TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
SWATOW TRADING CO.
Established 1910. MANUFACTURERS OF Swatow Drawn Work
AND
Art Embroideries
ANNOUNCE
GRAND
OPENING SALE
NOW ON
AT NEW BRANCH
STORE
GLOUCESTER BUILDING
ARCADE.
SWATOW TRADING CO.
HEAD OFFICE:-6 Pedder St. Opposite Hong Kong Hotel 'Phone 23303.
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Outfitting
AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE.
PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE
SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Outfitters
64, Queen's Rd. C. Tel. 21417.
Very Nice Wenilen Materials
For
Making Ladies' DRESSES
OVERCOATS
Also FURS &
SILK
HOSIERY
Expert Tailoring
Department.
LEE MOW
Chinese Silk Hosiery Store
No. 1, D'Aguilar Street
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central: Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK, Dentist. Successors to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar 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.
Now in senson
CALIFORNIA PEARMAIN APPLES
Just Arrived $9.00 per box.
This is the most famous apple in the Orient Quality: Crisp, juley,
and sweet
highly aromatic. Excellent keeping quality. Try a box.
.
WING COFFEE CO.
Tel. 25869 139, Des Voeux Road; C.
PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodake and Cameras.
Flims, 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. 23459. 20A, Des Voeux Road, C.
LITERATURE.
BOOKS for All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery.
General Literature: Presentation Books Children's Booka 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.
Junt
arrived
A Fine
Selection
of
GENTLEMEN'S AUTUMN HÄTS.
We have also a very fine range of TIES in all the latest new Autumn colours and patterns.
WE SOLICIT· A TRIAL.
THE CENTRAL CO. 193, Des Voeux Road C. Tol 27623,
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers, No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. Copposite Queen's Theatre):
LIANG YOU
LADIES' & GENTS HAIRDRESSERS.
MR. ST. ONEN,
Expert Permanent Waver, etc. English, French & American Methods. Moderate Charges, King's Theatre Buildings. (D'Aguller 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,
'Phons 22232.
53, Queen's Road Ceni.al.
SHOES.
E.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
RADIO TOPICS
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
Jean Lensen and his
Orchestra 3919.
The following programme will 7.32-8 p.m.
Selections from the Operae play be broadcast to-day from the Honged on the Organ and Piano.
Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W.
on a wavelength of 365 metros:
5-8 p.m.-European Programme of Columbia Records.
5-6.14 p.m.-Band Selections. The Voice of the Guns (Alford), Triana (Lopez),
The Reg. Band of H. M.
Grenadier Guards 3844.
Second to None (Ord Hume), El Abanico (Javeloyes),
The Reg: Band of H. M.
Grenadier Guards 4069. 6.14-0.28 p.m-Hawailan Music. Isle of Oahu,
Waters of Waikiki,
Frank Ferers (Steel Guitar),
3745.
Dreamy Nights in Honolulu,
The Farmer's Dream,
Frank Ferera (Steel Guitar),
3744,
-5.28-5.42. p.m.---Detets. Cavatina (Raff arr. Sear), Melody in F (Rubinstein arr. Sear).
The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet
4154.
Baby's Sweetheart (Corri),
Chanson (Friml),
The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet
3897.
5.42-6.24 p.m. Variety.
Band-
The Good" Companiona-Going
Home
The Good Companiona-Slipping
Round the Corner,
Debroy Somers Band CB3309. Vocal Duet
Waiting for the Moon, Every Sunday Afternoon,
Layton and Johnstone 3856.
Piano Solo
Wagneria (Airs from Wagner), Chopinata (Airs from Chopin),
Cloment Doucet 4636. Descriptivo Duct-
Organ Solo-
..
Frederica-O Malden, My Maiden
(Lehar), Frederica-Wayside Rose (Lchar), Quentin M. Maclean DB277. Piano Solo
Rosenkawavalier-Fantasy on Love Themes (Strauss arr. Grainger),
Percy Grainger DB28. Organ Solo-
Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo
(Mascagni), Tales of Hoffman-Barcarolle
(Offenbach),
with the great distances and divor sity of tongues, found in the Indian Peninsula. All these deal with schomes for transmission, but in actual fact half the value of a Government scheme for transmis sion will be lost if a further schemo for reception in the villages is not! provided.
Radio Badly Needed.
There are thousands of villages and millions of people situated many miles from the railway and the post and telegraph offices. Such | villages have postal deliveries once or twice in the week at the most. Such newspapers as reach them are days, if not weeks, old, and probably very inaccurate. News travels main- ly by means of travellers from one Terance Casey DB120. village to another. It would be Piano Solo-
scarcely possible to imagine a more Rigoletto-Paraphrase (Verdi arr. receptive soil for wireless.
Llazt),
A beginning could be made with Irene Scharrer DB76.the big villages. In overy district,; 8 p.m.-Local Time.
and a district may be as largo as 8.3-11.30 p.m.-Relay from Ko Yorkshire, or larger, there will be, Shing Theatre,
say, six important villages. In each inatal a receiving set. Teach the village schoolmaster how to switch
11.30 p.m.-Close Down. [All records in the above European
Programmes are kindly suppll-it on. Have it overhauled and at- ed by the Anderson Music Co.1 tended to by a travelling inspector appointed by the Government, and in return for a comparatively small EMPIRE BROADCASTING.
outlay you will be able to ensure! that correct information about the Exiles Dream Of 24-Hour
acts and intentions of the Govern-
Service.
ment is being quickly disseminated throughout the outlying districts.
The Laughing Policeman Up-to-and
date,
Charles Penrose and Kaye
Connor 6582,
| Instrumental Duet~~-
A Blues Serenade,
Song
་
Cme to the Cook-house Door, The Skipper of the Mary Jane,»
Harold Williams (Baritone)
4886. 624-7.18 p.m.-A Concert. Piano Solo-s
Country Gardens (Grainger). Shepherd's Hey (Grainger),
Percy Grainger D1664.
the
CHILD PRODIGIES,
of
the
!
London, Sept. 22.
Every village has its guest house, Some time ago important decisions and in the evenings the men of the were reached about 20 Empire village gather outalde it under a broadcasting station. These were shady banyan tree and discuss the greeted with acclamation by all, and crops, politics, etc., just as is the one had dreams of a twenty-four- custom of men all over the world. hour service on wave-lengths suit-Put your set and loudspeaker there, able to the time of day, says D. B. and it will instantly become the Mackenzie in the September issue of centre of the circle. Modern Wireless.
The Indian peasant may be Alas, they remain but dreams illiterate, but he is no fool in the No doubt files are passing from important affairs of life. Place, office to office, plans being drawn therefore, at his right hand, up-to- "submitted. for approval, date and accurate news, and, pro- ploase," but in the meantime we vided the Government is wise, you Indian exiles, whose other troubles can be morally certain of a loyalį have been figuring largely in the and contented peasantry, able to
argumenta Press, are worse off as regards counter broadenating than we have been for agitator. Len Fills and Bid Bright, some years past. G5SW continueu Banjo Solo
to pursue ita inprogressive and, so Butterfingers,
far as India is concerned, almost Len Fillis 4920, useless policy of relaying the Lon- Inadequate don programme. with power on an unsuitable wave-length. Of child musical prodigies the Philips Radio of Holland, who world has known many--as child used to be our main stand-by when prodigies-but very few of them we wished to show off the capabili | grow into manhood and still re- ties of our set to a sceptical friend, main great composers or great ex- have ceased transmissions on the ceutant musicians. I suppose the 16-metre band wave-length, which two greatest child prodigies in the used to be received so well in India, past were Mozart and Franz Liszt, world-famous and has greatly curtailed its pro and both became grammes on its 31-metre band wave artists in manhood. In our
day, no doubt, my readers can re- Chelmsford Only Occasionally. member many cases of child prodi- Rome, on 25.4 metres, is well gles who performed wonders on received, but at a late hour in the, the violin or the pianoforte, but of evening; and Java can still be re-whom, since growing up, the world ceived at great strength, often has heard, but little. without any aerial, but transmits To-night we have an opportunity
of hearing a pianist who began as į Д child prodigy, and who now, grown to manhood, has de- voloped also into A .great
I planist.
am referring to Solomon, who will play that magni- ficent Concerto No. 2 in C minor by Rachmaninov at the Promenade Concert this evening. The concert will be relayed from the Daventry National station and from the Lon- don Regional station. I think most of my readers who are fond of music will have heard this converto before. It is one which somehow or other never seems to grow stale,
At ten o'clock, via the Daventry station, we shall also hear the B.B.C.' attempt of putting into practice a new technique for broad- casting poetry. This new technique aims at proving that wireless is a suitable medium for poetry. Under the title "Mosaic" listeners will hear
Song
Softly Awakes My Heart (Saint-length.
Saens),
Homing (Salmon and del Riego), Muriel Brunskill (Contralto)
3328R.
Violin Solom
The Phantom Melody (Ketelbey), Algerian Scene (Ketelbey),
Albert Sandler 9863.
Chorus-
O Peaceful Night (German), O Hush Thee, My Babie
Ittle music.
When Chelmsford has a special transmission on hand, such as the Grand National, or the Boat Race, It can generally be heard. I have a suspicion that the engineers res The Salisbury Singers 4298. ponsible say one to the other: "Let's Piano Solo-
La Companella (Liszt),
Song-
(Sullivan),
Edgar Coyle (Baritone)
'Cello Solo-
Own
give these colonials a treat and hang the budget?" and "ginger up" Mischa Lovitzki 250-M. the power a bit on such occasions.
Actually what we want is newa, Til I Wake (Woodforde-Finden),, sent out at various times to suit our The Kashmiri Song (Woodforde- our oriental habits. It should not
Finden),
be forgotten that on the North- West Frontier, in the Winter, Euro- 1665R.pean hours and clothes are the rule, while in Madras the climate does Sonata in G Major-Vivace (Sar- not vary greatly from Winter to Summer, and the chief meals of the martini arr. Moffat),
frequently "brunch" at Allegretto (Boccherini-Kreisler), day are
Antoni Sala 4258. about 11 a.m. and dinner at 9 p.m. 7.18-7.32 p.m.-Orchestral.
Therefore, to meet the needs of Paysage (Hahn),
all a twenty-four-hour service is necessary, with frequent repetitions of the news. When I say "all," this experiment, in which music and mean not only all in India, but also noctry are to be combined to express those farther East, and those far-and interpret various moods. It is ther West.
an experiment which will have im- portant effects on the programmes of the future if it proves successful.
London Daily Telegraph.
Pair
L'Heure Exquise (Hahn),
Jean Lensen and his Orchestra
4011,
Black or Brown Shoes from 16.00. Black or Brown Boots from $8.00. Children's Boots or Shoes from $2,00,
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a speciality. WONG SIU WOON
Phone 21474.
21, Pottinger St.
SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC
GOODS
AT
THE LIANG YOU CO.
70, Queen's Road Central.
Second Serenade (Toselli arr.
Gach!), Chanson Hindoue (Song of India Articles have been appearing in
Rimsky-Korsakow
arr. Kreis- the Indian Press recently outlining schemes of broadcasting to cope
ler),
THE STANDARD OF THE BUSINESS WORLD.
The five point decimal tabulator greatly Increases the speed of exacting work, such as ledger writing, billing and statistical work where amounts must be writ». ten in columns.
The Crowning Achievement of the Typewriter
Leader of the World.
The five keys are just above the numeral keys, where they are oasi- est and quickest to reach. Carrl- age speed in tabulating is govern- ed by an automatic brake,
"THE NEW UNDERWOOD STANDARD
TYPEWRITER, MODEL _No. 6.
Sole Agents:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Bldg.
Tel. 28021.
SHIRTS.
The representative of Messrs. TOYO
MURAKAMI, of Shanghai,
takes orders for Shirts at
MESSRS. KOMOR & KOMOR'S
Art Rooms, Chater Road. Samples of Silk, Crepe and Cotton Shirts
will be shown for
ONE WEEK ONLY.
KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE.
HOME,
FACTORY
AND
BUNKERS
ياد
POWER
HOUSE,
TUGS &
LOCOS
For Price Apply to
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.
COMING SOON TO THE KING'S.
DADDY
GAYNOR LONG
LEGS
WARNER BAXTER
MAN LOONG. PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.
NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER Best quality-Prompt, altention to Exporters. Office-Z, Dundas Street, Kowloon." Tel. 67088. Factory:-2 Godown, Praya, Dundas Street, Mangkok
JANET