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THE HONG KONG
DOLLAR DIRECTORY
obtainable at all Booksellers and
Book Stalls in Hong Kong & Kowloon
or the offices of the publishers.
3A, WYNDHAM STREET.
KINGS
SHOWING TO-DAY.
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.39 P.M.
1910
1935
THE SPECIAL FILM OF THE GLORIOUS AND EVENTFUL REIGN OF THEIR MAJESTIES
KING GEORGE V and QUEEN MARY
NEXT CHANGE
4 SHOWS
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"ROYAL JUBILEE
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"NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS" With Alan Mowbrary-Florine McKinney Peggy Shannon-Richard Carle
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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
ANOTHER DOUBLE
FEATURE SHOW!
TE are still presenting the same high quality enter
Wtainment ass in the past, our summer prices are still
lower than any other first class theatre.
MORE FOR YOUR MONEY THAN EVER BEFORE!
JIMMY
DURANTE
CHARLES
BUTTERWORTH
TIAN
LAUREL
DIEN
HARDY
IN THEIR FUNNIEST COMEDY
STUDENT
TOUR "OLIVER VIII."
New Prices:-Matinees 20c--30c. Evenings 20c.-35c,-55c.
MAJESTIC
China Mail
NINETY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1935.
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NORMANDIE TRIALS
HOPEI GOVERNMENT TO MOVE SEAT
(Continued from Page 1s dining rooms are planned to recap-Transferring To Paoting light into a 75.000-ton cross-section ture the atmosphere of the little) of the French capital, with its Paris restaurants. luxurious hotels and apartments,
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ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL
4t End Of Month
Peiping. its shops and promenades, its parks There is a spacious theatre, with)
Preparations being nearly and gardens, its aidewalk cafe ter-stage and cinema equipment com- races, its theatres, its cathedrals, parable to any in the French capi-complete, the. Hopel Provincial and its inimitable atmosphere of tal. The principal swimming pool Government will start its re Parisian "chic."
is 25 metres long and 6 metres moval to Paoting at the end of More monumental and imposing wide, while a smaller outdoor pool this month. The Departments of even than the reception halls of for tourists has a sand beach over-Education and Reconstruction palatial Paris hotel are the Nor-looking the ocean and reminiscent will first.. be removed, when the Departments of Civil Affairs and mandie's hall and grand salon. De-jof Paria-Plage! coruted in the modern manner, with Finally, for the children of an Finance will follow Ruit--Che abundant use of marble, mirror, ages, the mirth-producing Punch-kiai Agency. lacquer and enamel, they give anand-July shows - "Guignols" —— almost overwhelming impression which form an integral part of
of vastness and splendour,
LUXURIOUS SUITES
الا
youthful Paris in the Luxembourg Gardens and the Champs Elysees,
CHINA WANTS RETURN
OF WANG KUM IS.
[Continued from. Page 1. The cabins of the ship-at least have been reproduced aboard the
Normandie.. Both the first-class It was stated that Wang Kum for-the-first-class passengers-may be said to have been dispensed with and tourist passengers will have was not included within the und replaced by apartments and play rooms equipped with Guignol boundary of Macao by treaty and. coukl not be claimed by another! rooms from the most modern Paris theatres.
30-KNOT AVERAGE
power,
homes and hotels. There' are Containing all these essential ele Dr. Kan Chia-hou, now special
numerous suites constituting verit-1
ments of France's capital, the Nor-delegate of the Ministry of For- able "flats" or apartments, with onemandie is necessarily large. Its eign Affairs, has been investigat
or two double bedrooms, dining length over all is 1029 feet (313 ing the matter for some time room, salon and bathroom. Design-metres) and its width 121 feet and has discovered new evidence ed and executed by different lend-
ing Parisian decorators, all the 600 metres), It is thus con- to show that the island is part siderably longer than the Effel and parcel of the Republic of cabins, both first class and tourist, Tower and wider than the Avenue China. It is said that Dr. Kan 'are believed to set a new standard
Its total weight of will shortly take up negotiations! de l'Opera. in beauty, roominess and comfort. 75,000 tons is seven and
half with Macad for the recovery of There are accommodations for 730 times that of the steel Eiffel Wang Kum Island. first-class passengers, 680 tourist Tower.
and 660 third-class
which, with the crew of 1320, brings the total number of persons Jon board to nearly 3500.
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passengers, Engines totalling 160,000 horse- power will give it an average speed of about 30 knots. The transatlan tie trip will be made in less than five days, so that the Normandle
TUILERIES GARDENS
A bit of the Talleries Gardens, will leave, either Cherbourg or New with their formal beauty of flower-York every week. bed and fountain, and a corner of
per-
CARDINALS COMEBACK IN BASEBALL
(Continued From Page 1) Only one American League game featured yesterday's play, White- head, of the Chicago White Sox, blanking the Senators.
The remaining games were post- poned owing to rain.
The National League encounter between Chicago and Philadelphia was also postponed owing to rain. RESULTS American League
4 Washington
J. Whitehead pitched,
4 : 6 Chicago"
Tables To Date AMERICAN LEAGUE
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS the exotic Jardin des Plantes inj Particular attention has been Paris, have been transplanted, to paid to safety, and experts have form the Normandie's winter gar-pronounced the Normandie as fire- [den. Gracefully oval in shape, this proof as any ship of its type can be ¡innovation contains parterres, per- Professional firemen will be
golas, foundiains and flowers,petusily on duty aboard the liner, plants and grass plots, vines, aided by every automatic device nviaries and vistas cunningly am-known for preventing, detecting plified by mirrors and glass-panel-Land" extinguishing fire
on ship Ied walls
All possible technical precautiona a grill room and restaurant open-have likewise been taken to add to Ing out onto a terrace which repro-the security and efficiency of the duces a sidewalk cafe of the vessel. For instance, a gyroscopic Champs Elysees. Seated at the compass will be connected with the [Chicago.. tables in chairs whose high rudder by 'n gyro-pilot, a device wind-screen backs are made of which automatically holds the ship Washington glass, passengers have an unob on a ixed course without the Inter-New York. structed view of the ses on three vention of the helmaman, Radio siden.
At the stern of the main deck ́ 1s
'SHOPPING CENTRE
board.
Cleveland
Boston
Detroit
equipment will be complete, keeping Philadelphia the ship in continuoua telephonic] {St. Louis
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TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY
at The
CENTRAL
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CAR PARK: DIRECTLY. OPPOSITE
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ALHAMBRA
THEATRES
The leader in offering first run pictures at the most
popular prices.
ŞAME POPULAR PRICES TO ALL SHOWS!
Waltz
Singa liries Dance a little!
Rotanes little with a King and Queen in lace... who were Juris boy and girl in love?
Spec
palace
Viennese
Romantic
Night in June
CARL BRISSON · MARY ELLIS "ALL THE KING'S HORSES"
EDW. EVERETT HORION KATHERINE DAMILLE EUGEN! PALLETTE
also PARAMOUNT BRITISH NEWS
and
BETTY BOOP
Cartoon in colour
GRANT LAND RICE Sportlights
15 9 4 600 "POOR CINDERELLA” "MILES PER HOUR”
14 8 6 571
155 10.333
16 8 8 500
15 5 10 .813
11 2 0.181
NATIONAL LEAGUE
P. W. L. Age.
CANTON MAY JOIN THE
Brocklyn New York
19 127.631 12 8 5,.015
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Cincinnatti
A lengthy stroll forward brings communication with both Europe one to the "Boulevards," the Nor: and America. mandie's shopping centre. Here are to be found not only numerous shops of all kinds, but one of. Paris's biggest department stores. A book- [shop recalls the famous old stalls
along the Seine.
RICE BOYCOTT
(Continued from Page 1)
A Gothic Cathedral in miniature Siamese rice has gone to North Boston -inspired perhaps by the little China than to Canton and sur-Philadelphia thirteenth century "Sainte Chapelle" rounding districts. This is due]
In the past 14 months more St, Louis
in Paris-is available for both Pro-to the drought and bad harvesti testant and Roman Catholic reli-in Central China last year, which |
13 7 6 .5398.
17 9. B .629
16 8 8.500
16
8.8 .500
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ALSATIAN BITES CHINESE
gious services. A system of cur-resulted in more rice from Indo-¦ An Alsatian dog, owned by tains quickly effects the necessary China and Siam being imported. Mr. A. Zigkhan, of No. 41, Gran-| transformation.
Kwangtung is now growing ville Road, blt a Chinese boy
A symbolic statue of the pro-rice for its own consumption, and named Kwak Shing on the right THEATRE vince of Normandy dominates the does not depend on imports from leg in Chatham Road yesterday. gigantic dining hall, but Parisian Bangkok. Canton will exclude The dog has been placed under chefs and cuisine reign supreme in such rice if a similar same stand observation while the boy la be- the kitchens, and numerous private is taken by Nanking..
ing treated.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30. 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20, P.M.
THE
NEW LAUGH-THRILL &
HIT!
Robert MONTGOMERY Hide-Out
MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN
ON THE STAGE.
"THE FAMOUS WALLABY
TROUPE"
Sensational Australian Comedy
Acrobats,
SHOWING
*TO-DAY
SPECIAL
JUBILEE
OFFERING
QUILA'S
"The KING, GOD BLESS HI
At 2.30, 5.10,
7.20 & 9.30.
SINISTER MYSTERY lurks in every shadow-
As Charlie Chun is lured on a perilous trail.
CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS
WARNER OLAND
BIAN THOMAS BICK
at Alhambra
at Central
| POPIRÁS POKES: 5
ESTARE
SHOWINGS IN KOWLOON
SERVICEMEN JUK..
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AL 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
•
THE MOTHER WHO HATED HER SONI
Twenty years ago the
world warar herfect. Today a slattern, hum gry for thefame that vanished when her son was born. That's why she hated him, her flesh and blood,
That's why she gave him to the hangman
... to get her picture
in the paperal
the sons
living moment amon wGa mordered]
Pity and forgive
bes.You NEVER can forget.
THE PAST OF
MARY HOLMES
From the story, it ha.../
Goose Woman by REX BEACH
With ERIC LINDEN HELEN MacKELLAR JEAN "ARTHUR: “SKEETS” GALLAGHER Directed by Harlan Thampion and Stovko Vorkapich " ARKORADIC Prolet Dad, Sciznick, executive producer [NEXT, ATTRACTION WEDNESDAY RETURN ENGAGEMENT FOR ONE DAY ONLY
"CAVALCADE" Fox
Printed and published for ti's Propelstors, 116 Newspaper. Enterprise Lád,
by DAVID CHRISTIAN WILMON,"manager at Sn, Wyndham Bt., Hong