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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1941.
RADIO TALKING PIG TELLS
B.45 p.m.-Indian Programmo.
6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions,
0.32 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trot--Ten Little Miles from Town; Slow Fox-Trot-They Say.... Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. Fox-Trots-You're Sweet Little Headache; I Have Eyes (both from film "Paris Honey- moon'') Geraldo
his Orch. Quick-Step-You must have been a Beautiful Baby: Tango-Romany
Jack Harris & his Orchestra, Fox-Trots Deep in a Dream: Nice
Waltz-Three Green Bonnets
OF CHINESE JUNE
ATTACK ON S'HAI
CHINESE SOURCES reported that Shanghai's
People Harry Roy & his Orch, 5,000,000 Chinese residents are excitedly discussing the story of the talking pig who predicted that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces will attack the city next month.
Dan Donavait & his Music. 7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 7.16 p.m.-London Rolny "Questions
of the Hour"'.
7.30 p.m.-Portuguese Programme. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An-
nouncements.
(Portera
..
The tale is heard everywhere,
in streets, teahouses and buses pronounced this prophecy: Blues repeated by coolles, rickshamen,
policemen, housewives.
storekeepers and
After eating the fruit, the pig
"Chinese planes will bomb Shanghai In June, and troops
8.02 p.m.-An Hour of Variety.
Vocul Quartet St Louits
Handy): I Hearst (Redman)} The Four Crotchets with Guitar
will attack the city. Voeni My Heart Belongs to Daddy
"Rice will rise to 200 dollars Pal Kirkwood with
The story goes like this:
(mex) a bag, then drop to 20." Orchestra Xylophone and Vibra-
^ four-year-old pig, which! As he spoke the last words, the phone Running Around Barry hitherto exhibited only a normal pig rolled over dend.
Four Bright porcine grunting ability, suddenly Either the pig or the Vocal Most
furmer
Don't Like
spoke up last week to the farmer was a first Pati Love Porter)
class psychologist, Kirkwood with Orchestra Vibra.
who owned him and revealed that since the two things that the phone Treelin' Harry Robbins he was able to talk.
Chinese desire most is the recap- and the Four Bright Sparks Vocal The pig promised important ture of Shanghai by their country- Burlesque Sunny Boy de Sylva & revelations if the farmer fed him men and a reduction in the rice Others). A Bird in n Gilded Cage: 10 pounds of dates, a luxury of price. +Lamb Jerry Colonna with Fud
Robbins ant Ti Sparks
Crab
Gentlemen
which he had dreamed through- || The latter started to materi- neu har Furdy Bears Organ out his life. The farmer, who alise with a drop of 10 dollars. Templation Rag Lodge). Strash and
Donald was penniless but also obviously to 138 Chinese dollars a bag. A (lenchi Thorne Impersonationin
- Intro 14 convineing talker, persuaded à Chinese counter attack, however, The Street Singer Jt Singing' store elerk to give him the dates appears as far away as 20-dollar
Gros Ku Robey: Sophie | on credit,
Associated Press.
Tucker
(Singing "Some of these 11 5 1 Medie Cantor estaging Makik Whoopred 14. 1Ey Ben
-
Guth (Singing “Martata Afrique with plane accor Vibru. phone and Xylophone Mutty Woods (Robbins), Buffoon COMME Hairs Holbuns with the Four Brught Sparks Hathra MORE lokun Old Sam's Party Constate.
Stanley Hallows sith Plane Vocal I've Got No Strings +18 “Pinoerlikn“a Pat Kirk. wood with Orchestra Voeni Quar- tel Sweet Sue. Just You (Harris & Young The Four Crotchets with
Guntar
9.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News &
News Commentary.
9.15 p.m.-"The Hope of a New World" - No. 4- "international Justico". Recorded talk by the Archbishop of York
9.30 p.m.-Violin Solos.
Chanson Arabe Rimsky-Korsakov, ar. by Kreisler); The Deluxe-Pre- lude (Saint-Saens) Toscha Seidel with plano accomp. Romance, Ομ 78, No
Danye
Champetre. Op. 106. No 2 (Sibe- Hus! Emil Telmanyi, with plano accomp
9.45.10.00 p.m.-News
Short Wave univ)
In French 14313
Tian.
9.45 p.m.-Operatic Duets,
"Otello" Love Duet (Verdi)
Lemnitz (Soprano and Torsten Ralf Tenor with Orchestra
The Pearl Fishers-In the Depths of the Temple (Bizet) Beniaminu Gigl (Tenor) & Giuseppe de Luca (Baritone) with Orchestra
10.00 p.m.-Bruckner-Symphony No. 4.
State Capella Orchestra.
11.00 p.m.-Close down
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Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Dunbar $2,000; S. T. Williamson $1,000; Hong Kong Jockey Club $500; Dr. T. P. Wu $100; Horace Lo $100; Shewan Tomes and Co., Ltd., $50; Dean Wilson $15; Dr. N. P. Karan- Jia $10; Dr. H. J. Shu $5; H. R. Wells $5; S. C. Young $5; H. E. Lane- part $5: A. Pollard $5; D. Benson $5; A. Ritchie $5; Dr. B. de Sousa
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SCHOOL ESCAPES
An escape by boys in a Clyde-. side, approved school is thought to have been engineered because they were anxious about their parents in a "bombed area,
A break of the entire school had apparently been planned, but only 22 boys got clear. Some have already been recaptured and the remainder" are expected back in their quarters later.
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