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FLATS TO LET
"MODERN FLATS "TICIA"
Mapaian, Macdonnell Road, Quiet locality, Modern conveniences. Telephone 22722 or 23916.
POSITION VACANT.
THE Kailan Mining Administration
invite applications for position of Assistant Macron at the Tongshan K.M.A. Hospital, which will become vacant early in 1987. Applicants, who innst be British subjects, should give full details of their training. held, special experience, etc., together. with copies of recent testimonials to General Department, Kailan Mining Administration, Mondows Rond
Tientsis, from whom full particulars of duties, pay, allowance & can be obtained. Applications should be for warded not later than 20th July 1936.
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CHINA'S
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By T'ANG LEANG-LI
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TO-DAY'S
RADI O PROGRAMMES
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES
12.30 to 2.15 pm-European re-
corded programme.
12.30 p.m.--Orchestral music by
1000 p.m.-A Rendezvous North.
East, South, West. A Metry Wrangle.
the London Symphony Orches- | 12 midnight.-Close DJA, DIB, DJN
T
1 p.m-Local: Time Signal and
Weather Report.
1.03 p.m.--Songs by Stuart Robert-
son (Bass-Baritone). 1.20 p.m.--Selection from "Flora- dora" by the Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.
1.30 pm.-Reuter Press Bulletins. Rugby Press News. Local: Wea- ther forecast, time and nouncements.
1.10 p.m.-Songs by Frances Day
(Soprano),
(German, English)
"
THAT AVERAGE MAN
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
A HUMAN PARADOX PUBLIC AUCTION.
London, June 20.
If the average man, of whom the Head Master of Rugby has just been talking. really exists, he must be the sort of human paradox in which Mr. Chesterton would have delighted. For an all-round aver- ageness must surely be exceeding- 5.30 am-Breakfast Hour of Newsly rare, if not actually unique, and and Music-English and Span- | if a man is unique how can he re-
RADIO MANILA
HE Undersigned hare received
Instructions
To SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON.
ish Current Events and Vaude present the average? But u would THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936
ville of the Air conducted by Don Alva.
7am-Sign of..
9.30 a.m.--Nielson Financial Re
view and Musical Varieties. 11.30 am-Siga OK.
be no use telling Americans, for example. that there is no such entity with that passion for stunts which makes many of them so charming they have already actually created the average man.
Columbian Masonic Lodge to the number of 152 permitted them- selves to be photographed separa- tely, all the portraits being the same size and all fall face,
1,53 p.m.-Selections by the New 2.30 p.in-Nielson Financial Review Some time ago members of the
Mayfair Orchestra.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
5 to 3 p.m.--European programme. 5 to 7 pm. Relay: Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden.
7 p.m.-
A Concert Songs- sing thee Songs of
Araby.
I know of two Bright eyes.-
Ben Davies (Tenor). Pianoforte Solos-On Wings of
Song (Mendelssohn), Rakoczy March Liszt).-Mark
Hambourg.
Songs-Danny Boy Weatherly). My Ain Folk (Mills)-Mary
Kay (Contralto), Violin Solo-Gavotte (Gossec).
Cartos Sedano.
7.25 p.m.--
The J.H, Squire Céleste Octet Humoreske (Dvorak).
The Wedding of the Rose (arr.
Willoughby).
Souvenir (arr. Willoughby). Salut d'Amour (Elgar). Barcarolle-Tales of Hoffmann"
(Offenbach),
7.40 p.m.
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Vocal Variety Items Yodelling Hobo.The Hill Billies." My First Thrill-June Clyde
(Soprano).
By the Wishing Well-Curtis and
Ames.
Gertrude Lawrence Medley. Bp.m.-Local: Time Signal, Wes- iner Report, Stock Quotations. and Announcements.
8.05 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert. 11 p.m.-Clase down. 8.05 to 10 p.m.-European" pro-
gramme from Z.EK, on a tre- quency of 640 kilocycles. 8.05 p.m.-d
Light Orchestral Music Songs without Words-Potpourri. Concert Waltz - "Joyousness
(Haydn Wood),
Homage March (Haydn Wood). Valsette from "Wood Nymphs" |
(Eric Coatės).
Charm of the Valse farr, Win-
ter).
8.35 p.m.-Walter Glynne Medley." 8.45 p.171.
Band Music Semiramide Overture (Rossin!). Valse des Alouettes (Drigo).“ Amoretten Tanze" (Gung'),
9 p.m.-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin and Announce- ments (Copyright by Reuter). 9.20 p.m.-Dance, Music,
10 p.m.--Big Ben from Daventry.
Close down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
4.53 p.m.-Call DJQ, DJA, DJB
(German, English). German Folk Song.
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5 p.m.-Hitler Youth Programme:
The Country in Summer,
3.30 pm-News and Economic Re-
view in English.
5.45 p.m.--National
Books: Alfred
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and Musical Varieties
3.45 p.m.-Sign On
6 pm.--Tirso's Mababay Orchestra. 6.20 p.m-Spanish Informationzi
Period.
The
6.35 p.m.-English Informational 153 negatives were then superin-
Period
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5.30 p.m.-Stock quotations, through the courtesy of Swan. Culbert- son and Fritz.
7 pm-Smart Musle"-Jerry and his Romancers, Ramon Escu- dero, Johnny Harris and Russ Aranas.
7.15 p.m.-Commercial Monitor, 7.30 p.m.-General Motors Concert, sponsored by the Pacific Cam- mercial Company General Motors Symphony Orchestra. conducted by Erno Rapee. Quest Artist: Yehudi Menuhin. 8.30 p.m.-On Wings of Song with
Ramon Alberto.
8.45 p.m.-Stock Quotations and
Local Market Reports.
9 p.m.-Listerine Amateur Hour. with Baron Unterheisen. Mas- ter of Ceremonies. 9.30 p.m.--Popular Requests 10 p.m. Sign on.
EMPIRE RADIO
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TRANSMISSION 2
Hong Kong Times The following frequenciss will be
OSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.07 m.). aso 17.79 Mc/s (16.58 m..
posed and carefully printed on one plece of paper, and the resultant portrait was acclaimed as that of the Average Man.
MARK TWAIN'S DESCRIPTION
This individual's age must have been anything between 25 and 91. and his vaguely handsome fea tures represented an amalgam of weak and strong chins, noses of all shapes and sizes, ears that stuck out and ears that clung, heavy and light eyebrows, keen and watery eyes, frm mouths and slack ones. even beards and no beards The general impression was that if this man were to commit a crime the compiler of the "wanted" bill would have to broadcast £ singularly
vague, description.
Mark Twain, however, had per-
COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.
AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:
Black Wood Ware, Teak Drawing Room, Bed Room and Dining Room Office Furniture, Dil Furniture, Paintings, Pictures, Silver E. P. Ware. Porcelain and Glass Ware, Brass and Aluminium Ware, Engs, Carpets, Ornaments, Books, Ɛowing Machines, Typewriters, Gramophones and Records, Electric Table Fans and Lamps, Cutlery, Tennis Rackets, Curtains, Liner, Ice Chests, etc., etc.
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and
Three Refrigerators One Upright Piano by W Robison"
ON VIEW From WEDNESDAY,
THE 8TK' JULY, 1936.
fectly precise ideas on what the TERMS -Cash on DELIVERY.
Average Man looks like. During an earlier craze for "composite" photographs that, at times., high-
commentator ly acid
remarked that. "If a composite "photograph were taken of the whole of human- ity it would show a man with an axe on his shoulder proceeding in search of a grindstone."
JOVIAL MOUNT
VESUVIUS
7 p.m.-Big Ben, Variety. Fred) Astaire and Quartette! We Saw | the Sex (Follow the Fleet) (Berlin). Anona Winn: Mimi of the Chorus (Pola). Paul
Mr. T. G. Wilkinson, headmaster Robeson (Bass): Honey (Van of Humphrey Perkin's School, Alstyne), Cicely Courtneidge: Barrow-on-Soar, writes to me to If I had Napoleon's Hat (Aunt Sally) (Woods). 7.15 p.m.-The BBC Welsh Orches- tra; leader, Frank Thomas: conducted by Mansel Thomas. W. H. Thomas (Baritone). Or- chestra: Overture. Don Juan (Mozart). W. H. Thomas: The
OT-
point out a BBC. "howler.".
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS
HAY-FEVER
A NEW CURE FOUND
London, June 20. The simple announcement that new cure for hay-fever has been discovered is not in Itself Ukely to raise unduly the hopes of those Recently, apparently, Mr. G. A who suffer from the disease. There Boumphrey, who was to have con-
have been too many cures. Red-. tinued а series of talks, was eyed and sneezing, and furious unable to be present, and an an- that a complaint which teel so un- nouncer read his talk for him. pleasant should look so comic, the He introduced it by saying that sufferers have tried them all. It the journey down the "Thames" they are old-fashioned, they have would be continued from Bridg- | plunged their faces in cold" water; north to Worcester. The talk i modern, they have been injected then described the course of the Severn from Shrewsbury to just below Ironbridge,
He finished by saying "Thus ended the journey from Bridgnorth to Worcester.”
The classic B.B.C. lapsus linguae came in 1920 from the announcer who was describing the Vesuvius eruption. “
Watchman (W, H. Squire), The Gay Highway (F. Drummond). Now No More (Mozart). chestra: Suite, The Miracle: (1) Prelude (2) Procession and Children's Dance (3) Banquet Scene and Nun's Dance (4) March of the Army and Death Motif (5) The Christmas Scene and Finale, Äct 1 (Humper- dinck). W. H. Thomas; Arthur yn Cyfodi (The Rising of Ar- thur) (Gwynn Williams), Yn Nyffryn Cryn Clwyd (In the Vale of Clwyd) (arr, Somer-streams of lager which ran in the vell). Y Tair Mordaith (The direction of Pompeii." Three Voyages) (R. 8. Hughes), Orchestra: Fantasia on the Music of Rossini (Urbach). 8.15 p.m.-"Queue for Bong," 2nd Edition, An Empire pro- menade, presented by Reginald; Smith.
8.54 p.m.-Musical Interlude. Socialist 9 p.m.-Greenwich Time Signal Rosenberg's 9 p.m.-The News and Announce-
ments.***
"Gestaltung der Idee."
6 p.m-Rococo Glamour
Instrumental Music and Songs, 6.45 p.m.--News and Economic Re-
view in German.
↑ p.m.-Concert of Light Music.
8 pm-News in Engilah-Eign vit
DJQ.
8.15 p..--Ctreelings to our listen-
ers in Australia.
·9.20 p.m.-Topical Talk,
8.20 p.m. The Philip Whiteway Ensemble. An Irish Souvenir (Reginald Redman). Dance of the Minutes (Brian Hope), Roses of Picardy (Haydn Wood), The Clockwork Bear! Mr. Golliwog: Spanish Dance: "Hornpipe (A Fantasy Suite)
(Colin Macleod Campbell).. Gossamer Lady (Ewing).
8.35 pm.-Concert of Light Music 9.45 p.m.---Close down.
(continued).
9 p.m.-Sign of DJA and NJA
(Germ., Engl.).
TRANSMISSION S
0.05 p.m.-Call DJA, DJB. DJN will be used:-
(Germ., Engl.)
German Folk Song.
፡
0.10 p.m. Greetings to our Listen-
ers in the "Far East."
9.15 pm-News and Economic Re-
« view in German on DJA. DJB
DJN
9.30 p.m.-Brass Band..
10 p.m.-News and Economic Re- view in English on 'DJN and in Dutch on DJA, DIB. 10.10 p.m.-To-day in Germany.
Bound. Pictures.
10.30. p.m.-A Generation's Changes
in Germany: The New Aspect of German Cities. II, Franc- fort-on-the-Mein.
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GBC 17.79 Mc/a (16.88 m. GBF 15.14 Me/s (19.82 IN)
10 p.m.-Big Ben. "From the Wo- mar's Point of View" by Jane Oliver.
and
Inoculated until their arms. were as painful as their reads.
They have gargled their throats, and sniffed things up their nos- triis; they have alternately put drops in their eyes and washed them out again. They have even embraced uncomfortable diets and have rushed, still sneezing, to psychoanalysts before booking tic- gets to Heligoland, where there is no dust because there is no earth. no seeds because there is no vegeta- tion, and therefore no hayfever be- cause there is nothing to cause it. Yet, if the disillusioned can bring Carnival (Suite, Sylvan Scenes) themselves to read further, there (Fletcher), Hungarian Rhaps something promising in this sody, No. 3 (Liszt). Waltz, The latest discovery, Wedding Dance (Lincke).
"The activity of the volcano in- creased, Mount Vesuvius emitting
It is the result of five years' re- Selection, The Last Waltz search by a department of St. (Strauss),
George's Hospital, in London, and
11 p.m.The Arcadian Fotiles," It is claimed from statistics of ex- under the direction of Ernest periments during those years that Binns, David Morris (Vocalist): It is successful in 99 per cent of
treatment Beryl Churchill (Soprano); H cases, "The
consists Mitchell-Craig (Entertainer); in the application by electricity of the Molly Heaton (Boubrette and a coating of ionized zinc to Dancer); Benny Bennett inside of the nostrils" (where the (Comedian and, Dancer): irritation starts), and after three Lucille st. John (Soprano); or four applications the majority of " Boly Mack (Pianoforte); Jim patients are rendered free from at- Fitz (Comedian and Drum-tacks for a year. If the treatment mer); Bylvia Deene (Come is repeated three years, running dienne); Albert Modley (Come- "there is usually no recurrence of dian). From the Arcadian the trouble. Nothing is said of the Pavilion, Morecambe.
cost, which has been an obstacle to
$3
can always go to Heligoland.
Two of the fallowing frequencies | 11.45"p.m.-Harold Bamuel (Piano- other cures for many people, but forte) Prelude and Fugue in the rest sounds more than satisfac- G (Bach) Intermezzo in Etory. As for the 1 per cent, they flat, Op. 117 (Brahms). 11.55 p.m.-The News and Ad-
nouncements. Midnight.-Greenwich Time Signal. 12.15 am. "The Blue Peter." A
comic opera in one act, "by A P. Herbert. Music by Arto- strong Gibbs. Simon (a fruit grower); played by George Baker: Joan (his wife): played by Vera Siddons; Susan 'her maid); played by Esther, Cole-
10.37 m. The Central Band of His Majesty's Royal Air Force (by permission of the Air Council), conducted by Flight Lieut, R. P. O'Donnell, MV.O., Director of Music, Royal. Air Force. From the Royal Air Force Headquarters. Uxbridge. Alpine Memories. A Fantasia on Swiss Melodies (arr. Win- ter). Bylvia Dances: Cupid's
evening a long time ago. The BBC Empire Orchestra; leader, Daniel Meisa; conductor, Erie Fogg. The programme, pro- duced by William MacLurg,
1 a.m.--Close down.
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man; Robin (a sailor): played "How can you recognize profes-
by Jan Van der Gucht, The monals on the radio?" action takes place in the gar-1They have no gong to stop. den of Simon's house on an them.".
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