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THE TALE OF A RUSE THAT SAVED A THRONE !
ThE SABLE CICADA"
A ROMANCE OF THE
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TODAY AT THE CINEMA
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KING'S:-
"Arsene Lupin Returns"
QUEEN'S:—
"The Sable Cicada".
ORIENTAL:-
"Wake Up and Live"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
STAK
"The Great Garrick"
"Whipsaw"
MAJESTIC:-
"Charlie Chan On Broad-
way"
KING'S:-
Coming
"Rosalie
QUEEN'S:-
"Hawaii Calls"
ORIENTAL:--
"Every Day Is A Holiday"
ALHAMBRA:---
STAR:
"Hawali Call"
"Tovarich"
"Wake Up And Live"
MAJESTIU:-
"Peter Ibbetson" "The Painted Veil" "The Women Men Marry"
SABLE CICADA
GENERAL
MUSIC . FOR HYDISNEY
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversarios avid Holidays- Corpus Christ!. King Gustaf of [Sweden bom, 1858. R.9.P.C.A. foun--
ded, 1824.
Cinemas-(See Column 3 of this
Pagel
Mails(Bee Page 16). Meetings.Victoria Chess Club. at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; Protest Meeting on Canton Bombings, at St John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30. p.m: Model Aircraft Club, S. C. M. Post Boardroom, 5.45 p.m. Moon. V Moon, 19th. Day.
Social.Cheero Club Bridge
Drive, 8 p.m.
Sports (Bee Page 10),, Sunrise.-5.39 a.m. Sunset.-7.05
ip.m.
Leopold Stokowski, the world- famous conductor, is co-operating with Walt Disney in order to com- pose music for a long coloured Low at 04.10 and 18.10.
Tides.--High at 00.40,and 10.26. film which Disney is preparing.
FILMS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP
NEW HUPEH CHAIRMAN
Hankow, June 15. General Chen Cheng, Garrison London, June 14.
Commander of the Wuhan area. Membership of the Films Coun was appointed Chairman of the cil, established under the recent Hupeh Provincial Government to passed Cinematograph Film Act of succeed General Ho Cheng chun. which, as already announced. Sira: a meeting of the Executive Frederick Whyte will be Chairman. Yuan yesterday.
includes in addition to trade re- The meeting also, appointed, présentatives among whom is Mr. General Chiang Ting- wen, Chair- John Grlerson-Sir Walter Citrine man of the Shens! Provincial Gov- General Secretary of the Trades ernment. to succeed General Sun Union Congress, Mr. Philip Gue Wet Ju
dalla, historian and author who The appointment of Mr. Chen
served on the advisory Committeschieh, Vice-Minister of Foreign Though works of action are not under the previous. Act and Miss Affairs as Chinese Ambassador to admitted by the Chinese as form- Horsbrugh, Conservative Member Germany was announced at the ing a part of their national ittera- or Parliament for Dundee,
meeting which accepted the ture. those who have imbibed
signation of Dr. Cheng Tien-faag.
(Central Negs).
The total membership is 21, in- Western ideas on the subject feel cluding the Chairman, of which that the novels and romances are 10 are trade representatives.--(Br too important to be overlooked..
tish Wireless). The insight they give into the national manners and customs of various ages,.. the specimens they furnish of an everchanging Jan- guage, the fact of their being the only channel through which "a large portion of the people gain their knowledge of history. reasons too weighty to, be left out
are
CLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY of account, despite scholarly pre-
ᅦ A DIFFERENT AND FUNNY MUSICAL SHOW!
With the world's funniest screen and radio comics, georgeous girls, dovelty dances, and special song bits.
THE SEASON'S GRAN. EST ENTERTAINMENT!
WALTER
WINCHELL
BEN BERNIE
ALICE FAYE FATSY TELLT MED SPARES JACK WALEY
Wake Up and Live
DAYS
2 ONLY TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
A FUNNY MUSICAL ROMANCE OF THE GAY 90%! Hero's Mae with a French accent and five of the screen's lea ling comics in a rip-roaring show.
MAE
WEST
“EVERY DAY'S
A HOLIDAY"
A Paramoon Fickwo
CHARLES BITTERWORTH WALTEN CATIETY » ELOYED PLAN - NERIMA KOC Edmund Lowe - GLAMLES WARNUNGEN CHESTER COKKAAN • ME LOUIS ARMSTRONG
● MATINEES: 20c.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c. O
KOWLOON
ISTARE
TOMORROW
Warner Bros.
Picture.
TODAY ONLY
MYRNA LOY
IN
Whipsaw
SPENCER TRACY
Claudette Colbert Charles Boyer TOVARICH
33
Judice on the subject.
Foremost among these romantle tales in popular estimation is the San Kuo Chih Yen-1, "Romance of Three Kingdom." The plot, which Is founded on the historical events i immediately succeeding the de- cadence of the house of Han, is
оде wrought
with the most elaborate complication of details. embracing the period from A.D 168 to 265.
Following the course of events from the imbecile reigh of ́ Ling Tl of the Han. the tale opens with on account of the insurrection of the Yellow Caps, during which Liu Pet, a descendant of the Imperial family, enters into a solemn com- pact with Kuan Yu. now defied as
the God of War, and Chang Fel
to aid each other till death in up-- holding the falling dynasty
The fortunes of Liu Péi are
WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
Innuendo "Walter." "Yes, sir?"
"Have you ever been to the 100?"
"
||
"No, sir." :: "Well, you ought to to sometime. You'd get a big kick out of watching the turtles zip past."
Te.
MR. YANG YUN-CHU
Hankow, June 15. Mr. Yang Yur-chu. Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy from in Tokyo. is proceeding Shanghai to Hong Kong today aboard the Empress of Canada ar riving here on June 17. He arriv ed in Shanghai from Japan yes- terday but did not disembark.
With his return to China, the diplomatic relations between China and Japan are virtually at a stand- still-Central News),
CROSSWORD
ACROSS'
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5 Activity
A graded
system
14 Ruined town
of Galilee
| traced through a series of reverses 15 Languish..
til he assumes the royal power 16 Prank
NO. 30
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aesthetic pur- sult
A seed cov- ering
as Chao Lieh-ti, and the empire 17 Fields of
became divided into three states,
Wel, Shu and Wu., Tyranny and bloodshed mark the narrative for 18 nearly a century, till the usurper Trao Mao of the Wei is deposed 19 Sphere of by his minister Tsu-ma Chan, action
whose son founded the Tsin 20 Repeat dynasty, which again consolidated 22 National the empire. The incident of the
"Sable Cicada" occurs. quite early
in the story.
"
2
47.
48
SKIESISS
67
10
Hower of England (plural)
2
"Sable Cicada" is showing at the 23 Bet at Queen's Theatre
liberty
24 A crown 26 Lubricates
CHINESE GENERALS 28 Bmall ex
IN COLONY `·
plosive sound
The commander of the garrison (31 Tenant forces during the Japanese attack
under &
on Nanking. General Tang Shẹng-・・ lease [chih, is at present a visitor to the 25 Allow
Colony.
38 One side of
It will be recalled that after the fall of Nanking. General Tang re- signed all his posts.
86 A communt
In Italy
€7 Hastened
. DOWN
1 Broad neck-
band
2 One con- cerned
3 Unbind
4 An adhesive
6 Vitupera-
a leaf of a book
5 Mast
37 Referred
up of ice in
a stream
Another notable Chinese visitor 39 A breaking
to the Colony is General Asino
Chen-ying, the former, Mayor of
Tientsin
"
General Hsiao will
41 Fruitless return to 42 Preceded
Hankow after a short stay in the 144 Incline to Colony
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one alde
45 A connec-
tive.
tive speech Placed at the be- ginning
8 Bet free
from re-
straint Frightens
10 A shot in
billard games Bimulates
12 Smooth
46 Picks out 48 Lessen
11
149 Vacuous
54. Verdant
57 A fly per-
8012
59 Crippled 80 A mental
conception
61 Dryf 61 Swarming
#Opening for -escape A 64 To mount 165 Restrain
(phon.>
Bignal
stages of history
21 Moved for-
ward gradu- ally
25. Discover 27 Staggered 28 Walk
To-aye-
30 Thin end of head of hammer.
31 Melted
rock
32 Ardour 33 Glided
34 Luminous
heavenly body
36 Equal value 38 Deceptive 40 Mountain mint
43 Determines 46 Dispatcher 47 A strong
mortar
48 Go cautious-
ly through openings
50 Approaches 51 Sheeted
home (of Jalla)
52 Din 53 Concluded 54 Joyous
55. A. sound in
respiration 58 To dis-"
charge
58 Plastic
material for pottery
SOLUTION TOMORROW
"THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938. -PAGE 5
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Romance races with mystery... as Arsene Lupin
and on American G-Man match wits...to win a girl... and solve a double murder):
1 cl
ARSENE LUPIN Returns
MELVYN DOUGLAS VIRGINIA BRUCE WARREN WILLIAM JOHN HALLIDAY, NAT PENDLETON Directed by GEORGE NITZMAURCE Produced by JOHN W, CONSIDNI, I
TOMORROW
..
Also
PATZ SMITH
SPECIALITT
* IT MAY
HAPPEN TO
YOU
NELSON EDDY - ELEANOR POWELL in
ROSALIE””,
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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TODAY AND TOMORROW THE YEAR'S MOST DISTINGUISHED MOTION PITURE
AN AMUSING HISTORY OF AN AMUSING FELLOW
DAILY
46
THEY'RE WHAT LOVE 19 ALL ABOUT!"
BRIAN AHERNE OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND "The Great Garrick”
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BOBBY BREEN in HAWAII CALLS",
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MATINEES. 20. - 30. • EVENINGS. 20. $30, 50-70) FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY HE THRILL TO CHAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE!
DEATH STRIKES TWICE IN MANHATTAN'S GAYEST SPOTS)
where Chan is an unexpected questi
Her secret notes spell doeble murderi
flashlight bulb exposes her pastí
PIANIIT LNANLIE
CHAN ON
WARINER OLAND
J. EDWARD PROMBERG
HENRY
JOAN MARSH · IGNISE
JOAN WOODBURY DONALD WOODS
KEYE LUKE Morwennd by Faqiron Foreta
DOUGLAS FOWLEY - HAROLD HUBER
.
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIMES! GARY COOPER
ANN DVORAR PETER IBBETSON"
in
"AN "OLD "FAVOURITE" FROM PARAMOUNTI
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