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TODAY AND TOMORROW Smashing His Way Into Mysterious Morocco

In Pursuit of Daring Adventure i

EVERY LUNGE OF THE LION

BROUGHT DEATH CLOSER!

One of the thrilling scenes in Bulldog

Drummond's amazing adventure

with international spies!

Adelph Zuken grevents

"BULLDOG

DRUMMOND

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SNOW

IN AFRICA

營造

FRIDAY

KING'S:

Hongkong

Test Pilot" QUEEN'S:

CINEMA & GENERAL

"Bulldog Drummond in Africa" ORIENTAL:

"Over The Wal"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"In Old Mexico"

STAR:

"Night Spot"

MAJESTIC:

"Thoroughbreds Don't Cry"

"

Coming

JOHN HOWARD

KING'S:

HEATHER ANGEL

"Lancer Spy"

H. 5. Warner-J.Carrof Naish

HITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

At Popular Prices RKO-Radio Picture

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30-5.19

7.15-930

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FLEMING ROAD WANCHA!

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OLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY.

DESPERATE CREMINAL'S MAD BREAK FOR 1IBERTY I A gripping melodrama of a man falsely imprisoned for murder, a pictured packed with thrillig action.

TONIGHT SOME CONVICT WILL GO

OVER THE WALL

By WARDEN

LEWIS E. LAWES

QUEEN'S:

England's Oldest Woman Never Saw The Sea-

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Dies Aged 108

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938-PAGE.

England's oldest woman, Airs. Rachel Swain, who was 108 on September 1, died on October 12 at her cottage få Water, End-lane, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, the village in which she has lived all her life,

She had never been to a cinema and had never seen the sea

Telegrams and letters, were re- ceived from all over the country on her 108th birthday party. She had been in ill-health almost since

and that day.

when an ARP. ofcer called to fit her gas mask, she was in bed.

Her husband died in 1902 at the

AMATEUR

FILM RULE CHALLENGED

age of 76. There are five genera- "Not Inflammable"

A

tions living. Mrs. Swain ved with her 85-year-old daughter, The Institute of Amateur Che- Mrs. Surkh Ashton.

matographers, which is contest- She remembered gatheringing a ruling by Surrey County rushes from the moors and taking Council on the showing of ama- them to Ampthill, the nearest teur films, replied recently to the country

town, to be made into Council's statement that tests had rush-lightsh

shown that "so-called non-infiam- mable film readily ignites."

Mrs.

A GOOD LIFE" Swain had lived in six The Institute stated, "The type Snow White And The Seven reigns and from the time of her of film sold as safety flm by lead-

Dwarfs

ORIENTAL:

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Three Smart Girls”

"Gold Diggers ΣΩ ALBAMBRA;

"The Lone Battalion" STAR:

""There Goes" My Girl" "Under Two Flags" MAJESTIC:

"Stand-In"

1c0th birthday received congratu-ing manufacturers for the use of latory messages from three amateur cinematographers is of Kings-George V., Edward VII, the slow-burning cellulose-acetate Paris" and the present King.

type, and has a higher ignition Up to her 100th birthday she point than ordinary paper." hulped with the housework, and before her illness of recent weeks had not had a doctor since she vas 70.

NEW BULLDOG DRUMMOND

Your favourite screen detective, "Bulldog Drummond," comes back to town in a picture which, for sheer thrilis, excitement and ter- rors, beats any in which he has.

"I've had a good life," she said: recently. "I've not denied myself unything within reason. I'm very. very happy."

EPIC FILM OF

THE AIR

"If a match is applied to it it will not ignite, but will decom- pose, so long as the source of Ignition is applied. It will cease to decompose when 'this is removed.

"The Alm, which is quite dif irrent from the nitro-ceilulose Aira used la licensed cinemas, is of similar composition to the cellu- lose-acetate eye-pieces used in authorised gas-masks."

It is asserted that the Surrey Modern motion picture magie County Council's decisions laying has brought a new kind of avia- down that the Council shall be ever appeared: It 18 "Bulldog tion film to the screen; one that the sole judge as to whether any Drummond

tim is non-inflammable" are ultra In

which glorifies the man who "Africa,"

"lays opens at the Queen's Theatre to-

floor in the sky so that future vires, on the grounds that no local day:

generations can go to bed in safe authority has power to pass rul-

y."

ings regarding matters under

John Howard stars again in the title role in a driving tale of inter-" national sny rings and the lengths to which they go to wrest impor- tant military secrets from their victims.

Opposite him as the Bancee who somehow never succeeds in becom- ing Mrs. Drummond" is Heather

It is "Test Plot, "dedicated" to statute. This, it is claimed, is the those men who gamble their lives duty of the justices. against the air-worthiness of a designer's dreams.

SPECIAL FOR TOMORROW-ONE DAY ONLY Angel, the lovely English actress, taking romance.

YOU'LL ENJOY SEEING THIS EXCELLENT COMEDY AGAIN!

A brilliant cast in a sparkling hit picture

Unit DEANNA DURBIN

Rodio singing sensation in

3 SMART GIRLS

BINNIE BARNES ALICE BRADY." RAY MILLAND

● MATINEES: 20c.-30c ❤ EVENINGS: 20c-30c.-50c.-70c. ♦

KOWLOON

STARE

NAL SHOWINGS TODAY.

THE

DARLING OF

THE NIGHT CLUB

| „beautiful decoy for

the police in their ruthless war on gongland!

TO-MORROW

RKO Picture

NIGHT

RADIO

Picture

SPOT

PARKYAKARKUS :

ALLAN LANE GORDON JONES

Joan WOODBURY

Gene Raymond

Ann Sothern

"THERE GOES MY GIRL"

NEW ZEALAND

BLACK WATCH?

POLICE WORK AT 60%

seen before in one other "Bulldog" picture. Others in the cast of ex- perienced Hollywood players are H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny: E. E Clive and that master badman, J. Carrol Naish.

|DRUGS THROUGH

THE POST

New Form Of Smuggling

Opening to-

day at the King's Theatre. It one million suits of winter cloth. impressed the audience withing for soldiers la the mark spectacular flying scenes, thril-aimed at by the Kwangs! authorl- ur power dives and s breath-ties in their current drive for contributions. Women's organi- Four stark Clark Gable, Myrna sations in Kwellin, the. capital, Loy, Spencer Tracy and Lionel are doing splendid work in this Barrymore head the great cast, direction

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channels through 18. Banish- which dangerous drugs legitimately," adds the report 17. A detall "are open to frequent Inspec-18. Solitary tion, and the addict or would-be 19. Upright piece trafficker has Little chance of

of a step obtaining drugs from such sources

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The drugs principally Import- ed during the year were : Raw oplum 311,9681b; Coca leaves 91,0541b,; Indian hemp 8,057lb ; Crude morphine 18,058 oz ; and Crude methymorphine 2673oz.

The number of known drug addicts in Britain was 620, made up of 300 men and 320 women. Of these 132 were members of the 37. Midday medical profession, one a dentist, 38. Blunts :: tive pharmacists and two veteri-40. Hugest,

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For the first time since before 60 and 65 years of age who have

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When they got there, they were church, Auckland and Wellington subjected to a superficial medical The muggestion, put forward by examination and then told that Beottish societies in the Domi- in case of war they would have' nic has been sympathetically to serve in the police forcé. received by Mr. Frederick Jones Without any consideration for the Minister of Defence. He has their age these men are subjected promised to peet part of the to hours of drilling on the grounds cost of supplying uniforms typi- that this is absolutely necessary An cal of High and regiments in the order to revive their spir (Neue Mother Country-Dally Telegraph. Zurcher Zeitung).

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IN OLD MEXICO

WILLIAM BOYD

*THE

LONE

BATTALION"

A China Picture with Engli-h Subtítl-s

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

THREE YOUNG STARS IN A VERY PLEASING PICTURE!

STAR

of "Dev

STAR-of-~*

THE YEAR'S GREATEST HEART-STORY!

STAR "af"bran-éway

the sings

Great... because it tells the thrilling story of the making of a man! Great...because it storms from the screen with the soul-

stirring appeal of "Captains Courageous"

THOROUGHBREDS

DON'T CRY

STAN "Broodway

Malady in

dramatic

with JUDY GARLAND” MICKEY ROONEY........ SOPHIE TUCKER C. AUBREY SMITH

RONALD'SINCLAIR,

Screen Play by tuvierones Huzund Directed by Alfred: E. Gesen Produced by HARRY RAPP

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

A HILARIUS BEHIND-THE HOLLI «OJD-SCENES

UNMEDY

LESLIE HOWARD

JOAN BLUNDELL STAND IN

A United Artists Comedy Hit 1

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NO-DAY ANNIVERSARIES & HOLIDAYS,

MEETINGS General Committee,

in 8. & 8. Home, 5.30 pm

Royal Marines founded, 1864; St | MOON,-IX Moon, 4th Day: Jewish Evaristus

New Moon

CINEMAS,—(See Column 3 of this: SOCIAL--Whist Drive and Tom- Bola in Garrison Bergeants" Mess Queen's Road, 3 p.m.

Fage). DANOES,

Hongkong University Alumni Assen. Annual Dinner Dance, at Hongkong Hotel

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