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This girl will work at
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This girl will marry a
poor 'man
a. muschino all hor lilo!
and keep on
working!
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M.G.M. Picturo
4 SHOWS
DAILY
2.30-5.19
2.15.0.30
But...this girl will be tempt.
ed by wealth
sho had
DRAMA OF A SHOPGIRL AND
dreamed ofA MILLIONAIRE!
--and hoped for!
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Mannequin
ALAN CURTIS -RALPH MORGAN Prodocles • Divasted by Fræk
A Track DoCad tre bonnet 2. Montanicz
Borzage
Jeanette MacDonald - Nolson Eddy in ""'The GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST”
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY
A TWO FISTED TERROR FROM THE STATES ! Bob packs his mightiest wallop in this grand comedy of a rough-and-ready Yank who fought his way through Oxford.
Free with his fists ....
Bieur with his kissos! You'll say it's Bob's happlest. scrappiest screen smash!
ROBERT
TAYLOR
A YANK at OXFORD
with
LIONEL BARRYMORE
MAUREEN 'SULLIVANÚ Ý VIEN LEIGH;
*Edmund Owenn diilith D
Lily Directed by JACK CONWAY
SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY ONLY ANOTHER NOVEL COMEDY VARIETY SHOW! A selection of the best of these famous and funny animated cartoons that make perfcet enfertalament. SELECTION OF POPEYE & BETTY BOOP SPECIALS!
WED. THUR,
• SHOWS
DAILY
2.30 - 6 20
720-9.30
Ali Baba and His 40 Thioves
Sinbad The Sailor
Making Friends
Rise To Fame
Wild Elephants
Cobweb Hotel
Feline Athletes
ARSENE
LUPIN
RETURNS
MAJESTIC
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NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON TEL.57212
(MATINEES: 20c-30«° EVENINGS: 20-30c:50:70k)
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
A Thrill-Crammed Action-Drama Filmed in Scenic Western Wonderlande I
VIVA VILLA'S' GREAT STAR RIDES AGAIN!
THE
BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE
WALLACE
BEERY
featuring VIRGINIA BRUCE
= DENNIS O'KEEFE
JOSEPH CALLELA » LEWIS STONE
SUY KIDETE
& Metes - Galdseyn » Mayer · Pictues
WEDNESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY!
RETURN OF DE MILLE'S MOST THRILLING ROMANCE !.
GARY COOPER "THE
JEAN ARTHUR in
PLAINSMAN"
An "Old Favourite" from Paramount !
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCT FRANKLIN at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938,
Doctor Denounces Denounces Cubicle Dwellings
VIVID DESCRIPTION OF OVERCROWDING
ALMOST INHUMAN" is the description given by Dr. P. S. Hunter, Singapore's Municipal Health Officer, to the conditions under which a large part of the city's cubicle dwellers have to exist. In his annual report he vividly pictures the overcrowd- ing in cubicles and calls for "drastic, very drastic," amendments of the Municipal Ordinance to deal with the problem.
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Singapore
Boat Chased By Shark
FOR
NOR more than two miles a bugei "nankiller" shark ghused, a flah-; ing boat recently, off the const of Saddell, Argyleshire.
The boat was in charge of Mr. Colin Campbell, who
Bebing with n hund iine.
WDS
Suddenly on a calm sen he and his companions saw the huge sail-like fin of the shark approaching the boat.
Remembering the tragedy of inst yeur in Carradale Bay, four miles nway, when a shark attacked a boat and caused the loss of three lives, he made a dash for shore.
The shark pursued as far as the Jetty.
A sharking, cruiser is now patrol-
In Chinatown, says Dr. Hunter, the cubicle tenant has litering the arca, searching ally no privacy. Crowded tenements are usually so inadequate inonster. that families have to take their menis at the street hawker stalls or in eating houses.
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Overcome
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for the
QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG
KOWLOON..
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW The Jumbo of Musical Jamborees ! The Height of Screen Entertainment !
MORE FUN THAN A BARREL OF MONKEYS T
*tuak ("Swing ishare!" mustúdre kulmy Bro Lišić - ni Bing and his grayələ veited "buddy aproču,
EXCHANGE Selling
hay-hey lover brikë 260,,,
.is. 27% .13, 2%
130 nom.
A3 53
ADDED!
100%
..83
301%
.01%
.657%
- WEDNESDAY
نيم مروية الرامية
DOCTOR
RHYTHM
BING CROSBY Mary Carlisle-Beatrice Lillie - Andy Devins
Laura Hope Crews - Rule Orvis - Ja Emanaci Coben Production
MAÇINA AU FRAME FUTILO
Paramount Nows: U.S. Chinese Unite their efforts to aid homeland. Twiskor Pitcher A Papoyo Cartoon."
WEDNESDAY
At The QUEEN'S
149% | Gona Raymond - Olympo Bradna
ventilating on to them except those "In my reports in the past I
on the top floor, they are usually T.T. London have made frequent reference to
obstructed by clothes hanging out Demand cubicles and cubicle dwellers,"
to dry,
T.T. Shanghai says Dr. Hunter. "It may not
It is only the other day that IT.T. Singapore be out of place if I elaborate the minuted with regard to a plan for TT. Japan real significance of these terms projected new tenement block. "I T.T. India
should be impossible for such a T.T. USA. O far as Singapore is
con-rabbit warren to come
into exist- T.T. Monila cerned.
ence. Actually
plan was not T.T. Batavia "Our cubicle has not got the die-passed, but for a reason that had, T.T. Bangicok tionary meaning, i.e. a bedroom or anothing to do with my objections, TT. Salgon TT. France and, amended Lo one sleeps. płuce i walch Singapore, in nine cases out of ten technical objections, and to be ne-T.T. Germany
T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australa and certainly in the congested areas, cepted,
"Drastle and very drastic amend- a cubicle is a house.
ments of the Mantelpal Ordinance "It is all that a man, his wife
are necessary to prevent the per- and his family occupy for all the
petuation of this almost human ordinary purposes and activities of
type of housing. domestic life. It houses all their
An
and alrwell
limitations! belongings, including their food.
of trust
specifically defined. It Children are born in them and should be no longer possible to give spend most of the first year of apn
n whole flour to cubicles. So their lives in them. People die in much them while the ordinary activites much of it must be left us of the family go on around them, on property of all tenants, which New Snooker Record Set
the
-
cannot be sublet. Otherwise houses let in this manner should be In crowded Chinatown the cubicic tenant has literally on privacy, and made to come under the category of no rights anywhere on the crowd-common lodging houses and treated ed floor other than in lils cubicle, except perhaps in the kitchen.
"SORDID PICTURE"
cubiele must of
The doctor emtinues: "By the byclaws have a minimum superfieint ares 130 square feet (some years ago 100) and an opening to the external air. In practice very many much smaller in area and many have no window or direct lighing of any kind and though they could be de molished they are rebufit in the same place or elsewhere within 24 hours- because it is literally the ease that on the whole families would be streets otherwise.
as such."
"STOLEN HEAVEN"
.108
-10,95
.70 .133
17030
Buying
.1/3
DAILY
.1/3.5/32
AT 1
.31
2-30
11,80
520
.84%
720
4.92%
920
4 m/s L/e London. 4 m/c D/p do
4 m/s 1/ U.S.A.
4 m/s France 30 d/s India
U.S. Cross rute in London
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ST. HELIERS, Jersey, Joe Davis, "snooker" champion. established a new record by scoring 123 from the frame up in 11 game here.
STOP PRESS NEWS
RAINFALL 13 INS.
BELOW AVERAGE
CHOLERA STILL
ON INCREASE
"This sordid picture refers more to older existing property, but it is nevertiteless true that it is still pos-
With a rainfall of 21 Inches dur- With 14 new cases within three by a clevering the last 24 hours, the total for the days, including eight during the last sible for an architect, arrangement of airwells to erect new year in Hongkong now reaches 32,83 48 hours, the total number of cholera buildings showing conditions little inches, which is nearly 13 inches be-vletims in Hongkong is now 167. better than those 1 have just de-
The number of dysentery enses has low the average, scribed.
Yesterday's maximum temperature Increased during the inst 48 hours was 87, and the minimum last night, from 474 to 485.
temperature 79. This morning the was 84 and humidity 81 per cent.
Local weather forecast issued by the Royal Observatory this morning. winds, moderate: fair was:-East generally: some local showers.
"With the exception of the usual kitchen, bathroom and lavatory ne- commodation and the necessary pas- kageways, every single inch of floor space can be given up to cubicles, of which may be let as overy one DI above to a whole family
"There need be no living, common or dining rooms, no rooms for chil- dren, no provision for washing or drying clothes, in short accommoda- tion falling far short of what must be provided in the lowest class of lodging house. The whole question hinges on the fact that an airwell, (no matter how small, is ruled to be
an opening to the external air.
"These airwells have got to bei seen to be belloved. Quite apart from the fact that the sun caní only penetrate into them for a short time at midday and direct sunlight can'never reach any room
BALL
Just Unpacked-
"SOHAJKA"
The Fashionable Ladies' Dress
The style and material as now in vogue and most popular in
the Central-European countries.
A large selection in all sizes
from
$700
We have also received a large rango of ladies' garments,
guaranteed fast colours, in all
sizes...
户
priced from $3.00
During the same perlod there were six cases of enteric fever, two of measles and two of meningitis.
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
THE SCREEN'S BIG CAST IN THE YEAR'S BIG PICTURE!
Stage Door
KATHARINS
starting
GINGER
HEPBURN ROGERS
with
i
ADOLPHE
MENJOU
GAIL PATRICK
• Constance Calliat
17 Andrea Loads - Samuel S. Hiody
Lucille Ball
EXO-RADIO
Picate
WAIT TILL YOU SLL THEM TOGETHER! in the amazing adaptation of the play
By Luna Ferber and George 3 Kanisan
Directed by GREGORY LA CAVA, Fradvend by PANDBQ, S. BERMAN
TOMORROW
Warner Baxter
·
Alice Faye - Jack Oakie BURLESQUE
"KING OF
A 20th C. Fox Picture
CENTRAL
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.BL..
PRICES: 35 cls, - 45′ cls. - .55 cts.
QUEEN'S RD, CENTRAL: CAR PARK - JERVOIS STREET Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from stop opposite Queen's
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THINGS
COME
Added TO-DAY: "Chinese Dancing Shows On Stage”
HONGKONG
HOTEL
"HE MANAGEMENT
THE
begs to announce that as from Monday next,
the 18th July, 1938, the daily Roof Garden Tea Dance will be discontinued. This popular function will be resumed at a date to be announced later.
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