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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB CINEMA SCREENINGS. cont success, "Bad Girl", and this is
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од
Draft Programmes and Entry Forma for the Seventh Extra Race Meeting to be hold Saturday, 28th May, 1932, (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Club NOTICE is hereby given that an the Secretary's Office, Extraordinary General Meeting of House, Happy Valley, the Hong The China. Fire Insurance 'Com-¡Kong Club, the Sports Club, and pany, Limited will be held at the the Stables, Village Road, Registered Office of the Company, Entries close at 12 o'clock Noon Union Building, Victoria, Hong on Thursday, 19th May, 1932, Kong, immediately after the con-
By Order, clusion of the Annual General Meeting, which takes place' on Friday, the 27th May, 1932, at when the subjoined 11.15 a.m. Resolution will be proposed :—
S. A. SLEAP,
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..
Every film director must long for the chance to employ his cameraman by day and by
nst such a spectacle as Blackpool That is what makes "India Wakes", which comes to the King's Theatre very soon, so desirable a xtory on the screen. Blackpool's pleasure beach and fair is probably without an equal in the world." Clever camera work takes us on a trip on the giant dipper and a tour of the fun fair by night that is as thrilling and Act. Secretary, as entertaining as it can possibly be. Victor Saville has not lost his story theso tremendous background.
has he cleverly used Rather
them girl's temptation during hectic Wakes week. The family counell which result as a consequence, and i debated by Bybil Thorndike, Edmund The Half Yearly General Meet Gwenn, Norman McKinnel and Mary thating of Voting Members will be Clare, acts before a cinema audiences held at the Club House, Happy gaze one of the finest example of con- Valley, on Monday, 30th May.conton. John Stuart and Belle Chrys- certed acting to be seen anywhere in tall are admirable as the lovers. This is a picture that must be seen.
in
That It Is desirable to THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB, to enhance his story of a Lancashire
capitalise a sum of $1,600,000 being part of the undivided profit of the Company standing to the credit of the Extra Reserve Fund and for ригрово-
NOTICE
By Order of the Stewards,
(a) Should the Hong Kong 1932, nt 5.30 p.m.
All Members are cordially in Dollar equivalent of the Extra Reserve Fund on thevited to attend and participate in 13th June. 1932, be not of any discussion which may ensure. the value of $1,600,000 then there shall be transferred from the Re-insurance Fund to the Extra Reserve Fundi such a sum na will with the amount now standing to the credit of the Extra Reserve Fund make up the sum of $1,600,000,
(b) A call of $80 per share in! hereby made on the share- holders of the Company up-
8. A. SLEAP,
Act. Secretary. Hongkong, 16th May, 1932.
THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LTD.
Another British Screen Success
Pictureguers here will have ample opportunity of seeing that they can make good talkles in England when "To Oblige
Lady" is shown at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday.
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their first co-starring venture airco that picture.
POST OFFICE NOTICE
Perhaps the only key position that was not occupied by a representative
It is notified for the information of holders of Private Boxes at the of some previous screen success in General Post Omes that on and after 1st February no tazed correspondence the sound man, but this deficiently la will be placed in the Boxes. A. notification will be substituted and Boa soon forgotten when one is reminded holders are requested to call or send for the correspondence at the Box that Eugene Grossman, in charge of
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In the supporting cast are many celebrities, too, including James Kirk
wood, Edward Crandall, Clare May nard, William Pawloy, Olin Howland, Joan Feers and Eula Guy.
Music of Lord Babs.” Showing now at the Queen's "Lord Babs," the Gainsborough film veralon of Beble Howard's hilarious farce, which Ideal Film Ltd., are roleasing, excels not only in ita intensely humorous situations, but also in its delightful musical numbers.
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Maisio Gay is the bright and par ticalar star of this fine farce-comedy, the story of which was writion by that prolife and popular author, Edgar Wallace. Thero can bo mare uniformly auccessful writer in the world than Mr. Wallace, nor can (In Voluntary Liquidation).
there be a more versatile.
Novelty is the keynote of this laugh- NOTICE in hereby given that inable picture which is a great credit pearing on the Reglater of pursuance of section 187 (2) of to the British Lion studio staff. It concerns the adventures of a young shareholders on the 27th the Companies Ordinance 1911 a married couple who find themselves in such call General Meeting of the Company an awkward fix, and get into a still May, 1932, and shall be payable on the will be held in the Board Room more hilarious mean with every move
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paying the aforesaid cult of
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In the wireless studios, in the res taurants, concert halls and on the Straits gramophone, the public has
SwatoW familiarised with the heart-lifting Manila special request will be re-screenned music of "Sunshine Susic," which by
Friday Amoy at the King's Theatre on
for two next
days only. Not Amoy and Formosa via Swatow for many years have film
so captured the imagination of Swatow course, is the unforgettable To-day I feel so Happy," which you'll hear
and the whistled everywhere, and the very simplicity of which represents its out- A half dozen of the screen's greatest standing charm. Then there is an- pictures, "The Birth of A Nation," other number which has taken the
by
and has been JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. "Intolerance," "The Four Horsemen town
eagerly storm of the Apocalypse," "Scaramouche,"
the professional Manila, Australia and Now Zeniand LIMITED.
"Tol'able David" and "Stella Dallas" "napped up by
I lost my vocalistaJust because
vin Thursday Island JOHN FLEMING, C.A., were represented in the making of heart to you," which Renata Muller much Fex drama, featuring delightfully, and with
Hal- Joint Liquidators.ing James Dunn, Sally Ellers and Mao feeling. In lighter vein Jack
Marsh, which is now showing at the bert's "I have an Aunt Eliza" is the King's Theatre. At least one key kind of song that seems to have been Japan member of the cast of technical staff made for this fine comedian, whose Swatos, Amoy and Foochow of those history makers contributed ferr Hasel, the bank @mmissionaire their efforts to the new
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Fifty-first Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- PAUL LAUDER,
signed on Thursday, the 19th May General Manager. 1932, at Neow, for the purpose of
Report receiving the General Agents, together with
By Order of the Board,
NOTICE.
"Over
Mae March is well rememberiny. with his own beer-garden choir, is the Haiphong ...
for
her work in "The Birth of A Nation" and "Intolerance" and the many other successes she contributed to before ro- tiring from the sereen twelve years 090.
Henry King the director adds "Over the Hill" to list that already in eludes the gold medal winning pic- "Tolable David" "Merely Mary of the stella Dallagh and Fury
John Seitz,
statement of Accounts for the The Four Hero also filmed
year ended the 31st December 1931. and Tho Share Register
will be From the 2nd day of May the Transfer Books
closed undersigned has established his from the 5th to the 19th May, 1932, own business at No. 8, Queen's both days inclusive. Rond, Central.
and "Scara- mouche," as well as "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "East Lynne." Robert Hans, art director, has worked with director Henry King on all his big mile- productions. Some important stones to which he had added his decorative
touch
"Dr. "Peter JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and
mally James Dunn and Ibbetson." Y. F. CHAN,
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"We have pleasure in certifying the following figures for these three months:
GROSS CIRCULATION
arc
are
nest film characterisation in British
filma to date.
Food for thought isn't always oney to digest.
COMMENCING SUNDAY:
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10.012
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336,169
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