Tropical Mystery Murder at Tropical Theatre
The Tropical Theatre presents a mixed all talking program headlined by All Quiet on the Western Front style war drama with a strong cast including Jack Mulhall and Alice Day. The show blends humor and intrigue with detectives and a mysterious Paris furniture piece. Matinee tomorrow at 2 30 followed by two final nights. The Wednesday double feature includes Troopers Three and Parade of the West. Tickets via Owen Whittek at Hides Hotel or the Tropical Theatre Office.
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Tropical Theatre
Paris
France
Jack Mulhall
Alice Day
Jane Winton
Robert O'Connae St Polis
Claure Allister
DeWatt Jennings
Webster Campbell
Cairns
Lathe Gazettes
Great Britain
Hope
Gin
Harry’ Tate
Chicago
Charles Hackett
Sylvial
Sylvia
Tajado
Owen Whittek
Hides
Black
Tanaka Paramount Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front at Palace Theatre
Universal Pictures presents a stark war drama at the Palace Theatre into capacity audiences. The film adaptation, praised for realistic battle scenes and strong cast led by Lewis Ayre and Loos Wolheim, conveys the tragedy and futility of war through the story of a young soldier named Paul.
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Universal Films
Palace Theatre
Eealies
Erich Remarque
Lewis Ayree
Loos Wolheim
Ayre
Paul
Gaiety Theatre offers Let's Go Phices and Sumrise features
This afternoon and tonight at the Gaiety Theatre presents the all talking and singing musical extravaganza Let's Go Phices with a Fox Movietone attraction. The story follows a singer and his manager who go to Hollywood, with mistaken identity and comic complications. A silent Sumrise is also shown, featuring Janet Gaynor and George Brien in a tale of two women and one man.
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Gaiety Theatre
Fox Movietone
Hollywood
Wagstaff
Lola Lane
Dixie Lee
Shard Lynn
Fox
Janet Gaynor
George Brien
Margaret Livingstone
George O'Brien
Coney Island
Fox Movietune News
Thurseda Awd
Irish Association to Host Tuesday Evening Chess Meet
Tomorrow night the Irish Association invites all players to a gentlemen’s chess gathering in the old rooms. Last week’s event drew a large crowd and the ongoing tournaments attract many residents with dime prizes and refreshments.
L.E.C.L. Dance Promises Grand Cairns Parade
The event anticipates record attendance with careful planning for patrons’ enjoyment. Top local talent will provide musical interludes between dances and Miss Edith MBoynes will stage a dance exhibition. A grand parade of Cairns leading feppers will be showcased, aimed to be the grandest ever witnessed.
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Edith Mboynes
Cairns
Bridge Chub Club Announces Public Knockout Bridge Night
The Amzac Club in Pride hosts an October 8 event at 8 pm featuring a knockout pairs format with successive elimination until finalists join beaten teams. Light refreshments, wide participation, and a drive to foster bridge in Cairns brackets the evening. The club plans drives, invites from Cairns districts, and club championships including singles and mixed pairs.
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Cairns
St John's Bazaar At Church Grounds This Week
An Ane prepared bazaar will be held at St John's Church grounds on Thursday October 23 and Friday October 24 with a varied array of goods for patrons.
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St John's Church
Main Roads survey at Clump Point route
Tully October 12 surveyors for the Main Roads Commission work on the Clump Point road to open access to the Clump Point land and are now at Kenning Creek east Maadi. In coming weeks they will survey Jur's cut and determine whether the railway outlet will run via El Arish or Mandi.
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Tully
Main Roads Commission
Iand
Kenning Creek
el Arish
Mandi
Dairying Sugar Land Access to 8000 Acres Nearby Clump Point
Between 8000 and 00 acres of first class dairying, frit growing and sugar land will be made accessible, as well as land which was settled 30 years ago ay Clump Point.
Briand's Europe Federation Plan Draws French Criticism
M Briand's scheme for a federation of Europe faces harsh critique in France as M Poincare voices concern over a possible German revival and the broader implications of his foreign policy.
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M. Briand
Europe
France
M. Poincare
Fashioning Its Beauty in Silk Stockings
The article notes silk stockings as coveted gifts for women boosting leg beauty and style. It highlights mass production worldwide with a figure of over 6,000,000 pairs annually and cites a firm that grew from a tenement start to 750 workers distributing 8,000,000 pairs yearly using 16,000,000 miles of silk as 900,000 silkworms die daily.
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Tacona
Inside a silk stocking factory in Melbourne
The article describes silk production from Japan to Melbourne, detailing skein preparation, dyeing, swift wheels, bobbins, and winding frames. It notes 45,000 to 60,000 yards per skein, 5,000 revolutions per minute, and four hours to spin a reel as workers carefully join and weave multiple threads into finished silk for stockings.
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Melbourne
Japan
Silk Stockings From Lancashire Knitting Mills
A detailed tour of a large knitting room explains silk stocking production from cone to carton. Machines, steam, and humid air shape pure silk hose and silk-wool blends, with special top stitching and careful seaming by skilled workers. Finished stockings undergo dyeing, shaping, grading, folding, and boxing before shipping to Australia.
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Lancashire
Innisfail Parish Priest Announces Departure to Australia
Our Innisfail correspondent reports Rev. Father Clancy, longtime parish priest of Innisfail, has advised solicitor J. T. McNamee that he will leave Great Britain aboard the steamer Jarwis Hay for Australia. Father Clancy has served Innisfail for over 30 years.
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Kody Byrne
Georgeae
Cehaed Webb
Soaeh
Father Clancy
Innisfail
Ireland
J. T. McNamee
Solic
Great Britain
Jarwis Hay
Tiros Australia
Christmas Cheer Fund A Charming Evening Planned
Cairns Country Women arrange Christmas Cheer Fund events with a Dreadnought stall in November. Next Friday hosts a progressive bridge drive ping pong tournament and dance at Mrs A E Abel Lake Street with cash prizes and novelties. Large attendance expected.
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Cairns
A. E. Abel
Lake-street
Cairns Bowling Club Ladies Day Held With Trophy Presentation
Flags fluttered at Cairns Bowling Green Pavilion for the annual Ladies Day and trophy presentation by President Dr A M Langan. The green looked trim with bright flower beds. visitors enjoyed chairs on the lawn and afternoon tea on tables under the balcony.
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Cairns
Bowling
A. M. Langan
Trophies Awarded at Club Ceremony
Dr Langan thanked the attending ladies and donors before presenting trophies across categories. Winners included J D Arcy, Drewe, Clarke, Hewston, Clarke and Gelling, Blanchard and Roehricht, Po Drewe and Kipt, Roche, Da Costa, Montgomerie, Gelling, Roche, Thompson, Murtha, Blackmore, Thompson, Oey, and Cairns Club.
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WC. Montgomerie
Mesers
Allen & Sons
Messrs. Gelling
J. Roche
R. Thompson
C. Murtha
E. Blackmore
Thompson
A. J. Draper
Ro Thompson
Cairns
Gordonvale
Innis‘fail
A M. Langan
C Woodward
FC. Hodel
R. H. Kell
T. B. O'Meara
J. H. McVilly
W. H J. Mayers
C. R. Trathen
Blanchard J. Birch
A. Hinsch
Bradshaw
Roberts
Friceson
O'Leary
Thomason
Davis
Millett
G. Speed
Roche
Ww.Abeell
F. C. Curlewis
Dearnaley
H. da Costa
J. McGrath
G. E. Board
J. M. Johnson
9. Foster
W. Houston
R. T. McManus
Montgomerie
M. Spencer Clarke
Coveney
EE. Woodward
Thomas
Blanchard
Egan
Scott
Jones
Willey
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Irish Association
Eachre
L.E.C.L. Dance
St. John’s Bazaar
Clump Point
Advanx
Sheridan Street
Marshall Shoes
Mazlins Ltd
Austrasia
Cairns Bowling Club
Ladies
Solip
Queensland
Ipswich
Morley
RA Kelly
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