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To-day to Saturday
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,80 p.m.
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SOMETHING NEW
SOMETHING DIFFERENT :
MUSIC DANCING - EXCITMENT,
Starting, desperate drama bebind the bright
lig' ts and gaiety of midnight revelry.
Starting Sunday
LEW AYRES
MAE CLARKE BORIS KARLOFF Hedda Hopper, in a story by P. I. Wolfson and Allen Rivkin. Pro- duced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Direct- ad by Hobart Henley.Presented by Carl Laemmle.
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
NIGHT WORLD
Bright Lights and Dark Shadows
-the Inside story of night life l
COMING SOON
The "All Quiet” of 1932.
Battalion
It's a Universal Super Production.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoria Hong- kong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932.
RACEHORSE'S
7-MILE DASH
AFTER THROWING JOCKEY
ROYAL STAND IN HUNT FOR SECRET
FLAMES
YARD DETECTIVES' INQUIRIES
Now market, Sept. 20.
The Royal stand nt Kempton Instead of racing over a mile and a half as he was intended to Park Race-course, Middlesex, was do, Trustee, one of the runners for ablaze on Sept. 29, flames rising the last race of the day, the Apto a height of nearly 100ft.
It was a beacon that could be prentice Plate, threw his little Jackey, Stinton, at the starting seen for miles around.
Hundreds of passing motorista post and careered away in the op-topped to watch the fire, and the posite direction.
ROCK TRIBE
MEN THE ROMANS CONQUERED
Cairo, Sept. 29.
Eight British explorers have loft for a motor-car Journey of dis covory in the vast unknown glons of the Libyan Desert.
rg-
Major R. A.Bagnold, Royal Corps of Signals, is the leader, und the other members of the expodi- tlon are Dr. K. S. Sandford, of Oxford University, Mr. W. B, K. It was not until he reached Bot-line of cars was mlies long.
So Intense was the heat that the Shaw, into of the Sudan Forestry tisham, seven miles away, that his gallop was checked and he was electricity supply was affected and Service, Major J. E. H. Boustead, houses over a district extending commanding the Camel Corps in captured.
Meanwhile scouts from Charles for several miles wore in dark-the Sudan, Captain V. F. Craig. Royal Engineers, Lleutonant G. L Waugh's stable, in which he is ness for an hour or two.
Five Brigades,
Prendergast, and Lieutenant R. N. the trained, had gone in search of him
Hampton and Sunbury fire Harding-Newman, both of and he was brought back none the
brigades rushed to the stands on Royal Tank Corps, and Lieutenant worse for his misadventure.
He had been favourite for the the alarm being given, and they D. R. Paterson, Royal Corps of race, too.
The explorers, who expect to be At the post Trustee were joined soon afterwards by Signals.
away for two monthra and to cover and Mouchoir had dashed into the the Walton brigade. Feltham and starting gato as it went up and Staines brigades arrived later.
The fire was under control by about 4,000 miles of unknown ter- both jockeys were thrown. Mou-
the ritory, are in four cars, and are carrying aufficient petrol, water choir, however, was easily capten o'clock, an hour after
alarm had been given. tured.
Although, officially, the cause of and food to take them 1,200 miles! All other supplies have been re- the fire was returned as "un-at a stretch. known," incendiarism was pected, and Scotland Yard men are duced to a minimum, and the care making investigations to discover have been stripped of mudguards, bonnets and all other fittings that the cause of the outbreak.
out were not considered essential. Recently there break of fire at Kempton Park, but it was confined to the grillroom and the kitchen of the members enclosure.
There was a similar mishap in an apprentice face here last year,
PREMIER'S HOST LABOUR'S DEMAND FOR EXPLANATION.
Mr. James Welsh, the miners puet" and formerly Labuur M.P. for Coatbridge, was called to a Labour Conference at Coatbridge tu explain why he recently enter tained his old friend, the Prime Minister, at his cottage home.
Mr. Welsh faced his crities sioutly. He denied their right to question him. He said the Pre- mier's visit was in fulfilment of n Jung-standing promise made when the Labour movement was ready to make "s perfect god" of MacDonald, He had refused
into follow Mr. MacDonald National Government.
was 11n
BUR-
ROBEY'S OXFORD
ACCENT
It is hoped that the explorers will gain new knowledge of the nature known Guraan tribesmena raco Berber of the country and of the little- of rock-dwellers of mixed and negro origin,
They live in the mountains and are descended from the ancient Garamantes, who were driven to the hills by the Romane in 19 B.C.
Previous explorations have re- vealed that stone implements and rock drawings are to be found in remote parts of the Libyan Desert.
cent, and Chuliapine repeats them
PASSING IT ON TO CHALIAPINE George Robey is teaching to speak English. Chaliapine Hitherto the great Russian bass Mr.has,known only the most common ofter him.
to place phrase.
playing Don the Chaliapine
Quixote and George Robey Sancho Panza in the film of Cervantes' book which is being "shot" in the Alps near Nice,
"If you cannot trust me I will clear out, declared Mr. Welsh passionately.
A further conference is to be: held.
TO-DAY
ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10,
7.15 € 9.30 p.m.
ts
George Robey declaims the lines with the necessary "Oxford" ac
Even when doing this, George Robey cannot help putting in bits of "gag." The company was once electrified when the haughty Don Quixote exclaimed, in a crescenda of admiration: "Splendid! Mar- vellous. . . I don't think."
The scene was shot again.
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CHARLES FARRELL, MARIAN NIXON
in
"AFTER TO-MORROW"
NEW JOB
STRIPPED OF GUNS AND
H.M.S. IRON DUKE'S the Iron Duke was reprieved, and ordered Instead to be fitted for use as a gunnery practice vessel. Most of her guns, boilers, torpedoes, and as urmour plating have been removed. The old cruiser Terrible, which ARMOUR PLATING landed guns in the South African- The work of demilitarising H.M. War for the defence of Ladysmith, S. Iron Duke, the flagship of Lord has loft Portsmouth for New Jellicoe at the Battle, of Jutland, port (Mon.) to be broken up. The vessel was lately known has been completed at Devonport.
Originally condemned under the Fisgard Third, and was the last of London Naval Treaty to be scrap the hulka used as a training school ped with the Emperor of India, for boy artificers, now transferred Marlborough, Benbow, and Tiger, to Chatham.