10
KING'S
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7,15`& 9.30 P.M. -
IT'S SHIP AHOY AND SHIP
HA-HA!
Those old, salts, Commodore
Stan and Admiral Babe ga off on a rollicking ocean voyage tied firmly to the dock: Then their moorings bust loose...and the fun begins...in the most bilarious fim of their uproarious toreral
Hal Roach
presenla
LAUREL & HARDY
SAPS
AT SEA"
Directed by GORDON DOUGLAS Related Ihry UNITED ARTISTS
Also BRITISH NEWSREELS
TO-MORROW
A Universal Picturo
GRAND-NEW YEAR ATTRACTION
DEANNA DURBIN
in "SPRING PARADE”
STAR THEATRE
HANKOW DO KOWLOON. DAILY AT 230-5-20-720-920 TEL 57795
TO-MORROW
20th C. Fox Picture
• SHOW?
DAILY
1.30-20
-7.20-30
TO-DAY ONLY
Walliam
Jean
POWELL ARTHUR
THE EX-Mrs Bradford
With JAMES GLEASON, ERIC
BLORE, ROBERT ARMSTRONG, Lie Lee, Grant Mitchail, Erin O'rien Moore, Rusph Morgan.
TYRONE POWER LINDA DARNELL
in "DAYTIME WIFE"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NÄTMAN
ROAD KOWLOON
TEL 57772
(MATINEES: 20%-30%.° EVENINGS; 20€-30c50«:70
⚫ SHOWING TO-DAY •
POWERFUL SPECTACLE! GREAT DRAMA IN GRIPPING FILM!
&
DARREL F. ZANUCK'S Production of
Мучна
THE RAINS CAME
by LOUIS BROMFIELD?
A 20th Century-Fox picture starring
Tyrone
George
LOY-POWER BRENT
•
BRENDA JOYCE - NIGEL, BRUCE • MARIA 'DUSPENSKAYA, JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT • MANY NASH » JANE DARWELL MARJORIE RAMDEAU - HENRY TRAVERS - H. 3. WARNER
Directed CLARENCE BROWN
by
NEXT CHANGE
JOHN STEINBECK'S
"OF MICE AND MEN”
A Unted Artists Sensational Drams!
Dine, Wine & Dance
CHANTECLER
178–179. NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON,
TEL. 50G21.
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December
UF3
FIVE-'N'-DIME—This is what a Woolworth store in South London looked like after Nazi air raidors
had flown over Britain's capital city and dropped thair missiles of doath and destruction. Incendi- ary bombs set store afire.
Boxer's Son Surprises Grannies
Mrs Gillies, Hunter Street, Dykehead, Shotts, called "Come in in response to a knock at her door, thinking it was someone she knew,
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
AT 230-545-720-9-30 TEL 31453 - AT230-5-20-720-930 TEL56856 FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY IT'S DARING IT'S DELIGHTFUL They Traded Lessons in Franch for Lessons in Love Whon
a.Beautiful Gil, Became the Teacher !!
FRENCH
Leap Year's Funniest Romance from the Broadway hit that had
New York howling!
Permount presents
RAY MILLAND
ELLEN DREW
in
WITHOUT
por tiny by Terence Baniyan Frum the Directed by ANIMONY ASQUITIE Produced by MABIO ZAMPI
GREAT AIR WAR TO-MORROW
DECISION
How the Spitfire Was Born
When, five years ago, we began in earnest to build a new Air Force, one of the greatest problems was the armament of our fighters, writes an Air correspondent. At all costs, our striking power must be as good as, and if possible better than, that of the enemy.
The position was complicated because on the Continent there To her surprise a strapping young: Canadian soldier uppeared saying, was a pronounced disposition to resort to the use of cannon.
We "Hello, granny," She had to think, had always pinned our faith to the machine-gun, and were re- The soldier was Pte. Jim Whiteford, luctant to substitute a heavier weapon that was still in the ex- Canadian Secttish, her grandson, and perimental stage. sun of Bob Whiteford, the one-tima Scottish heavy-weight boxing chamoxpedient. It would obtain as much possessed.
The Air Staff determined on a bald were faster than any fighter plon.
After
We
visit
a meal and wash-up be re-power as a shell by increasing
Urgent Action Iravelled to Hassockrig Row, Hart- the number of machine-guns, The Urgent action was necessary, for hill, where his "Granny Whiteford" actual number decided upon, how-in the ordinary course it would have was taken by complete surprise, Jim ever, was so staggering as to appear been impossible to put a revolution- exclaimed, “Hello, granny, just pay-fantastic, for the aim was to employ ary now fighter into production in Ing you a short visit, and to see my in each single-seater fighter no fewer less than three years. native home."
than cight. And the machine carry- A Squadron
iron Leader specialist of Jim emigrated with his parents 13 ing them must have a speed of about the FLA.F. thereupon paid years ago, when only a schootboy. 1350 miles per hour.
to the Supermarino works, at which He is also a cousin of Jock White- This requirement was essential, a famous designer, the late Mr R. J. ford, the Ayr United centre half, for the Germans were at that time Mitchell, had evolved a new high- now with Hibs.
beginning to produce bombers tha speed monoplane fighter. It was an excellent Job, and Mr Mitchell was asked if he could put up the speed and at the
same time fit eight machine-guns,
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.00-K13
7.45-1.20
TAKE ANY TRAM DR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
TO-DAY
THEATRE THU
FLEMING
ROAD
WANOHSI
TEL. 50413
TO-MORROW THURSDAY
MOST FANTASTIC OF ALL HAIR RAISING spectaCLES I
GREATEST THRILLS on EARTH
SEE: soul famille Val senic Ervation Ever Filmed. Men and fonts tegellad inita Plyming love
SFEJ roten Pre-historia
Monitors Lasked to Macal Combat
SEE: Ball Tribe Man
and by 100. Man-batur
WONDERS NEVER BEFORE BEHELD BY MAN!
It Took a Million Years to Bring You this Staggering Spectacle of the World at the Dawn of Time!
Hal Roach presents
ONE MILLION
B.C.
featuring Victor MATURE Carole LANDIS Lon CHANEY.Jr.
•
Directed by Hub Roach and tial Roach, it,
Kalamed thee United Artins
ACTUAL
"LIVING ANIMALS
·OF A BICOKE AGE RE- CREATED and FILMED
BY A NEW SECRET
PROCESSI
FRI, SAT.
"CALL IT A DAY" RIOTOUS COMEDY: Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Bonita Granville
* MATINEES: 20ài, 30c. * EVENINGS: 20c., 30a., 50c., 70c, *
Work was begun on what the Air Minister has recently described as one of the great decisions in the history of air war. It was kept a close secret but now we know the result the Spitfire.
Simultaneously the Hawker firm was asked to, produce a fighter to the same specification. Out of that cume-the-Turricane.-
VIVID STORY OF RAID ON LONDON
FROM PAGE ONE
and offices which the fre ravaged. Many of the premises on Fore Street djoining the London wall were wrecked.
Fires Die Down LONDON, Dec. 30 (UP)—(7 pim.) The fires in the city of London have died down. Throughout the after- noon thousands of oilee workers, whose jobs were endangered by the destruction of their offices, proceeded
o their homes in the suburbs.
Churchill Tours City LONDON, Dec. 30 (UP).—Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill toured the amaged areas of the city this after- noon, walking amid the debris. They were followed by 1 huge crowd, cheering and waving hats.
LATE NEWS
TEARS
GRAND NEW YEAR SHOW
A STREAMLINED MUSICAL SENSATION I Positively the Biggest, Most Tuneful "B'way Melody," of 'Em All.
FRED
ASTAIRE
ELEANOR.
POWELL
THE WORLD'S GREATEST CANCERS... Together?
BROADWAY MELODY 1940
TAKE ANY TRAM of HAPPY VALLEY BUS.
CATHAY
DAILY AT 230. 8.15.7.20,89,30.P.M.İ MATININE 1.806, 366, 40-`EVERINIRILINĖ 200, 306, THL, BA
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY
A GALAXY OF M-G-M SHORT SUBJECTS ! ALL NEW I NEVER SHOWN BEFORE !
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
presents
LAUREL & HARDY Comedy Programme
including
Travelogue, Sportscope, Cartoons.
Specialties, clc., etc.
-COMMENCING TO-MORROW- GRAND NEW YEAR'S ATTRACTION!
WALLACE
THUNDER
BEERY AFLOAT
CENTRAL
CHESTER MORRIS
TVIRGINIA GREY
DAILY AT 12.30, 5,15 7,20
and 0.30 p.m
PRICES: 45 ets., 55 els.. RO cis,
QUEEN'S RD, CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS STREET. Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west. 5.min. franj stan opposite Queen's
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
BUTTER FROM EIRE
THE
LATEST & BEST PICTURE FROM CHINA'S FOREMOST DIRECTOR
TSAI TSO SANG
22 *
4:
GLORY
ON
PARADE"
A CHINESE PICTURE IN
MANDARIN
NAVAL VESSELS
COME FIRST
For the time being, Australia will
Mrs Dorothy Stewart, of Killiney, Co. Dublin, n visitor to Brixham, Devon, was fined £3 at Brixham recently for unlawfully attempting to not embark on any large-scale com- obtain butter. It was stated that a mercial shipbuliding plans! All letter from Mrs Stewart to a Dublin avaliable construction facilities wit dairy, ordering butter, was intercept be needed for defence work, ed by the Censor.
At the Empire Conferencon Pleading guilty, Mrs Stewart sald Supply at Delhi the Australian delo- Iffation will explain that several she had sent buitor from Dublin to Tribal class destroyers and dozens of hor son and daughter in England. Jocal defence patrol vessels are being She knew that her letter to the dairy, built at seven shipyards. In three would be opened by the Consor, but States, and that white this work lasta was unaware that it was an Dlegal, it will not be deable to embark on action,
large-scale commercial shipbuilding.
· Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FaxBERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Page 20Page 21