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NAIRECONDITIONED THEATRES

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

The EPIC Sweep of "Tho Covered Wagon"

The BRAWLING Thrills of "Cimarron"

The MAGIC Color of "Robin Hood"

· reach new hoights in

VALLEY OF

THE IANTS

Heart-stopping action in breath.

Taking TECHNICOLORI

WARNER BROS.

NEXT CHANGE Warner Bros. Picture

4 SHOWS

DAILY

230.6.20

220-9.30

"

WAYNE MORRIS

CLAIRE TREVOR

Also Latest Musical Comedy "MOVIE MANIA"

PAUL MUNI - DETTE DAVIS in

BORDERTOWN

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NATHAN

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GREAT CAST... GREAT STORY... GREAT PICTURE!

Hers was a love

that passes all understanding!

Heart-stirring...

ERROL

Flynn

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ANITA LOUISA

JAN HUNTER DONALD CRISP BEULAH BONDI JANE DALYAN ALAN HALE `DICK`FORAN

HENRY TRAVERS

PATRIC KNOWLES

23 A¤ ANATOLE

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His was a love that... just passes on!

Man-wrecking

Davis

The

SISTERS

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LITYAK TroďT (2000)

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**Heval by MYRON BEIMTI

Play by

Alan Kris

✪ TO-MORROW & THURSDAY

MARGARET LINDSAY ANNA MAY WONG "WHEN WERE YOU BORN”

Warner Bros. Astrological-Sonsation-!-

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... in the Vary

Introducing JUDGE HARDY'S FAMILY'.

First One of a Series of Pictures!

A STORY FOR EVERY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER AND

EVERY FATHER'S SON !

LIONEL BARRYMORE

A family Affair

Metio Comyn Mayt

THURSDAY

with Mickey Rooney and

FRED ASTAIRE. GINGER ROGERS in "ROBERTA” starring Irene Dune

1 Day Only

"LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD” Chester Morris

COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS

EVERYWHERE.

Anne Shirley

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by Fnetnick PERCY FRANKLIN 1 and 9, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THEFT OF MONEY Intended to Buy Passage.

To Shanghai

Tendering the excuse that he had stolen the money to return to Shang- hal to settle some family affairs, Lau Yuk-ink 21, cabin-boy, was bound over in a sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for one year, by Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday for the theft of $460 from the chief steward.

Ling Kwan-ting, chief steward of the steamer Kwelyang, who clit- covered the $400 missing from his cash-box on Sunday, suspected Lņu an he had left the boat the previous night. Lau was subsequently ar- rested in Des Voeux Road West. He had. $350 In his possession and a passage ticket for the steamer Ming sung to Shanghai,

Defendant told the Court that his mother had recently died in Shang- hal. He was ordered lo pay $30 compensallon to the complainant or lo undergo six weeks' hard labour.

EVADED BUS FARE Tailor Produces Ticket Which Had Been Used

Charged with evading payment o fore while travelling on bus No. 030 un Sunday, Yip Fong, tallor, was fined $5 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

It was stated that defendant board- ed the bus near the Star Ferry Whatf, and, when asked by the con- ductor for his fare, replied that he hind plready bought a ticket. Sub- sequently, an Inspector of the Bus Company asked for the ticket and he' produced an old one.

Defendant denied the charge, saying! he had bought a ticket. He must have lost it when he took a newspaper from his pocket. He travelled on buses frequently and that was how he got the old licket,

FINE ON MISTRESS Mui-tsai Refuses to Say

Who Beat Her

Admitting a charge of keeping an unregistered mui-tsai named Leung Ngan, aged 16, Chau Yuk-ping, 29, inarried woman, of 40, Lee Tung Street, Wanchal, was fined $50 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy, yesterday.

Mr.

H. W. Fraser, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, said that the girl had been beaten with a feather duster, but she refused to say whe did it. At first she said she was beaten by her former mistress who had gone to Canton, and later she stated she had quarrelied with some children. Finally, she alleged de- fendant had beaten her but she re-i fused to say so in her presence.

SUMMER DANCES Nightly Entertainment In Lido Restaurant

Amenities at the Lido are to be) augmented by its summer dances. which will commenco. on Saturday, These will be in the nature of dinner dances-and-will-function nightly throughout the season, with the exception of Mondays, and Tues- days, in the

Restaurant

Fürtension E QUIEN WOHI Un

opportunity

of enjoyin

enjoying uninter- rupted evenings after bathing regard- less of weather conditions.

These dances, in exquisite environ- ments and on a perfect dance floor, will provide excellent means entertainment. •

of

KOREAN VOLUNTEERS

China Front

First Batches Sent to The

Keljo, Korea, May 20.

A certain number of Korean volun- teers who have finished preliminary training in the Korean Army camps, were dispatched to an undisclosed front in China to participate in the military operations for the first time since the enforcement of the Korean Volunteer System in April, 1038.

So for 800 Korcan youths have been enlisted. The first and second groups each numbered 200. After six months' basic training, they are as- algned to various corps of the Korean! Army to undergo regular extrelses with recruits from Japan proper.- Domel,

INSIST

Genuine

May 30. 1939.

GAMBLERS RAIDED Absence from Court Costs)

LATE NEWS Offenders. Their Bail

Gap Road Landslide

At 8.45 p.m. to-day occurred near

a landslide Magazine Gap Road. The condition house No. 11 in

of the road is dangerous to motor traffic,

on

Ball of $151 was confiscaled by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Maglitracy yesterday when 17 persons arrested for gambling falled to appoar Court.

in

The raid was carried out at Room No. 410, Mce Chow Hotel, on Satur- day, Yee Nin, 35, and Yu Kel, 24, charged with keeping a common gambling house, were on ball of $50 each, while the rest. were on $3 ball each.

Chan Mui, 43, pawn broker, was charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with keeping a flat in Woo Sune Street, as a common ganiing house, and was fined $30,

Five other pawn shop fokis who were charged with gambling were fined $3 each. One man did not ap- fear in court, and had his ball of 35 estreated, Table money of $14.00 was donated to the Poor Box.

Children Over Three To Pay On Bus

THE age limit for free bus travel by children has been reduced from five to three years in the West Midland area, the Ministry of Transport told bus operators there recently. It is believed that the decision, which follow an op- peat by the railways, may affect, the whole country.

The rallways age limit for free)

travet is three years. Trollybuses and tramcars are not concerned in the decision.

ESCALATOR FUSES Electrical gear fused on the escalator to the Morden line at Monument Tube Station, EC., recently. The station was filled with smoke, and a platform was closed for fifteen minuics.

BIRD ATTACKS MAN

A large, strange bird with a white throat and grey body attacked Mr. P. Knibbs, of Cross Farm, Gam- lingay. Cambs, who captured it after a struggle. He thinks it may have escaped from a zoo,

BISHOP SEES DRESS SHOW Lady Ann Stuart-Wortley, twenty- year-old daughter of the Earl of Wharncliffe, was an amateur man- nequin at a charity dress parade at Doncaster (Yorks) recently. Dr. L. Burrows, eighty-one-year-old Bishop of Shefeld, watched.

Motor-Cycle For A Drink

ONCE upon a time (not so long jago) a man bought a motor-cycle for a drink, and another man bought A cor for 30s.

The man with the motor-cycle, Arthur Leonard Morgan, of Donald Road, West Croydon, did not think it: -would go. was just trying it out the police stopped me," he told

when

the magistrate at Croydon recently.

Result: Fined £2 and disqualified for three years for driving without

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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'A Big Parade of love, laugh

ver, spectacle, musk.......

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NILSON

MACDONALD · EDDY

VICTOR HERBERT'S

SWEETHEARTS

• Mauro Gollinyn Mya

TUTUAR

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Les Bongs! "Prusty As A Piezwy“

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FRANK MORGAN RAY BOLGER FLORENCE RICE MISCHA AUER HERMAN 10 REINALD GARDINER *Photographed in

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NOTE This Picture Will Not Be Shown Again In Hong Kong for at least Six Months. .`THURSDAY

At The QUEEN'S "SWING, SISTER SWING"

Ken Murray - Johnny Downs

A New Universal Picture.

— . TO-MORROW.

At The ALHAMBRA "THE ANCEL"

Starring Chen Yun Shang

A Chinese Picture,

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Joan CRAWFORD Spencer TRACY

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MANNEQUIN

ALAN CURTIS»RALPH MORGAN

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Jack Benny Joan Bennatt

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The 30s. motor-car had been left

in a private road at East Finchley after 10s. had been paid on account.

That was on Good Friday,

Later at Highate juvenile court a boy charged with stealing the dynamo pleaded that he thought the car was Junk

He was discharged.

Boy's Rocket Backfires

Pasadena, Cal, Four boys built a rocket, using .22 cartridges as the motive power. The rocket proved a success, despite the fact that it sent one of the inventors to the hospital and the others to the crime prevention bureau.

Invalid Indexes Visitors

OTWELL, Ind. Miss Mildred Willis, on favaild who

has been in bed 17 years, keeps a vec- ON ord of all her visitors. During 1938 she had 1,570 visitors from 17 states,

The oldest was 81, the youngest 15 THE

days.

Angenda

Each

Box

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this signature

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GIGANTIC STAGE AND SCREEN SHOW COMBINED-1- TWO BIG SHOWS

FOR THE PRICE OF ONE APPEARING ON THE STAGE AT ALL PERFORMANCES

COWAN AND BAILEY ·

and their big American Vaudeville Revue company of singers, dancers, comedians and musical artists.

"HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE'

THE SCREEN ·

BIG STAGE SHOW

PARAMOUNT'S BIG THRILL SENSATION !-----

PICTURE ILLUSTRATES HOW THE GAMES ARE FIXED !

A thousand dollar a minuta was the pay-off.

The amazing Inside story,

of the $1,000,000-a-year

slot-machine racket!

"KING OF GAMBLERS

CLAIRE TREVOR LLOYD NOLAN AKIM TAMIROFF LARRY CRABSE HELEN BURGESS PORTER HALL

FOR THURSDAY ONLY! BY REQUEST "THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST"

Jeanetto MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and thousands of others.

The show with a hundred romantic thrills;.

TWO DAYS ONLY! FRIDAY & SATURDAY.

Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Coellis' Parker...........

"JUDGE HARDY'S CHILDREN"

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