SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931.
GROWTH OF AERIAL ROUND THE CINEMAS
TRANSPORT.
'Comparison Between
1919 and 1930.
· STRIKING FIGURES.
CLARA BOW IN "TRUE TO THE
NAVY."
LAST SHOWING TO-DAY.
men
lealing Seven
support Clara Bow Ju her latest talking pieture, "True to
the
Navy." Fredric March heads the group of One of the greatest of
our romantically-inclined sailors who modern romances is the rapid pursue the lively redhead afloat growth which is taking place in and ashore. "True to the Navy," is showing in the Central Theatro commercial aviation.
When, during 1919, the first for the last time to-day.
March was Miss Bow's favourite British air expresses were flying daily between London and Paris, in "The Wild Party." His rivals
the Navy" include! there were not more than about in "True lo
Rex Bell, Eddie 3,000 miles of aerial routes Eddie Dunn, throughout Europe, To-day the Fetherston. figure for Europe stands at ap- proximately 60,000 miles, while throughout the world there are now more than 136,000 miles of high-speed aerial ways.
Harry Sweet, Ray Cooke, Charles Sullivan. Dunn have appeared in two previous Bow pictures, "The Fleet's In" and "The Saturday Night Kid." All the members of the sextette have won screen re- cognition in romantic and comedy roles.
"LET US DE GAY.”
SHADOWS BEFORE
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
No that
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1931.
the FHIRTY-GIVEN A
THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD | STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN LL NOMINATIONS for the above Meeting of the pony ORDINARY YEARLY · MEETING "CAGAYAN" have been CANČEL- of the Shareholders in the Com- LED. pany will be held
at the Com- Society pany's Town Office, 2, Lower Al- bert Road; on WEDNESDAY, the 18th March, 1931, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directore together with State- Atmont of Accounts, declaring
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions. To-day-Ten Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.
To-night-Elot Hall Annual concert and dance.
To-night St. David's Dinner, Lane Crawford's.
To-night-Cralgengower Cricket Club Dance.
To-night. A. O. C. Danco. To-night-Dinner Dances Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.
March 5 R.A.O.E..
Dividend and re-electing Directors Regalia an Auditors.
Dance, Garrison Lecture Hall.
March 20-Yorkshire Dinner.
Entertainments.
-Queen's
To-day "Blackmail."
Today Central "True to the Navy."
To-day — Majestic "Vagabond King."
To-day Star "Ben-Hur."
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to the 18th March, 1931, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directora,
Theatre.
Theatre
Theatro;
Theatre. THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED. Theatre.
NOTICE RE, TRANSFER
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th Feb., 1931.
It was in 1924, so far as Bri- tain is concerned, that we reach ed the landmark of the establish ment of Imperial Airways, and the progress of British air- transport, since the Company be- gan operations, is told by statis. The oft-repeated saying that ties now available.
"clothes make the man" may be
To-day-World One of the aims has been to in-applied as well to women for the crease steadily, by improvements | influence of dress exerts a strong "Hung Lin Ts!," (Chinese picture). March 7, 107B, 14-"Art & ana organisation,wer over their sex as well, and
80 because Mrs. Battle" by A.D.C., Theatre the all-the-year round depend-, perhaps even more
while man's suit follows Royal, 9.15 p.m. ability of the Imperial Airwnya|
Home Malls. uniform
п pattern,
woman's Services. How this has been
To-day-Outward for Europe via costume shows so many variations achieved may be judged from the that it can easily become a work Siberia (Zosme), 4 p.m. table appended:-.
To-morrow-Inward from Europe Percentage of of art or fall into an unattractive
vin Siberia (Tjikarang). flights completed atyle.
Sports.
in aircraft
Year.
1924-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
to schedule.
75
85
92
93.39
93.40
94.18
#
Д
See Diary on page 9.
Meetings.
The power clothes have in moulding the lives of a modern the theme of Norma family is Shearer's Intest Metro-Goldwyn- March 5H.K., Canton, Macno Co., Ltd.. Queen's Mayer starring picture. "Let Us Steamboat Be Gay," which will be shown to Building, 11 am.
"March 11-Hong Kong Telo- morrow in the Queen's Theatre.
Depicting a young mother, Miss Phone Co., Ltd., Exchange Build-
ing (2nd floor). 11.30 a.m.
to
March 18-Green Island Cement
Since the inception of the Com-Shearer showa how easy it is pany its passenger traffic has in-neglect one's personal toilet in creased remarkably. During 1921 the total number of travel carrying out the numberless duties Co., Exchange Building. 11.30 a.m.
lers carried was 11,170. By 1526į this had grown to 16,800, while;
confronting I housewife and 'mother.
Only by the realisation that her
by 1929-1930 the figure had gone husband's love has waned, does up to 27,000. Altogether, since 1924, Imperial Airways have car-she awaken to the fact that she
"Why don't you wash your dirty ears?"
"Oh, I can hear quite well as they arc."-Huen Humour, Madrid.
ried 166,000. passengers, and have flown 6,727,143 miles.
neglected her has
personality. Then, in place of clinging to her husband for the sake of the chil- dren. she unselfishly gives him up. With a mental picture of the other woman's" charm before her, she begins to concentrate on the subject of clothes. Their untold importance is realised time and
in again
her experiments which result in her becoming a fascinating woman and the rage of Paris.
It is at a house party that she meets her husband who sees in place of a homey wife in gingham dress and common-sense slippers a In an alluring stunning woman evening gown. For this scene Miss Shearer wore all-black, choos- ing a clinging style with glittering trimmings, a fan, adding further sophistication.
Supporting Miss Shearer are Rod La Rocque as husband, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery, Hedda The growth in air-mails is Eilers, Tyrrell Davis, Wilfred Nov, Hopper, Raymond Hackett, Sally equally sustained, as will be seen william O'Brien and Sybil Grove. from the table appended, giving Robert Z. Leonard directed. the latest figures for mail carried)
in the aircraft of Imperial Air-
ways:-
Year
1924-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
Tons
21
29
39
40
51
60..
In the transport by seroplane
of urgent merchandise there has
also been
"KING OF JAZZ.
LONDON EXCHANGES
Paris ... New York Brussels Geneva
Rugby, Yesterday.
123.95 4.85.25/32 34.84
26.232
Amsterdam Milan Berlin
12.11
92.75%
20.43%
Stockholm Copenhagen
18.144
18.16
18.15
34.562
164
Helsingfors
193%
Madrid
43.95
108.25
375
817
4 1/16
374
35.
1/64
Oslo. Vienna Praruc
Lisbon
Athens
Bucharest
Nio
Buenos Aires Montevideo Bombay Shanghai
1/2 Hong Kong
10% Yokohama
2/- 18/82 Silver Spot
121⁄4 Silver Forward ... 12 7/16
-British Wireless Service
Chan Yau, a native of Shanghai. was sentenced to four months' hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Police Court, for the larceny of jewellery, a hand bag and a pair of earrings, to the total value "King of Jazz," the Universal of $5,210, the property of a woman super-musical extravaganza star-living at 564 Queen's Road Weat ring Paul Whiteman and his inter-on August 21 last. The accused nationally famous orchestra will had a blackened right eye, and in be the extraordinary offering of the evidence the complainant said that to-accused received the injury through Central Theatre, starting
falling off a chair on to a tiled floor-
morrow.
"King of Jazz" brings to the alling. talking, all-singing, all-dancing
the Lo Hong (50), an employee of the
a most encouraging and all-Technicolour screen growth. Whereas in 1919, when most scintillant and colourful Telephone Company, was yesterday aerial transport began, only a sound production so far envision removed to the Kowloon Hospital small number of parcels were car-ed by any film producer, the suffering from injuries to his head ried between London and Paris Central Theatre promises.
caused by falling from the first floor
screen, #
especially from
by any one machine, it is no un- It is the most costly, the most of 81, Cheung On Street, whilst at common thing, now, when walking olaborate, the most spectacular work there. through the freight sheds at the and the most entertaining revue Nell London air-station, to find in ever presented on either stage or
O'Day, ali head-liners them many tons of urgent mer-
of the vaudeville stage; the veritable "revue of chandise either just arrived from revues which is loaded with the celebrated, Slaters "G" the dane- the Continent, or about to be des-most celebrated stage and vaude
ing rogo o Europa brought patched by air.
Berlin; Rose. ville head-liners and the greatest Statler, Jeanie Lang, and countless During a recent period of ninestars of the studios. months nearly 600 tons of freight John Murray Anderson, the tertainment world appear in their others from all spheres of the en- were air-borne in and out of famous producer of New York's choicest numbers. Croydon in the machines of Im-"Greenwich Village Follica" for perial Airways. Altogether, the past six years, was brought to Spanish Town," "Ramona" and abel Wayne, who wrote since they began flying in 1924, Universal by Carl Laemmle, ju many other song hits; Milton the aircraft of the Company have expressly to devise and direct this Ager and Jack Yellen, who wrote carried 5,790 tons of goods be extravaganza with the most able Wonder What Became tween London, the Continent and talent available in the world. Sally" and other famous songs, India.
wrote new music especially for the Revue.
CONSULAR, CORPS.
The picture, consisting of eight stupendous musical spectacles be- tween which are Interspersed in- numerable specialties and comedy
of
George Gershwin contributed his Immortal "Rhapsody in Blue," con The King's Exequatur empower acts, dramatic skits and blockouts, ceded to be a classic of modern ing Mr. M. J. van Schreven to act is aimed entirely in Technicolour. Jazz, for an atmospheric number in as Vice-Consal for the Netherlands The most beautiful girls, the most which sixteen beautiful girls toe- at Hong Kong, has received His gorgeous costumes, and the most dance the number on the biggest Majesty's signature.
lavish sets are presented as piano ever built.
Herman Rosae, the famous Now York Theatrical designer, who has been responsible for the costumes
His Excellency the Governor has tableaux of loveliness never before been pleased to recognise, provi-even conceived sionally and pending instructionn Besides Paul Whiteman and bla from the Secretary of State for the band, who appear in person in and scenic effects of many of the Colonies, Mr. Robert Emmet Far variety of numbers as well as pro
Lietropolis' most celebrated shows
rell an Honorary Vice-Consul for viding the music all through the designed all the beautiful costumes Spain in Hong Kong
picture. "King of Jazz" presents an end settings for "King of "Jazz" array of athra hitherto the Esch, number, separate. In itself proached in a single picture. Laura La Planté, John Boles,: senertion of the
FLIGHT TO ORIENT, ~
The airti
rtin Jeanette Loff, Stanley Smith, the
amous Russell - Markert dancers, ha
Kenti
rwin. Paul Howa Tommy 1 Aldins, a sextet
separata setting, more pre gorgeous than the Inst. ation, which – be- calls
was invented
Rosse by means of nita "the moods ofc
tly to? bughout the
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By Order,
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ALL-SINGING, ALL-DANCING, ALL-TECHNICOLOR
As Modern as Tomorrow
PAUL
WHITEMAN
and his band,in
KING JAZZ
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