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On the Screen
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LAUREL & HARDY MICKEY MOUSE —— JIMMY DURANTE LUPE VELEZ POLLY MORAN - JACK PEARL- & many othors are all in this musical cocktail of Gayety Melody and GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS ! ·
On the Stage
AN EXTENDED ENGAGEMENT OF THE SUCCESSFUL ACT
“GERMAN VARIETY SHOW”
in a new change of programme.
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY-T ANOTHER DOUBLE ATTRACTION EVELYN LAYE & RAMON NOVARRO in another M.G.M. picture
"THE NIGHT IS YOUNG"
and the World Famous Chinese Magician
WAN WAN SAN
will perform on the stage at all shows.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936.
21 YEARS AGO
Extracts From The "Telegraph" Files
The following extracte are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended April 10, 1915.
The rate of the dollar on demand was 18. 9.13/16d.
Mr. F. A. Hazeland was appoint- ed to net as Puisno Judge, Mr. J. R. Wood as First Magistrate, Mr. R. E. Lindsell as Second Magis- trate, Mr. W. Schofield no Second Assistant at the S.C.A. and Mr. R.A.C. North as Third Assistant at the S.C.A.
The wedding took place at St. John's Cathedral on April 7 of Mr. T. If. King. Assistant Superinten- dent of Police, and Miss Jesale Mary Hoskyn, daughter of Surgeon- General and fra. Hoskyn.
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While dancers and singers throng the screen While melody throbs and spectacle enthralls
Thill
TO A NEW
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KING of BURLESQUE
GIRLS=
» Fax picture with
WARNER BAXTER
(Even greater than in "42nd Street")
ALICE FAYE JACK OAKIE
ARLINE JUDGE MONA BARRIE GREGORY RATOFF DIXIE DUNBAR FATS WALLER NICK LONG, JR. KENNY BAKER
Associate Producer Kenneth Mecgowan Directed by Sidney Lunfield
from a story by Vina Delmar
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