1933-01-19

CENTRAL

Reached by West Bound Queen's Road Bus, Telephone No. 26720.

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 Screeni

Richard Walton

Tully's matchless

stage success - ...... a thousand times more thrilling now!

THE HONGKONG STELE

ESCAPE FROM SING SING

CELL BARS SAWN THROUGH

New York, Doc. 12.

RAPH THURSDAY, JANUARY, 19, 193

"SHY V.C." DEAD

REMARKABLE STORY OF ROYAL PARTY

MAKING ITALY BIGGER

LAKE EMPTIED INTO DESERT.

A remarkable story is recalled by the death, In a Liverpool hos By the time-honoured mothed of Richardson, known as the "Shy pital, of Bergeant A., H. L.

Romo, Doc. 12. One of the most impressive on- sawing their cell bare two harden. V.C." ed criminals escaped from Sing

gineering feats of land roclama- Sing Prison, aided by fox and toria Cross by rescuing a wound-ried out in Istria between Flume Richardson, who won the Viction in Fascist Italy has been car drizzling rain which resulted in aed trooper under heavy fire at and Pola. By a Hories of co Buddon rise of temperature during Wolvarepruit, South Africa, inordinated, dynamite explosions a last night'e snow-storm.

The fugitives, William Sutton, in Liverpool as a tramway ganger, river created, an irrigation sys- July, 1800, worked for 10 years lake has been eliminated, a new who is serving a thirty-year term cinema attendant and at for a jewellery shop hold up, and monial jobs...

other tom put Inte operation, an arid valley rendered humid, and over John Egan, sorving a ten-year

On acount of straitened cir- 12,500 acres of now land made fit torm for assault, effected the most cumstances he lived in obscurity, for cultivation. adrolt and the most daring and allowed his relatives and cape for many years, and more friends to bellove him dead. He was

The lake, Ares, is-or rathor until Sunday the largest over they accomplished it from the "escape proof" section of the permitted a man in Scotland to sheet of water in the Giulia co famous prison.

pose as himself, and even let him gion. Twenty-four mines were on Their cells were at opposite to V.C.s as Sergeant Richardson.

attend the King's Garden Party Sunday exploded, blowing away the earthwork which divided the In 1924, however, 60 many lake from a prepared canal sys- cell block. They cut through the stories were in circulation about tom. This system empties the lower bars, arranged their bed him that Richardson decided to Arsa and irrigates hitherto barron clothes so that in the dim light reveal himself. the patrolling gaolers would be-has continued to live in obscurity.

Since then 'holland.

The work, which has сол Ilove they were still asleep, and

£150,000, has been crapt to the top tier of the

for proceeding building under the roof, hiding to the street,

From there they lowered a rope the last two years,

escoping before A three-mile tunnel has been until nearly morning.

Tytach managed to kick over abuflt to carry of the superfluous Then, timing their movements telephone, thus starting Investiga- water to the sea, and the lake's to elude the regular rounds of the tion.

capacity of 220,000,000 gallons has wardera, they made their way to A woman describing herself as already been reduced by half the refrigeration plant, where they the wife of one of the fugitives, since the waters wore liberated overpowered John Tytsch, the but giving

fctitious New York two days ago. It is calculated solitary "trusty" working at that address, visited the prison yester- that the Inke will be dry, anve hour, gagged him with electrical day, and the authorities are in- for spring water, in eight days tape and wired him to n chair.vestigating the possibility of her time. obtaining materials from the ad- having amuggled in saws.

The final phase of the liberation

ends of the fourth tíor in the new

QUEENS THEATRE

To-day to Saturday at 2.30 5 10, 7.15-8 9:0

Reaching Halfway to Heaven and Halfway to Hell!

The great Drama of Our Time, »ymbolized by this Tower of Stoel, snob corri- ' dor whispering scandal; its silken penthouses the playground of husbands ' seoking forgetfulne-a in the clinging arms of office wivas!

with

WARREN

WILLIAM

New Idol of the Screen Maureen O'Sullivan Gregory Ratoff Asia Page Verree Tensdale

Norman Foster

out

George Barbier

Jean Hersholt

joining tool shop, where they also Other recent escapes from Sing by dynamiting was carried obtained two ladders. These they Sing have been affected by with full formality in the pro- wired together to scale the outer trickery in contrast to this bold sence of all officials of the large wall, reaching an

unused

son-method of cutting a way to free-region which will benefit from

dom..

the scheme.

tinel's shanty.

directed by

DUJE SELWYN

KING VIDOR'S

BIRD OF PARADISE

ARKO

Rudo

RKO-RADIO PICTURE

with

DOLORES DEL RIO and JOEL MCCREA John Halliday, Creighton Chaney, Richard"Skoots"Gallagher, Bart Roach, David O. Selznick, Executive Producer NEXT CHANGE

IT, HELD THE NATION

BREATHLESS

WITH

LAUGHTER

AND TEARS

CARL LAEMMLE prosents

STRICTLY

DISHONORABLE

with

PAUL LUKAS

as the opera

singer

SIDNEY FOX

ma tire sweet young thing

LEWIS STONE 21 the kindly judge

GEORGE MITKER as the boy from

Orange

WILLIAM RICCIARD.

as the waiter

SIDNEY TOLER

as the with cop

Directed by

JOHN STAHL

UNIVERSAL

COTTON & WHEAT January

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