1937-04-29 — Page 2

SHOWING

TO-DAYTON

FAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES

At 2.30, -6.10,

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1987.

DUKE OF

7.15 & 9.30 p.m. WINDSOR:

NO GRANT

BARING THE HEART OF ALL WOMANKIND IN A DARING DRAMA NO HUSBAND OR LOVER WIFE OR SWEETHEART DARES TO MISS!

ROSALIND

RUSSELL

JOHN

BOLES

in The Pulitzer Prize Play

CRAIG'S WIFE

COLUMBIA PICTURE

with Billie Burke

NEXT CHANGE Warner Bros.

Jane Darewell

Dorothy Wilson

"THE GREEN PASTURES”

A FABLE BY MARC CONNELLY

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HARRY VALLEY BUS

SHOWS OMLY

7.18.0.30

FLEMING

ROAD

WANGHAI

ORIENTALE

TEL. 204TE

CIVIL LIST REPORT

London, To-day.

It is understood that no recom- mendation for a grant to

the Duke of Windsor is contained in the report of the select commit- tee on the Civil List, which has concluded its investigations under the chairmanship of the

Italian Overtures

In Albania

Rome, To-day. Considerable prominence is being given in the Italian press to the visit of the Foreign Min- ister, Count Ciano, to Albania,

The newspapers, in obvious- ly inspired articles, dwell on the friendly relations existing between the two countries, particularly in the economic field-Trans-Ocean.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. THICK CARPET,

Neville Chamberlain.

It is expected that provisions SOFT LIGHTS,

for the Royal Household will be

on the same lines as in previous FOR RECRUITS

reigns, with tions.

slight modifica-

Old soldiers who remember tak-

A proposal for nationalisation of ing the "King's shilling" in a cold, the revenues of the Duchies of cheerless room, barely furnished Cornwall and Lancaster, which at with hard wooden chairs and desks, present go to the King, has been re- should see the modern way of re- jected.

|cruiting introduced by the R.A.F.

There will be some increase in the amount of Civil List pensions granted to persons distinguished in

•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY the arts and sciences. Reuter.

SENSATIONAL RACE TRACK THRILLER !

The best horse doesn't always win, this picture gives you the low-down on crooked racing.

THE FASTEST RACING DRAMA SINCE BROADWAY BILL’!

DOWNthe STRETCHTM

Marner Bros. "Trackful of Tlusioughbred Thrills. With. PATRICIA ELLIS · MICKEY ROONEY - DENNIS MOORE William Best-Gordon Hart Gordon. Elliott Joseph Crehan - Mary Treen

Directed by Wm. Clemens » A First Nokonal Picture

2 DAYS TO-MORROW & SATURDAY

ONLY

M-G-M'S GREATEST HUMAN DRAMAT

Metro Goldwyn-Mayer PICTURE

The DEVIL

Freddie

Is a SISSBARTHOLOMEW

© MATINEES: 20c-30c

DAILY

JACKIE

MICKEY

COOPER ROONEY IAN HUNTER

EVENINGS: 20c,-30c.-50c.-70c. ℗

TSTAR

TO. MORROW & SAT

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL

57795

THE "NELL GWYN” STARS TOGETHER AGAIN

ANNA NEAGLE

CEDRIC HARDWICKE PEG of OLD DRURY

DIRECTED BY, HERBÈRT. WILCOX.

·A BRITISH AND DOMINIONS PRODUCTION

LILIAN HARVEY in CARL von WEBER'S “INVITATION to the WALTZ"

MRS. SIMPSON'S DECREE

Legal Formalities Completed

London, To-day.

At Victory House, Kingsway— the central London recruiting depot

recruits' feet sink into a thick pile carpet of Air Force blue in a room with concealed lighting and ultra-modern steel and glass furni- ture.

If he is accepted as a recruit he goes to a rest room where he is pro- vided with table-tennis, billiards, quoits, darts, chess and draughts to while away the time as he waits to join a draft.

The R.A.F. needs this year 1,500 new pilots from civil life, 4,000 air-

It is understood that the for- craft apprentices and boys, and malities in connection with the 11,000 skilled and unskilled men. application for a decree nisi Skilled men join for about six granted to Mrs. Ernest Simpson years, during which they get to to be made absolute, were com-know all they possibly can about pleted yesterday.

aeroplane engines. This fits them Before the application can be for civil aviation work when they made in the Divorce Division, cer- tain preliminary proceedings have to be complied with at Somerset House, and notice of not less than six days must be given.

The first day on which the de- cree could be made absolute, there- fore, will be Monday.-Reuter.

DEATH OF CAPT. F. E. GUEST

come out of the Service.

To encourage recruitment in the West Country, a new recruiting de- pot has been opened at Bristol.

NEW CITY ARISING NEAR PARIS

For Visitors To Exhibition

London, To-day. A by-election in the Drake divi- sion of Plymouth will be necessi- Itated by the death yesterday at the age of 61 of the Conservative mem-

Rome, To-day. ber. Captain F. E. Guest, who was

A miniature city is arising to Secretary for Air in 1921, a promo the north and south-east of Paris, ter of civil aviation and a keen where hundreds of workmen are sportsman and polo player.

There are now five by-elections busy erecting huts and bungalows. pending.

The new "city" is being built to Polling boo place yesterday in accommodate the thousands of visi-- Stalybridge and to day Central tors who will flock to the capital for Wandsworth goes to poll-British the International Exhibition Wireless,

Retail Trade Shows Improvement

London, To-day. There was a record increase of retail trade in March. Total daily sales were 15.2 per cent. higher than in March, 1936. Stocks were 3.7 per cent higher and employment. 81 per cent greater-British Wire- less,

The President McKinley is sailing for Manila at 6 pm on Sunday, May 2, instead of on Saturday as previously announced.

month.

next

Only French visitors will be ac- commodated, as foreigners are ex- pected to fill all available hotel ac- commodation in Paris-Trans Ocean.

P. G. H. Fender Fined

Mr. P. G. H. Fender, the former

of Surrey cricket captain,

Phil- beach-gardens, S.W., was at Marl- ing offence. It was stated that on borough-street fined 158 for a park- March 5 Mr. Fender's car was on a Mayfair car park for four hours and 45 minutes over the authoris-

A number of sheikhs were injured ed period. and police were required to restore When: Mr. Fender returned he order when a riot broke out in the Al said, "I was called away on urgent Azhar Mosque in Cairo after prayers business. My wife is very ill,” had ended.