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The HONEYMOON'S
OVER
STUART ERWIN MARJORIE WEAVER
Paul Knowles Russell Hicki Jack Corson Hobart Covanaugh
June Gala
F. F. Cli
A 20th Century-Fam Pictura
SPECIAL SPORTS REVIEW
"TOP-NOTCH TENNIS "
Miss Kay Stammers, England's Queen of the Court, "Bobby Riggs, Wimbledon & American National Champion. Jack-Bromwich & Adrian Guist Australia Davis Cup winners, battling for the coveted trophy.
A free Tennis lesson with the compliments of Bobby Riggs ranked No. 1 in the Tennis world.
Riggs displays how it is done.
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
It's DIFFERENT! Powerful plot! Bold treatment! Great action!
"You, with murder on your soull. What kind of happiness could you find with
a girl like Molly?!!
FULL Confession
VICTOR McLAGIEN - SALLY EILERS JOSEPH CALLEIA-BARRY FITZGERALD
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+ SHOWS
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130 - 8 10
730-0.10
116 RADIO
Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney in
BOYS TOWN"
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• TO-DAY & TO-MORROW •
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MYSTERY RIDES THE AIR LANES !
FLIGHT FAME
TO
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FARRELL WELLS
• FRIDAY & SATURDAY ✪
A Pictura Thrilling With Its Drama, Emotion, Action [^
HENRY FONDA "YOUNG Mr. LINCOLN”
ALICE BRADY in
A 20th Century-Fox Picture
CENTRAL
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FOR TO-MORROW ONLY
ROBERT
DONAT Goodbye
Mr.Chips
GREER GARSON
SAN WOOD Production ). Pokuyr Bosban Play by R. C. Sherriff.
Produced by
Claudine Westend chaite
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Count the
"TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
PRETVAR
Wednesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 10, 1940.
ALLIES MOBILISE TWO
QUEENSER THEATRE SECRET EXPEDITIONS HONGKONG DAILY AT-230-515-720-9:30 PM. TEL 31453
ONE WILL HUNT FOR A BANANA
TWO powerful, Anglo-French expeditions are being prepared for vitally important secret missions in remote parts of the world.
They will be armed with all the weapons of mo dern science, and their commanders will have orders to achieve their objectives at all costs.
The expeditions are to begin their tasks immediately. That is not a piece of war news smuggled past the censors. But it is a piece of news that may mean many lives, and thousands of millions of pounds, to the people! of France and Britain.
For the two expeditions have as their objectives:-
(1) To find, in French Indo- China, a new wild banann which, will produce o cultivated fruit to resist the dreaded leaf-spot dis- ense; and
(2) To attack and destroy the breeding places of locusts, which cause damage running into mil-| lions of pounds yearly.
Their organisation is one of the
Gracie's
BOYS playing on the canal bank at Greenford, Middlesex, caught a heron and took it to the police station. They warmed the bird and phoned the Zoo.
The Zoo said: "We don't want I Please set it free." So off went
constable with the bird.
Д
On the way he met his ser- grant Suddenly the bird shot out a bi and bit the sergeant's nose. A doctor told the sergeant to keep his nose in a bat poultice all night.
*
The sergeant is on night duty
Ex-Husband
Married Again
HONITON (Devon).
ARCHIE PITT, the theatre producer, former hus- first results of the co-operation of band of Miss Gracie Fields, was married at the register
French and British Empires,
the
arranged at the recent conference in office here to Miss Annie Lipman, his private secretary
Paris between
Mr. Malcolm Mac-
Donald and M. Mandel, British and for twenty-five years. French Colonm) Secretaries.
The Locusts' H.Q.
The trade in bananas amounts to tens of millions of pounds a year. It is the chief support of French Indo- China, from which all wild speel-
mens come.
The cultivated fruit is suscep-
HONGKONG REFUGEES
Miss Lipman was named in the divorce action which Miss Fields brought last year and
which ended in a decree also-
lute being granted to her on An Increase Registered (January 29 last. This marriage tible to disease resulting in heavy in Government Camps took place at Wandsworth Re. losses, and it is hoped, by cross-
Figures of refugees and destitutes gister Office in 1923. Ing it with
hardy wild in Government camps hero for April specles, to make it'immune.
At the time of the divorce sult supplied by the medical authorities tended to exterminate their breed- March 30 in brackets:
The attack on the locusts is in-are printed, below with figures for Archie Pitt's age was given as fifty-
away.
some
four.
ing-places in the sandy soils of West King's Park 1,288 (1,290); Matau- Africa, and thus prevent their des- chung 1,570 (1,578). North Point
For many years Archie Pitt-his cending in all-destroying warms 1,393 (1,425); Morrison Hill 635 real name is Selinger-shared in the on the fertile plains many miles (480); Tai Hang Squatters Camp | succes of Gracie Flelds's produc- 1,410 (1,331); Ngau Tau Kok Squat- tions, of which he was musical direc- Airplanes and poison gas will be ters Camp 128 (15);. Kam Tin 2.109 tor. among the weapons used in this (2.152). ruthless war.
on
of
Mr. and Mrs. Pitt are now Eving
Miss Lipman unce conducted on Soldiers.-Argyle Street 718 (687), orchestra in New York. The British and French Govern-in hospital 16 (25). ments hope, in due course, to work The grand total on April 6 was also with other Powers possessing 0,275, as compared with 8,907 colonies, including Holland, Belglum, March 30, showing an increase Portugal and Italy. Interchange of 208. information will begin at once on problems of health, crops, research and labour.
A high offelal of the Colonial Office is to be appointed Hnison officer with the French Colonial Office. Production, marketing and shipping will be pooled where neces-
sily.
LATE NEWS
BATTLES OFF COAST
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI
LONDON, Apr. 9 (UP),— Radio Stockholm announces that an air battle is in progress off the Norwegian coast.
The French Foreign Office daily' bulletin states that engagements are occurring at several points off the const of Norway between German and Allied naval units.
"The engagements aro occurring under heroic conditions because the sen is very rough and there is a gale blowing," the announcement adds.
BRITONS TAKEN
PRISONER
LONDON, Apr. (UP)-It is) officially announced that the Ger- man Expeditionary Force have made prisoners of the stuff of the British Ministry at Copenhagen.
in a cottage near Lyme Regis (Dor- set).
ALHAMBRA THEATRE
THEATRE
NATHAN ROKOWLOON DAILY AT 230-520 720 930 TEL 56856
• FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
FIGHTING FURYI Another unforgettable adventure with Hopalong Cassidy!
Clarence E. Mulford's
Renegade Trail
WILLIAM BOYD,
TO-MORROW
TARZAN FINDSASON!
ALL NEW!
WEISSMULLERS
13 YEARS MAURINKO'SULLIVAN
TO MAKE TARZAN, Jr.
plus the wonder-bay
acaq Godleyin: |{paT HERME
N.B. Our roving cameraman has taken at random a number of photographs of Hongkong youths. These photographs aro an display in the vestibule of the Queen's Theatre. Identify yourself and then apply to the House Manager for a compli- mentary ticket to zão “TARZAN FINDS A SON",
Dine, Wine & Dance
at
CHANTECLER
176-179 Nathan Road, Kowloon,
Tel. 50021.
SHOWING TO-DAY
"CREATED ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE RECORDS AT SHANGHAI, SINGAPORE, MALAYA, AND ELSEWHERE."
[MIGHTIEST TARZAN TRIUMPH!
His cry rings out again.......and amaze Ing new jungle thrills flood the screen?
TARZAN FINDS A SON!
"THE BEST EVER1" says Edgar Bios Burroughs, author
Mct
of Tarzan thrillel
INTRO
WEISSMULLER
ALL NEW!
The First Tarzan Picture In Tireo Years!
THRILLSI As the | glast kle-Unet crashes
În Tarsake jungle
Paradies†
CHILLS: Tarzana Joveesado al the unoway
DANDIRS) The Fool
O'SULLIVAN dinal Most
and Jolin SHEFFIELD, Clan-RUNTER? Henry STEPHENSON Frieda INESCORT
Benty WILCOXON Loraine BAYA Screen Piny by Cyril Immediated upon the Characters Created by Edgar Rice Barrange Directed by Richard Thorpe Produced by Bam Diubalist
amazing underwater| sonnes erer Bloed!
N.B. Our roving cameraman has taken at random a number of photographs of Hongkong youths. These photographs are on display in the vestibulo of the Queen's Theatre. Identify yourself and then apply to the House Manager for a compli- mentary ticket to sco “TARZAN FINDS A SON”.
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MARX
BROL
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TO-MORROW
in
NIGHT
AT THE OPERA
An MGM Picturo
SYLVIA SIDNEY in "MADAME BUTTERFLY” A Paramount Picture
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and
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A musical madhouso filled with comedy surprises and
the funniest horse race ever shown on the screen.
THE STUFF IS IN..
AND IT'S MELLOW!
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You're
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RONALD REAGAN - WALTER CATLETT »'HAROLD HUBER - LOUIS ARMSTRONO MAXING SULLIVAN - Premmedbi WARNER BROR • A COSMOPOLSKAN PRODUCTION
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