14
CENTRAL
THEATRE
Reached by West Bound Queen's Road Bus. Telophone No. 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7,15 & 9.30 p.m.
RKO RADIO'S MILLION DOLLAR SPECTACLE !
The Play that Swept the World
is the Triumph
of the Screen!
Richard Walton Tully's matchless stage success....... a thousand times more thrilling now!
KING VIDOR'S
BIRD OF PARADISE
RKO
Raho
RKO-RADIO PICTURE
with
DOLORES DEL RIO and JOEL MCCREA John Halliday, Creighton Chaney, Richard''Skoots"Gallagher, Bort Rouch. David O. Selznick, Executive Producer NEXT CHANGE
IT, HELD THE NATION
BREATHLESS
WITH
LAUGHTER
AND TEARS
CARL LAEMMLE presents
STRICTLY
DISHONORABLE
with
PAUL LUKAS
as the opera singer
SIDNEY FOX
as the sweat young thing
LEWIS STONE
as the kindly Judas
GEORGE MEEKER
as the boy from
Orange
WILLIAM RICCIARD,
as the wolter SIDNEY TOLER as the Irish cop Directed by
JOHN STAHL
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
The following cable at the close of the sugar market on Saturday has been recolved by Megrs. Pen- troath and Co.
Produced by Carl Laammin Jr. from the Brock Pember ton slags hit by Preston Sturges
London Terminals
Market unchanged.
New York Terminals
March .68 down 1 pt.
May 78 down 1 pk.
July 78 no change.
September .84 no change.
Cuban 36" -Spol N.Y. 70 no change.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDErick Pergy FRANKLIN, nt 1 and 9. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hong kona.
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MONDAY; JANUARY 16, 1933.
ROME DECREES
HOLY YEAR
PICTURESQUE CEREMONY
PAPAL BULL READ TO HUGE CROWD
DRASTIC SOVIET DECREE F
RIDDING CITIES OF
“UNDESIRABLES”
Moscow, Jan. 15.
LEAKAGE OF MILITARY SECRETS
Ten daye in which to quit the NANKING IMPOSING!
HEAVY PENALTIES
LATEST DECREE
town at their own expense is given to-day to the mombers of one of the categories of those expelled from Moscow and other big cities Rome, Jan. 16. by the application of the new pass- The Papal Bull, promulga-port system.
Nanking, Jan. 16. Thousands of families are pack.
The tenseness of the Sino- ting the Holy Year, was ing up their belongings and are
plarming to floo to a place where, it Japanese situation has led the read to a huge crowd from is hoped, the docres will be car- Government to adopt stringent the nortico of St. Peter's this ried out loan stringently.
measures to prevent the leakage The object of the Russian Goof military secrets. morning.
vernment is to rid the main cities
From now on, the death penalty All citizens of "undesirables."
or life imprisonment will be im over sixteen years of age must posed upon officials divulging have passports, and apparently military secrets, while spies and passports will be refused to those
others employing Hegitimate against whom the Government has
means to secure military informin- been adopting repressive measures, tion will be similarly treated, the kulaks and so on.-Reuter. i
The Bull details the celebrations to be held and announces that indulgences in connexion with the Holy Year are only to be available in Itome.
In
Anyone proved to have divulged military secrets unwittingly will be liable to at least five yeara' imprisonment and life imprison- minut If the offence is committed deliberately.
Other penalties include sen tences of from one to seven years' unauthorised imprisonment for Persons venturing upon fortified areas, military barracks, warships, arsenals, etcetera.
His Holiness the Pope urges the faithful to undertake pilgrimagen to Rome and to Palestina.
Arrested in Tal Nam Street on The ceremony Saturday evening with 26 counterfeit before the read- ten-cent pieces in his possession, a ing of the Bullman named Cheung Pul-fan was WBS most Im-charged before Mr. Butters at the pressive. The Kevin Magistracy this morning. Pope was seated He pleaded guilty and was sentenced the Throne to four months hard inbour. Detec- Room surrounded-ive Sergeant Goodwin prosecuted. by prelates and picturesquely being kept walled uniformed cham-specially donated bricks. berinins.
The Pope himself presides at the The Pope presented the Bull opening of the Holy Door at St to the Dean of the Apostolic Peter's, upon which he knocks with Protonetaries. After His Holiness a golden hammer demanding ad-Government has formulated plans bad retired, the prelates filed out į mission. in procession to the portico, where the Dean of the Protonotaries read the Bull from a specially erected pulpit.
!
up
with
POPE'S MESSAGE.
Consenting to the publication of the Bull, the Pope said that in the Old Testament the origin of the Jubilee Year was a year of peace and remission and pacification, in- Juding a literal remission of
HOLY DOORS TO BE OPENED.
Three coples of the Bull were then handed to the Master of Cremonies to be read at the Church | debts.
of St. Lateran, Santa Marin We must not fall to pray to Magriore, and St. Paul's, outside God to extend His Blessing to all the walls.
*he mer
it in order that
These three churches contain spiritual good not only of
SIGNIFICANT ACTION. The sudden announcement
of
precautions against the leakage of information is considered signi- ficant. It is supposed that the
for dealing with the threatened Japanese Invasion and desires, above all to keep troop movements secret, until they have actually
at their destination.- arrived
Reuter,
In a case at the Police Court this morning, it was shown that a smug- gler, arrested on the Ping On Wharf yesterday, had some 25 tacts of raw opium concealed in a space cut into thethe interior of a bundle of joss papers. in- The man was fined $700, with the al-
by Mr. Schofield'
n Holy Door, which is only opened fividuals, but of untions, may be ternative of four months' hard labour,
in Holy Years, at other times achieved."-Reuter.
SLOW AG
TO-DAY
At 2:30, 5.10, 7.15 89.30 p.m.
KING'S
HONCKONG'S FINEST CNEMA
THEATRE
THE EAGLE'S SCREAM BECOMES A HOWL OF JOY!
Loughs as langes Duronto's schnozzle! Songs as catchy as Cohan hits! Romance as irresistible as Claudette Colbert!
THE
PHANTOM PRESIDENT
With
GEORGE M. COHAN, CLAUDETTE. COLBERT JIMMY DURANTE,
a Paramount Picture
A SEAT FOR EVERY PAIR
OF PANTS!
SHORT SKIRTS FOR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY!
TWO
HAMBURGERS IN EVERY
VOTE EVERY
ROLL I
SCHNOZZLE!
TO- DAY
200+1,18
7.1~30
AL80
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AND
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NEXT CHANGE Thursday, 19th January
JOB SISTER
Romance of a girl reporter "You run to the phone in the midst of a kiss..sume
day you'll let it ring!”
with JAMES DUNN sensation of "Bad Girl" and
LINDA WATKINS Directed by ALFRED BANTELL A FOX PICTURE
ORIENTAL
FLEMING ROAD
WANOHA
TO.
YEL. 18478 MORROW
The Funniest Pic ure of the World's Funniest Men!
A Comedy Riet of a Thousand Laughs!
Laughing Room Only
in
STA
LAUREL HARDY
OLIVE
Pardon V
They mistake a cop for a bootlegger and get a year in jail- and the way they fly in and out of prison will give you the time of your life!
Latta is te biggest surefire clean-up you have seen in many months!
QUEENS THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
Would sho bo unfaithful to him if given the chance! Saucy, witty, naughty, gay-the talkie debut of the aristocrats of the stage-
ALFRED
LYNN
LUNT
FONTANNE
By the courtesy of the Theatre Guild, Inc., is a picturization of thoir
́ greatest stago success
Guardsman
with
Roland YOUNG
Zasu PITTS
THE PRIZE PICTURE of the YEAR
·SPROIAL ADDED ATTRACTION. T. COLOUR REVOE
"The DEVIL'S CABARET"
FROM
Meuo
Goldwyn
Mayer
THURSDAY
ИСТИР
IN HIS WEB OF STEEL
he snared
Youth!
SKYSCRAPER
AT THE
t
Metro Gottwyn
Mayer
PICTURE
In a sky-piercing city of stone and steel, he Bet feininine hearts aflutter with his silken temptations :.... while tought intrigue with intrigue in the Battle of Big Business!
with WAARIN
William
Kureen O'Sulivan
STAR
ho
SOULS
*@smopolitan Production
TO-DAY ONLY
at 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20
The British Sea Drama
"CALL of the SEA"
MAJESTIC
THIS NIGHT
IS THE
(Guramount Picture
with Lily Damira, Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young,
Cary Grant.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
What a MERRY mix- up...Over-night 1usband, make-believe-wife, Fix-it-op Friend Roaring Farce.