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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930.

SUBURBAN HEIGHTS

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

Fright, 1530, by The Ball Syndicate, Inc.)

DOUBLE ATTRACTIONS

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Modern version: "Motorist, spare that tree!"

Well I think I'll repair home. ward."

Oh, you have a used car, too?"

"Why is the saxophonist not playing f

"He is responding to several re- quest numbers."

"Smith gets awfully tiresome- always pulling some old adage or other.'

"Yes; he needs a maxim siloa-

"J

She: "But, dear, do you really think you ought to order oysters zo-day i"

He: "Why not?"

She: "Well, there's no 'R' in Monday!"

Visitors were present. "Daddy, may I have a dime?" asked little Georgia

"Dad obliged, with a smile.

"This time you" won't make me give it back after the company's gone, will you, Daddy was little, Georgie's loud plea

Disgusted at the financial returns from poetry, the long-haired con- tributor had left a collection of jokes with the editor. When he called about them, he was delight ed with the editorial comment.

These jokes are both good and original. But

ohes the good are not original and the original oces are not good."

Seeing a sign in a window read. ing "Ice Creme," young Goofus went in and told the man behind the soda fountain of the misspell- ing. "Has anyone told row of it! before." Good fus asked.

"Handreds," replied the clerk. But whenever they drop into tell me they always spend something. What'll you have to-day."

Visitor (at quiet resort): "What- oven do you do here when it raïbs 1"? Native: "Oh, we just let" at rain"

"When water becomes ice," said the professor, "what is the grea test change that takes place ???

"The price, sir."

"Son, I want you should be a gentleman when you grow up." ..

"Aw, I don't wanna be a gentle man; I wanna be just like yan, Papa!

Disgusted Diner: "You can't ex- pect me to eat this stuff! Call the manager!"

"Waiter: "It's no use; he won't eat it, either!"

The office boy says: "After look. ing up the definitions of aardvaark, armadillo, and ibex, I'd convinced that Noah took a lot of funny an- imals into his dictionary,"

From "Lost and Found" col- umn: "Automobile. Top wind- shield scratched where wiper has beca; right headright glas, broken left fender split; right front wheel sprung and wobbles; taken night of 12th of May. Reward if return- ed in good condition."

"These new pants are too tight."" little Willie complained. "They're tighter than my skin.""

"Nonsense! Impossible!" said ab. his mother. "Nothing. you surd child, could be tighter than your skia."

"Well," persisted little Willie, "these pants is tighter, anyhow; for I can sit down in my skin. but I can't in these pants."

"Yes, officer, you're absolutely right I've had my car parked here 15 minutes longer than the legal amount of time. Yes, I know that I ought to go before the judge and be punished. I agree with you that I had no business whatever Jones: "Oh, we've decided to breaking the law, and you would make jam out of our home-grown be justified in testifying against fruit this year, and my wife has me. I'm perfectly willing to take asker me to come along to you a ticket. Just hand it here, and for the suger."

much obliged to you. There should Shopkeeper: Yes, sir. About be more men like you in the how many pounds would you re-force. Well, good day, officer, "quire 7"

and thanks once again for giving- me the opportunity to buy this ticket for the Policeman's Benefit Ball,"

Jonce: "I don't exactly know How much shall I want for seven exceptionally fine plums ?"

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CENTRAL THEATRE

Paramount's Sound Pictures/R

TO-DAY

to FRIDAY

Daily at 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 5 and 9.20 P.M.

Return Engagement of

"THE LOVE PARADE"

The Big Picture of All Times

LOVE to the

Queen's tastel The screen's great. est talking singing achievement.

MAURICE

CHEVALIER The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MACDONALD ELIPINO LANE LILLIAN ROTH

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

A. Garamcunt Pictur

BOOKING AT ANDERSON AND THE THEATRE

(TELEPHONE 25720).

NEXT CHANGE Charles Rogers & Nancy Carroll

ILLUSION"

A Talking--Singing-Dancing Love Story

16-16

FRED PERLEY'S DAY WAS RUINED

YESTERDAY BECAUSE WHEN HE CAME DOWN TO

GET. THE PAPER TO READ IN BED AS HE ALWAYS DOES

SUNDAY MORNINGS, TWO NEIGHBORS, GIVING THEIR DOGS

AN EARLY AIRING, WERE HAVING A NICE LONG.

6055)P RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS DOOR.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON

335 METRES.

11 to 11.30 am-Commercial News, 11.30 am to 12.30 p.m.-Chinese

programme.

12.30 m-European recorded pro-

RADIO CALLING TO WORK.

WIRELESS, FACTORY'S QUICK

GROWTH.

The growth of broadcasting is helping to solve Southend's unem ployment problem.

GUYAS WILLAMS

MANCHESTER FIRM'S BLANK CHEQUES.

ACTION AGAINST, BANK DISMISSED

After a bearing lasting four days there was concluded in the High, Court, Dublin, recently, before Mr. Almost all the local unemployed

Justice Hanna and a jury, an have been absorbed in the action in which Arthur Giles and wireless industry which has sprung Sons, Manchester, sought damages 1.30 p.m.-Weather report. Euro-up, mush-room-like, on the borders of £3,200 from the Royal Bank of

pean recorded programme con of the town.

Ireland, on the ground of alleged tinued.

negligence and breach of duty.

gramme,

9 p.m.-Close down.

:

0 p.m. Aunty Pat, Unde Dick and Uncle Jeff will entertain the Kiddies.

6.30 to 8 p.m.-European pro gramme of Victor records select ed and supplied by Mesara Tsang Fook.

Roman Carnival-Overture (Bor- fioz), Philharmonic Orchestra,

Berlin.

Valse Triste (Sibelius) and Humoureske (Dvorak), Mischa Elman, Violinist.

The Glow-Worm (Lincke) and

Hearts and Flowers-Intermez zo (Tobani), Victor Concert Orchestra.

Madame Butterfly-Un Bel Di Vedremo (Puccini) and Boheme Mi Chiamano Mimi, Lucrezia Bori, Soprano.', Spanish Caprice (Korsakow), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Clair De Lune (Suio) and Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Burleigh), Dame Nellie Melba, Soprano." Old Folks At Home (Foster) and Souvenir (Drdia), Fritz Kreis- ler, Violin Solo.."

Wireless sets and battery elimi- nators are being turned out by the thousand

The plaintiffs are cattle and sheep salcamen, and in April, 1997, These facts were revealed by an they entered into a verbal agree official of E.K. Cole, Ltd., a wirement with George Kavanagh, cattle dealer, of Dublin, who had a cur- less firm which within five years rent account with the defendants has increased its annual turnover Kavanagh, the plaintiffs stated, from £50 to £800,000, and is short-was to purchase cattle for them and ly opening a new £70,000 factory near Southend.

"By the end of this summer," he said, "we shall be turning out all-electric wireless sets at the rate of one every 4 minutes -

"We shall then be taking on an- other 800 hands more than South- CP can supply-and it will be necessary to import labour" from the surrounding neighbourhood. We now employ nearly 2,000 men and girla"

The factory covers an area of 80,000 square feet, and is built in the middle of fields.

An official told me that South- end girle are far quicker and more efficient than London girls.

My Heart Stood Still and To "We find they wind coils and fit gether, Paul Whiteman and His the delicate parts of a wireless get Concert Orchestra.

together with extraordinary speed Three Norwegian Melodies and compared with their London sis The Herd Girl's Sunday, Lawters," he said. "We cannot ac rence J. Munson, Organist.

count for this, even on pyschologi- eal grounds" Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), Metropolitan Opera Chorus.. Orpheus in Hades - Overture (Ofenbach), Victor Symphony Orchestra.

8 p.mChinese programme..

BANKING "THE ROAD BENDS.

9 p.m.-Weather report. Chinese COUNCIL'S SAFETY FIRST.”

programme continued,

10.30 p.m.-Close dorn.

· MOVE."

fendants to pay the expense of his. was to have a deposit with the de-

transactions on behalf of the plain- tiffs would, at the end of each week, draw a cheque in favour of the take cattle from Kavanagh and plaintifs upon the bank for the difference between the price of the selected cattle and the amount on a blank cheque which had been placed at the disposal of Kavanagh by the plaintiffs, who had also agreed to pay" Kavanagh a weekly wage.

Before making this arrangement they bad made inquiries with the with Kavanagh the plaintiffs alleged

bank as to his character and were informed by the manager that it was good, and that if the intended blank cheques were left with him he would superintend the filling up. of them.

The plaintiffs watered into the agreement with Kavanagh and alleged they had lost. £3,200.

The defendants, denied knowledge of the alleged agreement and said they were not guilty of negligence and acted in good faith.

Mr. Justice Hanta directed the jury to find for the defendants He gave judginent dismissing the action" with costs and made an order for a stay of execution pending con sideration by the plaintiffs of the question of entering an appeal.

WILLIAN FOX presents

Lenore ULRIC South Sea Rose

Movietone ROMANCE with SONGS

AT ALL PERFORMANCE);

THE MONTMARTRE FOLLIES

LATEST SONGS GORGEOUS COSTUMES DARING DANCES

DUAL ATTRACTION AT USUAL PRICES

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

QUEEN'S

AT THE

STAR

At 2.80, 5.10, 7.159.20.

WARNER BROS.

Dolores Costello The REDEEMING SIN Conrad Nagel

A WARNER BROS." Production

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY.

At 6.80 & 9.20.

LILLIAN GISH IN

AT THE

"The SCARLET LETTER

WORLD

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY Interpreter at All Performances

Adolphe Menjou BROWN

HIS TIGER LADY

EVELYN BR

HUGE TUBE FOR TESTS OF soft, fascinating. All the par- Tiger, tiger. Fierce, Majestic,

-PLANE PARTS.

Surrey County Council have de cided to bank the roads at many ROUND THE WORLD TALK. dangerous corners and road bende ROAD TRANSPORT PROBLEM.

fashion, after the Brooklands though, of course, in a very modified

The Bt round-the-world voice form. transmission was accomplished at Schenectady, NY, last month,

Over

The huge steel tunnel which has

A start is being made at the road" been made at the works of John.

F

the C Wagoner, of the Gen bends in Cobham, and many other Brown and Chizal eral Electric, broadcast a speech sections of read throughout the to be used at the National Physical the company's short-wave county are to be tackled as time Laboratory at Teddington for testing aeroplane parte," was trans- radio. Wagoner's conversation took and funde permit. one-eighth of a second to circle the The actual banking will be alight, ported in sections by road. globe. Broadcast from WeXAD but it will eliminate the sloping. and picked up by Phia Holland, the way cambers at the road edges, speech was then relayed to PLW which are often the cause of skids Jave east to Sydney, Australia, when the roads are greasy, a then hallway around the world

The steel hoops, seventeen feet in diameter, are the largest of their kind in the world, and present some transport difficulties. When on a lorry each hoop cover, wider. It will also assist motorists in area in the roadway than a double and across the continent back to cornering correctly. Most drivers tram-track, and the first hoop had Schenectady and placed on WGY, find it easy enough to take a left to be turned back at Retford, as General Electric's long-wave station,hand bend or corner. On right it would not go through one of the Wagoner explained that it was the band turns, however, many drivers main streets, & suitable route has Arst time a person ever talked open to sparicece difficulty and been no reactions around the world, and said it was hatching what more often than not corner on the wors transported satisfactorily.

wrong site of dold The b wave raido, transmission. The ing will assist them experiment was made just to see

if it could be done," he said. A It is a safety first move of high frequency beat record of the considerable importance, and the talk was taken which showed the council, 72 setting an excellent ex exact time the voice required to ample to local authorities through girdle the globe

out the country,

The stool tunnel i bity Teer Tuto When it is erected at Teddington force gust of wind will be pro- polled through it, and aeroplane parts will be tested inside it un- der conditions worse than ordinary fying conditions

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