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ADDED! Special Newsreel Depicting The Tragedy of the

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RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQUEST !

The Most Sensational Action-Drama of the Year with a Surprise Climax !

MIGHTY MANHATTAN MELODRAMA!

LUISE

RAINER TRACY

·SPENCER

BIG CITY

_with_

Charley GRAPEWIN- Janet BEECHER Eddie QUILLAN • Victor VARCONI A FRANK BORZAGE‘PRODUCTION Derby THANK BORIACE V POJEME by MCUHAN KHASNX

Fresh from triumphs in "Good Earth" and "Captains Courageous" ..they team gloriously in a drama with "Fury's" punch and ball heart/thrill

Picture

COMMENCING, TOMORROW ·

The Singing Sweethearts of "Maytime" in a New

DAILY

Thrill Musica!!,

JEANETTE

IN

MacDONALD Nelson EDDY THE GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST

HANKOW

ISTARE

KOWLOON

TODAY AND TOMORROW

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ADVENTURE! INTRIGUE! RECKLESS DANGER! The Most Exciting Love Story Ever Told!

Solanish Internationa

RONALD

the

COLMAN

PRISONER of ZENDA

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SUNDAY

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FITH

MADELEINE CARROLL · Fraded by DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JI. SELENICK

DAVID G.

NORMA SHEARER RIPTIDE"

Bobert Montgomery Herbert Marshall

1

+ Hong Kong

KING'S:

Wide Open Faces” QUEEN'S:

"Undersea Kingdom" ORIENTAL:

"Ramona"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Sable Cicada”.

STAR:

"The "Prisoner Of Zenda"

MAJESTIC:

"Big City"

KING'S:

Coming

"Three Comrades"

QUEEN'S:

"Over The Wall"

ORIENTAL:

GENERAL

CRAZY CARGO TONNAGE

Largest In World Flown By Canada's "Bush Flyers"

ENTIRE MINING PLANT, STEAM

BOILERS AND ALL!

The largest crazy cargo tonnage in the world today is flown by Canada's "bush flyers". Anything goes by air: husky dogs. canoes, trappers' outfits, mining plants, dynamite and even oxen.

Officials of the mines at Pickle Lake, Ontario, 144 miles from

a raliroad. were worried about the breakdown of a ball mill. The broken unit weighed 2100 pounds and there Wire two ball bearings, each weighing 300 pounds.

They had to be replaced at once or gold production would be cut 50 percent until after the spring when the Ice broke up and the parts could be taken in by the water route.

Canadian Airways. Ltd. was con- crates of head lettuce, a case of sulted. Replacement parts were tennis balls, Ave rolls of barbed available at Hudson, Ontario, the wire, two live pigs and a host of Airways agreed take the parts other stuff including stalk of ba to Pickle Lake "in the shortest nanas. possible time.

"Oil For The Lamps Of China" capable of carrying such a ALHAMBRA

"Dracula" STAR: "

"Riptide"

*MAJESTIC: 1

The Girl Of The

West"

"A Woman Alone"

MAYTIME

The bananas were sold as soon .cents The only airplane in Canada as the plane landed at 25

lead each. The pigs were to go into Bay was at Yellowknife way up in production so that Cameron Northern Saskatchewan engaged would have an unending supply of

Unfortun In carrying 280 tops of freight to pork chops available. a gold strike.

ately the gentleman pig found a nice place to sleep in the electric

A radio message was sent out Golden this plane flew to Hudson and tnlighting unit house.

Co-staring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy for "the fourth time. "The Girl of the Golden West," a musical panorama of early California, opens today at the Majestic Theatre.

"

less than seventy-two hours after the breakdown of the mill the re- placements were made and the mill at Pickle Lake was in operation, Speed, they have plenty of it. Weight, anything you want to

carry.

Carbon

monoxide gas finished him, so 'Cameron Bay is still with- out pork chops.··

Fur, $75,000. worth of white fax pelts came down in a single load from Coppermine. Western Arctic. It formed a bed for the bishop of the Arctic. Bishop Fleming, who slept on it all the way down the 2400 mile journey. Fur is a com-

mon cargo from that part of the country.

Live fur animals come. out of

air. Fox. the north via

mink.

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MINING PLANT The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Lac Dor, 180 iniles from the railroad wanted an entire mining plant, steam Based upon the original stagebollers and all. This was carried|

written and produced by play David Belasco thirty years ago, then by the Canadian Airways, 'Ltd.

new Fairchild Super in control of marten brought out for breeding picture is presented against th

purposes. R. Lymburner and number two romantle background of the colour

pilot on the Ellsworth-Wilkins ful gold mine camps of 1850, the

Antarctic Expedition. He had or romantic missions and villages

bollers, ders to carry in steam with their galety and music and air compressors, drill steel, sup- Curcing. the high Sierras and

plies and ninety tons of dynamite. glant redwoods and bandit camps.

This, pilot went about his worki Heading the supporting cast are calmly and efficiently. He new Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo aut between Chibaugamou and Lac Buddy Ebsen. Others in the large Dor regularly with. full loads. cast are Leonard Pern. Priscilla Everything was just plain freight Lawson, Bob Murphy, Olin How- lan. Ch Edwards, Billy Bevan, Brandon Tynan, H. B. Warner and Monty Woolley,

JACK DEMPSEY

IN BIG CITY

Veteran stars of the boxing ring.

to him.

One day a man came down on the ice and quietly asked bra if he could fly a team of oxen in to the mines. R. Lym- burner did not bat an eye. They might be exen to some were people but the animals freight to him, Tarpaulins were stretched on

wrestling mat, pola feis. track and the ice and when an ox had been giidiron shared the spotlight with led onto one, he was thrown in veteran actors of the screen on the manner of the Lone Ranger swiftly tied up. Then be the set representing Jack Demp-and

"FISH EXPRESS" There is also the “Fish Ex- press" flying into Kenore. On- tario. This express makes it possible for people in Chicago to have Canadian whitefish forty-eight hours after it has been caught in clear, cold lakes a hundred miles or more from a railroad.

The plane makes the rounds of the lakes and picks up a ton or more of iced. Ash and lands it at the railroad in time to catch the Chicago Express.

No trick loads here. No smartly dressed pilots or alluring hoster- Ises. No nonsense.

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(Continued on Page 8).

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

TODAY

Anniversaries and Holidays.--St.

scy's restaurant in New York. for was wrapped securely in the tar-

scene in "Big City," Metro-paulin to prevent him from wrig Goldwyn-Mayer picture coming to gling, and skidded up the guns Stephen, King of Hungary; Fire of the Majestic Theatre with Luise plank into the plane. Rainer and Spericer Tracy co-star-l red.

AERIAL 4 HISTORÝ

Bales of här were jammed around the beast to prevent him A group of famous athletes whose from rolling while in the air This combined careers have probably done the pilot "headed for his drawn more people into stadiums destination with an 1800 pounds and arenas than the total, popula- ox as passenger tion of the world, included Jack Dempsey and James J. Jeffries, for- mer heavyweight champions: Maxle Rosenbloom, former light heavyweight champion; Bull Mon tama and Mari Mountain Dean. wrestlers; Cotton Warburton for mer All-American quarterback; and Taski Hagio, jiu-jitsu cham- pion

1

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London, 1686.

Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Pare)

Lectures-Air Raid Precautions, Maryknoll Convent School, Kow- loon, 4 pu

Mails (See Paze 16). Meetings General of the Gen. The flight was uneventful Un-eral Photoplay and Advertising aware that he was making -aerial Bervice Ltd.. (Creditors". Voluntary history, the ox lay on his side and Winding Up) at the Office of chewed his cud. His brother ox Messrs. Thomas Le C. Kuen & Us..' on the next fight wisn't so com-28 Des Voeux Road Central, frat placent. He became airsick. floor, 2 p.m.; Softball League, at

Crazy cargoes-a plane leaving Cecil Hotel, 5.30 pm. Fort McMurray for Cameron Bay Miscellaneous-Lady

Northcote

on Great Bear Lake carried two opens Sale of Work at Stanley, in"

ald of the Ministering Children's Leagus, 4 p.m.; Exhibition of Chi- nese Painting in Bank of East Asia, 10 am to 6 pm; Diocesan Girls' School Entrance Examination for new Pupils, 9 am.

CROSSWORD

NO. 97

ACROSS

12

3

Lowered.

5 Result

8 Waterway

9 Cleft 110 Time

period

12 To

frequent

15 Breathe in

16 Mock

17 Thorough-

fare

19 Labyrinth -

20 Dis-

- inclined.

22 Unrellable

23

Chorister

26 Whole,

za, Weapon

29 Cap 30 Water lily 31 Bex

earnestly

DOWN

1 Happen

again

2 Rails along

3 Middle

Valley

130

5 Mad

6 Dried

Truft

12:0

29

7 Uttermost

11 Jockeys

13 Qualit

14

Voyaging

17: Dendal

SOLUTION TOMORROW

23

18 Old

10 Males 20 Agitates 21 Quiet

24 Dirt

25 Correct 37 Apart

Moon-First Quarter, 1.28 4.m. VII Int'c Moon, 9th, Day.

Social-Whist Drive and Tom- bola, in the R.E. Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess. Wellington Barracks. 9 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge Night.

Sports-See Page 10).

Suurise, -8.08 am Sunset 8,40 p.m.

Tides-High at 02.04 and 17,00. Low at 09.58 and 19.19.

TOMORROW

Mogn VII Int'e, Moon, 10th, day. Sunrise-6.05 am. Sunset,—6.41

D.III.

Tides-High at 01.15 and 15,09 Low at 08.20 and 18.57.

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