AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
THE HONGKONG, ETE
The Woman Who
Remembers
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15, & 9.30 p.m. John Gilbert
THE EMBATTLED CRY OF AMERICA'S AROUSED YOUTH - "get 'em" and
"LET 'EM HAVE IT"
A
with RICHARD ARLEN. VIRGINIA BRUCE
ALICE BRADY, BRUCE CABOT
United Artists Picture.
GALA PREMIERE-TO-MORROW AT 9.30 P.M. CHARLIE CHAPLIN
in "MODERN TIMES"
United Artists Picture.
QUELA'.
TO-DAY ONLY
TO-DAY
ONLY
At 2.30. 5.15, 7,20 & 9.30.
Two Muggs Among the Teacupt of
New York's High Society
Fire Fisted
A Puramovat Freturn mich
LEE TRACY ROSCOE KARNS GAIL PATRICK KENT TAYLOR (Grace Bradley - Billy Lee
Directed by Joms CrWER
TO-MORROW
THE FUN'S THE LIMIT
BUT MUM'S THE WORD!
You'll gasp! You'll scream! You'll be breathless, with laughter..
..so don't breathe a word of the delirious disclosures in
PERSONAL MAID'S
SECRET
PICTURE
convulsingly"confided to you by
MARGARET, LINDSAY WARREN HULL ANITA LOUISE RUTH DONNELLY Warner Bros. Hij
MAJESTIC
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.20.p.m
HERE AGAINI
MURDER ON
HONEYMOON
EDNA MAY OLIVER JAMES GLEASON/
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by, FREDERICK PEROY
FRANKLIN, at 1: and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
DIETRICH
Girl Renews Fight For Clan Chieftaincy
APPEAL TO HERALDIC COURT.
A GIRL of 17 is renewing her fight to be recognised as chieftain of a Scottish clan, despite the fact that the clansmen have al- ready over-ruled her claim.
She is Miss Catriona Louise Maclean of Ardgour, eldest Los Angeles, Apr. 25.
daughter of the late Alexander John Hew Maclean of Ardgour, 16th Laird and Chieftain of Ardgour, and she has now lodged her THE ashes of John Gil- claim, both to the chieftaincy and the clan's armorial bearings bert, the film star who (helmet, crest, and motto), in the Court of the Lord Lyon King died tragically in January, of Arms, the Scottish equivalent to the College of Arms in Eng- aged thirty-eight, are lying allowing her father's death, the unclaimed in a funeral par-clansmen last year, in deciding lour here.
against her, held that, according to Highland law and tradition, the chlefinin must be a male.
None of his four ex-wives has claimed them.
Gilbert left no instructions for the disposal of his ashes, but
JOHN GILBERT expressed a desire that they might bo scattered near the mountains adjoining his hilltop home over- looking Hollywood.
land.
They elected instead Lieut.-Com- mander H. H. Maclean, of Wind- hover, Bursledon, Southampton, as) nearest male heir, but they accord-
Probe Alleged
Budget Leak
ed Miks Maclean the courtesy title CHANCELLOR MOVES
of the Lady of Ardgour.
To Miss Maclean's petition to the Lyon Court is mexed a written ease, of some 240 pages, regarding)
18 sections.
RESOLUTION
London, May 5. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Д
the principles of chieftaincy and removed a resolution in the House of presentation of families in Scotland, Commons for the setting up of which concludes with n summary of tribanal of inquiry to investigato Whether, and, If so, in, what circum- stances and by what persons, any un- authorised disclosure was made of in- formation relating to the Budget for the present year, or any use made of any such information for purposta of private gain."
She submits evidence that, in Scot- tish Jeraldry, the helmet, crest, and motto of a clan are officially allowed to women where much women have succeeded to the chieftancy of their house.
Lord
Sir Francis J. Grant, the Lyon King of Arms, told a reporter: The heir male has 15 days in which to make appearance and to answer the petition. After that I shall give my judgment, and if this is not accepted the ease may be taken to the Court of Session."
COMMANDER'S OFFER
Lieut.-Commander II. II. Maclean
stated:
"I had hoped the matter had been finally settled. The warrant of the chieftainey has been issued to me by the Lyon King of Arms after the case had been
been thoroughly gone into. Moreover, the petition seeks to set aside the fact that I have been His only legal survivors are two formally recognised by the clan daughters, both minors, the chil-association, which includes 22,000 10,000 in dron of Virginia Bruce, his fourth members in Canada and wife, and Leatrice Joy, his second. Glasgowed any possible unfairness,
The only regular visitor to tha
I have offered through my legal re funeral parlour is Marlene Diet-
presentatives to have the whole one of Gilbert's closest matter settled by arbitration or taken rich, friends. She leaves flowers on to the courts. This offer, however,
has been refused." the urn regularly.
MRS. VANDERBILT LOSES
LAST APPEAL
'USED GLORIA'S
£96,000
FOR HERSELF'
New York, Apr. 25.
MRS. VANDERBILT'S peti
tion to the United States: Supreme Court for the complete custody of her 12-year-old heiress daughter, Gloria-the last appeal she can make--was yesterday definitely rejected' by the Court with the single word “Denied.”-
Mrs. Vanderbilt appealed that the New York Court order, "con- demning" her child to spend five days cach week with her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and only the week-ends with her mother, was "unprecedented and. extraordinary."
She held that the child was lead- ing a most abnormal fe
Д
In reply Mrs. Whitney sent vigorously-worded brief alleging (ays Reuter) that Mrs. Vanderbilt had spent on herself nearly all the allowance of £90,000 made to her for the support of her child.
•
She also alleged that Mrs. Vander-} blit had refused even to pay for treatment to prevent her daughter contracting tuberculosis, although warned by a doctor that it was nd-
visable.
•
The New York Courts have already refused three times to give the sole custody of the child to Mrs. Vander- bile.
ARMOURED UNDERWEAR
FOR "PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1":
A
San Francisco, Apr. 30. COMPLETE set of modern steel armour, in the form of underwear, has been found by G-Men (Federal agenta) in the living quarters of Harry Gee, a 16st. Chinese described in police court as Public Enemy Number One of Chinatown.
The suit was a flexible arrange-. ment made of bulletproof: steel' capable of covering Mr. Gee, from his neck to his knees. The upper part, made of inter-locking plates, was fitted inside a woollon jacket which could be used as a waist- coat.
Steel shorts were made in just the right proportion to fit inside the trousers and not apoll the line of Mr. Gee's neat creases,
GLORIA VANDERBILT.
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN
TO-DAY ONLY
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IT'S THE NEWESTI Get set for the top musical show of all screen history! 13 Stari, 200 Glila in M-G-M's Big Parade of melody, mirih. romance!:
FALIANOR
BROADWAY
MELODY 1936
POWELL
danbest
Jack BENNY Eleanor POWELL Robert TAYLOR UNA MERKEL FRANCES LANGFORD LOUD: SILVERS
13: Storal. -dostuites
HIT SONGS (by
-host the sing and
Brown and Freed)
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Got A Feel You're Foolin "On A Sunday Are My
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An M-G-M Picture
TO-MORROW ——
Ho, said it did not appear to the Government that any tribunal could be found more thoroughly impartial character and muro fully clothed in power to obtain all the information available than a tribunal of the kind Katharine Hepburn in "SYLVIA SCARLETT” proposed.
There was some criticism from the Opposition benches of the Govern ment's decision to appoint a judicial tribunal rather than a Select Com ittee of the House to investigate the matter, which was held by these speakers to concern the honour of the House of Commons, but the resolution
British Wirelent.
agreed to without a division...
CAIRO PARLEY ON MAY 13
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CONFERENCES
Cairo, May 5. The Anglo-Egyptian talke will be -resumed on May 13, the delay boing due to the fact that Nahas Pasha, the lender of the Wafdint Party, is busy in connection with elections and complications resulting from the death
Foad.
of
A Cabinet decree announces that Prince Mohammed Ali, the 60-year-old nephew of the late King, is Heir Presumptive to the Throne.-Renter's Bulletin Service.
REMAINING IN OFFICE
FRENCH CABINET'S
DECISION
Paris, May 5. The Governntent, it is understood, has decided to remain in offlee until June 1.
Meanwhile, M. Lech Blum, thr leader of the Socialist Party, has
Inllinated his readiness to form a new Government.
It is rumoured that M. Paul Bon- cour will be the next Foreign Minis- ter, in place of M. Pierre Flandin.- Reiter's Bulletin Service.
TRIBUTE TO LORD BEATTY
PROPOSED MEMORIAL
MONUMENT
London, May 5. Tributes were paid to the late Ad- miral of the Fleet Earl Beatty by the Prime Minister and leaders of the Labour and Liberal Oppositions in the House of Commons to-day when a resolution was finanimously approved in favour of an address to the King anking for the erection of a memorial monument in the public charge.
Speaking of a a similar resolution passed a
a dow months
ths ago in me
memory
of Loni Jellicoe, Mr. Baldwin said to-
day they sought not to compare or
to measure, but merely to express
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Lyrics:
and music by
IRVING
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their thankfulness that at a time of THE THREE HAPPIEST LOVE-MAKERS BROUGHT TOGETHER the country's need two such men at IN A ROMANCE THAT WILL BRING JOY TO EVERYBODY! Jellicos and Deatty were there respond to the call-British Wirelesa. A LAUGH TOPS EVERY ROMANTIC THRILL IN THE YEARS)
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MYRNA LOY Y
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Also "GOOFY MOVIES" & "HAPPY HARMONIES" Colour Cartoon
·TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, SATURDAY GARY COOPER ANN HARDING
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PETERIBBETSON!!
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