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HOWL! HOWL! THE GANG'S ALL HERE!
Jane WITHERS
RASCALS
ROCHELLE HUDSON ROBERT WILCOX BORRAH MINEVITCH AND HIS GANG
FINAL PERFORMANCE
-TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M.
ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER'
$5.50, 84.40, $3.30, $220 $1.10, & 55c,
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TO-MORROW
New Universal Picture
Novel ! Different"!
Great !
· LETTER OF INTRODUCTION "
✦ Adolphe Menjou
· Andrea Leeds
Edgar Bergen & Charles MacCarthy "..
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4 SHOWS
DALY
FLEMING ROAD WANGHAI
TEL. 28473
2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
ORIENTAL
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Lancer Spy"
QUEEN'S:
"Rascals"
ORIENTAL:
"Marie Walewska”
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Change Of Heart"
STAR:
1i
"Bervant's Entrance" MAJESTIC:
"Silent Barriers"
KING'S:
Coming
"Yellow Jack"
QUEEN'S:
"Letter Of Introduction" ORIENTAL:
"Raze Of Paris" ALHAMBRA!,
"Letter Of Introduction"
STAR:
"Over The Wall" "Roberta"
MAJESTIC:
"Merrily We
Live"
MARRIAGE AND GOLF
COL. LINDBERGH AND SOVIET
(Our Diplomatie Correspondent)
London, Oct. 13. to that of British firms of Shang-
A furore was caused in the cir-jhat which years ago openly de- cles of the Cliveden luncheon party clared that they could make the which meets every week when a most money' in China if permitted verbatim report of statements to operate under the hegemony of made by Col Lindbergh concerning Japan in the Yangtze Valley. aviation in Soviet Russia made the This is becoming more apparent rounds of the diplomatic circles in by the extension of Japanese milit- London. Immediate repercussions tary, activities to South China and were polemics in the Soviet Press the advance to control the Fearl which were re-printed in the Lon-River and Canton don papers.
Col. Lindbergh then received an The mystery of the capitulation.
MYSTERY CLEARED UP Invitation to go to Germany. But of the Hodza. the usual invitees to the Cliveden Czechoslovakia by the acceptance Government In luncheon were informed that of the Berchtesgaden terms is complete discretion could not be gradually being cleared up. A observed as to things mentioned leading role was played by Dr. over the table the luncheons might Jaroslay Preiss, the head of the have to be discontinued."
Czech Zvinobank who prevailed LOAN TO CZECHS
upon the head of the Czech Many who commented upon the Cabinet to consider the possibilities granting of a loan to Czecho- of the financial set up which was alovakia as a sop to bolster up the to develop Czech industries so that mutilated democracy belatedly have economically the Sudeten Czech realised that the money advanced; and Slovak areas would benefit. will eventually now into the hands
SIR HORACE WILSON.. of the Germans.
The stories of conflict between It is stated that at the end of the old Permanent official staff of June Enancial interest in Berlin the Foreign Office and the imme- and London were discussing the date entourage of Mr. Neville prospects of the exploitation of the Chamberlain were given fresh life new German Empire which would with the reports of the impending result from the secession of the withddawal of Sir Alexander Cado- Sudetenland and the dismember gan from Whitehall.
The name of Sir Horace Wlison,
ment of Czechosolvakia.
(hts
•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY wife and a playboy stage a three-be forthcoming for British capital an
"Ir3 GRANDEUR WILL DAZZLE YOUR EYES! Never bas the screen blended drama, pageantry, soul-stabbing thrill to equal this star-studded triumph
CHETA GARBO-CHARLES BOYER
Two brilhant stars in a love story
to thrill you...body and soul! Cast
of thousands! A year to riake!
MARIE WALEWSKA
A CLARENCE BROWN produčhón
2 DAYS ONLY - TOMORROW & SATURDAY
ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES, SEEN IN A LONG TIME! With a beautiful international star in a gorgeous comedy romance filled with laughter ad surprises.
DANIELLE
DOUGLAS
DARRIEUX FAIRBANKS, Jr.
in a New Universal Picture
THE BAGE OF PARIS
with
MISCHA AUER
HELEN BRODERICK
LOUIS HAYWARD
MATINEES: 20c-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c,
DAILY
AT
2:30
520
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STARS
TODAY ONLY
Janet
GAYNOR
Lew
AYRES
It is considered that certain general handyman of the Cabinet, sections of the City should be able to come in "on the ground uood" Adviser to the Government) has real position is. Industrial with theGermans and thus be been going the rounds as the per-.. A jealous husband, a golf-mad able to ensure that some returns son responsible for the slowness of cornered fight to the finish in operating under the hegemony of which is being undertaken by the ́air-rearmament programme "Change of Heart," showing at the Germany in the new German new Air Minister, energetic Sir Alhambra Theatre, to-day.
colony.
Kingsley Wood. Featuring Gloria Stuart and As a direct result of the inter- Michael Whalen, the film is greatests which a section of the City state that Sir Kingslew is a better Opposition to the Government fun, punctuated by conjugal war- have in Czechoslovakia the favour "electioneer and politician than' fare and connubial reconciliation,able outcome of the negotiations an administrator, and that things set, of all places, on the links of a for a "Customs Union" between in the ministry are gradually be- Sudetenland and the remains of jing controlled by the "technical Czechoslovakia is considered prob-experts" who are appointed to many Important departments by the "technical experts" who are
golf club.
Matrimonial bliss breaks down when the golf-crazy wite finds that her husband interferes with her hobby. She gives up her hubby."
The City of London Corporation has decided to contribute £525 to the Boy Scouts' Fund.
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"CUSTOMS UNION"
During the past week publicity appointed to many important de- in the City has been directed to partments by Eri Horace Wilson. pointing out that the bringing of South
RECOVERY OF COLONIES
In Colonial office" circles there is
Bast Europe Under the hegemony of Germany and the just now more than a hint of the "Customs Union" will be of general aims of the German Government benefit to trale. The "Financial Times" however in a sharp toe nies. According to the latest re- in the recovery of its former colo- Mr. F. G. Thaw, who has been on the 18th October. And in com-the German Government, while
pointed out the absurdity of this
ports from Berlin' It appears that appointed general agent for the mercial circles which were not in Canadian Pacific Railway at the inner ring which "got in demanding formally the return of Southampton, began his business with Berlin It is feaded that the all its colonies, will not actually career as a clerk with the Board fallacy of reaping benefits, in insist as a first stage on the re- Czechoslovakia will be comparable turn of more than South West
Africa,
The projected trip of Mr. O. Piro, K., South African De- fence Minister, to Portugal is be ing widely commented upon.
of Trade.
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TO-MORROW
Warner Bros. Picture
FOX Pire
OVER THE WALL"
a daring expose by Lewis E. Lawes
1938 GOES TO GROUND
A korpedo-shaped capsule TEL. long, made of an alley of copper. chromium, and giver, and dur- able, it is estimated for 5,000 years, was buried at a depth of 50ft, on the world's, Fair grounds recently.
It was marked, "Not to be: opened until A.D. 6939," and con- tained specimens and records of the civilization of" 1938,
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TIME, DAY, MONTH, SEASON, TOLD BY NEW CLOCK
A seven-ton clock, with 144 dials, the invention of M. Edgard Heir- man, a 19-year-oki Belgian en- gineer, was recently exhibited in. the village school of Stekene, Belgium.
On one dial the clock shows the time of day; other d'als record the day, month" and season, with a special device allowing for Leap Years."
Sunrise, daylight, dark and the tides are also shown.
The Inventor, who admits that the clock is unfinished, intends that other dials shall show the phases of the moon, and the planets, with peals of bells to.
ACCOMPANY Bach manneking to
change,
and
ring them in.
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
Anniversaries and Holidays. --- 8. Sylvia, Mother of St. Gregory the Great. Birthday of Emperor Meiji,
Auctions Bousehold Fumilure, af 7 Gascoigne Road, Kowloon 10.30-8.01.
Clasmas (Bee Column 3 of this Pagé).
at
Entertainments The Homance of the Western Chamber," Queen's Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
LecturesTheosophical Society, pm. ""The National Religion of Japan," by Mr. D. O. lver..
Maila (Bee Page 16). Meetings Troop of Cathedral Scouts. at Scouts Hars, Lower Albert Road, 5.30 pan., and Parents of Prospective Scouts, 7.p.m.; St. John's Cathedral Women's Fellow
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1938.—PAGE
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE SHOWING TODAY DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.15 AND LM PM
LOVED BY A WOMAN WHOSE BUSINESS IS BETRAYAL!
The untold spy story of
the war...brought to the screen with all its jolting realism :
LANCER SPY
1
DOLORES DEL RIQUA
SANDERS
PETER LORRE VIRGINIA PILE + SIG RURUUNA!
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| **KEPH SCHILDKRAUT ↑ MAURICE MOSCOVICH LIONEL ATWILL » LUTHER ADL
Directed by Bungary Raduff Devyt 9. Zamosk in Change of Producin
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NEXT CHANGE
M.G.M. Picture
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PLAY BALL” YELLOW JACK” ROBERT MONTGOMERY—VIRGINIA BRUCE
with
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN-AD, KOMILOON. DORMA
TODAY AM
• 930 -741. 3065*
TOMORROW
HE WAS A ROUGH-AND-READY ROMEO... But she was rougher and lots readier!
Marriage is a laugh-
ing matter, and this
comedy proves it
CHANGE of HEART
with
GLORIA STUART • MICHAEL WHALEN
LYLE TALBOT
DELMAR WATSON
JANE DARWELL Executive Producer Soi M. Wurtzel Directed By James Tialing.
SATURDAY
"LETTER OF INTRODUCTION" Adophe Menjou-Andrea Lead-Chas. McCarthay
4 SHOWS
DAILY 210 & 20 720-930
A Universal Picture
MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL 57272
THEATRE MATINEES, 204-30¢ » EVENINGS. 20, -30%-50«70
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY
A SMASHING SPECTACLE, FULI OF THRIL'S AND ADVENTURE !
THEY LAUGHED AT DEATHI
These men conquered grim mountains and treacherous muskegs to span a continent with rails of steal.
Thrilling, red-blooded
adventure!
SILENT BARRIERS
Richard
LUB
•
Antoinette
Barry
·ARLEN * Palmer Cellier Mackay JALAN SULLIVAN • Directed by Milson Rosmer
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! RETURN SHOWING BY BERUTAL", REQUEST! CONSTANCE BENNETT BRIAN AHLEN
in
"MERRILY WE LIVE" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Comedy-Bit
ship, in Cathedral Hail, 10 am;|| Religious. High Requiem Masa St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship, for the deceased Members of the 3 p.m. Victoria. Obess Club, at Propagation of the Faith Society, Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 Gloucester Hotel, 5 pm; Kowloon Catholic Cathedral, 7.30 am.
Social YMCA, Jadies' Games
Y's Men's Club (Ladies Morning. 10 am; Cheero Club Day), at St. Francis Hotel, 1 p.m.? Bridge and Mahjong evening; St.. Miscellaneous Salvation Army Andrew's Club "Open Night," 9 Sale of Work Ald of Funds for pm.; Whist Drive and Tombola at Girls' Home, at Phillips House, the China Light & Power Recrea Mody Road, Kowloon, 10 am to tion Club, King's Park, 8.45 p.m.; 6 p.m.
Public Works Recreation Club Tombola, Causeway Bay, 8 DIE.
Sport (See Page 10), C Sunrise 6.28 am Sunset 6.48
Moon--IX Moon, 12th, Day. Rehearsals. Hongkong Singers, at Union Church, Kennedy Road 5.30 p.m.; "Ruddigore," HE. Phill-p harmonic Society, at China Fleet Chrb Theatre 8.45 pm.
Tides High at 02.59 and Tow at 11.16 and 2342,
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