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MEN WITH WINGS
‘GIVE ME A SAILOR"
Martha Raye - Bob Hope
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LOUISE CAMPBELL
Penman and braced by WILLIAM A, WELLINE
A Paremauni Picture
TOMORROW
AT THE ALHAMBRA
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SPY RING " William Hal! Jane Wyman
New Universal Picture
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FAIRMOUNI VIKINAI METS
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
at
CINEMAS. (See Column 3 of this
Page). DANCES-Cheero Club Dance with Music by "Stokers Dollar Band" from HMS. Cardiff, 8.30 p.m. MAILS.-(See Page 18). MEETINGS.-Council of Hengkong Football Association (Associa tion Rooms), 5.30 p.m.: St. An- drew's Church Medical Relief Working Party. 10 a.m.; Wo men's Guild, 10.30 a.m.
MISCELLANEOUS.—St.
Andrew's
Church Teachers' Préparation Class. 7.D.mi.
MOON.-XI Moon, 19th Day.' SOCIAL-Y.M.C.A: Service
Men's
Whist Drive,, 9p.m... SPORTS.-(Bee. Page 2). SUNRISE-7.05 a.m. SUNSET.—
5.54 p.m
TIDES.-High at 11,08 and
22.10
Low at 04.35 and 15.30.
TO-MORROW
Today's Screenings
KING'S:
Hongkong
"Algiers"
QUEEN'S
"Men With Wings"
ORIENTAL·
"sing You Sinners"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA
"Men With. Wings"
STAR:
"Women Are Like That"
MAJESTIC:
"Blockade"
KING'S;
"Lord.
QUEEN'S:
Coming
"Give Me A Sailor"
"Spawn Of The North"
ORIENTAL:
"Flash Gordon"
"I Cover The War" ALHAMBRA:
"Spy Ring"
"Spawn Of The North"
STAR:
"Sing You Sinners" "Treasure Island" MAJESTIC:
1
"You're Only Young Once"
ALGIERS
The coloprtul activity of a Medi- terranean city of Northern Africa forms the background of "Algiers." Walter Wanger's romantic melo- drama starring Charles Boyer, op- posite Sigrid Gurle "and Hedy Lamarr, in his most exciting role as Pepe le Moko, debonair Internal jewel thief, and showing "at the King's Theatre to-day.
Practically the entire action of the picture took place in Casbah, mysterious native quarter of the capital of Algeria. This district is a haven of refuge for criminals from all countries of Europe, Asia and Africa.
CINEMA & GENERAL
IN BETWEEN RACES AT THE VALLEY
PICTURE TAKEN at the Thirteenth Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley. (Photo by Leica).
BIG AERO CLUB FLIGHT
TO ENGLAND
Three Sydney Planes For Opening Of Birmingham Air Port
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1939.-PAGE
KING'S
SHOWING TODAY
DAILY AT 2.30, 618, 7.15 - AND. 9.39 P.M.
A new kind of
ADVENTURE DRAMA Sapcose and excitement and danger rarely known in the screen in the great seory of an adventure's last stand, his life, his lares..........
Charli
Pinguins San
WALTER WANGTA
BOYER ALGIERS
SIGRID GURIE - HEDY LAMARR JOEN CALLEJA ALAN HALE - GIVE LOCKHART - KINAKOMIT
Dead by Jake Compet – femme Plan ve yaa živost kovan
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ALSO LATEST CARTOON IN TECHNICOLOUR
"JACK FROST ”
NEXT CHANGE
M.G.M. PICTURE
DAILY
'Three Tiger Moth aeroplanes from the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales will make a formation Alght from Sydney to Birmingham, England. this year. It is planned to end the flight
AT"
230
5-20
720
920
at Birmingham on the day that the city's new air port is opened by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain).
The flight from Sydney
will begin about the middle of May and is expected to take 20 OF 21 days. Ground organisation has been completed
The planes will follow the not- ma! air route to England, landing
The planes have a normal cruis- ing speed of 90 miles an hour, and
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at Paris two days before the oper a range of 350 miles. Additional ing of Birmingham air port. The fuel tanks will increase *the
that selected. The cost will be £1500, flight personnel has not been) 1000 milea
Flight Lieut. G. S. Coleman was will be the first long-range forma- he resigned his position as chie Including the return trin and to have led the flight, but recently
tion fight yet made by any Aus- Instructor of the club." trallan aero club.
Local colour of this romantic spot has been dupilcated with un- canny accuracy by studio techni- clans and all backgrounds for the action were actually filmed Algiers
in
The Tiger Moths will be the Arst civil aircraft in the Bri. tish Empire to attempt a for- mation flight.over such a dis Lance.
CROSSWORD
NO. 203
ACROSS
1. Rotating
piece on a wheel
4. Nantical
command
9. Joker
12. Turkish
officer
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RELIGIOUS.-St. Andrew's Boys'
Chair Practice. 5.30 p.m. SOCIAL.-Y.M.C.A. Women's
tion Charity Sewing Bee, 10 a.m.; Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45
p.m. SUNRISE.-7.05
5.55 p.m.
..
SUNSET.-
TIDES.-High at 11.52 and 22.58.
Low, at 05.18 and 16.19.
GRACIE FIELDS AT FILM BALL
Miss Gracie Fields delighted some hundreds of her admirers re- cently when she attended the ninth annual fim ball at the Al- bert Hall, on the eve of her de parture for America.
•
She was surrounded by dancers. Mounting a dals she took charge of the microphone with a series of songs in a repertoire which lasted a quarter of an hour.
The ball is given each year by
AUCTIONS - Household Furni- Associated British Pictures and as-
ture, at Lammert Bros. Bales sociated companies. Room, No. 35, Hankow Road,
Kowloon, 2.30 p.m.
LECTURES.-Women's A. R. P. Union Anti-Gas Lecture, at Vo- lunteer Defence Corps Head- quarters, 10.30 am. MEETINGS.-8t. Andrew's Church Brownie Pack," 3,30 p.m.; V.D. ́M.A. Meeting, in the Hall, 8.30
p.in.
MISCELLANEOUS.-Rotary. Tlfn, Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden, 1 p.m.;
Andrew's st,
Charch Mothers' Union New Year Party, 3 pm MOON-XI Moon, 20th. Day...
117. Definite
article 18. Melody 19. Mandatory
process under. scal
21. City in
California 25. Insertion 28. Greek god
of love
29. What Ame-
rican colonist married Pris- cilla Mullens?.' 31. Egyptian
sun god 32. City in
Brazil
32. Cooked in
fat
34. Member of
a low Budra caste
35. Behold! 36. Interlace
37. Roman
38.
patriot
Concluded
40. What Ame-
rican essayist was called the Bage of Con- cord?
42. Poems 44. Track wÓTTI
by wheels 45, Coin of
Bulgaria
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fear
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endings
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inlet
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57. Discover at
a distance DOWN Vehicle
1. 2. Past -3. Wartime
American Secretary of the Treasury 4. Declares 5. Flemish
painter (1532- 1603).
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scale
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hunter slain by Artemis? 23. The book palm
24. Tree 26. Muse of
amatory poetry
27. Claw of an animal
30. Suppose. 33.. Pertaining
to the central government
34. Who wrote
the Spoon River Anthology?
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36. Married
37. Part of the
hind limb
What is the capital of
7. Boil slowly
39.
8. Lottered
9. What Eng
Delaware?
lish divine
41.
Obliterate
wrote over 600
43.
Bown; used
hymns: Isaac
In heraldry
-?
45. Once
around a track
.
10. Tree 11. Turn to the
right
18. Hastena
20. Tavern
21. Movie star:
-Oberon?
22. What bright constellation is named for a
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
46. Female of
the sheep 43.
Meadow
49. Being in the
most abstract
60.
serise Tear
51. Ufter
The new Birmingham air port will be the largest and most-up- to-date in the British Isles. The cutting of a ribbon will be a signal for the Australian planes to land. They will be the first aircraft
to use the aerodrome, and the pilots will be the Arst at the modem customs house and Con- trol offices
CHAMPAGNE AT
VALET'S PARTY
Posed As Peer To Duncan Sisters
Heetor Weedy. 19, a chauffeur- valet, who was stated to have bosed as
peer, entertained the Duncan Sisters, and given a cham- pagne party in the West End, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years Borstal detention,
He pleaded guilty to stealing a cur and four cheque forms, and obtaining credit by false p.etences. He asked for six other cases, to be taken into consideration,
For the prosecution, Mr. S. I. Cohen said that Weedy was arres- ted after a police patrol iad picked up a wireless message concerning a stolen car. Weedy then made at statement in which he said:
About the end of July, while I Sas employed as a temporary footman at Didlington Hall, Bran dom, Norfolk, I stole a blank che- que book which was on Sir Davić Hawley's writing-table in his mom. When I left this employment I came to London and took a room with a Miss Bartlett at Guilford- street. I paid her 258 in advance. I j gave her my correct name. While here I made out a cheque payable to myself for £8-14 94, and signed it "Bir David H. L Hawley."
I asked Miss Bartlett to cash it, and she gave me £2, and promised to send me the rest, as I said I was leaving her address for Did-
ington Hall
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JEFF
in LORD
HANKOW
STARE
TODAY ONLY
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A Star-Match Nobody Dreamed of in a Picton Everyasa Loves!
Francis OBrien
Women Are Like That
A WARNER BROS. Bk Diracted by STANLEY LOGAN with KALPH PORBIS MELVILLE COOPER-THURSTON HALL-GRANT MITCHELL HERKIRT RAWLINSON Barvin Pay by Mannose Jochem » From the Sameday Bruning Pat Story By Albert I. 1. Car + & Fox Kidood Ficzne
TO MORROW
A Paramount Picture
4 SHOWS DAILY 230 620 720-930
Bing Crosby
·
in
Fred MacMurray
"SING, YOU SINNERS"
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON
TEL 57227
MATINEES. 20«.-30.·° EVENINGS. 20. -302502700
TODAY AND TOMORROW
the Most
From the Living History of To-day
Stirring, Action-Packed Drama of the Year !!!
WALTER WANGER Presents
Great Adventure! Burating out of to- day's headlines.......... sostasy... heroism ...love... unforget- table thrills... di- seated by the genius
who gave you 'Zola"
and Pasteur'
BLOCKADE
co-starring MADELEINE CARROLL
•
HENRY FONDA
with LEO CARRILLO - JOHN HALUDAY · Directed by William Disteria. Released thru United Artists
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
THE FIRST OF THE FAMOUS “JUDGE HARDY'S FAMILY:"
66
PICTURES"
YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE Lewis Stone Cecilia Parker • Mickey Booney A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
SUFFER AT CAFE ANGLAIS Weedy's alleged statement com- tinued that while employed by a Capt. Wilson; of Lowndes-square, 8.W., he stole three cheque forms from hooks he found lying about. It went on:
While still employed at this ad- dress. I took the Duncan Bisters to "I then had a bottle of cham-left him, and he went home to the Cafe Anglais. Leicester-square, pagne, sandwiches and spaghetti, Walton-street. He gave her a che and paid for supper. The bill was and was introduced to a young que for £100, he believed, for a zbout £2.123.
woman who said she was a dance watch.
According to the alleged state-then feeling rather drunk," and ment, Weedy also said that he the dance hostess, who was still obtained credit, giving a cheque with him, asked him to accompany which he signed "Michael Killan-her home, which he did. S." It continued:
On arrival at her address sive
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I again went to the Cafe Anglais, hostess A crowd gathered round Detective G. Berridge said that stated I way Lord Killanin-1 and all had champagne and sand-Weedy was bound over at the Old should mention I was known to wiches." the Duncan Sisters as Lord Killanin and asked for credit for £50 on one of the cheques I had stolen from Capt. Wilson's address,
Bailey in January, 1937, on a chargé £100 CHEQUE FOR GIRL of uttering letters demanding Weedy also said that he then money by menaces. In this instance went to another restaurant were he had sent letters to various he had more champagne. He was women, threatening their children.
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