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FRANK ICAPRA

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RONALD COLMAN

JANE WYATT· JOHN HOWARD

MARGO THOMAS MITCHELL EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ISASSE JEWELL 15. J. WARKIE SAM ZARZ

A COLUMBIA, PICTURE

Mysterious ruler of ihollend of pracet"

Thomad,

A love that moves mountains.\..

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to note the alteration of times.

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SONJA HENIE ADOLPHE MENJOU JEAN HERSHOLT NED SPARKS DON AMECHE RITZ BROTHERS

ARLINE JUDGE

UNDER TWO FLAGS"

with, RONALD COLMAN - CLAUDETTE COLBERT

CENTRAL

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL:

1937.

Motive Of Baby Marathon ALHAMBRA

Was Revenge, Says Quins' M.P.

By HOWARD WHITMAN

ARTHUR GRAEME SLAGHT, M.P. for the Dionne Quintuplets and other residents of Parry Sound, Ontario, thinks Canada has had enough front-page babies, and ought to concentrate more on ice hockey and copper mines."

world children whom they cannot support, nourish or educate, and who may suffer inental and physical de- formilies,"

As an MP, politician Slaght must jquently suffer, as must their off- face the responsibility of being, as spring, for having brought into the Canada's House of Commons calla Him, "the Quintuplets' member."

As a KC., lawyer Slaght refused the responsibility of acting for a nine-baby mother in the Charles Vance Millar "Baby Marathon," now being judged in Toronto.

As a private individual, etizen Slaght has escaped from it all to Londen, where he can clear his brief case of baby matters for a while.

'SHOCKING HUMOUR' Adapper, fifty-nine-year-old, lean man, with Bratoricul proclivilles, M.P. Singht declared at the Savoy

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RORED BY QUINS On the question of the Dionne quintuplets, M., Singht is, if any thing, pleasantly bored.

The remains of the famous French

Sald he: "The Quins are the greatest tourist attraction my con- stituency has ever had. Americans from coast to coast drive up to. Callander (Ontario) to see them." M.P. Slaght was pacing the floor vigorously as he spoke. He stopped C. in C., Marshall Foch, will be re- "Canada has had enough|moved to the Chapel of the Invalides short, notoriety on account of its bubles, in Paris, where they will be placed "Canadians deprecate the unfor- Mure ought to be said about lee besides the tomb of Napoleon. tunate publicity that Charles Mil-hockey and the new mines we're monument shown above will be

erceled on the lomb.. lar's will, has created, and they developing." deplore the shocking, satirical and whimsteal humour that induced a Canadiun to make such

Ilotel:

(Charles Vance Miflar left

900 to the Toronto mother who,

at within

ten

his death, years October 31, 1926, gave birth to the greatest number of duly registered children. The Milkar will was de- clared valid by the Ontario Court of Appeals on Tuesday).

"We in M.P. Slaght continued: Canada have no sympathy for a freak device of this character. I was personally acquainted with Charles Mular.

"He sens an eccentric fellow. He hated women. In many quarters it Is felt that this bequest was his saiirical revenge.

It is to be deplored that many women have been lured into exces- sive motherhood and must

BRITISH

consc-

Are Your

Hands Worth

£10,000 To You?

WHAT do you consider your two

What you couster

When twenty-year-old Laurence Heaps had to have his hands ampulated after they had been 'crushed between rollers in a rub- ber, flooring factory In Liverpool, Mr. Justice Swift assessed his loss at £10,000.

His employers asked the Court of Appeal to agree with them that

KNIGHT

SAVED

FROM FIRING SQUAD

Spanish Death Sentence Mystery

O Sir Peler Chalmers Mitchell, famous British selentist, sunset one day

Tart month meant factus a firing squad. Instead, from site deck af

a Driush Gasttestrip,, tre sare the sunset over Gilüuliar.

One of the first acts of the Spanish Nationalists when they entered Malaga was, according to reports received by United Press, to arrest Sir Peter and sentence him to death.

He was saved by the intervention of the British Vice-Consul, Mr. J. G. Clissold, and on condition that he left Malagn at once.

Botin men arrived in Gibraltar

in the destroyer Basilisk, Sir Peter was met by the Colonial Secretary, Lt-Col. A. E. Deattle, and driven to the dockyard for an in- terview with the naval authorities. Neither officials nor Sir Teter would make any statement when up- proached.

"I am sorry, but I am unable to say even one word," said Sir Peter.

SicPeter Chalmers_Mitchell_was. formerly Secretary of the Zoologieni Society in London. He had been Hving in Malags throughout Civil War.

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Meanwhile ferce Aghting is still going on around Madrid, but little change seems to have taken place on either of the two main 'fronts.

Archbishop

To Introduce The King At His Broadcast

THE Archbishop of Canterbury is

expected to introduce the King when he broadcasts to the Empire on Coronation Day, May 12,

wil

The fline of the broadcast probably be 7 `pam. GALT. (1 a.m. H.K.T.) The speech will be record- ed and relayed again at 11.30 3.m. ILK.T. on May 13.

Sir John Reith, Director-General of the B.B.C., who visited the King to discuss arrangements, has given instructions. that this must be "the

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JUNE LANG GREGORY RATOFF

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this was too much, Lords Juslices Greer, Slesser and Greene refused. This was their Judgment:-

Mr. Justice Swift said: "Were I to award this young man the whole of the wealth of the Bank of England I could never give him back his hands, Ile is going through life as helpless as the day he was born."

That is putting it a Ile loo bigh. but he will be very near I. Even with artificial limits he will be for the rest of his life, a handless man, unable to do any- ihing for himself. The joy, of life will have robe from him.

"We cannot ride a bicycle, or play football, or have the usual forms of recreation, though pos- sibly, with assistance, he might go

to

a football ground and watch other people play.

"Taking, all these malters into consideration, it seems quite im- possible to say we are entitled to Interfere with the Judge's finding as to the amount of damages, large as they are.”

Laurence Heaps was la court when the appeal was decided. fle sat between bls father and mother. with whom he now lives in Chor- ley, Lancashire.

Girls Prefer To Run Away On Own

BOYS LIKE COMPANY,

Pittsburgh, Apr. 1.

Girls leave home because they are infraid of parental reprimands, usually after late parties, or because they ob- fect to attempts by their parents to "dictate."

two

was the picture painted by Veterin Pittsburgh police- women in explaining why young wo- men leave their homes and do not return:

she

In many instances, said Mrs. Ida Rickenback; head of the Missing Two London girls with their Easter went out to a party and was told to

Persons Durtau, it is "because eggs, which they carried triumphant come in at a certain time, but she ly through streets. An Air Mall didn't.

Study.

Then,

Mrs. Rickenback added, "she is afraid to go home, so she goes In- most perfect broadenst in the history to the home of somebody else,

She stays all other girl, perhaps. of the corporation."

It is likely to be, because the most night. The next morning she knows be- elaborate arrangements are being she deserves to be reprimanded

lenuse she has been out all night, so made.

The Post Office expect applications she doesn't go home at all. Then she for relay facilities from almost every ls reported missing. country, and thousands of engineers home, usually she goes alone. When

"When a girl" runs away will be employed at control points throughout the globe in passing on

he goes the historic message.

HANKOW

STARE

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A Paramount Picture

with LEW AYRES

There's an epidemic

of love. In Panama!

Adolph Zetor presamis

LADY BE

MARY CARLISLE CAREFUL"

Larry Crabbe Benny

Baker Grant Withers

THURSDAY

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WILLIAM: POWELL - CAROLE LOMBARD in MY MAN GODFREY”.

from

class.

a boy runs away, usually away with another boy."

Mra. Rickenback said that few run- aways are considered delinquent un- less they repeat their offence,

Another type who is a frequent run- away is a girl from a better home who is tired of the easy life and wants to get away from it, uc- cording to Mrs. Mary O'Rourke, also of the Missing Persons Bureau.

"Her parents," said Mrs. O'Rourke, try to lead her life for her and she wants to lead her own. So she runs away. She may be found living in Boarding House. She may even be working in a restaurant." Mrs. O'Rourke found with a large foreign population, many girls run away because. their homes they are under the rules of "the old country, where the parents are dicta- tors," but in the schools and outside activities, they are under American rule-United Press..

that in cities

Photographer's Flash Sets Off Powder Blast In Castle

Д

Himeji, Japan, Mar. 25. One. Was killed

and several seriously Injured when photo- grapher's magnesium flare ignited some gunpowder, in the revered Himejl castle, here, while the Bro- chiku Film Company was making a pleture. One of the castle walls was destroyed.

NATHAN RD, KOWLOON DAILYINT

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