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As the scroon goes gay with P. G. Wodehouse fual Soven comedystars, "Great Ziogfold's famed director, cut loose with the year's laugh riot!'
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WEDNESDAY
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LATEST HEARST METROTONE
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JACK LONDON'S WHITE FANG"
with MICHAEL WHALEN - JEAN MUIR
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250E TO DAY O TO-MORROW.
A STORY SPIKED WITH EXCITEMENT !
See this bolsterous, blustering, swaggering, swashbuckler and the boy who believed his boasts! You' rour as they share the fortunes of wat in this hilarious bit?
RIFE WITH ROMANCE AND LAUGHTER !
Laugh at his bragging
thrill to his deeds!
WED. THURS.
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Freddie
BARTHOLOMEW
PROFESSIONAL
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DARRYL FAZANUCK
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BING CROSBY
Charles Ruggles Ethel Merman
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THE GOLDEN VOICE OF THE PLAINS!
DICK FORAN, THE NEW SINGING STAR IN HIS FIRST ACTION-CRAMMED OUTDOOR PICTURE !
HERE HE IS THE SCREEN'S NEW-WEST STAR!
DICK FORAN
SINGING COMPOYE
MOONLIGHT ON
THE PRAIRIE
First of the new WARNER WESTERNS
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AL JOLSON
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9,
THE
ALHAMBRA
PULLED
Over 150 years ago Los Angeles was founded by Felipe de Neve. During the Jublice celebrations a descendant of Neve, Don Felipe Delgado, will re-enact his un- restor's role, The picture shows
Don. Felipe of 1994,
Expedition To Birthplace | Of Ohristianity
1936.
BE QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
TO
DOWN
Cinema to Take the Place of the
Famous Theatre in Leicester-square
The famous Alhambra Theatre in London, is to be Leicester-rquure, built on the site by Odeon Cinemas,
Ltd.
Mr. Oscar Deutsch, head of Odeon Cinemas, Ltd., suld recently:
The contract was signed yester- day. The deal, including part of the rebuilding and demolliion of the theatre, involves more than
£600,000.
"We have given a contract for the new cinema to Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons. It will hold about. 2,000 people.
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hall.
and regulu.heatre, palace of varieties.
It began in 1854 as the Royal Panopticon of Science and Music, an institution which tried to com-
with bine Instruction
amusement, The public preferred their amuse- ment unalloyed, and the Royal Panopticon closed.
The place reopened as a music- all in 1860. In those days it'pro- vided inore entertainment off the stage than on. Members of the audience, at the time when war in America was unticipated, used fre- quently to fight,
Ten years inter, during the Franco-Prussian war, the manage- ment obligingly instructed the band to play "The Marseilinise" and "The
There will be offices and shops on the Charing Cross-roud side.
"We have bought the whole site from Alhambra Thentres, Ltd., the owners. The deal was nerotinted by Mr Chaude Goddard, of Goddard Watch on the Rhine" in turn-and and Smith, with representatives of French and Germans nightly flew Sir Oswald Stoll (head of the Alham- | at each other's throats. bra company).”
Tenants in the present offices at the Alhambra received_to-day from Messrs. John Holmes, Son an Pat- teson, solicitors, a letter giving notice to quit the premises within three
months from October 1.
FAMED FOR BALLET The Alhambra bus bérn in hun au éducational institution, a musie~|
The nightly riots attracted nearly all the bullies and sharpers in Lon- den, among them being "The Han- garoo," a gigantic black who drank everybody's drinks and knocked re- monstrators down.
THE "CAN-CAN"
The "enn-can" was danced at the Alhambra in 1870. When the mann- ger at the time asked for a renewal of his Hence it was refused and the Theatre wus closed for six months,
Social Service Cost
In Australia Set At
£35,000,000 A Year Bremen were killed.
Sydney, Oct. 15,
Social services in Australia now east £35,000,000 a year, represent-
In 1082 the building was burned to the ground in one of the most #pectncular fires of the century, Two
King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, arrived in the middle of the night to watch the blaze.
The present building was opened a year later. It became famous dur-
Inte-Vletorion and
carly- ing
times for the magni- Edwardian
TO PHOTOGRAPH PRE-Ang a contribution of nearly £12 by every employed person lated in the CHRISTIAN ERA inst census. This figure is exclusive of war pensions which cost £7,500,- RELIGIONS
00 a year. Of the £35,000,000, the ficence of its bullets and its gorgeous largest individual item is the old-spectacular performances.
King Edward was frequently in age and invalid penston,
the Royal Box. Lord Lonsdale and eployment relief a close rival.
Mr. Walter Winans, the American In 1834-35, the cost of pensions was £12,500,000, and of unemploy- sportsman, often brought porties.
relict, excluding public works, £1,500,000. The distribution under charities the hending of ordinary
with un-
The place beenme a rendezvous for Guards officers and members of the Stock Exchange.
New York, Oct. 15. Five members of the Ancient! Mystical Order of Rosae Crucis are en route to the Near East on a $12,000, four month expedition to photograph the cultural rem-aunted to another £3,500,000, and nants of a dozen religions which public health cost £4,000,000.
ition to old-age and invalid pen- flourished during the 13 cen- siens
paid by the Commonwealth,
pensions in New South In its varlety days the Alhambra turies preceding the Christian widows
Wales absorbed £500,000 and family | provided many sensations, such as endownment £1,900,000. The cost Blondin, the Light-rope walker;
era.
The Society, founded in Ger- many in the 15th century and now dedicated to the preservation of the teachings of the past, will
In
The bar behind the circle was a place at which men home on leave from oversens counted on meeting someone
one they knew.
to the Commonwealth of the mater-Annie Abbott, "the Georgia.magnet." nity bonus was £300,000,
make the first extensive survey "Wonder"
of religious archaeological re-
nuins to prove that the adage Child Born
of civilisation began long be- fore the birth of Christianity.
Led by Ralph M. Lewis, Supremej Secretary of the Rosicrucian Order, the party embarked with a Debrie 35-millimeter sound camera, Graflex still cameras and other equipinent in) make movies of the temple buildings of worship, tombs, burid grounds. sacrificial altars and other spiritual, symbology.
Without
Thyroid
TULLY, 18 months old, red-
haired, blue-eyed wonder child at the Queen's Hospital. Hackney-road, London, E, pro- vided medical science, with a -rare-problem.
The selentifle expedition, which -will-travel-by-cansu_barro._camel. and at times with a military convoy.
She was born without a thyroid will have these objectives in mind:gland, a mall organ normally at the 1-That a concept of religion is front of the neck, essential for
physical and mental development. necessary to sustain elvilisation.
LIVELIEST CHILD
That this concrpt has advanced any other rivilisation more than single factor
3-That nations teenyed their religion became static.
whom nobody could move or lift
the thought-reading Zanclea and Herr Dowe, with his bullet-proof cutrans.
The
Bing Boys on
Broadway"
was put on at the Alhambra in 1915, and had a record run.
New Oath For Coronation
Wording Is Secret WHEN the King takes the
Coronation Oath at West- minster Abbey next May he will-use-a-different form of. words from that of his pre-. decessors on the Throne.
The Coronation Oath has been When admitted to the hospital six slightly altered in order to comply months ago she was in a state of with the provisions of the Statue of remi-coma. Milk had to be forced Westminster, town her throat; she was so under-status of the Dominions. when sized, so feeble, that her life, was in
danger.
4That history points to an ulti- mate displacement of Christianity by a new set of ideals.
of
In the party with Lewis are Mrs. Lewis, Harry Shibley, director publications, and Mrs Shibley; and Kendal Brower, San Jose, Calif: pro- fessional cameraman. They are inembers of the order which has headquarters il
£1 San Jose and total national membership of 30.000.
The expedition, starting from Ale- xandria, will travel to Cairo, then down the Nile River to Thebes, by burro to the Valley of Kings in Egypting Sudan, back to Colru through .Palestine 10 Damascus, across the Syrian Desert to Bagdad by British military convoy, thence to Aleppo, Syrin, across Turkey by boat to Con-
SYBIL JASON in "THE SINGING KID" stantinople, overland to Athens and
WARNER BROS. MUSICAL SENSATION!
CENTRAL THEATRE
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
A SEA-
EPIC STORY
OF THE
GREAT
WAR IN
WHICH
THE
BRITISH
NAVY
TRIUMPH-
ED.
APPROVED
BY THE ADMIRAL-
TY.
NEW ERA
prosent
"BLOCKADE"
DON'T FAIL
TO SEE
THIS HIGHLY EXCITING BRITISH FILM OF THE MOST
THRIL- LING EPISODES YET
SEEN ON
THE'.
SCREEN.
Anally to Naples and Home.
The party will photograph, and where possible make sound movies, of remnants.
reli- of monotheistic gions, which began with Amenhotep IV, who in 1350 BC. built a temple to one God at Tel-El-Amarna, Egypt. They will also study The Hittite Purslan. Median, Assyrian, Semitic and other religions. One project will be to trace the Baby- lonian and Syrian spiritual growth showing the changes of thotight from Mythology to Anthropomorphism.
be
Indian Buddhism, Mohommedan- ism and Confucianism will
· "photographed” on another tour expected to be made in 1938 through indin, Arabia, China. Cambodia, in Malaya and the Far East in general.
"Our pictures will not be contro- versinl," Lewis said. "We will try to show the birthplace of the reli- gions and how they influenced cul- ture, urt and science of that period. The idea that real advancement of spciety begna with Christianity Is a force. We will show that other ro- ligions had an important a part in the development of mankind.
The pictures will be made into travelogues for lecture purposes bij schools, clubs and societies.-United Press.
To-day she is the liveliest child In the hospital.
She has an chorninus appetite, she has begun to talk, her weight has increased during six months from eight pounds to more than 16 pounds. But all her life he will have to take thyroid tablets," a doctor at the hospital said.
which changed
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✪ TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THIS IS A FILM NO ONE SHOULD MISS-
YOU DON'T "SEE" THIS PICTURE YOU LIVE IT !
The
Woman
A WORLD OF MEN MARCHING ON!
FREDRIC
MARCH BAXTER
LIONEL BARRYMORE
THE ROAD TO GLORY
Wednesday at the QUEEN'S "I'D GIVE MY LIFE” Sir Guy Standing & Frances Drake A Paramount Picture.
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The new wording, which has been devolved after consultation between high ecclesiastical and constitutional authorities, will not be revealed until the full programme for the Coronn-
on ts issued.
The Coronation Service itself will be shorter than was the case at the Coronation of King George because of the absence of a Queen Consort.
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Showing To-day.
OF WESTERN Rides Again?,
HAT LEVINE PREVENTS
TOM
MIX
The MIRACLE RIDER
TONY JR.
15 thrill-packed episodes
The king of western
stars RIDES AGAIN
*in
a whirlwind of
THRILLS!
NEXT CHANGE
Tom Mix
"THE MIRACLE
RIDER"
2nd chapter.
Wednesday at the ALHAMBRA
̈“SKY PARADE”
Jimmy Allen & Katherios Deatille A Paramount Picture.
HANKOW
STARE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
LOVE
BLIND AMBITION
CROWDED OUT OF HIS HEART!
KING of BURLESQUE
à For picture with
WARNER BAXTER (Even greater than ̧n · 42nd Street' }.
ALICE FAYE
JACK OAKIE
+
MONA BARRIE PEARLINE JUOGE
GREGORY BATOFF : DIXIE-DUNBAR
KENNY BAKER FATS WALLER - NICK_LONG, Ir. Associate Produser Kenneth thecgowan
Sigma study by Directed by S-dewy funfold
Vinu Delmar
Human drama glorified hy
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WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY DENIS KING, Magnificent Singing Star in FRA DIAVOLO, In Another Magnificent Singing Role in "VAGABOND KING" with JEANNETTE MACDONALD
O. P. KEGGIE
WARNER OLAND
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