12
AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5,10, 7.15, & 9.30 p.m.
THE EMBATTLED CRY OF AMERICA'S AROUSED YOUTH "get 'em "and
***
"LET EM HAVE IT"
with RICHARD ARLEN. VIRGINIA BRUCE
ALICE BRADY.
BRUCE CABOT
United Artists Picture.
GALA PREMIERE-TO-MÓRROW AT 9.30 P.M.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
in "MODERN TIMES".
United Artists Pictura.
QUELO
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30.
THE FUNS THE LIMIT BUT MUMS THE WORD!
PERSONAL MAID'S
SECRET
MARGARET LINDSAY WARREN HULL-
NEXT CHANGE
THE GIMME GIRLS HAVE LANDED AND HAVE THE MARINES WELL I HAI Joan!
BLONDELL FARRELL
MISS PACIFIC FLEET
Warner Bros.'-Hit with -
Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936.
BETS ON
ON FILM ROMANCES
JEAN HARLOW AND WILLIAM POWELL 100-1 AGAINST Jackie Coogan's "Future"
Hollywood, May 1. NOW that the Santa Anita racing season is over Hollywood "punters" are putting their money on filmland's matrimonial futures.
This is Hollywood's latest novelty- the "Hollywood Stakes” started by Mr. Clay Roberts, a young studio official, who has compiled a compendium of odds representing film stars' wedding chances in 1936.
Here are the latest odds:
Lyle Tabot and Lina.
| Busquett-10-1 against.
Miss Basquette is the marry- ing kind. but Mr. Talbot likes them all
"REAL ROMANCE"
MASS ADOPTION
London, Apr. 24. Sixteen children--of different nationalities have been "adopted" by a man at Grave- --send, Kent.
He is one of the principal | subscribers to the Adoption Department of the Save the Children Fund.
The staff of the Ministry of Health branch at Acton has “adopted” 27 children, and' the Welsh Board of Health at Cardiff four.
A minimum subscription of guineas a year is allocated for the assistance of a specified child.
THE PENITENT
Q. Where did this happen?
Bandit entered tramcar in the early hours of the morning, to "Stick 'em up." pressed a revolver against Thomas Gooch, the conductor, ordered
William Powell and Jenn Har-him low-100-1 against-so they say.
But the public thinks this is a real romance.
Glenda Farrell and Addison Randal-5-1 in favour.
This romance has-been report- ed near the altar on a number of eccasions..
Eddie Sutherland and Loretta Young-10-1 against,
They are reparted to be keep- ing steady company.
Joan Blondell and Dick Powell -2-1 in favour.
Kay Francis and Delmar Davies-Even money.
Margaret Lindsay and Pat de Cicco-20-1 ngainst,
This affair is cooling rapidly De Cicco is the late Thelma Todd's former husband.
Irene Hervey und Alan Jones- 5-1 against.
The odds are expected to drop in this case.
Conductor pushed revolver aside,' inquired: "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Don't you know this is the Lenten, season?"
Bandit stepped off the tramcar.
A. Chicago,
Boom Times in Santa Claus
Keep Town Postmaster Busy
Santa Claus, Ind. Apr. 30.
1
There's a boom in Santa Claus, Ind. This town of 50 inhabitants is watching rival companies vie for the privilege of making their village a toy centre for tourists and a playground for children.
Not even wintry winds are But people in other parts, 08- think it stopping their enterprise, and accustomed to the name,
every holiday tourists driving through "Santa most amusing, and see a recently completed stone postmaster here so that the cancel Claus Unincorporated" this monthsenson hundreds of folk send their greeting cards and presents to the statue of the legendary Santa lation stamp of Santa Claus, Ind., Claus, a brand new Candy Castle, right appear upon them. a 32-acre park in the making, and
Postman Is Busy other signs of activity.
It all happened because away
This is what has led to the boom. back in 1850 the town changed Several enterprising people have in this situation. Carole Lombard and Robert its name from Santa Fe to Santa seen possibilities
Claus. The name didn't seem in Carl A. Barrett has started the park Riskin-1,000-1 against,
the lens: important then. There development. Lila Lee and Tony Bosari. had been two Santa Fe's in But Mr. Barrett's project is by no Bosuri has scratched, and John Indiana, and
the Post Ofce means the only one. Milton Harris, down-state Bench is backed at 100-1, to Department had objected. It was village. His first building, a candy man, has started a toy marry Miss Lee.
holiday time, Santa Claus seemed castle, has been leased by a Chicago Alice Faye and William Fisken handy name, and Santa Claus it candy company. As soon as weather Fiske
permits he plans to start a second, "limping"may be has been ever since.
in which space has been taken by Matter Of Course
half dozen toy manufacturers. Then there are other toy dealers, who are For many yours nabody paid any using Santa Cinus, Ind., as their attention to the funny title. Down business addrazs, while running Jackie in this part of the State, still, if their offices in near-by
traveller, asking his way, says, "How better commercial facilities. do I get to Santa Claus?" nobody and says, "You go to the North Pole." Instead, you get a prosaic reply, "Just follow the Lin-
It all keeps Postmaster Oscar Memorial Highway, Phillips rather busy. Any first-class coln National
turn to your right about five mail received by the post office must, and miles from the Nancy Hanks Lincoln according to post-office rules, be for- J'ark,"
warded on request. He keeps a for- warding list beside the pigeonhole "general delivery." Mail addressed to North Pole goes to a company in Jasper, Ind., that for Santa Claus
scratched.
Michael Whalen . and Faye--50-1 against.
Betty Grable and Coogan--10-1 against.
Alice
Pat Ellis is up from 30-1 to smiles 50-1 she will not marry in two yours.
Anita Louise is up from 50-1 to 100-1 she wil not marry in
1936.
Birds Without A Country
Live Aboard Liner ·
Business Boom
towns with
1
ALHAMBRA
· HOWLESS
SHOWING TO-DAY
Katharine
CHEPBURN
is the story of a reckless girl who became a go-to-* the devil boy....to 'play a hand in a dangerous game 'with a crew of lonely men.
"The road"is_no place for a woman...but how long can a flimsy girl et away with a
thin disguise?
Sylvia
Scarley
Wth CARY GRANT BRIAN AHERNE EDMUND GWENN Produced by Pandros: Berman
RADIO Picture
STARE
Directed by GEORGE CUKOR
4 SHOWS DAILY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
TO-DAY, TO-MORROW, SATURDAY.
AN AGELESS STORY OF ETERNAL LOVEJ
The greatest love story in all modern literature, Ašsipů Zašne penseuse
Gary COOPER GHARDING Peter Ibbetson
A Paramount Pisture with Ida Lupino Jahn Halliday Domžinos Dumbrilio. Viriinia Weidier Dichte Moers Dissed by Henry Hathaway
Added Attraction:
"Popeye the Sailor" Cartoon SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY.
DICK POWELL. JOAN BLONDELL
Industries, Santa Claus Workshops in "BROADWAY GONDOLIER”
and others, goes to other addresses.
Alreads the publicity given the town has brought streams of visitors. unvelled-and-the Candy Castle was opened, so many people came that taxed the ingenuity of the entire village population to handle the traille.
TICTIMS of inexorable. migration laws, two passen-In December, when the statue was
gers on the R.M.S. Maloja, now in Australian waters, cannot land here or in England, and are doomed to a life on the ocean wave.
Four R.A.F.
• TO DAY TO-MORROW-SATURDAY.” Lives Lost By
THE FUNNIEST PAIR OF COMICS THAT EVER GRACED THE SCREEN !
Two comedians that conquered the world with their fantastic buffoonery. Here's a picture that has more real laughs to the foot than any you've seen in ages,
BERT
ROBERT
WHEELER WOOLSEY
Rainmakers
KO
RADIO
Ficture
'They've cornered tha
shock market in a wet
drama full of dry wil.
with DOROTHY LEE ·
Directed by Fred Gulof
in
O MATINEES 20c-302 EVENINGS: 20c, 30c-50c70c7
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..
Twelve Inches
London, Apr. 28.
They are a pair of lovebirds, born on the liner on the voyage from London, and they are the Intest additions to an Australian feathered family which has been living aboard the Maloja in exile for more than 12 years.
Bat Postmaster Phillips hasn't let the boom turn his head.
"Maybe they'll give you a marblo post-office building now," the visiting reporter suggested.
Postmaster Phillips shook his head, paused
to hand a mail order catalogue
to a Santa Clausite who had come for his mail, and then gave his reply. It The original pair were bought at wasn't likely there'd bo any change. Paddy's Markets by Mr. J. Martin, a ho said. After all, he remarked, the member of the crew. In 1924, but permanent population of Santa Claus were refused admittance into Is still only só. England.
They returned to Australia, but
were forbidden re-entry after their Prize. Spellers May sojourn in foreign parts.
Another Warner Bros.' Musical Sensation !
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
MAJESTIC
„EITHEATRESPP.
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 &.9.20 p.m.
JAIK Holt DANGEROUS
WATERS
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
SUNDAY :- "LES
MISERABLES”
At the inquest on four men who
So they lived happily enough, it! lost their lives when a RA.F. compulsorily, on the liner unul 1934, Spell Them but Can plane crashed coming out of a when one of them accidentally flew
Into the
refrigerator, and was frozeri loop and carcered into a hanger to death..
They Define Them? bursting into flames, it was said Then a South Australian traveller,
New York, Apr. 30. by a witness, Corporal Kenneth who, in common with hundreds of
Experienced spellers went down Dring, that the manoeuvre was other travellers, had made friends like bowling pins before the with the feathered exiles, supple- almost perfect and that another mented the depleted family with some technical onslaught of
"defini- foot would have made all the choice love birds of her own breeding tion bee" held in place of the LLOYD GEORGE GIVES differences.
The victims were:-
Flt. Lt.. Ernest Dawson (30) of Broadway, Peterborough.
Aircraftman Harold Smith-Lan- uridge of Bute Road, Willing- lon, Surrey.
L.A.C. Percy Cuthbert (26) of
in Adelaide.
Harrow
yearly spelling bee of the Town
Hall Club here last night. Even
Master
the most imposing dictionaries were not much help.
Who Commanded French Battalion
ཐཱ་
Highfield Avenue, Grimsby; and ALBERT BEGOUEN DE told the Judge that a burro was a
LA.C. Stanley King (28) of Cross Street, Ramsgate..
ARMS INDUSTRY
EVIDENCE
London, May 6.)
arms
W35
with
Frodoric March Charles Laughton
As regards the Labour nspect, Mr. Lloyd George said that in time of war unions were prepared to suspend privilegea for the country's moed but they were very reluctant to make the same concessions to private firms,. whose profits were swollen by those transactions.
Mr. Lloyd George pointed to
The caso for Government mono-America as an admirabla filustration Mrs. Samuel C. Webster and Law-poly of manufacture of
of the failure of privato manufactured ton Mackall led the two rival teams, strongly stated by Mr. Lloyd George, in the event of war. After eighteen Teach of 21 members. Henry Pratt
the
Royal months of war the Americans had Fairchild,
president of the club, acted giving evidence before
arins no guns of thoir own and they had Commission investigating tho traffic.
to rely on Britain and France. Yet Mrs. James II, Causey of Denver,
America was the greatest manufac- He detalled why he considered the turing country in the world. MEAUX, who from 1908 to type of canary found only in the present system bad from the viow
He, dlangreed with witnesses who 1930 was an assistant master in Rocky Mountains. A young woman point of efficiency and national de-rald that inventions for the future must depend on private manufactur- crs. Ho He said that what matters most bombs and Mills grenades, invented instanced tanks, Stokes has died aged 63.
"Ruminate brought forth the ex- His health broke down in planation that it meant 'n cow think was the faclities they posscased for by a Committee not composed of
and chewing its cud."
speedy expansion. Here nationalis manufacturers-Reuter. out of one loop, circle the aerodrome from the school staff. and commence another in front of
confusion to stop the contest when advantage. Private firms broke.d the hangar. The accond loop was He had a distinguished mili-every authority save the started at what appeared to be about tary career, and was for a periodiary int lay on Mr big diction-complotely in 1014 when called on to increase the supply of munitions Fairchild's table 300 feet. As it was atteint Professor of German at the rather than the bodice of a woman's age of machine tools which caused nrades Association will hold one
Insisted that it cant a bouquet, enormously. He recalled the short day the Royal Englusers Old Com-
The aircraft was piloted by Fit. Lt. Dawson with Aircraftman Smith Langridge as passenger. Corporal
modern languages at Harrow, who was asked to define "dodo" said fence.
it was "a stupid bird."
Dring sold he saw the machine come (1930, and he decided to retire incorsage" caused almont enough tion of armaments had an enormous!
preparatory to landing, the aircraft
struck the ground about 40 yards from Military College of St. Cyr, dresearthingalo" was a bird, but dreds of thousands of casualties. --
The showdown came when "myr
At the China Flest Club on Satur
of
the edge of the tarmac and in front ince. He was a commandant
contestants insisted delay of months in 1914 and hun-their popular fortnightly dances. It that
is probable that this will be the last of the hangar. It seemed to bounce of the 48me Battalion de references showed that it was clonk.
of the season, but if the attendance once and then shot into the hangar: Chasseurs a Pied, and in Sep midon" was propounded, and although, I were unable to carry on constant re-will be continued through the summer Ho considered that private firms justifies the continuance of them they King were standing just inside the tember 1914 he was wounded it was found to be a warrier of ancient involved great expenditure with only supplied from the Band of the 2nd. Leading Aircraftmen Cuthbert and
search and experiment because this as flannel dances. The music will be hangar and though they ran to get and taken prisoner.
Thessaly, the
the nearest
any competitor For his war services he was camo was “a prehistorie monator."
problematical commercial resulta. Bn. The East Lancashire Regiment.. In the second contest, the definition
Frinted and Published for the Propribora by FREDERICK PEROY
out of the way they were not quick
enough and were struck. Corporal
Dring said that ho was of the imawarded the Croix de Guerre of "bourdon" as the base stop of an FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria pression that had the plane boon (avec palme) and the Legion of organ rather than a politlen term, foot higher it would not have crashed. [Honour.
brought victory to the women's team.. Hongkong.
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