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KING'S THEATRE.
"Down To Their Last Yacht,” now at King's Theatre is a lavish musical extravaganza. It is per- meated with new song hits and exotic dances by vast and colourful
ensembles.
W. 8. BAILEY ́& CO., LTD., The picture concerns the adven-
Kowloon Bay, tures of two contrasting classe: Shipbuilders & Repairers. Call Flag "L"
Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors, group of former aristocrats whose vast fortunes have been swept away, and a party of newly-rich social climbers bent upon living the life of Riley. These groups are brought together on a yachting cruise to the South Seas.
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When the yacht is wrecked and the party stranded on a beautiful island, the two factions, are united in the common cause of rebelling against the tyranny of an exotic island queen.
Mary Boland portrays the fiery tempered island queen, who rules
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GENERAL NOTICES.
BANK HOLIDAY.
Accordance with Government Ordinance, the Exchange Banks will be CLOSED for the transaction of public business on TUESDAY. the 1st January, 1935, (New Year Holiday).
Hong Kong 28th December, 1934,
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISEBB
AND SURVEYORS.
- Public Auctions -
T
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
Thursday the 3rd January, 1935 commencing at 11 am.
at Messrs. Tyob & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Road
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penchant for marrying at frequent intervals.
The cast includes Sidney Black- mer. Sidney Fox, Polly Moran, Ned Sparks, Sterling Holloway, Charles Coleman, Marjorie Gateson, Helen
Rep. Charles A. Eaton (N. J.), ordained Baptist minister who is member of the House of Repre- sentatives Foreign Affairs. Com- mittee, conalders himself pacifist, but "I hate war, but I don't be lieve the day is here when we should not be prepared to take care of ourselves. I am here to fight for the largest navy," he told the Society of Naval Engineers in New York.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will
Collins, Tom Kennedy, Hazel Forbes be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting. Station and Irene Franklin.
Z.B.W. on
a wave length of 855 metres (845 K.0.');~~~-
"MERRY WIDOW"-QUEEN'S
THEATRE.
BRIDGE. NOTES
GETTING THE BEST
4ཙ, ”
OUT OF A HAND
by Ely Culbertson.
A Bridge player is often confront- ed with problems requiring the most accurate weighing of probabi- lities to determine which is the bet- ter thing to do--to double an ad- verae bid which he feels must be defeated, or to proceed to a game. contract himself and face the pos- sibility of defeat. Questions of this type have a great bearing upon) winning or losing at Bridge.
In today's hand the South player, Mr. A. Moyse, Jr., of New York, made what proved to be the correct decision. Though in the play both he and his partner, Mra. Estelle Jaeger, faced difficult problems, they solved them triumphantly and defeated their vulnerable opponents by 500 points.
The game Was Duplicate, and the decision was n close one, for five clubs can be mado; by South, and a set of one trick would not have been enough to com-| pensate for a lost game. The hand
WES:
East, Dealer
.East and West vulnerable.
North-
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12.30-2.15 p.m.— European Pro- West-
gramme,
12.30-1 p.m.-Recorded Music,
1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re
1.03 p.m-Recorded Music.
*S.-8.
HA J94 3 2
D-10 8, 6 C.-8 7 5
All the famous songs of the Franz Lehar masterpiece; "Merry port.. Widow," are presented in Metro- 1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Orchestra Goldwyn-Mayer's musical romance from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room. East- jof the same name, featuring 1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette Rugby Press Newa, etc. MacDonald, now at the Queen's Theatre.
The hauntingly romantic "Vilia"}
2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
Dance Music from Hong Kong Hotel 4-7 p.m.--Chinese Programme.
7 p.m.-1 a.m.-European Pro-
is sung by Miss MacDonald, as are gramme.
To-night Will Teach Me to Fortions, London and New York Stock & 7 p.mClosing Local Stock Quota- et "Melody for Laughter" and Commodity Quotations. "Widows are Gay": Chevalier's 7.08-7.24 p.m.-Concert Items.
Fianoforte Solos- songs include 'T'm Going to Maxim's" and "Girls, Girls, Girls." Together, Miss MacDonald and Chevalier sing "The Merry Widow LAMMERT BROS, Waltz Amale chorus renders
Auctioneers."We'll Go to Cafe De Paris."
A Quantity of Shop Fittings, Show Cases and Sundries Terms: Cash on Delivery.
Hong Kong, 28th Dec., 1934.
LEE THEATRE •
SHOWING TO-DAY Daily at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
WILUAM HUTTER presents
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77 PARK LANE DENNIS NEILSON-TERRY BETTY STOCKFELD
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Directed by ALBERT DE COURVILLE.
UNITELN ARTISTS
NEXT CHANGE
1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th JAN., 1935. THIS IS THE PICTURE THAT OVERSHADOWS
ANY ONE EVER MADE!
"THE LEGEND
OF SIEGFRIED”
In addition, the Franz Lehar music in its original form embel- lishes the "Can-Can" ballet at Maxim's, the Marshovian ballet, the huge Albertina Rasch waltz; ballet and other spectacular de- tails.
Chevalier and Miss MacDonald head a huge cast which includes Edward Everett Horton, Una Mer- kel, George Barbier, Sterling Hollo- way, Donald Meck and Herman Bing.
Hundreds of gorgeously costum- ed players, huge and spectacular settings, and unique effects lend fresh glamour to the picture,
"WONDER BAR"-ORIENTAL
THEATRE,
Al Jolson, the Jewish lad
Children's Corner Suite Serenade
for the Doll (Debussy) Paganini Etude in E Flat Mafor
(Liszt)
Songs-
S—A K 10 9 6 8 H-K Q B
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South-
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C-A K 9 4 3 2
The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered explanatory paragraphs),
South Vladimir Horowitz
West North 20 (1) Pass Dbl. (3) Pass
By the Waters of Minnetonka
(Llearance)
The lass with the Delicate Air (Arne) Mavis Bennett (Soprano) Songs-
Our River Thames (Hennessy) Young Briton's Heritage- (Hennessy) Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) Violin Solos
Danse Espagnole ("La Vida Breve")
(Kreisler)
(a) Minstrels (Debussy); (b) Flight
of the Bumble Bee
(Rimsky-Korsakov)
Yehudi Menuhin. 7.36-8 pm-Song Memories. Violet Laraine Medley Violet Laraine
(Comedienne)
Old Friends-Potpourri
(arr. Herman Finck) Let's have a Chorus
Columbia Vocal Gem Company.
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re
port...
8.03-8.30 p.m.- (Soprano):
Licienne Boyer
Green
Carroll Gibbons and John W. from (Piano)
Footlight Parade-Selection. 2. Songs-
Si Petite
Bans Tol-Tango Chante,
Piano Solos-
There's a Ring around the Moon. Nymph Errant-Solection.
New York's East Side, who has 1. Piano Solos- gone down in film history as the first talking picture star, rises to new heights in "Wonder Bar," & First National production, "Won-3. der Bar," the action of which takes placé in an elaborate Paris bar 4 Songs Jand night club, has plenty of ma- terial for first-class film entertain- ment, plus a east ideally chosen; a5 cast that makes the most of every situation.
Visions in the Smoke Speak to me of Love
Piano Solos
I want a fair and square Man Ain't she the Dainty
8.30-9.03 p.m.-Band Music.
Into this story at flirtatious The Milf on the Rock-Overture wives, philandering husbands, (arr. Winterbottom)
Mirella-Overture (Gounod).
scheming gigolos, beautiful girls, Semiramide Overture (Rossint) and spectacular scenery is woven [drama and romance,
VIVA VILLA!"-MAJESTIC-
THEATRE
Creatore's Band. Hyde Park Suite (Jalowicz)
9.03-9.30 pmA B.B.C. Recorded Programme.)
Nuts and Wine"
A Programme of Old English Songs
Cast
The B.B.C. Male Voice Chorus:
A superb characterisation of the Froderick Grisewood Baritone man, who was the outstanding Ernest Lash at the Piano figure in Mexico's history during conducted by Leslie. Woodgate. the decade preceding the Great 9:30 pm-Reuter Press, Bulletins, War, is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity current release. "Viva Villa" fer- quotations. turing Wallace Berry Fay Wray, Dance Orchestra from the Hong Kong 8:35. p.m.-1.-A Relay of thes
-A Relay of
and Joseph Schildkraut,
Hotel Grill Room (hy courtesy of the
The opening acepes show Beery, Management) w
in the title role as Villa, witness10.30 pm Reuter Press Bulletins,
ing his whipped to death by the Rugby Rid-day Press News: Forther
London Stock & Commodity Quotations.
aristocrate, and this bitter memory 4:1 am-Close Down
never leaves him. He knows
except that all men are equal and
that aristocrats must be killed, He
vanquishes hía enemies, with; hir
ragged army of recruits, m QUALITY PRINTING
every girl the fancies. You will
see him as Dictator, and then his
ignominious death in
shop an act of dige:
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WithQuick Service
Eust 19. BS Pass
2NT (2) Pass
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1935
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