1940-07-29 — Page 3

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COMING EVENTS

JULY

29-Tides: High 2.50 a.m, and £35 p.m. Low 11,58 1.0. and 8.17 p.m.

Sunrise:+5.53 a.m.; Sunset: 7,85 p.m. Crown Land Sale, "P.W.D. I p.m. Kowloon Union Church Club, 8 p..

ladies' Working Farly (B.W.O.F.), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon.

Christ Church, Kowloon: Memorial Service to the late Mr. Samuel Chang, 15 DAY

Eagle Photo Service, Pottinger Street: Mr. Francis Wu's Exhibition of International Prizs Photographs,

30 Tides: High 140 mm. and 6.35) p.m. Low 12.46 pm and 18.25 p.m.

Sunrise: 5.53 aim; Sunset: 7.04 pm. H.K. Rotary Club Tim Meeting. 1 DJTL

St. Andrew's Church Meeting at 7.30 p.m. to discuss formation of new social

club. Chairman, Fev. J. R. Higzs.

Soldiers' Ouild of St. George, Scan- dal Point. Hall. 730 pm.

GENERAL

Radio Programmes

HONGKONG

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metres (5.52 meguayclan).

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Variety Programmes 12.13 Short Service of Intercession. 12.30. Dance Musio,

Uhtary. Supreme Corch

2.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,

'8.03 This week's programmes, 8.07 Haydn-Symphony in G Major (**Military**).

Orchestra

MONDAY, JULY 29, 1940, -PACE

\AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

Philharmonic Vienna conducted by Bruno Walter.

8.30 Compositions of Schubert, German Dances-Philharmonia on .. chestra. Fantaisie in" C Major, Op.15 ("Wanderer")-Edwin Fischer (Piano). The Rosebud Harki Hark! The Lark -Elste Suddaby (Soprano) with Piano. Rondo (from Sonata in D Major-Op. 53) Joseph Szigeti (Vio- lin) with Plans. "Rosamunde”—Bal- let Music No. 2 Op. 28-Boston Sym- phony Orchestra.

Fax-Trots-Whoop It up: You Don't Williams and Understand--Clarence

9.00 London Relay.The News and Washboard Band. Quickstep........

I Doin'? Union Church, Hongkong: Week How'm

Slow Fox-Trot Topical Talks, Lazy Rhythm-Nat Gamella and *His Night Meeting, 7.30 p.m.

9.45 Excerpts from "Glibert S&S Home: Circuit Quarterly Georgians. Fox-Trots Temptation Sullivan Meeting 8.30 p.m.

UMİ

and

|Rag: Somebody Stole My Cal-The

Trial by Jury". For These Kind Engic Photo Service. Pottinger Ballyhooligans Pasodobles-CurrO

Thou Street: Mr. Francis Wu's Exhibition Ore; Per Mi Morena--Orquesta Words: When I Good Friende-Leo

sifemeld and Chorus Swear of International Prize Photographs. Tipica Roberto Pirpo Fux-Trut-I'm the Jury-Arthur Hosking, George Chess Club, Peninsula One Step Ahead of My Shadow-Joe Baker, Derek Oldham Leo Sheffield

Banders and His Orchestra.

and Male Chords. Where I the 1.00_Local Time Signal" and Wen- Plaintifi? -- Arthur Hosking, ther Report.

Winifred Lawson and Chorus.

Kowloon |Hotel, 5.30 p.m..

Cheero Club, Whist Drive, 830 p.m. 31-Tide: High" 5.31 a.m. And 1.56 pm. Low 1.32 pm and 11:46 pm.

Sunrise: 5.54 sæï; Sunset: '7.04 pim.

Clovt. House, 9 am-12 noos

HE.F.A. League Management Corn- mittee Meeting. ⠀

Ladies' Working Party (BW.OF).

Cheero Club Dance,

Lawn Bowls: Bowsters v ABG.C. North

at KB.C.G. 4.15 p.m.

Triangular Swimming Gala Point. 7.30 p.m.

WINGS OF THE NAVY

Baker, W

George

of Bridesmaids."

"Trial "by:

er and

1.03 "Our Gracie” in Variety.

Never, Never Leo Shereld Humorous Arguments — Clapham and Dwyer. Comedienne Piddler Jo May It Flease You-Arthur

Lawson George_Baker (London and More); Podr Me, Poor George Baker, Wilfred Lawson and You (Sanford and Others)-Oracle |

S3 | Choru. "The Yeomen of the Fields with Orchestra. Plano and we

Guard": Strange Adventure! Elste Intro: Easter Whistling Mediey. Parade; With every breath I take: Grimm, Dorothy GSI Derek Oldham Hark! What Was His Majesty the Baby; June In and Peter Dawson Str? Peter

Derek DAWECD. *** what, Januar January:

good

deserves taxe

king, Leo Oldham, Arthur Hosking,

Shef- another: The big bad wolf was dend

Chorus ke Tike feld, George Baker and ---Ronald Gourley, Comedierne-Pass, A Ghost His Vigil Keeping-George Shoot, Goal-Gracie Fields with Baker, Leo Shemeid, Arthur Flosing Orchestra. Vocal-Poor Dinah (Mor and Chorus A Man Who Would Woo row): Knock, Knock, Who's There? A Fair Maid-Derek Oldham, Wini- (Morris atd Others) The Rocky fred Lawson. Nellie Briercliffe. When

One

Mountaineers

1.55 The Aldershot

Aldershot

Dawson.

A Wooer Goes A Wooing Winifred 1.30 Beuter and Rugby Press, Wes-Lawson. Nelle Brierclife, Derek Old- ther Forecast and Announcements. ham and George Rater Rapture)

and Peter Easily the best service picture 145 Two Songs by Dennis Noble Rapture!-Dorothy G ever to reach the screen is "Wings (Baritone).

10.13 A Variety Programme. of the Navy,” a

The Devout Lover (Pollock and Warner Bros.-

Piano Gershwin Medley. Intro: Cosmopolitan production at the White): So We'll Go No More A-

Roving (Вугоп and White)with Rhapsody in Blue; Lady be Good: Majestic Theatre with an impres- Piano accomp.

That certain feeling; Looking for a sive cast headed by George Brent

Waitbit, Sule: 1 Build a Command boy;

stairway Oliyia de Havilland, "John Payne Searchlight Tattoo, 1935,

to Paradise: The Man 1 Love; I

I got Rhythm-Renars. Vocal and Frank McHugh, demonstrat- "Massed. Bands of the

Asleep In the Deep (Lamb); Puni- ing anew that there is no studio Command

culi Funicula (Denza) ----The Brothers (Four boys and guitar. Vocal-The Beene Changes (Billy Hin-Hildegarde with Orchestra. Ac- Fox-Trot-I Go For That (alm St cordeon Band-Wooden Shoes (alm Louis Blues'); Quickstep Shut-Eye Sweethearts; Sweethearts (from the Jack Hylton and His Orchestra)-Prime Scala's Accordeon Band Filmed with the full co-opera-Tangos-Nothing but des; Red Pop with Vocal Chorus. Vocal-Rainbow tion of the United States Navy, the ples-Emil Roosz and His Orchestra. on the River (from the

the film); Flower production has patriotically Fox-Trots-Romany?"

ny Lonely-Geraldo Song (from Rainbow on the River HIA Orchestra. Waits Love

Breen Comedienne-More educational side in that it gives Never

Grows Old; Slow Fox-ons of the spectator a thorough compre-Bon Voyage, Cherie-Jack Hylton, and

Benthead and, Greta hension of the extent and com-Es petence of the navy's air estab- Hishment.

in Hollywood that can match this 2,15 Close down. one in presenting on the screen. 6.00 An hour of Dance Music. vivid, exciting authentic stories about the nation's defenders.

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I'm

Carbo

10 Cigars! (Gordon Revell

11.00 Close down,

PB-

Swing

Music-Adios Forever Blowing

Desmond with Orchestra Logan with Perry Bol

Bot Organ-I Want to be Snappy-Med- kim and His Orch. Fox-Trots-The ley-Bidney Torch. Vocal--Mr. The supporting players, all of Spider and The Fly; Jump Jump's ganini (Richards) The Mills Brothers

contribute performances Taugos-On Wings of Dreams: Hours

Here --The whom

Mit Herth

Quartet. (Four Boys and a Guitar, which made the ensemble a thing and Days--Eugen Wolk And His Or cf perfection, include Henry chestra. Slow Fox-Trotz-I I Didn't O'Neill, Victor Jory, John Litel, Care: The Pretty Little Quaker Girl Geraldo and His Orchestra, Waltz and John Ridgely.

-All Through a Class of Champagne Quickstep-The Organ Grinder Grinds All Day Jack Hylton and His Or chestra. Foxtrot_And_The_Angeis

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1.00 Closing local Stock Quotations.: G.8.G G.S.3. 7.02 Humorous Variety.

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4.00 p.m.

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7.30 p.m.

0.15 p.. 12.00 mid-

night

1.30 . 8.30 A..

| Comedienne--Dennis,

The Menace from Venice (Pola); My Young" Man's Ever So Nice

(Ellis) Efe Atherton Transmission, I-News Sum- Declaring that the boumag utv

Vocal-The Cuckoo with Orchestra. rare at the Snun ruo. American (Sonin); All To Specification (W-Trans II & III-News Bm-

Full Bulletin

Aake! Rutherford)-Arthur owned Chinese paper, was a sense-cock and less act of wanton destruction Mr. with Orchestra. Humorous Monologue 97 Vietor Melaglen

-Gunner Joe (Edgar)—Stanley Hollo- N. F. Allman., owner of the paper. F. Bartholomew

way. Comedy Duets-Holidays (Naugh- expressed surprise that his paper ton and Gold); Income Tax (Naugh- should be singled out as the victim ton and Gold)-Neughton and Gold Transmission Y-News Sum- of terrorist acts. saya the N.C.D.with Plano,

7.30 London Relay The News, News.

THURS."PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER”

ONLY

FORMER K.L. SCHOOLBOY RETURNS AS CINEMA CZAR

Formerly Kuala Lumpur schoolboy and clerk in a Port Dickson firm; today Ceylon's cinema czar, bead of a firm con- trolling in all 26 cinemas, Mr. A. Gardiner arrived in Singapore" for a short visit, his first since he left the country in 1918.

W

The Shun Pau Mr. Allman sald, had confined its activities strictly to the chrondeling of news and world events and had always dis sociated itseir from politics and propaganda of any sort. It had business principles and was subsisting on subsidies from any party.

Mr. Gardiner, who is travelling was passed," he says, "after hot been run on with his wife, is on his way back discussion."

to Ceylon from the Rotary Inter-

held in

national Conférence

Havana in June this year."

Of American reaction to Bri- tain's fight with Germany Italy, he says, "You could say 50

and

Havana, locale for the con- vention, was to Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner," a bit of France in America, where they served

you

American French way.”

stuff

17

A

"FRIENDLY POLICY

Mr. Allman who has been asko- ciated with the paper for more than two years went to to say that no one regretted the occurrence as per cent. of them are for helping Cinema magnate Mr. Gardiner, much as he did, pointing out that Britain with money and with with Mrs Gardiner, visited Holly- both himself and the Shun Pao ment You And people of

while they were in had always pursued à friendly, opinion mostly among the more America, saw Clark Gable do a policy towards au and sundry. prosperous classes. The remain-love scene with Hedy Lamarr, in

The damage done was inconsi

ment.

this wood twice

"But," added Mr. Gardiner, can guess how much it a those people who are with Britain heart and soul, from the fact that, whereas they used to keep the let

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CROSSWORD

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8 County

9 Danger

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conscience

24 Issue

26 Far from suave

Remains

4 Lofty

10 Slumber ing 50 per cent, are divided be-Boom Town." Robert Taylor and derable, he continued, and went

11 Frolicsome tween help only with materials in Norma Shearer at work in their on to say that the worker of the

13 Fina a slightly larger proportion to latest picture, and the Thres

14: Not so those who would refuse all help. Stooges put their funniest into paper who was killed in the bomb ing would be buried at the ex- "Fifth-column works in their new picture Three Narty pense of the management of paper,

18. A remedy 'America with propaganda Spies."

which also would defray the medi-

19 Promotion Mr. Gardiner is which, when appealing, to the

a former cal expenses of other members of

21 End women-folk. plays on

student of St. John's Institution staff who were injured in the 22 Qualms of senti-

Kuala Lumpur. When he left

outrage hol and went to Ceylon for higher study, he spent the time between the final examination and

The war refugees in Slangning the announcement of the resulta, working as a clerk in Messrs. and Kihalen in Shans have ad- 28 Not this ter of the law by pushing planes Harper and Co., in Port Dickson dressed a telegram to Generalls

Canadian Over the

simo Chiang Kai-shek and Dr. H. 29 Bird boundary, That was in 1918. they now fy them over."

When he passed he went back H. Kung President and Vice (30 Decree. Speaking of the Rotary con- to Ceylon to become a lawyer but Fresident of the Executive Yuan, 81 Custom ference, Mr. Gardiner said much bought a cinema instead and gave expressing gratitude for the relies 32. Conditions business was done in Rotary mat-up law. Today he is head of a provided them by the Government ters and one of the main resolu- company that runs every cinema The National Relief Commission 1 Large tions passed was that Rotary In in Ceylon but one. And that one has recently dispatched Mr. Wang ternational should give all the is the one be bought arsti Meng-chao to Shansi to undertake

emergency relief support to the Democracies, "It (Malaya Tribune).

month

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