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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 18,
1936.
£100,000 BABY MARATHON
Child Who
SHOWING TO-DAY
TOM WALLS RALPH LYNN
At 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 & 9,30 p.m..
FIGHTING STOCK
BBEN TRAVERS ROBERTSON HARE:
Dired by TOM WALLS.
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1
20th Century FOX
in
THE STORY OF A MAN OF PEACE WHO NEARLY BECAME A PIECE OF MAN.
A
Gaumont
British
Picture
"The Prisoner of Shark Island " with
WARNER BAXTER-GLORIA STUART
MOTHER LED
WITH 13, NOW
Amused
The King
"SCRATCHED" | SHE WAS
Toronto, June 8. . "DARK HORSE" is expected to win the Famous
A "Stork Derby, with a prize of about 1100,000, for the
Toronto mother who has the most babies during the ten years ending next October 31.
The "Stork" money was left by Charles Vaneo Millar, an eccentric Toronto barrister, who died on October 21, 1926. Severnt futile attempts have been made to upset the will on the ground that it was drawn up as a joke.
A LITTLE
୯୯
SOLDIER
22
The action of Monica Yardley (2%), daughter of Regimental Sergeant-Major H. E. Yardley, of the Coldstream Guards, great-
recently.
So much quarrelling and disputing have already taken placely amused the King at Aldershot, among the leading mothers that the trustees expect that the money will go to a mother who has not yet come forward.
Mrs. Matthew Kenny, French wife of a man of Scots-Irish parentage, long regarded as a certainty with claims to thirteen children, is scratched.
TWO 'DEAD-HEATERS'
. The investigators. lavé discovered that three of the children were not registered, and that several others are incligible.
Mrs. Arthur Timleek, an Irishwoman, and Mrs. Stephen Darrigo, both of whom have had ten chikiren during the past ten years, are now regarded as 'dend-heaters."
Millions
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SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30.
Adolph Zukot presenta
HERBERT MARSHALL
"Forgollen FACES"
A Parameend Picture with
GERTRUDE MICHAEL
James Burko Robert Cummings - Jons Rhodes
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sweethearts of Mississippil
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Mrs. Gray Bagnato, police court interpreter, Mrs. John Nagel (thirty-four years old). and Mrs. Ambrose Harrison have tied so for with nine children. Each has a chance if she gives birth to twins jor tripfets before the closing »dat», Mr. George Spront, the only In- dividpal trustes of Mr. Millar's will (the other trustees are banks), recently went to England to escape the fury of Toronto's most prolific
London, June 12. Ten million people ride cycles in Britain to-day, and nearly half _of_them are converts of the past mothers,
three years' boom. Cycling, the fashionable craze'of the ’nineties,¦ | has come back to favour.
Perfect roads, improved ma-i chines which are unbelievably | cheap, and the appeal of the open air-all these are factors in the revival.
The keep and slimming en-j thusiasts, the lover of the country, and the business man who has two miles to go to the station, have all discovered the magic and utility of The humble bicycle. "
modern discoveries la new nor lighter alluşu ani-impeza tramunizmin.
Better ronds and stouter tyres have brought freedom from tyre troubir. the revival is the ever growing popa- One of the outstanding features of
Marily of the tandem.
Lighter, yet stronger, than the ma chines of 30 years ago, it halves the effort and doubles the companionship of those who are seeking the beauties of the countryside.
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The incident occurred wher the King, during an inspection of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, made a tour of BarrOSA Barracks, and went into the mirriëd quarters of the N.C.0.9. Sergeant-Major Yardley, who was leading the Royal party, tokl the King, Those are my quarters, sir," and the King said he would like to go in. Mrs. Yardley, with ister. Bileen, welcomed the King.
and her 4-years-old
Atonien
Menica, overwhelmed by the pre- kener of so many officers amused the: King by standing stifly at attention: for the whole title the was in the house.
With the King was the Duke of Yark, who is Colonel of the Seats Guards, and bath the King and thes Drake asked Mes. Yardley a number of questions about life in the married quarters,
MOTHER CONGRATULATED The King wont újstairs to look at the three bedrooms, and then congra tulated Mrs. Yardley on the way she keeps her housi
In the sittingroom the King noticed a silver cigarette box which was given to Sergeant-Major Yardley by the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, after he had trained them in colour tril when the King, an' Pince of Wales, presented new colours to that regiment at Colchester in 1931.
Then the King noticed a picture of himself, as Prince of Wales, taken on that occasion, and said he remember- ed the day very well.
The Duke of York asked Mrs. Yard-
ley how old her daughters were, add- ing with a smile, "I have two of my own, you know."
As the King went out Btle Eileen Cycle racing has given a great curtsied to him, but Monien still re- Ali to the industry.
mained at attention. The King smiled at the lttle girls and patted their | hends.
Five million new machines have been sold in Britain in the past three! | Sports cycles which differ very little years, most of them to new riders, from track machines are selling by Heyele design has benefited from the hundred øvery week.
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715-420
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ORIENTAL
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IN THIS KIND OF WEATHER IT TAKES
FLEMING IDAD WANONAI
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A MIGHTY GOOD PICTURE TO HOLD YOUR INTEREST. THE ORIENTAL ONLY SHOW THE GOOD ONES!
riving to Aldershot by car, the King, in the undress uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Coldstream Guarda, inspected the 3rd Battalion on the burrook ground.
After inspecting the barracks, the
to the King came out on
parade ground again to inspect the 2nd Bat- tation of the Scots Guarda. He changed his cap for this Inspection, replacing the white bal of the Cold- stream Guards with the red and white chequered band of the Scots Guards.
OTO DAY TO MORROW➡ SATURDAY. SEPARATED
Sun Mon.
Tues
Thurs.
THE SCREEN'S MOST GIGANTIC SPECTACLE ! Scenes of gasping magnitude
that you'll have to sea to believe.
A MIGHTY DRAMA OF ANCIENT SPLENDOR I
Barbaric splendor! Savage revels! A city drunk with plecture facer mighty doom as Youvies rears?
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
with PRESTON FOSTER
ALAN HALE, BASIL KATHOONE, JOHN WOOD, LOUIS CALHERN, DAVID HOLT. DOROTHY WILSON, WYBLEY BIRCH. #CO ADJO
PICTURE
PICTURES YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS ! SEE THEM NOW AT BARGAIN PRICES,
STAN LAUREL & HARDY OLIVER IN THE "BOHEMIAN GIRL”
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Wed, JUNE 25
FRANCHOT TONE & JEAN MUIR In a funny action comedy. "GENTLEMEN ARE BORN"
Fri.
Snt.
20 PARAMOUNT'S ALL STAR RADIO SHOW 27
A broadcast studio comedy riot
JUNE "MILLIONS IN THE AIR"
28 ANOTHER MILLION DOLLAR SPECTACLE
with thousands in the vast.
Sun.
Mon., JUNE
20
Tues.
30
1
"CAPTAIN BLOOD"
PLENTY More big hiTS NEXT MONTH. MATINBES 200-3005 EVENINGS 2017-304; 502. 70cm
BECAUSE
WIFE
SLIMMED
HE
Vienna, June 1. ERR LEOPOLD, Vienna manufacturer, is the first man in history to succeed in getting a court to grant him a separation because his wife had slimmed too much.
One thy the wife, Frau Anna, decided to undergo slimming treatment.
Several months of the strictest! diet and early morning gymnastle resulted in turning ample Anna into. a woman resembling A page boy. She was delighted; Herr Leopold did not like it.
He asked the court for a separa- tion.
He declared in court: "I had fallen in love with my wife be- cause she appeared to be the ideal of femininity. To-day I luve in my house as a wife a creature that looks more like a young man than a woman.
"It is no more. the woman married."
I
The court in giving its verdict in his favour, declared that "Female fullness is one of those charms which is brought into mar- ried life and cannot be, withdrawn from the husband."
GOOD RECOVERY PRINCESS ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT
London, June 17.
that An official bulletin states Princess Arthur of Connaught, who underwent a severe abdominal opers. tion in a, London nursing home nine days age, has inde good progress.
Complete recovery (' in anticipated though convalescence must be long.
The Princess, who in 48, is a cousin of King Edward.-Brilla Wirulean,
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD, KOWLOON-DRI
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
THREE GODFATHERS
Me Mayer
PICTURE
Chester MORRIS Lewis STONE Walter BRENNAN IreneMERVEY
- Predves by J0119H MANKIEWICZ • 'Directed by RICHARD BOLESLAWSKI
Peter B. Kyne wrote it. M-G-M
WATER
produced it..., it's
romance as you like it!
SATURDAY
"THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND"
TO-DAY
ONLY
A 20th Century Fox Picture.
MAJESTIC
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
MUSIC BY SZECHE KLIN
•YRICS AND LIBRETTO BY OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, IND
GLORIA
Swanson
and JOHN BOLES DOUGLASS
MONTGOMERY JUNE LANG
AL SHEAN REGINALD OWEN JOSEPH CAWTHORN -HOBART BOSWORTH An Erich Femmes Production
ALSO ON THE STAGE
THE NINE
·O'CLOCK
REVUE"
A NON-STOP
VARIETY SHOW.
From the re
Broadest
30
At 5.20, 7.20 &·9,20.P, M.
CENTRAL
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST.
Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from stop opposite Queon't.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
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THE PICTURE YOU'LL ENJOY SEEING AGAIN.
Maurice
Chevalier! MacDonald
PRODUCTION
an Ernst LUBITSCH The Merry WIDOWK
MOST POPULAR PRICES
MATINEES: 50c., 30c., 20c.; EVENINGS: 55c., 40c., 30e. SERVICEMEN 30 Cants to Dress Circlo
The MING YUEN STUDIO has.
removed
to
the 3rd Floor of
No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy: Farm's Soda Fountain.