Page
TO-DAY
ONLY
KING'S
At 2.30, 5.10, 1.15 & 9.30 p.ma
SO
1939'S GREATEST SCREEN ADVENTURE BIG ONLY THE MAGIC OF THE CAMERA COULD BEGIN TO CAPTURE IT . ....!
TOGETHER AT LAST IN A GLORIOUS ROMANCE!
Cary GRANT Jean ARTHUR
Only Angels Have Wings
A HOWARD HAWKS Production
THOMAS MITCHELL - NITA NAYWORTH • RICHARD BARTHELMESS • A COLUMBIA PICTURE
To-morrow
Universal
Picture
-- “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”
The UNCENSORED Version !
ORIENTAL
4 SHOWS
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB
FLEMING ROAD WANCHAI
TEL. 28473
DAILY 2.30-5.15
7.15-9.30
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫
THE LAST OF THE WEST'S GREAT OUTLAWS! He was a killer and a saint, a savior and destroyer, the cold-blooded West of six-gun death i
KING OF THE
James CAGNEY
ü
LAWLESS WEST!
The OKLAHOMA KID
HUMPHREY BOGART-ROSEMARY LANE · Donald Crisp .
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1940.
CABINET'S CALL FOR NATIONAL SACRIFICE
London, To-day.
THE GOVERNMENT has launched a platform cam- paign to enable Ministers to make direct contact with the public and speak on various aspects of the war.
The Prime Minister started the ball rolling with his speech on Tuesday at the Mansion House and this was continued at Glasgow on Saturday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Both spoke more on the means and methods of the war rather than the war itself, and this is taken up by yesterday's British press.
The "Sunday Times," for instance,, of living and an according increase in says that the people of Britain on wages of several of the larger groups the whole know why they are fight- of workers. ing. They want to be told not that sacrifices are necessary, but what sacrifices and why..
DEFINITE ATTITUDE
As a general movement upward is imminent, says the "Sunday Times," The main question, continues the the Government must take a more paper, is: Are we all doing everything definite attitude about it in our power to restrict consumption On the other hand, "Reynolds Chamber- and keep down prices and from, mak-News" declares that Mr.
and ing undue demands on shipping and | lain's
wages plan to prevent purchasing resources?
prices from going up would be more Are we, asks the paper, doing any-burdensome on the housewife than on thing to prevent prices and wages | Big Business and attacks any idea of from going upward in a vicious spiral | keeping wages at a fixed low level.— which benefits no one in the long run | Reuter. and endangers all?
So far, this problem has been met by taxation, the promotion of savings, and rationing,
HIGH INCOME TAX Taxation, says the "Sunday Times,"
is mainly directed at the better-to-do classes, and at the very top, Income tax and surtax now
•
amounts to 17
QUIET DAY IN KARELIA
A Finnish
London, To-day.
received communique
shillings in the pound. But two-here states that there was a quiet day. thirds of the consumption of Great in the Karelian Isthmus on Saturday. Britain is by those earning less than On the eastern frontier, an enemy
attack £5 a week. ›
heavy losses.
Here was the necessity of thorough co-operation from the workers, and so savings came into being.
Rationing alsó restricts consumption and prices, although that is not its primary aim. In spite of this, the
was
repulsed
کی
with
The enemy made heavy air-raids, south- especially against places in west Finland.
Five enemy 'planes were shot down, state that and unconfirmed reports seven more were also brought down. come evident by the rise in the cost | ---Reuter...
Return Engagement-To-morrow-] Day Only vicious spiral of rising prices has be-
THE FUNNIEST OF ALL SPOOK COMEDIES!
ROBERT
DONATA
THE
Ghost Goes West
JEAN PARKER EUGENE PALLETTE
MATINEES: 20c.-30c @ EVENINGS: 20c. 30c. 50c.-70c. O
DAILY AT
2-50
5.20 7.20 9.20
STAR
HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON TEL.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
Jeanette
MACDONALD
BROADWAY
SERENADE with LEWAN
TO MORROW
MOM
TAKE ANY TRAM « HAPPY VALLEY:I
CATHAY
DAILY AT
118,17.20,80:30. P.M.
MATINEES ›– 30%. 306, 40%. EVENINGS ...–306g 300, 8ồi. 70«, UDG.. FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES ON THE MOOR!
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLES
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
57795
A 2018 Century -Fox Puture
An MGM Picture
4. GIRLS IN WHITE”
JURICHARD.
BASIL
WINDY
GREENE RATHBONE-BARRIE NIGEL BRUCE LIONEL ATWILL
BERYL
*. JOHN CARRADINE - BARLOWE BORLAND -
MERCER - MORTON LOWRY «RALPH. FORBES.
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
Robert Donat, Rosalind Russel in
Dr. A. J. Cronin's
"THE CITADEL"
Directed by King Vidor
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY ! Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce Ins
"SOCIETY LAWYER"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.