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Wednesday

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GREATER SACRIFICE"

A USSR Production with English Sub-titles

LEW AYRES

WILL DANCE

Solution No 377

Today's Screenings

KING'S

Hongkong

"The Three Musketeera"

QUEEN'S:

"Gunga. Din"

ORIENTAL

"King Of The Underworld” CATHAY:

The Ice Follies of 1939′′

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Gunga Din"

STAR:

CINEMA & GENERAL

"A Galaxy Of Ten New Disney

Shorts"

MAJESTIC:

"Made For Each Other-

KING'S:

Coming

"Inspector Höruleigh- QUEEN'S:

"Man's Heritage" ORIENTAL:

"Anthony Adverse”. "Never Say Die"?

CATHAY!

"No Greater Sacrifice" ALHAMBRA :

"Arizona Legion"

STAR:

"Swing. Sister. Swing”. MAJESTIC:

"Prison Break' -

NÁZI SPY PICTURE

Following approval of the local authorities, the film, "Confessions of a Nazi · Spy" will be shown at the King's Theatre at the end of this month.

The film which had been Censored, was finally released after an appeal was made to the Commissioner of Po- lice and bigher authorities, and it is now possible to exhi bit it in its entirety without' any deletions...

NEW KIND OF SCREEN. TEST

Charlie

Ruggles

may

go

down in history as the actor who discovered a new method of salesmanship in a sorsen test. Anyway, it worked for the witty comedian.

NEWSREEL CAMERAMEN ACES FIND SCENES TOO HOT TO HANDLE" ON SET

These internationally-celebrated dare-devils of the newsreal camera were visibly Impressed when they visited. some of the sets of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's latest action-thriller. " Too Hot To Handle, co-starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. They were eye-witnesses to true-to-life scenes which were excitingly re- enacted for the movie and which held memories of past events for them. Clark Gable's visitors. from left to right (standing) were: Marshall McCarroll, Roy Kluver, Joe Hubbel (Western Editor of News of the Day"), Charles Lehman, Norman. Alley (he won world-wide distinction for his shots of the bombing of the U.S. Panay) and Sam Greenwald. Seated are "Jack Pain- ter, Carl Jones, Carl Bergere and Herbert Tice. "Too Hot To Handle" starts a special engagement at the Queen's and Al- hambra theatres very shortly. Featured in a large cast are Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo.

WILL RULE MILLIONS

TIBET'S 5-YEAR-OLD

BRITAIN HAS £245,000,000

"WAR CHEST" IN UNITED STATES

DALAI LAMA LONDON, July 21 (By Air Mail) Britain is keeping a "war chest" LONDON, July 24 (By Ar

to provide potential purchasing Mäll)—A five-year-old boy has

power for supplies in time of war, been proclaimed 14th Dalai

It is learned in New York. Ap- Lama, ruler of Tibet and 'spirit-

proximately £50,000,000 was added ual, leader of millions of de-

to the deposits there of various votees of Lamalsm scattered

countries in Jane making a record through Mongolis and China.

total gold store of about £245,000,- Be was discovered recently after 000, held under “earmark.” ̈ la five years search by Tibetan In addition to the metal sent to monks and soothsayerg in the tiny New York, more than £60,000,000 village of Tabcrhsse, in the Ko-is reported in banking circles to kónor province of China.

have been placed in reserve under During that time the "finding of earmark m Canada, mainly the Dalal Lima was frequently re- for Britain, making a total of about ported and denied.

£300,000,000 held In North America.

Quiet Mannered " The boy, accompanied by special Though much of the gold is envoys from Tibet and represen-earmarked for Great Britain, other Chinese National countries, too, have considerable tatives of the Government, is now on bis way sums to their account, it is learned to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. in informed banking circles. Most He Is described as "quiet man-has been transferred since the nered. with bright, penetrating Munich agreement. eyes."

1.

When interviewed at his native COMING EVENTS

village before leaving for Tibet the Dalai Lama had little to say, replying in a few words of Chi-

Tibetan Belief

AUG.

7----Bank Holiday.

Tides: High 1.18 a.m. and 1.05 p.m.

Sunrise 5.57 am Sunset 7.01 p.m. St. David's Society Launch Pic- nie 2.15 p.m.

m

All-Cycling Meeting at Caroline

YMCA. Waist Drive 8:30 p.m. St. Andrew's Medical Working Party 10 a.m.

Tested for the highlight comedy nese to questions about his age Low 7.28 am and 120 p role of Nicki, romantically inclined and name, but shaking his head orderly to a Russian Cossack at other inquiries.

He was already dressed in the officer. played by Nelson Eddy, in BALALAIKA, Ruggles gave Pro- purple robes of a Lama, with hat ducer Lawrence Weingarten and and black leather boot. Director Reinhold Schunzel 扫 laugh and won the part.

The previous Dalai Lama died Weingarten and Bchunzel were at Lhasa in December, 1933, looking at the test in a Metro- Tibetans belleved that his spirit child Goldwyn-Mayer projection room, passed into the body of when they suddenly were surprised born at the exact moment of his to see Ruggles stop, mount a soap death. box and demand attention.

$

The search has been conducted "Look," said Ruggles, "Tvè made by means of signs, visions, and thousands of these things. They're portents, and "it was reported In a lot of nonsense. Let's get down January that it had been narrow- to business, do you want me, or ed down to, two candidates don't you?"

St. Andrew's Club Open Night Lawn Bowls, Singles Championship. 18-Tides: High 1.55 am. and 2.07 P. Low 8.59 am, and 7.38 pm,

Sunrise 5.57 8.m. Sunset 7.01 p.m. Firing Practice from Stonecut-

p.m-midnight.

ters

1

Tala Mtg. EX, Hotel Rotary Club p.m Crown Land Sale (PWD) 3 p.m. Craigengover C.G. Tombola 9 pm. King's College: Chinese Lessons on A.R.P. Start 7.30 p.m.

HELFA

P.A. Meeting of League Fixture

The Tashi Lama, the temporal sub-committes 5.15 p.m.

That was the end of the test and secondary ruler of Tibet, died¦ Ruggles" got the job.

In November, 1937.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

5 Contest (5)

8. Way in (8),

9 Superfor

(5)

10 Watchman

(8)

11 Forbidding.

(5)

14 Fresh (3) 18 Civil

ACROSS 3. Grasp, 8. Dairy, 9. | gand (0) Oasis. 10, Abbot. 11, Pasture, 13, 12 Walt on (6) Clark Gable certainly started Three. 14 Inch 16 Mislead, 19, 18 Plaything something on the M-G-M lot when Cold. 21, Yolk 22 Distant, 24, (3)

he agreed to dance in "Idiot's Fest. 26 Bixes, 28, Defence. 200 Room (5)

Motor, 30, Comma. 31, Clark 32 Delight."

Aroma

The latest recruit to be taken DOWN 1 Pagan, 2, Wrath. 4 under Dance Director George Robe. 5, Soot, 6, Pathway, 7, Widen King's wing is Lew Ayres. As the 16. Artists 11, Pitch: 12 Scold. 15, college hero in "These Glamour Blunder. 17, Dozen. 18, Skate. 20, Girls" Ayres is called upon to do Dilemma 23, Pilot: 24. Reply. 25, an almost professional version of Score, 27, Boar. 2, Doom

a dance with Lana Turner.

"Me dance," he yelled. "Say, it

would be as easy to teach a cat to reels of Cable doing his now bark," was his greeting to the famous routine.

dance director

"Well, I guess if Gable was game, And the only way King could I can try.". persuade him was to show the Bo Lew Ayres will dance.

24 Plain (8). 25 Thinking

organ (5) 28 On

educated (8) (27) Crag (5) DOWN

1 Worry (5)

2 Restrict (5)

3 Fright (5)

4 Plot (6)

6. Zest (8)

Applause

NO. 378

(8)

12 Army rat-

13 Byll

14 Mesh-work

15 Road (3) SOLUTION TO-MORROW

19 Juicy, fruit

(Leiser (5)

22 Tardiness

(B) Condition

St.

Andrew's Church Mothers' Union Mig. 3 pra

SU B.)

Bridge 10 am, Mod.

6 p.m. Redintaton 8.30 p.m. Bowls, Singles Championship.

Y MO.A. (W3) Mahjourgy, and Bridge Drive in aid of Charity 10 sm Chinese Chamber of Commerce Mtg. 2.30 pm

10-Piring Practice from Stonecut ters 6 pm to midnight.

HK. Y's Men's Club : Mig:, -81. Francis Hotel 1 p.m.

St. John's Ambulance ARP. Lec tures (Chinese) at Hors, 7:30 pm.

YMCA (WB.) Bridge: 10BAN, Mrd. Swimming 6 pm. Badminton 18.30 p.m.

YMOA ADC. de Mt. jpm. Mihjéngg 10 m.in.

HK Artists Union Entertainment,

| Lee Theatre 8 p.m.

11. Crown Land Sale (DO. South)

11 8.25

CA "ELOP FIL" Class 10.30 am, Mix Swimming & p.m., Bad- minton 8.30 pm

Registry Wedding, Chin-Ma

Anglo-Chinese Tuin, H.K. Hotel,

HK, Artists Unken Entertainment, Lee Theatre 8 p.m.

12-HE Chinese Journalists Assn. Sports Meeting

148 and Shanghat Bank Half-

Yearly Interims Dividend payaola, y Crown Land Sale P.WD.3 pr St. Jom's

Ambulance First Aid Leo- S"KÒME Board Room,

tures startin

5:45 pm

Tafrown Land Bale. D.O. North,

Investment and

ALL-HK Aqmay, It& Interim Dividend pay- able

17-Star Ferry Co., IL Interim Dividend payable.

18-XX Tramways, Ltd, Interim Dividend payable, very pa

At John's Ambulance ARP tures (English): 35 Hok 840 pan

(Swimming) stonecutters In 3.30 pm. Marathon Team Race

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