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THE

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY,

MARCH

23,

1937.

KINGS Doctors' Crime Club

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.10,7.15 & 9.30 p.m. ·

Love Takes a Gamble

with romance, wealth and lifoitselftho stakes! A beau- tiful spitfiro tries to outwit a cunning killer... and finds horsolf in the tightest spot of her young lifet Plenty of excitement and surprise... a howl with every thrill

SINNER TAKE ALL

wilk

BRUCE CABOT Margaret Lindsay JOSEPH CALLEIA

NEXT CHANCE Warner Bros.

&SHOWS

BAILY

2.30-517 7.10.30

Directed by Errol Taggart

Produced by Lucien Hubbard and Samuel Marx

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PCTUR

ERROL FLYNN - OLIVIA de HAVILLAND IN

"THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"

TAKE ANY THAM ON HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

SETHEATRE WASA

FLEMING

ROAD

WANGHAI

TEL. SONTE

LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY THE STAR-STUDDED SHOW SENSATION ! You've never seen such wonderful entertainment on stage or screen, a laugh-splashed metody-jammed show that leaves you gasping will its wonders!

THE MOST PRETENTIOUS SHOW IN TOWN!

ONLY

BORN DANCE

STARAM

Eleanor

DOWELL

LANES STEWART « ̈VICIILA BRUCE

VHA'MINKEL

DAYS TO-MORROW & THURSDAY • THOUSAND SAILORS ON SHORE LEAVE In a hilarious comedy of gobs, girls, and laughter.

A Peramount Pichme

with LEW AYRES.

MARY CARLISLE

Larry Crabba Benny

Baker Grant Withers

There's an epidemic

of love.. In Panama!

Adolph Zuko: pratekis

LADY RE CAREFUL".

►MATINEES:[20c-30c ̈® EVENINGS: 20c-30c750c"-70c3@

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30 - 20

7.20 -9.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAO KOWLOON

TEL. 57722

MATINEES:20c.-30.° EVENINGS, 20%-30«:50:70

TWO "OLD FAVOURITES" THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS!

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY !.

WAR MAKERS EXPOSED IN A WORLD DRAMA OF TO-DAY !

THE HEAD THAT

SCHEMED A THOUSAND

WARSI.

THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD

CLAUDE RAINS

JOAN BENNETT

LIONEL ATWILL

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY !.

TWO SHOWS IN ONE MURDER SET TOMUSIC ! MURDER AT THE VANITIES

A Paramount Picture

COUNT THE

TELEGRAPHS

EVERYWHERE

To Cure Criminals

FIGURE SKATERS IN-A POOL-Karl Schafer, Austrian lee ace who recently turned professional, and Melitta Brunner, also on Aus- trian professional, visited a New York hotel swimming pool. Even there, however, they could not forget their skating routine und tried out a few steps as above. They are to appear at the inter- national ice carnival for charity in New York next month.

MILL GIRL AS

COUNTESS'

SPY

FOR FRANCO

Paris, Mar. 5.

French police are uncovering a widespread organi sation with headquarters in Paris and Biarritz, of spies in the pay of Germany and General Franco.

One clue led to the arrest in Bacelona of a 26-year-old girl celebrated for her beauty and her dancing.

She says she is 4 countess and had gone to Barcelona to attempt to reach her lover, a Spanish nobleman, reported to be in Franco's Intelligence Service,

MUSIC-HALL DANCER

The police allege that the "coun- tess" is a former mill-girl who left the toom for the music-hall-stage; and eventually for the arms of the Spanish grandee.

CANONIZATION OF

SPANISH FRANCISCAN MONK TAKEN UP

Vatican City, Mar. 0. She is stated to have made several

Cardinals Angelo Maria Dolci, Ca mysterious trips over the Spanish frontier with two men, one of whom, millo Laurenti, Raffaele Carlo Rossi. a German, is already in French cus-Carlo Salotti, Alessandro Verde and Pietro Biondo to-day assembled for as a suspected spy. tody

When the "Countess" turned up in Barcelens she was unable to explain why, if she was simply trying to re- Join her lover, she had gone to the loyal Catalonian capital, and not to Franco's headquarters.

ROOF GARDEN

G.H.Q. OF SCIENCE IN

LONDON

BY LOUISE MORGAN

A NEW kind of Crime Clubs hag

been founded in London.

Its members are 10 famous medical men, most of them Harley Street specialists, and itj meets once a month to discuss actual court cases.

'I had an interview with one of them, n distinguished brain specialist..

"We believe that crime, like small- pax, can be controlled by selentifle inethods, and in time stamped out |altogether," he said.

So convinced are they of the "treatability" of crime, he told me. that they are giving their services free, at a sacrifice in practice of any- thing from £500 a year upwards, la the Institute for the Scientific Treat- ment of Delinquency.

CURED BY TREATMENT

they have cured many for treatment by

Here "eriminals" sent magistrates.

Chronic shop-lifters of years* standing, burglars," pelty thieves. habitual offenders against decenes, and Juvenile vagrants have been made into decent citizens.

Each "crime-patient" is given on arrival full, physical and mentul examinations, and intelligence and vocational tests,

At the "Crime Club" meetings, where information is pooled, a new technique of "mass prevention of crime" is being evolved,

ONE IN 100 CRIMINAL

At present we touch only a minute

| fraction of the criminal element,” said.

the brain specialist.

The number of delinquents' In this country who never come be- fore the courts is appalling. One out of every 100 'hones" people be- longing to honest' familien should be classed as criminal.

technique on a large scale in curly

"Our hope is to apply our new

childhood and thus prevent the development of crime.

"In this way the general mass of dishonesty could be hälved in a couple of generations."

The work, he added, is being held up for want of sufficient clinics and observation centres.

Funds may be sent to St. John Hutchinson, ̄ ̄ ̄K.C.; 56, Grosvenor Street, W.1

Mr. Hutchinson broadcast an appeal for the work recently,

Members of the Chinese Company

the first of three meetings discussing of the Hongkong Police Reserve will the virtues of the Blessed Salvador de give a farewell tes party to Dr. S. W. Tso, Honorary Commissioner, and Horta, Spanish Franciscon mank.

The three meetings are prelimin- Mr. T. O. Tso, Officer Commanding, ury proceedings for canonization of at the Gloucester Hotel to-day ut! de Horta--United Press.

5.15 p.m.

HONGKONG HOTEL

A CLASSICAL EVENING

TO-NIGHT

FROM 9.30 P.M..

WITH

DINA NOTARGIACOMO

DRAMATIC SOPRANO

AND

XENIA ZARINA

CLASSICAL DANCER

SEATS $4, $3 and

FOR RESERVATIONS

APPLY H.K HOTEL RECEPTION OFFICE PHONE 30281

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

AT 2·30-515 7:20-9:30 PM AT 230.5.20·7·20 & 9:30 PM.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

GARY COOPER and JEAN ARTHUR

The grandest love

story of them all!

Cecil B. DeMille's

THE PLAINSMAN

with James Ellison Charles Bickford Helen Burgess Porter Hall Directed by Cecil B. DeMille » A Paramount Picture

TO-MORROW

at the QUEEN'S "LET'S MAKE A MILLION" with ED. EVERETT HORTON

A Paramount Plature.

DAILY

AT

230

520

720

920

at the ALHAMBRA "ALONG CAME LOVE" "SPECIAL POPEYE CARTOON" A Paramount Picture.

HANKOW

KOWLOON

STARE

57795

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY!

TO- MORROW

IRENE DUNNE

ROBERT

TAYLOR

in

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

Universal Picture

• FRED STONE in "GRAND JURY"

RKO-Radio Picture

TO-NIGHT

THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL

PRESENTS

THE DI-GAETANO GIRLS

at a SPECIAL DINNER DANCE

in Honour of the “EMPRESS

OF BRITAIN" TOURISTS

U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

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