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Jack Oakie FIGHT FOR YOUR LADY with Ida Lupino Frio Rhodes

GENERAL

The Progress of Walt Disney, Genius

||TO DAYS

PICTURE

WILLIE

HIS FIRST SYNCHRO- NIZED OPUS, "STEAMBOAT WILLIE”, WAS A HIC STAR- RING MICKEY

WALT IS A FARM BOY WHO TOOK UP ART IN KANSAS CITY, WHERE ONE DAY A

PERT LITTLE MOUSE GAVE

HIM. AN IDEA

"ONLY AFTER WALT PIO-

NEERED LONG IN FILM

ANIMATION

DID MICKEY MOUSE

REACH THE SCREEN

LATER, IN COLOR, CAME HIS SILLY SYMPHONIES

WALT DISHIY

AMONG THEM WAS THE UNTOR- GETTABLE "THREE LITTLE PIGS".

SATURDAY, "APRIL 23, 1938.-PAGE 5

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THE SEVEN DWARFS, DISNEY AND HIS STAFF WORKED THREE YEARS

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

EING'S:-

"Double Wedding" QUEEN'S:-

"Mad About Music" ORIENTAL:

Fight For Your Lady" Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:---

"Mad About Music" STAR:-

"No More Ladies"

MAJESTIC:—

"Married Before Breakfast"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Nine Days A Queen"

QUEEN'S:-

"Spring Parade"

ORIENTAL:

"Thin Ice"

ALHAMBRA

"Romance In The Dark"

STAR:-

"Fight For Your Lady", "Talent Scout”.

MAJESTIC:-

"Big City"

"Head Over Heels In Love"

CONDITIONS IN NORTH

CHINA COAST PORTS

Japanese Occupation Does Harm To Businessmen

(This is the 'second of a series of three articles by

a special Correspondent who has just returned from a tour of North China)......

LEAVING, SHANGHAI and its horrors behind. I went on to Tsing- tao, the former German possession, which is now in Japanese bands.

Talagtas is the best of all Chinese cities I have visited and it is indeed fortunate that this imposing, and well laid-out city has not been damaged in the hostilities.

Its occupation, by the Japanese however,-and this was the first Japanese occupied town I visited-has been carried out with all the ruthlessness and overbearing for which the invaders have acquired a notoriety in the present hostilities.

No foreign ships are allowed to public spaces have been utilised. use the wharves and must remain for these troops and their war in the outer harbour until the equipment.".

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passengers and ship's papers have Another point noticed as I wan- been inspected by the Japanese authorities.

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Under the style of a "medical inspection by the Japanese, passengers have to march past be- fore the doctor and, in the ease of Chinese passengers, none of them must keep on any headgear tur.

"MICKEY MOUSE in this lospection.

TO STAR IN FAIRY TALE

through the well-paved, streets was that every Chinese policeman had to salute Japanese officers, and soldiers.

I spoke to several foreigners who owned shops or cafes in Tsingtao and their one complaint was about the hardships of busi- ness under Japanese control, pár- ticularly in connection with cur- rency affairs.

This examination takes nearly two hours and then only is the

Tsingtao's night life goes on in ship allowed to pass into the inner a more subdued atmosphere. I was harbour, but throughout. Its stay told," than before. The town has in the port, Japanese motor patrol a number of cabarets and restaur- boats from two destroyers and a nats, but the entertainments here

The brothers Grimm break into cruiser stationed outaide the har-have quietened down a great deal

ling

FLORENCE RICE - JOHN SEAL

ALBO LATEST HONS" OF THE DAT Including

OPENING OF OTHEK KAYAL ROCK IN

SINGAPORES

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DAYS A QUEEN

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FINAL APPEARANCES IN A COMPLETE CHANGE OF "PROGRAMME !

ON THE SCREEN;

„A RIOTOUS COMEDY OF HIT-AND-RUN ERRORS!

MARRIED

BEFORE BREAKFAST

☞ROBERT YOUNG FLORENCE RICE

“A Mano Gattayn Mayer neraka.

TOMORROW, MONDAY, TUESDAY ●

A SMASHING COMEDY-DRAMA WITH A SURPRISE-CLIMAX :

LUISE RAINER SPENCER TRACY in

"BIG CITY"

A METRO,GOLDWYN;MAYER HIT!

ti

the medium of Walt Disney's pro-bour keep prowling round the and business is bad, as when swag- NATIVE PHYSICIANS DIARY OF LOCAL

ductions again.

ships at all times.

Disney's feature-length version"

BODY SEARCH

FOR WAR SERVICE

gering Japanese troops enter these places to the clinking of awords,

A reception' was held yesterday of their "Snow White and the

bayonets and spurs, other nation-afternoon at the Tal Sam Yuen Seven Dwarts" is breaking box On shore, customs and police als leave, anxious to avoid any in- Restaurant, Hennesy Road, by the office records all over the country omcers, under Japanese supervi-cidents which might lead to unchairman and members of the The picture will be shown here at slon, make a body search of every pleasantness. the Queen's and Alhambra Thea-one who lands Chinese and for- tres on May 8

eigners alike-though I discover-

Now, Mickey Mouse is at worked that foreign women were ex- starring in the title role of the empted from this indignity.

the town.

EVENTS

TODAY!

Anniversaries and Holidaya. —St, George's Patron of England, Jewish Passover, 8th day..

Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Page).

Dances-Craigngower Cricket Club Flannel Dance, 9.30 p.m.; RAMO, Assen. Dance at Hotel Cecil, 8.30 p.m.

-local -- Chinese Medical Union to HOTELS CLOSED

bid farewell to a group of 36 local Nearly all Chinese hotels have native physicians who will proceed closed and only one hotel, the to North China for active service.

sometime next month. Orimms' "The Brave Little Tallor A Chinese friend of mine, who Hsin Yah (New. Aala) kept open The meeting was attended by a This, however, is to be a short accompanied me ashore here, was throughout the Japanese occups- subject.

struck across the heed with a rifletion, the manager Mr. Wang large number of local Chinese doctors, and several eulogistic Most people will remember they the Japanese marine on duty King-haf, having, I learned, dis-

apeeches were delivered. story of the puny little taller who at the Customs gale for not doff-played great tact and good

Malls-(See Page 10);" was so proud of having killed ing his hat to him in passing" management during the critical

Miscellaneous Wreath-Laying sever dies at one blow that he As I said before, Tsingtao, in the time of the occupation. The hotel distinctly heard the rat-tat-tat of made himself a belt upon which light of what I saw of other towns is widely patronised by Japanese, machine guns in the hills behind Ceremony at the Cenotaph on the

occasion of St. George's Day, 11.30: he embroidered "Seven at one in North China; struck me as a Chinese, and foreigners. blow." His later adventures, when really beautiful town. Welt laid-

In Chefoo, the next port of call, am: Garden Fete at the Residence My next stop! was at Wel-Hai- everyone takes the seven to mean out roads,, imposing buildings, a Wel, the former British treaty much the same conditions prevail of Mr. and Mrs. A Thomson, human beings, comprise the beautiful park and an up-to-date port, which was handed back to under Japanese occupation as in Bowen Road, 230 p.m.; Boy Scouts Asscņ. Annual Inter-Troop Banner PARKING CHARGES story, with the tailor winning, half stadium: and public gymnasium the Chinese a few years ago. This Tsingtao.

of a kingdom and a lovely princess gave one the impression that the is another popular summer resort Japanese warships stand outside Rally at Diocesan Boys School Three Europeans, Dr. G. T

for his "brave" deeds.

hand of the West had much to do for foreigners in the north. the port and when we passed grounds, Kowloon, 3 p.m.; Chinese Balean, of Union Building, Mr. J. A marked reduction in the numF. Shea, of No. 301 Prince Edward Mouse plays the role of the

In the Disney version Minnie in its development

Everything was peaceful when I through four sea planes took of Art Exhibition at St. Francis Hotel.

Moon Last quarter. 4.14 am.. ber of small-pax cases reported Road, and Mr. F. 8. Thompson, princess..

Tsingtao is also a famous sum- passed through this port in Feb-trom one of these vessels to par- is shown in the official returns for

mer resort for foreigners and pic-ruary, but on my way back. I was ticipate in the fighting which was IL Moon, 23rd Day. were each, fined $3 when sum-

Kong Football Thursday. Only nine cases were oned. before Mr. QA. A. Mac-

turesque bathing buts and res-told by people who came on board going on in about 75 miles to the

Club Annual Dinner, at Hong Kong notified; three were from Victoria, fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracythe War Tan College (Kowloon) golden expanse of seashore liken Japanese warship had landed 500

The annual athletic sporta" of taurants built along its broad and here that that very morning a north of the town, an

Only two returned Iste in the Hotel Roof Garden, 7.30 pm. four from Kowloon and one each for parking their cars in

Sports (See Page 10). even and my Information was that marines at Wel-Hal-Wel and that will be held at the Kowloon Foot- it to the Riviera,

Sunrise-5.59 am. Sunset. 6.46 ball Club ground; on Thursday,

a handful of Chinese "troops had two had been shot down by Cht=" JALUTES FOR INVADERS............ been resisting them the whole day, These troops that day, commencing at 1 pm FLR V

Tides-High at 14.00. Low distribute the

Everywhere the town is full of We were not allowed, to táñà = (Thẻ Kit article in this series Japanese troops, while most open this time, but while on board we will be published on Monday).

FEWER CASES OF

SMALL-POX

2012-

and the New

from Shaukiwan Territories.

Other diseases reported ware!) diphtheria, 1; enteric fever, 3; bro-spinal meningitis, 0: dysen- Callagher will

prizes. measle, 1 chicken-pox, 2; cere-tery, 2.

authorised places.

Social-Hong

22.55.

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