increase on the rived at the Gloucester Hotel!-- --| output for 11935..
Mr. L. P. H. Engelman (Batavia) Lloyd's Register states that as Mr. AV. Pinson (London), l the tonnage laid down during |
· Mr, -and lífs. · Donaghy (Van-"| 1936 has: exceeded by '822,000 tons couver), enten det that launched: during time year Mr. Albert Hersch (New York). there is good reason to expect Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown (Calcutta) that the recieved activity in world ME C, LyThunuapnette
hipbuilding will be maintained in Mr. and Mrs. Jones (Canton). the immediate future.
**-TRE GLOUCESTER
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SHOWING TO-DAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.16 & 9.30 PM.
EYES OF DOOM!
Sending a 12-inch killer on an errand Sof amazing
Vengeance!
DOLL BARRYMORE
Mauree
"A Metro: Goldwyn
ALSO CHARLI CHASE COgns Manhattan Monkey Business
AND LATEST NEws or Ten DAY including "No Holiday For Death In Madrid", "World Congress of Gatholics" "Gorga YI Buy As New King"
"MAMA STEPS OUT' with GUY KIBBEE ALICE BRADY
NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. PICTSUE
ALHAMBRA
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TO-DAY & TOMORROW
A PICTURE DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF MANKIND THE FIGHT AGAINST INFANTILE PARALYSTS!
"Keep 31 caverudi” whe
this man's cada,
See what hispans. Ndos
this doctor talks!
SUNDAY
R.KO. Radio Picture
• SHOWS DAILY
3.30 $70 230 - 9.30
SCANDAL BREAKS LOOSE!
Adolph Zakne presents
"A DOCTOR'S
DIARY"
16
with
JOHN TRENT Paramount's New
FIND. HELEN BUEGEEN GEO. BANCROFT
A Paramennt Picture
"Tall it and save Wras!" begged his rometheart,
RACING LADY"
with Ann Dvorak Smith Ballew Harry Carey
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
--TEL: SYSIZ.
(MATINEES: 20%-30%.° EVENINGS. 20. -30% 50«700 TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
THRILLS & MYST-BY IN A DEPARTMENT STORE !
TREAT YOURSELF TO LAUGHS AND THRILLS!
the
LONGEST NIGHT
ROBERT YOUNG FLORENCE RICE TED HEALY
JULIE HAYDON CATHARINE DOUCET
An
Is of Loughe
Hausal Matrotone
Directed by Kool-Taggar: Predwood by
· Lautan Hubbard
SUNDAY, MONDAY & TUESDAY DIOK POWELL AND JOAN BLONDELL IN "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937
A WARNER BROS. MUSICAL SPECTACLE :
PEACETIME
ACTIVITIES
In the midst of warlike...utter-
bigher than the 1935 total. Distel- button of the tractors was" world». wide and included Norway, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India,
|.
arces from the governments of Holland, America and South nations, and an international Africa armaments race, comès proof that Most of the tractors made for peacetime activities are not alto-export are loaded on ships at the gether forgotten.A 1999 Ford Jetty at Dagenham.
Agricultural tractors which Ford Last year the new Row Crop Motor Company Limited, Dagen="tractor was introduced and, the bam, are now manufacturing for demand from overseas was im domestic and export purposes will mediate. This troe of tractor is reassure even the most pessimistic. a three-wheeler which permits of Official figures for 1830 show working the rows without damag- that more than 50 per cent of the Ing the crops. This tractor has number of tractors made åt | daến very favourably received, eas Dagenham were exported and that pecially in America where great the toter trumber of tractors ex numberz have already been, ship- ported last year was 50 per cent ped.
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