12
ENTRAL
THEATRE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.' BROUGHT BACK AGAIN TO POPULAR DEMAND THE BIG CHINESE MUSICAL HIT I
"BLOSSOM TIME"
with WU DIP YING and SUN LAN CHOW RELEASED THRU UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVİCE.
NEXT CHANGE
UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE-Presents "ORPHANS OF THE STORM"
A Chinese Picture With English Titles.
TO-MORROW
Cobra
Cornered by the deadliest enemy of man... he met the fanged destroyer single handed and unarmed
and
brought it back alica!
THE HONGKONG
GOODWILL MISSION.
AUSTRALIAN PARTY LEAVES JAPAN FOR HOME
Danka, May 21,
►
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1931.
N. R. A. ATTACK
DOES DARROW SEEK
The
noothe
to-day.
COLLECTIVISM?
New York. May 21. suggestion that
.
Mr.
ASSISTED REDS
CHARGES AGAINST
BICKERTON
Tokyo, May 21. The ban on the publication of nows relating to the New Zealand
The Australian Goodwill Mis- slon to the Far East, hended by the Attorney-General of the Com-Clarence Darrow, was expected to born Prefensor W. M. Bickerton, monwealth (the Hon. Mr. J. G.
the N.R.A. dispute into who was recently detained by the Latham), left Nagasaki at 4 o'clock nomnolenco instead of exploding a this afternoon by the N. Y, K. bombshell under its couch, is made Japanese authorities on a charge of Huer Kitano Maru.
by the New York Herald-Tribune Communiatic activities, has been
lifted. The party will call at Hongkong The newspaper declares: "One It was stated that Professor on its way back to Australia-lcannot help feeling that burled Bickerton, who was attached to one Reuter,
somewhere in the angry mass is a of the leading Japanese Univer jren and vital Issuo.
sities, donated 300 yen to the Com- The New York Times observes munist party in April, 1933, out of that the business of framing and the allowanco given tá hím by the administering the Codes was ter-Government for expenses while on ribly overdone when the Adminis- | furlough, tration departed from its plan
LONGEST BAR
י
NEW YORK'S CLAIM TO DISTINCTION
New York, May 21. Shanghai's claim to possess the longest bar in the world will be superseded by the Commodore flotel bar In this city.
The Commodore's bar will be 125 feet in length and is designed specially to cope with vertical drinking, which was made legal again to-day. despite strenuoua "Dry" opposition.-Reuter,
MISS JEAN BATTEN.
NEW ZEALAND AVIATRIX LEAVES SINGAPORE
Singapore, May 21, The New Zealand airwoman, Miss Jean Batten, who is na a fight from England to Australia, arrived here to-day.
It is also alleged that Professor to create only a few codes for the Bickorten spent his furlough in leading industries. The work Moscow, Borlin and London, instead which had been undertaken, says of going to New Zealand. It is re- the newspaper, is far too vast for ported that he kept the Japanese . any bureaucracy,
Communiats supplied with pro- The Times adds that it hopes paganda and published short stories the immense body of anonforced dealing with Japanese proletarian and unenforcalfle codes will be life through Martin Lawrence in heavily deflated,
London.
The Journal of Commerce de Professor Bickerton is accused clares that the report reveals the of having brought back Japan a the critics of the N.R.A. which literature and having donnted 180 existence of a Left Wing among large quantity of inflammatory would frankly convert industry en a month to the Japanese Com- into ti collectivest structure. munists ever since his return from Darrow, it adds, becomes the can-farlough in September, 1933. didate for the post of America's |Lenin-Kanter.
WANTS TO RETIRE.
DARROW NOT INTERESTED IN INSULL CASE
Washington, May 21.
A friend of Mr. Claretice
According to the police, these donations went a long way to help the strained finances of the Com- munists.
Professor Blckerton
also charged with having urged Japan- Jese students to join rulical or- Iganisations.--Reuter.
RI
Darrow declares that Mr. Darrow not the greatest of all Amerien's has not been approached with re-criminal lawyers, does not want to
After re-fueling her plane, Miss gard to the defence of Mr. Samuel be drawn into another case. Batten took off in continuation of Insall.
He would like the N.R.A. report
her journey. Her next stop will He adds that Mr. Darrow, re-to be his last bix job, the friend be Batavia. Reuter,
cognised as one of the greatest, if jexplains.-Reuter.
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BERT WHEELER ROBT WOOLSEY
THE BEAUTY CROP IS RIPE FOR PICKING!
Cuckoos rise to_now halghis
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HIPS HIPS HOORA
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"No matter what you aro or what you've done-our love will orase the past.”
SLEEPERS EAST
with
Wynne Gibson Preston Foster Mona Barrie Harvey Stephens Directed by Kenneth MacKenna
Front the naval by Frederick Habol
Screen play by Lester Colo✪
ORIENTAL
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WANGHAI
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★ MARIE DRESSLER ★ John BARRYMORE
WALLACE BEERY: JEAN HARLOW Lossol BARRYMORE LEE TRACY' EDMUND LOWE BILLIE BURKE
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Jenn Harholt
Kar Mary *
Dinner
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"Extremely good melodramatic entertainment, with a well told-story, quick action; and genuine thrills.
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20,000 YEARS IN SING SING
ALHAMBRA
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To-day & To-morrow at 2,30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 CHINA'S GREATEST picture
"TWO SISTERS"
starring BUTTERFLY WU
A Chinese Talking-Singing Romance that ran 60 days at the STRAND Theatre-Shanghai.
TO-DAY and
At 2.30 5.20,
TO-MORROW STAR 7.20 89.20
*
An Outdoor Musical Romance
"LOVE on SKIS"
with
JOAN AUSTIN JACK LESTER A British Lion Release.
TILLING THE DESERT
| ITALY'S ACHIEVEMENT IN NORTH AFRICA
ly arid sands of Tripoll, near the sea, comprise an arou of about half a million acrca, of which nearly one-third have already been brought under cultivation by the Italian colonists,
The latent statistics show that the concessions under cultivation already have more than a million General Italo Balbo, Governor of forest trees, some 20,000,000 vines, Tripolitania, has made his first 68,000 fruit trees, chiefly peaches, report on the Italian North African 68,000 mulberries for the cultiva colony since taking over irls new tion of the allk worm, 2,200,000 duties a few months ago.
almond trees, and nearly two The report reveals that the million olive treen. Italia colonist, who formerly There are 2,500 model farm proved one of the best Inbourers houses, more than 2,000 artificial when, as an emigrant, he landed on wells, fourteen electric power ata- foreign noll, is now showing his Lions with a vast network of wire quality of endurance in Africa and distributing, the current all over on territory over which his own the colony, and some 200,000 acres national flag is flying. The former- lot land reclaimed for cultivation.