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KING'S QUEENS
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AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. ROMANCE IS GRAND
if it is romance!
So this debonair millionaire gives his million the air and goes looking for a girl who can say"It's only moncy"
In
WARNER BAXTER I'LL GIVE
A MILLION
with
MARJORIE WEAVER
PETER LORRE - JEAN HERSHOLT
JOHN CARRADINE · J. EDWARD BROMBERC LYNN BARI FRITZ FELD
Directed by Wolar Lang Dortyl F. Zock in Charge bl Frodelion
A 20th Century Fox Picture
20th Century Fox proudly presents
for the Chinese New Year Attraction
ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
with TYRONE POWER - ALICE FAYE - DON AMECHE
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720 930
OW.
FIRST FULL LENGTH PRODUCTION*. . .
SnowWhite
and the Seven Dwarfs
All in Multiplane TECHNICOLOR Distributed by 15KO-RADIO PICTURES
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COMMENCING TO-MORROW
THE GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT OF THE YEAR! SA BU
The Boy Wonder "THE DRUM"
Of The Screen
in
An Alexandor Korda Technicolour Production !
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY A COMEDY HIT THAT RUNS RIOT. With a Big Cast of Export Funmakers !
IT'S LITTLE CAESAR... DRESSED TO KILL!
EDWARD G.
Robinson
L WARNER BROS.
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER
TO-MORROW
GRAND CHINESE YEAR ATTRACTION
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THE FUNNIEST PICTURE OF THEIR ENTIRE CAREER ! A hilarious burlesque on the Foreign Legion, You'll scream at these funny comics trying to do their very best and making hash of everything. THEY'LL KEEP YOU IN AN UPROAR OF LAUGHTER !
LAUREL HARDY
eir
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BEAU HUNKS
STARTING SUNDAY
WE WILL UPSET ALL THEATRICAL TRADITIONS
BY SHOWING
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY THEATRE BIG IMPORTANT PRODUCTIONS AT POPULAR PRICES!
Mauch Twins
I'M BILLY
I'M BOBBY
Dick Purcell Gene Lockhart Kathleen Lockhart
Olected by Saler
A FLY MATI PICTURE
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February 17, 1939.
$16,000,000 BUILDING PLAN READY: TENDERS TO BE CALLED SOON (Continued from Page 1.) mile northwards it will give way to another 100 ter terrace.
Two groups of barrucks will be built parallel with Cornwall Rond but 300 and 600 yards respectively distant from 11.
Married quarters, officers' quarteru, parade and sports grounds form n part of this scheme but only the area beyond Cornwall Road and slightly to the west will be developed under present plans. The large portion of kund
reserved
the military (which would be directly north of the present levelled aren alongside Waterloo Road) is not to be built on but to be reserved for a fourth bar- racks if necessary.
4
for
CARLY OCCUPATION
The lower camp quarters will be occupled as soon as possible by the j troops nuw in Shamshulpo Chunp. which will be discontinued, and by
from troops
Whitfield Barracks which are stated to be very congest- The mule lines which border Nathon Road will then be removed and it will no longer be necessary to use wonden huts for barracks as la now the case at Shamshulpo.
The new road serving the exten. Waterloo sive camp will start on Road half-way between Prince Ed- ward Road and Cornwall Road, and after proceeding west for several hundred yards, It will turn north and then proceed in two forks, one ser- ving the new barracks opposite
Rivived for duvelopment.
ANTI-MALARIA WORK
ALHAMBRA
AHY AT 130*5,20·7
220 ·TEL, J0056
• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW A CHINESE HISTORICAL DRAMA !
COLOURFUL! SPECTACULAR!
“THE AUTOcrat of CH'O DYNASTY” Starring WANG YUAN LOONG - CHING SOO CHENG with Superimposed English Subtitles
✪ COMMENCING SUNDAY ✪ are CRAND CHINESE NEW YEAR ATTRACTION
It Is Interesting to note that exten- sive anti-nilurial drainage has been laid over the whole area during the past eighteen months by the military in order that the workmen will be ensured as healthy conditions 45 possible while they are living and working on the site.
The diverting of the hill streams will call for careful attention to the
of requirements
furmers lying wol of the camp in order that their Junct not robbed of its irrigation systems. Deep underground rulverts will be necessary for the general drainage of rainfall and streams through the camp area.
WATER JET METHOD
It is understood that powerful water Jets have been advocated to reduce the hills where these are formed of decomposed rock. In the case of hard rock, blusting would have to be resorted to.
The water jet method means that powerful streams of sea water would Le directed at the hill cousing the earth and rock particles to run down the slope and some distance beyond until the flow was checked by a bard fence about six inches high. The water would slow over the board leaving the deposit behind and when this deposit had reached the Irvel of the fence, this fenee
would be raised another six inches, THE
until process would be carried on the height of the desired terrace was obtained when the new land would be allowed to settle and would then be
ready for building purposes. If this method was adopted, fewer workmen would be required for the levelling
It will be noticed that the new vamp only provides for theo batta- lions thuigh the original, scheme mentioned four. The fourth will be accommodated on il reserved part of the afie If necessary.
Price Of Tyres Increased
New York, Feb. 18.
An Increase in tyre prices, averng- ing two and a half per ent, is an nounced to-day by the Firestone Tyre Rubber Company,
The lead taken by the Firestone Company is expected to be followed by general increased prices through- out the industry.—Renter,
Italians Won't Remain
Rome, Feb. 16. Italian legionaries will return to Italy from Spain as soon as General Franco bas mude known that their task is finished, according to the oficial newspaper, the "Informazione Diplomatica".-Renter Special,
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Deanna DURBIN
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MELVYN DOUGLAS
Jackie Cooper • Irene Rich Nancy Carroll John Halliday
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"COBWEB HOTEL" "LITTLE STRANGER" (Colour Cartoons and Other Interesting Shorts)
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Yugo-Slavian Government Reveals Its Policy
BELGRADE, Feb. 16. ment to be its foremost task, since THE NEW PREMIER of the such consolidation was essential for the domestic peace, as well as for Yugo - Slav
M. Government, Draglshan Zvetkovitch to-day peace and security of the country. read a declaration before Parlin- Croatian views regarding the basic ment in the presence of practi- problems of the State would have to be brought into conformity with the cally the entire diplomatle corps.views of other sections of the popu
He stressed that the Government lation. regards the Croatian question as the
With regard to foreign policy, the most important problem to solve,
Premier. stressed that the Govern Consolidation of the domestic situa-ment* would follow the same course the previous Government.--- tion through a concentration of all as force is considered by the Govern-Trans-Ocean.
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