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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

1937.

KINGS Bottomley's

SHOWING TO-DAY - At 2:30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

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THEY'RE BACK IN THE DOUGH

IN THE SCREEN'S BIGGEST SHOW!

200 gul-sach nas #treasure! And such one hell-bent

For your pleasure!)

Rhythms with that youthful heart-heoi -naw stars to lift

you from your seati

DICK

Laughs coming at you thick and fort from the season's storfes ali-fun tall

JOAN

-Lovers with that certain somethin' that starts your heart a-thumpin'i

POWELL BLONDELL

DIGGERS

VICTOR MOORE

GLENDA FARRELL LEE DIXON OSGOOD PERKINST ROSALIND MARQUIS

*Hear those-radio-rogestaja All's fairitti, Lová: And Wa

jiwaking of "The Weathert „ot's Put Our Hoods Tostother"

Gold. Diggers' Lulikby,

1937

Music and Lyrks by Harry Warren & At Dubin and Harald Arlan &E. Y. Harburg ★ Musical Numbers Created and Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY A First National Picture Directed by LLOYD BACON

QUEEN'S

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SHOWING TO-DAY

ves

MAE WEST Go West Young Man WARREN WILLIAM RANDOLPH SCOTT

inilogus ALICE BRADY, Elizbeth Fauersan, Lyle Talbot, well, Margaret' Pesty, ATHAWAY IN

Isabe

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His first ALL-COLOR_picture!

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POPEYE

THE SAILOR MORÉA

Noxt Change

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SINDBAD THE SAILOR”

A Max Files Cartoon

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Apartengesantaik Kiku Zamtural Syndicate, its vané Szpak vokseczek

THE SEASON'S COMEDY HIT !

SMART GIRLS" with DEANNA DURBIN

"THREE

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Janet

MON. GAYNOR

Loretta'

YOUNG

"Lady...'s love!"

YOURS FO

THE

Constance BENNETT

Simone SIMON AMECHE

PAUL LUKAS

in “LADIES IN LOVE" with DON

A 20TH-CENTURY FOX PICTURE

Secretary

Dies In Poverty

HELPED BY FINANCIER'S

ENEMY

HENRY JAMES HOUS. TON, O.B.E., fifty-two- year-old

ex - secretary to Horatio Bottomley, and dis- tant relative of Lady Hous- ton, has died practically penniless in a London hos- pital.

A few hours after his death, it was revealed that in his pyjama coat pocket was found a.cheque for a pound-sent him by Reuben Bigland, of Birming- ham, the man who exposed Bottomley by means of a penny pamphlet and saw him sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. ARCH ENEMY

This charming young lady is jol ning the Hongkong Hotel Bands as from to-day. She'll eroon, sing and whistle her way into the hearts of Houston had been ill with lung Hongkong socialites. trouble for several years.

for In 1922, he received £5,000 writing the story "The Rent Mr. Bottomley" but, like the real Mr. Bottomley, he speculated with his money, and had in his last days to rely on the charity of his and Bottomley's arch enemy.

In one of Houston's pathetic letters to Mr. Bigland, he spoke of the ter rible conditions under which he was suffering,

He added: "I am living near heaven, up fifty stairs, which I can only attempt once a day as my breath is short."

Then to a public institution. Just ns Reuben Bigland offered Bottomley, when he came out of

n

prison.,

a pound a week pension and country cottage, so he did every- thing he could to help Houston when he learned that he was dying in Colindale, Hendon, institution: bom- barded Minister of Health Sir Kingsley Wood with letters pleading that custon should be removed to

a suitable sanatorium..

The Minister replied that this) would be done as

soon as Houston

was it to be removed.

MOVED TO HOSPITAL

Mr. Bigland, impatient at the delay, had Houston moved to a hospital; for the past three months he had £1

paid

a week to maintain the secretary of

AF

LINDBERGHS DECIDE TO TURN BRITISH

FTER just a year's exile as refugees from the terrorism of American gangsters, Col. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, have decided to become naturalised British citizens.

It is believed here that they will shortly take out naturali- sation papers for themselves and for their three-year-old son,

Jon.

Japanese

Hens Will

Crow Soon

*

SCIENTIST CAN' CHANGE SEX

the man who had tried to ruin him. Dr. Kiyoshi Masuin-Japanese

Mr. Bigland said: "Houston was

the calculating organising mind be-Professer in the Department of hind the sweepstakes and war loan Agriculture at the Tokyo In- band schemes that brought Bottom-perial University, and his as- ley into such prominence." As Bottomley's secretary for fifteen sistant, Mr. Saburo Ukami, mem- years, Houston handled vast sums of ber of the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research, claim to The last pound he handled was have discovered a process where that cheque from Reuben Bigland, which he tucked into his pujama coat by they can change a hen into a

cock and a cock into a hen. pocket just before he died..

money.

George Robey On Tour To Australia

Two famous artists have been booked to appear in Australia in April.

At Long Barn, 1 red-walled Afteenth century house which stands hmid a belt of trees-1101 fu

the remote Kentish village of Weald, near Sevenoaks, the, Lind- Berghs

the happiest have known for years. months the spent

And now they are to know an even greater happiness, for, ac- cording to reports in the village, Mrs. Lindbergh is expeeling an- other child. Villagers

Who

have watched Charles Lindbergh playing with

solemn-faced Jon, and seen

ist drive down the village street in

him

a fost grey car, or soar above thic ancient trees in his new orange- and-black monoplane, have come to accept this famous exlied trio friendly, unassuming neighbours.

as

DOGS FROM AMERICA "The straightest, kindest man have ever met," was the verdict of garage worker on Colonel Lind- bergh. "Though he doesn't take any active part in the life of our village, he helps all village causes, and has just given us a generous contribu tion to the church funds' and village institute. As about half of the chickens "At Christmas hic remembered hatched are males, the scientists

everyone in the village who had done hope, by their sex control, to reduce him even the smallest service.. the proportion of roosters and ultim- "We have heard rumours that he ately double the number of eggs·lald. might leave England, but we know Why, he brought MAN NEXT

they are wrong. "Our experiments are still in the over his three dogs from America theoretical stage," stated Dr. Masui. only a month ago."

but we shall start experimenting in carnest right after the New Year, 1

would be rash on the part of an ex- Colonel Heard Rap,

perimenter to declare outright that he has succeeded simply because he has obtained results in a single ex- periment if repeatedly," we

anents

prove succ

our experi

shall pride ourselves in having succeeded for the Arst time in history.

Found Baby Outside

The first is Mr. George Robey,

Lieut.-Colonel John MacKenzie who will open his season in

"We shall not merely undertake (retired) heard a rap at a window of Melbourne. The other. is Mme. hanging hens into cocks and vice his home, Collingwood Lodge, Ports-- Surrey, Camberley, Lotte Lehmann who has been versa, but we shall try to get at the mouth-road, engaged, says Austral News, for a ten essential problem of heredity and of went outside, almost stumbled over a weeks' concert season by the Austra- the determination of sex. If we can baby left a few yards from the front llan Broadcasting Commission. advance from experiments on fowls door.

The baby a boy, two or three

Bebe Donlels and Ben Lyon are to those on mammals and then on to

also hoping to fully engagementsman, nothing will be more interest-weeks old-was taken by police to a

there.

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