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SHOWING TO-DAY More than a Love Affair
ALSO
A story as deep, as strong
as
a woman's 'wart ..!
IRENE
FRED
DUNNE MacMURRAY
65
INVITATION
TO
HAPPINESS
LATEST POPEYE CARTOON
Produced and Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
A Formmmuni Pichere
ADDED! At the QUEEN'S Only
"FRENCH GAUMONT NEWS"
WEDNESDAY
AT THE QUEEN'S
TO-MORROW
AT THE ALHAMBRA
"BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S “HERITAGE OF THE D·SERT”.
JOEN
BRIDE with HOWARD
EVELYN VENABLE
DONALD
· WOODS
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
HS RULED ALL WITHIN THE REACH OF HIS. WHIP: You'll thrill to Tamiroff as you never have before.
TAMIROFE IS TERRIFIC!
"RIDE A
CROOKED MILE"
4
AKIM TAMIROFF LEIF ERIKSON
FRANCES FARMER LYNNE OVERMAN
J. M. KERUISAN - JOKK BILJAN
Diraded by ALPEED I. CHREN
* Here's a Tamiralt your'en never pour: be- fare le a new kind
of picture thril
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
Wuthering Heights"
QUEEN'S:
“Invitation To Happiness" ORIENTAL"
"Ride A Crooked Mile” CATHAT:
"Ben-Hur"
Kowloon
ALHAMERA:
"Invitation To Happiness"
STAR:
"Service de Luxe" -
MAJESTIC:
"Four's A Crowd"
KING'S:
Coming
"Boy Meets Girl"
QUEEN'S:
"Bulldog" Drummond's
ORIENTAL:
"Elephant Boy". "Highway Patrol”**
CATHAY:
CINEMA & GENERAL
36,000 PLANES PER YEAR
MASS PRODUCTION PLANS IN THE UNITED STATES
THE UNITED STATES WILL SHORTLY: BE IN MA POSI- TION TO BUILD 28,656 STOUT, CHEAP, FAST: AKROPLANES PER YEAR, EVEN MORE" MIGHT BE "CONSTRUCTED, FOR THIS IS AN ARBITRABY FIGURE BASED SOLELY ON THE FUSELAGE PRODIGION" OF A ̈ROUND NUMBER OF ́UN- SKILLED WORKMEN TOTALLING 9,000.
spectacular · · sohture- ment, eclipsing by the tens of thousands the planes which Germany cary baili in a. yOUT. which production" forced the Munich agreement, last Sep- tember, will be soon an complished Lact when the new, completely" "practical process for moulding fuselages and wings roes into commercial production.
In
ם!
DEAD MAN'S
IOU FOR £10,000 VALID
Judgment against the estate of the late Sir Thomas Lipton-- famous yachtam arı (and, tea blender for £10,000 and interest from 1931 was given in the King's Bench Division on July 27 in an action started six years ago over a £10.000 10.U., signed by Sir Thomas
Fuselage Problem Hitherto the bottleneck
has plane production
been the construction of the fuselage. All other plane parts and equip-
Mr. Hugh Godfrey 'Nicholson, of ment can be made by mass pro the Swan Hotel, Thames Dittam duction methods, yet each fuse Surrey, sted the executors, claim- Bride" lage has always been handmade
ing on the I.Q.U., for sevices ren- and has required days of work to dered to Bir Thomas. The action pat millions of rivets into its was being retried by order of the metal skin to hold the struts and court of Appeal stringers in place..
"The Notorious Sophie Lang"" ALHAMBRA:
"Heritage Of The Desert".
STAR:
"The Road Eack" MAJESTIC:
"The Kid From Texas"
Your Screen Test
the name,
be
By the new process, two unskilled labourers can toys out an exceptionally strong fuselage, complete in two sections, in a little over two hours, ready for assembly,
The process itself is a relative-
Mr. Justice Cassels, giving his reserved judgment, said the story started at the beginning of this century, when Mr. Nicholson then a man of means, began a 'friend- ship with Bir Thomas which lasted until the latter's death.
The Judge referred to the
ly simple one of forming plywood services upon which Mr. Nicholson
in a die. partially impregnating selfed in support of his claim. The it with a phenolic resin, and then first was in connection with Court pressing it" into aliossive. I proceedings In 1913. The second
& smooth-surfaced mass.
"Winged Fear".
1. What was fore she entered
Among officials there la Alms, of the
doubt that other nations will actress recently married to Clark anally develop A Ilke Gable?
process. When this happens the "winged
was for the Introduction of Bir John Ferguson to the board of Little Liptons. The third was concerned with the sale of Sir Thomas Lipton's shares in Liptons, «
In 1927, when he was bordering
plc-ble need never be repeated. No
fear that made Munich possi- upon eighty, Sir Thomas signed
the I.O.U.
2. What Wo Emily Bronte novels have been made into tures?
3. What is the first movie from Hollywood in which the agents of a foreign dictatorship, pictured unsympathetically ` are called by their right names?
4. What screen actress re- cently was praised unanimously by New York theatre critics in what they called the greatest acting performance of career?
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Wednesday The First & the Beat of the Sophie Lang Series !
Thursday THE NOTORIOUS SOPHIE LANG Paramount
Tai O Salt Pan
TaoTo Let
Picture
H.K. DOCTOR CENSURED
her
another from the air long. one nation will be able to cowe
Judgment was given with costs and a stay of execution for a
It is believed that with planes month was granted with a view.
to a possible appeal" So easily but, no one can main- tain a preponderant number and
"
the military plane will fall into COMING EVENTS
that of rifles. a category like where the weight of numbers will have little influence on interna tional relations..
GIRL'S SERIOUS. ALLEGATION
400.
Tides: High 7.56 xm. and 9,31, p.m. Low 124 am, and 309 pm
Sunrise 5.50 am.. Sunset 8.58 p.m. HK and Shanghai Bank Half- Yearly Interim Dividend payable,
Crown Land Sale, P.WD. 3 p.m. St. John's Ambulance First Aid Lec- tares start in
in "SCMP" Board Room, 5.45 pm.
V.RO Extmordinary Mtg.
p.m
5. In what picture (a) did an actor attract attention by sipping | a coln; (b) war a comic pan-
once 'performed with two A serious allegation was made by forks and two rulls; (c) did an a 17-year-old Chinese girl, Chan, tension Scheme actress sit änd watch herself Fung-kan, against her master, a dance; (d) We an Important Eurasian, in her report to the appointment made for the 102nd police on Saturday night, after she floor of New York City's Empire had been rescued when she plung- State bullding? ・・
ed. Into the harbour while travell-bala and 1st Night, 8.30 p.m.b
Each question is worth 20 points. A score of 90 or above is colossal,
80 is excellent and 60 is good.
The Answera
ing on board the ferry, Man Tak.
lowship Committee Mtg. 10 BIL
St. John's Cathedral Women's Fel-
YMCA. Whist Drive 8.30 p.m. Tennis: Thailand vs Hongkong.
St. Andrew's Club Open Night Military Police Mess Whist Tom-
15.----Tides: High 8.51 a.m. and 8.10
In her report, she alleged that pm. Low 3.19 am and 346 pin.
she had been thrice molested by
ber master, and the last time was
1. Jane Peters" (Carole Lom-seen by her mistress who had re- bard).
turned home," and her mistress or-
David Niven..
Olivier
3. "The Confessions of a Spy."
and
Sunrise 5.59 8.m. and 6.56 pm.
Sale (D.O. North,
In Crown Land
Teonis:
Annual
11.30 a.m EK Rotary Club Tin 1 m
p.m. TMCA Bridge 10 a.m. Mzd. Swim 2. "Jane Eyre" in which, Vir-dered her out after assaulting her. ming 8 pm. Badminton 8
p.m. She was sent to the Queen Mary HE the Governor to Open Long ginia Bruce appeared; and "Wur-
Thalland vs. Hongkong. thering Heights,” with Merle Hospital for medical examination Distance Telephone Service 11 am. Oberon, Laurence,
-HX Land Investment and After a five-month investiga-able,
Agency. Ltd. Interim Dividend pay. Nazi tion tour, the Szechwan-Bikong YMCA. Hockey Section
Investigation Commission has re-Meeting 6.30 p.m. "The turned to Chungking. They hava YM.QA Mahjongg if am.
Golf at Shek-O-Over 43 vs. Under. made a thorough study of the
45. 5. (a) George Raft in "Scar-political administration, conscrip 11-Star Ferry Co., Ltd. Interim face; (b) "The Gold Rush," with tion, policing. people's livelihood, Dividend payable. Charlie Chaplin; (c) Shirley Tem- and economic reconstruction in St. John's Cathedral Women's Fel- pie in "The Little Princess" (d) these two provinces and are draft gwahip Bridge and Mahjongg Drive in "Love Affair? Charles Boyering a report to be submitted to YMCA. Mahjongg for Beginners and Irene Dunne
... were
sup the fourth session of the People's am. Flag Whist Drive 830 p.m. dosed to meet there
Political Council.
H.E. The Glovernor and Lady North-
4. Katharine Hepburn, in Philadelphia. Story:””
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Buy back
(6)
4 Bummary
2 (6)
7 Talks of
two (9)
9 At that
-time (4). 10 | Veer (4) 11 Equals (5).
13 Trust
14 Chr(8)
(6)
15 Token (6)
17 Claim (8)
19 Nervous" (5); 20 Desolate
23. Unpre
20
NO. 384
22 Land
It is published in the "Govern-
Tai O Salt Pan No. 6 on Lantao ment Gazette" that as a result of Island containing 5.66 acres will an inquiry held by the Medical
20
measure (4)
pared (9) Of the mind (6) Departs (6)
DOWN
Bard (4)
Eire (6)
11 BleersIENI
(B)
be let by public anction at the Board on June 6, 1939, a resolution
was passed that Dr. Arthur Fun be censured for signing two vac- cination and inoculation certi- ficates in hisak thereby enabling
District Office, South, Queen's Building, second floor, on Friday, August 25, at 11. ar
The Lot, the upset annual crow them to be mined to persons who
had not in fact been v
tent for which is $283 is to let for a term of 15 years from Aug.
1939
of moculated as purported to stated in the said certificates,
1 Rural (8)
2 Ireland (4)
3 Hammer
4. Isteem (8)
Rescued (5)/
SOLUTION TO-MORROW.
quently (6)
In a line (6) Drive away
Visions (6) Way Out (4). Unaccom
pitnied son
13 p.m.
10.
cote to visit Little Sisters of the Foor at Kowloon
B.E. The Governor a and Lady. North- cote go into residence at Mountain
Lodge.
Glenochy To Be Launched from Taikon Dockyard 10 am.
1 H Tramways, Ltd., Interim Dividend payable, ange
St. John's Ambulance A.R.P, Lec- tures" (English), at Hars, 1,48 p.m.
HK. Y@ Men's Club Social at No." 9. Norfolk Road, Kowloon Tong“ 7.20.
"Keep; » Fit Class 10M
am; Swimming 6 pm. Badminton 8.30 p.m.
| 19—YM.C.A. Launch Picnic. 220
Bt. Andrew's Club Bathing Picale $
20-VDMA. Conference at Stanley,
neu.ao
pm.
210laims Against Indate of Henry George Baker dae.
22 Area Ball-Mme Team Race (Swimming) Stonecutters Is. 3.30 pm 25 Charity Concert af China, Fleet
28-9. Andrew's Club Bathing Pic nic-8.30 pm
R
| 28- St. Andrew's Club Moonlight
xcursion 8.30 p.m. S }.30-Area-Marathon" "Team". Race:
} (@wimming), Repulse Bay 3 pm. 20
Solution No 182
ACROSS: 1. Lithe. 8, Obliged, 0, Scarf 11, Down. 12, Bense 14, In-
fer. 15, Essay, 17, Core, 19, Beaten,
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