*12
YXM
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW A+ 2.30, 5.1.0, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
FROM -SAT.
-
The Mastor Detective Hunts A Foo A Cunning As Himself! A Mystory With No Loopholes... But What Thrills, Laughs, and Romance!
The GARDEN MURDER CASE
Edmund Lowe Virginia Bruce
BENITA HUME .DOUGLAS WALTON SHIRLEY TEMPLE in "CAPTAIN JANUARY”
QULLA'S
Metro- Mayer
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30.
2016 Cintury FOX
A daring drama of four twisted livOD intertwined by fate...} Adolph Zaker
presadi
WITHOUT REGRET
with
ELISSA LANDI - PAUL CAVARÁGH · KENT TAYLOR FRANCES DRAKE...A Paramount Picture TO-MORROW ONLY
We Are Bringing Back the one Picture
You'll Enjoy the Better For Seeing Again!
CAPTAIN
By actual count, a million dollars worth of adventure Starring ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND LIONEL ATWILL BASIL RATHBONE
1.000'S. MORE!
00018
BLO
CENTRAL
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST. Take Bus No. 4 or 6 going west, 3 min. from stop opposito Queen'a
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
2 days only at 2,30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
WARNER BROS, MUSICAL HEAT-WAVE!
CALIENTE
A Pini National Picture
PAT O'BRIEN COLORES DEL RIO - GLENDA FARRELL • Edw. Everest HORTON • LEO CARRILLO • The Dancing DE MARCOS ∙100's of Girls in Sumptuous Song Sportoties MOST POPULAR PRICES
Matinees: 50c., 30c.. 20c.; Evanings: 55c., 40c., 30c. SERVICEMEN: 30 cts. to DRESS CIRCLE,
SATURDAY
ANOTHER DOUBLE ATTRACTION On the Scroon
VICTOR MCLAGLEN in "LAUGHING AT LIFE”
On the Stage
THE NOVARA & RĪCARDO CO. A troupe of Fronch Dancers & Acrobats.,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY☛ 14," 1936.
Strangest Store In London ALHAMBRA
Supplies Samples of All
The Navy Requires
By A Naval Correspondent
In the basement of a building in Westminster is to be found
a store far more deserving of the term "general" than any of the great emporiums of London. But there is this difference. None of the articles in this Westminister store are for sale, authough they may be loaned
·
The "store" is the Admiralty Pattern Room-a vast area divided into "blocks" and alloy ways. Pigeon-holed cases every- where,
and each pigeon-hole bearing a cabalistic numerics) legend. In the pattern rooms one learns that a small alu- minium saucepan is in reality a "7648" or something of that sort.
There are samples of no fewer We passed on. I marvelled in than 10,500 articles which bear an passing that draught boards and
уда
Admiralty pattern number. There even. dice boxes rejoleed in numeri-In spite of his 12 years Freddie are patterns of textiles, badges for cal nicknames. We came to a bin Bartholomew has already made a ratings, surgical and drawing instru- full of numbered cylinders of card-name in the film world. He played ments, glass and China, nuts, bolts, board. I learned that each one hold David Copperfield and in his "Anna screws, carpets, and all manner of a sample of carpet, carefully pre- Karenina played with Garbo. The other things
served from light lest it should fade. picture shows the little star with his T led round this extraordinary And here at fast I found an article nunt Miss Millicent Bartholomew, "store" by on official who, amazingly which bore no pattern number-a who is his legal guardian. enough, know all the articles by moth bat.
Round the corner I spoiled a their pet names and where to find each one of them. ile showed me bearskin. Thereupon a glass case in which was a duplicate that this of the blue, white and gold dinner housed some 2,000 Army articles, service used in the Royal Yneht, The renson Is that, when the Army each piece bearing the crown and depot moved from Pimlico to Did- contractors were reluctant to garter. The next case was full of cot,
1 Was tokl Admiralty pattern room
War Toys Please The
glass as used in the Royal Yacht.travel so far to see the articles for Italian
Every glass bore engraved upon it which they were asked to quote. the Royal cipher. And here was a Thus they accept the hospitality of type of glass which would be, dif the Admiralty pattern rooms. ficult to and elsewhere--1 Amall Aquat tankard-labolled "portor
lan."
In an open space was a row of bedsteads. It was explained that the old type of barrack-room beds.
an
Kiddies
Rome, May 10.
toyland,
have..
UNIFORMS AND HEMP
stead was to be superseded. These Fascist militarism and the We moved on, and my guide dived bedsteads were act out for trial by
war | Italian-Ethiopian into a drawer, to bring forth for my a committee of exports.
Every article in these inspection the complete navy blue
pattern captured
strategic and scarlet uniform of a member of rooms is duplicated so that samples gateway to the first ideas of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Nursing
may be sent out to contractors. It new generation of Italians. Service. We examined samples of appears that old-time craftsmanship
Encouraged by a dictator who be- hemp and wire hawsare, forceps and is still to be reckoned spin article lleves in "starting 'em young," Italy's scalpels, and paint brushes of all these men prefer to copy
merchants manner of shapes and stiffnesses. from life rather than from drawings toy manufacturers and
From the paint brush corner came and typewritten specifications. Some have produced an amazing range of another exhibit a wide badger hair thing batween 6,500 and 7,000 pat gadgets to fire the Imagination of brush softer than any shaving brush, terns are sent out each year to vani- made specially to stroke the ous contractors, and every time they gilding of the Victoria and Albert are returned they have to be care fully compared with the "master" PROFESSIONAL ARMY FOR
FRANCE
and
CONSCRIPTS CAN'T MAN MAGINOT LINE
pattern.
the children.
Imitation rifles very elaborate
when the parents can afford them- are lung across the backs of the amallest boys as part of their "Sun- a walk in day best" costumes for
This basement store depot is also a distributing centre for experimental the park. purposes. I found some 20 cases
ple
ion.
African-helmeted Black Shirts of
of soap being unpacked.. Euch sam-five and six years of age are a com- has to be taken from the case mon sight In Italy. Miniature tanks bearing the maker's name and given and armoured care replace tricycles a number. The samples are then means of juvenile locomotion,
Fascist officera daggers in minia- spatched
to Deptford Victualling
bomber type airplanes and Thore they are tested and tare, reported upon so that the contract, tanks, machine guns, Held artillery when placed, is for soap representing and antiaircraft pieces are the fash- the best valur obtainable.
In the manufacture of African Great care is taken to see that samples are judged impartially. toys, the toy makers realism has Many firms stamp their names upon left 1. tle for childish imagination to THE French General Staff has the bars of soap which they manu-supply. For a few cents stock model decided on the revolution- facture. Every one of these stamps "men" can be bought that will show Black Shirts, regulars, Aakari, du- ary step for a conscript-country has to be removed from the samples
tribesmen with spears and of establishing a regular army before they are sent out for test, bats, shamma-clad Ethiopians, half-
Not the least remarkable feature slave of long-service men on the lines of this carious store-house is that slaves detailed in almost every can.
ceivable position of warlike action. of the British Army.
every aingle manufactured
There are fighters in various stages of falling wounded and half-naked They are faced with the pro-which it contains is a British pre-
duct.
Negroes with wrists chuined to blem of manning the impregn-
ankles, The shelves even contain able line of defences created on the Eastern and Northern fron- NO RENT FOR THE tiers in such a way as to avoid the possibility of this line being forced by a lightning stroke on the part of mechanised invaders before the 'French mobilisation could be completed.
TRENCHES
article
SLANDER REFUTED
faller Ethiopians with severed limba,
One favourite pose-shows-a-Black- Shirt using his rifle as a club, while another slings a hand grenade.
M. Nevile Chamberlain stated in Plane
Used As
the House of Commons last month that no payments were made to either It has, therefore, been decided France or Belgiums for the occupation
by the military authorities to bring of, or disturbance to, land in the Hearse
scripts.
FOF the first time in Aus-
tralia, an aeroplane was used last month to take the body of a man to Sydney- for cremation.
Into being as soon as possible albattle area during the Great War, regular professional army on the, whether for trenches or otherwise. lines of the British Army, insteadOutside the battle area payments to About eight million were made for of relying solely on the con-billeting, rent and occupation of land
to France.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, This force, which will number about 300,000, will be composed of who was replying to a question by Mr. mon ready to enlist for a period of Sexton (Soc., Barmaril Castle) added
The Wasp Codock air liner, in twelve years after their compul-that in the case of Belgium certain
payments were also made, but they charge of Pilot P. G. Graham, made the special trip to Goodlooga, 450 sory service.
were not to a very large amount,
an exciting -ACAINST SUDDEN ATTACK Mr. Churchill: Is it not a fact that miles away, and made
It will be highly mechanised, the British Government, on entering landing.
The wheels sank on the soft aur-
Ho that in the event of the fam-into the war, adopted the pr the face, and the machine tilted on to its ous Maginot line being pierced that their armies would pay by a swift enemy attack units expenses of the operations of the nose, but was not damaged, and was
campaign they were conducting, and easily righted. can be rushed to any threatened has not this suggestion that rent was! spot to hold the enemy in check extracted for the trenches been a
THROWN FROM HORSE The body of
19, was then taken aboard.
Russell Benson Nor-
while the general mobilisation prominent feature in slanders against to jackeroo on Gnomery station,
is going on in the rear.
It has been found that the con- acript system provides sufficient trained men each year to man effectively the whole of the great line, and there is always the dan- ger of French, mobilisation plans being paralysed, as in 1914, by a guddon enemy attack piercing the line at some point,
into
The scheme will be put effect irrespective of any act or pacts that may be signed. In the
France?
Mr. Chamberlain: Yes. Thai is so. near Queensland, Norton had been
Actress Wins In Face-lifting
near future in response to the pro- Claim
posals of the German Chancellor.
There is also a proposal to make service in the conscript army
compulsory for the sons of French
parents born abroad.
When Mussolini Was a Butcher's Boy
Geneva, May 5. NICOLAS DE PAULIS, a butcher
who once employed Mussolini
lifted from his horse by a sagging telephone wire, thrown against a tree, and killed,
THE MORGAN
BROW
BROTHERS REUNITED AFTER 38 YEARS
Sydney, May 10.
Paris, May 1. Two brothers, nephews of the American banker, Mr. Pier- MME. CECILE SOREL, pont Morgan, are to be reunited
French stage music-hall star, to-day won
and after a separation of 38 years,
Mr. Tennyson Morgan, of Hurst-
for a man with the
ville. N.S.W., saw in a newspaper a
judgment and costs in the photograph
family forehead." After inquiries "face-lifting" case brought he found the photograph was that against her by Mme. Asdery, of Lithgow, N.S.W. Now they are to Paris beauty surgeon.
Mme. Asdery claimed that Mmo, as a rounds-man, was buried to-day Sorel, after the arst of three operations which had been agreed at Lausanne.
It was in 1906, when the young upon, went to another surgeon. Mussolini was expelled from Italy for the remainder,
Mme. Sorel argued that, after for his political activities and took refuge in Switzerland, that he found the first, her eyelids ware employment with M. de Paulis.-stretched that she could not closo
thom. Reuter.
до
of his brother, Mr. William Morgan,
meet again.
"All the Morgans have the same Lype of forehead, from the Pler. pont down," said Mr. Tennyson Morgan, who was only seven years of age when to last saw his brother in Victoria. The wide, domed Morgan forehead is something that even an expert photographer can- not suppress."
Their father was a brother of the sanker-Reuter.
NATHAN AD, KOWLOOR
Richard
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
In a stirring tale at the great Nevada gold rush... whan desperate men and adventurous women mat on the westword trall
Yellow Dust
4 SHOWS
DAILY 1.30 Et
W LEILA HYAMS Maroni Olsen, Jaulo Ralph Andy Clyde, Onslow Stevens
¿Directed by W7REATE 10%, Amodim pre-
dunuz, CHI KULE,
SATURDAY
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
in "CAPTAIN JANUARY" 20th Century Fox Picture.
TAKE ANY THAM ON ÉCAJIY VA LEY BUR
ORIENTAL
FLEMING
ROAD
WAPICHAI TEL. 10477
LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY.
THOUSANDS OF FIGHTING CAVALIERS I THOUSANDS OF MUTINOUS BLACK SLAVES! IN A LAVISH ROMANTIC THRILL PICTURE. CAVALCADE OF COURAGEM
with
DAYS
· Adelph Zakor presents
MARGARET SULLAVAR
"SO RED
THE ROSE'
A-Perement? Natura
WALTER CONNOLLY
2 ONLY
TO-MORROW
& SATURDAY
THE BEST OF ALL MYSTERY PICTURES !
A little guy with
Five starling stories èrammed inte onel Drama dips into the audience In a Broadway theatre.......entang« ling the lives of people like YOUI
a big haté sends
chills up and down your spine
HOURS
TO KILL!
RICHARD
BARTHELMESS
"DE MORAISON - GERTRUDE MICHALI
DOROTHY TREE
MATINEES 20-30 EVENINGS: 20c.-306-506.-70c,
STARE
4 SHOWS DAILY At 2:30,′′ 5:20, 7:20 & 9.20 p.m
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
THE WINNER OF MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTING IN 1935 ! ! !. IN HER FIRST SENSATIONAL STARRING PICTURE !.!!
THE MAN-TAMER OF "BORDER- TOWN" SHOWS A SOCIETY DAME WHAT IT TAKES TO HOLD A MANI
bette davis
in her Brst sensational, starring picture-
THE GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE
- A. First National Picture 76 Added Attraction:
WINI SHAW (THE "LADY IN RED") IN "GYPSY SWEETHEART”—Vitaphone's Musical
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
THE SCREEN'S MOST ROMANTIC TEAM! IN THE SEASON'S SMARTEST, LAUGH-HIT! KAY FRANCIS and GEORGE BRENT in "THE GOOSE AND THE GANDER" A Warner Bros. Pictura..
TO-DAY
ONLY
MAJESTIC
THEATRE.
At 2.30, 5.20,
7,20 & 9.20 p.
WRECKED BY RELATIVES!
EDITH WHÄRTON'S
STRANGE WIVES
ROGER PRYOR JUNE CLAYWORTH'
ESTHER RALSTON
To-morrow “ALIBI IKE" with Joe. E. Brown.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK. PER FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victor
Hongkong.