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ONE DARING GIRL TRAILS THE RING KACKETEERS WHO DEAL IN HUMAN CARGO
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DAUGHTER
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YOU DON'T" "SEE" THIS, PICTURE... YOU LIVE IT!. MARCH · BAXTER BARRYMORE
THE ROAD
GLORY
JUNE LANC GREGORY RATOFF
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, ̈ 1938.
LUSH GRASS YIELDS ITS BOTTLES IN DARWIN
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TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Bad Guy" QUEEN'S —
"Daughter Of Shangha ORIENTAL:-
"The Road To Glory"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"Adventure's End"
STAR:-
"History Is Made At night" MAJESTIC :-
"Michael Strogoth"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Big City"
QUEEN'S:
"Every Day's A Holiday" ORIENTAL:-
"Banjo On My Knee" ALHAMBRA:-
"Bull Dog Drummond's
* Revenge"
STAR:-
"Fire Over England" "Knight Without Armour"
MAJESTIC:
"London By night" "Come And Get It"
ANNA MAY WONG RETURNS
Reappease In Daughter Of Shanghai'
Surplus Of
"Dead Marines”
A month ago a Perth bottle merchant "read-th the newspapers of Darwin's colossal bottle sur- plus, and hurried here by plane, states special message from Darwin
The monsoonal rains, arrived Arst. however, and when the mer- chant stepped off the plane dense tropical grasses had grown over thousands of neglected empties scattered round the town and spread alongside every read and track.
The bottle merchant accused newspaper representatives in Darwin of gross exaggeration. and even threatened to take legal'
for action
recovery of the amount of his fare.
However, he engaged "a loca! man' on contract to collect what empties were available. As a result, the merchant now has a 5 for £00; representing four weeks' work by the man whom ne engaged. With the assistance of a motor truck and one black boy, 6000 dozen bottles have been collected from around the town in one month.
TO BE WITNESS
A smashing expose of allen smuggling, packed with mystery. setion. dirma and romance Is what makes "Daughter of Shang- hai," which opens at the Queen's Theatre today, one of the most interesting and thoroughly satisfy ing pictures of the current season. The plot is based on the billion- dollar facket, which has spring up in recent years, of bringing aliens into the United States legally. Once a "business" in which only Chinese were brought in by smug-actor, will be witness at the wed- glers, recent changes in immigrading of Greta Garbo and Leopold
tion laws as well as the tightening conditions in many foreign coun- tries have made the racket an international menance.
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HISTORY
ARTHURIS MADE
AT NIGHT
"FIRE OVER ENGLAND” LAWRENCE OLIVIER"
MORROW. FLORA HOBSON
A
Australia recent caller at
For having worn nail-studded House, London, a Rumanian woman boots that left swastika imprints, who wanted to migrate to Australia, on Czechoslovakian soil, a young was asked whether she possessed Austrian who crossed the frontier This is apparently the necessary finances. She open-was arrested.
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ed suitcase which contained the latest method of spreading £7000 in English notes Officials Naal propaganda. escorted her to the Australia House
count.
branch of the Commonwealth The driver, David Anderson, of Bank, where she opened an ac- the Edinburgh Glasgow express
which was involved in 藕
fatal crash in December, has been charged with culpable homicide.
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The new Director of the Police Bureau in Hankow, Commandant Legislation will be introduced in Fang Chao, and his Chlef Secre- Germany to relieve unmarried tary. Mr. Let Ching-kwei, assumed mothers of the extra income tax their duties on March 1, states aimposed on bachelors and spins- dispatch to the "Sln Wen Pao."
Lers.
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wealthy Chinese merchant in
San Francisco. He is murdered
when he refuses to take a hand in
Wallace Beery, famous character
Stokowski
PERFORMING
FLEAS KILLED
the smuggling game and nis Owner's Claim
daughter, played by exctle Anna
May Wong, vows to run his mur derers to earth
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries, and
Holidays.
St. Patrick's Day. (Patron of fre- land). Jewish Purim.
Auctions-Crown Lands, at Land
Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 a.m.; Household Furniture, at 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30 p.m:
Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page!
Entertainments-St. Paul's Re- creation Club Drama "Ancilla's Debt." In the French Convent Hall. 5.30 p.m.
Lectures.-Theosophical Society, a
p.m.
Malls (Sée Page 18).
Meetings. Victoria Chess Club. at Glouseester Hotel. 5 p.m.; Kow- loon ChesG Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m. Women's Guild, at Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m.
Miscellaneous.-Y.M.C.A.,
A.D.C.
Play Reading. 9 p.m.; St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship Games and Community Singing. 3 p.m.; H.E. the Governor lunches" at Hong Kong Club.
Moon. Moon. 18th. Day.
Andrew's Religious. St.
Club Lenten Discussion Group., in the Vicarage. 9 p.m.
Social-Cheero Club Bridge, 3 p.m.: YM.C.A. Ladies' Bridge and Mahjong Morning: Official Dinner at Government House..
Sports. (See Page 10). Sunrise.-6.32 a.m. Sunset.-6.33
p.m.
Tides. High at 10.15 and 22.45. Low at 03.50 and 16.02.
TO-MORROW
Moon-II Moon. 17th. Day." Sunr.se.-6.33 a.m. Sunset.- 6.33
p.m.
Low at 03.22 and 15.16
Tides-High at C9.50 and 22.00.
£916,000 A YEAR
For Imperial Airway
(By Air Mall)
Against Landlady Evening Standard.
With the extension of the Empire air mail scheme fron India to Ma- laya. Imperial Airways, Ltd. will receive £916,000 a year, from the Government.
to according
the
The Postmaster-General' will pay Besides Miss Wong, who per- Alleging that his landlady killed at the rate of £519,000 per annum forms with her usual charm and a number of his performing fleas. from the Post Office vote for the skill, the cast boasts such brilliant Kalman" Hosszu, a circus artist. carriage of malls, while a subsidy players as Charles Bickford. Larry has brought a claim for £8 dam-at the rate of £397,000 per annum Crabbe. Cecil Cunningham: J. Car-ages against her in the Debrecen will be paid from air votes, the rol Naish. Anthony Quinn. John | court, Budapest.
latter being paid by monthly in- Patterson and Evelyn Brent.
The landlady. Mme Istvan stalments, in advance. Boros, is counter-claiming £12 These two payments have been against the lodger for damage to based on estimates of revenue and her furniture.
expenditure agreed between the According to the story told in Air Ministry and the company, and court, M. Hosszu returned to his the amount of subsidy, will be ad-
ADVENTURE'S END
Thrilling Sea Story
A thrilling sea story framed lodgings one day and found his justed on revision against a Southern Seas canvas, trained fleas dead tri the box in The subsidy payment will be re- Universal's "Adventure's End" which he kept them. "Apparently duced by any saving made by the showing today at the Alhambra the room had been sprayed with company on the insurance of the Theatre with John Wayne and insecticide when being cleaned and aircraft.
Should the revenue fall below Diana Gibson in the leading roles. some of this had got into the box.
The story was written by the Shouting "You're a murderer? the estimate. the difference, with novelist Ben Ames Williams and You've killed them!" he threw a maximum rate of £81,000 per was produced by Trem Carr with himself on the floor, sobbing and annum, will be paid to the com- Arthur Lubin directing.
beating his forehead with his fists. Dany as additional subsidy. Any Then. In a paroxysm of rage, he excess of revenue will be deducted is alleged by the landlady to have from the subsidy. smashed the furniture.
The
It tells of the love of Miss Gibson for Wayne who comes on board the whaling vessel after he has obtained a rich fortune. In Answering these allegations In pearls "despite the efforts .of court, Hosszu said: natives to kill him.
"I am a flea trainer. The train- No sooner
Wayne safelyed floas gave me my living. They aboard the "vessel than he is were so intelligent that I called attacked by Moroni Olsen, playing them by their names and they the role of first mate. Olsen. knew me."
awaited.
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MICHAEL STROGOFF
Dramatic Moments
Intense Dramatic Moments
If it were possible to record the notices the curious manner with The case has aroused great in-dramatic intensity of a motion pic- which Miss Gibson watches Wayne terest in Debrecen and the de-ture scene on a dal, movie critics and correctly suspects that she is cision of the court is eagerly believe that the blinding sequence' Interested in the newcomer.
in the thrilling spectacle film "Michael Strogoff," would register WHEN FIRST COUSINS a full 100 percent.
This sequence, one of the many MARRY
breathless moments in the famous The first-born child of a mar- tale of a Russian courier's efforts riage between first cousins is more to reach a beleaguered army in likely to develop an unbalanced Siberia during a Tarter rebellion, mind than children of parents occurs when the courier is cap- who are not related.
The story reaches a surprising climax" following a mutiny at sea, a hurricane, and a tremendous struggle between a crew of men in a small boat who harpoon a whale.
FILM COMPANY REFUSES DUKE'S REQUEST
A request by the Duke of Windsor's solicitors to Kino Films Ltd, not to release the 16 m.m. news reels of the Duke's activities, Including his wedding, which were being sent to America, has been re- fused.
The company pointed out that, as several coplès of the films had already been in private circulation in England. and as they contained nothing defamatory, there appeared to be no reason for their, with drawal.
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TOMORROW & SATURDAY ROMANCE AND MYSTERY IN THE FOG OF LONDON! GEORGE MURPHY #1 tured by the rebels and sentenced This fact was mentioned by a to be blinded by having a white- doctor at the inquest'on Mrs. hot sword passed before his eyes." Lizzie Robinson and her 27-year- The giant cast of more than old son, John Thomas Paul Robin-10,000 persona is another unique son, who were found shot dead feature of
"Michael Strogon,
the astounding In
RITA JOHNSON in LONDON BY
NIGHT"
A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER MYSTERY-THRILLER!
Mr. Yen Teh-ching, the Manag ing Director of the Canton-Hankow Railway, has resigned from his post, says a message to the Stan-
Japanese authorities in Tientsin at a farm near Wolverton. Bucks showing at the Majestic Theatre. recently.
This number of "actor" Includes recently demolished the equipment
who The verdict was that Mrs. Ro- 10,000 Bulgarian soldiers
of the Telegraph Office there. binson was murdered by her son participate and that he committed suicide climactic battle sequences; and the states a despatch to the Sin Wen dard. Mr. Yen's resignation has during temporary insanity. dramatic cast comprising Anton Pao. On February 28, it la repor-been accepted by the Ministry of The mother opposed her son's Walbrook, International favorite. ted, the Japanese cut the wires Communications, which bas ap- pointed the Chief Engineer of the marriage to 24-year-old Kitty Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff. Neal, of Stony Stratford, who said Margot Grahame, Fay Bainter, linking the First Special District nistry, Mr. Wel Tifu, to take. she thought the reason for the Eric Blare and Paul Gullfoyle. opposition was that Robinsori was George Nicholls, fr., directed this in a better social position than she RKO Radio picturization of the
Intel Vefire ddventure classic.
wal.
to the British and French Con-over the Directorship In a concur cessions and removed them. The rent capacity. The latter assumed wires in the Third Special District the concurrent post on Fetirnary
23, will also be severed.
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