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Your Favourite Star DEANNA DURBIN In Her Latest Triumph "MAD ABOUT MUSIC” A New Universal Heture with HERBERT MARSHÄLL
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THE GREATEST VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT IN YEARS!
KYRA-ROBY-HARRY
ON THE SCREEN:
THRILLS, SPECTACLE, ROMANCE IN ON OF THE
BIGGEST"" OLD FAVOURITES "A
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Clive of INDIA
Ronald COLMAN
20TH
with LORETTA YOUNG CENTURY
PICTURE
TOMORROW AND SATURDAY
A FAST AND FUNNY COMEDY FULL OF LAUGHS | ROBERT "YOUNG, FLORENCE RICE in "MARRIED BEFORE BREAKFAST
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Thrills Rub Shoulders With Laughter & Romance With Bill Powell Up To His Ears In Love & Mystery!
POWELL Rendezvous
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|"RUSSELL • BARNES
Greta Garbo
Robert Taylor "CAMILLE
GENERAL
Duke Of Kent Pays Tribute To
TODAY AT THE
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:~
"Dark Journey"
QUEEN'S —
"They Won't Forget"
ORIENTAL:-
"Slim"
Kowloon
ALHAMBHA:-
STAR:
"Ever Since Eve"
"Rendezvous”
MAJESTIC:ne
"Clive of India"
KING'S:
Coming
"Double Wedding" QUEEN'S:-
"Mad About Music" ORIENTAL:-
"Fight For Your Lady" ALHAMBRA:-
STAR:
"Mad About Music"
"Camille" MAJESTIC;-
"Married Before Breakfast
Miss Lilian Baylis
DIARY OF LOCAL
4
EVENTS
TODAY
MEMORIAL FUND Anniversaries and Hoildays:
APPEAL
Birthday of Princess Elizabeth. Corn Rain (Ku-yil): St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (1109).
Auctions-Household Furniture, name means to all of us who loraat 7, Bowen Road, 10.30 p.m. music. ballet and the theatre. Can Cinemas-(See "Column 3 of we not make that name famous this Page),
"Lillan Barlis-how much that
In years to come?”
Concert "Waiting for You," at Entertainments:-R. A. M. C. Cheero Club, 8 pm.
Lectures:-Theosophical Society:
6pm.
In these terms the Duke of Kent commended the cause of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres, when speaking recently at the Lilian Baylis Memorial Dinner at the Mansion House, The Lord Malis,(See Faze 10). Mayor, Sir Harry Twyford, pre- Meetings:-Annual, of Diocesan sided, says the Daily Telegraph. Old Girls' Assen, at Diocesan The Duke said that if Miss Baylis Girls'. School, after 7.30 p.m.; had not begun by accepting as Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester possible what nearly everyone else Hotel. 5 pm. Kowloon Chess | regarded 49 impossible. there Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; would have been no Old Vio or St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, Sadler Wells, or what might row 3 p.m.; Women's Guild, at Cathe from them. This was an act of dral Hall, 3 p.m.; St. Andrew's extraordinary courage and faith, Committee, 8.30 p.m. and in courage and faith, she was exceptional
I have just heard," sale the Duke, "of a poor woman, living in the Old Kent-road, who has been
Moon-III Moon, 21st. Day, Social:-Cheero Club Bridge, '8 YMCA Ladies' Night: St. Andrew's Club "Open Night"
CLIVE OF INDIA going to the gallery of the Old P. Omelal Dinner at Govern-
Stage Attraction At Majestic
Vie for the last 10 years. She has sent £3 because this means much to her." (Cheera).
To say that any work would be Immortal was not possible, but he believed that this work, when set
FOR COUNTRY'S, HONQUE The Old Vic and Sadler's Wells
ment House, 8.15 pm; DOGÁ' Annual Dinner, at Diocesan Girl's School, 7.30 p.m.
Sports-(See Page 10).
Sunrise: 5.50 a.m. Sunset:-6.46 P.m.
་་
Tides:High at 03.10 and 12.08; Loy at 08.31 and 20.50.
The most beautiful and powertul securely on its feet, would go on love story to reach the screen in and prosper, and do great good the memory of this reviewer is beyond the uretime of any present being enacted at, the Majestic that evening.. Theatre today. Ronald Colmán and Loretta Young are the prin- cipals and "Clive of India," the had created the nearest thing to first million dollar production of national drama, national opers D...... Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. and national ballet that we gat Schenck's 20th Century Pictures possessed in this country. At any pm company, which last season, gave rate they had laid the certain
TOMORROW
Moon.-III Moon, 22nd. Day.
Social-Yorkshipmen Society Dinner, in the Hong Kong Hotel, 8
Sunrise.-8 a.mi. Sunset-8.46
Tides. High at 01.56, and 11.35.
The House of Rothschild." is foundations of all three, not only Low at 05.20 and 19.45. the vehicle.
But this true story of Robert Clive, a poor young clerk in the East India Company, who quered an Empire at 26 and be con came England's greatest hero, only
to see his star fall when the wo-
man he loved had drifted from his side, is more than a great love story-it is a reflection of a life of truly heroic proportions of staggering achievement, attained because a man believed in his own destiny.
The seventy-odd
remaining
for the rich, but, for the poor and even the poorest.
"In these two theatres, each
"I would mention in passing," Duke went on, "three-quarters of and the Wells are about the only holding nearly 2,000 persons," the he went on, "that the Old Vic the seats cost less than 2 aplece, two corners of the kingdom where admitted for 64 and 9d. This was Shakespeare, or the performance and several hundreds of people are the presentation of a play by the work of one woman, a great of a beautiful ballet, is not Englishwoman, Lilian Bayfis.
regarded by the State as a kind "Tam asking you to make her of crime, for which a fine of 20 life's work triumphantly successful,per cent, on the takings ought to and to do so for the benefit and be exacted.
honour of this country. But this. The sum of £13,000 is required
speaking roles are expertly and great venture depends entirely on to pay off the debt of the two by such popular and expert players pubile support in the purchase of
theatres, and so to ensure the
as Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. seats at what I may call prices crintinuance of a great work. The Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero, for everybody,' and a backing of Lumsden Hare. Ferdinand Gotts- voluntary gifts. Commercial pratt chalk. Mischa Auer. Doris Lloyd is Eightly forbidden.
and others.
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are
Appearing on the stage Kyro, Roby and Harry, sensational
scrobatic and comic dancers.
"Give
people's
minds
and
natural good taste a chance and they will take it. That is what
these two theatres have proved."
Subsequently the Duke announ- ced that the subscriptions received
rest will be devoted to the Lillian Baylis Memorial Building 1% Sadler's Wells,
"Badler's Wells is cramped and
ill-equipped for the work of opera and ballet. Bands and ballet dan- cers require plenty of space. So do tenors.
"I would remind you that and that the total contributions to anyone who supplies, as it were, a the fund now amounted to £16,- single item-a new opera rehearsal
CHINESE ABROAD at the dinner amounted to £5,124.
ARE PATRIOTIC
Liberty Bonds Take Place Of Gifts'
Rallying to the call from their
261,
"IMMORTALITY FOR £500" Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., said that the sum needed was £30,000,
room for £2,000, for example, or a new sewing room for £500-may give his name, or the name of a friend, to that room. Immortality for £500!"
homeland for united defence, mil- THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS PARADE
Mons of overseas Chinese in the South Seas and other places are exhibiting to the world how loyal they have been to their mother country in the hour of trial, .ac- cording to a Chinese traveller who arrived at Hankow recently.
IN A MAYFAIR ROOM
EATING LUNCH, MAN LEARNS OF £20,000 LEGACY
There was a general mobilisation of all arms in London in an upper room in s Mayfair public-house, [recently states a special writer, in the Evening Standard. The British A workman sat eating hia Society of Collectors of Model sandwiches, and idly he turn-Soldiers, were having one of their
ed over the paper they had been wrapped in Suddenly he jumped up and shouted to one of his mates, William Alfred Epland Beddon, of Amstey Road, Coventry, England.
periodical meetings.
Immediately upon the outbreak of the War. Rangoon was running} short of radio zetelving sets be- cause of the sudden rush' for them. Craving for war news from China. 200,000 Chinese, who had bought
The 110 members own between 80 out at every 100 radio sets sold
them hundreds of thousands of last year. switched on the dials in
model soldiers representing periods their offices, clubs and homes in
from Assyrian and Babylonian) an effort to catch latest messages
times to the present day. on the progress of the hostlities.
Only about 15 per cent, of the WIDE DRIVE VAL
torn, piece of newspaper, for-it led taembers are military men." Gen- Under the banner of the Burma to his inheriting £20,000 left by eral Bir George MacMunz is one, Chinese War Reller Association and his uncle. Mr. Isaac Richard Sed- but the majority are clerks, trades- the Overseas. Chinese Women's don, a. New Zealand Labour leader men, clergymen. Society, a wide drive for raising On the paper was an advertise The hon. sec., Mr. Walter Lock- war funds has been launched and ment by a London firm of solici- wood, is a talior, has met with much success.tors asking Seddon to communicate Youths blackened boots for with them. pedestrians; girls sold flowers in
Seddon will never forget that
TRANSFERS ABRANGED
"I began collecting 40 years ago theatres: Thesplans gave: charity |their compatriots in the Bouth and now own about 6000 models," performances: all almed at piling Beas Islandakan
he said. "They are models of pre-
up insignificant amounts into "Economize on Your Food Ex-war British soldiers in full dress,” staggering £gures.
penses and Subscribe to Your But 6000 are are a mere handful
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KING'S
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dorm wasiowa would have opened their te
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Dark Journey
TOMORROW
WILLIAM POWELL
...TIOYON SARIŞIN.
MYRNA LOY in
DOUBLE WEDDING”.
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TODAY & TOMORROW
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SLIM
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MATINEES: 20c.-30r • £VENINGS: 20c,-30e.-50e.-70c. Q
A woman by the name of Yeh Nation's Liberty Bönda" is a to some of the collections. Mr. Cheu-ln", sold her house and familiar slogan in Burma today. Leicester Hewitt, a retired fournal- The latter serve the members collection
pre-war Indian contributed the money to her Simplicity in weddings, feasts and ist, of Hunstanton, owns 20,000, as "semi-manufactured" materiali cavalry regiments. nation's war chest. Up to the end funerals de stressed so that savings A Wigan man has 90,000, Often, by repainting detalls of uni- Battles are re-fought with these jot last year, the total reached may go to China's war fund Mr. Otto Gottstein, the furrior, form, they can be transferred to thousands of model troops. In Biz |$1,200,000—a remarkable feat. Whenever gifts are to be given is king of them all. His collection other regiments and other periods, George MicMunu's collection is a
DE CEREMONIAL SIMPLICITY away, Liberty Bonds, in various is colossal in number, and includes This work is one of the chief in- scene from the Bulu War, with ⠀⠀ In Burma, the Chinese are denominations, - always take the the most perfect set of Continental térests of the hobby,DAS Kaffirs and Tommies' fighting engaged principally in rice milling first choice.MA
soldiers in the world.N WRES Most members concentrate on jamong cactus hedges and kraais. and timber trade, besides the re- Campaigns for awakening the The Continental models, mostly jone section of military life. Lord The tendency now is towards tail trade, which is shared almost Chinese populace and for boyect- foreign made, are done in the fat Greenway, for instance, patron of models of mechanised war anti- equally with the Indiana Chinese ting Japanese goods daily gain whereas British models are "quil the society and an ex-) aircraft guns, soldiers in was masks, there are not as prosperous as mome
figure,
cayálry Ozdcer, has a wonderful tanks, airmen
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