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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT THE

KING'S

HONG KONG

ALHAMBRA

KOWLOON

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. : At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

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And How They Sing: "Rose Marie"

"Indian

Love Call"

"Serenade

Just for You" "Pardon Me,

Madame"

JEANETTE

She scarcely knew his name ... but his ca- rosses spoke the language of lovel

McDONALD EDDY

NELSON I

Bose Marie

Reginald Owen tAilan Jonst? Jamon Stowall Alan Mowbray

SA Gilda, Gray'

Finduced by Honi Slimüthe

~WEDNESDAY AT THE KING'A— Three Attractions in One Programme

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The Biggest Novelly Since Talkies)

and LAUREL and HARDY

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TRIUMPHANT pageant of riding, fighting and romance in this grand out-door musical drama of a gallant young

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY APRIL 20, 1936.

U.S.A. PLANNING AIR BASES IN THE

PACIFIC

ATLANTIC : CONTRACT

LET

6. tightening

The U.S.A. navy, the nation's air defences on two sen coasts.

The construction of a powerful Marine Corps air base in the Virgin | falinds, athwart the projected | Southern Commercial transatlantic air route, is being hastened.

On the West, meanwhile, Rear- admiral William 11. King, Chief of Naval Aeronautics, is considering the possibility of establishing air; bases in the far Pacific islands,

A contract for a hangar, ramps, ronways and a sea wall on Lind- bergh Bay at the north eastern tip) of St. Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands, has been let,

The point is the farthest United Sintes possession in the North Atlantic.

IN THE PACIFIC

Air bases and fortifications in the Pacific Islands have been under consideration since Japan re- nounced the 6-5-3 naval ratio: and walked out of the Landon Naval Conference,

SHANGHAI OFFICERS HONOURED

Decorations conferred upon then by the President of the Re- public of Portugal were presented to Major F. A. Rt. Leitao, Head- quarters, and Major R. Jacquinot de Besange, Chaplain of the S.V.C., by the Portuguese Minister. Dr. Antonia Alves, J., in a ceremony held at the Shanghai Rifle Range Inst week. Upper photo shows the Portuguese Company, S.V.C., at the ceremony. Lower left, Dr. Alves pinning the décorntion on Major ԱՐ Besange and, lower right, Major Leitao being decorated.

In the 1922 Washington Navall Treaty, which Japan denounced, ench country agreed to leave un- fortified their respective small islands in the mid-Pacific region. King Improvises

The Virgin Islands base will!

well serve a peaceful Is military purpose.

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In addition to strengthening the Panama Canal defence against alr attack the base will afford an emer. gency landing and refueling field on experimental fights of the Ger- man Lufthansa and Pan-American Airways plan to inaugurate this year.

A reciprocal agreement pledging cach nation to afford the other full facilities on tests of the southerni transatlantic route has recently been concluded by the Sluty Depart-| ment with an official German Air Mission.

Thirteen Is

2ORETO-DAYO TO-MORROW | Egypt's

A THRILL-PACKED SONG-JAMMED MUSICAL ADVENTURE WITH GAY CABALLEROS AND DARK-EYED SENORITAS IN A WONDERFUL SHOW !

ROSE OF

THE

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WEDNESDAY

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Fateful Number

A RECORD SINCE 1882.

Cairo, Apr. 10.

On Signature As.

PEEPS AT

Prince of Wales PRIVATE

LIVES

London, Apr. 15. King Edward, who has a new signature now that he's the monarch, has swung into writing his new name without any diffi- culty.

It really just an improvisa- tion on the old one.

When he wan

the Prince of Wales he signed documents "Edward P." Now it's "Edward 1. I." Defore becoming mover- eign he always wrote the "p" after his name with a full loop. Now he lds a straight down- ward stroke to form an "R" and afixes a perpendicular Iine for the "".

He still adheres to his familiar final flourish from the ending of the "d" of his name, the flourish running the length of the name.

-United Press,

BABY BORN IN THE AIR

WHAT WILL THEY CALL HER?

Stockholm, Apr. 8.

FIGURES THAT MAKE NEWS

The private life of Mr. and Mrs. Great Britain has been re- corded in book form by two men down to the smallest detail.

It tells, for instance, how many families there are in the country- and reveals that Scotsmen have the largest. It recalls that while 90,000 people have an income over £2,000 a year 15,900,000 have less than £150.

We learn also that there are more lodgers in London and the South-East than in any other region, the number of boys born normally exceeds the girls, and women ve longer than

men..

llome The book is called "The Market." by Major G. Harrison and F. CMitchell, andis published by Allen and Unwin at 10. l. It is described as "a by-product of adver tisement," but it is, in itself, an in- portant and intensely interesting work.

MORE WOMEN THAN MEN

In 1034 the tolal population of Great Britain was 232/3 million females and 21 million males-

was an exceptional excess of women

Maitre Fikri Abaza, the S WEDEN to-day number-1,084 wonica to each 1,000 men. There talented editor of "Al Mosawar,” ed among its population aged from 30-16 in 1934 because of the leading Egyptian pictorial, the first Swedish child ever]

draws attention to the curious

the losses of the war.

Aboye 75 years of age, too, women

fact that the number thirteen to be born in an airplane. are 60 per cent, more numerous than has been associated with many The infant, a finely developed men. Half the population were be events in the history of Egypt's girl, was born in an ambulance tween 15 and 45. relations with Great Britain. machine which was conveying To get back to Inconies. Hall the the mother from Overtornea, on annual gross national income is spent

The English landed in Alexandria

on July 11, 1882, and entered Cairo the Swedish-Finland border, toen food, clathes and shelter. on September 13, the same year. The hospital at Boden, 120 miles HOW THE MONEY COES Dinishiway affair, which still rankles distant,

in the minds of the Egyptians, oc

Savings average £36 per family, curred on June 19, 1906, The first Medical assistance was render- but a small minority of the families demand for independence was pre-fed in the air by the assistant pilot contribute the bulic of it. The sented to Sir Reginald Wingate, the of the machine, and mother and average yearly expenditure per then ligh Commissioner, on Novem chlid were taken to hospital with family is £330 and here is how it is ber 1, 1918, which has ever since out mishap.

apportioned per week: been observed as a national anniver-

sary.

Food A legal decision will be neces

The Wafd, which was formed after-sary before the child's place of wards to obtain the country's aspira. birth can be registered. tions, was composed of thirteen notables. When Rushdys Posha Meanwhile, the newspapers are fourth Cabinet resigned in order to suggesting names for the girl. sympathise with Government Officials One suggestion is she should be in the national movement, it had christened Ariela, the feminine of been in Ace only thirteen days. The Shakespear's Ariel. last Cabinet resigned as a result of a disagreement with Lke British Government, on November 13, 1984.

The clauses in both the 1930 draft

treaty and that negotiated by Sarwat

Pasha in 1927, which dealt with the

Sultan, one of the great stumbling blocks to an agreement, wero nanj- bered thirteen.

The writer affirms that, although in all these cases Egypt suffered, the.

Clothes

Travel Smoking Entertainment Newspapers, book etc.,

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10 0

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4 0

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Out of the remaining £3 or so John Citizen has to pay his rent, rates, hting and fuel, income tax, doctor's

Melrose Plans His bill and insurance, and try to save...

Third Flight To -

· Australia

fact that the delegation which has Plans for his third flight to Aus-· now been formed to converse with tralia have been announced Great Britain is composed of thirteen Mr. C. J-Melrose, twenty-two-year- persons, and that the Rescript, which old Australian nirman. authorised its formation, was issued

January 13, doen

OR

not inspire

90 PER CENT, OF MEN WORK

Few male Industrial workers earn more than 3 a week, while the earn-

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THE LADY IN RED”.

FLAMES INTO STARDOM

BROADWAY HOSTESS Win Shaw

(Who mads "Lady in Red": the wing sensalian alythe hour) Phil Regan, Genevieve Tobin Lyle Talbot Allen Jenkins

TO-MORROW

A Tip-Top Tuneful

Triumph!

"FROM THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD

7" WISH I`WERE ALADDIN' TO THE TIP OF YOUR TOES' 'TAKES TWO TO MAKE A BARGAIN"

"WITHOUT A WORD OF WARNING

TWO FOR TONIGHT

Kädiph

A Paramount Picture with BING

CROSBY

BENNETT

JOAN

MARY BOLAND LYNNE OVERMAN THELMA TODD Directed by Frank Tuttle

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TO-DAY

YOUR FAVOURITE SWEETHEARTS TOGETHER AGAIN !!!

Dick and tuby and Uncle Sam's whole regiment of Midshipmenintha story of the "Naval engagement" that almost wrecked Annapolis! It's the Navy's "Flirtation Walle"!

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DICK POWELL RUBY KEELER

Chipmates Forever

With LEWIS STONE ROSS ALEXANDER EDDIE ACUFF-DICK FORAN JOHN ARLEDGE A (@smopolian Production A First National Picturs)

NEXT CHANGE

A GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY FULL OF ACTION

AND LAUGHTER !

"SMART GIRL"

ings of the vast majority of girls and with IDA LUPINO, KENT TAYLOR

women in industry averago 278. per wook.

Nearly 70 per cent. of males work by--or more than 90 per cent. If boys under 14 are excluded. Unoccupied or retired number ono and a half mil lon-300,000 are studente, 300,000 re retired or old-age pensioners, 300,000 are "men of leisure" or un- employables.

He hopes to start from Heston on Egyptians with any pessimistic feel. April 1. He will use a new type as might have been the case passenger machine, with which he With the foreignors who attach so intends to begin an "air tax!" ser-" much superstitious importance to the vice in Adelaide.

ing

and

Of women in Great Britain, one- figure thirteen. He believes that at Three people may accompany him quarter are workers and another last success from the Egyptian point as passengers. He declared that quarter girls under 14. Tho remain-: of the present conversations with that there is no question of record 8 million are married and the rest

brenking.".

of view will attack to the connection

fateful number,

ing half totals 12,000,000, and of these

unmarried, widowed or unoccupied.

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central. JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.