was so great that the programme was moved to the China Fleet Club where the capacity is over 500. Even so a number of applicants for tickets could not be accommodated.
66. In November the monthly programme "Ten Top Tunes” was remodelled to provide a new weekly competition series, "Popularity Poll" in which listeners were invited to predict the titles of the three most requested tunes of the week, in their correct order. A small cash prize was offered for the correct solution, to be shared if more than one listener guessed correctly and to accumulate to the following week should no-one have the right answer. Within a few editions the programme had attracted a considerable following and was bringing in several hundred letters a week.
67. Hong Kong can muster as many cinema-goers per head of population as any comparable community in the World. Each week many hundreds of thousands of people visit the Colony's 65 cinemas. For the cinemagoer who is also a radio listener two special programmes were introduced towards the end of 1955.
"Going to the Pictures" was a weekly programme of film criticism, in which three critics having each seen the three major releases of the week discussed the films concerned at the microphone, so that the listener was given the benefit of three, sometimes differing, points of view.
"Movie Magazine”, on the other hand, did not set out to be critical in any way. Its content was purely informative and included previews of new pictures with sound-track excerpts, interviews with stars, directors and writers, news from studios and film music.
68. The idea of asking four people to read the same news- paper for a week and then making them guess mystery news items from 'headline' clues had already been a success on Television but had not before been tried as a radio game. To give representative flavour to the panel, a British professional soldier, an Australian woman fashion writer, a Chinese woman journalist, and a young Canadian broadcaster were selected to
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