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JACK
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CAKIE BALL
ANNABEL
TAKES A
TOUR
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RUTH DONNELLY - BRADLEY PAGE
RALPH FORBES FRANCES MERCER
"ADDED!
3 Walt Disney Cartoons in Technicatour
JADO
CINEMA & GENERAL
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Judge Hardy's QUEEN'S
Children"
"Annabel Takes A Tour" ORIENTAL
"Bluebeard's Eighth Whe
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Always In Trouble"
STAR:
"All Baba Goes To Town" MAJESTIC:
"Happy Landing"
Coming
(1) Mickey Mouse in
Boat "Bullders"
(3).
In
Hawaiian Holiday'
KING'S:
"Everybody Sing"
(3) Donald Duck in Self Control"
-TO-NIGHT ́Âo 9,20 P.M.-
HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY presents THE FINAL PERFORMANCE OF
‘RUDDIGORE"
PRICKS: $3.30. $220 & $1.10 Including, Tax..
TO-MORROW
A. "Paramount Picture
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5,15
7.15-9.30
The Thrill Picture of the Year
BOOL00"
Colin Tapley Mamo Clark
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TAKE ANY TEAM OR HAPPY VALLEY ME
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD |WANGHAI
TEL: 28473
PLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®
NEW STREAMLINED COMEDY THAT'S A LAUGH RIOT!
A much married multi-millionaire is subdued and put into a strait-jacket by his sight wife whom be married for a new thrill.
LIMERICA'S SLABONG LOVE TEAME
SE THE COMME DRY OF 1938!
CLAUDETTE
COLBERT
GARY
COOPER
ADDIPN ZUEDA PRESENTS
"BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE
EDWARD EVERETT, HORTON DAVID NIVEN AR,
2 DAYS ONLY! TOMORROW & MONDAY
TWO SOLID HOURS OF GLORIOUS ENTERTAINMENT!
A million dollars in style creations, wonderful song hits, new dances, a fashion parade of beautiful girls.
WARNER BAXTER JOAN BENNETT
Walter Wangers Vogues
Un
UNITED ARTIETO
QUEEN'S:
"Booloo"
ORIENTAL:
"Vogues Of 1938" ALHAMBRA:
“Booloo"
STAR:
"Bohemian Girl" "Saratoga"
MAJESTIC:
"Rascals"
SOVIET PILOT KILLED
Moscow. Dec. 16. A military pilot named Chikalov was killed in a crash yesterday while testing a military plane.
He became world-famous last year when he flew from Moscow across the North Pole to America. -Reuter.
TOTO THE CLOWN
New York, Dec. 16. Armando Novello, known all over the world as the circus clown Toto, died yesterday at the age of 50.-- Reuter.
REUTER'S MAN
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HONGKONG'S POSITION
Statement In Commons
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London, Dec. 15. Captain L F. Plugte asked Mr. Malcolm MacDonald in the House of Commons yesterday for a statement on the finan- cial position. of Hongkong. "whose trade has largely feal- lapsed as a result of the war In China, and which is none. the less compelled to support a very large number of Chin- the refugees
MANY PLEAD
NOT GUILTY
Trials Fixed For
Next Week
Meas of not guilty were cases entered in most of the which were called before His Bonour the Acting Chlef Justice, Mr. Justice R.K. Lindsell, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday.
Yiu Kim-kwong and Ho Ching ung, who were charged" with having, on November 5 at Shau- kiwan, robbed Chan Woon and Yeung Tit of 20 bags of wolfram Mr. MacDonald said that while arc, three bags of eggs and three the recent interruption of rail and bags of duck's feathers were river communications between remanded to the afternoon of Hongkong and Canton hää tem-Monday. December 19 for trial. porarily stopped trade through Yiu Yau, Tsang Fo and Leung those channels, there was no in- Kam, a woman, all denied hav dication of a drastic deteriorationing robbed
2, woman named in
the colonia)
Government's Lau Kam-lin of anancial position in the immediate Jewellery at Ngau future.
November 29. The Arst de fendant, however,
EXPENDITURE PRUNED
money BNÉ Chi-wan on
admitted the
Estimates of expenditure, never-charge of receiving the stolen theless, had been pruned as
necessary measure of caution
property. They were all manded to Tuesday, December
The influx of refugees from the 20, at 10 area of hostilitles in south Kwang- tung had attained a considerable
OTHER CASES
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two
Hui Chi-ahan was remanded to volume in the latter part of Friday.. December 23, at 10 November, but numbers now were fa.m, on charges of uttering able to return home with the ces-forged $50 banknotes on the sation of active "fighting in the Chartered Bank of India, Austro- neighbouring Chinese territory. lla and China, and possession
Refuzees who
destitute of six such forged notes. were given food and accommoda- Sham Kam, Chu Pul and Lau tion, not only at the cost of public Fuk-aang, all separately charged funds. but by a large extent under the Dangerous Drugs Or- through funds raised by residents dinance.
were
remanded 1111 of the Colony.-Reuter
Tuesday. December 20, at 2.15
were
HEADQUARTERS
p.m.
Li Hei-ting, who is alleged to have stolen. by a trick, a sum of $19,000 from a lady named Chia
STAFF CHANGES Lel-see on October 19. was
manded.. tu
TC-
Thursday, October
London. Dec. 16. Lieut.-Colonel A. G. Neville of 22. In this case the Hon. Mr. the Royal Artillery. and Lieut. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Jnr. in- Colonel G. E. Grimsdate of the structed by Mr. M. A. da Silva, i Royal Engineers, have both been "ppearing on behalf of the Grown. appointed 08.0.1 to British troops to China, replacing Colonel, Irwin and Colonel Burkhardt on March 15, 1939 dnd March 21, 1939 respec- tively Reuter.
U.S. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RESIGNS
Mr.
Daniel
ATTEMPT TO STEAL RING
Soldier Dealt
With In Court
Washington, Dec. 16,
Convicted on ร charge 01 larceny of a gold signet ring from Calhoun Roper. of Commerce in the Nathan Road, Pte Louis Brady, of A. G. James, jeweller; of No. 58 Cabinet since 1933. h the Middlesex Regiment, was fined
London, Dec. 16. The death has occurred in Lon- don, following an operation, of Mr. William Rutley Mowil of Reuter's Secretary Shanghai office.
Roosevelt Mr. Mowl was for many years resigned. chief. Far Eastern Manager of In latter accepting the Reuter's economic services, and signation with sincerest regret," was one of the company's ablest President Roosevelt said he ap- and most trusted servants-Reu-preciated the compelling personal ter.
reasons for the step-Reuter.
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A 90th Century Fox Picture
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
BOHEMIAN GIRL”.
TOMORROW
M.G.M. Picture
EVACUEES FROM
KULING
Shanghai, Dec. 16.
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Found guilty DD. of driving at the excessive speed
Forty-eight evacuees from of 30 miles per hour in the con- 56, "Sword Kuling arrived in the Japanese trolled ares In Nathan Road.m 58. Sooner than Army transport Omi Maru in- November 21, A L Landsbert, of 59, Existed cluding 19 Britons, 14 Americans No. 15, Grampian Road, was fined 60. Winter four Germans, two Bwedes and¡ $8 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyeni at, vehicles
the Kowloon Court yesterday.
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determiner
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Det. Sergt Cochrane, whi secuted, stated that Brady visit- ed the jeweller's shop in company with two other soldiers. 11 They asked to examine some rings. Whilst doing so, defendant · tried, to run away with one ring. but
ves chased by complainant's song and arrested
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS --Ember Day: St. Lazarus, Msen. CINEMAS.-(Bee Column 3 of this
Page).
stoned
and
DANCES-Royal Naval Commis- Warrant Officers' Club Annual Dance, at Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENTS. Hongkong.
Philharmonic
Society ̈“Rudi-
digore," at Queen's Theatre. 9.20
D.I
LECTURES-First Aid, at Ambu- lance Headquarters, 3.30 pm. MAILS(See Page 18). MISCELLANEOUS
Contributions for New York and Paris Bazaars close at Chinese Women's Club, 11 Queen's Road Central; Sale of Work in St, Stephen's Girls' Col- lege, in aid of M.C.L. and Local Charities 11 am.; Exhibition of Paintings, at Hongkong Univer- ty, and Pictures in Gloucester Arcade: The Bazaar Relief Com- mittee Exhibition at Chinese YWCA, Bonham Road, from 10 am to 6 pm, MOON- Moon, 20th, Day. SPORTS.-(See Page 2). SUNRISE.-6.56
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1938.-PAGE
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 AND 9.30 PM.
SWING IT!
La poll with perm backy sure motor's romudian laugh-love-and-rume jandarma! » Food book that ca
joy!
Foot to them Can Kalan vanna ....... you'll Deca and whiale "met
Just back into sila merry macheme howl: “What a sham!”
EVERYBODY SING
JUDY GARLANDS) greatest role! She'll be your new singing sweetheart!
Also
TRAVELTALE
“SERENE SIAM”
ALLAN JONES JUDY GARLAND FANNY BRICE
REGINAÏD OWEN
CANDOVER CARVER
to MRY AFF
Die & KARIS
BROTHERE
BEG BURROW OR STEAL
FLORENCE EI E
- JOHN BEAL
NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. PICTURE ■
with PRANK MORGAN
ALHAMBRA
1*720 6 9.30 ·TEL. 56656
FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY It's a Laugh Avalanche as Ginger Jane, Queen of Pests, finds Herself up to her neck in Financial and Family Tangles 1.
TOMORROW
A Paramount Picture
4 SHOWS
DAILY
230 $20 720 930
In all ways Jane's funniest!
Jane Withers ALWAYS IN TROUBLE
"
JEAN ROGERS - ARTHUR TREACHER ROBERT KELLARD - EDDIE COLLINS ANDREW TORRES » MAMA BRYANT
A 20th Century-Fax Pichers
The Thrill Picture of the Year.
KE
BOOLOO
Colin Taplay.
Mamo Clark
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
TEL 51222
MATINEES. 20« -30‹ ° EVENINGS. 20.-30«-50e70%) TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, MONDAY
A MUSICAL OF SUPERLATIVe splendor with happiness written all over it!
SonjaHENIE Don AMECHE
Your "One In A Millson" sweethearts radiantly re-united!
It comes to you, of
course, from Darryl F. Zanuck and Bis 20th Century-Fox binmakers!
happy landing
with
JEAN HERSHOLT. ETHEL MERMAN CESAR ROMERO BILLY GILBERT RAYMOND, SCOTT QUINTET WALLY VERNON » LEAH RAY Directed by Ray De Ruth
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
THE HAPPIEST-HIT OF THE SEASON 1
JANE WITHERS in "RASCALS"
with Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Borrah Minevitch and His Gang
A 20th Century-Fox Aleture
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