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"SON OF KONG”—KING'S
THEATRE
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The climax offers one of the mast spectacular sequences in screen his- tory when the lost island, together with its monsters is destroyed by an earthquake,
The film, from an original idea by Marian C. Cooper, was written by Ruth Itose, and was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack.
"SHE LOVES ME NOT
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Bing Crosby, the noted crooner, comes to the Queen's Theatre in Paramount's musical romance, "She Loves Me Not" with Mariam Hopkins and Kitty Carlisle
The Brasilian Ambassador to Washington, Mr. Osvaldo Aranha, arriving in New York on the giant liner, Rex, after a vacation in Europe. He is shown in the photograph with his wife and two Jaughters, Miss Zaxe, on the left, and Miss Deddi, right, who accompanied him.
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"LOVE, NEVER AGAIN”— CENTRAL THEATRE
Lillan Harvey, fascinating and Overman, Judith Allen, petite former Continental, but now)
With a distinguished supporting cast which includes Warren Hymer, Lynne
George Barbler and Vince Barnett,
.....
"BEAUTY AND THE BOSS”—' ALHAMBRA THEATRE
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BRIDGE - NOTES
OPENING LEAD CHOICE
by Ely Culbertem.
SCOTTSBORO ECHO
TRIAL
Execution Now Fixed
A't
Reuter.
RADIO
TODAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programma, will
be broadcasted to-day, frums - the- Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ZB.W., on a wave length of 35% [metres (845 E.Ç/)) :—–—
1-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. 1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Report
1.03 p.m.-Recorded Programme, 1:15 pm Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra, from, the Hong |Kong Hotel Grill. Room,
1.80 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, etc
2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
"Travel" Talk from the Studio.
Z.E.K. ProgramMBUTAN 6-8 p.m.-European Programme, 5-6 p.m. (Approx:)—A Relay of the Band of the 1st Batt: Bouth Wales Borderers, conducted by Band master C. Eldicott, ARG.M., from the Military Hospital, Bowen Road by kind permission of Lieut. Colonel H.E." Williams, D.9.0., 24.0, 4
› 6-7 p.m.--A Relay of the Bụng Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the
Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.**·
7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quote- tions, London and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations
7.08-7.40 p.m.---Concert: Tremuli Violin Solo
En Bateau (Boating (Debussy), La Fille Aux Cheveux!! de In The Maiden with $78cantade). (Debussy)ival. Feisal Kreisler. Song-Annie Laurio paja telah ters
Afton Water (Robert, Burns),
Mary Garden (Soprano),
Planoforte Solos
Paganini Etude in E Flat Major
(Faganial-Lisst); ret Children's Corner Suite (Dobus5)~ Serenade for the Dalj 724
*Vladimi. Horowitz. Song-The Lute Player ((Allitsen)
The Floral Dahco (Mass)
Peter Dawson (Bam-Baritone). Cello Solo ofMasurke, Op.11, No. 18. Jaronne)
Pablo Casals.
7.40-8 p-From the Studio.
10.40 p.m.-Closs Down.,
All Relays of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestras are by courtesy of the Management. W
For December 7 "She Loves Me Not" brings to the Hollywood star comes to the Cen- Indispensable for improving bodily screen the fanciful tale of wild tral Theatre in "Love Never and mental freshness. Unsurpassescapades-in-a-Princeton dormitory Again," a-merry version,_of_the
The Supreme Court has convulsed Broadway
Opening leads story of a wealthy Don Juan who
are precise, ex-Alabama has rejected the appli- HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY.jable for treatment of Debility, In- that
audiences for months. On sale at all book-stalls and at the somnia, Anaemia, Depression etc.
"swears off" from all women for a act, and therefore very difficult. cation for a rehearing of the case Manufacturing offices of the Publishers, 8A, Wynd-
process per The story depicts the escape of a
I think it is safe to say that hun-of the two negroes, Heywood 4. Talk on "The Journey Home rin term of five years. ham Street.
manently controlled by German night-club dancer from, the scene
dreds of Bridge gamos and rubbers Patterson and Clarence Norris, Siberia" by Miss P. W. Brows
8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Government Chemical Test Office, of a Philadelphia murder, her con- Andre Roanne a rich young man are lost day, after day and week who were condemned to death in Report.
cealment at Princeton and her who finally gets tired of being after week because the correct the Scottsboro trial for assault 01.10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con-
Icert. aubsequent entry into mation plc-blackmailed and bets with a friend suit or the correct card in a suit is on two white women.
9.30 pm Reuter Press, Bulletins, The execution has been fixed tures with A wild fanfare of
London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity time publicity, and at the same
that he will not have any affairs not chosen for the Opening lead.
Quotations. It must be admitted that a cor- for Dec. 7. The men were sen
10.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Buletins, develops a tender romance between with the fair sex for five years, 1s
rect choice is sometimes extremely tenced to death last year to-
In gether with seven other negroes, Rugby Mid-day Press News, etc., Fur Bing and Kitty Carlisle. the Lilian's leading man in the film, difficult, and the field is one Dean's daughter.
himself a popular star in Europe. which even the wisest and the but the conviction was set aside, ther London Stock and Commodity Following up the conditions of most experienced of us may easily and a re-trial ordered. Patter- Quotations, followed by New York
son and Norris were again con- Opening Quotations. victed and sentenced. his wager, Roanne, accompanied by However, often the bidding or his valet and a masculing crew, the lack of it will furnish some Refreshing in its satire and one sails to sea for almost five years, by kind of clue to the choice of the jof the most enjoyable comedy
may afford ning the bet. But the unexpected a chance to defeat the contract. dramas, presented in recent weeks, which time he is confident of win-suit and the card that Is Warner Brothers' production,
In to-day's hand, as A Double! "Beauty and the Boss", now at the invasion of a Channel swimmer,
young and fascinating, upsets the Dummy proposition-that is, with all cards exposed-no Opening lead entire routine of his yacht. Warren William and Marian
Roanne alone refuses to fall for would defeat the contract, but as a Marah, last seen together in "Under Eighteen", are co-featured, with her, and highly amusing complica-practical proposition there is one tions follow when he turns her over lead which is almost certain to ac dry-faced Charles
The lead David Manners, Lilian Bond, Frede to the authorities who think she is complish that result.
Having lost or any other suit could only have Nanchang and Changsha has rick Kerr, Mary Doran, and Polly wanted character.
her, he suddenly decides that he is the effect of giving the Declarer an been completed, and it will take in love with her not knowing that opportunity to readily fulfill his only 11 hours to motor from one
The hand and bidding city to the other. A regular The Clouds will soon roll by The theme of the story is that of she had been hired by his friend contract.
Quentin M. Maclean. through bus service was inau- an ill-dressed, but beautiful, secreto lure him into losing the wagor, were:
gurated on October 10 China's Song-Why don't they leave us alone? tary who finds that the busy bee The girl's method of eluding him so East, Dealer
I was in the Mood Independence Day. must transform herself into a but he will outwit his friend, since she terfly in order to find love. Her has fallen in love with him too. employer, a master of men and climax the entertaining farce. money, is a puppet in the hands of
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Alhambra Theatre.
Walters.
Butterworth,
women, and, in her efforts to pro-"HER HIGHNESS COMMANDS”. tect him, she unconsciously falls in!
LEE THEATRE
love with him,
Warren William
and Marlen Lilian. Harvey and Henry Garat Marsh, loveliest of the younger will again captivate local fans when stars, make a splendid team in this the tuneful operatto, "Her Highness film, as they did in "Under Eigh- Commande" showing at the Lee
Theatre to-day. teen."
"LITTLE MISS MARKER"
STAR THEATRE
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A light and airy story is told accompanied by Werner R. Hey- mann's delightful musical score: Marie Christine, the young Princess Five-year-old Shirley Temple, who is to be married by her Lord Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell and Chamberlain to Count von Leuch Charles Bickford head the cast of tenstein, slips out of the palace to Faramount's latest adoption of attend a servants' ball in disguise. Damon Runyon's latest literary There she starts a flirtation with a triumph, "Little Miss Marker," the young man named Carl. She intro story of how Broadway's big money duces herself as a manicurist, and East gamblers lose their bearts to a he intimates that he is a delicates 1 H little girl with cute dimples and
3D. sen clerk, whereas he is really a3 C
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lieutenant of the guards After a 40
"BOTTOMS UP
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The bidding South Pass
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West North 2.9 Pass Pass Pass
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6 HR
Pass
NANCHANG MOTOR HIGHWAY
Recorded
8.30-10. p.m.-European Programme from Z.EX. on Fre.
of 640 kc.'s. quency
8.30-8.55 p.m. Concert Waltzes. Invitation to the Waltz (Weber, Op.05)~* Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
directed by Leopold Stokowkis.
11-Hour Trip By New Tales from the Vienna Woods (J.
Link
Strauss)
Bruno Walter and Symphony Orch. The SkatersWaltz (Waldteufel) A new highway linking up Estudiantina-Waltz (Waldteufel)
International Concetti Orchestra. 8.55-9.30 p.m.-Variety Programme. Organ Solo
It was so Beautiful
* Hildegarde (Soprano). Piano Solos Plano Pie (No 2)
George Scott Wood.
Song
The Very Thought of You A Place in your Heart
the contract could still be beaten). Clubs, inasmuch as they had been bid on the right of the leader, did Vocal Musical Comedy Mancheste not seem a good suit to lead either,
Sam Coslow (Tenor).
Light Opera Company. The spades lead might be consider 9.30 pm Renter Press Bulletins, ed, though, as the cards lay, this London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity. also would permit East to fulfill his9135-10 pm-Band Music,
Quotations... contract. The choice was de Ruy Blas Overture (Mendelssohn) finitely between the spades and the Tancredi Overture (Rossini) diamonds, and, as it happened, the The Regimental Band of H.M.
Grenadier Guards. one lead to defeat the contract was Carmen Caprice (Bizet arr. Debroy the diamond lead.
سیروان
Somers) Debroy Somers Band.
As it happened, this lead was Faust Frolics (Gounoday. Debroy the one actually made. East play Hyde Park Balta (Jalowiek),
Someray Debroy Somers Band. Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier.
Guardo.
ed the Queen from Dummy and, when North covered with the Ace.
The 1 Sunday Morning Church Parade. ruffed with a small heart.
2 Rotten Row. He Declarer recognised that the clubs. On the Serpentine must be established before the 4. Around the Bandstand.
10.p.m Clone Down. trumps were drawn.
Therefore he led two rounds of clubs, upon which everyone follow- ed suit, and a third round, upon which South followed. On the
BREATHE IN THE CURE In "Little Miss Marker," Shirley dance with him, she slips alway, but 5 C
How Respirolda Banish, is left with a shabby, penurious not before arranging to meet him Pass Pass bookmaker as security for a racing on the following day. The Minis East's lack of 21⁄2 hour-tricks third round the seven of hearts was
Coughs, Bore Throat and Cokia. bet, The bookmaker is forced to ter of State hears of this catessen is fully compensated for by his ex played from Dummy, and North
Most sore throats, coughs and volds take her into his Broadway exist clerk. He is frantic and determines tremely fine distribution. Of discarded. Now the Ace of hearts ence and she soon learns the ways upon a course of action which only course, West's Forcing Takeont dropped South's singleton trump, could be avoided, or, at least, quick- comes as a matter of course, the and East held an established club ly checked at the start. One of the most effective ways is by the use of and language of the "mob" When leads to more complications.
band containing 4 hour-tricks, a sult.
*** | Respiroids. These lozenges“ nct. they realise this they try to bring
Unfortunately, however, the directly upon the respiratory system, back her childish beliefs in an un-
ORIENTAL, very good suit - and practically ad- sual manner and unwittingly re-
THEATRE
equate trump support for partner's trumps were not established, and and are therefore, superior to liquid form themselves,
bid sult. The later showing of East's only entry to his own hand remedies which are Irdmediately swallowed As they dissolve slowly "Bottoms Up," a romantic comedy, both diamonds and clubu is just was by means of a ruff. Thur in the month aromatic curative
ich elren featuring John Boles Spencer fed by the holding, and West is not played, North eventually won two vapours are given off
ative through the Tracy, and Pat Paterson, in Fox unduly optimistic in contracting tricks, both with trumps. Film's current attraction at the for the Small Slam.
It is interesting to note that even passages and lungi,.
Respiroide are convenient for the A fine comedy-romance in which Oriental Theatre.
Before South made the Opening with the diamond Opening East can
pocket, and alozenge taked at inter- Lew Ayres and Alice Faye are co- In the picture, Miss Paterson lead the bidding was reviewed. It make his contract by ruffing the vals, some pleasant permanent starred is Fox Film's release, "She leads the musical numbers and seemed that the Opening land of a third round of clubs with the Ace safeguard Obtainable, at Learned About Sailors," now show- Reve lavish ensembles, with the trump could serve no good purpose of tramps, leading the last trump or post free, 75 cants per bottle,
from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co and
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of an experienced star as the effect of it would be to put from Dummy
North fails hits in the whatever trump strength North Queen
ting at might have between the pincers King However,!
the two powerful hands though, this play
"SHE LEARNED ABOUT SAI- LORS"—MAJESTIC THEATRE
Clever acting in the many hilarious situations" in the alm
Tel. No. 57058"
makes it one of the most entertai ing pictures of the season the Moon,
Colony
the
and matter of fact,
{if the Declarer
tead, cards
finesse; realm of
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RESPIROIDS
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