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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

"THE SCREEN'S GRANDEST CLOWN DOES

TOWN UP

BROWN!

A Columbia Picture

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1988.

ALHAMBRA

NATHAN RO ROULSONERARY AGRONERDEŞI KADETUWEYETI TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Owing to great success at its previous showing, the management takes pleasure in bringing back this picture for a 2-day run. Dramatic! Spectacular! Thrilling!

THE TALE OF A RUSE THAT SAVED A THRONE!

Musical Short

JOE E.

"COMMUNITY SING"

ROWN

Wide Open Faces

LYDA ROBERTI · ALISON SKIPWORTH · JANE WYMAN

ALSO

Krazy Kat Cartoon "MASQUE RAID"

Andy Clyde Comedy

“MY LITTLE FELLER”

VEEN'S

DAILY AT 2:30.5·15-7·20%9:30 TEL.31455

4 SHOWS TO-DAY

at 12.30, 2.30, 5.15 & 7.20 p.m. All Shows At Matince Prices

The Most Thrilling, Breath-taking Adventuro Ever Shown On The Screen !

UNDERSEA KINGDOM

RAY CRASH

ADDED!

CORRIGAN

Special Newsreel Depicting The Tragedy of the C.N.A.C. AIRLINER "KWEILIN" Including a statement by its surviving pilot. TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M.

STAGE ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY

DON COSSACK CHOIR

PRICES: $5.50, $4.40, $3.30, $2.20, $1.10 Incl. TAX

• SHOWS

DAILY

230 - $ 20

7.20.9.30

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON TCL 37222

MATINEES: 20<-30c.° EVENINGS: 20«.-30c-50c70) FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

LOVE . THAT'S FRANK !

THAT'S HONEST ! . THAT'S DARING !... THAT'S SENSATIONAL !

JHENEVER LIPS AND LOVERS MEET.......

Sweethearts

will thrill as the story of their, fine first

love unfolds!

JOAN

WALTER WANGSA

pre

HENRY

BENNETT FONDA I MET MY LOVE AGAIN”

with DAMS MAY WHITTY • ALAN - MARSHAL LOUISE PLATT ALAN BAXTER TIM HOLT Directed by ARTHUR RIPLEY U18 JOSHUA LOGAN Screenplay by DAVID HERTË + Relavond iken UNITED ARTISTS

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY!

RETURN SHOWING BY SPECIAL REQUEST LUISE RAINER... - “BIG CITY”. SPENCER TRACY in

+

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor Sensational Drama!

A striking view taken from the window of an Imperial Airways flying boat, outward bound along the route to Hongkong. These giant 200 m.p.k. flying-boats will be carrying all first-class mails between Hongkong and other British territories this month.

HOW AIR MAIL SERVICE

TO HONGKONG

DEVELOPED

HAS

Striking Developments. During

The Past Two Years

O. THE SABLE CICADA

A ROMANCE OF THE

with

"THREE KINGDOMS,"

FULL ENGLISH SUD-TITLES

ADDED!

Special Newsreel depicting

t.

The Tragedy of The C.N.A.C. AIRLINER "KWEILIN" Including a statement by its surviving pilot.. SATURDAY, FOR ONE DAY ONLY The greatest, hair-raising thriller of all time

'DRACULA''

•

•

A Universal Picture starring BELA LUGOSI

The important announcement made at Scuthampton Tuesdays. Thus, leaving Hongkong on July 28, when the first "all-up" mails were despatched Singapore by mid-day Tuesday and un Monday a passenger can get la to Australia and New Zealand by Imperial flying-boat, that be in Sydney by the end of the within a short time all first-class mail would go to Hong- kong by air, will be realised on September 4.

Calcutta by 10.40 on Wednesday ADDED!"LOUIS vs. SCHMELING"

week.

Or, going westward, he reach

morning, take the next morning's

The original Empire mall scheme, In December of last year, the route | flying-boat back and be at Hongkong visualised the carriage of all first-wa. altered to go via Bangkok, on Friday. clas mail between the United Kg-| Udern, Hanol and Fort Bayard, while dom, South Africa, India, Malaya this year the services were doubled and Australia by Imperial Airways to provide two alreruft without

The ordinary routine method of transport.

companies.

flights ench WHY

IMPROVEMENTS WILL CONTINUE

surcharge and sweetly,

Substantial as these accelerations Thus the Far East is closely linked are, improvement will continue to Into the colossal network of the be made, particularly on the Hong- That fist stage was successfully 27,000 miles of air route operated kong-London route, as night flying completed when the Imperial flying by Imperial Airways and its as-organization is improved; and indeed boat Calypso ceremoniously Cli-sociale coron circled a gathering of

The original scheme provides for a Ministers, Now there are eight services each seven days service between London Dominion representatives and Ocials

of-way between Egypt and England, and Sydney which will almost cer- of Imperini Airways ative between India and England. tainly be accompanied by still fur- Southampton on July 28 and then there right through to Sydney and ther reductions in the time of Lon- morning air, salted into the castern and to South Africa and one to West its beautiful wings cleaving the still to Central Africa, two to Hongkong don-Hongkong services. sun on the 13,000 mile route to Africa.

By originating the Empire airmail Sydney, But The

scheme, Imperial Airways has put emciency with Such frequency of serviccy forms British aviation in the forefront of which this first stage has been com- a fundamental part of Empire mail world air-services and there is in- pleted has fully justified Empire air scheme for it ensures an even flow deed no other country which can transport and the result is that tur-of mail to and from the homeland, compare with the Empire, so far as ther extensions such as the one to thus making the old "mail-day the amount of overseas airmail car- Hongkong are now complete.

obsolescent.

rled is concerned.

The first stage was inaugurated on June 29, 1937, when the first flying boat for Durban carrying unsuri charged mail left Southampton. The second stage was the commencement of the "all-up" mail service to India and Malaya on Feb. 23 of this усаг.

has for some time now been possible to travel right through to At the same time rescheduling scope of this magnificent organisa-

Far East by Imperial Airways provided adultionet speedy connection. and its associate companies' services, tions with other parts of the Em- the section between Bangkok and pire. Hongkong being covered by land *planes.

Not only the frequency but the speed of servlees has been marked- and better understanding between The beneft in closer co-operation

Increased.

the members of the British Com- For instance, by the latest celeration in April Hongkong was been apparent in the operation of a-monwealth of Nations bus already brought whin five days 6 hours of the airmail scheme to date and it is on a previous schedule. London compared with over 7 days pleasing to think that the Far East will now be brought within the full

the

FIRST MAIL TO HONGKONG

IN MARCH 1938

of de-

Bridge Club Is Duffy

West Warwick, B. L.

The Wednesday service out Bangkok for Hongkong was liberately planned to give Australia and Molya o direc: air connection with China through the west-bound An unusual bridge club is that of Actually the Arat regular sur-flying-boat service from Singapore) "the eight Duffy girls," sisters whose charge afrmail to Hongkong left, arriving at Bangkok on Tuesdays, ages range from 38 to 65 and who England in March 1930 going by Similarly, the service leaving live here and in Holyoke and Ando- way of Penang, Saigon and Tourane, Hongkong on Mondays connects with yer, Mass, Only one of the sisters

inaugurated.

bound service, leaving Bangkok on about once each two months.

DAILY

AT

250

620

720

920

A heavy-weight championship knockout

STAR

TO-DAY ONLY

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON

TEL.

57795

Eddie Cantor in "KID FROM SPAIN"

TOMORROW

United Artists Rolgaso

4 SHOWS

D DAILY

2.30-6.19 7.15-0.30

A United Artists Reloaso

RONALD COLMAN "THE PRISONER OF ZENDA” Madeleine Carroll - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

TAKE AND THAN ON KASUT YVÄLLET SVÉ

ORIENTAL

FLEMING ROADS WAŃCHAI ||TEL. 20473}

when weekly services each way were the east-bound as well as the west- is unmarried. They meet for bridge LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫

See the

NEW FLATS

AND

CORK HIGHBOYS

AT

GORDON'S LTD.

THRILL TO CHAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE !

2

You've seen him solve murders in distant inhids i Now he's on Broadway and the most baffling case of sil confronts him in New York's gayest night spot.

DEATH STRIKES TWICE IN MANHATTAN'S GAYEST SPOTS!

CHARLIE CHAN ON

BROADWAY

WARNER OLAND E TOWARD BKOMBINO

JA MARSH LIKE HENPY HAN WINDSUFI BUNAIS WGDAN - DOUGLAS PAVILLE - HAROLD HIDEP

KIYI LUKI

DAYS TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY

BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER !

A Cast of Thousanda! Two Years to Make I

A

IN GORGEOUS COLORI

RAMONA

DON AMECHET

Lorette YOUNG KENT TAYLOR':

and arcist of thousanda

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