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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY 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.

IT'S NOT HARD TO TAKE -a 90-minute laugh tònic that's 'just what the doctor ordered!

THE

The greatest of all their comedy.. musical treats! As gypsies now, they're

HAL ROACH presents

nobody's business

-but every- 'body's fun!'

Stan

LAUREL

Olwer

HARDY

Bohemian

hemian Girl

Meu FEATURE-LENGTH COMEDY

with music, girls, spectacleł

with

ANTONIO MORENO JACQUELINE WELLS

Based on the para by Balle ▼ Musical Directos, Nathaniel Shilkiej Directed by JAMES W HORNE and CHARLES ROGERS

-TO-Monnow AT THE KING'S-—- "LET 'EM HAVE IT”

with RICHARD ARLEN

VIRGINIA BRUCE-ALICE IRADY

United Artista Picture.

* SHOWS

DAILY

3.00-8.13

7.15-0.00

TO-MORROW AT THE ALHAMBRA-

By Special Request

"BROADWAY MELODY

OF 1936"

with JACK BENNY-ELEANOR POWELL

ПоRKET TATLOR

A Matro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture,

TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAPPY VA LEY BUB

ORIENTAL

ASTHEATREAM

FLEMING

ROAD

WANCHAL

TEL ENTE

8 FAMOUS COMEDY SCREEN STARS

IN A GRAND

LAUGH SHOW WITH SONG, MUSIC AND ROMANCE.

CLAST 4 TIMES TO DAY

POWEL BLONDELL

BROADWAY GONDOLIER

ADOLPHE MENJOU LOUISE FAZENDAY WILLIAM GARGAN:

DAY TO-MORROW I ONLY

ONLY

1

BY SPECIAL REQUEST WE WILL AGAIN PRESENT THE BEST OF ALL MUSICAL SHOWS!

[RADIO

Edward Everett Horton

FRED

ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS TOP HAT

lyrics and music by de IRVING

BERLIN

Helen Broderick •

10 MATINEES; 20-30c

Krik Rhodes • Erla Riora EVENINGS:120c-30c;-50c,-70c-❤

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S.ROAD CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST.

Tako Bus No. 4 or & going weat, 3 min. from stop opposito Queen's

انسیب

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

2 days only at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES !

MYRNA LOY

in an M-G-M's picture

“STAMBOUL QUEST"

also showing

"LAUREL & HARDY COMEDY"

MOST POPUlar prices

Matinces: 50c., 30c., 20c.; Evanings: 55c,, 40c., 30c. Servicemen: 30 cents to Dress Circle.

· Frinted and "Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROT FRANKLIN, ut 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hoogkong,

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY

REUNITED AT

GALLIPOLI

HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES MEET ABOARD BATTLE- SCARRED SHIP

WAR STORY

Lublin (Poland), May 1.

1936

PREPARING FOR WAR PICTURES

In 1916, his fighting days HOLLYWOOD ORDERS ended, a Polish soldier was SCENARISTS TO WORK discharged from the army-ON FILM FEATURES OF and from hospital.

A bullet had robbed him of his sight and his memory at a He walked into the stroke.

London, May 1. Britain's heroes of the Dar- danelles, banding together again from over the Empire, left to-day on a visit to the battlefields of streets of Warsaw nameless,

penniless, a wanderer. Gallipoli.

He wandered the streets of a During the pilgrimage the veterans will hold a dramatic re-troubled country for twenty years union aboard a battle-scarred-begging for bread. veteran of the campaign-now: a tramp steamer.

WAS UNDER FIRE The steamer, known as the Maruja Y. Aurora, is engaged in trading coal among Mediterrancan ports..

But twenty-one years ago she proudly here the name of the tiver Clyde and played a major part in the landing of the Eghters at Gallipoli.

When the veterans board her from the Cunard-White Star line Lan- enstrin at a Mediterranean port, they will see the traces of damage from sheil fire. She still carries, beneath the coal grime, a plaque commemorat- ing the part she played at Gallipoli.

AGAIN ON BRIDGE

*

THIS WEEK he found himself in Lublin, Central Poland. To him one town was like another.

A woman gave him a coln, was hesitated. about to walk away, Her face went white. Tears came into her eyes. She uttered ond word-"Johann1" Then she flung her arms round his neck.

CONFLICTS

Hollywood, Cal., May 1, Hollywood is preparing for may predict war. Statcamen |otherwise, but the movie moguls

conflict in Europe is believe a coming soon, and are laying their plans accordingly. A flood of war pictures may be expected. this year.

arc

The marching orders came from studio front offices lust month when big newspaper headlines reported the march of German troops into the Rhine- land. Today, scenarists working on original stories with battle backgrounds, and the read- Johann Pyeck. wealthy mer-ing departments-whose duty it chant, was reunited with his wife. is to senn all publications for camera fare-are watching for that type of material,

*

Germany's New Fleet Of Zeppelins

Berlin, May 1. Patent number 98,580, granted in. August 31, 1895 to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin by the German Patent Office, marks the design of an aircraft which was

TO KEEP GRINDING Trans-Atlantic telephones buzzed last month with commands for to crews camera

proceed Into the Rhineland and keep Erinding ns long. 23 the ammunition Innts. William Lebaron, the newly- installed production chief at Para- mount, said he communicated with

that

company, European offices of a similar

was made Brothers. by Hal Wallis, of

"Maybe there will be war and may-

Lebaron not"

sail to-day,

"In be case, wo'll

prepared. The ave instructions

Capt. Edward Unwin, holder of the! Victoria Cros, las joined the pilgrim nge und will stand again on the bridge of his old ship where he gave orders while under fire of the Turks,

Field-Marshal Sir William Bird- wood, who commanded the Aszaç8- Australian and New Zealand army corps at Gallipoli, is leading the veteran. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, another veteran of the campaign,

has also left. The pilgrim

from includes ex-servicemen Ireland, Irish Free State and other never built but which lives in many shots of the troops entering the England, Scotland, Wales, Northern

principle in the LZ 129. the Empire. British nurses parts of

This ancestor of nil zepps never who served in hospitals and hospital

hips in the Mediterranean during grow out of the model stage. It was war are also taking pari.

nge

the

the

At Gallipoli the benches in Helles arch, Seld-el-Bahr Fort, and cemeteries and memorials visited.

be

uny crowk

country as possible.

to get na

VISUAL REACTION "What we're even more interested in

enme warlike

a tree-cylinder affair connected by is the visual reaction of masses of narrow passages and designed so that people to this spectnele. Seems to me the first cylinder would contain the there is tremendous drama in the re

force for the other two which appearance of the will be the weight. The cylinderscenes that those people knew in

constructed by a mass of wires and 1914.

Lebaron and similar preparations covered with silk cloth con- supporta

would be made, if possible, in the Far forerunners bags, tained the goa the modern hydrogen protected by East. helium

The typo.

steering

Italy Is World's Most Talkative Nation

me The pictures, he explained, would

chanism was a complex arrangement be used in arthodox movie features. for background, and not as newsreel

of rudders, pullies, and drums.

Count von Zepplin's iden Arst took clips.

to the nir in July, 1900 in a more

modern ship based on these principles. When The

Thereafter, the world to

at the little man with the walrus masstache. The army commandeered his services in 1908, and before the war broke out twelve military air

fleet

King Is

-On The Air

which terrorized Europe. London, May 1,

WORK GOES ON Italy is the most talkative na.

On March 8. 1917 the energetic tion in Europe and Germany is a Count died, but his work and en- poor second, according to the rat-thusiasm were carried on by the man ings of a European radio aurvey who in 1905 had told him that "his

Mr. good." published in the British Broad-ation was no

Hugo realizing that a a zeppelin casting Company's new Annual. must be operated like a ship, spent navigation. While Holland is the least years studying. airship garrulous nation on the air with attaining universal recognition when he safely piloted the ZR HI to only 12 per cent. of her broad- Lakehurst in October 1921. casting time devoted to talks. This success gave Eckener the talk-

ships formed the nucleus of Crowned

necessary contributions of the con-

LONDON SEASON TO LAST 9 MONTHS

MOST BRILLIANT OF THE CENTURY

THERE are reasons for stating that the Corona-

the two countries ruled by dictning point which he turned into the tion of King Edward will tors allot more time to talking struction of the famous 17 127, batter take place during the first than any other form of radio known as the "Graf Zeppelin." During entertainment:

The stations of Italy per cent, of all available programmes

devole

its seven-years of service, this ship 12 days of May, 1937. safety covered 1,355,872 kilometers in 45

13,367 hours and 59 minutes includ-

The actual date will be pro-

to talking, and those of Germany de-ing a world tour and 11 ocean cross-mulgated as an Order in Coun-

ings.

In August 1930 Eckener undertook the building of the 12 128 which was designed to be bigger and faster than the "Graf."

As it was nearing com- pletion, news came of the crash of the Britisis R101 at Beauvais, France. Immediately, work was stopped on the German ship while investigations were being conducted into the cause INNOVATIONS

vote 27 per cent. After Germany, the country with the most to say is Nor- way with 25 per cent. "talk time."

Britain, where numerous listeners write to the i.C. to complain that there are loo many speeches and discourses on the air, has only 17 per cent, of Its radio time given to these kinds of programmes, The ratings were made in a survey by the Unione Internationalle de of the crash.

which explained thui Radiodifusion,

cil, and, as the accession of the King, it will be proclaimed by Garter King of Arms and the Heralds from

James's Palace, at Charing Cross, and in the City of London.

St.

and the social calendar between then Whit Sunday falls on May 16, 1937. and Derby Day, June 2, is likely to be so full that it is understood a

dalc before the

Whitsun hollday is favoured.

other considerations make the

beginning of May Impracticable,

As a result of these investigations, although no figures were available Dr. Eckener and his assistant, Dr. from Russia it was evident that a large portion of the Soviet radio pro- Ludwig Duerr, decided that many in- grammes are given over to talk inas-novations, particularly safety devices,Thursday, May 27, may be selected. their new Queen Victoria and King George V. much as educntional programmes are must be instituted the giant were crowned on a Thursday, and the

coronation of King Edward with

carried on extensively by means of radio.

to

zeppelin. Theylation

skeleton to be torn Entering into

Great Britain, the

the charred bought

R101. Tho

metal was

Works and twisted

VIL

would have taken place on a Thurs- day had it not been postponed be- cause of his liness.

Why May Was Chosen

Although Italy leads in the volume of talking over the radio she also lends, along with France, in the brandcasting of cultural music. Both frantowork which has once been the brought to nations devote about 10 per cent. of Germany, melted down, and repoured

Of the four Thursdays available in their ale time to opera.

A part of the framework of the 129th the month, May 6 is the anniversary of the accession of King George. opera lovers, diong with Switzerland

So the R101 flies once again and Yugo-Slavia, devoting between in the ship which grew out of ita the Bank Holiday to be sul

sultabic. five and eight per cent. of their

tragedy. broadcasting time to it.

Belgium and Hungary also are known as the "Hinden- while May 13 and 20 fall too close to

Corona-

QULLA'S

SHOWING TO-DAY

at 2.30, 5.15, 7,20 & 9.30.

Two Cauliflowers in the Garden of Love!

Dishing the light rackat

to crash society on butters? |

Adelph Zurer peakonto

Awo Fisted

A Paramount Pietero kilk

LEE TRACY ROSCOE KARNS GAIL PATRICK KENT TAYLOR Grace Bradley » Bifly Lee „Directed by Jumar Cruc

NEXT CHANGE

THE FUN'S THE LIMIT BUT MUM'S THE WORD!

You'll gasp! You'll screaml You'll be breathless with laughter.... so don't' breathe a word of the delirious disclosures in

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4 SHOWS DAILY

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

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY !

DO NOT MISS YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING THIS DELIGHTFUL COMEDY !

SYLVIA SIDNEY HERBERT MARSHALL

"Accent Youth

& Paramount Pistide with

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If the custom of fixing the Coro To-day Germany is building the IZtion for a Thursday is considered to The broadcasting of religious ser 130. This will be 119th airship outweigh the advantages of a date vices has no place in the radio pro- actually bailt, the plans for eleven Carly in the month, May 27,

would, grammes of Belgium and Czecho-having falled to materialise. Of the therefore, seem the most suitable day Slovalcia; France, Germany and 118 91 as- It is understood that June, was at Austria gave about two per cent. of an already constructed, at were in one time contemplated as Coronation in "FORSAKING ALL OTHERS”

Berlin.

and accommodation of the visitors to London at the beginning of an excep- tionally busy Grand Season was con- Eldered to be, even without the Cor-

their radio time to religious pro- Potsdam, and ten at Staaken near month, but the problem of transport grammes Inst year, Italy about three per cent. Most other European coun- tries, including Great Britain, have between four and six per cent. of their time allotted to religious ser- vices.

Baroness

Injuredonation, one which would tax the

The Scandinavian countries give In Mdivani Crash

the must time to religious services.

The Uritish Broadcasting Com-

pany's new Annual revealed that Sued For Divorce

17 per cent. of the families in Eng- land have, radio sets and pay licences on them. Tht percentage is down to 13 in Scotland, 12 In Wales and only six per cent. in Northern Ireland.—United Press.

WATCHING FOR FRENCH INVASION

London, April 26.

Mr. Chummy Barden was re- elected at Winchelsen, Sussex, this week, to the post of looler. out, whose duty it has been since the Middle Ages to watch for the approach of an invadlug French fleet.

resources of the metropolis to their limits.

TO-DAY &

As it is, from the end of Court TO-MORROW, Mourning in October this year until the middle of next July, London will have a continuous "Season"prob- Budapest, Apr. 28.

ably, the most brilliant of the cen- tury. Baron Henry von Thyssen's Beads of London department divorce case against his wife, stores, dressmaking firms and Baroness Maud von Thyssen, caterers, expect the greatest social opened in the Budapest Divorce season that London has ever seen.. Court yesterday, but neither of [them, attended. An adjourn

ment was ordered to a date in May. to be fixed later.

Hostesses are already making plans for elaborate entertaining on a scale unparalleled in recent years and the next 12 months are expected to be the best which London retail stores have had for 20 years,

Prince Alexis Mdivani, killed while motoring with the baroness in facial treatment from

a London Barcelona last August, is cited as plastic surgeon. She is claiming co-respondent.

£80,000 from the.prinen's estate bo- The baroness, who la defending cause her jewellery-her entire for- the case, was badly injured in the tune-was stolen from. the wrecked crash, and has recently recolved car.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Picture.

RADIO

MAJESTIC

PICTURE

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

HERE AGAINI

CANO MORE TORT

MURDER ON

HONEYMOON

EDNA MAY OLIVER JAMES GLEASON/