RECORDS. THE SEASON'S HITS 4680 (Forgiro Ma
1696
Pick a Hose
Red Lips Kiss My Blues {Hello Cutla
Charmaine
4711 C'est Your
AGGO {Hallelujah
(Gönen Get a Girl
4715
Me and My Shadow
in à Street.
4615
Aint She Sweet Dreaming of Brown Eyes 4761 Hare am I Broken-hearted
Magnolia
Girl Friend
0179
Blue Roon
0180.
0134
JDancing Tambourine
Barbara
Mediterranean Blues Honey Bird
MISS CHEE FOY.
[NOVELTY TURN AT THE
QUEEN'S.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928.
Daughter of the famous mag'i- clan Ching Ling-foo, Miss Chee Toy, who will appear at all 'per-, formances in the Queen's Theatro to-day and to-morrow to sing popular English and Chinese
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
songs, is a star in her own right, Boom in Stockings. Film Production.
for besides having presented
"turns" in some of the biggest, variety halls in London and New York, she has more than once "topped the bill" at the Ziegfeld Follies..
WHAT WOMEN PREFER.
WELL-KNOWN HOSTESS ENTERS FILM · 'WORLD.
Teapot Hints.
Teapots, whether plain or orna- mental, need more care than thoy generally get
Considerable interest has been
In every case, they should be aroused by the news that Mrs, fringed out with boiling water, at Wilfrid Ashley, wife of Colonel once after use, and if they have, Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Trans-tu be put away for any time, one for two lumps of sugar should be port, has joined a British film-dropped inside, and the lid left abort skirts, the introduction of producing concern as adviser on jajar to let in a current of air. light-coloured stockings, and the etiquette, dress, interior decora-This prevents their acquiring á fact that silk and artificial silk
musty flavour, which is sure to taste the next brew of tea. stockings are more fragile than tion, and general "Letail." the woollen stockings of pro-war Even as foreign films have been days.
Mr. Comyns Carr, giving evi-criticised in the past for inaccu-neglected, fill the pot overnight dence before the Board of Trade racies and inelegantics, English with boiling water, to which has been added a piece of soda. Next Jbrush, rinse it well, dry thorough-
The modern woman wears three The chief item in the movie pro-times as many stockings as her gramme to-day and to-morrow is sister of pre-war days. This was The Side Show of Life," an ab- the opinion expressed to a Fresa sorbing story adapted from W. 3. Association representative recent Locke's remarkable story, "Thely by people in the wholesale and Mountebank," with Ernest Tor-retail stocking trade. rence and Anna Q. Nilason as They attributed the increase to leading players. The story deals with the career of an Englishman who has been with a French cir- ea ever since he ran away from home. The fact that his hobby has been war history and
war theory stands him in good stend when hostilities break out in 1914. TSANG FOOK PIANO CO. His promotion is rapid and the armintice finds him holding the rank of brigadier-general, During the war he has fallen in love with the daughter of a noble familly, thus arousing the jealousy of his circus partner.
When the war is over, the brigadier-general is ["demobbed," There is nothing for it but to return to the circus. This he does with results that pro vide a dramatic climax to a power: ful story. Not the lenst charming feature of "The Show of Life" is the fact that the story has a Brit- ish hero and many of the settings jare English.
8, Des Voeux Road Central (Entrance Ice House Street.) Telephone t, 4048.
T. NAKAO Japanese Shoe Expert. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND CASES A SPECIALITY,
Hongkong Hotel Building, Queen's Road Central.
MRS. MOTONO
"J
HAND & ELECTRIC
MASSAGE
Hongkong.
MISS SIGGINS, C.S.M.M.G. (Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics London.) Massage. Medical Electricity.
Remedial Exorcises. " Apply Helena May Institute.
"FASCINATING
cation for the imposition of a duty
If this precaution has been
Committee considering the apply films, too, have erred from time day, scrub the inside with a small on imported hosiery and knitted to time in the same way. wear of cotton and wool, said in 1912 the people of England used 15 million pairs of stockings and socks. In 1924 they used 2234 million pairs. Making allowance for the increase in population, that means four pairs per head in 1912 and six pairs per, hend in
1924.
Referring to these figures, the hosiery buyer of the large Lon- don firm said:-In pre-war days covered their legs down, to their women wore long skirts which ankles. The result was that very little attention was paid to what their stockings looked like. Stock- YOUTH."ings were made of black wool,
NEW FILM AT THE STAR.
Something new in pictures is |offered by the chief picture at the Star Theatre to-day and to-morrow, Fascinating Youth," a comedy which is the result of the Paramount Picture School's first
and it did not matter in, the least if holes wore in the legs. They could be darned over and over again without anyone being any wiser.
Not only that; being made of wool and wool cashmere, they wore considerably longer than the flimsy silk of which stockings are! made to-day.
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term of work. The principal roles. What Working Girls Wear.. are all enacted by students of the cinema school which was organis-There is a third reason. They ed some months ago, in an endeav-did not get dirty and splashed our to introduce a new group of with mud as they do to-day, and,
were
No. 31B, Top Floor, Wyndham St. faces to movie-goers. The six-therefore, were not washed near- teen young men and women seen ly so often. This may not sound in "Pascinating Youth"!
very hygienic, but there is no selected and taken from every doubt that women did not wash walk of life. Some were artists their atockings nearly as often as
they do today. models, others, college students,
As to the actual number of pairs atil another, a 'teacher, one, a
of stockings bought by women in newspaper reporter, and so on.
a year, one buyer put it at from Full of action, "Pascinating 12 to 18, and another at 12 to 24. Youth," is therefore a pleasant (Of course, said one, among the film as well as an interesting ex-well-to-do classes the woman, periment.
thinks nothing of buying from six to 12 pairs of stockings month. Even working girls often prefer to buy two pairs of cheap stock- ings her than more expensive ones, to save the trouble of darn- ing them. They just wear them till they go into holes; then throw them away.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
PROPOSED SALE DENIED
IN SHANGHAI
"THE GREAT LOVE.”
*AN ELEPHANT'S FUNNY,
PRANKS.
Showing at the World Theatre
Persistent rumours that the Astor House Hotel, Shanghai, to-day and to-morrow is The operated by the longkong and Great Love," a comedy written and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd, had been directed by Marshall Weilan. The sold or was about to be sold to story deals with a
sentimental
Men, it appears, are much more economical than women. Many men manage on from eight to 12 EL year, said pairs of socks
of the buyer
large firm
In addi Bon, the averagé man
A
group of Japanese capitalists, elephant who falls in love with the men's outfitters. has two were last week definitely dis-doctor who has cured her of an pairs of evening socks, if he's pelled by Mr. R. Weeding Skinner, illness. The elephant causes all Shanghai Manager for the Com-sorts of amusing and exciting in- lucky.
Making these inquiries about efdents when she follows the men's socks, the Press Associa-
pany.
A representive of the Shanghai doctor around the town wrecking tion representative found that few Times learned that:
village In her desire to be with men seemed to have any idea as to
not been sokl.
A Smart three-piece Suit.
A French embodiment of Riviera chica three-piece suit
of combined white and green, the cape collared and cuffed in dyed badger.
19
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15
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1 Vaults.
Астози.
6 Scarves worn round waist,
11 Composed of colite. 18 Armlet
15 Capable of stratching..
17 Power in arms.
19 Three united.
21 Barm
23 Material similar to hemp.
24. Firm.
20 Send forth.
27 Wicker basket
20 Firearm.
30 Caper.
31. Lagged.
33 Seed-vessels.
38 Spread to the air.
37
On top,
40 One.
43 Numeral,
44 Most common oro of tin.
49 Began,
(50 Burial service.
51 Appetitive.
52 Variety of int glass.
+
53 Beta.
The fact that a well-known fly, and set aside, with a little hook hostess Auch na Mrs. Wilfrid】over the edge to keep the lid from
an Indica-
The Astor House Hotel has him. The leading parts are play-how many pairs of socks they Ashley is to enter the British film shutting.
ed by Viola Dand and Robert bought in a year, or how much world is regarded as 2-There are no negotiations Agnew, with Malcolm Waite as the they paid for them. pending for the sale of the hotel villain. "The Great Love" is he-
8. The Astor House Hotel has not been placed on the market.
ing sereened nt 5.16 and 9.20 p.m.
I
Electric Waver.
"The rumour crops up regularly only, the picture at 2.30 and 7.45 p.m. being the Chinese drama,
regarding the sale of the Aator Romance of a Star." House Hotel," Mr. Skinner stated. "There is not a grain of truth in the report."
Sir Francis Lacey announced at In connexion with the Astor the Hanis County cricket meeting House Hotel rumours a very that Hampshire was in need of strong one had it that a group of young players, and if the home Japanese business men had pur-supply falled the executive might chased the place and planned to have to look for them outside the convert it into an office building, country
The electric hair waver is so
on on, the part of the British If allver teapots are washed film-maker to leave nothing to with boiling water, and rubbed chance in securing perfection in well with a leather every day, fevery detail and in the spirit of they should only need thorough
intelligent production.
cleaning once a fortnight.
When washing china teapots with coloured pattern, add a little great an improvement upon the tric wayor, however, has an addi-Fuller's earth to the water. This old style waver which one heated tional advantage in the shape of cleanses, and does no harm to up over the gas ring that no wo-
delicate tinta. an aluminium comb attachment. man who is shingled can afford to This heats and so forms a con- be without one, to turn up those venient dryer for use after sham-rims of the lids, which are often Pay special attention to the obstinate enda. The newest vice-
neglected.
pooing.
2 Star.
3 River island,
Down
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
4 One of ancient Greek races.
5 Strike with open hand.
Let it stand..
7 Felt ill.
8 Glance lightly,
Bet a valuo on.
10 Gasps.
13 Tax.. 14 Metal,
16 Carve in a piece of garment. 18 Biga.
153
O
27
H
120 Faco crisis in rosolute manner
(mot)
22 Chint constituent of flint.
24 Abrupt noise crused in nose.
25 Shy.
27 Favourite.
28 Contraction for Radical (col),
32 Ense.
33 Money container.
134 Officer similar to medern Juryman
(Greek myth),
35 Heavenly body.
37 Prefix meaning against.
38 Cask for salt provisions.
39 Chimes.
41 Employers.
42 Vegetable product.
46 Porch.
40 Certain days in Roman calender.
47, Newts.
48 Former king of Peru.
Yesterday's Solution.
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
SOME OF THE OTHER TEN CENTS FOR) KIDS HAVE HORNS, ( A LITTLE. HORA?? POP-AN' I WANT ASO, THAT'S TOO ONE 700- CANT
I HAVE A DIME
FOR ONE, POP?
MUCH!
Ten Minus Five Equals. Five
TAG! WHERE
DID YOU GET
THAT?
By Blosser
OL, I GOT IT AT THE STORE FOR Å DIME
AN' THEY GAVE ME
A NICKEL CHAŃSE;
'REG. U. S. PAT, OFF.
KETENCA SERVICE INGI,
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