CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-dre Words three inser tions prepared $1.50. Every aduļ ditional word Bre 'cents for three Insertions.
All replies under this heading must be called for.
TUITION GIVEN
COMMERCIAL TRAINING given in Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting and Business routine. Fees Hoderate Apply 6 Aimi Villas, Austin Road, Kowlock.
FOR SALE
HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY 1836--On sale at all Book-atalis and at the Offices of the Publishers, 3A, Wyndham Street.
GENERAL NOTICES
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB
TOTICE IT HEREBY GIVEN
Nhat the following Deben-
tures were drawn at the Pavilion on TUESDAY, the 27th day of October, 1936:----
88. 151 254 404
Noa Nos. Nos. Nos. Nos. 11 104 208 336 501 538
Nos
622
752
93 165 272 457 544
757
770 813
.98 182 306 473 391 101 191 317 49.1 616 Holders of drawn Debentures who desire to be paid on the 31st Octo-) ber, 1936, are requested to inform the Treasurers, Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, on or before Friday, the 30th October, 1936.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY Amusements
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay!
Shipbuilders & Repairers. Call Flag "L
- Sole Agents for Kalvin Motors
SEE THIS
KIWI TRADE MARK ON EVERY TIN OF BOOT POLISH YOU BUY
BOOT POLIS)
BLACK
KIWI
KIWI preserves your shoes.......... gives them longer life and always a "high gloss" finish.
KIWI
"LADY TUBES" "KING'S
THEATRE
Cinema Notes
FATAL LADY”—STAR THEATRE
BRIDGE NOTES
tract.
Vital Asking
Bid
By Ely Calbertson:
י
South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
Mary Ellis, former Metropoli-| A motion picture that easily
tan Opera prima denna, stars in. ranks as one of the season's most «Fatal Lady," the Walter Wan- enjoyable comedies is "Lady
It has long been realised that rer production for Paramount, Tubbs, the Universal screen play and again displaye
aces are not the only honours the fine with Alice Brady starred and Douglas Montgomery and Anita quality of her lovely voice and to be located in safe slam bid-
ding. Louise in featured roles. The film/Personal charm. Her performance often are the strategic cards Kings too,, even queens, in her current picture far exceeds that make or break a slam con- play has a rollicking, dashing her highly meritorious acting in. quality about it that makes a pic-All the King's Horsex." ture of rare delight.
Miss Ellis portrays an opera Alice Brady is most happily cast singer whose fatal charmis bring as the plain-spoken cook in a rail-death to the men who fall in love way construction camp, who in- with her. Not until a young Am- berits a fortune and adopts the erican suitor is found dead, how- sparious title of "Lady Tubbs" in ever. and the boy's brother con- order to further the romance of ceives a clever trick to capture the her niece with Montgomery, son murderer, is the killer caught and title-worshipping social the opera star cleared of all blame. light who has previously looked The story is filled with thrills, S. J 8 3 with disdain on the young girl be as suspicion is cast from one char-H. 10 7 5 4 cause she lacks acceptable family acter to another with such start-D. A 9 7 6 connections.
ling rapidity as to keep the sadi-C. 10 2 ence continually mystified. Mean-
of
NORTH
S. AQ 9 5 2
E 8 6 3
D. K 5
C. 764 WEST
EAST S.. 6
HL K QJ 9 2 D. 10 8 4
C. J 8 5 3 SOUTH
S. K 10 7 4 E A
The story opens a new railroad while, the romance is exceedingly under construction in Kansas and well developed and the music then shifts to the luxurious beauty heard in the picture is delightful of a Long Island estate. Director
In support of Miss Ellis are) Crosland has maintained a tempo Walter Pidgeon, in the romantic! of fast fun, and the story trips lead; John Halliday, Alan Mow- along swiftly and joyously to its bray, Norman Foster, Rath Don-South West North. climat
nelly. Edgar Kennedy, and Guy 10. Pass IS. Bates Post The picture was ex- 4D. Pass 5S. pertly directed by Edward Ludwig 65. (final bid) and the dialogue by Tiffany Thayer and Samuel Ornitz is well
-TIMES SQUARE PLAYBOY
QUEEN'S THEATRE
"Times Square Playboy," a rol-written:
Agenta:-W. R. LOXLEY & CO. licking Warner Bros. comedy, fill-
(CHINA) LTD.
Now On Sale
THE
AND NOTICE is hereby given CHINA YEAR BOOK
that Debentures numbered 25 above which are not cashed on thei 31st October, 1936, will be paid on the 30th April, 1937, after which date they will cease to bear in- terest.
By Order of the Committee,
A. K. MACKENZIE,
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 28th October, 1936.
LAMMERT BROS. ́
AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS
· AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
Friday, the 30th October, 1936 commencing at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Boom,
Duddell Street .......
A Fine collection of Valuable;
POSTAGE STAMPS
On View from Thursday, the
29th October, 1936.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 26th. October, 1936.)
FOR SALE
Special designed envelope for "CLIPPER" FIRST FLIGHT from HONG KONG
at 15 cents each.
GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stamps Garden Seeds, etc. No. 10 Wyndham Street P. O. Box 620.
(18th edition) 1936
-
"FOLLOW THE FLEET”........ MAJESTIC THEATRE
NACET BLADES
50 CENTS
FOR
10
"NACET
REOD TRADE HAR
SAFETY RAZOR BLADE
Tow
-great
* every blade
vas many quick, clean and smooth- shavas. · Nacar- blades it three-peg razors. MADE IN ENGLAND
FOR 3 PEG RAZORS
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert "but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and sitho.
D. Q J S 2*
C. AK Q 9
The Lidding:
East
Pass Pass
15
19
The moment that North responded with one spade to South's opening club bid, South But. became "slam minded." ed with tense drama and heart in-.
at the same time, he realised terest as well as langbs, is based
the need for sound investiga- Сп the famous Broadway hir "Home Towners" by George M
"Follow the Fleet's" big musi-tion into the weakness of his own hand: the diamond suit. |cal number, "Td Rather Lead a Cohan.
Warren William heads a talent-Band," is regarded as the sense with the ace and king missing. ed cast in the role of a small town-tional song and dance number of Moreover, even if North held who has made good in the big the new Fred Astaire and Ginger one of these vital cards, it also was necessary to determine city. Bubbling over with good Rogers new starring comedy opax spirits and happiness because he with music by Irving Berlin. It whether he held the spade ace. There was a distinct possibility photographed has won the love of a beautiful was
on the big that North's response had been It is a seven-mia-based on and talented night-club singer battleship set.
a holding such a from a younger rival, he calls onate routine performed by Fred AS. QJ983 HKQSD. K 54 a boyhood chum in the old home taire and a chorus of 24 sailors
C. 3 2, certainly, an excellent town of Big Bend to act as hisland is destined to take its placespade response, but not sla
with "Carioca," "Continental," "aterial in conjunction with "The friend is suspicious of wo-Won't Dance" and "Cheek to South's hand. men entertainers, and TRACCUS-
Hence, South adopted the It is a semi-military routine, simple expedient of finding out tomed to their gay life and e-
them all featuring the amazing feet of by means of his four, diamond fusiveness, believes grafters. He thinks the singer is the star and being brightly high asking bid. It should be noted trying to pull his chum's leg for lighted with comedy. It develops that, had North actually held a all she can get out of him, while into an inspection and rhythmic hand such as the one just given playing around with the ex-rival drill in which Astaire makes comas à possibility, he would have The small towner, a part playedments with his flying feet concern had to sign off with four spades, in Maschakno, Leith-by Gene Lockhart, tells his friending the appearance of the sailors which South would not have
just what a sucker he is, and gets of his company. It is said to be disturbed.
The China Year Book is an indispensable reference book on China; it arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts in the eighteeth edition are the following:--Smuggling.
Tanzku Take Trace Agreement, "New Weekly" Incident, Hirota Tree- Point. Programme, Soviet-Outer Mongolia Protocol, Mongol Ter- ritory
Boss Mission, Currency Position, etc.
Price $18.
Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd or from the publishers: NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS P. O. Box 707, Shanghai
POPPY DAY FUND
Local Donations
To $1,955
įbest man.
Cheek" in the public fancy.
his face slapped for his pains even more sensational than the
As it was, however, holding The next morning the bride and amazing machine-gun routine of second round diamond control her entire family call at the hotel Top Hat." and the dancing star's and the ace of spades, North suite of the best man to take him feet almost literally talk.
was able to make the conven- Astaire first aings the lyrics of tional response of a jump in his to a football game. Boiling overj with anger, he heaps insult after the Irving Berlin, number and own suit to show these precise then swings into the movements of values. South's six bid then) insult on their heads.
Warren William repents hitting the unusual number that keeps followed as a matter of course. his friend and when repulsed, the promise that there is always Obviously, the hand was a forces his way into the hotel room something startlingly new and lay-down for six-odd, one of by a clever ruse, uses a strangle original in EXO Radio musical North's losing hearts being hold on Lockhart and while he has (his man pinioned to the floor, con-Į
vinces him that he is a fool
Lockhart, aghast at the trouble and believing he has wrecked all their lives, palls)
Uphe has caused
"
corsedies.
“WE'RE IN THE MONEY”— ORIENTAL THEATRE
Two of the funniest sceñes
In the first of these scenes he
a clever scheme and manages to which Hugh Herbert has in the get the family together, where new Warner Bros, picture, "We're There are a large number of ex-upon he clears up the entire situs-In The Money," proved to be the įmost dangerous he has ever had to. Service men who are suffering tion.
do. from illnesses of a chronic nature, Tane Travis has the role of the which makes them unsuitable for night-club entertainer. in the east) employment. With the limited are Barton MacLane, Dick Pur.had to drive a roadster with funds available it is not possible cell, Granville Bates, Dorothy Heary O'Neill and Ross Alexander front seat with him, to assist continuously, but these Vaughan, Craig Reynolds, and
at 40 men can be assisted for periods of Kathleen Lockhart who plays through heavy traffic,
Time after time he nar- from three to four months during posite her own husband as the mpak
rowly missed hitting trolley cars and trucks,
a year, and such help is usually wife of the small-towner,
given during the autumn and win-
Iter seasons, periods when aid is
most "desired, and which has
proved of great benefit. During the
“PAROLE”"”—ALHAMÉRA
THEATRE
jpast year £20,123 was expended, in This pictare reveals
in the
In another scene, made in the waters of Wilmington; he had to drive a small boat with a power- ful outboard motor at top speed. the On-some of the fast furnú he bare-
assisting ex-Service men under inner workings of the modern ly escaped bad upsets. Once he
this scheme.
+
Local Poppy Day Fund
Cantrilaters
CoL J. H Morris
Hong Kong.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
Previously acknowledged
A. Murdoch ...
Ngan Shing Kwan
W. 3. Waddington
¡Dr. & W. TEG ¡W. E. Mansfeld
Prot R I. Simpson P. H. Hodgson
American controversy, and skidded on a taru înd the rear end shows how paroles are obtained of the boat "struck the landing. and what happens to convicts stage with force enough to tear thus freed, once they go forth to the motor loose from the stern of 25 begin life outside again.
{the boat.
$1,855.--
5
T "Parole" depicts the injustice, - Herbert was badly shaken. Ha 10-heart-break and temptation en-freely admitted that these scenes 10-countered by a young man bear were the most dangerous he has
25
10
ling the stigma of an ex-convict ever been required to perform in 10. It notes, too, some of the red tape his career as a funny men.
of the parole system and the skull- “We're In The Money" - is a| $1956 daggeries worked by confirmed Warner Bros production with Further contributions will be criminals and grafting politi- Joan Blondell and. » Glenda Fars gratefully received by Mr. F. G. cians.
* zelf and a big east of featured Maunder, Secretary to Earl Haig's The pictare also present the ro- players in support: Hugh Hars (Find, Tork Building, Hong Kong mance between the two leading bert, Bow Alexander: Hobart Cheques should be mide payable characters played by Ann Preston Cavanaugh, Phil Regan, Amikac to Thomson & Co, and crossed and Henry Hunter, recruits from Kerry, Henry O'Neil and others. "Poppy Day Fund".
MARCH OF PROGRESS
radio who for the past four JERES have been beard together on ma tional radio chains in COEES dramatic plays.
STEAMER SALVAGED
After being unbranded
since!
After being lighted by all lamps Other important parta in the January 15, at Hawthorn "Hire; m and candies for hundreds of years, picture are portrayed by small bay near Sexham - Harbours Horsley, a tiny Northumbrian vil- Dinchert, Alan Barter, Alan
the sizzmer West Hika,
lage, is having electric light Grant Mitchell, Barton Churchill 5,275 tons, was refloated last installed,
and Noah Beary Je
discarded on the good diamond
in South's hand, and the other heart being ruffed.
12
148
152
15b
12
HORIZONTAL 1.Province of Canada 6-Debated 11-Employs
12-Book (Lat. abbr.) 14-A touring" (Her.) 15-Over (contr.) 16-Giver 19-Doze
19-A thoroughfare
(abbr.)
20-Saiver
57
17 18 19
110
137
(HORIZONTAL (Cont)] VERTICAL (Cont.) 142-Mother
44-Capable of being
sold
47-Musical note.
18-Go
13-Country of Asia
|16-Deadhead <abbr.)
17-Musíčzi_note
|48—A_time perled(abbr.)}20–Chooses
150-Jewish tawgfver
(Bible)
||$1=Fifty-four
52-Paradise
84-Fondie
55-Heap
22-A continent (abbr) 55-Quiet
23-Exist
24-Expire
25-Plural suffix
27-Repasts
30-TIH 32-Jer
35-Depart
{"vertical position) (Next)
36-A military title
(abbr.)
39-Ocean
41-Secretary of State
(abbr)
57-Stipe
·VERTICAL-
1-Majority of, a
corporala body 2-Ingred 3-Ever"(CONTEJ
degree (abbr)
4
5.To obespre
6-Dwelling
7-Depart
21-To decline
-Trivial
25-Rescues
22-Especially (abbe.) |25-Observa
30-Ocean
|3T-National Education
Association (abbc) [24–Å ¬ssasdes |35-Torment 37-Cutting implements |39=Blant
143 annitary aklatant.
46-Part of vech “To be"" 46-Linnean Society
(abbr)
|47–Length measure 149-God of the sex(abbr.) +53-Cover.
8-Vass with a fost 53-Negative
S-Ardor
156-Jumbiad type
The sobatera of the abone siith a sune "tress-zisht. will appear in to-morrow's farus.
MEUKOW
BRANDY
is the Drink that keeps one
Fit in this climate.
MEUKOW BRANDY
Sole Distributors
Obtainable Everywh
H. Ruttonjee & Son.