POLICE RESERVE
¡ORDERS FOR CURRENT
WEEK
Ordern by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Inspector General of Police, ntate;
Athletic Sports
Chinese. Company
Training Coursú: Part 11-All crulte of the Chinese Company who have not yet passed Part II of Training Course will attend at the Crnoao Company Headquarters of Tuesday, February 18th at 17.30 hours for instruction.
Training Course: Part III-Men: bern of the Chinese Company will attend at the Kennedy Road Range on Wednesday, February 19th at 17.00 hours to fire the Part 111 Revolver Only those detailed will attend.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY
Sub Inspector R., J. Hunt for a gen- eral Inspection of equipment etc., by the Company Commander. Dress Blue Uniform, Can with White Cover, Belt with Dracu, Trancheon, "Pocket Policeman" and notebook to be car- ried. The Equipment Officer will make a point of being present.
Training Course-Part III-Mem bere of the Indian Company will attend at the Keanosy Road Range on Wednesday. February 28th at 17.00 hours to fire the Part III Revolver Couras under Sub Inspector Hopkins,
The attention of all Police Reser vists is drawn to the programme of the Police Athletic #ports to be held Couras under Sub Inspector Hopkins. Only those detailed. will attend.
at the South China Athletic Associa- tion, Caroline Hill on Sunday, March 8th at 14.30 hours. It includes two special races open to members of the Hongkong Police Reserve, viz:-
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17, 1936.
the Star Theatre on Saturday. than place the nine men on a ro The picture elicits cheers and expres ducing diet which might endanger alons of admiring wonder. Gorgo their health, Director Lloyd found ously beautiful, stunningly life like, nine men of the same stature, colour been of their hair and facial features, but the picture is all that has claimed for , and more. "Becky weighing from 50 to 100 pounds iss THE THEATRES
Shary, moreover, is far beyond being than the original nine. They took mere pageant of gorgeous colour. the places of the nine healthy men When a picture is made the life It is a gem of screen entertainment, in sequences depicting days of the 47 of the men who guard the sens for sparkling with humour, replete with day ordeal. Lloyd spent two years America and their wives, such as the romance, and rich with drama. Por in preparing the production of "Mu- the Bounty" for Irving G.. Fox picture, "Navy Wife" which fectly enacted, expertly directed by tiny, comes on Wednesday to the Alhambra the gifted Rouben Mamoulian, and Thalberg. Ho spent two month at scents with Theatre, it requires Navy aid to keep lavishly produced, it is a masterful Tahiti, filming island
of William Make 2,500 antiven, and then spent eight For that dramatization everything ship-shape.
peace Thackeray's immortal fiction weeks aboard 11.M.S. Bounty off the purpose the United States Navy sent Commander R. R. Smith to the 20th classic, "Vanity Fair." Miriam Hop California coast, filming the principal Flying Squad
Century-Fox studio during the pro-kins, starring in the title role, risex scenes with Laughton, Gable, Tone, featuring to heights in her characterisation of and a cast of fifty featured players. Indian Company
Instructional Patrol--The instruc-duction on Ralph Bellamy, the lovely, vivacious, and successful
Claire Trevor and Training Course: Part II-All re:tional patrol for members of the
During his many years of service, eruits of the Indian Company will Flying Squad will take place Commander Smith became thorough
ly bers will parade at Central Police Station at 17.30 hours sharp, Dress been in command of the division of
picture. In
recent your honor Blue Uniform and Cap. With White RO
Hght mine-layers at Honolulu, of a Cover.
division of destroyers at San Diego, D. L. KINO,
and of the U.S.3. Savannah during the period of the Sandino revolt in Nicaragua.
Against the story of a strange wedding and of the powerful love
that grew out of a loveless match. Allan Dwan directed "Navy Wife."
1. Event No. 5 100 yards open to attend Indian Company Headquarters Friday, February 28th, 1936. Mem-millar with the locales of the i
mombers of the Police Reserve.
2. Event No. 27 Relay Race open to all Contingents.
on Tuesday, February 18th at 17.30 hours for instruction.
Inspection Parado.--A ranks of All entries, must be sent in tu their the Indian Company will parade at respective O. Cs, on or before Febru-Central Police Station on Wednesday, February 10th at 17,30 hours under ary 24th, 1936.
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"Front Page Woman" coquette. She has invested her rold with life and understanding,_to_muke
"Front Page Woman," Warner You didn't expect that, did you?- the beautiful, wayward, Becky B
Inst-moving comedy-drama Be ready for the unexpected burn, character to linger long in the memory. Bros. Alan Mowbray, as Rawdon Crawicy: dealing with the intenso rivalry be scratch, cut, bruise, or other skin man and woman reporter Injury, by keeping Sho-ko handy. Frances
Dee, as Amelia Sedley; and tween Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as the Mar- na opposing newspapers, comes to the She-ko instantly cools and cases the Soothing, antiseptic, and curative, quis of Steyne; are splendid in their Queen's Theatre soon. Bette Davis, pain and heals rapidly. roles. Other
per deserting for the moment the heavy outstanding forces are given by Nigel Bruer, dramatic roles she has portrayed in She-ko in squnity beneficial for skin G. P. Huntley, Jr.; Billie Burke, All the past, and George Brent, the Irish troubles such as eczema, itch, 'ring. Skipworth, Colin Tapley and American actor, ary starred in the worm, head and foot sores, pimples.
picture, which includes a supporting and piles.
Obinitumble at chemists, or from William Faversham.
cast comprising popular players such as Roscoe Karna, Winifred Shaw, the Dr. Williama Medicine Co., 461. "The Mutiny on The Bounty"
Walter
Walker, J. Carroll Nash, Kiangao Road, Shanghai; 70 cents per his Gorion met
Westcott and others. Mias' package; post free. Director Frank Lloyd most perplexing problem while film-Davis is east as Ellen Garfield, sol ing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Mutiny sister on the staff of the Star, on the Bounty", the tremendous ses while Brent has the role of her rival drama now playing at the King's on the Express. Their professional and Alhambra Theatres. He din enmity begins in the press room of covered in the cast list of the produc-a prison shortly before the execu tion, nine dual roles that could not lion of a Broadway butterly for the
in murder
of her paramour, carries humanly be played by the same nine
through men. Here is his riddle, which the comic situations, and ends in a truco series of dramatic and
Arrested on Saturday last, for re- sulted
hudiles at In severni Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios: and, of course, love. The picture was turning from banishment, io Sap, was brought of "Mutiny on Production
the Boun- adapted from Richard Macauley's aged 70, unemployed, ty" began with Charles Laughton, magazine story, "Women Are Bum before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kow- by Roy Chanelor loon Magistracy this morning and Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone Newspapermen,"
The fart scenes and Lillie Hayward. heading tho cast. Laken were those of Laughton, us play was written by Laird, Michael was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. "Although this in the fourth Captain Bligh, adrift in a long boat Curtiz, directed.
time he has come back," said Inspector his the open with eighteen of
Ells, "I have been instructed to ask crow. It wor A sequence faithful
your Woralip.to take the case sum- following the muiny led by Gable as and in which
marily." Defendant stated that he Fletcher Christian Captain Bligh and his loyal scamen
had returned to get some money, and are cast adrift. Twelve of the nine-
The verdict of experts in respect to stated that he knew that if he kept teen survived the ordeal after delft- ing 1,200 lengues in 47 days, accord- the manufacture of synthetic rubber, coming back he would spend the re ing to maritime history. Nine of the to which Chancellor Adolf Hitler no mainder of his life in prison. On be- survivors at the beginning of the enthusiastically referred only yestering sentenced, defendant remarked, voyage were sturdy, healthy seamen, day, is that the product is good but much to the amusement of the Court, At the end of the ordeal, they were five times more expensive than the "You had better give me ten years; it-
would be better." Rather natural raw material-Reuter.
on
"The Three Musketeers" Paul Lukas, who has earned such wide popularity in suave and urbane roles, takes up Athos' rapier in "The Three Musketeers" to add lusty ac tion to his usual finesse. An expert swordsman, he brilliantly demons trates
his prowess in the fantous fights between the Musketeers and the cardinal's Kuarda, which thrilling high-lights of the picture.
husband of As
betrayed the Richelieu's alluring spy. Bilady de Winter, Lukas is the mystic, woman- hating member of the celebrated trio. He shares here honours with Walter Abel, Moroni Olech, and Onslow Stevens who portray d'Artagnan, Porthos and Aramis respectively in RKO
the Radio's. production of Dumas classic which comes soon to the King's Theatre. Rowland Lee directed and Cliff Reid produced. "So Red the Rose" "So Red The Rose," Paramount's stirring adaptation of Stark Young's name, is now novel of the amo thrilling crowd houses at the Queen's Theatre Margaret Sullavan is the star, and the supporting cast includes well known names as Walter Auct Connolly. Randolph Scott, Janet emnelated by Beecher, Elizabeth Patterson, Harry Ellerbe and the chiki aetor, Dick
Dickie Red The Moore.
Rose of the South, a romantle and story poignant account of those turbulent days of the War between the States, More than that, it reveals the Idents and hopes and bravery of a gentle Souther family when the clarion call of strife made men and women themselves on the side of duty, array Bure of the righteousness of their It is the story of a young girl's love for a man, a man who hesitates to answer the fighting cali of his people, and who, in his efforts
do what
right, he believes in is willing even to snerifiee love on the altar of his beliefs. Margaret Sullavan
is the girl, Vallette, pretty, vivacious belle of the South. It is a rule delicately in tune with Miss Sullavan's subtle gifts as an actress und she brings to her par- trayal the artistry that has dis- tinguished her work оп stage and screen.
steer The boy, Duncan, in portrayed by Randolph Scott, a handsome and talented actor who in "50 Red The Rose" forsakes hia "western" characterisations which have won him fame und proves his versatility an actor. Walter Connelly, due of the foremost character actors of
day,
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Vallette's splendid as Father and Janet Beecher, Harry Ellerbe and Elizabeth Patterson (in do well in
CAUSE.
to
our
bigh
of her biting ground and parts that give authenticity to the story. The dir ection
of King Vidor
ambered worka among his by picture audiences. For "So Red
ure many The Rose" gives forth the full flavour of Stark Young's nostalgic and ro- mantic novel, capturing completely the spirit and feeling that made "o Red The Rose" one of last year's moet important contribution American fiction.
*Becky Shary"
to
Coming na an opochal event in the history of film entertainment, Pioneer Pictures much heralded full colour feature, "Becky Sharp," had opened
THE
HONGKONG SINGERS
will give a performance of The Messiah (Handel)
In
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
on
WEDNESDAY, February 19th,
at. 9.p.m..
Programmes may be obtained from tha
Anderson Music Company.
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and
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