SHARE PRICES
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:
Banks.
Hongkong Banks, $1566 an. Hongkong (Lon. Rég) £113 n. Chartered Banks, £131⁄4, Mercantile Bank, A. &. B. £21 Mercantile Bank C., £9% n. East Asia, $109 n.
4
Am: 0. Finance Corp., $25 n. China O. Fin. Ord., Ts.6 n. China O. Fin, Pref. Tis.4.60 n.
Insurances.
Canton 188., $1410 n. Union Ins., $460 b.
Chinn Underwriters, $2.95 88. China Fire, $620 b.
H. K. Fire Ins., $1200 n. Internation Asuce. Tls. 4 n.
Shipping.
Douglasca, $20 n.
Indo-Chinas, (Pref.) $45 n.
H.K. Steamboats, $22
Indo-Chinas (Def.), 332 n. Shell (Benrer) 47/G n.
b.
Union Waterboats, $20 b.
Mining.
Benguels, $15% b. Kailans, 23/6 n.
Langkata (Single), s. n. S'hai Explorations, Ts.2.10 n. S'hai Loans, Tls.2.30 n.
Rauls, $40 1.
Venz: Goldfields, $11⁄2 u. Benguet Exp., 20 ets. h.
+ Docks, etc.
H.K. & S. Wurves $1385; N, H.K. & W. Docks $23 n.
S. China Motors A., S10 n. S. Chinn Motor B., $8 n. Providents fold), $10 s. Providents (new), $2.10 n. Hongkews, Tls. 216 1,
New Englinecrings. Ths. 5a n. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 85 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
Hotels (ok), $19.60 su.
fotels (new), $10.30 .
S'hai Lands, Tis,24,
ILK. Lands $75% b.
n.
Metropolitan Lands, T. 10 n.. Humphreys, $15.90 b.
I.K. Realties $9% b.
Asla Realles "A", $156 n. Asin Realties "B", $267, n.
Chinese Estates, $105 n. China Realties, Ts. 11.40 n. China Debentures Tls. 96% n. Cottons.
Ewn Coltons, Tis. 14 b. S'hai Cottons, Tls. 65 m.
Zoong Sings, T. 11.10 n.
Wing On Textiles (S.) $145 m.
Public Utilities.
Tramways, $22.10 b.
Peak Truma (old), $16 n.
Peak Trams (new), $7% h. Star Ferries, $92 n.
Yaumati Ferries (old), $34 34 1. Yaumati Ferrles (new), $339% China Lights (old), $16.90 b. China Lights (new), $16.75 0, H.K. Electrics, $76 s. Macao Electries, $24 a. Sandakan Lights, $12 n. Telephones (F.P.), $28 n. Telephones (F.P.), $23.50 x, China Buses, T.12 . Singapore Tractions, 27. n. Singapore Pref. 12/6 n.
Industriala.
Mulabon Sugars $25 b. Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Tali n. Cald: Maeg. (Prof.), Te.10%1⁄2 n.
Canton fees, $634 n.
Cements (old). $9 n.
Cements (com.), $143ḥ sn.--
Coments (new), $5 n.
H.K. Ropes, $13 m. Agriculturals, $10% n.
Stores, etc.
Dairy Farms, $28 b.. Watsons (old), $13. Watsons (new), $12 n. Der. A. Wings, $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $5.25 b.
b.
Mackintoshs, $21 n. Sinceres, $15.75 . Wm. Powells, $3.35 1. Wing On (11. K.), $265 n.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $19 Entertainments, $134, n. S. C. Enterprises, $3% 1. United Theatres Tis. 5 n. Macao "Greyhounds", $10 n. Constructionis (old), $6.95 b. Constructions (new), $1.70 n. B. Ind. G. & Bands, $60% n. H.K. Govt. Loans. 3% Pre. sa. Wallace Harpers, $12.00 n. China Sports $10 n.
Some modorn girls can man- age anything on four wheels but a bassinette.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23,
1932.
CINEMA SCREENINGS.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES.
A
which
strange, hair-raising thriller is said to "out-Dracula
Porque is "Murders in the Rue
Universal'e version of Edgar Allan Poe's Parisian drama which shows at the Central Theatre. to-day.
Bela Lugeni, the original Dracula of both stage and screen, enacts the leading male role of the new pieture, and is seen in 4 characterization
which is said to excel his former
one in menare.
power and spine-tingling Lugesi plays the role of Dr. Mirakle, a doctor with a warped brah, who is intent on introducing the blood of a gigantie ape into the veins of a Bving girl, and his rath- le pursuit of his mad experiments is said to bring to "Murders in the Rue Morque" a facinating quality of strange horror.
ин
The principal feminine role is play ed by Sidney Fox, charming little New York stage actress whose short year on the screen has been a cons- tant succession of triumphs, and she iis said to excel all her past efforts'
19 as the gentle French girl who peramed by the doctor and his terrible
Other gorilla.
important
parts in this strange drama are played by Leon Waycoff, Brandon Hurst, Bert Reach, Betty Ross Clarke, Noble Johnson and D'Arcy Corrigan, and the picture is directed by Robert Florey.
The Misleading Lady,”
Four colleges are represented in the cast of "The Misleading Lady." new Paramount thrill romance which The King's Theatre will show, start- ing next Thursday, and in which Claudette Colbert, Edmund Lawe and Start Erwin are featured.
Lawe graduated from the Univer sity of Santa Clara. Foc 1 year after grahuntion, he served as in-i structor in theoretien pedagogy at the
school, preparatory law. He gave up the latter |
Sights
to
studying for the more dazzling one]
at
aeting.
Erwin attended the University of California for two years.
WILS
lured early from his textbooks by the siror call of the stage.
Robert
Strange, who has the role of the theatrical magnute, "Barker." went to Columbia University in New! York for two yours and then gave up his collegiate work to go into busi-
with his brother.
ne
UTDOORS they adored her. She was con- tinually surrounded with admirers. But indoors it was another story. She was hope- lessly out of things.
The truth is that her trouble which went unnoticed in the open, became instantly ap- parent in the drawing room,
Body odours are far more common than many people realize.
Often they have no relation to bathing and are not necessarily a sign of uncleanliness, Fortunately, however, body odours can bequick- ly and casily overcome
LISTE
LISTERINE
0515
Outdoors adored- Indoors ignored
with Listerine Antiseptic. Apply it full strength and frequently.
Sponge the body with it after bathing....... after hard exercise. It removes all disagree- ablc odours due to excessive perspiration and to other causes.
Listerine (undiluted) is a powerful deo- dourant, yet absolutely safe to use on any part of the body or in any body cavity. As a gar gle and mouth wash it instantly banishes. halitosis (unpleasant breath).
Keep Listerine Antiseptic always on hand. It keeps you on the safe side; makes you acceptable to others.
LISTERINE
ANTISEPTIC
MAKES YOU ACCEPTABLE TO OTHERS
Fred Stewart, who portrays "Babe"
is a graduate in the picture,
of Georgia. Oglethorpe University in With his diploma in hand, he went to Cincinnati where he landed the job of singe manager af the Stuart Walker stock company in that city. Coincidentally, Stuart Walker, Ste Paramount West Coust studios and wart's former stack "buss," directed reminiscing over their adventures in! this fenture,
Arizona before they trekked to Holly World's Best Seller on the Screen. wood to find work in motion pictures,
"Tell England" the magnificent pricked up their
when screen memorial to Youth and its familiar jingle of spurs was heard herofem in War, which will be pre-nearby.
PETA
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June
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Strafts $20,000,000
8,000,000
4,000,000
curtain call, or the director's whis
13, Queen's Road, Central. exists.
Collyer, Stuart Erwin, tle,"
Authorised Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green und a "The Spy," showing to-day at the Capitai host of others appear in the Pura King's Theatre, is a vivid picturizn-Issued mount laugh feature under the direction of Russian life and romance Paid-up tion of Frank Tuttle.
Among the Soviets, and was directed "Dude Ranch" is now showing at by Berthold Viertel. John Halliday Reserve Liabilitica enacts the title role. sented at the Queen's Theatre to- "What the... ejaculated one the Oriental Theatre.
of Shareholdera
4,000,000 "The Spy." morrow, is the film version of the of the ex-cowhands as he caught a
"Are You Listening 7"
BRANCHES and AGENCIES in glimpse of a le-spurred individual ¦ book of the.
same title which, as
At one time Neil Hamilton was a
years William Haines has the principal cities of the world. all best seller, has been read by
emerging from a sport rondster.
Every description of Banking and mechanic in the Ford factory. For wanted to play a straight dramatic classes of people all the world over.
also while he wus spurs
an artist's model, role.
Exchange business transacted. people bansted gaudy claps, silk shirt with And once, when several meals had of Hundreds of thousands
His ambition was gratified when,
КО LEONG ПОЕ, have been enthralled by this moving elaborate trimmings, immaculate ten been postponed and stage engage on his return from # Countrywide
Managing Director. tale of romantic youth which has gallon hat, boots that shone like a monts seemed for away, Neil spent tour in which he made personal renched its thirty-third edition. mirror, and had a huge six-shooter two weeks presiding over the coun- stage appearances, Metro-Goldwyn-
dangling from his belt.
ters of a United Cigar store. Mnyer cast him as Bill Grimes in the BANK OF CHINA So that's a talking picture wester Neil was not casting about for a almization of "Are You Listening" ner" remarked the cowboy, "Thero suitable career fle knew what he now
didn't dress like that
he
At that British Internation
The wearer of
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may_bo_ascertained on application`ti the Bank.
U such aninial, or l'm crazy. wanted, in fact, and known since his It Playing at the Queen's Theatre Recorganized October 28, 1928. under speelal foreign currencies taken at rates thas. "ALTHY Guess we better go back to calling, but when there are no jobs i
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Ernest Raymond, the author of "Tell England" was a. young curate when he wrote the story, and it will
role that of a seri screen masterpiece,
in my boyhood that acting was his chosen ous, overworked radio continuity was taken from "The Burg,'
writer with un
home. a play by the same author.
Arizona,"
in sight, even an actor will take what
"Are You Listening?" is based on Paid-Up Capital There is no dou
doubt that those who
"Pipe down", said the second cow, he can get in order to eat regularly. the magazine story by J. P. McEvoy. Reserre Funds have
Raymond's bank And enjoyed
and But those days of spasmodic work Madge Evans, plays opposite Haines, appreciated his message, will wel it's Jack Onkin, the star.
he's liable to hear you.
To-day Hamilton is and the cast da passed.
fentures Anita it in come this opportunity of seeing
"I don't care if it's Emil Jannings", one of most popular men of the Page, Karen Morley, Neil Hamilton pictorial form, and directed by this
replied the country's most brilliant young pro-opt they use it. Why screen, and judging from his work in and Wallace Ford.
Oakie like we used The Spy bis intest Fox movietone ducer, Anthony Asquith. have not rend "Tell England" cannot work coming to, anyway?"
to dress on the range? What's the production, in which he plays oppo- site Kay Johnson, his popularity" in Call to be inspired by this epic of
The cowhowance when some
were arguing about likely to go on for a long time. Comradeship on the Gallipoli front.
Onkie's
When
I get too old for leading e explained to them that the pic roles," Neil commented recently. ture being male was "de Bunch," shaft turn to character work exelu a comedy of the fictionized wild west sively, for I am an actor born and Monday's official quotation in as thousands of people still think it; bred, and will always thrill to the Basle; £2 19s. Od.
"Dude Ranch.”
Those who
Two old-time film cowboys, loiter ing near the main entrance of the
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