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WEDNESDAY
AT THE QUEEN'S
RADIO CITY REVELS
WS VICTOR MOORI
MILTON DERES Midea Brodariak, June PromUCH Duster Wool, Mačkon Heron, Kal Kemp and Orchestry EXQ-RADIO
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Claude Rains - Gloria DicksonAaua May Wong Charles Bickford "THEY WON T FORGET" DAUGHTER of SHANGHAI”
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High Hyers
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Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
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Jean ARTHU
PAT O'BRIEN in
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Thomas Mitchell, Jon Hall and Mary Astor in "The Hurricane," Samuel Goldwyn's romantic drama of the South Seas, currently. showing at the King's Theatre.
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Rome, April 16..
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KING'S:~
The Hurricane."
QUEEN'S:
"Radio City » Revels"
ORIENTAL-
"High Flyers"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
"Radio City Revels"
STAR:--
"Breakfast For Two"
MAJESTIC:
SORROWS OF
DIARY OF LOCAL
CHINA'S WOMANHOOD
EVENTS
TODAY
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Her name was Ah Lậy, nhỏ salú. this Page), She crouched on the pavement in Mails (See Page 181. Johnston Road, just by the corner Meetings. St. Andrew's Church of the Oriental Thestre, nursing|Medical Reljef Working Party. 10 in infant. By her side WILS apm.
Hor
f
Andrew's
piece of paper with Chinese Miscellaneous-St. characters, proclaiming her plight Church Bible Reading Fellowship, to such of the world that would
p.m.; Teachers' Preparation Class, 7 p.m. pause long enough to look at it.
story WELA short, its Moon-III Moon, 18th. Day. poignancy sharp, Five months Social-St. Andrew's Club "Open a happy country- Night," 0 pm; YMCA Service- ago, she was woman of Sheklung. Then the men's Which Drive, in the West hounds of war truck. Her little Lounge, 6, p.m.
"Broadway Melody Of 1938" home was destroyed by bombs, halt- Sports(Bee Page 10).
the village wiped out, her husband Sunrise: 8.03 a.m. Sunset:—5.43 and three of her four children p.m. killed. Nothing was left.
Coming
KING'S
"Dark Journey”
QUEEN'S:-
They Won't Forget" "Mad About Music"
ORIENTAL:-
"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" "Fight For Your Lady" ALHAMBRA:-.
"Daughter of Shanghal"
STAR:-
"Mountain Justice"
MAJESTIC:
"Strike Me Pink" "Criminals Of The Air"
RADIO CITY REVELS
Tides: High at 10.00 and 23.25. Low at 03.40 and 16.36;
TOMORROW
Auctions.-Crown Land, at P. W.
D Officès, 3 F.m. **
Meetings. Licensing, Bard.
With her mother-in-law she managed to reach Canton. There, 'n abject poverty, they ght along somehow. Then, one day, she lost her mother-in-law. How, she does not know. "She just disappeared. Council Chamber, 3.30 p.m.; St. There were more bombings. The Andrew's Church Brownie Pack, big city was as exposed to danger 13.30 p.m. aa her own little village.
FINDS REFUGE
Miscellaneous. — Rotary
Tin,
Bong Kong Hotel Roof Garden, 1
pm: St. Andrew's Church Boys, Choir Practice, 8.30 p.m.
Moon.-II Moon, 19th, Day. Rehearsals.A.D.C. Rehearsal,
Learning that safety and refuge were to be found under the British tag that waves over Hong Kong. the borrowed or begged enough money to get her child, and her-in European YMCA, 9'p.m.
Social-His Excellency the Gov- self here,
Her meals are begged, or ob-ernor will dine with His Excellency ¡Major General A.W. Bartholomew, tained from the Salvation Army shed in Wanchai: her bed, a stair-the General Omçer Commanding, ase, or sometimes the pavement. and will also be present, at the Two days ago she was in town. Later-Unit. Open Boxing Com- With a brillant array of stars
crouched. petitions, at Murray Barracks. 8.30 to present its unique story and rouching, ar she now catchy melodies.
Hong Kong Hotel.P. RKO Radio's butaide "Radio City Revels" offers a real Perhaps she was "moved on"; per modern novelty in screen enter-haps she voluntarily changed her tainment the picture has its run "pitch." Tomorrow? She does not at the Queen's and Alhambra know, and hardly cares now.
This woman's case is only one Theatres today.
the
Bob Burns, Jack Oakle, Kenny of many.... Baker and Ann Miller head the cast of the tuneful offering, which
is based on an ingenious theme- Burns', queer faculty of writing catchy songs in his sleep.
A show-boat entertainer from Arkansas, Burns wants to be a song-writer, but is unaware of his unusual talent. But Oakle, a broken down Tin Pan Alley com-
This. then. Is modern warfare. (YEA).
Sunrise:-6.03 a.m. Sunset:-8.44
p.m.
Tides: High at 10.25. Low at 04.06 and 17.20,
LAUNCHING OF
NEW P. & 0.
Expansion Of SS. Canton To Make
U.S. Navy
AUTHORISED
Washington, April 16,
Maiden Voyage
In October
London, April 16. The new 15,000-ton P. and 0. liner, Canton, bullt for the Far Eastern run, was launched on the Clyde yesterday, the ceremony be- The Naval Expansion BU, au- ing performed by the Hon. Thalla thorising construction at a cost of Shaw, daughter of the former $1,156,000,000 over a number of chairman of the Company, Lord years, has been approved by the Senate Naval Committee.
poser, uses Burns' peculiarity to HEAVY "COMMITMENTS his own advantage to secure a contract to write the score for the "Revels", which will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Radio City. Interwoven with this scheme is romance between Kenny Baker, a radio singer, and Ann Miller. dancer; another romance between Burns and Helen Broderick, and the Berle, to further Miss Miller's career and to keep their Arkansas meal-ticket happy.
Ben Stoloff directed the produc- tion by Edward Kaufman. The songs were composed by Herb Magidson and Allie Wrubel, and the film is based on an original story by Matt Brooks and Eddie Davis, with Anthony Veiller and Mortimer Ofner also working on the screen play.
TO
HELP SMALL BUSINESSES
引
Substantial changes in the Bill,
of
Craigmyle.
The Canton, which will be put
n the regular run between Eng-
as passed by the House of Repre- and, India and the Far East, will sentatives include authorisation leave London on her maiden voy-
construction ior the
three age on October 7 next. battleships at estimated cost of $90,000,000 each. -~(Reuter).
ton 15,000
PUPPETS WORRY OVER FINANCES
TARIFF INCREASE BROACHED
Kinhwa, April 18.
an
It is reported that Mr. Chen Chin-tao, so-called "Minister of
the Nanking puppet regime." re-
Lord Craigmyle, speaking after he ceremony, referred to the fact that extensive provision had been made in the Canton for the car- lage of mails and said that the fact was that, despite air mails, the P. and O. Company was carry- 'ng far more mail matter than be- tore the war-(Reuter),
ITALIAN ACES AFTER RECORD
N.Y. Stock Exchange cently had several talks with Mr. arrived
A
Programme
Washington, April 16. programmer designed
to
Okada, representative of
Okurasho, a the Japanese Asia Hotel in Shanghai,
London, April 15.
A team of four Italian airmen at Croydon yesterday. the They intend to make an attempt
the New to smash
record for the fight from London to Capetown and back set up by Flying Officer Clouston.
The puppet regime is worried faciliate four of capital to small over the shortage of revenue re
In all probability they will take 'usinesses, in line with President celpts, and during the conversa- Roosevelt's recent recommendations with Okada, Chen is under-off on their record flight for which ons, is announced by the Stock stood to have broached the ques- they are using twin-engined Flat Exchange Committee.
tion of a tarla increase (Central monoplanes, either tomorrow or
Monday-(Transocean), The plan includes a unit to aid NewE).
firms which intend to register ! D
sues of securities, reduction in
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1938. —PAGE 5
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2:30, 5.10, 7.75 & 9.30 P.M..
FOR HER LOVE ... HE FOUGHT'
through miles of raging ocean.. he ́defled man's law....A turbulent story of primitive passions by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty"
` SAMUEL GOLDWYN
THE HURRICANE
1.
Dorothy LAMOUR • Jon HALLE · Mary ASTOR » C. Aubrey SMITH Thomas MITCHELL + Raymond MASSEY
Rafsured thou UNITED ARTISTS
Directed by t JOHN FORD
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THE GREATEST OF ALL THE "BROADWAY MELODIES"
M-G-M's MOST LAVISH FILMUSICAL!
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WEDNESDAY
A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTIONI
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THE BEST VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT IN YEARS!
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tion hitherto required in registra-
lon statements for small security 'ssues by established enterprises.
and liberalising of rules by ex- empting certain issues of less than $100,000 from registration require-
ments (Reuter).
CHINA'S LEADERS ARE SAFE
SHANGSHA BOMBING REPORT DENIED
Hankow, April 16.
STEVE BLOOMER® CALLED AWAY
Mr. Wang Ching-wel, today London, April 18.- formally denied Japanese rumours Dr. Alberto Pirelli, well-known { The death has occurred at Derby that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and Italian industrialist and financier, from bronchitis of the well-known | Mr. T. V. Soong were bombed in has been appointed a Minister of football player, Steve Bloomer, at Changsha,
He said the Generalissimo, was State, according to a Royal edict the age of 64 issued today...
Bloomer, who played mostly for in Hankow at the time, while Mr. Dr. Pirelli has represented Italy Derby County, with a brief period Soong was in Hong Kong.
IN JANUARY this year Max Factor, the famous Hollywood make- up specialist, established a beauty advice booth in the Galeries LaFayette in Paris. Intense Interest in Max Factor's methods was displayed by the women of Paris and above can be seen a section of large crowd watching a lecture-demonstration,...,
at numerous international econ- for Middlesborough; obtained: 23 These rumours were created in mic conferences and for several caps against Bcotland, Wales and order to divert world, attention years held the post of president of Ireland, and was regarded as one from the Japanese reverses into Mr. Thomas). Weat, sales supervisor for Max Factor, is now. the Fascist Federation of Indus-of the greatest insides in the foot.Taierchwang, Mr Wang added trialists-Transocean).
ball world.--(Reuter),
(International News)ranom
In Hong Kong arranging, for the establishment of two simila booths here.
SENSATIONAL ACROBA 10 AND COMEDY DANCERS!
ON THE SCREEN: RETURN OF AN OLD FAVOURITE"
SATUER
BANDHAN
EDDIE
CANTOR
Strike Me Pink
UNITED ARTISTS MUSICAL COMEDY
VARSITY RELIEF
BROADBENT ON
COLO FLIGHT
The
Bydney, Apr. 15.. Australian aviator, - Mr. Harry Broadbent, took of at 4 p.m. oday in an attempt to break the 18ydney-London solo night record
-(Reuter),
דני
DANCE
The Undergraduates Medical Relief Association held a dance in the Great Hall of the Hong Kong University last night.
The dance was in aid of medical, relief work among the Chinese soldiers at the front
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