WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES!
SWATOW TRADING Co.
Established 1910. MANUFACTURERS OF Swatow Drawn Work
AND
ART. EMBROIDERIES
ANNOUNCE
The opening of a branch store -At-Gloucester-Building-Arcado
shortly.
Watch this space for further Announcementa,
SWATOW TRADING CO.
HEAD OFFICE:- Pedder St. Opposite Hong Kong Hotel" 'Phone 29303.
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Outfitting AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE. PERFECT FIT AND
RELIABLE SUITINGE. WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Outfitters
64, t]ueen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
lat door, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK; DENTIST
Successor to
the late SIEN TING. 14, D'Agullar Street TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD,
Kowloon Bay.. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L". Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
AMERICAN FRESH FRUITS
Emperor Grapes
Pearmain Apples
Sunkist Oranges Sunkist Grapefruits
Phillip Cling Peaches
EX S.S. PRESIDENT HOOVER Arrived here, September 21.
WING COFFEE CO.
Tel. 25869
139 Des Voeux Rd. C., Hong Kong.
.SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC GOODS
REDUCTION SALE NOW ON
Inspection Cordially Invited.
THE LIANG YOU CO.. 70, Queen's Road C.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras.
Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A.
SEK & CO...
Tel No. 28459.
26A, Des Voeur Road, C
Hoat Tong,
LITERATURE
BOOKS
f for All
Bibles,Pocket Testaments.........-- Prayer Books and Stationery.
General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.
THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street.
Next to King's Theatre.
Agents for
British & Foreign Bible Society The Religious Tract Society and The League of Nations' Society.
GENERAL PROVIDERS.
We beg to announce that we have just opened at 193, Des Voeux Road C. and have a fine selection of new goods
including LADIES' STOCKINGS
AND
HANDKERCHIEFS.
SCENTS, TOILET WATER
PERFUMES.
Our prices are very low. THE CENTRAL CO. 193, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 27623.
HAIR DRESSERS
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (oppusito Queen's Theatre).
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LIANG YOUR
Gentlemen's & Ladies' HAIR DRESSERS. King's Theatre Building, (D'Aguilar St. Side). Tel. 20315.
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
ON LOK
(AH HING)
10, Wyndham Street, 1st Floor, Entrance On Lan St. Tel. 22317.
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
63. Queen's Road Central.
SHOES.
or
Pair
THE
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MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS.
ADRIENNE AMES.
The ambition of most film stars is to accumulate enough wealth to retire from their arduous carecro and spend their time touring the world, and doing what they wish when they wish.
“MIDNIGHT LOVE.”
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Farce With An Atmosphere of Cracker Mottoes.
JAPANESE AIDED VALENTINO.
in the
Sessue Hayakawa aided rapid advance of Rudolph Valentino to stardom.
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duce his own pictures and did not "Holiday," has been assigned the accept a new contract.
third big role in "Working Girl,” In The role in "The Sheik" was which Paramount will also present therefore assigned to Valentino who Clive Brook and Sylvia Sidney. rose to overnight stardom in the part.
FILM JOTTINGS.
Gene Raymond, leading man an The Oriental actor revealed this Broadway in "Cradle Snatchera" while at work in Paramount's and "Young Sinners," has arrived in "Daughter of the Dragon," with the flim colony from New York. Anna May Wong and Warner Under contract to Paramount.
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London, Aug. 26. The dean's secretary, refusing dalliance with the feather-dusting housemaid, returned to his typing
Oland. It is his talking film debut But Adrienne Ames, already in with such industry that the warn-
work in ton Three former convicts, who left a line sounded. 4nd his first screen the latter class, has given up the ing of the end of
California prisons to go straight, "Ah," said the housemaid. "that's years. freedom of a wealthy society girl the only belle he'll ever ring."
have been assigned roles in Para In May, 1918, Hayakawa says,► α for a career as a motion picture The atmosphere of cracker mot-five year contract with Paramount mount's "Silence." They play con-
of moth-eaten relics thus ended. He had starred in more actress whose day-time life is con- toes,
created at the beginning of "Mid-than twenty pletures with "The) trolled and even whose recreational night Love," Mr. Sydney Herler's City of Dim Faces" as his Inst. In Zoo Akins is adapting her own hours are governed by work.
Miss Ames. recently signed
victs.
HONG KONG
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Miss Vicki ("Grand Hotel') Baum is in Hollywood from New York and is writing the script for Maurice Chevalier's noxt Paramount plcture. Miss Baum atopped over in Van- Cover and San Francioco en route
Wost.
Edward line, director, has been made producer of short films for Paramount.
Berton Churchill, Broadway char acter actor, has been given a fea- tured role by Paramount in support of Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March in "My Sin."
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farce, produced last night at the his career he had been other than story, "Girls About Town," to the Dressing Room No. 1 at the Savoy, was never entirely dispersed, an Oriental character, playing screen. Paramount will feature in Paramount Hollywood studios has The atory le of an author who Spaniard, Mexican, Indian, Hindu, it Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman and been turned over to Sylvia Sidney, contract to act in Paramount pichas to allow himself to be made South Sea Islander and Hawailan.Eugene Pallette.
leading woman in "Confessions of a tures. She could have gone into love to by a film star so that she
Paramount had planned to star
Co-Ed" and "An American Tragedy." pictures as free-lance player, will appear in a film version of his him in "The Shoik"
as an Arab.
Dorothy Tree, the younger sister Previous occupants were Pola Negri working and vacationing when she latest work, and thus make him rich However, Hayakawa wanted to pro-lof the Broadway production of and Clara Bow. folt so inclined, but she chose alenough to marry the dean's daugh- contract because she felt it best1ter, and then has to prefend that
her bibulous dresser is his alck! in building toward im popularity aunt to account for bis In entering pictures, Miss Ames visits to her flat. The bogus has given
up frequent trips to aunt is somehow conveyed to the Europe, yachting parties, lengthy deanery with the film star as nurse, motor trips, a Summer home and the dean, having discovered that he beautiful apartment in New York. has a taste for salacious novela him-
She did it, however, because she has always longed to be a Bilm actress and gladly traded indepen dence for the thrill of appearing be fore the cameras and seeing herself
on the screen.
and from her sick bed blackmails
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All this wants more wit to self. make it palatable than it
served with last night.
KONG MARKET PRODUCE. APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
4 AE
Was Beef Sirloin `..............
enabled to display great vitality Mise Ruby as the film ator is
and agility in various kinds of It was choice that brought her to boudoir trousers, but her talent and films--not a disaster on the recent beauty deserve better employment.
to her former allowance.
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stock market, as some might guess.. Her salary, as a beginner in pic Llewellyn, who played the Dean, tures, is but a small item compared and Miss Grace Lane, who played Bullock's Braina
bia severe wife. Miss Christine Barry made a charming Dean's daughter, but Mr. Gerald Pring as her perplexed fover did not quite Convince us that the passionate film star would really have looked at him more than once.
Hee entrance into pictures has She been made with intelligence. might have used her own fortune to a picture in which he produce starred, as some have done.
Instead, she wants to learn acting from the bottom and has been given minor roles-little more than "bits" -in "24 Hours," in which she now appears, and "The Road to Reno," which will follow.
It is but fair to say that there was considerable laughter during the performance of this piece and that
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Fruits.
an array of exquisite flowers ex-Calves' Head & Foot 44 set $1.50 $1.00 $1.00 pressed rapture in it after the cur Matton Chop Miss Ames might have begun hertain fell, but one member of the film career carlier, had she wished, audience left with that flat feeling according to Paramount executives. with which
one retires from dark Southern station after missing a train. Pro- They report her beauty-she was born in Texas-ducers should be more careful about| ideal for film work.
their promises of gaiety,-Edith remarkably Shackleton, in Evening Standard.
She photographs well, photographers state.
It was this fact that brought her to acting. She had just completed a vacation trip to Honolulu and had stopped in Los Angeles for a brief visit before returning to her New
York home.
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54
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CAREFUL ABOUT NAMES.
In Hollywood, where a "name" is the key-note to success, few share
Identical names. While there
Being an ardent film. fan all of her life, she had frequently noted work with the same last names-
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the photographic eredit, "Ruth such as ten Bennetts all in the ranks Shoop's Head & Foot Harriet Louise," on portraits in of players the coupling of two names in more than one instance magazines.
Miss Ames went to the photo-can be counted on the fingers of one
Sucking Pigs, to order- grapher and asked her to make hand.
Curiously. four contract workers Buet, Boef some pictures of her. They were made in a friend's studio by the at the Paramount studios all have photographer who grew more and the experience of having their Veal more enthusiastic as the sitting names rightfully used by others in
the same industry. progressed.
A friend of Miss Ames, who knew of her desire to be an actress,
Most confusing are the two Wil {liam Boyds. The Paramount actor
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was impressed by ie Photographs is from the stage, best remembered Barbel and took them to the casting offices Sergeant Quirt in "What Price Bream
The other William Boyd Canton Fresh Water **REZE Glory."" at the Paramount studios. An interview was requested immediate has played in pictures many years.
"Charles Rogers" is shared by Carp ly. This brought a talking screen
the Paramount player and the pro-Catfish test and a quick contract.
Having dwelt in society all her duction head of Pathe, the former Codfish life, Miss Ames has cultivated the being distinguished by the use of Crabs charm necessary in mingling with his nick-name "Buddy."
celebrities. Her wealth has also brought training in smart dressing. Brow She has studied music and art. Shoes from 26.00. In entering pictures, Miss Ames Black Brown has given up society, travel and a Boots from $8.09. life of case. She has toured
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Children's Boots ar Europe five times, one of her trips
Shoes from $1.09.
Best stylos, most complete stock of sizes. Repairing a specialty, WONG SIU WOON
Phone 21474. 21, Pottinger St.
FOR SALE.
Flower and Vegetable SEEDS
Indication polata to a HEAVY DEMAND for seeds
THIS SEASON.
To be sure of getting every variety you wish we suggest that you
ORDER TO-DAY.
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GRACA & CO.,
No. 10, Wyndham Street.
P. O. Box 620, Hong Kong.
2 as
Cuttle Fini
Dab Daoo
Robert Lee, a Paramount direc tor, has the same name
author of
George Dog Fli Acenarist, Bancroft's "The Mighty" and a Eels, Conger brother of Rowland V. Lee, direc-
Fresh Water
tor.
Yellow
the George Arthur, head of
dif- Paramount film editors, is ferentiated from the comedy part- ner of Karl Dane, Paramount short the latter subject stars, because uses a "K" as a middle initial.
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Herrings
Kalibat
Labrus
Loach
ALL-FEMININE CAST.
Lobster
Mackerel
For the first time in the thirty- Monk Fish
being made for the Bole
of purpose returning to the United States on the Bremen's that ship maiden trip, on which set a record Across the Atlantic. She has been in Monte Carlo, Ger- many, France, England, Belgium- all of the capitals of that' country, Her apartment which she left in New York is one of the most beauti-five-year history of motion pictures, Mullet ful in the metropolis with a terracen production has been made with Oysters large enough to permit 500 guests an all-feminine cast.
Farrot Fisb at a garden party.
It is Paramount's "The Mad Perch She has never touched the stoer-Parade" which features nina, play- Fike ing wheel of an automobile, always jers; Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Plaice having been driven by a chauffeur. Louise Fazenda,, Lilyan. Tashman, Pomfret, White Her Summer homela at West-Fritzi Ridgeway, Marceline' Day, Pomfret, Mack port, Conn., where she belongs to June Clyde, and the Keating twins, Prawns an exclusive club. There, she was Not once is the face of a man Bay
akilled golfer and horseback photographed. Yot in spite of Rock Fish- rider.
this, a strong love story dominates Roch This she has turned her back the action which concerns the ad-Balman upon. In motion pictures, she ventures of an American canteen Shark- must work when needed. Extended unit behind the lines in France. vacations are few and far between Men are talked about; the backs Shrimps for motion picture players. Even of several are shown; silhouettes Snapper a short trip may be. Impossible were resorted to on one occasion! one must report for work at 9 am and male voices are heard, at times, Turbot
but the entire cast is feminine.
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