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The Most Sensational Action-Drama of the Year with a Surprise Climax !
MIGHTY MANHATTAN MELODRAMA!
LUISE
RAINER TRACY
·SPENCER
BIG CITY
_with_
Charley GRAPEWIN- Janet BEECHER Eddie QUILLAN • Victor VARCONI A FRANK BORZAGE‘PRODUCTION Derby THANK BORIACE V POJEME by MCUHAN KHASNX
Fresh from triumphs in "Good Earth" and "Captains Courageous" ..they team gloriously in a drama with "Fury's" punch and ball heart/thrill
Picture
COMMENCING, TOMORROW ·
The Singing Sweethearts of "Maytime" in a New
DAILY
Thrill Musica!!,
JEANETTE
IN
MacDONALD Nelson EDDY THE GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST
HANKOW
ISTARE
KOWLOON
TODAY AND TOMORROW
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ADVENTURE! INTRIGUE! RECKLESS DANGER! The Most Exciting Love Story Ever Told!
Solanish Internationa
RONALD
the
COLMAN
PRISONER of ZENDA
Salessed Thru United Arial
SUNDAY
M-G-M Picture
FITH
MADELEINE CARROLL · Fraded by DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JI. SELENICK
DAVID G.
NORMA SHEARER RIPTIDE"
Bobert Montgomery Herbert Marshall
1
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KING'S:
Wide Open Faces” QUEEN'S:
"Undersea Kingdom" ORIENTAL:
"Ramona"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Sable Cicada”.
STAR:
"The "Prisoner Of Zenda"
MAJESTIC:
"Big City"
KING'S:
Coming
"Three Comrades"
QUEEN'S:
"Over The Wall"
ORIENTAL:
GENERAL
CRAZY CARGO TONNAGE
Largest In World Flown By Canada's "Bush Flyers"
ENTIRE MINING PLANT, STEAM
BOILERS AND ALL!
The largest crazy cargo tonnage in the world today is flown by Canada's "bush flyers". Anything goes by air: husky dogs. canoes, trappers' outfits, mining plants, dynamite and even oxen.
Officials of the mines at Pickle Lake, Ontario, 144 miles from
a raliroad. were worried about the breakdown of a ball mill. The broken unit weighed 2100 pounds and there Wire two ball bearings, each weighing 300 pounds.
They had to be replaced at once or gold production would be cut 50 percent until after the spring when the Ice broke up and the parts could be taken in by the water route.
Canadian Airways. Ltd. was con- crates of head lettuce, a case of sulted. Replacement parts were tennis balls, Ave rolls of barbed available at Hudson, Ontario, the wire, two live pigs and a host of Airways agreed take the parts other stuff including stalk of ba to Pickle Lake "in the shortest nanas. possible time.
"Oil For The Lamps Of China" capable of carrying such a ALHAMBRA
"Dracula" STAR: "
"Riptide"
*MAJESTIC: 1
The Girl Of The
West"
"A Woman Alone"
MAYTIME
The bananas were sold as soon .cents The only airplane in Canada as the plane landed at 25
lead each. The pigs were to go into Bay was at Yellowknife way up in production so that Cameron Northern Saskatchewan engaged would have an unending supply of
Unfortun In carrying 280 tops of freight to pork chops available. a gold strike.
ately the gentleman pig found a nice place to sleep in the electric
A radio message was sent out Golden this plane flew to Hudson and tnlighting unit house.
Co-staring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy for "the fourth time. "The Girl of the Golden West," a musical panorama of early California, opens today at the Majestic Theatre.
"
less than seventy-two hours after the breakdown of the mill the re- placements were made and the mill at Pickle Lake was in operation, Speed, they have plenty of it. Weight, anything you want to
carry.
Carbon
monoxide gas finished him, so 'Cameron Bay is still with- out pork chops.··
Fur, $75,000. worth of white fax pelts came down in a single load from Coppermine. Western Arctic. It formed a bed for the bishop of the Arctic. Bishop Fleming, who slept on it all the way down the 2400 mile journey. Fur is a com-
mon cargo from that part of the country.
Live fur animals come. out of
air. Fox. the north via
mink.
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MINING PLANT The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Lac Dor, 180 iniles from the railroad wanted an entire mining plant, steam Based upon the original stagebollers and all. This was carried|
written and produced by play David Belasco thirty years ago, then by the Canadian Airways, 'Ltd.
new Fairchild Super in control of marten brought out for breeding picture is presented against th
purposes. R. Lymburner and number two romantle background of the colour
pilot on the Ellsworth-Wilkins ful gold mine camps of 1850, the
Antarctic Expedition. He had or romantic missions and villages
bollers, ders to carry in steam with their galety and music and air compressors, drill steel, sup- Curcing. the high Sierras and
plies and ninety tons of dynamite. glant redwoods and bandit camps.
This, pilot went about his worki Heading the supporting cast are calmly and efficiently. He new Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo aut between Chibaugamou and Lac Buddy Ebsen. Others in the large Dor regularly with. full loads. cast are Leonard Pern. Priscilla Everything was just plain freight Lawson, Bob Murphy, Olin How- lan. Ch Edwards, Billy Bevan, Brandon Tynan, H. B. Warner and Monty Woolley,
JACK DEMPSEY
IN BIG CITY
Veteran stars of the boxing ring.
to him.
One day a man came down on the ice and quietly asked bra if he could fly a team of oxen in to the mines. R. Lym- burner did not bat an eye. They might be exen to some were people but the animals freight to him, Tarpaulins were stretched on
wrestling mat, pola feis. track and the ice and when an ox had been giidiron shared the spotlight with led onto one, he was thrown in veteran actors of the screen on the manner of the Lone Ranger swiftly tied up. Then be the set representing Jack Demp-and
"FISH EXPRESS" There is also the “Fish Ex- press" flying into Kenore. On- tario. This express makes it possible for people in Chicago to have Canadian whitefish forty-eight hours after it has been caught in clear, cold lakes a hundred miles or more from a railroad.
The plane makes the rounds of the lakes and picks up a ton or more of iced. Ash and lands it at the railroad in time to catch the Chicago Express.
No trick loads here. No smartly dressed pilots or alluring hoster- Ises. No nonsense.
il
(Continued on Page 8).
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and Holidays.--St.
scy's restaurant in New York. for was wrapped securely in the tar-
scene in "Big City," Metro-paulin to prevent him from wrig Goldwyn-Mayer picture coming to gling, and skidded up the guns Stephen, King of Hungary; Fire of the Majestic Theatre with Luise plank into the plane. Rainer and Spericer Tracy co-star-l red.
AERIAL 4 HISTORÝ
Bales of här were jammed around the beast to prevent him A group of famous athletes whose from rolling while in the air This combined careers have probably done the pilot "headed for his drawn more people into stadiums destination with an 1800 pounds and arenas than the total, popula- ox as passenger tion of the world, included Jack Dempsey and James J. Jeffries, for- mer heavyweight champions: Maxle Rosenbloom, former light heavyweight champion; Bull Mon tama and Mari Mountain Dean. wrestlers; Cotton Warburton for mer All-American quarterback; and Taski Hagio, jiu-jitsu cham- pion
1
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London, 1686.
Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Pare)
Lectures-Air Raid Precautions, Maryknoll Convent School, Kow- loon, 4 pu
Mails (See Paze 16). Meetings General of the Gen. The flight was uneventful Un-eral Photoplay and Advertising aware that he was making -aerial Bervice Ltd.. (Creditors". Voluntary history, the ox lay on his side and Winding Up) at the Office of chewed his cud. His brother ox Messrs. Thomas Le C. Kuen & Us..' on the next fight wisn't so com-28 Des Voeux Road Central, frat placent. He became airsick. floor, 2 p.m.; Softball League, at
Crazy cargoes-a plane leaving Cecil Hotel, 5.30 pm. Fort McMurray for Cameron Bay Miscellaneous-Lady
Northcote
on Great Bear Lake carried two opens Sale of Work at Stanley, in"
ald of the Ministering Children's Leagus, 4 p.m.; Exhibition of Chi- nese Painting in Bank of East Asia, 10 am to 6 pm; Diocesan Girls' School Entrance Examination for new Pupils, 9 am.
CROSSWORD
NO. 97
ACROSS
12
3
Lowered.
5 Result
8 Waterway
9 Cleft 110 Time
period
12 To
frequent
15 Breathe in
16 Mock
17 Thorough-
fare
19 Labyrinth -
20 Dis-
- inclined.
22 Unrellable
23
Chorister
26 Whole,
za, Weapon
29 Cap 30 Water lily 31 Bex
earnestly
DOWN
1 Happen
again
2 Rails along
3 Middle
Valley
130
5 Mad
6 Dried
Truft
12:0
29
7 Uttermost
11 Jockeys
13 Qualit
14
Voyaging
17: Dendal
SOLUTION TOMORROW
23
18 Old
10 Males 20 Agitates 21 Quiet
24 Dirt
25 Correct 37 Apart
Moon-First Quarter, 1.28 4.m. VII Int'c Moon, 9th, Day.
Social-Whist Drive and Tom- bola, in the R.E. Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess. Wellington Barracks. 9 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge Night.
Sports-See Page 10).
Suurise, -8.08 am Sunset 8,40 p.m.
Tides-High at 02.04 and 17,00. Low at 09.58 and 19.19.
TOMORROW
Mogn VII Int'e, Moon, 10th, day. Sunrise-6.05 am. Sunset,—6.41
D.III.
Tides-High at 01.15 and 15,09 Low at 08.20 and 18.57.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938. -PAGE 5
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Special Newsreel Depicting The Tragedy of the
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"DRACULA
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