1939-07-14 — Page 24

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VAIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

Thanks

For

Everything

ADOLPHE

with JACK

JACK

MENJOU OAKIE HALEY

ARLEEN

TONY

DINNE

WHELAN MARTIN BARNES

Out of the entertala- ment surprio-bag of hit-making 20th Century Fox...the funniest, freshest comedy idea of the year!

ALSO VYVYAN DONNER'S "FASHION FORECAST" in TECHNICOLOUR

NEXT CHANCE'

A Columbia Picture

DAILY

AT

230

620

720

EDWARD G. ROBINSON in

I AM THE LAW"

HANKOW

STARE

TRUCT

KOWLOON

• SHOWING TO-DAY O STARS OF "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" in their greatest hit! Drama that packs laughter and tear ...a mighly wallop at your heart!

TRACY ROONEY

MIZKRY

Boys TOWN

HENTY

LESLIE

with

CENE

HULL FENTON · REYNOLDS

NEXT

CHANCE

DOROTHY LAMOUR - MARTHA RAY in "TROPIC HOLIDAY"

CENTRAL

DAILY AT 12,30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 0.30 PRICES: 35c,, 456 & 55 c.

QUEEN'S RD, CENTRAL: CAR PARK - JERVOIS STREET

Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from stop opposite Queen's

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

·A-SENSATIONAL-DRAMA-OF-TO-DAY-I.

THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY IN A TOTALITARIAN

STATE I

Asia Film of China Presents

"NO GREATER SACRIFICE”

AU.S.S.R. Production with English Sub-titles

TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.

CATHAY

DAILY AT

*2,30,5,5,7,20,&9.30.P.M.

MATINEES 1-20%, 30%, 40%. EVENINGS +50%, 30%, 20%, 70%, 80%.

.TO-DAY & TO-MORROW. - 2 DAYS ONLY!,

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A PAGE 'FROM ROMAN HISTORY I

A SPECTACULAR PICTURIZATION OF THE MIGHT AND GRANDEUR OF ANCIENT ROME !.

SCIPIO THE AFRICAN"

with Spanish Dialogue

starring 15A MIRANDA - NINCHI ANNIBALE LOTTO CAMILLO

Commencing SUNDAY, 16th July, 1939 ANOTHER M-G-M REVIVAL WEEK SUN "TOPPER" starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant MON: "MAYTIME" starring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy TUE: "Treasure Island"" starring W. Beory, J. Cooper WED: "BABES IN TOYLAND" starring Laurel and Hardy THU": "DAVID COPPERFIELD" with a cast of 65 players

·FRI::: “SUZY” starring Joan Harlow, Franchot Tono SAT: "The i FIREFLY" starring JEANETTE MacDONALD

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Stock Market

Sensation

TUBERCULOSIS DEATH

July 14, 1939:

Inquest on Prisoner Who Passengers

Died in Gaol

The death of Taong Shlu, 48,

Shares Of Mining prisoner in Stanley Gaol, on July

Co. Excluded

was the subject of a formal inquiry

Perish

Chemical Factory.

Madrid, July 13, 10 natural A Spanish passenger plane flying from Seville to Madrid, crashed

Seville Airport,

held by Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- Air Liner Crashos Onto tral Magistracy yesterday. After hearing evidence, the Jury', Mersta. LONDON, July 13,

Rt. B. Quinton (foreman), I. Gomes EXCLUSION of the shares of und Leung Hong-klu, returned a

finding of death due the Commonwealth Mining and enuses. Finance Company, and com- Chlet Warder A. Palce said Toung shortly after she took off from the panies in the same group from was sentenced to twelve months quotation on the London Stockhurd labour on November 1, 1038.

Dr. G. I. Shaw, medical offer of Exchange was confirmed by the Hongkond Prison, sald he first saw Stock Exchango committee to-Tsang on November 2, 1938, when the day..

| man's condition was poor. He was suffering from chronic tuberculosis. were not Tsang was admitted into the Frison

Fighting the fro has been rendered! Hospital un June 28. On the third day after his admission, his tempera- very difficult owing to the absence of ture went up and he became very 1. water--Tranz-Ocean, Taong died at 11.20 p.m. on July 4.

Reasons for this step given.

Shareholders, is stated, are demanding that the Board of Trade Institute an investigation on the con- duet and administration of the com- parles.--Trans-Ocean, ..........

Brighter Tono

The plane landed on the roof of a chemical factory and the crash was followed by an explosion, setting the whole factory ablaze.

whose

The crow and passengers, number has not yet been ascertained, perished in the flames.

Home Mails Arrivo

A post-mortem was performed the: following day, and it was found that

Imperial Airways Delphinus arriv- death was due to generalized tubered at Kai Tak yesterday afternoon, culosis. Tsang did no work while in abortly before 0.30, with 830 kilos of Prison.

LONDON, July 13-Textiles and rayons were the brightest features of

Y'S MEN'S CLUB- the London Stock Exchange to-day, following Courtauld's interim dividend of two per cent, which came

Musical Evening At Home pleasant surprise compared with the i Of Past President 1 per cent. previously.

Kaffirs were mainly steady and internationals were belter in renponse to the improvement by Wall Street. Amoni; commodities, wheat touched n record low level of 39. 7d. per quintal in expectation of a huge Canadian surplus, together with the existing Argentine surplus. Subse- quently wheat rallied sharply on short-covering.

Wall Street was stronger,—Router Special,

TRAFFIC MISHAPS INCREASE

Record Number Occur Last Month

As a result of the greatly Increased population, traffic accidents are bo- coming more frequent in the Colony.: Last month, according to figures) released yesterday by Inspector S, C. Saunders, the number of people in- Jured in becidents reached the record figure of 245, the next highest being 145 in the previous month.

Statistics for the week ending July) 8 indicate that this month's Agures will outstrip those for June.

The report states that during the week there were 113 nceldents, re aulting in one person being killed and sixty Injured. The person killed, a Chinese male, age 24, died from Injurice received on falling from i moving lorry.

Of persons injured, 40 were pedes-; trans, who were either walking or running across the road and were struck by vehicles,

Two cyclists were injured as the result of collisions between vehicles. A private car driver was injured when his car ran of the roadway.

A tram passenger was injured on the head by colliding with an electric standard while he was leaning out _of_the_window. A tram passenger was knocked down and injured by a Dassing vehicle on alighting from a

tram.

Six tram passengers and five bus passengers were injured while light- ing from moving trams and moving buses respectively.

Two tram passengers and two bus passengers were injured while at tempting to board moving trams and moving buses respectively.

Of 112 accidents, 41 were collisions between vehicles; 43 were collisions between vehicles and pedestrians; 20 were due to other causes.

LEARNER DRIVER FINED

R. A. Gardner, of 60, Wongnelchong Road, was fined $5 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday for driving private car No. 4582 near the Upper Peak Tram Sta- tion on June 21 when not becom- panied by a licensed driver. He was said to be a learner driver,

The offence was discovered when he collided with another, car in the park on the Peak,

Mr. Peter 11. Sin, past president of the longkong Y's Men's Club, and

Sin,

were hosts at a house Irs. warning party held at their newly re-modelled house at No. 17 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong, last night.

The party was in the form of a musical evening, and entertainment was provided by Mrs. Sylvia Choa, Miss Doreen Ma, Mr. Li Cher-chl, Air, S. B. Tan, Mr. J. Choa and Mr. A. V. Wong,

A buffet dinner, served on the porch adjoining the house, was en- juyed by over 50 members of the Y's Men's Club and their guests.

malls from all countries, ond. Mr. A. E. Huglies, a passenger from | Bangkok.

AIR SERVICES

Arrivals and Departures Of Planes

Outward

For London, Austrails and British

countries: Imperial Airways 7 mm. July 17; Imperial Airways, 7 a.m. July 21.

For Chungking, Sian, etc.; Eurasio and C.N.A.C., service indennite.

Pan-American Honolulu Clipper 8.30 For U.S.A., via Manila and Guam:

a.m. July 15.

For France, vla Hanoi: Air France 2 p.m. July in

Inward

From London and British coun-

From U.S.A, via

An album with the siguntures of all those present was later presented trles: Imperial Airways 5 p.m. July to Mr and Mrs. Sin by Mr. Willam 10; Imperiul Airways 5 p.m. July Yinson Lee. Director-Emeritus for 20 Chinn,

Guam and Members of other Y's Men's Clubs Manila: Pan-American July 14. In China are requested to send their From Chungking. Yunnan, Kwel- name, business address, and other In: C.N.A.C. and Eurasia service in- particulars to Mr. Lum K, Chu, ) definite.

secretary, as soon as possible, so that From France, via Honol: Air France their names may be included in the 1 p.m. July 19. clubs roster, which will be published

at the end of the months. BIT. Ches address is Y.M.C.A., Kowloon.

Tennis

enre of the Chinese "Shorty" Becomes

Intrigues Deer

PAINESVILLE, 0.

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KOWLOON

'AT 230-515 7·20-930PM .AT 250 $20-720 2 9:30 PM.

SHOWING TO-DAY •

IN DRAMA... IN ROMANCE ..........IN STARS

IT'S 1939'S GREATEST TRIUMPH I

NORMA

SHEARER Clark GABLE

A

SHEARER IS IN GABLE'S |ARMS AGAIN! Thrilling now...as their great romantic adventure thunders from the screen!

CLARENCE BROWN

PICTURE

Production of

Idiot's Delight

Lucky

TOLEDO, O.

• SHOWS

A 46-year-old man here is lucky that he is but 4 feet, 11 inches tall. Two Lake Erio college giris had on When police found him he was try

tennising to turn in a fire alarm-but unomeini umpire during a malch on the college courts. The couldn't reach the box. He umpire-a half-grown dou studied their strokes from an joining hockey field.

SHOWS DAILY

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was

that arrested on a disorderly charge-but ad-the false alarm penalty here is much

greater.

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2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.

HERE'S SOMETHING NEW IN SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT !

It filled with action, laughter and novelty surprises.

Kadie's grały King-sa

new on the penn

SUN, MON,

PAT O'BRIEN

JOHN PAYNE

It's a Mardi Gras of Mirth

The Gayest Spot on Earth!:

GARDEN

of the MOON

JOE VENUTI & HIS SWING CATS Johnnie Davis Jerry Colonna Drected by BUSBY: BERKELLY

evented by WARNIH BAUS

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JIMMIE FIDLER

MARGARET LINDSAY.

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Edward ARNOLD, Chazina COBURN, Joseph SCHILDERAUT Darden The Theatre Guild's Blage Hir • Beroun Play by Rabert K.wood Produced by Hunt Strombig Directed by CLARENCE BROWN

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At last on the scrson-

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DONAT RUSSELL

CITADEL

THE

EMRALPH RICHARDSON - BEX HARRISON - EMLYN WILLIAMS: LA KING VIDOR PRODUCTION. D *Based on the'naret?The Citadel,by Aldi Cranin Produred by VICTOR SAVILLE,

• COMMENCING TO-MORROW

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PICTURES OF THE YEAR !!!

"STAGECOACH

CLAIRE TREVOR

A Walter Wanger Production

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Exchange

JOHN WAYNE

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A United Artists Picture

Imbibers On Bread, Water

LORAIN, O.

The Hongkong Stock official summary lasued at 4 pan. City Prosecutor Austin O'Toole yesterday, says:

prosecuted 23 men on Intoxication Although the day's trading was charges in five days, decided some- again oir a small scale, there are ën-thing should be done about it. Now quiries which are finding difficulties those convicted of drunkenness

in being dealt with. Buyers offers put on a bread and water diet. remain unattractive, and holders are

reluctant to lower their prices.

Buyera

1.K. Bank $1,300,

Each

Union Ina, '$415.

HK. Tramways $101⁄2.

Box

Yaumati Ferries $22.

carries

China Lights (old) $815. Cements $12.80, -2.

Watsons $8.40.

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Bellers

Canton Ins, $230.

Union Ins. $425. H.K. Wharves $108. Humphreys $0.

Sales

H.K. Bank $1,300/05:

H.K. Electrics $55.

Dairy Farms (old) $21.

Watsons $9.45,

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