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“HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932.

LONDON CENSUS CHINESE LAY CLAIM HOLLYWOOD FACES

REVELATIONS.

Men Outnumbered

All Round.

D

BUT MARGIN LESSENS:

TO SUCCESSES.

Japanese Fail To

Penetrate Line.

Peiping, July 30,

BANKRUPTCY

Producers Warned By Film Chief.

SALARIES TOO GREAT

Hollywood is menaced by bank- Hollywood, where "life is

The Heilungkiang units under ¡General Hsu Pao-chen have been The census figures for the County putting up a brilliant resistance! of London for 1981 reveal the against the attacks of the 2nd striking fact that the surplus of Japanese Division under Lieut-ruptcy. women over men in the 20-30 age General Tamon, a military des lived on the millionaire scale, where group is now only 4.4 per cent, as patch reports. Notwithstanding compared with 28.7 per cent ten four days of hard fighting, the the most fabulous salaries in the years ago, or the pre-war percent- Chinese have succeeded in main-world are paid. age of 13.8 recorded in 1911. taining their original lines. The

This sensational statement was

The excess of all females over entire area from Nohe and Laha made in Hollywood by Mr. M. H. males in the county is 308,787, com-to Ningnien station of the Tsitsi-

and har-Keshan Railway is still in Aylesworth, president of the big pared with 341,365 in 1921 269,003 in 1911. Females out the hands of General Hsu's Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation, number males in both population forces, which are awaiting re-in a warning to producers.

all the con- inforcements before making a bid He contended that the United and electorate in

stituencies save the City and the for Tsitsihar. West Division of Woolwich.

in which

The number of Japanese cà-,States film industry, The average female excess for the valry in North Manchuria has $1,000,000,000 (£200,000,000 at par) whole county is 15.1 per cent. in been increased to 10,000. These is invested, fates bankruptcy before respect of population and 20.5 per have been engaging the Heilung-

cert. in respect of the electorate. kiang cavalry at Chingcheng and Christmas unless drastic measures In the South Division of Kensing- Suileng and the Chinese line at are taken to save it, and he added: ton, however, the excess la In the Pulunshan, but, owing to fami-

"The first company that sacrifices

ratio of more than two to one, and liarity with the local topography,

in a number of other constituencies, the Chinese move. more swiftly its pride and applies for a receiver- Paddington than the enemy and are a match ship will find every other major film elg.. Hampstead,

(South); St. Marylebone, Westmina- for them. Kuo Min.

ter (St. George's), and others, it is considerably above. the general average.

Following are the figures of mar-i ried and single men and women:

Married Widowers or divorced

894,372

77,529 Smaller Familities.

SURREY DEFEAT HAMPSHIRE.

studio following its lead.

"Too-Big Salaries.”

"Financiers are refusing to con- tinue to supply funds to producing companies.

(Continued from Page 1) The feature of the All-India game against Warwickshire was

"The ridiculously large salaries MALES. FEMALES the magnificent batting of C. Kof stars and executives have sapped Single 1,072,207 1,216,094 Naidu in India's second innings the strength of the film companies. 903,176 He fogged the bowled unmerciful The appointment of receivers would ly for 164 runs and played stylish permit of the repudiation of con- 233,625 and faultless cricket throughout.

tracts," Marshall (102 not out) was assɔ- Mr. Aylesworth blamed the crisis ciated with Naida in a most pro-in the film industry on the heavy

Afth wicket partnership. A fall in the size" of the average lific

fall in cinema attendances, pointing family from 3.79 to 3.45 must be Warwickshire at the close of play

out that in the United States at- accounted considerable for a peace were 162 runs in arrears with 7

tendances at all cinemas had fallenj time decennium, says the retura. wickets in hand

from 10,000,000 a day in 1928 to Somerset's Feat. It is, no doubt, an inevitable conse-

Somersetshire, "the glane kill-6,000,000 a day in the first four of the maintenance &

months of 1982. quence

severe, check to

Mr. J. Cookman Boyd, a share high marriage rate, in association ers," offered a with a heavy reduction in the birth Lancashire at Weston-super-Mare. rate. But it is noteworthy that the The southern county, after being holder in Radio-Keith-Orpheum, ap- decline is as great as it was in the dismissed for 94 in the first inn- plied for the appointment of a re- Jack ceiver for the Corporation, one of preceding decennium, during which ings, won by 61 runa! the population was exceptionally de- White, the veteran slow bowler, the largest entertainment concerns pleted by the loss of men killed on took 10 for 89 in the course of the in the United States, last December, Somerset their contending that there had been reck- active service in the war.

match to give Two-person families have increas second big victory of the season less expenditure which placed the ed by 48,805, and three-person they had previously beaten Notta company in such a situation that its This was assets might be dissipated unless families by 32,500, the totals, in a very close finish.

Lancashire's second successive de timely action was taken. 280,393 and 261,414, representing

Stars Resist. together 45.6 of London's familles, feat, having lost to Yorkshire last

Recently there has been a drive The larger families of eight and week-end,

in Hollywood for a reduction of Sussex Win. more have been halved in numbers

have resisted Sussex found little dieulty in salaries; some stars in the last 20 years (94,229 in 1911

beating Northants and are now the drive and others have accepted to 47.957, in 1981).

slowly catching up Yorkshire and salary reductions. Kent in the Championship race.

Towards the end of last mont Clark, the Northants fast bowler, the Paramount Company' notified its made a, welcome 'return to first-employees, from the senior execu- class cricket after a slight mis- tives to the humblest technicians, of understanding with the county au a reduction of salaries ranging from

5 to 25 per cent. thorities, and performed well with

The reason for this move to save the ball, dismissing half the Sus-:

£400,000 to £600,000 a year was sex side for 48 runs..

announced as the effect of the de- pression on cinemas.

GLIDER'S RECORD 'SHATTERED.

Young Pilot Aloft

Full 11 Hours.

Berlin, July 26.

MALES PREDOMINATE IN NANKING.

Nanking, Aug. 1.

HITCH FOR INDIA.

The world's record for the longest flight in a glider was

Statistics compiled by the J. W. Hitch, better known to shattered to-day, during the con- tests in the Rhoen Mountains, by Municipal Bureau of Social cricketers all over the world as "Bil fone hour and a half, when the Affairs indicate that the popula Hitch," the famous old All-England young glider-flier. Petera from tion of Nanking for June totalled and Surrey cricketer will arrive in Aix-la-Chapelle, flew for eleyen 613,185, of whom 371,565 are Madras on August 19. Hitch has hours without interruption.males and 241,620 females. There accepted an appointment as cricket| Another compétitor from were 119,046 households. Com coach to the boys of the Madras Stuttgart, Hakenjos, remained pared with the preceding month Presidency College. He has been in the air for ten hours --- Trans-of May, the population shows an officiating this season as an umpire. jocean Kuomin.::

increase of 2,676. Kuo Min. in first-class matches.j

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