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YOU CAN'T GET AWAY WITH
MURDER
by
WARDEN
LEWIS E. LAWES
Starring HUMPHREY BOGART
K. DELICE-VIKSY SILSP - JOHN KETEL – Miracial by Lundu Soler - Prašmind by WARNER BROS. Based on the Play, "Chalked Out," by Lewis E. Lawes and Jonathan Fina - Screen Pay by Robert Buckner, Don Ryan and Kenneth Gamet - A First National Picture
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John Barrymore." Peter Holden ..
SEA RIDDLE OF
SILENT MAN
"LION: LOOSE IN SHIP"
The Royal Netherlands 1.294 Aloof, wealthy Lam Jack, aged 30, tons steamer Amazone sent out a maakmer do the linier American distress call for a lion tamer or Basket refused to talk to anyone armed men, as a lion-part of a cm board wall the liner neated wild animal cargo-bad broken
floose.
Then he suddenly invitèd a num- The Amazonie's master radioed ber of them to his cabin for a that there were no guns on board Champagne panty-and afterwalds and asked any nearby ship to wandelhed from the ship.
come to the rescue.
• Meat wowing the steward foulaj. A coastguard boat with plenty his bed had not been slept in. of artillery is ready to go to the
Elis cabin truck was open-ship. empty. All his clothes had vanish- | C
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1939. —PAGE
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Daming"---Sclection (Charles Curil- ller)-Prank Westfield's Orchestra. The Cure (Hiccoughs) (theradge)— Cicely Courtneldge and Jack Hulbert assisted by Laurence Green and Cetile Dizon
7.30 Quentin M. Maclean at the Orga
Edward German" "Selection. With ie Coates Thro' Landon (Knights. bridge to London Bridge).
7.40 Stude—Another Musical - Cock-
by Erich Porges (Piano). Musical Cocktall No. 8 (arr. E. Porges). Intro: Marche Militaire.
ANOTHER 'MUSICAL COCKTAIL' |
BY ERICH PORGES Elgar Symphony No. 1 12:13 pm. Short Service of Inter-g cession,
River
Brahms Waltz in A Flat. At Dawn- Adios Muchachos, O Man
Show (From
Boat). Laugh 12.30 Roy Fox and His Orchestra.
and Love (from The Congress Waltz-Sympathy (film 'Firefly'). Dances). Love's Last Word is Spoken. Fox-Trot Afraid To Dream (film Liebestrend. Stardust. "Meet me to- του can't have everything"). Fox night in dreamland. Will you
Sweetheart (from Maytime').
Bing Trots-Little Old Lady, In The Mis
alon By The Sea Fox-Trok At The Cafe Continental. Waltz Stara Ia My Eyes (im The King steps out").. 12.56-Bawice and Landauer on Two
Pianga
Piando.
Noia (Arndt). Carmen-Selection (Bizet-art. Rawicz and Landauer). | Faust—Waltz Variations (Gounod
arr. Rawicz and Landauer),
re-
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather
and Announcements. 8.03 Bequest Variety and Dance Programme.
Fox-Trot Love Walked In (from Goldwyn Failles)--Jay Wilbur and His Band Vocal-Thanks for Memory (film The
Big
the
(MGM). Strong drama of set- llers' fight for rights, with Nelson Eddy singing and battling. Vir ginia Bruce. Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold and Victor Mc- Laglen are also in the cast, STAR:-The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (EKO). Fred Astaire and Ginger Robers as the famous
Broadcast team that made the world dance-
100 Local Time Signal and Wea of 1938)-Dorothy Lamour with conscious" in the second decade of
ther Report
Orchestra Fox-Trot-A Little Bit In- this century. Not exciting but
(Vocal) 1.09 Sophie Tucker
and dependent Carroll Gibbons and the Interesting.
Henry King and His Orchestra
SAVOY
Hotel Orpheana MAJESTIC ÷ + Marie "Antoinette
Fox-Trots-A Little Robla Told Me
Lady.
Make-Believe__(Tobias, (MGM). Norma Shearer, as the
So. Never
Dance (film Swing Bing Crosby with Eddie Gonns
Eddie Dunstedter at tragic French queen, gives a per- Time")-Henry King and His Orches the Organ Fox-Trots--Saddle Your
tra. Virginia-T
-There's A Blue Ridge Blues To A Wild formance that is perhaps second
Mustang. Please Be Orchestra anly to her portrayal of Elizabeth In My Heart (Bryan and Others) lleve Me Roy Fax and
Englishmen Barrett Browning in The Bar-Sophie Tucker (Vocal) with Orches Vocal-Mad Dogs and
tra. Fox-Trots-My Own (film ThatWords
Music Coward)-Noel retts of Wimpole Street" The
Certain Age"), You're As Pretty As Coward with Orchestra Slow Fox- cast includes Tyrone Power,
A Picture (film "That Certain Age-Trot-Sweet Leilani (Ala Waikiki Robert Mörley
and
King Schildkraut.
Stately
OCT.
nad
Elis
Joseph He's something Spanish In My tra Vocal-The
and His Orchestra.
sten. Wedding)-Roy Fox and His
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16-Tides: High 12.19 pm, and 11.10 pan. Low 5.25 am, and 445 pm.
Sunrise: "6.20 am; Sunset 5.53 p.m.
Ladies Hockey AB. An- nual Mtg. Gloucester Hotel 5.15 p.m. Cathedral Group V.D.MA Animal Mtg., 5 pm.
Eyes (Caesar and Friend). Stay Out England ('Operette"- -Nocl
Of The South Dixon)-Sophie Tucker, Noel Coward with Orchestra. Orch.- (Vocal) with Orchestra. Tango Ta The Acacia Blossoms Twice: More
Els Orchestra.
2.15 Close down.
COMING EVENTS Sale Fox-Trot The May Be The Stars Than There Are in the Sky-
Night (Alm My Lucky Star")-Benry Magyari Imre and His Hungarian King
and
Vocal-Glamorous Gypsy Orchestra. 130 Beuter and Rugby Press, Wen- Night (from Glamorous | ther Forecast and Announcements, Novello). When The
ayed The Gipsy 1.45 Schubert Trio In B Major For Glamorous Night-Novello)--Mary Plana, lolla and "Cello, Op. 93. Elly Ellis (Soprano) with Orchestra. For- Ney Trio.
Trot-Change Partners "Calm = 'Care- free")-Billy Cotton and 18
His Band. 6.00 "For the Children"
Male Voices The Village Band (Fry- Sketch-Big Chief Deerfoot On The berg and Others)--Comedy. Harmonists
dedy. Harmon Warpath (Fay Dawn)-Uncle Charlie with Plano. OrchFirefly Selec- and Peter Penrose with Orchestration (Friml and Others)-Louis Levy The Hums Of Fooh" (AA Milne and His Caumont-British Symphony Fraser-Bimson) Christopher Robin is Vocal-Shine Through My Dreams going. If
Here (Glamoretis bigger;
Night Novello)Trefor with Plano Studio--Story by Aunt Trot-Penny lies a tree-George Baker (Baritone) Jones (Tener) with Orchestra. Fox- Serenade-Mantovani Orchestra. Waltz-Blue Mammy's Eyes (Stanton and Gordon). Danube (Strauss)-De Groot and The Shortnin' Bread Wood and Woke).
Piccadilly Orchestra. Snowball (Garmichael)-Paul Robeson
(Bass) with Orchestra,
wurd
British War Organization Auction at Peninsula Hotel, 6.30 p.m.
YMCA. Pantomine Rehearsal, 8.30
YMCA Bandaging Class and war Work All Hospital Supplies made by this 'Working Party are to be sent to local hospitals in order to release other sources of supply for home centres).
Crown Land Sale, P.W.D. 3 p.m. D.O. South Court Opens. Lawn Bowls Assn. Competition Sub. Committee Mtg, Gande Price's Office.
5.30 pm
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Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 p.m. Claims Against estate of Michael McCarthy and Loule Him due
Philharmonic Society. Cathedral Hail-6.30 p.m.
Police Mess, Whist Drive
Whist Drive, 830. p.m. 17-Tides: High 1.15 p.m. and 1143 p.m. Low 612 a.m. and 5,14 pm,
Sunrise: 628 am, Sunset 5.58 p.m. Claims against Estate ·0% Frances Helen Grey due.
Land Sale at Taipo: 11.30 am. V H.K. Rotary Tan Mig. 1. p.m.
If rabbit WBS
Susan. Fat in Peller wid His and Hla
6.30. Closing lomi Stock Quotations. 6.33 Ketelbey-In A Fatry Realm- Salte.
9.03 Studio-Comments on Recent Events
9.15 London Relay-The News, 9.30 Compositions of Liszk
Plano). Concerto No. 1 In
Albert W. Ketelbey's Concert Orgarian Rhapsody No. 12-Mischa chestra conducted by The Composer. E. Flat Major-Mischa Levitzk! 6.45 London Relay-News Soapple- (Piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon 653 Cleely Courineläge and Jack Ronald Hulbert in Musical Comedy.
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9.38 Bongs by Peter Dawson (Bats. of Toad
Fall-Selection Baritone). (Fraser-Simpson)-New Mayfair Or- Wandering The King's Highway chestra with Vocalista. My Wild Cat (Lesile Coward). The Prentice Lads
(from Aunt Sally). The Wind's" In
TO Cheap (Baron and McCall)—with The West (from Aunt Bally) Cloely Orchestra and Male Chorus, Ratin
Oral Exile Courtnetdie (Comedierne) with Or- pr
(Bax). Speak, Music! chestra. Some of
Our
Greatest Buc-lgar)--with Plano accomp. by cesses Intro: Th
There is something
Gerald Moore. about a soldier: My hat's on the side 10.10 Elgar Symhony No. 1 in A of my head: We'll go riding on & Flat Gerald Moore..
London Symphony Orchestra con- window-Cicely Courtneidge and Jack ducted by Sir Edward gar Hulbert with Orchestra, "The Line 1100 Loes! Down.
OF FREE Tr. Arthur Woo "Round the rainbow: The files crawled up the
in 18 Days Andrew's Society, Annual Mtg.. S.C.MP. Otice, 5.45 pm
Cocktail Party at Mrs, Wentworth Reeve's House in aid of British War Organization Pund, 6 p.m.
British War Organization "Mtg. China Merchants' Club, 4 pm.
18-HERA Shoot, 1.45 p.m. Rugby Trial at Happy Valley. Reception at UB. Consulate-General to PL High Commissioner, 6 pm.
Dinner at Government House to FL High Commissioner, 8.30 p.m. Criminal Bessions Open, 10 a.in. D-YMCA Pantomine Rehearsal, 8.30 p.m.
St. Stephen Girls' School Prize Day, 530 pm. ..
HE Y's Men's Tima Mig. St Francis Hotel, 1'pin
20-St. Andrew's Hall, Christ Church Concert. 8.45 p.m.
YMCA. Lecture by Mm, A. M.
Peters "First Ald for Gas,” 6 p.m.
Badminton Assn. Exsoutive Com- mittee Mig. 5.30 pmL
21-Ninth Extra Race Meeting at Happy Valley.
REO.04 Supper Dance, Peninsula
Hotel
Rugby BKP.C. "A" v. Navy: HE F.C. 1st v. Army.
HE the Governor and Lady North- cote leave for Paning Lodge,
22-Colony Golf Championships. Craigengower 0.0. "at Home." 23-YMCA. Fantomine Behearsal,
8.20
Claims against Estate of the Rev. John Keers due.
Wedding at St. Andrew's: Moors- Silgain, 3 p.m.
25-HK School for Deaf: Annual Demonstration at Heep Yima School, Kowloo
City, 5 pm. 26 St. Andrew's Club Social Even g. 9 pm YMCA. Pantomine Rehearsal, 8.30
p.m
11
Girl Drives Convict Back To Dartmoor
Miss Sally-Head, a red-haired girl, driving alone over Part- moor on the Plymouth road was stopped by two warders at Double Waters and asked if she minded driving the man they were holding the four miles back to Dartmoor Prison,
A quarter of an hour later she milking and went behind a farm delivered at the prison gates 35 building. A warder saw him go. years-old George Albert Piper, es- After two minutes the warder. caped convict, for whom police and walked behind the bufiding and warders, holiday-makers and hun-saw Piper disappearing over the dreds of soldiers had been search- ing the moors for six hours.
moor,
MAN-HUNT.
Piper was captured after prison officers Milford and Cameron, The siren blared and the man-. stationed on the Plymouth road, hunt began. " had seen a movement in a derelict
Police were stationed at every house on the moor half a mile cross-roads for ten miles. All sway.
motorists were stopped and ques- Dodging from one gorse bush toįtioned." A mist began to cover the another, they saw Piper leave the moor buliding and walk towards them,
A woman saw Piper disappearing wearing a white shirt, grey trou-into a wood high up on a tor. sers, and rubber boots.
Later his discarded grey coat was
Not until he was a few feet away}found. did the warders need to show
Some, warders were sent out on themselves. They jumped out, ponies or in cars. grabbed his arms. Piper did not even struggle.
'Give me a cigarette," he said, and a warden gave him one.
Civilians were organised in groups, and hundreds of soldiers from Plymouth garrison who are YMCA Ladies' Night, 7.30 p.m.
engaged in manoeuvres near Yel- 27-YMCA. Lecture By Mrs. A. M.
NINE MONTHS MORE
verton joined the searchers Peters First Aid for Gas" 6. p.m. i
29—HKRA. Bhoot.. 9 am,
Near the prison motor coaches He had served 15 months-cí a Mixed Doubles Tennis Tourney at HK.C.C.' aid of War Organization,
three-years sentence for larceny, and a long line of cars and people and had earned full remission of were by the roadside, 11 am.
30-TMCA Pantomine Rehearsal, his sentence and various privileges. Nearly 100 police and prisons 8.30 p.m
"I was fed up with the monotony officers were searching a wood a 31-Licencing Board Meeting
and of prison ute. wanted a mile from the prison when Piper change," was the explanation he was recaptured six miles away, gave after his recapture,
1.
Sidney Howard, famous United Now he is in a punishment cell, new work from America was States playwright, author of "Allen has lost all remission and privi- to London and visited the boat. Corn"-now playing at Wyndham's leges, and will have to serve nine given at the Promenade Concert Mr Stuart Jacks a carpet manu-Theatre in London-was killed at months longer in prison.
at Queen's Hall-Sarouel Barbers's The iimer, from New York, is now | fadturer.
Tryningham, Mass., USA. He was
["Essay" for orchestra, first per- in the Royal Albert Dock at Lon- His son, a friend said, was very cranking a tractor, when it started,
No convict escaping from Dart-formed in New York last November. don Scotland Yard officers have quiet and sensitive, and was in- rolled forward, and crushed him. moor has ever remained at liberty It shows good workmanship, but sealed Mr. Jack's cabin and taken terested in poetry,
Mr. Howard, who was 48, was also longer than a few days,
not a striking amount of original statebuds Lam the crew.
It is stated that he had been author of "The Sliver Cord" and Piper was recently made a thought. Moiseiwitch played Rach- Mr. Jack's patents, Mr. and Mrs. subjected to some good humoured "They Knew What They Wanted," "trusted" convict, and put under a maninoff's youthful First Concerto, 1. Stuart Jack, of Pordan House, ragging by fellow travellers be- which won the Pulitzer prize in less strict supervision..."
which has quite undeservedly Jain Eldercle. Renfrewshire, have, come cause of this,
1924.
At 9 am he left a cow he was some years on the shelf.
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