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KING'S

SHOWING TO-DAY

in the air!

MUSIC

2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

ROMANCE on the screen!

FUN everywhere!

Also

Now thrills from Radio's golden voiced troubadour!

in my

Heart

Starring

"Bay, oh Boy, am I happy! I have love in my heart...and you in my arms!"

Tony MARTIN ✩ Rita HAYWORTH

with EDITH FELLOWS Alan Mowbray ⚫ Eric Blore George Tablas and ANDRE KOSTELANETZ AND HIS MUSIC

Original Story & Screen Play by James Edward Oram 'Produced by Irving State Directed by 30SEPH SANTLEY

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

"POOR LITTLE BU

UTTERFLY

A Colour Rhapsody

This exquisite cartoon in technicalour is a free adaption of Puccini's famous opera "Afadame Butterfly" and was banned in Shanghal.

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FIGHTING. LEAPING BOUNDING

IN HIS INIMITABBLE WAY! DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

"Mr.

in

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"

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• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW EXOTIC DANCES AND SONGS IN A SWINGY COMEDY !

HULA-HULA IN SWING TIME!

Johnny DOWNS Mary CARLISLE Constance MOORE - Eddic QUILLAN! Mally MALNECK

Sal HOOPII Haw

His Orchestra

Hawaiian Nights

Ellonne GIRARDOT Samuel S. HINDS Princess LUANA Princo LEILENI

Screenplay by CHARLES GRAYSON, LEE LOE).

Origent story by John Gray .

"Directed by ALBERT S. ROGELL • Associate Producer MAX GOLDEN ·

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

ADDED ATTRACTION:

LATEST BRITISH

י.

NEWSREEL

Specially Imported in Response to Popular Demand! Distributed by Department of Information

• FRIDAY & SATURDAY The Funniest Comedy of the Season !

THE

HOWLING HIT

HOUSEKEEPER'S

DAUGHTER

"THAT HAS AMERICA IN

STITCHES!

JOAN

ABDLPRE

BENNETT MENJOUTM

Wednesday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

April 3, 1940.

FEARS HE MAY HAVE TO FIGHT HIS COUSINS

“Oh, good OBJECTOR'S MOTHER

shot sir! Well hit"

IS A GERMAN

SHOULD a man whose mother is of German birth "be expected to fight against Germany-perhaps against

cousins in the German Army?

IN their battle with the Graf Spec, Britain's naval men did not lose their sense of humour.

Mr. E. J. Ruse, of Kenwood- avenue, Hale, Cheshire, writes: "As shell after shell registered direct hits on the German battle- slip the observer in the British plane who reported progress be- came more and more excited exclaiming 'Oh, what a beauty!' "Well hit, sir !! 'Damn good shooting

Nice work 1111

The conimander of the cruiser sent out this message: 'Real in- formation, please, not so many compliments!""*

Twenty-two-year-old Cecil Erik Fanr, of Frankfurt, was in the Blowers, of Lewis-road, Sutton, German Army. Surrey, thinks not, and at Lon- don Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal he said so.

He told the tribunal that he be lieved he had cousins in the German

Army.

It would lie on his conscience if he were sent to the front line and, after the war, should hear that a cousin had been killed in the German line.

But the tribunal refused his exemp- Lion,

"Fond Of Thom'

Talk In Gorman

"If Cecil is in the British Army this time the same thing might happen.

"My elder son, Wilfrid, is 24, so he was registered last month. He objecting on the same grounds.

"He married a Swiss girt last Octo- ber, and they live at Priory-crescent, Cheam. His wife hos German ties, too.

"When Wilfrid and his wife are with us we sometimes talk in Ger Iman and we listen to the German {broadensis."

Before going back to his job as 'a shop assistant at a Bayswater store, Mrs. Blowers added: "Although he spent the lunch-hour Alling out my husband is as English as any man the form he obtained from the Labour in this country, he thinks our sous

STOCK MARKET Exchange to appeal against the deci- are right to the stand they have

REPORT Hongkong Stock Exeltunge Official Summary, issued yesterday says:

HK. Banks were dealt in at $1,490, and a few Unions at $510 and some ILK. Fires at $185, the rest of the few dealings was confined to the Junior Issties. Market generally still quietish.

Buyers

H.K. Banks $1,405 H.K. Fire Ini, $102

JK. Docks C. Ris. $115

HRU $0.03

H. & S. Hotels $5.19

II.K. Electrics $3

Cenients $10

Watsonя $9

Sluceres $2

Wing On (H.K.) $4 Entertainment $5,00

Hellers

Canton, Ins. $2323 Union Ins, $500 H.K. Fire Inn, $18 IK. Ducks C. Bu, H.K. Lands $37!G H.K. Tramways 1.0 Telephones (Did)

30

Telephones (New) $11.20

Sales

H.K. Banks 1,00 Union Ins, 6510

H.K. Fire Ins. 5183

H.K. Dock C. Ris. $2115

Providents $4

H.K. Lands $37

E.K. Docka t. 1022

1.K. Tramways $175

Chinn Lights" (Old)" $8.10

ILK. Electries $65%

Telephones (Old) $295

Telephones (New) $ Watsons 9.15

Atoks

MANILA GOLD SHARES

Antanok

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Batong Buhay

Bly Wedge

Coen Grove

Consolidated fines

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CHILDREN'S DAY

Celebration

and Display

Of Handwork At

Chinese Y.M.C.A. Sume 350 bright children, chosen from the thousands of children in Kowloon schools will participate in the celebration of Children's Day at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Waterloo Road,. at noon to-morrow.

ot

The prograinme will consist singing, dancing, masquerade, fancy

on stilts, skating, walking

and physical exercises, including Chinese

boxing

There will be an exhibition of a thousand paintings, sketches, em- broideries, essays, and scrolls of Chi- nese writings. Handwork by sonte

00 children will be on display.

The public is cordially invited to attend the celebration und exhibition. The latter will be for three days, be- ginning to-morrow. There will be no charge for admission nor will there be soilcitation of funds,

LATE NEWS

slon.

At his home his mother was very unhappy when a reporter told of the decision.

"My people are German," she said, although my neighbours know little about my origin.

"I kept in touch with my German relatives by letter until the war. an fond of them and have brought up my two

sons to think of them as friends.

"I have lived all my life in Eng land, und have English nationality through my marriage to a Suffolk man 30 years ago. "But 1 still feel I am half German.

laken."

LOSING THEIR HAIR New Type of Thief Snips

Off Amah's Plaits

An unusual form of theft is be- coming increasingly common, severul cases having been reported in the past few weeks of Chinese women having been seized in the street and their hair cut off. Many amahs who wear long plaits have lost their halr in this fashion.

It is understood that the plaits are sold for a couple of dollars,

"Before my marriage i was Kather- Inc Wahlen. My family lived at Bonn, on the Rhine, for generations.

"After the last war there was cold- The thefts recall the Arst years of

between brunches of the family, the Chinese Republie when men had: because one nephew, Herbert Wahlen, their queues forcibly removed. Since

ne.

was in the British Navy, and another then China has done a large export in a German branch of the family, trade in human hair.

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TO-DAY

at

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A Central Motion Picture

Studio Production

"An Imaginary Soldier

"

Added Attraction

The Mother of

Guerillas "

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