Gulliver's Travels at Tropical Theatre in Technicolor
Entertainment note: Gulliver's Travels animates the South Seas voyage with Lilliputian giants and a war over songs at Prince David and Princess Glory’s wedding. Gulliver becomes hero, urges peace, and aids love, as eight new songs plus news reels and shorts accompany the feature. Box plan available by phone.
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Gulliver
Tropical Theatre
Lilliput
South Seas
Arrel
Lilliputians
Ping
Little
Bantam Kingdom
Kingdom
Blefuscu
Prince David of
Blefusct
Glory
Borbo
Palace Theatre Show Features Formby In Gunner George
The Palace Theatre presents George Formby in Gunner George with Phyllis Calvert Gerry Marsh Romney Brent Bernard Lee and Coral Browne as a comedy spy caper. Also on the bill That’s Right You’re Wrong Kay Kyser debut with Adolphe Menjou May Robson Lucille Ball Dennis O’Keefe and more. Box plan at the theatre and Palace Theatre Cafe.
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Palace Theatre
George Formby
Gunner George
Phyllis Calvert
Gerry Marsh
Romney Bremt
Bernard Lee
Coral Browne
Thelm
George
Norway
Verius
Miss Calvert
Marsh
Romney Brent
Cora Browne
Hollywood
Alen Om
Kay Kyser
Adolphe Menjou
Star Week
May Robson
Lucille Ball
Dennis O'Keefe
Everett Horton
Roscoe Karns
Moroni Olsen
Cinesound
Palace Theatre Cafe
All Night New Year Dance at Cairns Palais
The Aquatic Dance Palais promotes a biggest all night dance in Cairns on December 31. About hundred dancers attend and dance from 6 PM until daylight with 50 50 dancing plus jazz hats confetti streamers and trumpets. Two bands Geo Stones Ritzy Revelers and Marion Jenkins old time band perform with continuous transitions. Soft drinks available all night as partygoers make up their galas.
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Aquatic Dance Palais
Cairns
Palais
Ecd
Geo Stone
Marion Jenkins
the Aquatic
New Year Dance at the Trocadero Highlights Jazz and Old Time
Patrons request an all night New Year dance at the Trocadero featuring short sessions so both jazz and old-time dancers can perform. Music and greetings will air on 4CA from 10:30 pm to 12 am with dancing continuing into the morning.
Christmas Eve Dance at the Aquatic Palais Draws Large Crowd
Christmas Eve at the Aquatic Dance Palais drew about a hundred dancers who enjoyed a festive mood. Novelty prizes were won by Mass 5. Jackson amid the holiday celebrations.
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Aquatic Dance Palais
Mass 5
Jackson
Evening Dances Draw Large Crowds and Awards
Boxing Might topped the night with over 40 dancers in the peasence to sin event. Mr. Miss Walker and Mr. Jones wore pretty hats, while Mins and Mr. Coulson appeared with others. Marion Jenkin’s orchestra played for 400 dancers on extra Saturday, with Mrs. A Holt and Mr. Ball and Miss James and Mr. Demiette winning novel prizes. The pretty-hatted crowd included Miss J Edwards and Mr. Geo Richards.
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Sin Bate
Miss Walker
Mr. Jones
Mins
Mr. Coulson
Marion Jenkin
A. Holt
Ball
Miss James
Demiette
J. Edwards
Geo. Richards
Australian Troops in Action and War Readiness
Reports quote Minister for the Army Mr. P C Spender praising Australian overseas forces in Libya, noting modern British-supplied equipment and potential for mobile, surprise attacks. Details cover motor vehicles costs, tank development, and new anti-tank guns, plus a push to deploy women in Voluntary Aid Detachment units and initial R A A F training efforts.
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ALF
Oversea
A.lf
P. C. Spender
Libya
Egypt
Great Britain
Australia
Spender
Excursions Calm Water Trips on Manly
Holiday trips aboard the fast launch Manly offer music and calm water sightseeing. Visitors enjoy shady beaches, fishing, free campgrounds, and electric lighting along the road to Brown's Bay famous for a crocodile farm. A daily lecture and crocodile feeding run at 3:30 pm. The New Year’s Day trip departs 8:20 am and returns to Cairns about 12:30 pm.
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Manly
Nana
Ming
Ashing
Brown's Bay
Auutralia
Army offers voluntary meat ration cut amid home front measures
Australian Associated Press reports Britain’s home front sees a government order for Yashmake cellophane and rustin maaks for shelters to curb epidemics, plus the army offering to reduce civilian meat rations by voluntary cut. Soldiers' rations at 44 lb weekly compared with civilians, amid debates on wastage and defense needs.
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London
Lord Horder
Ministry For Health
Ministry For Food
George Barrow
A.D.C
Evening Standard
Anya
War Office
New Naval Vessel Production Aims for Faster Warship Launches
The Victoria dockyard plans extend building berths to allow four vessels to be laid simultaneously, with keels laid and launched at a rate three months per ship. Ballarat has been launched after seven months and is now fitted out. Employment rose from 10 to 550 as repetitive work aids the national war effort.
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Naval Defence
At & Victorias
Truaty
Asbeolste Mit
Ballarat
Mackenzie
Trust
Macknesse
Melbourne
Commonwealth
Australia
Ake
Natron
Victoran
Sydney
Town and Country Notes on J N Sheehan and Gordon Landsberg
Mr J N Sheehan of Macdomas Hamilton and Co Brisbane office spends a Cairns stay on mail train to Brisbane after joining the RAAF as a pilot. He is accompanied by Miss Rose Dawson. Norm Sugden of the RAAF leaves for Sydney. Gordon Landsberg of Thornburgh College has won a University scholarship, placing third in the state exams with top marks and plans to study veterinary science at the University of Queensland.
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J. N. Sheehan
Macdomas
Hamilton and Co
Brisbane
Cairms
RAAF
Whadaonsa
Sn Ton
Tower
Rose Dawson
Osaman
Norm. Sugden
Sydney
Gordon Landsbere
Thornburgh College
Chartera Towers
Gordon
L. J. Landsberg
Trafalgar Station
Thornburgh
Eehon
University of Queensland
Yacht Littera Missing Off Hawaii From San Pedro Flight
New York December 24 report Errol Flynn’s yacht Littera is overdue en route from San Pedro California to Honolulu. Flynn said radio contact was arranged for December 2 and 2 but has not been heard. The missing yacht is valued at about £30,000.
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New York
Littera
Errol Flynn
Honolulu
San Pedro i California
Flynn
Sinking of tanker Charles Pratt with 22 lives lost
The Standard Oil of New Jersey reports the tanker Charles Pratt has sunk with 22 of 42 American crew missing. Location and cause unknown. the ship flew Panama registry flags as part of wartime neutral shipping. Reports also note other vessels torpedoed, and Australian shipbuilding policy debates urge government action to expand local yards and protect domestic production.
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New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Charles Pratt
Panama Transport Co
Panama
Standard Oil Coy
Mackay Ship Radio Service of
Scotland
Famous Authors Exiled Abroad During War
London reports two famed British novelists cannot return home. P G Wodehouse writes a new book in a German internee camp while 74 year old Phillips Oppenheim lives in Cannes with his wife after failing to reach England near Bt Malo. He describes a small foreign allowance and garden produce as isolation grows.
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London
Britain
P. G. Wodehouse
Phillips Oppenheim
Cannes
England
Noel Coward Praises Australian Composer Ryvie Works
In Byrney Australia Noel Coward helped Bradley Ryvie nephew of General Sir Granville Ryvie, by hearing his patriotic song The Land of the Tree and promising to show it to an Australian publisher. Coward found Ryvie’s pieces suitable for a music comedy and endorsed their potential.
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Bydney
Noel Coward
Bradley Ryvie
Granville Ryvie
Australia
Bradley Ryrie
Arother Station
Lardert
Coward
Training Aircraft Collide At Kingsford Smith Airport
In Canberra district A RAAF report two training aircraft from No 4 Elementary Flying School collided on the landing ground near Kingsford Smith Airport. No injuries occurred. A third Moth forced landed six miles north of Bulli with minor damage and no injuries.
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Bydney
No. 4 Elementary Flying Acoal
Kingsford Smith
Bulli
R.A.A.F
J. Linfoot
Aircraftaman H Freckleton
J. Gordon
Congong
New South Wales
Bull
Australian Press and Information Bureau to Open in New York
Melbourne reports the establishment of a New York branch of the Australian Department of Information. Senator Fall announces new editorial and censorship controls, appoints editors and officials, and plans to begin operations early next year to promote Australian affairs and markets in the Pacific.
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Melbourne
New York
Department of Information
Foll
Australia
Pacific
Army dental care in Brisbane highlights preventive work
Professor W. J. Turkfield warns only 12 percent of the Australian Labour Force were dentally fit, urging preventive care from pre school to adults. He notes Brisbane clinics and traveling dental teams improve on-site care, while Melbourne lags in preventive programs for children.
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Brisbane
Profesor
W. J. Tuckfeld
University of Mulbourne
ALF
A.lf
Gallipoli
Queensland
Turkfield
Australia
Melbourne
Dents Hospital
Quernaland
Rorrow
Tuckfield
Swan By-Election Results Surface in Perth
Counting in the Swan by election shows Barker 4870 and Dinan 16457 in Labor and Ind parties with CP totals for Jorguson 10507 and Marwick 12223. Dinan gains four votes as supporters expect Ferguson second preferences to shift toward him, possibly overtaking.
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Perth
Swan
Barker
Ind
J. Dinan
Lab
Doe
Jorguson
C. W. Marwick
C.P
Dinan
Surf tragedy hits Newcastle as shark attacks recorded
A man was attacked while surfing at Newcastle in New South Wales yesterday. It marks the season's first surf death in the region. The victim, Hammond, had lived in Stockton for several years.
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New South Wales
Hammond
Stockton
Youths killed sheltering beneath tree in Bendigo storm
In Melbourne at Specimen Hill Bendigo a tree struck during a storm killed Patrick Harries 16 Branson 18 sheltered under a tree with William Joiner 17 and Hartney 16 all youths The trio had taken shelter under the tree when it was struck Hartney died at once Joiner and Branson were treated for shock Hartney had married a month earlier Branson was able to reach home before help arrived.
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Melbourne
Utder
Specimen Hill
Bendigo
Patrick Moertumer Harries
Golden Square
William Joimer
Mm Law
Moertien
Conditon
Branson
Sunshine
Hartney
Ighim
Mr. Kronk
Poght
Jomer
Brameon
Mail Notices Schedule Across Regions and Days
The notice lists mailing schedules by location and day ranges. It mentions towns and regions such as Port Douglas, Townsville, Brisbane, Inver-State, and London Berries with varied timings from 5 am to 6 pm. Several names appear as handlers or destinations, but details are fragmented.
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Australia
London Berries
Townsville
Brisbens
Inver-State
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Royal Australian Air Force
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Directorate of Training
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Minter For Air
J. McEwen
Royal Air Force
Information Policy
HS Foil
Benatar Foil
Firet
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MAES
Australian Associated Press
King George
Department of Inorma
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George-street West
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