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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
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VALUABLE FREE SERVICE
From 7 p.m. last night until after Moeting of the Company will bo 8 p.m. there was a constant flow of held at the Offices of the General spectators at the new electrical
AT THE
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Managers, Messrs, Jardine, Mathe-guide to Hongkong which was public. FOR LOVE!
son & Co., Ltd., Peddor Street, ly demonstrated for the first time. Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 22nd
The guide, which has been set up
April, 1930, at noon, for the puron the Hongkong Star Ferry wharf, pose of receiving the Report of was constructed by Messrs. G. F.
counts, and electing Directors and
Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 15th April to the 6th May inclu sive.
Dopt
who were in attendance to explain it to interested spectators.
tion in 1035 earned $1.05 per share the Directors, passing the Ac- GEbert and H. W. Buckingham, of against $1.04 in 1934. The United
the China Engineers, Ltd., Electrical Gas Corporation carned $2.03 per against share preferred in 1935, $1.67 the previous year. E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Company carne $1.21 per shore for the March quarter, compared with 85 cents during the corresponding period of last year. The Corn Products Refining Computy earned 83 cents per share for the
07 against rents dui- March quarter ing the corresponding quarter Inst year. The Chesapeake & Ohio Rail- road Company during the Murch share, $1.20 per quarter earned
year. against 92 cents last
"ho Times business index is 98.7, ngainst 97.3 the previous week.
London, April 20.
Cotton: Private reports indicate Culbertson & Fritz Dow
drought relief in half of Texas and Jones Summary of yesterday's market: The market to-day was or further rains are expected in Texas one to three points during the last and Okinoma. The Trade is buying hour of trading when Irregular sell-ear months. ing affected the entire List.
The Fossick Bureau Until innies an acreage increase of 15 the final hour, many sections of the per cent. The hext two weeks will
be the Important planting period. market showed signs of steadying,
By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
.LTD.
General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1936.
CINEMA NOTES
with steel Issues responding to re- Wheat; Scattered precipitation an ports
of increased mill activity the drought area and forecasts of Then came the sell-off, which was more rainfall coused some proße Firs National will release at the without any apparent reason except taking and outweighed isolated dust The market for storms and reports of hessian fly in bonds was also lower and stocks on the Central Belt. Messrs. Murray & the Curb Exchange declined under Company estimate the crop at 475.-
000,000 bushels.
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pressure.
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On one side of the wharf 15 д switch boatsi with 440 buttons. From this board run 840 wires to a large map of the central district of Hongkong which has been built on the opposite side of the wharf. When a button is pressed opposite a name on the switchboard a line of bulbs running on the map from the Star Ferry Wharf to the site of the firm whose name was select- ed in illuminated. The lights remain on until the button is released.
Tho and
The guide has taken more than alx months to work out and con- struct, the actual installation occupy- ing almost three months. "Now the board is finished, however," Mr. Buckingham said fast night at the More often than not the term "all demonstration. One change in con- star cast" is a misnomer. But such templated, the substitution of Bri is not the case in the Cosmopolitan tish lamps in the map in place of production "Captain Blood," which those, at present being used.
new lamps have been ordered Queen's Theatre at an early date. will replace those already installed At least ten of the players who sup- when they arrive. A considerable Olivia de number of firma have already applied port Errol Flynn and Havilland, youthful and romantic for the inclusion of their names on leads, are bona fide stars. Lionel the switchboard and it is expected that the 540 places well shortly. be Awill, who plays Colonel Bishop wOR under starring contract to David Alled. Belasco for a period of ten years. of fifty McGlynn, a man rank years of acting experience, starred three
John Drinkwater's wice years in
Lincoln," an international stage hit. were both Shakespearian-stars years before beginning film work. Guy Kibbee is one of the best known of stellar
Then vaudeville players. there are Basil Rathbone, London celebrity; George Hansel "spotted" in Shubert's "Passing Show" for fif- teen years; Mary Forbes, star of dances in the China Fleet Club Thea-
at the age of "Cha Chin Chow" eighteen; Colin Kenny of the Galelying at the usual time 8.30 p.m. The
tre on Saturday, April 24, commenc Ste Theatre, Harry Cording: Henry phenson. Reginald Barlow and Robert Band of the East Lancashire Regi- Barrat. Equally as well known are ment will be in attendance. The usual invitations are not being issued Hobart Cavanaugh, for this function. On Monday, May Stuart Casey, Holmes Herbert, Forrester larvey,
Leonard Mudie. 4. Ivan Simpson
the popular open air whist drives All play roles of early English pirates and lombolas will be started again In Wellington Barracks commencing
Swan, Culbertson &
Rubber: Fundunculats are sourd, Street Journal
19/4 but there is some apprehension re- market:The railroad companies garding Frans devaluation and its only hope to avert a rate cut is Court effect on the Gullder, together with action against the Inter-State Coin-reported foreign selling. Caution is
Investors should advisable pending the French elec-Terrence and his wife Maude Leslie merce Commission. immediately appease their commit-tions, The English stocks of rubber ments since a market that can for have decreased by 038 tons. months cut past every danger signal placed in its path is capable of switching to the opposite extreme.. Same chart compliers express the opinion that we will have consider.
Dow Jones Averages: "ably lower prices before any import- London an resistance is reached.
30 Industrinis continues to be bullish on copper stares. There was some buying of 20 Ralis Cities Service issues un gossip that 20 Ulities the annual report, which will be Bonds published this week, wil make11 Commodity Index
pleasant reading."
S. C. & F. New York office cables:
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REUTER QUOTATIONS
31.90
1.95
58.06
April 18. April 20.
156.07 132.40 47.00 40.41 $1.25 101.83 30 17
Stocks: The market was again Colony by the
Mr. S. S. Mamak returned to the Conte Verde ufter
and Colonial officers in the picture, g
ant a glowing ro
In future there will always be an attendant at the board to help operate the guide and it la planned to have printed small maps of the on which a tourist central district or person unacquainted with the city will be able to mark out the route he wishes lo take to find any par- Licular firm.
The R.E.O.C.A. are continuing their
at 8.30 p.ni. prompt. It is hoped that
unsettled by unfavourable war pro-, spending a holiday in India, and has powerful dra the adventures of they will be as well attended as they
spects and selling by nervous traders, again takon over charge of Messrs. The International Cement Corpora-Mamak and Company.
Yardley
Old English
Lavender
inance based on
Captain Blood who turned pirate were last year. The admission is 50 after having been condemned to cents. slavery by King James 11. Michael Curtiz directed.
"Annie Oakley"
Fert Kelton, favourite little bru nette screen comedienne, auccumbs
with Preston
course love.
"Two For To-night"
crammed with comedy moments and situations. The songs, by and Revel, include "Two-for
Two for To-night" opens to-day to the blunde hairdreas in "Annie at the Queen's Theatre, with
Bing Oakley," showing from Thursday at Crosby, Joan Bennett, Mary Holand, the, Alhambra, The blonde tresses Lynne Overman and Ernest Cossurt. were not born of Pert's desires, but Ring portrays the role of a struggling were necessitated by the photographic youngster, a singer who gets mistaken contrast which had to be achieved for a to Barbara Stanwyck's strikingly for a playright, writes a play for the tion haie. Miss Stanwyck is starred wrong girl in a gay musical romance, in the title role of "Annie Oakley, RKO Radio Picture, Foster and Melyyn Douglas, The Tonight," "I wish I were Alladin" locales pictured in "Annie Oakley,"
"Without a word of Warning" and a range from a rural backwoods cour-Wit mualty in Ohio through the cities of number of others. Mary Boland is Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Washington and east as the mother of three sons, two royal court" of Europe. Preston of whom are popular song composers plays the male lead in the colourful and the other a singer, Bing Crosby. story, based on events in the life of their attempt to sell a song to-a the Okie girl who became the world's stone deaf music publisher, Bing is
injured in
accident. grentest rifle shot.
an airplane While he
recuperating in a lospital, his inother asks the pilot for $50,000 Romance in dreamy tropics--idyllic damages. The pilot turns to be Miss
Joan Bennett, the secret: native life in the land of the Southern theatrical producer, Lynne Overman.
secretary to Cross-tark coral islands-the deadly typhoon of the accident Overman thinks 1 a As Bing tries to explain the details these are the contrasting elements in great iden for a play for his star, and the kaleidoscopic South Seas, where cominission Bing to write it. Many "Last of the Pagans", Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's saga of Polynesian life, was hilarious complications follow, Includ Amed. The pletare comes on Weding n seltzer water battle in a night nesday to the King's Theatre. Direc club where Bing has gone with the tor Richard Thorne took a production star Ket more material for the unit to the last of the "unspoiled" play. Miss Bennett sces Crosby re Island of the group, and was five hearting a love scene with the star months in the making of the new and she walks out on him, with the
arrival back picture, with Mala, hero of "Eskimo", simultaneous
from and Lotus Long as the only Holly- Europe of Overman who also orders wood players. The entire population Bing to leave, telling him the deal is of the cural isle in the Pacifle, includ-off. Ernest Cossart, Overman's but-
"Last Of The Pagans"
drama on
uncharted
to
The lovable sweet pertume; how securelying its chief, was impressed to act. fer, comes to the rescue by offering
A few white men, sailors and over to produce the play with the money
it holds its rank in the fashionable worldscers, were enlisted for other roles. a rich uncle has just left him. Miss to-day!
It is the one perfume of which you will never tiro, charming at all times and especially perfect for tho
occasion.
Lavender Soap-"The Luxury Soap of the World"-Lavender Face Powder, Compact,, Bath Tablets, Salt Crystals and Talcum Powder, etc.
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"Rose Marie”
Except for a short wave radio oper- Bennett returns to say goodbye and ated by Cameraman Clyde De Vinna, all ends on a gay musical note, the company was out of touch with civilisation. Interesting characters in the story are the chief, Telo a Tema. tasa, who was induced to play himself in the picture, Ae a Faaturia, the informal little boy in the story, and Rangape a Taipoo, the mother, all born on the uncharted Island. Native speech is used by the natives, with super- Imposed translations as in "Eskimo", the white players, of course, speaking English where the script calls for it
No matter how much you liked "Naughty Marletta", that musical sensation of 1935, you're sure to like "Rose Marie" even more. Again co- starring Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, this Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer praliuction is now screening at the King's and Alhambra Theatres. "Rose Marie" Like its forerunner, was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and produced "Front Page Woman"
by Hunt Stromberg, who again combined their talents "Front Paro Woman",
Warner to
make this picture one Brothers' fast-moving comedy-drama | tha finest productions to como dealing with the intense rivalry be-out of Hollywood in a tween a man and a woman reporter
A
of
long
on opposing newspapers, will be the time. Repleto with haunting music, tender lave story, magnificent attraction at the Oriental Theatre a photography and backgrounds, it is Wednesday and Thursday. Betis truly the fim sensation of the year.. Davis, deserting for the monient the Miss MacDonald plays the name rele, heavy, dramatic roles she has puran opera star who travels disguised trayed in the past, and George Brent Into the wilds in search of her dis thu Irish-American actor, are starred salute brother, a criminal from justice. in the picture, which includes a sup- Nelson Eddy portrays Sergeant Bruce, porting cast comprising popular as fine abeuntio as over rodo a players such as Roscoe Karns, Wini horac. Assigned to bring the criminal fred Shaw. Walter Walker, J. Carroll to justice, there is the
thrust of Nalsh, Gordon Westcott, and others personal duty when these two. meet Miss Davis is cast as Ellen Gardick, and fall in love. With all its outdoor sob-sister on the staff of the "Sta"
Bсanos mado while Brent has the role of her rival grounds of surpassing beauty in the against natural back- on the "Express". Their professional mountainlake country of the Sierra enmity begins in the press room of Novadas, “Rose Marie" in a pictorial prison shortly before the execution of work of art. A strong supporting a Broadway butterfly for the murder cast includes James Stowart; Ro
of her paramour, carries through a ginald Owen, Allan Jones," George'
series of dramatic and comic stung tions, and ends in a truce and, of,
Regas, Rober: Greig, Una O'Connor) and Lucien Littlefield.
The mutineers from the hell-ship"Bounty" answer the siren call of the island Paradise!
Every throbbing moment of lis TRUE! MOM's giant $2,000,000 production is your most glomorava so- montic adventure of all line. Great ators cost E thosiandi-two years to make!
Exalit
Tare welcomed Clark Gable on
this South Seo !
"Garden of
Eden"!
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