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TO-MORROW

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TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS

SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW JIMMY LYDON-JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON BILLY HALOP-Ernest Cossart

Gale Storm

Hughie Green

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Les MISERABLES

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Fredric MARCH LAUGHTON

Charles

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A GRAND COMEDY OF MUSIC SONG AND LAUGHTERI

Cant Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Broderick Crawford, Peggy Moran, Johnny Downs, Gertrudo Michael.

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"LITTLE CAESAR'S" NIGHTIESTI

BLACKMAIL

ROTH HUSSEY • CENE LOCKHART - BOBS WATSON Directed by H. C. POTTER

Produced by JOHN W. CONSIDINE. J.

TO-MORROW.

AN MGM ALL COMEDY PROGRAMME

CROSSWORD

NO. 838

ACROSS

-1 At once

g" Sym-

metrical

10 Compass

11 Rows

"12 Support

13 Oppose

15. Eastern

sailor

18 Snuggled

20 Bet

bounds

22 Beseech

23 Printing

block

24 Vulgar

show

DOWN

2 UB, State

Self-inter- estet folk

5. Short

6. Madman

Tnhabitant

14 Methods

18

of work Winces

7. Urchin

8 Discern-

ment SOLUTION TOMORROW

17 Coming

19 Big spoon

21

Device

COMING EVENTS

FEB.

25-Tides: High 957 ani, and 9.20) p.m. Low 3.36 am, nad 2.32 p.m.

Sunrise: 6,18 a.m.; Sunset: 6.25 p.m. H.K. Rotary. Club, 10th Anniver- sary Dinner, FL Hotel, 8.15 pm.

Colony Chess Championship. Penin- sula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.

H.K. Jockey Club's Annual Meeting. Fourth Day, 11,30 am,

GENERAL

Urary, Supreme

Radio Programmes

HONGKONG

zon Wavelengths of 353 metres (545 'kov) 1149 maires (9.83 maga

H.R. Tramways sonual

(Jazdine,

meeting Matheson A Co. Offices).

B

"1" noon

W

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

CESAR FRANK'S FRELUDE CHORAL AND FOGUE

St. Andrew's Church" Annual Meet- ing. 8.30 p.m.

Bakh.

Checro Club Whist Drive. 870 p.m. 26-Tiles: High 1029 nm. and 8.58 Low 3.43 um. and 3.14 p.m. Sunrise: 6.47 a.m; Sunset: 6.26 p.m. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.), Govt House, 9 am-11.30 p.m.

Annual Meeting of HK and shal Banking Corporation, Loon.

Colony Chess Championship, Penin.

sula Hotel:

1 pun.

27-Tides: High 10.53 am, and 10.35 put Low 413 am, and 334 pz. Sunrise: 6.47 a.m.; Sunset: 6.20 p.m. FLX. Y's Men's Club Tiffin Meeting.

28-Tides: High 111 am and 1107 p.. Low 4.42 am, and 4.35 p.m. Suarbe: 6.46 a.m.; Sunset: 637 pm Kowloon Residents' Asson, Annual Meeting, St. Andrew's Hall 8 pm

Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OF.) Govt. House, 9 a.m.-12.30 pm.

Vocal Recital by Y. K. Sze, Peninsula Hotel, 9.16 p.

Star Ferry Co., Ltd., Annual Meet- ing (Jardine, Matheson & Co. Office), 11. ..

Compulsory Service Tribunal, Coun- cil Chamber, 9 a.m.

12.15 pm. cession.

Band WarRON"

5.45 Indian Programme. 6.38 Closing Local Stock Quel- tions.

6.32 Compositions of Sibelius,

Karelia Sulte, Op. 11; Alia Marcia -Intermezzą — London Philharmonic Orchestra. Symphonic Poem The Oceanides," Op. 73-The B.B.C. Sym-"

Adrian phony Orchestra cand. by

Flickan Boult.

Kom Ifran Bin Alsklings Mote Marian Anderson Finlan (Contrito) with Piano aco. dia-Tone Poem. Op. 26, No. T-Bir Thomas Beecham cond. the London

Shari Bervice of Inter-Philharmonic Orch.

12.30 Greta Keller (Vocal) and Billy Thorburn and 11s Music,

Fox-Trota Golden Heart; Then' The Courtesy of Lore (im Voice of Scandal-Billy Thorburn ' and Sis Music, when I Learn French on Me (Thamson); The Laugh was

Carter) - (Strachey,

Greta Keller (Vocal) with Orchestra. Fox-Trot -- So Many Memories; Waitz- Font

اله

7.00 London Relay-The News 7.15 London Relay--Britain Speaks," Talk by J. B. Priestly. 7.30 Portuguese Programmac. R.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 'Band Wagron."

With Arthur Askey, Richard Mur-

doch and Company

8.25 Charlie Kunz at the Piano. Forget the Old Folks at Home-Billy Thorburn and His Orchestra. These Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No R Foolish Things (Alm 'Spread it 7 Intro: In a little Gypsy Tea abroad-Greta Keller (Vocal) with Room: Old Mammy Mine; Anything Orchestra. Fax-Trots - Night Over Goes. Charlie Kunz Piano Medley) |Shanghai: "Cause My Baby Says It's No. D. 30-Intro: "Don't worry tout

Sa (both from The Singing Marine') me; Our love; And the angels ang:| -Billy Thorburn and His Music. Especially for you); Angels never 1.00 Local, Time Signal, and We leave Heaven: Goodnight my darling, ther Report.

goodnight.

8.35 1.03 Variety.

FUm Selections. Duologie Pancake Tuesday Everybody Sing-Film Selection - Throughout the Empire-Mai Kester Louis Levy and His Orch. Stars Over John de Grey, Monologue - Broadway-Selection; Rise and Shine Crazy Commentaries: Red Riding--Selection Sydney Kyte and His Hood v, The Wolf

Piccadilly Hotel "Band, -Max Kester.

and

"Thanks for

HEALTH BULLETIN Comedienne Our District Visitor: A the Memory" - Two Sleepy People: Hu- Big Broadcast of 1938-New Thanks The following is the Return of Servant Gir-Wish Wynne.

morous-Knock, Knock-Who's There for the Memory Bob Hone and notifiable diseases notified as hav-Vic Oliver and Sarah Chinthil, Shirley Ross (Vocal), "Everything in ing occurred in the Colony during comedian Vic Oliver, Ambles. On -- Rhythm Selection-Louis Levy and the 48 hours ended at midnight on vic Oliver. Comedians Big and His Gaumont British Symphony with

Vocal Arthur

Feb. 21:-Small-Fox, one case: Di-Stinker's Parlour Games phtheria, one case; Measles, three Askey and Richard Murdoch. Vocal cases; Chicken-Pox, four cases: Cerebro-Spinal Fever, оде case Dysentery, 10 cases; Tuberculosis, 57 cases

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9.00 London Relay-The News 9.15 London Relay 'Questions of ||

The Last Hansom Cabby (Connor and Wallace)-The Three Musketeers the Hour." with Orchestre.

9.30 Elgar-Froissart Overture, Op.

11

When Chivalry. Hfted up her lance on high" - Keats) London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Sir Edward Elgar,

1.80 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wea- 19. ther Forecast and Announcements. A middle-aged woman, who re- 1.45 Mozart-Concerto in A Major, fused to give her name and ad-

1st Mov Allegro Cadenza dress or to accept a receipt, en- | Allegro; 2nd Mov: Andante; 3rd tered a bank in Hebburn-on-Tyne | Mov: Allegretto (Cadenza) --Louts 9.43 Cesar-Franck--Prelude. and handed the manager, 100 £1 Kentner (Piano) and the London notes with the request that they Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Bir be sent to be Chancellor of the Thomas Beecham. Exchequer as a gift,

2.15 Close down.

ale and Fugue.

Chor-

Alfred Cortot (Piano).

9,45 News in French (on Wave Only).

Short

London Relay-Talk:

Scots

16.09 Abroad.'

10.15 Brahms-Quintet in B Minor,

TORTURE OF BOY (14) REMINDS 115. MAGISTRATE OF HELL'S "PICTURE

Because bis `ancontrollable” 14-year-old son stole money from his employer, a European, Loo' Eu Soon, an elderly cook-boy employed by the European

tied his son, Loo Seng Liang, to a tree.

chained his ankles together with a dog's chain,

gagged him with cloth,

placed rusty iron rings round his shoulders, and thrashed the boy until there were 120 marks on his body.

1st Mov: Allegro; 2nd Mov: Ada- gio; 3rd Mov: Andantino-Presto non assal ma con sentimento; 4th Mov: Con moto-Ta poco mec masso Busch Quartet IF

and Reginald Kel' (Clarinet).

In the police court in Singapore, he tied me to 3 1704 with TWO Mr. L. C. Goh convicted Lon Eu pieces of cloth. He put fron rings Soon on a charge of voluntarily on my shoulders and whipped me causing hurt and fined him $75, severely for about ten minuter or three weeks' rigorous imprison" ment.

10,50 Brahms Gypsy Songs. The Madrigal Singers.

11.00 Close down.

SHORT WAVE

"He then went into the house Calle

G.S.G. and just as he came out with a

DAVENTRY ·

... 21 ...........15.16m.c.

in passing sentence, the magis- knife in his hand, the police ar- trate remarked that he had seen frived"

"G.S.B.

Wavelength 17.79b.6. (168) 9.51m."

A.)

G.S.H. G.8.0.

(3297m.) (19.79m.

Full Bulletin

NEWS IN ENGLISH

fransmission I-News Bum-

mary

..... transmission V-News Bum-

mary

4.00 p.m 5.00 p.m

Full Bulletin

do.

GO,

pictures of a Chinese hell in which Loo Seng Liang 'admitted having wrong-doers were similarly chained stolen about. 80 cents from the and tortured

European. Mr. Gob added that parents questioned as to why he was i were allowed to punish their not caned on the day he stole the children, but not in the manner money, Beng Liang replied that he adopted by Loo... He went од to had run away from the house and say that if his son's teacher were had only returned that day. to-thrash the boy in that manner A police constable, V. Gracias, Loo would no doubt be the first told the court that he was passing person to resent such punishment. the house when he saw a crowd

An order was made for the boy of boys looking at something, Trans, LI & III-News Sun- to be kept in the Salvation Are Going near. he saw Seng Lang mary

Full Bulletin Home

tled to a tree and gagged with # Loo' Eu Soon was originally piece of cloth." The boy's ankles charged with wilfully" -treating were also chained.)

6.45 p..

7.00 pJu

.9.00 p.m.

12.00 mid-

night

7.30 am. 8.30 am.

his son, but the magistrate holding There were iron rings across his that the age of the boy. had not left shoulder and between his DEAD END KIDS ON been proved to be under 14. amend thighs. Gracias sald he saw the

ed the charge to one of voluntarily boy's father pointing a knife at causing hurt.

the bor He asked the father for

DRESS PARADE

Mr. N. N. Leicester appeared for the key to the chain, and releas The Dead End Kids On Dress the defence.

ing, the boy, took him to the Or-Parade," a Warner Bros. picture chard Road Police Station.

Medical evidence was that the boy, had 120 abrasions all over the body, specially deep on the chest and back

The doctor said that if the abrasions were caused by whipping, | 'he would consider it much too severe for the boy. He added that a normal punishment for a child should be given on the buttocks

STORY OF BIRCHING

In his defence, Loo Eu Soon admitted that Loo Seng Liang was his own son, He admitted having chained the boy at the ankles and having led

him to a tree. He stated that be saw some"iron rings hang- ̈ lug on the tree where he hað 'tied the boy and fearing they "might drop on his son's head, took them down and put them over his shoulders!

Eu Boon denied having gagged

starring the Dead End Kids will open today at the King's Theatre, In this picture, the famous bunch of screen toughs do a com- piete turnabout and become moder American youths in a modern American military academy.”". Btui | the crap-happy hooligans, how- ever, Leo Gorcey leads the Kids, this time as a city slicker who comes to military school to show the cadets a thing or two.

How Gorcey gota a little disci

In a feeble voice, Coo deng Liang, who said he was 15 years [old. (Chinese reckoning) described

to the court how he was thrashed the boy. He said that the boy was pline himself by the other Dead on Dec. 24 in the garden of ain the habit of stealing money Eriders, Billy Halop, Gabriel Dell, house at Grange Road where his and he caned him for about two Huntz Hall Bobby Jordan, and father was employed. He said minutes.

Bernard Punsley, forms the basis

that because he had stolen "money The toy, added Eu Soon had of this lively film of life in a bòya”. from his father's employer a few been sent by his mother from academy

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1941. -PAGE 3

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"ON DRESS PARADE"

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IN TECHNICOLOR!

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Marjorie Weaver Hattie McDaniel

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TO-MORROW."WAKE UP AND LIVE

ONLY

days back, his father chained him. China as he was proving uncon The Dead End Kids On Dress with a dog's chali.

trollable. He was mischievous and Parade," features in addition to the "My father held one end of the often returned home at about 5 Dead End Kids, John Lite), Frankie STARTING chain and caned me with a stick o'clock though his school closed at Thomas and. Cistle Loftus, famous THURSDAY he has cut from the garden. Then 2.30 p.m.

[stage star,

Walter Winchell Alice Faye

"JOHNNY APOLLO" Type Power

Dorothy Lamour