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CENTRAL
THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Daily at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
NOW IT'S ON THE SCREEN! 1930'S BEST-SELLER NOVEL If you saw it in The Saturday Evening Post! If you read it in book form! You'll know that "YOUNG MAN OE MANHATTAN”
is the most captivating love story ever put on the screen.
YOUNG MAN of MANHATTAN
A Paramount Picture
featuring
Claudette Colbert Charles Ruggles.
Norman Foster Ginger Rogers
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RADIOLAND'S ORIGINAL BLACKFACE FUNSTERS!
Pack up your troubles[
Those tired comedy man are here again!
THE TWO
You've heard them on the Radio-and Inogh- ad! You've seen them in vandavillo and laughed Now prepare for the laugh of a fo-time. Right from Charlie' Muck's own best-seller novel The Two Black Crows in the A.E.F."
BLACK CROWS MORAN and MACK
in
"Anybody's
War"
A Paramonint Picture
The funniest blackfaço mon
in the world in the funniest comedy of the war you'll over sec!
THE
HONGKONG
BRITISH NAVÁL
CHANGE.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN DIVISION,
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931.
CHICAGO WORLD
FAIR.
STYLED "PAGEANT OF PROGRESS."
DELEGATES HERE.
GOVERNOR OF MALTA RETIRING.
SERVICE IN GREAT WAR RECALLED.
London, May 20.
London, May 20.
The Colonial Office announces The Admiralty announces that it has been decided that two of the
that General Sir Jolin Du Cano cruisers of the American and West'
has applied for permissionTM to Indica Sqandron shall form the
relinquish, for private reasons, South American Division, to be un-
Mr. Fred Gordon Miner, who is his appointment is Governor and farth-Commander-in-Chief of Malta, as der a Commodore, Second Clans, actively Interested in the These vessels will cruise in South coming World's Fair to be held in from 13th June next, and the King American waters and will join the Chicago in 1933, is a Hongkong has been pleased to accede to his main division of the squadron an with a party for a few days, and request, Fermission has also been this morning. revealed to 4 accorded him to retire from the nually for exercises.
representative. The intended new arrangement Telegraph
some Army as from the same date.
Sir John has been Governor shall take effect when H.M.S. Dur- interesting details concerning the
and Commander-in-Chief of Malta ban arrives on the station to re-exhibition.
That it is going to bo the since 1927, prior to which dute lieve H.M.S. Despatch, probably in September next, and that a Com- largest byer, attempted, exceeding he had been for three years modore, Second Class, shall fly his even the magnificence of the 1893 command of the British Army on It is the Rhine. During the latter Fair, is already assured. brond pennant in the Durban.
Captain Laine Pool has been being termed the "Pageant of part of the War, he Commanded fully the 15th Corps on the Western selected for the post.-Briliah Wize-Progress," and when it is Hess,
completed and ready for its open- Front and was afterwards British ing in June 1983, it will cover an representative with Marshal Foch. area of 1,000 acres. It is to be-British Wireless, now about two years, alteach in
with preparation compared previous exhibition known.
FALSE REVENUE STAMPS.
SERIOUS CHARGE PREFERRED AT KOWLOON.
uny or
in
discuses
The return of notifiable the 1,000 acres, 800 have already for yesterday shows two cases been completed, and a very in-typhold and one of cerebro-spinal One of the former was non- teresting fact is that the buildings fever. are being constructed with Chinese, To Luk and Fung Chau-pun were materiala which were practically charged before Mr. Hamilton, atunknown at the time when Chicagoj
The defendants were formally remanded for one week.
Bail in $20,000 ench was allowed.
not
confined
to
the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-held its last Fair in 1893. In may be said that the whole of the ing, with having, on May 18 at other words, over 40 per cent. of exhibition will directly be a ges- Yaumati, uttered ten $10 stamps the auccessful industries of Ameri-ture of friendship to the entire purporting to be $10 Revenue can cities may be credited with world. As such, it will do much towards re-establishing friend- steamps and also with having on materials no older than that. the following day, at the Kam Toi The Pageant of Progress is in ships which may have been strain-- Hotel, had in their possession 240 tended to be true to its name, ed during the last few years.
in- Mr. Miner Is accompanied by stamps purporting to be revenue inasmuch that it will carry
dustry stamps.
from ita infancy to Dr. J. M. Nicholson, and Mr. H. its present-day efficiency, and I. Nicholson (the faller's father), one Misa Lolta Nicholson, and Mrs. industry alone, but, through co-Bessie Green. The whole party is operation, includes engineering, displaying an active interest in architecture, etc.
the success of the World's Fair. The
from and has been agreeably surprised нел response, nations abroad has
with the reciprocated interest most generoux, and great interest has from China and Japan. been manifested, which shows" An event of no small impor- that, despite the success of the tance, which remained one of the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, happiest incidents on their voyage the coming exhibition is going to from Honolulu to ispan, was the
celebration of Mr. H. P. Nichol far exceed it.
Thin ru. The finances of the Pageant of son's 90th birthday.
nonagenarian still re Progress are in the hands of some markable
DIAMOND INDUSTRY
DECISION.
LIMITATION OF OUTPUT
TO END.
Brussels, May 21. The International Commission of the diamond industry has decided
far. been
to abolish, As from May 24th, of America's most prominent mains one of the most active the limitation in production which citizens, such names as that of the members of the party, and his has been enforced since January Vice-President, and late Amts-anniversary was fittingly celebrat
sador to England, General Dawes, ed.
4th.
AMUSEMENTS
AT THE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.30
A 86.60 Attraction The laugh tornado that cost New Yorkers $6.60 a seat now show- ing at popular prices. America's loveliest beauties; the most dazz- ling of spectacles and comedy's peak funster in the merricat myth over told. A wonder of wonders!
LORENZ ZIEGFELD ZAMUEL GOLDWYN
EDDIE
CANTOR
WHOOPEE
by WALTER DONALDSON Oleng by GUS KAHN Founded upan the 1This di Komal County by
singa piny by Owen WILLIAM, ANTHONY MCGUIRE
Davis anlad "THE NERVOUS WRECK" Based upon the story "THE WRECK" by E. J. Rath la collaboration with Robert H. Dariu Produced on the stage by Lewis by Gordon.
H
ALL COLOURI
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This decision has been reached and Samuel Insull, one of the The party leave for Honolulu on MARIE
uo
owing to South Africa not coming foremost men in the electrical in-board the Empress of Japan into line by reducing working dustry of America, being included, Saturday, and will then take ship hours by 50 per cent. which has The architecture is in the hands to Los Angeles and cities, after and spending a thoroughly interesting been applied in Europe centres. of a Board of American Router
foreign architects, and in fact it time in the Orient.
KING'S THEATRE
MONARCH OF THEM ALL
SHOWING TO-DAY.
at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
Remember the
Breath Taking THRH.I.S of "SAFETY LAST" Now You Get Them in a Hit Thai TALKSI
A Hurricane of Happiness and Hilarity.
At the Rate of a Hundred Smiles Every
Laff-Hour!
HAROLD LLOYD
"Feet First
Produced by the Harold. Lloyd Corporation A Paramount Release
DRESSLER
GEORGE HILL production
Metro- Goldwyn May
ALL TALKING
PICTURE
and guess who? WALLACE
BEERY
You've always wanted to see these outstanding stars together.
Well, here they are, in a pleture that sweeps you along the rond 'of Laughter, tears, tense drama, to am unforgettable climax!
MINANDBILL
COMING SHORTLY
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Miracle Production
TRADER HORN
BARABARA KENTS **AGAIN IS LLOYD'S ·
LEADING LADY
Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre. (Tel. 25720.)
„Printed and Published for the Proprietors by Freintox PRICT. FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
Booking at the Theatre.
Tel. 25313 & 25330;