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COMING EVENTS
JAN.
4-Tides: High 12.18 m. and 3.03 p.m Low 7.38 am, and 7.18 pura.
Sunrise: 3.04 a.iu; Sunset: $.47 p.m. HE the Acting Governor leaves for Fanling Lodge.
Fraternity Frayer Room - First of Series of Talks on Coming World. Events, 8.30 p.m.
Lawn Bowls: H.K.V.D.C. Sergeants" Mess v, K.B.Q.C., Cox's' Road, 3.45
p.m.
Emmanuel Church. Sunday School | Christinas Party, 9A, Hillwood Road, #pu
Y.M.C.A.: Hockey, Swining and Tennis, A.D.C. Dress Rehearsal for "Twelfth Night," 9.15 pm.
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Radio Programmes.
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On Wavelengths of 335
metres (845 k.am) 31.49..
metres (9.51 marscynkis);
TODAY
Over Elsie and Doris Waters with Orch. Organ - Waltz Selection-In- tro: I'll See You Again; Falling in Love Again: Love Will Find a Way; The Desert Song: Deep in my Heart; Dream Lover-Reginald Dixon. Come dy Duets Holidays: Income Tax — Naughton and Gold with Piano. Vocal -1 Was Anything But Sentimental; Birdle Out of A Cage (both from Take my tip-Cleely Courtneldge and Jack Hulbert with "Orchestra. Comedian The Woman Improver; Mary from the Dairy Max Miller! with Orchestra. Vocal and Piano - My Piano and Me, Intro: 'One Alone, Inter-To a Wild Rose.' 'One Fine Day
Turner Layton. Vocal Baby, What Bise Can 1 Do? (from “Grand Terrace 12.30 Frank Titterton (Tenor) and Revue'); I Just Got A Letter Prank- In)-Ethel Waters with Orchestra. Narcissus (Nevin); Spring Song Two Planos Spanish Quick Step (Mendelssohn)-New Light Symphony Medley - Intro: Lady of Madrid: Orchestra. Asthore (Bingham, Tro-Argentina: El Relicario: Military Fox (tere); Beauty's Eyes (Tosti, Weather Trot Medley Intro: The King's ley)-Frank Titterton (Tenor) with Horses; The Toy Drum Major: When
MUSIC BALL AND OTHER LONDON "RELAYS
Variety Programmes 12.15 p.m. Sbort Service of
cession.
5-Tides: High 12.45 am and 3.32 p.m. Low X18, am and 854 pm,
Sunrise: 7.84 a.m.; Sunset: 5.50 p.m. Y.M.C.A.: 'Discussion Group, 8`p.m. --Speaker: Mir. A. W. Ingram on "The New Order Adventure": Scfthall Leathe New Light Symphony Orchestra. gue.
English Methodist Church: Annual Covenant Service (after morning ser- rice).
6Tides: High 1.99 am, and 438 p.m. Low 9.04 a.m. and 10.43 p.m.
Pred Hartley and His Quinset.. Salus the Guards are on Parade The Key- D'Amour (Figar) New Light Sym- boarders with Drums. Comedian Sunrise: 7.04 a.m.; Sunset: 5.54 pm.phony Orchestra. Serenade (Plerne Maria Pell for Me (Miller) No. No, Claims against estate of Wnɩ Luis
String Besemble. In An Old No (Miller)-Max Miller with Orches- Mckenzie due. 7
Fashioned. Town (Squire)-Prank Tit-tra. Auxiliary Nursing Service Home (terton. (Tenor) with Piano acc. Bar- 11.00 London Relay Tu Myf Nursing Lectures Commence, Queen carolle ("Tales of Hoffmann-Offen Opinion
Mary Hospital. 5.30 p.m.
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Universal Week of Prayer. Y.M.C.A.: Women's War Work, a..---12 noon; Swimming, Tennis.
Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.), Govt House, 9 a.m.-12 noon.
HK. Singers: First Practice for 1941 Season, Union Church, 5.30 p.m.
7-Tides: High 2.43 am, and 5.18 p.m. Low 9.48 m.
p.m.
1
bach: Cavalleria Rusticana-Inter
11.15 Dance Music. mezzo (Mascagni) -- New Light Sym-
Fox-Fro-Shake Down the Stars-- phony Orchestra
Oscar Rabin and His Band Fox-Trot 1.00 Local Time Signal and WeMake-Belleve Island; Waltz-Memo- thér Report.
ries Live Longer Than Dreams-Oscar 1.03 Rale da Costa (Plano) and Rabin and His Band. Quickstepa - Harold Ramsay (Organ).
Wrappin' it Up; Exactly Like You! - "Say It With Music" Medey Oscar Rabin and His Strict-Tempo (Nobie)-Rate da Costa (Piano). Six Dance Band Tangas Horas Fu-
Great Melodies-Intro: Londonderry gaces: Trapo Viojo-Orquesta Tipica Sunrise: 7.05 am; Sunset: 5.55 pm Air: Cherry Ripe: Annle Laurle: Fox-Trots--The Moon and the Willow YMCA. Mixed Swimming;. BU-Black Eyes Lorelel; O Sole Mio Tree (from "The Road to Singapore'); Hards Match, 7-11 p.m.
Harold Ramsay (Organ), Moute Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells - ELK. Rotary Club. Tin Meeting. 1 Carlo-Medley (Harling & Others); Everett Hoagland and His Orchestra. "Whoopee"-Medley (Kahn & Donald Waltz-Love is all (from 'It's a date'); English ASSE. Mtg. Helena Mayson)-Rale da Costa (Piano) assisted Fox-Trot-They call me a dreamer - Last., 5.30 p.m. HE the Acting Gor-by The Night Club Kings. Famous Oscar Rabin and His Strict Tempo ernor presides.
Marches Medley-Intro: The Washing- Dance Band. Quickstep"- Meet the 8-Tides: High 5.21 a.m. and 3.54 ton Post: Semper Fidelis; Hungarian Sun Half-Way (from "If I had my pm. Low 12.16 a.m. and 10.42 a.mTI, March; Rodeo Parade; London Scot. way); Slow Fox-Trot Little Curly Sunrise: 7.05 am.; Sunset: 5.55 p..tish; Gladiator's Farewell Harold Hair In "A High Chair (from Forty Y.M.C.A.: Women's War Work, Ramsay (Organ), 11 String Along Little Mothers")-Billy Cotton and His a.m.-13. noon; Swimming; Chess and With You (film Twenty Million Band. Fox-Trot-I Can't Love You Draughts Night, 8-11 p.m.
Sweethearts--Rate da Costa (Piano), Any More: Waltz-By The Wishing
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea. Well-Billy Cotton and His Band.
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Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon
9-Tides: High 7.15 am. and 6.27 1.m. Low 1.09 a.m. and 11.35 pm.
Sunrise: 1,05 a.m.; Sunset: 5.56 pm. Entries close for
Colony Chess Championship.
1 p.m.
YMCA.: Squash, Hockey & Swan ming.
H.A. T's Men's Club, Tiffin Meeting.
10-Tides: High 822 am and 6.59 p.m. Low 1.52 a.m. and 12.22 p.m.
Sunrise: 7.05 a.m.; Sunset: 5.57 pm HX. Reel Club, Annual Dance, Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 pm.
Y.M.C.A. Mixed Swimming, 3-4 p.m.; A.D.C. to present" "Twelfth Night." HE the Acting Governor will attend.
ther Forecast and Announcements.
145 Dance Music by Geraldo and | His Orchestra.
12.00 midnight Close down. Continued on Page 8
Fox-Trots-A New Moon and an Old Serenade; And the Angels Sing. Slow Pretty Little Quaker Girl. Rumba |Fox-Trois. — I. I Didn't Care: The
The Gaucho (from Under the Pampas Calk
SHORT WAVE
Moon'); Fox-Trot - The Never-To-Be G.S.G. Forgotten Melody (from 'Seeing C.S.B Stars). Quickstep-F. D. R. Jones: G.S.H. Fox-Trot-On The Outside Looking In | G.S.0. (both from The little dog laughed"! Fox-Tro-The Man With The Man-
dolip
2.15 lose down.
DAVENTRY
Wavelength
17.795.c. (16.86m.)
9.51m. ($1.35m.) 21.47m.c (3197m.)* .15.18m.c. (19.79m.)
IN ENGLISH
News Sum-
4.00 p.m
5.00 p.m.
5.45, Indian Programme. 6.30 Cloning Local
Stock Quota.
NEWS Transmission mary Full Bulleti fransmission V---News Som-
mary
6.45 p.
Full Bulletin
do.
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) and
do.
Ladies Working Party (B.W.O.F.), tions. Govt. House, 9 am.-12 noon.
$.32
His Excellency lunches at 1 p.m. De Groot and His Orchestra with the Manager and Senior mem-
Temple Bells (Four Indian Love Trans. I & II-News Bum- bers of the Talkoo Dockyard and En-Lyrics-Amy Woodforde-Finden) - De gineering Co. and afterwards inspects Groot and The Ficcadilly Orchestra. the dockyard,
Ninna Nanna Della Vita (film 'Solo
11-Tides High 9.07 am, and 137 per te); T Vogilo Tanto Bene film p.m. Low 2.27 am, and 1.08 p.m. 'Solo .per te) Beniamina Gigli
mary
Pull Bulletin
7.30 p.m.
9.15 p.m.
12.00 mid-
Dight
7.30
8.30 .
Sunrise: 7.06 am: Sunset: 5.57 p.m. (Tenor) with Orchestra. Old Spanish THE ADVENTURES
D.3.
12-Tides: High 9.39 am and 8.17 Song (Aubert); Les Millons D'Arle
Low 3.06 am, and 1.52 p.m. · quin-Serenade (Drigo)-De Groot Sunrise: 7:06 am; Sunset: 5.58 p.m. The Piccadilly Orchestra. La Serena Y.M.CA. Discussion Group, 9 pm.
ta (Tosti): Mattinata Veneziana (de) Mari-Cinque) Beniamino Gigli
COLONY MISSES RECORD BY 2 INCHES
k. (Tenor) with Orchestra Waldteufel Memories (arr. Pinck)-De Groot and His Orchestra.
7.00 London Relay-The News."
15 London Rela's the Hour.'
7.30
tra
OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
MAJESTIC THEATRETM
b - 'Questions of
ATTRACTION
Story-book detectives have,come Edna Thomas (Soprano) and and gone, but Sherlock Holmes Barnabas Von Geezy and His Orches has remained the one immortal-
so real to millions that only the DECEMBER WEATHER chids (Richartz)---Barnabas Von Geery throughout the years to the mas- Adua- March (Olivier); Black Orfan mail of Hollywood has rivalled the mass of communications sent
From Dec. 1 to 19 the weather and His Orchestra. T'se Been Buked;
ter-sleuth's famous address, 221B was fine and dry, with almost Gwina Lay Down My Life: Go Down unbroken sunshine. From Dec. 20 Moses (Negro Spirituals) Edna Baker Street, London,
Thomas (Soprano) with Piano. Pony So it is only..natural for the onward it became more cloudy; there was fog in the early morn-nabas von Geczy, and His Orchestra. Doyle's works for sure-fire materi- (Rixner); Ragamuffin (Rimmer) Bar-screen to turn to Sir Arthur Conan ing of the 24th, and a slight fall Little wheel A-Turnin' In My Heart; al Most recent pleturisation of of rat occurred on the 25th; this Keep A-Inchin' Along Were You the great detective was in 20th was the only rainfall recorded dur-Dere? (Negro Spirituals) Edna Century-Fox's "The Hound of the ing the month,
Thomas (Soprano) with Piano. Mexi- askervilles," in which Basil Rath- Décember
Serenade (Kaschubec); Cuban Was mainly rather can
hone appeared, as the perfect per- warm, although there were occą- Serenade (Midgley)-Barnabes Yon
sonification of Holmes, with Nigel sional cold days. The mean tem-Geczy and His Orchestra: perature for the month was 66.0 800 Local Time Signal, Weather Watson.
Bruce as his ever-present foll; Dr.
deg. F, which is 3 deg, above nor-Report and Antiquncements, mal. A maximum of 78.1 deg. was 8.02 London Relay-Musle Kall récorded on the 5th and 16th, and
a minimum of 53.3 deg, on the 1st. The mean relative humidity was 73%. against' a normal of 70%.
SUNSHINE ABOVE NORMAL
So well was this film received that Darryl F..Zanuck now has
News Commentary.
9.00 London. Relay-The News and another Holmes story on the way "The Adventures of Sherlock
9.20. Selections from Light Opera Holmes," showing today. at the Tom Jones' Selection (German)Majestic Theatre, with Rathbone Regimental Band of HM. Grenadier and Bruce again in the leading Sunshine amounted to 20 hours, Guards. Red Rose (from Monsieur roles and Ida Lupino ånd. Alän which is 58 hours above normal Beaucaire'-Messager): English Malds Marshal also featured. Only 0.10. inches of rain fell dur-(from Monsieur Beaucaire Messa The pleture pits the foremost eriminal ng the month. the normal being 85) Raymond Newell (Baritone detective against a
with Orchestra. The Three Waltzes genius worthy of his talents-the -Selection (Oscar, Strausa after notorious Moriarty. Moriarty, Johann Strauss) Orchestra Georges Holmes constant enemy, is also Tzipine with Organ The Sorcerer-Doyle's creation, and as a lawless Vocal Gems (Sullivan-Light Opera master-mind ranks. almost with Company with Orchestra.
1.09 Inches.
The total rainfall for ino year 1940 was 117.7 Inches; it Was the wettest year since 1889, when the highest record- ed. total of 119,7 Inches - Was reached
The maximum wind velocity in
gust during December was 39 m.p.h. at 7 am on the 1716.
10.49 Local sport resulta
10.03 | Varlety.
Holmes in cleverness and in- genuity.The role in the film is portrayed by George Zucco, in- Comediennes--Brother Jack-A Mescluded in the cast with Terry sage front Mum: Gert and Daisy Kilburn, Henry Stephenson and Won't We Are A Party When It's E. E Clive.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1941. —PAGE_3
KING'S
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"It's a Calle 10 Arome!
(THE ARMS OF LOVE)
Denne DURBIN
Spring Parade
A Henry Koster Production"
Robert CUMMINGS Mischa AVER Henry Stephenson Anne Gwynne Allyn Joslyn Franklin Pangborn BUTCH and BUDDY
Directed by HENRY KOSTER Produced by JOE PASTERNAK
• A UNIVERSAL PICTURE • Criginal Stary
by Ema Mariachiro • Seraanplay by BRUCE MANNING and PÉLIX JAČKICHE
TO-MORROW
A 20th CENTURY-FOX PICTURE "THE CISCO KID AND THE LADY" CESAR ROMERO "MARIORIE WEAVER
4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.30-5.20
720-9.30
•
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(MATINEES. 20 c.-30. EVENINGS. 201.-30.50c:70) SHOWING TO-DAY
THE GREATEST MYSTERY - THRILLER OF THE YEAR!
The master-detective
against his arch-enemy, Moriarty, fiction's most famous criminal genius, in the unsurpassed mys-
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THE ADVENTURES OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
BASIL RATHBONE - NIBEL BRUCE" DA LUPINO - ALAN MARSHAL TERRY, KILBURN GEORGE ZUSCO BENNY STEPHENSON E. E. CUTE
Amacians Producer Chal Markey Scres Play by Bonus and WILaw Draka Roned the play "Sherlock Holmer" by Wilhem Cle with the paradiyon el me unscsters of the late Sir Arte Con Dayle 4 20th Connery For More Derry! F Zanuck in Change al frothetican
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