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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, §. 1936.

KINGS WOMAN'S 6,000-MILE TREK ALHAMBRA

TO-DAY ONLY

MERIAN C. COOPER'S MIGHTIEST SHOW

RKO

RADIO Picture

TO.

THE

At 2.30, 5,10, 7.15, & 9.30 p.m.

LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

A LOVE STORY 2,000 YEARS OLD ....WRITTEN FOR THIS VERY HOURI

with

PRESTON FOSTER

ALAN HALE BASIL RATHBONE

JOHN WOOD LOUIS CALHERN

'HERE COMES TROUBLE' with, MORROW" Paul Kelly - Arlino Judge - Mona Barrio

ULLA

20th Century

FOX

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30.

Man

Shu wanted thrilla...

and got more than

site bargained for!

Adolph. Zuker persents

WOMAN

TRAP

A Purinisual Pietheświth

GERTRUDE MICHAEL

GEORGE MURPHY ROSCOE KARNS AKIM TAMIROFFS

NEXT CHANGE

Gary

DIETRICH COOPER

.......giving you dozens of romantic thrilla!

DESIRE

TO-DAY

ONLY

A Paramount Picture with JOHN HALLIDAY WILLIAM FRAWLEY- ERNEST COSSART -Directed by Frank Borange.

From comedy by Hans Szokoly and R. Stemmle. Produced under perio supervision of Eragi Lubitsch

MAJESTIC

Bette's Biggest Hit

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

FRONT PAGE WOMAN

Warner Bros.? headline hit starring BETTE DAVIS » GEORGE, BRENT

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

SMART FROCK AMID BANDITS

KICKED IN FACE BY SOLDIERS. MISS ELLA MAILLART, the young Swiss explorer, now in London, was recently doing all her cooking over a fire of dried grass on an open sandy plain high in the Himalayas..

She is tall, slender and pretty, with brown hair and expressive sen-green eyes that make an arresting contrast to her clear, bronzed skin.

HER HOLIDAY. She'pends only two weeks of the year in civilisation.

The simple black frock which she wearing, when intorviewed bfb

| recently, with its white satin

amartly buttoned on each shoulder, might have edme straight from Berkeley Street:

It has travelled with her 6,000 miles across the trackless plains and remote mountain passes of Regian and Chinese Turkestan and Northern Tibet. Millart recentiv returned from n 3,500-mile expedition froni Pekin through Central Asia to India with Mr. Peter Fleming, the English explorer.

WEEKS IN ISOLATION

It was her job to do the cooking. There was no wood on those 9.000ft. high frozen plains, so she collected. bash-roots and grass.

In her brass kettle ske boiled rico and onions, and noodles made of flour And water. Occasionally Mr. Flem- ing shot

pheasant, duck, hare, or antelope, which went into the kettle or was grilled on a skewer.

The only people they encountered nomad tribesmen. Often for wero weeks they would not meet a living Foul.

LONDON TOO NOISY"

They had been warned that, they might be captured by bandits and hold for ransom for months, so they. Look typewriters and paper with them, planning write during

to captivity.

The only ill-treatment

Maillart suffered was at the lands

of Japanese sokilera, who, mistak

ing her for a Russian, kicked her

in the face, stomach and back. After the wilds of the Asiatic plateaus Miss Mafilare finds London

too full of noise and talk."

most of her time ski-ing in the Since early childhood she has spent mountains or sailing on Lake Gonova. For four successive years she has re- presented her country at Internation- nl competitions in these two sports.

She speaks fluent French, German, English and Russian,

WHEN THE JUDGE WHISTLED

Summing up in a libel action last month, the Lord Chief Justice said that many years ago a judge, called upon to sum up a clear case, uttered no words, but merely turned to the jury and gave a very little low whistle. (Laughter.)

"I never felt more tempted to follow that precedent,” Bald Lord Hewart,

In the King's Bench Division Mr. ugh George do Willmott Newman, of Tewesbury Terrace, New South- gate, sued Odhams Press, Limited. Long Acr

W.C., proprietors of **John

Sir Borlase Ellward Wyndham Childe (chief of the Investi gation Depart of "John Bull"), and Mr. John Austin (the editor).

Mr. Newman alleged that he had been defamed by an article in "John Bull."

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"NO SMALLER COIN". "It is fact," and Lord

Hewart. "that the defendants were mistaken when they said that plaintiff was a man named food, who obtained £5 from a clergyman and did not pay it; back. It was a small mistake.

"Our currency knows no smaller coin than

a farthing, and it may well be that you regret that fact. You may think that coin will more than adequately represent the com- pensation due to an adventurer and who dare not face cross-

Exon in the witness-box."

Without leaving the box the jury awarded Mr. Nowman one farthing damages,

As £10 had been paid into Court, out of that sun, less one farthing, he made an order for the payment

with judgment for the defendants,

NEW BULLET INVENTED

EXTRA PENETRATION POWER

Claiming that he has invented a bullet which will penetrate steel plate and other substances further than any yet made, Henry Haydon, a twen ty eight year old New South Wales motor mechanic, has come to Sydney to offor it to the Defence Department. He says also his bullet will give twice the range of an ordinary one, that it can be made for rifles of any calibre, and that even if it strikes. at an angle of 45 degrees, It will not glance off but will penetrale.

The secret, ho told. Austral News, which he has taken Avo years to dia- cover, lies in the propellant explosive and the formation of the shell.

CABLE SPINNING, NEARS COMPLETION

The immense task of spinning 80,000 miles of wire into suspen- slon cables for the world's greatest single span suspension bridge the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco-nears completion, and here's how the job looks now: To the left looking neross the "Gato" towards Marin County, can be seen one of the strands ready to be moved over to the main cable at right. Each strand contain more than 250 wires each a quarter of an inch thick. Into each of the main cables go 61 auch strands.

Rector Delays Kiki' Roberts' Church Wedding

New York, April 24.

MARION ("Kiki") ROBERTS, ex-Ziegfeld Follies girl in whose room at the Monticello Hotel, New York, Jack Diamond, gangster, was shot dead, wants to get married in church.

pany with which she was re- hearsing.

Whether she can or not de-]

clergyman who has already once falled. Then there were other pends on the decision of the

"KIk" tried the films. That postponed the ceremony.

Life has not been too kind to the red-haired girl since that night five years ago when Diamond-"Lega" to the under world-was riddled with bullets by gangster onemies before her eyes.

He died with his lips scaled; he also died penniless.

smaller Joba-she mannequin.

became

"Why won't the public leave me alone to live my life?" she used to say.

At last they did.

•

Recently sho met August Sanarese, young athletic instruc- tor. They fell in love, became "Kiki" Roberts, dancer, was augged, arranged to bo married. known to most Broadway casting To-morrow was the date of the managers. She had been in many wedding at the Catholic church Ziegfeld's "Smiles" at the time of gave up the stage. shows, and was rehearsing for| "Kiki" ~ has attended since sho the murder.

She gave her namo at the church as Frances Peberka. On the wave of publicity, But the rector had doubts which followed the crime about the "Kik" floated until its peak at postponed it to determine whether ceremony. He has the Academy Theatre, New he has the power to marry "Kiki" York, when people fought in in the Roman Catholle faith. the streets for admission to see). what Groucho Marx called "the glance of a gangster's moll,"

But the crime which had sent her name round the world was also the means of ending, for the time, her stage career.

FRENCH CRUISER

LAUNCH

St. Nazaire, Apr. 15. The George Leygues, sixth and Inst of a series of 7,600 ton cruisers kald down by orders of the late French Naval Minister, M. George Leygues, was launched here yesterday.

"GLORIFICATION" American actors and music hall performers protested against

Like her alster ships she is very the glorification, of a one-time fast, her speed being more than 32

knots. gunman's sweetheart.

The engines develop 84,000 h.p. On Saturday, July 8, 1933, guns, anti-aircraft

She is armed with nine she was turned out of the com- torpedo tubes.

guns, and

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S RD, CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST. Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 8 min, from stop opposite Queen's

„TO-DAY—TOMORROW-FRIDAY

3 days only at 2.30, 5.15; 7.20 & 9.20 p.m..

'Cin. four

AT THE MOST POPULAR FIRST-RUN PRICES. The Melodramatic Thrill Drama of the Hunt for Ancient Treasure, guarded by the ferocious wild beasts of the Lost Jungle !

EPISODE

NO. 1.

Clyde BEATTY The LOST UNGLE

CHAPTER ONE

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