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CENTRAL THEATRE

The best ventilated Theatre in the Colony, with over hundred windows which, open at night, give fresh and natural air to the whole house. Our machine is of the biggest size--the sound is the clearest and the price is the highest. We have two large sized lifts for the convenience of our patrons.

SHOWING TO-DAY

at 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. THE GREATEST RKO SUPER SPECIAL Feature that takes the place beside "All Qulet," "What Price Glory," "Big Parade" and all other enduring Screen Spectacles. 5,000 in the cast, $55,000,000 worth of actual Navy Equipment. A real vessel sunk. A big clipper burnt. A fleet of gigantic destroyers in action along with the submarines. With the co-operation of the whole floet of U.S. Navy Destroyers and Submarines and thousands of gobs before the picture can be made possible. It's loaded with laughs and thrills tha tare heartily welcomed by every family and every member of the family.

What price the glory of the navy as they sail the seas of the cock-eyed world, loving, fighting and winning!

SUICIDE FLEET

BILL BOYD ROBT. ARMSTRONG JAMES GLEASON GINGER ROGERS and thousands of fighting gobs supplied through the courtesy of the United States Navy.

TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SEATS, EARLY.

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THE LATEST UNIVERSAL SPECIAL PRODUCTION. LEW AYRES (of "All Quiet" Fame) and ANITA LOUISE (Successor to Lilian Gish)

IN

in

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932.

LONDON'S NEW BRIDGE

STRIKING CHANGE AT LAMBETH

The opening of the new Lam- beth Bridge will mark the com pletion of one of the most strik ing transformations of London's riverside.

SOLDIER "KILLED” IN 1916

RETURNS TO HIS GERMAN HOME

OUR SYNDICATED GOLIATHS

METHODIST LEADER ON BRITAIN'S MORALS

Berlin, May 20. A sombre picture of modern Oscar Daubmaunn, a German Britain was drawn by the Rev. soldier, whose name is recorded on William Younger, of Hull, in his the war memorial of his native presidential address to the Primi- village, Endigen, near Freiburg, tive Methodist Conference at among those of the men killed in Middlesbrough-the last Conference 1916, returned home to-day. His the Primitive Methodists will held. survival first became known a few as they become part of the greater

Methodist body in the autumu.

Mr. Younger in his address said: "There wna nover more money nover, so

days ago.

spent on pleasure, and

Unprecedented Utopias little joy.

abound and unprecedented confu- sion prevails.

For the first time in four your this part of Millbank is freed from hoardings and scaffolding, and it is possible to see it as a whole. Dilapidated wharves, a bottleneck

He was wounded and taken roadway, slam, dwellings, and an oki suspension bridge have a prisoner in 1916 by the French,, In vanished, and there now appears an attempt to escape from a prison a broad embankment with boldly camp he is alleged to have killed a sentinel and in consequence to have designed approaches sweeping up to the new bridge, flanked by the been condemned to twenty years'

"I am not quite certain whethor two imposing blocks of offices-penni servitude.

According to his own story he an undisciplined and riotous free- Thames House and the Imperial Chemical Industries building. The escaped from a French prison near dom is not more harmful to bridge approaches have been de.. Constantino, in North Africa, five civilisation than historic slavery. signed with a view to future tra- months ago, and made his way to fic requirements, and on the Palermo, in Sicily. He is the only northern bank there will be a son of his parents, both of whom

to welcome large traffic "circus" round a cen-have survived tral island. The proposal to lay honic. out this island as a garden is at present under consideration. Oa the south bank, where tram-lineя moke matters rather more plicated, there will be по "eircus," but the approaches have been made so wide that there is little likchood of undue congestion. ↑ tion.

com-

him

GRUESOME PRESENT FOR THE POPE

HUMAN

SKULLS FOR · AN

ALTAR.

Vatican City State, June 9.

"The low morality of Great Bri-

tain is evident in the wasteful and morally ruinous expenditure of a million and a half of money per day on drinking and gambling.

"The syndicaled Goliaths are more than a match for the un- sophisticated Davids.

"Parliament becomes enthusias- tle in its intense eagerneas to make provision for a wider use of the cinema on the day of worship. I should have thought that its first duty would have boon to have The bridge itself, which has

cleaned the films of the colossal in- The Pope is in the habit of re-decency of a large number of plc- appeared in a summer-like livery of cream and gold in readiness ceiving presents from all parts of tures, and to have insisted upon a for the Royal opening, is a steel the world, but one sout him by a higher standard of morality as a structure of five spans supported tribe of ex-cannibals In New condition of allowing films to be by stone piers. Work was started Guinen, who have embraced chris-displayed."," scheme, including the road ap-logical Missionary Museum at the Oak College, Birmingham, the vice- in February, 1929, and the whole tianity, has no equal in the Ethno-I

Mr. A. Victor Murray, of Selly proaches, has cost £650,000. The Lateran Palace. contral span is the largest, being It consists of 166 fret long, while two others which used to be the tribe's most are 149 feet and two 125 feet. treasured possession; it is "adorn- The steel work of the bridge ed with six human skulls, offered weighs nearly four thousand tons, to the tribal gods after the rest One of the two 12 feet footpaths of the bodies had been eaten by the

already open for pedestrain tribesmen. traffle, and the 36 feet roadway The missionary who presented gave him confidence in it was that is being surfaced.

the relle to the Pope stated that the same permanent clements had The architectural features of the young man

been conspicuous in every branch in the tribe was wife until he

of Methodism. the scheme were designed by Sir allowed to take a Reginald Bloomfield and Mr. G. could give the lady of his choice Topham Forrest, chief architecla human akull.

is

#1

payan altar

to the LC.C.. and they are res Missionaries of the Congregation] ponsible for the gohi-topped of the Holy Word have been work- obelisks at each-end of the bridge. {ing in New Guinen for many years. The addition of these obelisks gives the bridge a decidedly disin tinctive appearance.

on

president, sald that the Primitive union not as a child returning to Methodists went into Methodist Parents, but as an equal and adult

partner.

Methodist union, said that what The President, welcoming

KIDNAPPERS FACE A FIRING SQUAD

WHICH RESEMBLED LINDBERGH CASE,

hand, which, however, will probably have to be postponed in (DRAMA the meantime. But it is under- stood that parts of the crowded area behind the Embankment

The new bridge will, it is ex- pected, give a new importance to the area between Victoria-street

Athens, June 11. and Millbank. The L.C.C. have may be opened up and developed | The kidnapping and death of widened Horseferry-road, which by private enterprise

the seven-year-old child of a rich approaches the bridge

the It is hoped that the now bridge merchant of Levadia, in Boeotia, Westminister side, ant thus a will divert a certain amount of bears many resemblances to the new route to South and South-traffe from the Victoria Embank-Lindbergh case. East London has been erented ment and the City. Goods traffic The Greek kidnappers sent a which may relieve the extremely from the weat to docks will be letter to the father of the child bad congestion of both Vauxhall able to cross Lambeth Bridge and demanding a sum of 300,000 drach- Bridge and West-minister Bridge, proceed to London Bridge or the mee, which was duly paid, but the The L.G.O.C. is to ask permission Tower Bridge by way of the police had been warned, and one to run their '77 bus route over Borough. thus cutting off the by one the kidnappers were hunted Lambeth Bridge instead of West-right-angle bend of the river down and arrested. minister Bridge, in order to serve The last girders of the temperary the huge offices in Millbank, which bridge are now being taken down are at present somewhat isolated by Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co.. from transport facilities. In who have built the new structure to

The three chief kidnappers have addition, the Westminister City the designs of Sir George Hum-been brought before a firing squad. Council have a clearance schenie | phreys,

in the Island of Aegina.

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It was, however, too late to save

the child, who had already been murdered.

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G. W. PABST'S Reply to "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT."

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Marie Dressler in EMMA

She Makes You Langh And Cry, But Always Makes You Happy!

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THE GREAT- MEADOW

with JOHN MACK BROWN

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LEW

AYRES

HEAVEN ONEARTH

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Momgicom.

A THRILL

PICTURE!

For those with iron nerves and

a steady pulse. It starts with

thrills. It builds to thrills. It

ends in thrills.

CHEATERS

AT PLAY Sydney Howard

Story by Louis Joseph Vanco

Directed by Hamilton MacFadden

FOX PICTURE

with a great cast including Thomas MEIGHAN

Charlotte GREENWOOD

William Bakewell

Linda Watkins Barbara Wocks James Kirkwood

ALMOST A DIVORCE

A Smilestorm

Two eminont stage comedians bring their artistry to the screen.

WILLIAM POWELL

IN

For the Defense

A Paramount Picture

with KAY FRANCIS,

The Thrilling Dráma Behind the Scream-

ing Headlings

Now Revealed!

See

the Price this Man Pays for Love! And Why!

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