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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT: 230-515·7·20 & 9:30 ·TEL.31453

TODAY & TOMORROW

THE VOICE THE WORLD ADORES THE THRILL OF A GAY ROMANCE SET TO FRIML'S MUSICI

"The Day Desperado” Gayər Than

Ever... With Holly-ino MARTINI

wood's Girl of

Your Dreama

In His Arms

With music by

RUDOLF FRIML

and other great carport

ADDED:

SUNDAY

Warner Brom. Picture

4 SHOWS

DAILY 2.30-9.15 7.15-830

MUSIC for MADAME Join FONTAINE

ALAN MOWBRAY BILLY GILBERT ALAN HALE GRANT MITCHELL

ERK RHODES - LEE PATRICK ROMO VINCENT

"SELF ONTROL" with DONALD DUCK

A Walt Disney Coloured Cartoon

GEORGE BRENT ANITA LOUISE "THE GO-GETTER" Based on Peter B. Kyne's Famed Story of

* CAPPY RICKS".

GENERAL

PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYS GET "THE CAT"

TODAY AT THE Judge Gives Grim Warning

To Mayfair Gangsters

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Ready. Willing And Able"

QUEEN'S:

"Music For Madame"

ORIENTAL:-

"Thrill Of A Life Time"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA :----

STAR:

"Life Of The Party"

"Perfect. Specimen" MAJESTIC¦--

"Melody For Two"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Lost Horizon"-

QUEEN'S;——

"The Go-Getler"

Back In Circulation" ORIENTAL:~~

"Broadway Melody Of 1938" ALHAMBRA:-

"Wild And Woolly"

TAKE ANY TRAKTOR HAPPY VALLEY BUE

STAR:-

FLEMING

ROAD

***Beloved Enemy"

"Ebb Tide"

TEL. 28473

ORIENTAL

THEATRE

•2DALY TO-DAY • TO-MORROW•

PARAMOUNTS LATEST LOCAL NEWSREEL! MILITARY ACTION!

HONG KONG PREPARES FOR THE WORST! Rajpatna Rifles digging trenches, civilians equipping themac Ives

with gas masks, anti-aircraft batteries and heavy artillery that will discourage any invasion.

ALSO ENEMY ACTIVITIES IN CANTON.

MUSIC, COMEDY, RMANCE IN GENEROUS MEASURE:

Don't miss this a thrill of the year, with its star cast of comics in the beat, catertainment you've ever had.

ND STUNNING DANCES

THE YEAR'S BIG FIN PRST

THRILL of a

YAGNI CIHR BOYS | JEBY CANBYA

Dane! Gulet

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FETIME

*** BEN RIDE (ELLASORE WHITNEY

JOHNNY DOWNS

BETTY GIABLE

LEIF ERINSON BORUTKY LAMBER LARRY GRABBE FANCISRETTES

STARTING BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938"

SUNDAY

with Elenor Powell, Robert Taylor, 100 others Stars.

MATINEES: 20c. 30€ EVENINGS: 20c-30c.-50c,-70c.

1STARE

TODAY “& TOMORROW

ERROL FLYNN THE PERFECT

SPECIMEN

JOAN BLONDELL

S: WERRICKY - COW, EVERETT 1.CATON DICK FORAN - BEVERLY BOSKATS - MAY ROBSON - ALLEEN JENKINS «blemedand her 1810RAEL CINNTIË AYERSY NATIONAL PISTURE Prousted by WARNER BROS.

Korvin Pine by Mormon Molly Raine, Leather Rev. Brassier

KOWLOOK

57795

JOAN. YA GOT SOMETHING THEREI

Coenenputzina kumuahia Story by Samuel Monday. Alps, MPAs Prika tukanatuim

BRIAN AHERNE, MERLE OBERON

SUN AY

United Artists Helease

•

✦ in "BELOVED ENEMY”

COMMISSION FOR PALESTINE

Remaining Member

Appointed

London, March 30.

DOCTORS FETED

IN HANKOW

MAJESTIC: —

"Dead End" "Slave Ship"

MUSIC FOR

MADAME

Sparkling Romance

With 2 sparkling Hollywood romance as its basis, Nino Martini's new vehicle. "Music for Madame," showing at the Queen's Theatre today.

Joan Fontaine featured op- rosite the operatic star."

Martini is presented as a pen- niless Italian youngster who comes to Hollywood to win screen fame. A pair of resourceful crooks talk him into singing an arla at a big wedding reception at a producer's home. The young singer performs as planned-only to learn that while he was charming the guests the crooks stole à priceless neck- lace. They warn him they'll kill

Fashionable Four Finish In Gaol Following Jewel Theft

IF COCKTAIL SIPPING, frock-coated, Mayfair playboys are deter- mined to introduce Chicago gangsterism into London's social whirl,

David Wilmer

11 is apparent that the Judges of the criminal

ir

courts are equally deter- mined to stamp it out, while it is still in its infancy. Recently four products of some of Britain's best public schools learned this fact to

their cost. Not only are they

now ruminating in the cells Robert Harley of Brixtoo" Prison but two of them are evidently telling fellow convicts of the efficacy of that punitive weapon 'known as "the cat."

Last December, Etienne Bel- Mr. Hambro, and a young man lenger, representative of the Car- whose real name was Lonsdale. tler jewellery firm, was summoned were inter arrested at Oxford. to a Mr. Hambro at the Hyde'] The "secretary" was picked up at Park Hotel. Mr. Hambro wished to Moreton-in-Marsh. The man whe buy an engagement ring for a very struck Bellenger was caught in rich woman $0 Bellenger took along some of his best specimens. together worth about £16,700.

SKULL BROKEN

London.

COURT CROWDED

For the trial of the "Four May- fair Men." only ticket holders were admitted 습니다 the crowded Old Bailey the other day.

In the dock stood Mr. Hambro.

In the suite, where he was" met by Mr. Hambro and his "secre- tary." Bellenger, was cracked re- peatedly over the skull by a man wearing dark glasses and a muf-alias Peter Martin Jenkins, Har- fler round his chin.

row-educated, pareatless playboy: David Wilmer. "Jenklos's secre- tary," Oundle-educated, living in up-stage Charles Street.

Bellenger was left with his skull broken in six places and the rings

vanished with the three men.

THE LIFE OF

THE PARTY

The "Four Mayfair Men" were

the

With them were moustached Robert Harley, gangster-complex- ed, 26-year-old, Wellington-educat ed, former army officer's son; and pudgy-faced John Christopher Mainwaring Lonsdale, Radley- A will depriving the hero of a educated, would-be Spanish arms- fortune if he marries before he is runnet, who was dragged into the thirty, a girl's determination to robbery but took no active part avoid marriage in favour of

FOUND GUILTY a career. a "Cinderelta" pursuit of the heroine with a heel-less slip-found guilty: Harley on all three per as the only clue, and the con- flicting aims of the mothers of the charges-conspiring to steal respective lovers, are all combined Jewellery, robbing Bellenger of the with uproarious effect in "The Lifetings, receiving stolen property. of the Party" which has its run

and sentenced to pena! servitude, with two years at the Alhambra Theatre today.

hard labour: These ingredients play an im-

part ·A·

Wilmer,

"T the portant

on convicted IC-

was sentenced to Avr mantic basis of the story, a spark-charges, ling and up-to-date tale set in years penal, servitude; Jenkins, the Santa Barbara "millionaires' gulity, on two counts, received playground." Joe Penner, Gene three years' penal and two years' Raymond, Parkyakarkus, Victor hard labour, concurrently: Lons- The Furtive Tear" from Donizetti's Moore. Harriet Hillard. Helendale guilty only of conspiracy, was "Elixir of Love." along with the Broderick, Billy Gilbert, Ann Miller given 18 months' hard labour. old Neapolitan song, "Santa Lucia.” end Franklir. Pangborn are cast) and there modern tunes. "Bam-in this tuneful offering acclaimed bino." Music. for Madame," and as one of the year's fastest and

Want the World to Know."

him if he talks:

In this predicament, Martini Ands life complicated.

The six songs in the film include two operatic numbers, the "Vesti

La Giubba" from "I Pagliacci" and

AIRCRAFT SABOTAGE IN ENGLAND

Not Attributed To Foreign Agents

funniest films.

SIX SONG HITS IN NEW FILM

Warren and Dubin and Jerome

seven

TWENTY STROKES

years

To a hushed court Chief Justice

pronounced Lord Hewart,

the dread sentence to Wilmer:", "Yor receive 15 strokes of the C32-0 nine-tails."

To Harley: "You will also re- ceive... 20 strokes."

Mayfair wondered how the men jand Scholl Warner Bros. ace song- would stand up to "the cat." read writing teams, composed six num- into the sentences the law's deter- bers for "Melody for Two," the mination to cheek Mayfair gangs- new musical extravaganza featurterism in its infancy. ing James Melton and

Patricia

Elils which comes to the Majestic Theatre today.

The theme song, "Melody for DIARY OF LOCAL

the

London, March 30. Feferring to the recent cases of aircraft sabotage Earl Winterton Two," and "September in stated today in the House of Com-Rain." both ballads, were composed mons that it was a

matter of by Harry Warren and Al Dubin for utmost difficulty to guarantee im- Melton to sing in the picture which munity against damage which Louis King is directing.

EVENTS

TODAY +1 Anniversaries and Holidays

Cinemas. (See Column 3 of this

Pagel

could be infleted in a few seconds The team of M. K. Jerome and by" an Ill-disposed person ap-Jacks Scholl wrote four numbers St. Hugh, Bishop. All Fools Day. parently engaged in normal work. for Winifred Shaw and Patricia

The main safeguard must al- Ells to introduce. ways be vigilance and the loyalty Miss Ellis, in addition to "An of the workmen and staff of the Excuse for Dancing." sings "A Ball in Peninsula Hotel: Monthly

Fiat in Manhattan." ballad,

firms concerned.

"But the present isolated cases of damage. deplorable as they are, must not be allowed to obscure the fact that the spirit of the alr- craft industry as a whole is ex- cellent and that material damaze of this kind over a period of years has been remarkably small," said Earl Winterton.

“I should add that there is no evidence to suggest that malicious damage is to be attributed to any agent of foreign power." (British Wireless),

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FIVE KILLED AS BOMBER CRASHES

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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.-PAGE 5

KING'S

SHOWING

TODAY

DAILY AT 2.80, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.30 P.M.

'SINGI SWING! YOUTH HAS ITS HING!

LEE DIXON

The Dancin' # ent

READY

WILLING and

ABLE

Hear, Hear, They're Hersi Ruby and Les and the world's most uproarious collection

of comice, including,

RUBY KEELER

ALLEN JEMIIKS - LOUISE FAZENDA - CAROL BYGNES - WINI SIRAN

AND, Ross Alusondar Teddy Hari

SUNDAY COLUMBIA

·

Mouk O'Connell-a Mumer bras, Fanart viloutenky XLE DEMONT dk pain spad faches bu salanan komen quat bakard Wing

RONALD

COLMAN

in

“LOST HORIZON"

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN AD KOWLOON-DARY BY 2.30330.730 & 9.30 •TEL.

TODAY AND TOMORROW,

JSF PENNER

GENE RAYMOND PARKYAKARKUS VICTOR MOORE HARRIET HILLIARD' HELEN BRODERICH

FRADIO

BILLY GILBERT

ANN MILLER

The Greatest Comedy Cast Ever Assembled For One Pictzera!

The LIFE OF THE PARTY

SIX SWELL SONGS!.....A Motino of laughs!...All the romance and glamour and axelting · lovašinesi your lasping keari can standi

Directed by William A. Sellar + Produced by Edward Ravinan

------- ADDED ATTRACTION

MICKEXMBUSR in *HAWAHAN HOLIDAY "

SUNDAY 20th Century-Fox Picture

DAILY 2.30

& 20

720 - 9.30

A Walt Disney Technicolour Cartoon

JANE WITHERS in

WILD & WOOLLY'

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

+

ROAD KOWLOOM

TEL. 87222

(MATINEES. 20%-30%. • EVENINGS, 20.-30«5070

• TO AY AND TOMORROW

A SWELL MUSICAL COMEDY FULL OF LAUGHTER.

AND CATCHY SONGS!

MELODY FOR 2

...The monarchs of

rhythm go to town in a musical battle that will

rock the world with

Sanghts and song)........

*JAMES MELTON-PATRICIA ELLIS

- MARIE WILSON - FRED KEATING -DICK" PURCELL - WINIFRED' SHAW”, Craig Reynaldo - Charlesfly-Gordon€Nina-92ECIED BY LOUIS KING-A WarnerBies. Nezumi

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY HARRY WARREN & AL DUBIN AND I. K. JEROME & JACK SCHOU

SUNDAY

AND MONDAY | •

Dancés-Australian Fancy Dress THE MOST EXCITING GANGSTER DRAMA OF THE SEASON!

SYLVIA SIDNEY JOEL MCCREA in

thythm Dance of 8. and S. Home, in the

OLD FAVOURITES IN MUSICAL

King's Theatre's New

Feature Attraction

"Ready Willing and Able," a. comedy with music will be pre-

Assembly Hall, 9 p.m.; Seafarers' Dance, at Ballors' Home and Sea- men's Institute, 9 p.m.

Malls. (See Page.10). Meetings.-Helena May Christian Fellowship, 10.30 am; General, of Hong Kong Model Aeroplane Club, in 8. C. M. Post Board Room, 5.45)

Bridge -of

p.m

Miscellaneous-Contract

Class

sented as the feature attraction of YMC.A.

am.

"DEAD END"

A UNITED ARTISTS' PICTURE

JOHORE'S SULTAN DIVORCES WIFE

MARRIED IN

. LONDON

Singapore, March 31,

ARCHDUKE NOW IN

CONCENTRATION CAMP

Berlin, March 30. The Austrian Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, who

recently placed in protective" custody, has

camp.

Helen

was

in Women's Section

Moon, -2.52 Moon.-New

The Sultan of Johore has an-beers removed to a concentration nouced that he will divorce his

Other members of the Austrian Religious-Lenten Meeting at 3 wife,

the former Mrs. Wilson, in accordance with the nobility also have been placed in. Duke Street. 8.30 p.m.

Club Contract Eociat—Cheero

the same camp-(Reuter), Bridge, 8 p.m.; Central British As- sociation. Mahjong Drive at Kow- loon Cricket Club, 335 p.m.

Sports (Bee Page 103. Sunrise-5.16 .

the King's Theatre today.

Co-starred are the twinkling-III Moon. 1st. Day. toed Ruby Keeler and the famous young eccentric dancer Lee Dizon, The songs are by Johnny Mercer and Richard Whiting, and one

Marvelous especially-Too

for Words"-promises to be a big hit.

The delightful Louise Fazenda has an eccentric role well fitted to her talents as a comedienne and P.m

Hankoy, March 31. The German Ambassador, Dr. Oskar Trautmann, gave a recep- tion yesterday in honour of the German doctors; representating The remaining member of the the German Red Cross, who ar- Palestine Partition Commission rived here recently bringing a appointed today is Mr. Thomas shipment of medicine from Ger- Reid, who served" in the Ceylon many as" a gift to China. civil service till 1931 and recently A large number of Chinese off- - presided over the League of Na-cials, representatives of the Chi-1 tions Commission charged withnese Red Cross, and many leading | the organisation and superinten-members of the foreign com- dence of elections in the Saajakmunity of Hankow were present. been killed when a United States star. Other notables in the cast

of Alexandretta.

It is expected that the Commis-

sion, of which the chairman is Sir

(Transocean),

Honolulu, March 30.

,

Mostem faith.

RECORD-BREAKING

RECRUITING

The marriage remains valid in English law as the couple were married at the Kensington Regis- well as at the Sunset.6.38 try Office, as

Woking mosque.

London, March 70, Regular Army recruits contmue The Sultan goes to Ceylon for a to enrol in record-breaking num- holiday on April 1.—(Reuter).

torch singer, Winifred Shaw la Tides-High at 09,20 and 22.05; Five men are believed to baye cast as a British musical comedy Low at 03.20 and 15.50.

naval patrol bomber crashed off are Allen Jenkins, Carol Hughes, the inland of Oahu today.

Hugh O'Connell, Teddy Hart, Ad- One of the crew, which number-dison Richards, Ross Alexander, John Woodhead and the other Palestine to arrive just after the ed seven, awam ashore and another Shaw and Lee, the "piano-movers" p.m. members Sir Alison Russell and Eastern ceremonies in Jerusalem. was washed to safety in an un-trom vandeville, E. E. Olive and

condition.-(Reuter.) Jane Wyman. Mr. A. P.Waterfield, will leave for!-(British Wireless),

"conscious

TOMORROW

1

Moon-III Moon, 2nd. Day, Sunrise 8.17 am Sunset 6.38

Tides-High at 0851 and 21.15; Low at 0255 and 15,00

bers.

Last week's intake was 710, an increase of 435 or more than 158

The Central British Association per cent over the figures for the will hold a cabaret-supper dance corresponding week last year. at the Peninsula Hotel, tomorrow London, West Lancashire, and at 9 p.m. Prices of admission are the North Midlands had the best

returns.(British Wireless), $3.50 double and $2 single.