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At 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
JAMMED FULL OF JOE VIALITY!
JOE BROWN
WIDE OPEN FACES
LYDA ROBERTI
ALISON SKIPWORTH JANE WYMAN
Presented by David L. Loew
MUSICAL SHORT
"COMMUNITY SING"
TO-MORROW
M.G.M. Picture
& SHOWS
DAILY
2.30
S 20
7:20 - 9.30
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
ALSO
THE CHINA MAI
TEMBER
Case Of Roasted
Convicts Under Investigation
Philadelphia, To-day.
A Coroner's Jury is investigating the case of the “roasted” convicts, who were found in a Phila- delphia prison, in a naked state, in conditions likened to the "Black Hole of Calcutta."
KRAZY CAT CARTOON ANDY CLYDE COMEDY The Prison Superintendent, the Deputy Warden,
"MASQUE RAID". MY LITTLE FELLER”.
ROBERT TAYLOR-MARGARET SULLAVAN 'in
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THREE COMRADES"
with Franchot Tonc-Robert Young
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
TEL 57222
MATINEES: 20‹ -30° ° EVENINGS, 20, 30-50«:70.)
SHOWING TO-DAY
THE SINGING SWEETHEARTS OF “MAYTIME”
IN THE NEW THRILL MUSICAL !
LUSTY THRILLS EXCITE!”
Like nothing that has gone beforel 10 great stars! 10 grand song hits 100 big roman- tic thrilla!' Cast of $10,000
Jeanette MacDONALD
ROBERT Z. LEONARD prod
LOVE
'Who Are Wê
To Bay Shadows Op The
A Moon' ***Dream of Love'
"Soldiers of
Fortune
THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST
LEO
BUDDY
CARRILLO EBSEN
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PICTURE
TENSE DRAMA:
IN SONG ROMANCE
.NEXT CHANGE.
SYLVIA SIDNEY
OSCAR, HOMOLKA' in. A WOMAN ALONE’
A Gaumont-British Sensational Melodrama !
"ADDED ATTRACTION;
PETE, FIFI and CARMENCITA
ON THE STAGE
IN A COMPLETELY NEW PROGRAMME!
nine guards and two doctors are being held on charges of being criminally negligent in con- nection with the convicts' deaths.
VENUS DE MILO DONS KIMONO IN JAPAN
TOKYO, August, 19.
A reproduction of the Venus de |Milo, which adorns a Tokyo cafe,
has been garbed in a kimono.
They are being held without bail for the Grand Jury which will be asked to indict them for homicide and manslaughter, according to in- [dications from the District Attor-
ney's office.
have
The convicts who survived testified how the stifling men screamed in agony and beat them-. selves against the walls of the cells as the heat became increasingly un- bearable.-Reuter.
Philadelphia, Later.
The Superintendent and Deputy Warden have now been released on
It was dressed by the manage-bail of $10,000 each.-Reuter ment after a zealous policeman had drawn attention to the "excess of nudity."
statue's
The policeman had in mind the
"purification of public morals," of the "spiritual mobilization of the
which is perhaps the main feature
people."
One of the forms this "purifica- tion" process is taking is the com- pulsory painting out of signs con- sidered "too enticing." A typical one was, the inscription on the street-front wall of the Casanova Cafe: "Our girls are sweet, pretty
and sixteen."
FINE ARTS MAY BE
AFFECTED
EXPLANATION FOR ITALIAN DECREE AGAINST JEWS
Rome, To-day. The Italian law against foreign Jews is explained by the Italian press as being due to the strong Jewish immigration in recent times.
In Milan alone, 5,000 foreign Jews are liable to expulsion, almost "Purification" will also be extend-half of them having immigrated ed to the fine arts if the Minister only lately. The "Corriere Della of Education General Baron Sadao Sera" says that most of these im- Araki, has his way.
migrants were political refugees.
The general wants all pictures They had not only found an asylum and sculptures at the forthcoming in Italy but had also penetrated annual exhibition to be "relevant all professions, commerce and in- with the spirit of national emer-dustry, bringing their disintegrat- gency."
ing spirit with them. Pictures of nudes, the general It was a national duty to free believes, should be banned, and the country of these foreign in- Istatues should not be "too nude.”- vaders.
His suggestion has not been too "Popolo d'Italia” writes that the favourably received in some quar removal of foreign Jews would re- ters, who think that "no nudes is
atore the right numerical proportion bad news.
of Jews in Italy.
PICTURES MAY ALSO SUFFER
"Eventually," the Tokyo news paper Miyako comments bitterly, "the exhibition authorities, may ban all pictures of beautiful women, even if they are dressed."-
The danger of foreign. Jews con- sisted in their sympathy with anti- Fascism-Trans-Ocean.
Geisha are no longer allowed to LONDON TALKS ON
broadcast, and the ban is expected
to
last for the duration of the "China Incident.” The reason wen for the ban is that "every- thing frivolous should be eliminated during the emergency period."
SPAIN
London,
The reply of the Burgos au- A Japanese newspaper has taken thorities to the non-intervention up the cudgels for the geisha. "We committee's plan for withdrawal have always believed." it says, from Spain of non-Spanish com- "that first-class geisha are olean batants was the subject of further and graceful entertainers who are exchanges of view at the Foreign the pride of the country. We won Office when Lord-Plymouth, chair- der why the geisha have been singl- man of committee, received Repor ed out for this cruel mistreatment. ataly the Italian and Soviet Am Why have they not protest Do bassadors and the Germään 1 andî they admit that they are foul, un- Portuguese Charges d'Affaires.
clean and frivolous?!;
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