THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY
COTTON, WHEAT-
AND SILVER
LATEST NEW YORK QUOTATIONS Mossre. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz have received the following quotations on the New York cotton and whoat and silvor exchanges for yesterday,
Collon
Jan. 31. Close
F
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES
became an
over-
FEBRUARY, 2, . 1934.
and
а
LONDON STOCK PRICES
GOLD MINE SHARES
STRONG
aro
21 YEARS AGO
Extracts From the
Telegraph" Files
The following extracts are from
The rate of the dollar on demand was 28. 0.9/168.
London Stock Exchange have been week ended Feb. 2nd, 1918.
The following quotations on the the Hongkong Telegraph for the received by Mosers. Swan, Culbertson and Frits in conjunction with Henter,
Market:-Gold-mining shares strong. Otherwise. the markets are rather irregular.
Jan. 81, Feb. 1.
Chinese Bonde, Bonds 1898 (Eng. Ies.)
CINEMA SCREENINGS character delineator, OP. Horrie, Ralph Forbes, Beryl Mercer, David Torrence, Margaret Sedda Forrester Harvey. Miss Shearer and March have dual-roles in this haunt ing and unusual story, which fraught with moments of poignant James Dunn's rise to famo
drama. Audiences wept and smiled Walternately when Jane Cowl first | spectacular. Ho
night screen sensation in his first presented "Smilin' Through" as picture, "Bad Girl." Conversely, stage play in New York, and it is to Sally Ellers had been in motion pic bo recorded that the emotional effect tures two years before she became through transition to the talking conspicuous in the same production. screen is just as strong, "Hold Me Tight," the now Fox plc-
"Melody Cruise" ture, marks thoir fifth, screen appear- Feb. 1.
ance as a team, the others being
Blonde, ivory-skinned, daughter of "Dance Team, "Over the Closing
the Norse Vikings," beautiful Greta "Sallor's Luck" and "Bad Girl." In Nissen, with Charlie, Ruggles in Rango "Bad
Girl," Dann and Miss Ellers "Melody Cruise at the
King's 11.89-11.41 were married and, again, in "Hold Theatre, is Hollywood's double-threat Tight" they are man and wife, woman." If movie roles become. 11.72-11.73 Frank Mellugh, June Clyde, 11.02-11.02 Thomson and Noel Francia are other known for her exceptional dancing/5% Loan 1012 12,01-12.02 prominent men.bers of the cast. The ability. She ought to know, bar! 5% Reorg. Loan 12.09-12.00 picture was directed by David Butler, Terpsichore, since the Queen of Nor 5% Bonds 1925-47 3:07 € 88%
1013 (Lan. Iss.) & 90 who directed such successful pictures way ordered her education and as "Sunny Side Up" and "Delicious."
6% Shal-Nanking selected her instructors. When Greta It comes to the King's Theatre on was nearing six years of age; she was Sunday.
placed in the Royal Opera Houso by 5 Tient-Pukow
Bly the Queen's command. Here she
Tient-Pukow P6% learned to act, play, the plano and do It is so long we have açen Emil overy type of dancing known. After Eailway (Supl
and European
critics sand Janulags on the screen, that we had Norwegian Nien came to Now 5% Bhat.-H'chow. almost forgotten the artistry which her
praises, dignifies the York to play
the
leading
£1024 1024
11.55-11.50 confronted with an unusual path carce, she can sign up for a sorton 46% Loan 1008 .. £ 121 £32
+
**Tempest”
of dance recitala. Mian Nissen is
feminine
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Ningpo Rly. ...
£ 0008%
91
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$:01-£-0144-
£34-39 £ 35-40
Mr. Montaguo Edò was appoint- ed to a vacancy on the Legislativo | Counell caused by the absence of
Mr. (now Sir), H. E. Pollock.
Sir William Robinson, a former Governor of Hongkong loft estate of £88,020.
The Hongkong, Canton ́'and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., do £ 23-28 £ 23-28clared a final dividend of $1 for
# 07
any one of his empost" which is role in "Beggars on Horseback." ghe 5% Honan Rly... £ 29
scrcon. But in
showing at the
day, as the thior whose philosophic golden hair and
attitude towards prizon is not reflect roles in "Lost a W secured
£ 97 € 20
1011
£ 344 B 84%
od in that with which he regards his er," "Love Thief and the original
"The Wander- 5% Lung Teing U.
Hai Rly, 1813. £ 15 2 15 women, he returns in a characteriza silent version of "Hell's Angels." Her tion as finished in detail as it is in- later
-Foreign Bonds and Banks. SUCCOSSCA included "Transi stinct with life. Whether he is atlantic," "The Murder of the Circus German 7% Int. making boisterous love, planning a quean" and "Rackety Rax."
Loan 1924.*** robbery, apeing the sanctimonious reformer or blinded with murderous
order shares (Montgomery Ward & Seare Rocbuck) made the liat close
was Coty Inc. higher. The dollar was irregular Curtiss Wright Com. generally and advancing towards the Du Pont de Nemours 99%
mall Eastman Kodak end. A last minute rally in
Bond
NEW YORK STOCK
EXCHANGE
works
American Water
YESTERDAY'S MARKET Baltimore & Ohio
STEADY
23
31
works $6 Pref, Anaconda Copper
·Ung. 10 Auburn Automobile 5344 Atlas Corporation.
10%
1414
30%
32
Bethlehem Stool Borden Company, Borg Warner Canadian
40%
25%%%
27%
Profie
Now York
16
81
10% 82%
The Chass
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28
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According to Mossrs. Swan Culbert
Bodas steady Yesterday. Buai- Caso, aonai Bank
nose.
shares. done 4,710,000
(bid price) Wall
reports Street Journal Bonds featured the market and rose Chesapeake Corpora
to tion
42% as, much an oven pointa owing
dug to Chrysler Corporation 50% record trading which was
as Cities Bervloe Pow. regarded devaluation
Stocks temporary stabilization.
were Lgt. $ Deba.
1062 Irregular and alternately soaring, some reaching now highs for the Columbia
Gas & Electric last two years and then declining duo to profit-taking. especially during the Commonwealth and
and last hour whordin steel stocka
Southern ... other leaders neared previous closing. Consolidated Gas of
New York. Commodities failed to follow. Whest and Corn are about unchanged. Continental Oil Silver was downward. Cotton
40%
414
March
11:08
154
10%
May
11.53
July
2%
236
43
4414
194
20
October December January
6%%%
7
Spot
53%
100%
11.70 11.87 11.08 12.03
11.75
Wheat-Chicago.
11.76
80%
90
Jan. 31.
Feb. i.
Electric
Close
to
continue favourable
one to two points above yesterday's re
close.
Our New York office cable:-) Stocks wore in renewed domand on Fox Film "A"
a broad scale and higher prices are Indicated. Wheat. There was small scattered absorption. It appears tho
General Aviation
General Electris General Foods
gold action has failed develop General Motors general buying. Newa is bullish General Railway
on all set-backs. Cotton. Heavy biling. At the opening restricted any Gold Dust advance and caused disappointed Goodyear Tire &
with Rubber liquidation throughout the day apparent Government selling near Goodyear Tire
Rubber 7% 1st. the close. No weakness in the mar-
Vet Private crop the Govern., International
reduction reports, Pret favours voluntary ment apparently plan. There was better
inquiry. spot Silver.
Traders were disappointed at the action of Shanghai and London International Nickel markets. Large liquidation of com. International Tel, &
Tel. mission houses was well absorbed.
434*, of 1030
Johns Manville
Speculators are puzzled na further Int. Tel. & Tei, conv, development of silver under the new gold standard is most doubtful,
The opening figure yesterday for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was
109.17.
Dow Jones 1.Y. Averages (~~-
High Low Jan. 31 Feb, 1 HQ ladustrials .... 108.00 50.16 101.22 108.00 20 Kalle
56.63 20.48 49.77 10.34 19.03 27.06 28.11 20 Utitles... 32.70 40 Bottela
13.3 89.78 90.21 89.70 11-Commodity. Ind. 30.44 1.08 83.1 59.64 The following market closing prices aro quoted subject to confirmation as to accuracy in transmission:
Jan. 31 Feb. 1 10% 11%
Adams Express Alaska Juneau Goki
Mining Co...!!! 21 Allied Chemical and
18%2
Closing
20%
Bond
Range
Share $6 Pref. Electric Power
Light
404
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50
0%
744
May July September
21% 00%
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16%
15%%%
0116 01% 01%
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22
243%
054
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Jan. 31.
Feb. 1.
3944
40%
Close
Closing
Range
Signal
401
42
204
22
May
00%
70% 70
July
70%
71%
71%
30%
8874
Silver.
Jan. 31.
78%
Unq.
Clone
Feb, 1. Closing Range
Coment... International
vester
34%
3594
Har-
March May
44.26
$4.50
434 44 28
23%
16%
17%
03
65%
Kennecott Copper .. Lehmann Corporation 75% Liggett
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Loew's Inc. Lorillard P. (Com.) Montgomery Ward 27% National City Bank
64 21.
05 213 70%
Standard
Electric Standard
92 28% 18
94.
20
Gas
Gas Elec. 6% notes. 1035
&
1116
13%
50%
00%
10%
Standard Oil Co. of
30
N.J.
471/4/
Sterling
Products
(bld price),
284
2814
Inc.
564
47
57%
National Distillers
20%
30%
Studebaker Corpora
New England, Gua
tion
0%
64
& Elec. 5. 1947 New York Central
034
Texas Corporation.
27
2814
40
-41%
Transamerica
7%
North American
Union Carbide &
Company
10%
20%
Carbon
4814
8
40%
22
Owens-Illinois Glass
92%
02
Union
Pacific
Pacific GAB
Railway
127
120
Dyc
American Can
162% 00
154%
Electric
19
100%
United Aircraft &
100
Packard Motors
5%
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Trans.
American & Foreign
Pennsylvania Rail-
Power
10%
1135
road
30%
37
30% United Corporation - 6% United Сая Im-
30%
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American & Foreign
Pennroad Corpora
provement 1:14
17%
18%
Pow. 7% Pref. 25
26%
tion
4%
U.S. Rubber
19%
19
Amor. & For, Pow.
Phillips Petroleum. 17%
18
U.S. Steel
60k
574
6% Debs. of 2000 49%%
51%
American Metal
10%
214
Radio Gorporation 8 Reynold's
8%
Universal
Leaf
Tobacco
Tabacco
424
42%
American Smelting 14
14
42%
425
Vanadium
26
27%2
American Tel.
&
Sears Roebuck
46
49%
Warner Bros. Pic-
Tel.
American Tobacco
118
77#2
120%
Socony Vacuum
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Corporation.... 18
18K
Westinghouse E. &.
80%
Southern California
M.
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447%
American Water-
Edison
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"Torch Singer**
whose outlook is excompassed by his Claudette Colbert, as the hard-Japan 6% Sterling
Loan 1924 own amall vanities and whose thieving hearted queen of the night clubs, will instinct
in Paramount's "Torch & S'hai, Bk. is more natural than acquired. be
acen 43.00-44.00 Tempest Introduced a newcomer to Singer," scheduled aa the next change Chartd, Bk. £ sh. 8 15% € 15%
(Ldn. Regd.) .. $185 14.46-44.46 the local screen in Anna Sten, whose at the Alhambra Theatre. In the July.
40.10
44.00-44.90 beauty
in equalled by her young cast are Ricardo Cortez, David Man- Total sales for the day:-
ability. Her "Anna" of "Tempest" is ners, Lyda Roberti and Baby le Roy. 4,700,000 078, 8,170,000 ozs.
have (188 Contracts) (327 Contracts) provocative, brainless creature, who Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin
alluring fashion, uses hor written a
new songs which body to gain her own antall
by Misa Colbert in ends, or to divert the inevitable
willed In this reprisals In-
vary from picture. They her loose behaviour. The lullaby to the hottest of wailing vited to director, from-
"Lorchy" the
opening scenes in
tunes. The story, adapted a prison, to the final moment of the from Grace Perkin's "Mike," which J. & P. Conta thief's pseudo-philosophic submission ran in the Liberty Magazine, is Para Courtaulds
to Miss Colbert's to his fate, paints the development in mount's response
crt's Distillora
Rubber decisive strokes that arrest the at- demand for stories of women who tey Dunlop tention and subatain high interest at with the emotions of nion. The Para- Everready 5/- sh. a high level, even for those whose mount star plays the role of "Mim! General Elec.
4476 44/6 knowledge of the German langunge Benton," once simply Sally Trent, now (England) is even less than our own.
the toast of the
as Guinness night clubs,
104/- 104/- dangerous as she is alluring. Now Impl. Chem. In- famous, she is trying to even the
dustries
32/0 02/0 score with life which, more than once, has presented her with misfortunes.
(Continued on Next Columns.) But the thrill of applause doesn't satisfy her longing for the child she
share, and the Wharf and Godown |Co., Ltd., a dividend of 7 per cent.
and a bonus of 2 per cent.
*
•
Mr. Hang Kim Kwing Tang Woo was admitted a solicitor at the Supreme Court.
Tea Storca
ah.
Rly. $25 sh... $10 $10%
jealousy, ho
typifies the city thief
Japan 5% Sterling
Loan 1907.
01
£ 78
£ 8744
0214
£ 7844
Impl. Chem. Ind. Dof, 10/- sh. Impl. Tobacco....
9/0 8/7/
110/9 110/7
£ 87
Int.
28/8 .28/3
€185
Internat. Nickel.
Industrials and Breweries.
no par val. Pinchin Johnson
$ 234 $294
10/al...
13/8
83/8
Associated
Industries Brit. Amer. Tob. (Bearer).g
Elec.
20/m 20/-
Turner & Newall Unilever
431-
40/--
24/0
26/
117/0
117/6
Miscellaneous.
Chinese Eng, and Min (Beaer)
Anglo-Dutch
21/144 21/3
28/0
28/-
Burma Corpn Rs
00/-
09/0
10.....
13/- 13-
43/3 43/1
Canadian
Pacific
85/0
85/-
42/9
42/0
Chartd. 16/sh.
30% 30/1
(Bearer)
Rubber
Gula Kalumpong
23/0 24/
2013.
20/3
Tropea Minos
12/0
12/0
Langlang te
Estates
26/3
20/6
London Tin 10/-
Th.
14/0
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Pekin Synd. 2/-
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8/0
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28/144 28/3.
64/-
36/10 88/1
8/9
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Qilx.
50/7
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89/4
Mex, 84 sh.****
12/- 11/434
of the stage. The spectacle is staged Royal Dutch 100
4 224. € 23
"Smilin' Through"
Norma Shearer returns to romance in "Smilin' Through" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday. In this Metro-Goldwyn bore and had to give up for adoption generations in the theatre. in which Rubber Trusts.. Mayor production she proves again when the man she wanted to marry Allee Brady, Jackie Cooper, Jimmy Shal. Elec. Constr. that she is one of the screen's best deserted her. A nation-wide search, Durante,
Frank Morgan, Madge Van Ryn Deep dramatic artists. It is a dazzling film, both as to, beauty of production using all the researches that wealth Evans, Eddio Quillan, Fay Templeton, Vickers 6/8d cach
has made available, fails. When the May Robson and acting. It could be called the nan Mini! once loved returns, learns will bo finest acted picture of the year and of the birth of the child, and begs Queen's Theatre. Five hundred dan many who ACO it will support the forgiveness, Mimi spurns him. How eers in the largest ainging and Anglo-Persian Oil 61/3 claint. For while "Grand Hotel" had she finds the answer to her problem, ancing chorus ever assembled appear Burma All... a bigger
of stars in point of furnishes a gripping climax to the in the biggest set ever constructed Mexican Eagle
In the great spectacle that furnishes
number," Through" does not story.
"Broadway to Hollywood."
suffer by comparison in respect of talent. Besides Norms Shearer there are Fredric March, borrowed from The all-time record for "finale Paramount to play opposite the star, numbers" has been set in "Bread Leslie Howards, than whom there is way to Hollywood," Metro-Goldwyn
more charming and sensitive. Mayer's vivid drama of three
and Russell Hardie
to-morrow scen
at the
ah. on a flight of two hundred steps Shell Trane.& proceeding apparently to
Trad (Bearer) where a gigantle figure of "Father Geldenhuis Time" is silhouetted."
Crown Mines
the sky
55/m 50/ 29/14 28/0 200/- 218/0
GLADYS PARKER
REG, U. 6. PÁY, OFF.
I'LL TAKE YOU AND ANYONE ELSE YOU'D
LIKE, TO THE MOVIES.
TONIGHT
SWELL I'LL TAKE NANCY.
OH, I CHANGED MY MIND-I THINK SHE'S
MARVELOUS-
SHE'S VERY SMART AND GOOD AND. PRETTY -
BESIDES-SHE'S HAVING A PARTY
NEXT WEEK
NANCY?
WHY, I THOUGHT YOU, DID'NT LIKE HER