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The China Mail.

November 28, 1919, femperature 64

No. 17,812, 五拜禮 “八廿月一十年九十一百九千一张

BUSINESS NOTICES

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HUDSON,

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CHANDLER,

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A consignment of HUDSON and ESSIX Cars

expected shortly.

Orders may now be booked.

Cars for hire.

Icasona in driving at moderate inclusive prices.

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For Hoarseness, Asthma, Bronchitis and all Diseases of the Chest and Langs.

Price $1.00 per bottle.

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For Influenza, Cold in the head.

Price $1.00 per bottle:

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November 28, 1918, Temperature 65

1843

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919.

日七初月十未已次年入國民中

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

U.S. PEOPLE SURPRISED AND INDIGNANT.

NEW YORK, November 24.

THE PROGRESS OF THE FILM.

SERVING TWO MARKETS.

of

British film-producing companies have one great point in common, and that is their devotion to literature. Every programme of forthcoming, pro- ductions in England includes an en- tirely disproportionate number screen versions of popular novels. Mr. Taft, the Republican leader, has issued a statement declaring that! This is of course: partly due to the the defeat of the ratification proposals was received in the country with fact that no English writer of note, surprise and indignation. The American people stood behind the war until with the exception of Hall Caine, has the day of victory and they now stood behind the treaty with a like unaniyet ventured on the writing of film mity.

U.B. COMMITTEE ON TRADE CREDITS.

WASHINGTON, November 21.

Th

Acting on the recommendation of the recent internationalrtade confer ence, a national committee has been organised to study supply and long term credits for European purposes. The United States personnel includes Messrs. Taft and Schwab.

NEW FRENCH PREMIUM BONLS.

A VERY ATTRACTIVE OFFER..

PARIS, November 24.

Premium

Eight million france of state guaranteed five per cent. bonds, each of 500 francs, are being issued at 495 francs, from December 12 to December 23. They are taxfree. They are for the purpose of reconstructing the devastated regions, and are redeemable in 75 years or at quarterly drawings, when there will be prizes of one million francs, 500,000 franes, five prizes of 100,000 francs, and 40 prizes of 50,000 francs

H

UNREST IN EGYPT.

CAIRO, November 24.

plays, and that very few people know how to set about it. There is a proli fi scenario writer called Langford Reed and another called Kenelm Foss. but, on the whole. British producers. have made no attempt to encourage origina? screen plots for their produc- rions.

The whole principle of this persist- ent filming of novels is bad. It is a part of that spirit of commercialism: which makes one art serve two mar-

kets. If a play wins favour on the stage, someone hurriedly twists it into the shape of a novel, and every book-"; Stall tells us to read the bonk before The theme of that seeing the play." drama made money for a theatre manager. is the argument: why not

let it make money for a publisher us

well? That the stage might be allow- bed to keep its glory unshared, and literature go somewhere else for its.

Wabba Pasha, the late minister of finance, has accepted the pre-own is an idea which would be regard. ed as commercially unsound. But it miership.

General Alenby requested four Members of the local committee of has still to be proved that any art best the Egyptian delegation, including the president, to leave Cairo. The serves its ultimate interests by a dogged following in the path of finan- members decided to igoare bis request.

cial profit.

The situation in Cairo and Alexandria was quiet over the weekend. The prospects are more hopeful in view of the formation of a stronger and more united ministry.

The president and vice-president of the Cairo committee were arrested for disobeying General Allenby's order to leave Cairo.

PRINCE RIACHES HALIFAX.

HALIFAX, Nov. 24.

of

The Prince of Wales arrived and was greeted with a salute twenty one guts, tremendous tooting of steamer sirens, and factory

whistles.

ו

SIGNOR TITTONI ILL

ROME, November 24.

This path, apparently, is the one which appeals most strongly to the British film-producer. He is natur- ally anxious that his efforts should be crowned by monetary success, and in order to be sure of this he is willing. to forego originality and freshness in his productions and to lose a chance of finding gold in the unexplored field of film-writing talent in England.

He *has, discovered that E. Temple Thurs- ton and W. J. Lockare among the

1 most commercially successful novel-. ists of the day, and so the next few months will bring a food of these Ethel

Signor Tittoni has resigned the foreign ministry and the leadership of writers works in screen form. the italian peace delegation owing to ill health.

LAST WAZIRIS SURRENDER.

LONDON, November 24. The outstanding sections of the Waziris on Nov. 21 unreservedly accepted the British terma..

SPINNING PROFITS,

'T-REMARKABLE-RECORD.

M. Dell. Marie Corelli, Hall Caine. Robert Hichens-their books have sold by the million, and that is hall- mark enough to make them accepted;; by the kinema.

Some of these screen versions are good, because what the British pro- ducer lacks in courage he partially. ing 20 is the Pine (new), Oldhaan. atones for by his cleverness in mount- This concern. it will be remembered, ing old ideas. But the most thorough changed bands a few months ago. lailures that the kinema has suffered Its capital was formerly £20,000, in have been among its attempted adapt- shares of £20 each, but in course of ations of books. It is no easy maiter time £15 was scided to each shure to make a story that ambles along six in bonures. The price at which it hundred pages gallop through six reels was sold was £135,000. Yet, as we of Alm. A novel can scatter.its in- may, it is paying 20 per cent, per terests in a dozen different directions: on the screen the action must be con- annum upon the new capital !

Red

The Corn Ring Spinning Company, Newhey, giving its shareholders a bonus of 100 per cent. in plure capi- tal ind paying a dividend of 20 per. For a business which, compared centrated. No one, for instance, who cent. per annum upon the shares as with pre-war times, has to bear so admired Mary Cholmondeley's they stand now. The Eru Ring many tardicaps, the record we have, Pottage" could fail to be outraged by Spinning Company, Rechtlule, more set out is astonishing. Manufactur- the screen version which entirely paxlestly, is adding 50 per cent. to [ers often suy hard things about the ignored two-thirds of the story. its pack-up capital by giving a bonus way in which spinners mintáin their The filming of classics-Dickens, sy that rate, as well as paying 20 per profits, and it is obvious that the Hardy, and Scott-is another matter; cent. per annum, while the Dale Ring inster, in common with a good uraay this article is concerned only with the Spinning Company, Rochiale, is fol- other people, hate bound scarcity increasing tendency to exploit the bing at a distance with a 20 per very profitable. The companie pet talents of the circulating library cent. bunus of the same kind odd aamings, however, are not, as some author. As a rule, these talents are dividend of 20 per cent. per annum people seem to think 15 or 20 per of a quality which one is well content ike there in the last twelve months, cent. or whatever their dividend to leave in the arrto which they were originally dedicated; there seems no and it would be interesting to have is upon each transition." and a re necessity for them to be eked out to an impartit account of their effect duction, even of one-half the profit cover the screen as well. And there upon the fuances of the cotton trade. would perhaps not be noticed very is the added drawback that when, as

Nobody wi deny the companies much by yarn-users. At any rate, the right to convert big reserves into there is no reason to suppose that ations are unsuccessful, the failure dure capital, now that the cost of

There must have been scares of cases

in the majority of cases, these adapt-

has a double thrust. If the book is a

all supplies is su heary that & larve one section of the trade is less dis good one, then an inferior screen ver. working capital is essential to ene. posed than the other to take what- ges, but these bonuses are not with ever profits it can get. out their inconvenient side from a Public point of view. In the first place, the neomitiation of the re- serves from which they are being paid for made the dividends declared illusory, and in the second they will prove rather an awkward factor when Macobester firms to read their repte

BAILINGS TO INDIA: NEW OBSTACLE,

Sometime ago it seemed as if Sir Hamar Greenwood had been able to secure sailings which would enable

sion of it is a desecration; it the book is worthless, then a bad thing is pro- 'duced in duplicate. Without criticis

ing the literary merits of the originals, one would quote Temple Thurston's Sally Bishop," Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan," W. L Locke's "Derelicts," and Hichens's Flames as being responsible for

the inevitable depression comes and sentatives to India in search of busi films as poor as any that England the shareholders expect dividonde to ness. Somebody, however, as inhas produced. In each case the fault

go on as usual. Per contro, how-terposed a new obstacle, as the lay with the unsuitable, material rather ever, one must admit that it has Chamber of Commerce is informed than with the setting or acting. been usual in the cotton trade to that passages to India can only be equate dividends as far as possible

and so make sure, first, that the granted to Englishmen who are companies will have sufficient funds normally domiciled in India, ce at when trade is unprofitable, and, any rate these minst have the pre- next, that the shareholders depend- ference. Nobody wit deny that per-

LOSS OF THE OTORU

MARU,

Captain K: Wakamoto, master of ings upon then for income shall not sons domiciled in India have a right the "Oru Maru" No. 3, which was the disappointed until it is impossible to sympathetic consideration, but wrecked on Ras Jaid Hafun, Somali to go on distributing money. There

is & certain commendable shrewd-urely that should not be the end of coast, on August 20 last, arrived in nose in a policy of that kind, but it the matter. "Could you not (the Singapore by the Celtic Prince" 16 possible to overdo it, and one fears secretary of the Chhuber sales irrora Aden on the 11th inst. He told representative recently that the that that has happened in some Eater Greenwood) cure the SP-wreck of the ship was due to a counter cases, though it is not suggested that pointment of a fresh stoner alto current which was never expected at the particular companies rectioned

gether for the use of the dumer the time of the year and also to the ve done it,

people who have booked pages coast, being obscured by haze:: Both COTTON SPINNING DIVIDENDS.

mouths go and yet find themselves the ship and cargo are a total loss, though the captain says he did his best Out of 15 cotton spinning com- entirely debarred from the journey 21 to dave both and received the greatest panies dividends which as an- The suggestion in a reascoside, ong, assistance from the Italian authorities pounced only one is less”, than 15 per cent. per annum, six are 20, and the matter is so importent from and the Sultan. The crew were all rss 25, one nearly 23, and two 40, business point of the that there saved and also arrived in Singapore by the Celtic Prince" They left for One of the companies which is pay-sould be no heatstrom about it.

Japan about the 18th inst

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