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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

THE PICTURE THAT TELLS MORE THAN HAS EVER BEEN TOLD BEFORE ABOUT HOW WARS ARE REALLY WONI

The most extraordinary

venture a man ever faced the mošt susi penseful spy story ever filmed - because it's REALL

LANCER SPY

DOLORES DEL RIO GEORGE SANDERS

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PETER LORRE VIRGINIA FIELD SIG RUMANNI

•

MAURICE MOSCOVICH LIONEL ATWILL LUTHER ADLER

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT •

NEXT CHANGE M.G.M. Picture

"

YELLOW JACK'

with Robert Montgomory - Virginia Bruco

VEEN'S

DAILY AT 2:30-5:15 -7·2089-30 TEL.31453

SHOWING TO-DAY

3 SHOWS at 2.30, 5.15 & 7.20 P.M. ONLY HOWL! HOWL! THE GANG'S ALL HERE!

Jane WITHERS

RASCALS

ROCHELLE HUDSON ROBERT WILCOX BORRAH MINEVITCH AND HIS GANG

TO-NIGHT at 9.30 P.M.

THE HONG KONG CHINESE WOMEN'S CLUB

prosents

"ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER"

$5.50, $4.40, $3.30. $2.20, $1.10 & 55 cts.

All proceeds to be donated to the China Relief Fund.

NOVEL ! DIFFERENT ! CREAT!

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SHOWS

DAILY 2.30 - 20

720 9.30

• "LETTER OF INTRODUCTION" Adolphe Menjou Andrea Leeds

Edgar Bergen & "Charles MacCarthy”.

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON

TEL. 572!!

(MATINEES: 20c.~30¢.° EVENINGS: 20e-30«:50:70) FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY TWO GREAT STARS IN A GAY AND THRILLING ADVENTURE PICTURE!

"IF I SPEAK...

YOU WILL DIE!"

But women don't kill the men they love...and dan ger has to make way for gay romance...when the starupi The Great Ziegfeld are thrillingly brought to

guther again!

POWELL

LUISI

RAINER EMPEROR'S CANDLESTICKS

ROBERT

MAUTTIN

TRANK

YOUNG O'SULLIVAN MORGAN HENRY STEPHENSON

TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

THRILLING, RED-BLOODED ADVENTURE!

RICHARD - ARLEN

LILI PALMER in

"SILENT BARRIERS"

A Gaumont-British Picture.

THE HONGKONG

Hongkong Girl Guides

Thanked For Aid Given Rofugcos

on

was

TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER

1, 1938.

JUMPS ΤΟ DEATH

City Tragedy Last Night

Sailors In ALHAMBRA

Court

TRAFFIC CHARGES NOT PROVED

A substantial decline in the num bors of Guides and a slight drop in

Three Belish antlers were charged Brownies is shown in the report of

before Mr. 11. R. Buttera at the Cen- with the Girl Guldes Association of

tral Magistracy yesterday Hongkong for the year ended July.

breach of traffe regulations and The accounts showed a profi

obstructing the police, resulting from of $104.90 as the year's working

an incident at Hennessy Road dur- ngalist $930.27 the previous year,

Ing the early hours of Sunday morn- leaving the Association with assets

Atter hurrying through a meal, ajing. expenditure

William of $3,981. The

Seamon Arthur Able $2,273.30

were middle-uged Chinese rushed from and the recelpla

vere his sent at a cafe table and Jump- Charles Gillham and Able Seaman The main expenses were $769 for the upkeep of Sandilanda ed to his death last night from the Leslie William Pink, both of HMS. second floor of a building in Den Birmingham, and at present attached ifut and $738 fer equipment. Equip Voeux Road. It was the third simi- to H.M.S. Tamar, were charged with ment brought in $825, donations Iar suicide from the building in a driving

a private car without 2070, Capitation Grant $802

licence, driving it without the own- yeur. magasines $164.

The man tay groaning on theer's permission, and driving without In a foreword to the annual revement while an ambulance was lights at 1.10 nm. on Sunday. Both port, Mrs. M. King, Colony Com-ul, but he used on his way to denied the offences. missioner, seld Lady Northcote had hospital,

$2,468.31.

and

real incentive to the move- been a

The man's cafe chit was unpaid. nicht. A lack of Guiders had been

At the time of tragedy the ente responsible for the inability to form was filled with diners who took little several groups Into Packs and Com- notice when the mail moved. panies after they had expressed was only when a man sitting rear desire to join the Association.

the balcony saw him jump that the alarm was given.

The members of the Association follow last year's were given numbers, in brackets; Brownies 127

(135); Guides 199 (255); Captains TROOPSHIP ARRIVES and Lieutenanta 21

(23)

Packs 7 (7); Guide

Brownle Companies 10 (11). Total membership wan 309 against 434 the previous year,

0

NATHAN BO HOWLO

TO-RAY & TO-MORROW ·

A thrilling thundering drama of hoof-beats under Western skies when the Injuns ride the ranges f

Ride The Thundering Trail Ol

'Old Weat" Indiän Wagforel

BUCK

JONEST

WHITE EAGLE

with Barbara Weeks

THURSDAY

"CHANGE OF HEART"

A 20th Century Fox Pictura

Stoker Arthur Frederick Taylor, of H.M.S. Folkestone and at present al- tached to H.M.S. Tamar, was charg-

GLORIA STUART ed with obstructing Police Constable

MICHAEL WHALEN It B449 In the execution of his duty.

He also denied the offence.

Pollee-Sergeant H. Danbrowsky said that about 1 am. on Sunday, the owner of the car, a woman named Ng Ping, looked over the verandah of her house in Hennessy Rond and saw the gel Into three naval ratings vehicle.

She shouted out and attracted the attention of Indian police constable

ran after the car. 3449, who was alleged that he was stopped by

G.O.C. Presents M.B.E. To Fusilier Sheldon

For their work among the refugees, the Girl Guides Association of Hongkong received, through Lady The troopship Lancashire is due another sailor in the road, but even- Northcote, a letter of gratitude from to leave Hongkong this morning for tually got away and continued the chase, B440 was joined by another Lady Moore, Commissioner for the the United Kingdom. She will take constable B805, and between them Colonies, stating that Imperial Head- the Lancashire Fusiliers, with the quarters were proud of Hongkong exception of 211 men who are due they caught up with the sailors in the Guides.

to return home to India. Those re-car, which had stopped. Proficiency Badges

maining will probably leave on the next transport, the Dunera,

The Lancashire reached Hongkong Battalion Lancashire Fusillers on

Skylarking in Dance Hall Gham said that he and Pink, with a number of other sailors, were skylarking in the Queen's Dance Holl, when Pink made a remark to Taylor,

The erection of headquarters in the grounds of the Diocesi Girls' School for the 2nd Kowloon Company wan

Mrs. Barnes, and her assistants.

board. Shortly after her, arrival They ran through some streets into The subject of the essay this year Was "A visit to the Dogs' Hume'.here was a ceremony aboard the Lockhart Road, where they heard ship when His Excellency Major-

Jor- police whistles being blown. Mrs. Loseby, voluntary ameer-in- General A. W. Bartholomew, General Indian policemen then came up and

conducted Guides charge, kindly

Oficer Commanding the British caught hold of them, but as A few round the Home.

Companies Troops

presented the parties did not understand entered for

being written by Belly for courier service In Tientsin. winning essay Remedios, 5th. Kowloon Company.

incntioned with thanks to the Captain Yesterday from Tientsin with the 1st.who chased them both.

China, In

Two

both each

the competition, the M.B.E. to Fusiller Sheldon, awarded other, they did not know what they

Soon after the

A party given by Capt. Hatfield on

outbreak of the the steamship Aeneas, attendance at Sino-Japanese hostilities, Sheldon Fire Brigade Display, a tea party succeeded in carrying, an important given by Lady Northcote at Sandi-diplomaile dispatch, although lands Hut, and a visit to the Tung usunt means of transport hart been Wah

Hospital were some of the broken by a train smash. -events of the year.

Other offlcers present The Guides bad done good work

the

were wanted for.

The policemen tool them back to motor car. Into which two other sailors climbed, but they were pulled out by the constables.

Gillham said he was never in the car, and knew nothing about it.

Corroborative evidence was given by Pink, and Taylor, who however, that he had caught hold of admitted were

the arm of one of the constables.

Remarking that the evidence given had been very unsatisfactory, his Worship discharged all the deten-

during the year in Proficiency Badge Colonel N.M.S. Irwin and Brigadier Texts and new tests such as Fire A. B. Thomson, Five other men were Brigade and Singing, had been taken also presented with long service and sys the report. Badges awarded good conduct medals.

Ambulance 29: Artist 2: Book were:

They were; Bandmaster Elliott, Lover 4; Chlid Nurse 22: Cook 33; Domestle Service 16. Entertainer 2; Sgt Foyle, Cpl. Brogden, L/cpl Fire Brigade 13; Friend to Animals Jones, all of the Lancashire Fusiliers, 9: Health 22; Laundress 8: Life-saver and Staff Sergeant Gavin, IL.A.O.C.

Minstrel 1: Needlewoman 33: Pathfinder 2; Slekt Nurae 7; Singer 1; Swimmer 8; Toymaker 5: and Writer 7 muking total of 228.

Reports from all Companies were In#sviklo!,

LATE NEWS

RIVER MAY OPEN TO SHIPS SOON

Conton, Nov. 1.

donts.

CHINESE ROMANCE

Translated Play Opens At Queen's To-night

The

of A full dress rehearsal Romance of the Western Chamber," which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-night at 9.30 p.m. and will run for three days, was held yesterday with excellent results.

This Chinese classical story been rendered into equally classical The Japanese authorities unnounce English by Mr. S. 1. Isung and will those that wing to mine-sweeping opera- be pleasing revelation to tions at present in progress, naviga- whose ideas of Chinese stage drama tion of the Peart River continues to have not been enlightened beyond be dangerous to shipping.

the native productions.

The translator has been commend It is added that these operations are ed by Mr. George Bernard Shaw for being carried out due to the Japanese the excellence of his script which authorities' desire to open the river does justice to an exquisite love story as soon as possible, which is expected

Vice-Admiral Shiwozawa arrived of the east, which has been

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The

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MUNIRAINER

TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

A GIANT SHOW THAT TOPS THE SCREEN'S MIGHTIEST!

GRETA GARDO-CHARLES BOYER

Tye brilliant stars in a love story

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MARIE WALEWSKA

A CLARENCE BROWN, mentețima

✪ MATINEES: 20-30 • EVENINGS: 20-30e..50e,-70c.

Y.M.C.A. PANTOMIME Principals Selected For

Bals.

Cinderella

CAR THIEVES ACTIVE

The theft of an Automobile As-

Bociation badge, and a British Stand- ard çar Union Jack badge from his car at Gascoigne Road on Sunday, has been reported to the police by Dr. K. C. Yeo, of No. 217 Prince Edward Road.

"Cinderella," this year's Christmas Pantomime, which will be presented by the European Y.M.C.A., is under- The theft of his Alisțin motor car, stood to be taking shape in rehear-No. 60, from outside the Ying King Restaurant, Wanchal, on Sunday, has |been reported to the police by Mr. Leonard Atarbuck, who has op-Lui Pak-kwan, a sub-officer in the peated in several Y.M.C.A. produce Central Fire Station. tions, including the last two panto- mimes, has turned to playwriting this year, being the author of the highly entertaining script.

The Producer and Musical Director 1s Alfred J. Fruen, who assisted in Jast year's production: while the Singe Manager is Capt, Petherick,

Those selected for the principal parts are:

Cinderella, Eva Turner,

Prince Charming. Muriet Smith...

Lady Jane, Anne Organ. "A

Mother Dotlancarry, Helen Lock- hart.

The Ugly Sisters, Bob Henderson and Willie Simpson,

The Baron, Leonard Starbuck. Junior, Wille Forayth

Proclamator Boomer, Jack Hurst. Equerry to the Prince, Geoffrey Eastgate.

Cheap Jack, John Greenberg. Melancholy Mike, Bunny Augen.

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xt 1 and 2, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.