1937-04-03 — Page 2

SHOWING

TO-DAY KINGS:

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.25 & 9.40 P.M.

FRANK CAPRA'S MIGHTIEST PRODUCTION BECOMES THE GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT IN ALL SCREEN HISTORY!

RONALD COV

LOST HORIZON

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1937.

The

e STORY of

by FRANK C. PAPE

THE CROWN JEWELS

The AMPULLA

and the

ANOINTING SPOON

Owing to the length of this programme, patrons are requested to note the alteration of times.

NEXT CHANGE

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KAY FRANCIS in

“GIVE ME YOUR HEART”

FLEMING BOAD WANOHRI

ORIENTALE

•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®

FAMOUS GRAND OPERA STAR IN COMEDY

A musical melange ranging fror modern swing tunes to an opera- tic aria sung by the world famed diva.

THE YEARS BEST SONG AND LAUGH HIT!

Five New Songs and a Thousand- New Laughs I

PONS GIRL FROM PARIS

PAKIE

She caïne from France to

find romance and lost her heart to awringtim

RAYMOND

with

Herman Ring Mischa Amer Lucille Ball Frank Jenks

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`PERFORMANCE

A SENSATIONAL DOCTOR"STARI

"THE

SUN, & MON.

A 20th C-Fox

Picture

JEAN

HERSHOLT Sins of Man

DON AMECHE ALLEN JENKINS.

FRYL F. ZANUCK 20th Century Productles

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

57795

ONE IN A MILLION"

with SONJA HENIE

WHEN THE MOMENT FOR THE ANOINTING OF A SOVEREIGH ARRIVES THE HOLY OIL IS POURED FROM THE BEAK OF THE EAGLE INTO THE ANOINTING SPOON, ¡AND THE ARCHBISHOP MAKES "A CROSS ON THE KING'S HEAD ON HIS BREAST, AND ON THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS!

THE AMPULLA IS A GOLD VESSEL „9INCHES HIGH, IT IS OF VERY ANCIENT DESIGN – IN THE SHAPE OF AN ‚EAGLE - AND CONTAINS A SMALL QUANTITY OF PRECIRS OIL. THE FEW DROPS REQUIRED FOR THE CORONATION OF JAMES TI COST £200.

IT IS "9 INCHES LONG AND IS MADE OF GOLD.

“A CENTRAL RIDGE, DIVIDES THE LOBE, AND THE ARCHBISHOP.

DIPS HIS TWO FIRST FINGERS INTO THE HOLY OIL.

THE AMPULLA IS THE OLDEST OF ALL THE ECCLESIASTICAL PLATE, AND WAS LISED AT THE CORONATION OF ENGLISH KINGS 1400 YEARS AGO.

HIDDEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY THE ́ ́AMPULLA AND ANOINTING SPOON

ESCAPED DESTRUCTION BY THE COMMON

WEALTH.

KING ALFONSO SURPRISE

AT CINEMA WITH QUEEN

BRITISH CONSUL

ROBBED

House Coolie Thief Caught

A thief entered the residence of

The audience at a fashionable Mr. A. J. Martin, H. M. Consul în Rome cinema was surprised recen- Amoy early in the week. He was tly to see ex-King Alfonso and discovered in the bathroom by a Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain house servant who inquired what sitting together in the stalls. They he wanted there. He was a house- have been parted and estranged for coolie who had been engaged tem- many years.

porarily by the Consul previously They did not enter the building during the absence of a regular ser- together. The Queen went in with vant.

her elder daughter, Princess As he looked confused and gave Torlonia, who before her marriage no answer to the question, the boy was the Infanta Beatrice. With called Mrs. Martin and advised them were the Princess's husband, searching him. In his pockets were the Duke of Torlonia, and two found two diamond rings, a revolver friends.

and many rounds of ammunition. When they came in King He knew evidently where Mrs. Mar- fonso and his second daughter, the tin kept her jewellery, had hunted infanta Christina, were waiting for for the keys, and, after finding them, them. The Royal party consisted had helped himself to what he con- also of Don Jaime, Duke of Segovia,sidered the most valuable and choi- the Duchess of Segovia and the cest gems.

Prince and Princess of Asturias. He had never expected to be dis- Talk Of Return To Spain covered and probably thought these The whole party occupied stalls valuables would not be missed im in the same row, and the King and mediately from her jewel-case. He Queen sat together. The film was was brought before the Mixed Court "Bullets and Ballots."""

and remanded for one week. When the party broke up the When before the Court he in- Queen drove away in a car with a volved the houseboy who had found British number plate and the Ro-him by stating that this servant had yal pennant of Spain flying from suggested to him that he could easi- the bonnet. She is the guest of ly become rich if he stole Mrs. Mar- Queen Elena of Italy, and was in tin's jewellery and, further, he had Rome because Princess Torlonia shown him where the jewellery was was expecting a baby...

kept.

The news that the Royal family was at the cinema spread quickly through Rome and created a deep impression. It is believed to be the prelude to a reconciliation.

It is thought in well-informed quarters that should Gen. Franco take Madrid the ex-King and Queen might be invited to return to Spain.

BARBER'S WAGER AT 72

Seventy-two-year-old · Elijah Beardsworth, of Moor-lane, Bolton, who set up a world record for quick shaving fifty years ago, when he shaved seventy men in half an hour, is challenging Karl Seissenbacher, barber's assistant, who, it is an-,

international

A goat which was being entrained at nounced, has won Newcastle for Low Finlay, Lincoln-contest at Vienna by shaving a man shire, refused to be parted from her in nineteen seconds. owner, and when at length she was secured in a van she ate her labels.

District line trains in the City wer held up for half an hour at Becontree, after a woman had faller in front of train, which had to be uncoupled, before the body could be extricated.

Sald Mr. Beardsworth "When I read that Mr. Seissenbacher claim- ed to be the quickest professional shaver in the world, I decided to challenge him. I am quicker than ever before."