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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1931.

PRINCE'S THEATRE.

Officially Opened to the Public.

abroad that a theatre was to be put up there and by such a financial genlus as Sir Robert Ho Tung, land value went up by leaps and bounds, to the immediate benefit of Sir Robert and the indirect benefit of

··A GREAT FUTURE.

the public in the form of increased Crown Rents and Assessment Rates. Still another addition to the Applause). This foresight and Colony's list. of talking picture business acumen are typified in an- cinemas, came into being yester other commercial, enterprise of day, when the Prince's Theatre which you may be interested to was officially opened to the public. know something. A couple of years Judging, by the large number of ago Sir Robert Interested himself At Tuesday's Rotary Club tifinrepple present, a great future lies in a company which was then being formed for the purpose of produc- Senator. Key Pittman will give a before this enterprise. address on "The Occident and the Situated in the centre of a rapid-ing Chinese Talkies with improved Orient."

ly growing district, the theatre technique. This company operates stands on a prominent site at the both in Hong Kong and in Shang- Mr. Yuen Ka-lau, a clerk, has re-junction of Nathan Road and hal, and is forging ahead rapidly. ported to the Police that yesterday Prince Edward Roads, and will Having planned his talking-picture morning, while in his office at the prove exceptionally convenient for business, he immediately built a Royal Naval Dockyard he gave his Kowloon residents, standing as it theatre to use them. This is busi news with a vengeancel. Not con Chinese messenger a chit to draw does directly on the bus route.

Largest in Colený.

tented with attending to the purely out $85 from the Dockyard com- pradore. The messenger collect- The theatre is one of the larg- business side of his taiking-picture. ed the sum of money and is alleged est in the Colony and has a seat business, Sir Robert has found to have disappeared.

ing capacity of about 2,000 per- energy to minister to the comfort Joons, and was built with a view of his stars who, succumbed to his The National City Bank of New to the showing of sound pictures, winning personality and in order York this morning formally moved the acoustic properties being very to show their gratitude, insisted as In to their new and modern pre good. Although at yesterday's initiating him into the enchantment mises at No. 2, Queen's Road, initial screening, the focussing and of the ball-room. (Laughter). That Central. The building is yet the talking apparatus were not is why during the last twelve another addition to the up-to- everything to be desired, a China months or so, In the Hong Kong dete office structures going Mail reporter was informed that it Hotel or in public gatherings in of was merely a temporary trouble Shanghai; a handsome man of ven. in the Colony, being

with the and would be rectifled without de- erable seventy, wearing an engag- Imposing appearance,

the screening of the ing smile and a flowing silk gown, Interior fitted up in mest attractive lay before

next attraction.

has occasionally been seen dancing style.

Cafeterias:

with charming maidens of sweet The ground and upper floors are seventeen, with a mach zest and furnished with cafeterias, and the enjoyment 03 his partners." main entrance to the theatre is in (Laughter). It is a pity that Sir a street which runs of Nathan Robert is not here, to-day, or 1 Road.

would`ank him how much younger he feels he has become since he took to this seductive exercise. (Laugh- ter), Well, ladles and gentlemen, the lessees of the Tung Lok Theatre are indeed fortunate in having as the 'owner of their theatre one whose wisdom is that of a wise man of seventy, while his energy and spirit are those of a robust man of thirty. With this very unusual ad- vantage on its side, and with its. own substantial merits, the success of the new enterprise is doubly assured. (Loud Applause).

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GERMAN CRISIS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

which 'the Germans will be asked

follows:-

on

Many Changes.

London, Yesterday. The financial experts repre-

4

Dr. Kotewall, who spoke in

This was no doubt arranged so to agree, are reported to be as that the crowds of picture-goera will not interfere with the traffic in Germany will promise to re-the main road, and to minimise the sume the Young Plan payments risk of accidents.

Connected with the project," are the expiry of the Hoover Moratorium, the Powers guar-many well known Chinese business famous Adelphi estate, which is anteeing a ten year £100,000,000 men, headed by Sir Robert Ho Tung, loan to be empowered to estab-to whom the building owes its arl- now about to be sold by auction. Hish a guarantee committee simi- gin. The first feature to be shown On beginning their undertaking lar to the machinery under the was "Salute," and for five days they transported to London Dawes plan. Moreover, the Ger. from to-day the management will be Squads of bricklayers and la-mans' foreign borrowings would screening "Hell's Angels," the well henceforth be supervised. known "air thriller." This will be bourers from Scotland at rates of

followed by the "Hollywood Revue." Opening Ceremony. pay somewhat higher than they

The building was originally plan- The Hon. Dr. R. HL Kqtewall per ned to be a theatre for Chinese. could earn in the North Country, senting Great Britain, Belgium, formed the opening ceremony, He acting, but as the demand for talk- but still considerably less than France, German, Italy, Japan was accompanied by Mrs. Kotewall ing pictures became greater, the the rates current in the South. and the United Stafes met at and Lady Ho Túng.

owner, Sir Robert Ho Tung, decided to instal the necessary machinery. Anticipating the modern theory the Treasury this morning to ex- that music is a remedy for "in-amine the outstanding questions Chinese, safd that it gave him very The building has been found to pro regarding the methods of giving special pleasure to perform, the duce sound very clearly, and this, dustrial_fatigue," they also effect to the Hoover proposal for opening ceremony, as the owner of

no doubt, will contribute largely to- one of his oldest ward the success of the theatre. brought down half a dozen pipers, one year's suspension of war the theatre was

friends-Sir Robert Ho Tung, and The architects responsible for who, it was recorded, "played debt and reparation payments.

Messra. Since the decision to hold this one of the lessees, Mr. Sun She- this fine building are daily while the embankments meeting was taken following ac- chuen, was a colleague of his when Denison, Ram and Gibbs, whilst the were being formed, and, as the ceptance of the plan by France, they were in the Government Ser- contractors were Sang Kee, of the undergorie vice together. This was the third Hong Kong Bank Building. The sweet chorus of 'Orpheus are said the situation has

many changes. Today's meet-theatre which he, Dr. Katewall, had effective electric lighting was car to have moved inanimate objects, ing will be restricted, as a meet the pleasure and honour of opening, ried out by William C. Jack and so arose the Adelphi to the ing of Ministers is fixed for Mon- the other two being the Queen's Co., Ltd.

Built on thoroughly modern lines, squeak of the Scotch national in-day evening, when the experts Theatre and the reconstructed Ko

Theatre embodies will place themselves at the dis-Shing Theatre, both of which he the Prince's strument."

was pleased to see were doing 60 many new and interesting features, posal of the Ministers. Even the pipes, however, fail-

France's Decision.

well it was his sincere hope that an outstanding one being the fire ed to soothe the Scots when they The Foreign Secretary, Mr. the Tung Lok Theatre would show proof curtain, the first installation the Colony. The discovered the difference between Arthur Henderson, who has post-box-office receipts as datisfactory as of its kind in Hong Kong, Saturday, July 18, 1931. London wages and their own, and, poned his visit to Berlin, is re- those of the other two theatres. curtain is drawn across a stage, 50 more money and less hours bemaining in Paris, and yesterday It did not require anyone of special feet in width, and this is exception- he held further conversations perspicacity to prophesy for the ally wide, in comparison with the ing refused, they went on strike.with the French Premier, M. Tung Lok Theatre a prosperous ordinary cinema building. The The Adam brothers then sacri-Laval, the Foreign Minister, M. future, because it had been bullt. building is fire-proof throughout, According

to ficed patriotism to still farther Briand, and the Finance Minis-on most up-to-date lines, was com the fullest protection against any ter, M. Flandin, and with the fortable and airy, and was, altuate conflagration being provided by the More Juice. stories from economy, and imported labourers United State Secretary of State, in an ideal locality which could very latest fire appliances Installed

U.S.A. Mr. Henry from Ireland.

Mr. Stlinson, in an endeavour to serve practically all the districts of by the Jardine Engineering Cor- find means of assisting Germany the Peninsula. Bealdeo these ad poration. Ford has acquired a large melon

[On being told on conditions satisfactory to vantages the lessees had the further The theatre has seating accom farm whose products he intends

Later in the day M. advantage of the invaluable gold-modation for nearly 2,000. In the for 1,160, to use for his commercial pur- Self-Restraint reproach-Laval gate, an account of his con-ance and advice of the owner of the stalls there is space

fully, overversations to the French Minis- theatre, Sir Robert Ho Tung, whose whilst the circle upstairs provides poses. From the melons them- selves he proposes to extract the telephone, "You don't seem terial Council, and a communique business acumen ensured the suc-seating for 749, which includes

states:----

cess of everything he touched, sixteen seats on either side of the "alcohol for paint," while the re to have said. much about the

The Council has studied the (Applause). That auccesshowed building. means by which France may very much to the big and long views A special feature of the theatre sidues will "make a cheap aub-weather lately?]

of take the initiative of suitable he took of things.

measures for restoration of credit and confidence, and has examin- Take this theatre as an exam This censorship, this meekly ed the question of financial ple," continued Dr. Kotowall. "Just

managed fetter?

guarantees, and the means of as he has done so timo, and again In days which try the temper of political appeasement which in other parts of the Colony, Sir

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stance serviceable as wood." The resourceful Henry will cer tainly get more julee out of melons than many other fruits that one could mention, but if it

swood he is after there other forms of dessert

are

which

You do not like this note

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bola saint ***

You think the bard had done a

good deal better

If he, as weeks grew colder,

wetter, worse,

France.

should accompany them."

Sir Robert's Foresight.

Robert pegged his claim, as it were

is an up-to-date restaurant and soda fountain, which is under modera management. This should' prove a popular rendezvous to patronisers.

Ten Years Ago.

From the "China Mall" of

July 18, 1921.J

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To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%,

After thirteen years with the

Paris Press reports state that in this district in the days of its the proposal put forward is that infancy because he saw what few ought not to be neglected. An

of a long-term international loan others saw-its potentialities. It is secured on the German customs true that the project of this theatre English pear in prime condition

the amount suggested is is essentially one of businées, but is a rich and luscious morsel, but Had cast discretion to the £100,000,000 which would en- by putting it where It Is he has there are other varieties which trên winda (or weather) able Germany to face her imme helped to popularise the whole dislocal Fire Brigade, Mr. A. Lane,

And hurled the

artless, un- dlate requirements, bear a close family resemblance

British trict. I have been informed that the Station Officer, who received his encumbered curse, fot Wireless Service;

before the scheme was contemplat, training with the City of London: ed, land in that locality was Fire Brigade, sailed for England. As one who charges blindly, great pressure, to pulp auch ex-hell-for-leather?

much in demand; but to-day, on the Blue Funnel steamer

news got Mentor, on retirement.

to timber. If it be possible, by

hibits and dry them off in plank But what's the good? Although

shape the result ought to be the

modern equivalent of hearts of oak.

As for melon juice, if Mr. Ford

he duly loathes

And notes the weather's freaks

with moods grown glum

can make alcohol for paint out of Can storied rhymes or animated

qaths

Back to its senses call this

merazy summer?

The floods arrive the weeping

heavens fall, The cloudbursts

it, why not alcohol for cars? The happy motorist would then be able to step on the juice in real earnest, and the old calculations. about miles to the gallon might be worked out in the much moro pastoral and picturesque formula We take

Me and miles per melon. But Bum- ably users of the

Sto be

come with

ended

They

Boonest mended

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