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Congratulations, Jean Parker! You're a breath- taking vision of loveliness! And what a heart-warming performance you give in your first starring picture! lean, you're adorable!
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Have a HEART
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JAMES
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UNA MERKEL STUART ERWIN
FROM Sunday.
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RIOTOUS COMEDY
"THE OLD FASHIONED WAY"
First
Showings in
Keirloom
STAR
Popular Priness 708. 40c, 206. Serviceman 30e.
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Whose
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-that's the ques- tion they all try to settle in the spright-
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EDWARD EVERETT | GENEVIEVE
HORTON TOBIN
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
AMAJESTIC
To-day 3′ To-morrow at 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 8. 9.20 p.m.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Ann
Vickers
Anako RADIO
Picture
starring
IRENE DUNNE WALTER HUSTON EDNA MAY OLIVER CONRAD', „NAREL
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION..
Max Baer and Primo Carnera Fight
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.
The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
THE 'HONGKONGE TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY:
SUCCUMBED TO
TEMPTATION
THEFT FROM HAIR-
DRESSING SALOON
A Hongkong-born youth, Young Bul, aged 18, cut a sad figure in the dock of the Central Magistracy this morning, when, before Mr. Wynne Jones, he pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the Vanity Fair Hair Dressing Saloon, King's Theatre building, sixth floor, and stealing 322 from a drawer.
"Poverty" was the youth's reply, with tears in his eyes, when asked by the Magistrate why he com- mitted the, offence,
Detective-Sergeant Fowlle stated that defendant was previously cm- ployed at the saloon, but was dis- missed on February 9, owing to un- satisfactory services. He had two keys to the saloon, one of which ho retained and the other he returned when he left the employ. It was al- leged that on the night of February. 19-20 he entered the establishment | and tried to open the lack of the drawer with a key. This failed and he burst the lock open with a screw- driver. The complainant, Mise Moy, had his address and the police arrested him.
NEW TELEGRAPH” SERIAL
"SILKEN SPINDLES?
STARTS SOONGE
"Bilkon Spindlea," a how serial written by Laura Edu' " Brookman, will start in Mon- day's issue of the Telegraph.
This is a first-rate story, filed with action, human In-
torest and suspenso, ang
to
all the elements that, make a powerful love burial.. In it, five people whose lives were bound together by un- expected forces are swept into a series of amazing events leading to a dramatle crisis,
Start reading "Silken, Spind- les" on Monday, and follow the development of the story day by day.
BAIL ESTREATED
MOTOR DRIVER'S
ABSENCE
1935.
RADIATOR CÀP THEFT
CAN BE PAWNED
IN CANTON
"Radiator caps can be pawned In Canton," remarked Detective- Sergeant Goodwin In the Central Magistracy this morning when ha prosecuted LI Pat, 18, unemploy ed, before Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones, for the theft of a radiator can from a Hongkong Hotel car No. 3335 parked at Statue Square,
Another man, Wong Lam, 29, charged with receiving was dis- charged," there being no evidence against him.
La Pat pleaded guilty to the theft. The radiator cap was found in his pocket at the Tak Hi |Garage, A dotective waited there, on Information rocélyed, and ar- rested both defendante.
Sergt. Goodwin' stated that this! type of theft was still prevalent In the Colony.
Three months' hard labour was imposed on Li Pat.
ITALIAN MUSIC
Bal of $15 was ordered to bel Defendant stated to the police estreated by Mr. Wynne-Jonca, In that he had an aged mother, and the Central Police Court this morn that poverty drove him to steal.
ing, when Lai Shing, alias Tong! Miss Moy, replying to his Wor Man-chi, licensed motor driver, CONCERT SHORTLY TO ship, said that two customers lost failed to appear on a charge that i money from their coats and she when applying for a motor vehicle auspected the defendant of stealing; driver's licence he did not inform His salary was $5 per month and the Inspector General of Police that he had to look after himself entire he had previously held a driver's ly. He was employed by her for licence in the Colony. about two months.
Traffic-Sergeant
BE HELD
Under the auspices of the Dunte Alighieri Association, or Society of Italian Culture, headed by the Italian Consul General, a concert, Remarking that defendant must
Fryer stated of ancient Italian music, con have suffered from severe tempta-that defendant obtained a licence ducted by Prof. E, Gualdi, will be tion, the Magistrate decided to give in 1920 and left the Colony during given in the Rose Room of the him a chance and bound him over in the strike of 1924. He returned Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, at 0 a sum of $100 to come up for judg-two months ago and applied for a p.m. on Thursday, February 28, ment when called upon within licence without informing the police
twelve months.
U.S. SILVER IMPORTS
Washington, Feb. 21. The Department of Commerce reports that Imports of silver into the United States for the week ended February 15 amounted to $6,051,683.
ALHAMBRA
THENTRE
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20. p.m. HE TURNED FIEND TO TRAP A MONSTER! A modens Jakylf-and-Hyde pits his skill ogolnit the diabolic cunning of « soul-less Svengall with the life of a beautiful gid at stakel.
EDWARD G.
ROBINSON
Plus the TWO hast astoundling rates
of his entrar in First Motionls
THE MAN WITH TWO FACES
-TO-MORROW
with
MARY ASVORĮ RICARDO CORTER. Mea. Clerke Luula. Calbara! Arthur_Byron'
Paramount's Musical To Cheer and Be Cheared
that he had previously held a The programme will include driver's licence. His previous mostly ohoral music of the 16th Ilcence was in force at the time he and beginning of the 17th cen- left Hongkong.
tury, religious compositions and Among the convictions on his old madrigals of the same epoch. The
"COLLEGE RHYTHM” licence was a charge of manslaugh choral group." supported by the Loaded with Laugha! Lovely with Girls! Lively with Romancol
choir will be composed, of the ter, on which he was discharged at the Supreme Court,
choir of the Bohools of the Salesian fathers in Shaukiwan and St. Louis Industrial School. French The world-famous
Besides, a few compositions of torian, Professor Dr. Abbe Henri ancient Italian music will be Broute, arrive in Colony
his-
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This amount includes: $3,269,- more, wil her to the Ginny to executed by such distinguished POURING A 440 from the United Kingdom; to Peking to study anew the imple-amateurs as Mrs. Tetley, Miss $1,338.745 from Mexico; $198,115 ments and other traces of civilisa Elvie Yuen, and Mrs. Arnold, ac from Hongkong.-United Press, tion connected with the Peking Man. companied by Mra, Griggs.
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YESTERDAY
The earnings of Safeway Stores Inc. for 1984 wore · $3.60 per share, as |against $4.11 per share for 1933. There is a growing demand for In- dustrial machinery tools. Steel com- panies particularly are buying more plant
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Now York, Feb. 20. Railway Association roports that The following reports on the Now carloading
erkling York stock market have been received February 10 totalici 582,000 units, through Messrs. Swan, Culbertson & decrease of 18,000 units as compared Fritz: The Wall Street Journal with the same porlod inst year. report on yesterday's
markets:-Brokers' loans decreased by $23,000,- Stocks advanced fractionally to more 000.. than one point, due to the temporary Now York and Chicago Commodity lifting of pressure on rail and utility reports received through Messrs. issue. Sugar shares led the advance, Swan, Culbertson and Fritz:— owing to Haw "Spot" Sugar being the Colton: Murch pressure continues- highest this year, also December to be taken by the trade at further Futures being the highest since Jan-widening of differences. A movement uary 1930. Donds were irregular, with a reported from Washington to im- the exception of United States Govern- pound all Government, heid cotton ment issues of which ten made record to August 1938. The "spot" and high levels and two 1935 highs, owing textile markets were quiet. to the statemont attributed to Mr. Grains: Wheat: Prices stendled up Henry Morgenthau, Jr. the on reports of dust storms in the Treasury will not seek any new South-west and over the Winter wheat money. In March financing. Stocks belt. Milla havo liftad May hedges, on the Curb Exchange wore Irregular- The permanence of the Canadian ly higher, due to short covering pegged price is doubted in some Whoat prices advanced, owing to dust quarters, owing to large stocks and stormis moving Eastward from the slow movements Corn: Thore wore Rockies, and threatening the Winter large country receipts. Cash corn Скор.
ruled easier. S. C. & F. Now York office cables: Rubber: Tha trade was reported to The Brooklyn Union Gas Co.'s earn-be good buyers at alightly under the ings for 1034 were $4.20 per share, market. The murket was dull, but The following quotations are by
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previous year. Commonwealth Edison earned $5.21 for 1934, as compared Reuter: with $5.10 for 1983. Underwood Dow Jones Averages, ElBott Fischer's earnings for 1934
Feb. 20 Feb. 21
104.97
104.80
32.77
32.67
15.80
15.80
07.47. 07.46 59.10 69.30
10 Leading Blocks Amer. Smelling
Auburn
were $3.02, as against $1.99 for the 30 Industrials previous year. Mathieson Alkali 20 Rain Works earned $1.20 for 1934, as com20 Utilities pared with $1.70 for 1933, on 40 Bonds amallor share basis. International11 Commodity Nickel is increasing production to meet the demand. The Associated companies of the International Telo- phone & Telegraph Co. gained 50,000 telephones last year, United Stores are omitting their Preferred divi dond. Loow's Incorporated havo declared quarterly dividend of 50 cts., as compared with 26 eta,, for the same period last year. American Locomotive has reported a loss of $2,071,000 for 1934, as against a loss
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