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QULLA'S

́SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30

SPECIAL JUBILEE, ATTRACTION

"The KING GOD BLESS HIM”

REVIEW OF EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE KINO

SINISTER MYSTERY

FIRST

SHOWINGS IN

KOWLOON

Curks IN EVERY SHADOW

As Charlie

Chan clings grimly to The furtive trail of death!

CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS

Bir de stap etmemeras “Charlie Chan't created by last Der Biggere

WARNER OLAND MARY BRIAN THOMAS BECK ERIK RHODES

Pradvend by JOHN STONE Directed By 14w13 $174ER

| POPULAR PRICES: " 79% 60%. 20%.

STARE

TO-DAY ONLY

THEATRE

SERVICEMEN 30%.

At 2.30, 5.20, .7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

THE PAST OF MARY HOLMES

from the story "The Gooie Woman,“

By REX BEACH

A startling dransa of young favi

blighted by a mother's hate.

Ramanca la enchant you? Crime to

mystify and thrill you! And the trogody

of a self-pitying mother, to astound you all the days of your lifel With ERIC LINDEN. HELEN MacKELLAR JEAN ARTHUR “SKEETS” GALLAGHER

Directed by Harlan Thompson and Blends Vartopic

-An ̃RKO-Radio-Picture-

NEXT ATTRACTION

RETURN ENGAGEMENT FOR ONE DAY ONLY !

WEDNESDAY, MAY THE 8th.

.NOEL COWARD'S FAMOUS EPIC OF THE SCREEN

"CAVALCADE"

DO NOT MISS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IT!

MAJESTIC

RODENT

· MAUREEN

MONTGOMERY OSULLIVAN

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ON THE STAGE

COMETY GYMNASTS

EXTRAORDINARY

CONTORTIONAT

HUMBLEROO

KANGJALAN BATE

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.

THE HONGKONGESTELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1935..

GOVERNOR ¦ HOLDS REVIEW AT HAPPY VALLEY

at

(Continued front Page1.) following this the first verso "God Save the King" was played. LUSTY CHEERS

cluding thör-un warships, were] lights showed up the Water Police switched on, and the general Station and the Signal Station re- effect, vlowed from the harbour, spectively. The two manta on was gorgeous in the extreme, as Signal Hill appeared as two white hundreds of thousands of lights| crösses, while bolow the time ball, combined to make the picture and the inscription "G.R." stood out in unforgettable one in the memory red lights, with the figures "1910- of all who saw it.

1936" underneath,

SHOWING TO-DAY ONLY

at The

CENTRAL

NATHAN

ROAD, ROWLOON

CAR PARK: DIRECTLY OPPOSITE

&

QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

CAR PARK:**JERVOIS (STREDT

ALHAMBRA

THEATRES

It would seem that the glant hand The approach to the Ferry at which had gathered the star dust Kowloon was marked by strings of As the last notes were dying out, and sprinkled it in careless con-lights featuoned around the traffic the 1st Mountain Battery and fusion across the surface of the circus. This area was further selected companies fred a feu de Peak, on this occasion had trans-brilliantly illuminated by the foic, after which the troops ro- muted some of it into living lines myriads of lights which went into The leader in offering first run pictures at the most popular prices moved their head drenes and gave of light, with which to trace the the illumination of the Railway

SAME POPULAR PRICES TO ALL SHOWS 1 three lusty cheers for the King and outlines of big buildings. The Station and Ferry Pier. The clock Queen followed by a Royal Salute fory panorama of these buildings tower of the Railway Station with and the National Anthem.

seemed to dip Into the water, its clister of lights was a gom sat

The departure of His Majesty which caught the reflection and in a brilllent constellation, pre- the King was signified by the fur-stirred it in inmblent waves. viding the central axis to a highly

The big crane at the Naval Yard, decorative treatment of lights.

base,

STATUE SQUARE

of

The Star Theatre, the Majestic Theatre, the Alhambra, the pre- mises of the Kowloon Bus Co., the

and the China Light & Power

WHITE WAYS Half-a-million bulbs would

be

the

ling of the Royal Standard and thei breaking of His Excellency the carrying a crown, marked the be- Mention must also be made of Governor's flag at the mast head, inning of the panorama. The the Peninsula Hotel, which with The companies then reformed Victoria Recreation Club carried the Y.M.C.A. next to it was close column while the massed strings of lights, and, next to it, amongst some of the most brillant- bands took up their position im- the offices of Messrs. Butterfield ly illuminated buildings on the mediately in front of the-saluting & Swire and the Cable Offices mainland.

could be distinguished, their out- His Excellency the Governor, linos pleked out by hundreds

same way, the accompanied by Major-General bulbs, In the Borrett, Brigadier Seth-Smith and Hongkong Club could be identified. Club de Recreio, Claremont Hotel, Colonel Harrison, then inspected the troops, nt the conclusion of Statue Square was a well of Stations were some of the other which the march past was carried light, with the massive pile of the buildings on the malaland lit ap. out very smartly.

new Hongkong & Shanghai Bank! Hia, Excellency the Governor Building in the background lit up! stood in the centre of the saluting! by multi coloured floodlight.

a conservative estimate of the base with the General Officer Com- Hoth Queen's Pier and the Star number which transformed manding on his right and Com-Ferry Wharf were brilliantly lit principal streets on the Island into modore C. G. Sedgwick, K.N., and up, and, continuing the pictura veritable white ways, through Squadron Leader C. R. Keary, westwards, one found King's Bull- which thousands of spectators R.A.F., on his loft

ding, the General Post Office and thronged to a late hour. The termination of the march the P. & 0. Building each contri- Statue Square was I past was marked by the arrival of buting its share to an orderly basin into which theso five flights of aeroplanes from Kal pattern of silvery lights. Further cured. The attraction provided Tack flying past the anluting base, west, the waterfront pleturo ended there was wortli straining for. The parade terminated shortly in the Wing On building, in a mass The statue of Queen Victoria had of red lights. The wharves and become the centre piece for an before 10.30 o'clock,

Principal officers participating boats lying alongside along the illumination scheme in which each in the parade were Commander Western Praya were in the building bordering the square McKenzie, R.N., Lieut-Comdr, R. majority of cases Illuminated, as came under attention. On one W. Moir, R.N., in charge of the also was the restaurant quarter. file were the Hongkong Club and Naval contingent; Captain Mit- The white glare thrown up from the Law Courts, and on the other choll, R.M.; in charge of the Royal the illuminated city appeared to Queen's and Prince's Buildings, Marines: Lieut.-Col, E. J. de C. have produced a haze behind and all four buildings wero Baya, Offleer Commanding. Lin- which many of the usual Bghta on brilliantly illuminated. AO LA colnshire Regiment; Lieut. Col. R. the upper levels were obscured. to bring their outlines Into E. inadon, Officer Commanding. But the special Illuminations on sharp relief, while contributing to Royal Welch Fusiliers; Lieut.-Cola number of buildings en The the lighting of a pretty spot which A. C. Marsh. Oficer Commanding. Peak, as well as those on St. lent itself readily to this form of East Lancashire Regiment; Lieut. Joseph's College building, the decoration.

COLONY'S SILVER

GOWN

BRILLIANT SCENE LAST NIGHT

North Polat.

central M69508

Col. D. St. J. Baxter, Officer Com- Italian Convent and at Gov- Festoons of lights were strung manding, Punjab Regiment; Lieut.-ernment House were easily along poles flanking the principal Col. M. Carrington-Sykes: Licut-discernible. The large liluminat- statue, and here a military band Col. D. C. Wilson; Col. L. C. Lewis, ed sign "God Save The King" on played for the edification of the Major B. E. C. Dixon and Capt. the Middle Levels focussed atten-multitude during the evening. P. 'F. Foley.

tlon, as did the massive crown at; In Des Voeux Road Central, the the Electric Power Station at illuminated buildings began with the Bank of Canton Building. KOWLOON FEATURES

Next to that was the National Kowloon Paint,. along the water-| Savings Bank Building, which in front from Holt's Godawns to the its turn was overshadowed by the western end of the Kowloon graceful pile of the new Bank of Godowns, vied with Hongkong in East Asia Bank building. im- With the fall of dusk last the splendour of its settings. pressive on account of a very, of illumination. evening, the Colony entered on Here every building was Included tasteful scheme another spectacular phase in its in the pleture, not to mention the The topmost storey of this bufl- celebrations, this being the Star Ferry and Police Piers. Two ding was crowned by lights mount illumination of buildings and the big liners lying alongside the Kowing to the top of the mast. holding of searchlight and night-loon wharves, the Asama Maru and Exchange Building attracted fying displaya, together with the the President Cleveland, honoured much attention by a very decora- firing of rockets and a fireworks the Jubilee with illuminated tive effect socured by the inscrip display.

silhouettes.

tion "Silver Jubilee" in white the entrance, and (Continued on next column)

By eight o'clock, which was the On the two near eminences lights oficial time set, all lights, in- looking the harbour hundreds of

LAST TWO

DAYS

AT 2.30,

5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

1910

KINGS

1935

THE SPECIAL FILM OF THE GLORIOUS AND EVENTFUL

REIGN OF

THEIR MAJESTIES

KING GEORGE V

and QUEEN MARY

“ROYAL JUBILEE”

(THE “ROYAL CAVALCADE")

4 SHOWS

DAILY

230-5.13

7.15-0.30

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY.

DOUBLE COMEDY SHOW! Stan LAUREL Oliver HARDY in'

"OLIVER VIII" and a big Nautica! Musical: Comady Show filled with Laughter, Songs and Girls.

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FOR THE fast action comedy FIRST

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Summar: Prices: Matinees 20 cho..., 30 cts.; Evenings 20 cm., 35 ct... 55 cts.; Servicemen 40 cts.

začne:

The old kingdom 'min't what it used to be since ti romantic Highes shaved off his beard, and learned to croon

Adolphe Zukie prenti.

CARL BRISSON

who introduced Cocktails for Two

unical

Music Fit For A Kings The Careful, Yeseng Lady" When My Prince Char ming Comp Along

A Little Whire Garden

MARY ELLIS

golden-voiced star of Rose Marie'

"ALL THE KING'S HORSES"

with EDWARD EVERETT HORTON KATHERINE DEMILLE - EUGENE PALLETTE

A FigerMount Peturn Directed be biura Jutila » Mutt by Serm Custom,

also PARAMOUNT BRITISH NEWS and at. tha

ALHAMBRA

BETTY BOOP Colour Cartoon "POOR CINDERELLA"

CENTRAL GRANTLAND RICE Sportlights "MILES PER HOUR”

flanked by portraits of the King quarter of Nam Pak Hong and fur-

ther out, along the waterfront.

and Queen,

PEDDER STREET

The big Chinese departmental stores carried extonalve illumina Pedder Street was a welter of tions, whilst there was hardly 4 light with the facades of tall buil-shop or house in the principal dings on either side strung with thoroughfares which did not carry thousands of lights. The coloured a lantern or some other form of bulbs used on the Gloucester and illumination. Hongkong Hotel Buildings were. most effective. Slight-seers In this

SPECIAL DISPLAYS

quartor were also attracted by the Thres Osprey planes in formation lighted inscription "Sholl House":

which from Its position at the Alght during the evening carried a head of the street,

patriotic message set in white cloc was pro-

minent feature of the illuminatric lights on the undercarriage and tions on the premises formerly wings. The centre plane was illu- known as the A.P.C. Building.minated with a large letter "C", a

Crown and

the

letter "M"... This imposing structure, with

whlle the machine on the its saven storles, was brilliantly lit up with squares of bulbs, the 1910 and the other the year 1920.

port side displayed the year whofe arrangement, while being simple, lending an additional note. A pyrotechnic display, given from of distinction to the cupola, two lighters anchored in mid- which hereabouts dominated the stream, added to the excitement of entire area, and focussed the at-the evening. Thousands of people tention with Its cluster of white from both sides of the harbour light. In the white glare diffused, watched the display, the more enter the red, pink, blue and greenprising ones going out in motor lights of the Hongkong Hotel boats, sampans and other craft Inte across the way provided a plaas-midstream, where they secured an Ing contrasting effect.

enviable angle from which to wit- ces all the highlights of the solo-

The National City Bank, tire Taiping Building, and the Asia Life Building were other im portant edifices to the cast which were similarly illuminated, al- though on a lesser scale. Tho white way into which this stretch of Queen's Road was transformed was continued further weet, by the lights on the King's Theatre, the Chin Building. and the Queen's Theatre. On the King's Theatre, Elding, the cupoin had come in for special treatment, its form being outlined by lights dominated at the top of the must by s aingie blazing bulb.

MASSES OF LIGHT

The China Emporium, further wast, was one mass of lights, with the three-tiered pagoda over tha roor distinctly outlined by a string of lights soaring up to where it onded at the mast-head in a single bulb of many hundred

candle-

The intervening strotch power. before tho Central - Market - was treated in a minor way, much be ing made of lanterns and singlo. strings of lights.

This white brilliance was revived

at the Central Market by the hund-

reds of lights which went into tha

brations.

LANTERN PROCESSION

TO-NIGHT

The Lantern procession will, com- mence at 7 p.m..

pim-Catchick Street.

7.05 pm.Belcher Street.. 7.3 No. 7 Police Station. 7.55 pm-Hongkong University. 8.15 p-Hop Yat Hall. 8,35 pm-italian Convent. 8.50 p.m.-Catholic Cathedral. 0.15 p.m.-Government House. 9.30 pmAlbert Road. 9.46 p.m.Wyndham Street." 9.65 pm-Hollywood Road. 10.30 p.m.Queen's Road Central 10.46 pm-Bonham Strami. West. 10.55 p.m-Bonham Strand East. 11.10 p.m.Ho Tung Building. 11,20 p.m.Queen's Theatre, 11.30 p.mHongkong C.C. ground. 11.40 p.m.-Fire Brigade Station 11.60 m--Western Market, 11.50 p.m.-Connaught Road Cen- trul, then on to Macao Steam- boat Wharf, passing through the Bund to Belcher, and them Catchlak Street.

Motorista are warned to "kvold, asfargas, possible, being on the procesalon route while the proces- sion is passing.

A dinner. dance will be held at decoration of its palaumost Repulse Bay Hotel on Wednesday. magnificent of the triumphal arches The last bus leaves Repulse Bay at to be seen in the Chinese business a.m.

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