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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN."

Boy Scout: "Is this the first night you ever slept in a tons?"

Another Boy Scout: "I don't. know yet?'

We're indebted to radio for at least one blessing, It has demon- strated that it is possible to get a hearing in America without yelling, "Say, listen!"

Street Orator: Five years ago I was a physical and mental wreck. What do you think has made all this change?

Heckler: What change?

An old negro was asked what breed of chicken he considered the best: "All kinds has deir merits," he replied. "Dej white ones "am de easiest to find, but de black am de easiest to hide."

"It was terrible," said Mrs. Murphy. There

were twenty-

seven English and an Irishman

lost in the wreck."

"Indade!" exclaimed

Grogan

"The poor man!"

Mrs.

One of the players was driving and approaching very well, but putting badly. A spectator 10- marked to his caddie: "Your man is driving wonderfully well."

"Aye." replied the caddie ernie ally; "but what's the good e' par- tin' an umbrella up if your boots are leakin."

"What are you crying about?”

"You say you were well recom- mended!"

"Yes, ma'am, I have 39 refor.

ences.

"And how long have you been in service?"..

"Nearly two years,” ma'am.”

This meat is not cooked, nor is the pie,"

Bride I did it like the cookery book, but as the receipt was for four people and we are only two, I took half of everything and cook. ed it for half the time it said.

er to the young man. "A bitter "Beware," hissed the fortune-tel..

enemy is going to path

"When't Next week ?! "Yes."

cross

your

"That, all right, then. I'm go- ing on a motoring tour next week."

"Clean your shoes for fourpenče, güv❜nor,"

"No, thank you.

"Clean your shoes for tuppenge, Kuvnor,"

No. thank you!"

"Clean your shoes for nuffin, so that you can see your face in 'em?

"No!"

"An'. I don't wonder, either, with face like that?"

ן.

Cries for help had attracted Percy's attention. A big man was heating a much smaller individu- al Leave him alone.” shouted Percy, who threw himself into the

Dear old Crimson Gulch is lifray and knocked out the big man able to be disgraced," answered Cactus Joe.

"Why, the town is going to be ich! They have discovered deres of oil lands nearby."

"Yes. And that means that we are liable to get into one of those oil scandala any minute."

A very angry man entered the estate agent's office.

em-

"Where's that swindling ployer of yours?" he yelled to the aronished boy sitting at the desk, "What's the trouble," sir?" asked the boy.

Trouble?" screamed, the man. Trouble! He sold me a house and told me that in six months I wouldn't part with it for a thous and pounds:"

Just at that moment, the estate agent walked in.

"That's right," he said, coolly : Hand you haven't, have you?"

with a well-timed uppercut.

"Thanks," said the little man, after he had pulled himself toge- ther. "And now, look 'ere, you share the ten-bob note I took off 'im."

The family was scated at dinner, and the conversation turned to school lessons, much to the con- sternation and disgust of little Cynthia.

What period in English history are you doing?" asked her father. "Stuarts," said Cynthia, curtly. There was a long pause as fa ther "thought out a question to put- to his daughter. He was a little hazy about facts, but at last he propounded his poser:

"What was the first thing James | T. did when he came

to the throne

"Eat on it. I suppose. "replied Cynthia.

ACENTRAL THEATRE

Paramcunts Sound Pictures R

-TO-DAY to FRIDAY Daily at 2.15, 5.10, 7,15 and 9,20 P.M.

"Return Engagement of "THE LOVE PARADE"

The Big Picture of All Times

OVE to the

The screen's great. est talking singing achievement.

MAURICE

CHEVALIER The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MACDONALD LUPIRO LANE LILLIAN ROTH

The show that wow- ed New York. Tune»- full Spectacular! Deliciously funnyl Hear Chevalier sing Nobody's Using It Now." Hear Jea nette MacDonald sing Dream Lover."

A Garamezint Picture

BOOKING AT ANDERSON AND THE THEATRE

(TELEPHONE 25720).

NEXT CHANGE Charles Rogers & Nancy Carroll

ILLUSION"

Talking Singing Dancing Love Story

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930.

SUBURBAN HEIGHTS BRINGING UP THE SCREENS

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

DOOR BLOWS SHUT

DOUBLE FEATURES

William Fox ZANE GREY'S

presents.

the

first all Talking

Picture

The LONE STAR RANGER

GETS AN ARM LOAD OF SCREENS TO CARRY [UP FROM CELLAR. DE KIDES HE'D BETTER OPEN DOOR FIRST

SETS SCREENS DOWN (AND OPENS DOOR..... [AGAIN

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME:

SETS SCREENS DOWN PICKS SCREENS OP AND GOES UP TO OPEN AGAIN AND ADJUSTS DOOR

LOAD

STARTS UP WITH SCREENS AS WIFE SHUTS DOOR, WON- DERING ALOUD WHO LEFT IT OPEN

"RELAY. FROM CHINESE.

THEATRE.

1 to 11.30a.m.-Commercial News, 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.-Chinese

programme.

al

Re-

12.30 p.m.-European programmẹ. 1.30 pan. Weather, report.

corded programme continued. 2. p.m.-Close down.

6 to 8 p.-European programme

of Victor and H.M.V. records selected and supplied by Messrs. Moutrie & Co. Mignon-Overture (Thomas), Chi

cago Orchestra..

OFENS DOOR. AS SCREEKS”. SLIDE FROM UNDER ARM

SHOUTS TO WIFE, SET- TING NO ACTION TRIES "TO OPEN DOOR, WITH~ ́ ́ AND COAST DOWN STAIRS, OUT PUTTING SCREENS WIFE CALLS CHEERILY

[15 ANYTHING THE

MATTER?

DOWN

(Copyright, 1930, dy. The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

£61,000 SWEEP PRIZE.

BANK PAY WORKMEN THOUGH, OFFICIAL LIST DIFFERS.

CALCUTTA NUMBERS.

wcre

THE SILVER SCREEN.

"SOUTH SEA ROSE."

Lenore Ulric, talented Broadway star, will be at the Queen's Theatre on Wednesday in South After many weeks of doubt and Sea Rose," her second Fox Movie- tone all-talking picture. As the anxiety, two working men paid £61,000 at the Pall Mall branch exotic and voluptuous maid of a of Lloyds Bank recently for a tropical island, Miss Ulric's role is ticket they had drawn in the Cal. similar to the memorable charac- terizations she created in her two cutta Turf Club Derby "Sweep."

most famous stage hits, "Lulu Belle" and "Kiki."

The Larboard Watch and The Gendarmes Duet (Offenbach), Walter Glynne and Stuart Robertson, Vocal Dust. Funeral March of a Marionette-| -

(Gounod) and Marche Militaira (Schubert), San Francisco Sym- phony Orchestra.

The bank also paid another £81,000 to two men who also had a ticket.

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The lucky ubers are:-

RR2350, held by seven working men of Barnstaple, and,

GP8855. held by two Coventry

machinists.

The Bank's Assurance.

The bank maintain that these numbers drew Blenheim, the win- The Yeoman's Wedding (Ponianer of the Derby; the official list towski) and Out of the Night cabled from Calcutta gave other (Lidgey), Percy Heming, Bari numbers as drawing Blenheim

tone.

Invitation to the Waltz (Weber), Philadelphia Symphony Orch. Chanson (In Love) (Friml) and Love's Garden of Roses (Wood), Reginald Foort, Organ Solo. Tannhauser - Denusberg Music and Bacchanale (Wagner), Sym- phony Orchestra. Chorus Gentlemen (Lobr) and Off to Philadelphia (Haynes), Percy

Heming, Baritone. Carnival Overture (Dvorak), Chi-

cago Symphony Orchestra. Oh, Could I But Express in Song (Malashkin) and Sincerity (Clurke), Peter Dawson, Bass Baritone. L'Arlesienne Prelude '(Bizet), Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden. L'Arlesienne Farandole (Bizet) aad L'Arlesienne Angiatto, Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden.

"

A Dream and Macusbla, Renee Chemet, Violin Solo with Piano. Martha Selection (Flotow), The Band of HM. Coldstream Guards.

8 p.m.-Chinese relay from the Ko

Shing Theatre.: 9p.m.--Weather report, Relay con-

tinued. 11pm.-Close down.

will

$8.00

keep

you in touch with Hong Kong news for six months

"South Sea Rose" is an adroitly. contrived comedy drama, with the bulk of its stormy action laid in a remote tropical island and aboard. a trading vessel on the high sens. It is full of bizarre adventure and ruthless events, stirred by the tempestuous lass who is restored to civilization by a rough crew of wayfarers.

Anxiety by the holders of RR2839

Charles Bickford, who won con- and CP 8886 followed the publica-siderable fame "by his performance tion of the official list, but the bank Dynamite," portrays a hardened assured the holders that their num-sea-captain. The remainder of the bera had drawn Blenheim and that they would be paid their prize supporting cast include Kenneth money.

MacKenna, Tom Patricold, Mar Mr. Percy Hogg, a Southern donald, Elizabeth Patterson, Roscoe Railway engine-driver, and his brother-in-law, Mr. J. Lock, a road Ates, Daphne Pollard, Ilka Chase, sweeper, travelled from Barnstaple George MacFarlane. Ben Hall and were paid £81,000 for RR2859.

and Charlotte Walker...

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Mr. Tom Lane and W. Osborne, who are employed at a Coventry motor works, were also paid £81,000 for their ticket GP8885.

In the Best of Spirits Mr. Hogg and Mr. Lock evaded a crowd of well-wishers outside the bank and hurried back to Barn- staple to share the money with their five partners,

An official of the bank said: "The men

have received their money, and they were in the best of spirits."

DEAD BABIES MYSTERY.

GERMAN DOCTORS"

INDICTED.

The investigation ordered by the Gerinan Minister for the Interior tä- Bacertain the cause of death of so MEDY infants in Lübeck after inocalation with

The Love Parade.". Commencing to-day "The Love Parade" is being shown at the Central Theatre, by special request. This will be positively the last time this popular film will be shown in Hong Kong, and those who have not yet seen it-it there is such a person in town must go this time or not at all. Miss Jeanette Mac donald's lovely voice along is worth bearing, while the gay Maurice. Chevalier is seen in a part acknow ledged to be one of his most success- ful studies."

There are some very fine melodics in "The Love Parade," admitted to be one of the big films of recent. production.

Seats may be book in advance at Messrs Anderson's and at the theatre.

anti-tuber- On the other hand the investiga culosis preparation supplied by tors consider that their experiments Professor Calmette, of the Pasteur and tests prove that in the course Institute at Paris, has resulted in of the preparation of the Calmette'

a most serious indictmout of re sponsible Lübeck medical men. The investigation has been conducted

material in Lübeck for inoculation

purposes it became contaminated, so that Lübeck babies were actually by the head of the Bacteriological inoculated with preparations con- Department of the Reich's Henith taining virtulent bacilli. Department and by Professor The investigators also blame the Lange, of the Robert Koch In- bead of the Lübeck Hospital for

AFTER YOU GO AWAY stitute. Hundreds of animals have throwing away stocks of inoculation

and you will certainly

order for the Weekly Press to be sent to you. We, at 11, Ice House Street, will do the rest

Deon inoculated with cultures cbmaterial when its deleterious nature tained from Lubeck, and definite became known, thus destroying ma- conclusions can be known only in torial that would have been invalu- about three weeks, but the pronule for the present researches. wvisional resulta quaerate Professor All that remains are cultures from fisimette from all planshichination materia was, Pata

The investigatora are able to an pared by Lübeck doctors com nounce that the probabilities are Thirty-seven children died at that the Calmette, material is in itself innocuous, that it was sent from Paris tó Lübeck in perfect con- dition, and that there is no reason for nasuming that it underwent any change and became virulent (Continued at foot of acet column)

Lübeck, and many others became dangerously ill, following the Calmette prophylactic tuberculosis, treatment. This tragic consequence of the treatment created alarm throughout Gormany and in many other countries.

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AT THE

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THE

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YORK

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW THE LIFE OF A TUCHUN»

(A Chinese Drama)

NOW

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A Paramount Picture

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