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SHOWING

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

M-G-M'S STAR STUDDED ROMANTIC SMASH!

DARING...MODERN.....asa beauty turus jungle tigress to battle for a love another had stolru!

MYRNA LOY FRANCHOT TONE

TONE ROSALIND RUSSELL

Man-proof

NEXT CHANGE

United Artists

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15

7.15-9.30

Also.

“CINEMA CIRCUS”

with

All stars east in Technicolour

EDMUND LOWE in

"THE SQUEAKER'

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUE

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD WANGHAI TEL 28473

⚫LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•

MOST BEAUTIFUL OF TECHNICOLOUR PRODUCTIONS ! Here is entertainment that will make your pulse quicken with excite-

ment for one of the most thrilling romances.

WHEN THIS GREAT ROMANCE UNFOLDS

You'll hold your breath...You'll thrill to the most exciting lovemaking ever de-

picted in all the exotic beauty of techni

color. It's the greatest sensation since the Garden of Eden.

"Marlene DIETRICH

Charles BOYER

The Garden of Allah

2

DAYS.

IN TECHNICOLOR

·THE CHÍNA MAIL, AUGUST, 20, 1938

NAMES IN THE NEWS

Duco (doo-chay): Classical Italian word for "The Leader." Applied specifically to Signor Mussolini.

Fascism (fash-ism): The word

KING SOLOMON'S

SEAPORT

Archaeologists' Great Discovery

American archaeologists,

ex-

fascio, a bundle or bunch. Termcavating near the shore of the Red signifies the close union of adher- ents of the movement.

Fuehrer(few-rer):---German term meaning "The Leader.” Ap- plied specifically to Herr Hitler.

G-Men: Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the. United States.

Gestapo (guest-aapo): German secret police. From syllables in the words "gehuni” (secret), "start"

and "polizei” (police).

(state),

Nazi (naat-zee): Derived from syllables in words nationalso- zialistische Deutsche Arbeiter- partei (National Socialist German Workers' Party).

Sudeten-Germans (zue-day-ten): German minority party in Czecho- slovakia. Name derived from Sudetes mountains on strategic frontier..

BOY RULER LIES

IN GOLD LEVEE DRESS

Dressed in the coat of gold bro- cade he was to have worn at a

levee Buckingham Palace

Seg, have discovered the site of a seaport which flourished from 1,000° B.C; to 800 B.C. Even ropes used to moor King Solomon's ships have been found buried in the desert sand.

The seaport is that mentioned in the first Book of Kings, chapter 9, The verses verses 26, 27 and 28.

are:

J

"And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had know- ledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

"And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thencë gold, four hun- dred and twenty talents and brought it to King Solomon.”

This city, Ezion-geber, which is now known to the Arabs as Tel el Kheleifeh, is at the northern end of the Gulf of Akaba. To-day, ow- ing to the unceasing drift of sand, it is half a mile from the sea.

Its discovery is due to the efforts of Dr. Nelson Glueck, Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. From this seaport, as the Bible states, Solo- this mon, with the help of Hiram, King month, eighteen-year-old Bir Mitra of Tyre, built a fleet of ships which - Pratab Deo, ruler of nearly half a traded with Southern Arabia. million people in the Indian State In the houses uncovered during of Gangpur, was cremated at Gold- Lers Green recently.

In his coffin, lined with purple velvet, was placed a flute he loved to play, a book of songs in his na- tive language, and a pair of Eng-j lish-made shoes he had worn only

once.

the recent excavations were found many copper implements such as spearheads, fish-hooks and nails.

CENTRAL

THEATRE

The room in Queen Anne's-man- sions, S.W., in which he had lain în state since his death from pneu-

To-day at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.. monia was filled with wreaths and Special Prices: 45 cts., 55 cts. & 80 cts. garlands before the ceremony, and round the bed stood silent friends, who included the Raja of Daspala and the Rajahs of Bamra, Kowar- dah and Kanika.

Sacred Hindu verses were chant

ONLY TO-MORROW AND MONDAY ed, incense sticks lit and rice and

ROARING ADVENTURE AND GOLDEN SONG ON MYSTIC: SOUTH SEA ISLES!

with the silver-throated boy you love in story teeming with action and thrills!

Bobby BREEN Hawaii Calls

with:

NED SPARKS: IRVIN S. COBB "RAYMOND PAIGE

and his orchestra.

RKO-RADIO Picture, Directed by Edward F. Cline. Produced

Sal Lassar. A Principal Production. Screen Play by Wande Tuchock.

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

The China Dail

DEALS

CONCISELY AND ACCURATELY

WITH THE NEWS

flowers sprinkled.

The time fixed for the cremation was cabled to India, so that cer- tain rites should be performed there simultaneously and State mourning begun.

DAILY AT

2:30

320

920

1000 THRILLING SCENES ON THE BURNING SANDS. THE RED ARMY'S GLORY BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN.

'THIRTEEN'

MOSFILM PRODUCTION

U.S.S.R.

HANKOW

STARE

TO-DAY ONLY

Return Engagement

KOWLOON

By Special Request

BORN DANCE

DOWELL

Eleanor

STUNART

57795

Tyrone Power