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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1924.

FREE $50 PRIZE.

CORONET THEATRE'S

OFFER.

POPULAR PICTURES.

PUBLIC SPIRIT.

CORONET THEATRE'S

ENTERPRISE.

NOTABLE POLICE FILM.,

Mr. H. W. Rey of the Coronet

RESULT OF LAST WEEK'S VOTING Theatre le, through Mr. T. H.

CONTEST.

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King, Assistant Superintendont of Police, invited the members of the Palico Force to witness the excep= tionally interesting film which is now showing at the Coronet Theatre and which has excited general

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An entirely new system-framed by an eminent firm of London chartered accountants. for a com-

inigrost. This film shows wo petition involving six million votes

was.followed in last week's vot- Chinese walking along a country

set ing contest, for which the Manage-| path. They ato

upon by is man

küled ment of the Coronet Theatre offered rubbers. a prize of $50. Competitors had to unl the other is wounded. An vote for the twelve best cinema alanın is given and the police arrive. pictures they had ever seen, either They run the tummierers down with here or elsewhere and they had the aid of dogs. The wounded man added pleasure in knowing that in dermines to join the polico foro. assisting to help the management Theag is shown his training, and of the Coronet Theatre decide what the time when, after hunting down pictures are liked best they were an evil-doer in approved fashion he belping to choose their own movies, bucomes a sargeant. This peculiar- The maximum number of points ly interesting and helpful flm was obtainable in the contest was 650. actually made with the assistance of

Mr. Hoo Pui,

top floor,

77, Des Voeux Road

Central,

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embers of the Shanghai Police Force and bas met with a splendid reception in the Northern port where every member of the furve wilnessed it.

WANCHAI ROBBERY.

MORNING'S

AFFAIR.

After an absence of several days, an armed robbery has again occurred. At about eight o'clock this morning, three men who had a revolver and a dagger between then, entered the first floor of No. 17, Yee,Woo Street, which is used as a tenement.

. sent in a coupon, which according to the rules announced, obtained 592 marks. This being the highest, the prize is awarded to hini. Mr. Hoo Pui should apply to the THIS Management of the Coronet Theatre who will be pleased to give him a cheque for the $50 prize, The statement sometimes inade that Hobgkong has a very short memory, was conclusively refuted by the voting. Quite a number of woters pinned their faith to movies which had been shown here years ago and have not been seen since, Just to mention a few, there were Shoulder Arms, Quo Vadis, My Four Years in Germany, Les Miser- ables,Daddy Longlegs, Jack and the Beanstalk and Tarzan. Competitors who voted for these pictures gave the impression that the old favourites were indelibly stamped on their memories, while the march of progress in the cinema industry is evident from the support accord- ed to the more recent releases as will be seen in the final result. Altogether over two hundred pictures were named but there were not more than twenty that seemed likely to be included in the correct solution, which is as follows:-

CORRECT SOLUTION.

1. WAY DOWN EAST.

2. ORPHANS OF THE

STORM.

3. ROBIN HOOD.

4. SAFETY LAST.

S. THE THREE

MUSKETEERS.

6. THE FOUR HORSEMEN

OF THE APOCALYPSE.

7. THE KID.

3. THE MARK OF ZORRO. 9. THE ETERNAL FLAME,

Io. THE PRISONER OF

ZENDA.

11. TROUBLE.

12 INTOLERANCE.

were

They succeeded in taking away property valued at $487, $200 in Hongkong notes and four pairs of gold bangles, escaping the direction of the Causeway Bay tram terminus.

SHOP-LFTING.

BARGAIN SALE EPISODE,

în

THE CHINA MAIL.

IN THE GREAT HAND OF LIFE, DO ALL LINES LEAD TO HAPPINESS

SHOWING

TO-NIGHT

THE HEART LINE

DISCLOSES THE ROMANCE OF FANCY

GRAY WHOSE THREE HEART

FORMED A STRANGE TRIANGLE

You will also enjoy

An "Out of the

Inkwell

Cartoon Comedy"

'JUMPING BEAN"

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FOR THE TOURNAMENT

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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

CABLES. *••

The largest dock in Great Britain is to be built at Glasgow.

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An All-British Exhibition is to opened for a mouth at Amsterdam.

The Mexican rebels have taken

Taking advantage of the crush In Wing On's yesterday, when a bargain sale was on, a Chinese dressed in a long-coat and claiming possession of all fields at Siena, to be a barber from Canton, tucked blanca. a roll of satin, valued at $100, under his robe and was about to walk out of the shop when two fokis spotted bim. Both made a grab for him and he was arrested.

Charged before Mr. C. D. Mol- bourne this morning, he stoutly denied the theft, After the case had been proved hisrecord was pre- duced and it was found that he had been jailed for similar offences in 1906 and 1912 and banished in the latter year. Sub-Inspector Hut- chins told His Worship that there had been quite a number of thefts from shops lately and His Worship passed sentence of three months hard labour.

According to points Way Down' East was decisively first, half the votes it received, assigning it to fint place. However, it did not

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The House of Commons has opened. Mr. Baldwin was ceived with Labour jeers.

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A resolution of confidence in the Directors of the Dunlop Rubber Co., has been passed.

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The French Finance Minister has submitted a scheme aiming at countering the fall of the franc.

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The British Embassy has filed a request for information in regard a, British

to the seizure of schooner.

The London Daily News" is opinion that the Cape should he provided with great dockya facilities.

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE

DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF

HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA.

THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL

MEETING will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 9th inst. at 9.15 p. All M. M. are invited to attend.

JONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

DRAFT PROGRAMME OP 1924 RACE MEETING.

PHE attention of Owners is called to an alteration in the conditions of the eight race on the first day, the Chater Cup-

The last sentence should read an' follows:-" Ponies that have started and never BEEN PLACED in an Of fical Race allowed 10 lbs."

By Order

C B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hongkong, 9th January, 1924.

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL.

SOCIETY.

THE ANNUAL show of Flowers

and Vegetables will be held on; THURSDAY, 6th March 1924.

and will be sent to Members at an!

Schedules are now being printed

early date.

The picture entered first in each coupon was given twelve points;

A Dutch Speculator has been the one second eleven, the third get many coupons more than Or-pelled from Paris on a charge of ten, and so on, the twelfth getting, phins of the Storm, which in turn spreading alarmed reports 'of course, one point. The was far ahead of Robin Hood in cerning the fall of the franc.

points

entered up both respects. Safety Last was in our special charts and at the end fourth by a large number of points An all-day meeting of the added up. The picture which re- and fifth according to coupons. The Executive of the Associated ceived the biggest number, of Three Musketeers (4), The Four Society of Locomotive Engineers points (Way Down East) then took Horsemen (10) and The Kid and Fireman has decided agfinstceive the names of new members, first place in the correct solution. (5) were close together as an acceptance of the Wages Orphans of the Storm had the next reckoned by points, the figures Board award. must and the other ten in the order in parentheses denoting their stated. Then each coupon was positions according to number of

Two-thousand religious farjatics

checked with the correct solution. Coupons. The last five were even are terrorizing Surigao and have Inclusion of Way Down East ly separated in a number of votes killed two police, and five coasta→ Would mean a basis of twelve Trouble getting the seventh high-bulary, and have abducted two points; if put in the first position est number of coupons, The Mark school teachers. The constabu-

of Zorro eighth, The Eternal Flamelary are reinforcing. ninth, The Prisoner of Zenda eleventh and Intolerance a much

Entries will close at 1 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 27th of February 1924 at the Hon. Secretary's Office. The Committee will be glad to re-

which should be sent in to the Hon. Secretary Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, c/o Mears Jardine; Matheson & Co. } Ltd. No. 2 Fedder Street.

Hongkong, 9th January, 1924,

DANCING.

in the coupon, it would be multi- plied by twelve, making 144. If in the second line it was multiplied

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald says by eleven, making 132; in the smaller number of votes, but more Labour is 'not going to take office others they were in the same points than a few pictures which in order to prepare for a General proportion, the multiplier being were not placed.

Election. If capital fees from the THE 400 less for each line that Orphans of the Storm hat country when Labour comes to for the twelfth line, being decidedly the most support for mnie, the panic-mengers will be one. Inclusion of Orphans of the second and third places, and Safely responsible.

Storm meant a basis of eleven Last for fourth. Robin Hood also points; if in the first line, it would figured prominently in the first

When a woman was summoned

be multiplied by twelve giving 132. three places and headed the poll at Grimsby for unpaid rates the If in the second line, it would be for fifth position. Of those not stipendiary said: "I will not com- multiplied by eleven giving 121 | placed, Penrod, Tale of Two Cities

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

and in any other line it would be and Tol'able David received amit a woman who, I gather, has a multiplied in the same way as the good deal of support but were lazy husband. If he had been first picture. The basis for the other generally placed fairly low in summoned I would have sent him

to prison." plctures decreased by one as they the coupons with the result that appeared in the order in the correct they did not get enough solution. For example, the basis points. Of other films for the Mark of Zorro was five in the running were Peg O' My points, If put first in a coupon it Heart, Little Lord Fauntleroy, would be multiplied by twelve Dangerous Business, The Three making 60. If third, it would be Must-Get-There's, Man, Woman, 50 (multiplied by ten). If seventh, Marriage, The Love Flower, Smil-j

· the multiplier would be six, giving ing Through, Salome, In the Name 30. If twelfth, it would be multi- of the Law, Garrison's Finish and plied by one, giving 5. The highest Foolish Wives. There were a few total number of points obtained in } pictures which received little each coupon was the factor which notice but were usually placed at decided the prize.

the top of the list whenever in- The winner's coupon was as cluded. Some of them are The follows 1-1 Orphans of the Storm Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, The II points x 12-132; 2 Way Down Flame of Life and The Queen of East 12 points x IL-132; 3° The Sheba. Three Musketeers 8 points x 10- Jo all Issues of the China Mil Su: 4 Robin Hood 10 points x 9-this week will be found · coupons 90; 5.The Mark of Zorro 5 points x for another cinema contest for 8*40; 6 Safety Last 9 points x 7-which the Corset Theatre is 63;7 The Kid 6 points x 6-36; 8 giving another free $50 prize. This The Prisoner of Zenda 3 points x { time the : voilag is for stars and 5-1519 Dr. Jack o point x 4-0; competitors will have the added 10 Penrod 0 point x 3×0; II pleasure of knowing that their Trouble '2 points x 2-4; 12 The opinions will count with the theatre Flito point x' Í 40. Total 592. management in selecting pictures.

THE Undersigned have received Auction.

instructions to noll by Public

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THURSDAY, 'January 10, 1983,

mending at 11

at Mousts. Kwang Nguan Song's Godiwa, Kennedy Town

CHOR LOCQUES OF ENÜ QONERLAND), 278 Bags White Rica

52 Bags Broken White Rico

(more or less damaged) Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneersy Hongkong, 9th January, 1924,

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THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL.

NNUAL SPEECH DAY

TUESDAY, January 22, 1924, from 3.80 p.. to 5 p.m. No invitations are being sont out. O All Parents, Guardians, Old Boys and Friends are invited to attend by this advertisement.

The Hox. MR. R. H. KOTE- WALL (Old Boy) will speak.

There will also be short Speeches by Scholars on Games, Chinese Studies, School History, the New School and possible future develop-|

ments.

After Ten there will be a display of Physical Drill urid Gymnastics,

Tera ends on Saturday, January 26.

Next Term begins on Friday, February 22.

on

New Boys should attend Thursday, February 21 at 8.30 1,m, W. T. FEATHERSTONE,

Headmaster.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"ELLEBMAN" LINE

FROM UNITED KINGDOM &

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HE Steamship

THE

"CITY OF CANTERBURY" having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all goods are being lauded at their risk into the hazardous andjor axtra-hazardous. Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whonce delivery may be obtained:

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, sad all Goods remaining undelivered after 15th January, 1924, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the Steamer muat be presented to the Undersigned on or balore 22nd January, 1924, or they will not be recognised.

All broken, chafed and damagod Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, and Noon, within the free storage period of one week

'No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned

A SCHOOLS' ENTERTAINMENT.

THEATRE ROYAL, MONDAY January 14, at 4.30 p.m. by

Red Vouchers sold for Reserved Seats can be exchanged for Tickets at Messrs. Moutries now or at the Box Office on MONDAY,

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Hongkong, January, 9, 1924.

HONGKONG BILLIARD ASSOCIATION.

FINAL OF LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP.

CATHOLIC UNION

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FRIDAY, 11th January, 1924 6.00. pim. 8.30 p.m. & 9.00 p.m. respectively.

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