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The Theatres
"THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND" — KING'S AND
ALHAMBRA THEATRES
SATUR
the
Telling the true story of most tragic figure in American history, this picture has Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart in the leading parts and a supporting cast of over a thousand.
setting the broken leg of a man
WOMAN'S DREAD OF WAR
A woman, on whom a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was recorded last month at a Hendon inquest," was stated to have had a fear of war.
She was Marjorie Edith Cox, aged 51. of Egerton-gardens. Hendon. Her husband, Richard. William Cox, said that she had been' receiving medical treatment- for her obsessing.
BRIDGE NOTES ~ PRINCIPLES OF PLAY
By Ely Culbertson
RADIO
TODAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme, will be broadcast to-day : from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station (Z.B.W. on a wavelength" of 355
metres. (845 KC'). DAVENTRY RELAY – INTERNA- TIONAL POLO MATCH Dance Music 12.30-215 'pm-European recorded Programme.
1230 pm-Orchestral Music
1 pu-Local: Time Signal and Weather Report
11.03 p.m.-Song Memories.
1.30 pm-Reater Press Bulletins,
Dipping into the hectic days fol- lowing the cost of the Civil War, (Continued from Nezt Column)
the picture depicts the assassina- Havilland at the head of an uation of President Lincoln and usually popular cast.,
the flight of his 'assassin to the The story itself is the story of]
families-internal battles, For the unintentional crime of country home of Baxter, a doctor. but a common front against an outside attack Mary Gordon pot about whom he knew nothing, the proper technique of both the forecast, time and announcements
Broad principles of play govern Rugby Press News, Local: Weather trays the part of an Irish mother
140 p.m.--Variety Items and Dance Baxter is arrested. In the hys-declarer and the defenders. There Music whose three sons are Pat O'Brien teria that follows, Baxter is sen-is a great number of these principles
2.15 p.m.--Close Down. TUITION
Ja policeman; Frank McHugh, a
tenced to the Federal Prison onto the novice, a bewildering man-
4-7 pm-Chinese Programme. fireman; and James Gagney, who the Dry Tortugas,
ber-and sometimes it is difficult 7-12 midnight-European Pro- a steady job, butj COMMERCIAL TRAINING given in refuses to take
In stark, terrifying fashion the to choose the right avenue to the gramme. himself to Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting devotes and Business routine. Fees Moderate, broken-down' prize-fighters.
spiritual agonies of this unjustly
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The mother's catering to the sentenced man, his desperate at-Rowery phrases: each is a terse des
establishment—these are Kowloon.
non-producer of her brood keeps the family in constant tur tempt at escape, his courage un-cription of a vital process.
der the brutal degradation of pri- Confining our observations to the problems of the defenders, it must Finally a devastating epidemic be pointed out that a skilful de- of yellow fever brings a turn in fence rests on the players ability This Fortunes. With the prison o visualise the best plan of declar In the cast are Allen Jenkins doctor ill with the fever, Barterer and to render it either impossible Harvey Parry, J. Farrel Macis temporarily restored his for discult of accomplishment Donald and Thomas Jackson, former position as he fights to Thus, if an opportunity arises in addition
number of noted,
jeter the tide of death. A happy which an advantage can be gained a close of this only at disproportionate sacrifice-- GENERAL NOTICES Prize-fighters and many college climax brings to
profound saga of courage and such as eashing one trick that will | strength
set up two for declarer the canny defender will resist temptation.
managing picture reveals the physical and desired goal. Conservation of p.m. Excerpts from "Iolanthe"
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moil, but the tempest breaks in earnest when Cagney takes O- Brien's girl (Miss de Havilland) away from him.
athletes.
to a
THE LAST DAYS OF
POMPEIT-ORIENTAL THEATRE
son life.
to
John Ford, whose direction of "The Informer" has won the high- est honours, directed this picture.
-FORGOTTEN FACESTM
QUEEN'S THEATRE
not
West, in the band shown below, the opportunity to force the ace of trumps by using his measly three spot. He drove a poor bar- gain by doing so.
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Written by James Ashmore to the undersigned when good ser- vants will be introduced. No service Creelman and Meville Baker, the fee.
istory is of the world when the in-l Employment Office, Tak Lee Yue fuence of Christ's teaching was Herbert Marshall is the star of
Fife St about to be felt. No. 8
A man, embit-the picture, and the lovely blonde Yongkok
tered when poverty costs him the Gertrude Michael plays opposite lives of his wife and child, makes him. The story, opens with Mar- money and power the aims of his shall as a devoted husband andi career. How he rises from a father, deeply in love with his S.K.5 43 IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOV-blacksmith's forge to pagan splen-wife, Miss Michael, and almost HKQ1092. WE IERNMENT ORDINANCE. The bour is told in the picture. His wished where has baby daugh. S EXCHANGE. BANKS will be conquests as a gladiator, killing ter is concerned. CLOSED for the transaction of for pay, are gripping highlights. But his whole world is shattered public business on TUESDAY, the Finally, as master of the arena. when he returns home one night 23rd June, 1936. (The Birthday Of he stages spectacies in which to discover his wife in another HIS MAJESTY THE KING). thousands are slaughtered for the man's arms. In an emotional heat amusement of a degraded and he kills the intruder and then, blood-thirsty populace. Then, at after arranging for the adoption the height of his triumphs, he of his daughter, he gives himself A stern court sentences him NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN discovers that all his wealth and up.
that claims against the estate Power cannot save from the fate to prison. of CHARLES BULMER JOHN- of the area his son, who has dej Seventeen years later, he learns The diamond seven was opened;
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SON, decessed, should be sent to fed the brutal Roman law.
that his daughter, zaw grown to East won and continued, the suit, As the drama unfolds through lovely womanhood, is about Hastings & Co., Marina House. -
to South ruffing the second round. a vivid pageantry of fierce con marry and that her mother threa- Double-dumny play, involving the fict and violent emotions, It ad-tens to tell her fiance who she real-immediate lead of trumps and for. vances towards the most specta-ly is unless she is paid to becing out of West's king, would, of cular and 'breath-taking climax-silent. Marshall succeeds incourse, have returned eleven tricks the destruction of Pompeil by securing a parole and establishes by the successful club finesse earthquake and volcanic eruption himself as butler in his daughter's gainst the queen. But this wide- It is then, when the world is household. On the day the mother open play certainly would have crumbling about his ears and all approaches for her money she is the club queen been "off-side" the been exceedingly dangerous-had that the man cherishes is being confronted by her husband and a declarer would have made only one awept away, that Marcus feels the fiery, dramatic climax puts the club trick. urge of the Master's teachings finishing touches to two explosive Plaving more conservatively, the and gives up his life to save the and tragic careers.
declarer led to the king of clubs and helpless ones about him,
"Forgotten Faces" offers one of hack to the ace, following with a Preston Foster, rapidly rising those rare dramatic pieces of en-third round which be intended to to screen stardom, plays the lead-tertainment whose suspense is ruff with dummy's ace, playing ing role of Marcus, the smith. truly gripping. The acting is per- either for a 3-3 trump break or a Alan Hale, Basil Rathbore, John fect and in "addition to the two minimum penalty on a non-break. Wood, Louis Calbern, David Holt, leads, special credit is due to Jane But West, seeing no farther than Dorothy Wilson and Wyrley Birch Rhodes, as the grown-up daughter, his nose, thought that dummy's play important roles,
Robert Cummings, as her fiance, deuce of trumps would be used on and James Burke as Marshall's the club unless he prevented it, and police-sergeant pal.
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The entire story revolves about)
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· “THE · IRISH IN US”.
STAR THEATRE
kindly stepped in with his three. Declarer's problem was solved he ruffed with the ace and returned a trump. Now, when West put him in the dummy with a heart-lead, he had trumpe enough to ruff a heart]
This picture is Warner Bros. and draw West's remaining trumps
For the information of visitorsja Havana liner, and his manicur-latest.comedy drama and presents for his contract with an over-trick.
the following list of some of the ing sweetie, Arline Judge. highest points on the Island and| Mainland is published:—
*ISLAND
Victoria Peak
Signal Station
Mt. Parker
Mountain Lodge
The Eyrie
Peak Hotel
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MAINLAND
Taimoshan Kowloon Peak
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, A heart discard by West on the When the ship docks, Kelly and Frank McHugh and Olivia de third round of clubs inevitably his wild-eyed pal, Sammy Cohen, (Cont. at Foot of Preceding Col) would have defeated the contract. get into so much trouble sshare;
that Kelly is degraded to the
Feet stakehold on the return" trip. 1,823 Then, in a furnace-room blast, he 1,774 risks his own life to save that of 1,784 Mona Barrie. But Miss Barrie's 1,725 gratitude proves a bone of con- 1,725 tention between Kelly-and Miss 1,805 Judge.
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Accountants' Ball
In Aid Of The S.P.C.
In order to help the funds of exhibit his talent in tap dancing. The ship's pursuer is knocked the Society for the Protection of Mr. S. P. Chinn, the well knowa out and Ratoff's gem stolen from Children, an Accountants' "Bäll, composer, will give a mandolin the vault. Miss Barrie cleverly under the auspices of the Accoma-solo, and Chinese music will be secretes the gem in Kelly' tancy-Secretarial Institute, will rendered by Mr. Chau Kwok Ezen cigarette lighter and invites the be held on Tuesday, June 30, at and Miss Yeung Yee' Wah. 3,124
amazed man to visit her in New 3.30 p.m. at the Hong Kong Hotel vocal solo will also be given by 1,971 York.
Roof Garden.
His L. Kwan.
Feet
·A
The climax of the picture proves Many prominent local artistes The Ball will last four hours] a wild free-for-all Kelly finds have consented to assist in enter-from 8.30 p.m., and a gala time is THE NEW FRENOFI BENEDY. |a strong-arm reception committee taiament. Among the outstand-anticipated. THERAPION NO.1 waiting for him at Miss Barrie's ing attractions of the evening The admission is $2 per person, THERAPION NⱭ.2" home, and is getting the worst of will be toe dances and tap dances including refreshments, ・ "Tickets THERAPIONN3 the battle wheh Miss Judge and by Misses Gloria Yee and Noroka are obtainable from the Honorary King Cole and Sammy Coben enter at the head of Kew, pupils of Miss O'Keefe, well- Secretary of the Ball, Thomas Le minentiam pengen W ja squad of police to save the day known dancing teacher of the Co-C. Knen & Co., of Wing On Bank
for Kelly, and provide a happy lony: Master Bill Tze, clever Building, or from Mr. A.; McKel close for the picture.
little juvenile dancer, will also lar, CA, of P. and-0, Building
(Gilbert and Sullivan) sang by the D'Oly Carte Opera Company.
p.m.The London Theatre Or- chestra.
A Country Girl-
Selection (Monckton). Ther Land of Smiles-
Selection (Lebar)
Waltzes from Vienna-
Selection (J. Straums). Eevudeville Memories (Burrows).
& pim-Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.
5.03 pm-A Variety Programme. Piano Ducts
Fox-Trot Medicy.
Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye. Quick Step Medley.
Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye. Songs--
Singing a Song (Brown).
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Gertrude Lawrence (Soprano). Fox-Trot-
New Orleans Twist.
News Bulletin and Announcements (Copyright by Renter),
9.20 p.m.-The Light Opera Male
Nat Genella and his Georgians. Chorus. Songs
Cheek to Cheek.
The Piccolino,
Ginger Rogu
These foolish things ("Spread it Tocal-
ribroad").
Robert Ashley (Baritone). Instrumental---
Nohea I Muolau Lanı.
Andy Ions and kis Islanders. Vocal-
My Piano and Me.
Turner Layton (Tenor), - Orchestra-
Big. Broadcast of 1936–Selection. Every Night at Eight--Selection,
Phil Green and his Orchestra, SODS-
An hour ago this minute.
On Wings of Song Memories.
Told by Frances Clare and song.
by Joan Cross and Henry Wendon.
Organ Salce..
One Kiss ("New Moon"). Lover Come back to me
Moon").
Reginald Foort.
(Piano Solo-
A Couple of April Fools.
Carroll Gibbons and his
Friends
(a) Honeysuckle
(Fitz).
And the Bee
(b) If you want to know the time ask a Policeman (Rogers). (c) Sweet Genevieve (Tucker). (d) At Trinity Church (Gilbert).. 9.30 pm-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
MO
10 pm-Big Ben: from Daventry. 11 p.m-A Relay from Daventry. Great Britain v USA. A running ("New commentary
the International Polo Match, from Hurlingham.
11.50 pm-Dance, Music 12 midnight. Close Down.. NOTE: There will be'a Chinese te
corded programme from ZEK. on a frequency of 548 kilocycles from 8-10.30 p.
Boy
9 pm-A Relay of the Daventry
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