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In their repertoire of new plays.
MONDAY Dec. 20th. TUESDAY Dec. 1. WEDNESDAY Dec. 22nd. THURSDAY Dec. 23rd. FRIDAY Dec. 24th. SATURDAY Dec. 25th, MONDAY Dec. 3.tb. TUESDAY Dec. 28th. WEDNESDAY
Dec. 29th. THURSDAY
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THE ROTTERS.
IN THE
THE
NIGHT.
NAUGHTY WIFE.
THE YELLOW TICKET.
LORD RICHARD IN
THE PANTRY.
ROMANCE.
ROMANCE.
BILLETED.
CAESAR'S WIFE.
NOTHING
BUT THE TRUTH.
Booking plans open at Moutrie's.
PHILIP CARLTON,
SOBER SCOTSMEN !
Pussyfoot Johnson Says
is Going "Dry."
"I am suprised at Scotland."
Ir. "Pussyfoot" Johnson told
be Daily Sketch when he return
d to London from his whirlwind smpaign borth of the Tweed.
"Bat you have heard of their ations! beverage?". hý *ked.
was
"Quite" (be smiled); "that
į why I Was surprised-at
buge
crowds that tended our meetings honestly ixious to hear our side of the
188,
And listen, he continued, a great big part of this Scotland going dry; you can tell the brid that as a positive fact.
I made forty speeches in
Manager.
TIL HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1920.
THE BUSINESS MAN'S LIBRARY.
Success of a Manchester Municipal Venture.
The Manchester Commercial Library has entered out the second year of its existence. Although one of the youngest of municipal ventures, it has already establish- ed itself as an invaluable asset taj the business and commercial life! of the city.
In its first year the library has had nearly 20,000 visitors. For the most part they were repre- sentatives of business firms seek-i ing more or lers specialised in-) formation bearing on their own commercial problems, though there have been others-includ- ing parties of boys from the Grammar School and students from Didsbury-whose interest was more akin to curiosity. Bus- iness men from Australia, Canada, and the United States, who | have called there in the hope of Ending a telegraphiz code. have been supplied cat: only with that but with much other information, and, according to their own testimony, they have found it very helpful.
Classified lists of the books and pamphlets that may be con-i sulted in the library, which now number more than 3,000, are issped each month
the by hbrarian. A dozen such lists have appeared already, dealing with such subjects as scientific management in which the library as one of the best col- lections of books in Manchester). Teost Ruding, accountancy, foreign trade, and advertising. Most useful of all perhaps, is the vertical file, which already con Taina 100.000 clippings
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2:ang-
every subject likely to be of UKA 10 the business Мал. The clippings are
the Dewew decimal avstem, which admits of unre- stricted sub-division and inter- calation. The system is easy! enough to understand, bu: for the unaccustomed visitor who does not feel at home with it the staff of the library-undertake to find any item in the ile within a minute.
A is typical subjects on which inquiries pave been addressed to the staff and answered by them
are given below:-
The cost of production of the cotton crops in America.
The difference between the Federal and the State income tax in Australia.
The number of motor-cars registered in the United States during the past but years,
The condition of roads in Argentina.
Descriptions of various textile fabrics.
The latest tariffs of Argentis.
INTELLIGENCE TESTS.
Queries for Nimble Wits.
"Write at the left-hand side of the second line in this page the. letter in the alphabet that comes before the first letter of the Grat) word, and the letter that comes; after."
This is a typical example of the intelligence test that is being given to the thousands of tem- porary Women Civil Service clerks under examination at the Crystal Palace for permanent appointments.
To answer the whole 14 mind- tristers in two minutes is a feat that calls for an elastic brain.|
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A Cheap Lamp is an Expensive Light
A PHILIPS LAMP
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de
The Banque Industrielle Chine beg to inform the bolders of the temporary bonds of the Credit
subscribed through them, that
The examiner blows a whistle Objects to Mr. Lloyed George's National 1919, which have been
and there is a great rustling of paper as the candidates turn over to the next page of mental leap frog.
*** Snarl."
In an article in the Targliche same must be exchanzed in their Rundschau, Admiral ros Tirpitz, Paris Office for definite bonds
exhorts the German people to before fareb 1921. Here is another example of cast off the spirit of servility to outlook was
thought-jazz. On the paper are wards the Entente and to cultivate storms. Three printed two letters-pa. Under-national self-respect. of these meetings were broken heath is written "If the tail letter up, and the other two interrupted comes first in the alpbabet write desperate situation," he says, "lies "The main cause of our present
DISCOMFOR AFTER
MEALS
but the disturbance every time the letter here, if the other letter in the method which began with usually des to flatulence, or wind was organised by the 'wets.""
"It was amusing," he added here."
comes first write the tail letter or declaration of wrong-doing in the stomacb, IDBY
be reflectively, "to see how they
against Belgium, continued with remedied by the occasional use of dropped the argument that I was word
Another idea is the missing the Reichstag peace resolution of competition. The can-July, 1917, that entailed the loss
a foreigner when two equally didates base to fill in the gap of the war and found its grotesque
"If we hadahownoureneimies,
PINKETTES
enthusiastic Americans a man with what they consider the right culmination in the autumn of 1918, the gentle little laxatives. Pink- and woman, appeared as speakers word. on their side.
For example. As a monk is to be says (as quoted by Router from flatulence, cure biliousness, sick ettes dispel constipation and
i "Summing up
TOLD THEM THE TRUTH-
the situation now I have returned, I say the Again, four words are
a man, 30 is ato a soldier." Berlin) that there were limits to headaches, liverishness, coated 'dry' campaign in Scotland has Room, ceiling, chimaer, wall," quered people could be subjected, clear the skin of pimples, and given, the humiliations to which a con-coated tongue, ill-amelling breath, been remarkably successful.
and the candidate has to draw a President Wilson could never have line through the three words that joined in imposing the armistice blotches. asked, but with the exceptions I fourth.
"Hundreds of questions were are a part of the whole of the conditions nor would Mr. Lloyd vial, post free,, from The Dr. Of dealers, or for 60 cents the George, at Spa, bave been able to willisms Medicine Co., 96 Sza- have mentioned they showed a genuine desire to hear the truth competition in a
"It was like a missing-word Darl at the German Imperial chuon Road, Shanghai. about prohibition. And we sup said one of the candidates, a
Chancellor as if he were a shoe- plied the information."
black." woman of 45. "It is 30 years. The admiral bimself has nobope In reference to the proposed since I have been to school I of living to see the sun rise on the
newspaper,"
PRIZE MONEY FOR NAVY. Up to September 30, £3,000,000
Indian tour, Mr. Johnson said he found these intelligence tests German horizon, and doubts even bas been authorised to be paid to venteen days, and on only tivo had received cabled instructions very amusing, but I could not whether the present generation the Navy in respect of prize .casions could you say the from America not to undertake it. finish them all in the time."
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