SAY IT WITH SONG-TITLES
Chance For Movie Song Fans
“BROADWAY GONDOLIER”
COMPETITION
No fewer than 10 pairs of Dress Circle tickets are being offered. by the management of the Queen's Theatre in a novel contest în con~) nection with the screening there during Christmas Week of--the Warner Bros. smash song-hit “Broadway Gondolier.”. fexturing Dick Powell. Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou.
This time, instead of saying it, with music, you tell it with song- tidles.
To-day, and for the next four days, the Chine Mail will print a series of "talking strips" showing Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in conversation; or it may be thati Joan is talking to Adolphe Menjou. However, only one side of thej: -conversation will be given.
UNLISUAL FACTS REVEALED
Conrad Nagels
FIRST POSITION 'WAS AS KEY
·CLERK AND TELEPHONE OPERATOR IN A HOTEL IN JOWA..
Florence Rice, COLUMBIA PLAYERIN VENTED A NEW GAME-POLO SALLAT YOU NEED IS A POLE, 6 FEET OF STOUT CORD, A TENNIS BALL AND 2 PADDLES
THE CHINA MAIL, HESUS, DECEMBER 17, 1935
THE • PRODUCTION OF "DEATH FLIES EAS?” MOST OF WHICH. WAS FILMED IN THE AIR NECESSI TATED THE DE“ VELOPMENT OF "LIGHTWEIGHT SOUND SCAMERA EQUIPMENT.
The Columbia picture "Death Flies East," starring Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, will be screened at the Alhambra Theatre to-day” and to-morrOW.
MOTORING IN BORNEO
What Drivers Have To Put Up With
MEETING WITH BULL
· ELEPHANT AND HIS HAREM
The Lahad Datu correspondent
STUDENT RIOTS IN EGYPT
Wafdist Leader's Appeal
~CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL.
Cairo, To-day,
Hay's Short Story.
The Bump-Off
By Peter Cheyney
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES
POULTRY.
QHOME guys has been ruined One night something breaks
by janes an' some by wood Issy Marcovitch (who is the Big alcohol; but I am a guy what Shot's contact man comes to me has been ruined by some stuff when I am sittin' in Schmidt's called ethics and because some speakeasy an' tells me that he wise palboka-called W. Shakes has got a piece of news what ain't Capons, Smal peare tips off the Big Shot some so good--in fact it's bad, an” he baloney about ridicule bein' don't mean maybe, worse than death.
Ee bays me a shot of rye and Do I get all burned up when he proceeds to inform me that Mc- see guys paintin' at me in the Gonegal has been shootin' his street an" sayin" that 1. am the mouth around town an' has got in feller who used to be Bed Two-bad with the Big Shot owin' to his [Gon) Maloney, the best bup-off havin' talked too much to some jaman in town?
newspaper guy what works on a
Duck Daves.
Dec. 13, Deci
1935 1936
Comed
Breas
BUTC
4030
Beef Sirloin
Prime
50 24
28
each
per con
85
* Tongue,
Canton
1
Head
Geese
26.
Pigeons, Canton Haibow
Eggs, Ben (rock-
ing) Eggs, Hen (fresh) Fowl,-Hainan
This business is all because of tabloid. {a baddy of mine who I thought) So the Big Shot says that Mc- was a regular guy an', who played Goneval should be bumped off Timkeys, Cock me for + suckerTM
the
drive
(like
an". - ordinary Bap
***
Soup
Steak
Steak Sirloi Sausagea
Bullock's Brašna
Heart
Feet
Kidneys
Zail
of me
Liquor
who pronto as a lesson to other guys havin' whose mouths is too big. Issy Snipe
truck also says that the big feller is Pheasant
Hon
Liver
Tipe
pair
Calver? Head
Katten Chip
set: 188
FRUITS.
Shoulder
Brains Pig's Chithings
Feet
per
· me, very appreciative of my nice work | Qua- who bumped-off Frenchy Harris, the week before when I blew the Partridge. Little Ike Schnitzler an' Machine front wall out of some brewers, Gun Caselli in one night—all an' that I am the guy who is to jseparate jobs an nice worke
You gotta take life like it comes, an' when it don't come so good jwhat is a guy to dož
You heard of McGonegal? Yeah. Well this MeGonegal was a buddy of mine. That gay an' me used to play around Caparde's wharf Jon East River when 'we was kids.
Now will you listen to what that! guy did to me?
bumpTMMcGonégal of.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Hampstead Murder,” by Christopher Bush.
Now I take it very bad that the† Him an" me was workin' for the Bid Shot should elect me to bump Big Shot in a big way. McGone McGonegal, owin' to said McGone- {gal an" me was muscle men. He gular fellow when sober, but in got the orders an' looked after the any event business is business, so liquor delivery "an' I was doin' I tell Issy that I will pay special any bumpin' off that came along attention to this job an' that 1 an' blastin' shop fronts when they wil bump my old pal MrGonegal got tired of payin' for protection so nice that he will be playin' harps before he knows what has
Nahas Pasha, the leader of the DENTIST AIDED BY
FIRE BRIGADE
|Nationalist-Wafd Party, issued a proclamation to all students, ap-
of the British North Borneo pealing to them to cease their dis- Herald writes as follows:--
Operation On Tooth Of Zoo Hippo CIRCULAR SAW SHORTENS - IT BY ONE INCH
hit hi
Isey Marcovitch says this is
Almonds
Bananas bride's) Carambola Coeaths
Apples (California) Lennut, America Lcbees, Dried Üranges · (Canton) Oranges (Sweet) Pears (Canton) Oranges (American)'ench Persimmons, Large Ermelo, Siam Walberts Grapes
VEGETABLES
Artichokes Beans, Sprout
Long
Red
Beetroot Brinjals, Greez Cabbage, Chinese Cauliflower (Large) each
Carrots
(Shanghai)
(Media) (Szzall)
Celery, Chinese Chillies, Dried
Fed Greed
10K by him but that this piece of business must be done pronto in order that other guys workin' for turbances, after Yessim Pasha
the racket shall not go about; We-have-written previously of had-requested him to use all his
drinkin' cut liquor anʼ-talkin"-to- the vagaries of the kindly influence to prevent a repetition |
newspaper men; said newspaper disposed and well-behaved
Carry Stuff, Nessim ele- of the street rioting-
jmen beîn” a menace to any honest- Chemmbers phants of our district. We have Pasha, in his turn, had been ap-
Garlic how to offer a story of an adven-proached by the British High
to-God racketeer. This is Tues- {day night an' I tell Issy that by Ginger, Young ture which, though it may appear | Commissioner. Sir Miles Lampson,
Friday morning we shall all be Horseradish, Shai as far fetched as that cargo of tea with the demand that the Egyp
buyin' wreaths for McGongal an Indian Corn from China," is noe, the less true-tian Government should take the Prague A dental operation that I will personaly buy him ☆ Lettuce "Three of our community were necessary steps to protect Euro-which lasted five hours and re- very big lily wreath because he is Otras returning to Segama în our local peans and British soldiers from quired the services of the fire a buddy of mine and we was kids Onions, Bombay, two-seater the other evening (and the attacks of students.
brigade has just been performed together.
Green Shanghai in order to give artistic verisi- "You have done your duty" in Prague.
Issy then scrams out of it and Parsley militude to an otherwise bald and states the Wafdist leader in his The patient was Peter, the I am sittin' there talkin' about a
Potato, sweet unconvincing narrative? we give proclamation to the students hippopotamus at the Troja Zoo, baseball game with some
Japanese our personal assurance that it "Now stay quiet and leave politics and one of his teeth needed whose is buyin' me fye with some
American was not a 'late night), when just to the adults."-Trans-Ocean Ser-shortening. beyond mile 61⁄2 a herd of about vice-
10 elephants. energed from the (jungle on the left of the travel-
lers, with the clear ambition of
crossing the road.
The car and Mr. Bull Elephant↑ arrived at the same time, at the
-In today's slip, you will note, same spot. It was impossible to
1923 Constitution
MISTAKEN IMPRESSION
DISPELLED
+
peny
Pumpkin
a
money I took out of his pocket Before the operation could be when Schmidt comes an' tells me Phubarb (Fresh)- performed:—
that McGonegal is on the wire, Turnips, Puati Peter had to be enticed-into a I go into the "phone bax an' Mo-
(Long) narrow enclosure:
cassin' like "a)
Watercress Gonegal who is His enormous mouth had to rattlesnake informs me that some Water Lily Boot
Vegetable Mazrow
be opened
igusz has- wised him- up that the ↑ Spinne: He had to be gagged with a Big Shot is goin" to harve ATM piece of wood like z telegraph | (Continued on Pege 10-). pole.
saw and
pall mp in time ..to avoid London: In a Commons, -an- everything Dick says to Joan takes, the form of the title of a popular Mr. Bull, but luckily the driver swer on Egypt yesterday, Mr. An-
The help of the fire-brigade was song. Joan would naturally reply limit (and this is the first time Front had communicated to settled to the dentist's satisfaction. was observing our local speed thony Eden said that the United necessary before the patient was in the same language-with a song: title.
anything approaching gratitude Miles Lampson a note, ending At last he was able to get to So it's up to you. Fill in what for this limit has been expressed) with the request for the conclu work with a circular
sion of the Treaty negotiated in an inch was taken off Peter's Joan says and be as ingenious asjand so was moving very slowly.
Pushed It Over
1930. The High Commissioner
Hooth "Mr. Bull, however, apparently had communicated the contents,
For the rest of the day, the warded with a pair of Dress Circle had no desire to avoid the car of the note to His Majesty's hippopotamus sulked-Renter
The just turned his mighty sext on Government, and the question was ¡to it and pushed the front of the now being examined.
you can. The tem senders of the best sets of answers will be re-
tickets for the show.
Conditions
car, with its very much alarmed His Majesty's Government shi In addition to to-day's strips, occupants, into the ditch on the held that the restoration of the four more will be published during right hand side of the road. Pains 1923 constitution was not in the the next four days. Entries should ing only to survey his work with best interests of the Egyptian be filled in on the actual strips cut the conscious pride of one who people As, however, the mis- From each day's issue of the China has done a good job well, he pro- taken impression still existed in Mail, and sent in when the whole ceeded about his lawful occasions Egypt in spite of the assurances with the rest of his harem pass given by the Foreign Secretary,
set of five has been filed in
CHINESE WIDOW'S
ENTERPRISE
First Of Its Kind In The Country
Having tasted the hitteness of
ļamounted to a veto, they had in-the harsh criticism of the 'conser- her China Mcil office before noon "It is not improbable, Sir, that structed the High Commissioner vative country-folk after Monday next, December 28, when you and sundry of your readers to dispel that impression, and he second marriage, a Chinese widow they will be judged "The names may be tempted to say That was had been successful in achieving of Tunchiao, Fukien, has organis- of the winters wit be politiahed in a very good yarn, tell me another this object. British Wireless ed a most enterprising club, pro- the issue of next Tuesday, Decem- one "do." And we will, Mr. Editor,Service ber 24, and the tickets will be we will."
The whole five strips, correctlying on either side of the car and that their advice on the subject being twice widowed and borne filled in must be received at the meandering off with Mr. Bull.
despatched to the successful.com- petitors that day.
The decision of the Competition Editor will be final, and entry, im-
plies acceptance of this condition.
CHINA STATION
Recent Admiralty Appointments
Recent appointments by the mi-sity incizde. The followin
LECH PH. E. welvy
Kent (D
THE SANITARY
BOARD
-Legislative Council
Motion Withdrawn
INDIA READY TO STOP OIL EXPORTS TO ITALY
bably unique in the country-ma widows club, bever wond
Mr. Ting "Hsin-chen, daughter of 2 wealthy Fukie: resident, had married twice and on the death of her second husband was left a Large: soun » from his estate. Heri „Geneva....... India - informed - the League of Nations recently, that est experiences embittered her and she decided to build an orgki- she was willing to apply an ollation to give comfort and help! (embargo against Italy. Any date this afternoone meeting offed by the Sanctions Committer the Singapeo
to those in a similar plis the Sanitary Board a letter frim, would.
agreeable to her, she
The wides the Government, signifying the withdrawal of the motion by the
cost over Legislative Council dealings with a further amendment to the bye Ad-laws made under the heading
"Markets” - set forth B to Ordinance No. (Public Health
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Liver
Pork, Chop
Lom
Fat Sheep's Bead
Kidneys
Sucking
Onder Spet, Beef
Sue Beet
Barbél Beaum
Canton
Water
Codfish Crabe Cattle Pish
Dace Frogs
Eels Conges
10
Eeis Fresh Wate
Eels Yellow,
Groups
Gadgeon
„Herrings
Bout
Lobster
Mackerel
Maret Oysters
1.00
60
Purch
8
Pike
Plaice
3
Pomfret, White
Pomfret, Black
Salmon
Shark
15
Skate
Shrimps
Teach
Small Freak water
1935
1936
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