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CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10,.7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

A THRILL PICTURE SUCH AS YOU GET ONCE IN A LIFETIME.

THIS PICTURE GIVES A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF

MANAGUA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE LAST WEEK.

Columbia Pictures

A THRILLING DRAMA OF LOVE ADVENTURE/

JACK HOIT LILA LEE RALPH GRAVES and an All-Star supporting cast

A BEAUTIFUL

love' tale un- folded spalat # series of unbe- Revable air JantA by kensoned dares! devil. pilotal. A picture of breath- taking calibre ! The class of the screen's alr dramas, MADE WITH THE COOPERA. TION OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS.

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FRANK CAPRA

production

ROMANCE, ADVENTURE. LAUGHTER, TEARS, SUSPENSE, AND A COLOURFUL AUTHENTIC

BACKGROUND.

COMING SOON

A 1931 PARAMOUNT SUPER-PRODUCTION

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At last! The talking screen has found a second GRETA GARBO in MARLENE DIETRICH The new German screen beauty who is the rage of two continents in

He buried himself alive in the Foreign

•Legion to forget wous- en like hart

She Gives Love a Start-

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GARY COOPER MARLENE DIETRICH ADOLPHE MENJOU a Garamawit Picture,

MOROCCO

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Booking at Anderson's and

the Theatre (Tel. 25720).

THE PILGRIMAGE

TO MECCA.

TREK TO THE HOLY CITY COMMENCES.

MOSLEM NEW YEAR ON MAY 18.

Algiers, Mareli 31-From all parts of France's north African possessions, from the wild fantnesses

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tho Atlas mountains which fringe the Sahara and right down to the oasis villages of the desert Mohammedan pilgrims to-day were turning their stops towards the Holy City of Mecen on the Keat innual pilgrimage

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Shicks of the Sahara-mounted on gaily caparisoned, pure-bred Arab steeds, rich and poor merchants from the towns, and villages, nomads from the great sandy wastes, white-erowled priests from the desert monasteries and others make up the pilgrimage.

The Pilgrims are starting so enr ly to enable them to be in Meren on the Moslem New Year-May 19,

The Pilgrims made for the ports of Morocco, Algeria or Tunisin, whence pilgrim ships sail, erquimed full on every deck with true be- luvers in the Prophet. They squint all day under the burning Mediter rasean aun, shrouded in their white. Lurnauses to shield themselves from the heat, reciting the Koran' and praying for their salvation. For a whole month this migration from Che Sahara goes on, affording n picture of the varied life of the magic East.

150,000 Pilgrims a Year, About 150,000 Pilgrims from the of islam-Arabia, India, world Asia Minor, Africa-dock to Monen, swelling the population of the Holy City on the shores of the Red Sea to slightly more than 250,000. The eity is then atiling mass of humanity, all clad in white. Pro- fieering in rife:

The innkeepers and shopkeepers rely on the pilgrimage to earn sufficient to keep them for the rest of the year. Macon will be filled with an unbelievable, din. The odour will be anbearable. But the believer will be happy. He will kricel as the carpet, brought ach year from Cairo by the Egyptian nji at the same time na the traditional Mahmal, an empty covered litter emblematie of Egyp- tian sovereignty, parcs,

Then the Pilgrim will proceed to the Kanha or cubo, which was the temple of Mecca ages bofore the

time of Mohammed but which the the

Prophet made foly.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931.

HONGKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

Imagine GARY COOPER .

as the he-man hero of a mighty outdoor drama! With two lovely leading women Kay Johnson, Betty Compson.

THE

SPOILERS

by REX BEACH Filmed on a spectacular scale in all its giant strength and splendour. With a dynamic fight climax you'll .never forget.

A Paramount Picture

Edwin OAREWE production.

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10 .7.15 & 0.30;:

Loge Seats Dress Circle Back Stalls Front Stalls

PRICES

...$2.20

...$1.70

...$1.10

.50

Including Tax.

Booking at the THEATRE Only. PHONE: 25313, 25330.

Patrons are requested to call for Reserved Seats, 15 minutes before the show-No Reserva- tion can be guaranteed after that hour.

CLASSIFIED. ADVERTISEMENTS.

PREMISES TO LET.

FLATS in HUMP.

FOR SALE.

DOTARY DUPLICATOR, Etted GROUND FLOOR, No. 3. with Detachable Ink Fountain, Machine fú CAKBAY BUILDINGS (309, Nathan FOR SALE Cheap. Road), KOWLOON--Apply to: CREDIT Excellant Order, Complete with Cover, FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT Supplies, etc. Demonstration Before Purchase-Write to Box 400, ofa llong FRINCH BANK BUILDING (4th floor).

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ATTRACTIVE Three and FourTO LET From APRIL 1931. HREYS and CARNARVON BUILD Non-Mohamedans within city of Meren on Moslem New Year INGS, Kowloon, All Moders: Con will go in fear of their lives. It is yenlences. Also Six Roomed HOUSE recorded that only two, an Italian,in MINDEN AVENUX-Apply HUMP

HREYS ESTATE & FINANCE C vi Varthama, and a Briton, Joseph LTD., ALEXANDE Buildings, [243 Pitis, entered the Holy City and came out live to tell the tale.

CHINESE TONG WAR

SINGAPORE.

DAYLIGHT CLASH IN CHINATOWN,

INT 8A, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL; At present in the Occupation. of the NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMER CIAL, BANK, Available from 17 APRIL, 1981. Apply to DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD.

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LET.-GROUND FLOOR of

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fought between rival rungs in Car- penter Street, in Singapore's China-

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Lown, on March 2 when & Chinese T ROAD, KOWLOON Roomed WANTED-A Resident Nurse or

Nursery-governess (British was stabbed to death, and another FLAT with All Modern Conveniences shot; was revealed before Mr. F. and Garage. Apply to: CREDIT for Two Children.Write stating Parti. G. Bourne, the Singapore Coroner, FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT, cars and Salary required to Box 578, when the inquiry with the death of 4th floor, FaENCE BANK BUILDING. [90 e/o Hong Kong Daily Press. the former was concluded.

Two Chinese, including the man who was found suffering from gun- shot wounds, stood in the dock charged with murder. Mr. J. C. Barry, A.S.P., attached to the Singapore Detective Branch, con- ducted the inquiry for the Crown.

A police constahle who was re sponsible for the arrest of the first necused stated in evidence that on the morning of March 2 he was off duty and walked towards Carpenter with other constables who were also off duty On nearing Carpenter Street they heard a pistol shot and witness saw a Chinese, the first ac oused, running towards South Bridge Rond with a blood-stained dagger in his right hand and a sheath in the left:

Witness and his colleaguea gave chase and the man was arrested and disarmed. On returning to Carpontor Street he saw the bady.. of a Chinese lying in a pool of blood near the doorway of house No. 37.

A police sergeant who also stated“ that he was attracted by gun shots, Baid that ho went to Hong Kong Street where he saw a constable with a pistol in his hand. A Chi- nese was lying on the road, bleed ing from the head and stomach. A dagger was found in-his-waist.----

Medical evidence recorded. was to the affect that the deceased had nine stab wounds. The gun-shot wounds on the second accused must have either been accidental or auicidal.

The Coroner returned a verdict of culpable homicide amounting to murder against the accused.

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THE SILVER SCREEN,

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

BAY IT WITH SONGS"

Kenneth Thompson who plays the good looking heavy in Al Jolson's nowest, talking and singing "Vita- phone picture, Say It With Songa," now at the Queen's Theatre, alternates between leading rolex and villain parla, though the hand- some heavice may be called his long auit.c.

Born to the stage, his father & singer and his mather a concert manager, Thompson left Carnegie Tech. to enter, stage work, His first Appearance on the stage was in Declasses" "in 1920. Following that he played leads for Frohman, tho Shuberts, George Tyler and A. H. Woods for a period of Eve years after which he became inter ested seriously in pictures.

His first picture was one that brought him into immediate atten- tion with the role of Alee in "White Gold." Recent releases included Broadway Melody", and "The Bellamy Trial after which! he was chosen by Warner Bros. for

the important role with Jolson in

Say It With Songs,"

"THE SEA BAT”

"The Sea Bat," Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's new marine melodrama, which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-marrow, should rank high with that large group of people who like their drama mixed with novelty and interesting detail,

Wesley Ruggles, the director, has produced a picture which is a per- sonification of those words, with excitement added. Those who thought there was no new situation or menace" in teledrama are invited to glance, over this original story by Dorothy Yost.

Sen bats, those giant rays wuigh- ing two tons or more, which infect tropie waters, are the monsters who supply the excitement of this tale. When one of them folds Nils Asther in its heavy wings, crushing him to death, it starts a war of reprisal in which tho tangled romances of Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres and John Miljan form a dramatic

overlone.

CENTRAL THEATRE.

"FLIGHT."

A roadshow attraction that will establish new, records is "Flight," the Columbia all-talking aviation film that opened at the Central Theatre last night with Jack Holt, Lila Lee and Ralph Graves in the Frank R. Capra leading ble. directed,

It is the classic of the screen's air dramas. A powerful story of love and honour in the lives of two buddies in the flying division of the United States Marine Camps. It is

500 (FIVE HUNDRED, TONS replete with daring action and

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thrilling momenta. The love in- terest running through the breath. taking situations is vivid and realistic. The close-ups taken above the clouds are awe-inspiring. This all-talking sonsation is by far the best aviation picture pet produced.

CHANCE PROPOSED IN U.S. IMMIGRATION.

SENATOR OPPOSES DISCRIMI- NATION AGAINST ASIATICS.

Washington, April 1st.-Sugges- tions that America's immigration laws be amended so as to eliminata discrimination

Chinese, ogainat Japanese and other Orientals were mado to-day by Representative Albert Johnson, Republican of Washington and the Chairman of the-House Immigration Committee, in an interview with correspondents for the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Representative Johnson said he favours a plan under which immig rants into the United States from China, Japan and other Asiatic Ianda would be placed under the national origine quota. He would admit 200 Asiatics per year to the United States and raise the number of immigrants who can be admitted" from non-quota countries. At pre- sent 100 immigrants por year may from non-quota countries. This figurd would be raised to 200 under..the Johnson

Representative Johnson said he does not favour any lowering_of America's imängration walls. But

come

ho feels that By eliminating- dia crimination against Asiatics a batter feeling will result without material. ly increasing immigration into the United States,

MOVIELAND

FOR THE WEEK

QUEEN'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY Ar 2.30; 5.10, 7.16 9.20.

HERE IS WHERE YOU LAUGH AND CRY WITH. "AL" AND HIS SONGS

Warner Bros

ALJOSON

SAY IT WITH SONGS' With Davey Lee Marian Niron Kenneth hompset. Hohnes Herbert Fred Kohler

Directed by LLOVE BACON

you

Ain't Heard Nothin Yet Ustil You Hear Jolson Sing New Songa to Hla

"Little Pal."

VITAPHONE

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TO-MORROW

SEE

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GREATEST: ADVENTURE

PICTURE of the

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SEA BAT

Charles Bickford

Nils Asther Raquel Torres George Marion

Meyer

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