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Out of the hearts of 111 people.
Caut of the very wall of America.......
agriul director creates fils most,
atrring human spectacle of the
laughter...the love.....ilin pain.
“ind the joy of this everyday Hajsi-"
ness of living! Sttering...bi the seelug!
Precious...in the remembering! Enacted
by one of the must
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The more part vei Takali Yak Ya”
TO - MORROW
A Warner Bros.,***
Picture
FRANK CAPRA'S*
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
tothering
Joan ARTHUR ✦ James STEWART
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RAPIE ARNOLD - KISKER • MITCHELL - CONDI DFRANK CAMA SurePlay by SIDNEY BUCIMAM • A COLUMMA PICTURE,
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with THE "DEAD END" KIDS Margaret Lindsay Ronald Dragon
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TEST PILOT
Mevo Goldwyn Maya
IN LIONEL BARRYMORE
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220-230
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A Entirely Now Copy of the Most Timely Re-Issue ! THE MIGHTIEST EPIC OF THE AIR-FORCE EVER PRODUCED ! ! !
Brought Back Because No Other Saga of the Air Has Been Made To Equal it !
Clark GABLE
Wallace BEERY
"HELL DIVERS
COMMENCING FRIDAY @
THIS YEAR'S GREAT GOLDWYN PICTURE !
SAMUEL GOLDWYN prezente
Gary COOPER
REAL GLORY
DAVID NIVEN ANDREA LEIDE
WPORTED ARTÉTÉ
• DESMENTEQINALD OWIN
KT
Wednesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MARCH 27, 1940.
Continued To Defame Her Husband
WIFE JAILED FOR CONTEMPT
'Her Second
Committal
A WIFE who wrote defamatory letters to her husband, his solicitor, relatives and friends, was sent to jail for a second time by Mr. Justice Simonds in the Chancery Division,
She is Mrs. Emily Charlotte | Lodge, Marloes, McMahon Brandon, of Woodford Hertfordshire. Bridge, Essex.
Mrs. Bruton was first sent to Jall on the judge's order last May on a motion brought by her husband, Mr. Albert John Brandon, of Tudor
SAILORS' TAN-BY "FRYING"
Hemel Hempstead,
He alleged she had disobeyed in or- der of the court not to molest him. Before being released Mra, Bran- don had expressed regret for failing] to observe the injunction: *
It was stated that within three months of her release, she resumed: the writing of defumalory letters and postcards..
Gross Contempt
Iter husband had described them as being of a highly scandalous nature, enaking untrue accusations.
He said she had made against his safety and welfare.
threats
Mrs. Brandois, asked by the judge to explain her conduct, made a long slatement repenting allegations
Mra, Brandon
The Old
Gentleman
Gets His Medal
AMOS HALLS, Wells Street, Bury
St. Edmunds, served 22 years in the Suffolk Regiment.
When he retired CREWS of the submarines nainst her husband.
as a sergeant- Making the order for her committal major he was recommended for the which patrol the Heligoland Mr. Justice Simonds said she had Meritorious Service Medal. Bight .go weeks without abeen guilty of the grossest contempt He has now received the decora- glimpse of daylight-but they of court.
tion, a major-general calling at his It was in her own interest that she home to present the medal,, be manage G attractively should be committed to prison, where tunned.
P.S.-Pensioner Halls retired from sbe would be
subject in medical the Army in 1905-35 pars ago. .He supervision.
E none 73 pears old.
They are being “fried”—given sun-ray treatment-at their de pot to make up for the lack of real sun.
The new treatment is not part ofi the normal Navy routine, but it is! being given in recognition or the
great work the submarines are doing i in the Heligoland Bight,
They deserve it because this is the sort of thing they have to put up with:
The crew of one submarine which recently returned from patrol ́had seen hurdly any daylight for, seven weeks.
All day long the ship remained below the surface or just at peris- rope
depth. I surfaced for battery charging only at night,
It was a discussion among some of the nien themselves about their need jof more sunlight if they were to keep fl for their dangerous job, that Ied
to the offer to provide them with a sun-ray outai.
Now every day the men, go for a
spell of "frying" under artificial sun-
Fight.
SWEDEN WATCHES RUSSIANS
So popular has it become that all SWEDEN also has her crack ski troops, who are concentrated on the
the men attached to the station have Northern frontiers, ever watchful of Red moves in Finland.—Domci, asked permission for daily treni-
ment.
An oẞleer explained it was com- mon knowledge in Naval eirelės that submarine work had resulted' in dif- euitles in the health of the men serv-
ing.
He added: "At first the men were Inclined to be more umused than anything else, about the sun-ray treatment, but now we cannot keep them away.
"Some of them are as brown as berries-you would think they had been on a world cruise. This "frying' hus certainly enught on.“
S'hai Rugger Player Killed In North Sea
SHANGHAI, Mar. 26 (Reuter) News has just been received in Shanghai that RF. "Peter" Blix, a Norwegian subject and formerly of Reuter's Far Eastern Staff, was killed recently as the result of the Lor pedoing of a Norwegian ship in which he was serving in European waters, Full details of the Incident have not yet been received,
Peter Blix was well-known in Fur! Eastern sporting circles, having re- presented Shanghal at Rugby against Hongkong in the 1934-35 match, which Shanghai won by 17 points to 11. Blix was Shanghai's scrum-hal! on that occasion and in the following year travelled down to Hongkong for his second Interport.
Hongkong F.C. Annual Dinner
The Annual Dinner of the Hong- kong Football Club will be hold In the Roof Garden, the Hongkong |Hotel, on Saturday, March 30, at 7.30
p.m.
LATE NEWS
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in M-G-M's "BALALAIKA” enjoys his foisure hours with a GOOD pipa.
COMOY'S GRAND SLAM (The Wonder Pipe)
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Hundreds of native dancing girls in the new swing hula, enchanting music, new song hiis, lavishly presented in the tropical paradise of Hawaii. HULA-HULA IN SWING TIME!
Johnny DOWNS •Mary CARLISLE
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Mally MALNECK and his Orchestra
Sol HOOPII Hawaiian Band
Hawaiian Nights
Etienne, GIRAABOT • Samuel S, HINDS,
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If You're a Man Would You Wear A Red Check Suit?
STRAWBERRY-RED sports with a broad check stripe are.. the textile industry's answer to the threat of the standard suit,
Cloth for the jackets--almost as, there will be rich browns and dark vivid in colour as the hues of blazers blues--and each item in a man's out- -was shown to trada buyers in Brad-| At can be obtained to match. ford recently when war fashions for this year were displayed..
The exhibition, the first of its kind to be held in the provinces, showed the "colour co-ordination” of men's wear sponsored by the British Colour Council. All' sections of the clothing] Industry are represented.
" Braces To Match
Braces, suspenders, gloves, hats, : ties, socks, shoes and even walking- colours as the suit or in a shade to. sticks can be bought in the same.
tono. -
Looking Abroad
But for the nitty grey-green suit- ing, braces of brown and pale blue stripe are recommended.
The strawberry-coloured: sports The two really fashionable colours cloth has not been designed for for 1040 will be smoke-blue and grey- British golf courses, but "may be green, saya the Counell. These are popular at Long Island or Palm light shades and will enable Import-Beach,
ant economies to be made in the usei For it is to the oversena market of essential chemicals now diverted that the textile industry is looking, to the war effort..
Besides there two main colours and foreign taste is specially catered
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
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