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SHOWING

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

THE PICTURE OF HER DAZZLING CAREER!

Learning love.

the good youth-)

ful way.

forever & ever

SONJA

HENIE

RICHARD

GREENE

MAY LUCKY STAR

(MOVIE QUIZ)

A 20th Century Fox Picture

ALSO TERRYTOON

"MRS. O'LEARY'S COW

·NEXT CHANGE

"ROMANCE AND RHYTHM'' with DICK POWELL-PAT O'BRIEN-PRISCILLA LANE A Warner Bros. Picture

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROAD WANG HAI TEL 28473

THE CHINA MAIL, MÀY 8, 1939,

Five Sentenced In Pokfulam Burglary

THE BURGLARY CASE IN WHICH PROPERTY VALUED AT $1,153 WAS STOLEN FROM "ROADSIDE,” MOUNT DAVIS ROAD, RESIDENCE OF MR. C. M. GEE, WAS AGAIN BE- FORE MR. T. J. HOUSTON THIS MORNING.

Yeung Kim, 26, Lam Chuen, 32, and Li Ping, 28, who were charged with burglary were sentenced to six months' hard labour, each.

Chan Pul, 21, and a woman Chan Ngan-ho, 22, pleaded not guilty to receiving.

Mr. Gee, giving evidence, said he was awakened up at about 6.30 a.m. on April 27, by his boy. He went down to the study, where he saw two holes were drilled through the door from the garden. A drawer was open, and the contents strewn over the floor. The living and din-

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY ing rooms were ransacked. Later,

21-GUN SALUTE IN THIS FUNNY NAVY ROMANCE! Fast as a destroyer, punch-packed_as a battle-wagon and as gay as a

gobs. shore-leave, Martha's best comedy.

MARTHA RAY

BOB HOPE

· JACK WHITING

GIVE ME A SAILOR

"BETTY GRABLE JACK WHITING • J. C. NUGENT

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SPECIAL FOR TO-MORROW; ONE DAY ONLY BIGGEST MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW EVER PRODUCED! The tops in every field of entertainment.

VI

GOLDWYN FOLLIES

ADOLPHE MENJOU RITZ BROTHERS ZORINA · KENNY BAKER HELEN JEPSON

"CHARLIE MCCARTHY!

MATINEES: 20c.-30c ✪ EVENINGS: 20c.-30c.-50c.-70c. ℗

HANKOW

ISTARE

KOWLOON

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

OGETHER AGAIN!

McLAGLE

-and how you'll wel come them back

in

the show that tops the top of all their previous efforts!

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ASTAIRE ROGERS

Fred and Ginger

dancing to your heart's content,

CAREFREE

Music and Lyrics by

IRVING BERLIN

TO-MORROW

D DEVIL'S PARTY

he informed the Police that the property missing included a Filmo projector.valued at $425, Leica cam- era at $350, Filmo camera at $260, and fountain pens at $40.

A district watchman, Wong Shiu- wah, who searched the woman in Kowloon on May 1, found the pro- jector concealed in a basket.

Chinese detective No. C608, said he went to No. 871, Canton Road, the house where the woman lived. There he found an electric torch under a pillow in her bed. On her information, he arrested all defen- dants. Second defendant, Lam, was her husband.

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Chan Pui was arrested on the information . of first defendant. Two fountain, pens were found in his pocket in Aberdeen Street. The other property was recovered in Wanchai.

Li Ping told the Court that he sold the cameras and fountain pens to Chan Pui- for $45. ...

Chan Pui was sentenced to six months' hard labour, and recom- mended for banishment, while the woman, Chan Ngan-ho, was sen- tenced to three months.

BASLE BANK MEETING

Berlin, To-day.

MR. R. E. CABLE RETIRING

A farewell dinner was given to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cable, on Satur- day, presided over by Mr. Lee Ek Leong. Mr. Cable is retiring after 20 years as the Government Apothe- cary. Mr. Cable suitably replied to a toast to his health and happiness

in his retirement.

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cable are

leaving the Colony next Saturday.

Among those present were Mr, and Mrs. L. J. Morley, Mr. A. H.

Bentley, Mr. and Mrs. W. Simpson, Mr. G. T. May, Miss Emily Ko and the entire staff of the Central Me- dical Store.

B.F.R.D.C. GRANT TO SAMSHUI

The Board of Administrators of the B.F.R.D.C. recently considered an appeal from Sam Shui for further assistance, as although the Hong Kong Emergency Refugee Council had given NC$10,000, and the Chinese National Relief Commis- sion NC$10,000, distress was great, and a further request had been · made for NC$10,000 for food, cloth-

ling and medicine:

This appeal was considered by the China Committee of the E.R.C. on March 27th, and on the recom- mendation of the "E.R.C. a grant from this (Fund of HK$5,500 was sanctioned, and a cheque for this amount was, on the 8th May, 1939,. sent to the E.R.C. for this purpose..

The Reichsminister of Economics Mrs. Macgregor, of No. 5 Gar- and President of the Reichsbank, den Terrace, has reported that be- Herr Funck, left for Basle last tween. 7.50 p.m. on Friday and evening to take part in the ninth Saturday morning, she lost-a dis- general meeting of the Bank for mond brooch valued at $40, between International Settlements.*

H.M.S. Medway and the Terrace.

The Presidents of 20. European Central Banks, some of them ac- companied by large delegations, will attend the meeting. Trans- Ocean.

OLD HAUNT

Sentence of three months' hard labour was imposed on Lam Fat, [31,, by Mr. T. J. Houston this morning, when he was charged with trespassing in Lyemun Bar racks:

Inspector Russell said defendant was seen near the Sergeants Mesa at, about 8.80 a.m.

· · He had a previous "conviction for larceny from the barracks..

Mrs. Freeman, of Stanley Bar- racks, has reported the loss of a diamond,

valued at Central district

Mary Aitor and Walter Pidgeon in "Listen Darling," next change at the Queen's Theatre. Freddie Bar-- tholomew and Jedy Garland are in s