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JUNE GALE

GUINN WILLIAMS. MICHAEL WHALEN EDWARD BROPHY

Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel Directed, by H. Bruce Humberstone Screen May by Robert Rilis and itaten Logan. A 20th Century-Fox Picture

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY."

The year's finest star cast in the year's most daring romance! JOAN CRAWFORD, Margaret SULLAVAN, MELVIN DOUGLAS

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THE SHINING HOUR"

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FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

The following forthcoming mar rlages are announced:-

Mr. Ernst Lund, merchant, re-

Pretty Ceremony At siding at the Repulse Bay Hotel,

Rosary Church

and Miss Erika Bode, residing at Courtland Hotel:

Mr. Charles McConnel Sloan, SYKES-ENGELBRECHT motor engineer, of No. 61B, Wong- neichong Road, and Miss Jane Millar Whyte, of the same address;

Yesterday afternoon at three o'clock Miss Claire Engelbrecht, on the arm of her oldest brother, Mr. Fernand A. Engelbrecht, stepped from a motor car into the court yard of the Rosary Church In Kow-, toon, passed through the church's portal where a large wedding bell of gardenlas "was suspended and swept down the palm lined church aisle to the altar where she wILS married to Mr. John Richard Sykes

Mr. Woo Cha-chia, merchant, of No. 25. Gillies Avenue, first floor, Hunghom, and Miss Lee Sau-chun. of No. 27, Cooke Street, first, Apor. Hunghum;

Mr. Leung Yun-hung, clerk, of No. 124, Kennedy Road, Arst floor, and Miss Woo Kwok-ching, of the same address;

Mr. Au Man-kwong, radio me- chanic, of No. 45. First Street, second floor, and Miss Fung Yuk- ngo, teacher, of No. 56 Lyndhurst Terrace, third floor:

"Mr. Szeto Fung, merchant, of No.

Miss Engelbrecht, a graduate of C. B. S. and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Engelbrecht was costumed by "Eunice" of Kowloon. The bridal gown of white slipper 193, Wanchat Road, second floor, satin designed with a long bias cut and Miss Yip Yik-fen, of No. 17. skirt, had a narrow three yard Hing Hong Road;

train attached to the bodice which was fashioned in a high neck clos ing with a bow in front, the sleeves were long with fullness at the shoulder.

Mr. Tsang Shhu-cheong, sanitary inspector, of No. 23, Tung Choi Leung Suk-yee. of No. 436, Nathan Street. second floor, and Miss

Road, second floor.

A three-yard, white bridal vell was caught at the head by a fan- shaped halo of sea-pearls. Com- Mr. Sykes, of the Hongkong pleting the "white bridal costume" Police, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. was a bouquet of artum lilies and George Sykes of London, and was greens which Miss Engelbrecht attended by a cousin of the bride, carried in her arm

| Mr. M. 'Firetean

At the termination of the church service, the fifty attending guests joined the bridal couple in the

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The Bishop of Hongkong con- Diocesan Boys' School Chapel, on Airmed the following boys in the

May 20:--Law Sheung Lal, Ho Ling Kam, U Yat Ming, D. Harris, T Harris, Wong Kam Cheung. The Bishop was accompanied by the Dean of Hongkong (the Very Rev. J. L. Wilson), the Rev. Trang Kai Ngok and the Rev. D. Rosen- thall.

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Attending the bride, Miss Alvena Lalhovetsky, mald of honour, wore a full-skirted floor length frock of pink net, an open crown picture Peninsula Hotel where a reception | Cultural Association will be held at hat of organdy and ribbón match- was held.

ing the dress tone. Misses Helen Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sykes will Lathovetsky and Peggie Scotcher, leave on Saturday at noon in the bridesmaids were attired in bluess. Rajputana for Europe for six net frocks with large picture bats, months after which they will re- they carried corsages of garden turn to Hongkong and take up their flowers.'

residence.

NEWSETTES

Mr. William I. Gerrard attend- Mr. A. F. Horden, of the Marine

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ed a meeting of the San Francisco. Department. Chinese "Maritime Rotary Club on April 25.

Customs, accompanied by Mrs. Horden and their children, passed Lt. J. R. Garrett, of the Royal through the Colony in the Bar Marines arrived here on Sunday in pedon on Sunday on their way to the s. s. Sarpedon..

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Mrs. L. R. Andrews was a passen.

Shanghai.

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News has been received in

ger arriving here in the 5.3. Bar-Hongkong of the death, at Home, Dedon on Sunday.

of Lady Little, wife of Admiral Sir Charles Little, K. C. B., formerly Among the passengers of the Commander-in-Chief of the China Sarpedon which arrived on Sun-Squadron. The funeral took place' day was Mr. H. R. Stuart.

at Penn Parish Church, Backs, on May 11,

Mr. and Mrs. R. Bigazzi arrived in Hongkong on Sunday in the s.s. Sorpedon.

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Pay Captain EH Wethey, of H. M. 8. Kent, was a passenger arriving here on Sunday in the Sarpedon..

The Messageries Maritime steam- er Aramis is due to arrive in Hongkong to-morrow at 5 am. and will leave the same day at noon.

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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has received a joint, telegram from the Chamber of Commerce and 15 trade unions in Ningpo reiterating the firm determination Ningpo people in supporting the

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| war of resistance to the bitter end.

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boat

Trial runs were held yesterday by Messrs. John I Thornycroft.

the high-speed Ltd., of "Baler," built at the Hongkong and Mrs. V. M. Ovadia, wife of Mr. Whampoa Docks for President L. I. Ovadia, of Messrs. „E. D. Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Bassoon and Co., Shanghai, is on Islands. The boat will soon be her way north in the s."s. Bar-ready for delivery.. pedon.

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Royal Air Force recruiting,jump- His Excellency the Commander-jed ahead in the week ended- May In-Chief of the China Station, Ad-16 with a total of 1,071 entries com- miral Sir Percy Noble, is remaining pared with 328 in the "corres- in Amoy for the present, according ponding · perfod, last year. This to a naval report yesterday. brings the total entry of pilots,

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observers, airmen, and boya - since

A cinema (talkie) flim On "Lu- | April 1, 1939, to 3,918 compared with brication of the Petrol Engine," 1,561 last year, Of last week's by courtesy of Mr. J. L-Isley, new entries 118 are pilote. will be shown at to-day's weekly

meeting of the Hongkong Rotary Club.

A general meeting of the Hong- kong branch of the Sino-British

the Fung Ping-shan Chinese Library, University of Hongkong, next Monday, May 29, 1939, at 5.30 pm, when Dr. Han Lih-wu, direc- tor, Board of the Trustees for the Administration of the Indemnity Fund Remitted by the British Gov- ernment, will give an inaugural address. The business of the meet- ing will be to adopt the draft con- stitution. Light refreshments will be served.

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