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WAMACE NORD - PATRICIA ELLIS STUART DATING ALINE MAGMAHON
Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone "HARDYS RIDE HIGH":
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DEANNA DURBIN in "FIRST LOVE"
"Naughty But Nice"
At The Majestic
Tomorrow:
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COMING EVENTS
|MARCH 20
21-less Mich 1.38, an. and 7.28 pm Low 135. a.m. and 1,45 pm.
Sunrise: 6.28 mm; Sunset: 6.35 p.m. Chess Championship Continued, EK Electric Co., Ltd. Anma! MW..
Extraordinary Gen. M
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11.18 8.
GENERAL
brary, Supreme Court
Radio Programmes
HONGKONG
Kal Tak Aksporti Dance, Peninsuls Hotel
Vagabond Rotarians Mig. Cafe de
China 1 p.m.
Z
King's College Annual Sports, Caro-
line H, 1.30 p.m.
B
Chinese Estates Ltd,, Annual M
China Building: 12 noon.
W
On Warelangtka" of⋅ 385
metros (845 koa) 31.49
metras (9.53 megauycles).
Passiontide Music St
Andrew's
Church 9 p.m.
YMCA Games Morning 10 a.m.; ADC. Rehearsal, p.m.
Diocesan Girls' School Annual
Sports, King's Park, 3 p.m.
Interpart Hockey Trial Navy Ground. 5.15 pm.
Colony Tennis Championships con- tinued
HK Y's Men's Club Mtg., No. 14 Koon Ma Terrace, Happy Valley, 6.30 p.m.
Cheero Club, Contract Bridge. Ladies Bible Study. 216. Nathan Road. 10.30 th
St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship 2.30 p.m.
Busy Bees Knitting and Bandage- Making, Central Station, 9.30 am,
Women's Cathedral
Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 3.30 p.m.
Catholic Cathedral: Washing of the Feet 11 am.: Office of Tenebrae, 5 p.m.
p.m.
St. John's Cathedral: Address 7 St. Andrew's Church: "The Pission of Our Lord" by Combined Choirs of St. Andrew's and Cathedral. 9 p.m.
RN. Yard Police Recreation Room, Whist Drive. 8.30 p.m.
22-Tides: High 8.30 am, and 8.20 p.m. Low 2.15 am. and 1.59 pm.
Sunrise: 6.28. a.m.; Sunset: 6.38 p.m. Good Friday.
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Bank Hollday.
United Service of Christian Witness
Kowloon, 11.30 am.
3t. Andrew's Club, Whist Drive, 8.45 Golf: Happy Valley Golfers v.
D..
loon Colfers.
4
Claims against estate of Herbert
Hatch due.
RECITAL
BY BOLANGE BENIE FROM THE STUDIO
Children's Hour
8.35 chestra.
Albert ··änndler and Hb Or
Solloquy (Murray); Gipsy Melody (Nelson and Knight), Prelude (Haydn Wood); For Love of You (from the (film).
8.50 Talk on "Canada and the Empire Air Training Scheme" corded by Capiata Harold Falfour, Under-Secretary of State for Air.
9.05. Violin Solos by Yehudi Menuhla.
12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter- by Arthur Balsam. cession.
12.30 Cinema Organ Music.
Show of Showa"--Selection; “No. No, Nanette"-Selection Youmans) Edward O'Henry at the Organ of Madame Tussaud's Cinema, "London with the New Mayfair Orchestra.
Lilac TimeSelection (Schubert art. Clutsam)-Harry Davidson at the Organ of the Commodore Thea tre, Hammersmith.
12.45 The London Plane-Accordeon Band.
Danse Espagnole ("La Vida Beere" -De Falla-Kreisler); Minstrels (De- bussy); Fight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov) Plano accomp. La Capricciosa (Ries); Allegro (Flocco)-Plano ac comp. by Louis Persinger.
9.15 London Relay-News Summary.
France"-
9.36 London Relay "Vive La
The fourth of a series on the Life of the French Army and People.
9:45 Georges Thili (Tenor) tam French Programme.
L'Attaque Du Moulin-Adieux a la foret (Bruneau) - Georges Thill (Tenor) with Orchestra.
Marche
Holiday Hits - Medley - Zatro: Herotque De Szabadty (Massenet)- Goody Goody; Hold Me Tight, I'm The Band of HM. Coldstream Guards. Failing Poor Little Angeline: She cond. by Lleut. 3. C. Windram Pay- Came From Alsace Lorraine: Sweet sage (Theurlet and Ham); Si Mes heart, Let's Grow Old Together. The Vers Avalent Des Alles (Hugo and Whistling Waltz calm Limelight'): Hahn)-Ninon Valhin (Soprano), with I Have Lost My Heart In Budapest Orchestra. Thais-Meditation (MS- (Puszta) (Mihaly and Feiner); Call- senet) Mischa Elman (Violin) with ng Me Home (Wafred)—with Vocal Pisna Clair De Lune (Paure and Chorus.
Verlaine); Serenade Toscane (Faure 1.00 Local Time Signal and Weath Maurice Faure at the Piano
Bod Bussine)-Georges Thill (Tenor) ther Report.
Have Have
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1.03 Ambrose and His Orchestra in
16.16 Selections from Light Opera. Dance Music.
"The Land of Smiles"-Selection Lehari-London Theatre Orchestra Fox-Trots Whotcha Gotcha Trom-cond. by Ernest Irving. "The Sorcer bone For? 1 Step Out of the Plc er Vocal Gems (Sullivan)-Light Tonight (from Swing Time'); à Fine Dollar Frincess Medley (Fall) ture. Fox-Trots-The Way You Look Opera Company with Orchestra. Kow-Romance (from Swing Time'). Blow Nat Shikret and His Orchestra.
Fox-Trot-Lady From Mayfair; Rum ba-Cuban Pete. Fox-Trots-May I
10.30 Dance Murje. The New
Romance? (from Fex-Trots There's A New Apple Head over Heels"): Looking Around Tree; Day After Day--Jack Hylton & Corners For You (from Head over His Orchestra Quickstep - Chop- Heels). Fox-Trot-All Thought The sticks; Fox-Trot Grpay Tears Jack Night (from Anything Goes-with Hylton and His Orchestra. Tangos→→ Golden Stars; Eternal Sun-Heinz 1.30_Beuter and Rugby Press, Wea. Hupperts and His Orchestra. Fux- ther Forecast and Announcements. Away (alm Sing, you simmers'?: Ali Trots-Don't Let That Moon Get Ashore-Eddie Carroll and His Music. Quickstep-Don't Say Goodbye: Waltz Hum A Waltz (film "This is my Affair")--Victor 80lyester and His Ballroom Orchestra. 11.00 Close down.
HK. Referees Assn. Dance at Hotel Cecil, 8.30 p.m. Tussiantide
Music, St John's Cathedral. 9 p.m.
Y.M.C.A.: Badminton 6 pm; 3ired Vocal Chorus. Swimming. 6 p.m.
Cheero Club. Darta. Table-Tennis, Billiards
Softball:
Trial. 1 p.m.
International Series
23-Tides: High 9.01 am, and 9.19 p.m. Low 2.50 am and 2.49 p.m.
Sunrise: 627 m; Sunset: 838 p.m. Bark Holiday.
Portuguese Company of H. 'K V.D.C.. Annual Dinner. Club Lusitano, 7.30 p..
H. Jockey Club. Second Extra Race Meeting. 2 p.m.
YIM.C.A.: American Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament at King's Park, 2 p.m.
All Saints Church, Bazaar, Kow. loon, 10 am.
24-Tides: High 940 am, and 10.30 p.m. Low 3,26 am and 136 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.27 a.m.; Sunset: 637 p.m. Easter Sunday. Golf:-Shanghai Visitors" Cup: semi-final of Mixed Foursomes due to be completed: first round of Adamson Cup due to be completed.
Interport Soccer:
Macao v. Hong kong:
Interport Dinner, Hotel Cecil. Memorial Service to late Dr. Tsai Yuan-pet. H.K. University.
25-Tides: High 10.15 am, and 11. p.m. Low i am and 4.24 pm.
Sunrise: 6.26 am; Sunset: 6.37 p.m. Bank Holiday.
Crown Land Sale. P.W.D. 3 p.m. H.K. Jockey Club, Second EX- tra Race Meeting. 2. p.m.
Entries Close for Kowloon Mars- thon Race.
and
International Soccer Final
26-Tides: High 10.52 a. 11.50 p.m. Low 4.35 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. Sunrise: 626 am.; Sunset: 6.38 p.m. HK Whampoa Dock
Co. AM- nual Mig., 12 noon.
Busy Bees Working Party, Bridge & Mahjong Drive, Cathedral Hall, 3 pm. West Country Society Supper Dance, Peninsula Hotel. 9 p.m.
Crown Land Sale, P.WD. 3 p.m. 27 Tides: High 11.28 a.m.; Low 5.85 am and 6.03 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.25 a.m.; Sunset: 6.38 p.m. Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co. Ltd. Aumal Mtg. 12 noon.
Cheero Club, Gala Dance, 8.30 p.m. HKRA
Prize Meeting.
China Entertainment & Land In- vestment Co. Ltd.. Annual Mtg.. King's Theatre Building, 12 noon.
Triangular Hockey-Army v. HK. Hockey Club, 5.15 p.m.
28-Chess Championship Con- tinued
TMUA: AD.C. To Present "House- master" 9 p.m.
H.KRA. Prize Meeting. Peninsula Hotel, Harp Recital, D.15
p.m.
China Provident Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd. Annual Mta HR Hotel, 13 noon.
Kowloon Tong Carden City ARKI Annual Mtg., 6. p.m.
Sports Club, Annual Meeting, 5.30
p.m.
29-Institute of Engineers: Lecture
"Chemical
Warfare" by wing "Com. A. H. Steele-Perking
HK Police Dance in aid of B.W. Annual Colony Marathon, Kowloom. 5 p.m.
MIDDLE EAST ARMY OP. Peninsula Hotel
CHIEF LEAVES CAPETOWN
CAPETOWN, Mar. 20 (Reuter) A love triangle in swingtime Gen. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief is the theme of "Naughty But of the British Forces in the Mid- Nice," Wamer Bros noval musical dle East was to fly from Capetown comedy, which
at the Rand yesterday in a Bouth Afri- opens Majestic Theatre tomorrow."
can, Air Force bomber. Ann Sheridan Dick Powell and Gen. Wavell who "arrived on Gale Page headline the cast and Sunday for consultations -- with are the parties of the hilarious the Union Government, on Tues- triangle, with plenty of additional day visited various defence points comedy provided by Helen Bro- on the Cape Peninsula. He lunched derck, Allen Jenkins, Ronald Rea- with the Governor General and gan, Zasu Pitts, Maxle Rosenbloom Lady Duncan and dined on Tues- and Jerry Colonna,
day night with General Smuts Harry Warren and „ Al Dubin the Prime Minister. penned the four hit tunes. "Corn
St. Andrew's Church Hall, Mahjong Drive in aid of D.G.B. Building Fund. A.D.C. Presentation of Prize Meeting. Diocesan Old Boys' Assi Mts. Le & Lo's Office, 6.30 pm.
A.S. Watson and Co, Ltd., Annual Mtz. B.K. Hotel. 11.20 a.m.
p.m.
Annual
Piano Duets by Rawics and
1.43 Landaver.
Carmen Selection (Bizet HTT Rawicz and Landauer); Faust-Waltz Landauer). Variations (Counod. art. Rawicz and Rosalie (film Rosalie"); Roses In December (Alm Life of the Party'),
1,58 Chorusės.
SHORT WAVE
DAVENTRY
Wavelength 17.79ha (16.8513.)
0.51m.c.
Drinks All Round-Intro: Vive la Flowing Bowl; Compagnie: Come, Landlord Pill the Little Brown Jug: Drinking: Old King Cole: What Shall Calls We Do With the Drunken Sailor? G.AG Simon the Cellarer: Whiskey John-G.S.B. ay Here's to the Maiden; We Won't G.S.H. Go Home T Mording:
Auld Lang G.8.0. Byne Columbia Vocal Gem with Two Planos
tem Company Hermann Lohr Vocal
Gems Intro: You'd Better Ask.. Me: Where My Caravan Has Transmission I-News Sum- Rested: Chorus Gentlemen: The Lit-
(31.5521)
2147ma · · (31.97m.)
15.18m. (19.79m)
NEWS
IN ENGLISH
mary Pull Bullen
e Irish Girl: The Little Grey Home in the West; Rose of My Heart; To Trans. II & III-News Sum- My First Love Columbla Light DIRTY Opera Company with Piano.
2.15 Close.down.
5.45 Studio Children's Hour.
Full Bulletin
do.
4.00 pm.
$.00 PIL
6.45 p.m.
7.30 p.m.
9.15 p.
12.00 mid-
night
7.30 2.131
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Full Bulletta
6.47 Short Variety Programme. Ducttists-What "A Little Moonlight Can Do film 'Road House'); Looking For A Little Bit of Blue (lm Road House')-Layton and Johnstone with Plano. Comedian Fat Flat Fish (Sarony); The Empire Party Song (Sarony)-Leslie Aurony with Orches
tra.
7.00 London Rela-The Debut of Buttling Ukridge."
A F.G. Woodhouse, story.
7.30
London Eelay-The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Marek Weber and His Of- chestra
Czardas Prom "The Spirit of the Voyevode (Grossmann); Buite Orien tale (Poppy),
8.15 Studio-Harp Reeltal. by So- lange Benle.
Rat
1. Contemplation (Rente); 2. Deux Chansons
Populaires Francaises (Czandjany; (a) Le Petit d'Yvetot: (betalt. une bergers; 3. Marguerite douloureuse au Rouet (Zabel); 4. La Bource (Zabel),
WEATHER REPORT
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am... March 20. Barometer at sea level), 30.03 ins. Temperature, 81 F.
Humidity, 65 per cent. Wind Direction, NNE. Wind Force (Beaufort), 2.
Days of
mary
SHORT TALKS FROM B.B.C.
(All Hongkong Timej Mondays - Background
to the News
11.00 pm. Tuesdays — Background j
to the News
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940. -PAGE 3
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7.71 ins.“ Hongkong Club, Annual Mtg., 5.30
Against an average of, 450 ins HK- University Alumni Assn. An- dunset tonight, 6.34 p.m. nual Mig, Gloucester Building. 530. Sunrise tomorrow, 6.27 a.m.
HK Lawn Bowls Aten. Annual
4 pm, March 20, Meeting.
Barometer (at sea level), 29.94 Ins 30-YMCA ADC. Presentation
Temperature. 61 F. of "Housemaster," § p.m.. THERA Prize Meeting.
Humidity, 67 per cent. Annual Children's Sports, Southern Wind Direction, NNE, Playground. 2 p.m..
Wind Force (Beaufort) 1. 51Kowloon Bowling Green Club, Maximum temperature, 63 F..
Minimum temperature. 65 Soccer: Shield Final," H.KRA Prize Meeting.
Rainfall, nil
Pickin'" "Hooray For Spinach," Thing." and "In A Moment of Redemption of Debentures, "I'm Happy - About The Whole, Weakness,”
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Gen. Yang Chleh, Chinese Am- bassador to the Baviet Union, ar rived in Chungking from Kunming by plane on Tuesday. He was Kreeted at the nerodrome by e group of Chinese officiais. Gen. Yang will make a report to the Central authorities on bis duties.
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