12
AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
TOM WALLS RALPH LYNN
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
FIGHTING STOCK
BY BEN TRAVERS
ROBERTSON HARE
rated by TOM WALLS
TO-MORROW
20th Century. ".
FOX..
THE STORY OF A MAN OF PEACE WHO NEARLY BECAME A PIECE OF MAN.
Gaumont
British Picturo
The Prisoner of Shark Island"
with
WARNER BAXTER - GLORIA STUART
QULLO
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9,30.
Adalph Zukor prasomin
HERBERT MARSHALL
"Forgollen FACES"
MICHAEL
A Paramount Picture with
GERTRUDE
James Burke - Robert Cummings Jans Rhodes
The Latest PARAMOUNT SHORTS
NEXT CHANGE
The darling of Hollywood and the idol of the women's clubs try to find romance away from the spotlight!
The Moons Our Home
Henry Fondo
Charles Butterworth Rzulch Jandi Haneletta Crosman + Walser Brennon "Directed by Waslam A, Salter') & Pannini Miles' a Waline Wandat Braduction
ESTARE
4 SHOWS DAILY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
OH, IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
AS IRISH FISTS ARE FLYING
and all our sides are aching-roaring at Jimmy's and Pat's lat est screaming shindig...
JAMES
CAGNEY
and PAT
O'BRIEN
THE IRISH IN US”
A Past Tatangi kit with the vrau về “Mars Toon The Pergy", atau FRANK MCHUGH • ALLEN JENKINS OLIVIA DI HAVILLANO
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY ®
THE BIGGEST LAUGH IN TOWN I
HAROLD LLOYD in "THE MILKY WAY”
QUEEN MARY SISTER SHIP LIKELY
London, June 18.
applied for authority to enter into on agreement for a sister ship to the Queen Mary-
Mr. Chamberlain said that the Government had agreed in principle and the shipping company concerned In the House of Commons, the had received preliminary tenders from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. various shipyards. Neville Chamberlain, announced that tho Cunard White Star Company had Brown's of Clydebank-Router,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE
ONE
119, 1935.
FLIGHT-£7,000
Woman Wanted To Buy All China Clipper's Seats
IN
SHE WAS
788. ON THE LIST
BRITISH 'PLANES
FASTER ?
a few weeks the first commercial aircraft ear- rying paying passengers will span the Pacific Ocean, along the 9,000-mile air lane
THE CHINA CLIPPER
between San Francisco and YOUTH IN HOSPITAL
Macao.
peculiarities of human nature.
Behind the announcement, one fof the most romantic in avia- tion's history, lies a story nol only of engineering and business
London, May 27. triumphs but of the vaguries and A YOUNG wireless experimenter, now in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, E.C., in a serious con- Three years ago Win Rogers,dition, is believed to have accidentally stumbled on the Amerien's best-loved comedian, who "cosmic ray." died on a Pelar fight with Wiley Post, returned from a journey on the airline route which encircles. South America. As in luggage was removed from the airplane hej turned to the airport manager and i said:
AFTER EXPERIMENTS
...
"If you people, ever, open, up a new line want to be the first to fly on it."
"You never can tell." replied) the manager. "Some of thesq days we're going to fly the Pacific Ocean."
"Well," said Rogers, "I guess it won't cost any more than this South American trip."-
route.
He is Frank Manning, aged 17, of Alexander-road, Wel- lingborough, Northamptonshire, who is employed by a local wireless dealer.
His condition is understood to, ww fred with the desire to accom
PERILS OF EXPERIMENTS
| have been caused by experiments Plish-something big.”
which he conducted by himself. and he was donesforfed to St.
An official of the. Cavendish Labor- Bartholomew's on Monday to have fatory, Cambridge, told a reporter: treatment by a specialist.
"It is quite possible for any ann teur scientist, who knows something Mr. C. H. Manning. his father about electrica! rays, to start work sald
inse with a powerful infra-red ray perimenting, lamp and to injure himself while ex-.
"Frank has been experimenting several months, but we did not know with various electrical gadgets for that he was doing anything so dan
Kerous.
ALHAMBRA
NATHA
MANE
.TO-DAY ONLY.
PETER B. KYNE wrote it!
M-G-M, made it!
. you'll
be
crazy
about it!
Bare
HREE
dfathers
Chester MORRIS Walter BRENNAN Lewis STONE Jacks HERVEY
TO-DAY &
capture as understanding of cosmic" "Many people have already tried to rays, by means of clumsy apparatus Taking out his wallet he put £400
which nevertheless can produce cer- TO-MORROW tain powerful effects, even on the desk and bought his reserva-
"With an Infra-red ray lamp kethey are useless from the selentifie though tion for the conjectured Pacificas trying to split up the other rays point of view." into fractions."
When Professor Piccard, the Swiss of Thomas-street,
Manning's friend, Malcolm frifin breaking balloon ascent in 1912, he scientist, descended after his record- Wellingborough, who s been in Wellingborough told a Daily Mail reporter at Milan: Hospital for five weeks, and who had
"The intensity of the cosmic rays helped him in his experiments, said: grows us one goes higher up.
azurra | could feel the rays beating like rain "Frank was quite aware of the on the surface of the balloon and the dangers of his experiments. But he cabin."
Will Rogers died before he could claim his reservation. But since that day about 900 people have written, wired, telephoned, and tele. graphed for the privilege of making. the journey.
But the twist to it is that the first clipper will take only eighteen passengers. And all 900 are defer- minal to be one of that eighteen, are determined to stick a label an their baggage saying, "San Fran cisco to Hongkong. Via Muent----- First Flight."
It will cost each passenger about £140. Moal of them say that if they can't go on the first fight they don't want to fly at all.
INFURIATED
One of the applications nearly In- volved the company in a law suit. A woman wrote asking for a re- --ervation-The-reply-stated that
she was number, 788 on the list.
That infuriated her. Within an hour of receiving It she was on the telephone.
"I want to charter the ship out- right, she shrilled. "The first -skip-for myself and seventeen of my friends."
"That will cost' a great deal of money,” said the man at the otheri cut, trying politely to put her off.
"How much?"
"Oh, about £7,000.”
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"Very well," said the women, "I'll charter the ship."
محمد
If there had been a binding agree. ment on this basis, it would have been disastrous for the company-- disastrous because they are trying to make the whole enterprise as plain and businesslike as possible, | doing all they can to avoid "stunt; |ing" it.
Un performance, these. China jelippers do not compare well with the Imperial Airways' new Empire |flying-boats, the first of which is now ready. These boats have a top speed of 200 m.p.h. (against the clipper's 179) and a cruising speed of 170-180 m.p.h.
D
Two Men Defy Guillotine
Sun.
4 SHOWS
DAILY 8.30-3.13
7.11-4.30
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ORIENTAL
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WHERE THEY SHOW ONLY SELECTIVE PICTURES, YOU'LL SAVE MONEY TOO 1
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PICTURE ART'S GREATEST UNDERTAKING I
The most vivid-and-impressive-creations of showmanship"
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A CORGEOUS $2,000,000 SPECTACLE !
Barbaric splendort Savage ́rowels! A cily drunk with pleasure tocer mighty doom as Vesuvius poural
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
with PRESTON FOSTER
ALAN HALE, BASIL RATHBONE, JOHN WOOD, LOUIS CALHERN, DAVID HOLT. DOROTHY WIESON, WYRLEY DIRCH. RED RADIO PICTURE
A BARGAIN SALE OF BIG PICTURES Ston. STAN LAUREL & HARDY OLIVER IN THE "BOHEMIAN GIRL”
Tues.
Wed.
R. Anto. Pavelitch and Eugene Thurs. JUNE
Kvaternik, two of the three Cront lenders who were sentenced to death, in their absence,' for complicity in the murder of (ng || Fri. Alexander of Jugo-Slavia, are to visit France in defiance of the guillotine.
The two men were arresteil and jailed in Turin before the trial. Italy refused to extradite them to. France.
Now they have been released
Bentitle8.
24
25
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FRANCHOT TONE & JEAN MUIR in a funny farce comedy. "GENTLEMEN ARE BORN”
20 27.
SPECIAL ALL STAR RADIO SHOW A. broadcast studio comedy.
JUNE Sat.
"MILLIONS IN THE AIR”.
Sult.
228
Mon. JUNE 20
Tues.
30.
STUPENDOUS THRILL SPECTACLE Bold bad pirates of yesterday.
They are now negotiating with Jolm and will appeal against the STORY OF "Captain blooD“
Pricted and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
King Alexander and M. Banthon, ABBABSiunted in October 1934 at French Foreign Minister, were Marselllos.
ANOTHER Avalanche oF SPECIALS. NEXT MONTH; MATINEES
KEVENINGS" 20cl-30ct-50c:-702-
Directed by RICHARO BOLESLAWENJ Produced by JOSEPH 1. MANKIEWICE
· TO-MORROW. «
MARTYRED BY A
"NATION'S HATE!
THE PRISONER SHARK ISLAND
WARNER BAXTER GLORIA STUART
MAJESTIC
CONES LOUBIE
PAUL KELLY ARLINE JUDGE MONA BARRIE, GREGORY RATOFF
At 2.30, 5.20. 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.
ALSO ON THE STAGE At 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P. M.
"THE NINE
O'CLOCK
REVUE"
A NON-STOP
VARIETY SHOW.
SUNDAY
JEAN HARLOW SPENCER TRACY
"Riff Raff"
CENTRAL
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST.
Take Bus No, 4 or 5 going west; 3 min. from stop opposite Queen'
TO-DAY ONLY
Last 4 Shows at 2.30, 5.45, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
THE PICTURE YOU'LL ENJOY SEEING AGAIN.
Maurice
Chevalier MacDonald
LECHE
an
PRODUCTION
Ernst LUBITSCH Merry WIDOWK
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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.
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