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CENTRAL

THEATRE

TO-DAY to SATURDAY

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. THE MANAGEMEnt takes greaT PLEASURE

in presenting

BERT WHEELER ROBERT WOOLSEY

The World's Greatest Comedy Team. In Their Latest & Most Hilarious Film.'

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RKO

Radio

and adding to the fun are EDNA MAY OLIVER ROSCO ATES EDGAR KENNEDY Directed by NORMAN TAUROG

DAVID O. SELZNICK, Executive Producer

A Screamingly Funny Comedy That Will Keep You

Laughing From Start to Finish.

AN_RKO-RADIO SUPER COMEDY. MESSRS. WHEELER & WOOLSEY WILL PERSONALLY ATTEND TO-DAY'S 9.30 PERFORMANCE.

(Mrak Roland Young, få D'Onay,

Howy Ama, Coper Com Servongler de Dades Webman and H, M, WAN, Produced by Ca¤ [Loomule, de, front a play by Cyll Hotel Dested by Cómod Lid Pred by Cu! Livonia

STARTS SUNDAY

A BOUQUET TO YOU SLIM SUMMERVILLE AND ZASU PITTS!

For your perfectly delicious comedy art as the two ser vants who were bequeathed millions of dollars in

THEY JUST HAD to GET MARRIED

You will make the world shake with real, wholesome laugh

ter and you will prove that you

arethe screen's team of teamsl

KING'S THEATRE

TENTH ANNUAL

DANCING DISPLAY

BY THE PUPILS OF

MISS VIOLET CAPELL

Under the Distinguishòd Patronago.of His Excellency The Governor and Lady Peol

on

WEDNESDAY, 31st MAY, 1933

at

5.15 p.m. sharp.

Part Proceeds will be donated to

Local Charities & The London Hospital.

BOOKING NOW OPEN-

Dross Circle $3.

Front Stalls $2. Including Tax.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933.

A CATHEDRAL OF MECHANISM

THE BATTERSEA POWER STATION

make a aymmetrical group rough-

y aquare on plan,

NO TRIMMINGS."

. Even as it stands the general massing of the building is of great interest. It could hardly fall to be otherwise, with such great

The modern world has a way of areas of plan walling carried out suddenly throwing up problems in a warm brown brick. Our

BIG RUSH FOR WIMBLEDON

RETURNING TICKET

MONEY

There has been the usual rush of applications for tickets for the for which there is no sort of pro- gratitude is due to the designers Wimbledon lawn tennis champion- paredness. The

new Battersea for having saved us from the ships, to be held from June 26 to Power Station is a canc In point, usual

architectural trimmings. July 8. Wien fintahed it will be the larg-Yot somehow one is vaguely din There are 3,600 roserved seats dramatic round the contre court, and to givo est power station in England, and appointed. The full one of the largest in the world. force and power of the subject as many as possible a chance the seem to have escaped them. One Lawn Tennis Association Issues Its four great chimney stacks-hoped for something as clean, books of tickets which admit to ench 337 feet high-will discharge swift, and powerful as a dynamo, alternate days only. There are their fames into the air. Yet it'las Inevitable and as ruthless. 7,200 books, and had there been has been placed in the geograph-Instead of which we have twice that number there would not ical centre of London.. In view diaphanous film of prettiness have been enough to satisfy the of the prevailing winds from the worked over the inherent nature demand, south-west, it is difficult to under- of the subject-liko a Hercules in Allocations have been made by stand why electricity, of all things a tinted veil

bullot and the hooks of tickets are the most transportable, cannot be

now in the post. For the next few The towers to the chimney produced on the lower renches of the Thames, instead of in the very stacks, for instance, are made into dnya the LT.A. staff will work architectural pylons with fussy evertine returning money to un- centre of the capital.

vertical projections and set-backs; lucky applicants." "They will have to send back inny thousands of However, there it stands, on the the concrete chimney stacks are pounds. south bank of the Thames, occupy-reeded so that they look like ing a site of about fifteen acres, ut minarets-though very beautiful the point where the railway bridge minarets-and the tops to the carries the line southward from walls have such decllente coping Victorin Station. It looks like a that one becomes suspicious

elegance, because great towering ship, with a funnel, their at either end. But what we now simply want to tell you that they nee is exactly half the projected fare elegant. scheme, which will have the grent Yet perhaps one should not be stream, we have one of the finest boiler house in the centre (double too critical, for Sir Giles Gilbert alghts in Lundon, its present siz), with four chim- Scott, with the engineer, Mr. S. L. foreground we get the fascinating neys, one at each corner. And on Pearce, have given us a building reality of steel gantries, cranes cach aide of this huge beiler which is far in advance of any grabbing up the coal, and the long house, which is 500 feet long and other of its kind in this country. conveyora cutting obliquely across 153 feet high, there will be the When seen from certain points of the picture to bint the whole Into turline balls, transformer rooms, view, particularly, from the Cheln dramatic pattern of modern and oflices, so that the whole will apa Embankment little down power.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

At 2.30,

5.10, 7.15 #

9.50 p.m. LL

11

of they

HONCKONG'S FINEST CINEMA

IT TOOK TWO YEARS TO GIVE HER THIS

CLARA

OPPORTUNITY

A new Clara Bow emerges as the fascinating_hero- ine of "Call Her ́Savage" - vivid, electric, impulsive, misunderstood.

BOW

More beautiful than ever...for the first time she gives full rein to her dramatic power.

in

CALL HER SAVAGE

with

MONROE OWSLEY

•

GILBERT ROLAND ESTELLE TAYLOR

THELMA TODD

4 SHOWS DAILY 2.30-5.15 7.15-9.30

.

SCREEN PLAY BY EDWIN BURKE

From the novel by Tillony Thayer

Directed by John Francis Dillon

FOX PICTURE

Last year the championships re- sulted in a proßt of £36,926, and sun this year will be, if anything. there is overy indleation that the

greater.

Here in the

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

TEL. 25313.

—— NEXT CHANGE

SUNDAY, 21st MAY

25332.

A BRILLIANT COMEDY

FILM.

JACK HULBERT

JACKS

the

BOY

with

CICELY COURTNEIDGE WINIFRED SHOTTER Directed by. WALTER FORDE A Gainsborough Picture. Released by The British Film Distribution Co., Ltd.-Hongkong.

It is a typical English hum- orous fantasy, with music, and it is enormous fun. ---- Liverpool Post and Mercury.

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

LAST 4

TIMES TO-DAY

* LIFE'S COMEDY"

CHINESE

Back Stalls $1,

TALKING

PICTURE.

Children, Soldiers & Sallors in Uniform Half Price.

For

TO-MORROW SATURDAY-

CONAN DOYLE'S

Master Berettyé

FLEMING ROAD

WANGHI

TEL. 20473

SOMETHING NEW

IN

DETECTIVE DRAMA.

The World's Master Mind

SHERLOCK of Crime Detection stakes

HOLMES

Pasand Ploved by

CLIVE BROOK .....MIRIAM JORDAN ERNEST TORRENCE

POX PICTURE

hie reputation and love against modern scientific lawlessness..

AMAZING! THRILLING). FULL OF ACTION!

IN

QUEENS THEATRE

To-day to Saturday at 2.30 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 DISGRACED BY LOVE!.

The Hand of SocietyWas Tumed Against Themi

The Finger of Suspicion Was Pointed at Them!

The Clutch of the Law Was Upon Them!

THE NIGHT OF JUNE 13

with

Paramount

Pioturo

CLIVE BROOK-LILA LEE CHARLIE RUGGLES-FRANCES DEE

FROM SUNDAY

The LOVERS INCOMPARABLE,

CLARK

JEAN

GABLE

HARLOW

RED DUST

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Dynamite Romance

TO-DAY

ONLY

STARI

BEATRICE LILLE ASKS YOU

At 2.30-5.20,

7.20 € 9.20

"ARE YOU THERE"

A FOX MUSICAL FAROE

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

STEADY COMPANY

with

NORMAN FOSTER, JUNE CLYDE,

ZASU PITTS.

For the Best.

LOCAL VIEWS

**and

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Go To

MEE CHEUNG

Studio, Ice. House St,

Branch, 7. Beaconsfield Arcade.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK LEBOY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, In the City of Victoris Hongkong.

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