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Tel, Central 396.

INE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND, 1925

2. Queen's Buildings.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

TO-DAY, at 2.30

7.15

5.15 p.m., p.m.,

p.m. & 9.15 pm POSITIVELY LAST PERFORMANCES.

"

A Picture Which Everybody Should Sec.

FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES.

LEWIS STONE

PRESENT

WALLACE BEERY

!

IN

JANE NOVAK ROBERT GORDON

THE ROSARY

An Adaptation of Edward Rose's "Panibus.

Play of the Same Nanc

BUSTER

ALSO

ΚΕΑΤΟΝ.

IN...

“ELECTRIC HOUSE

His Funniest Comedy to Date in 2-Parts.

SHOWING HERE TO-MORROW. "RUPERT OF HENTZAU

The Sequel to

“THE PRISONER OF ZENDA.”

WORLD THEATRE.

TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY, 5.15 p.m. & 9.15 p.m.

ZUROPE'S MOST CELEBRATED SCREEN STAR

MIA MAY

IM

"THE PRICE SHE PAID "

(ADAPTED FROM E. RAJDA'S FAMOUS STAGE PLAY "THE BRIDE'S CONFESSION“ IN EIGHT REELS),

IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PICTURES IN WHICH THE FASCINATING ACTRESS EVER APPEARED. NEVER HAS A PICTURE BEEN MADE WITH A GREATER SPIRITUAL AND DRAMATIC APPEAL. WHEN YOU SEE IT YOU'LL KNOW WHAT A DRAMATIC MASTERPIECE MEANS.

WITH- SPECIAL MUSIC AT ORDINARY PRICES. COMING.

COMING.

A GREAT LOVE STORY BASED ON THE IMMORTAL POEM

“THE BAREFOOT BOY

WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST INCLUDING JOHN BOWERS. MARJORIE DAW AND OTHERS

JACK

AZSO

DEMPSEY

WEST OF THE WATER

BUCKET"

(THE THIRD OF THE "FIGHT & WIN" SERIES).

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ON BEING PERSUADED.

THE ART OF SALESMANSHIP.

It is not easy nowadays to turn over the pages of half a

"discovering a re-

HEY

up at random withou journals picked ference to what, remarkably called "the art of salesmanah he it has its non- art, it appears is taught, it demies,

professors, ita earnestly devoted pupils It has too, a philosophy ander

ying it's commercial "praction--a philosphy concerning, wh

which the wise mich of the counter dispute with the acrimony of scholars. To ordinary members of the public, who

who buy more often than they All this They cannot fail to realize that they are the raw material of this widespread art. They are to the graduate in salesman- what clay is to the sculptor the beach. Their or Band to the child on purses contain the rewards of profciency; their minda yield to the presum ol scientiae persuasion. They are, in short and it is a humiliating discovery-by no means the independent, self-controlled individuals they

they have imagined them. selves to be, but on the contrary, mem

bers at a thermob who drift 10 through glass beneath the smile of. commissionaires, are subjecteil to awift analysis by bowing psychologists in frocks coats, are passed on by them to junior scientists who courteously minister to thair acquisitive weaknesses, and are foal! ly permitted to escape, through the sune

ass doors and beneath the same amiles, bearing with them sua gigantic parcels which originally they had no in- testion of

of purchasing, but which now appear to them as an armful of urgent needs miraculously satisfied:

glass

of

op-

A DATE

TO REMEMBER.

Pro-THURSDAY, 2ND APRIL, 1925.

The existence of this persuasive art adds an extravagant peril to the streets. If any doubt it, then recall-an advertisement, recently published in our own.columns, in which a "giant in statuze

for and personality" asked porturity to carn a thousand pounds a year. Apart from his portions, he had bat obe

ion for anid, "sell anything." remunerativ employment he could,

Is there not al amennace in this positivossible in

most What mont?

resistance

he

the timid purchaser

ser who, having set out to buy a pince of ribbon and a kitten. may well come bome with a hemp hawser and a

And there are purchasers

matite utter & fate

who

13

one

GRAND CONCERT

IN AID OF

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.

Place

Time

Theatre Royal.

&15 pm. Prompt.

Hope or Curiosity

I think sometimes the word "curiosity" is just another name for "hope.”

You might fancy that it was curiosity that made you smoke your first Kensitas—no, sir, it was really hope, the hope that you would find Kensitas a really good cigarette, better than the kind you had been smoking

But it is a fact, sir, that after you smoked that first Kensitas and experienced the cool, rare old blend of prime Virginia you continued to smoke Kensitas, because you found that Kensitas ace

u good as really good cigarettes

'can be."

Kensitas

Hanufacturers:

the preferred cigarette

1. WIX & SONS - LTD - UM34 PICCADILLY · LONDON - W. 1 - ENG. Wholesale only: DONNELLY & WHITE, Distributors for Hongkong and

- South China, 1 QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, Tairphane: Crotzai 63%

"Obtainable at · Lane, Crawford,

Tabaquaria Filiolas, Grasco-Frypan

Cobečo Scien, and all high-cinsi Tobacconista,

At 95 cents

"per tiz of 50

almost as inconvenient Like the com-

officer

of. Conrad's manding stories they are of such a nature that The Band of the East Surreys will they are made

Perform the following Delightful morally and almost physically uncomfortable by the mere

Programmie- thoug ght of having to

to beat down a lie." If they are told, be a giant in

Pay that they 1-RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES...Walkürenritt) want Botnething that the giant has to dispose of, they find it

it easier to buy that BALLET MUSIC... The Shoo to argue and lese embarrassing to sur-

than to recape.

if the teller 1-OVERTURE....Tannhauser... Wagner

Wagner

Ansell

Wealth of AO MODERATO)

Lenderndise is bought every day :

in Eng

Tchaikovsky lard for no better reason than that the purchaser, unable to find a ready answer 5-ALLEGRETTO SCHERZASDC. Sth Symphony

Besthoven to smooth persuasions, would rather suffer then be rude For the giants of the SureScenes Neapolitane...... Massenat counter are gentle giants. In the old -SELECTION_The MartyroiAntioch...Bullican days, crude insistence could be calc 'AUX, CLAIBIAUX answered by brief refusal; now courtesy

must have its response in courtesy: The-Toxe Pozx.inlandis irus. giant has & splendid indiarrence to

......Becker Sibelista

Bowes-Smith and Mr. D. M. Richards will assist

the commersial side of his art; he wishes In addition Mr. and Mrs. A. M. madam to admire, he says, got to bar: he has an air of enjoying infuitely her criticism, her conversation, and her com- pany. Lest she should think herself flattered; he dares sometimes to contradict. lest she should imagine that her band is being forced, he ventures even

to disaunde ber from buying some object

that has momentarily attracted her Little by little he

be creates what

pro-

the

fessora of his art call “an atmosphere

good will"

of

[2030

Only the hardest heart C. B. WARREN & CO., LTD.

A

ed woman can breathe it and escape. purchase, she feels, is the only graceful end to a conversation so charming. When

is gone, the giant nods and says: could have sold her anything, and she came in only to look round" She.

on the way home, is wondering, not why

she was persuaded, but why she enjoyed

ît:

16. There is in truth something of magie

in it, and effective magician will al- ways be worth their thousand pounds a year.-Times

<+

BUSINESS CHANGES. GROWTH OF CREDIT AND ACCOUNTANCY.

Bills and cheques amounting it value to £20,502,864,000 passed through the Bankers Clearing House in Post Office court. Lorabard-street. 'E.CA last year-- three times the total of 1913 and four times that of 1900..

Acemintants are astonished at the in- crease, which is not, it is said, propor tionate to the increase in business.

One cause is said to be that paper money or gold is no longer the real cur- rency of business. Credit is quing the wheels of industry...

Basiness to-day is one big welter of figures," an accountant told a reporter. The smallest business has its banking account and the smallest payment is by cheque. Directors are no longer satisfied with simple balance-sheets, but require aralyses of every item. Ia. some, busi- nesses Eix different machines will record what used to be contained in one easily handled book.

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Greatest recent success.

TIGER

ROSE

Experienced Cinemagoers

are aware that whenever a big stage success has been transferred bodily to the screen with the original cast, a delightful picture has resulted. One has to recall "Potash and Perlmutter,” “Way · Down East," "Disraeli” to realise the truth of this. "Tiger Rose" is one more triumphant vindication of the rule that a good play, well cast always makes a good picture.

TO-DAY 'Will SATURDAY

at 2:30 p.m., 5.15

7.15

p.1.

& 9.15

p.m.

THE CORONET

STAR

THEATRE

· KOWLOON.

In response to numerous requests and by desire of the Management,

3-PERFORMANCES ONLY-3 THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES (Maurice E. Benson v. Alec Ross)

Present

MADELINE ROSSITER'S COMPANY

K

The only show that is sure of a welcome everywhere. FRIDAY, April 3rd, at 9.15 p.m.

“FLARES & FLASHES

p.Ille

SATURDAY, April 4th at 9.15

POT POURRI

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Presenting the most popular Items in the Company's Repertoira, SUNDAY, April 5th, at 9.15 p.m.

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

REQUEST PROGRAMME

Bend in your request by Saturday next and we will put in one for you The Programme is Years-anything you want.. GOOD-BYE-EE.

Prices-33, 32 & 31. Booking at Montrie's or Star Theatre. There is Only One SHOW, and That is the ROSSITER CO.

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