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TODAY

"LONDON LOG" AND

LONDON RELAYS Variety Programmes

Short Service of

OTHER

Foxtrots-I Wanna wrap you Up: It's Funny to everyone but Me-Blue Barron and his Band VocalA More or Less Volga Best Song: Tricky Little Tume-Major and Minor, Foxtrot ---- with the

the Wind and Hain in your Hair; Waltz The Creaking Old Mi Vincent Lopez Orchestra Valse Mon Petit Kaka; I Pleuralt-L'Accor-

COMING EVENTS

AUGUST

p.m.

31-Tides: High 7:03 am, and 8.37

Low 12.43 am and 221 p.m. Sunrise: 6.05 aan.; Sunset: 6.61 pm. Final Date for Payment of Property { Tox.

HM. Queen - Wilhelmina's Birthday Reception by Acting Consul-Ceneral for the Netherlands, 9.30 pm

Kowloon Golf Club Annual Meeting and Prize Distribution, 6. p.m.; Four- Hall Match President's Team v Cap- tain's Tearn.

Royal Scots Annual Swimming deoniste Deprince and Orch. Yocal Gain, Army Pool, Victoria Barracks, When you wear your Bunday Blue

Flus--Leo Marjane

Jun 8 pan.

1-Tides: High & am, and

9.08

Low 1.38 am, and 2.58 p.m. Sunrise: 6:06 am; Sunset: 640 p.m. HE. Golf Club: Captain's Cup at Happy Valley.

I'm in Love for the Last Lawn Bowls League.

Reynolds Foxtrot "I've

Haseball International Series. Caro- Got no Strings Bob Chaster's Or- chestra. VocalShe Had to go and line Hill, 3.30 p.m. Lose at the Astor-Florence Des- SEPT. mond Slow Foxtrot-Rainbow Valley Foxtrot When June Comes-Joe Loss 12.15 $

Inter-and his Band. Melody-Je ne T'Aire cession

and Orchestra. 12.30. Sam Browne with Nat Gonella Humorous-C'Est

Guerre: Two Lit- and his Georgians.

tle Doodle Bugs-Arthur Askey. Tan- Foxtrots-I'm Feeling like Million; 80s-Pobre Francesita; Manila Ale- Caravan - Nat Gonella's Georgians,

many and his Orchestra. Vocal Quar Rhythm in my Nursery Rhymes: The tette St. Louis Blues; I Heard The Mamorous The Old Star and the Rose-Sam Browne with Oak Tree: Put it Down-Max Miller.

Four Crotchets. the Rhythm Sisters Foxtrot-Let us pettista-All Because of You (Starr); be Sweethearts over Again Quick-

step The Gypsy in my Soul Nat Let's Go Ballyhos Browning and Gonella's Georgians. A little bit In Starr Pusodable Senorita Innamors ta: Tango-Zingarella Innernorate - dependent: Сурзу Violin

- Sam

Walts-Who's Livi Emilio with Orch. Browne. Foxtrot Twilight in Turkey taking you Home Tonight-Billy Cot-

Nat Gonella's Georgians.

ton and his Band

1.00 Local Time Signal and Wes- ther. Report

1,03 Rowicz and Landauer (Two Planos).

Nola (Arndt); Parade of the Tin Soldiers (Jessel). Liszt in Rhythm: Chopinezza.....

12.00 Midnight..........Close down. *. Continued On Page 8 Col. 4

Calla

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115 Lestle Jofrles' Orchestra. Springtime Serenade (Heykens); The Balkan Princess Valse (Rubens), Le Cygne (Saint Saens); Evensong Q.S.EL. (Easthope-Martin). Dearest Love G.$.0.

(Coward).

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NEWS IN ENGLISH

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea-) ther Report and Announcements. | Transmission I-News Bum-

1.43. New...Variety...wat

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Full Bulletin

Dancing Fingers-Polka (Gerlach); | Trans. II & III—News Sum- The Woodpecker Song

(Lazarto) -

Will Glahe's Orch. The Moon and the Willow Tree (Burke); Too Romantic (Monaco)-Dorothy Lamour. Mlien- burg Joys-Foxtrot Tommy Dorsey and his Orch. Haven't I seen you be fore (King): A Lady in Waiting (Park)--Florence Desmond Hornpipe Bill the Bosun-Band of HLM. Royal Marines.

2.25 Close down.

6.00 Beethoven-"Pathetique" Sona- toW. Kempf (Piano)..

6.18 Beethoven-Quartet Op. 18 No.

The Calvet Quartet.

6.50

Closing Local Stock

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Full Bulletin

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Transmission V-News Sum-

may

Fall Bulletin

4.00 9.33.

6.00 pm

6.46 p.

7.30 p.m. 9.15 p.m 12,00 mid- night

7.30 am 8.30 8.0.

"HOUSE OF THE

SEVEN GABLES"

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YMCA Discussion Group, B p.m. HK Chinese Journalists Assn.

Aquatic Sports Meeting. Chinese Bath- Lag Club, North Point, 2.30 p.m.

Lawn Bowls League. Baseball International Series,” Caro-

line Hill 2.30 p.m.

2-Tides: High 8.52 am and 244 p.m. Low 2.29- a.m. and 3.35 pm.

"Sunrise: 6.06 ami; Sunset: 640 p.m.

Bank Holiday.

"Government Trade School Courses' Tre-open.

Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F),|| Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon.

3-Tides: High 8.45 am, and 10,22 p. Low 3.17 am and 4.10 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.07 am; Sunset: 639 pm. Anniversary of Declaration of War. Claims against estate of Angelina Pattenden due.”

Diocesan Boys' School re-openx. Diocesan Girls' School: Entrance: Examination for new pupils 9 am

H.K. Rotary Club Tifin Meeting. 1 pm-8peaker: Mr. J. L. Isley "Shots! from An Oil Magazine" (Sound Film).

Maryknoll Convent School, New Students Registrations,

Crown Land Sale, P.WD., 3 pm. 4-Tides: High 10.37 AM, and 10.58 p.m. Low.406 am and 446 pm..

Sunrise: 6.07 a.m.; Sunset: 6.38 p.m. Claims against estate of Harriet Dabelstein due.

Auxilary Nursing Service, Lecture on Home Nursing, Kowloon Hospital (AL),"\

Maryknoll Convent School, New

Students Registrations,

Ladies Working Party (B.W.O.F.),

Gort, House, 9 am-12 noor

5-Tides: High 11.28 am and 11.39 pm. Low 4.56 am and 5.20 p.m. Sunrise: 6.07 a.m; Bunset: 837 p.m. Entries close for Macao Races, French Convent School; Entrancs Examinations for new pupils, 9 a.m.

Auxilary Nursing Service, Lecture on Home Nursing., Kowloon Hospital (M-Z).

HK. T's Men's Club Tiina Meeting,

-6--Tides: High 12.26 pm. Lów

The longest way round was the Quota-shortest way home for Margaret tions.

Lindsay, "I had to bluff a bit to 6.52 Light Orchestral Concert with] do it, though," Margaret admits. Soloists.

Miss Lindsay, who has the Take, O. Take Those Lips Away: featured role of Hepzibah in the Hey Ho. The Wind and the Rain; Go, screen's first dramatisation Lovely Rose (Quilter)-Hubert Eisdel

Heart; Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House p.m. Sanctuary of the (Tenor). Bells across the Meadows (Ketelbey)- of the Seven Gables," made by Concert Orchestra The

The Doll's Song trom Tales of Hoffman)-Miliz. Universal and which comes to the 1546 am and 5.54 p.

King's Theatre, tomorrow, seems Jus With a Russian Gypsy Orchestra

Jelmund): Two Guitars (Trad.) entirely too feminine to employ Alfredo and his Orchestra. One Day the thoroughly masculine trick of when we were Young: There'll Come Time (The Great Waltz) Milza. Korjus. Pavane (Gould); Toy Trum- pet (Scott) Boston Promenade Or chestra.

Kor-

730 London Relay-The News. 8.60 Local Time Signal and Wen- ther Report.

8.03 Variety.

bluff.

She was born in Dubuque, Iowa. and about the first thing she can remember, she says, is that she wanted to become an actress.

- Margaret admits she was fright- ened almost sick when she made

Joli Pinson Polka; Tirolyjave her first test. "They had called L'Accordeonists Deprince and Orches-jmy bluff," she says. "I had to tra. Passione Romans (Michelle); La show my hand.” Romanina (Michelle)-Enzo Fusco -| Tenor with Orch.

Apparently the hand was good

Sunrise: 6.07 a.m.; Sunset: 6.36 p.m.) Maryknoll Convent Echool, Kow- loon Tong re-opens; Entrance Examinations.

Diocesan Girls' School re-opens. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.),) Govt. House,, 9am-12 noon

7-Tides: High 12.24 am and 1.31 pum. · Low B45 am, and 6.27 .pm. '

Sunrise: 6.08 am: Sunset: 6.35 pm. St. Stephen's Girls College: En- trance Examination for new puplis, 10 am.

-

St. Stephen's College, Stanley: trance Examination for new puplis. 0

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Maryknoll

p.m.

Convent School:

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8-Tides: High L11 am and 2.47 Low 1.57 mm. and 701 p.m. Sunrise: 6.08 am: Sunset: 6.33 p.m. National Day of Prayer.

8.18 London RelayHome Defen- enough, for she was off to a flying trance Examination. ders"A Play by L. du Garde Peach, start in Universal's "Old Dark and produced by Howard Rose.

House." And then a leading role 845 London Log-Herbert Hodge.

In the all-British cast "Cavalcade." 9.00 London Belay-The News and

"After that it was time to dis- Topical Talks,

close that I was really from Iowa," Margaret says. She revealed the

9.45 Gershwin-Rhapsody in Blue -Boston Orchestra.

10.00 Selections from Light Operas. hoax she hd engineered, and ad- P Planquette Overture to Les Cloches mitted she was from the corn beit,

Y.M.C.A.: Discussion Group, 9.p.m. 9-Tides: High 2.09 a.m. and 4.23 Low 8.32 a, and 142 pm. Sunrise: 6.08 a.m.; Sunset: 632 p.m. French Convent School and Univer-i

de Corneville-Vienna Symphony Oribut by this time she was estab-aity Hostel new term re-opens, 8.30 chestra. Benedict "Lily of Killarney" lished as one of th screen's more am

-Vocal Gems-Light opera Orchestra,

"On Wings of Song" Memories told by competent actresses Frances Ciare, and sung by Joan Cross and Henry Wendon. "Heart's Desire"

Vocal Gems - (Tenor).

In the cast with the young Webster Booth Player In The House of the Seven Gables" are George Sanders, Vin- 10.30 A Programme of Dance Musio cent Price, Nan Grey, and Dick and Variety.

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La Salle College re-opens

St. Stephen's Girls'. College re-opens, St. Stephen's College, Stanley, re-

opens

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

Royden House Girls' School, Kow- |loon Tong, re-opens,

10-Tiden: High 3,21 am. "and "6.07 p.m. Low 11.08, am, and 8.54 p.m.

Sunrise: 6,08 a.m.; Sunset;: 6.31 p.m. ELK. Rotary Club Tin Meeting, 1 p.m.

11-Tides: High 4,37 m. and 7.28) pum. Low-12.17 a.m. and 10.52 pm:

Sunrise: 6.08 a.m.; Sunset: 8:31 p.m. ELE Electio (Co. Ltd. «Interim Dividend payable.

Ladies" Working Party (B.W.OF). Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon.

Newsreels Of Ruthless Air Attacks.

CHUNGKING, Aug. 30' (Central)- Newsreels of the ruthless June hombings on Chungking, taken by Cameramen of the Central Movie Studio:in the thick of bombare- ments, will shortly be shipped le America for regular showing.

The films it is learned here. were bought by a certain Holly wood movie company following negotiations between the "Com pany's China: representative and the Central Movie Studio's repre- sentative in Hongkong after thr former had seen a preview of Lha

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