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Motala.
Jow,
IRON AND STRAL:-
Stool Nail Beds... per pical
144
RAW SILK. JAPANESE JANUARY
STATISTICS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930.
OPERA FOR THE TALKIES DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS:
MASCAGNI TO WRITE A SINGING FILM.
NEW FORM OF ART,
""American film producers have asked my permission to reproduce Messrs, Pentreath & Co. have my operas in singing films, but I forwarded us the following letter, thought that it would be much bet dated January 27, from Messrs.ter for many reasons to create some Horeby, Hemelryk & Co., Liver- thing new, and therefore I have pool:+4
answered that as soon as I have a little time free I mean to compose
Market firm. Upward tendency. Stocks QUOTATIONA, Continental The market has moved within a $6.00 narrow compass during the week 5.40 under review, and, en balance, 5.49
values show very little change.. 5.93
The Japanese statistics for the 5,25
firs: fortnight of this month show 9.10 6.25 marked improvement compared with recent statistics. The figures compare as follows:-
Stoel Bar
JJ
Anglos
23
Bods
+
Joista
リ
Shoots
Plates
Swedish BarE
Small round rode
#
JJ
14.50 5.85 7.35
14.00
Discount rajal
to 30.
Hoops, black steel galvanizad
Black Tubes
Wire Nails,
Je 113
60%
...por pical
200
Galvanized corrugated shis.,
• 24/26 ....
... per 100 lbs. 24 GIS,50
Galvanizod Bat sheets, 1/324,
1/07
13.30 British
$17,50 17.60 18.00
Nov. 16
Dec. 1 to 15 Dec. 16 te. 31 Jan. 1 to 15
par 100 lbs 280.60 Galvanized 8/32x4'x9' per lb. $13.75
Galvanised wire 15/22 per picul
JAD:
BM, Spot
***
To arrive -
Australian-B.I.P., Spot "
TIN PLATER
"To arriva
English 1C.W., 20 x 14′′,
COMET HEAND
Cocc
EAGLE BRAND
#41
"
Total Arrivals
ehip from Into Port ments Int. Sight. stocks 92,408 30,648 99,408 50,000 22,250 31,313 31,260 30,000
26,787 23,000 28,767 51,000
special opera to be heard only through the singing films," said Signor Mascagni, the famous com- poser, to a reporter in Rotic re cently.
Speaking of the present crisis in the affairs of the lyric theatre, Mas cagni said that the crisis is chiefly dao to the cinema, whose. low pri ces, besides attracting enormous crowds, atract also a number of to go to the people who used theatres.
Mascagni added that the best thing for composers and singers 11.470 11,004 6,470 56,000 to do is to exploit the musical pos The expectation of smaller re-sibilities of the cinema. That this ceipta and fairly good takings of is already being done is shown by 18.00 Silk goods in New York are en- the fact that singers like Titta couraging some bullish ideas. The Rufo and Chaliapin have already burdensome stocks are, however, signed contracta in the United likely to continue a depressing in States to sing in singing films, Auence.
per box 12.00. 12.60
18.30
...per crue $4.18
8.00 3.83
9 tins 3.30
3,09
... per bulk 3.00
·SOCONT MOTOH GASOLEN... per 30 5.8 SILVER LIGHT
08 lba, per 2 tine 3.80 CROWN BRAND
81. galls. 68 lbs. per bulk 3.00 CROSS BRAND 71 lbs. por 2 tins 3.34 2.74 "Si. galls. 71 lbs. per bulk 2,74 LAXY GLASS
per 2 tine SHELL MOTOR ÜFIRIT
per casa 5,83
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"Doubtless," added Mascagni, "in Europe the same thing will be done. From the artistic viewpoint this is a pity, especially for musi cal nations like Italy and France the United States have little to lose.
100 lbs. Spot English I.C.W., To arrivo Eagih 1.C.W,18Į" x 14",
Close New York Saturday: 110 lbs. Spot English LC.W., To arrive 13.40 February 84.53c, March 84.51c, May
Continental,
34.51c. Amorican I.C, W. (Spot) 20 x 1
BURLAP. 100 lbs., 112 sheets per box...No stock
November clearances from India American LC.W., To arrive 20"x14"
100 lbs., 112 shoots... per box $14.60 to North America were very large,
and December figures indicate that "Still, it cannot be denied, that Petroleum Products.
British approximately 137 million yards of with small means wonderful re- cloth have been shipped to North sults can be obtained through sing. WHITE LOCK BRAND
America.
ing sima. The cinema, after all. Our New York correspondents must be considered as the ally of write that the continued accumula-musicians and not their enemy, tign of stocks in America appears since the cinema contributes to inevitable, and that notwithstand knowledge of music which other ing the present low rupee rate of wise would remain unknown to the exchange, there is little indication general public. Mascagni showed of any important recovery in pri- his enthusiasm for wireless, and said that wireless can even improve music. He added that the previous day as "Cavalleria Rusticana" was being brendcast in his presence he JUTE AND HEMP. Futures trading was inaugurated graduated the broadcasting in such nway as to obtain a perfection of on the 7th. inst.
As regards Jute, our New York sounds which he had never obtaini correspondents write that consumed before in an orchestra. QUOTATIONS. ers have latterly "shown little in- terest in actual. Jute. This is un- 150 doubtedly due to the downward 10.40 trend of the rupee, exchange occa 4.00 aiuned by the weakness of silver. Spinners are showing very little interest in Hemp. On the other hand, there is, we hear, no pres- sure to sell from the Philippines.
Closing prices 10th. inst. (all
3.53.
por 2 tinn 6.53 per bulk 8.08
per gallon (ex pamp) 0.81
TEXACO" SCALE
„per case 8.96
n
342 5.83
"TIN FOO ""TRIACO AUTOGAFOLENE" "
Coals.
KAIPING-No. 1 Lump
Nut Conl
No. 2 Lump
No 1 Black
'No, 2 Black
Flour
Manket:--Vary weak. QUOTATIONS:
410
•
$17.50 10.0.1
American Patent ...per sack $4.45
3.35-3,65
Straight... Cut off
Australian No. 1 Canadian Cut off
STOCK:
#
American
Straight, Mixtare...
2nd Clear...
Canadian Australian...
Sundries.
WINDOW GLABE--
Fair average sizta
1/167 thick 1/8
ces.
-
Close Saturday May 5.10c, September 3.30c.
+
3.40-8.70 nominal): 3.80-5,00 3.25-3.35
2.15-3.25
*
3.00
#
*1.00
י
... 500,000 bags
*** 180,000
20,000**
700,000 bag
The great composer said that if singing films are produced with the collaboration of musicians their production will be greatly improv ed.
J
Mascagni thinks very little of modern ecmposers with the excep- tion of the Spaniard, Ravel.
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Described as "a member of a good Scottish family, educated at one of the best-known Scottish public schools and a Scottish University,' Henry John Donald Mackinnon Jardine (2), underwriter, pleaded guilty at Marlborough Street police-court last month to attempting to obtain three suits, 'one morning coat suit and one over- pont, valun £77, from Mesars. Staf-
÷
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Geneva
34.893 23,195
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Amsterdam
Milan Berlin
12.12 92.83 20,365
Stockholm
18.12
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80.75
85
China Sugars.
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Malabon Sugarn ...
United Asbestos
MiscellaneouA
To
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34,505
Prague
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Lisbon Athens
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Το
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SAY IT WITH SPATS.
NEW VOGUE IN U.S.
The spat, which for many years has been. jeered at by Americans as the hallmark of English nob- bery in dress, is now being adopted by the smart young men of the United States."
Bombay
Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama
Silver (spot) Silver (forward)
1/5 27/32
1/11 1/6
2/0 9/32
107. 101
CONFESSIONAL DEATH..
Post Dated Cheque. Detective Griffey stated that on December 6 Jardine called at Staf ford's, and said he had just come home from abroad after five years' absence, was staying at the Hotel Cecil, and wanted some clothing. He asked to be allowed to give a post-dated cheque. The firm asked for references, and later they re- ceived a letter purporting to come from Grindley's Bank. It was a forgery.
Later Jardine called, and said he had decided to take the clothes be- fore Christmas, and asked to post- date the cheque to December 27. Ho wrote a cheque and left, but latter rang up and asked for the goods to be delivered to No. 3 platform, Waterloo Station. Three suite and the overcoat were taken to Waterloo, say, "I have seen Grindley's, but did not know they were going to write,"
Good Characters. For the defence, Mr. Hornby anid that Jardine was in the service of Bank for eighteen Grindley's months, and left there to better his position in
PRIEST'S LIPS SEALED BY THE and the officer heard the prisoner
SILENCE."
A woman was half-way through No undergraduate at Harvard or Yalo is considered well dressed un-her confession in Manchester
deas his feet are clothed with "Eng lish-tailored "apate.
American business men of the more respectable kind are also wear. ing them, to the astonishment of visitors from the Middle West, who think they are "foot mittens."
Spats are becoming fashionable in America just when they are going out of fashion in England," said an expert on men's clothes to Sunday Express representative. re- cently.
Roman Catholic Church recently when her voice ceased suddenly, and the priest, listening behind the grille, heard a thud as she fell dead on the four..
She was Hrs. Susan Hyland, aged sixty-two, of Chorlton-on-Medlock The cause of her death is a mystery, as up to the moment of her collapse she had been in perfect health.
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an insurance office. Macao & Tenhan From both places he left with a good character. He left the insur
ance office to take up another posi-Bongmoon (except Saturdays) tion, but the firm which engaged Kantong (except Saturdays)... him went bankrupt. Since then he The priest who heard the confes had been out of a job. What he Fatahan (By Train)
Tai.0 sion said: "I am prevented by the had done seemed extraordinary. Ha silence of the confessional' from had no object, in getting the clothes, telling what took place. I could and nowhere to put them, as he Tao... not tell even the police that. But was only living in a club.
can any that death was sudden.
Mr Mend: He could have pawn-
It is a fortunate thing for the trade that Americans have adopted them. Otherwise the manufacture of spate
would be a dying indus-when I heard the woman fall, for once. try."
Smart and colourful" English braces are also being worn by the men about town" of New York and Chicago..
I ran out of the confessional box ed them and realised on them at
It is thought in America that it will not be long before the much despised monocle will be worn to complete the ensemble."
Shumchun
I could not ace her from inside, Mr. Hornby appealed to Mr. | Cheungchow
Mend to deal with the prisoner so that he could go to Scotland and
and with the help of another, man in the church, lifted her from the floor. She was head.
The woman's body was taken to the mortuary, and later in the evening her husband, who had be come, alarmed at her absence and inquired at the police station, was told of her death."
Aberdeen
tell his father the deplorable posi- Stanley tion in which he had placed him- Autan, Pingshan, Eastin, self. There was no doubt that his father would make restitution,
Mr. Mead said it was a serious offence, and remanded Jardine-in custody for a medical report.
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