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BETTE DAVIS •MIRIAM HOPKINS
THE OLD MAID GEORGE BRENT
SUB WAS Made for Love
UT NO MAN WOULD MARRY HER NOW! ¿SVfrilly, unforgettably, a woman a starved soul
is reveriod. All those strange secreta abo locka În her heart...moments of rapture and of heart, Ofreak...longings that no man can shoes. Of "These has the year's finem picture hoon WOTE!
DONALD CRISP • JANE BRYAN • LOUISE PAZENDA • JAMES STEPHENSON » JERÓNE COVAN WILLIAM LUNDIGAN - CECILIA LOPTUS - Directed by EDMUND COULDING
Baron Pho by Kang Soldama e Punë me tha Fiber Pies Pit be for this end the Handke Back Vanna » Made by 2010 Madani a 3. Pare Mattrad Meani PRESENTED BY WARNER BROS
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A Columbia Picture
"MUSIC IN MY HEART'
starring
TONY MARTIN - RITA HAYWORTH
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3 MUSKETEERS OF MIRTH
IN LUMACY UNDER CAWASI.
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KENNY BAKER
FLORENCE
RICE
EYE ARDEN MARCABET QUMOKT KAT PINDLETON
The story of a heroine of Ming Dynasty -"SACRIFICED FOR THE NATION"
Sonja Henie Tyrono Power "SECOND FIDDLE"
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• SHOWING TO-DAY Exciting, pulse-firing drama of the Philippinos, with Gary Cooper in his most stirring role !
ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED NEVER OUTFOUGHT
SAMUEL GOLDWYN prezanti
Gary COOPER
THE REAL GLORY
DAVID NIVEN "ANDREA LEEDS REGINALD OWEN BRODERICK CRANJOED » KAT JOHNIDM Directed by Henry Hathaway
FROM TOWN MOUNG BY KHABERS RO CLAÍPORN » MILLARES TORN MONTRO ARINETS
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* NEXT CHANGE, FOR ONE DAY ONLY * Return Showing By Popular Demand I
Frederic March in "THE BUCCANEER" A Cecil B. DeMille. Production- A Paramount Picture
Monday, I HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 1; 1940.:
Please-go-without' drive
starts in
Baby Born
In Phone Box
AT 3 am!—Mrs. Emily Ath wrapped a shawl and dressing - gown round her nightdress and hurried from her house in Lang- ler Vale-road, Epsom.
She managed to get as far as the tiny sandbagged polico emer- gency call-box, near Epsom race- course. Special Constable Ron-
•ald Tuckerman, a single man aged twenty-three, was on duty. "Quick, will you please 'phone for the ambulance," gasped Mirx. Azh.
Tuckerman flashed a message. Then he turned to help Mrs. Asit. Before the ambulance serived she had given birth to a daugh-
ter. And the special constablo was her midwife.
Ile gave Mrs. Ash what assiS- fance he could, and wrapped the baby in her shawl. Then he helped them into the ambulance and went off to Mrs, Ash's home. To his surprise he had to wake his "patient's" husband.
Mr. Ash was astounded to - know that his wife was not still safely at home in bed.
Mr. Frederick Ash, the hus- band.
"I have been in bed for threo days with influenta and a sore throat, and had lost my volce.
"When Emily began to feel_jil she woke my mother, who is also III. She advised my wife to wake me, but Emily said, 'No, I won't disturb him. I can get to the call-box by myself.***
Mir. Aah saw his wife in Epsom County Hospital, and reported that both looked very well.
"If the baby had been a boy
I would have named him after
the constable," he said,
New Move By Sweden
Effort To Control Ship
Movements
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 31 (Reu ter)A new law which comes into force to-morrow forbids all Swedish ships of over 360 tons | to leave port in future without Ipermission of the Maritime Com-
mission.
A similar restriction is placed on Swedish freighters between 100 and 350 tons sailing between Sweden and a foreign country as well as freighters below 350 tons sailing between foreign parts,
SUMNER WELLES AND POLAND
PARIS, Mar. 31 (Reuter),It is stated here that Mr. Sumner Welles
·wrole-letters-to-the-Polish-Prime Minister, General Sikorski, and the Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski, before ho left Rome,
This was announced at a Cabinet meeting of Polish Ministers at An-
gers.
The letters stress the importance of the conversations which took place) with the Polish leaders when Mr. Sumner Welles was in Paris and ex- press the friendliest feelings for "the great Polish nation,"
LATE NEWS
EUROPEAN CHARGED
Charles Onslow, 40-year-old un- employed, was charged before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning with obtaining $30 by false pretences. He has been in police custody for 48 hours.
Onslow was
was charged that, on March 30, he obtained $30 from Loung Cheuk, Master of Stall No. 88 at the Central Market by falsely pretending that he had been sent by one Mr. Taylor, of the Imports and Exports Department, to collect the money.
Det. Sergt. Callahan is prosecuting.
Britain
BRITAIN'S trade blitzkrieg has begun.
Every industry is organising itself for the battle, and there is to be no limit to the amount of aid given by the Government in capturing new markets-particularly those formerly held by Germany.
I understand that one plan under consideration is a series of "travelling trade fairs" to form ʼn shop-window for 'British Industry in foreign countries.,
Small but attractive.shows would be arranged, so that pros-: pective customers could see the goods before ordering. Large- scale trade fairs, like that at Leipzig, are regarded as useless in wurtime.
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY.
BALALAIKAE
where there's wine, women and song?”
Nelson EDDY
ILONA MASSEY
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SMITH CONFTON
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FRANTZ
Neuro- Mot
TO-MORROW' at the QUEEN'S TO-MORROW at the ALHAMBRA
manufacture of goods thost needed "THE DAY THE BOOKIES WEPT" "THE SECRET OF A for foreign markets.
The Government will conduct
Sir Andrew Duncan, President, of the Board of Trade, is confident that, once the world sees British products, the rest is easy. Trade worth hundreds of millions a year; publicity for British trade generally, is available to the most energetic glve market information to expor and enterprising seller..
ters, and organise joint marketing schemes
there-
Special export groups are fore being set up in all the leading Export trade, which brings sup- Industries to examine the markets plies of foreign currency to Britain. and to organise manufacture and is regarded by Ministers as a vital export.
part of the country's defences.
Women experts will help in building up the demand for British fashions-a very important and growing market.
Through
their groups, Industries will keep in close touch with the
Government.
Co-ordination
Home consumers are to be naked to give up some of their comforts, so that more goods may be sent abrood, and the export trade can be built up.
Ministers will not ask Mr. and Mrs. Little Man to do without neces- sities, but luxuries, and even some things now in everyday use may be Every facility will be given to ex-put on a "Please-do-without" list. porters, and, according to n White- so that manufacturers may concen- paper published recently, the Board trate on export trade, without hav- of Trade Export Council will coing to worry unduly about supplies ordinate its efforts.
of raw materials.
Voluntary co-operation will be given a fair trial, but, If necessary, such Ministers are prepared to intro- you duce legislation to compel thew bring us victory!"
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Nazi Raider Air Service To
Durban Resumes
Disabled
LONDON, Mar. 31 (Reuter).—A
LONDON, Mar, 31 (Reuter)-The German raider was caught napping Empire flying boat service to Durban by a Britial, fghter over the North will be fully restored this week,. Sea to-dny. The British fighter There will be, two return fights dived and attacked the German weekly to Durban, 猜您 plane which was last seen flying low schedule before war broke, DUL in a disabled condition.
was the
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