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for

STAMP COLLECTORS

THAT must without doubt}.

We one of the most topical

postage stamps ever Issued is a letter posted from Germany on a Sunday the day following Herr Hitler's proclamation of universal conscription.·'

By A. E. L.

currency. 5 c. on Id., 15 c. on 1 211⁄2d.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1935

STAR KNOWLEDGE

CONTEST

Third Day Of New Competition

WIN TWO THEATRE TICKETS

What do you know about the 1⁄2d., 10 d. op famous stars of the screen? a chance to test your d., 25 c. on Here is

knowledge and win free theatre a reward for aceur- 4. Ditto, surch. in Spanish cur-tickets as

rener, & c. on d., 10.c. on Id., ucy

Starting on Thursday last and 15 c. on 1., 25 c. on 24d, Canada.. 1 C. green (Princess ending on Monday, the China Mail Actually, of course, the stamps is Elizabeth), 2 c. brown (The Duke is publishing a series of questions

It of York), 33 not a salute to the new army,

(Their about four noted filmm'players, each of brown C. was issued to mark the Day of Majesties), 1 c. blue (The Prince whom has a leading part in Warner Heroes," phserved throughout. Ger-of. Wales), 10 e. green (Windsor Bros, great drama "Firebird," which many on that Sunday.

Castle) and 15. c. blue (The royal will open at the Central Theatre to-

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The steel-helmeted soldier is a yacht Britannia).

as indicated by the War Veteran. glimpse of a barbed-wire entangle ment in. the bottom left-hand corner,

Indla. 34, 12%. 9% and annas and 1 rupee.

In previous years, however, the "Day of Heroes" has not been marked by any special stamp., 1| Gd. cannot escape a suspicion that the

morrow and at the Alhambra Thea- 8ire on Tuesday next.

To-day's questionaire concerns Lionel Atwill, a Warner Bros.

all movie! star, well known to

New Zealand. d, Id, and 6d. South Africa, 18., 2., 3. arid 6d. South Rhodesia. Id., 2d., 3d. and "fans."

None of the questions should he South West Africa. Id., 2d, 3d. diffult for those who rend the was given at least and fd, showing portrait of His stories of film players published hint that this year the day would Majesty, recess-pristed by Brad-frequently in the newspapers, hrva a very special significance. bury, Wilkinson. They will be on

Post Office

In design and execution the new sale during next month and June

stamps are a decided artistic ad-only.

sance on the Hindenburg series,

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· BELGÍAN CONGÖ - Outward bound eövera on the spectacular Congo Christnins Hight have the Brussels postmark, of December 15 anithe Leopoldville backstamp of the 22nd. They also bear the red "Raid Rubin" cachet we described here last month and which:ulao àp- pears on the inward covers,

REVUE-SHOW FOR

HONG KONG

Expected To Arrive About June

MR. CHARLES HUGO'S NEW

VENTURE

Mr. Charles Hugo, who in en route to Manila. to make final ar rangements for a tour he is ar ranging for a revue show, arrived

the Colony by the s.8. Asuma Maru yesterday.

BOLIVIA :--Bolivia has entered i into an agreement with Panara Airways whereby the country is in corporated with the International South American airways system Taena being the point of contact. This means..... that La Paz will be.

As many of the large cast of 55 brought within one day's com- munication with Lima, and within members are French, and the re- three days of New York The servue has been named "Parisian Fol- vice will be a weekly nne.

lies" by Mri-Hugoy the services of COLOMBIA: An Internal air Long Tak Sam the conjuror have also been enlisted to lend variety service between Bogota and Bucara-

to the show. Vera Love will he mango (Southern Santander was

the leading lady, opened on December 10. Covers we have seen are identifiable by a spe- cial cachet. Carzedo tells us that this route, which in across the Andes, should prove a great boon to commerce."

Senor Eduardo de

GREAT BRITAIN: We hasten to put on record" that first flight covers on the London-Brisbane ser vlee are postmarked in London on December 8 and have on the back the Brisbane machine cancellation,

December 21.

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Hugo, manger of the

Mr. Hugo, a brother of Mr. Vic, Oriental Theatre, will be remembered as the manager of the Marcus shows which were given in the Colony about 12 months ago..

arrive in Hong Kong about June, The show which is expected to

is at present playing in Japan. It will also run in Shanghai, Can- ton and Manila,

"POST EARLY EACH DAY" of PRISONER DIES IN

VICTORIA GAOL

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The following details are avail.

able concerning the values of spe- Dying When Admitted

cial Jubilee stamps to be issued by members of the British Empire other than the Colonies and, torri- tories, administered by the Crown Agents, viz.:—

Australia, 2d., 3d. and 1/4. British P.0.a in Morocco. ·G.B. Jubilee stamps overprinted.

To. Hospital

VERDICT OF DEATH FROM NATURAL CAUSES

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"LES QUATZ ARTS"

DEATH

CALL

Lampooned by himself, this cartoon depicts Mr. A. Ney, ad.. vertising mah, commercial arist, Journalist and musician, who recently arrived in the Colony to join the staff of the. Advertising and Publicity Bureau Ltd.

Mr. Ney has nearly a quarter of a century's experience of ad- +vertising, art and display and "his work has taken him to many, lands, tropical and otherwise.

An advertising life is a busy one, ye Mr. Ney has found time to study music, and has played the guitar at the Wig- more Hall, London" and, av “Karl Caylus has broadcast his own compositions and con- “ducted his Quintet, "The Karl Caylus Players," at BBC. studios, London, where his re-i

- gulur, broadensts of light Con-: Chental music were a source of pleasure to many millions of Bisteners.

By Stephen Ross

THE idea, entered Gerald Hol-realised what it would mean to

him if his uncle were dead.

idea retumed.

But

lister's mind early one

Gerald Hollister's mind worked morning, when he awoke after a restless night believing that his slowly and timidly, running away

dead. For a

few from unpleasant facts and playing uncle was moments he lay in a state of more happily with complicated ab-! mingled relief and exaltation in stractions-for instance, with a which there was little grief for knotty point of law. I was certain 1. This actor is

this departed relative. It was allly as an abstraction that the ugly! LIONEL ATWILL over. The troubles of the past idea born of his dream first occur Allred to him. Murder. At first mind He came to America in 1915 few months were ended. with the famous English over. Then he realised. dismal-vegred hastily away from it. actress, Lily

ly, that it had been. nothing but in the worried, restless nights the He was starred on Broadway dream,"

It was morbidly fascinating to play with, simply as an Iden. It would call for great ingenuity. – As his uncle's heir and the man who stood to gain most by his death, he would be the first person to come under suspicion if any cause

for suspicion arose. This in itself added to its interest. To succeed would be a double triumph 1 triumph of impudence and a triumph of art.

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by David ...

He was lead for Nazimova in plays by Henrik

On stage with Helen Hayes ́in Egyption play of two great lovers.

He wore wax mask in Warner Brothers

"

Hollister, was a lawyer by pro- fession and not cutstandingly sue- CORRful. At the age of 85 he was still no more than junior partner in a firm of solicitors living.on a re- 'putation which, for 15 years, it had

done little enough to deservė.

Old' Godfrey Hollister, his uncle, He was the inventor of a had made the firm and still was the crime-detection machine in firm so far as the older clients were 8. His favourite American actor concerned. He came every day to starred 011 Broadway as the office, as he had done for ever "Hamlet"

40 years, his silk hat as smooth as

1

He considered ways and means, Physical violence, faked suicide,

MONDAY'S STORY

9. His favourite American ac- ever, his hair white, his bulky such methods were 'too clumsy and tresa. starred on stage in figure grown bulkier but still erect, too crude. A poison would he "Mary of Scotland"".

and his eyes clear: nothing in the needed; no commonplace poison, no 10. His latest picture is

world the matter with him except a arsenic or weedkiller, but a drug, day's queries must be sent,, to- touch. of heart-"tired heart" and Solutions of to-day's and Mon- tendency to deafness, an occasional, gether with your full name and nothing to get alarmed about-and jaddress and pictures cut from the growing tendency to disregard China Mail, addressed to the Con- what might happen after he was test Editor, to reach this office not dead.

He came because he liked it. He later than' 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning.

looked through the mail, examined The three competitors who are most nearly correct will each the accounts, chatted with an old receive two dress circle tickets to client, and played a couple of rubr. se "The Firebird" at the Alhambra bers at his club. With enactmenta Theatre.

of the law subsequent to the reign the heart. That "tired" heart was of King Edward he left his nephew old Godfrey's one weak spot. Hol- to, deal.

lister knew nothing about drugs.

Death from natural causes wx* the verdict returned by the jurv];

1. Optd. "Morocco. Agencies." 1⁄2d.at an inquest; conducted by Mr.

Id., 1d., 21⁄2d.

2. Optd. "Tangler." 11⁄2d., id., 11⁄2d.

3. Optd. as 1. and surch. In French

NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

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Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central

Police Court yesterday afternene.

into the death of

J

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

Monday's story will be "Pebble In The Pool," by Archibald Lyall,

A drug, for instance, to touch

So Gerald Hollister did the work But as the problem continued to and old Godfrey took the credit; occupy his mind-from pure acide- and this in itself was a suficient mic interest, and for no other rea-

а 36-year-old The s.s. Nellore will leave here grievance. But theer was more son-he made casual inquiries and Chinese prisoner, who died in the for Manila at 11 am. next Friday, Victoria Gaol on Thursday last.

The jury comprised Messrs. H. M. Campos (foreman). C. W. Chow and Pong Kwok-fat.

The 8.8. Nellore is due here from Moji next Tuesday morning.

than this. Old Godfrey was diff found out what drug would suit his about money: He considered it purpose. Also, but more laborious. enough to remind his nephew that ly, he discovered how it might be some day the practice and half his obtained.

nwn fortune would be his. Mean He was quite pleased, as though Dr. G. 1, Shaw stated that an ex- The R. M. S. Empress of Canada while the practice was dwindling he had found the answer to a rid- "Rubber: The market was quiet, amination of deceased, when he is due in Vancouver on May 8. and he legacy seemed as far away dle. But this was only the begin- but steady, with prices within Sh

was admitted to hospital, revealed She will leave for Hong Kong on as ever; and Gerald Hollister, mar aing. The drug had to be adminis narrow range. Some foreign buy-that he was suffering from tubar-May 18, arriving here on June 7.

In circumstances that ried to an expensive, socially-im-tered, and ing was stimulated here by higher culosis. His condition was very

bitious wife, continued to slave for, would make it sure beyond the least estimates of European consumption poor and his weight about two days killed, the man, A post mortems salary scarcely larger than that misgiving that no hint of suspicion this year. The labour situation is later was 82 lbs. Deceased was a examination revealed no interns of a senior clerk.

would arise. It was a pretty, pro- still a disturbing factor. Outside dying man when he came into the or external Injuries. The case of

Nor did his accumulating sense blem. Plainly the murderer- marketa were helping sentiment. hospital and nothing could be done death in witness' opinion was (a) of grievance, his growing hatred of Hollister himself, if he were fool

"Flashes: The American Rall for him.

pulmonary tuberculosis; (b) tuber the old man, take any clear shape enough would have to be on hand way Association estimates carload-

Lafer a form of pneumonfa set cular pneumonia: and (e) tuber-until that dark morning when he to see that the stuff was taken, and ings at 611,000 cars, an increase of in which witness thought actually cular enteriti..

awoke from a dream and suddenly to clean up any traces afterwards.

19,000 cars from the corresponding period of last year. The Annalist Index of Business Activity for the week is given as 84.1, compared with 84.9 the previous week"¡At- tomobile output in the United States for the week totalled 110,285 units, compared with 100,587 units the previous week. Money in cir- culation shows a decrease of: $58,-) 000,000, Socony-Vacuum has earn- ed 75 cents per share for the past year. The General Motor Company has earned 68 cents per share-for the first-quarter, while the Lambert Company has earned: 76 cents perj share.”:

TOTAL Messrs. E. A. Pierce & Company's report on the opening of the mar kets:

The opening on Wall Street was generally even and active. We

"think that profit-taking will be well

absorbed.

The cotton market opened active, with further covering of near post- tions. The Far East was buying.

This photograph was isken at a conference

the

on Easter Monday, under the chairmanship of the Rev. R. O, Hal step in the front row, third from left,- (King » Bludle)

Society, South/China/mlini

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who is mean seated on thị

On the other hand, it was equally! evident that at the time of the death the murderer would have to be elsewhere, and with a cast-iron allbi. GAD

* Hollister though it over. For some weeks his mind fussed over It pre- cisely as it might have fussed-over an awkward case. And one day at the telephone he stared at the re- ceiver in his hand, and suddenly gasped. He had it! He had solv ed the problem. He knew how I could be done.

And there the matter should have ended, and would have, no doubt, If a crliis had not suddenly arisen In Hollister's affairs. He had not known that his wife had been play- ing-contract at five shillings a hundred and losing pretty steadily;

DAILY

TAGE ANT TRIME OR HAPPY VALLEY ĐỤN [”.

ORIENTAL

TO-MORROW — MONDAY

TUESDAY

ANOTHER BIG. DOUBLE SHOW

ON THE STAGE

SENSÄTIONAL VAUDEVILLE ARTISTS

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ON THE SCREEN

NA GREAT COMEDY, CIRCUS PICTURE.

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BY FAR

THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN

REGARDLESS OF PRICE.

IN

MORE FUN THAN THE CIRCUS! JOE E. BROWN CIRCUS CLOWN

First Nadonil's Greatest Laff Hit!

A THRILLING NOVELTY CIRCUS ACT.

APPEARING AT. ALL PERFORMANCES.

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SENSATIONAL AUSTRALIAN

COMEDY ACROBATS

IN A HAIR-RAISING PERFORMANCE

THE FAMOUS WALLABY TROUPE

BRING THE CHILDREN'

TO OUR MATINEES

TO SEE THIS WONDERFUL

RING CIRCUS

SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES

MATINEES

Entire Lower Floor 20c. EVENINGS

Front Stalls 20e. Back Stalls 35c.

Dress Circle 55c. Servicemen admitted to Dress Circle 40c.

BIGGER and BETTER SHOWS THAN EVER BEFORE. AT POPULAR CUT RATE PRICES.

1935

HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY.

NOW ON SALE

PRICE $1.00

THE COLONY'S REST DOLLAR VALUE

or that the smart club she had re- THE HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO.

cently joined had made it absolute-

ly necessary for her to apend a Ching Mail

quite inordinate amount of money

on clothes.

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