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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937.
MINTON WIVES TELL HOW THEY ALHAMBRA
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
MASTER ONLY HIS OWN
DELMA
ALEXANDER KŪRDA
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
EXOTIC LIFE COULD PAINT!....
Kiuntion picture pocitud. that truly ders konar s
the wald's groust "lava
al busury," she immanel "prince of shadows"}
LAUGHTON
BEMBRANDT
sired us an artist's
palese Breakin
as a Rembrande
manospicent
De ALEXANDER KORDA CLATRUDE LAWRENCE LISA LANCHESTER
LOWARD CHAPMAN
LUNDAN ALKER 123820 anflata
and "TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS"
A Silly Symphony in Technicolour
NEXT CHANGE
Warner Bros.
-
4. SHOWS
- DAILY
8.30-5.13
7.11-4.30
JOE E. BROWN in POLO
JOE
FARE AND TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS
ORIENTAL
THEATRE-
FLEMING ROAD
WANGHAI
SPEND WEEK'S MONEY But They Are Rather
Shy About It All
(By HILDE MARCHANT)
"HOW do you spend your husband's money?" I asked
ten housewives recently. They clung terrified to
the door, said "Not to-day," and slammed it.
Perhaps I look like a seller of hairpins or dud shares, or just a gipsy throwing curses on their step, but the good wives of Finchley, Epping and Chingford kept their doors on the chain, peeped round the curtains, and wondered what was coming.
They also had no idea how
they
spent their husbands' money, or will not tell.
Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, has announced a door-to- duor qutry an the question. He is expecting 10,000 intelligent, useful replies upon which to base a schedule m the cost of living.
I got four out of fourteen, and one photographer Was cheating the
knew her and we could be intro- duced.
First answer from Larkswood-road,
E.4:
Brown Mr. Ernest
CitH come
round himself and I'll tell him wint
I think of his prying into my agira;
How One
Man
Became a
Millionaire
Slim, young Count Atillio!
what's private he has no right to he Matarazzo's long fingers gently | asking, what does he want to knew smoothed the broad crepe band for I would like to know.
Perhaps the British Medical Asso-on the lapel of his jacket as he' ciation were right working it out in told of the greatest man hic their heads. They decided 5s. 10d.
enough for a working man's food ever knew. weeft.
was
а
TEL. 30473
LAST 4 TIMES TO DA.
WHAT A WOMAN DOCTOR LEARNED ABOUT MEN ?
A theme that's never been touched in motion pictures.... What goes on behind the door marked "Private".... of her practice and her practices. Intimate detalls
A PICTURE EVERY WOMAN WILL WANT TO SEE ! SCREEN'S FIRST STORY of a WOMAN DOCTOR
MARY STEVENS M.D.
Warner Bros, hit with
Kay FRANCIS
SPECIAL! TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY
LORD TENNYSON'S MASTERPIECE
THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN THIS SUPREME FILM ADVENTURE
FR1. SAT.
... Ride with
Tennyson's
immortal
"Bu Hundred"
ERROL FLYNN"
OLIVIA
De HAVILLAND The CHARGE of the LIGHT BRIGADE
A Warner Bros. Plerure wich PATRIC KNOWLES • HENRY STEPHENSON • NIGEL DRUCH Donald Crisp • Devid Nivos - Robers Bernt. Darnered by Micheal Cheriz
"MY AMERICAN WIFE Hero's fast action comedy production.
a
with Francis Lederer, Ann Sothorn, Fred Stone.
® MATINEES: 20c-306 OREVENINGS: -20ċ.-30.-50c,÷70c.
• SHOWS
DAILY
2.30 - 20
720-930
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
"
NATH AN
ROAD KOWLOON
TEL. 57722
(MATINEES: 20c.-30c.o EVENINGS: 20«.-30«:50:70) THIS IS OUR “OLD FAVOURITES” WEEK!
TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY
MORE FUN THAN ALL THE AMATEUR HOURS PUT TOGETHER!
Adolph Tutor prestati
George RAFT
JOE
Something doing avery minute la this song-packed musical tour of radio's amateur heure
Alice FAYE
Eight
FRANCES LANOFORD THREE RADIO ROGULE
PATSY KELLY
TO-MORROW, ONE DAY
EE, BROWN in
ONLY
"SON OF A SAILOR” A First National Laugh Hit !
"I
"He was my father," he said, simply.
The little general dealer's business this which he started had grown into the Cop-greatest privately owned, enterprise in the whole of South America, con- trolling shipping, banks, mills and factories throughout Brazil.
Count
Was Francesco
Braz:1. Presidents came and went, but the fortune of Matarazzo grew unt!! he became the most influential man in the counter.
A tip for the investigators is to announce in a clear voice. have nothing to sell." With approach I got Mrs. Follis, of pelt's-close, N.12, at her case,
"Look at
at these boots. "They cost 10s. Gd. and last six boys and my hus- weeks. I've two band carns £2 135, 3d. Rent is 15s. 7d. a week, light in 35., and Friday's shopping always takes a ten-shilling note. By Monday I would have nothing left only I do morning work to help out and we can manage.
24. FOR EGGS
BEGAN WITH LARD
"As a youth, he started dealing in ard," sald Count Artills. "He pro Fale comparison is with Mrs. pered, the business grew, Then he Stevens, wite of 11 gardener at began to import flour from North. Epping, living at 31, Church-hill. America. He bought land and grew Then he purchased a I am lucky
.. I pay pre-war his own round his grain info flour.
rent for this cottage, 5s. 70. a week, mill and
husband gets 45s. a week and Realising the possibilities of a great gives me what we need. But It is lustry, my father decided to bulla scandalous the prices we pay for the most modern mills. market produce right here in the
Now the business is the biggest country that produces it. Two-pence'a South America, employing 20.and for crgs--and Epping produces thirty people. Just before the war the King thousand."
of Italy ennobled my father with the
A good average is Mrs. Hoare, who title of count."
pays
17%. Od. a week for two rooms and o kitchenette in a house on Wadham-road, Walthamstow. She is
schoolteacher's wife.
A
She spends £2 a week on food, light is 1s, Gd. a week, gas 3s., milk
1s. They go to the pictures once a
Race To
week, she spends little on her own Save
clothes, buying tailor-mades which will not date.
SUMMARY
Generally it seems that house- wives are spending twice as much en milk now as they did live years ago; They are economising on meat: They budget for a weekly visit to
the cinema as one of the "necessi-.
les
Compressed Man
HIGH FLIER-Lieutenant M, J. Adam of the British Royal Air Force, who ascended 53,937 feet --more than 10 miles-in an official test over Farnborough airdrome. His flight recaptured for Britain the heavier-than-ntr altitudo record, exceeding by 2.576 fect the height reached recently by Lieut. Colonel Marlo Pezz! of Italy.
EARTHQUAKE SHAKES MIDLANDS
AN
London, July 12.
N earthquake woke up thou- sands of sleepers in various Midland towns early yesterday morning and caused police sta- tions to be flooded with tele- phone calls from people who wanted to know what was the matter.
The tremor was recorded on the seismological instruments of Mr. J. J. Shaw at West Bromwich at 2.43 a.m. and lasted a minute and a quar-
said
Speechless and on the verge ter.
They stint themselves on clothes; of collapse, a man staggered into: "I felt the tremor myself," Rents, they grumble, are too high; the Royal Free Hospital, Grays Mr. Shaw. "The motion was from Prices of good fresh food have risen 10 per cent, in eighteen months; Inn-road, W.C., recently.
Eggs and frult are scandalously!
high
And, please, what is Mr. Brown going to do with the information when he gets it?
His investigators will have to be tough, paticnt, charming, and, finally, I would not take the job al a thousand
a year.
Indicating he wanted paper and penell, he sank into a chair, and with unsteady hand he wrote:
"Frank Hubert, 38. of Albert- road, West Ilam, employed in the Thamca construction of the new Tunnel at Dartford, suffering from compression."
AIR CHAMBER
east to west. The record was slight. It appeared to centre over the Bir- mingham and Walsall areas,"
UPSET LIGHTED STOVE
No serious damage was reported, but the movement upset a lighted oil stove which set fire to a shed at a Walsal holel
A Birmingham police officer sald: Realising the gravity of the situaMy first impression was that some- For over twenty years it has been lion, the medical staff kept an am- body was shaking the bed to get me left to civil servants to find out bulance in readiness and got into
and the doors and windows were whether the cost of living has gone touch with Siebe Gorman and Co., p. The house seemed to be rocking
rattling for over a minute." up or down.. and to say so, once Ltd., submarine engineers.
Hubert was raced across London a month.
In a car to the officer of Jolin A Walsall resident said: "I was Mowlem & Co., engineers, at Mlle panic-stricken. I jumped out of bed, End-read, where there is an air lock ran downstairs, and found half the street in their night clothes talking chamber.
wildly and afraid that there might be another tremor."
Ministry of Labour officials in over 500 towns circularise the local shops! and ask for current price lists on commodities like potatoes and bacon and butter and meat.
A director of the company hurried All these reports are examined into superintend the arrangements. London and a mathematician who himself earns a little over £9 a week amounces the "Cost of Living Inder.”
The Agure he announcer about the VICAR'S WIFE IS
middle of each month affects the wages of approximately 1,500,000 people.
Cost of living is now about half as much again as it was in July 1914.
BARRIE. DYING, MADE WILL
BOOK "CENSOR":
NATHAN AD HOWLO:
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
RIDING HIS WAY TO ADVENTURE HIS WAY LIKE A DAREDEVIL
HIS WAY TO VICTORY !*
FIGHTING SHOOTING
Thrilling Story of Love and Lowlessness!
cliony
FRIDAY A Paramount Picture
BUCK
IN
Jones
"BRANDED"
Punch Drama of Western Plains
Directed by D. Ross Lederman
A Columbia Picture
"HOTEL HAYWIRE"
Leo Carrillo Lynne Overman - Mary Carlislo
QUEEN'S
DAILY AT 2:30-5·15-7·20&9:30 ·TEL.31453
✪ FINAL
SHOWINGS TO-DAY
TO HIM MARRIAGE WAS A GAMBLE ..
TO HER IT WAS A GAMBOL !
Life Begins with a Blond! AS GOOD as
MARRIED!
- DORIS NOLAN
JOHN BOLES
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
TOMORROW •
A Paramount Pictura
"THE GREAT GAMBINI”
AKIM TAMIROFF MARIAN MARSH
CENTRAL
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW
FRIDAY
Daily at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. At Most Popular Prices: Stalls: 150, 280. Circle: 30c. 400,
AL JOLSON Ruby KEELER
LATE MR. G. B. TWEMLOW
LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT FUNERAL
CASINO DE PARIS
10 STARSAZ STINGS
LORETTA YOUNG in "RAMONA”
of
the
CHIEF JUSTICE BACK
His Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor is expected back from Singapore this morning on board the P. and
0.
liner Ranpura, and will be met by. the Acting Chief Justlee, Mr. C. G. Alabaster. The latter will continuo to sit for two or three days to con- The funeral of the late Mr. G. clude the opium confiscation clalm B. Twemlow took place in the which has already occupied more afternoon at the Protestant Ceme-than a week. tery. The coffin was borne to the graveside on the shoulders of six deceased's
comrades from H.K.V.D.C., Sergeant H. Rose, Ser Mrs. R. E. Cable, Mr. W. J. Carrie, geant Gartham, Bombadier Andrews, Robert Cryan, Mr. and Mrs. Chung
family, J. R. Curr. Mr. and Mrs. Gunners Walker, Pearce and Cuth-Kin-pul and family, Mrs. Carr and
The burial service was Deakin, Mr. and Mrs. P
Douglas, R. bertson. conducted by the Rev. J. R. Higgs. J. V. Everest, Misses Eilis, Mr. and Mrs. V. A wreath from deceased's wife, Mrs. A. H. Elston, Mr. and Mrs. Jann, who was the chlef mourner, H. Freeman, Insp. and Mrs. H. W. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. H. Green, Mr. was interred with the coffin.
and Mrs. J. H. Gelling, Mrs. E. Among the many present were, Greenberg, W. Greenberg, Mr. and Capt. G. P. Rickcord (representing Mrs. C. B. Hosking, Mr. and Mrs. His Excellency the Officer Adminis-W. H. Hirst and family, Jimmy and tering the Government), Lt. Col. H. Elleen Hargreaves, B. H. Hallowes, B. L. Dowbiggin, Col. E. D. Mat-V. II. C. Jarrett, Mr. and Mrs. A.
E. E.
A. Jeffries, G. W. Kynoch, thews, Col. R. C. B. Anderson (Com-
Li Kau, E. B. Lambert, mandant, II.K.V.D.C.), Mr. W. J. Kinnear, Carrie (Acting Superintendent of the Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lunny, Mr. and Botanical and Forestry Department), Mrs. W. L. Mackenzie, T. O'Connor, Messrs. A. Andrews, F. Baker, Lieut. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. G. Philippens,
+ V. C. Branson, A. G. Clarke, I. B. Mr. and Mrs. H. Rose and family C. Saunders, A. K. Saunders and R. J. V. Everest, W. F. Edge,
M. Grenham Babs, E. V.
V. Searle, Hazel and Ber- G. tram Sugars, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. (H.K.N.V.C.), G. W. Griggs, Dr. G.
W.
Smith, A. C. llerklots, L. W. Hunc, C. B. Telley, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hosking, J. Hargreaves, V. H. C. Andrew Tae, Mr. Wilson, Mr. and Jarrett, R. Keen, A. Kinnent, F. Mra. J. Watson, H. West, Ethel, Roy Lawrence, A. Hyde Lay, B. E. and J. M. Hatch, Capt. and Mrs. Maugham, J. A. L. Pearson, IL. S. Westlake, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. A. Womack, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Way, Tate, J. L. Tetley, Lieut. A. Urqu- Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Williams, the hart, Lieut. J. Watson, P. D. Wilson, Hon. D.P.W. and staff of the PW.D., the Corps 1st Battery W: L, Walker, W. Woodward, O. C. "A" Section
All ranks the H.K.V.D.C., Senior H.K.V.D.C., Womack, and J. R. Way.
Friends Chinese employees of the Botanical HK, Horticultural Society, indecent, and Forestry Department also at- in the Water Works Ollee, Office
start
of the Botanical and Forestry tended. disgusting. A profusion of floral tributes were Department, All ranks No. 2 Im- H.K.V.D.C., Fores- provised Ba
Battery The county sent from "Dad", Rene and Vic, lbratian explained that many Chris and Andy, "Stuffy", Hilda, try staff the Botanical and Forestry European staff the of them were 'modern' but Peggy and Jim, Hazel and Las, Department,
office P.W.D.. the Corps 1st Battery,
VILLAGE REBELS
J.
Mark Cross (Sussex), July 12. W
THEN Mrs. Kathleen Lelliott, twenty-seven-year-old wife of a villager, went to lend a hand at the Mark Cross branch of the county library she noticed that seve-w. Patterson, Lieut. F. Reece, ral of the books received from headquarters were never put in circulation.
....5
They were being censored by husband described Five days before Bir James Bar- the vicar's wife, Mrs. J. E. Ham- 'unmoral' and 'Irreligious."
was the librarian. rie died on June 10, he made his shero, who
will. When he did so, he had been Mrs. Hamshore banned them as seriously I only three daya. Full details of the will are not yet not fit for any one to read. Favallable, but it was revealed recent- ly that he left £500 each to the Kirriemuir District Nursing Associa- tion and the Kirriemult Coal and Clothing Society.
F. Sir James had been a subscriber
to the Nursing Association for near-
ly forty years and to the Coal and
Mirs. Lelliott protested, and the county librarian was Invited to attend a village meeting. Before it was held Mrs. Hamshere re- signed. A commister has now been formed to run the library.
MO
"Some were really merely trash.
I do not think that word should "Beautiful", the Hon. Mr. and Mre. Building Ordinance he allowed to excuse some of the . A. C. North, Mr. and Mrs. A."L" Section stuff. It would corrupt young girls, Andrews, Mr. Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Kwai Fong Garden, Garden Stalt
J. T. Dagram, T. H. G. Brayfield, the Botanical and Forestry Depart Mrs. Lelilott said: "Why should Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clark, Mr. and|ment. the vicar's wife or the vicar censor
what we rend? I do not neo why
"Some of the books sent io. us," they should tell the villagers what is Clothing Society for half a century. Mrs. Homshere sald today, "my "nasty' in literature,"
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