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EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays. --- St Bartholomew, Apostle Stopping of Heat. (Ch'r-shu). Calcutta founded by Charnock, 1690,
Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this Page),
Left £10,000 Will
In
"Charlie Warner, Oland, Chan" of the films, who died Stockholm recently left only £10,000, according to his Hollywood lawyer's estimate of his estate.
Today's Screenings
Hong Kong
KING!
"King Of The Damned" QUEEN'S:
Cocoanut Grove"
ORIENTAL:
"Ex-Lady"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Cocoanut Grove"
STAR:
"She Married Her Boss"
MAJESTIC:
"Riptide"
KING'S:
Coming
"The Divorce Of Lady " QUEEN'S:
"Jezebel"
ORIENTAL:
Mannequin'
ALHAMBRA: "Jezebel"
STAR:
"Sign Of The Cross" MAJESTIC:
"Romance For Three"
THE COCOANUT
GROVE
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GENERAL
Foreign Embassies And Legations
Move To Chungking
(BY AIR MAIL FROM OUR CHUNGKING CORRESPONDENT)
With struggle. moving ar
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Hankow becoming the centre
more foreign embassies
of
the and · legations
Sino-Japanese
are
War
time capital.
will soon, more their staffs to Chungking, the
Herr Fischer. recently appoint- German Charge D'Ataires, and Mr. Jannsen, Counsellor, are already here. Herr Fischer is no stranger to China, having first come to this country in 1907. He is taking up the work of Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann, who recently recalled.
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OTHERS EXPECTED Others expected are Mr. 3. Bressen and Mr. A. H. George, Counsellors of the British Em- bassy: Mr. A. Alessandrini, Coun- sellor of the Italian Embassy, Mr. Jean
Bosch. Second Secre-
vun
tary of the Belgian Legation.
H. Bos, Chinese Mr.
Secretary to the Netherlands Legation.
MM: Georges-Piscot, Counsel lor of the French Embassy, and P: Salade, Second Secretary. ate also due to arrive.
States
FIRST AMBASSADOR The first Ambassador to be stationed permanently here is Mr. Nelson T, Johnson,
United
Ambassador. He recently arrived in the U.S.S. Luzon. Accompanying Mr. Nelson were Mr. Clayson T. Aldridge, Second., Secretary. "Mr. Everett F. Drum- right. Third Secretary, Mr. Doug- las Jenkins Jr. Third Secretary and Capt. Earl Mattice. student-
Fifteen men, a kid and a girl, hungry for fame, hungry for love but most of the time just plain hungry, swing their Way from Chicago to Los Angeles' fambus night spot. the "Cocoanut Grove," .in. Paramount's halarious new film of the same name that opens at the Queen's and Alhambra interpreter- Theatres today.
FINDING QUARTERS
IVOR NOVELLO
AS HENRY V.
Shakespeare Play
At Drury Lane
Ivor Novello is to play "Henry F: D * Dig production, OR Shakespeare's chronicle phy at Drury Lane, in the early autumn.
Mr. Novello said: "For years this has been my greatest ambition. With the exception of appearing in the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet" at a special matinee st Drury Lathe, I have never played Shakespeare.
"I have studied the plays all my 11te. If Henry V. is successful, I hope to appear in some of the qther great parts."
"Henry V." is being presented by Ivor Novello in association with the Drury Lane management and Tom Arnold. It will be produced by Lewis Casson, and the whole re-
sources of the Drury Lane stage will be employed. The opening night will be next month.
It will be the first Shakespearean. production at Drury Lane since Basil, Dean presented "A Midsum- mer Night's Dream" in 1924. The last time "Henry V." was played there was in 1879, when George
The first recorded performance at Drury Lane was in 1747. with Spranger Barry in the part.
Long known as the "spring- The Chinese Foreign Once board of the stars", the Cocdanut has been requested by some em dianoid appeared as the King. Grove on top of the Hotel Ambassies and legations to assist bassador in Los Angeles is the
them in finding quarters, which pot of gold at the end of pr- they prefer to be
near Chinese Offices mostly located in the new city.
chestra leader Fred MacMurray's rainbow. Ably asssisted by Har-
city with a fine building and a riet Hillard. Ben Blue, the Yacht
number garden." A Thus far. the Soviets have the large Club Boys, Rufe Davis and Harry
compound. The Soviet houses have also been leased for Owens and his Royal Hawalian largest Orchestra, MacMurray turns in a Embassy, is on the outskirts of the the occupation of Its staff
fine performance as the swing- happy and fame-hunting young musician 'ready to take any gum- ble to make the grade at the Grove.
KING OF THE
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"King of the Damned" new Gaumont-British production, now playing at the King's Theatre, is a vigorous melodrama providing Conrad Veldt
new and with a 'powerful role. Cast as the leader of tropical settlement convicts, he brings to the screen a vivid charac- terisation of a" man tortured in soul and body.
As the convict who incltes re- bellion in a notoriously misman- aged and corrupt penal settlement, he rises to splendid dramatic heights, portraying with sincerity and realism a man who hates as deeply as he loves.
Assisting him are Helen Vinson, for once playing a straight sym- pathetic role, and Noah Beery, genial yet terrible and wonderful as Mooch
ARCHITECTURE AWARD
The Faculty of Architecture of the British School at Rome has awarded the Rome Scholarship in Architecture for 1938 to Mr. Alex- ander Buchan Wylie, of the School of Architecture. Edinburgh Col- lege of Art. Mr. Wylie, who is 24, won the Tite Prize of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1936:
The Rome scholarship is provid- ed for by an annual grant made to the British School at Rome by The fortune, except for a few the council of the Royal Institute Danos-Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 small legacies, goes to his wife. of British Architects. It is nor- Miss Edith Shearn, in a will made mally, tenable for two years, but Lectures-First Aid, at Helena in May 1947, They separated two may be prolonged in exceptional May, 5,30 p.m.; Gas Lecture at St. months earlier, after having been cases for a third year. Andrew's Church Hall, 8 p.m.; married 20 years. ARP, at Kowloon Cricket Club,
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MEN CONDEMNED TO LIVE WITHOUT HOPE ON THE ISLE
THAT MAN FORGOT
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Caged men revolt...on the Isle of the Damned ・・・ Ruthless murderer appoints himself die- tator..... seizes gov- ernor's daughter for his bride...
Then the sleepless vigil ....... 24 hours a day....... day after day... to protect her from the menace of murderous mutineer.
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COMMENCING TOMORROW
A VERY FUNNY COMEDY, FULL OF LAUGHS!
"ROMANCE FOR THREE"
with FRANK MORGAN, ROBERT YOUNG
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ANTI-DIPHTHERIA
INOCULATION
New Methods Succeed
POLISH JEWS RETURN HOME
Bucharest, August 13.
The Polish steamer Polonia is
When the Duke of Kent opened expected at the Rumanian har- the new isolation block at the Lambour of Fonstanze, where she will disembark 500. Polish Jews re- Con Fever Hospital recently, atten-
tion was drawn by the senior turning trom Palestine to Poland. physician, Sir William Willcox, to
the new method of fighting: díph-
theria.
The disease. was far too pre- valent, said Sir William, but by
the use of antitoxic serum the
(Transocean).
prevents them from contract- ing the disease,
"At the London Fever Hospital
mortality since 1900 had been re-this method has been practised
duced in 1938 to about one-third
"A newly discovered met- hod," Bir William stated, "is the prophylactie inoculation of healthy children, which, by à" .process of active immunity,
with great success during the last few years."
The Duke of Kent, who is patron of the hospital, sent a special greeting to patients, to whom the speeches were relayed.
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