12
KING'S
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Irving Berlin's ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND
TYRONE ALICE
DON
POWER FAYE AMECHE
ond
ETHEL MERMAN • JACK HALEY
JEAN HERSHOLT: HELEN WESTLEY JOHN CARRADINE PAUL HURST WALLY VERNON
NOTE
RUTH TERRY
A
20th Century-for Picture
The Admission Prices of the 2.30 show during the showing of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" will be increased to same as the evening.
SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES TO-DAY AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON ONLY "THE AUTOCRAT OF CH'O DYNASTY”
A Chinese Picture with Superimposed English Subtilies Admission Prices:-D. Circle $1.00. B. Stalin 70c., F. Stalls 40c.
+ SHOWS
DAILY
230&20
| 720-9:30
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN
ROAD KOWLOON
TEL 47222
MATINEES. 20¿ -30 ° EVENINGS 20-30-50:70)
SHOWING TO-DAY
THE GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT OF THE YEAR !!! AN ALL TECHNICOLOUr programmE!
DRUMS
Men fight, Uve, love and Be bravely, the tide of empire sweeps on le the O dramane setting No ture ever crewed...a mighty pizteni al adventure
weeps across the screen
In vivid new Technicolor
25400000) ANE
IN CLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR
with SABU - RAYMOND MASSEY
DESMOND TESTER
ROGER LIVESEY
VALERIE HOBSON
Anda Com 3,000 + Directed by ZOLTAN KORDA Fromagery by A, R., W. MASON - Romet done Unarë Prona
Added Attraction:
WRIT! MIG,
DONALD DUCK in "MODERN INVENTION" Walt Disney's Silly Symphony in Colour
• NEXT CHANGE .
THE SEASON'S TOP LAUGH SENSATION
JOAN BLONDELL - MELVYN DOUGLAS in "THERE'S ALWAYS. A WOMAN' A Columbia Comedy-Hit !
Needed Urgently
MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S
Winter Clothing
Hongkong Benevolent Society
11. Ice House Sticet,
MONDAY
THURSDAY
10 a.m. to 12 Noon.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FOEDERICK PERCY FRANKLIK at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. February 21, 1939.
Family Bible Tells Girl's Age
TN Hempion, tiny Norfolk village,.
IN
they keep their family recorda
on the fly-leaf of the Bible.
They prefer such records to birth certificates.
Horatio Wright and his wife, Edith Sophie, produced their family Bible
in the Fakenham police court recent-
ly.
NEW YORK FEARS QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
ANTI-NAZI RIOTS
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. EXTRAORDINARY POLICE precautions
They believed that their daughter are being taken to-night to deal with expected was 10, they rald, because the Bible: disorders in connection with the big rally of the
entry maid she was born on March
25, 1022.
And that was why they signed pro-Nazi "German-j
The police spent the night combing the Garden, following
consent to her marriage, which look American Bund," which an anonymous warning that
place last May.
They were summoned for knowing-
ly and wilfully signing a false de- is being held in Madison bomba had been planted there.
Nothing was found.-Reuter.
claration.
OFFERED EXTRACT
The Rev. G. Smallpelee, vicur of Hempton, paid that Mrs. Wright
asked banns.
Square Garden.
No less than 1,500 police Servant Gives him to publish her daughter's have been assigned to the
Later he remembered that the girl Garden neighbourhood, Children Party
was only 15, and after making la- where 60,000 demonstrators quiries, he told Mrs. Wright that her
are expected to act as pic- daughter could not be married.
or otherwise show registrar, kets, Alex E. Kerrison, the said that when Mrs. Wright, her
Mrs. Balls, mother their disapproval of daughter, and o of the man the girl wished to marry, Bund's activities. called at his office, no one said that Mr. Smallpelce had been seen.
Mrs.
Wright
the
SITTINGBOURNE, Kent. CHILDREN of the little vllinge of
Bobbing, near here, have a fairy god- mother.
Miss Esther She 18, 30-year-old Russell, a domestic servant working
at Herne Bay, who travels 18 milca
to
his sing every Sunday to take a
Herr Fritz Kuhn, the Bund the leader, fold him that
announced has could not produce the birth certi- intention to have 3,000 of his Beate to confirm her daughter's age,,
but offered to bring an extract from uniformed
storm-troopers
at
the family Bible. The parents sign-hand to deal with any distur- ed a consent form.
OLD ALTERATION
bances inside the Garden.
Five police lorries, loaded with Mr. G. R. Webb, defending sollei- tor,, showed Mr. Kerrison two pages tear gas bombs, will be standing of the Blule, and he agreed that an by, while reserve police, armed alteration in the entry of the year with rifles, will be stationed in of the birth of the girl was an old the basement of the Garden.
one.
Mrs. Wright said she told the vicari her daughter was 15 and that if he could not marry her she would and someone who would.
her
The alteration in the record book was in the handwriting of husband's mother, who died about six years ago.
4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30-6.19 7.15-0.30
school class.
something But the children have more for which to thank her.
Every week Misa Russell puls her wages into the post-office bank.
And now she has just drawn the money out and given a party for the vilinge schoolchildren.
something by from
And what a party. There were sweets, toys and fruit--ali bought by Miss Russell.
ORIENTAL
THEATREA,
FLEMING ROAD WANCHAN
TEL 20473
OLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY.
The Chairman, Mr. H. G, Johnson, said the magistrates had deelded that MOST SENSATIONAL BARGAIN IN THEATRICAL HISTORY !
the couple knew their doughter was not 16.
Both were aned two guineas and ordered to pay costs.
Tied And United
San Francisco.
In December, 1934, Edna Edwards. publle relations counsel for the deaf, served us a "sign interpreter" for thei marriage of Esther and Arthur R. Gage. Almost to the day, four years later, she served in the same capacity for their divorce.
LATE NEWS
Pitiful Scenes At Hospitals
Pluiful scenes were witnessed this; afternoon at the Kowloon Hospital as the stream of wounded civilians were brought in from the border by umbulances.
The most pitiful eases were those of old and young women, their limbs shattered and their clothes blood- stained. During the early rush, two or three student doctors were called in to cope with the influx of cases. Operations are being performed on three wounded civilians, it is under- stood.
Owing to lack of accommodation only serious cases are being admitted other to Kowloon Hospital, The cases are being sent to the Kwong Wah and Lalchikok hospitals as soon is they receive first uld.
Most of the casualties so far re- celved at Kowloon Hospital sustain- ed their wounds from bullets, con- firming the fact that the Japanese extensively machine-gunned populace as well as bombing clly.
the the
FIRST TIME EVER SHOWN
IN ANY THEATRE
ONE OF THE SEASON'S MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCTIONS
NOW PRESENTED AT POPULAR PRICES!
DOUBLE THE
LAFFS! DOUBLE THE
THRILLS! of all the other Penrod story kits! THAT'S
THE
PENROD'S DOUBLE TROUBLE
Mauch Twins [BILLY & BOBBY]
DICK PURCELL KATHLEEN LOCKHART GENE LOCKHART
A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE - Directed by Law Baller - Present al by WANSEA 63:02. Vhography, had,
TO-MORROW ONLY! SPECIAL RETURN ENGAGEMENT ! EXTRAORDINARY FANTASTIC THRILL PRODUCTION.
EXTRA
Vito Carl, Liommia presante
THE GREAT KARLOFF
Bend Béla LUGOSI in
INVISIBLE RAY
Universal Phacamenal: Thriller!
ADDED ATTRACTION !
ON THE STAGE
AT ALL PERFORMANCES THE FAMOUS
Woman Dies With NOVAC DUO
Bullet Wounds
An unknown Chinese woman who was wounded during the border rald died in Kowloon Hospital shortly
after admission,
In addition to sustaining a frac-i tured leg, the woman was the victim of machine-gunning, at least two bullets lodging in her stomach.
WORLD'S MOST DARING AND SENSATIONAL ACROBATIC DANCERS
2 BIG SHOWS FOR THE
PRICE OF ONE!
• MATINEES: 20c,-30c/☛İLEVENINGS; :20ci~30c-50c.-70c..
HONG KONG
AT 2-30-515 7:20-9:30PM
KOWLOON
AT 230 3.20·7·20 & 9:50° P.M
NOW SHOWING At Roadshow Prices !
This picture will not be shown ohowhere N.B. In this Colony for at least six months!
HERE THEY COME!
Roaring for batilo or ready for loval..Reck.
- loss, loyal, swag. gering sons of the thundering guns off fighting battalions in India The lustlest dovils that over mannod a cannon of
plagued hours!
woman's
INSPIRED BY "KIPLING'S HEROIC
LINES ... STAGED
ON A SCALE THAT BEGGARS WORDS!
Starring
CARY GRANT VICTOR MCLAGLEN DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr.
and
ch
5cm Laits Edenrée Clannelli • Join Fortaise;
UNIA
'RKO RADIO'S GIANT
SHOW OF SHOWSI
PANDROS.SERMANE in charge of production. Froduced and diested by GEORGE E?SVENS, Tie a tory by Don tieth and Charles Mochrbet. Screen May by Joel Soyrs and fied Gatel,
"SAY IT IN FRENCH"
NEXT CHANGE
on
RAY MILLAND
THURSDAY
DAILY
"AT
9-30
520
720
* 9:20
*
with
OLYMPE BRADNA
A Paramount Comedy.
HANKOW
KOWLOON
STARE
• TO-DAY ONLY »
57795
AT ALL REGULAR PERFORMANCES !
(A 17
POPEYE
"Sindbad the Sailor”
and
"ALI BABA &The 40 THIEVES
&4 ALL TECHNICOLOR REELS
MYRNA LOY
-
CARY GRANT
in
always BEST
always
CIGARS
FRESH
Guaranteed HAND MADE !
Manufactured by C. INCENOHL LTD.
THE ORIENT TOBACCO MANUFACTORY..
TOMORROW
A Paramount = sa
Picturo
*"WINGS IN THE DARK”
'TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
CATHAY
Daily at 2.30, 5·15, 7-20 & 9.30 P.M.
WANCHAI ROAD, WANCHAI. TELEPHONE NO 26558
FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY
WALT DISNEY'S
GW.D.P
FIRST FULL LENGTH PRODUCTION*...
Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs
All in Muldplane TECHNICOLOR
Bir fated by 200-RADIO PICTURES
POPULAR PRICES
MATINEES:-Stalls 20c Circle 30c.. Logo 400. EVENINGS:--20c.. 30c.. 50c.. 70c.. Loga 80c. SERVICEMEN 40c. to Circle & Stalli
TO-MORROW I
THE PERFECT TARZAN in the TARZAN-THRILL OF ALL TIMEI
Edgar Rice Burnoughw
TARZAN'S
World's Greatest Athleta GLENN MORRIS “America's Glamour Gid
REVENGE ELEANOR HOLM
C. INGENOHL'S
"LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE"