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IN THE CITY OF ENDLESS NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, HONGKONG

·RUSH, ·

BLINKING IN THE GLARE OF OF BROADWAY.

["DAILY EXPRESS" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT-]

to

NEW YORK, November 15th.

This is the city of traffic.

There never was anything like it in all the cities of the world since traffic. Arst bogan. It is fierce in its determination got there," and dangerously fast, as. wo Englishmen judge it, yes it has none of the recklessness of the Place de l'Opera or the Rue de Rivoli, and although it swings along seemingly out of control, it comes to an instantaneous full stop when a policeman blows his whistle. Just one abart, shrill blast and woe betide, the driver who dares to advance an inch.

It is in the volume, the mass, that the traffic of New York staggers the average Landauer,

There seem to be more ears in this city than there are vehicles in London, and it is the constant stream of motor-cars which impressot the stranger more than anything else.

At intervals of roughly a mile there are three towers, each fitted with a red, yellow, and green light. The yellow lights show for a certain period, and while they are on traffic proceeding up or down the avenue has the right of way; at the end of the period, which is about two and * balf minates the red lightä burn for a second ng a warning, and almost at ones they are replaced by the green. Whereupon all traffe must stop dend, and cars, trucks, vans, and pedestrians from the streets crossing the avenue may go forward.

After one minute and a half the red Light shows again, and is immediately fol lowed by the yellow, and the cross traffic must give way to that going along the Avenue. The system has made it possible. to navigate this enormous Bond-street- Piccadilly, but no one who has not seen it can imagine the absolute gush of motor- cars which emerges from Thirty-fourth or Forty-second or Fifty-ninth-streets when the green lights flash out.

SOME" CRUSH.

The Subway in New York, which corres ponds to the Underground in London, is absolutely typical of the modern spirit of "bastle New York is built on an island, and, every one knows the island of Manhattan is long and exceedingly narrow. Consequently the main traffic movement, as far as the Subway goes, is up and down. There are three subways, and these three are crammed in the "ruh" hours -4 to 8.30-as no railway was ever cram- Bed before.

It is positively a fear of gallantry ta board train at Times-square-first off." You are kneed from behind, butted at in front, gouged and squirmed at on both, flanks, and when you da eventually get inside the carriage you may consider yourself lucky indeed if only one chewing New Yorker deposits his gum on your back for convenience, or just to give it a rest.

I do not think that any description of this amazing place would be completo which did not mention the electric signs on Broadway at night. They twinkle, they blob in and out; they go round and round in circles, they twirl at you, they exhort you to smoke this or that cigarette, they show you typewriters and motor-cars and ents playing with spools of cotton, they dazzle and wink and grin, and the street cars clank and crash along Broadway as

Special and exclusive engagement of the World-famed Magicians, Conjurers, &c.

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THEATRE

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ROYAL.

On Wednesday, January 19th, 9.15 p.m.

A

GRAND CONCERT

will be given by

VERA MIROWA

the distinguished Art Dansease

and

LEO, PODOLSKY

the Brilliant Modern Pianist.

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S $3, $2 & $1.

THEATRE A

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ROYAL

Monday, January 24th, 1921. For a short season only.

REYNOLDS DENNISTON, Ltd.

presents

THE DENNISON PLAYERS

MONDAY,

January 24th TUESDAY,

January 25th W2DNESDAY,

January 26th THURSDAY,

January 27th FRIDAY,

January 28th SATURDAY,

January 29th

in a new repertoire of Plays and Farcas.

The laugh play of the Century

"SHE WALKED IN HER SLEEP "

The Greatest Play of the decada EYES OF YOUTH">

À, 'sertam from the rise to the fall of the curtain "NIGHTIE NIGHT?

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"The Dramatic Triamph "THE LION AND THE MOUSE” The Farce that made the Denniston's famous "UP IN MABEL'S BOOM"

The Hit of 1990. "PLEASE GET MARRIED” ·

Prices: $4, 83" & $2.

Performance. 8.15 1.M. SHARP.

STUPENDOUS

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S.

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ATTRACTION.

THEATRE ROYAL, JAN. 22ad, 9.15 p;m,

Madame Lottie Gordon's Grand Charity Concert,

it slants across the island, and the crowds Under the distinguished patronage and in the presence of

of people of overy"tongue and he just love it.

And above the noise of the city, solemn and heavy and insistent, there is the hoot ing of the liners only a few streets away, down on the water front by the Hudson River, rominding Englishmen of the ocean -and, three thousand miles across, the

•bright lighty of Southampton-the Strand glistening in the rain-Big Ben striking the hour-just Horas.

INCOME OF £1,000 A DAY. NET EARNINGS OF CINEMA. ARTISTS.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are probably enjoying a joinę daily income of £1,000.

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This, at least, is a fair deduction to be drawn from a study of the negotiations now proceeding between the United Artista Corporation, or the "Big Four," to which

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Stubbs,-

and

Admiral Siz Alexander Duff, E.0.B.

Mr. Howard Freeborn. Lient Col Crosso. Mr. Reginald Meyers. Madame Lottie. Gordon. Mrs. Mauries Minney. Mr. F. C. HAN

ARTISTES

Mrs. F. Cameron.

The Misses Eilleen and Doris

Woods.

Miss Nellie Williams, Miss Edie Soazen,

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Miss B. D. Thomson.

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HUMOROUS PROGRAMME.

the two popular stars belong, and the Box-plan opens at MOUTRIE'S on Wednesday next, 19th Jan.

First National Exhibitors Circuit of America: The "Big Four" (the other two are Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith) are asking about £100,000 apico for their films.

This figure must refer to the American rights alone, because the sum they ask for the United Kingdom rights is nearly £30,000. The First National Circuit willing to pay £100,000 each for Mary and Douglas films but it declines to pay such a sum for the films of any other artists.

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If the American rights of Pickford and Fairbanks films produce £100,000, an addi tional sum of £120,000 may safely be set down for total foreign rights, so that their gross reeipts on web film will amount to at least £220,000.

Assuming that each pro ates an average of three and a half fims per year, we get a grand total of $770,000 as the approxi mate annual receipts from the sale of each star's films. Deduct the generous sum of £60,000 for a year's cost of film production and we get a net total of 2710,000

It is fair to assume that the income tax collector will take three-quarters of this total, which leaves a net balance of about £180,000 apiece for Douglas and Mary, or a joint daily income of R1,000.

Such carnings as these represent very high film rental prices, and there are signs of a boycott in the States agains United Artists productions, though the Capitol Theatre in New York, the largest in the world, has offered to book a Fairbanka film, for one week, at a price of £2,500, which is easily a record figure. Expres.

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