1946-02-22 — Page 5

SHOWING

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15, 0.15 p.m

Your Favorite FUN-STARS are Back!

BUD

&

n their First in a year! .and their Funniest of all!

ABBOTT

In Society

COSTELLO

ARTHUR TREACHER MARION HUTTON

KEBY GRAMY THOMAS COPEZ ANNE COLLIS

WILL OSBORNE and ORCHESTRA THE FØREE SISTERS · Margie, Bea and Ger

TELEPHONE BRIAN G1 NOT ACCEPTED.

LEE THEATRE

Bhowing To Day At 2.30, 5.15, 7.10"&79.15 P.M.

SPECTACULAR ACTION

IN SCENIC GRANDEURÍ

--

Zane Grey's

KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED

starring ROBERT KENT

with

ROSALIND KEITH ALAN DINEHART Directed by Howard Bretherton

LAST EPISODE

BOXING TOURNAMENT

AT

LEE THEATRE

PERCIVAL STREET, WANCHAI

AT 7.00 P.M., 26TH FEBRUARY

in aid of tho

HONG KONG WELFARE ASSOCIATION

ALL SEATS BOOKABLE

Tickets on sale only at:

HONG KONG HOTEL

KOWLOON CLUB (N.A.A.F.L./E-F.1.) UNION JACK CLUB, HONG KONG (N.A.A.F.1./EFL)

and on 26th February at LEE THEATRE

PRICES FROM $2 to $15.

(Certain seats are available for Services at reduced prices.)

All East-going trams pass close to Lee Theatre.. Band of H.M.S. DUKE OF YORK will play. THE PICK OF THE BOXERS FROM ROYAL NAVY, ARMY, ROYAL AIR FORCE & U.S. NAVY.

CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE

ALL NEXT WEEK

AT 7.30 P.M.

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH

THE BRITISH CENTRE, SYDNEY

PRESENTS

THE GREAT LEVANTE

IN

"ABRACADABRA"

·GLADY COLE

SID CLARKE

SUPPORTED BY

JOY DENNY MOLLY DURAL ESME RAY LEVANTE

AMAND

BY THE COURTESY OF

ENSA ART CARNEIRO & HIS ORCHESTRA

Front Stat. & Balcony Prices of Admission Back Stall ALL SEATS CAN BE BOOKED. IN ADVAN CASH AT GLUB OFFICE TEL: 26904,

$1,00.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946.

R.A.F. Quarrymen Doing Big Job

ĮSEVERAL TIMES A WEEK, THE ECHOES OF A LARGE EXPLOSION REVERBERATE ROUND, THE HILLS IN THE VICINITY OF PING SHAN. R. A. F. QUARRYMEN WITH THEIR CHINESE AND IN- PER- DIAN EMPLOYEES ARE BLASTING AWAY HAPS ANOTHER 1,000 TONS OF ROCK AT CAMP BROOK SO NAMED AFTER AIR COMMODORE W. A. D, BROOK, C.BE., AIR OFFICER 'COMMAN- DING ROYAL AIR FORCE, HONG KONG. BOUND FOR OKINAIFA WITH AIRFIELD CONSTRUC- TION UNITS OF THE FAMOUS "TIGER FORGE," 4857 QUARRY FLIGHT WAS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG ON THE NEIFS OF THE JAPANESE, SUR- RENDER. THE UNIT HAD SERVED WITH THE ARMIES OF LIBERATION IN EUROPE, DEMO- LISHING THE OBSTRUGTION RESULTING FROM BOMBING AND PREPARING THE MATERIAL FOR BUILDING AND REPAIR OF AIRSTRIPS FOR ADVANCING RAF. BASES. During the three months, since they arrived in Hang Kong, thene R.A:F. quarrymen, jamong them highly qualified cn-¡ Kincers and technicians, have, quarried a total of 12,000 iesis of sinne beside 7,000 of over-bur- den-waste material which cas

New H.K.

Yacht Club

Home Football

London, Feb. 20. High winda marred most of the re-arranged football fixtures play- ed to-day.

Bitter aqualls ruined the game at Ipswich, where the home side drow with Mansfield Town.

The big game of the day was at Tottenham, where Aston Villa suffered a serious setback in 'sheir quest for the "double" of Longue Football Championship and the Association Cup. It was their first defeat on a London ground In eight visits to the capital this season. The Hotspurs wero much fagter and Ilvelier, and made their rivals ipok mediocre. The League South table was not affected by the result.

Similarly. in League North Chesterfield, who took one point pp their home gumo with Sheffield Wednesday, do not move un the table. Wednesday led at halftime, but fell away.

In the rugby code Cambridge University were defeated by the New Zealand touring team, scor- ing seven points to the visitors" 16. The Army defeated ""London by 22 points to 12.

Today's soccer resulta are na follow:

League North-Chesterfield 1 Wednesday 1: Blackburn 0 Bolton

1.

League South Tottenham

3

also be used in the ataruc- Yachtsmen. will be interested to Villa tion of runways. À daily out hear of tho forth-coming in- Third Div. South-North Region put of 2.000 tons of atone is nuguration of a new Yacht Club-Ipswich 1 Mansfield 1.

Third Div. North-East Region the

the in the Colony, to be known as the target aimed at for bukling of the new airfield. On Royal Hong Kong Naval Yacht-York 1 Ratherham 1.

will Jense Kellott Scottish League Dis. B Cup a peak day recently, 637 tons of Club, which

Island from the Royal Hong Kong semi-final replay: Allric 2 Dun- Stine nad 982 tons of overbur

Yacht Club

den Reuter. den were produced.

The unit brought with it stone crushers which

capable of ure dealing with 280 tons of stone a

day, butidozers, "digger and

her plant.

JL

Pieve engineers working

ON

The Kellett Inland Club House, The Aene

Athlete To Confess His Sins

Stockholm. Feb. 21. Gunder Hegg, the Swedish ship, notably MS track star who is under investi

And H.M.S. Beer

Swedish Athletic a certain amount of reku-Association for

gation by the

alleged profes bilitation was done.

sionalism, tulif the немирарит A number of Nuvalbona huve Aftontadet" in an interview to .......

day that

hat he intended to "confess

which was a modern building' erected just before the war, was thoroughly

looted during the occupation of all portable wond- work and other Allings, and nearly Drilling for insertion of demo all the yachts have disappeared, lition chars is carried out by

On the arrival of the No. 4850 Well-boring Flight and Navy the premises were requial. the Royal Shaft to a depth of 89 feel

Combined Services tioned an through the rock structure is fre- Club, and due to the efforts of

required. Before quently

blasting severni bugin.

airmen driving coolles breaking up tumps of rock all personnel are warned by whistle to retire to aalno bren collected and there has safe di tuner while the charges been a large muster for sailing are detonated. A dust cloud -ome

races at week-on.ls. rise in 200

the air.

The premises have to be dere quisitioned on March 1, and, in LARGEST BALL.

order to carry on the good work The largest fall of rock in one

Hong

Koar Yacht blast has been 2.500 as: recent until the Royal

Club can take over the helm, the ly a forner of 1,000

tans knocked down and the latest job new Club is being formed ander is to blow un a further 2.000 tons combined services mauices,

Labouring in the dust which penetrates into diesel engines and to machines and gets into the and lungs-efforts are made keep

it down by water-spraying -- These airmen are carrying out a splendid job of work.

an irolat ed spot far from My enterinia- ment facilities of a town live in billets alongside the quarry, and, in teir off-duty time play football and bathe in their

A: swimming pool.

week-ends, they have recreational transport into Kowloon--the nearest town..

Personnel of the unit include vacht building.

Lieutenant A, Dunn from

Flight Lieute

and

will be inaugurated at a meeting and to be hell in the Gloucester Build-1 resing next Wednesday evening. A

to members of the Royal Hong Kong

Yacht Club will automatically be members of the new Club or their return to Colony.

Derby, a cand mining engineer in civilian life and Commanding Officer of the Quarry Flight: Fly- ing Officer B. Crowther, B.S.C. from London; Flight Lieutenant R. P. Fletcher, M.A., in charge of

the well-boring contingent who comes

Flight

from Spalding Badger.

Lincs

Servcant K. V

plant operater, of Farnborough.

It is hoped in this way, by the combined efforts of all the Ser vices and the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, to revive vachting in the Colony, but it may be some years before, it returns former flourishing slate owing to the shortage of materials for

Boxing Tourney

10

The following is the programme

for the Charity Boxing Tourna-

BANTAM WEIGHT Hend) V. LAC. Miller (R.A.F.). Stoker Young CH.MS. Rame

Kent who received the B.E.M.ment to be held at the Lee Theatre for his work in France during con-on Tuesday, Feb. 26. struction of the historic Caen by tass, which, built to last for ten days, allowed the American Army to move ap rapidly in pursuit of the enemy-fitters, plant operators. drivers, Guarrymen, whom held the same joba before Joining the R.A.F.

manv

of

Among visitors to the quarry have been the Supreme Allied Commander Lord Louis Mount. und batten, Admiral Lord Fraser the Allied Air Commander-in- Chief Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park. Frequent

WELTER WEIGHT L.A.O. Caffery (R.A.F.) `v. Lt. Tunnell (6 Commandos).

A.B. McMurdle (ILM.S. Tra- falgar) v. Col. Roberts (1 Cam- mandoa).

Col. Ralph (1 Commandos) v. L.A.0. Sharratt (B.A.E.),

A.B. Moore (H.M.S. Tamar) v. Cpl. Valintine (R.A.S.C.). LIGHT WEIGHT visitors, who take Stoker Hart (H.M.S. Rame

in the Colony, are the Commander. Lame How Clark (H.M.B. Ramel a personal interest in the problems Head) v. Stoker C. Clark (H.M.S.

In-Chief Vice-Admiral Sir Ceell, Harcourt and the Air Officer Commanding Air Commodore W. A. D. Brook.

RUSSIA MAY BE BARRED

Bloker T. Hend) v.

Y. LAC. Miller (R.A.F.).-

WEIGHT

my sins.

To-day is the deadline for Васк And 2.1 tracknen

other Swedish to list all the mune they received for racing,

The mile runner earlier. had written a letter ไ the Associn- tion denying the necusations of professionalism and maintaining that

no more had received money than he was entitled to.

Since then, he told the "Afton blade!" that have riven the affair eluded that the letter was more thought and

thought out. badly Swedish trainer) says I should "Goesta Olander (prominent

go to the kneeling bench' and confess but 24 the same time ex~ plain how I got aboard the merry- go-round, therefore I decided to write a new lotter to the Asso ciation and 'confess my sina.”— Associated Press.

con.

bit

MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY

åt 2.80, 5.00, 7.00 & 8,00 p.m.

A Great Big Tuneful Dance Film!

FRED

BITA

ASTAIRE HAYWORTİL

In

"YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER"

with ADOLPE MENJOU

Columbia Picture

Tolophons Bosklage Not Acooptad

CATHAY

Waschal Road, Wanchini,

Tel. Sum (H.M.S. Ta-To-day: 2,30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. lent) v. L.A.C. Evans (R.A.F.). C.S.M. Smith (44 Commandos)

v. L.A.C. Holdsworth (R.A.F.).

LIGHT HEAVY

Set Orellia (1 Comniandos) v. Cpl. Taylor (5 Commanos).

HEAVY WEIGHT

C.S.M. Mulholland (1 Comman

Paramount's Superb Production

BARBARA STANWYCK

&

JOEL MCCREA.

in

das) v. Major Miller (South "THE GREAT MAN'S LADY"

Staffe).

"In addition to the above there will be a bout between men from

U.9. ship.

SAN FRANCISCO, FEB. ai. RUSSIA MAY BE BAR- RED FROM THE

19.8 OLYMPIC GAMES, AVERY BRUNDAGE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES{ OLYMPIC COMMITTEE; There are a number of troublos

SAID TO-DAY.

LEICESTER'S TROUBLES.'

Leicester, Feb. 21.

facing the Leicestershire County Cricket Club. Their ground is Facts which night,prevent

being taken over for electricity Russian competition are reports extensions by the Comoration, and Brundage enid, of Government so the county will return to the subsidising leading athletes and school playing round of former lack of an organised tussian veare whero

accommodation i sports committen with which the poor,

playar International Olympics Ferlerà Lecutorshire also tion might deal which is a 10- troubles, and so far the only pro- quirement for participation in fosilonal signed in La Berry, G. Dawin and F. Prentica are stil

Also Popeyo Cartoon

Servicemani

In Uniform

Matinoes 70 stat to D.O. Evenings $1:00

RIENTAL

BHOWA: 2.80 -0.15–1.15-0.10

Showing To-Day & To Morrow The Blar You Wanted to Best DEANNA DURBIN Franchol Tone'. - Pat O'Brien in Universal'(musical comely

the Olympic games, in the forces, and to it is hoped 44 HIS BUTLER'S SISTER"

Brundage declined to cemthe county will be able to set the Gement on the proposed banning latice of number of ada

Germany from tear for the coming soŽU the games Associated Press.

dotion

SHOW BUSINESS"

SHOWING

TO-DAY

CENTRAL

THEATRE

JUNGLE

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At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15

FURY! PAGAN

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LOVE!

BEYOND DOROTHY LAMOUR THE BLUE RICHARD DENNING

HORIZON

COLOR

JACK HALEY PATRICIA MORISON WALTER ABEL HELEN GILBERT ELIZABETH PATTERSON

OCIETE ALIKES ££TILL+ Zero Pay by tina kytar

ADMISSIONS:-$1.70; $1,20; 70 cts, & 40 eta,

SERVICEMEN IN UNIFORM 70 CTS, TO STALLS.

SHOWING

TO-DAY:

ALHAMBRA

}

Ab 9.30, 6.00

7.00 & 9.00 p.m.

SEETHE BOMBING OF TOKYO RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES!

and thrill to the story, silver winged rivalry the heart of a girli sweetheart of the squa

SEE WHAT!

BOMBARDIER

reduced by

ROBERT, FELLOWS

Showing To. Day

Storring

PAT O'BRIEN RANDOLPH SCOTT

with

ANNE SHIRLEY-EDDIE ALBERT

** Screen Play by

John Twist.

Directed by

RICHARD WALLACE

KING'S

At 2.30, 8.10,

7.15 & 9.15 p

•M-G-M's Most Spectacular Water Carnival!

in Technicolour-

"BATHING BEAUTY"

RED SKELTON ESTHER WILLIAMS

NEXT CHANGE

TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE"

JOHNNY. WEISSMULLER

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