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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936.

The Men Who Did What No

KINGS Other Man Had Done Before

TO-DAY ONLY

A NEW

Entertainment Experience!

At 2.30. 5.10. 7.15. & 9.30 pm.

KING BURLESQUE

Warner BAXTER

(Evan gjester than in 42nd Street)

ALICE FAYE JACK OAKIE

ARLINE JUDGE MONA BARRIE GREGORY RATOFF

DIXIE DUNBAR

FATS WALLER

NICK LONG, JR.]

AND "HONGKONG HIGH LIGHTS"

HONGKONG'S OWN MAGIC CARPET

From Wed

"THREE LIve ghostS" with RICHARD ARLEN BERYL MERCER ▪

QUELA'S

SHOWING TO-DAY

Picturo

PIONEERS ONLY TO

BE THERE

A

PIONEER Transatlantic flyer and the oldest tram driver in London will be two of the guests at a banquet in London on November 13.

Invitations are being sent to men and women who have made records in any form of transport during the past forty years.

The oldest hansom "cabby," the Bont-race crew, 1936 winning famous

the racing motorists, champion Jockey, stratosphere re- cord holders, the oldest passenger locomotive driver, a veteran private chauffeur, the captain of the largest motor liner, a record-hold- ing deep-sea diver... all will be among the guests.

In June 1919 Alock and Brown Now the Atlantic from Newfound- land to Western Ireland. Ploneer of this fight, Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, has been invited to the banquet. Colonel Lindbergh will: be another guest.

SINCE 1887

There will be George Summer- scale, who has been driving trams forty-nine years. He

for

seventy-one.

ส

Mr. Summerscale, who lives at Clapton, drove a In 1887. He is still M.G.M. horse-tram

driving.

Frederick Foster, of Saffron Walden, Essex, the omnibus driver with the longest record, will be there too. Foster began with a six-horse omnibus in 1883 and retired after fifty-one years' ser- vice in 1935.

Ap 2.30. 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30.

IN. THIS CORNER

THE FIGHTING MILKMAN

TO-DAY

ONLY

fotoe

HAROLD

LLOYD

"The MILKY WAY

A Povovint Maars was ADOLPHE MENUOU VERREE TEASDALE

- HELEN MACK -

WILLIAM GARGAN

GEORGE BARRIER

MAJESTIC

ESTHEATRE.

- tutup.com wirst one IKEAT

At 2.30, 5:20,

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

SWEET SUPRENDER

with.

FRANK PARKER, TAMARA, HELEN LYND, RUSS BROWN, ARTHUR PERSON, JACK DEMPSEY, ABE LYMAN,

with

Wednesday:—“The Bishop Misbehaves" Murex O'lean

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST. Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from stop opposite Queen's

TO-DAY ONLY

2 DAYS ONLY of 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

THE CAST

Cary Grant. Claude Rains

Gertrude Michael

-and a cost of thousandsl

OUTPOSI

Spectacle.... Diction, romance 12.flimed by the same studio which gave you' "The Lives of o

Bangol Lancer"

WEDNESDAY

THE

GRANDEST

`ADVENTURE

PICTURE

EVER

FILMED!

SYBIL JASON & GLENDA FARRELL

In a Warner Bros.' Picture

“LITTLE BIG SHOT”

RICES

Matinees: 50c, 30c, 20c, Evenings: 55c, 40c, 30c, SERVICEMEN: 30 cts. to Dress Circle

Harry England, who drove the first tube train, died in 1931: But another veteran of the tube ser- vice will attend the banquet.

There will be M. Louis Bleriet, here of the first cross-Channel flight and Miss Jean Batten, Mrs. Amy Mollison, C. W. A. Scott, T. Campbell Black, Tommy Rose, and Schneider Trophy fliers. Comman der Claud Grahame-White, who will also be there, is a pioneer of air mails in this country.

RECORD BREAKERS The banquet is being organised by the 19th Century Circle of Motorists.

Famous motorists will include Sir Malcolm Campbell, Georgo Evston, John Cobb. and Mrs. Gwenda Stewart.

Herr Ernst Henne. holder of the world's motor-cycle speed re- card, will be there.. So will the champion cyclist. -

An Italian, the first mun to use the "Iron-man" diving suit, will, be another guest.

Motor-bont

record speed holders will be represented by Gar Wood, the American,

SITE 1939 WR2 D/

FAT

You now gaze on the site of the San Francisco Bay World's Fair which will be held in 1939, celebrating completion of the warld's two

largest bridges. The site is a 365 acre shoal area off Yerba Buena Island, in San Francisco Bay, which is to be filled in by dredging. Leland W. Cutler, Exposition president, in rowboat on fair site. After the Exposition, the site' will be used as an airport.

BARONESS' ENTIRE

FORTUNE LOST

RED LIGHTS

FOR

PEDESTRIANS

San Deigo, Calif., Apr. 4..

Berlin, Apr. 4.

BARONESS MAUD VON

THYSSEN has lost heri

private

entire

fortune through the car accident in

After witnessing a traffic ac- Spain last August, in which cident in which two aged persons Prince Alexis Mdivani, who were knocked down by an au- was driving, was killed and tomobile, Mayor Percy J. Ben the baroness badly injured.

This is the claim of the bough has proposed a novel safe- guard for elderly people to wear

Count

claimed

Dr.

Carl on their coat sleeves at night baroness legal representative,

Ludwig when crossing the highway.

The device consists of an ordt. Strachwitz.

The baroness nary bleycle tail light: The Mayori cxplained that it should be fastened/

estato, but, his London lawyers to the arm of the cost by pedes damages from the late prince's trians when cressing the street.

"We have no intention of withdrawing our claims," Count Strachwitz said to-day.

afbility. "I made a test which proved that have so far disclaimed all respon this little light will cut down pedes- trian accidents at night." Mayor! Benbough Frid. "I pinned the light to the arm of a friend. I

"Our claim was for the cost of drove, my ear down the street while he stepped from the cure the operations which were neces- I had diffealty seeing my friendsary, but we also see ourselves but I could see the red light on compelled to claim for jewellery his arm from a distance of about worth 1,000,000 marks (£80,000) 200 feet."

Mayor Benbough announced he which was stolen during the Recid- fortune of the only private will buy 500 of these lights and eat, and which represented the

her after

husband (E baroness,

yon Baron Heinrich August distributo them to elderly persons

Ц divorce aust Thyssen, led against her...elting Prince Alexis Advani as co-respondent.

who want them.

Jealous Schoolmaster

Jailed For Five Years

Sentence of five years' penal servitude was passed at Maid- atone Assizes on Hugh Williams, the twenty-four-year-old school. muster found guilty of attempt. ing to murder Miss Margaret Beer, aged nineteen, his former fiancee, at Ash, near Sandwich, last December.

Mr. Justice Finlay, passing Ben- tence, said, "I say nothing that could harrow your feelings, which must be sufficiently painful about this net which is the tragic result, of your outburst of jealousy."

Williams was alleged to have fired a humane killer at Miss Beer through n kitchen widow. The broken glass of the window cut her, but she was not injured by the bullet.

. It had been stated that after Miss Beer broke off the engage- ment Williams threatened to kill her and commit suicide.

Williams said that when the on- gagement was broken it came as a great shock to him. He had in- tended to take his own life when he It bought the humane killer. accidentally went off when he was near Miss Beer's home..

CONDOLENCES

London, April 1.

"In fact, he baroneas has lost. everything she had."

ease

The

will be heard in Budapest in April. In the mean- time Baron von Thyssen has grunt zd hla wife a monthly allowance of 2,000 marks (£160);-Reuter..

MOTHER ASSAULTS

TEACHER

ALHAMBRA

LAST SHOWINGS TO-DAY:

The Golden Voice of Lily Pons

is on the silver screen!... in a glorious romance with missie by Jerome Korn. composer of "Roberta" *Í DREAM TOO MUCH"

With

HENRY FONDA Erlo Biore Osgood Perkins Directed by Joan CROMWELL Fandro S. Berman production

RKO

RADIO Picturo

TO-MORROW

RKO Radio's Gripping Mystory "TWO IN THE DARK" And a Featurette of the Famed DIONNE QUINTUPLETS.

STARE

4 SHOWS DAILY

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

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW THE FASTEST FILM FUN IN MONTHS!

She could hand it out.

but SHE COULDN'T

GEORGE RAFT

IN

#TAKE IT

JOAN BENNETT

"SHE COULDN'T TAKE IT"

A Columbia Picture.

THURSDAY, ONE DAY ONLY !

CONSTANCE BENNETT

FREDRIC MARCH

in "THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI" A United Artists Picture.

4 SHOWS DAILY

7.10

TAKE ANY TREAM OR KAMIN VA LEY BUS

ORIENTAL

A MASSIVE NAVAL PRODUCTION. GRAND SPECTACLE OF MUSIC. SONG, LAUGHTER AND ROMANCE,

FLÆKL PIG

1045 WANČIŽAJ

TEL TH

"I'LL TEACH YOU TO LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

KEEP MY CHILD IN"

Ealing magistrates recently im-) posed a fine of £2, with £2 21. costs on Mrs. Taplin, of Church Lane, South Ealing, for assaulting Miss an assistant Doris Robinson, teacher at the Grange Senior Girls' School, Ealing, where a daughter of Mrs. Taplin, Margaret, aged 12, was one of her pupils. Mrs. Taplin was also bound over for six months, Mr. R. Johnson (prosecuting) said that at mid-day on January 30 some General Gamelin, Commander.in. of the girls had not finished their Chief of the French army, photo- spelling lessons, and wore asked to visiting Stress-remain until they had finished. Mrs. when graphed bourg, on the French line of fortifck-Taplin's daughter started to walk towards the door and was restrained tion near the Rhias, te

by Miss Robinson, whe told her to Anish her work. The girl said, "I will not. My mother says if I don't get hame she will whip me." The head mistress was called, and the girl was takon to another room to Queen Mary, with the help of a finish her lesson. At 12.25 she left comps of secretaries, has answered to go home.

In the afternoon, Miss Robinson, on more than 25,000 messages of con- dolonce received by her from all her way to school with another daughter. "You are the one I am parts of the world after the death teacher, met Mrs. Taplin and her Scores of messages, particularly waiting for," said Mrs. Taplin.

told to see the head mistress, those from members of foreign Margaret to keep your hands off royalt and persons who personal acquaintance with the sho said, "I will teach you to keep

were answered in the my child in. It is damned chock. It has been announced that 22,500 Queen,

She then assaulted the teacher, sald pieces of silver plate to the value Queen's own handwriting.

The 25,000 letters came from all Mr. Johnson, by striking her across of $20,000 had been specially

back. manufactured for the Conard parts of Great Britain, from social the face and knocking her in the Mrs. Taplin, in evidence, said that White Star ner Queen Mary. Mayfair and country cottages, Eight thousand ounces of aliver Ireland and the overseas dominions she pushed the, teacher, were used in their manufacture, from the United States, including alleged, poked her in the chest with

her albow and pushed past. many from school childron. the whole weighing cine tones.

The enormous task of replying The Chairman (Mr. W. Spencer) This plate will be supplemented

whose lives were ruined by the foolish by the silver plate from the to the messages of condolence re-sald there were many, young people Mauretania, which after renova quired the full time of Queen lack of discipline on the part of their tion will be used in the tourist and Mary's six ladies-in-waiting and parents. There was no discipline at

I be no discipling in the school, third cinas dining saloons of tho her threo men secretaries.hon, and then they said there should

United, Press: Queen Mary.

NINE TONS OF SILVER FOR

THE QUEEN MARY 22,500 PIECES COSTING £20,000

of King George,

who, sho

EVERYBODY'S CHEERING THEIR FIRST SHOW SINCE

LIRTATION WALK'1,

DICK POWELL RUBY KEELER

Shipmates

Forever

•2DAYS TO-MORROW '&,

ONLY

THURSDA

HERE'S A REAL GOOD COMEDY ! 2 SISTERS AFTER THE SAME MAN IT'S ONE GLORIOUS: BATTLE.

"Any gidi can get a man ...but it takes, a omari one to hold him. and you're not smaril

Smart Girl

A Paranapa Pietren with

IDA LUPINO KENT TAYLOR GAIL PATRICK JESEPH CAWTHORN

Borted by dry brotejat Wales Wouper Producing

MATINEES:' 20c.-30c • EVENINGS: 20c.-30c,-50c.-

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