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The Annual General Meeting of the Members of the above Society will be held on Tuesday, 29th Notion," vember, 1927, at 5.15 p.m. in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
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A Very Valuable Collection of Curios (just arrived from Peking).
comprising:-
HOLLYWOOD.
MARY PICKFORD GROWS UP.
BURNT CORK WANTED.
Hollywood: Mary Pickford has
grown up.
to
role of a co-ed."
SEAMEN OF THE EMPIRE.
LORD ROTHERMERE'S £5,000 GIFT.
POST OFFICE NOTICE
XMAS LETTER MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN,
Xmas Letter Mail via Marsellies for Great Britain will be closed in thè G.P.O. at 9.30 am, the 19th fast, per ds. "Suwa Maru",
This mail is due in London on the 20th December,
NOTICE.
XMAS AND NEW YEAR PARCEL MAILS FOR GREAT BRITAIN.
Xmas and New Year Parcel Mails for Great Britain will be closed in the General Post Office at 5 p.m. the 10th November per 8.3. "Macedonia,”
This mail is due in London on the 15th December.
The parcels post service to Russia in. Asia vis Japan is temporarily suspended
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutca earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertis
to close at or before 0 am. registered and parcel malls are clored at
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LONDON'S YOUNG COMPANY.
The Lord Mayor (Sir Rowland Blades. AL. P.) presided at the Man- The little girl who became famous sion House recently at the first an-. screen fans throughout the niversary meeting of the Company world, in her latest picture. "My of Master Mariners, to which caped Best Girl" plays the part of a ten-tains of the largest British liners 6 p.m. on the previous day.
It was announced that 1 Dutiable articles forwarded by letter post to Great Britain are cent store stock clerk. Her next belong.
Hable to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be forwarded film will be a college story written Viscount Rothermere had sent a by herself in which she plays the cheque for £5,000 towards the by parcel
•Parcalsy. foundation fund of the company.
poat service betwest Hongkong and Ports of the Yangtose The company, which the Lord West of Hankow is temporarily suspended. With the discarding af her Mayor described as the "most dis- Parcels for places in. Szechwan will now be accepted for transmiss childish characterizations, Mary la tinguished group of merchant season at senders' risk. It is to be noted that parcels are liable to delay, and To alect Officers and a new Com-Five-coloured
Scrolls and Hand Painting, stated to know a new popularity. men in the world." was established that the service may be suspended again at any time.
Vases, Bowls, She always has
Letters and postcards for mittee for the current year. Flower Pots, Ivory, Coral and Am-lowing who stuck by her ecause dard of British seamanship and to
had a large fol- last year to maintain the high stan- via Siberis AT: 50 HUDETEerib. 7"* Europa and the British Isles are forwarded ber Ware, Carved Lacquer Vases of herself. The next few months raise the status of the profession. and Screens, Old Bronze, etc., etc. should see her fan mail acti- Sir Burton Chadwick, M.P., Par- cally doubled. Although the Pick-linmentary Secretary to the Board films always made money, of Trade, the Deputy Master, was there was a feeling among theatre largely responsible for the forma- goers that they wanted to setion of the company. Its court Mary do something different than includes akippers of big liners, the child roles she portrayed for marine superintendents, and repre-
sentatives of shipping lines.
To fix the date of the annual Flower Show.
To discuss any matter of Inter- eat to Horticulturists in Hongkong and outlying districts.
E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 6th November, 1927.
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB
"TREVESSA TROPHY."
The eighth bi-annual race for ships lifeboats will be sailed on Wednesday, the 9th November next, starting at 1 i.m.
Each ship may enter agy num- ber of boats.
COURSE: Start from Channel Rocks, thence, to Kowloon Rock (P), Mark of Yacht Club (S), Cust Rock Gas Bony"), finish at the Yacht Club across the line from West to Bask.
Competing hosts should be in position at the starting line by 3.30 p.m.
Ships proposing to enter. Boats are requested la notify the Hon. Secretary, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, not later than noon, on the 7th November,
R. J. VERNALL,. Hon. Secretary, B.H.K.Y.C. Hongkong, 3rd November, 1927.
ATTRACTIONS!
Children's Delight Sweet Stalls, Chocolates, Home made fudge und candy, Toys to make the Children happy."
Side shows, Games, Fishing Pond, Check board, Ten cent Stalls etc.
Try your luck with the Souvenir Tickets $1.00 and $2.00. Useful gifts will be given for every ticket. "N.B. No ticket will be inter- changeable for souvenir if present-
d after the 6th November.
There will be also a large variety of Children's frocks, table covers, cushions, bed-spreads, handker-
and
A Few Pieces" of Blackwood. Cabinets and Screens, etc.. Catalogues will be issued.
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On View from Monday, the 7th November, 1927.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
ford
so many years.
The Lord Mayor said the com- Laugh and Tears.
pany included representatives of "My Best Girl," which will be every branch of maritime life in the released about the middle of Octo Empire, all of them master marin ber, is one of the most enter-era and most of whom had Auctioneers. taining productions ever made by spent their boyhood in the hard the star. Aside from being a aid sailing-ship school. He did not Mary Pickford film, it has all the think it an exaggeration to say that qualities which go to make up a British merchant seamen had con- good motion picture-laughs, ro-tributed more to the building of the mance and a few lenrs.
Empire than any other body of men. The formation of a company of this ancient profession was cen- turies overdue.
CHURCH NOTICES.
TO-MORROW'S SERVICE.
Mary has as her leading man Charles Rogers, un extremely good looking youth who has been
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, stepping along with big strides re November 6th., 1927. 21st Sun-cently. Charley is the son of the day
After Trinity. Harvest man who owns the ten-cent store Thanksgiving.
Holy Commun-chain. And naturally he falls in ion, 8 a.m. Children's Service love with Mary who thinks he is
just a co-worker in the store. 10 a.m.. Matins 11 a.m. Prea. oher: Rev. II. Copley Moyle. Iloly Communion 12 noon. Evensong 6.p.m. Preacher: Rev. W. R. Cannell. Collection at 11a.m. or Earl Haigs Fund, Thursday Holy Communion at 745 a.m. Friday Armistice Day. Spécial Service at 9.45 a.m. Preacher:
Rev. "L. Webb, C. F. Collection for St. Dunstans.
The picture almost touches up on comedy, especially during the sequence where Rogers takes Mary to his home for dinner. And the scene where Mary tries to send Charley away after she has learned of his identity is as touch- ing and full of romance As any John Barrymore love score.
Mary's Sister,
woman to make.
on
has
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The King's Approval, Sir Burton Chadwick said the company-the youngest in Londen of its kind and representing the oldest craft in our island nation- was limited to 500 members, of whom. nearly 350 had been elected. Any master mariner of good re- pute could belong to the company after service of five years with a Board of Trate certificate if he could pass the electoral serutiny of the court of the company.
RADIO NOTICES, Radio Telegraph Services are now in operation between Hongkong and the following places:—
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Philippine Islands, French Indo-China, Province of Yunnan, Canton, Wuchow, Kongmoon, Hoihow, Macao, Kwongchauwan, Fort Bayard and Amoy.
Rates and further particulars on application to the Radio Counter, ist. Floor, General Post Office Buliding.
Swatow Service restored.
It is notified for information that Feather Fans and Brooches can- not be sent by post to Great Britain. They are prohibited by the Plumags (Prohibition). Oct. of 1921.
ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
It is hereby notified that on and and after 17th October, 1927 radio- telegrams will be accepted by the Radio Telegraph Office, Government Build- ing, for transmission to the American Continents, Hawaiian Islands and Europe through the intermediary of the Radio Corporation of the Philip- pines at Mani further particulars on application to the Radio Counter,
Rates and"
1st Floor, Government Building.
Radio telegrams are now accepted at the Radio Counter, 1st Floor, Government Building, for transmission to the Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo at the rate of $1.00 por word ordinary and $0.50 deferred.
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They had been gratified by the King's approval, the good will of the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the shipping companies, Carmelita Geraghty, who and the interest of the public.. been trying for more than a year attention to the needs of widows Shanghai and Europe vla Biborle Demodocus
The company would give spesial Wesleyan
the Church, to get a real foothold Methodist
at last and dependents,of mnster mariners, Amo Queen's Road East, Wanchal movie highway, has.
A committee had Bangkok via Swatow (near Royal Naval Hospital).found" herself. As Mary's sis- who might not be reached through Straits
ter, who cares for nothing except other channels. Sunday, November 6th, 1927- good times and clothes, she gives already been set up to study the Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Morning Service, 10.15 o'clock. a. performance that will draw education of boys who are to be Sandakan Subject: "Friendship." After plenty of praise,
come officers in the Merchant Ser
The noon: 3 o'clock. SUNDAY
company had also "My Best Girl" hasn't opened vice. SCHOOL Evening Service, 6 any wide breach between Mary's been invited to appoint a represen- o'clock. Subject:
"Armistice prasent and past acting. It is still tative to a Board of Trade commit Day" Preacher at both services a Mary Pickford film with Mary tee to consider the question of ex- Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey. Holy fundamentally the same as before. amination of masters and mates for Communion after Evening Ser- While she realized that the public certificates of competener. vice. Sailors' and Soldiers wanted her to do something more Home, Arsenal Street, Sunday: in keeping with the times, Miss 3.00 p.m. Mr. May's Bible Class. Pickford is too smart a business any radical 8.15. p.m. Service Men's Hour. changes in a single pieture. There Ladies' is nothing in this film that will lose her any old fans and it will convert plenty of new ones.
Mary even kept herself as the next step will come in her next Macdonnell Road, below Bowen picture. As a college girl, Mary Road Tram Station. Sunday will have to dress up more than Service, 11.15 3.m. Subject: ane ever has yet. And she's going; "Adam and Fallen man". Wed- to make a very striking little co-ed. nesday Evening Meeting at
"Newsboy's “Rise." 5.30 pm. Reading Room at above address, open Tuesday
office boy and "From newsboy to Friday, 10 am. to 12 noon. Mon- isn't a very big step. But Har day and Thursday, 5 to 7 p.m. old "Sandy" Colvin thinks it is The Public is cordially invited almost a record breaking jump. to attend the services and vidit the Reading Room. Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A.
pam.
Monday: 3.00 Church Aid Meeting.
Sir Walter d'M. Baynham, marine superintendant of the Orient Line, said it, was hoped to establish a foundation fund of £100,000. As Manfin...
result of Viscount Rothermere's Straits and Calcutta generous gift of £5,000 this now stood at £25,000 He expressed Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ...... Hai Ning gratitude to Lord Rothermere, whe had taken a deep interest in the
TO LET.-Office Rooms 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, same building. chiefs, bables', robes exquisitely First Church of Christ Scientist, poor girl until the very end. The work of the company.
COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let In No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in JA, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and Company, Ltd.
FOR SALE.
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embroidered, at moderate. prices.
Special Attractions. The "Art Store" full of dainty and Charming' gifts, such as oil-painting, batik work-stencilling, and Shol-work- ties for men etc.
Do your Christmas shopping here! You will be charmed with
A band will be in attendance during the Bazaar.
the 5th and 6th Don't forget November Annual Fair held at the
FOR SALE-Furniture and fit-the surprises. tings of three roomed Flat includ- ius Piano. $1,000.00 Maderate Reat with modern sanitation near ferry. Genuine bargain Box No. Log, care of "Hongkong Tele- graph."
FOR SALE.-Freak arrival Army Blankets, greyish brown, black stripe $2.25 each, dozen; singly $2.50, Superior qualities accord- ing to requirements. Reduction to charitable and missionary usso- clations for quantities also to dealers and merchants for regular orders. Sub-agenta locally and in outports required. Montgomery Ollerton & Co., 19, lee House Street, ground floor, between the Carlton and the Portuguese Club, Tal. C.46.0,
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4. Duddell Street.
If you have anything you would
like to sell, exchange or advertise
ITALIAN CONVENT.
HONGKONG JOCKEY' CLUE.
The Seventh Extra Race Meet- ing will be held (weather permit- ting) at Happy Valley on Satur day, 5th November, 1927, com- mencing at 2 p.m. The first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 for all persons including Ladies. Soldiers and Sallors in uniform half price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain admission to the Member s Enclo-
aure.
Each member has the right to Introduce 2 non-members to the Members' Enclosure, tickets for whom be obtained from end it to the CHINA AUCTION | Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5.00 POOM.
each up to Friday, 4th November, 1927.
E. V. M. R. de SOUSA.
Miss Australia." whose real name is Miss Phyllis von Alwyn, has arrived at Southampton on her world tour the prize she won in
can
on
East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via. Marseilles General
Saigon. Ceylon, India, Mauritius,
In the Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey in mail week, Lady Jane Grey was married to the Rev. P. I. Turnbull. The wed. ding in the famous chapel recalled, Manila another and less happy event-the Shanghai tragic fate of the bride's ancestor, Swatow that other Lady Jane Gray, great- Straits granddaughter of Henry
Bangkok VII., "Sandy" was a newsboy in Al- founder of the chapel, who, after Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong buquerque, N. M. Many of his being Queen of England for only Swatow, Amdy and Foochow ....
and S. Africa, Adon, Egypt and papers were sold to passengers of nine days, was executed on Tower Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E.
trains
February 12, 1654. trans-continental'
which Hill
Europe via Marsoilles stopped there. And he yelled un- The bride wore a simple white he knew film. velvet gown, and her train of flesh usually loud when
pink tulle was covered by a flowing notables were aboard a train.
The young newsie was a great. veil of beautiful lace. There were Seventh Day Adventist Hall.-7, movie fan and knew most of no.bridesmaids, The Bishop of by London performed the ceremony, Hollywood's leading citizens Duddell Street (first floor). Sun-sight.. When they called to him, and the bride was given away by day, November 6th, at 5.30 pashe always used their names in his her brother. Lord Stamford, lecture by Paster, Lyman W.
result, "Sandy" Shaw, "When Millionaires Beg." replies. As a Each Sunday evening hereafter probably is acquainted with more! stirring Lectures will be pre-celluloid stars than any other boy Jackie Coogan ex- sented on present day subjects in the world.
cepted. about which the public is an- xious to be informed. You are invited.
HONGKONG, TIDE TABLE.
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It was this acquaintanceship that resulted in him giving up his paper job to go to work in a movie studio as office boy for Edwin Carewe. Cafewe. had talked to the boy many times in Albuquer que hind on his last trip from the cust offered him the job. "Sandy" arrived hore a few days ago and already is talking about "we movie folk."
The kid is loyal--which is any ing a lot in this village of make. believe-and he really is intereat ed in his work.
"One of these days I'll be a director," be confided to me.
Young "Stars."
Miss Edith Angela Boursot, aged Manila. Australia and New Zealand
Via Thursday Island 29, stated to be a resident of Lon- don, was sentenced to 46 days' im- "by prisonment for Insulting, throwing a pillow in his face." a rallway official who questioned the regularity of her passports, at Turin. The court suspended ven-
tence.
A promising. star who has at last "crashed through" is Heleno Costello, Helene and her famous ister. Dolores, started working at Warner Brothors about the same time. For a while it looked as if Dolores would have to carry the family famo" upon her shoulders. But Helene is hitting her stride. now, She WRA borrowed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for feminine lead in "In Old Kentucky," Helene was handicapped for a tire With hy an over-supply of arc. the vanishing of that trait, her success is starting.
by the
The Fox studios seem to be get ting a corner on the market for young leading men prospects. They signed Charles Farrell when A letter from Rosetta Duncan, an Australian competition in which | Secretary, Badgos for admission
he was unknown' and in one year, now In New York, sava that she 3,000 girls took part. She said it of 2 Ladies free of charge. !
he proved to be a sensation. A few. has gone back to blackface nepin. was her ambition to visit England,
When Bookmakers, Tie Tac men, etc.
Mr. Baldwin
visits months.
ngo Director Howard When the Thunenna stekara Brished which all Australians look upon as will not be permitted to operate Birmingham on October 20, to open Hawkes discovered Nick Stuart filming Tony and Eva." Rosarta home. My greatest trouble, the within the precincts of the Hong- Birmingham University, which has his looks and gave him a zetion while midine arenal an
new biological block at holding down a script boy's job, abandoned her "Tony character travelo, for I have to four when kong Jockey Club during Race been bule and equipped at a cost linkle in Cradle Snatch- nagranean with the notice. But
return" She can cook, maka Meeting,
of over £100,000, the University ers" He work was en mand that, the fans wouldn't stand for it. A her own clothes, and is an all-round
will confer upon him the honorary Fox officials are grooming him for parently they like the burnt cork sportswoman.
degree of LL.D.
stardom in 1928.
effect.
lecture
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Hongkong, Octobér 80th, 1927.
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A five-ton motor-lorry ran into from London to Nottingham. flock of 100 sheep in the road Half-way down Broughton Hill, near Melton Mowbray, Leicester between the villages of Abkettleby shire, and 42 of the animals were and Nether Broughton, there is a either killed outright or had to be sharp bend and a very steep- destroyed. The lorry, which boradient. The lorry rounded the longed to the Leyland Road Trane-bend and plunged among the sheep port Service Company, was going before the driver was able to stop..