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IT'S THE HOTTEST THING
THAT EVER HIT THE ICE!
Get on top of the world—al Dartmouth's famous festival of fun!
WALTER WANGER
ANN SHERDAN
in The Season's
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WN WINTER
CARNIVAL
k with.
RICHARD CARLSON
BELEN. PARRISH - ROBERT ARMSTRONG, VIRGINIA GILMORE
Directed by CHARLES RIESNER Elead they UNITED ARTISTS
Added Attraction:
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Direct After Showing at the King's Theatre!
TOMORROW AND MONDAY
A Merry Comedy Romance Filled with Action
OLIVER HARDY
and Humour !
HARRY LANGDON in
ZENOBIA"
A United, Artists. Picture
Radio
HONGKONG
GENERAL
Programmes
On Wavelengths of 355
motras (845′′ kou) $1.49 metres (9.52 megauyches).
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TODAY
B.B.C. RECORDING OF "THE FOL-DE-BOLS”
"London Log"
12.15 p.m. cesster.
Short service of Inter-
12.30 Songs by Turner Layton at the Plano.
The Village That Nobody Knows (Simpson and Haydn Wood). Let Me Whisper (Roseli and Heyman); You Belong To Dreamland (Gray).
12.40 Primo Scala's Accordeon Band.
ton).
Quickstep-Joseph Josepht Tango -Se Blue the Skies Maxwell Ste- wart's Ballroom Melody Slow Fax- Trot-Magyar Melody (tom 'Papri- ta-Victor Silvester and His Hall room Orchestra. Fox-Trots Night Over Shanghai (film "The Singing Marine': 'Cause My Baby Says It's
so ilm The Singing Mor
Thorburn and His Music. Say That You Will Not Forget
Baby??
COMING EVENTS
DEC.
§-Tidan: Higti 151 mm. and 8.30 p.m. Low: 228 am, and 155 pan.
Sunrise: 6.51 am; Sunset: 5.39 p.m. H.K. Golf Glue- 1st Round of Stubbs Shield due to be completed.
REO.C.A. Supper Dance, Peninsula Hotel
Claims against estate of Ruby Laing Peach dus.
Lawn Bowls; St Georges Society va St. Andrew's Society, Kowloon Bowling Green Club, 1.30 pm,
Russian Orthodox Church BamKET, St. Andrew's Hall,
Sale of Toys at Minington, Ltd., in Sweet Mary Rose Bernald of BW.OF., 10 am-3 p.m. hard Ette and His Dance Orchestra-
LR.C. Dance, Sookunpoo, 9 pm Fox-Truls How Cold You? Don't
AD-China Photo
oto Exhibition, Cafe Play With Fire-Eddle Carroll and Wiseman, 10 am-6 pm. The Casant Club Orchestra. Tangoa -Poema: Moonlight Kisses-Geraldo and His Gaucho Tango Orchestra,
11.00 Landon Relay London Log." 11.15 More Dance Musta.
Love
સમ
Fox-Trots - It's Been So Long: Every Time I Look At You-Chick Bullock and His Orchestra. Quick- step I Wasn't Lymg When I said "I
You":
Waltz-Oh. Mr. Man In The Moon-Henry Jacques with hi Correct Dance Tempo Orc. Fox-Trot Drummer Goes To Town: Slow Fox- Trot The Japanese Sandman-Joe There's A Gold Mine In The Sky Daniels and Mis Hot Shots (Kenny); Whistling Gipsy (from "Drumnasticks" TYDROS Lamento! *Command Performance'). In A Land Of Magic-Heinz Huppertz and Gypsy Caravan (Barnerell & Others); His Orchestra. Fox-Trots Riding The Range In The Sky (Carl-Mouse's Birthday Party: Oh, Tou Whoops We Go Again Har Rogue Ted Flo Alto and His Or Quicksteos Clarinet Mar vey); If The Old River Thames Were chestra. The Danube (Butler and Others).
malade: Madle Lent Raz-Army Roy and His Orchestra Fox-Trots---Do 1.00 Local Time Slanai and Wen- The Runaround (dlm 'She shall have ther Report.
Music: She Shall Have Music (from 1.03 George Scott Wood and His the film) Jack Hylton's Orchestra Six Slagers
Waltz-A Beautiful Lady In Blue- Quickstep--Hot Pie; Slow Parrot Mario "Harp" Lorenz and His Rhy- -Hot Ple Fox-Trots Handel Inthmics. Harlem: My Sweetie Went "Away. Evergreens Of Jazz-Intro: Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight; In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree; Dinah; Avalon: I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby; Nagasaki, Fox-Trats Hot Pie Medley-Intro: I Got Rhy- thm: China Boy: Alice Blue Gown: Hot Lips; Aunt Hagar's Blues: Am Blue.
12,00 Midnight. Close down.
Continued on Page 8
SHORT WAVE
Call
G.S.G G.S.B.
DAVENTRY
Wavelength 17.796.c. (16.86m.) $.51ma. (31.6m.) 21.47mc. (31,97m) 15.18m.4. (19.79m.)
NEWS IN ENGLISH Transmission I-Newa Sum-
mary
Slow Fox-Trot-Nightfall. 136 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea-G.S.H. ther Forecast and Announcements, G.S.0.
1.45 Selection from Light Opera, "Wake Up And Dream" - Vocal Gems (Porter); Mister Cinders" — Vocal Gems (Ellis and Myers)-Light Opera Company with Orchestra. "The Mald Of The Mountains" Selection (Fraser-Simoni - London Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean. "The Merry Widow";
Villa: The Merry Widow Waltz-Jeannette Mac Donald (Soprano) with Orchestra. Transmission V-News SumD- "The "Damask Rose"--Selection (Cho- pin themes, adapted G. H. Clutsar)
-Court Symphony Orchestra.
2.15 Close down.
6.00 Compositions of Bach.
Two Minutes (from 'Sonata No. 6 in E Major for Solo Violin')---Henry Merckel (Violin) Unaccompanied Partita In B Flat-Harold Samuel (Piano). My Spirit Was In Heaviness (from the Cantata Sighing. Weeping, Trouble, Want'); The Heart I Ask From Thee, Love-Lotte Leonard (So- prazo) with Organ, Violin & Harp- sichord. Arla (from Suite In D; An- dante Pablo Casels (Cello) with Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 In F Major-Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Sto- kowski
Plato.
6.45 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
6.47 Songs by Richard Crooks (Tenor),"
Good-Bye (Tosti); Killarney (Fal- coner-Ralfe). I Love You So from The Merry Widow Lehar) with Orchestra accompaniment.
7.00 Military Band Concert with Malcolm McEachern (Ban).
Castaldo March (Movacek-arr, Hewitt); L'Entente Cordiale March Anglo-Francaise (Alier)-The B.B.C. Military Band cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell. The Bell Finger (Oxen- ford-Wallace); Out On The Deep (Cowan and: Löhr) - Molcolm Mc- Eachern (Bass) with Orchestra. Tid- worth Tatto: Tidworth March; Co- burg March; Sambre Et Meuse
March (Planquette) Massed Bands
Full Bulletin Trans. II & III-News Sum-
mary...
Full Bulletin
do. da.
mary
Fud Bulletin
REW.O.'s and Seryta. Mess: Whist Drive and Dance, 836 pa
Wedding at. Registry: Bloch-Club man, Doon
*10-Tides: High 9.49 .. and KAN pm. Low 3.00 am, and 2.02 png,
Sunrise: 6.51 a.m; Sunset: 5.39 p.m. HK Golf Club, Ist Round of M. Young Cap due to be complet ed: Semi-final of Club Championship.
Macao Racess
First Round or Ladies Tennis
ane to be completed.
ChampionsMatch In Ald of
W.OF. 3 p.m. Charity
Military Band Concert at Peninsula Hotel, 9 p.m.-11 p.m.
Softball League
Broadcast Address by Mme. Bun Yat-sen, 8.45 p.m
YMCA. Open Hight-"My Philo- sophy of Life," 9 pm.
Fanling Hunt-Dill's Corner, 2,45
11-Tides: High 18.39 am, and 921 pm. Low $49 am and 2.37 pm:
Sunrise: 6.51 ami; Sunset: 5.39 p.m. H.K.. Society for Protection cf Children, Annual Mix, Helena May
5.30 p.m.
Inst
Crown Land Sale, P.WD., J'p.m. TM.CA: War Work, 10 am; ALD, C. Rehearsal, 7.pm: Whist Drive. 8.30 p.m.
HK. Philharmonic Society: Dress Rehearsal for "No! No! Nanette!" at Queen's Theatre. 11.45 p.m.
12-Nomination of JP's represen tative on Legislative Council,
Kowloon Chess Club. Annual Din-
ter. Feninsula Hotel, & p.m.
EE. Rotary Club Tin Mig. 1 p.m. YMCA Bridge Class, 10 am: Badminton, 8 p.m.
Old Marburlon Dinner. 13-HKRA. Shoot, 1.45.p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Not: No! Nanet te" 9.30 p.m.
YMCA: Badminton; AD.C. Re 7.30 pm.hearsal, 7 p.m
4.00 m 5.00 p.m.
6.45 p.m.
9.15 p.m.
12.00 mid-
7.30 am.
Taikoo Club Lawn Bowls, 3.15 p.m. Polo: Kildare Cup Tournament, night 3.30 p.m.
8.30 ..
SHORT TALKS
FROM B.B.C.
(All Hongkong Time)
·Mondays --- Background
to the News ..........11.09 pmo. Tuesdays Background
to the News
In
8.15 #.. .'11.00 p.m. England Now Cards on the Table 8.00 p.m. Wednesdays -- In Eng-
land Now
6.45 B. Cards on the Table 8.15 am. Matters of Moment 11.00 p.m.
of Thursdays Matters
Moment Background to the Neww
Fridays In England
Now
Saturdays In England
Now
London Log London Log -Bundays---London Log
6.45 3.m
11.00 pm
11.00 pun
€1.45 am. 3.30- yin 11.15 p.m 6.45 8.31.
Rip - Roarin' Drama At King's Today
14-Queen's Theatre: Nanette," 9.30 p.m.
"No!" No!
"ER. Chinese Women's Club, Chari- ty Dance, Peninsula Hotel.
Election of JP's representative on Legislative Council.
Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Annual Meeting, Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s office, 5.15 p.m.
First Church of Christ Scientist, Lecture by Mr. Colin Rucker Eddison, HK Hotel, 6 pm.
Theosophical Society: Speaker MIT. Wel. Tat "Some More Thoughts on Ancient Chinese Wisdom."
YM.C.A.: Games Morning, 10 am Women's Section Committee Mtg., 10:30 a.m.; A.D.C, Rehearsal, 7 p.m.
Meeting of Court of University of HK. Fung Ping Shan Chinese, Li- trary, 5.30 pm.
15-Queen's Theatre: Nanette"-9.36 pm.
No! Not
Central British Assn Dance. Univeralty Women Undergraduates Club Concert by Great Hall, 8.43. p.m.
HK Football Referees Assn. An- nual Dinner.
Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd, third interim dividend payable.
FLE Chamber Music Club Concert at Govt: House, 9.30 p.m.
Heep Yunn Girls School Speech
Day 5.30 p.m.
TM.C.A.; Badminton. 6pm.li Social Evening at Police Recreation Club, Happy Valley, 830'p.
Servicemen's Dance, 8. & 8, Home, 8.30 p.m.
16-HK Jockey Club's 13th Extra Meeting. 2 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "No! Nal Nanat-
"The Oklahoma Kid," with te"-930 p.m.
of the Southern Command March James Cagney in the title role, 1s Lorraine (Ganne): La Marseillaise the surging drama of an empire La Garde Republicaine Band con-in creation and its dramatic, ducted by M. G. Balay. Anchore thrilling action will hold audiences Aweigh-March-United States Navy Band cond by Lieut Charles Beater.
spellbound when it opens today at the King's Theatre, 7.30 London Relay---The News. -
Local Time Signal, Weather 8.00 Report and Announcements.
8.03 B.B.C. Recording - "Flying High" Part II.
Written and arranged by Alan Rus sell and Charles Brewer.
Comedy of Welsh Rural Life.
The new Cagney starring picture is & rousing melodrama of the Open spaces laid in the days when homesteaders were erarig the last frontier in the United States, It is a semi-historic tale of the great
8.30 London Relay "Birds of a land rush and other events which ||Feather.”
followed the opening up of Okla- homa territory to" settlement in 9,00 Winnie Melville and Derek 1893, but it scores primarily as Oldham with Marek Weber and thrilling. entertainment ww made Orch
memorably by superb acting by Dainty Little Maiden (Besley); I've the "star and such players as Found A Whole World In You (Les lie)-Winnie Melville and Derek Old Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane ham (Vocal Duets) with Orchestra and Donald Crisp. "The Beggar Student" --- Selection Naturally. even 蒜 Cagney (Millocker)-Marek Weber
and His alone could not make "The Ok- Orchestra.
lahoma Hid", the thrilling enter- 9.05 Studio Comments on Recent tainment it is, but he has all the Events.
aid that is necessary-aswell. 9:15 London Relay--News Summary-story and a swell supporting cast. 9.34 Local Sport Results:
6.22 Beginald Foort at the Organ.
Medley Of Daly's Favourites-Intro: COLONY HEALTH
A bachelor gay (The Maid of the Mountains); Villa (The Merry
Work in aid of War relief and local St. Stephen's Girls' College: Sale of charities. 11 pm.
¦ Y.M.C.A.: AD.C, Rehearsal, 8.30
p.
Exhibition by Erze Preedlander, St. Andrew's Hall, 9 am-6 p.sh
17-HERA Shoot, a.. Golf-Club Championship Final. Exchigition by Ernie Preedlander, St. Andrew's Hall, 1 p.m.-8 p.m.
18--Claims against estate of Thomas Meek and Edward Tucker due.
Cheero Club. Osla Christmas Dance, 8.30 p.m.
|
Sandakan Light and Power, Co. Ltd. Annual Mtg., Bank of East Asis Bldg. 12 noon.
H.K. Yorkshiremen's Society, An- nual Meeting. HK. Hotel, 5.45, p.m.
Busy Bees Working Party-Final. Bridge and Mahjongg Drive, Cathe dral Hall, 3 p.m.
19-Claims against estate of Gaston Desmaller due.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1939. -PAGE 3
HK Horticultural Society, Annual- Mtg, Jardine, Matheson's Board Room; |*-- 5 pm.
20-EKRA, Rifle Shoot, 1.45.p.m. Peak School Prize Day, 5.15 p.m...
Becond and Third Rounds of Ladies Tennis Championships due to be com. pleted.
VM.CA. Pantomime, 5 pm. 21-Launching at Kowloon Docks, Á 31.12.
St. Andrew's Club Carnival Dance, 9 px.
Cheero Club Christmas Dinner. 7.30
Forty-nine cases of tuberculosis,
due.
P
ti.
YMCA. Pantomime. 9 p.m.
Chlidren's Fancy Dress Party, Pen- insula Hotel, 4 pm 6:30 pm.
Widow); Bohemia (The Happy Day); twelve cases of dysentery, four Leander (Katchs the Dancer); Under cases of diphtheria, three cases of the Deodar (A Country Girl); You're enteric fever, one case of small- in love (Gipsy Love). Reminiscences Of Frim)-Intro:
Indian Love Call; pox and one case of measles were The Mounties: Chanson; The door of notified to the Health Department my dreams; Rose Marie: March of on Dec. T. the Vagabonds; Only * Rose: L'Amour Toujours L'Amour: Bere nade...
:
Dr. C. T. Wang, Mr. Tu Yuch-sen 945 B.B.C. Recording-The Fol and Mr. Wang Eslao-lat, members De-Bois."
of the National Relief Commission, have sent messages of condolence Variety show written and produced to the family of the late Martial by Greatrex 'Newman with Music by
Wu Pel-fa, who died in Pelping Wolseley Charles.
on Monday.
18.28/ Dance Music.
KING S
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5:10, 1.15 år 9.30 P.M.
CAGNEY RIDES... SHOOTS...KILLS!
The lustiest spirit of America?" stormlest days rides with *The Kid”,
JAMES CAGNEY
< THE
KLAHOMA KID
with
HUMPHREY BOGART • ROSEMARY LANE *Also «Broadway Brevities in Technicolour
"SWING TIME IN THE MOVIES"
A Warner Bros., Picture
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THE KID FROM KOKOMO"
PAT O'BRIEN WAYN» MORRIS:Joan BLONDELL
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·TODAY · ONLY
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LORETTA
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YOUNG-GREENE
WALTER BRENNAN
THE SUN NEVER SETS"
Doug. Fairbanks, jr.
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THEY'RE IN LOVE!
THE YEAR'S HAPPY-GO- LUCKIEST ROMANGER
YOU'RE IN LUCK!
TAYLOR
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Keseph ALLEN
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Lewis STONE [Malay ROONEY
- Ciella PÆRKER: Fay. HOLDEN
Danced by GROŽÁR 3. SZITZ
"ZENOBIA" AT
THE MAJESTIC TOMORROW
GOYANG, Dec. 8 (Central)The
A new era in entertainment will. Honan Broadcasting Station (re-
witnessed tomorrow when sumed its broadcast with short "Zenobia. Hal Roach's latest wave instead of long wave yester offering, is screened at the Majés-"'! day:
tie Theatre...
Its call signal is XGOQ, It broadcasts from 5 pm. to 11 p.m. every day.
Dance,
"REO.CA," "Fancy Dress" Peninsula Hotel
Fanling Hunt sand. Race Club Meeti
22-8ino-British Cultural Ass, Mik, Speaker: Mr. J. E. Witham "Chining at Ewanti. Tea Trader
Chins Light and Power Co., Ltd. Annual Mig, 12 noon
Claims against: Enemy arms (Vince Singer and wilhelm Maley and Co.) 23-YMCA Pantomime, 8 pm. 24Christmas Eve... 25-Christmas Day. 29––Boxing Day,
TMC.A. Pantomime, 3 p.m. and
p.m.
chen Tax Yan due.
30 Claims against estate of Leung
31-New Year's Eve,
The era in this case is 1870, atid the setting Mississippi in the carefree days after the Civil War. Hardy is cast as small-town doctor, Langdon as the owner of a medicine show. The eternal tri- angle is in this case completed by Zenobia, Langdon's two-ton she elephant, who forms a heavy at tachment for the doctor when he unties an uncomfortable knot in her tail
The HC. Bunner story from Pootball Shield, Pirst Round
which "Zenobia" is adapted was YMCA, PRntomime, 9 p.m. Theosophical Society: Speaker-Mr. called "Zenobia's Infidelity," which Perry Chen "The Rebirth of Nations may give some clue to the plot.
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