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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

QUEENS THEATRE

HONGKONG. DAILY AT 230-515-720-9-30 PM.TEL 31453

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

THURSDAY

SHE RULES AN EMPIRE OF CRIME!

GENERAL

Radio Programmes

HONGKONG

9.00 London Relay-The News 9.15 London RelayQueguoni of the Hour."

9.30

1. EDGAR HOOVER calls her "The most vicious, dangerous criminal brain of the last decade!

B

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On Wavelengths of $53

metres (345 k.au) 31,49 » metres (8.83 mcgrayalse).

Iles.

QUEEN

OF THE

MOB

Based on J, EDGAR

HOOVER'S

Beal:PERSONS DI MENG"

a basmount picture with RALPH BELLAMY

BLANCHE YURKA 3. CARROL NAISH

JEAN GAGNEY WILLIAM HENRY RICHARD DENNING Directed by James Bagui

"MYSTERY SEA RAIDER"

Henry Wilcoxon

Paramount Picture

· Carole Landis

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

NATHAN RD. KOWLOON DAILYAT 230-520-720-930. TEL 56856

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

He's back again!

TARZAN

AND HIS

MATE

An MGM Picture Starring WEISSMULLER

JOHNNY

"THURSDAY

Paramount Picture

i

4 SHOWS DAILY

2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN

"MYSTERY SEA RAIDER" Carole Landia Henry Wilcoxon

TARK ANY TRAM OR” KAMI VALLEY BUR

ORIENTAL

SCHUBERT RONDO IN A MAJOR BY TEMIANKA & ORCHESTRA

Portuguese Programme 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter

cession.

Maurice

12.30 Dance Music by Winnick and His Orchestra.

Fox-Trots-A Star Fell Out of Hes- ven; Did T Remember? (film 'Suzzy"), Fox-Trots-Turn on the Old Music Box: When You Wish Upon A Star (both from 'Pinocchio') Bedtime Medley-Intro: It's time to say good- night; Let's put out the lights and go to sleep: Goodnight. I see you in the Morning: Goodnight Sweetheart: Slow Fox-Trot-The Sweetest Music this side of Heaven. Fox-Trats -- Across the Great Divide; My Heart's In Old Killarney: Fox-Trot-Leave It to Love from Rise and Shine").

COMING EVENTS

FEB.

18-Tides: "High xm. and 4.16 p.m. Low 17.24 a.m, and 8.57 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.54 n.m.; Sunset: 6.21 p.m.| HR. Jockey Club's Annual. Meeting Third Day, 11.30 am.

Banks Close, 13 noen H.K. Rotary Club, Tim

Meeting.

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Variety with Frances Day. p.m. William McCulloch and The AM BG- H.K. University: Education Society. General Meeting-Speaker: Prof. R Vocal Cross-Eyed Sue; Daddy's Old C. Robertson on "Some Travels and Guitar The Hill Bullies with Their Adventures in the SW, Provinces of Own Novelty Accomp. Vocal---Whis China," 8.15 p.m.

pers in the Dark (Alm 'Artists and

Helena May Inst. Lecture, by Prof. Models') →Frances Day. Humorous Gordon Ring on "China and Modern Monologue - Peter at the Pictures Obstetrics," open to all members and {Bel)—Willer MeCulloch Vocal friends of the HK Nurses and Mid-

I Will Pray (Beverley Nichols wives Assn. 5.30 p.m. Frances Day with Orch Vocal -.. Wandering Shoes The HV BORics with Their Own Novelty accomp. Vo- cai-Music, Maestro Please (from These Foolish Things')-Frances, Day with Orchestra. Humorous Monolo- gue-Mr. Montgomerie's Wee Shop- Williant McCulloch.

Wartime Intercession Service St. Andrew's,..6 p.m.

10.00 London Belay-Talk: Abroad.*

10.15 Dance Music.

Fox-Trot-They

to

'Scots

Cheero Club Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m. Prayer and Fellowship Mtg.. S. & S. Home, 8.30 p.m.

19-Tides: High 325 am and 32 p.m. Low 8.03 am and 1047 pm.

Sunrise: 6.53 am; Sunset: 6.22 p.) Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.);}) Gert. Eouse, 9 a.m. 13,30 pm.

HK. Jockey Club's Annual Meeting, Fourth Day. 11.30 am.

Can't Black Out The Moon;' Waltz-Roses are Bloom-

Cheero Club Dance, 8.30 p.m. ing in Loveland-New Mayfair Or- Lecture: Mr. R. A. Hill on "Colour chestra. Fox-Trots - Back

Back on Textles" Room K, H.K. Univer (from Second Fiddle'); The Lamp Is sity, 830 p.m. Low Jimmy Dorsey and His Orches- 20-Tides: High 507 am, and 4.37) 1.00 Local Time Signat and Wex-Love Bells-Victor Silvester and His

Tangos Frangrant Flowers: pm Low 3.55 am. ther Report

Sunrise: 6.32 a.m.; Sunset: 6.22 p.m. Ballroom Orch. Quickstep- Tain't

Lauriching of M. V. Hia Sang, Kow- what you do: Slow Fox-Trot-East loon Docks. 6 p.m. side of Heaven (from the film)--Max- HK Y's Men's Crub, Tiffin Meeting. well Stewart's. Rallroom Melody:1 pm.

1.03 Luigini-Ballet Egyptian. Marek Weber and His Orchestra.

1.15 Popular Ballads,

Parted (Tosti; When I Come Back Home (Rizz-Peter. Dawson (Bass Bar) with Plano acc Coming Home CWmot-Willeby) Essic Ackland

(Contralto). At Dawning (Cadman); Mifanwy (Forster) Webster Booth (Tenor) with Orchestra.

130 Beuter and Bugby Press, Wea- ther Forecast and Announcementa.

1.45 Film Selections.

The Girl of the Golden West" Sun-Up to Sundown: Senorita -- Nel- son Eddy (Baritone) with Orchestra, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' -Selection: 'Sailing Along'--Selection -Patricia Rossborough (Piano). The. Road to Singapore' - Sweet Potato Piper: Typhoon-Faims of Paradise --Dorothy Lamour with Orch. "This'll Make You Whistle-Selection-Louis Levy and His Gaumont British Sym- phony..

tra.

21-Tides: Righ 654 ạm, 2nd. 5.47

Swing Fox-Trots-That DA Da St. Andrew's Church Hall, Movie Strain; Someday. Sweetheart-Mussy Evening, I p.m. Spanier and His Ragtime Band) Fox-Trot-You've Done Something to My Heart; Slow Fox-Trot-The Drift (both from Lights Up”—Jack Hyl- ton and His Orchestra. Fox-Trot-- Let's Make Memories tonight (from "All Clear"), Waltz-Lonely Sweet-dromes under auspices of the Uni- heart-New Mayfair Orchestra Fox-versity Medical Society, 8.30 p.m. Trot-Goodnight, Children, Every

Low 18.18 a.m. and 10.21 p.m. Sunrise: 6.51 am; Sunset: 6.33 p.m. HF University; Lecture by Profi] B. Wilkinson on "Coronary Syn-

Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OP.), where Jack Hylton, and His Orches- Govt. House, 9 am-12.30 p.m...

tra.

11.00 Close down.

Calls

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SHORT WAVE

DAVENTRY

HK. Chamber Music Club Concert University Great Hall, 9.15 pm.

Exhibition ..Basketball. Chinese Y.M.C.A., 130 p.m.

22-Tides: High 806 am, and 6.53 p.m. Low 1.20 am, and 11,52 nm.

Sunrise: 6.50 am.; Sunset: 623 p.m. FK. Jockey Club's Annual Meeting, Final Day. 2 pm.

23-Tides: High 8.55 a.m. and 7.48

Wavelength 17.79b.c. (16.86m.) 9.51m.. (31.35m.) 2147mc. 13197m.) | P<0. 15.18.6. (19.79m.,

NEWS IN ENGLISH Transmission I-News Sud-

G.S.G.

G.S.B.

G.SH.

2,15

Close down.

G.S.O.

545

Indian Programme.

FLEMING

6.30

Closing Local Stock Quota-

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tions.

mary

TEL 28473

6.32

Full Bulletin Transmission V-News Sum-

mary

Full Bulletin

do.

do.

Compositious of Weber. Euryanthe Overture-Willem Men

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY gelberg and His Concertgebouw Or-

YOUR FAV RITE FUNNY MEN IN THEIR LATEST SCREW BALL LAUGH RIOT!

See Star and Babe put out at sea in a tidal wave of hilaricas mishaps with mermaids, stowaways and harbor

police on a crazy ocean voyage.

LAUGHSZARE CONTINUOUS IN THIS ZANY ADVENTURE!

N

Hal Roach

STAN Prent

OLIVER

LAUREL & HARDY SAPS

AT SEA

TWO DAYS ONLY

·TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

HOPALONG CASSIDY'S MOST THRILLING ADVENTURE!

CLARENCE LIVLFORDY

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KARLOFF IS DOOMED TO

KILL BY THE MURDERER'S BLOOB IN BIS VEINS!

TO-MORROW

M-G-M PICTURE

RORIS

KARLOFF

BEFORE I HANG

EVELYN KEYES BRUCE BENNETT A Calut:- Picture "

JEANETTE MACDONALD

in

"THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE'

chestra. Ocean, Thou Mighty Mons- ter (from 'Oberon')--Elizabeth. Ohms (Soprano) with Orchestra. Invitation

to the Dance, Op. 65-Ignaz Fried- Trans, & DI-News Sum- man (Piano),

2.00

London Belay--The News.

7.15 London Relay-Britain Speaks."

Talk by J. B. Priestly.

7.30

8.00

Portuguese Programme.

Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Schubert-Bondo in A Major. Henri Temianka (Violin) and the Temianka Chamber Orchestra.

8.17 Alfred Cortot

Chopin Ballades.

playing Two

Ballade No. 3 A Flat Major, Op. 47; Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52. Selections from Light Opera. "

8.33

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Pull Bulletin

4.00 pm

5.00 p.m.

il.

Low 2.95- a.m" and 13,58 p.m. Sunrise: 8.50 a.m.; Sunset: 6.24 p.m. Junior Golf Championship Final, Panjing Hunt Point-To-Point Meet, 3 pm.

:

24-Tides: High 928 am and 8.37 pm. Low 3.42 am and 147 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.40 am; Sunset: 6.34 p.m. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.). 7.00 pin, Gort House. 9 am-12.30 p.m. 9.00 p.m.

6.45 p.m.

12.00 mid- night

7.30 a.m 8.30 a.m

25-Tides: High 9.37 am and 9.26 p.m. Low 3.16 am, and 2.32 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.18 am; Sunset: 6.25 p.m. HK. Rotary Club, 10th Anniver. sary Dinner, RK. Hotel,, 8.15 p.m.

Modern Books Said Growing Increasingly Journalistic In Character

New York-For some time all those whose business it is to keep their fingers on the pulse of literary activity have been aware that book publishing has been growing increasingly journalistic in character. More and more in recent years the book has been invading the field of the newspaper and the magazine, writes J.D.A

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Les Cloches De Corneville Over- ture (Planquette); La Fille De Ma-

That is one of the things that perform. In this period of rush- dame Angot Orerture (Lecocq)

is the matter with our literature, ing change the book which tries Vienna

a losing race Symphony Orchestra. The as it is also one of the things that to be timely runs Land of Smiles-Selection (Lehari -

Is the matter with the book husi- with the clock. "When nothing, in London Theatre Orchestra cond by ness.

the old phrase, is as dead as Ernest Irving. Chu Chin Chow Books have been attempting a yesterday's newspaper, how in the Selection (Norton) Gaumont "British function that the newspaper and names of Charles A Dana and Orch, cond. by Louis Ievy.

the magazine are better able to Horace Greeley could books be ex- pected to keep pace with the news that comes winging over the cable and the radio?

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The risks were bad enough when the flow of events was slower; now when they race past 'us Hike a speeded Blm the thing is utterly impossible. The man whose book deals with current eventa cannot know what's waiting round the corner of his next chapter. The "timely" "book" bas become the publisher's greatest risk.

FEWER AND FEWER

We shall soon, I think, see fewer and fewer books of this kind

Library, Supreque TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1941,-PAGE 3

KING'S

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LIFE GAVE THEM NOTHING BUT LOVE..... LOVE GAVE THEM COURAGE FOR EVERYTHING!

JOHN.

GARFIELD

LANE

PRISCILLA

with ALAN HALE

Frank McHugh Billy Halop

Fighting proudly against “ the world...asking little, haping much... barling their way to a home, to happiness! You'll never forget this simpie story of a great love!

Dust

be my

Destiny

Directed by Lewis Sailor-Prosanted by WARNER BROS. Screen Play By Robert Hossan • From a Novat by isrome Odlum & Firal National Pic

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Heroic Drama... Mighty Air Show!

MEN AGAINST THE SKY"

RICHARD DIX · WENDY BARRIE · EDMUND LOWE

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That will be a good thing for the up-to-the-minute information and

comment. publisher and the bookseller, and

for literature.

Book publishers 1

LARGEST BRIDGE The construction of the largest It will be a very good thing indeed not, and the sooner they act on

that realization the better it is bridge in Europe is nearing.com- Literature's concern is, or should going to be for everybody completion in Bohemia.

cerned. Even ́on a dollar-and. be, with the permanent things of

It is 510 metres long and 55 this world It may make use of cents basis the thing is fantastic

Why pay anywhere from two and metres high. what is transient to point them out and bring them home to us a half to three and a half dollars- but no writer whose work endures every week or month for what can metres and six small spans, three

be bought for three dents daily at either end. ever wrote with his eyes fixed on the headlines or their equivalent, half the story. The rest is

But dollars and cents are only

The width of the bridge avail- And we are, in any case, a na-deflection of literature from its able for traffic is eight and one- tion of newspaper and--magazine

half metres. true concern. People who care readers. If we spent half as much.

For the construction of the con-

the

It has one wide span of 150.

time reading books as we do read enough about literature to pay for ing dailles weeklies and-month-t want stun that will stick to bridge 600 wagon-loads of

their" ribs. something with a crete and 100 wagon-loads of steel Lies, the publishers and the book-man's thought and blood in it, and other building material were sellers would have nothing to something that isn't "headed for used. ** worry; 'about,

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a

The newspapers and the mazz-

the ashcan with yesterday's "Bugle" The cost of the structure to about and Clarton and last week's Snap 1,000,000 fefchsmarks, 11 Ja zines are geared for the job of

Tand Brilp.