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“Too Hot to Handle'
Ripped from the hamasions itvan of newsrest thrill-hunters comme della-swept ressace for the swell woodsos:ia of “Toot Pilot") Gable as a "lope-wolf” cang...and Myrša na the-
girl who made the
·lone wolf--kazeczną i
Clark GABLE
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Myrna Loy
TOO HOT to HANDLE
WALTER
WALTER PIDGEON. CONNOLLY LEO CARRILLO
AT THE QUEEN'S "FIVE CAME BACK" Chestar Morris
• Wendy Barcis
Dimed by Jack Conway
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AT THE ALHAMBRA
"SECRET PATROL" with Charles Starrett
ISTARE
NORMA
TODAY ONLY
CLARK
SHEARER GABLE Clarence BROWN'S
production of
Idiot's Delight
LOWARD
Screen Play by Robert
Sherwood
Directed by CLARENCE BROWN
Produced by Hunt Stromberg
TO-MORROW
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ANY OLD
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TYRONE
HICAGO
ALICE.
DON
POWER-FAYE AMECHE
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Directed by Hanry King,
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FLIGHT FROM GLORY" Chester. Morris
་
Whitney Bourne
HEAVY RAINS IN NORTH CHINA: FLOOD SITUATION GETS WORSE RAILWAY SERVICES AFFECTED
..
CHUNGKING, Aug. 18 (Central)-Heavy downpours in many parts of North Chins on August 16 have further made the flood situation worse, a Tientsin report states.
The west station of Tientsin ta HOLD-UP DOUBTED lying under water. Train service "Three men, armed with daggers, on the northern sector of the Tien- held me up and robbed me of tsin-Pukow Railway has been suG- jewellery and money," was the pended, while eastbound trains on Felping-Liaoning Railway atory told to the Police on the Saturday night by a 33-year-old reach as far as Changli in Eastern Hopel, 29 miles south-west of married woman.
The woman, Leung Yuk, said Chinwangtao, only. that she was walking along Bow-
The Hal Ho, in Tientsin, has re- ing Street near Canton "Road at gistered a further rise as a result about 9 pm. when the incident of the pouring in of flood waters occurred. She lost over $300 in from its tributaries. To avert the Jewellery and money.
danger of overflowing, the Japan-
The police stated last night that ese have made several breaches in they .considered
report the dykes along the Bouth Grand Canal, which flows into the Hal Ho.
doubtful
WIN
the
$50
See page
Pleading gulity to a charge of keeping an unregistered multṣal, Lam Buk-chun was aned $10 by Mr. RAD. Forrest at the Cep- fral Court on Baturday Insp. H W. Fraser, of the B.C.A prose 3
cuted
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
*Kentucky"
QUEEN'S:
"Too Hot To Handle"
ORIENTAL···
"Angels With Dirty Faces"
CATHAY:
"In, Old Chicago”'
ALHAMBRA
Kowloon
"Too Hot To Handle"
STAR:
"Idiot's Delight"
MAJESTIC:
...
"The Cowboy And The
KING'S:
Coming
"Flight To Fame"
QUEEN'S:
"Five Came Back"
ORIENTAL:
"The Devil's-Party" "The Gracle Allen
Case"
CATHAY:
"Flight From Glory"
ALHAMBRA:
"Secret Patrol”
STAR:
"Cardinal Richelleu
MAJESTIC:
CINEMA & GENERAL
PAINTER OF KINGS DIES IN POVERTY
LONDON, Aug. 4 (By Air Mail)—An hour before he died of heart failure in the flat where he was living in Fairfax Road, Swiss Cottage. London, Mr. Joseph Homerville Hague, the artist. sold tap pictures. The sale enabled him to pay his month's ment of some £7. which was overdue-an hour before bailifts had entered his fiat,
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS
DRAFT BILL OF AMENDMENT
That is the final chapter in the history of an eccentric yet, bill- liant artist, whose death was An- nounced yesterday, and who, just 13 years ago, had a room tri Buck ingham Palace, which he used as a studio in which to paint many members of the royal family. He was 73
·Light From Candles When Mr. Haque died his second wife, Mrs Ethel Hague, was at his side.. He married her two years
ago.
The
"Government Gazette"
Bu publishes the draft
of An Ordinance to amend the Births
the only and Deaths Registration Ordi Two candles were
illumination he had for the room Lady"nance, 1934.
Be it enacted by the Governor where he painted. of Hongkong, with the advice
In the back room of the ground- and consent of the Legislative door flat in the house in Fairfax Council thereof, as follows:---- Road. Mr. Hague's old and some 4. This Ordinance may be cited half-finished pictures are pilca UY. 24. the Births and Deaths Regla-filling every available space.. tration Amendment Ordinance, Some of his earlier work is hanging in the Palace. QUBETT 2. Section 9 of the Births and victoria and the Duke of Con Deaths Registration Ordinance,
naught were among the earilest Murder 1934, is amended-
of his famous sitters..
*Thanks For Everything”
URBAN COUNCIL ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
The
"Government
1938.
(1) in sub-section (2) thereof by the words "without any fee" and by the substitution therefor
Reproved pusCTM
He claimed to have painted more
of the words "on payment by royalty than any other living the Informant of a fee of dollar."
one painter. Said to be à friend of
MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1939. —PAGE
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TODAY AT 138,{\\K38) \734
Kentucky
The fire of young romance! The pread sport of kbegi? Apk ture big in theme and srith the emotion.... Kentucky Derby its spectacular climax!
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Columbia Picture
LORETTA
TECHNICOLORI
RICHARD
YOUNG GREENE
and WALTER BRENNAN DOBILAS MIRABELLE - KARGI MORLEY - MOROWE OLSEN Patographed in TECHNICOLOR,
A 20 Centory-Fan Platoni.
FLIGHT TO FAME" with Charles FARRELL * JACQUELINE WELLS
hia
TAKE ANY THAN ON MADDY Valley Du
* SHOWS BANY
HOLD
| King George V., he once took over (1) in sub-section (3) thereof
a year painting him by the insertion after the words favourite horse Anzac "Register General" of the words "and then only on payment by the informant of a fee of ten dollars."
Objects And Beasons
is
In his latter years Mr. Hague would enthral listeners with his stories. Among his most celebrated was how he would not permit Queen Mary to enter his Palace studio. Another was how he re- proved the Duke of Gloucester for
1. The object of this Bill to amend the principal Ordi. nance, No. 21 of 1934, by imm- posing a fee for late registration falling to salute him-a captain, of births of one dollar, where the and at that time a superior on- information is given more than
Gazette" fourteen days: and within twelve
of contains the draft Bili Ordinance to amend the law lating to the Urban Council.
Be it enacted by the
cer.
against Sir Williamn Llewellyn and the committee of the Royal Academy for their re- fusal to hang his pictures.
Mr. Hague was a rebel, and the an months after the birth, and of ten Royal Academy was one of his re-idollars where registration Is butts. He once applied for a sum-
effected, with the consent, of the mons
more Governor Registrar General,
than twelve months after the birth.
2. Registration during the first fortnight after birth
His amusing argument was that betinue to be free, and free certi-as his pictures had been rejected
con- for Council ficates of registration will
21 years the Academy was sub-making criminal use of the money
of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Coun- cil thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance cited 29 the Urban Amendment Ordinance, 1939.
may
will
tinue to be issued under
coa-
2. The Urban Council Ordi-sections (1) and (4) of section they had from State odd. nance, 1935, as amended by sec-19 of the Principal Ordinance.
tion 2 of the Director of Medi-
cal and Sanitary Services (Change HOP YAT CHURCH
ot Name) Ordinance, 1936, is
further amended by the sub-
MID-SUMMER
stitution of the words Deputy VESPER SERVICE
Director of Health Services" the words
for
COMING EVENTS
AUG.
The Mid-Summer Vesper Ser-p.m. "Director of Medi- cal Services in section 3 (1) and Vice at the Hop Yat Church, on Saturday night was very well attended.
10.
Objects
And Reasons
The programme Included:- The object of “this,' Bill is to
Prologue (Passion) And They substitute the Deputy Director of That Passed By, Largo Expres- Health Services for the Director sivo, - a violin solo by Leung of Medical Services as Vice-Tak-ling, and Glorious Forever. Chairman of and professional Evelvellchen by Carl Heins. adviser to the Urban Council in Two Mazurkas, plano solo by Miss all medical matters, including Fung. Miao-wo. matters of public health «änd Ballade, another plano solo by sagitation, and as superintendent Miss Yung Mo-wan. of the enforcement and obser- Concerto in A"Minor was play- vances relating to
Public Health ed by Leang Tak-ling and Miss and the by-laws and regulations Chu Lai-wen on a violin and piano. made thereunder....
Miss Mary Ho rendered a solo,
CROSSWORD
NO. 390
ACROSS
1 Place of
worship (6)
4 Free (3)
B
Beverage
(3)
9 Mission (6)
11 Concord (5)
12 Carved
stone (5)
13. Selected (6) 16 Grain (5)
IR Fleet
animal (4) Won (8)
19
za Fondle (8).
25 Stopper (4)
28 Lifting
device (5), 29 Less' diEN-
cult (8)
31 Plank (5) 3 Irksome neas (8)
34 Revolved
(8)
35 Small
1
barrel (3) 36 Con-
cealed (8) 37 Declared
DOWN
1 Ditch (8) 2 Looking
glass (6)
4 Sticking.
substance
"
3 Bpear (5) ...!!!
20 Put in \(4)
23 Caledonian
*(8)
Fame (6)
Tried (8) Upper
House (6)
10 Hang loose 14 Cattle
food 135
15 014 chair
(5) Stacks (5)
SÖLUTION TO:MORROW
ཉམསས་སབ་ཅུ་ཆ སྐུ་
#1–Tiden: High 132 am and 2.39 Low 1.45 sm, and 7.18 p.m. Sunrise 6.02 am Sunset 651 pin. Claims Against Estate of Heary George Baker due.
Rosary Church Wedding-D'Almada La Castro-Reed, 11 am.
Crown Land Sale, P.WD 3 pm Criminal Sessions Open YMCA Whist Drive 8.30 pm.
St. Andrew's Club Committee Mte... 8.30 pm
St. Andrew's Club "Open Night" 22-Tides?" "High" 3.23 min, and 3:57 p.m. Low 9.15 am, and 7.50 p.m.
Sunrise 6:03 am. Board
6:50 p.m. Meeting of Licensing
D.13.
Craigengewer C.C. Tambola 9 pm. YMCA Bridge, 10a.m. Mxd. Swin- ming
6 pm. Badmintem 8.30 p.m. A.R.P. Lectures (fullcntirse) in Chinese. St. John's Ambulance Head- quarters, 1.30 pm; ARP Volunteer Headquarters 9 am-10 am,” ARP. in English, Club Lusitano. 5.30 pmL) ARP in
in Chinese, Chinese Chamber Commerce, 7 pm
of
p.m.
H.K. Rotary Club Tinn 1 Speaker: Mr. O, Moore. "Civic De sign" and Town
wn Planning
23-Area
Half-Mile Team Race:
(Swimming). Stonecutters ls. 1.30 p.m. TMCA (WB) Games Morning.
10 am. Plag Whist
Filipino Club Tombola, 8.43 p.
AR.F. Lecture (Chinese),
Govt. School, 7.30 p.m.
stuzzati
Garrison Bergts, Mess Whist and
Tombola $ p.
24-Y.M.C.6. Beginners Mahjongg 10 a.m.
25-Charity Concert at Chins Fleet
Club 9 p.
YMCA Keep Fit" Cinss 10.30 am: Mrd Swimming a pin. Bad- [minton '8.30 p.m.
qurth Luncheon Meeting of sino- American Institute of Central Bela- tions, EE Hotel 12.45 pa
268t. Andrew's Club Bathing Pic- nic 8.30 p.m.
Zachtski Dinner Dance
8.10 p.1
at OB.A
Baseball-International Series First Round Portagal r. Britain,
27-Baseball International Series First Round China' v. U.8.
28–81. Andrew's Club Moonlight. Excursión. 8.20'p.in,
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ORIENTALE
ONLY TWO MORE DAYS-TODAY AND
TOMORROW
DIETY FACED KIDS WITH DIRTY "SOULS ! Chunk by chunk they cut out their hearts in alums, reformatories
and prisons to make them better boys." THE SAGA OF AMERICA'S DIRTY-FACED KIDS AND THE BREAKS THAT LIFE WON'T GIVE THEM!
ANGELS
WITH DIRTY
FACES
JAMES A
CAGNEY
PAT
O'BRIEN
THE DEAD END'KIDS • HUMPHREY BOSART
ANN SHERIDAN “GEORGE BANCROFT DE Mevator by Miehet Martin - Przestać be WARNER VODE, + domus Pig ke Jehe. Whester. and Wama Dull i Pown & Brooy by Rowland Drawn «Hasle by Man Parivar så. Pret Mutyand Prope
WED
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Two Great
A Strong Supporting Cast
A Brand New Brand of Romance....... Laughs Galore
Action All the Way!!!!
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Released
UNITED ARTISTE
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
COOPER OBERON
The Cowboy and the lad
Lady
with PATSY KELLY WALTER BRENNAN FUZZY KNIGHT - MABEL TODD HENRY KOLKER
Directed by H. C. Poffer
21. Owing (3)
Outspoken
Scold (0)
Song bird.
Solotion No. 319. ACROSS: 1. Scaffold. 5. Afar. 8, Famillary 9, Obey. 11; Meal, 13, Usual 16, Rest. 18, Stride." 20, Hearts 21. Essc. 23, Oceaní.H, Edge, 29, Iron 29, Persuade. 30, Heed, 31, Peasants,
DOWN 1 Bate, Z, Alms 3, False. 4 Lable, 8 February, Royalist 10, Mate, 12, Area 14, Astonish 15, Gruesome 17. Shed, 19, Deny 22 haevere, 25, Obste" 26" Pawn 27,
Gems
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Scandalously Funny Picture about “ Mister
Averade Man
"THANKS FOR EVERYTHING'
ADOLPHE MENJOU JACK OAKIE ARLEEN
(6)
Assortea
(6)
rown-up
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