1933
DOLLAR DIRECTORY NOW ON SALE
at
3a, Wyndham Street.
KING'S THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY —-—-~~~-
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
4 SHOWS
DAILY
7.16—8.00
"
“Marry me.......
So I can get some
sleep!"
"When did you wake up?"
Spencer TRACY
at his wisecracking best Joan BENNETT goes comedienne
in
Me and My Ga
Mario Burne George Walsh FOX PICTURE.
-TO-MORROW ---
A Delightful Comedy-Romance -just right for the
whole family
HANDLE WITH CARE
with
James DUNN Boots MALLORY
EL BRENDEL
BUSTER PHELPS Screenplay by FRANK CRAVEN and SAM MINTI Directed by DAVID BUTLER FOX Picture
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ORIENTAL
NOW SHOWING
FLEMING
BOAD
WANOMAI
TIEL. 184726
FEW DAYS ONLY,
THE MOST SENSATIONAL CHINESE PICTURE EVER MADE
"THE LOVE DEBT”
IN CANTONESE DIALECT
WITH
LAI MING FAI
THE PRINCIPAL WITNESS OF THE FUNG MURDER CASE.
HER LIFE STORY
DEPICTING
A MOST THRILLING TRIANGULAR LOVE AFFAIR
FREE TO EVERY PATRON
A PHOTOGRAVURE
OF MISS LAI MING-FAI
A PICTURE OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO EUROPEANS
FAST, SNAPPY AND PASY TO UNDERSTAND.
PRICES TO ALL PERFORMANCES
STALLS
FRONT 20C. MIDDLE 30c.
STALLS
BACK STALLS
50¢.
DRESS CIRCLE
80c.
The
China Mail.
AMERICA'S
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933.
SLUMP IN
PROFITS
Decline Of 75 Per Cent. In 1932.
52 CONCERNS INCREASE PROFITS
New York, The net profits of 375 corporations whose annual reports have been compiled by the National City. Bank of New York showed a decline of 76 per cent. in 1932 as compared with the previous
year.
BASEBALL
GUNBOAT SEARCH MAMMOTH
FOR PIRATES. Customs Launch Outrage.
JADE, JEWELLERY,
PEARLS, DIAMONDS. Largest stock best quality
GREAT CHINA TREASURE.
#54a, Queen's Road C. Tel. 27684.
光華公司大道中五十四號
SCORING QUEENS THEATRE
Sam Jones Fails As Star Pitcher.
RAIN HOLDS UP NATIONAL
New York, To-day. Chicago registered a big triumph
NO TRACE OF RAIDERS.
H. M. S. Tarantula was dea patched to Pin Cheung Island, from Kongmoon, yesterday, to search for the pirates, who, on Monday at tacked the Chinese Maritime Cus tems launch Chenan, killing two yesterday when they beat Detroit European officers Mr. E. E. Pierce Tigers by 12 to 0. Sam Jones, the Tigers' new pitcher proved very and Mr. W. G. B. Baldwin.
The
gunboat arrived at Chuk disappointing.
and Chan, yesterday afternoon,
Rain again held up play in the! there met a Chinese gunboat, National League, the games be- which supplied Information regard-¡tween Brooklyn and Boston and St. Louis and Cincinnati being ing the scene of the piracy.
H. M. 8. Tarantula then steamed cancelled. down an unsurveyed reach of the The following were the results "A preliminary summary of the reports of 376 industrial West River, a very clever piece of as cabled by Reuteri
National League. corporations, for the fiscal calen seamanship, and arrived opposite dar year 1932, shows," says the Pin Cheung Island, where the out- bank, "a combined net profit rage had taken place.
Nothing was seen of the pirates, after all charges but before divi-
and as there was nothing more to Pittsburgh dends, and after deducting the be done in this vicinity, the Tar- deficits, of $56,000,000 compared antula returned to her station this Philadelphia with $226,000,000 for the same morning.
companies in 1931, representing
a decline of 75 per cent.
WEATHER FORECAST
"Deficits for the year were shown by 55 per cent. of the re- ports tabulated to date, and ‘ag- gregated $151,000,000 while in 1931 deficits were reported by 36 per cent. and aggregated to-day, | $97,000,000. A few companies did better in 1932 than in 1931.
"Our records show 52 con-
TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
I 9
ONLY
GARBO
can
make
love as
Garbo
does in
AS YOU DESIRE ME
R. H. E.
New York
3 4
,0
G. Davis hit a homer.
2. 10
0
I
2
Suhr hit a homer. Chiengo
3
American League,
Boston Washington
.6 10
1
4.
12 16
0
7
8.
0 5
2
1 € 1
in
Philadelphia
1 3 01
New York
2
3
Moderate south-east winds; cloudy generally, is the weather forecast! issued from the Royal Observatory
Chicago
Kress hit a homer. Detroit
Cleveland
cerns reporting an increase in small and not the leading and re- St. Louis profits, or a deficit changed to a presentative
organisations
net profit, but for the most part their respective industries." these companies are relatively Reuter.
SHOWING
TO-DAY &
TOMORROW
AT
2.30, 5.16
7.15 & 9.30.
DEAD
3,000
YEARS-
ALIVE
TODAY!
CENTRAL
THEATRD
IT COMES TO LIFE!
Story by lea
and Klakate Bahayer Pro
Leemale, Jr,
trend, Fre Carl Loui
A UNVIRAL
· PICTURE
ADVANCE BOOKING AT
ANDERSON'S.
STARTING FRIDAY,
SCREEN'S FAVORITE TWO-FISTED STAR
A
flame
radiant,
of
mystic desire.
many
wanted
men
her, but to only one did she give all of herself!
A strange, com- pelling romance, with Garbo mag- nificently at her
peak!
GARBO
A noted cast
supports the star including:
MELVYN DOUGLAS ERICH VON
STROHEIM
OWEN MOORE
› Mera Goldwyn-Mayer
BIOTURE
directed by
GEORGE
FITZMAURICE.
FOR YOUR ADDED ENJOYMENT-
IN
ZASU
THELMA TODD "LETS DO THINGS" PITT
TO-MORROW.
He tasted the sweets of love and plumbed the depths of despair!
MAJESTIC
**TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
RICHARD DIX IN A STORY OF THE CHAIN GANGS TOLD IN ALL ITS BRUTAL, FAS-
CINATING POWER.
SO THIS IS AMERICAL men hack
where nameles
at mountains in the broiling sun, and the make whip falls on the back of the man who
RICHARD
DIX
brings up the screen the
--The cranialias mmary of your terday becomes the fighting MAM at Inday--bat- King rendern ode ance with the black art of a
ZITA JOHANN
buried past in hôn David Manners :
frenzied sourds
for his last lovpå
Kévind You Hom
mid
KARLOFF
MUMMY
A LOVE THAT DEFIED TIME & DEATH RISING FROM THE DUST OF PHAROAH'S TOMB TO HAUNT, BEWILDER & ALMOST DRAG TO HER DOOM A BEAUTIFUL GIRL OF TO-DAY !
BAYER
BOYD
Fighting a game battle for honor and love in the big woods!
CARNIVAL BOAT
• Fed KOBLEN
Hobie BOSWORTH Diger ROGERS
Directed by
Albert Kogeli
Action! Laughs!' Thrills!
RKOPATHE PICTURI
Cresival
s indispensable in cough and
respiratorY
troubles
MICHAEL FERRIER
She was the
one
he loved
but she had given herself,
to another
ROMA
"In a Monastery Garden"
TO-DAY
ONLY
STAR
RALPH LYNN
At 2,30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9,20.
The Chance of a Night-Time
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