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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937.

KINGS Norma Shearer Plans ALHAMBRA

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY.

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

THEY'RE BACK IN THE DOUGH

IN THE SCREEN'S BIGGEST SHOWI

200 gafst each one rogaural And

·each one hell-bent

for your pleasure!,

Rhythme with that' youthful heart-heat -new stars to lift you from your sati

DICK

Laughs coming at you thick and fast from the mosan'e staciou)ali-funcee!!

Levers with that certain somethin' That starts your heart ́a-thumpin't

JOAN

POWELL-BLONDELL

DIGGERS

VICTOR MOORE GLENDA FARRELL LEE DIXON PSGOOD PERKINS ROSALIND MARQUIS

Hear those railio ragest HAIPS: Fale In Love Adi War"!; *!Speaking "D! The Weather!! Let's Pet Our Hands Together"

"Göld_Diggers Lubaby"

OF

1937

TO-MORROW ANNA NEAGLE CEDRIC HARDWICKE in United Artists

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Mae West?: ina keep 'em down on the.

they've seen

MAE WEST Go West Young Man WARREN WILLIAM - RANDOLPH SCOTT FALICE BRADY, Eitzabejk Patterson, Lyle Isabel Jewell, Maigaset Potty 27 Dinciso HLNRY HATHAWAY - Dialogue by Mae Wasi

ANIMANULL CONEM Traduction e

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His first ALL-COLOR picture!

It's twice as long and funny

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Adalah Żuros peqiqata

POPEYE

THE SAILOR MORÉA

TO - MORROW

The Now Universal

DAILY

AT

230

520

720

920

SINDBAD THE SAILOR”

A Max Belcher Cartoon

A Paremount Picture

THE SEASON'S COMEDY HIT ! "THREE SMART GIRLS" with DEANNA DURBIN

STAR

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

"She wanted to get married because she'd heard so ej much about it “

She wanted all mon to leave her alone.... except the one man who did "

"She longed for love..but got a mil Bonaire"

"She found the Bas! way to get the mon the wanted was 10 osk him,"

"LADIES IN LOVE"

TO - MORROW “I MARRIED A DOCTOR”

A Warner Bros. JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON --PAT O'BRIEN

Picture

JULIET MAY BECOME QUEEN

NORMA SHEARER

Come-Back

Husband Gives His

Wife Seven 'Laws'

Cardiff, Feb. 10.

TALL, titian-haired, twenty-four-year-old Mrs. Florence Bessie de Decker, of Plymouth-road, Barry Island, was given seven commandments by her husband.

These were the "seven com- mandments,' read in Barry Court to-day when Mrs. de Decker asked for à maintenance- crder:-

1. Wife to have no money.

2. Husband not to help with the

baby in any way.

3. He was not to do anything

concerning the housework.

4. Wife to wash everything at

home

5. She could have no frients or

relations in the house, but her

King's Burden

Worries His

Ministers

Loudon, Feb. 10.

IT ALL DEPENDS ON LAUGHTON

New York, Feb. 10. NORMA SHEARER has

decided to return to the screen. She will make a come-back in the picture she and her husband, Irving Thalberg, planned before his sudden death.

It will be the story of Maric Antoinette, Queen of France:

Miss Shearer intends to write to

NATHAN AR KOWLOON,

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

"GINGER” JANE AS DIXIE'S HONEY CHILD & THE

· FUN REALLY SHINES ALL THE TIME I

IT'S JUBILEE TIME

Charles Laughton in London, to TOMORROW

persuade him to break his resolve

never to return to Hollywood,

so that he may play opposite her. Production will probably begin

in the late spring.

"We were ali Was

Miss Shearer said: ready to start. The scenario completed and okayed by Irving.

Miss were

A Paramount Picture

4 SHOWS

GAILY -3.30-8.19 *7.18-20

MORE

IN JULEP LAND!

Help yourself, honay.... there're enough songe, dances, fun, romantes in this loyous Dixis). musicomedy for twenty picturesi

Jana WITHERS' **

Can this

be Dixie?

ZĀ,

UM SUMMERVILLE

HELEN WOOD

THOMAS BECK

"EASY TO TAKE"

with MARSHA HUNT - JOHN HOWARD

TAKE ANY TRAMSR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRES US

BAYE TO-DAY Shearer said to me: "We

The all ready to start. scenario was completed and oktayed by Irving.

"One thing that delayed us was the absenco of Mr. Charles Laughton, and I am going to write to hit asking him to come to

Hollywood.

"I can't see any other actor in the role which both Irving and visualised."

LAUGHTON SAYS- WHEN Mr. Charles Laughton was told the news, writes a London reporter, he said in a surprised volçe:-

W

"Well, well,

I don't

know what to say about that, quite;

it is difficult to for received a letter from her yet, but

il's probably too early.

"I should like to act with Norma -very much indeed, but, you know, I'm rather tied up at the moment. "I'm doing 'Claudius' with Mr. Korda, and then I'm doing work with Mr. Eric Pommer. In fact, Mr. Pemmer and I propose to 20 on working together indefinitely.

"I don't know whether it would be possible to work something out." After her husbond's death, Miss Shearer seriously considered leaving pictures for ever. She said at the time: "I don't see how I can ever go into a studio without Irving."

But two months' holiday in the Arizona desert. has. revived_her_in_

husband's people were to have free-Lightening of the heavy burden ofterest in pictures and in the carcer

Recess,

6. She could go into Barry only official duties borne by British kings that her husband planned for her

is being urged in many quarters.

once a week for the purpose of taking the baby to the clinic and

Бес her people.

to

during his reign The burden, it is known, has been "Hile Napoleon." intensifed many times ever since the 1. She was to get up in the World War and still further aug- morning, get the

breakfast, and mented by the statute of Westmins- clean the rooms-otherwise herter Axing Dominion status and the time was her own.

Mrs. de Decker wed Marcel de Decker in April 1935. A year later they parted. When a reunion was

as Hollywood's

Ban These

proposed de Decker agreed, if his cate directly with the king. Two Words

wife would observe the seven "com- mandments" he proposed.

The magistrates made an order of 10s a week for the wife and 5s. for the child.

LONDON AND PARIS

(CHRISTMAS ISLAND)

with

Imperial Conference resolutions.

to According

the Constitution, Dominion prime ministers communi- This in itself means that the king must have

secretariat to deal u special communications from overseas. At the same time his duties in the home The United country have increased. Kingdom

and Parlia- government ment have placed Dominion affairs generally out of their awn range, and thus lightened their duties.

DOMINIONS AFFAIRS HEAVY

-LORD AUSTIN

ORD Austin, milionaire. motor- car maker, asked the Federation of British Industries at Manchester recently "neither to think nor to use the words depression' and 'slump'."

He said, "I do not see why the good BOASTS 23 PEOPLE

Having to handle Dominion prob- times should not carry on indefinitely. lems and perform multifarious duties Honolulu, Feb. 10.

"I do not remember a time when at home, from signing commissions U.S. Coast Guardsmen report to receiving foreign diplomats, is be- we could look forward with greater population of London and Paris now

coming a physically impossible bur-confidence to the future or which our

industrial resources were totals 23.

The Coast Guard brought latest den for one man. The problem now equipped to take their share in a statistics on the Live principal a to rationalize the

steady advance to national security.” monarch.

work of the

"cities" of Christmas Island, 1,000 1rip miles south of Honolulu, after a

Nowadays the king has five prime to low back a disabled fishing vessel. ministers-United Kingdom, Austro- Entire population of the two cen- Ha, New Zealand, Canada and South tres move from one to the

other Africa-advising him in direct com- according to demands of their work munication.

the In manufacture of copra from 00,000 coconut trees on the island.

With exception of Franta Jerabak, his wife and son, all residents of the island fire Tahitians.United Press.

better

WORLD'S LONGEST

SWITCHBOARD £600,000 Building.

Birmingham, Feb. 10.

King George VI came to the throne with even less family assistance than his two predecessors,, King George V had four sons to help him in his public duties, especially by allend. ing important public functions, King

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Edward VII had the assistance of Chancellor of the Exchequer, three brothers, but King George VI will open Birmingham's new has only two brothers to lighten the £600,000 Telephone House next burden of dutics.

MAY TOUR EMPIRE

Thursday.

VARIETY GREATEST IN MIS-SPELLING OF CIRCUMFERENCE

The building, which is in Newhall- Norman, Okla.,.Feb. 10..

Former King Edward decided to street, houses what is believed to be To mis-spell a word is easy

for make a tour of the empire, and it the longest switchboard in the world. most persons, but to mis-spell it 000 King George VI decides, as expected, It containa 02 operating positions. million ways required a lengthy to make this tour ao thut his subjects

At present 32,000 subscribers use scientific test,

The word which savants found shall not be disappointed, the situn-

'will be Lion

further complicated. this large exchange, and 14,000 more could be mis-spelled so

Was Then there will have to be a Council will be taken over within the next

Dr. "circumference," according to

British two years. Henry D. Rinsland, of the University of State upon which no

could serve because of a Telephone House has a floor space of Oklahoma.

decision taken after the life of the of three acres and five floors, and is Cull of State formed during the divided into three blocks-adminis- illness of King George V.

tralivo offices, switch room, and plant. The building contains:

often

mis

in

Dr. Rinsland, discussing spelling, said the greatest trouble spelling correctly came from the Bound of words.

He offered four suggestions for improving spelling;

Learn the correct pronunciation of the word.

In writing, write every letter elcarly.

minister

The presence of United Kingdom excited ministers on that council Dominion jealousy, and sub- quently was decided to refrain from Buch Landon appointments in the future,

As it is to bò expected that Queen Be on the lookout for double Elizabeth would accompany King letters und letters that are sounded.

not George on lifs empire tour, much of

239 miles of cable; 031 miles of wire;

220,000 call lamps for 400 operators; 14,900 plug-holes:

,000 soldered-joints; and 30,000 fuses.

Mr. Chamberlain will be accom- the burden of state affairs in London panied by the Pastmaster-General, Observe the word carefully when would again devolve upon Queen Major G. C. Tryon, and other Govern-

Mary-United Press.

It first is seen. United Preas.

ment officials.

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