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The MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE IN A MILLION
COMING EVENTS
DEC.
24-Tides: High 3 am and 5.12 pin. Low 10.53 a.m.
Sunrise: a.m.; Sunset: 5.46 p.m. Christmas Eve. JOAN
HK. Rotary Club Tim Meeting 1
Servicemen's Christmas Dinner and Concert, 8, and S. Home, 7.30 p.m.
St. Teresa's CYM.8, Social Gather- Ing. 9 pm.
St. Andrew's Fellowship, Christmas Dinner and Party, 7 pm.
Claims against estate of Plinto Tinoco end Wong Cheuk-ling: due:
YMCA.: "Badminton, Mixed Swimming; Billards Match, 7.30 p.m. Chinese Manufacturers Unôn, Ex- hibition, Kowloon
St. Andrew's Fellowship, Christmas Party at Fanling Babies' Home, 8.30 p.m
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GENERAL
Radio
HONGKONG
Ubrary, Supreme Court.
Programmes
On Wavelengths of 355-
metros (845 kos) $10.
; motrës (9.53 magaayolna),
DICKEN'S "CHRISTMAS" CAROL"
FROM THE STUDIO
Varicky Programmes
12.13 p. Short Service of Inter-
cension
1935 | Mantovani and His Orchestra in Dance" Music.
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-7.30 Variety.
Vocal-Was It Rain? Sweet "Heart- ache (both from The Hit Parade') one' Frances Langford with... Orchestra: YocalA Shanty in a One Horse Town; Waltzing Matilda (An Austro- Han Dong! The Hill Bies with. Their Own Novelty Orch.. Piano --. Keep A Twinkle In Your Eye--Quick- step Drama Awhile-Blow Fox Trot Gerry Moore. Vocal Blazin" The Trail (Powell and Other); Twilight on the Trail (from The Trail of the Lonesome Phis)The Hill Blen with Their Own Novelty Accomp. Vo cal-Melody" from the Sky (from The | Trail of the Lonesoute Plae'); Is Xt
True What They say About Dixie? | Frances Langford with Orchestra.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcementa. 1.63 Vocal Programme.
Emmanuel Church, Carol Service Slow Fox-Trots The Red Mapie Christmas Gifts for Fanling Bables Leaves; There's Rain in My Eyes. Home and Short Play by Young Peo-Waltz The Dance Goes On (from ples' Club, 8 p.
Over She Goes); Slow Fox-Trot -- Wartime Intercession Service, St. Did I Remember? (filmi "Suzy'). Tan- Andrew's, 8 D.m
gos - Balalaika, Aloha, Marimba? Catholic Slow Fax-Trots Raindrops: Your
When (Bass) with Plano accomp. |Heart and Mine. Waltz-The Hum
ming Waltz.
Evening's Twilight (Hafion); Sweet and Low Tennyson-Barnby) - The 100 Local Time Signal and Weagallsbury Singers unaccompanied. Love sher Report.
Is Mine Gartner); Walt!
Midnight Mass st Churches
Christ Church, Carols, Christmas Play and Midnight Eucharist.
25-Tides: High 630 am and 630 pm, Low E2.43 am, and 13.45 am. Sunrise: 7am; Sunset: 546 pm. Christmas Day,"
International Charity Cup Soccer, Scotland v. China (Boundary SL).
Rosary Church Rectory. Children's Party, 3 p.m. to 6 pm.
26-Tides: High 7.50 am, and 7.15
pak Low 1.40 am and 12.32 pm.
1.03 London Palladium Orchestra and Milla Korfus (Soprano).
Passing By (Herrick-PurcelD; "No! John Nol (Sharp) Paul Robeson
Harde-
lot. Balmen)--Alfred Piccaver (Tenor) with Piano accomp. It was a Lover-
La Siesta-Barcarolle (Norton, arr. and His Lass (Shakespeare and Mor- Lotter); The Grasshopper's Danceley) The BBC. Wireless Singers (Bucalossi)-London Palladium Orch. Unaccompanied. There Is A Tavern Voices of Spring (Strauss) - Miliza in the Town (Trad)- Harold Wil- Korjus (Soprano) with Orch. When Hams and B.B.C. Male Chorus.
(from Mother's Knee (Some favourite lulla- You Dream About Hawall These Foolish Things); Love Makes Thing)--Intro: Cradle. Song (Schubert): the World Go Round (from These Ms curly headed Baby (Cutsam) :
At.
Sunrise: 7.01 a.m.; Sunset: K47 p. Foolish Things')-London Palladiuru Lullaby (Brahms): Hush-a-bye Baby Orchestra. La Villanelle DellEssle Ackland (Contralto) with Or- Acqua) Miliza Korjus (Soprano chestra and Chorca. with Orch Demoiselle. Chic Inter mezzo (Perey Fletcher); Three Dream Dances'-No. 3 (Coleridge Taylor) - Landon Palladium Orchestra.
Boxing Day. Kwanti Race Meeting. International Charity Cup Soccer, Portugal v. England (Kowloon F.C.). Charity Softball, K.P.C, 10.30 am. YMCA: Women's War Work,
| a.m.; Swimming: Chess Night, é p.m. 27-Tides; High 857 am and 8.05
Low 2.29 am and 1.18 DEL Sunrise: 101 s.r.: Sunset: 8.47 p.m.
RA,O.C. Dinner Dance.
Ladies' Working Party, (B.W.OF.) Oavt. House. 9 am-12 noon.
p.m.
130 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wea. ther, Forecast and Announcements.
145 Variety.
8.30 . Orchestral Selections,
Overture "Manganiello" (Aüber) — B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. The En- chanted Lake Cindow)--Serge Kous- sevitzky conducting the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra. "Prince Igor" m Polovts! March Borodin-Rimsky Korsakov)—The B.B.C. Symphony Or- chestra. Pantasia The British Em-
Comedian - Button 'Up Your Shoes and Dance (Wall): What Was That pire England: The British Grena- That You Said? (Wall)-Max Walldiers; Ireland The Minstrel Boy: with Orchestra. Humorous Sketch Indis Rekhtah: Wales-March of Evacuation Representative Commit--The Lodger (Catrex Newman) the Men of Harlech; Canada-Cance tes Public Meting, Peninsula Hotel, The Fol-De-Rois. Vocal-You Bettering Song: Australia-Aboriginal "Air; Change Your Tine (Whiting and South Africa-Polk Song: Scotland- Weldon); This Time It's Real from Caller Herrin and The Hundred Pl- Follies of 1938) - Rose Marie with pers: New Zealand-National Song: Orchestra Accordeon-Mason's Apron Finale--Mayfair Symphony Orchestra.
Reel; Rakes of Colonmell— Jig —
9.50 London Belay-The News and Frank Murphy. with Piano, Vocal -- Sing Me A Swing Song (Adams); News Commentary.
Kowloon Tong Garden City Assn., Draw for Debentures, & p.m.
28-Tide: High 9.53 am and 8.46 }p.m. Low 3.13 am, and 1.59 pun.
Sunrise: 7.02 am: Sunset: 548 pm, Little Flower Club Christmas Din
ber.
....
9.30 London Belay Talk: 'Scots
There's A New World (from 'Okay for Sound?-Ike Esch with OrchesAbroad." tra.
2,15 Close down.
29-Tides: High 10.39 him, and 9.30 † pa. Lów 334 am, and 240 p.m.
"Sunrise: 7.82 am; Bunset: 5.43 pan. ; YM.C.A, Discussion Group, 3. p.m. Chinese
Recreation.. Club "A1 {{ions. Home."
-
8.45 Corelll-Concerto Grosso In G Mince ("Christmas Concerto”),
6.30 Closing Local Stock Quota ducted by Bruno Walter.
London Symphony Orchestra con-
18.00 Sindio-An Abridged Version) of Dicken's "Christmas Carol”
10.30 Hatchinson-A Noel Fantasy Or from "A Carol Symphony."
6.$2 Dance Music. 30-Tides: High 11.24 . and Fox-Trot The King's Navee 10.08 pan. Low 432 am, and 3.20 p.m. Jack Jackson and His
Sunrise: 7.02 am: Sunset: 5.49 pmchestra Quickstep-F. D. R. Jones Ladies Working Party (H.W.OF), Govt. Rouse. 9 a.m.--12 noon.
Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Gar (from "The Little Dog Laighed'den, conducted by Hely Hutchinson.
Jack Harris and His Orchestra. Party Dance Knees Up. Mother Brown; The Black-Out Stroll-Oscar' HEALTH RETURNS Trot-The Fairy on the Christmas Rabin, and His Band Novelty Fox
as
10.40 Royal Command Performance, To Heart-Fasing Mith (Purcell- Davies)-Isobel Baille; Eisle Budda- by, Astra Desmond and Chorus. The Cloud Cap't Towers (Stevens)----Mass- ed Choirs. Y Bore Glas (Welsh Folk
The following is the Return or Tree - The BB.C. Dance Orchestra. notinable diseases notified
| Rumba~~Sibonay-Alfredo" Brito and having occurred in, the Coloris Sally-The Organ. The Dance Band &
His Orchestra. Quickstep-Goodbye Song) - Margaret Rees and Welsh Chorus. Twantydulo (English Fol during the 48 hours ended age. Comedy Waltz-All Over Italy Song) - Robert Easton and English midnight on Dec. 22:- Small-Pox Ray Noble and His Orchestra. Quick-Jawed and Massed Choirs. Chorus England Parry) one case (Imported); Diphtheria, step- thres cases; Enteric Fever, three Major - Bldney Lipton and cases: Measles, thrée Chicken-Pax, One case;
tery, eight, cases:
24 cases.
Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant
His
Mary Jerusa lem (Parry); National Anthem (Final verse)-Massed Choirs.
11.00 Close down.
Cases; Grosvenor House Dance Orch. Dysen- 7.00 London Relay-The News, Tuberculosis 7.15 London Relay; — "Questions of
the Hour.'
Calls
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1940. -PAGE 3
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 3.18, 7.15 & 9.3 P.M.
For tis beauty.
*For its great human story.........
You will remember it as your most treasured experience th the theatre.
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RELEASED THRO
MAETERLINCKS THE
BLUE BIRD
in TECHNICOLOR -
with
Shirley Temiple. Spring Byington Nigel Bruce Eddie Collins
Gale Sondergaard Sybil Jason Jessie
Ralph Helen Ericson Johnny Russell-Laure Hope Crews - Rusiell Cecilia Loftus Al Shean
Gene Reynoldi
Hicks
Directed by Walter Lang A 20th Century Fox Picture
Darryl F. Zanuck In Charge of Production
STAN LAUREL
OLIVER HARDY
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4 SHOWS
BALY
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Hal Roach
ONE MILLION B.C
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"FOUR
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BUGENIE LEONTOVICH.” ALAN CURTIS
A 20th Century Fox Picture
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COMMENCING TO-MORROW THRILLING 1 STIRRING SPECTACULAR! Dread War Drums! The Valley Aflame Savages Scaling the Stockade Walls 1 Muskets Blazing and Swinging Women Fighting Shoulder to shoulder with their Men!
IN TECHNICOLORI
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWKI
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CLAUDETERMINEYA
COLBERT FONDA
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The best of all full-length technicolour cartoon pictures.
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THE BLUE BIRD
BREATH-TAKING_ TECHNICOLOUR FILM
AT THE KING'S
The
"Hair-raining · picture of pre-historia monatars.
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SPECTACULAR PICTURE AT
MAJESTIC
15. Co-starring Lon Chaney, Jr.,
Carole Landis and Victor - Mature.” "One Milion BC" tall a simple story of two prehistorie tribes...........
"ONE MILLION B.C." the Shell Feople and the Rock
Aside from being sheer enter-
Trike who live their lives under
tainment on every count, One the shadow of attack by huge Million B.C.", now showing at the dinosaurs woolly - mammoths, Majestic Theatre, is an outstand-musk oxen, terrifying reptiles, as amazing "mood of rare ing screen achievement and adds well as visitations of earthquake beauty that has been caught in another laurel to the brillant and seething volcanoes,
20th Century-Fox's career of Producer Hal Roach breath-taking production, of Mau-
scenes
of
The screen is literally dominat ed by huge pre-historic bsaate and the earthquake scenes, leave one. breathless with their force, sweep and power. Other unforgettable scenes show Lon Chaney, Jr.
rice Maeterlinck's masterpiece. Mytyl and Tyltyl, played by Bhir "The Blue Bird," filmed in the ley Temple and Johnny Russell, new technicolour and currently at meet the Children Yet to Be the King's Theatre, has caused the designers have heightened this cast se khoba, the tribal lender, mauled and gored-by-a-huge much comment and speculation effect,
Besides Bhirley and Johnny, beast, his body lacerated and One, secret of the success of Art Directors Richard Day and Wiard Production Chier Darryl mutilated one lag broken, and B. Ihnen was that they cleverly Zanuck entrusted other featured shrivelled eliminated the horizon from au roles in The Blue Bird" to Spring Needless to say, "One Million these scenes. The sets seem ilter Byington Nigel Bruce, Gale Bon-BC" utilises the newest and most ally to be ruspended above the dergaard, Eddie Collins Bybil up-to-date technické secrets – 111 earth or at least at the top of Jason, Jessie Ralph, Helen Eric-achieving such outstanding veri- the world
son-Johnny Russell, Laura Hope, similitude in the spectacular, mi- In the setting for the Land of Cre Bussel-Hicks-Cecilia
the Tuture, for fistance, where: Loft Al Shean and Gene Rei on location in Fire Valley.