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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13,
1936.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOLVING TO-DAY
Charles Dickens's Best Known Classi
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
Toner The Ola Curiosity Shop
THOMAS
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BEN WEBSTER KIGNALD PURDELL DICKTUES · GAS BLEAUCHEN
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Barbara Stanwyck-Robert Taylor in "HIS BROTHER'S WIFE"
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OF EXCEPTIONAL ENTERTAINMENT ! The most important production ever done in talking pictures, It's so wonderful you won't believe your eyes: THE FIRST TIME EVER SHOWN AT POPULAR PRICES ! GIMATINEES: 20c JEVENINGS 200
The Majesty of Shakespeare
The Melody of Mindslutohn
The Mastery of Retshardi
Warmer Boss, Proral MAX REINHARDTS Production of
"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mate by MENDELSSOHN CAST OF 1000 = 15 STARS James Cagney Joe E. Brown Dick Powell Anits Louise Olivia De Havilland * Jean Muir. Hugh Herbert Frank McFlugh Ros Alder Verres Teasdale. Dimored by Max Rolschaadi à W's_Daully
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PERFORMANCE
SPECIAL! EXTRA SUNDAY MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK
GAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY..
NETONE,
AVALIER
रंगीला राजपूत
AN
INDIAN DRAMA
OF
SCUL-STIRRING CRISIS!
MASTER NISAR India's foremost actor
MISS BIBBOO Delld's Famous Songstressa
109 OTHER INDIAN STARS.
IN THE MOST SPECTACULAR
AND
COLOURFUL
SCREEN PRODUCTION
EVER "CONCEIVED
ALL SINGING-ALL TALKING EXTRAVAGANZA,
2.30 -5.157.15 - 9.30
SENSATIONAL INTERNATIONAL SPY STORY
Thoy brave a` firing-squad
to prove their lovel
Adolph Zoxde peatonti
HERBERT MARSHALL Till Wr
Meet Again
with
Gertruda. Michua!› Ujane) Atwill
Had Enfacaro A Parameynt Picture
KOWLOON BARRACKS FOR 3,600 COSTS £1,350,000;
FINISHED 1940
King Visits His Fleet BUT WEATHER SPOILS
PROGRAMME
London, Nov. 12.
Ап execptionally, severe storm swept the English Channel to-day and
POPE PIUS SERIOUSLY AFFLICTED
HEALTH CAUSING
CONCERN.
ANNOUNCEMENT consequence certain features of STRANGE ORDER
IN COMMONS
London, Nov. 12. Sir Victor Warrender, Finan- cial Secretary of the War Olier, told a questioner in the House of Commons to-day that the new barracks to be built in Kowloon would accommodate 2,700 British and 900 Indian troops.
It would probably be completext by the end of 1910 at an estimated cost of £1,350,000.
The barracks would be required to accommodate additional troops and units of the garrison at present oc- cupying temporary sub-standard buts, Sir Victor explained-Reuter,
King Edward
Entertained
On Warship
Loudon, Nov. 12.
King Edward had a rought trip In the Admiral's barge, when he Inspreted 36 units of the Hame Fleet off, Portland to-day.
Hajesty lunched aboard the Blagship, HLM.S. Nelson, And visited other
warships, later Inspecting the anti-submarine school where he saw the latest devices for detecting and locating underwater craft.
Il Majesty attended a lower deck concert aboard IALS. Courageous during the evening. -Renter Bulletin Service.
Nobel Prize
To American Dramatist
OTHER AWARDS OF INTEREST
Stockholm, Nov. 12. The Swedish Academy ma'awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 le the American drámatist, Eugene O'Neill.
The Nobel prize for physics is "divided betwech Profesor V. P. leta.“ of Innsbruck University, and Pro- fessor Carl David Anderson, of the California Institute of Technology.
The chemistry prize goes to Pro- fessor Peter Dubye, Berlin, for his contribution to the knowledge on the structure of the molecule.-Reuter.
Royal Empire Society's New
Headquarters
DUKE OF YORK AT OPENING
London, Nov. 12. The new headquarters of the Royal" Empire Society in Northumberland Avenue were opened by the Duke of York to-day:
The Duke read a message from the King, in which His Majesty suld he Was sure the building would prove a worthy anenting-place of people from all parts of the Empire. He looked forward to visiting the premises in the near future.
On behalf of the King, the Duke of York handed the Chairman, Sir Archibald Weigall, a cheque for £100 towards the cost of a clock in the entrance hall-Reuter Special.
SHIP'S OFFICER CHARGED
ALLEGED IMPORTING OF OPIUM
James Jolinston, 52, Chief Ofter of the steamer Chuen Chow, WAG charged before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy this morning on four charges of (a). Importing 72 tacle of raw oplum on the steamer Chuen Chow, (b) possession of 72 taels of raw opium, (e) importing 18 lacls of prepared opium and (d) possession, of 18 taels of prepared opluin.
Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios ap- peared for the defendant and Chler Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt for the prosecution, the latter asking for a date for hearing to be fixed.
The case was fixed for. Wednesday, November 10, at 2.30 p.m.
Ball In $3,000 was allowed.
the programme urranged for the King's inspection of the Home Fleet
Portland were curtailed. The gale was accompanied by heavy rains and at high tide a huge wave swept over Chesil Beach.
His Majesty made his drive from the railway station to the dockyard through flooded streets but there was a burst of sunshine when he stepped from his car. It was of brief dura-. tion and the wind and rain continued to sweep the harbour in which be tween 30 and 40 warships awaited inspection.
In view of the extremely boisterous conditions it was early decided that ships should not be dressed all over but should wear only masthead flags. Later it was announced that should not man ships.
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In other respects the full gramme was adhered to, King, in company with the First Lord are, of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, and First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ernie, Chatfield, caffled out series of inspections on board various ships. The first visite
visited Was the flagship, 11.M.S. Nelson, and in traditional fashion the King, as Ad- miral, was piped aboard, About 1,000 men were paraded on the deck of the alreraft carrier Courageous, and The King carried out inspection in a very heavy rain squatl,
Visits to the ships were continued in the afternoon, luncheon having been taken on board the Nelson and later the King inspreted the autl- submarine school and thr latest secret wenpions for locating under- Water craft,
To-night the King dined aboard the Royal Yacht Victoria mal Albert and afterwards attended a
concert Courageous--British Wireless,
GERMAN LOANS QUESTION RAISED
IN COMMONS
TO POLICE
Vatican City, Nov. 12, Members of the household of His Holiness the Pope to-day admitted that Pope Plus was suffering from Bright's disease- or dropsy and indicated that the condition of the Pope was caus- ing concern.
His face and legs were slightly swollen, it was Bald, but His Holiness insists on following his daily routing and refuses to curton his audiences.
Reliable sources said the Vutlean to close all police had been instructed to Vatican gates at a given signal and refuse all entry or exit until further orders. The instructions were not explained but it understood they anticipated the possible sudden death: of the Pontiff.--United Press.
Free Gasmasks
For Everyone
Britain
In
London. Nov, 12.
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN RD, KOWLOOM:PARYAT 3,30
LAST TIMES TO-DAY One for All..
And All for Aviation!
Adolph Zukor presch
Jimmie Allen
THE SKY PARADE"
A Paramount Plature witR
William Gargan Katherine DeMillo Kent Taylor Directed by Olhe Lovering
Grant Withers + BÌllie Leo
TO-MORROW
History's great romance comes to the scroon!
Katharine Fredric HEPBURN MARCH
MARY OF SCOTLAND
Floronco Eldridge Douglas Walton John Carradine
In
Mr. Geoffrey Linyd, Under. Secretary of Stute for Kome Affairs, fold tlie House of Commons to-day
That
the Government's factory, nearing completion, expected to produce 2,000,000 gas masks monthly,
These would be issued free to the generat nubile
an
DAILY
emergency.
AT
Substantial stocks of the com- ponent parts had already been produced and large scale sembly wonid begin shortly, he said.Reuter Bultetu Service,
2:30
5:20
720
920
London, Nov. 12. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to-day in Parlament for an, assurance that, in view of th existing frozen credits in Germany, he would not sanction German at- templs to float a loan in this country nt present.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in reply, sal no Issue of a German luan, so far as he knew, was under discuss Mon hræe, und, In view of current market quotations for German foams, har did not think any such question was Barty to aring at penent British Wireless..
MOTOR MISHAT
Mr. W. J. Anderson, of the Public Works Department, writes to state that he was not. ሲባ reported on Tuesday, the party involved in a molos mishap at Kennedy Town when one of four men currying an fron girder suffered a fractured leg when the girder fell on him, follow- ing a collision with a motor-cur.
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Id Give My Life
'SIR GUY STANDING CES DRAKE-TOM BROWN;
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TO-MORROW
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The woman who threw away a throne for lovel
*KO RADIO PICTURE
Katharine HEPBURN
Fredric MARCH
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MARY OF SCOTLAND
Wh
FLORENCE ELDRIDGE DOUGLAS. WALTON JOHN CARRADINE Directed by JOHN FORD
Produced by
FANDRO 5. BERMAN
From the pier by
Maxwell Anderson
LEE THEATRE
To-day and To-morrow
A RACE WITH DEATH.
TOM
MIX
The MIRACLE
RIDER"
EPISODE
TONY, JK,
wh
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.
LADIES WATCH YOUR DIAMONDS!
MEN WATCH YOUR HEARTS!
"The Return of SOPHIE LANG
Gertrude Mähen. Sir Guy Standing Ray Milland Elizabeth Patterson Colin Saplay. A Paramount Pistuse
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A WARNER BROTHER'S
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JANE FROMAN JAMES MELTON
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FRANK MCHUCH
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(MATINEES: 20.-30. EVENINGS: 20%.-30 50x70) TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
ERNEST LUBITSCH'S BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY SINCE "TROUBLE IN PARADISE !"
.Adolph Žukor prezants CONTAIN ANTENN
MARLENE DIETRICH GARY COOPER
And
Desire
A Paramount Picture with John Halliday William Frawley. Directed by Frank Bor. zage From a comedy by Hans Szekely and R. A. Stemmie • Produced under the Pozsons! Supervision of Ernet Lubitsch.
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
A NEW CO-STARRING TEAM IN 'A DELIGHTFUL TALE
in
OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE AND ROMANCE (
ROBERT MONTGOMERY.. ROSALIND RUSSELL
“ TROUBLE FOR TWO
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor Picture.
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