Opening FRIDAY
12
THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL
1936.
KINGS ACROSS ROOF OF WORLD ALHAMBRA
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10. 7.15. & 9.30 p.m.
BARBARA STANWYCK
A fast moving, light-hearted romance that takes a pair of young lovers over the bumps in a motor. trailer, with a lough for every turn of the wheelil
RED SALUTE
with
ROBERT YOUNG
An EDWARD SMALL Production
A. Reliance Picture
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Biraded by Sidney Lanfaid
Prmented by terry M. Costs Faloosad the United Anlas
EDDIE CANTOR
in "STRIKE ME PINK?
QULLA
SHOWING TO-DAY
معلول جميعا
UNITED
Expeditions By Air To
The Antarctic
Lincoln Ellsworth Says Landings Are Possible".
Melbourne, Mar. 22.
FLIGHTS of airplanes roared a welcome from the air when the Royal research ship Discovery H. berthed in Melbourne to-day with Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the American explorer, and his com- panion, Mr. Herbert Hollick- Kenyon, on board.
Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Hollick- Kenyon had been missing since they set out on November 23 to fly across the Antarctic and were discovered at Little America on January 17 by the airplane from the Discovery II., which had made, a dash to the Bay of Whales.
Cheering crowds lined the quays. Mr. Parkhill, the Aus tralian Minister for Defence, re-; presented the Federal Govern- mont.
Mr. Ellaworth expressed his ARTISTS warm appreciation of the asals- tance given by the British and Australian Governments.
At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30.
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JACK PENNER** ORIE FRANCES SPARKS L MOTORD Telry Credits a kynne Ovanta
NEXT CHANGE
THE FUNNIEST PICTURE OF THE SEASON
'Hands Across the Table'
with
CAROLE LOMBARD--FRED McMURRAY
Testserv TAAN ON PRAPY VALLEY BUR
ORIENTAL
THEATRE ››
A WONDERFUL STORY OF THE TROPICS! CIVILIZATION'S LAST FRONTIER {
FLEMING BOAD WANOTAS
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PILOT'S STORY
Flight-lieutenant Douglas, the pilot of the airplane who first saw the marooned airmen, described how he saw the steel derricks erected on Little America and then spotted Mr. Hollick- Kenyon. He took him on board the airplane.
"He was in the pink of health, was perfectly groomed and WAS wearing a spotlessly clean collar," said Flight-licutenant Douglas,
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SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY CHEST
Always willing to aid charitable drives, Mary Pickford,,shows above with one of the Chest posters, was a speaker at Community Chest luncheons in Santa Barbara, California..
SILENT MONKS
ARE BUILDING AN
EXTENSION TO ABBEY
"We picked up Mr. Ellsworth the following day. He was very foot- sore. I was able to stay on the ground for three days and as 11 result of my observations I MTN Charnwood Forest, near here, twelve white-robed monks are moving silently about the growing walls of the extension of an' Abbey.
sure that there is a great future: for aviation in the Antarctic."
Mr. G. E. Deacon, the scientist attached to Discovery II., revealed
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Coalville, March 5,
They are twelve of the order, that, responsible positions In
civilian
an important discovery in reintion live in Mount St. Bernard, & com-life, positions which they voluntari- to ocean currents. Where there unily that has doubled its num-ly relinquished for this life of al- should have been three currentaber in the last century, and sojnost silence. with the surface and bottom cur-needs a larger Abbey to house it. rents going northwards, and the
Even as they work at the build- A hundred years ago the Abbey ing of their Abbey, they do not centre, a warm current, flowing was designed and built by Pugin talk to each other. The clerk of southwards--no centre currents himself, He foresaw, however, the works, himself a member of could be traced.
that the communit»might grow the order, gives his instructions by King and he left completely detailed a number of signs, a type of ges- News of the death of George was received when the plans for an extension to the build- ture langunge peculiar to the order, Discovery II. was in the Bay of ing. It is on those plans that the The order is not completely Whales. The ensign was half-monks are now working.
silent, however. To-day one of its masted and a Two Minutes
members told me of the progress They are doing all the building of the building, which they had Silence was observed by all on with their own hands, taking it in once thought would take four or
turn to work, in shifts of a dozen, five years to complete. from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.) The stones with which they are The foundations
board..
GREATEST AMBITION
were started
"the stene work is half- finished. we have progressed so fast because
--"And ̄already," he said gladly,
An account of the flight was building they are taking from their exactly a year ago, MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW who declared that he considered the bricks they have had to import given by Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, own quarries, but the cement and. that he had achieved his greatest from the outside world which umbition.
of them have half forgotten. They had at first maintained an
of the fine weather, and if it con DIRECTION BY SIGNS ultitude of 7,000 ft., and their;
tinues, we hope that the whole course had taken them for The For this is a contemplative order, abbey will be finished by the aum- most part over ice-covered areas. Many of Its members once held mer of 1937. Examination of the rock founda- tions was impossible.
A marvellous acreon production among the head-hunters on the untamed, forbidden island of Now" Guinos!
THUNDERING THRILLS AND FLAMING ROMANCE
AKO
RADIO
Ficture
Filmed in the savage South Sea Islands.
RED
HORNING
"MATINEES: 20c.-30c: ◄
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With STEFFI DUNA
Regia Toomey Raymond Hatton Directed by Wallacefox
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE
JOAN BLONDELL GLENDA FARRELL
TRAVELING SALESLADY
LYFGRÆVET MITCHELL
"For the first eleven hours of our fight we were above an ice- capped area, and we nover went lower than 6,000 feet. Mountains were to be seen constantly, and this supports the theory that An- tarctica has a mountain range as its backbone.
Luxury Yacht For
Shah Of Iran
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NO ARCHITECT NEEDED "Naturally, we have not needed an architect for this work. The plans of the great Pugin have been all-sufficient to guide us. Several of our brothers, too, were connect-1 ed with the building trade before they came here, and their know- ledge has been very helpful to us. "But we still have some of the Amsterdam, Mar. 26.
most difficult parts of the work to Three shifts of workmen in the are not yet built. Nor is the do. The transepts, for instance, possible to find landing grounds shipbuilding yards of Boele and tower. in the Antarctic. I believe that Company at Bolnes are working the work in turn, and gradually But we build hard, taking eventually it will be possible to day and night to complete by the our abbey has taken shape." transport dog sledge expeditions
"We come down on 31 Vast plateau devoid of glaciers and crevasses, and in so doing re- futed the bellef that it is in-
my
by air with a view to charting first of July the big 165-foot yacht the whole continent,
ordered last December by the "A blizzard raged after we had Shah of Iran. landed, and this necessitated spending three daya in our sleep-
Called the "Chinh-Sevar", the new ing bags. It was then that
yacht has one unusual feature in too was frozen. It la not yet that all the rooms and passageways have to be lofty in order that the “A lull permitted the construc-Shah, who is said to be nearly. tion of a snow wall. Unfortunate.saven feet tall, shall be in no danger ly our stove leaked, and the sex of bumping his head. tant had been put out of order.
"We allocated to ourselves 34
cured,
tent.
In fact, owing to the Shah's un-
3,500 Million New Stamps This Year
usual height, all the problems New British postage stamps
facing the naval architect are said) to be
London, Mar. 25. ounces of food a day. After seven days wo were At 2.30, 5.20,
able to leave the
vertical. There are three bearing the portrait of King The tall of our airplane had prevent excessive leeway in a high, before the end of the year after decks and to ensure atability and Edward the Eighth will be issued 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. been turned into a block of ice. wind the yacht la given a draught artists have submitted designs for We managed to clear it and with or underwater depth of nearly ten consideration by a special-com- great difficulty started the engine. feet. But she will have to be mittee, and finally, by the King COMING I
We then took off, and flow at transported to Iran by way average height of 10,000 feet. We Leningrad and the Russian canals,
of himself. were eventually forced down to the Volga river and thence to the through shortage of petrol 16 Caspian Sea.
The first issue of the now stamps miles south of my old base canals are too shallow to take a 000,000, enough to last the post- As the Russian probably will number about 3,500,-
being built which will at the 10-foot draught, a special cradle is office about six months. "Chah-Sevar" snugly and on which It has been decided, after several she can be towed to the Volga. conferences, that no "mourning
The yacht will be twin-screwed stampa" will be issued. vessel with two Diesel engines and
PHANTOM Little America,
EMPIRE
(PART 1)
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROT FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
"The last part of our journey was the most arduous. Owing to faulty maps, wo dragged our aledge for at least 100 miles be foro wo reached tho baac,"
Describing his rescue, Mra speed of from Alteon to sixteen In about six months the first Ellsworth said: "I saw approach-knots. Fitted out palatially in the coinage bearing the hand of the new ing me what was apparently an Western style, with open fireplaces sovereign will bo jingling in the Army of men. It was really only in the lounge, accommodations for packets of the people. The head Kenyon, who had left that morn eighteen guests, covered observa- on British coins is reversed with ing to meet the landing party, and tion deck, It boasts also a bar with each reign. Thus, while the profite fog they had been magnified into gauged to the royal height-United that of King Edward VIII will face four others, but by a trick of then counter and tall stools carefully of King George V faced the left; hundreds."-Exchange.
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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
A great night
One of the great-
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A thousand
THRILLS!
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDDATE
with
GENE RAYMOND
Margaret Collahan, Eric Blare, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Moroni Ca. Dene, Olsen, Grant Mitchell, Ray Mayer' Directed by Wition Hamme and Edvard Killy from the seed by Earl Dan Bes
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