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"Three Little Pigs"
Tortoise and the Hare"*
Three Orpan Kitters"
"Country Cousins".
"Flowers and Trees
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"In Old Chicago" QUEEN'S:
"Sing You Siners
ORIENTAL.
**The Firefly"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :
"Sing You Sinners"
STAR:
"Man's Castle"
MAJESTIC:
**The
KING'S.
Divorce Of Lady X"
Coming
"Woman Chases Man"
"The Goldwyn Follies" QUEEN'S:
"Swing Your Lady"
"Robin Hood"
ORIENTAL:
"The Squeaker"
ALHAMBRA.
"China.. To-Day"" "Robin Hood" STAR:
Hawal Calls"
"Stingaree"
MAJESTIC:
"Naughty Marietta"
CINEMA & GENERAL
KREITA
FRENCH CONVENT BAZAAR
KIDDIES enjoying light refreshments at the French Convent bazaar on Saturday. (Photo, A. A. Kahn).
Chaplin's Cousin On
Way To Film Fame
Screen Tests Show Her
To Be Exotic Type
Britain's newest
Smith, Holloway, film star, Mrs, Albert London, is first cousin to Charlie Chaplin. Before her marriage to Mr. Albert Smith, who was lately manager: of a cinema at Clapham Junction, she, was Miss May Chaplin, She and her husband have always been ambitious, and they decided, while still in their early twenties. to save up for a holiday trip to
FEAR OF BEING America and Bollywood.
PLACED IN HAREM
Bride Must Not
Leave U.S.
Mrs. Smith worked hard į before With them for luck, and also her marriage, and since. st her packed with their own baggage, job as a manicurist at a beauty they took famous cousin Charlie's salon in Mayfair,
own old trunk, a family "posses- During her budness career shesion he had left in England. has had as clients the Duchess of Kent and all the best-dressed women, who have come to Lon don's West End from all over the world.
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When the young couple had saved enough to" realise their dream, Mr. Smith obtained per- mission from Mr, Sidriey Berns tein for leaves of absence.
When they arrived in Holly- wood Charlie Chaplin - welcomed them: Through him Mrs. Smith, had some screen tests which, it is said, have shown her to be an | "ezotle"" type, and it is expected that she will be given an RK.O. contract following these success- ful preliminaries.
G-men moved to prevent a seventeen-year-old American bride from leaving the United States recently, because of her mother's lear that the girl would be placed in a harem by
Charlie Chaplin dislikes any her wealthy Arabian husband.
acts of kindness of his to become Agents watched all liners sailing
very krown, but he has taken a from New York for the bride, Mrs.
they active part in promoting the pro- Doria Toonle, and her twenty-and on arrival in America
career which evidently Njih bought a second-hand car, with mising seven-year-old husband, Toonie They held 1 warrant which they set out in their long awaits his cousiri, and it is he who charging him and his brother trek to Hollywood. via. Alabama has Kamel with violating an Act which and the Southem States. bans "interstate transportation of
women for immoral purposes.”
Basra,
The brothers Toonie, Iraq, met Miss Doris Hisaw in a lightning Chicago, and after courtship she and Nb were wed in Arkansas.
Bride and bridegroom were charged across the United States by Doris's father, -Otls Hisaw, of Kansas City.
The brothers Toonie, educated at an American University, were on a return visit to America when they met Doris. Another Tocnie brother, now in Iraq, is married to one of Doris's childhood friends.
"FUN" PROVOKERS
SLOW STEAMER They crossed to New York оп save money, slow steamer to
approved the screen name cf Betty Chaplin for her.
CROSSWORD
NO. 124
ACROSS
1 Parted
with
5 Strife
between
families.
9 Abyssinian prince.
15 Designation.
12
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13
23
12 Plane sur-
127
*face.
13 Gaelic.
-14 Past.
3334
17 River in
363"
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Italy.
19 Symbol for
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tellurium.
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21 Trap.
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WOMAN CHASES MAN' with MIRIAM HOPKINS JOEL MCGREA
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DIARY OF LOCAL SIR JOHN REITH
EVENTS
TO-DAY
AS AUTHOR
Sir John Reith is shortly to publish the war journal which he kept as 2 subaltern in . France.
·ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS.—- St. Francis of Assisi, Founder of the Franciscan Order. Missiona Etrangeres de Paris (Mgr. T. A. Fourcade) 1847. CINEMAS.—(See Column 3 of this notice of Governments.
Page).
MAILS,~(See Page 16).
MEETINGS
Club,at
Kowlcon
Perinsula
It was through his war activities that Sir Johní Reith' first won the
On the outbreak of war be enlisted in the Scottish Rides, but
The Ritz Brothers in a scene from "The Goldwyn Follles," coming soon to the King's Theatre.
RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Em 288y
The Japanese London is at present without an Arabassador. Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, retiring after two years, is living
at Henley at his summer house until he salls for Tokyo at the end of the month. His wife has already anti-preceded him to Japan.
Chess transferred to the Royal Engineers, Hotel, rose to be a major, and was 5.30 p.m.; Annual, of Hongkong wounded at the Battle of Loos..
Boon after leaving hospital he Badminton Assen. 8. C. M. Post) Board Room, 5.30 p.m.; Mothers was sent to America to supervise Union, St. John's Cathedral Hall, the production of munition for
Great Britain, 3.p.m.
His success won him Admiralty ROTARY MEETING at Hongkong"
jobs at home, supervising coast "Hotel 1pm. MISCELLANEOUS Sale of Chil- defence works and, particularly
dren's Work at the Police Re-the construction of the
Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, who creation Club in aid of the submarine towers at Shoreham.
aucceeds him, has not yet arrived Ministering Children's League;
Whist Drive, 8.46 pm.; Craigen in London. His promotion from ARP. Examination for Anti-gas
gower Cricket Club Weekly Tom Moscow to London at the age of at Helena May, 530 pm.
bola, 9.15 p.m.; Whist Drive and 60 is regarded as a special recogni- MOON-VII Moon, 11th. Day.1
Pan- Tombola at the China Light &tion of his services to Japan. As REHEARSALS. Y.M.C.A..
Power Recreation ab. King's Conful-genemt at Shanghat he tomime 9 p.m.,ja
negotiated with the Chinese Gov- RELIGIOUS Meeting of Fellow Park, 8.45 pm.
ernment over. Elno-Japanese in- ship and Prayer, in 8. & 8. SPORTS (See Page 10).
JSUNRISE.–6.15
cidents there. As Ambassador. In Home, 8 pm.
Moscow played a large part in the SOCIALYM.C.A, Ladier Bewing 6.09 p.m.
TJDES-High at 0.34 and 19,55, peaceful settlement of the recent
Russo-Japanese border incidenta Low at 1215 and 23.59.
and Knitting Bee, in the West Lounge, 10.30 am.; Cheero. Club
3.0.
SUNBET
22 Bread
crumbs.
bolled and davoured.
23. Sharp.
25 Colour.
26 Makes a mistake.
27 Excursions
on the
water.
28 Mother.
30 Pull with
force.
31 Cryptoga-
mic plants.
32 Chatter.
ཡྻཊྚེ ; སཧྨ ུཋ ཿ ཆུ
33 Incidents.
35 Fastidious.
36 Short for
Alfred.
38 Concludes.
39
Pertaining
to the qual- ity of a sound.
40 Atoms. 42 Minute
point.
43 Plural
pronoun. 44. Nimble. 45 Weird. 47 Metal, 48. Have rank. 50 Young of
the cow. 53. Frozen
water.
54 Break short.
55 Assam silk-
Worm.
DOWN
Note of the scale.
Correlative
of either.
3 Brother and
enemy of
Osiris,
4 Contami- nates.
5 Sensed by
touch.
6 Sooner
than.
7. Pronoun. 8. Minute
portions.
9 City of
Morocco,
10 "Grew old. 11 North
American, rail.
16. Göll molind. 18 Taverns. 19 Chinese
money of account. 20 Having the
colour of unbleached stuff.
22 Aches.
24 Force,
onward.
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"SOLUTION TO-MORROW
60
25 Portions. 27 Dispatches. 28 Brilliant-
coloured ..parrot.
29 Poplar,
31
Cushions
to deaden. shocks.
32 Alcoholic
beverage.
34 Flesh of a
calf.
35 Bign com-
municating information:
38 Famous
violin
maker.
37 Science of
exact reasoning. 39 Jagged
cliff. 41 Baseball.
team, 42 Profound. 45 Greek letter. .46 Sense
organ.
40 Indefinite
árticle.
51 Chinese
measure.
52 Note of the
scale.
ALEXANDER KORDA
PICIORTI
MERLE OBERON
The Divorce of Lady X
A COMEDY IN TECHNICOLOR WITH. LAURENCE OLIVIER "RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS
TOMORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!
RETURN SHOWING BY PUBLIC DEMAND! JEANETTE MACDONALD,B
NELSON EDDY NAUGHTY MARIETTA'
A Metro-Goldy
Solution No. 123. RAJAH 18 APIMA B ARENA PROTORE MORO 8TRITCHIE "AWED TEATORAN
11MECHANICS
TAHIDI NOBEL ARAGON 18 TARVE LEKARTSHEJAAR 111 LETTERED 11 TATE HIM¶ADAR STANTON 1STORE ATTAL TRECAN RAB PESTANKLE
"yer Picture'.
MARINE OFFICERS"
BRAVERY
The bravery of four officers Of the China Navigation Company SE az Tatung during an aerial bom- bardment of the vessel at Wuhu la December last was rewarded last week when at HBM Consu late-General in Shanghai the men-Capt. J. W. Hurst, Admiralty- [Pilot: Mr, A. C. Morice, Chief Engineer: Mr. V. A. Boutakot, Chlat Omcer; and Mr. Bhin Ah-11, Bedond |Enginest-ever presented with tcken of supreciation from the Company: Bir Herbert Phillips. British Consul-Gener
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