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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,

MARCH 20, 1931.

SOVIET WAR FRENZY.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

NEW YEAR'S EVE

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

THEATRE CALL TO ARMS ON RED

ITO-DAY- & TO-MORROW

ARMY'S BIRTHDAY.

Moscow, "February 24:--All-Russia

at 2.30, 5.10, 7,15 & 9.20 p.m.||to-day celebrates the 13th birthday

-Adolphe Menjou

"FASHIONS

IN LOVE"

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-a Garamount Picture » Refreshing, Stimulating. Thoroughly entertaining. Two lovely lending ladies. Fay Compton and Miriam Beegar, both of the stage,

Starting Sunday

GOOD NIGHT NURSE!

RICHARD

DIX

"The

Love Doctor

A Joy-maker it there ever was one. Heart-troubio's. catching and the doctor accumbs to hiboautiful nurre,

of the Red Army.

The birthday slogan is:

Their

NO SENSE IN SITTING UP TO SEE THE NEW YEAR IN, 60ES TO BEP EARLY TO GET A GOOD SIFEP

(the capitalists') attuck in now coming,, owing to slit five-year plan's success,"

Voroshilaf, the War Commisaar, in the Wur Boviet's Order of the Day, sells the Red Army that “ this imminent menace necesitates s still higher speed of defenes pre- paration."

Comradu Fuschlicht now in charge of the war industry, gives the Red Army as

a birthday pre- sent 9,600,000 disciplined members of the official League for Air and Chemical Defence, of which he is president.

Military Education.-

He assures the regular forces thas the League's most rtant achievement is the muse "military education of volunteers, and anys:

"We are now giving to the

villagers the same military training

as hitherto applied only to factory and office workers, and are now training volunteer nirmen, besides recruiting cndets for the military schools and besides retraining, re: servist officers' and N.C.O.'s, and presenting to the Red Army hob dreds of war aeroplanes.

"Two new tanks were given to- day, one being named Red Hunts- mun.'"

Pradva'r lender says:-"Every factory, every state and collective farm, must become a military base for defence."

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GETS UP FOR WATCH, LIGHTS LAMP AND FINDS IT'S TEN -MINUTES PAST TEN

KNOCKS WATCH ON FLOOR, TRIES

TO LIGHT LAMP TO FIND WATCH

AND UPSETS LAMP

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SECRET OF DERELICT.

YACHT.

BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MANNED BY SMUGGLERS,

Brussels. The mystery of a white motor-yacht found drifting with no on board has been partly

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solved."

All this is interlarded with pro- Men in the Ostend fishing boat testations of a wish for peace, which | O 145 first sighted the fishing smack I believe is sincere.

Gonzales drifting helplessly, with a starving and exhausted crew un board, The men were rescued and the ninck taken in tow

THE PREMIER'S APPEAL..

DON'T INVEST ́ABROAD..

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at the Lanquet of the Birmingham Chem- her of Commerce said:

"The question which we have to faco and I appeal to you and the whole nation to face it--is will we enduro through those times of stag. gering burdens in a measure equal to the generosity that we showed when we were helping our Allies? | "Will we our people listen to an appeal to stand shoulder to should- er so as to go through trying days together and come out triumphant with henda that may be bloody but unbowed, or will they respond to those unworthy counsela given thor

La Gammonent Getum ACTION-LOVE-LAUGHS from so many quarters to under-

Coming Soon

A GALAZY OF BRITISH STARS IN A BRITISH “TALKIE” PRODUCED IN A BRITISH STUDIO

ALFS BUTTON

'A Gaumont British All-Dialogue

Production. Directed by W.RKELLING

Saturing

TUBBY EDLIN. ALF GODDARD "NORA SWINBURNEɛPOLLY WARD Based on WA DARLINGTONS Famous. Farce Extravaganza.~-

Bookings at Andersons and the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

mine the foundations of our na tional credit in order to seek a false security in foreign invost

monta."

Ho would rather die than find shelter at the expense of the na- tion's credit. (Cheers.)

IS WAKENED BY CHURCH CLOCK STRIKING WONDERS IF IT WAS ELEVEN OR TWELVE

SETTLES AGAIN, BUT, IS NOW "SO MADE AWAKE HE CANT

GET TO SLEEP

GROPES FOR WATCH UNDER 'PILLOW

· FINDS HE LEFT IT ON BUREAU. DIES WONDERING WHETHER THIS 15 1930 OR 193)

AFTER WHAT SEEMS, HOORS DECIDE HE MUST HAVE GONE TO SLEEP, IT -MUST BE PAST TWELVE. FISHES

FOR WATCH

HAS JUST DROPPED OFF TO "SLEEP WHEK WIFE WAKES HIM TO WISH HIM A HAPPY NEW YEAR

GETS UP, PICKS UP LAMP AND WATCH, FINDS IS FIVE OF ELEVEN AND CRAWLS, MUT- TERING, BACK INTO BED

(Copyright, 1933, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

GLUTAS MUILCIANO

Within half an hour, the trawler hoard was addressed to a man came upon a pleasure yacht, dere- fat Ostend. This man, it has been established, had left for Nieuport, lict and without "a dinghy. Five it is thought, to meet the muglers.

An earlier report stated: Fishermen outside the harbour first saw the yacht drifting before the wind. Time after time they 1 bailed her, but there was no re-

enormous bales of tobacco were found in her hold.

At this moment the tow-line at- tached to the Gonzales broke and the smack was swept away. Hav-ll

ang lost one vessel, the trawler pro-

creded to salve the other, and the yacht was safely brought into Blan- kenberghe, where the authorities, opened an inquiry.

It is believed that the yacht was nanned by smugglers, and that they had landed on the beach at Coxyde. west of Nieuport. A letter found

Finally they decided to board the vessel. They found

A blue cost riddled with boles that appeared to have been made by bullets

A half-finished meal that seem ed to indicate that the had

Crew jeft hurriedly.

large quantity of tobacco stored below. They towed the yacht to Zebrugge.

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CENTRAL THEATRE..

"FASHIONS IN LOVE?"

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****Adolphe ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈ Monjou ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄in ̈ „Adolphe Menjeu in his great, first_ al-talking picturo. His rich bari.

tone voice, adds a new note to his sophistication and none of his many picture going friends will know the real Adolphe Monjou un, Lil he sees this star in "Fashions in Love" now, showing at the Central Theatre. --

Monjou is his own lightly humor- cis, amart Rolf in Fashions in Love and, more, than ever before," bis wit sparkles' in the cløver, dialogue, of this famous Hermann · |Bahr. play. Two splendid English actresses play opposito the star Pay Compton, Sir James M. Bar- rie'n favorite netress, and Miriam Secgar.

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Fashions in Love" was direct by Victor Schertzingor, 'maker. Forgotten Faces," "The Wheel

of Life" and "Redskin," and com posor of several world-famous lyrics including " Marchetd.” The story deals with a dapper and noted musicinu who captivates audiences with his music and women's hearts with his person- ality. Throughout all his firta- tions, he retains a fine, deep love

for his wife. To surb his philan dering, his wife pretends a love affair with the husband of his latest conquest. The artist imme diately turns about and returns to bis own fireside.

During the picture, Monjou sings new song hit, written by Schert zinger, "Delphine," and Miss Compton sings another Schertzin. ger song, "I Still Believe in You."

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JEANIE MacPHERSON The Last Word in

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