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| COMING EVENTS

MAY

3-Tides: High 102 sim. and 1244 pm Low: 5.44 am, and @ pius.

Sunrise: 5,50 am; Sunset: 851 pm. Claims against Estate of late Mr. J. A. da Silva due.

"Y" AD.C. Presentation, "Mrs. Dot,

Charities at Home,

in aid of War 9.15 p.m.

Chinese Youth Day Meeting. Chinese Y.MG.A.

Celebration

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CMS, Heep Yun School Physical Training Display, 3 p.m.

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Cycloz Softball Club,,Dance. Penin- sula Hotel.

Lecture: Dr. Glift on 'Prophecy." 77 Pokfulam Road, 2nd floor, 8.30 p.m.,

4-Tides: High 4,08 am and 1.47 p.m. Law: 6.25 am. and 10.07 p.m

Sunrise: 5.49 nan; Sunset: 6.51 p.m. Tea Dance in Aid of St. Vincent de Paul's Society. Club Lusitano..

Macao Jockey Club Meeting. Areia Preta. Macno. ..

YMCA, Discussion

j Lounge, 3 pm.

10 a.m.

Annual Meeting of Ltd., followed by Alexandra Bldg., 5 pm.

Group, West

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GENERAL

Radio Programmes

HONGKONG

On Wavelengths- of -35% modems (845) KAW) 25.49

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TODAY

SCHUBERT SYMPHONY NO. 8 THE "UNFINISHED""

London Relays

12.15 pm Short Service of Inter- cession.

Who's your lady Friend") — Frances Day (vocal) with Orch. A Little King Without a Crown (Parker & Others) -London Plano-Accordeon Band”

9.65 Gershwin Medley,

Intro: I gos Rhythm; My one and only: Clap yo'' banda; The man. I Love; Lady be Good; Do, Do, Do; Someone to watch over me; Swanee; That certain feeling: Tell me more; Fascinating Rhythm New Mayfair Orchestra with Elizabeth Welch and Robert Ashley, vocalists.

9,43 -- 10.00 News In French (on Short Wave Only).

10.00 London Relay-OL!"

Dance Music. 11.00

Fox-Irot --- I'm Spending Christmas 12.90 Dance Music,

with the Old Folks; Slow Fox-Trot - Fox-Trots - Moon over Dixie; Jazz There'll come another Day Sydney RES Grosvenor House

5-Tides: High 5.08 am and 3.0: Convulsions-Duke Ellington and His Lipton and

Orch. Tangos-Madaire, You're Love Dance Orchestra, Swing Fox-Trats- p.m. Low: 7.58 am and 11.07 pan.

Sunrise: 5.49 am; Sunset: 652 p.y: Spider of the Night-Mantovani & The Hour of Parting: Coconut Grove Quick-Step My--Benny Goodman and His Orch St. Andrew's (Medical) War Work. His Tipica Orch.

Blue Heaven; Slow Pox-Trot, Just Waltz Memories live longer than Mackintosh's One More Chance-Josephine Brad-Dreams; Tango Fox-Trot-The Mem'ry Extraordinary, ley and Her Ballroom Orchestra. Fox of a Rose Joe Loss and His Orch. Trots Ebony shadows: Big Boy Blue Fox-Trot-In a Moonboat; Slow Fox- -Teddy Foster and His Kings of Trot-Can't Get Indians off my Mind Swing Waltz-I'm Forever Blowing-New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Fox- Bubbles-The Green Brothers' Marim Trots-When the Swallows come hack ba Band.

to Capistrano; Love Lies-New May- fair. Dance Orchestra. Quick-Step 1.00, Local Tiṇe Signal

All the Things you are; Slow Fox. 101 Old Time Variety.

Trot- I had a Million Dollars - The Naughty Nineties-London Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Or- Intro: Maiden's Prayer; While Lon-chestra. Fex-Trots Never Took, E

il

!!

YMCA. Bridge Drive, 830 p.m. Ladies Working Party (B.W.OF.) Govt. House," 9 am to 12.30 ‘Dum,

6-Tides: High 547 am and 4.37 p.m. Low: 19.47 am and 1138 p.m.,

Sunrise: 348 am; Suntet: 6.5% pan.į St. Andrew's Parish Social, Fare- well to Dean Wilson, B.45 p.m.

7-Tides: High 6.26 am and 2.58 don's Fast Asleep; Two Lovely Black Lesson in my Life; The Nearness of pm Low: 12.14 p.m.

Eyes; As Your Hair Grows Whiter; You-The Organ, the Dance Band & Sunrise: 5.48 a.m.; Sunset: 653 p.. Glorious. Beer. The Naughty Nineties Me. Quick-Step-Cheerio: Fox-TIDE--- Annual Meeting of Douglas Steam--Romance - Intro: Fas" de Quatro; All Over the Place The Organ, the ship Company. P. and D. Bidg 11 Daisy Bell; After the" Ball; She was Dance Band and Me Swing Fox-Trot one of the Farly Birds-Old Timefs-Soft Winds-Benny Goodman Sex- 7.12 Stetch Company with Fred Hartley's tet. » Quick-Step Meniaries of You: Quintet. Medley of Daly's Favourites Waltz-Confidence-Victor Silvester & -Intro: A Bachelor Gay: Villa; His Ballroom Orch Bohemie; Leander; Under the Deo- dar; You're in Love--Reginald Foort Good Old Songs of the (Organ) Good Old Days--Intro: Meet Me To night in Dreamland; Hitchy Koo;

am.

8-Tides: Wigh 7,01 am, and p. Low: 1244 am and 1.17 p

Sunrise: 3.47 am; Sunset: 6.53 p. H.K. Eugenics League, Gloucester Hotel, 5.30 p.m.

Presentation to Very Rev. J. L. Wi son, Jacobean Room, HK, Hotel, 6.15 p.m.

St. Andrew's (Medical) War Work, You Made me Love You-The Old

10 a.m.

12.00 Close Down

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SHORT WAVE

Timers with Orchestra, Evergreens of 9-Tes: Wigh 7.40 a.m, and 8.17 Jazz Intro: Hot Time in the Old Calls pm. Low: 128 am, and 2.18 p.m. Town Tonight; In the Shade of the G.S.G. Sunrise: 547 am; Sunset: 6.53 p.m. Old apple Tree; Dinah-Scott Wood G.S.B Intercession Service, St. Andrew's and His Six Swingers. Ellaline Terriss G.S.H Church, 8.30 p.m.

and Seymour Hicks Medley - Intro: G.8.0. 10-Tides: High 318 am and 9.18 Honeysuckle and the Bee; Only

p.m.

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'CALLING DR. KILDARE”

LIONEL BARRYMORE ● LEW AYRES A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

Penny, Sir: Simple Little String:

yer, ma honey; And her Golden Hair was Hanging Down her Back-la-

DAVENTRY

Wavelength 17.796.0. (16.867.)- 9.51m.c. (81.35mm. 21.47mc. (31.87m.) 15.18.2. (19.79m.)

NEWS IN ENGLISH

Low: 2.01 am, and 2.58 p.m. Sunrise: 5.46 an; Sunset: 6.54 p. Church Parade; Lousian Lou; I want Transmission I-News Sun Women's Advisory Committee of New Life Movement, Roller Skating Contest, Kowloon Skating Rink,

Softball League Dance, Peninsula Hotel.

Fifth Extra Meeting of HR Jockey Club.

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Full Bulletin

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Pull Bulletin

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line Terriss & Seymour Hicks (vocal),Transmission -News Sun-

1.30 Beater, and Rugby Press and Announcements..

1,45 C. B. Cochran Presents

~C B. Cochran's 1930 Revue"-Vo-

cat Gems-Light Opera Company w. TraOR. II & III—News Burn-

Music" →→

CHAMBER MUSIC Orchestra. Words and

CLUB CONCERT

Pianoforte Recital By

Dr. Lovelock

Selection New Mayfair Orchestra. Wake Up and Dream"-Vocal Gems

Light Opera Company with Orches tra. "Evergreen" Selection; Twenty

Million Sweethearts" — Selection-Nev

Mayfair Orch

2.15 Close Downi

5,45 Indian Programme 6.30. Closing Local Stock Quota

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Puit Bulletin

4.00 pm. 5.00 px.

6.45 D

1.00 pm,

9.00 p.

12.00 mid-

night

7:30 am

8.30 an

A GHOST FARM

LIVES AGAIN

Ubrary, Supreme Court

Farmer Arthur Denis, 47 years old, of Chilton Hall, Clare, in the A planoforte recital by Dr. Wil-

heart of rural Suffolk, is Britain's liam Lovelock, D. Mus. (London); tiona

Arst "land doctor." His job is to F.R.C.O., F.T. C. L., L. R. A. M., 6.32 The Madrid

Symphony Or-advise Suffolk farmers whose land A.R.CM., was given at Govern-chestra with Tito Schipa (Tenor).

needs attention. His "practice" will: ment House by His Excellency.

Little Princess (Palomero-Padilla) cover all Suffolk, and he will send The Governor's invitation yester Tito Echipa (Tenor): Farewell, my in no bills.

day, the occasion marking the Granada (Calleja-Barrera) - Tito Mr. Dennis ts the man who

Fifteenth Concert of the Hong- Schipa (Tenor). Danza Española →→ kong Chamber Music Club.

Dr. Lovelock is here as examin- orchestra,

Ninna-Nanna (Benelli),

No: 6 (Cranados)-Madrid Symphony made: Britain's ghost farm," the 288-acres Brickwall Farm, at Hun- er for the Trinity College of Music. Gitana (Longas) Tito Schipa don. Suffolk, live again last year Dr, Lovelock played the follow- (Tenor). En La Alhambra, Serenata after it had lan derelict for ten Ing selections:

(Breton)-Madrid Symphony Orches- years,

The owner of Brickwall Farm Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue tra. Gaucho-Tango-Tito Schipa -Bach; Rondo.

"walked out" after a "tithe sale, in A Minor-Į (Tenor). Mozart: Toccata, Op. 7-- 7,00 London Relay-The News.

ruined in the agricultural depres- Schumann;; Rhapsody in G Minor 7.15 London Helay-"Questions of sion. The farm, some of the finest

-Brahms; Nocturne in E Major, Valse in A Minor and Mazurka in

the Hour."

light land in Suffolk, was left to 7.30 London Relay Special Broad- the winds and the weather.

The B Minor-Chopin: La Cathedrale cast to the Brliish Forces in the Far

seven-roomed farmhouse Engloutle and Minstrels-Debussy: East

was soon in ruins. Five cottages! Rhapsody No. 4 (Dies Irae)- DohnanyL

#

S'HAI PRECAUTIONS

FOR MAY

CHUNGKING, May 2 (Central) -The authorities in both the In

8.00 Local Time Signal and An- tumbled down to heaps of rubble nouncements.

8.02 Schubert-Symphony No. 3 in B Minor "Unfinished."

|

1st Mov: Alegro moderato; Mov: Andante con moto Philharmonic Orchestra

2nd] Vienna

ד'

by

8.26 Violin and Piano Soloa ternational Bettlement and the Natan Milstein and William Buck- French Concession in Shanghal are haus,

and bricks. Ditches became choked. Hedges grew 12ft. high and 8ft. thick, Trees sprang up from what once had been Belds of corn.

LAND VALUABLE

Some months before the war, Sir, Reginald Dorman Smith, then Minster of Agriculture, saw Brick- wall Farm.

He called It the "ghost farm,”

taking extra precautionary mes- Intermezzo in B. Flat Minor sures during May in view of the (Bratime)-William Backhaus (Piano), and said, "I'm astonished that many revolutionary anniversaries From My Homeland (Smetana); Consuch a thing could be allowed to during the month, according to a solation (Liszt)-Natan Milstein (vio-happen in England.”

lin). Moment Musicale in F Minor But he could do nothing about it. Shanghai report.

Labour Day was observed yes 142 (Schubert) Willam Backhaus

Then came the war. (Schubert); Impromptu in B Flat Op.

Food, more food, and homegrown terday by the labour unions in (Piano). Polonaise Brilliante in Dfood was needed. Farmers became Shangbal. Telegrams were sent to Major (Wieniawski); Romance (2nd valuable. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek |Mov. from Concerto No. 2--Wieniaw- and the Chinese troops pledging ski)--Natan Milstein (Violin). Waltz Executive Committee remembered continued support for the war of D Flat-Op. 64 (Chopin); Etude in the "ghost farm and decided it resistance,

C Major-Op. 10. (Chopin)-William

must live again. Backhaus (Piano).

U.S. ENVOY TO CHINA

SHANGHAI May 2 (Reuter) →

9.00 London Belay-The News and News Commentary.

The Suffolk War Agricultural

Mr. Dennis was farming neigh- bouring land and heard of "the committee's intention. He saw in it a longed-for opportunity, and 9.18 London Flano-Accordeon Band immediately offered his services with Frances Day (Vocal).

tree.

9.35 Local Sport Results.

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Temporary buildings were set up

Piclute

Mr. Clarence. Gauss is expected to arrive in Shanghal on May 14. You Don't Know How Much You aboard the President Garfield en Can Suffer (Friend and Franklin); by him on Brickwall Farm. Trac- route to Chungking to take over Angelino Piccolino (Siegel) London tors were brought to it," and power- the post of United States Am-Plano-Accordeon Band. How Do You tul steam. tackle hauled ploughs||TO-MORROW

Do, Mr. Right? It's D'Lovely (both across Its derelict areas, from The Fleet's Lit Up")--Frances {Day (vocal)" with Orch, Don't Ever

bassador.

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Mr. Nelson Johnson, retiring

The committee this week-end Ambassador and new Minister to Pass Me By Watson and others); sent for Mr. Dennis to congratulate Australia, is expected to leave Get Into the Spirit of Spring (Parker him on the job he had done. Chungking on May 12 via Hong-and Charles) London Flano-Accor- Brickwall Farm is a new farm

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