1938-08-15 — Page 12

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SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30. P.M.

DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S NEW.IDEA MUSICAL FOR HIT MAKING

2011 CENTURY.FOX

AND WHAT WE MEAN, IT'S GOT UMMAHI

Hillar Ben WINCHELL BERNIE

SIMONE SIMON_-

She sings" She sings!

LOVE AND HISSES,

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M.C.M. Pictura •

DAILY

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BERT LAHR JOAN DAVIS

-DICK BALDWIN

· RAYMOND SCom

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RUTH TEARY DOUGLAS FOWLEY CHICK CHANDLER":

Songs!

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“NAVY BLUE and GOLD”

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Robert Young - James Stewart - Llonel Barrymoro

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• FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

"The Gay Desperado” Gayor Than

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and other great composare

TO- MORROW

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710-9.30

in His Armai

MUSIC for MADAME

Joan FONTAINE

ALAN MOWBRAY

ALAH HALE

DILLY GILDERT

GRAKT MITCHELL

ERIK RHODES - LEE PATRICK ROMO VINCENT

"MURDER AT THE VANITIES”

A Paramount Picture

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FOR HER LOVE HE FOUGHT

through miles of raging ocean..

he defled man's law..A turbulent

story of primitiva passions by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty" SAMUEL GOLDWYN

presents

THE HURRICANE

with

Dorothy LAMOUR • Jon HALL Mary ASTOR C. Aubrey SMITH Thomas MITCHELL Raymond MASSEY

Directed by

Released thre JOHN FORD UNITED ARTISTS

Added Attraction: "MAGICIAN MICKEY"

COLOUR CARTOON

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A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION:

On The Screen:

LOVE IN THE “BIG HOUSE"! MURDER IN THE CELL BLOCKS !

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1938.

Mayfair Prisoner In Court QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

Says 'Chocolates, Please'

JAIL 'BULLY BEEF' MEAL UNEATEN

"Chocolates, please" was the first request made by John Christopher Mainwaring Lonsdale-one of the four Mayfair men-who is serving eighteen months' imprisonment in con. nection with the Hyde Park jewel cospiracy, when he arrived at the Law Courts recently.

He complained that there were for too many potatoes In Wormwood Scrubs prison dit!.

the

Lonsdale, twenty-four, son of Dorset country squire, wan the defendant In an action brought by Kent Trust Ltd., West End moneylenders, who elained £230 16s. 10d., principal and interest. They won the case.

Lonsdale's counsel asked for stay of execution. pending oppeal, which was refused.

an

A Jaller accompanied Lonsdale from prison. They had travelled) In a hired car at Lonsdale's expense and returned four hours later in a taxicab,

Heiress Weds

A Cobbler

BUT HE WILL GO BACK TO HIS JOB

The Cinderella fairy-tale story Mr. C. Salmon, counsel for the was reversed in the picturesque Kent Trust Ltd., said Hervey had įvilinge of Haslemere, recently, nut been joined in the action because when a £3-a-week shoemaker

he had liven adjudicated bankrupt. wed an heiress.

- BORROWED £300

Mr. Jack Koski, managing director of Kent Trust, Ltd., said Hervey had borrowed £100 from him before the later loan.

But the shoemaker has nó intention. of exchanging a life of toil, for one of luxury and ease.

Aller the honeymoon, which is Being spent at an "unknown destina-

"He still owed £65, his encquelon," he will go back to his lol Mutting out uppers for boots and shoes having been dishunoured," Koski, said, "and I told him and in a Wellingborough Northants, fac- Mr. Lunsthile I would not lend any 1993; more money that was repaid,

WIN involved with

"He

Bessic Murgery Maltby, daughter of Mr.'T. H. S. Maltby, head lenders, and it was a gamble for me. the bride: Mr. Edward Stuart, of uther of London Arm of stevedores, was Mr. Koski described how the Wollaston, was her groom. was repaid in ten-shilling notes, ou

cheers of fifty of Mr. Stuart's None of the young man's relatives Hervey's behalf. y Mr. Percival was in court.

workmates and other guests, the Murray, of the Cabaret Battle Parly couple drove off on their honeymoon. Trailing behind the ear symbol

He had been given a packet of bully beef and bread for lunch when he left the jail.

He did not eat it. He hoped he would get meal from the Law Courts, restaurant, and was bitterly disappointed when his request had to be refined,

The moneylenders' claim was tured on a promissory note for £100, jointly signed by Lonsdale and Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey January 13 last year.

on

Hervey, Rodson of ex-Queen Ena of Spain and a nephew of the

Club.

· Lonsdale, in a tired, despondent of the bridegroom's necupation-wag volce, guvé evidence that he had in battered shoe as an onien of good only "backed the bill" for Hervey | luck and happiness,

and was not the actual borrower. After the wedding a friend of the He denied that he was heavily in-¦ couple said: volved with moneylenders.

"Mr. Stuart net his bride

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Beautiful Girls

Native Dancos

The Fascinating Rhythm of Marimba Bands!

A Riot of Fun

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TROPIC HOLIDA

WEDNESDAY At The QUEEN'S "SAN QUENTIN” Pat O'Brian Humphrey Bogart Warner Bros. Picture

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BOB BURNS MARTHA RAYE DOROTHY LAMOUR RAY MILLAND

KINNIE BARNES + FITO SUIZAR

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Ray Milland

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His defence was that the contract cu a visit to his aunt, who is nurse-2DAYS. TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

was unenforceable, the role of in- terest-90 per cent-excessive, and that the transaction was "harsh and unconscionabte."

Mr. Justice Asquith rejected all three claims of the defence.

| After four hours' "freedom" |

Marquis of Bristol, was said to be Lonsdale went back to work in the

af present in Paris,

prison carpenters' shop.

companion to Miss Maltby's mother," THE WORLD'S MOST PRETENTIOUS SCREEN PRODUCTION !

he said.

The engagement leaked out only a "It was a case of love at first sight,

ftw days before the wedding."

Sigrid Gurie Gets Divorce,

More Sex Talks Court Bans

In Schools

Cardiff.

Sex talks and frank instruction on all aspects of sex have become part of the ordinary education of children in South Wales schools.

Recriminations

Hollywood.

Sigrid Gurle, star of the film "Marco Polo," has just obtained a livorce from her British husband, Thomas Stewuțt, in mine minutes. She alleged that he slapped her. threatened her with a thrashing and locked her out of the house.

Because of threats made before the

Children over the age of 13 are made conscious of sex and are told about every aspect of the subject in the most open form. Faction, the decree contained an un- The experiment, which has been conducted by Mr. Theodore usual provision that the parties should Tucker, of Cardiff, has been immediately successful and has retain from derogatory remarks attracted the attention of educational authorities in Europe and the person or conduct of each America.

With Miss Muriel Pout, who instructs schoolgirls on sex. Mr. Tucker is joint secretary of the Welsh Council of the Alliance of Honour.

"These talks." Mr. Tucker said. "are only given to those children whose parents approve of the instruction. A letter is sent to all parents of children över 13.

"Children in schools where we have given our talks all respond intelli- rntly. There is no sulggering or ggling, although we have found it expedient to make the talks as enter taining as possible, with a little humour woven in here and there, to give the children a chance to laugh.

"We teach then that although sex is a serious subject It is not to be treated solemnly and spoken of

Handbags For Men?

Said Mr. Ben Russell, chairman of the men's division of the Fashion Institute of America, speaking in New York:-

*Y men should give up sticking things into hip pockets, your suits into travelling offices.

converting

you must around, do what the indies do-carry carry papers handbag or a brief-case." Other points from Mr. Russell's speech:

a

"An adequate wardrobe for the

in uwed tones with bated breath. well-dressed man" must include at

We encourage them to ash quesienst ten suits and more for sum

Lions,

"They ask us: How was I born?' 'Where do bables come from? How old do boys and girls have to be to become parents?"

mer-and eight pairs of shoes.

Eddie Cantor is one of America's best dressed men.

"Rooster" Lays Eggs

Lynden, Ont.

Why is it that an unmarried girl can have a baby?"

A "rooster" that lays eggs has been "Some of them even want to know discovered among a flock of leghams what birth control is.

on the farm of a local man. The phenomenon was discovered when three of the rooster, were Isolated and started

flock, including producing Biree eggs daily.

"The talks are always given by It is specialised work call- experts. ing for special technique and tact."

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Sigrid Gurie was much publicised by Samuel Goldwyn as a Norwegian she was born in New York, Stewart discovery, but Stewart disclosed that

claims to have spent large sums on a screen training for her,

He withdrew a cross-complaint ac- cusing her of kissing and embracing

her men.

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STOP PRESS SHAW HAS DUCE,

BAN ON TRIPS TO JAPAN LIFTED

It is learned that the ban on Royal

HITLER AND FRANCO IN DOCK

Malvern Theatre: "Geneva"

Navy and Naval Dockyard personnel spending holidays in Japan has been lifted. The measure was introduced shortly after the beginning of hostilities in China to avoid any trappings and white uniforms, they unmistakably represent shortage of men in the event of an Mussolini, Hitler and Franco. emergency.

Bernard Shaw, in his new play of world politics, brings three dictators into the dock. Dressed in Roman toga, Wagnerian

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Nations

Witty and shrewd banter at the "Foreigner is a word not used in expense of the League of

Geneva but a foreigner is still a forms much of this comic tract.

foreigner,"

An Anglican Bishop is so shocked that he swoons twice and a British

Foreign Secretary is played with brilliant stupidity by Ernest Thesiger, made up exactly like the Inte Joseph Chamberlain.

SHAMING DESPOTS Shaw's Jibes' are easy, but behind them is a real Idea-that the Hogue Tribunal can revive itself into an Important court et human justice by puiting modern despots on tripl.

The idea is that they will feal their shame before the world,

Unfortunately, In the middle of the trial, a message comics that the end of the world is nt hand' through a solar lapse. This disperses every- body, although, it is luter proven a false alarm.

INTOLERANT

The plece was very well played by it company which included Donald Woint, Elleen Beldon and Marie Ault. It resembled most of Shaw's later plays by being entirely intolerant of any established authority, with the possible exception of Soviet Russia.

P. L. M.

IF ALIEN BLASPHEMES

He Must Leave The Country

Aliens in Great Britain who blas- pheme or any or do things calculated The Shavian wit still possesses to bring religion into contempt wilf, some sparkle. Here are examples: under a new Bill now before Parlla- "Some of the greatest тел havement, be able to imprisonment and

hated the human race-oven God | deportation. would have destroyed it but for Noah,"

This will strengthen the hands of the British authorities, who some- "The powers have behaved as if the times have difficulty in finding sum- League of Nations did not exist to cient reason for expelling known further their own ends."

undesirables.

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