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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13,

1936.

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOLVING TO-DAY

Charles Dickens's Best Known Classi

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

Toner The Ola Curiosity Shop

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Barbara Stanwyck-Robert Taylor in "HIS BROTHER'S WIFE"

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The Majesty of Shakespeare

The Melody of Mindslutohn

The Mastery of Retshardi

Warmer Boss, Proral MAX REINHARDTS Production of

"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mate by MENDELSSOHN CAST OF 1000 = 15 STARS James Cagney Joe E. Brown Dick Powell Anits Louise Olivia De Havilland * Jean Muir. Hugh Herbert Frank McFlugh Ros Alder Verres Teasdale. Dimored by Max Rolschaadi à W's_Daully

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PERFORMANCE

SPECIAL! EXTRA SUNDAY MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK

GAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY..

NETONE,

AVALIER

रंगीला राजपूत

AN

INDIAN DRAMA

OF

SCUL-STIRRING CRISIS!

MASTER NISAR India's foremost actor

MISS BIBBOO Delld's Famous Songstressa

109 OTHER INDIAN STARS.

IN THE MOST SPECTACULAR

AND

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SCREEN PRODUCTION

EVER "CONCEIVED

ALL SINGING-ALL TALKING EXTRAVAGANZA,

2.30 -5.157.15 - 9.30

SENSATIONAL INTERNATIONAL SPY STORY

Thoy brave a` firing-squad

to prove their lovel

Adolph Zoxde peatonti

HERBERT MARSHALL Till Wr

Meet Again

with

Gertruda. Michua!› Ujane) Atwill

Had Enfacaro A Parameynt Picture

KOWLOON BARRACKS FOR 3,600 COSTS £1,350,000;

FINISHED 1940

King Visits His Fleet BUT WEATHER SPOILS

PROGRAMME

London, Nov. 12.

Ап execptionally, severe storm swept the English Channel to-day and

POPE PIUS SERIOUSLY AFFLICTED

HEALTH CAUSING

CONCERN.

ANNOUNCEMENT consequence certain features of STRANGE ORDER

IN COMMONS

London, Nov. 12. Sir Victor Warrender, Finan- cial Secretary of the War Olier, told a questioner in the House of Commons to-day that the new barracks to be built in Kowloon would accommodate 2,700 British and 900 Indian troops.

It would probably be completext by the end of 1910 at an estimated cost of £1,350,000.

The barracks would be required to accommodate additional troops and units of the garrison at present oc- cupying temporary sub-standard buts, Sir Victor explained-Reuter,

King Edward

Entertained

On Warship

Loudon, Nov. 12.

King Edward had a rought trip In the Admiral's barge, when he Inspreted 36 units of the Hame Fleet off, Portland to-day.

Hajesty lunched aboard the Blagship, HLM.S. Nelson, And visited other

warships, later Inspecting the anti-submarine school where he saw the latest devices for detecting and locating underwater craft.

Il Majesty attended a lower deck concert aboard IALS. Courageous during the evening. -Renter Bulletin Service.

Nobel Prize

To American Dramatist

OTHER AWARDS OF INTEREST

Stockholm, Nov. 12. The Swedish Academy ma'awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 le the American drámatist, Eugene O'Neill.

The Nobel prize for physics is "divided betwech Profesor V. P. leta.“ of Innsbruck University, and Pro- fessor Carl David Anderson, of the California Institute of Technology.

The chemistry prize goes to Pro- fessor Peter Dubye, Berlin, for his contribution to the knowledge on the structure of the molecule.-Reuter.

Royal Empire Society's New

Headquarters

DUKE OF YORK AT OPENING

London, Nov. 12. The new headquarters of the Royal" Empire Society in Northumberland Avenue were opened by the Duke of York to-day:

The Duke read a message from the King, in which His Majesty suld he Was sure the building would prove a worthy anenting-place of people from all parts of the Empire. He looked forward to visiting the premises in the near future.

On behalf of the King, the Duke of York handed the Chairman, Sir Archibald Weigall, a cheque for £100 towards the cost of a clock in the entrance hall-Reuter Special.

SHIP'S OFFICER CHARGED

ALLEGED IMPORTING OF OPIUM

James Jolinston, 52, Chief Ofter of the steamer Chuen Chow, WAG charged before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy this morning on four charges of (a). Importing 72 tacle of raw oplum on the steamer Chuen Chow, (b) possession of 72 taels of raw opium, (e) importing 18 lacls of prepared opium and (d) possession, of 18 taels of prepared opluin.

Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios ap- peared for the defendant and Chler Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt for the prosecution, the latter asking for a date for hearing to be fixed.

The case was fixed for. Wednesday, November 10, at 2.30 p.m.

Ball In $3,000 was allowed.

the programme urranged for the King's inspection of the Home Fleet

Portland were curtailed. The gale was accompanied by heavy rains and at high tide a huge wave swept over Chesil Beach.

His Majesty made his drive from the railway station to the dockyard through flooded streets but there was a burst of sunshine when he stepped from his car. It was of brief dura-. tion and the wind and rain continued to sweep the harbour in which be tween 30 and 40 warships awaited inspection.

In view of the extremely boisterous conditions it was early decided that ships should not be dressed all over but should wear only masthead flags. Later it was announced that should not man ships.

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In other respects the full gramme was adhered to, King, in company with the First Lord are, of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, and First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ernie, Chatfield, caffled out series of inspections on board various ships. The first visite

visited Was the flagship, 11.M.S. Nelson, and in traditional fashion the King, as Ad- miral, was piped aboard, About 1,000 men were paraded on the deck of the alreraft carrier Courageous, and The King carried out inspection in a very heavy rain squatl,

Visits to the ships were continued in the afternoon, luncheon having been taken on board the Nelson and later the King inspreted the autl- submarine school and thr latest secret wenpions for locating under- Water craft,

To-night the King dined aboard the Royal Yacht Victoria mal Albert and afterwards attended a

concert Courageous--British Wireless,

GERMAN LOANS QUESTION RAISED

IN COMMONS

TO POLICE

Vatican City, Nov. 12, Members of the household of His Holiness the Pope to-day admitted that Pope Plus was suffering from Bright's disease- or dropsy and indicated that the condition of the Pope was caus- ing concern.

His face and legs were slightly swollen, it was Bald, but His Holiness insists on following his daily routing and refuses to curton his audiences.

Reliable sources said the Vutlean to close all police had been instructed to Vatican gates at a given signal and refuse all entry or exit until further orders. The instructions were not explained but it understood they anticipated the possible sudden death: of the Pontiff.--United Press.

Free Gasmasks

For Everyone

Britain

In

London. Nov, 12.

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN RD, KOWLOOM:PARYAT 3,30

LAST TIMES TO-DAY One for All..

And All for Aviation!

Adolph Zukor presch

Jimmie Allen

THE SKY PARADE"

A Paramount Plature witR

William Gargan Katherine DeMillo Kent Taylor Directed by Olhe Lovering

Grant Withers + BÌllie Leo

TO-MORROW

History's great romance comes to the scroon!

Katharine Fredric HEPBURN MARCH

MARY OF SCOTLAND

Floronco Eldridge Douglas Walton John Carradine

In

Mr. Geoffrey Linyd, Under. Secretary of Stute for Kome Affairs, fold tlie House of Commons to-day

That

the Government's factory, nearing completion, expected to produce 2,000,000 gas masks monthly,

These would be issued free to the generat nubile

an

DAILY

emergency.

AT

Substantial stocks of the com- ponent parts had already been produced and large scale sembly wonid begin shortly, he said.Reuter Bultetu Service,

2:30

5:20

720

920

London, Nov. 12. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to-day in Parlament for an, assurance that, in view of th existing frozen credits in Germany, he would not sanction German at- templs to float a loan in this country nt present.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in reply, sal no Issue of a German luan, so far as he knew, was under discuss Mon hræe, und, In view of current market quotations for German foams, har did not think any such question was Barty to aring at penent British Wireless..

MOTOR MISHAT

Mr. W. J. Anderson, of the Public Works Department, writes to state that he was not. ሲባ reported on Tuesday, the party involved in a molos mishap at Kennedy Town when one of four men currying an fron girder suffered a fractured leg when the girder fell on him, follow- ing a collision with a motor-cur.

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Id Give My Life

'SIR GUY STANDING CES DRAKE-TOM BROWN;

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TO-MORROW

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The woman who threw away a throne for lovel

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Katharine HEPBURN

Fredric MARCH

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MARY OF SCOTLAND

Wh

FLORENCE ELDRIDGE DOUGLAS. WALTON JOHN CARRADINE Directed by JOHN FORD

Produced by

FANDRO 5. BERMAN

From the pier by

Maxwell Anderson

LEE THEATRE

To-day and To-morrow

A RACE WITH DEATH.

TOM

MIX

The MIRACLE

RIDER"

EPISODE

TONY, JK,

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.

LADIES WATCH YOUR DIAMONDS!

MEN WATCH YOUR HEARTS!

"The Return of SOPHIE LANG

Gertrude Mähen. Sir Guy Standing Ray Milland Elizabeth Patterson Colin Saplay. A Paramount Pistuse

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A WARNER BROTHER'S

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FRANK MCHUCH

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(MATINEES: 20.-30. EVENINGS: 20%.-30 50x70) TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

ERNEST LUBITSCH'S BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY SINCE "TROUBLE IN PARADISE !"

.Adolph Žukor prezants CONTAIN ANTENN

MARLENE DIETRICH GARY COOPER

And

Desire

A Paramount Picture with John Halliday William Frawley. Directed by Frank Bor. zage From a comedy by Hans Szekely and R. A. Stemmie • Produced under the Pozsons! Supervision of Ernet Lubitsch.

SUNDAY AND MONDAY

A NEW CO-STARRING TEAM IN 'A DELIGHTFUL TALE

in

OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE AND ROMANCE (

ROBERT MONTGOMERY.. ROSALIND RUSSELL

“ TROUBLE FOR TWO

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor Picture.

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