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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

UEEN'S Today's

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FINAL SHOWINGS TODAY.

The Adventures of

Robin Hood

X

Errol FLYNN

OLIVIA De HAVILLAND

Mighty advaten that. tbeiled the ague ....... now lives forever in TECHNICOLOR

BASIL RATHBONE

CLAUDE RAINS Patric Knowins · Eugene Pallette - Alan Hale - Melville Cooper. Ian Hunter Una O'Connor = Presented by WARNER BROS, « Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ AMI WAL KUGISLSY - Original Screen Play by Morutsa Railly Zales and Sesom &. Miling 'Bued upon Anciena Bahia Hoon Lagonda + aduale by Prich Wolfgang Krengedd • à Viena Nacional Hernen

TOMORROW

Freddie Bartholomew • Judy Garland

in

-4 SHOWS

DAILY

230 20

720.930

Mary Astor

MGM's "LISTEN DARLING"

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON.

CINEMA & GENERAL

Screenings

KING'S:

Hongkong

“Romance And Rhythm"

QUEEN'S.

"The Adventures

Hood"

ORIENTAL

£10,000 LEFT TO FIANCEE

Estate For The Crown

Estate valued at £14,665 (np. £13.682) was left by Mr. William L. Alm, of-Blythswood, Barton Court- Avenue, Barton-on-Sea After legacles amounting to £4,250, he of Robin bequeathed the residue to his

fiancee. Lilian Alice Hartley..

"The Goldwyn Folles"

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Kowloon

ALHAMERA;

Heart Of The West"

STAR:

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KING'S:

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"Listen Darling"

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MEET THIS FASCINATIC FAMILY OF STREAMLINED CROOKS IN THE GATEST ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE SEASON !

JARCT

GAYNOR

SOUND YOUNG

SOLEMNE INTEEMAT 20663 mm

THE

YOUNG

IN

HEART

PIRMĀS STAMMAN & RICHARD WALLACE

Produced by DAVID O. SELZNICK

BREAK > HOFU UKITED MATISTS

PARLETZI

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FAIRBANKS, Jr.

BULUJE BURKE

TOMORROW AND THURSDAY

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Telling Its Story Of Concentrated Human Emotion !

DON AMECHE

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A. 20th Century-Fox Picture-

HANKOMU

STARE

KOWLOON

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

VICTOR McLAGLEN

in

The DEVIL'S PARTY

WILLIAM GARGAN PAUL KELLY BEATRICE ROBERTS FRANK JENKS

by Ray Chamber Benet on the re

Play by

THURSDAY

A NEW UNIVERSA

ICTURE

CAN THIS BE DIXIE"

Jane Withers

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Slim Summerville

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

ANNIVERSARIES and HOLIDAYS. St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. AUCTIONS. - Household Fürnt- ture, 2 Connaught Road Gen- trat Ground noor,_230 p.m. CINEMAR. (See Column 3 of this

Page). LECTURES.-A. R. P. in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.; Modi- fied Full Course, at United, Ber- vices Recreation Club, Kowloon: Club Luistano 5.30 pm: La Salle College, 6 p... Diocesan Junior Girls School, @ DI Maryknoll Convent School, 4 p.m.; First · Ald," in "Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 7p.m.; at Tai Tung School, Kak Hang Tsun Road, Kowloon, 7 D.; at YW.C.A. Bonham Road,^":4.80.

"East Of Javg"

"Double Wedding"

ALHAMBRA:

"Safety In Numbers"

CATHAY:

"Spring Madness”

"Tarzan Escapes"

STAR:

"Can This Be Dixle"

MAJESTIC:

"Gateway"

"You Can't Take It With You"

"THE YOUNG IN HEART" AT THE MAJESTIC

David O. Selznick's comedy ro- mance "The Young in

Heart," starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks. Jr. and Paulette "God- dard, who makes her talking debut following her discovery in Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times." is now showing at the Majestice Theatre.

Mr. Arthur Reynolds, of Prince of Wales Hotel, De Vere- gardens. Kensington formerly of Antwerp and Hamburg, with Gellatly Hankey & Co., felt £2,- 453 (np. £2.390). He died intestate, ↑ bachelor. and letters of administration of his property have been granted to the Solicito: for the Affairs of Ells Majesty's Treasury for the Use of FILM Majesty

Mr. Charles Booth, Cunard Building. Liverpool, and Mossley Hill-drive, Liverpool, chairman of Booth Steamship Co., and а director of L. M. S. Railway Co... and Martins Bank Ltd., who died! as result of falling from window In Chester-street, S.W., left £29,-

530 (n.p. £21,525).

Lawyers

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939. —-PAGE 5.

Worried: Y

"Unfair"

Law

WIVES REFUSE

TO GO ON WITH

DIVORCE

More and more wives are going to decline to take dl- vorce actions because of an unforeseen clause in A re- cently passed Act which pre- vents a woman inheriting any of her divorced husband's money. This apialon

Wis expressed by a member of a well-known West End firm of solicitors who "specialise in divorce cases.

Divorce lawyers are worried and alarmed over the unforeseen con-

He gave his effects to his wife, sequences of the Inheritance 10,000 1st Preference and 10,000 (kamlly Provision)` Act. 2nd Preference £1 shares In into force in July and establishes Alfred Booth & Co. Ltd. to her, for for the first time the ufe. and the

principle residue equally that a married man's between his children.

obligation to support his wife does not necessarily cease on his death.

WOMAN DONATES COFFIN FUND TO STATE KUNMING, May 6

One old comm,

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ACTIONS

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

SHOWING » TODAY. AT 230, 5.10, - 7:15

ROMANCE

d RHYTHM

and

WAHOO! ITS A WORLD- CHAMPEENSHIP OF ROMANCE

"W'RINTHA_NʻLAUGHSI

DICK POWELL-PAT O'BRIEN

PRISCILLA LANE

TELE FORAS - ANN TANGAN - KONNE

MOYD WAGEN - A CROMOPOLITAN PRÚDUCTION - A AAstáR PHP, MOTORE

It comes

NEXT CHANGE UNITED ARTISTS

DROPPED

courts, and be awarded up. ro two-thirds. If one or more of his children are dependent on her.

A widow for whom no provi- ston has been made in (Central) husband's will may apply to the her late People in Kunming are deeply moved by the story of Mrs. Tang selling her own for $2,000 which she donated to the country in aid of resistance. This Act is en using muny As a token of Alial piety, the wives particularly young women aged

woman's. 3071 Gen. "Tang married to rich and elderly men- Hwal-yuan, Commanded of the to drop actions for divorce. The 12th "Division, bought the ex-reason is that a woman who has pensive coffin in readiness for obtained a divorce has no rights. her. But she insisted on selling under the Inheritance Act. Once it and contributing the money to a divorce is granted, a woman. the war chest.

cses her legal status as a wife.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS Tilus trated (8)

Prominently featured In the supporting Cast of this Alm based on the I. A. R. Wylie Saturday Evening Post serial, "The Gay Banditti," are Roland Topper" Young. Billle "Mrs. Topper" Burke, Henry Stephenson, character actor, Richard Carlson, romantic new comer from the New York stage. 11 Rope m3- and Minule Durpree, for more

terial (4) than four decades a popular Broadway actress.

Janet Gaynor has a new type of role in "The Young in Heart" as the daughter who helps her adventurous family chisel their way from the fun-loving Riviera to London, and whose loyalty to them almost costs her the love of her highly-principled young millionaire fance.

Solution No 303

ACROSS: 1. Smith, 4, Urban. 10. Fear, 11, Sign 13, Empire. 14, Unless, 15, Adds. 17, Rin. 18, Por- ridge. 21, Servitor. 23, Nap. 25, Bulb. 27. Angler. 30, Obtain. 32, Lent. 33, Dose, 34, Track, 35, Abuse,

DOWN; 2, Bulb. 3, Tune. 5, Rap.

5 Image (4) 8 Way in (8) 9 "Feld (4)

13 Burdened

(5)

16 Grain (4) 13. Boring

tool (4)

20. Came

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forth (6)

31 Actual (8)

23 Fertillé

spot (5) 24 Embank

ment (4)

28 Central

line (4)

29 Crippled

(8)

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(5)

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(6)

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6 Hideous (8)

7 Ack drink

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DOWN

1 Feat (4)

2 Compas-

sion (4) ···

6, Afraid. 7, Need. 8, Crust. 9. 3 Long for Despotic. 11, Sulky. 12, Glance. 16. Arrogant. 18, Gentle, 20, Sport. 22. Robber, 24 Abode, 26, Lost. 28. Gib, 29, Ends. 31, Arc..

Branch of M. C. L. Bridge and Mahjong Drive, at Police Re- creation Club, 3. p.m. SPORTS-(Bee Page 2). SUNRISE 5.47 a a.m. SUNSET.

6.53 D. TIDES-High at 02.31 and 11.50

Low at 05.24 and 1957, NA

TO-MORROW MEETINGS St Andrew's meat- cal War Working Party, 10 am.

Cathedral

MAILS-(See Page 16). MEETINGS. - Rotary Meeting. Hongkong Hotel, 1 p.m.; Kow- loon Chess Club, in Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Mothers' Union, 3 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS. — Army Tea- chers's Club End-of- Season Dinner, at Cafe Wiseman, a MISCELLANEOUS. p.m.; Central British School Display of Physical Training, 5.30 p.m. MOON-Chinese, III Moon,

Day

20th.

Fellowship Working Party, Ca thedral Hall 10 am, MOON-Chinese III Moon, 21st

Day." BOCIÁLWhist Drive and Tom-

bola in

Garrison Sergeants Mess 9 p.m. Y.M.O.A WO men's Section, Mahjong, 10 am

Competitive games). BUNRISE 5.48 B.m. SUNSET.

**6.53" pum."

RELIGIOUS.-Prayer and Fellow- ship Meeting at. 8. & 8. Bome, 8,30 p.m. SOCIAL-Y. MC. A Women's Section, Bridge, 10 a.m.; Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.45 p.m.; Craigengower Cricket. Club TIDES.High at 01.32 and 1121. Weekly Tombola, 9 pm Police. Low at 05.01 and 19.07.

10 Charity (4)

12 Compa-

nion (4)

14 Unknow

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