THE・・ HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1935.
SILVER JUBILEE SALE
AT
Bata SHOE STORE
Avail yourself of the opportunity.
Seasonable shoes for Ladies, Gentlemen & Children.
́ ́U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
The
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
following quotations
on the
New York commodity exchango are Issued by Rrufer:
Ladies' fashionable shoes of
brown leather with fawn.
linings.
New York Cotton
May. 2.
Muy,
May
11.76
11.85785
July
11,77
11.87/87
October
11.40
11.01/51
White canvas shoes for
December
11.45
11.50/50
January (1930) 11.40
11.60/01
men. Light and com- fortable with strang
rubber soles.
March
11.55
11.63/69
Spol
12.15
12.25
New York Rubber
Mny
11.4-1
11.17.
July....
11.58
11.69/59
September
11.70.
11GKb
October
11.77
11.76/70
December
11.03
11.00/92
January
11.9M
12.00
Total sales:--40-Jots
“Chiengo "Whenl
May July
97
D7% 074
97
97% $174
September
Price $2.90
975% 07 07% Thursday's sales-24,074.000 bushels
Chleage Corn
58% 88%%% HHA 8.
631 B3 79b .78%%% 78
Thursday's sales:-8,778,000 ljushels
May July
Price $6.90
September
Winnipeg Wheat
Light and airy sandals for y
colours
model.
87% AD New York Silk ladies. Blue and. white May
1.31 1.:1
1.32. July.. 1.32 1.30 1.31 combined. Latest September..... 1.30% 1.29
Total sales-50 lots
Montrent Silver
71.70b
Muy
8731 #7 fin
1,20%
May
$3.90
July
September
December
Shoes for the beach. In while
linen or red colours of different
styles.
Price $2.50
Black and brown leather shoes for school girls and ladies. Durable and comfortable.
Brown $3,90 Black $5.90
Aata
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78.20/74,00 72.30 74.30 73.15 76.00 7-1,00% 70.30 Totul rales-116 Contracts
Margaret Lindsay, who has the leading feminine role in the Cosmopolitan Production released by Warner Bros.. "Devil Dogs of the Air," coming to the Central Theatre. She given one of her best reformances na the prize of the reckless, fighting marines, James Cagner and Pat O'Brien, in their successor la. "Here Comes the Navy." Oh, wait, Frank McHugh is in the cast, 100.
· CINEMA NEWS
NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
When she came down she was sup. posed to be "starting anew." Al- though the Paramount picture will have no such scenes, the qualit, and nimost forgotten customs of bundling, For courting fully clothed in bed, fur- nishes the chunx situation about which this comedy of love and man- Mary Ellis, star of the dramatlezers in Revolutionary times is welt- and misleal stage, makes her Ameri-ten. Adapted from the Broadway can film debut in Paramount's "All success by Lawrence Langner the King's Horse," opening to-day Armina Marshall, "The Pursuit of at the Athambra and Central Theatres, Happiness features fusn Bennett, opposite Carl Brasson. Mary Elis Charlie Raggles and Mary Boland in brenmen hendliner in the United the supporting cast. States when she was seen in the lead-
"After Office Hours" ing roles of the original productions
Lavish settings are an important "Rare Marie" and "The Dybbuk." She began her career as a singer with feature of "Anter Unive Hours", new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production co- the Metropolitan Opera Company, later gritated to the stage, and has starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and which terminazes iLs The bridge, mahjong and whist played the entire cycle from musical nesl run to-morrw at the Queen's Lufternoon held at St. Andrew's York Luster of the two celebrated stars, Cedric euniedy to Shakespearing tragedy in
**] Thentre. In Hue with the ranking! Church Hall on Wednesday in nid of the Shicklung lepers proved a |great success, There was a good attemilance. anil the proceeds amounted to $136.70. The prize. winners were:
FUNDS FOR LEPERS
SUCCESSFUL AFTERNOON'S
ENTERTAINMENT
It is propored to hold the next afternoon entertainment of this mature on the first Wednesday of next month, which falls on June 6.
As from May 6, the air mail rater Lo Great Britain via Imperial Air- ways will be reduced to: Letter $0.50 ner to oz, P.C. each $0.32. Correspondence for this service must be clearly marked "Vist Imperial Airway
:
King's Horse" presents Miss Eilis
"Mystery Woman"
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MEN'S
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FILM X
as a loving queen, baffled in her affecGibbons, M-G-M art director, built tions for the king by his ancestral settings depicting a "pent- heard and his preoccupation with een.. house boathouse”—something new in Ierences. Entbellished with songs by bachelor humes-a night club done in Sam Coslow and einhornte
nautical design, and various interiors Auction bridge; Mrs. Sandiford, sequences by LeRoy Prinz, the picturs fashioned after the homes of New suiver the romantic atentie Office Hours" is that of a society York notables. The story of “"After Mrs. Layzell, Mrs. Musgrove,
Mahjong: Miss A. Chan, Mrs. Toyal couple after a great deal of
comedy complication, Edward Eve murder in Park Avenue where the Vago, Mrs. Gubbay.
rett Horton, Katherine DeMille and audience sees the murderer commit Whist: Mrs. Sayers. Mrs. East-Eugene Pallette appear to the support thug the crime and then watch n skilled man.
ing cust
investigator unravel the mystery and Rates: Mrs. Hereford won the
brings the murderer to justice, Clark handbag, and Mrs. M. Ho wen the
Gabie turns in a flawless performance M Barrie feels that turnings a mannging editor and his socinlite- cake.
blonde for the first picture in which reporter is played by Mix Bennett. she has bad the ending rowe pro This is the first time the two of them any is a good idea. The picture is have been co-starreit and indication "Mystery Woman's now at the king are that their team will follow the Teentre n't true, actunity, but steps at the Galle-Crawford and blondes register as being "mare Jeni- | Gable-Shearer combinations. The two inne than oranettex", says the young leading players are ably supported by actress. "The world naturalty as a cast including Billie Burke, Stuar ciates vampire laues with linky Erwin, Harvey Stephens, Katharine brunettes stondes may actually be Alexander and others. cold, calculating. entirely busĪNESK- like persons, but on the screen, at test, they seem more feminine", Of course he isn't superstitious, but "Mystery Woman", in which a woman Warner land believes most of the matches wits with two international good luck he's hul on the screen erminala, also features Gilbert-Romes from the little jade_god given land, John Halliday and Rod Lany his wife nearly twenty years Roesque.
ago. This little bit of green stone, ha believer, is largely responsible for The Gay Divorcee"
making him one of the foremost "The Gay Divorcee," RKO-Radio's character actors in pictures. Shortly current misical comedy hit at the after he Was presented with the Star Theatre, is declared to be the momento, he got his first screen role, first "true musient comedy" ever pre- and every time he wears it in a Alm. sented on the screen. Studio oficials, the jicture proves to be highly suc it is said, exhausted every possibility cessful. As a consequener, Oland in- to accurately capture the giddy, head- variably wears it at least once while long speed of the plot, which, as we making a production, and if the role stage play starring Fred Astaire, permits, he carries. It constantly. played is performances in New York | Carved by FONIC Jong-forgotten anal six months in the F'alace Theatre, | Chinese craftsman and set in an old London: Astaire and Ginger Rogersailver ring centuries old, the bit of are sturred, with such Innious wereen jade has appeared in each of the, players as Alice Brady and Edward "Charlie Chun" series of detective "Charlie Chan in Paris", which starts the Chinese artist-actor and others all Everett Harton featured fit nam mysteries Warner Oland has made for its local run on Monday at the Queen's have prominent roles in this exciting hers of the original play have bean Fox. The actor has just completed Theatre, Mary, Brian, Thomas Beck, screen version of the story, by Philip retained, including the celebrated the seventh production of this series, | John Miljan, John Qualen, Koye Luke., MacDonald.
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"Night and Day number, to the music of which Astaire does his fum- bux "Dance of Monds," There is also Astaire's sensational will dance of joy and abandonment, wherein, hav- ing at last won the lady of his dreams, be celebrates by leading her in a dar- ing Waltz over tables, elmirs, daven- ports and what-nots.
"Student Tour"
With Jimmy Durante as a rough, neck college athletic trainer and Charles Butterworth as an absent- mluded professor, "Student Tour", one of the season's most sparkling screen musical comedies showing ot the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, Mon- diny and Tuesday. This in the picture that introduces the "Carle", sens tional new ballroom dance that in sweeping the world, and includes a number of now song hita. Young athletes and co-eds recruited from college and universities form the body, of the cast, which also includes Monto Blue, Maxine Doyle, Phil Regan and other notables, "Student Tour" is | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's answer to the popular cry for now faces on the
Acreen.
"Pursuit of Happiness" Nudist marriages are no novelty; they were legal in the United States as far back as 1770, or a historical loro revealed in the preparatory re-. searchos for the production of Para- mount's "The Pursuit of Happiness," starring Francis Lederer and coming to the Alhambra Theatre on Wednes day. In those days the nudist brides. were married in a closet. It was all due to the current laws which made overy husband liable for his bride's existing debts, unless she came to him entirely devoid of property. In order to conforma literally to the exception clause, the bride, after disposing of all her property, would remove her clothes, stand in a closet and put her hand through the door while the wed- ding was performed.. Another ver- alon was for the bride to aton naked on to a ladder outalde the window and there on her wedding garmenta,
"Charlie Chan in Paris"
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