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"TILLIE AND' ĠUS"—KING'S THEATRE

"Tillie and Gus," a comedy drama, featuring W. C. Fields, Allson Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Jacqueline Wells, and Clifford Jones, is now showing at the King's Theatre.

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The story concerns the parts Fields and Skipworth play in sav. ing the fortune and the business Kowloon Bay, for their beautiful niece and her The old Akinflint who

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boat business tries to steal it from the girl' after the death of her father.

With only her uncle and aunt to turn to, she wires them of her pre dicament. Fields In a crooked gambler in Alaska and Skipworth is running a gumbling cafe in

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12.30-1 p.m.-Recorded Music. I p.m.-Local Time and Weather Repurt.

1.03 p.m.-Recorded Music, 1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Roomt. (by courtesy of the Management),

1.30 pmReuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, etc.. 2.16 pmClose Down. THREE CHRISTMAS ITEMS FROM THE STUDIO Dance Musle

4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 8-8.10 p.m.-A Talk on "The Govern- ment's new method for refunding rates in respect of vacant floors" by The { iHon. Mr. T. N. Chau.

610-7 pmChinese Programme

7 p.m.-I a.m.-European Programme 7 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota. tions, London and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations,

7.08-7.30 p.m. Light Orchestra Waldteufel Memorics (arr. Finch). Maruschka (de Leur)

Cuban Serenade (Midgley)

50 Years of Song

7.80-8 pm. From the Studio.

"An Xmas Talk by Bryan Lewis.

8 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Report.

8.03-8.45 p.m.-A. Relay from St. John's Cathedral,

A Christmas Programme

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Mrs. H. L. Lockhart

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Mr. Frederick Mason..

.Soprano. Contralto Organ

1. The. Holy Boy (A Carol of the

Nativity)

..Ireland

2. My Soul doth magnify the Lord

Frederick Mason.

Every pletorial beauty and etc, action value in the story has been trump after North had opened with brought out by the direction of a heart and South had responded Victor Fleming, who has filmed with two notrump, without disclos- Buch adventure stories as "Rendez-ing his four-card club auit.

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Thiman. West's Opening lead vous" and "Around the World in

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Club 8, an unconventional Open- 5. Our Brother is born ...Farjeon. ing from his five-card suit. West 6. The Holly and the Ivy actually made this unconventional 7. Blake's Cradle Song

Arr. Martin Shaw. Opening lead because his band contained no sure re-entry.

"VIVA VILLA!" ORIENTAL THEATRE

Vaughan Williams East 8. Christmas day in the Morning

A superb charaterisation of the was permitted to hold the first {men, who

11. Adeste Fideles

arr.- Martin Shaw.

arr. Martin Shaw.

was the outstanding trick with the Ten, but when the The Bells of Christmas figure in Mexico's history during Knave was returned, South won 10. Nunc Dimittus ..Frederick Mason the decade preceding the Great with the Ace. War, is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's current release, "Viva Villa!" fea turing Wallace Berry Fay Wray. and Joseph Schildkraut.

The opening scenes show Beery, in the title role as Villa, witness-

ing his father whipped to death

(Continued on Page 11.)

"MICKEY MOUSE AND SILLY

SYMPHONY ALHAMBRA

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Sponsored by the United Artists:

by the aristocrats, and this bitter Corporation, the Alhambra Theatre memory never leaves him.

arr. Martin Shaw. 12. Chorés, Hallelujah......Handel

__8.45-9 p.m.—Band Selections. Woodland Pictures-Rural Sulte..

(P. E. Fletcher). Songs of Wales

9-9.10 p.m—A Dream of Christmas "Albert W. Ketelbey's)

9.10-9.50 p.m.-From the Studio, A Version of Charles Dickens' well

known story "A Christmas Carol."

the

knows no law, except that all men short subjects by the well-known Rugby Mid-day Press News, London

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8:50-10 pm Reuter Press Bulletins, are equal and 'that aristocrats cartoonist, Walt Disney; must be killed. He vanquishes bis

Stock and Commodity Quotations. The programme consists of 10pm-1am-A Relay of the Dance) enemies with his ragged army of "Mickey Mouse," "Silly Symphony "chestra from the Hong Kong Hotel recruits, marries every girl he "The Big Bad Wolf," a sequel to the management).

Grill Room (by courtesy of fancles. You will see him as Dic-Three Little Pigs," "Little Bed 1 am Close Down. tator, and then his ignominious Ridinghood," "Crandma," "Night death in a butcher's shop--an act Before Xmas." "Pet Store and jof revenge.

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"WHERE SINNERS MEET"

STAR THEATRE

Three ..of Hollywood's most powerful personalities, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and William Diana Wynyard and Powell, are starred in Metro- Brook, the stars of "Cavalcade." Goldwyn-Mayor's current attrac are again together in R.K.O..RE tion, "Manhattan Melodrama," dio's romantic comedy. “Whera which will long he remembered as Sinners Meet" now at the Star the last picture that America's Theatre, ?.

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Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillin- The story, adapted from A. A Milne's The Dover Road," is an The film opana spectacularly extremely aubtle comedy, Inter with the 'General Slocum" disaster spersed with genuine drama. out of which are tossed two orphan deals with the dilemma of En boys into Manhattan's East side, glish husbands and wives who find One is studious, while the other, themselves chained to each other "shoots"in gambling circles, for life.

Years later the student has become Billie Burke Reginald Owen District Attorney (William Powell) Alan Mowbray Phyllis Barry and the other a top-money gambler. Walter, Armitage lend exce (Clarke Gable).

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