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TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

CENTRAL PROGRAMME,

THEATRE

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

A 1961 PARAMOUNT SPECTACULAR OUTDOOR

ACTION-ROMANCE.

RICHARD... ARLEN

MARY BRIAN

the screen's

sweetest

a fighting lover

you can't resist!

Zane Grey's "THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS

HARRY GREEN

The chic

cowboy 1

FRED KOHLER

burly badman of Bancroft's hits.

A 1931 PARAMOUNT PICTURE.

Starting Sat., May 2

THE HIGH AND DIZZY COMEDY THRILLER !

HARRY

LANGDON

SLIM

SUMMERVILLE

BESSIE LOVE

Bubbling and sparkling with fun and frolic!

SEE AMERICA THIRST

Directed by William Craft

Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tel.: 25720).

H.K. Benevolent Society.

JUMBLE SALE.

MAY 5th, 2 P.M. CITY HALL.

Clothing and Household Goods gratefully accepted at CITY HALL any MONDAY or THURSDAY between 10:30 and 11.30.

LOCAL MAPS

ין

Peak District, :

Kowloon,

Victoria, New Territories.

HONGKONG DAILY - PRESS.

BROADCAST BY Z.BW. ON

'i

..355 METRES.

11 to 11,30 am-Stock quotations. 11.30 4. m.Chinese programme, 12, p.m.-Európenu programme. 1-Weather report, local time. 1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, etc. 2 p.th-Close, down.

5 to 7 puta.-Chinese programme,

6 to 6.30 p.m.-Chinese children's

7

programie.,

101 10,30 p.m.-European pro- gramme of Victor records supe plied by Messrs. Thang Fook Piano Co.

740 712 p.1.-

Varlety.

Nostalgio "

Orchestral - "MI

(Homusick),-Marek Weber and This Orebestrn. --Y-RA. Orchestral --" Paquita.” — Marek Weber and his Oroh,~~VA, Voca? Daet Hoosier Hop," Vocal Duck -- ** Dan. Following You!" The Duncan Sisters.---

D

Song" Where Can You Be."

Song--"You May Not. Like It." Jack Smith (Whispering Bari- Tone),—22443,

Piano Solo- I'm Yours," Piano Solu-" || | Could Be With You: One Hour.. To-night;"---

Hurley Kaylor-92570. Chorus Blue Again." Chorus Lady Play Your Man-

dolin. "The Revellers.--9222. Song" Desert Blues."-Jimmie

Rodgers with Guitar. --V40095. 7.42 to 8 p.m.-

Talkio and Musical Comedy Tunes.

Gems from Rio Rita." Gems from My__|_Maryland.”— Vicior Light Opera Company. -35816,

Geins from The Desert Song," Gems from "Countess Maritza." --Victor Light Opern Company, ---25809.

5 pm. Local time, weather report,

etc.

&.03 to 9.30 p.m.—

Waltzes.

"Unrequited Love" (Lincke), "My Hero" (Strauss).-Interna.

tional Orch.-33003. Wedding Dance" (Lincke). "Blue Danube" (Strauss),-Inter-

national Concert Orch.-33927. Beautiful Night" (Offenbach). *Spring Song" · (Mendelssohn).-

International Coneert Orch.

03590.

8.30 to 8.43 p.m.-

Organ Solos.

Prelude In E Flat" (Saint

Sacus).

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1931.

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30.

BY REQUEST FOR 3 DAYS ONLY

INGAGI

(GORILLA)

With Sounds

A MILLION THRILLS FROM THE HEART OF AFRICAN JUNGLE

CREATURES FOUND THAT ARE APPARENTLY.........

HALF APE &

HALF HUMAN.

Booking at Theatre, Phones: 25313, 25330.

ROYAL TOURISTS IN

UNITED STATES.

5,000 MILES TOUR OF COUNTRY,

Washington, April 20-Prince and Princess Takamatsu, to-day risited the Friends' School here, It was at the Friends" School that 3er Imperial Highness, Princess Chichibu, the former Miss Setu Matsudaira, daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Am- bassador to the Court of St. James, studied when her father was Japan's envoy to the United States.

Mr.

After visiting the school Prince and

Princess Takamatsu, spent Bveral hours. at the National

Museum.

The Imperial Japanese party, is 5000 to have Washington begin n 3,000 miles tour of the United States and Canada before sailing The Swan (Saint-Sacris).-Mar. for Tokyo from San Francisco

cel Dupre.-1430.

aard the steamship Chichibu Meditation from Thais" (Mas. Mara on May 26.

senet-Crawford).

"Souvenir" (Drdia-Crawford).—

Jesse Crawford.—22155.

5,49 10 944 pm.-

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(Alfred

| RUSSIAN~WOOD NOT WANTED.

CITY FIRM ON OTHER SUPPLIES AVAILABLE.

An important letter from a firm of timber importers, pointing out that there is no necessity for the suportation Into of Russian wood, and appealing for a boycutt of it,

BRITAIN'S NEED OF AERODROMES.

www.www

TOWN PLANNING REPORT.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

BILLY THE KID."

Two young Boy Scouts of Cedar [City, Utah, aro now the centre of admiring glances from the fellows scouts of their town. For they've

been in the movies."

MOVIELAND

VEDR ØSTHE WEEK

QUEEN'S

King Vidor used the two-young- | FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY:

AT 2.30, 5:10, 7.15 & 9.20.

| sters, twelve and fourteen years old, to signal bis cameraman, situated four thousand feet above him on | a towering; cliff of the Zion Nation

al Park. For scenos in “Billy the Kid," now at the Queen's Theatre.

As it was four miles up a sleep irini to the enteras, Iques of time wore saved by using the scoute and their wig-wag fing code. The boys cried the suggestion of the chief cinematographer, on the cliff, 40 Vidor, below, as to whether one thousand bend of enttle should be driven by the road or by the river, The choice whs left to We viemeraman, for only he could tell the 'light' conditions at his elevated

post. The decision was by the road 'and the scouts Hagged Vidor the instructious neeordingly.

The scene with the immense herd of cattle opens Vidor's picture, a cross-section of the life of the most- discussed character of the old Wild West, the fast-shooting William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid.

"The Kid is interpretted in the pictury by John' Mack Brown while Wallace Beery plays Sheriff Carrelt, Kay Joharon has the feminine lend and Kart Dane is sven in a comedy characterization

"

THOSE THREE FRENCH

GIRLS."

Whenever making motion pictures gets dull, Harry Beaumont ought to be able to get a job running à modiste's shop or staging fashion shows.

In his last picture. Beaumont

An Aerodromes Committee of the loyal Institute of British Ardrew gasps from feminine members of Audiences with Bensational chitects was formed in 1929, and

includes representatives of the Frides." Now in

style revie in Our Blushing "Those Three

Air Ministry, the Ministry of French girls,” which will open to-

was 'ressived by the Morning Post. į Health, Imperial Airways, and arrow at the Queen's Theatre, the The letter was written by Mr other interests The programme of tor presents new modes and models

noted, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer direc W Dall, of Messrs. Dahl and business is comprehensive, and fin. in, the Company, timber agents in the City-

ultra-fashionable

ally a complete report will be pub-odiste shop scenes. lished and an exhibition held,

From the first interim report of the committee the following points

emerge,

"Russian timber is bought chiefly in the United Kingdom," it states, "because Russia can supply good quantities of wood suitable. for manufacturing into joinory, such as window sashes and frames, mouldings, doors, &c., on accounted to be adequately equipped for of its mild nature and absence of flying for the next ten years until large knots, but as regarding other there are landing fields of suffici building wood material suitable for

Great Britain cannot be consider.

Paria

Reginald Denny and Fifi Dorsay

nolitan farce-comedy and the sa- are featured in the hilarious cosmic-

porting cast includes Cliff (Ukulele Iko) Edwards, Yola d'Avril, Sandra Bavel, Edward Brophy. George Grosmith and Peter Gaw- thorne.

dialogue by P. G. Wodehouse, The story is an original one with

CENTRAL THEATRE.

Joists, scuntlings, &c., the trade cut size for safety, properly mark-noted British humorist. can get all it wants from the pre-ed, nt intervals of not more than rent larga landed stocks and to ar- twenty miles. Along heavily used rive during the year from Scan-nir routes the intervals should be dinavia, Finland, and other Euro-Jess. In Amerien' ten miles is re pean States, which countries do garded as the minimum. not employ slave labour.

Song" Oh How Can I Forget" (Marvasi Bartheleiny), Tito Schipa (Tenor).-1415..

"This also applies to floorings, Violin Solo-"Minuet in "matchings, shelvings, doors, pit-

(Beethoven),

ulops, staves, plywood, pulpwood, Violin Solo Serenade in Gwood-pulp, boxboards and shooks. Major" (Arensky). - Mischa As regards joinery wood, we can Elman.-1434.

get nearly all we want from the jande stocks here, and to arrive from Scandinavia, Finland and

A Concert. Song- Waiata Maori

Hill). Song- Maori Slumber Song" (Princess Te Rangi Pal).- Frances Alda (Suprano).-1390. Violin Solo Ruralia Hungaria" 0.44 to 10.39 p.in.→

(Dobmany)-Fritz Kreisler. —

1428.

]

Song Taia, Azul" (Fairy Land)

(del Moral). Song Pasas Por El Abiamo

(On the Abyss) (Del Moral).— Jose Mojica (Tenor).—1283, Piano Solo-"On the Banks of the Danube" (Kurucz).-John Kurucz.-V12.

Orchestral,

"Irish Rhapsody" (Victor Her bert)-Victor Symphony Orch. -35997.

(This record is by special request.).

.

In the selection of aerodromes consideration should be given to

"THE LIGHT OF WESTERN

STARS."

the direction of the prevailing the Spanish conquerors inte West- Blood of the mounts that carried wind, and a windward site chosen, ern United States for centuries order that the least trouble ago runs in the veins of the equine should be caused by drifting smoke east

Paramount's newest and dust.

dialogue thriller of the outdoors, Great Britain is benefited by ox-"The Light of Western Stars," tensive grass lands, which obviate with Richard "Arlon, which will the costly expedient of artificial | slow at the Central Theatre, start- The demand for houses is falling surfacing with oil and tar dressing to-day for three days. off, and it looks as if the consumpings and concrete runways, exten- t'ou of all kinds of building wood sively adopted in the U.S.A. Coronado, Spanish conquistador,

Canada,

will be much less this year.

"For three or four years after

the Russian revolution no Russian

In 1535, Francisco Yasquez de

Surroundings should be free from Penetrated inland to what are now obstructions, and in the vicinity the states of Nevada, Arizona and Spanish Dance" (Granados).- wood was imported into this coun- phone wires should be underground fabled Seven Cities of Cibolu. of nerodromes telegraph and tele. New Mexico, searching for the New Light Symphony Orch.try, thought the demand for joinery Where this is impossible "gaps" wood and all kinds of building should be arranged, giving a ́low, wood. was much bigger than it is clear entrance and exit in certain to day, so that if we could do with out it then, we could do without. it now. It is true that certain big timber firms stand to benefit

36077 and 35078,

Song" Parla Valle" (Arditi). Song "The Gipsy and the Bird"

"Triana" (Albeniz)--New Light (Oxenford and Benedict).- Symphony Orch.-35078. Madam Galli-Curci (Soprano).~~ | "Twa American Sketches"

(Thomas Griselle). Orchestral-"Serconde" (BianBE) Concert Orch.-20000,--

-De Groot and the. Piccadilly"Song of the Bayou" (Rube

Bloom)-Victor Salon Group

1907.

Orch.-Vo.. Instrumental Trip-" Down in the Forest" (Sir Landon Ron. _nld).-De Gront Trio,~Vo_____ SongNapulitanate "

(Fair"

Victor

· 116000, Rustic Wedding Symphony -|

*" Bridal 'Song "' (Goldmark), Bustie Wedding... Symphony

**Serenade " (Goldmark)-Vic tor Concert Oreh-30088, (Continued at foot of next column.) 10,30 nm-Close down.

Maiden of Naples) (di Gia como-Mario. Costa),

directions.

In view of the rapidity of build-

ly the importation of Russian ing operations. all over the coun- wood, but it is certainly not to the try it is advisable that municipali benefit of the general economic ties, in their own interests, should position in this country.

any Arabian horses escaped fron his caravan, forming wild berde which, augmented by strays, from other caravans, overrun the frontier. Sands of Novado, Arizona, Utah and New Moxico.

Several years ago, Jack Moore, foreman of the 2700 nere Paramoun ranch in the Malibu mountains "The Soviet are honsting that they take prompt measures, under ex-

near Hollywood, made in foray int paid last year £400,000 in freight pert advice, to resoryo land for Nevada and captured a large num to British shipowners, and £300,000 this purpose. This is now at least her of wild exits. He now has i

British conlawmera for bunkere to bring along this timber; but this duty, and ere, long it may be stays herd of more than 2001. They- Lenefits only a small minority of the compulsory obligation. cualowners, shipowners, and ship)

were employed in the round-up and Smoke abstement measures should stampede scenes of Zane Grey's. brokers, as the bulk of this business was given to only one or two firma." receive urgent attention.

popular story.

KING

VIDOR

who made "The Big Pa rade," now brings the talkie's mightiest drama!

BILLY the KID

with John Mack BROWN Wallace BEERY Kay Johnson Karl Dane

SPECIAL

کی

MOT TALKING

GRAPHIC SCENES

Ok

LOCAL TRAIN

DISASTER

——— NEXT CHANGE

Madelon

Cike's

estaj

PARIS BOUND!

Embark

On a Voyage of thrills in

this oye-full, can-full, laugh-fall farve riot!

with Fifi DORSAY Reginald DENNY CLIFF EDWARDS, YOLA D'AVRIL, BANDRA. HAVEL, GEORGE GROSSMITH

TALKIN

Diana

(what a Birliy

Those

Charmaine

fascinid you)

aspopoliar

THREE FRENCH GIRLS