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STARTS TO-MORROW!

If you were born in any

of thèse months

JAN FED MAR APR

MAY JUN

SEP OCT

JUL AUG

NOV DEC than here's your fore tane in a NUT shell!

A man with a bly mouth

Is coming into your life.

and you're just going to DIE

QUEEN'S OE E. BROWN

Sees all! Knows all! Tells too much!

YOUR PAST, YOUR PRESENT, YOUR FUTURE ... all rolled into one big howl!

There's no let-up. You just laugh and laugh....from the moment' ho opens his tunnel, until ho marries the girl!

Whin's YOUR BIRTHDAY?

MARIAN MARSH

FRED KEATING EDGAR KENNEDY

Directed by Hang Barumuset

A DAVIDL LOEW PRODUCTION Releand though

PICTURES

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Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937.

WORK OF S. P. C. typical family of five, father, mother

what that means. If I may take a

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CHIEF JUSTICE APPEALS FOR HELP

A review of the many und varied activities of the Society for the Protection of Children, which is holding a Flag Day to-day, was given by Iis. Honour Sir Atholl Gregor, Chlef Justice, over Z.B.W. Inst evening...

CINEMA

NOTES

and three young children, we have In total monthly income of $8.08. Of that sum probably about $1.65 has to be paid os rent of a bedspace (no fewer than 094 of the 1,700 families

had no ac dealt with last year

Clad in robes of regal splendour, commodation but a bedspace) and that leaves only $7.00 a month to feed

Jue E. Brown. finds himself in the or Just and clothe the five persons

most magnificent surroundings of about five cents a day per head.

his screen career in one sequence of Mac-Many of you who are listening to mo

"When's Your Birthday?", the David L. Loew comedy production which are fathers or mothers. Your chil

Theatre to- dren are sitting with you or happily

your opens at the Queen's

ช่ aleeping, children en whom all your

morrow. The scenes represent

hun- children for whom, thank God, you thought and devotion is centred,

claborate garden party with dreds of society guests attending a can ensure a healthy, happy and

charity bazaar at which Brown, as at Wilf carefree childhood which

what might be termed a "big-shot" them for a full enjoyment of C. astrologer, is the social lion. The How anxious you read the thought

are one of

them

comedian is dressed in a gay Persian costume embroidered with thousanda is alling,.

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of, beads, and the ouill also includes of illness for them and how you rejoice in giving them little treats o

heavy jewelled collarette and a turban getting them anything they have set

Imposing height. The comedian's Your cast in "When's their hearts on. Just try to realise

Marian Edgar Marsh, Fred Keating and

also includes Kennedy, and popular players as Suzanne Karen. Minor Watson, Maude Eburne, Frank Jenks and Margaret Hamilton, not to Bull mention

picturesque Montand.

Sir Atholl presented a vivid pic- ture of the hardships of poor-Chinese families who have to live in dark, airless tenements, where children are born and die, and gave a brief summary of the humanitarlan work that is being done by the Society in

this direction

The gift of a house at West Point

.how

You

of

by way of contrast how any poor for use as a creche by an anonymous Chinese family lives. In an English / Birthdavit is headed by

GOO touea

benefactor was announced by thei speaker, who concluded by appealing to his listeners to give freely to-day, they and by assuring them that would never regret their generosity in such a deserving cause. In the

which

city an arca sons to the nere is rightly called a black slum. In Victoria there are no less than 200 acres with a popu- lation of at least 1,000 souls to the

were in acro. There dark airless acro crowded tenements

over-

Uve the families

the Society deals. There

course of his tall, the Chief Justice with Wce, an area of about six

suid:

cases

in a Let me say at the outset that feet by five, my typical family has

the only

home it knows. In that tiny there cruelty is not one of the problems space they live and

sleep, with which the Society has to con- chien, children dle. What happiness far too children are born, there, tend. Of 3,887 cases with which | often,

child know. in such surround- Jast the Society dealt

year I am can A

by ings, with parents who, day happy to say that only six were

day, are face to face with stark have, poverly? How

born of ill-treatment. We

can a child however, to marshal our little band and brought up in such surround- of devoted and, Intrepid workers Ings be equipped for a useful

more terrible life or be an asset to the Costier against three even

in which he lives? The answer is enemies of childhood, disease, poverty easy. He cannot. By the accident and ignorance, and the struggle, un-of his birth and upbringing he is lability for the less our funds are very greatly in- foredoomed to be a creased, is a dreadfully hard one. community to which he belongs, un- klm # helping So far as disease is concerned we less somebody gives

hand, and that somebody is the So- are fortunate in having the sympathyciety for the Protection of Children. and assistance or every medical That surely is a glorious work. Will

It not be a tragedy practitioner in the Colony. There is not one of them who does not gladly, for lack of funds, the Society is re-

in its luctantly forced to pause freely and unsuinidly give time anu skuiz to prevent or relieve the pain of making useful citizens of these men and women of the future whose of any chud. It is a significant tacs parents are too poor to help them. How different is their lot from the that there was no hospital for chil- aren'in the Colony unut the Society, happy life of your own children: how terribly different is their home WILD in co-operation

tise Chinese

e from that which each one of us Sisters of the Precious Blood, estab-

likes to look back on with affectionate ished the hospitat at beamsnuipo, and tender recollectios,

to say, When is now i am gia being repunt and better equipped.

for

tragedies i,

the

Kuch

"Devil Doll." "Every actor in motion pictures ought to play in a good melodrama or mystery thriller at least once a Barry- year." So declares Lionel more, star of "The Devil Doll," now

Why? Because it is harder work playing at the King's Theatre. it's excellent mental stimulation, and rut, of it keeps you out of the

ization

In his current assign Berrymore portrays a venge- ful man who usca a secret method of shrinking people to minute size with out destroying life. It is one of the notable most bizarre roles of his carcer. Tod Browning directed the Maureen pleture. Prominent in the cast are O'Sullivan and Frank Lawton.

and

"Wives Never Know" The most beloved husband wife team in pictures, Charlie Rug- gies and Mary Boland, comes to the screen of the Star Theatre on Sunday. in "Wives Never Know." easily one work

of the most delightful and hilarious of the season. domestic comedies With urbane Adolphe Menjou play- ing the role of serpent in the Garden with

Do not be afraid that a large pro- portion of your donation will be spent on unproductive overhead ex- penses. The Society spends over $2,000 a month, the greater part of it on milk, medical supplies and re- than $190 D lief, and rather less month has to be spent on rent, the maintenance of offices, stationery and postage.

Work of Society

Some of you perhaps may think to yourselves "why should we be catied upon to help Chinese children? There are such a lot of them, and 50 ouny caus on my charity oojects more directly attecting my own people." That of course is partly true; but there is one very

The Society, since its incep important aspect of this branch had rigidly set its face against any- the Socley's work that must be re-

thing that savours of pauperisation. membered, on aspect from which i There are no deles to the lazy and materially altects nil of .us. The work-sby, Occasionally, it is neces-

sary Welfare

to pay a little rent for a family Society's Branches. and

until work is found for the bread Centres deal in the course of a year win

la many cases the Society winner: in with enormous numbers of children has purchased hawkers licences and few dollars worth of stocic last year the number of visits by given persons to Branches was 30,355 and to enable a man or woman to work

his and maintain self-respect. In every sick child brought to a Branch other cases blind or deaf and dumb Is assured of early medical advice children are maintained in Institu- tions at the cost of the Society, and and treatment. Many of them are

a month is spent on keeping or $130 or con- suffering from infectious tagious discuse, disease which but phan boys at the St. Louis Industrial School where they are being tought for the vigilance of the Society might a trade. But these are the exceptions. well spread and Infect children of a other races. By dealing with disease By far the greater part. of any sum among the poorer Chinese as we do to have at its disposal goes

of money the Society is ever likely and must we ensure, so far as we can, that to

so in the purchase of essential food foreign children remain free of many

and the supply of nourishing medical distressing contagious diseases which

comforts, and that is work which, in are unurtunately common

the cause

humanity, must common Colony.

go on. No child who comes to the notice of an Inspector is allowed to starve; there is no one among my listeners who would wish it other- wise; but for every child for whorn we care there must be many whom we never hear, and unless we have more funds we are powerless to do more than we are now doing.

Poverty-Greatest Problem

Our greatest problem is poverty. The average Income per head of the cases dealt with has steadily declin- ed year after year, until in 1938 it reached the distressingly low figure of $1.73. Just think for a moment

of Eden, NWives Never Know" deals

a happily married couple who take the advice of a self-appointed authority on love that they must out of their ways to make their lives true complicated in order to enjoy happiness What follows is a series of mishaps and misunderstandings which bring about complications in large enough measure but which also almost wrecks their marriage.

"The Longest Night" It may seem incredible that des- pite the number of mystery stories on the screen an entirely novel plot but here -it ia. The is possible Longest Night," which Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer brought to the screen of estle Threatre last night, is the Majestic

in a mammoth de placed entirely in a

Robert Young plays partment store: the lead with Florence Rice, an ex- tremely attractive young lady who is on the way to stardom according to Hollywood Indications. An unusually Healy, capable cast includes Ted

Doucet, Julie Haydon, Catharine Janet Beecher, Leslle Fenton. Sidney Toler. Paul Stanton, Oln Howland, Hyams and Kitty McHugh, John Minor Watson.

"Doctor's Diary" Intimate behind-the-scenes glimpses in a large hospital are. afforded in Д .gripping "A Doctor's Diary," drama of one doctor's struggle be tween love and duty which has it run at the Alhambra Theatre to-day. The doctor in this case is handsome some John Trent, former ace flyer

in. Miss Helen Burgess gives an- players his first leading role in this other One performance, enacted with great skill and tenderness. This Is her, cecond picture. She made debut in the Cecil B. DeMiile saga where she played

who.

her

The Pla Louisa Cody. That rola

the role of of

MOTH MONTHS

was given her by DeMille despite the fact that she had never appeared alms before. The elaborate cast in- cludes George Bancroft, Ruth Cole- man, Sidney Blackmer, and a new and charming youngster, Ra Hould. "Invitation to the Walls" Anton Dolin is doing more.

and His more for the British

screen. latest contribution to the films is seen in "invita

"Invitation

to the Waltz.". which has its run at the Queen's Theatre to-day. This film which stars Lilian Harvey, who thus makes her debut in English pictures, con- tains a delightful and beautifully- dressed ballet which is one of the Im "Invitation high lights of the film. to the Waltz" Is

The

romantic alm, the of which is early nineteenth

of the time

the

the

century, during Napoleonic ware. Miss Harvey plays. the part of a Drury Lane ballet dancer who, through a series of un- expected events, finds herself in a

Duke of Wurtemburg.

"Racing Lady"

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with Ann Dvorak and Smith Bollew ground for moths, thus leaving the paired as a romantic team and Harry material Fresh, Clean, Dry and Abso-Carey in an equally featured role. for the lutely Odouricas preparatory to storing, The story brings together away for the summer season,

first time Miss Dvorak, one of the screen's most capable actresses, and Smith Ballew,

radio outstanding star. Carey, veteran of the movies, heroine's father. The role

featured play- ers are supported by several credited comedians including Ray Maver Berton Churchill. Willie Best, Hattle' McDaniels and Barry

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Oakle, Velez and Yolanda, Hermin Bing, Vivierno Osborne, Frank Forest, Benny Baker and. Ernest Cossart, being its run. A feature of the Alm is the dancing executed by Veloz and Yolandu, America's foremost exponents ¦ of ballroomi dancing, and three hundred and fifty

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