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TO-DAY KINGS
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IT'S LEAP YEAR.....
So look
before you leap!
TO-MORROW
A 20th
CENTURY-FOX,
PICTURE
SHOWS
DAILY 2.30 - 5,20
720-9.30
LORETTA
AND
AT 2.30, 5:10,
7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
RAY:
YOUNG MILLAND
The Doctor Takes a Wife
with
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Reginald GARDINER Gail PATRICK Edmund GWENN • Georges METAXA Screenplay by George Seaton and Ken England a Directed, by ALEXANDER MALL
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
"THE RAINS CAME
TYRONE POWER
MYRNA
LOY
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GEORGE
BRENT
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN
ROAD KOWLOON
TEL. 57212
MATINEES: 20.-30. EVENINGS: 20-30c-50e70c)
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
A Sensational Drama Replete With Thrills!
Who is
THE
MAN WHO DARED
WHY DID HIS BOLDNESS MAKE A NATION GASP?
WHY IS ALL AMERICA CHEERING HIM?
HE'S THE WONDER MAN OF THE YEAR!
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.
CHAPLIN BURLESQUE DICTATORS
ON THE PAINS
NAZIS SNATCH
Charlie Chaplin's film "The Dictator," which is now amusing audiences in London, has annoyed the Germans.
"Deutschlandsender," the German radio
GAS MASKS
Gas mask snatchers — thieves who cut respirator straps from business girls' shoulders in raid rush hours-are setting. London's police a problem.
To save carrying both a gas mask and handbag, many girls
They should beware of the snatcher.
station, yesterday told the German people carry their money in mask cases. that "Charlie Chaplin's hate-propaganda film will hardly be able to bolster up Chur- chill's bad mood with its silly jokes.”
Mr. Churchill's annoyance, says | the Nuzi radio, Is "likely to be greater than his ability to be en- tertained" by his "at-footed
friend's" jokes.
Mr. Churchill's "black mood" yas supposed to have rome on
MACHINE-GUNNING OF BOYS
hrough shipping losses. The Ger- SAVAGE MACHINE-GUN AT- man Radio gave an exaggerated | TACKS ON BRITAIN WERE account of shipping losses and CARRIED
OUT BY GERMAN made no reference at all to Bri-PLANES YESTERDAY. tish and Greek victories.
This is in accordance with the Their "targets" included An new Nazi propaganda decision. East Coast light ship, a town in Now that the Axis plan in the East Anglia, a railway train, and Balkans and Egypt have been torn boys cycling to school. to tatters, the German people are Some of the boys were injured. again being told that the war will
Reuter. only be won in Britain.
House Of Cards
The newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung" even referred yester day to the post bility of ลง Italian collapse like a house of cards.
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The Germap paper expresses thg hope that 1.aly will res.st, but of ters no prospect of German sistance except to say that the Reich will relieve Italy by con- stant attacks on Britain.
This is in startling contrast with an article the previous day in the "Valkische Beobachter, which maintained that there was no cause for anxiety and poured scorn on the assumption that Ger- many will leave Italy in the lurch.
This confusion of propaganda is taken in London as a clear in- dication of the confusion of policy caused by the failure of plans to drive into the Near East with Ita- lian collaboration, together with Germany's inability to help Italy without involving both Axis part- hers in d'ficulties and risks they do not want to face.-Reuter.
* SHOWS
DAILY
3.30-11
7.15--20
or
He is to be found elinking round tube train entrances busy bus stopa watching for likely victims,.
A large number of cases where young women have been robbed of their hard-earned wages 011 their way home have been report- ed to the police, and plain clothes men have been detailed to keep a look-out for the snatchers.
Siren bandite are another new
menace.
This meanest type of petty thieving goes on where whole families leave their homes ไป spend the night in public shelters. Thieves break into deserted houses and steal anything tea rations to jewellery.
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ORIENTALE
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WANGHAI
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DLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY•
Heroic Mounties Who Always Get Their Man!
They mean punishment to lawless men, protection to defenseless women, these ccarlet-clad
sonnels
the of wilderness brave a thousand dangers to get their man.
Canada's Fearless Mounties Swing Into Action!
Heart
of
The first great epic of the Royal Canadiets Mounted Police...in
TECHNICOLOR
the North
Directed by CRANE WILBUR · Screw Play by Len Katɛ - From en Original
Story by Lucian Hubbard A First Not! Picture-Prosented by WARNER BROS,
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
*
The Season's. Most. Thrilling Hit-Drama ! George Raft
Sp
Jean Bennett Walter Pidgeon
"THE HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY"
A United Artists Picture
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
WHEN FIRE- BOMBS FELL ON CONVENT
Sister's Narrow Escape
Although Sister Daniels got up at 6 a.m., as usual, in her cell in a Liverpool convent and went to Mass, there were two good rea-
NATHAN RD. KOWLOON DAILYÁT 230-520-720-930. TEL.56856 sons why nobody would
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
GOLD-MINE
RAIDERS MEET
HOPALONG
HOHTING...
ONE MILE
UNDER- GROUNDI
Clarence E. Mulford's BAR 20 JUSTICE
THURSDAY
WILLIAM BOYD
HOOTING HIGH
have been surprised if she hadn't
а
-Only ubiew hours earlier. fire-bomb, crashing, through the convent roof, had fallen, within, a few yards of the bed. In which she was sleep'ng; and
old:
Sister Daniels is 100. years
She only woke up when fire-
·men' rang into the convent to deal with a salvo of bombs,
Even :then she lay in bed and watched
them stamp out the flames...
When a reporter spoke to her in the afternoon workmen "were. piling burned-out bomb cases an the kitchen table. She halted in her kn'ting to watch them, then said, "What was the use of worry- Ing? The firemen - knew what tak do... Wow Warehouses, a cinema, sä laun- "und:two ź, churches were“ hil the raids on: Merkayside"
Presented by WARNER BROS. • Directed by LEWIS SEILER* Screen Play by Les Katz and Vincent Sherman • Based a Novel by William Byron Mowery A Pirit Nailonel Pisture;
TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY
PAROLE FIXER
Based on J, EDGAR HOOVER'S "Persons in Hiding”
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OH JOHNNY How You Can Love
"ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO
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