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THE HONGKONG. · TELEGRAPH.
14, MONDAY, DECEMBER
1936.
KINGS Man Who Was a Woman QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
NORMA SHEARER
prosents
LESLIE HOWARD
-in
"ROMEO AND JULIET
by William Shakespeare
with JOHN BARRYMORE
EDNA MAY OLIVER - BASIL RATHBONE
C. AUBREY SMITH ANDY DEVINE - RALPH FORBES
REGINALD DENNY CONWAY TEARLE..
Directed by George Cukor
.
The greatest romance ever to be spread before the eyes
of those who love to laugh, love to sigh, love to cry, love to love.
TO-MORROW
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Things Are Looking Up“
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NEW ADVENTURES OF
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Filmed in the Wildf
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TO-MORROW
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The Story Behind the Hoadlines About That Notorious Woman Lawyerl
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HANDS WARREN HULL
DICK
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IT'S THE NEWESTI
Get set for the top musical show of all screen himory! 15 Stare, 200 Girls in MGM's Big Parade of metody, mirth, romance !
HIT SONGS
by
Brown
and
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"Broadway' Rotha", "I Got A Falls You're Foolina "A Sunday Afternoon.”
*1ầu Are My Zuery Star."
BROADWAY MELODY₤1936
POWEL
with
Mick BENNY
Elosser POWELL
Rabiri TAYLOR UNA WERKEL FRANCES LANGFORD 310 SILVERA
A..M.G.M Picture
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
JAN KIEPURA and GLADYS SWARTHOUT IN "GIVE US THIS NIGHT"
"PARAMOUNT MUSICAL ROMANCE
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
ZEN
Is To Wed
BY A
CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, DEC. 8.
ENEK KOUBEK, CZECHO-SLOVAK MAN-WOMAN ATHLETE, YESTERDAY BECAME ENGAGED TO A PARIS TYPIST.
Soon they will marry.
To-day Mr. Zenek Koubek, as he is now known, told me how, since the operation that made him a man, he had realised ambitions of childhood days.
Formerly Miss Zenka Koubkova, Mr. Koubek underwent an operation which changed sex. For years, as Miss Koubkova, he had desired to wear male clothing, marry, and be the father of a family-and shavel
"The chief of my ambitions has been realised a minute ngo," said Mr. Zenek Koubek. "I have just become engaged to a beautiful French stenographer. Oh, I wish you could meet her. She is so marvellous.
"Soon we will be married--but | ===
first I am to undergo a minor opera-
tion which will ensure that i will b
a happy father,"
Mr. Koubek blushed when he was
Japanese
asked what characteristic he admired Hearts World's
most in his fiancee.
"Femininity-1.adore a woman to be completely in need of protection." He laughed.
"Did you notice that I blushed then? My friends say It's one of the few Ieminine esiaracteristics I have left"
As a woman, Mr. Koubek held the world's record for 80 metres and the 800 metres record in track racing. He was also champion tong Jumper.
JUD
JUDGE'S
3 WEEKS IN GAOL
New York, Dec. 1. [UDGE Harry Landis, of Nebraska, and his son, Frank, a University law student, havé served three weeks in an Iowa gap).
But their imprisonment was purely voluntary, Judge Landis explaining, "It was an experiment to observe the behaviour of criminals, and my experience will be of use to me on the bench."
Father and son were admitted to
gool on "charges" of dealing in fraudulent real estate. Their inger prints were taken and they were given prison garb.
The Enoler who put each in solitary confinement for the first three days, said, "So you are in for a real estate deal?
You'll
Strongest?
Tokyo, Dec. 18. THE Japanese may be small of stature, but their hearts are the strongest in the world, if one
to belleve
or the conclusions reached by a committee appoint- ed by the Home Office to study
. the nation's health.
A
statistical report prepared by the body shows that three times ar many people die in France of heart diseasca as in Japan,
Athletic circles say that the committee's finding are aub- alantiated by the Japanese excel- tence in swimming and long- stance events, which require strong hearts.
ret plenty of real estate where I am putting you.”
The
Judge Landis was put to work in the kitchen, his son to dig and lead man's hands young clay. became so blistered that a kindly fellow-prisoner lent him a pair of gloves.
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San
George
Edward Fliss, arrested in
G-men Francisco by accomplice In the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping case n Tacoma, Wash., pleaded guilty in Seattle to passing ransom money given him by William Mahan. He pleaded not guilty to being 4 kidnapping accessory,
GIFTS FOR THE POOR CHRISTMAS TREE TO BE PUT
IN THE CATHEDRAL
From next Saturday, a Christmas Tree will be placed in the northern transept of St. John's Cathedral for the reception of gifts for the poor, As in 1935, the gifts will be given to needy families nominated by the Hongkong Benevolent Society and the Society for the Protection of Children.
Benevolent Society specially The ask for blankets, razors, soap. brushes and combs, handkerchiefs, books, crackers, tinned foods, bis- cuits, malted milk, magazines, old toys, sweets and cocoa.
The Society for the Protection of Children ask for condensed milk, blankets, marmite, rice, oranges, woollen socks, padded coats, sau- and sweets, sages, salt fah, cakes soup, umbrellas and woollen bonnets. A member of the women's Guild What did they learn in conversation with the other convicts? Much to will be in the Cathedral every day Judge Landis's amazement he was to receive the presents, which will invited to participate in several be welcomed any time before Christ- "illegal enterprises" when his "time" mas Day itself. Gifts can be label- led for the organisation Intended. Was up.
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Let Yourself in for a Wonderful Time!
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ASTAIRE
In the heart-storming climax of their young
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GINGER
ROGER
SWING TIME
HELEN
With VÍCTOR MOORE BRODERICK MERTC BLORE BETTY FURNESS GEORGES METAXA. Directed George Stevens A PANDRO S. BERMAN Production.
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After crime, sport was stated to Gifts of money can be forward to marked "Christmas be the major topic of conversation in the Chaplain,
Tree Fund," the prison.
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