*12
AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.
U ON THE SCREEN
NEW CRIME MENACE TERRORIZES NATION!
ON THE STAGE.
HUMAN CARGO
AT ALL PERFORMANCES. THE WORLD FAMOUS ACROBATIC TROUPE
"ABELLA"
NOVEL SCENES,
DANCES AND OTHER
ACROBATIC FEATURES.
CLAIRE TREVOR BRIANE DON
TO-MORROW CLARK GABLE
M.G.M Picture
JEANETTE MacDONALD
in "SAN FRANCISCO
QUEEN
AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE
"
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. DRAMA AS DANGEROUS AS ANY HERO OF THE BATTLE FIELDS ! STARK! TENSE! DARING !
Torn apart on their wedding night...they moot again as enemy spies in the services of their countriest
Adelph Zukar presenze
HERBERT
Marshall
VILL WE MEET AGAIN"
with
GERTRUDE MICHAEL - LIONEL ATWILL
ROD LAROCQUE
Directed by Robert Floray A Paramount Picture
NEXT CHANCE
THE SURPRISE PICTURE OF THE YEAR !
BOBBY BREEN
THE 8-YEAR-OLD BOY, WITH THE MOST AMAZING -VOICE~~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~THERE'S NO ONE-ON-THE SCREEN, OF ANY AGE, WITH A GREATER PERSONALITY.
IN
"LET'S SING AGAIN”
4 SHOWS
DAILY
*30-5.15
7-13---0.80
An R.K.O. Radio Picture.
TAKE ANY TRAM OR HAFFT VALLEY DUR
ORIENTALE
LAST 4 TIMES TO D
ONE OF THOSE EXCEPTIONAL PICTURES YOU SHOULD NOT MISS!
FLOODING THE SCREEN WITH THRILLS!
'First Great Dranis of
BOULDER!
GROSS ALEXANDER {PATRICIA ̃ELLIS
LYLE TALBOT MED DILA CUFF
DAYS ONLY
DAM
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER
17, 1936.
BANK CLERKS TO FIGHT FOR ALHAMBRA
"PAY FIT TO MARRY ON"
KING LEAVING FOR
BALMORAL
BIG ROYAL PARTY TO FOREGATHER
London, Sept. 16.
The King, who, according to pre- sent arrangements, is leaving on Friday for Bolinoral, transacted State business Buckingham Palice to-day, Among His Majesty's visitors was Sir William Clark, Bel- tish High Commiser in the Union of South Africa, who is returning The to South Afrien after leave, King also received Mr. H, T. Seymour appointment British Minister at Telieran and Mr. E. F Guy on his appointment as Brilh Minister at Caracas, Venezuela,
His Majesty is expected to stay thrre
weeks int Scotland. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, who will have just returned from the Con- tinent, will probably accompany the King to Balmoral, where the Duke and Duchess of York, with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will be Churc to Krcet them.- British Wireless.
LIBERALS DEBATE WORLD OUTLOOK
VIGOROUS POLICY
URGED
London, Sept. 16.
A meeting of the Council of the Liberal Party in London this nfter- noon passed a resolution calling attention to the gravity of the Inter- national situation and to the need for vigorous movement.
The resolution attribuled the pre- sent grave situation to the disastrous failure of the Government to stand by the League of Nations. Regards ing Spain, the Council agreed that 11 was right that the United KiIK-
them and other countries should - maly neutral during the civil war,
Big Five' Scrap
BANK
Ban,
NATHON RD, KOWLOON:
TO-DAY ONLY A Smashing Screen Hit. THE ARMY ATTACKS!
Give Advice THE NAVY STRIKES!
PANK clerks of Britain are hoping that better conditions of service may result from the campaign of protest against dismissal of Mr. W. E. Notman, twenty-nine-year- old Glasgow bank clerk, by the Commercial Bank of Scotland because he defied their £200-a-year marriage- minimum.
Notman, on whose behalf M.P's, are noy campaigning, worked for eleven year for the Commercial Bank of Scotland. He earned £180 o year. Just under £3 10s, a week. He fell in love. He was forbliden to marry until he ramed £200 a year.
He married, but he has now been out of work for a year, is "practical- ly ruined."
Opponents of the ban point out that more than 70 per cent, of in- coinen hi Britain are under £200 year, so that instead of there being than 18,000,000 married people in Great Britain there wonal he fewer than 0.000.000 p similar relary ban were generally imposed by employers.
Aut ufficial the Bank Omeers Guild said:—
"With the Scottish Bankers' Association we are establishing machinery to enable us to negotiate with the banks for a proper agreed scale of salaries which would enable a man to marry and budget ahead,”
The "Big Five" and most of the London banks bave scrapped what-1
Clerks in inost ever "marrlage minitatms" were in force before the war.
enses are, however, expected to inform their usagers of intended marriage.
An offcial of the Westminster Bunk said:→
There is no rule, but if a boy thought of marrying on a salary on which we thought he would find difficult we should Just point it out to him, advise him to wait a
while."
Lloyds Bank staff handbook Baym
The directors have so often had before them cases of great distress arising from fos early or inprudent marriages on the part of some of the younger members of the staff that they feel it necessary to point out the grave risks that such a course of action may entall,"
Hules of one Scottish bank stipulate a minimum of £200 a year in London and £210 in Scotland.
Playboy No. 1 Has Reformed
JIMMY DONAHUE, 20-year-old cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Reventlow, Woolworth heiress,
but erged a vigorous polley to make named New York Playboy No. 1, has reformed.
non-intervention effective.-British Wireless.
BRITISH MOTOR
INDUSTRY
He has forsaken the bright lights and has taken a job in, the new musical show, "Felix Ferry's Transatlantic Rhythm," which opens at the Opera House. Manchester, this month,
Mayhem
MARKED ADVANCE IN Trial
PRODUCTION
London, Sept. 16. The important share 111 the Industrial revival taken by the motor industry is shown by figures of the recent growth in the output of British
cars.
Starts Soon
San Francisco, Sept. 9.
A court dramatisation of the relations between a glamorous The number of private cars und
and woman famed internationally as taxis produced in the ten months a hostess and a spender and of
from October last to end July was
41,122, or 15.4 per cent, greater than the daughter she considered an
U.S. COMMODITY
PRICES
"I have to get up early in the morning and work hard-so that means no more night club," said "and I don't regret it.
he
"My friends and I have had some merry times in the past, but we were just kids trying to be grown- Lup.
a
I found myself being called playboy. Just beenuse I was in the habit of bursting into a lyrie during dinner they called me 'nightclub
crooner.
THE "HOT FOOT" TRICK "Because I do a lot of my own hot steps when l'in dancing they sald I was rivalling Fred Astaire!
"Along Broadway I was ac cused of being the originator of the hot fool' trick,
"The Joker crawls under a restaur-
in the corresponding period of 1934 ugly duckling, will begin to un- and last year. The increase in the fold in San Francisco Superior ant inble, inseris n match between case of commercial vehicles was court when the trial that grew the sale and upper of the victim's 12,203, o 15.5 percent British from the sterilisation of Ann shoe, and then lights the matchi, Wireless.
do with Cooper Hewitt, 21 year
"Eut had nothing old
that silly trick. hairess, opens.
"My playboy days are over and The trial will be that of Dr. I'm glad I've now got a good serious Tilton E. Tillman, prominent job of work to do.” San Franciscan, member of the City lunacy commission, and close! friend of Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt McCarter, mother of the sterilized girl, and of Dr. Samuci G. Boyd, operating surgeon. Geneva Mrs. McCarter was to have faced Berlin telal at the same time as the doctorsAthens, but San Francisco authorities have Milan.. been unable to obtain her extradition Oslo. Ironi Jersey. She will be tried separ-Shanghai
LATEST CABLED
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The following quotations on New York commodity exchange
up by Reuter.
the
are
October
December
January
Murch
New York Cotton
12.00/00 11.07/07 12.02/03 12.00/01 12.02/02 11.00/99 11.95/90 11.04/05 11.95/06
11.94/04 11.07/80 11.07/07 12.40
12.37 New York Rubber
May
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Spot
September 16.43n October
December
January
March
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16.51b/54 10.01/01
10.03n 10.55 10.63b/84
18.00b/710 16.70
16,80n Moy
10.81/01 July
Total sales:-1,330 tons. Chicago Wheat September 113/1134 * 114/1143 December 111%/1111⁄2 1124/1123 May 110/110% 1114/1117
Tuesday's, sales: 10,876,000 bushels.
Chicago Corn
1erdin
if she ever returns to the city New York where old-timers recall her as
itle girl who lived over a comman grocery store and persons newer to Pram
10.90
TO-MORROW M-G-M's Mighty Musical.
A TRIUMPH FOR BOTH! D
Your romantic Idol...your log. ag swoolheart ...in the nia dra. ma of Frisco's glorious dayal
GABLE Dennette McDONALD San Francisco
TRACY
yetth
YOU MAY BE NEXT!
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with
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KOWLOON
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Goliayn Mayt
PICTURE
JACK HOLT JESSIE RALPH, TED HEALYA
A W. S. VAN DYKE PRODUCTION Produced by. JOIN EMERSON and DERNAND H.HYMAN
TO-DAY ONLY,
BEFORE HIM
PORTALAR PRICET
70% 40% 20%.
SERVICERER 3.
a horde mad for loot and massacral
BEHIND HIM
a hundred million helpless souls... and the woman who loved himl
JOSEPH M. SCHENCK presente
CLIVE INDIA
Ronald COLMAN
and LORETTA YOUNG.
A DARRYL. F. ZANUCK Production
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY,
20TH
CENTURY PICTURE Released theu
UNITED ARTISTS
"I LIVE FOR LOVE" with
DAILY
EVERETT MARSHALL, STAR OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA & DOLORES DEL RIO.
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℗ TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY
A SPECTACULAR DRAMA OF SOULS IN HELL!
TIMELY CHALLENGING...ETERNAL!
EXCHANGE RATES
4 SHOWS
Paris
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7611
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San Francisco remember her as o
Lisbon,
1/6
29.08
rich and successful suelal figure.
The specifle charge involved Is Hongkong. that of conspiracy to commit may- Bombay
Drussels. hem.
Aside from the interest generated Montreal. by the prominence of the figures - Monte Video.. 10.87b/U8a volved there was the legalistic ques- Yokohama ...
tion of the right of a mother to order Stiver (forward).ID that her daughter be deprived of the Silver (Spot).
War Loan. right of bearing children through a surgeon's knife.
the operation organs from the budy young lie
heiress, daughter of
י 19
September 1134/113 1141⁄44/1144 that Peter Cooper Hewitt who in OXFORD AND HARVARD
TO-MORROW & SATURDAY December
HERE'S A PERFECT COMEDY DRAMA ! When the small town girl meets the big town boy, then the lyn begins, a real battle of wita.
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Bangkok
Boyd which of the vented the mercury vapour. lump and granddaughter of the Peter Cooper founded Cooper Institute in New York and who was one of New York's Arst capitalists und philanthropists,
But his knife was guided by In- siruction from Tillman and
who
the
EXHIBITION IN BODLEIAN HONOURS U.S. UNIVERSITY
London. Sept. 10. An exhibition was opened at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to-day' to mother.
commemorate, the centenary of the California law permits sterilisation, foundation of Havard University In but only on authorisation by the the United States of America.
Selling
1/2 courts. 1/244
T.T. Saigon T.T. France T.T. Germany
Switzerland
TT. Australia
TIT. Lisbon
Kuying
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DANTE'S INFERNO
SPENCER TRACY CLAIRE TREVOR, HENRY B. WAITHALL, ALAN DINEHART. Producer: Sól M. Wurtzet. Diratori Hany Lachman TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY 'ROAD GANG”
MOST SHOCKING DRAMA SINCE “I Am a fugitivVE" [ A WARNER BROS.' SENSATION I. HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION. OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1936 on behalf of
Harvard takes its name from its The defence is 'expected to argue 102% that since the girl was under 21 at first great benefactor, John Harvard, sick and destitute children is estimated at 52 the time, and since a psychiatrist, whose home In Stratford-on-Avon in $26,000, against which the Income to date is
165 using standard tests, decided her Warwickshire, is now the property $18,000 only,
mental age was below, normal, the of the university.
In order to continue its work, the Society
1 operation was justified. Boyd Bays Harvard was a graduate of Cum Asks for the balance of
.814
6
45
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further the organs were diseased.
Ann, now living in seclusion in Sant Francisco and spending part of her 404
time reading the scores of proposals 4.72 the publication of her case have 174 brought, has a different version for .95%
of which she alleges the operation, .1/04 she was unaware...
.0$02
1/3
filled!
In a mult for $500,000 damages
her mother, the doctors and against
bridge University, England.British Wireless.
MCMAHON EDITS -IN GAOL
George Andrew McMahon, who is
.$7,000
before the cluse of the financial year on 31st
October.
Hon. Treasurera:
Mr. A. McKELLA?, C.A.,
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzio & Co..
PO. Bullding.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,-
c/o 'Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong."
1/3 the psychiatrist, alio alleges she was in Brixton Prison hospital following a sterilised to deprive her of her rights revolver incident after the King's rc- 91 in the fortune of Peter Cooper view on July 10, is planning to bring 5.00 Hewitt, third husband of her mother, out a second number of his paper.
five fincs-United which was suspended after the first Hongkong. married .83 wha 0.001 Press.
'Issue,"
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