14
CENTRAL THEATRE
25720
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We are glad to announce that we will commence showing the Bost Super and Special Radio, Universal and British Dominion pictures of 1932-33 from the boginning of next month.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30.
The nowest and greatest Chinoxo Super Special Talking Picture with marvellous technicolour sequences,
BUTTERFLY WU
in
"LIFE'S COMEDY"
EPISODE 1.
With an All-Star cast. Produced by the Shanghai Star Co.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. ` 1939.
THE RECTOR OFM.P. Spends
STIFFKEY 、
Week-end in
CHASED BY A CROWn Poorhouse
The Rector of Stiffkoy, the Rev. H. Davidson, his manager, and Mr. Luke Gannon, the showman, figured In a remarkable scene at Binckpool last night in the vicinity of the Central Beach barrel in which, earlier in the week, the Rector had been exhibited.
Following the police ban on the barrel exhibition and the court pro- ceedings which followed, the Ractor was exhibited in a building opposite the barrel.
MR. D. M. FOOT'S EXPERIMENT
London, Sept. 8.
Mr. Dingle M. Foot. M.P. 'for Dundee, pass the week-end in a Dundee poorhouse in disguise, un known either to the officiala in charge or to the numerous inmates.
MOCK BROADCAST TRIALS
NO JUDGĖS OR K.CS
The Inw Society have informed the B.B.C. that there can be no ro- moval of the ban on barristers and other members of the legal pro- fcaaion broadcasting in their own nam.co.
This means
B.B.C. that the and even judges, to take part in hopes of including eminent K.C.'a, mock broadcast trials must be aban. doned,
Some time ago Mr. Foot received Broadcasting House had hoped He was seated behind a side door, la communication signed by several the Law Society would partially re- and when this became known sev-Inmates of the East house Foor lax its regulations, but a letter has eral thousand people collected and Law Institution in reference to the been received stating that members made the roadway • impassable. conditions there. He replied that of the legal profession may broad-| People were admitted through he would take the drat opportunity | cast only anonymously. door and passed out of another door of looking into the .conditions for two yards away. The Rector apoke himself.
It has been pointed out by the to each person who entered, but
Believing that the beat way to do B.B.C. that the volces of famous within a few minutes there Was this would be to enter the institu-K.C.'s even when they broadcast such a press against the door that tion in disguise, he was admitted on anoymously, are frequently the police had to intorvene.
Saturday night as a bona-fide ap-coguised. Meanwhile the Rector, bis plicant under the name of Donald | manager, and Mr. Gannon left by a Macintosh.
side door and ran towards the rear of the Promenade building whore day morning. the Rector is staying.
He remained there until yester
When the crowd saw them they of clothes, and prased two nights in Mr. Foot received the usual set mide a dash for the Rector, but he reached the door before the crowd overtook him, and the door was Inter locked and barred.
Adapted from the most famous novel aitogather in Six Thrilling CONVICTS WIRE PRISON
Episodes.
NEXT CHANGE
METAL WORKS SET UP.
dormitory, along with 11 oth inmates, and received the вате food and treatment as the others, none of whom had any idea of his Identity.
In an interview last night Mr. Foot said he must not speak on so short an experience about the con- {ditions, but, so far as he was con-
A party of long-term convicta atcerned, he had nothing to complain Chelmsford Prison are engaged on fof. The accommodation was clean,
the most amazing and thrilling insido story of a polico battle wiring the whole of the gaol for the food sufficient, and his fellow
against lawlessness.
RADIO PATROL
With ROBERT ARMSTRONG, LILA LEE, JUNE CLYDE. Behind the icnes in the lives of policemen who live a lifetime twist dark and dawn. More thrills, more excitement, more drama than you believed could be packed into any one picturo.
TAIPING THEATRE.
Accessible by both bus (Queen's Rd. W.) and Traman (Des Voeux Rd. W.) SHOWING TO-DAY.
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 PM.
WILL
ROGERS
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w GRETA NISSEN MARGUERITE CHURCHILL,-
NEXT CHANGE →→→→→→
FRI, & SAT, 14th & 15th OCTOBER. MAURICK CHEVALIER
In
"THE BIG POND"
A Paramount Picture.
ADVANCE BOOKING AT MEE CHEUNG STUDIO,
16, Ice House Street from 9 n.m. to 5 p.m.
Students and Service Men in Uniform Half Price for Dress Circle. BUSES STOP AT THE FRONT OF THE THEATRE.
Alectricity. They are under the inmates were most friendly. supervision of a staff electrician.
herlo gas has been used for
lighting and heatffig.
An
TG-
The B.B.C, will not abandon the series of mock trials, but actors will take the parts of judge and counsel. Listeners are to be the jury.
SIR WILLIAM JOWITT
HOLIDAY LINER COMEDY
Gibraltar, Sept. 7.
A dispute has been raging aboard the holiday cruise liner Otranto over the bounds of attire for sunbathing. Feoling has run highest on the topic of whether men can play deck-tennis stripped to the waist.
Other convicts in the prison CLAIMS TO £3,000,000 ESTATE. have just completed the construc- tion of a large brick and concrete
Paris, Aug. 26. workshop in the grounds, which Mr. Kooremann, an American
This came to a crisis yesterday they have Hamed the Tinshop.lawyer from St. Louis, is now in off the Portuguese coast, when two In it they will be taught a useful Strasburg, making inquiries, con determined revolutionaries tasted
the for their cerning trade in preparation
legatees of.
of the "forbidden" -sport. The 18,000,000 dollar return to elvil life.
(£3,000,000 nt
Garott, First Offeer descended from the The whole of the work has been par catate left by Mrs.
bridge to rebuke the miscreants. earried out by the prisoners, under nee Henriett Schaeffer. the personal supervision of the Most of the money was left by Alas for convention. One of the Governor, Major G... Phillips.her father, Christopher Schaeffer, sun enthusiasts who confronted other than the The men will be trained by quali-who emigrated from Alsace to the him was none fied Instructora.
the United States in 1870, and is robust figure of Sir William Jowitt, The most fashionable game descen- of the workshop, balieved to have direct The output
aboard the Otranto is now called which will include cooking pans, dants in Alsace.
The American Schaeffer claim- "atrip-tennis." dustbins, and other tin and enamel
nods, will be sent for use in other ants to the fortune are numerous," risons all over the country andjand Alsatian Schaeffers
Sir William, the former At- аге not torney-General, is accompanied by
in various Government Depart-wanting in putting forward their Lady Jowitt and their nine-year- ments.
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10.
7.15 8 9.30 p.m.
claims.
old daughter Penelopa.
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LAST TWO DAYS
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"CAUGHT"
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TRANCES DEE
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Conchita MOJICA MONTENEGRO
A FOX PRODUCTION
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AT 2 80, 5,16,
7,15&9.20 p.m.
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UNA MERKEL
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