CENTRAL
THEATRED
Reached by Went Bound Queen's Road Bus, Telephone No. 26720;
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
'A ROMANTIC BRITISH PITURE VITH SPARKLING DIALOGUE AND COMEDY. AND LILTING MELODES
THE HONGKONG TEEEGR
WINIFRED SHOTTER & OWEN NARES
The Love Contract
·THE" ESCAPADES OF A LADY CHAUFFEUR
FROM THE SUCCESSFUL STAGE. PLAY "CHAUFFEUR ANTOINETTE" HEAR THESE CATCHY TUNES "ANTOINETTE"
"THE AUTOMOBILE SONG"
A BRITISH & DOMINIONS PRODUCTION
SATURDAY
JUST ONE LONG LAUGH AFTER ANOTHER!
ROBT
World's Greatest Clowns in their Greatest Laugh Spree..
WHEELER WOOLSEY
PEACH O'RENO
THEATRE IN A LINER
IMPROVEMENTS TO AQUITANIA
With Those Two
Madcap CharmOTE
DOROTHY
LEE
ZILMA O'NEAL
and
JOELPH
CAWTHORN
Bright... Bradry......» Butty] Jambores Thru Nations New Capital of "Liberty"..... | With “Cuckoo"f Comedy....... Dizzy Damas...o Whirling Big Grin Festival in the "Biggest Little City in the World"
DIRECTED BY WILLIAM”SEITER RKO_RADIO_PICTURE_.
GIFT OF KILLARNEY TO IRLAND
FAMOUS ESTATE TO BE A NATIONAL PARK
INDUSTRIES- FAIR
-PROSPECTS
GOOD OMEN FOR THE NEW YEAR
Year.
London, Jan. 4.
PEDDER STREET BURGLARY
INTRUDER PROBABLY
DISTURBED
LOCK MYSTERY
HEAVY FINE ON
* SMUGGLER
AN OLD HAND AT
THE GAME
While on duty near: Abordoen. last night, Revenue OMear Hum- phreys stopped a sampan near the eastern entrance of the harbour, and found two men on board with 120 gallons of spirit of wine, can- tained in 20 specially-constructed jars, for which duty had not been raid.
The interest being shown in the forthcoming British Industries Fair, which opens in London and Birmingham on February 20th,' Mystifying features are pre and continues until March 3rd, is sented by a burglary carried out greater than ever before experien- In the Gracco Egyptian Tobacco cod. This fact is regarded as #Store in Pedder Street last night, hopeful trade portent for the New which resulted in the theft of
There are already Indications $140,
The shop closed at 8 o'clock that the number of buyers from last night, when it was thought abroad will greatly exceed last that the front door with its Yale year's record figure of 9,900. As padlock was secure. At 8.30. thin compared with the particulars morning, however, when Mr. available on the corresponding Dododglou, the Manager, return date a year ago, 40% more buyera od, he found the lock missing R. O. Humphrey's-Yes, your have announced their intention to
from the staple, and the hasp Worship. The second defendant Is Ho hue attend,
hanging free. Not a scratch was a returned banished.. visible to show forco having been several previous convictions for used, although a bolt on the in-smuggling. He scoms to be & aldo was unscrewed and left lying persistent smuggler.. on a counter.
Five hundred men are employed; It has been oficially announced. on a six-weeks' overhaul of the in Dublin that the famous estate Cunard liner Aquitania; now Injat Muckross, Killarney, consisting Southampton Docks,
of 10,000 acres and comprising the The scheme Includes the con celebrated lakos, has been pre- atruction of a cinema theatre sented to the Irish Free Stato for which will be the largest in any the purpose of a National Park, British ship, and will accom The gift, which the Government modato 260 persona. There will has accepted, wan nasured through also be green rooms and a stage the generosity of Mr. William for dancing and stage plays. Bowers -Bourn, who originally
To contaruct the theatre the bought the property from the lato greater part of what was original-Lord Ardilaun and settled it on ly the second-class dining saloon his son-in-law. The gift la in will be used, as second-class memory of Mrs. Arthur Vincent, travel, no far as the North Atlantic who died some years ago. is concerned, is almost dead.
The theatre will be usid, inter- changeably, by first, tourist, and third-class passengers.
The reconstruction: scheme also involves 80 new state rooms, each with private bath-rooms,
Legislation necessary for the taking over of the property will be introduced in the Dail,
Muckross is a peninsula be- tween the Middle and Lower Lakes of Killarney. Upon it are the ruins of Muckrona Abber,
..
More than 1,400 firms will ex hibit in London, compared with only just over 1,360 last year, British Wireless,
་་་ BRITISH PHONE
The two men, Leong Pp and Ho Hoi, were brought before Mr. But ters at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning and pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful possession, His Worship:as either of them any previous conviction?
His Worship:-Looks like it.
A money-changer's stall, the The first defendant was fined Hing-Cheong, which shares the $2,000 or six months" hard labour, shop-space, appears to have been and the second was sentenced to the thief's first objective. From 12 months in all. His Worship a drawer, said to have been left further ordered the boat to be unlocked, he secured loose, cash confiscated. NOW INTERNATIONAL amounting to $125. He also In-
PROGRESS
SERVICE
London, Jan. 4.
vestigated the contents of the drawers of Mr. Dodeoglou's desk, and from one compartment, also Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster-left unlocked, he took furthor Genoral, opening the Young Peo- loose cash amounting to $16. ple's Telephone Exhibition at Br. mingham, referred to the fact that It was 21 years age this week that the British Post Ofco had tsken over the responsibility of provid- Ing the telephone service of this country: In that timo, the number of subscribers had trebled, but, what was more satisfactory, the service itself had increased in manifold fashion.
Twenty-one years ago, it was a National Service; now it was an International Service, and the Bri- tish telephone aubscriber could speak to 95 per cent. of the tele- phone subscribers of the world. British Wirclean. :
Curious enough, not a single article in the shop was disturbed, although there was a display of a thousand dollara' worth of attrac tive clgar holders and cigarette cases in the principal showcase near at hand.
FORWARD - SHARE DEALINGS
FUTURE POSITION NOT DECIDED
Mr. A. H. Carroll, Chairman of the Hongkong Sharebrokers' Asso- ciation, in the course of a latter A large piece of cloth left be- regarding forward transactions in more ambitious shares after the January Settle- hind revealed a project until apparently abandon-ment, states that no definite decl- ed through some cause for alarm. sion bas yet been arrived at by Next-door, an Indian watchman the Committee of the Association was or duty, who does not appear in respect of the system to be to have sensed anything out of adopted in forward dealings in the the ordinary.
CLOUDY WEATHER
future.
The Secretary of the Hongkong Stock Exchange, Mr. A. Nissim, points out that the statement pub. Ished yesterday is unauthorised, in so far it purports. to apenk
The anticyclone remains over on behalf of the Exchange. He A Chinese, arrested in Staunton North China and South Manchuria, adds that should the Stock Ex- Street yesterday after anatching
a
shawl from a Chinese woman as sheand has decreased slightly in in-change at any time deem it neces- went up a staircase, was given six tensity, Fresh monsoon will pro- sary to lasue a statement of policy, months hard labour and six strokes vail over the China coast and the it will do so through the authority of the birch by the Police Magistrate, Northern China Sen. Local fore of its constituted Committee and Mr. Wynne-Sonos, this morning, cost:-N.E. winds, fresh cloudy.
SHOWING -TO-DAY:
At 2.30, 8.10,
7.15 89.30 pm..
officers.
CHONCKOND'S FINEST CNEMAT
HER FINGERPRINTS
are on the hearts of four husbands
--and her fin
gers are in the pockets of 100 other victims!
You'll rear at the funny way
· she makes each "honey" pay!
Madame Racketeer
ALISON SKIPWORTH RICHARD BENNETT GEORGE RAFT
a Garamount Gicture
IVALYN KNAPP
BOOKING AT THE THEATRI TEL. 25313 25332
NEXT OHANGE —— not the SUNDAY, 8th JANUARY
KNIFE HURLED AT
MURDER WITNESS
Opening Session of Vivienne Ware Trial Ends In Wild Confusion.
Y
Akuti kuried by the band of an ubinows sasetieni last 2oghi erashed wild wantingdons in the soUTTENDER CEN
ing the trial of Vivienão Work, aho
The Radio Drama That Electrified The Airl
TheTRIAL of VIVIENNE WARE
JOAN BENNETT
Donald
Richard "Skoots" COOK GALLAGHER
and a big supporting cost -
FOX PICTURE
EORIENTALE
THEATRE
THER ANT TEAM OF BELINY VALARY BUS
TU-DAY --FRIDAY SATURDAY
The
Big
Comedy
Smash
of the
New
Year
Samuel Goldwyn presents
EDDIE CANTOR
Palmy Days
CHARLOTTE
GREEN
70.DAY 'FRIDAY' SATURDAY
Loaded
with Laughter
·'and Packed with Feminine Charm
He was an effeciency oxport, but he couldn't get out of tight places. You got more
with more gorgeous girle to gaze upon.....and laught than you got in "Whoopes' more spectacular ser es to leave you awed
QUEENS THEATRE
A SHOWING TO-DAY af 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
What Price LOVE
She Her
Soul
for a Taste of LIFE!
Constance
DENNETT
the peerless
BOUGHT
BEN LYON
FROM SUNDAY
Beautiful women will.
awoon, strong men will
grow weak, children will shout with glee. The whole town
will go wild with joy !
AT THE
He'll
CHIEF
panic
you!
JOEE.
ROWN
STAR
in his five-alarm comedy riot
REMAN, SAVE
MY CHILD
To-day to Saturday
at 2.80 & 5.20 only
"BACHELOR APARTMENT"
At
9.15
The Italian Opera presents "MADAME BUTTERFLY.”
MAJESTIC
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Doomed Battalion
The Picture Terrific!
with
TALA BIRILL, LUIS TRUNKUR, VICTON VANCÓNI
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