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SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1931.

INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS.

Better Prospects for Coming Year.

FINANCES SATISFACTORY.

Satisfactory progress was ported by Mr. L. J. Blackburn, who read the report in the temporary absence from the Colony of the retiring President, Mr. R. M. Dyer.

R.A.O.B. DANCE.

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION.

ANIMATED SCENE.

Members of the R.A.0.B.

success

Club

THE CHINA MAIL.

ROUND THE CINEMAS

LAST DAY OF "THE SEA BAT."

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions.

Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

To-day Tea Dances, at Hong

To-night-Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.

To-day Hong Kong University Law and Commerce Society annual dinner, Lane, Crawford's Restau- rant, 8.30 p.m.

To-night-Benedicts Ball, gengower Cricket Club. To-night-University

MANY THRILLS.

Without the possibility of a doubt have good reason to congratulato the nth degree of thrills is reached themselves upon the

of in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mr. E. W. Blackmore was elect their dance, held in the Garrison marine melodrama, "The Sea Bat,": of President of the Institute of Lecture Hall, Wellington Barracks, which will be finally screened in the Engineering and Shipbuilding tast night. The arrangements, Queen's Theatre to-day. the annual meeting last night, made by the President of the En- with Mesars. J. P. Ulderup and J.tertainment Committee and his cipally under water feature this:

Fights above the ocean but prin Dalziel as Vice-Presidents

capable resistants, worked out ad-original story by Dorothy Yost. re-mirably.

The novelty of the "menace" About three hundred members] involved in. the plot is one of its and guests attended, the number greatest charms. When two aponge of ladies present, it was most divera, John Miljan and Nils Asther, pleasing to note, being consider fight under water their differences ably in advance of that at the previ-are made unimportant by the aping Society annual ball. ous dance. Quite a number of the pearance of a monster sea bat, one members present regretfully ad- of the two-ton giant

Entertainments. mitted that they could not dance Infest tropical waters. More dead-"Follow Through."

raya which To-day King's step, but they very sportingly ly than sharks, they crush divers in came along to make up the num- their immense blanket wings.

To-day Queen's "The Sea Bat." ber. As regards finances. there was

Aather's death by one of these Today Central were creatures etarts debit balance of $2,074, but dancers, a smooth floor and an ex-powerful

the springs of a "Flight." against this had to be taken into cellent orchestra were at their dis- Charles

plot revolving about To-day- - Majestic account writing of as depreciationposal. The orchestra is known as convict in minister's clothing;

A. Bickford, an escaped "Mambe." on various fixed assets of $2,913 the "Florida" although they

To-day Star The cash balance showed an in-not unknown in Naval circles, too! the

are Raquel Torres, a Spanish girl of "Raffles." crease of $1,308. Provided no

sponge fisheries; George To-day World thing drastic happened, it was ex-their excellent rhythm.

They are to be congratulated on Marion, her sodden father, superin-"What a Widow." pected that 1931 would show

tendent of the concession; John The hall had been gaily decorate Miljan, a villainous diver, and his credit balance.

ed, and this, together with the unwholesome companions, In presenting the raport-and-as-adies, and the glittering regalia

brightly-coloured dresses of the Gowland and Boris Karloff. counts, Mr. Blackburn said:

Bickford and Raquel lead in the April Our President, Mr. Dyer, has un-worn by office-bearers of the Order, acting honours. Bickford is magni- 5.15 p.m.

made up a most animated scene. ficent in the scenes where

Light refreshments were served forced, for his own protection, to

A more satisfactory estimate of membership had been arrived at under the new system, the present figure of 360 giving a proper basis upon which to gauge the strength of the Institute.

"

The Report.

fortunately been called

away

However, for those who

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

On London- Bank, on demand Bank, wire

1134

11%

Bank, 4 months' sight 11 13/16 Credits, 4 months'

sight Documentary, 4

months' aight

On Paris-

On demand Credits,

Without

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Columbia Needs RECORDS

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Layton and Johnstone. Organ Solo,

"GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY"

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Fox-Trot.

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Fox-Trot. Regal Cine Orch.

On demand

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Wire Theatre; On demand

On Singaperu Theatre; On demand

Of Manta Theatro: On demand

On Shanghai- Theatre; On demand

Dollar Theatre;

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Home Malls. To-day-Outward for Europe via Gibson Siberia (Takada), 4 p.n.

Meetings... 27-Court of University.

he is

Land Sales. April 13-At P.W.D. OMces,

Sports

North and has asked me to convey at the interval, after which danc-take the duties of his ministerial lots of Crown land, 3 p.m. to you his apology for being absent this evening.

ing went on until one o'clock.

LAWN TENNIS.

have

See Sports Diary on Page 9.

buying rate) Silver (per oz.) Bar Silver in Hong

Kong Copper Cash Copper Cents

3 Rate of Native In-

terest

He first all-talking pleture, "The Blue Angel," which was done in both German and English.

garb. seriously. Miss Torres gives Referring to the report you may

a splendid characterisation of a have noticed that the total mem-]

white girl enmeshed in the super- bership shown for 1931 is 360 na

stitious voodoo worship of natives. compared with 627 for 1920. This The Rumjahn cousins, the local

"FOLLOW THRU." large difference is accounted for Doubles Champions, swept aside) by the fnet

their most powerful opposition that our absent; members' st has been

Paramount yesterday when they entered the

Those who watched "Mordeco" writ-

again proved i semi-final at the, expenso ten down from 308 to 26. We have, Pincher brothers. C. A. L. Rum-can be translated to the screen, with it to be the greatest cffort of Von of the how successfully a musical comedy through the camera stage expect in past years carried forward names of past members who have jahn reached the semi-final of the their al-Technicolour production, Sternberg's career." left the Colony and of whom no Singles by defeating H. N. Chau" Follow Thru," ΠΟΥ being all, a love story of tremendous sym- trace can now be found.

in straight sets,

screened in the King's Theatre. Pathy and power, played against a or who have not complied with the

Featuring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, colourful and adventuresome back- new rule relating to absent member

and Nancy Carroll, the picture is a ground of the French Foreign riot of mirth from start to finish. Legion in Morocco. The setting is a Country Golf Club. where Nancy Carroll is the daugh ter of the Club professional and lady champion of the Club.

Full scores were as follow:- E. F. and E. C. Fincher 7-5, 6-3.

S. A, and H. D. Rumjahn beat C. A. L. Rumjahn beat H. N. Chau 6-1, 6-1.

Handicap Doubles, Saver and Humphreys beat Foley and Montgomery 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.

Handicap Singles "B".

Womack beat Clarabutt 3-6, 6-4, 6-4-

Chinese Sub. Coin ... 23% dis Hong Kong Sub. Guin Par

LONDON EXCHANGES

Paris New York

Rugby, Yesterday.

124.273

4.85 15/16

34.95%

Brussels

Geneva

25.23

It is, first of

Amsterdam

12.11

Milan

92.82

Berlin

Stockholm

20.41/2 18.15

Copenhagen

Oslo

Vienna

18.164 18.16 34.56/

"REMOTE CONTROL"

Prague

164

Helsingfors

193

Have you any old chaira, pic

Madrid

43.85

Lisbon

108.25

Athena

875

Bucharest

217

Rio

3%

39 1/10

344

1/5 13/16

1/3

114

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It is not until the advent of Charles Lures, books, beds, tables or what- Rodgers that she begins to wonder nets in your attic? If you have, if there are other things in life be look out for Eddie Nugent, the furniture, fixtures and library the sides golf. A few lessons in the radio engineer of "Remote Control," sum of $2,913.69-further, our cash art of putting by this handsome pro- William Haines' latest talkie show- balance shows ал increase of fessional convinces her that thera ing to-morrow in the Queen's $1,308.79 over the 1929 figure. The arc, much to the chagrin of Thelma Theatre,

frat quarter of 1931 shows a con- Todd, an attractive widow, who has Nugent has turned antique deal- siderable Increase in profit and, also learned much about the "inter-er, having recently opened a shop provided nothing drastic happens, locking grip" from Charles.

in Hollywood where he spends his 1931 should show a balance on the In the competition Nancy losea off-screen time hunting for rare credit side.

her title to. Thelma but at a later antiquo to fill orders. It seems The Bar profits are down by date, inspired by Charles, regains it. that comical Eddie's serious side is

A ship in dis-$1,516.96 due to heavy increased The comedy is mainly supplied by a wide knowledge of antiques, and

Buenos Aires Montevideo Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama

Silver Spot & For-

ward

12 15/16 -Britian Wireless Service.

"What's that? tress?"

cost caused by exchange, which Zelma O'Neal and Jack Haley, and having from time to time been call- Native: "No, that's only the has not been fully charged to mem- Jack's attempts to regain an old ed upon to locate pieces for collec-interest for shares in the new com. per master reminding his wife to hers, as our policy was to encour family ring which he gave to Zolma tore, he decided to turn the experi-pany, which will have an initial put his supper on."--

age a bigger turnover by keeping at a masquerade, when he had been ence into profits.

issued capital of Tls. 1,600,000. The Passing Show, London. prices low

and thus counter-"hitting it up," are a scream. The Eddie is one of the funsters shares issued for cash to the value balance the loss of percentage of cracks throughout are very origin- who support Haines in his newest of Tis. 800,000 have been subscribed ship. The present figure, 360, profit.

at, and the songs catchy. The colour talkie which was based on the New for privately by a syndicate, includ gives us a proper basis on which | Owing to the Bank rate of in-effects, which in so many pletures York stage hit revolving about a ing Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & to gauge our strength.

terest being reduced, your Com-are so highly unnatural, place this series of bank robberies directly Co., Ltd., the International Invest- It is gratifying to see an in-mittee deemed it advisable to with-production among the best shown in traced to a mysterious broadcasting ment Trust Co. of China, Ltd., the crease in the number of ordinary draw our fixed deposits and Invest Hong Kong.

programme. Others in the cast are Yangtaze Finance Co., Ltd. and a members, but we would favito same in the Government Loan, Supporting the big attraction is a Charles King, Mary Doran, John few local business men, who had stronger support from the en- which shows a better return and Paramount newsreel. gineers of the Colony,

will show better in the next

It is with regret that we have balance sheet. I trust this action

More Papers Wanted.

Election of Officers. The following officials

"MOROCCO."

never BREWERY CO. FOR SHANGHAI.

Since

Business.

Miljan, Polly Moran, J. C. Nugent, previously been interested in the Wilbur Mack, James Donlan, promotion of a acheme for establish- Edward Brophy, Warner P. Rich- ing an entirely new to record the deaths of Messrs. has the approval of the members.

mond and Russe!! Hopton.

brewery in D. E. Cappleman, W. Farmer, J.

Shanghai, but have now I do not think there is anything

merged Before Josef von Sternberg joln-duction was filmed under the direc-pany. So popular have the products The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro- their interests in the existing com Roberta, and H. E. Hendy.

further that calls for comment, so ed Paramount, The Library report needs little I have pleasure la proposing the while hailed as artistic landmarka!

his productions. tion of Edward Sedgwick. comment except that owing to its adoption of the report and balance in the progress of the cinema, mas-

of the Union Brewery become, that popularity, I would suggest to the sheet as presented, and after this terpieces of direction, had

difficulty is being experienced in incoming Committee that they give, has been seconded, I shall be achieved a popular success.

extensive additions to the buildings fully meating the demand.

With a larger grant, so that a larger pleased to answer to the best of becoming associated with Para- number of new books could be my ability, any questions you may mount, four years ago, he has not Acquisition Of The Union Brewery very considerable further output and plant now being arranged, a purchased and more spent on the wish to put. upkeep of the books already pro-

mado a aingie unsuccessful audience

will be provided for. Mr. B. D. Evans seconded, and picture. Several of his hits have vided.

The first Directors of the com- the report and balance sheet were broken all-time records for, popular The "North-China Daily News" pany are:-Mr. J. F. Macgregor, adopted.

attendance. The Literary Council have again

Each, in addition to is informed that the well-known who will be Chairman of the Board, had hard work to obtain papers

being a

masterpiece of artistic Union Brewery of Shanghal has Mr. F. Hoehnke, who will act as with which to entertain members, elected for the ensuing year:

were direction, has been hailed fa every been acquired by a British company managing director, and Mr. F. R

land. and I again appeal for new techni-

-Union Brewery, Ltd.-registered Davey. President, Mr. E. W. Blackmore; cal members and assistance in Vice-Presidents

Four years ago, none of Von under the Hong Kong Ordinances. Messrs. Seth, Mancell & McLure Messrs. J. P. Sternberg's pictures, and they were Mr. F. Hoehnke, the owner of the will act as the company's ́ „aecre- providing papera which is Ulderup and J. Dalziel: Hou. not many, had been seen in more former business, has exchanged his taries. feature of the Institute which Secretary Mr. A. J. Landsbert; than ten places outside of Holly- should not be lost. We have to Hon. Treasurer, Mr. A. J. J. Mar- wood. To-day Von Sternberg is thank Messrs. Middleton Smith tin: Hon. Librarian Mr. H. R. included in every list of Hollywood's and Geo. Buchanan for their in- Latham; Managing Committee, ten best directors. teresting papers and also to the Messrs. G. J. Harmon, P. T. Far- The man responsible for the Hong Kong Electric Co. for allow-rell, E. W. Blackmore, A Lchange is the managing director of Ing us to viaft their North Point Landsbert, W. Russell, Station.

H. R. production for Paramount. Schal- Latham, K. S. Robertson, F. P. R. berg saw in Von Sternberg a great Regarding billiards, in view of James, L. J. Blackburn, A. Wob-director, signed him to contract, the report, perhaps I had better ster, G. F. Taylor and A. J. J. gave him every advantage of a remain quiet, except to mention Martin. Messra. Lowe, Bingham Hollywood studio, and inclined him that the tables are in good condi- and Matthew's were re-elected to seek for realistic as well as artis-

tle effects.

tion and we are promised, several auditora.

prizes for the coming season.

•

The house has been maintained

Billiard Prizes. Billiards prizes were presented

in good condition, and our thanks to the following:

are due to Mrs. G. Harman for her President's Cup-1, C. A. Mut help in arranging the ladies' room, ton, 2, A. H. McBride; Highest etc. As you no doubt remember, Break A. E. Silkstone.

The first result was the picture that made George Bancroft a star, berg directed Bancroft in "Decks of "Underworld." Later Von Stern-

New York": and, in "Thunderbolt," 18 months ago the question of

which was the first all-talking pic- Vice President's Cup-1, A. Eture to be developed with true mo these premises to effect economy Silkstone; 2, P. T. Farrell; Highest tion picture technique. Between was mooted, and I am pleased to Break, C. Bond. Docks of New York" and "Thun- be able to inform you that circum Messrs. Thornycroft Cup-1, A. derbolt," Von Sternberg directed stances have improved somewhat, J. Walters;, 2, W. B. Haslett; Emil Jannings in "The Last Com- bo that your Committee have eater Highest. Break, L. J. Blackburn.mand” th ed into a two years' losse for the Osborn Challenge Trophy-1 Von Sternberg has inst completed whole premises, at a much more! W. Lee, 2, LJ Blackburn; his third-all-talking production, favourable rent,

Highest Break, P. T. Farrell, Morocco," the picturesque drama A. 8. Watson Competition-1 of the French Foreign Legion, The Treasurer's report gives A. E. Silkstone; I Jack; Highest which will show in the Central resume of increases and decreases Braak, J. Forsyth fn. income and expenditure, sp Lido y Raymond,” Compet not propose to worry's you, with Blackburns 2,5 E figures which are in front of you Highest Bank. A. except to point out that while the Watson Compet debit balance is shown at $2,078.32 we wrote of

Finances.

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