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KING'S

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY DAILY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

HIVI LETS

CALLITA DAY

TO - MORROW

Warner Bros.

A

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND EAH HUNTER

ARITA LOUISE ALICE BRADY

-ADLAND YOUNG

FRIEDA IHESCORT

A ComoroČAN PRODUCTION

BATO

WILLIAM POWELL JOAN BLONDELL in

LAWYER

MAN

"

QUEEN'S

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© SHOWING TO-DAY

WIZARD

MEN - -

OF FINANCE.

MAN

AMONG

AND NEW YORK IN THE SINFUL 70'S (

EDWARD ARNOLD

Cary Grant Frances Farmer Jack Oakie

in

"ROBBER BARONS”

An RKO-Radio Picture

© NEXT CHANGE

Fiction's Famous Adventurer On A Mystery Hunt ! "BULLDOG Drummond comes baCK”

with JOHN BARRYMORE - JOHN HOWARD - LOUISE CAMPBELL

4 SHOWS

DAILY

2.30.6 20

7.20 -9.30)

A Paramount Pictura.

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THEATRE

NATHAN

ROAD KOWLOON

TEL 57773

(MATINEES: 20c.-30. EVENINGS: 20-3050-70)

• SHOWING TO-DAY

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SOCKO)

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER

15, 1937.

+HIIT | Well, and have supported it generous of whom only a mere handful are ly, but for the beneßt of newcomers | day boarders. Then upart from Dre casca It may be well atale

the relief, there

LETTERS TO THE of the Society and the work it receiving monthly allowances; others

EDITOR

To the Editor,

undertakes.

in

corn-

have their rent paid for them; others aguin have their monthly pendore's books settled for them.

exists to help down-and-outs atlier than Chinese (the latter having

The Solely maintains accommoda- +-+-+-+-+ |their own charitable institutons) bul

the majority of our applicants beingt tion in Kowloon where enses can be of mixed nationality many Chinese lodged and boarded until rooms can until their crisis is pass- names appear on our books. Perhaps be found,

done ed. the most important work

possible, work is found for through education and in this we are men and women, but this part of our greatly helped by these schools and activilles gela more and more difficult convents which take our children at us. Lime goes on. Voyages are paid reduced fees. At the present moment and landing money given in a few the Society in educating: 53 children, cases, sometimes la conjunction with charitable macieties. one (or more) Clothing is given in every ense and it orders for shoes ch a local Arm

10 none in our cupboards are found ft.

Hongkong Telegraph: Sir-Is it not high time some action was taken to ameliorate the sufferings of the vast number of residents of this Colony, who, wishing to co muntente with their fellows in other parts of the globe, have no option but to rely on the, execedingly unsatle. factory local Post Office administra

on to carry out this work.

For the pad fortnight it has been advertised to all and sundry that the Home-going Air Mail will leave on Saturdays, commencing from 13th November, 1937. Truly an unlucky Bluebat the last moment it is given cut over the radio that the time of closing had been altered brouglst earlier of all madness!

My correspondence, and that of many others I do not doubt, has now been delayed a weeks.

Does the Post Office presume lo suggest that the delay of a week is belfer than that of a few hours? -

Further, I am not the possessor of a tudio set, one of many in this cate

Moreover, the local program- ЯUFY mes of radio matter are not conducive to making me into a prospective pur- chaser of such an instrument."

11

Is it to be assumed that these in- cidents are the results of sheer in- competence, or is it to be said that Post Omee officials are, to use much-heurd expression-maskec,

In either case, may we hope for au improvement in methods adopted in future.

ACGRAVATED.

NEED OF FUNDS

Sir-Knowing as we do the many and urgent calls upon your space we, the Executive and Committee of the Hongkong Benevolent Soclely, yet to ask your kind help in giving publicity to the parlous state of our funds at the present time.

venture

Refugees may come and go and other unusual funds may call for money that people readily subscribe, bat it is important that the regular. "Social Services" of the Colony should" still receive support: the longkong poor are always with us; their num bers tend to increase as our resources dwindle. We have a bleak prospect before us this winter and we hope very fervently that we shall not have to cut down upon our regular up- plicants, or fail to make their Christ- mas that little extra pleasure that t has been hitherto and which means so much in their drab lives.

Residents in the Colony know the. work of this old-established Society

STOP PRESS

It must be pointed out that every the closest case in subjected to Investigation and in this we receive from the Assisinnce invaluable "Special Branch" of the Hongkong Police. There is also a Men's Ad- visory Committee of the Soclety, which meets when called upon to do AO.

A word as to funds; the Society the recelves an annust grant from Colonial Government, regular grants from the Sporting Clubs and Societ- les, income from certain bequests and from life memberships, special don- ations and "In Memoriam gifts. For

ALHAMBRA

✪ TO-DAY ONLY O

TWICE AS GOOD AS "WAIKIKI WEDDING" DOUBLE FUN! DOUBLE MELODY I DOUBLE ROMANCE !

“Everyihing we've done before

we're doin' doublo’now!”

Anak Iwas presets.

BING CROSBY

MARTHA RAYE "DOUBLE OR

NOTHING

all this our expenses, this year have TOMORROW. been such that we view with grave anxiety the two or three months that must elapse befuce our annual up- peals go out.

The best way, in the long run, to help the Society is by becoming an annual subscriber. But owing to the unusual circumstances of this half year, we should be most grateful for donations sow,

however modest. The Need Is Urgent.

on

A copy of the Annual Report for 1936 will gladly be forwarded application to the lionormy Secret-

11 Ice ary of the Society, Street.

WINITMED ALABASTER.

President.

House

PALESTINE MURDERS

Sir-Reverting to the passage in Reuler's cable from Jerusalem dated Nov. 10. in your paper of 11th November, "Gunmen have been out on both sides and British officers and men have been among the dead and wounded," It

to seems

me that it would be fair if the words "Ly Arabs" were added because as far as recollect all messages speaking of British casuallles stated that the outrages were perpetrated by Arabs.

A CANTON HEADER.

can

It is quite true that Arabs are res- ponsible, as far as can be ascer- on British tained, for all attacks troops. Jews, however, have fired on Arabs and bombed their stores. Undeniably the Arabs are the chlet offenders. Ed. II. K. Telegraph.

A NEW AND SPECIAL RANGE OF-

CIRÉ and LAMÉ

THE

FABRICS

OF

FASHION

A Paramount Picture

DAILY

AT

2:30

520

720

9.20

Katharing

& Paramount Picture with

Andy Dovine Mary Carlisle William Frowley Fay Holden, Samual 3. Hinds • William Henry Directed by Theodore Read:

"SOPHIE LANG GOES WEST" Gertrudo Michael Larry Bustor' Crabbo

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STAR

SHOWING TO-DAY

ia

Franchor

HEPBURN TONE QUALITY

with Brio Blare; Core Wibergoon, Fay Bainter, Estalle Winwood

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United Artista' Release

HANKOW

ROAD KOWLOON. TEL

57795

J. M. BARRIE'S lough provoking tale of a bawlich- ing minxona

man hunt .

TREET

Diraled As Care darmon Precisi RKO RADIO BCTURE

JACK BUCHANAN in

“THAT'S A GOOD GIRL”

4 SHOWS

Data

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THE SEASON'S MOST DELIGHTFUL COMEDY ROMANCE ! A new Continental Star, with a renius for fast comedy and high voltage romance that you'll enjoy.

A LAUGH FILLED SHOW WITH GAY MUSIC AND SONG !

FERNAND

GRAVET

Amerika't

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JOAN

BLONDELL

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The Mudemo

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Dobind The Throna)

AND

SMARTNESS

**AND THE

"THE KING CHORUS GIRL

IDWARD HORTON

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ALAH MOWBRAY-MAKY MASH-JANE WYHAN-KENNY BAKER-LUIS ALBERHE A HERVYN LEROY PRODUCTION A Verner Bros. Picture · Saroon play by Herman Krane & OraechaMore › Music and Jyrics by Warmor §. Heymann & End Kochiur

in

MARX BROS A Day at the RACES

GROUCHO • HARPO • CHICO

A METRO GOLDWYN · MAYER PICTURE with ALLAN JONES

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN.

BA SAM WOOD PRODUCTION PRODUCED BY LAWRENCE WENIGARILN

NEXT CHANGE RETURN OF AN "OLD FAVOURITE" I BETTE DAVIS FRANCHOT TONE

"DANGEROUS“

A Warner Bros. Pictura

EARLY SELECTION

IS

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THUR.

ADVISED

THE

BOMBAY

SILK

STORE

2, D'AGUILAR ST.

"NOBODY'S BABY " The laughs never stop for anything.

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"SAMARANG"

A

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COUNT

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