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CAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

at 2.30..5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

DOUGLAS

FAIRBANKS Jr.

andi

ELISSA LANDI

THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN

GORDON HARKER

"DOUGLAS Painonno jainko A. MASIKINA WIDE MAURAUDRYE FIGURE. ELISSA LANDI HAS NEVER TOUTED AND SMILED MORE CHARMINGLY."--News-Chronicle,

SUNDAY

ALKAL PICTURE

JOAN CRAWFORD - ROBERT TAYLOR in "THE GORGEOUS HUSSY" with LIONEL BARRYMORE - FRANCHIOT TONE

UEEN

AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

A RIOTOUS COMEDY ROMANCE WITH HILARIOUS SITUATIONS !

A Mad, Merry Scramble of Wives, Ex-Wives, Would-Be Wives and onc defenseless busband-in a snowbound ,bungalow miles from the nearest jail!

SNOWED UNDER

· à Port Mothom fist w

GEORGE BRENT - GENEVIÈVE TOBIN GLENDA FARRELL PATRICIA ELLIS FRANK MIUGH JOHN ELDREDGE

SUNDAY

NEW COMEDY-ROMANCE STARS GEORGE RAFT & DOLORES COSTELLO

in "YOURS FOR THE

4 SHOWS

DAILY

11.30-5.19 P.15-630

LADAYS

A Paramount Picture.

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ASKING"

ORIENTAL

MIND

ROAD

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PONLY TO DAYO TOMORROW

A GREAT COMEDY DETECTIVE STORY! Her big brown eyes held a mystery ace detectives couldn't solve, she Baw all, knew all and when she told all, the smoothest racketeer found bimself in the line-up!

:

BESIDES BEING FUNNY, IT'S THRILLING !

GRANT BENNETT

She got confidential with a

· ́con-man and fell in love with a copt... She looked too pretty to be dangerous..... but love loosened her tongue and Park Avenue's biggest racket got a shake upi -

BIG BROWN EYES

WALTER PIDGEON LLOYD NOLAN

SYLVIA SIDNEY .SUN.

MON. SPENCER TRACY

"FURY"

MATINEES: 20c.-30¢ EVENINGS: 20c.-30c..50¢.-70c. ℗

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936.

LESLIE HOWARD AS BRITISH ALHAMBRA

PARTNER LYNCHED

Dob Miller, long sought as t paruelpant in the killing of Pollee Chlef Day at Dunsmuir Inst. year, was arrested in San Pedro, recently

is accomplice was lynched at Yreka, ond that community is aroused by the killing of two more police officers.

Coronation Tourists Coming To H.K.

FILM PRODUCER

THE famous British actor Leslie Howard and the American film director Dudley Murphy have formed a new British film-producing organisation under the title Associated Artists for the production of 15 films during the next two years at a cost of £675,000.

Mr. Howard states that this is the first of the directors, and Hugh” organisation, when completed, Walpole the first of the writera, will consist of four stars, three directors, and three writers, all of whom will have a voice in the making of their films and a share in their proceeds.

Mr. Howard sald "I have to leave London on Saturday next to fulfi my promise to appear in Hamlet in New York, but as soon as that play ends is run I shall return to carry on my work for Associated Artists."

Mr. Howard himself is the firati

The first film to be made by the of the stars, Ania Sten will be the? second, and the other two will be one new organisation will be "King for a American and one. British, both of Day," written by Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Thin Man." Then International reputation.

Dudley Murphy, who directed Paul will follow "The Martyr," by Llam Robeson in "The Emperor Jones," O'Flaherty..

Modern Martyrs

Totalling 187,000 ·

Listed by Editor

Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 10. A belief that modern Chris- tian martyrs probably outnumber! ed the ancient ones although their deaths were not as heroic was Living expressed by Clifford P. More- house, editor of the Church, an Episcopal weekly.

"In many parts of the world to- day," he said in an interview, "it is as dangerous to live and worship as Christian as it was in the days of the catacombs. The signs point to darker days ahead.

RUSSIA IS CITED

"Rusala ulone probably has had as many martyrs as the entire Roman anpire from Nero in 65 A.D. to the year 313 when Constanting made: Christianity the religion of the em- plre.

"Adding to this the martyrs among the Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks, Chinese, Mexicans and Spaniards, it that the seems a fair assumption number who gave their lives for Christianity from the time of the world war to the present far exceed the number in the age of persecu- lon."

120,000 among the ancient-

Australians and New Zea- landers have booked practically all the accommodation available on liners leaving for England dor. ing February and March, next year. From Australia alone, at

Making clear that there were no least 10,000 people are sailing ex- pressly to be in London for the accurate statistics of the numbers in either period, Mr. Morehouse es- Coronation of King Edward.

timated there were at least 187,000 Owing largely to the with-mortyrs in modern times and about drawal, at the end of this year, of the Union Royal Mail com- pany's service between Sydney and San Francisco, for which subsidised foreign competition is held responsible, less passenger tonnage will be available. Agents consider that, taking into account the very large increase in tourist traffic

"In each of the modern major from England and India to Australiersccutions," Mr. Marchouse said, at least twice the passenger accommo- dation available in the first half of 1037 could be filled.

NUMBERS NOT GREAT Referring to the rs c

cen-

turies, Mr. Morehouse said the fact that the names of so many martyrs were remembered and that the per- secutions were described by contem- porary writers in terms of "hundreds" of persons killed indicated the num- ber of martyrs could not have been very great,

given for various pretexts were executions or for the subjection of Christians to conditions that resulted in the passing of vast numbers of them and only rarely was the fact of their Christianity given us the pre- text for their death."

Every route, says Austråt News, is being booked. Many will travel to England through Americs in order to try to cross the Atlantic & the Queen -Mory. Ollers will come, vin Pan

PRETEXT FOR FATE while others again are going

Some died 05 counter-revolution ward to the Far East to travel by the Trans-Siberian callway the bookings aries, some as members of a racial on witch are the heaviest for many minority, some for treason, some for was their years Quite a number will fly altulating food or other regulations

when the actual cause fl way,United Press.

failure to give up their religion in favour of the prevailing concept of goverment and society, he declared.

Mr. Morehouse enumerated s 50,000 follows: As many Armenians were killed in June and

1915, when the Turks per July, Secuted thein; at least 1,000 Assyrians

Faster Telegraphy For Far East

Sonja Henic, Word champion fancy skater photographed in her Holly- wood home. She has just completed her first flim.

"Snake' Killer To Hang

Murdered His Fifth Wife

Los Angeles, Oct. 1. Sentence of hanging has been pass- ed on Robert S. James, Los Angeles barber, convicted last July of drown- ing

his wife. He frat tried to kill her by rattlesnake bites,

His application for a new trial has been refused.

James and an accomplice were said to have tied Mrs. James to a table and forced ber bare feet Into a box of rattlesnakes,

The bile was not fatal. They drowned her in a bath, then threw her in a pond to make death appear natural.

A rattlesnake provided the greatest sensation Reuter.

by escaping in court-

Russia Starts Counting 1,70,000,000

Moscow, Sept. 30. TANTENSIVE preparatory work

suffered the same fate; about 25,000 D

Greeks were slain in the sacking of Smyrna, 100,000 or more in Soviet Rusila; 10,000 or more Chinese in the communist

revolts and invasions; 1,000 or more Mexicans in recent years. He gave no figures for Spain, Faster and more accurate tele-but called attention to reports that

Shanghai, Oct. 1.

graphic communication has been many churchmen, were sluin is the

assured in China by the invention present revolution.

of a machine capable of sending

and receiving 10,000 Chinese Death Of

characters,

For half a century Chinese 7

communications officials have Frisco

Reporter

San Francisco, Oct. 23. Death of "Jack Beo Garland,"

is now going on for a great nacional ernsus of the whole of the Soviet Union.

The enormous sent of the cen- is sus, arranged for January 6 shown by the fact that for it will be required:

1,200,000 emnerators' and 120,000

"instructors.

Over 1,000 tons of paper for the

printing of

53,000,000 censUN

forms in

3D

langunges.

210,000,000 cards for recording re-

sults,

Calculating machine factories are already producing special machines

NATHAN AD, HOWLOO

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW The First Thundering Television Screon Drama ! SCIENCE EXPOSES “THE PERFECT RACKET"!!.

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SUNDAY

COLUMBIA PICTURE

An M-G-M Super Production

"GORGEOUS HUSSY"

with Robert Taylor Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Lionel Barrymore. James Stewart.

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When Charlie stops out.. there's no holding Lim!

His honeymoon is nothing but a sleep- walker's holiday!

Adolph Zukor presents

MARY BOLAND CHARLIE RUGGLES

Early to Red"

A Feramount Picture with Oxerge Borbler. Call Patrick Robert McWade Directed by Nemon Mcleod

COMMENCING SUNDAY

PAUL ROBESON & LESLIE BANKS in ONE OF THE TEN BEST BRITISH PICTURES OF 1935 1

"SANDERS OF THE RIVER”

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A THRILLING DETECTIVE STORY, FULL OF ACTION!

The LINE-UP/

The glare of

with WILLIAM GARGAN, MARION NIXON

A COLUMBIA FICTURE.

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CHANGE

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JANET GAYNOR

CHARLES FARRELL in. "SUNNY SIDE UP"

CORRESPONDENCE,

MEMORIAL FUND

fur sung in the establish The Hongkong A.D.C. LATEST LIST OF DONATIONS

bureaux have been

republies, regions and towns.

in all

II. K. Telegraph.

To the Editor. ALREADY BEGUN The census has already begun in certain northern districts, which are world practically cut off from the during the winter."

the

fled a search for a time and trouble saving machine for use in the national telegraphic net- work. When the first telegraphic line in China was built between Pei- tang Port at Tangku and Tientsin 57

number of Chinese 67, known to hundreds in San youru ugo, a characters were given numbers, and Francisco as writer, newspaper- man and social worker, brought transmission was made in the number been con- hus tinued to the present day, but has to light an amazing story--the cade. The system

of Elvira Virginia but subject story slow, proven not only

Mugarietta, daughter of a Mexi- to frequent inaccuracies.

After examination of the new ap

can major, who, as a man, not paratus perfected by Mr. Wang Pai- nien, an obscure cable engineer of only served the poor virtually the Ministry of Communications, ex- all "his" life but even served as perts

announced the machine a a male nurse in the Philippines have success. Although 10,000 characters during the insurrection. is but a fraction of the total listing

In It was as a nurse in the Philip- in a standard Chinese dictionary, number is large enough for practical pines, her true identity unsus- pected, that Elvira first made

purposes.

the

formances.

RECEIVED

The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has received further donations to the King George V Memorial Fund, as

100:

Sir May I by your courtesy re- follows: mind a too-forgetful publie of the Previously acknowledged... $34,302 It has actually been completed in

recurring difliculties experienced by J..P. Sherry...

Chinese Kunino-Timan and Leshukov the Hongkong A.D.C, in accommodat Hongkong

Servants' Club districts, in Matochkin Shar, Yugor ing all its friendly pparens who have

Anonymous Shur, in the settlements of Krusino, a preference for last night per-J. Barrow Russanovo and Beluzhya Guba,

Dr. L. D. Pringle Meet Particulars of about 40,000 people,

More than a hundred applications Hongkong Telephone Co., Ltd. Including

over 1.000 nomads, have

were received in excess of the seating Hongkong & Whampoa Dock

Co., Ltd...! been for find to overcome 'căpacity of the theatre on the last

The way through forests and the vast earlier performances were not well Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. tremendous difficulties, forcing their night of "Lovers Leap," whereas the J. W. Buckwell

of the trans-polar tundra. expanses

many regions the preparations settle- for the census reveal new ments and a great increase of the

Like a Chinese typewriter, the the acquaintance, later the friend-population, says the Tass Agency, sending apparatus of the now ma- chine in equipped with a large table ship of

of Chinese characters framed under Fretterick

the. late General

#

Funston. In her the Philippines, a rectangular plate glass. A move- spare time in

free-lance able pointer, mounted on a plat- Elvira ucted as form, is used to designate the

correspondent. She character, transmission is inado by newspaper the press of a button. The arrange- went to the Philippines as a ment of the characters is, according stowaway on an army transport. to strokes and derivatives, as in a Friends, following Elvira's death, Chinese dictionary, and a typist ac- said she masqueraded as a man all customed to the Chinese typewriter her life because she fell a woman's will have no difficulty in handling garb handicapped her too much in the new telegraphic machine.. The her work of walking the city's mid- receiving apparatus is similar to the night streets, cheering and helping unfortunate-United popular telotype receiver-Unleed the poor and Press

Press.

the

In Petrozavodsk, centre of Karelia, population has doubled in ten ycarp, and now reaches 01,000,

In the Sarator region, 30 towns type and settlements of the town have sprung up.

In the Orenburg region 900 new settlements have sprung up since 1926. In Dalepro- industrini inrge new petrovsis, centres have appeared-Renter

In January 1933 the population of the Soviet Union was estimated at 105,778,400. In 1926 the popu lation was 147,027.980, It is ex- pected that the forthcoming census will give a return in the neigh- bourhood of 170,000,000..

attended.

...

The first night of a play is general-

ly the best night from the point of! Viow of the interested playgoer, but

Civil

50 20

2,500

500

25

2,500

$40,147

In any case early booking is necessary but, we do hope that the disappoint- It disappointment is to be avoided. 1 ng experience of tast-minute efforts.

now because I to get seats for the last night will not specially urge this have received, an exceptionally large be repeated in our forthcoming pro- number of applications for advance duction. bookings, that I cannot of course deal with until booking opens for the public at the Anderson Music Co., Ice House Street, on October 10,

We do not doubt, that the public will support us in the generous way it has always supported the. A.D.C.,

For those who care to send their

to obtain for then the best reserva- requirements to me. I shall be glad tions available on the date the book- ing opens.

C. ChampKIN, Hon. Sec., H. E..A.,D. C.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong..