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FREDRIC MARCH
THE BUCCANEER
FRANCISKA GAAL
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The hidden story the world wants to know.
JOSEPHINE
GEO. BRENT
HUTCHINSON
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE
with GUY KISSKE • MONA BARRIE ̧• -ROBERT BAKRAT Directed by Michael Cortis. • A First National Picture
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GENERAL
Macao Observes Battle Of Lys TODAY AT THE Anniversary DIARY OF LOCAL
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:
"The Awful Truth"
QUEEN'S:---
""""The Buccaccer"
ORIENTAL:-
"Way Out West"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:-
"The Buccaneer”
STAN:-
"Lloyd's of London" -MAJESTIC:
"Men Are Not Gods”
KING'S:—
Coming
"Mindame
QUEEN'S:-e,
"Bringing Up Baby”. ORIENTAL:-
"Mountain Justice"
ALHAMBRA:—
STAR:
"Back In Circulation" "Alcatraz Island".
"Midnight Taxi"
"Wake Up And Live"
MAJESTIC:—
· “She Married"Her Boss"
INNOCENT IN
DIFFICULTIES
UNVEILING OF
CENOTAPH BY GOVERNOR
THE MEMORIAL -
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.--St. Victor of Braga. Canossian Sisters arrived from Verona, 1880 St. Juhus
Auctions.---At the American, Con- sulate General in Shameen, Can- ton, all and singular, the Assets of McDonnell and Gorman, Inc. 10
Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page
Malls. (See Page 18)
Meetings-Annual, of Green Is- land Cement Co. Ltd., at Ex- change Bldg., Des Voeux Rd., Ctl. 11.30 am.; Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.;/9t; Andrew's Mothers' Union, 3 pm.
Miscellaneous.-Official. Opening f Trade and Technical School, by E the Governor, at Gap Road, Wanchal, 3.30 p.m.; Rotary Timin. Hong Kong Hotel; Soldiers' and Almen's Christian Assen, meets at HK. Union Church Hall, 7.30
p.m.
Moon-III Moon, 12th. Day Rehearsals—AD.C.. at European YMCA, 9 p.m.
Ad-
Relirious.-Evensong and dress: "The Day of Rebuke" at St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 p.m.; Lenten
Macao, April 3. Macao's observance of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Lys was today marked by the unveiling Mission at Catholle Cathedral, é of a newly-erected cenotaph. In the p.m.; Prayer Meeting in Chaplain's San Miguel Cemetery by H. B. theRoom, S. & S. Home. Governor of "Mixero, Dr. Artur Forial Craigenzomer Cricket Tamagnini Barboss, in the pre-Club Weekly Tombola, 9.15 pm. sence of members of the consular. Sports-(See Page: 101.
Sunrise.-6.07 'a.m. Sunset.-8.42 | judicial and civil administrative bodies, pasal, military and localjpm. residents.
...
TOMORROW' ·
Moon-II Moon. 13th."Day. Sunrise.-6.08 a.m. Bunset.--§.47
"Men Are Not Gods" written
Tides. High at 08.10 and 20.18. and directed by Walter Reisch for Alexander Korda's company, pre-a service conducted by His Lord-
The ceremony was preceded by Low at 01:40 and 13.59.
sents Miriam Bopkins, the famous ship the Bishop of Macao, the American star, in her first British Most Rev. D. Jose da Costa Nunes. production.
during which His Lordship pointed Miss Hopkins plays the part of out that the world would be a secretary, to ja famous dramatie better place if men strove to ac- who gets into difficulties by chang-cuire the riches of human charity, ing an article at the instance of
"The facts of today, are made the wife of a new stage acter.
gaid.
The part of the actor is taken by tor. tomorrow-the ideals of peace Sebastian Shaw, and his wife is are engraved in our hearts," he played by Gertrude, Lawrence.
Scenes from "Othello" are shown
TH OF APRIL" 33 Ghakespeare's tragedy was Following the blessing of the enacted for the last time on the memorial, Miss Maria Miguel, of stage of the old Alhambra Theatre. the local group of the Boy Scouts The picture opens today at the of Portugal, read the, poem:"9th Majestic Theatre,
Beauty, Style
And Temper
of April," one of the celebrated works of Maria Ana Acciaioli Tamagnini Barbosa, the late wife jot Macao's Governor.
Low gt 01.00 and 13.00.
Tides-High at 07.40 and 19.16
Stories of
Famous
Sayings
"Good Americans," When They Die, to to Paris"
Capt. Manuel Marques Caseire
IVE Americans, gcod and other- Alves, a World War veteran, next wise, still go to Pa.is. When spoke and briefly described the the above words were, spoken,
Standard-bearers from the Navy, |
migration across the Atlantic was a new phenomenon.
that American Then it was
M. PIERRE SANDRINI, 44, owner history of the Portuguese conting-about fifty years ago, the annual
of the Moulin Rouge and the eat in France, 1914-1918. Bal Tabarin. Paris cabaret halls. recently expressed. in London, his War Veterans, Artillery. Police opinion on three types of lemin-Boy Scouts and Fire Brigade were ine beauty. This is what he said lined up before the cenotaph about "
throughout the ceremony while the bugle and drüm band of the "They are very lovely. You are Mozambique Troops played "taps.". more likely to and perfection of Detachments from all naval and face and figure in blondes than in military groups participated. girls of any other colouring.
BLONDES
"But the blonde has, the temper. She listens more closely to the flatterer.
"
BRUNETTES
VETERAN'S, ASHES
heiresses began to marry European noblemen and the new class of wealthy Americans began to look for pleasures in keeping with their incomes.
They found all they wanted m Paris-the finest clothes, jewels
and food, art and relics of the "old world" that their own country
ntirely lacked.
THE man who foretold such a
pleasant fate for (good) Amer!- cans was Thomas Appleton, though he saying has been attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of
The Autocrat at the Table."
Appleton, son
ל
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Breakfast
well-to-do stress man was a writer and an]"] rtist, but he was most famous, especially in his native Boston, where he was born in 1812, for his
witticisms.
The monument is constructed of marble, surrounded at the top "For sheer loveliness, your Eng. the words "Patria Mori Dulce et, 118h blondes excel when they have Decorum" set in bronze, and was that golden hair and what you call erected from his own original de- the milk and roses face. Our sign by: Signor Raoul Bigazzi, well- French blondes are more vivacious, known Hong Kong sculptor, who prettier, but those English girls is himself a World War veteran. are beautiful I kiss my hand." "The ashes of the late Cpl. Carlos,
one of the survivors of the Battle' "The brunettes are often clever.of Lys, who died in Macao a few They train well for the dancing. Jars ago, are laid in the cenotaph
Today's programme has been ar- They
are reliable, steady, not often do they have temperament, ranged by the local branch of the "They keep better. They look League of World War Veterans, better when they are not so slim, under the presidency of Capt. yes? The blonde that is plump, de Lara Reis, who introduced the ah!
"And M. Sandrini shook monument to the public prior to
Mr. Chao Pei-leh, a Bhansi lend- the unveiling his head.
Other events included a footballer and former Chairman of the "But the branette. she looks
match between selected Civil and Mongolian-Tibetan Affairs Com- Military teams played at
anidrothe stadium in the after-Chengtu a few days ago, arrived in 100. At the conclusion of the Chungking. on March 24 en route. soccer game, HE the Governor to Hankow on bustness, states a presented prizes to local sports-wire to the Hwa Mei Pao.
(Our Own Correspondent),
THE prices which collectors will and Mussolin mean of their smarter. While the blonde is more pay for specimens which they autographs. Neither can yet com- striking in the way she wears her covet is always surprising to mand the prices which the earlier clothes, the bruneife has more people who collect nothing at all. dictator
style, more taste. and almost equally surprising to equivalent of nearly a hundered
"You can trist the dark ones, people,
who collect something else, and fty pounds was paid last you must watch the blonde heads
in The week for an order written by states a special writer Observer. There
doubt Hitler in 1924 and enjoining the по nre
postage stamp enthusiasts. who absolute obedience of all Nazis to would be amazed that anyone has Captain Rohm
been found to bid what amounts
to nearly six hundred pounds
when the taxes and commission Mili. ROBERT DONAT'S
are included) for Napoleon's an- notated copy of Caesar's "Com- mentaries." although' spending' a similar sum on really rare stampe would seem to them quite rear: conable........
£120,000 CONTRACT
To Make 4 M.G.M. Films
COFFERKNOBS
"Most beautifal of them all, but
so rare. "Not the redheads it is that I like so, it is what you may? The copperknobs,, yes? They have most marvellous complexions, biz grey eyes and they dance so well. "They take longer to teach thán
the blondes, are slow, but goo when they learn, Rarely are they Mr. Robert Donat, the British 32-cross, but oh, when they are, have year-old flm star, who recently they not the red temper, too???
M. Sandrini explained that for Others will think that the book refused an offer from Metro- was well worth the money. for the Goldwyn-Mayer of £65,000 a year chorus dancing he preferred Eng- annotations were made to show for nine years, will probably aplish and American girls, because how helpless the soldiers of Caesar pear in four pictures to be made they are tall and better trained or Alexander would have been, and by MGM in England.
how suicidal would have been the He will receive £30,000. a Alm, the American who made The Rig formation of the Roman square, ifor £120,000 in all.
Parade and other notable films.
the enemy had been armed with The first will be Mr. Victor will directi weapons-modern, that is in the Saville's
time of Napoleon.
The production of
Citadel," bsset.
Cronio's
Another interesting incident of.
Mr. Donat may also appear in Oxi Dr. A the Royal Air Force story, "Shadow best seller. Miss of the Wing" He also has a con- the autograph market has been Tizabeth Allan will play optract to make two more hims for the first appearance in it of Hitler osite him, and Mr. King Vidor, Mr. Alexander Korda.
Tien
It was, he who said: "Give me he luxuries of life and I care not who has the necessities."
the mission, who flew from Sian te
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"OLD FAVOURITE" FROM C LUMBIA 1
BULGARIA'S RECORD
49 Tons Of Furs And Skin In 1937
According to offcial statistics the wild animals and game shot or killed during 1937 included:
Ten bears; 291 wolves; 281 Jack- ale, $,573 toxes; 10 weasels; 307 A record amount of skins and wild pigs; 83 grisons (Otters); furs, 40 tons, valued at over £22, 2,580 skunks, 2,028 badgers; 681 006, from animals and game shot wild cats; 43,879 squirrels; 3,142 in Bulgaria were exported from eagles: 25,005, hawks; 113,074 this country last year.
magpies; 144,723 crows; 280,169
Wild game is aid to be increas hares: 629 Acer; 168,533 part ing in Bulgaria each year and the ridges, 128,210 qualis: 45′′; phen-
same who duck: 9,447 woodcock: 317,
bustards; one chamois; one stag.
Major L. Pinto Lello (Chief of Staff), who was in charge of the income to the State from rura sants; 141121 pigeons,127,124 arrangements at the unveiling ceremony in Macao, is een bere and skins is rising it the
time. chatting with some fellow officers.
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