NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE,
N FRIDAY, the 10th April, and ON and April, All Departments will be CLOSED.
ON THESE DAYS,
THE HONG KONG DISPENBART, will be open for Dispensing Prescrip- tions from 10 AM to 1 P.M. and from 6 P.M. to 7.30 P.M.
and THE KOWLOON DISPENSART, from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. ONLY.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
[N Ascordance with Government
Ordinance, The EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the
TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI NRAN FIOIDAY MONDAY, the 10th, 11th and 13th APRIL 1836 (Easter Holidays). Hong Kong, 7th April, 1938,
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
On SATURDAY, the 11th April, THE
All Departments will be open us .. usual.
Hong Kong, 3th April, 1938.
TH
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTIC
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that tho FIFTY-FIRST Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the lath April, 1936, at 11.30 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with u Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st October, 1985.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Satur. day, the 11th day of April, to Friday. the 17th day of April, 1938, both days inclusive, during which period
110
of shares transfer
Can
be
registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong. 4 April, 1936.
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THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICH is hereby given that the
HUNDRED AND
THIRD
EXTEA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 11th and MONDAY, 13th APRIL, 1996, commenring at 12.30 P.M. on each day.
The "First Bell will be, rung at 12 NOON on each day.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary,
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Hong Kong, 6th April, 1986.
COPENHAGEN DISPUTE ARBITRATION -
Decision In Favour, Of
Workers
("Hong Kong Daily Press Specia')
Copenhagen, April 3.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936.
DEATHS
FALMER-BAKER.-On April
1.
1936, suddenly at the Paulun Hospital, Shanghai, Capt. Wil- Ham Palmer-Baker, aged 62 years, (Indo-China S.N. Co., re- tired). beloved husband of Palmer- Evelyn Catherine Baker.
LEWIS.-On April 2, 1938, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, Hildagarde Ellot, aged,58 years, beloved wife of Mr. W. A, Lewis. Removed to parlours of the International.
!
"GRAND HOTEL”
AUTHORESS
Vicki Baum Coming To Hong Kong
Miss Vicki Baum, the world famous German authoress, is short-
thely coming to the Colony. She will be arriving on the U.C.JL, steamer Hong Tibadsk which is due in Korg on May 10.
She only plans to
stay in the Colony for two days and intends leaving on the 12th by the same steamer. m the meanwhile she will be staying at the Hong Kong reservations have
Editorial and Business Office: 11.
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchal Office):
Tel. 24511. London
Office: 53. Fleet Street Hotel where E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG. APRIL 9, 1936.
PICTURES IN A POKE
that is,
鼗
CE
If Gossip We Must
(By "CITRIC")
Gossips arC
not truthful,
we
know. But why, in that case, they take the trouble to be flatteringly, untruthful, I can't imagine. Their function is to criticise, and by their criticism to maintain a cer- tain standard of interest and eff- clancy in their victims. SATURDAY NIGHT
the
fresh, Adicther Jockeyette who | deserves a word of praise, is the lady who fell off her pony and yet
arrived a triumphant third in the same race. We were sorry not to see her there last Saturday.
TO DO WITH KICKS
I admire a girl who can take a lot of rudeness without losing tem- per or face. There was one girl on Saturday who came in for a good deal; a certain sort of school- room barracking pervades the con-
That standard, on the whole, was sadly fagging last Saturday night. been made for her.
Her best known book,
I notice no outstandingly good versation after about midnight, best known to the general public, outfits. There were too many peo-when N.O's with their charming is "Grand Hotel," which when it ple dancing all the time for them boyish naivety are apt to forget that girls aren't all Peter Pans, was depicted on the attver screen to enjoy themselves, or for other created a sensational film triumph. people to enjoy their clothes. Some
like them, and do grow up, some- times. Still, a foot-ball dance ex- her famous Among others of
day soon a wide awake Hong-
cuses most things. and certainly works is Men Never Know,"
start kongite will
a campaign this year's was a good party. More delightful romance. She has writ-
against these quarter hourly ex-
life about it than last year, if you ten quite a few books in German.
fixiations.. If the band played remember it. (Who does?) And I some of which have been trans-
more often, with shorter dances,
doubt if anyone in the celony can leted into the English language.
think of anything unkind to say Her Itinerary is at present un-everyone would be a great deal
about the Dodwell sister's per- known. She is, in all probability, happier. Except perhaps, taking B holiday and is visiting band. There should, on Saturday formance. The criticism is not, a nights, be two bands. As it is. very good show for amateurs, but numbers of people just refuse to just, a very good show. If that go on Saturday nights, and the re-isn't good enough, remember what sult is a crowd of dishevelled peo- ple who dropped in, in their tousled morning dresses. rubbing shoulders with a few diehards who still insist on their full-dress Why not, Saturday nights out. too, have an un-dress room, and a full-dress room. Ruin the char- acter of Grips Saturday nights? characteristic Fets But when a completely out of hand; it is worth sacrificing.
the Far East.
+
COMPULSORY MILITARY
SERVICE
Good Response By Filipinos
Manila, April 8. Well over 100,000 persons twenty have registered for years of age army service, which is considered
very satisfactory.
A BULL'S-EYE.
Make-up. Deplorable; laid on with no sense of artistry, or else entirely lacking. It is well to
that remember
under artificial 1ghts a natural complexion' does. not look natural; that the lights all over the Grips are of different -colours and intensity, and that the most careful make-up should be used.
men wear
at the
Jewellery. Thrown,, on last minute, often indiscriminately. Dresses. Everything from tweed sports-suita to pearly satins. Both are unsultable. All the wrong wo- printed things, and paper, sequins, diamante silver allcebands are no longer 'amusing', or 'Chic',
good, Shoes. On the whole, though few old sampans found their way in under the cloaking of a long skirt. THE MEN
Well, it was football-dance night. But even on other nights, most of them manage to look unwashed, unkempt, and unbalanced, liter-. ally!
Their clothes, mostly were ter-
a short time ago they began learn-rible. ing. and compare that with the variety of steps, the life and the poise of their number. I foresee that they will be hard worked. I liked their costumes, too.
Trains are going out of fashion, and I find skirts quite monotonous now that they are not being pull- ed into all sorts of peculiar posi- tlons by people who wish to avoid treading on them while dancing. The classical, or, as it was dest cribed to me, night-dress,, vogue is sweeping Hong Kong now. There's one thing about the place,-you
Block booking of motion pictures is a curb on the business of in- dependent exhibitors, according to one of them, speaking before a Senate sub-committee in Washing ton: Under consideration was a bill to outlaw "compulsory" bulk leases of films. Spokesmen for
booking is convenient practice, the producers retorted that block whereby an exhibitor may obtain The ruling of the Arbitration his share of the more profitable Court to which the great lock-out pictures produced each season. dispute of 120,000 metal workers
Along with flims that prove and dock labourers was referred money-makers the exhibitor has on March 31 has just been an- to take Alms that make little or
The day before registration be- nounced, deliberations having end- no money, under the system of
I liked Mrs. St. Clair Ford's gan, on March 31, troops were ed on Tuesday. The Court's ruling leasing films in blocks, sight un-
It was de- is almost identical with the pro-seen. In addition, the exhibitors forced to fire on a mob of demon- bulls-eye ensemble. posal originally made by the State receive some films in these whole-strators against compulsory mill-finitely a hit, and suited her smalt have plenty of time to prepare for arbitrators which at the time was sale purchases that they come to tary service and hot opposition was self with a accepted by the workers. but re-
belleve nay not please their expected in various areas. How-pleasant to see after all the float- jected by the employers. The pre- clienteles, judging from objections ever, no further incidents occurred sent ruling with minor alterations that have developed in ather, com- and registration week passed of is in favour of the workers.—
munities. These are hazards of very quietly.
heuter. ransieran News Service.
the business that the exhibitors should-nay, must-share with the producers, the latter declare, add- ing that the money-making ability of a picture and its general in- are unpredictable, 'offensiveness
precisely during the preparatory and filming period. Recent events,
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FRENCH PROPOSALS
SIXTEENTH ORDIVARY MEET- ING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Office, of the Compacy, Queen's Building, Victoria, "Bong Kong Dally Press" Specia', Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 22nd April, 1986, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditors,
Paris, April 7. The second part of the French:
however,, give Memorandum, it is learned, will be cause to wonder if a certain Holly- addressed
of wood studio would profess to be astonished that one of its star's 1935 films should be an unobjec- tionable money-maker and that widespread objections should gree
to the League Nations, and undertitled "Organisa- tion of peace in the future," con- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the taining an exhaustive political and Company will be CLOSED from the economic scheme for the reorga- 16th April to the 22nd April, 1938,nisation of Europe.
that star's 1936 film. Complaining In four regions apparently, the exhibitors both days inclusive
say they bought the Weichsel, Danube und
1936 film with no knowledge that Rhine, Mediterranean, the interested pow-it was to have an offensive story. ers should conclude mutual assis- having been given no details. tance pacts, arbitration procedure Even if the 1936 film makes money being based on the protocol. of for them, they say they will lose
By Order of the Board of Directors.
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary.
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Hong Kong, 8th April, 1986.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
THE
1924.
AIRMAIL EXTENSION
TO "SHANGHAI
London, April 8. In the House of Commons to- day, Sir Philip Sassoon said that he hoped the extension of the British airmail from Hong Kong to Shanghai was practicable later, but as Mr. A. C. Moreing, the questioner, would realise. this will depend on the facilities granted by the Chinese authori ties.- Reuter
in the end in the good repute of SOVIET-MONGOL
The idea of a "Peace Army," Le.. their theatres. It would seem, in an International police force com- this instance, that the complaints posed of contingents of all the were predictable during the film- member states of the League and ing period. Simple reference, to at the latters' disposal. has been the offensive story Would have rementioned in the French pro-i sufficed. posals.
It looks as if the independent
IE Fifty-Afth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will of the be held at the Offieus General Managers, Mesars. Jandine, Matheson & Co., Ltd; Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 22nd April, 198, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, pussing the Accounts, and Transcean News Serpice. electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be CLOSED from the 15th April to the 6th May inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
General Managoze. Hong Kong 2nd April, 1936.
ALLIANCE
Japanese Deeply Concerned
chukuo.
trimness that
was
a fashion here:
THE WOMEN"
Here are a few very blunt ticisms on Saturday-night's
ings and frills and ribbons there have been lately. She deserves a double mention, as she had just won the ladies race at Fanling.sembly. and yet as usual looked deliciously
Hair dull, and often untidy.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
That amusing habit of borrowing things loses its humour. Old stale powder on coat lapels, hanging buttons, un-polished, shoes, hot sticky hands, blurry, screwed-up eyes.-they were all there.
Their manners,-well, this is Hong Kong. But is it most charm- ing to be perfectly natural, when perfect naturalness entails loung- ing over the chairs, spilling their drinks, hardly bothering to move a lady joins the a finger when party?
Never-the-less, Hong Kongites do possess one virtue, virtue which shines most pleasantly through its fogs. They do manage 10 enjoy themselves, and look as though they were enjoying them- 85-, selves with the most unlikely ma- thetr enjoyment is jterials And
infectious.
crl
Mr. M J. B. Montargis, well four were injured, vehicle collision, known Exchange Broker, and three cases all three were injured Madache Montargis, are leaving and in the only case of jumping the Colony on to-morrow by Andre on or off a moving vehicle the per- Lebon and will return about the son received injuries. beginning of January,"
The forthcoming wedding of Mr. Carew Hopkins. Bank
NEWS SUMMARY
The detention of a girl, aged 11 years, who had been brought from the consent of Swatow without
narrated by her parents, was
Cashman, Detective Sergeant T before Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Police Court yesterday. when four unemployed men, Ng Calu-chun, alias Ng Yan-chung,
Siu Ng, a printer, was admitted Hubert to the Government Civil Hospital Oficial, residing at 460, The Peak, 27, Lee Bam-tal. 35, Lee Kam-hop, suffering from a crushed hand. and Miss Phyllis Vera
Clarke 50, and Chan Man, allas Ng Tai-
nam, were charged,
He received his injury when his Weightman, nursing sister at the hand was caught in a printing machine.
Victoria Hospital, was announced at the Registrar's Office, Supreme Court.