HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1939. —PAGE 5.
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DAILY AT 2:30·515·7·2029-30 ·TEL.3/453′′
TODAY AND TOMORROW
HEAR Judy wrat tire strings
4 of my beacY "
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SEE Freddie «ct-
as Eupāl's lette
Helper
THRILL to a Tomzn.
lic new lure team'
GAILY YOURS! Freddie and Judy pick a man - for Mom...and no drizzle puss need apply! It's grand!
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Listen Darling
FREDDIE
JUDY
BARTHOLOMEW » GARLAND
Mary ASTOR > Walter PIDGEON ALAN HALE - SCOTTY BECKETT" Directed by EDWIN L. MARIN Prodrend by JAEN CUMMINGS
* Metro-Goktugen-Mayer METLER
SATURDAY
FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS
THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE'
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Myrna
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JANE WITHERS
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"CAN THIS BE DIXIE”
with
SLIM SUMMERVILLE
"PARIS HONEYMOON".
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TU-DAY"
ANNIVERSARIES, and HOLIDAYS,
St. Mamertus, Bishop. AUCTIONS.-Crown Landa, at Omice, Ping Shan, 11.30a.m. CINEMAS.—(See Column 3. of this
Page). -ENTERTAINMENTS. - Gramo- phone Recital on Brahms, by Mr. E. O'Neil Bhaw, at European YMCA. 9 p.m. LECTURES-ARP. Modified Full
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KING'S:
Hongkong
"Romance And Rhythm”
QUERN'S:
"Listen DarlingTM
ORIENTAL
"East Of Java"
CATHAY:
"Tarzan Escapes"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Safety In Numbers" STAR:
"Can This Be Dixie"
MAJESTIC:
"Gateway"
Coming
KINGS:
"Topper Takes A-Trip" QUEEN'S:
"The Story or Vernon & Irene
Castle"
ORIENTAL:
"Double Wedding"
ALHAMBRA:
"The Story of Vernon & Irene
Castle**
CATHAY:
Three Blind Mice". *Sky Glant"
STAR:
"Walk Wedding"
"Paris Honeymoon"
A
MAJESTIC:
"You Can't Take It With You".
EMERGENCY SERVICE FOR SOLDIERS
Chinese Y.M.C.A... ·
Activities
CHUNGKING, May 9 (Central)...... With a staff of 152 workers and at an expenditure of $67,000, the Chinese YM.C.A. Emergency Ser vice to Soldiers served more than 4,000,000 Chinese soldiers in Beld beadquarters, garrison posts, sta tions, military hospitals, Red Cross trains and steamships st its 20 service stations in 1933.
Encouraged by its success, the emergency service has increased its personnel to 250 and its stations to 30, scattered
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afraid
WASHINGTON. "Who's of the Big Bad Wolf.
"The Big Bad Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf? Tra-la-la-lat"
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I have been looking through the salaries of some of the more highly pald American business executives.
as, reported to the income-tax The strains of "The Big Bad
authorities. And I find that the Wolf Walt Disney's famous men in entertainment business song-shook the House of Repre- head the list, writes. a Home.cor- sentatives when Congressman respondent. Geyer of California rendered the words and music in the middle of a lively debate here.
Louis B. Mayer, of M-G-M-Films, made £280,000 in 1937, Nicholas Schenck, President of Loew's Inc. Mr. Geyer was objecting to a speech by Congressman Schafer of and the guiding genfus of M.-G.- Wisconsin, whom he accused
M. earned £98,000. Major Edward of
Bowes, executive director of Edmar "huffing and puffing as though you were going to blow the New the Amateur Hour on the wireless. Enterprises and the originator 'af Deal house in."
was paid £85.500.
To illustrate what he thought should be the right retort to Mr. Schater', remarks, Mr. Geyer burst into song, whilst other members laughed and applauded.
Some members asked the chair to secure order so that the singer might receive "a respectful hear- Ing" but others objected to the congressman's "odelling.
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Among - the..." actors " and actresses, Greta Garbo earned
£84,500, Joan Crawford £70,- 006, and Clark Gaḥis £58,000.
Big Business also showed some high figures. Thomas Watson, president of International Business Machines received £83,000. George
Hill, of the American Tobacco Co., £78,000 and Owen Young and
REFUGEE SCHOOL Gerard Swope, of the General
FUND
The following doriations have been received by the Hongkong
Electric Co. £47,000 each.
FROM NEWSPAPERS
Newspaper salaries, too, were
Emergency Refugee Council for high Mortimer Berkowitz, president
the Refugee School fund:-
of the American Weekly Inc.. £53,000 and Edward
St. Stephen's Girls' College $200. earned China Motor Bus Co., $100, Mr. J.Scudder.
of the Evening News
Marion Douras, better known as
A. Gaunt $100, Mr. L Tre Fong Publishing Co.."£23,000. $100,- St. Mary's School $100, Kow- Joon Junior School $65, Mr. K. W. Chan $50, Sir V. M. Grayburn $50, Marion Davies, the dim actress, Mr. F. Chang $30, B.P.S. 6A $25.30, received £21,000 as president of Messrs. Anderson Meyer & Co. Henrst's Cosmopolitan Corporation. Ltd. $25, Nederlandsch Indische But W. Hearat. jun., of American Handelsbank $20. Ching Hua Col-Newspapers Inc., earned only £12,- lege 520. Tsang Fook Piano Co. $20. Chan Family $15. Cheung Chau The columnist. Walter Winchell, School $10.30, Mr. G. E. Frisque $10 earned £10,000. G. McManus, artist, Inspector Hooper $5, Mrs. C. M. of King Features Syndicate Inc. Chan $5, Mr. Chan Man Kal $5, received £20,000, and Robert L Anonymous $5. and Mr. Li Chau Ripley, of Belleve It or Not was Wa $2.
Just under £30,000,
500.
CROSSWORD
.. ACROSS 1 Styles (5) 8 View (5)
B Weight (5)
9 Part of throat (5)
10 Homeless man
(5)
11 Hawsers (3)
14 Connects (4) 17 Disallow (4) Cheklang. 19 Debate ending
Kiangsi, Human, Hupch, Szechwan, Honan and Shenal. In addition to 20 Nought (4)
a monthly budget of $4,000, the
service will expend $157,600 for its activities in 1939-or which $100,- 000 has been allotted by the gov ernment.
VARIED HELP"
Apart from helping the hospital staff in dressing wounds. the "7" men are engaged in writing letters, distributing "comfort" articles, and providing education and amuse- ment. A small library is main- ̈tained by each service station where the hospital inmates may read books, magazines, "and news-. papera.
Lecture classes are conducted for the discussion of current toples and for teaching religion and illiterate ones are taught to read and write. Group singing is frequent. Chinese operas, motion pictures, concerts, chess, and physical exercises, are among the amusements provided for the convalescent.
at Hors,, Lower Albert Road. 5.30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Wo- men's Fellowship, 3 p.m.; "Wo- men's Bible Study Circle.” on "The Book of Revelation.” HK. Evangelical Fraternity, 216 Na- than Road, 10.30 am.; -Victoria Chess Club, at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pm. MISCELLANEOUS, Gulld of Martha and Mary Bewing Meet- ing in the Vicarage, 100 Water- loo Road, 10 a.m.; Exhibition of Chinese. Cartoons at Central Theatre.
tal, 6 pm.; at Ambulance Hqrs, 5.30 p.m.; at Kowloon Hospital, Outpatients Dept. 6 p.m. A.R.P. fh Chinese, at "E" Godown, of HK. & Kowloon Wharf Go- down Co., Ltd., 7 p.m.; First Aid, in Chinese, at Tung Mul Middle School, 127 Heard Street, Wanchai, 7 pm; for men; at Ambulance Hors.. 7.30 p.m.; "Running Repairs, at Volun-SPORTS-(8er Page 2), teer Hars., 11 a.m.; Theosophi-
' RELIGIOUS.--St. John's Cathedral- Confirmation Class (Adults), Lady Chapel, 5.30 pm.
Course, at United Services Re- caf Society; 6 pm.. creation Club, Kowloon Home MAILS-(See Fago 16), Nursing at Queen Mary Hospi- MEETINGS.-Cathedral: Scouts,
| SOCIAL--RAO.B. (GLEJ Club Whist Drive: and Tombola. Queen's Building, Ice House Street, 8.30 p.m.: Public Works Recreation Club Tombola, Cause- way Bay, 8 p.m.; Cheero Club Bridge Night,
BUNRISE 5.48 2.m. SUNSET—
6.53 p.m.
-TIDES—High at 03:38 and: 12.28.
Low at 06.08 and 20.52.
21
Flag Bower (4)
22 Reposing (7)
23
Valley (4)
23 Want (4)
28 Drive (5).
31 Or same value
(3)
32 Junction (5) 33 Lawful (5)
34 Private nights
(5)
35. Turning machine (5) DOWN
1 Confidencé (5) 2 Halt (5) 3 Ascend (4)
4 Break sharply
NO. 306
(4)
5 Hardens (4)
8. Berious (5)
7 Drunken (5)
12 American
. animal (7).
13. Learned· (7)
15 Utopian (5)
16 Despise (b)-- SOLUTION TO-MORROW
Solution No 305)
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TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, K10, V.38 AND 8.30 P.M.
ROMANCE and RHYTHM
WAHOO! IT'S A WORLD- CHAMPEENSHIP OF ROMANCE
M'RHYTHM NʻLAUGHS
DICK POWELL-PAT O'BRIEN
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HEAN'1“RIDE, TINDER- FOST, RIBE" - "PLL DREAM TORSCUT" and other grant kita?
Also Colour Travelogue
LAND OF KANGAROO’ "TOPPER TAKES A TRIP ” with CONETANCE BENNETT ROLAND Young.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
WHERE THERE'S A JAM, THERE'S A JONES-
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The
Jones Family
America's ever-so-fovable folks in their newest ever-so-laughable hit!
SAFETY IN NUMBERS
SATURDAY
FRED ASTAIRE
in
GINGER ROGERS
THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE"
17 Condescend (5)
18 Din (5)
23 Gluttony (5)
24 Dodge (5) 28 Live (5) 27, Dullard (5) 28 Evils (4)
-29: Attendant (4)
30 Quieten (4)
ACROSS: 1, Rodent. 4; Pauper: E) DOWN: 1. Regult. 2, Demand. 3, Mad. 9. Bimoom 11; Shrill, 12, Bengt. Noose. 4; Pass, 5. Adhere. §. Priest. 13. Lancet. 16, Ruses. 18, Tide: 19,7. Relist 10, Mettle, 14, Ald. 15," Talent. 23, Parent, 25, Epic. 28; Cedar. 17, Under, 20, Letter." 21, Where 29, Tirade: 31, Giten. 38, Ltd. 22. Swoons. 23, Pencil 24, Orchid, 34, Rebate, 35, -Old. 36, Region, 26, Panama, 27, Celery, 30, Saline. 37, Steady:
Inept, 32, Idle
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