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GENERAL

YOU'LL LAUGH WHEN THEY SMILE

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1938. -PAGE 5

Members of the RAMC. Players who are taking part in Smiles" which opens to- night at the China Fleet Club Theatre. Left to right:-Albert A. Barton, Normann Leath and Hector Wiggins.

SIR EDWIN LUTYENS TO PLAN

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:-

"Marie Walewska" QUEEN'S:-

"Invisible Menace"

ORIENTAL:--

"The Barrietty

1,

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA -

"Love Is On the Air"

STAK:-

"As You Like It" MAJESTIC:--

"Dark Journey"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Charlie Chan

QUEEN'S:

On Broadway"

"Big Broadcast Of 1938" 'ORIENTAL:-

"Public Enemy's Wife." ALHAMBRA;----

"Big Broadcast Of 1938"

STAR:--

"100 Men And A, Giri" MAJESTIC-

"Between Two Women'

ORDER AGAINST LEN HARVEY'S TRAINER

NATIONAL THEATRE

be the basis of the architects' plans. The site, which has been cleared, will be extensively exca- vated, and it is intended to include a spacious Green Room in the similarly.

Already a number of seats in the auditorium have been promised, as 1 commemorative endowment.

Commemoration Of Hereford is making gift of £100

Famous Players

SEATING FOR 1.200

so that one of the seats may bear the name of Nell Gwyn, who is believed to have been born there..

FURTHER APFEÄL LIKELY Towns and cities throughout the

to commemorate them

Sir Edwin Lutyens, R.A., F.K.LB. country where other famous actors A. and Mr. Cecil Masey, F.R.I.B.A.. and actresses were born are being have been appointed by the Execu-invited tive Committee of the National similariy

tu design Theatre

the theatre Among those which are to be ap- which is to be built on the land proached are; Reading, Sir George site adjoining South Kensington Alexander: Doncaster, Lady Ban- croft: Hampstead, Bir Gerald du station.

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It was stated recently that the Maurier; Giggleswick, air John stage of the theatre would be one Hare Keinton-Mandeville, Somer-

of the largest in London, and that set. Sir Henry Irving: Brecon, the auditorium would have a seat- Charles Kemble: Coventry. Dame ing capacity of between 1,000 and Ellen Terry; Dublin, Peg Wong- 1,200 seats. This is approximately ton: Liverpool, Sir Charles Wynd- the same size as the auditoria of ham,

Globe, the

Aldwych and Lyric

Theatres.

Mr. Geoffrey Whitworth," honɔ- rary secretary of the National Sir Edwin Lutyens told me. Theatre Appeal, said that the writes a Home correspondent, that value of the site, plus the amount the latest methods in stage tech-remaining in the fund, supplied a nique would be incorporated in the capital asset of £150,000. Before theatre. but that no preliminary building starts. It is probable that drawings had yet been begun. a further appeal for £100,000 will

'SPACIOUS GREEN ROOM The site presents fewer dif- culties than most he said. "There is abundant parking' space in the neighbourhood, and there will be!

special subway leading "direct from the theatre to 'South Kensing- ton Station.

Walter Henry May, 45, physical "The interior decoration will be culturist, of Courthope-road, Hamp- thoroughly cheerful. emphasising stead, trainer of Len Harvey, the that when people go to the theatre boxez, appeared on remand at the they are out for a holiday. North London police-court re- "The building will probably be of 'cently, charged with having concrete, faced with stone, but) arrears of £58 due to his wife on materials have not yet been select-!

maintenance order.. He told ed. It is

the not likely that the magistrate, Mr. Basil Watson, foundation stone will be fald this K.C., that he had not got any} year." money to give his wife

The architects are collaborating The magistrate made an order with a committee of four experts | for May to pay £58. or go to on stage requirements, who are! prison for 21 days,

have to be launched. If this amount is obtained, the fund will have enough to cover the cost of building with a small balance.

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now completing a report which will DIARY OF LOCAL

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Charles Boyer, and directed by the "Camille", and "Queen Christina.”

eminent director, Clarence Brown, "Marie Walewska," opens today at the King's Theatre.

Laid in the spectacular regime of the Napoleonic period, "Marle Walewska" unfolds the love story of Napoleon and the glamorous Countess Marie Walewska, who first attracted the attention of the "Little Corsican" in an effort to secure his help for her country but who ultimately became the great love of la Hifc.

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SOLUTION TOMORROW

TODAY

Anniversaries and Hollda75.----- Queen Mary sailed. 1938. Bt. Bede the Venerable. Thirty-fifth An- niversary of the Battle of the Japan Sea.

Cinéman-(See Columini 3 of this

Page)

Dance at

Dances. Seafarers' Sailors Home and Seamen's Institute, 9 pm

Entertainments.-R.AMC. Con- cert at China Fleet Club Theatre. 9 p..

In

Malls-(See Page 181. Meetings-Women's Guld. Hong Kong Union Church Hall, Kennedy

Muy Rodd; Helena Christian Fellowship, 10.30 a.m Speaker, Rev. Cyril" Brown un

The Tinker of Bedford.".

Miscellaneous-St. John's Ca- thedral Discussion Group. at 1 Ava Mansion, May Road. 7...; Jumble Sales in Kowloon Union. Church Fall. 3 p.m.; and at Hong Kong Union Church Hall, 3 p.m.; Exhibition of Graphic Art at Chinese, Chamber of Commerce Library, 65 Connaught Road.

Moon,-IV Moon, 28th Day. Rehearsals Hong Kong Singers,

at the Seamen's Institute, a p.m. Contract Bodal Chen Club Bridge, 8 pm: Whist, Drive and Tombala in REWO's, and Sergt'e Mess. Wellington Barracks, 9.p.m.

Sports-(See Page 10). Sunrise---5,40 am) · Bunset-7.01.

p.m

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Tiles High at 06.50 and 20.00; Low at 00.04 and 14.05. TOMORROW Moon- Moon, 29th. Day, Bunrise-6.40 am Sunset 701

Tides High at: 06.10 and 18:50 ILow at 00.00 and 13.18.

AIK-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TODAY AT X38, 8.10, T15- AND 836 PM.

THEIR ROMANCE WILL THRILL YOU..... HEART AND SOUL!

GARBO...auth o rastah-

ing beauty whose love, changed the map ni Europe!

BOYER...as the great Napoleon, who forfeited acontinent forawaman's embrace. -

M-G-M's Greatest Triumph!

Cast of Thousanda!,

A

GRETA GARBO BROWN

CHARLES BOYER

Production

MARIE WALEWSKA”

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"ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIVES

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UNITED ARTISTS

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CEREMONIES

Held under the Auspices of the Christian Churches in Hong Kong and Kowloon, with Sacred Hymns sung by the combined choruses in the Colony, Produced by Tas Cristian Froxe, Læd.

COMMENCING SUNDAY

A Thrill-Packed Drama of Men and Women in White! FRANCHOT TONE, Maureen O'SULLIVAN, Virginia BRVOR

BETWEEN TWO WOMEN

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

DUKE OF WINDSOR'S NEW HOME"

Paris, May 26. The Duke and Duchess of Wind- Bar will more from La Mays Car- tle, Versailles, for their new home

Following the completion of the airfields at the various points, the Chungking-Luchow - Sulfu-Kiating air service commenced tramcas from May 18.

Three of the 21 enemy planes/

at Cap D'Antibes, on the French brought down in Hankow recently, Riviera, at the end of the month. have been sent to Chungking for

-(Transocean).

an exhibition,

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