Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 27, 1941.
'Curry That New Construction on Probable
KING'S Corned Beef Matsuoka Visit to Moscow UEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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at. 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
LOOKA
THEM!:
THEY'RE
it
SOJERS!
THE 'DEAD END'.
KIDS. DRESS PARADE
"ON
Presented by WARNER BROS.
-JOHN LITEL - FRANKIE
THOMAS CISSIE LOFTUS
Directed by WILLIAM CLEMENS
A WARNER BROS. --- FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE + Original Berem Play by Tom Band
Also Musical Shorts in Technicolour. "MECHANIA ILLUSTRATED" And BRITISH WAR NEWS
TO-MORROW.
A 20th Century- Fox. Picture
SHOWS
BALY
1.30-14
Musical Extravaganza in TECHNICOLOURI "DOWN ARGENTINE WAY" with Don Amerke, Belty Grable, Carmen Miranda
RÁŠKU DÉPI TRAM ON HAPPY VELLET INJO
ORIENTAL
THEATRESORTS
FLEMING
ROAD
WARÓMAI
TEL. DOI
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY-
A BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS COMEDY.FOR A DARK NIGHT! With a song in his heart and a machino-gun in his hands this musical mobster crashes the hit parado. HERE'S THE SHOW OF LAUGHTER, SONG AND GAIETY !
I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE BABY
with Broderick CRAWFORD' PEGGY MORAN JOHNNY DOWNS
Gertrudo MICHAEL
Warren HYMER
FOR TO-MORROW & SATURDAY
A SCRAP-HAPPY COMEDY WITH A DIZZY ROMANCE !
Joan Blondell and Dick Powell
"I WANT A DIVORCE"
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4 SHOWS
DAILY 2.30-170 220-9.30
MAJESTICE
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The Most Hilarious Cast of the Year... in a Romantic Comedy-Riat You'll Laugh at... and Love ! ! !.
FOUR STARS YOU'RE GOING TO CHEER IN THE FOUR STAR HIT OF THE YEAR!;
The Queen
LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter),Japanese circles in Shanghai assert that the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Matsuoka, will shortly visit Moscow to sign an agreement with the Soviet, the When the Queen was look-Shanghai correspondent of a Free French Agency reports. ing round an emergency feeding The agreement is said to pro. Soviet waters on a purely commer.
Iclal basis, centre for people bombed out of vide for the demilitarisation of The correspondent emphasises the East End homes the girl in the Soviet-Manchukuo frontier: significance of Japanese circles can- vassing for the pact involving charge told her that men and The recification of that. frontier in unilateral concessions from Japan to women there had just one com-Russia's favour, and the modification Russia, and adds that these sugges- tlons seem to imply the postponement plaint,
jof Japan's southward expansion, They had been eating corned beef of the Treaty of Portsmouth, placing! for a week, and they were sick and Japanese economic privileges on the making that expansion subordinate to. tired of it.
Sakhalia and fishing rights In thelagree with the Soviet.
"You must curry it, my, dear," suld the Queen
They did-and currled corned beef became a favourite dish at the centre,
Mr B. E. Astbury, secretary of the Charity Organisation Society, told' members of Leeds Personal Service Bureau about the Queen's cookery tip.
Corned beef, he said, should be cut into small cuber, garnished with! curry sauce, and served hot with either boiled rice or potatoes.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange offelal aummary issued yesterday, says:
After easing off, Electrics have come into favour again and offerings have been readily absorbed with the demand unsatisfied. There were also enquiries for other stocks, the market displaying more activity.
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Big U.S. Defence Bill
FROM PAGE ONE
recruits, while the Navy funds will permit work to start immediately on numerous shore establishments scat- tered throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean, as well as on main- and bases for expanding the act- vities of United Sintes seu and alr power.
Huge sums for the Caribbean pro- jects lend emphasis to the Adminis- tration's intention of converting the Caribbean outposts into a steel ring of defences, and Puerto Rico into a "second Hawail," with naval base facilities to house the newly created Atlantic Fleet, In addition to powerful air and submarine base faclilles.
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Gorgeous Hussy
TAYLOR
HOW THE
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LIONEL BARRYMO
Produced by Spranh Mankiewien di
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Madeleine Carroll in
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GALS MUSIC
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LAUGHS LAUGHS LAUGHS
JACK
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In
BENNY ALLEN LOVE THY
NEIGHBOR
4 SONG HITS!.
MARY MARTIN VERREE TEASDALE THE MERRY MACS VIRGINIA DALE and ROCHESTER and Mark Sandrich
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COME...AND HOWL!
WILLIAM
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A LOVE YOU AGAIN
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College man, banker's son .... now a mobster ! Drama that blasts the truth out of a boy's heart'ombittered when the father he idolized is sont to prison !
NOT SINCE JESSE JAMES” HAS HE HAD SUCH A ROLE!
SUNDAY RKO Radio Picturo
TYRONE
DOROTHY
POWER LAMOUR
JOHNNY
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EDWARD ARNOLD LLOYD NOLAN CHARLEY GRAPEWIN - LIONEL ATWILL A 20th Century Fan Picture
Raymond Massey Geno Lockhart in
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“ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS”
LEE THEATRE Charlie Chaplin
NANCY KELLY ROBERT CUMMINGS *HUGH HERBERT ★ROLAND YOUNG.
In
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