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NEW PRODUCTION BY A.D. C.
"Nine Till Six” To Be Presented.
TALE OF REAL LIFE
The forthcoming production by the A.D.C. of this highly success- ful diversion in three acts by Aimes and Philip Stuart possesses
as re-
unusual interest inasmuch as it is an "all-ladies" cast. If for no other reason, it is unique in the The local dollar gained and
history of the A.D.C., for was quoted at 1/3 this morning.
cently as the early eighties all Silver prices, spot and forward gained a further 1/16, opening this 30 Industrials 66.04 54.26 1.78 down female characters in Hong Kong 20 Rails.....26.81 25.99 82 down amateur productions were imper- morning at 16 15/16 and 17, re- 20 Utilities.23.69 23.03
66 down sonated by men. 10 Bonde....78.51 77.89 spectively.
Mesars. E. A. Pierce & Co. Re-
The London on New York cross;
rate gained a fraction being quoted
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EXCHANGES.
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On London-
T.T.
On demand
4 months' sight.. 1/3 Credits 4 months'
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done: 860,000 shares.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.
IMPERIAL
FRADIO PREFERENCE
·TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will] ba broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (945 K.Cs)-
“ILLUSORY”
Wisdom Of British Policy Doubted.
AMERICA THE SUFFERER. 4.30-7 pmChinese recorded pro-Washington, District of Columbia.
Doubt whether the Ottawa - Con- Bandference agreements in the long run will react to the benefit of the Bri- tish Empire was expressed in a re- port made recently by the Foreign Policy Association,
7-10.30 p.m.-European programme.
& 7.7.20 p.m...Orchestra!
Music. Teddy Beards' Pichic (Bratton)
Novelty Orchestra. The Toymaker's Dream (Golden)
Debroy Somers Band 2720-D. The Language of the Nightingale
(Gennin)
The Jolly Whistler (Gennin) Bournemouth Municipal Orch, DB178. Pizzicato Pierrette (Gennin) There is no reason to doubt that;
Valse dem Mascottes (Gennin)
7.20 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quo« tations, Selected London & New York Stock Quotations, etc. 7-30-8 P
and stage-
port:-Liquidation is still present the good ladies of the spacient and we would not attempt to an-days were not lacking in talent Silver or wanting in energy and it may which is ticipate2:31A completion.
rules strong on Washington news therefore be reasonably assumed that the House Sub-Committee that the reputation for raffishness would report this week to the full associated in olden times with committee on the so-called Silver "rogues, vagabonds Colnage Bill. Despatches claim players' dled a rather more linger- that the Bill has a fair chance of ing death in Hong Kong than in passing the House. Business other less sophisticated places in the East. It is not very difficult to Last To-day's Visualise the versatile performers that period
accommodating Price Price of
.3 $ themselves to the frills and fur- 55%
55
belows of the seventies and even to the tempestuous petticoats of the eighties. It is not so easy to contemplate present day amateura impersonating modiste apprentices wearing their simple souls outside their silken lingerie-as in "Nine Till Six"
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HONG KONG HEIGHTS
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Oglesbe Сироварии
MESIN
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LONDON EXCHANGES.
Paria New York Montreal Brussels
London, Yesterday.
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8.44%
4.142
24 17/32
17.70
14.39
Amsterdam
67%
30 Nom.
Geneva Berlin
Milan Vienna
Stockholm Copenhagen Madrid Montevideo Oslo Athena
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33 Nom.
19,54
605
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580
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227
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1154
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2522
110
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Hong Kong
1/3
1/2%
Lisbon
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Shanghai
Yokohams
1/6*5/82
1/8/
South Africa, 99%-100% per
£100 sterling.
Bliver Spot ...... 16/16/18 Silver Forward 17
...99.
War Loan 8%%
-British Wireless Service
ex dividend.
It is well therefore that times have changed and that the A.D.C.) woof our age, if still not quite 52% 18 respectable, is yet permitted to do 124 Its best. The cynic may still speculate on the awful possibility that a generation hence an "all- male" cast like "Journey's · End" will be filled by feminine and falminating sergeant-majora and seductive soldiery with sex appeal. Who knows? Time bring its rovenges. The imaginative world comes down to realities in cycles and, after all, 'le not the theatre the most real thing in the world?
30 Years Of Plays. The A.D.C. has presented to ne problems of unreality aplenty he cause we want to be intrigued and amused,
From "Charley's Aunt" to "The Middle Watch" we have seen a kaleidoscope of fascinating fairies dodging in and out of olher people's bedrooms and bath- rooms-the plot- that never changes, but never fails the box office. We have trodden new paths on the through magle woods and living A profit of $600,151.40 year's working, is shown in the re-dreams, with "Dear Brutus" and port of the Dairy Farm, Ice and raised our corrugated brows at the Cold Storage Co. Ltd, to be present diseased Impressionism of "Art! ed at the 37th ordinary yearly meet-and Mrs. Bottle." We have seen Ing which is to be held on March through thirty years a' dress parade. of ghosts belonging to Henry 1, at 11a.m.
The directors propose to pay a Arthur Jones and A. W. Pinero and dividend of $1.50 and a bonus of we have even, thank God, survived 25 cents on each of 250,000 shares, to slabber over Bernard Shaw, the absorbing $437,500. In addition, it only real humanist of them all. ls proposed to add $100,000 to the How he must laugh!. cattle reserve, and to carry for- ward $62,651.40.
DAIRY FARM CO.
Profit of $600,151.40 Shown.
SHARE MARKET.
Bournemouth Municipal Orch. DB261.
Sonals for 'Cello and Plano
(Ireland)
are
Many of the benefits that (supposed to be derived from the Im- perial agreements are largely illus ory in the opinion of Maxwell S. Stowart, Research expert, who pre-
pared the report. In many cases, he believes, the existing tariffs in the Dominions are so high that even after a reduction has been granted, the British producer still will be Antoni Sala (Cello) and John Ireland unable to sell profitably in the Do-
(Piano) L2314-L2317. minion market. 18 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-
port.. 8.3-8.35 p.m.-Instrumental. Violin Solo—
Czardas (Monti) Madrigale (Simonetti)
Song-
Yvonne Curt! 6290.
She Wandered Down the Mountain
Side (Stephenson & Clay) Peer Gynt Solveig's Song
(Dickinson & Greig)
Octet
Dora Labbette (Soprano) 9577.
Memories of Devon (Evana) Collette (Fraser-Simson)
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet DE281. Song--
The Mikado-Tit Willow (Gilbert & Sullivan)
The Mikado A More Humanu
Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan) Harold
Williams (Baritone) DB180.
Piano Solo-
"The only result likely is to be a diversion of a certain amount of [trade from the United States and foreign nations, without increasing the total amount of trade," the re- port says, "but this will only mean intensification of competition of the world markets which will roact against British and Dominion ex- ports. Costs of production will tend įto be pegged at a relatively high level within the empire because of the new duties and the reduction of British purchases in foreign coun- Itries must inevitable lead to at
least a similar decline in the Bri-- tish products sold abroad.”
"While it is generally admitted that the gains in inter-Imperial Songs Without Words (Mendelssohn) (trade will in many cases, be at the Op. 88. No. 0 in A Flat Major expense of American exports, at-. Songs Without Words (Mendelssohn) tempts to divert trade by artificial- Op, fi3, No. 2 in E Flat Major
Ignaz Friedman 2719-D.ly imposed barriers are frequently 8.85-9.15 p.m.
not as effective aa is expected," the ' Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of report declares, American losses
Spring) (Igor Stravinsky) Igor Stravinsky conducting the Orch. Symphonique (of Paris)
9.15-10.28 p.m-Variety. Song--
When It's Springtime in the Rockies "Hobo Jack Turner (Baritone) Dancing With Tears in my Eyes
Ruth Elting (Comed.) DB218. Organ Solo-
are considerably Icar than $150,000,- 000 (£30,000,000 at par) worth of LX110-LX123,{trade by the new duties.
The Ottawa agreements, it is sug- gested, represent a theory of trade development which lies midway be- twich the extreme of economic na- tionalism and that of full interax- tlonal economic co-operation, In view of the fact that the nation has Terance Casey DB200, proved to be too small to be de-
veloped as a self-contained econo- (→ mle unit, many authorities, it is
Moonbeams Dance Ragamuffin Romeo
Vocal Doct
One Day Beware of Love
Orchestral-
Laylon & Johnstone DB221. said, have suggested that groups of nations, linked either by political Falling in Love Again Farewell. I Kiss Your Hand
or regional ties, be combined to
Albert Sandler & His Orch. DB246. form such a unit. Ottawa le view- ed as the most ambitious undertak- Humorous Song
What Would Mr. Gladstone Say to ling of this type to date.
That?
Considerable doubt is expressed That Rests Entirely With Me
Norman Long DB185, in the report, however, whether the xylophone Solo-
agreements will aid in the solution The Dancing Tailor
of the problems before the World The Clatter of the Clogs
Rudy Starita DB247. Economic Conference. It is point
ed out that Great Britain's possible Įtariff concessions to foreign coua- tries are restricted for a period of Layton & Johnstone DB168.ve years on more than a quarter Humorous Monologue-
of Britain imports.
Vocal Duct
The Sunshine of Marsellies Sittin' on a Rainbow
Mr. Potter's Sporting Broadcast
Gillie Potter DB168. Piano Solo-
Have You Forgotten? Helen-Selection
"Whether it will be possible at the forthcoming world conference to reconcile the development of Billy Mayerl DB777. | regionalism and the realities of in- |ternational interdependence in un- known," the report concludes, but "the final answer to this question Kit Keen DB229. depends on whether these regional Old Time Comedians-Vocal
Memories
Now comes the A.D.C. to present to us "Nine Till Six," something quite different-something of real ille. No slapstick farce, but the simple tale of a soulless business
Song- -the veneer of the semi-snobbish
1.May be Crazy The official summary of the salcalady-the vague bohemianisma My Little Octoroon Stock Exchange issued yesterday. of the basement changing-room---
To all intents and purposes the!!
the petty jealousies of the very Songs-- market may be said to be closed, petty, but, very lovable nitwita who owing to the Races, but a few par-pose as mannequins before equally| cels of Cements did change hands brainless but more fortunately- at round about $7. chiefly for circumstanced patrons. forward delivery.
Sales
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Buyers. Douglases $301⁄2 H. K. Steamboats $22. Chinese Estates $95. Electrics $74.
Govt. Loans 4% Prem.
Sellers
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News, 10.80 p.mClose Down.. All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by Mesurs. Anderson Music Co.
.It is all there. All the humanf- ties, some of the frailties and most of the silken underwear-and because most of us are human.
The Studio programme between 5.50 because some of us are frail and & 7.18 p.m. may, on any day be replac- because all of us wear flannel nexted by a relay from England, if recep to our skin we may confidently tion of the latter bappens to be good. “ predict a full house at King's
Theatre on the opening night 14th March and for two succeeding: nights thereafter...
GANDHI HELPS THE LANGUAGE.
Mahatma Figures In Year's Similes.
A New York.
Thanks to Mahatma Gandhi, the
M
CHEQUES FOR THE BLIND.
New York. The first cheque ever written in "braille," the raised-dot-and- COUNTRIES ~WITH | |dash writing of the blind, has THE MOST CRIME. been cashed recently by the Bank of Manhattan. This acceptance marks a forward step of the first
Ceylon Ranks Next To America And Italy.
Colombo.
importance for the blind and their financial problems, according to, the author of the experiment, Mr. Smith.
Mr. Augustine J. Smith, who “With the exception, of America is a member of the Board of
1982 simila crop is abundant. The and Italy, the most criminal coun-Managers of the New York In author of a “dictionary of similes" ay on the world to-day is Ceylon, stitute for the Education for the and champion simile-gleaner of but my bellef is that Ceylon will Blind, had the cheque drawn in America, has just made public his era long beat America and Italy in braille, signed it, and presented selection of the best ones of the this respect, and take frnt place in to the bank. There was some the criminal world" remarked. Bir hesitation in paying it, sinco D. K. Jayetilaka, leader of the braille can only be read by those Ceylon State Council, at a village who have studied sta
Officials for the bank allast committee meeting at Ingiriya,
decided that the cheque was Ceylan.
Bir D. E. Jayetilaka was referring “writing signed by the maker? to the frequent murders which ac and that braille is writing" or
Gandhi #gures, in a lot of them,
such as:
"Busfer than Gandhi slapping at Alles.
"Ridiculous as Gandhi In
Rs Gandhi took-cur in Ceylon, Pointing out that, printing" within the legal mean. learned people from all over the ing of those forma, The use of world come to Ceylon to study Bad-brails in writing cheque," It is dhism, he declared that the fore: pointed out, is the only protecti Ugnar was at once confronted, not available to the blind, since
peaceful blind parson signing “an ordinary,
iminals. cheque cannot know what be written thereon Beuter
1