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4th floor, MORNINGS ONLY from 10.a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRES
-Room 412.
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THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF ENTERTAINME
NEXT
A Broadway musical show with the most beautiful girls in the world and ⚫ baffling mystery story combined. The acrean's first musical mystery!
EARL CARROLL'S
"MURDER
AT THE
VANITIES
with the MOST BEAUTIFUL
QIRLS IN THE WORLD,
EDMUND LOWE—VICTOR MCLAGLEN
IN
CHANGE "NO MORE WOMEN "
DELY
$.90–$.10
140-830
with SALLY BLANE—MINNA GOMBELL
FARRANT TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUB-
ORIENTA
Paramount
Picture.
PLEME
ROAD
WARONAS
TEL 20472
2 MORE DAYS TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.
A MOST SPECTACULAR
MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW.
JOSEPH M
China Mail.
NINETIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1934.
JAPANESE
IMITATION
MATCHES
Chinese Firm In Trouble.
'TRADE MARK RESEMBLANCE
TO SWEDISH MAKE
OPTIONAL FINE FOR "POLICEMEN.” Must Pay $150 Or Go
To Gaol.
BICYCLE SHOP
FRAUDED
False Address Given By Hirer.
Hui Fong, a 22-year-old unem-
An optional fine of $150 each was granted this morning to Chanployed, was sentenced to six Shing and Hung Yat-cho, two un-weeks hard labour by Mr. E. I employed men, who were each Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma- aentenced to two montha' hard la-gistracy this morning for stealing "It is possible that the Japanese bour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen2 blcycle, valued at $45 on At- jare manufacturing these imitation at the Central Magistracy on Sa-gust 25.
It was stated that the defendant matches, and flooding the China turday morning, when they were
convicted on a charge of impar-hired the bicycle from a shop at market with them," remarked Mr.sonating police officers to arrest a No. 21 Chatham Road" for an
E. W. Hamilton at the Central woman whom they alleged had hour. Magistracy this morning, in impos-distributed po piu lottery in Queen's Road Central..
ing a fine of $50 on Wong Wing- sing, manager of the Wong Wing
When he did not return tickets that evening the manager of the shop went and reported it to the police, who went to the address which the defendant had left at
Sing firm, of No. 61. Des Voeux 'CANADIAN BEAVER' Road West, who was summoned by
the Swedish Chinese Export and Import Coo., Ltd., for having at the Kowloon Godown boxes of matches to which a forged trade mark, so! nearly resembling the trade mark
FOR CHINA.
To Be Placed On Coastal Service.
The "Canadian Beaver" a
of the Jonkopings Och Vulcans steamer of 2.401 tons, formerly in the service of the Canadian Tansticksfabriksaktiebolag and Com-Government Merchant Marine pany, Sweden, of which firm the plying the Western Atlantic will complainants were agents.
shortly be sailing Chinese Defendant was also ordered to coastal waters. pay $150 costs,
the shop which was No. 118 Wuhu
Street, only to find that the address was a false one.
On enquiries being made it was found that he lived at No. 16 Ma Tau Wai Street. When the police entered the house they found the bicycle on the verandah.
CAT MISTAKEN FOR BOMB.
City Fathers Hoaxed
In Miskolc.
Budapest,
There was consternation in the
The boat was recently pur Mr. Hamilton further sald that chased by a noted operator of this was the third case in three Chinese coastal shipper, and will to its new home. years in which Japanese Imitation shortly sail matches had been found in the The Canadian Beaver which will Colony, and he told defendant to now be renamed was built in Town Hall of Miskolc when a young write to bis connection in Japan and 1920 at a ship-building plant at man rushed into the Mayor's room tell them that he had been in Collingwood on the Great Lakes and in a trembling voice said thero
system in Canada. ¡trouble.
was a bomb in one of the rooms,
An explosives expert was urgent-] ly summoned, and the yellow parcel from which a fuse was seen dang-| ling, was cautiously undone..
And then there was a sudden yell
Sergeant T. J. Hemsley, in evid- ence, said that on the complaints of Mr. H. A. Pearson, Manager of the Swedish, Chinese Import, and Export Co., Ltd., a search Was made at the Kowloon Godown, and Wreath-Laying In Tiny and a large cat jumped out of the
120 ting of the matches were seized
on August 14.
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, of Messrs. Hastings and Company, represented the complainants, while defendant was unrepresented.
The 8.3. Talma will leave Amoy for this port to-morrow afternoon, and is due here on Thursday after
noon.
SCHENCK presenÍS,
CONSTANCE
BENNETT**
DARYL F. ZANUCK produstien
MOULIN ROUGE
20TH
CENTURY
PICTURE
with FRANCHOY TONE. Relumiem" ikINGUNITED ARTIST
BIG BEAUTY CHORUS, hundreds of pretty girls per- fectly trained in intricate dance routines by the ori ginator of the famous Roxyette dancers of the N.Y.
Radio City Music Hall.
SENSATIONAL SONG HITS, "Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams,"
"Song of Surrender."
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW
--
AUSTRIA'S IRISH HERO
Village.
Vienna.
"bomb" and bolted through the open wiridów.
Somebody in Miskole, had been "pulling the lags" of the City
A wreath was laid on the O'Brien Fathers-Reuter. monument at Schwartzlackenau,
near Krems, Lower Austria, when
the Austrian 49th. Regiment cele of fortune who came to Austria brated the 125th. anniversary of during the Napoleonic Wars, and the battle fought there.
distinguished himself by his, valour O'Brien was a young Irish soldier'in that engagement.—Router.
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WASN'T it a great depression
JOE E.
until
BROWN
You Said a
GINGER ROGERS "FARINA”
of Our Genfant
Loaded with puIAMO AN
brand as the stan's facial
*Halled Hamid
Mouthful
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COMMENCING THURSDAY
Another Gaumont British Ufa
Success!
A delightful performance by the Gay, Winsome, Provocative English Star ! A Gay Romance
Set to Lilting Song and Music l
A good successor to
"SUNSHINE SUSIE?
Another Gaumont British
Ufa. Success.
AT
THE
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY.
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 P.M.
“TONIGHT I AM GOING TO :
KILL A MAN”
He Told the Police, Brought Them to the Scene of the Crime, Showed Them the Victim Alive. and They Were Powerless
to Prevent
CRIME
OF THIS
CENTURY
JEAN HERSHOLT WYNNE GIBSON
STUART ERWIN
FRANCES DEE
BP.SCHULBERG
Production
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The Last Achievement of the Late Great Artist.
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BARRYMORE
THE SWEETHEART
CHRISTOPHER
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