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CENTRAL
Advance Booking at Andersons & the Theatre
Telephone 25720.
-:10):
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
Possession! Unwritten code of men beyond law
HELEN
Twelvetrees
KONIRI ARMSTRONG CHARLES BICKFORD
PANAMA FLO
Dinky test the
RYBY
CHAS. R. ROGERS PRODUCTION. RKO PATHE PICTURE
Another Twelvetrees Drama In the Crack- lingStyle of "Her Man" and "Millie"... Lively With Situation!..Taut With Suspense!..........
Helen Again Plays
With Fire as "The
Right Girl Who Met
the Wrong Men"... the
Kind of Gut Whose Head Warned Bus Whose Heart Wanted!
ADDED ATTRACTION:
"PATHE REVIEW”—NOVELTY.
"WAY OF ALL FISH”—COMEDY
SHOWING tomorrow
UNIVERSAL'S SUPER SENSATION TO THRILL YOU AS YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN THRILLED BEFORE.
IT'S TERRIFIC!
Wild animals tearing madly through the Jungle before a moniter brush fire... fighting flarcely among themselves menacing the lives of a beautiful women and a breve man,
A THRILLER!
-the greatest ever dared for the screeni With the glamorous TALA BIRELL, MELVYN DOUGLAS, Onslow Stevens, Directed by Ernst Leemale. Story by Lester Cohen. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE pre- sented by Carl Laemmla.
NAGANA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933.
BRITISH WIVES OF FOREIGNERS
WOMEN'S DEPUTATION TO HOME SECRETARY
PRICKLY PEAR BEATEN
AUSTRALIA'S DEBT TO AN INSECT
COUNTRY CLEARED OF PEST
FOURTEEN MEN BURIED
WORKMEN'S DORMI TORY SWEPT AWAY
Fourteen workmen were baried by an avalanche which descended on the workshops of Dissorte, at La Praz, near Jean de Maurienne (Haute Savole).
Each of oight women, membera of the Nationality of Married Wo men "Pass the Bill" Committed of the National Connell of Women, spoke for five minutes when they walted on Sir John Gilmour, the
The avalanche started on tho Home Secretary, at the Home By biological meann 80 per cent, Office in connexion with the Bill, of what was an almost impenstr.Col des Sarasins. It carried away Mins C. Macmillan and Lady able mass of prickly pear has been two stone buildings, one a kitchen Trustram Eve were among the destroyed in Queensland, and and the other a dormitory for the of the speakers.
from 50 to 60 per cent, in Northern workmen. Twenty-two An official roport of the de-land North Western New South occupants succeeded in extricating themselves from the debris' un- putation stated that the women, Wales.
hurt, and a rescue party is seeking ! who represented 33 organisations,
In Queensland 1,250,000 acres, the remainder. pointed out that the delegate of the United Kingdom Government at formerly under prickly pear, have the 1931 Assembly of the League, been reclaimed for farming and of Nations had endorsed the 1.750,000 acresa for grazing pur- objects of the Bill, in the follow-pONCA. ing termat
The British Government
often the
?
The factory is at a height of over 6,000ft.
days soldiers wore scarlet unl forms and the cochineal was re- quired to provide the necessary dye to keep the scarlet from be- It has coming pink.
insect
To rid Austrail of one of her con-worst pests, cactoblastis, a minute siders that it in right that all die- paraeille insect, was introduced abilities of married women in
from matters of nationality should be America and Mexico.
the Southern States of removed, and that in so far as proved a remarkable success and nationality is concerned, a mar-
has done in a few years' work of Apparently, the cochineal in ried woman should be in the so destruction that decades of at-seets were lost in transit, and position as a man-married or un tempts by poisoning, grabbing and prickly pear became established in married or any single woman."
other methods failed to do.
Australia without the controlling The deputation urged that tho
influence of that insect. Because Government should do everything Cactoblestis lives on prickly of ita impenetrability people living in its power to make this policy pear and as it thrives so the pear in the isolated regions of thour effective within the Empire, but dies. Very
days grew the pear to that this country ought not to carries bacterial discuses which hedges. Drought aided its sprend, allow action by them to be held up help also to destroy the prickly Emus, driven from the western pending
country in search of food, existed Dominions.
The Honie Secretary thanked The prickly pear is not a native on the fruit of the pear and dis- them for putting their case no con-of Australia, but has been here as tributed the seeds over a wide cisely. He said that he was not long as white settlers, baring area.
By 1920, 60,000,000 acres, In a position to make any state-been introduced for a very curlous
When on the way to area larger than Great Britain, ment that day as to the Govern- reason. ment's intention, but he promised Australin in 1777, with his fleet of had been infested with the pear to make a full report to the military, officials and convicts, and it was spreading at the rate Government, and that the most Captain Phillip visited Brazil, of 1,000,000 acres a year. The careful consideration would be whence he brought some prickly spread has been checked, and given to the views which had been pear plante which were infested jeradication Is gradually being ac-
with cochineal Insects. In those jcomplished. expressed.
SHOWING TO-DAY
agreement
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 8 9.30 p.m.
with
the pear.
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINET
A. GALLANT GUARDSMAN MEETS HIS MATRIMONIAL WATERLOO!
WEDDING REHEARSA
A
Featuring
ROLAND YOUNG, GEOrge grosSMITH, John Loder, Wendy Barrie,
Lady Tree.
Directed by ALEXANDER KORDA
A LONDON FILM PRODUCTION.
Distributed by THE BRITISH VILM DISTRIBUTION 00., trn. EONGKONG.
**An elegantly-staged satirical society comedy with a.light, airy story. It's easy gaiety should assure it meeting with success "—Kinematograph weekly.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
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STARTS SUNDAY
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LEWIS MILESTONE)
PRODUCTION
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From the
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The Üccoun Thrill of the Your!
Fastest of Modern Dramas)
ORIENTAL
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TO-DAT:
TO-MORROW
SATURDAY
MORE
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MIGHTIEST OF SEA STORIES
SHIPS OF
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LLOYD HUGHES
BOROTHY SERASTIAN
FLEMING
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A TRAGEDY
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WITH A
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J. MICARTHY
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QUEENS THEATRE
To-day to Saturday at 2.30 5.10, 7.15 & 9,20
"SO YOU THINK I'M HERE TO MAKE YOU?.... WELL, FORGET IT BABY, YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER
SKIRT TO ME!”.
"WE
UNDER- COVER MAN"
WITH
GEORGE RAFT
NANCY CARROLL ROSCOE KARNS · LEW CODY, GREGORY RATOFF
·A· Paramount Picture
THE
LATEST
PARAMOUNT
FROM SUNDAY
DID NOT KNOW
WHAT LOVE WAS LIKE
-money blinded us?”
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TO-DAY TO
SATURDAY
TO-DAY TO
SATURDAY
Only when Fate sought to
crush them, did they discover their souls!..
Two great stars in a drama of power and thrilla!··
TALLULAH BANKHEAD ROBERT
MONTGOMERY
FAITHLESS
diracted by HARDY BEAUMONT
(STAR
NEWS.
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Gowns
will
Foscinate
Youl
Metur
. At 2.50 5.20,
NOT EXACTLY GENTLEMEN
Richard
with VICTOR McLAGLEN
A FOX PRODUCTION
7.20 89.20
WORLDA A 2.30, 5.15,
THEAT
Barthelmess
THE
LASH
LIFTING OF ECONOMY BAN
PROBABLE RESTARTING OF ROAD SCHEMES
7.15 8 9.20
authorities in some instances will be permitted to complete certain road schemes alrendy started and
for reasona than postponed
of
economy,
There are many such schomes in different parts of the country. A partial lifting of the economy Some of the larger counties, par- ban on road construction, in being ticularly near London, have mindo considered by the Treasury,
frequent applications for permission When the details of the Budget to proceed with their mone are known, it is believed, local portant schemes.
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