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JAMES STEWART
VIVACIOUS Lady
WA JAMES ELLISON BEULAH
BONDI CHARLES COBURN
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Today's Screenings
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Hong Kong
KING'S:
"The Return 01 The Scarlet
Pimpernel"
QUEEN'S:
Vivacious Lady"
ORIENTAL:
"Stage Door",
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Vivacious Lady".
STAR:
"Hooray For Love" MAJESTIC:
A
"Merrily We Live"
KING'S:
Coming
"I'll Take Romance"
QUEEN'S:
"Love. Honour and Behave" "The Rage Of Paris"
ORIENTAL:
"Trouble In, Morocco" » ALHAMBRA: **
"Born To The West" "Dangerously Yours"
STAR:
"A Woman Rebels" "Futy Roads To Town" MAJESTIC:
"Dinner At The Ritz"
THE WEEK IN MACAO
(From Our Own Correspondent)
GENERAL
Kiangsi Strongly Behind National Government
Nanchang.
The appropriation of $5,000,000 by the Klangsi Provincial Gov- ernment for administrative reforms is another indication of how that once bandit-ridden Central China Province is fully backing" China's campaign against Japan,
The new project provides for sweeping changes in the organiza-- tion, personnel and work of every administrative area in the pro- vince so that a maximum amount of self-government will be assured in every locality. This reform, the provincial authorities believe, will remove all handleaps, and, simultaneously, will encourage the masses to give greater ald to the nation.
MONDAY, AUGUST 1, „1938. —PAGE 5
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE
SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30. 5.10, 7.15 AND 8.36 P.M.
A ALEXANDER KORDA LONDON FILMS present
PRODUCTION
BARRY K. BARNES
The
RETURN & SCARLET PIMPERNEL
SOPHIE STEWART • MARGARETTA SCOTT - JAMES MÅSON Enter the Tory by BARONESS OKCI•
Produced by ALEXANDER, KORDA and AANŚLD PRESSBURGER Directed by HANS SCHWARTZ
Meanwhile everything connected that particular district, in which he with regional or national defence is appointed to serve, as was hitherto and the promotion of productivity required. At present, the Provin- will receive the primary and un-cial Government is spending $1, spared attention of all local gov-000,000 out of the $5,000,000 appro erument organs which will be priation for the training of 1,200 manned only by public servants of specially selected youths who, upon unimpeachable character and high their graduation in a three months efficiency.
time, will be well equipped to as. Politically, Kiangsi, with a "popu-sume these humble yet important lation of 15,000,000; is divided into public posts. eight special administrative dis- tricts-equivalent to counties in the United Kingdom and in Amer- ca-each headed by a director ap- painted by the Governor and ap- proved by the Executive Yuan, the highest administrative organ in the nation.
Best Way To Learn English
The best way for a foreigner to learn English is to make friends with an English girl.
RULED BY MAGISTRATE He usually governs from eight to Afteen districts each of which is In turn ruled by a magistrate, as- gisted by a staff and three or four
This is the opinion of a young lections. These sections, according Dutchman writing of his
*X-
to the new order, have been periences in England in the Ger- abolished so that a more сед man paper Aariff Am Abend. tralized machinery may: be imo-
"English girls are very nice." he bilised any time to deal with emer-declares. "I have been out with gency issues.
AGE-OLD SYSTEM
them a lot and talked with them a lot, and I came to the conclu-. In Klangst, there are 83 districtssion that this was the best way to in which are 2,379 towns and vil
learn English. lages. Still beneath these tiny
"With a pretty girl one learns political units are the families more than with ten teachers." which form the age-old Chinese He Buds London's theatres and system of mutual" guarantee known cinemas dear. Macao, July 31.
"The same can, be As a means to getting local re-.
as Poo-Chia. The reform, which said for, travelling, and the res- sidents more "tap-minded,"
to the lowest applies, even
con-taurants are not cheap either," he the Macao Waterworks Company last the Pac-Chia system, composed of ment in London. one must pay stituents of the province, retains continues. "For a day's amuse- week inaugurated its tri-weekly ten and one hundred families res nearly double what one would pay (Mondays, Wednesdays and Batur-pectively. but abolishes the Lien in. Berlin or Amsterdam." days) "Visitors' Day" at the up-to-
Pao which was formed by a com- date Green Island pumping station.
The writer shows interest in the Among those who took the oppor or 100 to 120 Chia. The abandoning young girls. He compares
bination of from ten to twelve Pao English "coming-out" dance for tunity to see how water is "made"
the was R.E the Governor of Macao.
of the Lien Pao System will lead
custom with the German and Dr. Artur Tamignini de
to the elimination of unnecessary Sousa
Dutch. Barbosa.
waste and duplication in the poll- tical organization of Klangs, airce TENEMENTS
the towns and villages usually em- brace the influence formerly pos- sessed by the Lien Pao.
"The object of the dances is to Introduce the young ladies into other words, the society. or in daughters have reached the mar- riageable age and must now be married off.
Resulting from the efforts of the directors of the Santa Casa de. Misericordia, a number
WELL-TRAINED LEADER of new houses are to be added to the tene- Every town and every villae le "In Berlin and Amsterdam most ments at Bairro Tamignini Bar-headed bq a well-trained man who mothers leave this task to the bosa. Macao's poor" contre, where may not necessarily be a native of daughters themselves."
already some 4,500 persons are häused. The proposed addition
will also include a medical clinic
and a free-water fountain for the dwellers there.
RICKSHAS "
Augmenting the fleet, already in service in local streets, a furthe: batch. of new pneumatic-tfrod rickshas were imported into the Colony by the Macao Trading Com pany during the week-end. Since early this month, a large number of these vehicles have been made available to the Macao public. DEPARTURES
Leaving for Portugal in few days are Mr. Humberto Rodrigues and Mr. Fernando Rodrigues. Jr., sons of Mr. Fernando Rodrigues. well-known Macao" businessman They will take up
engineering studies while there. CHOLERA
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Making one
cross for choice pussibly (6)
4 The fellow who dislikes queues may refuse to stand for it, (4)
7 Turned ore in
kind-no mean effort (8)
8 It isn't stiff-
you should
get it
(by exercise?) (6) 1:5
10 With a tyro at
the shoot it's
The number of cholera cases re ported in this Colony registered a still lower figure during last week. Proof that this epidemie has abated considerably since the previous
13 week may be found in the fact that only a single case was reported on Tuesday. STAMPS
this kind of man who might get "peppered" (8)
A cupboard.. not an open letter (6)
14 What the in-
competent maid became after get ting it beheaded trom her mis- tress? (7)
As from tomorrow, August 1, new stamps for pre-paid correspon- dence, by ordinary or air-mali, will be issued by the Macao Post Once. 15 U.S.-BOUND
Mahjong Drive.
Mr. Humberto Borges, son of Mr. 18
the Maca. Sunrise 5.54 4.m. Sunset-7.05 R. G. E. Borges, of
Public Works, is already saying. good-bye to his many friends prior 19 to his leaving for the United States shortly. He is taking up aviation work in Oklahoma."
"
Tides-High at 00.25 and. 12.06. A memorial
tablet to Joseph Law at 05.25 and 18.23. Grimaldi, one of the greatest clowns of the nineteeth century.. was fixed outside his former home} at 22, Calshot-street, Pentonville, N. recently
The house, formerly 33, South- ampton-street was renumbered 22 in 1889, and the street was re- named Calshot street this year.
Grimaldi made his debut at Sad- ler's Wells at the age of two years and four months by playing the monkey to one of his father's clowns.
Ets fame was at its height in 1806, and died in 1837 after spending his latter years a helpless cripple in the Pentonville house,
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It usually ac- companies & refusal (8) No epithet for the curate's egg (7).
If the painter is fast this may soon be covered in oils (8) 20 "I use top" (angg.) · (7)
25 The ordered universe (6)
26 Is lock mostly.
but sallors dis-
`like being in
1%(B)
27 Ballor ́em-
ployed, but
treated un- kindly (6)
28 The first half
likes every- thing second halt without any sort of harmï' (8)
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29 Just over the
half thousand completed (4) 30 The heart of
a Levantine is an example of this (8)
DOWN
1 This uncivilised
fellow looks Hike.
a street accident (6)
2 "A fish-that's
dat (8)
3 Good sailors
don't feel it on the second half (6)
作
5 Neither un-
dér-done, nor
surpassed (8)
A nuisance in
essay hang
for: "(8)
7 Summary literal: misstatemerit (4),
9. In the settle-
ment it yields
12 Tommy would
rather be this by a bully than. by bullet (7) `-
13 Without the
penultimate let- ter would be oddities-odd isn't it? (7)* 18 Trée (6) 17 Is unused
change, not having been given out (8) 18 The French
may deny it, but his heart was in War- saw (8)
21 What can help
to make things
go smoothly?· (8)
22 A form of stone? (6) 23 Remove this
creature's feet, and only the twin heart is lett (8)
Geographical feature (4)
11. Retribution
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ANNABELLA in DINNER AT THE RITZ”:
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The Universities Federation of A puppet regime will shortly be Shanghai is to file an application installed' in Chapel, according to a with the Ministry of Education for Chinese report. Following the funds to finance poor students to establishment which is expected to carry on the autumn semester, consist of four ounces, namely, Because of the war and destruc health adcial anaits, education tien, many students are unable to and police, the Japanese military further their studies.
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