1939-05-11 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Today's

CINEMA & GENERAL

DISNEY'S SONG

IN

£260,000

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1939. —PAGE 5.

QUEENS Screens PARLAMAN In A Year N

DAILY AT 2:30·515·7·2029-30 ·TEL.3/453′′

TODAY AND TOMORROW

HEAR Judy wrat tire strings

4 of my beacY "

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SEE Freddie «ct-

as Eupāl's lette

Helper

THRILL to a Tomzn.

lic new lure team'

GAILY YOURS! Freddie and Judy pick a man - for Mom...and no drizzle puss need apply! It's grand!

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Listen Darling

FREDDIE

JUDY

BARTHOLOMEW » GARLAND

Mary ASTOR > Walter PIDGEON ALAN HALE - SCOTTY BECKETT" Directed by EDWIN L. MARIN Prodrend by JAEN CUMMINGS

* Metro-Goktugen-Mayer METLER

SATURDAY

FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS

THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE'

4 SHOWS

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JANE WITHERS

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"CAN THIS BE DIXIE”

with

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TU-DAY"

ANNIVERSARIES, and HOLIDAYS,

St. Mamertus, Bishop. AUCTIONS.-Crown Landa, at Omice, Ping Shan, 11.30a.m. CINEMAS.—(See Column 3. of this

Page). -ENTERTAINMENTS. - Gramo- phone Recital on Brahms, by Mr. E. O'Neil Bhaw, at European YMCA. 9 p.m. LECTURES-ARP. Modified Full

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KING'S:

Hongkong

"Romance And Rhythm”

QUERN'S:

"Listen DarlingTM

ORIENTAL

"East Of Java"

CATHAY:

"Tarzan Escapes"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Safety In Numbers" STAR:

"Can This Be Dixie"

MAJESTIC:

"Gateway"

Coming

KINGS:

"Topper Takes A-Trip" QUEEN'S:

"The Story or Vernon & Irene

Castle"

ORIENTAL:

"Double Wedding"

ALHAMBRA:

"The Story of Vernon & Irene

Castle**

CATHAY:

Three Blind Mice". *Sky Glant"

STAR:

"Walk Wedding"

"Paris Honeymoon"

A

MAJESTIC:

"You Can't Take It With You".

EMERGENCY SERVICE FOR SOLDIERS

Chinese Y.M.C.A... ·

Activities

CHUNGKING, May 9 (Central)...... With a staff of 152 workers and at an expenditure of $67,000, the Chinese YM.C.A. Emergency Ser vice to Soldiers served more than 4,000,000 Chinese soldiers in Beld beadquarters, garrison posts, sta tions, military hospitals, Red Cross trains and steamships st its 20 service stations in 1933.

Encouraged by its success, the emergency service has increased its personnel to 250 and its stations to 30, scattered

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afraid

WASHINGTON. "Who's of the Big Bad Wolf.

"The Big Bad Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf? Tra-la-la-lat"

11

I have been looking through the salaries of some of the more highly pald American business executives.

as, reported to the income-tax The strains of "The Big Bad

authorities. And I find that the Wolf Walt Disney's famous men in entertainment business song-shook the House of Repre- head the list, writes. a Home.cor- sentatives when Congressman respondent. Geyer of California rendered the words and music in the middle of a lively debate here.

Louis B. Mayer, of M-G-M-Films, made £280,000 in 1937, Nicholas Schenck, President of Loew's Inc. Mr. Geyer was objecting to a speech by Congressman Schafer of and the guiding genfus of M.-G.- Wisconsin, whom he accused

M. earned £98,000. Major Edward of

Bowes, executive director of Edmar "huffing and puffing as though you were going to blow the New the Amateur Hour on the wireless. Enterprises and the originator 'af Deal house in."

was paid £85.500.

To illustrate what he thought should be the right retort to Mr. Schater', remarks, Mr. Geyer burst into song, whilst other members laughed and applauded.

Some members asked the chair to secure order so that the singer might receive "a respectful hear- Ing" but others objected to the congressman's "odelling.

*

Among - the..." actors " and actresses, Greta Garbo earned

£84,500, Joan Crawford £70,- 006, and Clark Gaḥis £58,000.

Big Business also showed some high figures. Thomas Watson, president of International Business Machines received £83,000. George

Hill, of the American Tobacco Co., £78,000 and Owen Young and

REFUGEE SCHOOL Gerard Swope, of the General

FUND

The following doriations have been received by the Hongkong

Electric Co. £47,000 each.

FROM NEWSPAPERS

Newspaper salaries, too, were

Emergency Refugee Council for high Mortimer Berkowitz, president

the Refugee School fund:-

of the American Weekly Inc.. £53,000 and Edward

St. Stephen's Girls' College $200. earned China Motor Bus Co., $100, Mr. J.Scudder.

of the Evening News

Marion Douras, better known as

A. Gaunt $100, Mr. L Tre Fong Publishing Co.."£23,000. $100,- St. Mary's School $100, Kow- Joon Junior School $65, Mr. K. W. Chan $50, Sir V. M. Grayburn $50, Marion Davies, the dim actress, Mr. F. Chang $30, B.P.S. 6A $25.30, received £21,000 as president of Messrs. Anderson Meyer & Co. Henrst's Cosmopolitan Corporation. Ltd. $25, Nederlandsch Indische But W. Hearat. jun., of American Handelsbank $20. Ching Hua Col-Newspapers Inc., earned only £12,- lege 520. Tsang Fook Piano Co. $20. Chan Family $15. Cheung Chau The columnist. Walter Winchell, School $10.30, Mr. G. E. Frisque $10 earned £10,000. G. McManus, artist, Inspector Hooper $5, Mrs. C. M. of King Features Syndicate Inc. Chan $5, Mr. Chan Man Kal $5, received £20,000, and Robert L Anonymous $5. and Mr. Li Chau Ripley, of Belleve It or Not was Wa $2.

Just under £30,000,

500.

CROSSWORD

.. ACROSS 1 Styles (5) 8 View (5)

B Weight (5)

9 Part of throat (5)

10 Homeless man

(5)

11 Hawsers (3)

14 Connects (4) 17 Disallow (4) Cheklang. 19 Debate ending

Kiangsi, Human, Hupch, Szechwan, Honan and Shenal. In addition to 20 Nought (4)

a monthly budget of $4,000, the

service will expend $157,600 for its activities in 1939-or which $100,- 000 has been allotted by the gov ernment.

VARIED HELP"

Apart from helping the hospital staff in dressing wounds. the "7" men are engaged in writing letters, distributing "comfort" articles, and providing education and amuse- ment. A small library is main- ̈tained by each service station where the hospital inmates may read books, magazines, "and news-. papera.

Lecture classes are conducted for the discussion of current toples and for teaching religion and illiterate ones are taught to read and write. Group singing is frequent. Chinese operas, motion pictures, concerts, chess, and physical exercises, are among the amusements provided for the convalescent.

at Hors,, Lower Albert Road. 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Wo- men's Fellowship, 3 p.m.; "Wo- men's Bible Study Circle.” on "The Book of Revelation.” HK. Evangelical Fraternity, 216 Na- than Road, 10.30 am.; -Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pm. MISCELLANEOUS, Gulld of Martha and Mary Bewing Meet- ing in the Vicarage, 100 Water- loo Road, 10 a.m.; Exhibition of Chinese. Cartoons at Central Theatre.

tal, 6 pm.; at Ambulance Hqrs, 5.30 p.m.; at Kowloon Hospital, Outpatients Dept. 6 p.m. A.R.P. fh Chinese, at "E" Godown, of HK. & Kowloon Wharf Go- down Co., Ltd., 7 p.m.; First Aid, in Chinese, at Tung Mul Middle School, 127 Heard Street, Wanchai, 7 pm; for men; at Ambulance Hors.. 7.30 p.m.; "Running Repairs, at Volun-SPORTS-(8er Page 2), teer Hars., 11 a.m.; Theosophi-

' RELIGIOUS.--St. John's Cathedral- Confirmation Class (Adults), Lady Chapel, 5.30 pm.

Course, at United Services Re- caf Society; 6 pm.. creation Club, Kowloon Home MAILS-(See Fago 16), Nursing at Queen Mary Hospi- MEETINGS.-Cathedral: Scouts,

| SOCIAL--RAO.B. (GLEJ Club Whist Drive: and Tombola. Queen's Building, Ice House Street, 8.30 p.m.: Public Works Recreation Club Tombola, Cause- way Bay, 8 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge Night,

BUNRISE 5.48 2.m. SUNSET—

6.53 p.m.

-TIDES—High at 03:38 and: 12.28.

Low at 06.08 and 20.52.

21

Flag Bower (4)

22 Reposing (7)

23

Valley (4)

23 Want (4)

28 Drive (5).

31 Or same value

(3)

32 Junction (5) 33 Lawful (5)

34 Private nights

(5)

35. Turning machine (5) DOWN

1 Confidencé (5) 2 Halt (5) 3 Ascend (4)

4 Break sharply

NO. 306

(4)

5 Hardens (4)

8. Berious (5)

7 Drunken (5)

12 American

. animal (7).

13. Learned· (7)

15 Utopian (5)

16 Despise (b)-- SOLUTION TO-MORROW

Solution No 305)

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, K10, V.38 AND 8.30 P.M.

ROMANCE and RHYTHM

WAHOO! IT'S A WORLD- CHAMPEENSHIP OF ROMANCE

M'RHYTHM NʻLAUGHS

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Also Colour Travelogue

LAND OF KANGAROO’ "TOPPER TAKES A TRIP ” with CONETANCE BENNETT ROLAND Young.

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TODAY AND TOMORROW

WHERE THERE'S A JAM, THERE'S A JONES-

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The

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SAFETY IN NUMBERS

SATURDAY

FRED ASTAIRE

in

GINGER ROGERS

THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE"

17 Condescend (5)

18 Din (5)

23 Gluttony (5)

24 Dodge (5) 28 Live (5) 27, Dullard (5) 28 Evils (4)

-29: Attendant (4)

30 Quieten (4)

ACROSS: 1, Rodent. 4; Pauper: E) DOWN: 1. Regult. 2, Demand. 3, Mad. 9. Bimoom 11; Shrill, 12, Bengt. Noose. 4; Pass, 5. Adhere. §. Priest. 13. Lancet. 16, Ruses. 18, Tide: 19,7. Relist 10, Mettle, 14, Ald. 15," Talent. 23, Parent, 25, Epic. 28; Cedar. 17, Under, 20, Letter." 21, Where 29, Tirade: 31, Giten. 38, Ltd. 22. Swoons. 23, Pencil 24, Orchid, 34, Rebate, 35, -Old. 36, Region, 26, Panama, 27, Celery, 30, Saline. 37, Steady:

Inept, 32, Idle

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