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THE MOST BAFFLING OF MYSTIC THRILLERS: Au Indian mystery play that startled Broadway now challenges the whole world on the screen.

ADVENTURE, MYSTERY, ROMANCE AND LAUGHTER!

the

BAYARD VEILLER'S GREAT -MURDER MYSTERY!

Bchair

DAME MAY WHITTY MADRE EVANS · LEWIS STORE ELISSA LAND THOMAS BECK HERRY DANIELL · JANET BEECHER

RALPH FORBES ̧·

A Mètro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture "

From the play by Bayard Veitler

Directed by George B. Seitz

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HANKOW

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TO-DAY

The KING

and the

CHORUS GIRL

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KOWLOON

FERNAND GRAVET JOAN BLONDELL Edw. Everett HORTON Alan Mewberyktury Nash Jane Wyman-Kenny Baker tule Alberni –A MERVYN LEROY PRODUCTION & Tamar Bryn. Mater‹ Sonne

Play by Marvete Krysan and

Warner Ba Heymann & Ted Rostá

JACK BUCHANAN in BREWSTERS' MILLIONS

NO PROHIBITION OF ORGANISATIONS

25 YEARS AS COXSWAIN

Capt. Evan Wright has retired Basic, Nov. 28. after 25 years" service as coxswain In the plebiscite to-day. Switzer-and 45 years' total service with the

voted

dissolving | Pwlhell lifeboat.

· against organisations Hke the Freemasons and similar ones. The motion was supported by 234,000 votes and rejected 515,000.

land

Twenty-one cantons rejected the motion and only one, asinely the Canton de Brelburg, passed votes

in favour of the prohibition of such : organisations.--- Transonian News Service.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

• Hong Kong

KING'S

"Vogues of 1938" QUEEN'S:—

"Souls at Sen"

ORIENTAL:-

"A Star Is Bori"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRAYA

"The Road Back"

STAR:-

"The King and The Chorus

Girl"

MAJESTIC:—

“Camille"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Dark Hazard"

QUEEN'S:-

"Flight From Glory" ORIENTAL:

"The 13th Chair"

ALHAMBRA:—

Trouble At Midnight"

STAR:-

"Brewsters' Millions"

MAJESTIC:-

"365 Nights In Hollywood"

SOULS AT SEA

"Souls at Ben" is the motion plc- ture treatment of the famous trial of "Nuggin" Taylor, sea captain of the 40's, who assumed command of the brig "William Brown" when that ship caught fire in mid- Atlantic shortly after her master died. Taylor is played by Gary Cooper, who hardly performed- as well in any of his long string of credible adventure stories-possibly because he was re-enacting a story from history's pages for the fist time,

£70,000 FOR RELIEF IN CHINA

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. Anniversaries and Holidays.-- Andrew's Day. Governor John

Sir A. Stanley And Eyre died. 1901. Lord Mayor's Fund

Sir Arthur Stanley, chairman of the executive committee, presiding

Auctions-Leasehold Properties, at Lammert's Sales Loom, 3 p.m.

Malls-Christmas Letter Mall for Canada and USA and Parcel Mail for U.S.A. close at G.P.O & K.K.O.

Meetings-Kowloon Chess Club.

at a meeting of the British Red Per Pres. Taft (Reg. 5 p.m., Ord Cross Society, held at the head-5.30 pm; parcels (U.B.A only) quarters of the society, Grosvenor P Crescent, S.W.1, stated that the result of the Lord Mayor of at St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m.; London's appeal for the relief of Final, of Creditors of Isang Foo & distress 1h China was to date

Co Ltd. at 26 Des Voeux Road, about £70,000, as well as contri-

2nd floor, noon; Mothers' Union, butions in kind such as blankets in Cathedral Hall 3 p.m.; St. An-

£15,000 in cashi

drew's Mothers' Union, 9. p.m. and clothing. had been remitted to the Ambas- sador's Committee

China in £20,000 had been spent on drugs. instruments, &c., and £2.000 had been allocated for the purchase of blankets, clothing, &c. Fremises In London had been placed at the disposal of the fund, rent free, for use by its various committees and sub-committees.

Reporting on the society's con- tribution to the work of the In- ternational Red Cross Committee In Spain, Sto: Arthur Stanley said that the Director-General Harold Fawcus). on his recent visit to Geneva, had been much impressed by the excellent or- ganization and work of the Inter- national Red Cross in Spain.

The following have accepted the office of president of certain of the society's branches, subject to the approval of their appointment by the Queen:

Lady Caldecott. Ceylon Central Council

The Duchess of Beaufort City and County of Bristol,

Lady Alice Fergusson, Ayrshire. Mrs. Hog, West Lothian.

Sir Beckwith Whitehouse. Bir- mingham.

Miscellaneous Rotary Tin, Hong Kong Hotel; Chinese Art Exhibition at China Eldg., from 10 a.m. to 6 pIL

Moon-X Moon, 28th. Day. Religious Consecration Cere- mony of the Most Raverend Adolphi John Paschang. In Mission House Chapel at Stanley, 8.30 a.m.

Social Craigengower Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 9.20 p.m.; Cheerc Club Mah Jong. 8 p.m.

Sports(Seo Page 18). Sunrise.-8.45 a.m. Sunset.-5.39

Tides. High at 08.23 and 19.47. Low at 01.59 and 12.55.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1 Atails. (See Page 16). Moon.-X Moon, 29th. Day. Sports. (See Page 101.

Sunrise 6:45 am, Sunset.-5.38 p.m.

Tides. High at 07.20 and 1916: Low at 01.15 and 12.18.

EMIGRATION DRIVE FOR DOMINIONS DOM Committee Set Up Fund Opened

In the absence of the Princess Royal, Commandant-in-Chief. 1 report on the V.AD. detachments of the society was made by Dame Beryl Oliver, who stated that 800 officers and 'members had passed The "William Brown" was equip- through the National V.A.D. Train- ped with only two life boats and ing Camp held at Northwood Park,

Schemes to populate the Domin- Taylor realized that he could never Winchester. from. May 21 to June from England were started recent- loris vacant areas with people bring the entire ship's company to

11, 1937. The camp was inspected by the National Empire Migra- safety in the frail craft. He by General Sir Walter Kirke. Included himself among the aur-Director-General of the Territorial tion and Development Conference. vivors not because he wanted to Army, who expressed great satis-" At its concluding session at the save his life, he later told an ad- faction with the work done. Dame City of London Guildhall it ap- miralty court, but because he knew Beryl Oliver also stated that nearly pointed a committee, pending the he was the only one who could 14,000 cases were treated at the establishment by the Government bring the life boats safely through dispensaries for hop-pickers or- of 2 statutory authority, to ganized by the County of London examine and report on concrete Branch and Kent Branch, and ( plans. that Territorial Army camp hos- pitals had been organized and staffed by the detachments from 13 counties:

to land.

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There followed a trial which is now epic among sea trials. Taylor was accused of manslaughter on the high seas not only by most of the survivors, but what hurt most, by his aweetheart, played by beautiful Frances Dec.

George Raft, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey. Olympe Bradna,

Robert Cummings, and Porter Hall are in the supporting cast.

"Bouls at Bea" has its run at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

VOGUES OF 1938

Something breath-takingly new

for

It comprises Mr. C. G. Ammon, MP. Viscount Bledisloe, Sir Patrick Hannon, M.F., the Earl of Mana- feld, Mr. Henderson Stewart, M.P., A. Somerville, M.P., and Mr. H. B. Brig. Gen. J. J. E. Nation, Mr. A.

AIRMAN'S FALL Donaldson.

FROM ROOF

The Earl of Mansleid, one of the leaders of the Imperial Policy Group, moving the resolution, said: "Various nations and races re- cognise no law save that of force,

Lost Balance When some of them having justifiable

Fixing Aerial

claims to be allowed to expand somewhere.

"If we leave territories` almost in screen entertainment is at the was

A verdict of accidental death denuded of inhabitants it will be King's Theatre to-day. It is "Wal-Paddington

returned at the inquest at difficult to resist the ethical claim ter Wanger's Vogues of 1938."

on Cmdr.

Spenser that we should make available to In preparation

Douglas Adair Grey, 47, who was other land-hungry nations some of months, and representing a stag- the roof of a nine-storey block of

many killed on Friday by falling from these territories.” gering investment, the film offers Bats in Edgware-road, W., while ing, said:

Brig.-Gen M. L. Hornby, sécond- screen audiences

"If the Dominions a preview Dr. next year's vogues in fashions,

fixing a wireless aerial

Secretary. Mr. Malcolm Mac- fun. girls, music, dances

Cmdr. Grey, who was a pioneer Donald, would exercise his powers and technicolour...

in naval aviation, survived several under the Empire Betttlement Act crashes during the war. He was organised migration, with ade- awarded the DS.O. for his exploita, quately financed and properly which included the bombing of supervised settlement, could be re-

This gay musical stars Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett at the head of an imposing cast includ- ing Helen Vinson, Mischa Auer Cologne. He was invalided out of sumed immediately.

Alan Mowbray, Jerome

the Service.

Cowan,

les, and the Walter Wanger Mo- dels-the

"It is untrue that the people of Marjorie Gateson, Dorothy Mc-

Mrs. Florence Mercedes Grey this country have, no ambition to Nulty. Alma Kruger, Polly Row-stated at the Inquest that her hus-migrate to the Dominions. There band broke his back during the is no road open by which any most photographed war, and he could not keep his man, however ambitious, can go to. girls in the world,-whose beauty balance without a walking-stick. the Dominions to-day unless he and shapeliness the producer has

On the evening in question they has £200 to take with him." - framed in style creations from

dined with friends, Mr. and Mrs. three famous designers, and furs Graham Lloyd, in the same block

and jewels valued at $1,000,000.

THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS

of flats in which they lived. After- wards her husband said that he was going on to the roof to fix the wireless aerial

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"DECIDEDLY SOBER"

EVACUATION AT

-AN END

Pari, Nov. 28... Reports from Madrid in the "Petit Journal" state that the Research has unearthed at last "Mr. Lloyd went with him," atdevacuation of the civil population the actual spot where the "love Mrs. Grey, "and a little later came from Madrid has come to an end cottage" of Alexandre Dumas (is) down and said that my husband by a decree issued there. The rea- and Marte Duplessis once stood.

Marie Duplessis was the Inspira-out of the window for the old connected with

wanted some aerial wire. I looked son given is that the decision is the campaign tion for Dumas Imortal The Lady aerial, and saw him lying on the against the Nationalists, but re- of the Camellias," based on a real Bfe romance which Garbo and Robert Taylor bring to the screen in "Camille," opening to-day at the 'Majestic Theatre.

TWO MONTHS UNCONSCIOUS

pavement."

Mrs. Grey said that her husband was "most decidedly sober" when he went on the roof.

ports state that the real reason is two-fold: There is not enough motor fuel to guarantee transport and the civil population does not Mr. Graham Lloyd agreed with Transocean News Service.

want to leave— a suggestion by the coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddle, that Cmdr. Grey might have looked over the parapet

He had distinguished himself in rescuing crews of sailing ships which drifted on the treacherous St. Patrick sandbank and St. Tud- wall's Rocks in Cardigan Bay. He

Mrs. Ivy Ida Smith, of Manor-to see if he were below. Mr.Lloyd which would prevent anyone see- displayed conspicuous gallantryway. North Harrow, who fall 20ft. said it was very dark on, the roof. ing the pavement. several times in taking provisions from the roof of an Oxford-street to Bardsey Islanders who were cut store on August 12, is still lying that the height of the roof parapetence was that Cmdr. Grey lost his Det-Insp. L Stevenson stated The Corcher said that the infer- off from the mainland by stormy unconscious in a darkened room in from the pavement was 94 feet. At balance while standing near the weather.

Middlesex Hospital.

the seventh floor was a coping edge of the roof and fell over.

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A FOX PICTURE

BLOCKADE OF MEDITERRANEAN PORTS

allowed to call at these harbours or at the Ke of Minorca," declares, a decrée issued to all foreign ship-'. ping by the Nationalist Spanish Naval Command. At the same time it is declared that the neutral Balamanca, Nov, 28. zone at Valencia and Barcelona, In view of the rigorous execu- which had hitherto been respected, tion of the Nationalist blockade of is now at an end. Bhfyn entering

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the Spanish Mediterranean ports these ports from now, on are able still in possession of the Re- to be Ared at without warning- publicans, no foreign ships are Transocean News Service.

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