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THE
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
MARCH
23,
1937.
KINGS Doctors' Crime Club
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10,7.15 & 9.30 p.m. ·
Love Takes a Gamble
with romance, wealth and lifoitselftho stakes! A beau- tiful spitfiro tries to outwit a cunning killer... and finds horsolf in the tightest spot of her young lifet Plenty of excitement and surprise... a howl with every thrill
SINNER TAKE ALL
wilk
BRUCE CABOT Margaret Lindsay JOSEPH CALLEIA
NEXT CHANCE Warner Bros.
&SHOWS
BAILY
2.30-517 7.10.30
Directed by Errol Taggart
Produced by Lucien Hubbard and Samuel Marx
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PCTUR
ERROL FLYNN - OLIVIA de HAVILLAND IN
"THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"
TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
SETHEATRE WASA
FLEMING
ROAD
WANGHAI
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LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY THE STAR-STUDDED SHOW SENSATION ! You've never seen such wonderful entertainment on stage or screen, a laugh-splashed metody-jammed show that leaves you gasping will its wonders!
THE MOST PRETENTIOUS SHOW IN TOWN!
ONLY
BORN DANCE
STARAM
Eleanor
DOWELL
LANES STEWART « ̈VICIILA BRUCE
VHA'MINKEL
DAYS TO-MORROW & THURSDAY • THOUSAND SAILORS ON SHORE LEAVE In a hilarious comedy of gobs, girls, and laughter.
A Peramount Pichme
with LEW AYRES.
MARY CARLISLE
Larry Crabba Benny
Baker Grant Withers
There's an epidemic
of love.. In Panama!
Adolph Zuko: pratekis
LADY RE CAREFUL".
►MATINEES:[20c-30c ̈® EVENINGS: 20c-30c750c"-70c3@
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30 - 20
7.20 -9.30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAO KOWLOON
TEL. 57722
MATINEES:20c.-30.° EVENINGS, 20%-30«:50:70
TWO "OLD FAVOURITES" THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS!
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY !.
WAR MAKERS EXPOSED IN A WORLD DRAMA OF TO-DAY !
THE HEAD THAT
SCHEMED A THOUSAND
WARSI.
THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD
CLAUDE RAINS
JOAN BENNETT
LIONEL ATWILL
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY !.
TWO SHOWS IN ONE MURDER SET TOMUSIC ! MURDER AT THE VANITIES
A Paramount Picture
COUNT THE
TELEGRAPHS
EVERYWHERE
To Cure Criminals
FIGURE SKATERS IN-A POOL-Karl Schafer, Austrian lee ace who recently turned professional, and Melitta Brunner, also on Aus- trian professional, visited a New York hotel swimming pool. Even there, however, they could not forget their skating routine und tried out a few steps as above. They are to appear at the inter- national ice carnival for charity in New York next month.
MILL GIRL AS
COUNTESS'
SPY
FOR FRANCO
Paris, Mar. 5.
French police are uncovering a widespread organi sation with headquarters in Paris and Biarritz, of spies in the pay of Germany and General Franco.
One clue led to the arrest in Bacelona of a 26-year-old girl celebrated for her beauty and her dancing.
She says she is 4 countess and had gone to Barcelona to attempt to reach her lover, a Spanish nobleman, reported to be in Franco's Intelligence Service,
MUSIC-HALL DANCER
The police allege that the "coun- tess" is a former mill-girl who left the toom for the music-hall-stage; and eventually for the arms of the Spanish grandee.
CANONIZATION OF
SPANISH FRANCISCAN MONK TAKEN UP
Vatican City, Mar. 0. She is stated to have made several
Cardinals Angelo Maria Dolci, Ca mysterious trips over the Spanish frontier with two men, one of whom, millo Laurenti, Raffaele Carlo Rossi. a German, is already in French cus-Carlo Salotti, Alessandro Verde and Pietro Biondo to-day assembled for as a suspected spy. tody
When the "Countess" turned up in Barcelens she was unable to explain why, if she was simply trying to re- Join her lover, she had gone to the loyal Catalonian capital, and not to Franco's headquarters.
ROOF GARDEN
G.H.Q. OF SCIENCE IN
LONDON
BY LOUISE MORGAN
A NEW kind of Crime Clubs hag
been founded in London.
Its members are 10 famous medical men, most of them Harley Street specialists, and itj meets once a month to discuss actual court cases.
'I had an interview with one of them, n distinguished brain specialist..
"We believe that crime, like small- pax, can be controlled by selentifle inethods, and in time stamped out |altogether," he said.
So convinced are they of the "treatability" of crime, he told me. that they are giving their services free, at a sacrifice in practice of any- thing from £500 a year upwards, la the Institute for the Scientific Treat- ment of Delinquency.
CURED BY TREATMENT
they have cured many for treatment by
Here "eriminals" sent magistrates.
Chronic shop-lifters of years* standing, burglars," pelty thieves. habitual offenders against decenes, and Juvenile vagrants have been made into decent citizens.
Each "crime-patient" is given on arrival full, physical and mentul examinations, and intelligence and vocational tests,
At the "Crime Club" meetings, where information is pooled, a new technique of "mass prevention of crime" is being evolved,
ONE IN 100 CRIMINAL
At present we touch only a minute
| fraction of the criminal element,” said.
the brain specialist.
The number of delinquents' In this country who never come be- fore the courts is appalling. One out of every 100 'hones" people be- longing to honest' familien should be classed as criminal.
technique on a large scale in curly
"Our hope is to apply our new
childhood and thus prevent the development of crime.
"In this way the general mass of dishonesty could be hälved in a couple of generations."
The work, he added, is being held up for want of sufficient clinics and observation centres.
Funds may be sent to St. John Hutchinson, ̄ ̄ ̄K.C.; 56, Grosvenor Street, W.1
Mr. Hutchinson broadcast an appeal for the work recently,
Members of the Chinese Company
the first of three meetings discussing of the Hongkong Police Reserve will the virtues of the Blessed Salvador de give a farewell tes party to Dr. S. W. Tso, Honorary Commissioner, and Horta, Spanish Franciscon mank.
The three meetings are prelimin- Mr. T. O. Tso, Officer Commanding, ury proceedings for canonization of at the Gloucester Hotel to-day ut! de Horta--United Press.
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The grandest love
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