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MORROW By Popular Demand “LIBELED LADY”

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DUMB MAN'S "SHOCK"

A

few months ago I heard from

Speechless for 17 years, Arthur

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, "FEBRUARY

17, 1938.

THREE TIMES DIARY OF LOCAL

ROUND THE

EVENTS

WORLD

TODAY

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Racketeers In Exile."

QUEEN'S :-

"Slim."

ORIENTAL:-

"Draegerman Courage."

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Night Club Scandal':

STAR:--

"Rose Marte"

MAJESTIC:—

"Shall We Dance".

Coming

KING'S:----

"It Happened In Hollywood" QUEEN'S:---

"Its. Love, I'm After" ORIENTAL:-

"Charlie Chan At The Circus”

STAR:-

'Libelled Lady" MAJESTIC:-

"After The Thin Man"

NOVEL TWIST IN MYSTERY FILM

John Barrymore In

Night Club Scandal”

Anniversaries and Holidays- King Albert died, 1934. Blessed

Man Who Has Been Francis Clet. Martyr (in Ho-nan.

1820).

Walking For 10 Years Auctions.

One of the most energetic men in the world. Mr. Juan Vultech, who has been walking for the past 10 years. arrived recently in Cape Town.

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and Surplus Old Naval Stores etc., at HM. Naval Yard. Hong Kong, and at Kowloon Naval Depot, 8.30 am.

page)

Cinemas.--(Bee Column 3 of this

Lectures-Theosophical Society,

Malls-(See Fage 16). Meetings. Annual, of Hum-

Mr. Vujtech left Czechoslovakia 6 p.m. final, of Camera Club, Mr. on July 1, 1927, to walk round the N. D. Rothe on The Eye of the world, and has now completed 80.-the Camera," (lantern lecture), at 000 miles-more thar, three times, & S. Home, 8 p.m. the earth's circumference. At the age of 52 he gives an impression of vigorous health and tremendous phreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., at HK. Hotel, nocn; Victoria strength..

Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 He has already visited America. p.m.: Kowloon Chess Club, at Cuba, Haiti. Jamaica. Panama. Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pm: Annual Venezuela, Peru, Chile. Argentine, General, of HK. Rifle Assen, in Patagonia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guana. European YMCA. 6.45 p.m.; France, Holland, England. Cura-Women's Guild, at Cathedral Hall.

Rica, Nicaragua,

3 p.m.; St. Andrew's Club Com- Salvador. Mexico. Algeria. Tunts.mittee, 8.30 p.m. Tripoll. Malta. Egypt. Sudan. Miscellaneous. - Christ Church Tanganyika, Uganda, Kenya, Ladies' Sewing Party at 3 Duke Nyasaland, Mozambique,.. the Street, 10 a.m.; Opening of St. Ste- Transvaal, and now Cape Town,

phen's College Preparatory Classes During the last 10 years which at Stanley 9 am.: 8. Andrew's have been spent in varying | Women's Fellowship Community Tellmates and temperatures, Mr. | Singing. 3 p.m.

cao, Costa

San

Vujtech has only been 11 once. Moon.-I Moon, 18th. Day. when he had malaria in the Nile country. And he says that he never gets tired.

30 MILES A DAY

Social, St. Andrew's Club "Open" Night, 9 p.m.; Cheero Club

·Bridge, 8 pm. Sports-(See Page 10). Sunrise.--6.54 a.m. Sunset.—8.21

The success of "Night Club

He told an interviewer in Capeum. Scandal," Paramount's new thriller Town that he never walks leas Tides. High at 11.29 and 23.30. which opens at the Alhambra than 25 miles a day. Sometimes Low at 05.00 and 18.46. Theatre today, is due mainly to it is 30 or more. two elements, fine cast headed by John Barrymore and a new twist in the narration of a murder yarn. This new method of telling mystery story consists of showing

At one time he had two com- panions-two Dobermann Pinber- mann Pinscher dogs. On one oc- caston the three of them were four

TOMORROW

Moon.-I Moon, 19th. Day. Sunrise.-6.55 am. Sunset.-8.20

p.m.

Tides. High at 10.58 and 22.46.

Barrymore's murder of his wife in /days without water in Chile. They Low at 04.28 and 16.01.

were found by some Indians who the first scene. He plants a num-

were able to help the man but ber of clues with the object or could do nothing for the dogs.

directing suspicion to another per- son. This makes the duel of wits

30

When Mr. Vujtech Anally ob- following the crime doubly en-tained water his lips were thralling for the audience, who can blistered and his throat so parched watch the efforts of the law with that swallowing was almost im- out that vague feeling of bewilder- possible.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

EXHIBITION

Unique Collection Of Photographs Ai Gloucester

ment that so often results from an The traveller carries an inter- ordinary mystery yarn.

esting volume. with him. Many

A most interesting photographic "Night Club Scandal" is. a my-mayors and burgomasters have set

with stery story

many laugh-their seal in it and wished him exhibition has been arranged by provoking situations. The fun is well; many countries and States Imperial Airways Limited and is the Gloucester chiefly supplied by Lynne Over- have also set their stamp in it. on display in

Arcade, by kind permission of the man and Charles Bickford, whoj Be contemplates going on to

Hong Kong Land Investment Com- fight constantly but also work Australia from here to

pany Ltd. shoulder to shoulder when a crisis his walk.

threatens.

Evelyn Brent and Louise Camp- bell head the supporting feminine cast.

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SLIM

A class of American workers) whose trade has never before been} touched by the movies-those! adventurous and hardy lads what string electrical power wires across the remote, waste placcs-are de- picted to your entertainment in the Warner Bros, melodrama, "Slim," which is scheduled to show at the Queen's Theatre today.

The popular Henry Funda, bor- rowed from another studio for this one picture, carries the title role of "Slim." young farm lad who. rascinated by the work of a wire gang crossing his father's land. becomes one of them, with the air of "Red," a jovial, and gallant wire-stringer who is portrayed by perpetual favourite Pat O'Brien.

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"BAGPIPES NOT FOR WOMEN”.

BAN OF LONDON SOCIETY

Are women strong enough blow the bagpipes?

The collection comprises in- numerable photographs of various types of aircraft used by Imperial Airways in their air-routes to out- points in the Empire and also gives an insight into the routes and the various countries as seen from the air liner while in transit.

The pictures will be on view for one week and every man, woman or child, whether or not they fore- see" any hope of their making a Journey by air, will find much to to interest them in the collection.

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Imperial Airways" acknowledge This question has been discussed their indebtedness" to The Times by the Scottish Piping Soclety, of (London) for assistance in gather- London, which has assisted in ing this unique collection."

This exhibition was previously making arrangements for a tional piping contest to be held in shown in the United Kingdom. London shortly.

Singapore, Egypt and South Africa.. so that it has already been view- ed by many thousands of people of all races,

It is a rule of the Society that only males are eligible for mem- bership, and no change is to be måde, despite the growth in the number of women pipers.

It has not yet been decided whe-

They are both in love-after a ther women will be permitted to while with "Cally." hospital enter the competition, but oficial nurse, who is none other than the said that he doubted if any would

wish to compete with men. Margaret Lindsay. But lovely there's no enmity between them:

"It's no the thing for a woman they're great pals and comrades, to blaw the pipes, and it's unheerd each willing to offer his life to of for her to belang to a society." save the other's--and that's what he added.

it comes to in the end.

"Slim" was made from a best- selling novel by William Haines...

Mr. Willam Empson, the Duct. s. Lov. 42 years of age, has re-. who had gone out to China to covered his voice in as mysterious, two take a post as Professor of English a manner as he lost it.

of Literature at the University Peking, writes a columnist. in the Evening Standard.

Wister

SHALL WE DANCE

famous

50 GIRL PIPERS

GEORGE BANCROFT'S

COME-BACK

Rises To Great Heights In New Film George Bancroft, in

♫

vivid,

sweeping portrayal as the fugitive public enemy

in

Columbia's "Racketeers in Exile." re-establish- ed himself one of the must out- standing character actors on the

"Women are making plenty of screen. ncise

the world nowadays Audiences at the King's Theatre without their taking up the yesterday again saw the Bancroft bagpipes," was another view ex-of "Underworld" and "Docks of New pressed by a London Society om-York" fame-a striking, dynamic etal. He recalled that there was a figure lifted bodily out of real life.. The star appears as "Blg BIL" The high-velocity romance of time following the 45 Rebellion--

people lenda 2

when the playing of the pipes was Waldo, an overlord of the under- beneath a victous melodious theme to "Shall we made punishable by death; even world, who

exterior is in reality a simple, ap- Dance," RKO Radio's new Fred in Scotland. Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical.

A supporter of women pipers, pealing fellow.

Wynne Gibson and Evelyn Ven- Unlike their earlier offerings 'n however, was the Rev. J. W: which the two dancing aces were Graves, manager of the Dagenham able respectively contribute as the seen as struggling aspirants for Girl Pipers. He said that the gangster's "moll" and home town. fame, the new picture starts out impression that the efficient skiri-sweetheart. with with both portraying stars at the ing of the pipes called for the top of their respective fields, As lungs of a8ft Highlander was taire as

a world-renowed ballet totally erroneous.". dancer, Miss Rogers as an equally well-known rovne artiste.

In November, 1920, a few months after he had returned from Ger- He found the university flown many with the US army of e- and cupation, Mr. Low's voice left him before the Japanese onset, followed it to Changsha, on the him and since then, until a short while ago, he has to use paper and pencil to communicate friends.

Yangtee.

him

CLAY WARDROBES

"By far the greater proportion Wardrobes made of clay are now of the physical exercise needed." | being manufactured by a Baron he said. " of the arms, not of porcelain factory. The object is the lungs. The blowing is a come to save wood, one of the potuts paratively slight part of the perin General Goering's Four-Year

KING'S

TODAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

MOBSTER MASTER MIND-

BUT SHE MUSCLED

IN ON HIS HEART.....

"YOU'LL BE NOTHIN' BUT A CLAY PIGEON!

RAQUITERS!

"TO-MORROW COLUMBIA

Goog

Iralin

MIVE BEEN SHOT AT BEFORE..."

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BANCROFT - VENABLE - GIBSON

· Directed ay E-w C. Kenton

A Columbia Pictured)

RICHARD DIX - FAY WRAY in "IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD"

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AÐ KOWLOON: PANY OT

TODAY & TOMORROW

Murder!

¿PLANNED IN A NIGHT CLUB... COMMITTED IN A BOUDOIR! Forfest yo te Zwisse 82-186977,

NIGHT CLUB

SCANDAL

A Paramount Picture with

JOHN BARRYMORE

Lynne Overman Charles Bickford Louise Compbell Elizabeth Patterson Harvey, Stephens - Cecil Cueningham • Evelyn Brent ‹Directed by Ralph Murphy

SATURDAY.

A Warner dros. Picture

4 SHOWS DAILY

2.30, 620 720-9.30

"IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER”

· LESLIE HOWARD --- BETTE DAVIS

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TODAY, ONE DAY ONLY! RETURN OF THE LATEST AND PROBABLY THE LAST, ASTAIRE-ROGERS PICTURE!

Make room in your life

for another big time!

Here come

Fred ASTAIRE Ginger ROGERS

Shall We Dance

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EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

• ERIC BLORE - SEROME COWAN • KETTI GALLIANS » WILLIAM BRISBANE

HARRIET HOCTOR

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Directed by Mats Sundrich, A Pandra & Verman Production

6 NEW SONGS

*Music by GIORGI GERSHWIN

IRA DIRSHWIN

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TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! RETURN OF ANOTHER “OLD FAVOURITE" ! WILLIAM POWELL and MYRNA LOY in "AFTER THE THIN MAN"

I have just heard from again.

tem- found a The university

Recently. while reading a news-

A-METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER COMEDY-THRILLER! porary home in a Bible Institute paper in a train, he began to stands on a sacred mountain some read audibly and could not stop

Spectacular dance numbers, with talking. He hurried home and fifty miles south of Changsha.

Harriet Hoctor, America's leading

ESPERANTO AS MOTHER TONGUE The mountain has a Buddhist went straight to bed.

ballerina, adding her terpsichorean The next morning, his voice was talents to the work of the two monastery on the top, and com

the made of bringing up a number of The village of Virja on mands magnificent view which are perfectly normal.

stars, and six song hits written by

children

their to speak it as There are 50 girls in our three The wardrobes are made of Drava has gone Esperanto mad. generally invisible now that fog

George and Ira Gershwin, make up

Nearly every fahabitant can mother tongue. One boy, Mladen has "settled down for the winter."

the highlights of the film, which Dagenham bands. They begin to glazed clay plates atted together

four, speaks is being halled as the finest of all learn the pipes when 12, prepara- and can be of any desired colour. speak the language and the village Kitonitch, aged

The makers claim that one of library has more books in Es-Esperanto only. From birth his Astaire-Rogers offerings. Mark tory to entering one of the bands, Sandrich directed the Pandro 8. and all of them use fullsized their advantages is that they can peranto than in any other tongue. parents have spoken to him in this

Now the Berman production:. "

experiment is being language alone. ..bagpipes."

be easily cleaned.

1509 STUDENTS

has travelled more than 800 miles About 1500 students arrived for from Its base.

Several hundred have since left the opening of term-a remarkable feat, seeing that the university to join the army.

formance.

Plan.

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