QUELA'S
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30
with
VIOLET LORAINE
GORDON HARKER
KAY HAMMOND
"This is grand stuff. Everybody will love it. Violet Loraine is mag- nificent, and she has an ideal partner in Gor dan Harker."
Sunday Pictorial
* SHOW
DALY
6.30-113
7.10-0.80
Britannia
of
Billings- gate
A RARE AND JOYOUS PICTURE OF THE LONDON COCKNEY
TASK AND TRAM OR HAFFS Yasley Bur
ORIENTAL
YOU CAN'T
FILL A THEATRE
THEATRE.
BY TRICKERY ANYMORE.
The day is past when you can ballyhoo an ordinary picture to the skies and expect crowded houses, such methods always have a reaction. We discovered long ago that the public is "plcture wise," now-a-days the public know more about pictures than the theatre managers.
FLEMING
NOAD
TEL ZESTA
We are just as particular in selecting our programmes as you are in choosing your enter- tainment, only pictures of exceptional merit are prosented at the Oriental, our modest prices also adds extra pleasure to your visit.
MATINEES 20c. and 30c. EVENINCS 30c:50¢.80c.
We're only five minutes from the Post Office by tram or bus.
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & '9.20 p.m.
Constance BENNETT
LADY WITH A PAST
BEN LYON
DAVID MANNERS
心
AKO PATHE PICTURE
THE HONGKONG
SEES NO WAR DANGER
GENERAL SMUTS AT ST. ANDREW'S
INSTALLED AS UNIVERSITY RECTOR
London, Oct. 17. General Smuts, who was to-day installed as Rector of St. Andrew's University, in the course of hia address stated that ho did not agree with the view that the world was on the verge of another Great War.
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1934.
BETTY COMPSON GREAT GAINS IN
APPEARS TO-MORROW
AT ALHAMBRA
Betty Compson, Hollywood's most glamorous movie picture star, will make personal appearance at the Alhambra Theatre beginning to-morrow at, 9.20 p.m. in Junction with her own act which Will Inat for half an hour,
сол-
SHIP-BUILDING
SEVENTY-FIVE PER CENT INCREASE-
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Dy Telegraph, Compright. Telegraphio Mea upta Ordinamed, 1491. Received, Ontaber 24. 10.30 0.99.J
New York, Oct. 17.
It is revealed by Lloyds to-day that world shipbuilding at pro- sent amounts to 1,311,387 gross tons, which is a 75 per cent, increase over last year's figure-United Press.
HARBOUR MISHAP
TWO COOLIES FEARED DROWNED
The leÿuo round which the great- est battle of this and the coming generation would be fought if the cause of civilisation was to be saved, was the issue of freedom."
Two coolica lost their lives by 1 He added:-"In the events of the
drowning in the harbour yester- times I see much ground for
day through a sampan capsizing. anxiety, but none for real pessim-
Five
each iam. Human nature is not so one-
passenger boats, sided or ill-balanced that we need
carrying 20 coolie-labourers, had Mies Compson, atar of more look on our civilisation ns doomed. than two hundred silent and left the military pier at Lyemua In spite of scurentongers and of talking pictures, is the first well- to return to Hongkong. In Lyemun Channel, one of the craft got into the present lamentable fallure of known movie star to ever at difficulties and a smaller sampan dianrmoment, in spite of the vogue at any theatre in the of Billy drilling and strutting about Outalde of being in Hollywood's came to its rescue. In uniform and shirts of various most glamorous personality Mag As it got alongside, the coalies colours, I do not and the real war temper anywhere".
Mr. Stanley Baldwin. as Chan- cellor of the University, presided at General Smuts installation.-Bri- tish Wireless.
VALUABLE ESTATE LEFT IN H.K.
Probate Granted In $543,600 Property
the
Campson also won the title of attempted to scramble into it in a was what "The Queen of Poverty tond." budy, and the result Miss Compson madde hundreds of might have been expected, Both thousands of
dollars in Holly-craft heeled over, and all wood's "Poverty Road" as it was occupanta were thrown into the called because producers operating water. on only small amounts of money with the exception of two who are A police launch rescued the men, did their work there.
believed to have been drowned. A Appearing with Miss Compson third man was taken to hospital, are the team of Cowan and Baily, suffering severely from the ex- two of the biggest headliners in perience. vaudeville in the United States,
real
The above, should be, n treat to the people of Hongkong.
PEKING DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS BUREAU Lo and Mr. M. W. Lo, sona,
The will leaves "all my estates
Nanking, Oct: 18. and effects upon trunt to be With a view to facilitating the Local estate valued under $543,-divided when my youngest child is handling of diplomatic affairs 600 was left by the late Mr. Lo 21 between my wife and such of in respect to North China, the Cheung Shiu, alias Lo Shak-ki, alfas my chlidren as have attained the Chinese Foreign Office has estab- Lo Wing-to, who died at his home age of 21 years, or being sons, shed a Diplomatic Affairs Bureau at 62. Conduit Rond, on June 30 have married or shall marry beat. Peking with Mr. Ching Shih-
fore that age. in the following kang appointed as its chief. aged $7.
and proportions: 16 shares for my sons Hopet, Shansi, Sulyén Probate has been granted to to be divided amongst them, six Charhar Provinces will be included Mrs. Edna Ho Leung, widow, shares for my daughters to be within its jurisdiction:--Central
Neter.. daughter of deceased, Mr. M. K.equally divided."
LAST TWO
DAYS
DAILY AT 2,30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.30 P.M.
KINO
COME ON! EVERYONE'S INKA-DINKA-DOO'ING WITH DURANTE
THE SCREEN'S NEW PERFECT;
LOVER !
L'alted Artints
• Pleture
ALSO
·AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313, & 25332.
·FROM SATURDAY--
The House of Premier Showings of the Best Pictures at the most Popular Prices.
ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30. 5.20, 7.20 &:9.20
YOU'LL LAUGH and ACCLAIM IT
"The Most Unusual Comedy of the Year”
Whoops, Dearie,
Look Who's Harol
Society's captured
"Little Caesar" and turned him into a pink tea hound! And what a riot when his mob rides to the rescue **** on polo. poniest
E D WARD
ROBINSON
In his first great comedy-
THE LITTLE GIANT
A First National Picture with
MARY ASTOR
HELEN VINSON
·TO-MORROW
ON THE SCREEN-4 SHOWS
YEARS WILL NEVER DIM ITS GLORY. TIME CANNOTERASE ITS MEMORY!
GEORGE
ARLISS
THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD
ON THE STAGE...
Miss BETTY COMPSON
in person
with
G
In
LAST 7
DAYS
ar Kowloon.
NIGHTLY
at 9.30 p.m.
CIRCUS
MICKEY MOUSE
ENTIRE
CHANGE
4 SHOWS
DAILY
of
PROGRAMME
SPECIAL MATINEES SATURDAY. &
SUNDAY
at 5 p.m.
Children
half
rates to soats (matinees only).
NEW THRILLS! NEW SENSATIONS! NEW ATTRACTIONS!
Above all-
REAL KINGS OF THE JUNGLE Trained African Lions and BENGAL Tigers introduced all in ong cage by Mr. Damoo
Our World famous Royal menagerie, a combination of wild animals collected from all parts of the world. is open for Inspection dally from B a.m. to 6. p.m.
Printed and Published: for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROT FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
2.30-5.15
7.95-9.30
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
HERE IS ONE
'OP THE MOST
PLEASING
COMEDIES YOU'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. JUST
FILLED WITH
LAUGHTER.
He's a second Don Juan ang.
twice as good
as the first-It's An earthquake uoroarious laughs!
Douglas FAIRBANKS IN Elizabeth BERGNER
PALOOKA Catherine
by Hom Fisher
JIMMY DURANTE - LUPE VELEZ STUART ERWIN MAJORIE RAMBEAU
MICKEY
MOUSE in "STEEPLECHASE ·
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
the Great
FLORA ROBSON aud' SIEGERALD DU MAURIER Directed by
Produced by PAUL OZINNER ALEXANDER KORDA
ORIENTA
"THEATRE-
3ona Honeymoon
SALLY
EILERS
ZASU PITTS HENRIETTA CROSMAN
FLEMING
ROAD
WANGHAI
TEL. 28478)
·FOR TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
ANOTHER
·FAST ACTION WESTERN PICTURE:
This
** of those
19 mi.
fast-moving
romantic pleraras
that you don't
gat very oftcn."
A NEW
STORY
GEORGE.
O BRIEN
OF THE FRONTER OLD WEST MARSHAJ
SLYNN COWAN
BILL BAILEY Hollywood's Noted Composer Cinemaland's Entertainer
20 MINUTES OF GREAT ENTERTAINMENT
Friday-CALA PREMIERE-9.20 p.m. Saturday-5.20. 7.20 & 9.20-3 Shows Sunday--ALL FOUR SHOWS
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
STAR
OTIS
At 2.30, 5.20,
7:20 & 9.20.;
SKINNER
master of masters greatest of stars f
KISMET
CENTRAL
COMMENCING TOMORROW.
FOG
SMURDER IN MID-OCEAN! BY AN UNKNOWN HAND/
COLUMBIA PICTURI