ENTRAL
HEATRO
Advance Booking at Andertons & the Theatre Telephone 25720.
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
DRAMA OF PRISON CHAIN GANGS
THAT WILL AMAZE YOU !
The cink of leg irons-the wish of the make whip the crack of cifle shots aimed at men with targets on their bucka!
CAN THIS BE AMERICA 1
Shameless, brutal and TRUE is the story of the "chain 'gangt, where nameless men hack at mewatains in the blistering an. Thrilling and glorious the story of the one man in the gang whose spirit would not crumble...who. rose in wiighty #trength because
sroman waited!
Here's drama big as Life Itself... drama to send the blood pounding through your veins and set afisme your deepest emotions.
HELL'S HIGHWAY"
Aa
RKO
RADIO
Picture
of course!
David D. Selznick, Executive Produt
41
Starring RICHARD
DIX
With TOM BROWN and Rachelle Hudson Directed by Rowland Brown
NEXT. CHANGE.
"Hello...number, pullease... this is Pazu Zitts speaking...I mean Zizu Patts...oh dear...this picture is to funny I've forgotten my neme.......Zasu Pitts, that's it.is listenin
.....come on over and see the girl at the next switchboard and her sweetle mix if in one swellelegant picture!""
are you
with NORMAN FOSTER
JUNE CLYDE
ZASU PITTS
Henry Armetta, J. Fire rell MacDonald. Pro- duced by CadLammie, Jr. Directed by Edward Luddy. Presented by Carl Laemmle. A UNI- VERSAL PICTURE
STEADY COMPANY
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDRICH PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wadham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 30 1933.
"DUCK CRUELTY CASE
DEAF COOK FINED
TEN
DOLLARS
Within three quarters of an hour: of his arrest in Connaught Road West for cruselty to four wild ducks, a deaf Chinese cook of Cochrane Street was fined $10, ör ten days, by Mr. Sihofield in the Central Polile Court this morning. Detective-Sergeant Kinnear said
INDIA REFORM SCHEME
COMMONS ACCEPT PROPOSAL
WINSTON OFF AGAIN
MACAO BROKER'S CASE
-FURTHER REMAND
GRANTED
Kwong Hung-ki, a young Macao broker, made another formal ap- pearance before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court this morning in connexion with the charges of theft by balles of a London, Mar. 29. motor car belonging to Ng Chuk- The House of Commons agreed wah, à building contractor, and the ducks were put in a small to the Government's motion to ap- with obtaining $1,000 by means of basket. Their legs were tied to point a Joint Select Committee of an alleged forged cheque at the gether and the wings were in- the Houses of Lords and Commons American Express Company. tertwined, caosing some to bleed. to examine the Government's pro-At last week's hearing, Mr. J. B It was a difficult job to disentangle posals to reform the Government Prentis, for the prosecution, men- the birds.
of India, by 449 votes to 43, tioned the possibility of charges. A Labour Opposition amend of a graver nature arising out of ment, demauding, inter alia, Do- an inquest to be heard by Mr. minion Status for India, was reSchofield this afternoon, Into the
ected by 476 votes to 42.
death of a Chinese school teacher The chief feature of to-night'e in an accident in Jubilee Road, session of the Indian debate in the when a girl was injured. Defend Commons was a vigorous speech ant is the alleged driver of the in which Mr. Winston Churchill car. assailed the Government's reform proposals.
B. A duck was taken from the basket and its Injured wings were examined by the Magistrate.
His Worship What bail is the defendant on?
Sergt. Kinnear: He did not go on bail. He was brought straight Into Court.
LOCUST CONTROL
EXPERIMENTS IN ENGLAND
London, Mar. 20.
Lord Winterton followed with a Bevere criticism of Mr. Churchill's ntitúde. Rufer and British Wireless:
poisonous material discharged from jan aeroplane.""".
The Colonial Secretary says it is too early to predict whether pro- Experiments are being conducted gress of the experiments will per- in this country into the possibilities mit of practical measures in East
of locust control by means of sub-Africa during 1933-British Wire- Jecting flying swarms, to a cloud of less:
To-day and To-morrow only
At 2.30, 5.10,
7:15 89.30 p.m.
Mr. Wynne-Jones:-I under- stand from my brother that it is unlikely that his enquiry will be completed to-morrow, as the girl in the case is still in hospital. In any case we will only have the two present charges to go on with, and, that being sc. I would prob ably reserve iny deciston pending the result of the enquiry:
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, for the de- fence, agreed that that would be the best course.
His Worship remanded acensed until Monday at 230 p.m.
HONCKOND'S FINEST CNEMA
He practiced his foot- work in a society ball-
room.
When he got into the ring all he knew wäs the clinches.
JAMES
DUNN
SOCIETY
He was a Prize-Fighter Who Did His Best Work
in the Clinches.
The Battle of the Classes
GIRL
with
SPENCER
TRACY
PEGGY
SHANNON
Based on play by John Larkin, Jr. and Charles Besivan
Directed by SIDNEY LANFIELD
Fox Picture
Typified by a
Unique Romance Between an Unlettered Boy
and a Thrill-Seeking Social Butterfly..
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7.15-4.30
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-WILLIAM HAINES-MADGE EVANS➡CLIFF EDWARDS
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FIVE STAR FINAL
with EDWARD G.
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H. B. WARNER MARIAN MARSH ANTHONY BUSHELL GEORGE E. STONE: FRANCES. STARR
Janet
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more adorable than
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A FIRST, NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE
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FARRELL
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TESS
ORIENTAL
of the . STORM COUNTRY
Diraclad by Alfred Sansall
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Dignified Diplomate....
Virtuous Husbands.. Ambitious Lovers with
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MYRNA LOY CONWAY TEARLE
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An ultramodern daring version of Thack. eray's Amazing story of "BECKY SHARPE,'
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Sydney Howard, "SPLINTERS IN THE NAVY"
TO-DAY
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1
WORLD A 2:30, 5.15
7.159.20
The FLYING FOOL"
with BENITA HUME-HENRY KENDALL
MAJESTIC
SIX
Holds you spellbount every clock-tick
HOURS
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TO-DAY to SATURDAY
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--9.20 P.M.
Which Desire is Strongest?
The Will to Livet
The Thirst for Power!
The Lust to Kill?
The Yearning to Love?
Which Desire in Strongest In a Man wilk' Only - SIX HOURS TO LIVE.
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