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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY"
It's Daring! It's "Delightfull
They Traded Lessons in French for Lessons in Love When a Beautiful Girl Became the Teacher !
She gote mere man than the
Comentiran Hire Unded Police....
"and her motti is "Hover the swobre eltoll moBJ į”
french
without tears"
starring
Ray Milland Ellen Drew
Freat, the Dogs Play by Tonnen Religion - DirostVÉ BY ANTMORTY ARDITH » Produced by MARO ZAMM - A Puromnomat Mature.
TO-MORROW-GRAND NEW YEAR SHOW
A STREAMLINED MUSICAL SENSATION!
FRED
ASTAIRE
ELEANOR
POWELL
THE WORLD'S GREATEST DANCERS...Together!
6 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.20
720-9.30
F
BROADWAY MELODY 1940
GEORGE MURPHY FRANS MOURAN
SAN BUNTER FLORENCE RICE
LIKNE CARVER
milandreds of Denzira
dontics! Cole Porter
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
COMING EVENTS
DEC.
31-Tider: Bigh 12,00p.m. and 10.43 m Low 3,10 am. and 4.02 pm
Sunrise: 7.63 am; Sunset: 5,19. p.m. New Year's Evo.
1;
Claims - against Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen (Agents Melchers and Co. Onteri Hsin Engineering Co. Ltd.) due.
Watchnight Service. St. Andrew's Church. 11 30 p.m.
GENERAL
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940. -PAGE Ulcare, Sigreme Court
Radio Programmes
HONGKONG
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Kowloon Cricket Club,
Annual
Fancy Dress Ball.
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B
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On Wavelengths of 353
metres (343 · kom) 81.4@
metres (3.59 magkayelsa).
Craigengower C.
C. President's
American Club. Dance.
Dance. 9.30 p.m.
Chinese Manufacturers" Union Ex- [hibition, Kowloon.
HX. Rotary Club, Tian Meeting."I p.m.
-RUDDIGORE” LIGHT OFERA BY GILBERT & SULLIVAN Portuguese Programme
Short-Service of Inter-
12.15 p. Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Ho- cession. tel. 6.30 p.na
St. Stephen's College, Stanley: En- trance Examination for New Students.
a.m.
12.30 Variety.
Comedians-At The 200; The Lady and the Bottle Brad and, Al with St. Andrew's Church: Wartime in Piano Vocal-The Cuckoo (Sonin); All to Specification (Rutherford - tercession Service, &'p.m. .
Catholic Cathedral: Bclemn Expasl-Arthur Askey with Orchestra. Come tion of the Blessed Sacrament for the diennes - Hiccups; The Tale of the Hat Elsie and Doris Waters with Quarant Ore."
Piano Humerous Sketch Sandy Jofas the Army Sandy Powell. Comedian-A Bird in a Gilded Cage
TAN.
1-Tides: High 1243 pai. and 11.30
Jerry Colonna with Pud and Ris
p.ru. Low 5,87 a.m. and 444 pa.
Sunrise: 7.03 a.m.; Sunset: 5.50 p.m. | Paddy Bears.. New Year's Day.
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Olse Club. Hawalian Fox-Trots -- Honolulu Stars and Hawallan Gut- Lars; A Kattle' Rendezvous in Honolu- ----Ruy Smeck and His Hawalian Serenadera.
9.00 London Belay-The News and News Commentary.
9.30 Landan Relay -Talk: Scuts Jaquts
Abroad.
9.45 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 In E Flat Major, Op. 60.
Ist Mov: Adagio-Allegro vivace: 2nd Mov: Adagio; 3rd. Mov: Allegro vivace and Trio: 4th Mov: Allegro ma nan troppo. The BB.C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
10.17
Plang.
Vladimir Horowitz mo the
Presto-Passionato (Appendix to Op. 22-Schupaan Dream visions. Op. 12, No. 7 (Schumann); Mazurks in E Minor, Op. 41, No. 3 (Chopin),
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10.30 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Rudi- · digore."
Characters and Soloists: Sir Ruth-
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wear Baker (Baritone): Richard Dauntless
Fanling Huot to meet at Fanlingther Report. Lodge, 2.45 pm.
Cheero Club" Dance, 8.30 p.m.. Club de Recreio, Tea Dance. Chinese Manufacturers' · Union Ex- hibition Kotloon.
Arms Licences due for renewal:
ven · Murgatroyd (Disquised as Robin Oakapple, A Young Farmer)-George
(His Faster-brother)-Derek Oldham 1.03 Mavis Bennett (Soprano) and (Tenor): Sir Despard Murgatroyd KA Light "Symphony Orchestra.
wicked Baronet)-Sydney Granville; Homage March (Haydn Wood); Roderic Murgatroyd (The 21st Baronet Darrell Fancourt; Old Concert Waltz *Joyousness (Haydn
Adam Goodheart (Robin's Faithful Wood)-Light Symphony Orch. cond by The Composer. Valley of Laugh- ter (Sanderson); Bird of Love Divine Haydn Wood)-Mavis Bennett (80- prano) with Fiano accomp. Valsette from Wood Nymphs" (Eric Gates Orchestra cond Re--Light Symphony
2--Tides High 1.33 p.m. and 11.5 (p.za. ·Law €24 auni and 527 pm,
Sunrise: 7.03 am: Sunset: 551 p.m. HE the Acting Governor returns
to: Government House.
St. Stephen's College. Stanley,
open.
3-Tides: High 2.18 pm Low a.m. and 6,17 PM
by The Composer. Down Vauxhall Bag Way (Oliver) Mavis Bennett (80- Rondel; prano) with Piano accomp. Mina (Eigar. arr. Hayda Wood): She- (Ezar, T. Havda Light Symphony Orchestry
Sunrise: 7.84 a.m; Sunset: 539 pm. Claims against estate of Shing dus...
Yeung
pherd's Song Wood)
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China Fleet Club Theatre-Variety cond. by Haydn Wood KOWLOON
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(MATINEES. 206.-30. ° EVENINGS. 20-30c50e70
SHOWING TO-DAY
POWERFUL SPECTACLE! GREAT DRAMA IN GRIPPING FILM!
DARRYL F, ZÄNUCK': PRODUCTION OF
20th Charurg-Vos Plature
THE RAINS GAME
MTENS
atqueing TYRONE
by LOUIS BROMFIELD?
FORGE
LOY POWER-BRENT
BRENDA JOYCE • NIGEL BRUCE » MÄRIA OUSPENSKAYA JOSEPH SCHILDKPAUT - MARY NASH + JANE DARWELL MARJORIE RAMBEAU · HENRY TRAVERS - H B WARNER
Dunded by CLARENCE BROWN
NEXT CHANGE
John Steinbeck's
“OF MICE AND MEN"
A United Artists Seanational Drama!
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CATHAY
DAILY AT 2.30.5.15.7.20,&9.30.P.M.
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY
A GALAXY OF M-G-M SHORT SUBJECTS 1 ALL NEW! NEVER SHOWN BEFORE!
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
presenta
LAUREL & HARDY
COMEDY PROGRAMME
including Travelogue, Sportscope, Cartoons, Specialties, etc., etc.
COMMENCING TO-MORROW · GRAND NEW YEAR'S ATTRACTION!
WALLACE
THUNDER
BEERY AFLOAT
CHESTER MORRIS [VIRGINIA GREY
B
Entertainment in aid of S.P.C.
Sino-British Cultural Assn. (HK Branch), Annual Dinner, Chinese Merchants Club, 5.30 p.m.
Y.M.C.A Entertainment in ald of H.KS.P.C. 9.35 pr
HE the Acting Governor to pay in formal visit to HK and Whampoa Dock, i p.m.
138 Renter & Rugby Press, Wex- her Forecast and Announcements
145 Dance Music.
Fox-Trois - Jazmocracy: Chillua ce Up Jimmie Lunceford and His Orch. Tangos -- Letter of Farewell; Love Letter-Öskar Joost. Tango Dr- chestra. Fox-Trota-The Start Hour: Shake Down the Stars-Tommy Dor- sey and His Orth Slow Fox-Trct-- It's A Bhe World (flm "Music in my
CINEMA HIT BY Heart Fox-Tret-Sing a Round-Up
BOMB
FILM GOES ON
Song--Ken "Snakehips" Johnson and His West Indian Orchestra. Instru- mental Fox-Trot-Fles on the Spree Teddy Powell and Rk Orchestra.
Servant)-Stuart Robertson: Rose Maybed (A Village Maiden)--Marie Dickson; Mad Margaret - Nellie (Rose's Briercliffe: Dame Hannah Aunt)-Dorothy CK: Zarah (Profes stonal Bridesmaid) Alice MoxOMA Chorus of Officers Professional Bridesmaids, Villagers and Ghostly Ancestors with Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Malcolm Bargent.
11.45 Light Orchestral
Light Cavalry-Overture (Suppe)- State Opera Orchestra. "The Waltz Dream" - Selection (O. Straus)-De Groot and The Piccadily Orchestra.
13.00 midnight. Bells of St. John's Cathedral ringing in the New Year.
SHORT WAVE
DAVENTRY
Wavelength 17.794. (15.86m.)
9.510.0 (71.35m.)
Calls
G.S.G
GSB
GLS.H.
21.47m.c. (31970)
G.S.O.
15,18me. (19.79m.;
NEWS IN ENGLISH
Transmission --News Sun- *
2.13
Clone down.
inary.
4.00 0.0
5,45
Indian Programine.
Full Bulletin
5.00 p.m.
6.30
Closing Local Stack Quota-
fransmission V-News Sum-
mary
6.45 pm.
Full Bulletin
7.30 p.m
6.32
do.
9.15 p.m
do,
12.00 mid
nignt
frans. n & II-News Swa-
mary Pur Bulletin
7.30 &
8.30 2.
"Questions of
A London cinema operator re-
the tons.
mained
cinema
at his post after had been hit by a bomb
and continued showing the picture until the audience had left,
Delins-Sea Drift
John Brownlee (Baritone) and the London Select Choir with the London
7.00 London Belay-TheNews. 7.15 London Relay the Hour!.
Part of the roof collapsed into Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the auditorium, which filled with Sir Thomas Beecham, such dense clouds of dust that many people thought the cinema was on fire. Long after the screen had become Invisible the sound of voices told the audience that the film was stil going on.
The comic dialogue, by then fantastically irrelevant, was the only sound which broke the silence after the bomb had fallen. "No one in the audience uttered
jery
7.30 Portuguese Programme. 2.00 Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
Variety.
8.03
"THE RAINS CAME”
Powerful Story Of Human Emotions
Blow Fox-Trots - I Won't Tell A Soul: Two Shadows from the film)...
Hailed as one of the truly great Roy Fox and His Orchestra, Vocal A
Will Pray Beverley Nichols); Whis motion pictures of all time, Darryl pers in the Dark (film Artists and F. Zanuck's production of "The, Models) Frances Day (Soprano) |Rains Came," the sensationally with Orchestra. Waltz-Seal It With successful novel by Louis. Brom- a Kiss (film "That Girl from Paris"); neld, opens today at the Majestic Fox-Trot-The Night Is Young and Theatre, with Myrna Loy, Tyrone You're So Beautiful Roy Fox & His Power and George Brent sharing
Humorous The Crazy
stellar honours.
Orchestra.
CHOKING DUST At first nobody stirred, then by twos and threes, without haste, people began to find their way out through the choking dust.
It is believed that no one was Gang at Sen-Nervo, and Knox, seriously hurt. The programme Flanagan and Allen: Naughton and
This powerful story of human was nearly completed, and few Gold Fox-Trots-Sweet & Song; i emotions at the breaking point remained in the Audience. The Could Use a Dream (both from Sally, and human lives at the climax, part of the auditorium where Irene and Mary)-Roy Pox and Als while the untamed forces of na- most of the debris fell was un- Orchestra. Vocal -Pop Eyed Pete occupica
if
(Kennedy and Carr).
ture ravaged the earth; has been faithfully retold in this 20th Cen- tury-Fox film, In which all of Bromfield's colourful characters are brought to vivid fe.
Myrna Loy is seen as the amor-
Two. usherettes had head and 5.41 Hawallan Selections. face cuts. One of them with
Waltz Chiquita; Drifting and blood streaming from her cheek, Dreaming Ferera. and Paaluhi jshowed no thought for her own Hawafan Guttars). Liliu E (Kaula)
injurles until her companion re- -Lizzie Alohikea (Vocal). Beautiful ous Lady Esketh,,, Tyrone Power- ceived first aid. Beveral members Woman (Kahale) William Ewallke has his most romantic role as of the audience were also nurt Vocal both with the Royal Hawaiian
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POWELL ARTHUR THE Ex-Mrs Bradford
With JAMES GLEASON, ERIC BLORE, HOBERT ARMSTRONG, Le Les, Brent Michelt, Bria ́O'Brien- Moore, Ralph Märgen..
EKO RADIO
"TO-MORROW
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Fox Picture
TYRONE POWER LINDA DARNELL
"
in " DAYTIME WIFE'
Major Rama Bafti, and George Brent plays the world-weary Tom Ransome.
Brenda Joyce, star-maker Zan- uck's newest discovery, interprets | the role of young Fern Simon, while others featured in the great zast are Nigel Bruce, Maria Ous- penskaya, Joseph Schildkraut. Tane Darwell, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers and H. B. Warner. the Clarence Brown directed production, which reproduces with breath-taking realism the earth- quake, food, fire and plague high- lighting the novel
Interviewed after his first show- ng of the film. Bromfield declared
KING'S
TO-DAY ONLY ÄT 2.30, 5.10.° 7.15, & 9.38 · P.M.
ROCK
STAN
with laughter AND ROLL
in the
aisles!
as Stan and Babe put
out to sed in a tidal wave of hilarious mishaps. with mermaids..stowaways.. and harbor policel
Hal Roach presents
OLIVER
LAUREL & HARDY
7
"SAPS AT SEA"
Diretta L. GORDON DOUGLAS - Rounased the UNITED ARUSTS
GRAND NEW YEAR' ATTRACTION DEANNA DURBIN
TO-MORROW
4 UNIVERSAL SPRING PARADE"
PICTURE
4 SHOWS
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MOST FANTASTIC OF ALL HAIR BAISING - SPECTACLES !
GREATEST THRILLS on EARTH
SEE Man the Vol.
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SEE-Ton F-WATERSE
Maaturi jodwi in Kodhel Combo
WONDERS NEVER BEFORE BEHELD BY MANĮ.
u Took o Million Years to Bring You this Staggering Spectacle oi the World at the Dawn of Time!
Hal Roach presents.
ONE MILLION
B.C.
featuring
Victor MATURE Carole LANDIS Los CHANEY.Jr.
Directed by Hat Roach and Hal Roach, Jr. Rafoment des United Arthats
ACTUM LIVING ANIMALS OF A STONE AGE RE- CREATED and FILMĖS SY A NEW SECRET
PRICESS!
BAT "CALL IT A DAY" ROTOUS
COMEDY Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Rolland, Young, Bonita Graaville,
★ MATINxia
Que ● EVENINGS:
his delight with Zanuck's picturi Argentine Govt. Bans RADIO APPEAL FOR zation of his novel and the expert- New Chaplin Film
hess of Brown's direction.
SELF-SACRIFICE VICHY,Dec,
・30 (enter) BUENOS AIRES (Argentine), Marshal Petain made a national Dec. 30 (Reuter)-Newspapers here broadcast yesterday afternoon but CHINESE SYMPHONY adversely commented on the Gov-threw no light on the present ernment decision to han Charlie Franco-German negotiations (Chaplin's "new film. The Great which have been the subject of a CHUNGKING, "Dec. 29 (Centra)), [Diętator.
big crop of week-end rumours., The Chinese Bymphony Orches
He confined himself to a morál appeal to French youth and men for self-sacrifice and team spirit..
ORCHESTRA
tra," organised recently by leading Subsequently, it will hold tree Chinese musicians, will give its concerts once a month in Chang- first concert here on Jan. 2, 1941, kirig.