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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936.
KINGS FIGHTS NINE DUELS
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER prosents
NORMA SHEARER
in
LESLIE HOWARD
"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 over to be spread before the eyes of those who love to laugh, lova to sigh, lova to cry, love to love.
TO-MORROW Warner Bros. 'Picture
•
At Increased. Pricos
JOE E BROWN as Alexander Botts in "EARTHWORM TRACTORS"
QUEENS
DAILY AT 2:30-5:15 +7·20 & 9:30 - TEL. 31453
SHOWING TO-DAY
FOR BRIDE'S HONOUR
They Eloped; Sabres
Will Settle Insults
Budapest, December 10.
DR.
R. FRANZ SARGAS, young Hungarian civil ser- vant and Budapest society man, is fighting four sabre ducis late to-night and five to-morrow morning to defend the honour of his wife, 24-year-
old beautiful millionairess, Magda Darko, with whom he eloped six months ago.
Dr. Sargas says that his opponents, all leading society men-two of them are counts have made insulting remarks about his wife and their marriage.
A court of honour decided that the duels should be taught under the severest conditions— heavy cavalry sabres, the duelilsis stripped, to the waist, with no bandages round threat or beart, as Is the custom.
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Dr. Sargas and Magda Darko met at a dance in Budapest, fell in love at Arsi sight. The girl's family, Hungarian bankers, would not consent to the marriage. The couple cloped. Police were put on their trail.
Magda Darko wrote to her family to say she had gone with Dr. Sargos of her own free will and they were very happy; unless the family consented to their marringe they would not return,
A fortnight later the police found them hiding in a small country village near Lake Balaton. They arrested Dr. Sargas, but as it was clear he had not kidnapped his
at 2.30, 5.15 & 7.15 ONLY sweetheart they had to let him free.
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DAM O N RUNYON'S groot humun story of the shadows of the Great White Way
Little MISS MARKER
A Paramount Picture with
ADOLPHE MENJOU - DOROTHY DELL CHARLES BICKFORD - SHIRLEY TEMPLE
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY
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JEANETTE MACDONALD
NELSON EDDY in
"ROSE-MARIE"
An M-G-M SUPER PRODUCTION!
TO-DAY PARVIZ-PARIZAD
for.
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The Epic Drama of Persian-Egyptian civilizations in all their splendour and in all the glamour and excitement of Production, Settings, Story and Performance packed with thousands of thrills and of soul-stirring music will be screened for the FIRST TIME at:
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At last the family gave way, con- sented to Ure wedding, and the couple were married in the summer.
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Duelling is forbidden in Hungary, but the police have so far taken no official notice of Dr. Sargas's duels. The rule is that fines are imposed after the duels have been fought.
DEATH
CLAIMS ETHIOPIAN WARRIORS
Addis Ababa, Dec. 10. Arch-enemies for the last five years, Bala Hu and Ligg Lukas the characteristic figures in former Ethiopian court of Haile Selassic have followed each other to their tombs in the short lapse of one week.
Contrasting in 0 striking manner both physically and politically. Bala Hu, seven feet and five inches in height, was claimed to be-tallest-man--in Ethiopia while Ligg Lukas was a small hunchback scarcely four feet tall.
Bala Hu had been chosen by. Selassie to carry his red silk umbrella during official ceremonies because of his exceptional height and remained faithful to the former emperor even after Selassie's flight to Djibouti.
Ligg Lukas on the other hand was favourable to the Italians. He was the eunuch attached to Ras Hall's harem and had been imprisoned for several long years together with his master for having offered help, once to some Italian explorers.
While Lukns was the last descend- ent of a noble family of priests, Bala
was a bandit who was dragged in
chains before Sclassle together with a group of brigands captured while plundering villages on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. His exceptional height caused the former emperor to free him and appoint him "Imperial Umbrella Carrier".
Following the former emperor's Alght to French Somaliland, Bala Hu brigandage. immediately resumed He was arrested in June by Italian a few iroopers and sentenced to months in prison.
Details as to how both prominent Ethiopians met with death could not be obtained in any quarter. Popular belief, however, claims that Bala Hu must have contracted some serious illness while in joli. Ligg Lukas' death remains a mystery.
·"TERRIERS" RECRUITING
London. Dec., 15. During November, 2,757 recruits were taken on the strength of Terri- torial Army, compared with 1,873 in October and 1,240 in November, 1933. During the eight months April to November, 1930, the Intake of re-
crults was 20,268 compared with 15,189 during the same period last year, an increase of 73 per cent. British Wireless.
BRITISH FINANCES
London, Dee. 15.
Exchequer returns show that total
ordinary revenue amounts to £414,-
Prince Bernard Zur Lippe, whose marringe tò Princess Juliana of Holland will take place un January 7.
HE WILL MARRY THE WORLD'S MOST ELIGIBLE WOMAN
Love-Crazy Woman Is Hunted In
Shooting Mystery
Los Angeles, Dec. 9.
Captain Clyde Plummer, chief investigator into the mysterious death of car salesman Reid Russell, started a search to-day for a love-crazed woman who, he believes, may have murdered Russell.
The best clue he has is a series; of telephone calls received by Russell's mother from an un- known woman shortly before the body was found in a lawn swing at writer Gouverneur Morris's Los Angeles home.
DO THEY BELONG TO YOU?
Cologne radio station broadcast messages recently for relatives of
The woman told_ Mrs. Russell British soldiers to claim "battlefield that Reid had failed to keep an relics found eighteen-years- ago,- appointment with her.
One is a Common Prayer Book bearing the name Rifleman A. Win- D. Com- ter, SAO/E7, 14 Platoon. pany, Ride Brigade,
Another police theory is that Russell was shot by a rival sullor,
The other is a waistcoat, with the Captain Plummer to-day made formal application for an exhumu Dame Captain Sexten, picked up on tion of Russell's body. The first the Ypres battlefield in April 1018. autopsy-in September-indicated The German soldiers who found suicide. Mrs. Russell Insisted that them want to give them back. If send it to her son was murdered, and the case any
a claim, was reopened.
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one has
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The Jones
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bums up the high-
way in an auto
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TO-MORROW
SELECT DEANE DIXIE DUNBAR TONY MARTIN SPRING BYINGTON
KENNETH HOWELL
GEORGE ERNEST
-JUHE CARLSON
FLORENCE ROBERTS
BILLY MAHAN
Directed by Jones Teling
"THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE with Eleanore Whitney Robert Cumming
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KOWLOON
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with JANE WITHERS
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A story filled with romance, comedy and excitement.
THE
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IN HER HANDS
TheStory Bahind the Hoadlines About That Notorious Woman Lawyorl
A First Hullemad Picture with
Margaret LINDSAY GLENDA FARRELL. LYLE TALBOT
ACUFF LOICK PURCELL AL SHEAN,
WARREN HULL
SPECIAL! TO-MORROW I DAY ONLY. THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMIC
In his very latest and funniest of all his pictures.
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HAPLIN
Modern Times
at the corresponding date of last year. SAT. THE GHOST GOES WEST
Total.ordinary expenditure is £550,-
440,200, compared with
£525,208,
924 at the corresponding date of 1985, [® MATINEES: 20c-30c ❤ EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c,-70c.
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