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£10,000 LEFT TO FIANCEE
Estate For The Crown
Estate valued at £14,665 (np. £13.682) was left by Mr. William L. Alm, of-Blythswood, Barton Court- Avenue, Barton-on-Sea After legacles amounting to £4,250, he of Robin bequeathed the residue to his
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Heart Of The West"
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SOUND YOUNG
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THE
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PIRMĀS STAMMAN & RICHARD WALLACE
Produced by DAVID O. SELZNICK
BREAK > HOFU UKITED MATISTS
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
VICTOR McLAGLEN
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The DEVIL'S PARTY
WILLIAM GARGAN PAUL KELLY BEATRICE ROBERTS FRANK JENKS
by Ray Chamber Benet on the re
Play by
THURSDAY
A NEW UNIVERSA
ICTURE
CAN THIS BE DIXIE"
Jane Withers
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Slim Summerville
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. AUCTIONS. - Household Fürnt- ture, 2 Connaught Road Gen- trat Ground noor,_230 p.m. CINEMAR. (See Column 3 of this
Page). LECTURES.-A. R. P. in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Modi- fied Full Course, at United, Ber- vices Recreation Club, Kowloon: Club Luistano 5.30 pm: La Salle College, 6 p... Diocesan Junior Girls School, @ DI Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; First · Ald," in "Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 7p.m.; at Tai Tung School, Kak Hang Tsun Road, Kowloon, 7 D.; at YW.C.A. Bonham Road,^":4.80.
"East Of Javg"
"Double Wedding"
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STAR:
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"You Can't Take It With You"
"THE YOUNG IN HEART" AT THE MAJESTIC
David O. Selznick's comedy ro- mance "The Young in
Heart," starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks. Jr. and Paulette "God- dard, who makes her talking debut following her discovery in Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times." is now showing at the Majestice Theatre.
Mr. Arthur Reynolds, of Prince of Wales Hotel, De Vere- gardens. Kensington formerly of Antwerp and Hamburg, with Gellatly Hankey & Co., felt £2,- 453 (np. £2.390). He died intestate, ↑ bachelor. and letters of administration of his property have been granted to the Solicito: for the Affairs of Ells Majesty's Treasury for the Use of FILM Majesty
Mr. Charles Booth, Cunard Building. Liverpool, and Mossley Hill-drive, Liverpool, chairman of Booth Steamship Co., and а director of L. M. S. Railway Co... and Martins Bank Ltd., who died! as result of falling from window In Chester-street, S.W., left £29,-
530 (n.p. £21,525).
Lawyers
TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939. —-PAGE 5.
Worried: Y
"Unfair"
Law
WIVES REFUSE
TO GO ON WITH
DIVORCE
More and more wives are going to decline to take dl- vorce actions because of an unforeseen clause in A re- cently passed Act which pre- vents a woman inheriting any of her divorced husband's money. This apialon
Wis expressed by a member of a well-known West End firm of solicitors who "specialise in divorce cases.
Divorce lawyers are worried and alarmed over the unforeseen con-
He gave his effects to his wife, sequences of the Inheritance 10,000 1st Preference and 10,000 (kamlly Provision)` Act. 2nd Preference £1 shares In into force in July and establishes Alfred Booth & Co. Ltd. to her, for for the first time the ufe. and the
principle residue equally that a married man's between his children.
obligation to support his wife does not necessarily cease on his death.
WOMAN DONATES COFFIN FUND TO STATE KUNMING, May 6
One old comm,
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ACTIONS
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
SHOWING » TODAY. AT 230, 5.10, - 7:15
ROMANCE
d RHYTHM
and
WAHOO! ITS A WORLD- CHAMPEENSHIP OF ROMANCE
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NEXT CHANGE UNITED ARTISTS
DROPPED
courts, and be awarded up. ro two-thirds. If one or more of his children are dependent on her.
A widow for whom no provi- ston has been made in (Central) husband's will may apply to the her late People in Kunming are deeply moved by the story of Mrs. Tang selling her own for $2,000 which she donated to the country in aid of resistance. This Act is en using muny As a token of Alial piety, the wives particularly young women aged
woman's. 3071 Gen. "Tang married to rich and elderly men- Hwal-yuan, Commanded of the to drop actions for divorce. The 12th "Division, bought the ex-reason is that a woman who has pensive coffin in readiness for obtained a divorce has no rights. her. But she insisted on selling under the Inheritance Act. Once it and contributing the money to a divorce is granted, a woman. the war chest.
cses her legal status as a wife.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS Tilus trated (8)
Prominently featured In the supporting Cast of this Alm based on the I. A. R. Wylie Saturday Evening Post serial, "The Gay Banditti," are Roland Topper" Young. Billle "Mrs. Topper" Burke, Henry Stephenson, character actor, Richard Carlson, romantic new comer from the New York stage. 11 Rope m3- and Minule Durpree, for more
terial (4) than four decades a popular Broadway actress.
Janet Gaynor has a new type of role in "The Young in Heart" as the daughter who helps her adventurous family chisel their way from the fun-loving Riviera to London, and whose loyalty to them almost costs her the love of her highly-principled young millionaire fance.
Solution No 303
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6.53 D. TIDES-High at 02.31 and 11.50
Low at 05.24 and 1957, NA
TO-MORROW MEETINGS St Andrew's meat- cal War Working Party, 10 am.
Cathedral
MAILS-(See Page 16). MEETINGS. - Rotary Meeting. Hongkong Hotel, 1 p.m.; Kow- loon Chess Club, in Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Mothers' Union, 3 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. — Army Tea- chers's Club End-of- Season Dinner, at Cafe Wiseman, a MISCELLANEOUS. p.m.; Central British School Display of Physical Training, 5.30 p.m. MOON-Chinese, III Moon,
Day
20th.
Fellowship Working Party, Ca thedral Hall 10 am, MOON-Chinese III Moon, 21st
Day." BOCIÁLWhist Drive and Tom-
bola in
Garrison Sergeants Mess 9 p.m. Y.M.O.A WO men's Section, Mahjong, 10 am
Competitive games). BUNRISE 5.48 B.m. SUNSET.
**6.53" pum."
RELIGIOUS.-Prayer and Fellow- ship Meeting at. 8. & 8. Bome, 8,30 p.m. SOCIAL-Y. MC. A Women's Section, Bridge, 10 a.m.; Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45 p.m.; Craigengower Cricket. Club TIDES.High at 01.32 and 1121. Weekly Tombola, 9 pm Police. Low at 05.01 and 19.07.
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12 Compa-
nion (4)
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