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CENTRAL THEATRE

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BESSIE LOVE

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Charlie Murray & George Sidney

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"Discontented Cowboys '

Univers A Conardy

Also

Oswald, the Rabbit

in

"Wicked West"

A Universal Cartoon

Starting Tues. May 5

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 4,

MEN TEACHERS' PROTEST.

WOMEN'S CLAIM FOR

EQUAL PAY,

The policy of equal pay for meir and women teachers was condemned u travesty of justice" at the.

conference of the National Associa- tion of Schoolmasters, at Birming- ham.

ITALY SURVIVE IN DAVIS CUP.

SEVERAL CONTESTS NOW COMPLETED.

1931.

CLEVERLY HIDDEN

AT THE

OPIUM.

SMUGGLERS CAUGHT BY REVENUE MEN.

Vigilant Bevonte Officers dis- covered eleverly concealed false; GERMANY. TROUNCED. Įsides to a chest that Chan He, a

young woman, was carrying off Dusseldorf. May 3,

the Wing Lok Wharf, shortly after South Africa defeated Germany the .. Sui Tai berthed from

Emphatic and determined opposi- tion to the principle enunciated by in the Davis Cup, contest by five

matches to wit, the remaining Macau yesterday. The false sides' the National Union of Teachers that singles resulting in the defeat of were packed with opium agregḥt- equality between the salaries Buss and Nourney after they hading 30 taels. men and women teachers should

be established by the Burnham Comach won the Brat sets.

The results were:

jun..

d'Almanda, Mr. F. X. mittee was expressed in a resolution Raymond beat Bass, 4-6, 6-4.jappeared for the woman when she that was carried unanimously. 7.5. 8-6.

Appeared before Mr. Schofeld at Mr. G. Saville, of London, mov- Kirby heat Nourney, 1-6, 6-4.the Central Magistravy this morn- Jug the motion, was that "equal 6-4, 6-4. pay" would be the death warrant of the man teacher. Opposition to the principle did not mean that they the result being settled when De Mr. d'Almada snid the woman wished to lower the scale of salaries Morpurgo won in straight

At Budapest. Italy defeated ing. charged with unlawful pos Hungary by four matches to one, session.

sets

for women teachers, or prevent wo against Takacs. Afterwards, there was the daughter of a boatwoman, paid to transport luggage, and ahe men from receiving à salary as was a thrilling encounter between had been given $2 to bring the commensurate to their services an de Stefani, Italy's leading playe, chest to Hongkong.

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man's salary should be. And De Kehrling, the Hungarian woman teacher's salary wAR nterack, Stefani won by the odd nei sufletent to attract the right type of five.

of man to teach.

The results were:

(Italy) Dr Morpurgo Taknes (Hungary), 6-3. 8-6, 6-1.

(Italy) beat De Stefani Kehrling silungary), 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.

If the scale of airy for a man teacher became as that of a woman tencher, teaching would beconte a woman's profession. They knew what that would mean for the boy. For the profession to fall into the hands of women would be a national calamity. There were approximate ly 35,000 men teachers and MÃ,000 women teachers for children above Beuter. | infant schnol, rige.

A fine of $30,000, or imprison- ment for a year, was ordered.

Another Chinese charged with bent

possension of opium was described Day Revenue Officer Ward as having his whole body tied round with the drug. He was apprehended after leaving a wharf on the Praya, and found to have 120 taels The parcels secreted on him. were not visible beneath his cloth- ing, so tightly were they strapped. until he left the crowd and walk-

As anticipated, the United States easily disposer af Mexico in the American Zone today, winning the first three matches off the reel.

Later.

McGuire beating)

A fine of $14,000 was ordered, alternatively a year in prison.

If the principle auf equal pay re Ireland at Switzerland by sed on file own up the Praya. ceptest, the inty result would be rieur matches. art in men teachers' salaries. Aeschlmann, 5-7, 7-5, 2-6, 8-6, 6-2, Even at the present time, Mr. while Rogers fiat Kisher 6-1. 201 Saville said, in the socint scale à 6-2, 8-6, - -Renter. man teacher did not compare with the woman teacher. What woman teacher would marry a man teacher. and expect the same social scale to which she had been accustomed.

"As an association we will resist the equal-pas policy to the end. It Is a danger nationally and a glaring travesty of justice."

Burnham Scales,

►

Mr. S. S. Fox, of London, said that during the Easter holidays

Spalt Knocked Out.

Frugue, May

men teachers was a separate pro+ blem from the supply and remu Czecho-Slovakia bent Spain by neration of women teachers, and

hould be considered separately. three matcher to two and Dow

Athens in the! meets Greece at

cond round. Maler (Spain) beat Hecht 476. {0/3, 6/4, 6/4.

Menzel (Czecho-Slovakias beat Alonso 6/8, 6/2, 6/1, 6/3.-Reuter.

Mr. Houldsworth, of Manchester, in moving the resolution, mate the inadequacy of the present senies resulted in an Insuficient number Mar- of married schoolmasters, rlage without financial embarraw- ment was in present chreamstances an utter Impossibility at a reason- [ably early uge.

thousands of women tenchers all fact that the Burnham scales had

This affected the rate of recruit- over the country had gone for long since their inception been reduced holidays, which the men teachers several times, and that even in their ment to the teaching, profession, could not afford.

original form they were not ade- and there was now a thoringe of Another aspect of

teachers' quate to secure a sufficient number men teachers. salaries was raised in a resolution of men teachers for the needs of Mr. F. C. Greaves, of Leeds?aald from Manchester drawing atten the schools. The resolution further that a spinster's wage for a mar that the tion, in view of the proposed review claimed

problem ried mun was bad economics and of teachers salury scales, to the of the stipply and remuneration of bad morality.

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BUT

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Lawrence

directed by

Never two such

·marvelous voices in

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picture!

TIBBETT

Grace

MOORE

sing "Lover Come Back

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NEW MOON

JACK CONWAY

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ADOLPHE

& Metro

Goldwyn

Maye

TALKING

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MENJOU Roland Young ADDED ATTRACTION "STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY”

in "ANGORA LOVE" COMING SHORTLY ———————

Thrill to his

love making!

+

GEORGE

BANCROFT

I

ladies love

Brutes

MARY ASTOR, FREDRIC MARCH

a Garamount Gicture

ihe

Two-Fisted tactics win women! Bancrofl baskre into a woman's heart and breaks can't judge a

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Parimata

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Paramount's adventure film of wild animals

藝盛 ‘RANGO

Taken in Sumatra by Ernest G. Schoedsack

the maker of “ CHANG "'

Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre. (Tel. 25720.).

Printed and Published, for the Proprietors, by" FRERIOR

VARANKLIN; at 1 and 5. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoris :

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He know thoas denger signals, tempting to dis nator. But ho wan a rockless soldier of for tune, playing for high stakes in the game of love,

RENEGADES

Booking at the Theatre

WARNER BAXTER MYRNA LOY NOAH BEÉRY

TOX MOVIETONE, DRAMA.

Te 25313 & 25330.

BACK OF THE HEADLINES ! ·

-the true love story of an heiress and her chauffeurt.

They defied Society to

marry, but then the hus band falls under the spell exotic "passion of an flower."

Kathleen Norris'

with

KAY FRANCIS

CITAS. BICKFORD

KAY JOHNSON LEWIS STONE ZASU PITTS

A

William Be Mille

Production.

A

Metro Goldwyn

Муст

TALKING

PICTURE

PASSION FLOWER