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CENTRAL
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT. 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. BROUGHT TO THE HONGKONG FILM-GOERS FOR THE FIRST TIME AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES➡
PARAMOUNT'S BIG MUSICAL HIT!
"Tomorrow night I can come in, can't 17′′
ROMANCE... sweet 'n' hoff COMEDY... rough'n' rowdyt. STORY...
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"EADIE WAS A LADY!!
full of surprises!
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Star Stage and Screen Entertainers! ★ JAMES DUNN ★ JUNE KNIGHT *LILLIAN ROTH *CLIFF EDWARDS *LILIAN BOND DOROTHY LEE *LONA ANDRE ★ CHAS Buddy ROGERS
with 100 Oergeove Showgirls!
A Pozokoyma Raisose Produced by Lovrenca Schwob ossociation with William Bowload and Moria Brice
SPECIAL PRICES
DRESS CIRCLE .. 80 cts.
BACK STALLS.. 40 ct..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CONGRESS IN REBELLION
FOUR-TO-ONE-VOTE TO
OVER-RIDE VETO
BUDGET ISSUE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934.
HONGKONG
SLUM PROBLEM
OVERCROWDING
CONDITIONS
ANOTHER CASE
EXPOSED
SPIES!
CZECHO-SLOVAKIA
ALARMS
THREE HUNDRED
ARRESTS
Prague, Mar. 27.
The greatest.spy case in Washington, Mar. 27.
the history of Czecho-Slova- The inclination to insurrection against President Roosevelt noted ditions. which obtain in Chinese paper, Narodny-Listy,
An idea of the appalling con- kia is revealed by the news. latterly in Congress took aj tenement houses. was revealed more definite form to-day when at the Kowloon Magistracy this
Already three hundred people the biggest vote against the Ad-morning when Chang King-hop, participation in a great espionage have been arrested for alleged ministration since Roosevelt as the principal tenant of the third organisation, according to the sumed office occurred in the floor of No. 46 Yen Chow Street, Journal, which states that a num House of Representativos.
Shamshuipo, was summoned be ber of employees of the famous The quarrel "ls over the In- fore Mr. Wynne-Jones for allow Skoda Armaments Works at Pilsen dependent Offices Supply Billing his floor to be overcrowded. which was passed by Congress
[are included. yesterday and later vetoad by the who prosecuted, said there were police investigations into the rami- Senior Sanitary Inspector Reid, also been detained as the result of Workers at other factories have President.
The Bill removes practically all 29 adults and four children on the fications of the organisation,
economy measures in the floor, whereas only. nine adults Economy Act of 1933, restoring were allowed. The rent of the being carried out in Czecho It is alleged that capionage was veterans' compensation, - the floor was $7, but defendant let out Slovakia by two different groups, Federal employees' pay cuts from a bed-space for $1.50, a cubicle Nazi group for Germany, and n February 1 and authorising an for $2, and 12 bunks to coolies at Communist group for the Soviet increase of pay from July 1. 30 cents ench. He and his family
The President vetoed the 'BIII of five occupied two cubicles.. on the ground that the increased allowances to war veterans and to Government employees would greatly exceeti the Estimates.
Budget
the
Reuter,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. -
It was not a case of there being insufficient houses in the vicinity, because defendant's floor was the. only occupied floor in the building. Department was
The attention of the Sanitary Mts. Edward Stone and Mrs. L. T.
drawn to this particular house following the. admission into hospital of a cano of small-pox and one of cerebro- spinal meningitls from the same!
The House of Representatives voted more than four to one. 310 votes to 72, to override the Presi- dential veto. The Senate will vote on the measure to-morrow and the line the members will take is floor. highly problematical-Reuter.
Inspector Reid said the Sanitary The wedding between Rev. E. Knetion in removing bunks and bed Department in at present taking Quick, Headmaster of the Cathedral School, Shanghai (formerly of St. Pates from overcrowded houses, Stephen's College, Stanley) and Miss and only in the extremely bad Doria Barber of Kobe, will take cases were prosecutions brought, place at Kobo on April 3
A fine of $5 was imposed.
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30,
5.10, 7.15 &
9.30 p.m.
Woolley desire to thank all friends for kind expressions of sympathy tendered in their recent bereavement and through out, Mr. Stone's illness.
DEATHI.
MACONACHIE At the Manse,
Dawlish, Devon, England, on 2nd Maroh, 1034, the Rev. J. Kirk Anconachie, dearly beloved husband of Kate Maconachie,
KINGS &
A DOUBLE ATTRACTION! ON THE SCREEN
CHANCE
at
HEAVEN
Written down to earth by Viña Delmar, author of "Bad Girl"
FRONT STALLS. 20 cts.
Sarvicomen Half Price to Dress Circle and Back Stalls.
.TO-MORROW
CHINA ART FILM__CO.,_presents
"THE WEDDING TRAGEDY"
A CHINESE PICTURE WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST. Produced and Made in Hongkong.
MAJESTIC
Directed Sith:
by
JOEL MCCREA
William Seiter.
GINGER ROGERS SMEA R-BAINS
ON THE STAGE
RKO RADIO Picture
At 5.10, 7.15 9.30 p.m. only
At 5.20 & 9,20 p.m.
At 2.30 & 7.20 p.m.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313, & 25332.
NEXT CHANCE
She could gel any
man she ever saw
except the mta'nshin loved!
SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
ALHAMBRA
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20
SURPASSES "42nd Street
TOPS
"Gold
Diggers"
The queen of the Gold Dig
gers" still knocking 'one coldli
Hear Dicking "By A Water-
{full," and 4 other new kital
- America'anew girl friend loves
fier did liveline `then ever!
Jimmy singing and dancing! -fint time on the screen!
“Tell Me
To-night" "A CUNNING
with
JAN KIEPURA SONNIE HALE MADGA SCHEIDER
RYA
FORSTER
SENSATIONAL
BALLERINA
OF
CONTINENTAL FAME
CONSTANCE
as the girl who took
a short cut down the
primrose path, to make herself a
"BED OF ROSES"
with
JOEL MCCREA
JOHN HALLIDAY * PERT KELTON - E SAMUEL HINDS
RKO RADIO Picture
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SPECIAL FOR TO-DAY ONLY
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for
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OPENING IN A FEW DAYS.
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TO-DAY and
At 2.30 5.20.
TO-MORROW STAR 1.20 89.20
Britain's Brilliant Musical
"Maid of the
Mountains
with
NANCY BROWN