1936-01-11 — Page 12

ENTERTA

AINMER

END

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 5 PM & 9 PM.

MAX REINHARDT'S

First Motion Picture Production

"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"

The Majesty of Shakespeare! The Melody of Mendelssohn: The Mastery of Reinhardt! Prices: $3, $2, $1.50 & $1-Book Early!! This superb production will not be shown in Hong Kong

at lesser prices for a period of at least six months!

THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1936:

SHOWING TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY

KING'S

HONG KONG

ALHAMBRA

KOWLOON

AT 230, 510 215 & 2:39 PM AT 2530, 120, 720−8 9.30 PM.

THE GREATEST HEART-THROB

The Screen Has Ever Thrilled Toll Grimps for Garbo.

chees and tears

forthis epic of over powering love that will air your soul!

DAILY

ORIENTALE

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

FAREWELL PERFORMANCES COWAN & BAILEY'S

BIG STAGE SHOW All new songs, dances, music

and comedy stants.

WILLIAM

POWELL

GINGER

ROGERS

STAR MIDNIGHT

TO-DAY

ONLY

TO-MORROW

MONDAY

TUESDAY

3 BIG STARS

IN THE BIGGEST OF ALI MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS SCENES OF RAVISHING SPLENDÓR!.

IRENE DUNNE FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS

ROBERTA

- RANDOLPH SCOTT HELEN WESTLEY VICTOR VARSONI ∙CLAIRE DODD

CENTRAL

THEATRE

NOTHING LIKE IT, SINCE

THE EARTHQUAKET

FOG

OVER TRISED

SETTE DAVIS

DONALD WOODS

LS OTHERS

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R. S. 20c.; D. C. 30; Loge 50c. Evenings:

B. S. 30.; D. C. 40c; Loge 55c.

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It is expected in Addis Ababa that the capital will be bombed by the Italians at any moment now. Our picture shows some, Abyssinian, wazziors outside the railway station there.

13 MONTHS IN THE YEAR

Proposed. Reform Of Calendar

LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO

CONSIDER PROPOSAL

"We have received from the In- ternational “Fixed Calendar" Lea- gue, No. 1, Regent Street, Lon- don, a pamphlet dealing with the proposed reform of the calendar. to include thirteen months of 23 days each in the year instead of the present Gregorian calendar in general se

trouble.

GERMAN OFFICIALS PENSIONED

Sequel To Recent Legislation

at

**CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL.

Berlin, To-day. In consequence of the recent legislation promxigated Nuremberg, the Deutsche Justig announces that a large number of officials belonging to the Eigh Court, regional police and labour courts have been pensioned;-com- prising eight Senate presidents, one police court judge, police." court counsellor, three *State prosecutors and seren

other court Ocean Service.

one

-STORM DAMAGE

IN ENGLAND

(Continned from Peje 1)

Lifeboats-were-

SHE IS BRITISH AGAIN

London-born Woman's

Decision

“NECESSARY” STEP

---

Washington.-In order to take the British citizenship of her häs- fband, MrsAmbrose Congreve, who was born in London of Ameri- can parents in 1902, has formally citizen- renounced her American ship before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Court attaches say that they have never seen the ceremony performed ¡before:

Not First Time

The pamphlet is a closely-reason- ed document pointing out the

It is not the first time that Mrs. (obvious advantages which such a

Congreve has renounced her citi reform would mean I also re

Izenship, however, When she was the counts the exact methods by

21. in 1923, she renounced which the reformers would insti

British citizenship that she had ac tute the new calendar. beginning

quired through her birth in Loo from the year 1940, with the points along the coast early yė-- minimum of disorganisation and terday. Heavy seas broke through don in order to take the American

the coast wall at the resorts on the nationality of her parents.

Mrs. Congreve said in court that ber she

recouncing regretted In connection with the whole south coast and in North Deron idea, the Secretary of the League and there have been a number of

Considerable damage American citizenship but that it sends the following letter on the cliff falls.

riage to Mr. Ambrose Christian "Friday the 13th" superstition:--was done to overhead telephone was "necessary," "due to bly war- wires but trunk lines од the Hoary Superstition whole were not greatly affected. Congreve, a British subject, at St There was a serious dislocation Clement Danes, London, England. That the dwindling member of

"the London telephone area, July 30, 1935. Beuter. persons who hang on to the hoary where 59

thom exchanges and superstition that Friday the 13th sands of individual lines were is Qualucky" are obsessed by affected by the gale or food-The false idea, is proved by such facts loods, which were subsiding. In as these, which your readers can verify on Friday, December 15th, narts of the country, rose apidly again after the gale and be accompanying Heavy rain.

1985-

1. The vast majority of people

in business and homes, will: receive weekly pay,

2 Their share-outs of mones from blanket, Christmas and

in

SEVERN OVERFLOWS The Severn overdowed. its banks and invaded the neigh bonring pastures, causing wide

read damage to livestock.

£10,000 TO SAVE

A FOREST

Famous Beauty Spot In Danger

Nice Nearly £10,000 is to 4be spent on saving from extinc saving clubs for holidays Lyner the river is now three tion the beautiful forest of Mont their lives miles wide. Many farmers, after Boron, which has been causing will brighten They will not regard that as battling waist-high in the water considerable anxiety on “anlucky."

the to save sheep and pigs and poul-Riviera The trees, Aleppo try, have suffered heavy losses. Pines, planted about 70 years 3.-Ships will sail and travellers

Reports of the motoring or ago. have reached their age will go on their way as usual gantsations from all the low-lying limit and are dying. undeterred by the foolish districts show that the roads The site, from which may be superstition, originated by which had in the last few days obtained some of the most mag- winer priest in the Dark been reopened to traffic, are again nificent views on the Riviera, Ages who, without author-mpassable. The Thames is also was originally a barren moun- ity, started the wrong idea-isng again at a rapid rate, the tain.

The only species of trees that Christ How increasing in the last 24 that, because Jesus- had 12 disciples who with hours by 1,000 million to 7,500 would grow on the turfless rocky Himself totalled 18, (in million gallons, soil was the Aleppo Pine and eluding Judas who hanged The Menai suspension bridge, now the whole mountain, is}| himself on Friday)-Friday which was rocked by the wind so covered by a dense shady forest. and the 15th dates were severely as to unseat the ale sz It is one of the beauty spots. "unlucky"

one end and had to be closed, was of the district, the coastline That priest was "unlucky when pened again to light trafic yes being visible as far as the he did not catch sufficient fish on terday afternoon. Both high Italian frontier-Reuter.

inundated landing wriads and Fridays.

Those who foster that crazy grounds interrupted the air ser- notion should reflect that its sevices yesterday. The terminus of FOREIGN POLICY IN AUSTRIA quence would make if "unlucky" one Continental air service had to

to have 13 weeks in each quarter be changed British Wireless

of the year, and 15 cards in each Service.

of the 4 suites of playing exrds, simply because there are 52 weeks in each year.

Education Needed Inordasing education will soon dispel xoc isual notions, especi Jally it

mui-will- drop

and 18th

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One could not go so far as to say that Austris would" turn her back on Italy altogether, since a course" would be neither olitically nor economically ad- dered "antageous. But England's de- termined adherence to the League of Nations has shown An via the An order to ob-

HEADMAS

REUNION

Greta GARBO Fredric MARCH ANNA KARENINA

WITH FRENE BARTHOLOMEW IN

SAUMEN

SEAT

O'SULLIVAN · ROBSON - RATHBONE

a CLARENCE BROWN production

STARE

-TO-DAY ONLY

AT 230. 5.20. 7.20 & 9.20 PAL

A DRAMATIC LOVE STORY WITH PLENTY

THE FIRST MAN

́comes back into bar life to. maka up fornine YOKIE between kisses!

OF ACTION!

SHE EVER LOVED

FRANCIS Stranded

Warner Bros. hit with

GEORGE BRENT PATRICIA ELLIS

DONALD WOODS

7འMད་

ADDED ATTRACTIONS:

THE SHOW KIDS". MUSICAL REVUE

ONE OF THE BEST BRITISH MESICALS OF THE SEASON-

JACK BUCHANAN "

in "BREWSTERS MILLIONS”

WITH LILI DAMITA AND HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL GIRLS!

A BRITISH AND

DOMINIONS PRODUCTION

MAJESTIC

TODAY ONEY AT 79, 5.20, 7:20 & 9.20 PM

LOVE socked her right in the heart!

And this fight ing waitres would have given her life to be bac in z daner kall stead of m ing as a long Ban-beires

alias

MARY

DOW

SALLY EILERS