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“SHOWING

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10.

7.15

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PICTURES OF. 1937 1

9:30 p.m.

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VARSITY MEN FOR H.M. NAVY

DANCE HALL FRACAS THREE SOLDIERS IN

HOSPITAL

Owing to the expansion of the British Navy more engineer officers are required, and the Admiralty, for the first time on record, is look- Ptes. Walker and -Keating, of ing to the universities to supply the Seaforth Highlanders, and them. An official announcement Fus. Evans, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, were admitted to "A number of commissions as Bowen Road Military Hospital | Engineer Officers -in- the Royal last night as the result of a Navy will be in future offered to melee at the Dreamland Dance university graduates each half Hall, Wanchai. year.

stated:

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Four negro members of the Twenty such commissions will be crew of the President Grant have offered next September. Detailed been detained in connection with regulations and entry forms may be the incident, the circumstances obtained from the Secretary, Ad- of which are being investigated miralty, London, S.W.J., or the by Sub-Inspector Darkin, of No. authorities of the following uni- 2 Police Station. versities.

Birmingham Bristol

Cambridge

Durham.

Leeds

•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY Liverpool

EDDIE AND THE PIXILATED SISTERS IN A MILLION DOLLAR LAUGH SHOW!

2

Eddie rides high on the west of an cil

LET'S MAKE A MILLION

DAYS ONLY

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

Charlotte Waters

Porto Hell

Those Pixilated”. Sisters

Get the Drop on Eddie!

TO-MORROW & MONDAY

COMEDY REIGNS SUPREME IN PANAMA!

A show just filled with comedy, gay songs and swing music all presented on a lavish scale.

WITH “ JUNGLE PRINCESS” DOROTHY LAMOUR

CHARLES BUTTERWORTHE

the bottest piano player in Panzmriza!

CAROLE LOMBARD FRED MacMURRAY

SWING HIGH SWING LOW

O MATINEES: 20c.-30c O EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c.

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL: CAR PARK JERVOIS STREET

Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 8 min. from stop opposite Queen's

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.

ROLLICKING.

MANTIC

ROARIOUS

Victor McLAGLEN

Freddie BARTHOLOMEW

PROFESSIONAL

GLORIA STUART

Collier

Michael Whalem Henry Gordon

SOLDIER

Glasgow Wales

London Manchester Oxford

Sheffield

Aberdeen Edinburgh

St. Andrews Belfast

An applicant must be .between

No charge has yet been preferred against the men,; who gave their names as Louis Prince, 34, scullery- man, Stacey Walker, 19, messboy, Wallace Aston, 20, messboy, and Walter G. King, 35, waiter.

GENERAL MELEE

They went to the Dreamland Dance Hall last night in the com- the ages of 21 and 25 years, be un- pany of two American marines. married and be a British subject Shortly after midnight, it is alleg- of pure European descent and the ed, an argument developed between son of parents who are British sub-

one of the negroes and a British jects. He must also:

soldier over a dance-girl, blows Have undergone a course of not were exchanged, and a general me- less than three academic years as lee began. an internal student. (In certain

One of the soldiers admitted circumstances the first year at a hospital had an incised wound on recognised Dominion university the thigh.

will be allowed).

›

to

The fight was over very quickly, Produce satisfactory evidence police being brought to the dance that he has been regularly trained ball within a few minutes.

Possess an

in mechanical engineering and has The manager did not see the ori- sufficient practical experience, and gin of the incident as he was stand- engineering degree ing outside when the disturbance (mechanical or electrical) which is began. accepted by the Institute of Mech- anical Engineers as exempting from Parts (A) and (B) of the examina- tion for Associate Membership.

SECRET

BRITISH

ANTI-TANK SHELL

that

Gas Masks No Use With Beards

Capt. L. C. Schlotel, an anti-gas expert, speaking at Plymouth about air raid precautions, said:

"It is difficult to fit bearded men. with gas masks, and should an em- ergency arise, those with beards more than a hand long might be faced with the alternative of either off or being will cutting their beards.

gassed.”

Bearded men have varying views about this statement.

Anti-tank weapons make the British Army proof against tank attack have been per- fected by gun experts at Woolwich Arsenal, writes the Sunday: Chro- nicle” military correspondent.

After three years of Intensive experiment and research they have invented an anti-tank rifle.

Infantry armed with the anti- tank rifle will be able to stand up to tanks and beat them.Ma

Mr. George Bernard Shaw said: "I prefer to chance it. I am cer- tainly not going to cut my beard off and I am rather sceptical about gas marks. I dislike the style of their appearance. I have never shaved and I am not going to start now. I have saved a lot of time."

Mr. Frank Brangwyn said

A two-pound shell, fitted with a special. armour-piercing nozzle, is has come rather suddenly. I fired by the anti-tank gun. This time to consider whether or not I shell can penetrate the armour would cut off my beard in case of plates of any tank and explode in-emergency.

side. One direct hit from an anti-

tank gun means death to the whole tank crew and the destruction of

the entire mechanism.

ANTI-STREET SNAPSHOT

DRIVERS

The gun travels on a small rub- Sydney, New South Wales, ber-tyred truck and is so light that watching an issue between it can be taken up into the front line. It can be stripped from the truck, mounted on a tripod, and brought into action in less than 30 seconds.

its

City Council and a body of men who take photographs of; pedes- trians in the

the streets, and the next stage of the contest will occur the state's Supreme Court. It fires with terrific rapidity and The street photographer is a le- dán blow up a tank a mile away. gacy of the economic depression, The anti-tank rifle is made for when dozens of young men were lise against whippet tanks, and able to save themselves from the fires special armour-piercing bul, charity of the Government dole by lets which can bring a tank to a earning commissions on photo- standstill at a range of 500 yards, - graphs sold to the subjects.