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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
THE FORTY-NINTH ORDIN TART ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, on THURS- DAY. the 5th March, 1936, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended $1st December, 1935.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of thei
Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 21st February 1935,
to THURSDAY, the 5th March, 1936, both days inclusive.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC
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Cinema Notes
"OʻSHAUGHNESSY'S BOY"-- KING'S THEATRE
This picture, which features Wallace Berry and Jackie Cooper in the leading roles, was directed by Richard Boleslawski, who has "Les Miserables" and "Clive of India" to his credit.
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BRIDGE NOTËS
TRUST YOUR PARTNER`
By Ely Culbertson.
AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Germany's Technical Superiority
* CHINA-MAIL.." SPECIALI
Amsterdam, Saturday..
The German National Motor
"Trust your partner” the „sty- ing goes but I think it should car Exhibition, now being held in
Berlin, earns have the warning postscript "and
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will, unstinted praise be broadcast to-day from the
[listen carefully to your opponent." from the correspondent of the Four Kong Broadcasting Station
You will never have
a good Algemeen Handelsblad, in
that
important to a winning Bridge man motor car industry is leading
ZRW. on a wavelength of 355
partnership--and nothing is more city, who stresses that the Gemetres. (845 K.C's). game unless you have faith and the technique of the world in Belny of Hong Kong Hotel Dance"
Orchestra ZEK Programme 12.30-2.15.-European
Pro-
confidence in your partner. On many respects, especially as far the other hand, you will never as motor-lorries, and omnibus
chassis are concerned. be a perfect partner unless you
The correspondent devotesgramme. make allowances for those oc-
12:30 pm-Bearded Maxic. casions, however rare, where your much space to the synthetic rub-
The kind of bar products manufactured by the Local Time and Weather partner is wrong.
Espart Ronald Colman is the hero is as that count are not the German Dre Trust, declaring 115 pm-Bar Kong Hotel Or-
the 20th Century production. "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo,” which will be
150 p.m.-Bester Press Bulletins
2:15 pm-Close Down -
5-8 pm-Eropean Programme. 5-7 pm Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra (list) played by Arthur de Greet 7-217 pm. Empatian Fantasia (Pianoforte) and the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.
Again the spirit and essence of The Champ" have been captured from a different, novel "ingle,) with an appealing, hear-throb-! big twist of a father's regenera- tion through the love of his son. the son, realising the sacrifices of his father, in turn sacrificing him- By Order of the Board of Direc- self, as the picture reaches
triämphant, smashing climax.
kind that involve simply being that an impartial visitor to the chest F. H. CRAPNELL.
From the standpoint of circus
understanding and pleasant after thibition obtains the impression Secretary.
spectacle, "O'Shaughnessy's Boy":
acreched the King's and a mistakether require under that synthetic rubber is not only Hong Kong 12th February, 1936. has never been equalled on the
standing before is too late for in no way inferior to natural rub. ber, but even in some cases sup screen A complete circus was Alhambra Theatres sODES.
the mistake to be recitiñed. erected, including & menagerie tent with elephants, tigers, Hons, by Wheeler, a dirt farmer at heart: North trusted his partner, but erior to it-Trans-Ocean Service.
aved him from a serious monkeys, camels, water buffalo, whose life is a complex of dust be
error in to-day's hand because he to the opponents* as, and many other animals, and brain stormos,
The story centres around the had listened There is a circus parade and desperate efforts of the farmer bidding and reflected on what it many intimate shots of the circus of Lima Junction to obtain mois-meant.. on the road, the "privilege car,"ture for their parched crops.İ and the thrills of circus life. Woolsey comes to the rescue with The tiger-elephant act, around his rainmaking machine, a weird which the action revolves, was conglomeration of gadgets said to be
since an impossibility by Every variety of storm many expert circus men, but it Noah's food follows, not to men- will be seen for the first time on tion a wild climax in which the
İS QI742- the screen, when Wallace Beery crash of two dynamite-Izden eco- EJ96432 puts a tiger on an elephant's back motives threaten to blow Wheeler. 9 & and puts the two jungle beasts and Woolsey clear out of Lime C through a ring of fire
¿county.
CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
bir top and side shows.
that the FORTY-SEVENTE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, P. and 0. Building, WEDNESDAY, 11th March, 1935, at 11 am for the purpose of pre senting the Report of the Direc tors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December 1935 and electing Directors and Audi-
of Members of The Register FOR HIRE --Be sure to make a trial
the Company will be closed from by dialling either
133" the phone numbers of the 29th February
March to 11th FLY (THE NEW) GARAGE, always provide a New Can, whenever and 1936, both days inclusive, during Tasured fo: which period no Transfer of wherever using a car. Passenger and third party liability Shares can be registered. Moderate Rates - Courteous Service - Careful Chauneurs uniform Special Price for regular customers or those requiring periodical trips.
TUITION
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SPORT NOTICES
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1936 22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 29th February, 1936
tor
that an
-“SHIPMATES FOREVER"
QUEENS THEATRE
The picture has a splendid cast, including Dorothy Lee Berton Churchill George Meeker Fredric Roland.
ORIENTAL THEATRE
North, Dealer
North-South vulnerable
S. 85
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D. A Q J$ 4
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A 6 3
SK 19
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CJ743
D. K 10 8,3 2 C. A 8 6 2
The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered explana-
North East South West 11(1) 3D(2) ID
3D (3) 4. ANT (5) 50 (6)
6D(8) Pass
Pass
And notice is hereby also given. This picture. starring Dick
Extraordinary General Powell and Ruby Keeler in the A NIGHT AT THE OPERA"-tory paragraphs.) Meeting of the Company will be leading roles, deals with the life held at the same place immediate at the Naval Academy and the
most outstanding 40(4) ly after the termination of the subsequent careers of the young One of the
after their comedy teams who become
in the United (7) Pass above mentioned Ordinary Gen-i men eral Meeting for the purpose of graduation exactly what the title States appear again before the T(9) Pass Pass considering and, if thought states. "Shipmates Forever." flm public in "A Night At Thej
Dick in the beginning is a radio Opera" after an absence of over 1 Passing the following resolutions,
singer, who to carry out the tradi- a year. namely:--
6
Conventional — showing
ONE
-7.37-7.30 – pä→ Recital Madame Ameita Gall-Curei
prano).
(So-
Aces and the diamond King. West wants to indicate a sa 1. Chanson Indose (Song of India) ing lead against sir diamonds,
(Rimaky-Korsakov).
bea)
hoping partner will have en-2 Bolero Les Filles de Cadis (De- ough clubs to prevent a & Carceiras (Prison Song)
(Chapi)
cessful slam bid in that suit 7Conventional
& Serenata (Tosti).
7.30-8
in Music,
S-This was South's mistake. He should have bid a slam clubs, but feared a possible
long card loser. in that suit.
pan-Light Orchestral
Caravan")
Happy, Pm Happy wine Song ("Caravan") Ballroom Memories No. 1
9-North to the rescue with a Jerome Kern Medley
brilliant bid. Heeding West's Gorge Gershwin Medley cue, bid in clubs, he was Ninon ("A Song for you"y Love, for ever-i adore you warned of the impending rutt 8 pmLocal Time and Weather of the opening lead; if North Beports Closing Local Stock Quota-
could make six dia- tioTES.
cext
8.05-10 pm-European Programme from ZEK, an a frequency of, 540- declarer blocycles..
Waltz Time Medley. Dancing Butterly, 824-8.30 pm-
South mands in spite of the club ruff, 805-11 pm-Chinese Studio Con- they could make six notra23000.
11 Close Down surely and possibly seven. North's foresight proved wise
at diamonds, Played would lose the first trick to a club 805-82€ -A Jazz Piano ruff and later could not avoid cital by Raie da Costa.
L. I had to change the world. the loss of a trick in spades At 2 One migrate to ope sound nor-vulnerable over-notramp, however, 12 tricks were 2. A Thousand Goodnights.
a laydown on the marked finesset. Tre call. (1) That it is desirable to captions of the family gives up his Groncho. Chico and Harpo Marx,
2-Forcing to game.
for the Jack of clubs. It was a talize the sum of $1,500,000, belucrative career to enter Anna all appear with an entirely new 3 West senses a good sate.
a perfect case, of trusting one's ing part of the undivided profits polis. Baby is the orphaned set of gags that have proved to Showing a second sait slam partner and one's opponents as
well of the Company standing to the daughter of a Navy family, who be a riot wherever the picture credit of the Reserve Fund, and to support herself teacher the has been shown. In order to test accordingly that a bonus of $1 children of the officers to dance. the risibility of each line and 500,000 be declared and that such so that the singing and dancing episode a novel method was devis- bonus be applied on behalf of the in the picture fall in naturally. ed A stage was erected and an persons who on the 29th day of Though hardly a musical, Dick! audience collected; then the Mar- February 1936 are the registered Powell sings four songs, and the xians went through their antics. holders of the 450,000 issued picture is really a powerful drama In the wings the producers judged shares of the Company in pay with music and dancing aptly in the amount of spontaneous laugh- ment in full for 150,000 shares of troduced.
ter that greeted-each joke, and if Other well known players in the it was not suñcient that particu-
ON SATURDAY, 22nd, MONDAY the Company of $10 each and that
shares credited as cast are Lewis Stone. Rosslar part was immediately “cut”
24th, TUESDAY, 25th, andjsnch 150,000
WEDNESDAY, 3th February, the fully paid be accordingly allotted Alexandra. John Arledge, Dick first bell will be rung at 1100 2m,
and the first race will be run at 1130 to such persons respectively in Foran, Robert Light and Eddie "METROPOLITAN”—MAJESTIC *.m. On SATURDAY, 29th Febru the proportion of one
Ford 00%-
"THE RAIN-MAKERS"-- ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Choosing aridity as a
THEATRE
Wher Lawrence Tibbett, world's foremost baritone, says that be
of such Aenfi. ary, the first bell will be rang at 1.30 shares for every three of the said p., and the first race will be run at 450,000 shares then held by such
persons respectively and that! The tiffin interval will be taken
is interested in a native opera after the fifth race on the first four such shares shall rank for divi- dend as from the 1st day of Jan-
back-for the world, and be will do more days.
ground for rollicking humour, and than just talk about it. MEMBERS BADGES AND uary 1936.
ENCLOSURE
(2) That if, on such distribu- forsaking urban sublety for subur Tibbett, whose return to films 25 aforesaid, any person ban simplicity, Bert Wheeler and in "Metropolitan," the 20th Cen Members are reminded that theyition
bring to the tury-Foz, has created much com- and their ladies MUST wear their would be entitled to a fraction of Robert Woolsey badges prossinently displayed a share, the Directors shall, in screen a new and refreshing type meut, and "has done as much as throughout the Meeting.
No one without a badge will be lieu of issuing fractional certifi- of comedy in "The Rain-makers," any other man to create opera on world subjects for the home stage. admitted to the Members Enclosure Cates, cause the whole share to be their latest RKO. feature.
As a "scientist," inventor of a Tibbett helped launch "The Badges admitting non-members to allotted to a person or persons to
Henchman," and sang the Merabers Enclosure and Club be named by the Directors and such | rain-making machine guaranteed King's Rooms at $10.00 per day incinding
as the to produce anything from a drizzle leading roles in Peter Ibbetson" tax or $40.00 including tax for the share shall at such time Meeting (ladies $5.00 and $20.00 res- Directors think fit, be sold and the to a downpour, Woolsey fits into and "Emperor Jones." Most re- pectively) are obtainable through the netz proceeds distributed amongst a new role with side-splitting ef-cently, he took the leading role). Secretary upon introduction by a the persons entitled to such frac- fects on his spectators. In his ef- in the Metropolitan Opera debut member, such member to be respon- tions making up the share. forts to make good (and to make of "Merry Mount," an opera with rain), he is ludicrously assisted a story of the New England pil-
grims.
Tibbett's new picture, which was produced by Darryl F. Zen- ack, traces the life-stor of an opera singer, with his triumphs, tragedies, thrills and loves. His song repertoire in the new pic ture ranges from operatie selet- tipas from "Carmen" and Papi- acct to the colourful “The Road to Mandalay A
sible for all chits, etc
Badges admitting to Members' Ex-
closure will NOT be on sale at
the
Race Course.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Agents.
The Secretary's Office, 1st foor, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
(Tel.
EXCHANGE
BUILDING,
27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10.00
ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and ** 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.
A limited umber of tisins will be obtainable each day at the Club Bouse, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Tele phone No. 21920.
On mo pretext will children be per-
Heng Kong, 19th February, 1936.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that FORTY-EIGHTH OR-
N
mitted in either enclosure during the DINARY GENERAL... MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this
first four days of the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission of the Pu-Company will be held at the Of blic Enclosure is $2.00 per day" (in-}fices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson cluding tax for all persons including & Co, Ltd. on TUESDAY, 10th ladies and is payable at the Gate
Soldiers and Sailor's in uniform are March, 1936, at NOON for the admitted to the Public Enclosure at purpose of receiving the Report $1.00 per day including tax
of the Directors together with the Bookmakers, Tic Tac me, Statement of Amounts for the not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong year ended 31st December, 1995. Jockey Club during the Race Meeting The REGISTER of SHARES of Tians. wit be obtainable, in the the Company will be CLOSED Restaurant in the Public Endosure from MONDAY, 24th February, to
A SERVANTS-PASSES- Passes for Servants will be fazed on application to the Secesary, it floor, Everlange Building
Any persons found - Joit Servants: passes "fa" "fhate. will forfeit the name and will be „moved. Izom, the Enclosur
Kong, th
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1938.
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Virginia Bruce is feature op posite Tibbett,
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