WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1932,
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Quitting
AT PRICES TO BUIT ANY PURSE.
PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE
SUTTINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen'
Outfitters
64, Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417.
Very Nice Woollen Materials
For
Making Ladies' DRESSES
&
OVERCOATS
Also FURS &
SILE HOSIERY Expert Talloring Department.
LEE MOW
Chinese Silk Hosiery Stare No. 1, D'Aguilar Street
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUE, Dentist. Successors to
the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
Kowloon Bay,
New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
Now in season
CALIFORNIA PEARMAIN APPLES
Just Arrived $9.00 per box.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
LIANG YOU
LADIES & GENTS' HAIRDRESSERS.
Alac
PERMANENT WAVING
introductory Price $20.
King's Theatre Bldg, Tel. 20315.
Ground Floor,
ON LOK
HAIR DRESSING SALOON
FOR LADIES' & GENTLEMEN Is fitted with the latest devicen for use in hair dressing. Expert Barbers. CLEAN & COMFORTABLE 10, Wyndham Street, 1st Floor. Entrance On Lan St. Tel. 28317.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
SHANGHAI'S NEW THEATRE
Suffers From Fire Before Opening.
THE CATHAY.
to
TOWNSPEOPLE.
a harmonious mist, which CONVICTS ENTERTAIN under the indirect lighting scheme gives a striking effect. A flat ceiling regularly divided by glass beams contains over 2,000 lamps and to this are add-
ed the glass columns and the Prison Concert Proves ultra modern light brackets, avoiding any glare.
Good Enjoyment.
VARIED PROGRAMME,
before it enters through mushits modern construction little] room outlets into the Auditorium, damage was done, and the thea- The vitiated air is extracted tre opened as advertised ; on through outlets in the ceiling New Year's Day.
It can be said that in this cine- ma the first time in the Far East | a lighting scheme was created which architecturally constitutes a perfect unit with the general The new Cathay Theatre, at decoration of the Auditorium.
London, December 28. the corner of Avenue Joffre and The seating is so arranged as to
The townpeople of Lowes; the an-} provide for the best vision and cient capital of Sussex, declare that MR. ST. OUEN. Rue Cardinal Mercer, opened utmost comfort. The proscenium they got value for their money at on Friday (New Year's Day), curtain and all the other cura concert given to-day by convicts the building embodying the detains and carpets match the gen-of the local prison..`` signs of Mr. C. H. Gonda, the and multi-coloured silk applica- excellent solo humorous items eral design, their orange colour The varied programme comprised
Shanghai theatres go, the build- architect, Distinctive, as far as tion blend excellently together. that kept the 'audience in roars of A ventilating scheme is in laughter — and instrumental items ing is of the American neigh-stalled providing fresh and fil-by the prison brass band. bourhood house style, inasmuchtered air for the audience adding
The proceeds are being devoted as the auditorium has no balcony, greatly to the comfort of the pa-to the renovation of the prison but seats 1,000 persons conforttrons. Fresh air from the outside chapel and the local Discharged ably on the main floor. The de- of the building is blown by Prisoners Ald Society.-Router. zign is modernistic, incorporat-powerful fans through ducts into ing features lending themselves the theatre and is first warmed to excellent accoustic proper- in the cold season by air-heaters ties. Its exterior appears digni- fied and simple in design, says the North China Daily News.
The entrance leads into an oc- tagonally shaped lobby. The and replaced by fresh and filter- The blaze occurred just before indirect lighting scheme throw- ed air. The entire building be-2 p.m., the screen and one side ing its soft light through the ing the utmost of possible fire curtain flaming up rapidly. The opaque glass of the celling is en proof construction, the great fire brigade was called, but there hancing the extraordinary effect amount of conveniently located actually proved little for them to of the bronze, orange and gold emergency exits, the installation do. Besides the screen, two side: colour scheme of the walls. Here of most modern fire fighting ap- curtains and the loud-speaker are located the ticket bootha, and pliances must give the patrons equipment of the talking picture two staircases lead up to the the feeling of perfect safety, mechanism, there was nothing of roof-garden, which certainly will The two main actors of Im-an inflammable nature be well patronised during the portance in a cinema are perfect | stage.
To Summer season. By these orna- vision and perfect sound.
Actual damage was confined to mental staircases the tea lounge both of these, the architect, Mr. the curtain screen and one of the is reached, which contrasting Gonda has given his utmost at side curtain screen and one of with the general decorative tention. The absence of any the side curtains destroyed (the scheme is furnished in old Eng- column in the Auditorium, the another side curtain" being only ish style. A decorative arch-rangement of the seats ensure slightly touched by the flames) way bordered on two sides by art an unobstructed perfect view of and half of the huge cardboard glass columns is leading into the the screen. Careful calculation baffle screen in front of the loud- Foyer. The multi-coloured de of the accoustical properties of speaker. The other half was coration scheme, the indirect the theatre were made when blackened slightly by smoke in lighting and the unique bracket architectural details were de spots, but its utility. not impair- lamps bring the visitor imme-signed.
ed. diately into an atmosphere.
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central
SHOES.
Pair
Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00) Black or Brown Boots from $9.00. Children's Boots or Shoes from $2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a speciality.
WONG SIU WOON 21, Pottinger St.
Phone 21474.
SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC
GOODS
AT
This is the most famous apple in THE LIANG YOU CO. the Orient. Quality: Crisp, juicy, aweet And
highly aromatic.
Excellent keeping quality. Try a box.
WING COFFEE CO.
Tel. 25669 139, Des Voeux Road, C
FOR SALE.
COLLECTION OF POSTAGE
STAMPS.
Mounted in Books containing Both
Mint and Used Stamps.
1,000 Stamps. All Different for $ 8 1,500
: 2,000
3,000
4.000
5,000
10,000
do.
18
do.
30
do.
50
do.
75
da.
100
do
500
FULL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
GRACA & CO.,
Dealers in Philatelis Goods, Pictorial Postcards,
Garden Seeds, Toys, &c.
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
P.O. Bot No. 620, HONG KONG.|||
PHOTO SUPPLIES
'and Camérai
Films, Plates and Papers, ate.
Developing, Printing and⠀
Enlarging ZIFES and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
Ord Solicited.
T
'70, Queen's Road Central.
TYPEWRITER DEALERS
HOP SING & CO.
Sound Absorbing Walls, The walls of the Auditorium were treated with artex plaster the rough texture of which is not only lending fragrance in ap pearance, but also has a sound- absorbing quality. Blue, orange, salmon, pale green and bronze are the colour scheme blended
THE ANSWERS ALL
QUEER QUESTIONS.
54 Years' Work at St.
.
Paul's Cathedral.
THE "IDEAL VERGER."
The man
THE FIRE.
Little Damage Done.
Shanghai's newest theatre, the Cathay, suffered from fire on De cember 29, three days before its official opening, but thanks to
"Another man whom I intercept ed in the choir shouted, 'Remove that Crosa. Suffragettes used to Interrupt the service by chanting noisily at the wrong places, but fanatics are usually quite pleasant people apart from the one point which worries them.
"One of the many questions that visitors are always asking is Is. the crypt of St. Paul'e haunted?
who has answered Well, I can assure you that I have more queer questions than prob- never found any ghosts walking ably anyone else in London may there, although I have been in the walking swiftly to and Cathedral every hour of the right fro amid the soft light of St. and day.
C
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be seen
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28, Pattlager 8t Tel. 21420 CANTON—118, Sun Kee Sal Rd.
Paul's Cathedral any day.
A Nelson Legend,
He is 79 years old now, but Mr. "There is a legend that Nelson, William Skinner, the head verger, who is buried here reappears in who has been at the Cathedral for the night watches and walks in years, is still full of energy. ghostly solitude. But he never "I do not think you could find appeared to us, in the war, for ļa verger nearer the ideal," the example, when we took it in turn
Bishop of London sald recently.
to keep watch in case of air raids, Talking of his experiences, Mr. and some of us slept hers; every Skinner said:
night: During air raida people
"There was the day when we sheltered in the crypt. found the bomb under the bishop's Mr. Skinner took out his keys chair. It. Was when the and made a tour of the collection-
RELIABLE PRINTING Suffragettes were causing trouble, boxes. He said:
no order 400 small
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and somebody in the Cathedral
"Sometimes people write helpfu!
suddenly heard the strange tick or 'humorous suggestions and slip |tick-tick like an alarm clock, com- them in. Then we may get
ing from beneath the chair.
0.
whole packet of farthings or half- "Seeing that it appeared to be a pennies that some anonymous bomb of some kind, we ran with well-wisher has saved up. For it to a bucket of water and flung eign colas, too, are there, and we it in.
Suffragette Surprised.
another occasion a Suffragette chained herself to a:
always convert these into English. currency, Americans may leave o dollar noteikt hele walaume
"Ilke the Americans because chair in the Cathedral. The chair they always show, such very real was one of a long row of seats interest, even if they do ank s nailed together on a beam of wood,traordinary questions at times,
"Even at St. Paul's the congre i To her, surprise we sawed through
the beam and carried out the chair gations are not always so big, to with the woman on it in two day as they were forty years ago minutes
De although present-day visitors are "Fanatics often cause little more reverent." acenes. One Easter a man sud-
|denly nat Ba hát dashed up dast the choir famped
Altar and feared off
A little girl was attacked by
tha
when left alone in the house. her mother, went out shopping
on the
The fire did not do any dam- age in the orchestra pit or the auditorium, and the little water that found its way there was negligible. A certain amount of hard work yesterday and to-day. it is understood, should suffice to put matters entirely right once So also records the more, N.C.D.N.
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their habita
must be carefully
watched and only when these be- come
Irregular should laxative be given. And then there is now
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3rd floor.
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