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TO-DAY'S WANTS.

EA WORDO ...

...$1.50.

($1.00 If Not Prepaid.) The following replies have been received:---

890, 836, 944, 945, 971, 992, 998. 19, 38.

PERSONAL.

WANTED -Professional or Amateur or Caricaturist. To CARTOONIST

sketch at party. State termis equivalent. Telephone 24329.

or

WANTED KNOWN

PERMANENT WAVE latest method by experienced hairdresser, Manicure and

pedicure at Branch Andro Beauty Parlour, Kowloon Hotel. Te 56568, Hankow Road.

NOTICE.

LANE, CRAWFORDY KIOSK 'REPÜLSE BAY.

Subject to favourable weather conditions, Lanc. Crawford's Kloak at Repulse Bay, will open for the Season on Saturday, 8th April."

Tins will be served, on

GOOD FRIDAY EASTER SUNDAY EASTER MONDAY

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFIL THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.

On and after the 6th April, 1933. Mr. P. PAYRAS will take charge of this Company's Local Agency.

R. OHL

་་

Agent.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE is hereby given that the 44th ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5TH, Grand will be held at the offices of the Opening Night of the Sun Dancing Company, Exchange Building, Des Palace, 17, Queen's Road, 1st floor. Voeux Road Central, Victoria, (Salors in uniform will be admitted Hongkong, on Tuesday, the 25th on the Opening Night, also Saturday and Sunday, entirely Euro-day of April, 1933, at 11.30 a.m. pean Management). Dancing daily for the purpose of receiving from 8 to 11.30 p.m.

statement of accounts and the FINE EARTHENWARE Sanitary report of the Directors for the Goods and Floor-tline! Competitive year ended 31st December, 1932, quotations, shortest delivery. Write!

every

A

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the

for cataloguest, Bornemann & Co., 5 Company will be CLOSED. froni Den Voeux Road,

Thursday, the 13th April, 1933, to

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday, the 18th day of April, 1933, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department by Order of His Excellency the Governor ol one Lot of Crown Land, at} Po Shan Road in the Colony of Hong Kong for, a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Axed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bale.

Hoglitry Na

Locally.

Inland Lot

No. 3547

No. 1874, Hatton Road,

***West of Inland”Lot •

Busadery WEMASENCEÈR.

N. 9. 2

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FINANCIAL

WANTED TO SHARE, with anyone who can financo my newly invented Economic

English

By Order of the Board of Directors,

ALLAN KEITH,

Secretary. Hongkong, 4th April, 1933.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

Telegraphic Code with 37,000 phrases. Write Box! The No. 68, Hongkong Telegraph."

LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders.

Ordinary Sixty-fourth General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Monday, the 10th April, 1933, at Noon, for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of 55 The Peak, lately occupied by Dr. the General Managers, together Harston and adjoining the Peak with a statement of Accounts for Hospital. Unfurnished. Convenient the year ended the Biat Decem- comfortable and cool. Six rooms and ber, 1932.

TO BE SOLD

Dressing room. Four bathrooms, hot

and cold water. Modern sanitation.

The following Resolutions will

Gas and Electric Light. Use of Tennis also be submitted to the Meet- Court Suitable for a Mess

fire, aring:

turg

could be easily divided to suit

coupler. Clo to Tram Station and

Motor Road. Apply: THE HONG RONG REALTY AND TRUST COM PANY LIMITED. Exchange Building

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APARTMENTS

(1) that as from the 1st day of

January, 1983, the

re-

muneration of the

Con

sulting Committee be

in-1

creased from $16,000 to $24,000 per annum.

(2) That as from the 1st day of January, 1933, the re muneration of the Auditors be raised from $1.250 to

$1,500 per annum for each Firm.

The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 27th March to the 10th April 1933, both days inelusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

LIMITED, Nathan

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Hongkong, 20th March, 1989.

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[defendant.

The prosecution's evidence had also clearly shown that female passengers, especially, had a habit of keering old tickets. The fact that Mr. Wadeson had put in an additional charge of attempt! ed embezzlement went to show the Convicted on a charge of en- weakness of his friend, and indicat. bezzlement of 20 cents, through the 'ed that he (Mr. Wadeson) had not issuing of two used tickets, Wong aufficient evidence to Kam-chuen, a young bus conductor bezzlement.

prove em-

employed by the Hongkong Hotel His Worship held that on the of Police Constable Company was fined $100 and bound evidence

over in two sureties of $50 each, by Sargent, who was a passenger on Mr. Schofield at the Central Fouce the bue at the time, the money wa Court yesterday afternoon.'

Mr. R. A. Wadeson, who appear

ard

roceived by the defendant, and two tickets were issued. It was a ed to prosecute on behalf of the matter for reasonable inference.

Mr. Wadeson said the defendani Company, said the defendant had embezzled fu a very mean and des- had tried to blame his own della picable way. He had tried to throw quencies on the passengers, the blame of his own delinquencies then he came to Court and tried to those on the passengers and thus bring brazen the matter out on

The lines. He asked his Worship to disrepute to the Company. passengers paid to be carried in a deal with the man severely and to reasonable and proper manner, he send him to prison without the

option of a fine. stated.

Mr. Kwan pleaded in mitigation For the defence, Mr. C. Y. Kwan submitted there was no case to of sentence. He pointed out the answer, and the evidence lacked the defendant was young, married and was had two children. Mr. Parsons, most important link: There

of the Manager of the 34.K. Hotel Garage. no evidence whatever identification of the two tickets had stated in evidence that during woman his five years' service defendant's obtained by the man and passengers, respectively, from the conduct was fair.

of the Sale by Public Auction.

to be held on Tuesday, the 18th day of April, 1933, at 3 p.m., at!

REMINDER

GRAND VARIETY CONCERT

IN AID OF

DISABLED

OFFICERS

GARDEN HOMES

AND

CHEERO

CLUB

FRIDAY

AND

the Offices of the Public Works SATURDAY

7th and 8th APRIL

Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one. Lot of Crown Land at Mount Kellett in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of -75

AT THE

years, with the option of. VOLUNTEER

renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

offaate

Registry No.

Rural Building

Lot No. 370,

Near Rural Building

Locality,

G..

11 [[[ 44#G]\

Boundary

Tarurer ch

N. 6.

cutfest tees feet

As per salo

plan.

HEADQUARTERS

one.

GARDEN ROAD

:

$1,080

Contenta in

Auntzal

Rental.

Upset Price

5,000

$:04

CINEMA SCREENINGS.

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

POST OFFICE NOTICE

INWARD MAILS.

From U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai

(Seattle, 18th March) - Japan -.-"

Two of America's glamorous stars and a newcomer who seems destined to attain the same great screen pro- minence are seen in "A Bill of Japan, Shanghai and Europe

RKO-Radio Divorcement", the new

Siberia (London, 13th March), Picture showing at the Central to Sandakan

•

morrow. John Barrymore and Billio Shanghai and Swatow

Burke, contemporaries through years Straits

of America's most colourful period Manila

of the theatre, are seen together for Shanghal

the first time in this powerful picture

taken from the famous play

Clemence Dane. Katharine Hepbend Manila

in the newcomer about whom

วล

Saigon Holy

Shanghai

Per

Due

Pres. Jefferson Penang Maru

April 7

April 7.

vin

Kanpura

April 5.

Mungana Soochow

April

April 8.

Elpenor

April 9.

Athos 11... Agamemnon Conte Rosso

Pres. McKinley Aenean Tango Chante Chenonceaux

Apell 10.

April 10.

Maru

April 10.

April 11.

¡April 11.

April 11.

April 19.

.April 13.

Empress of Japan

April 14.

April 14.

Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan. and Shanghai (Vancouver BC. 25th March) U.S.A., Honolulu Japan and Shang-

hal (San Francisco, 17th March) Pres., Monroe

wood at the moment is buzzing with Straits praise. These three tell story un usual to the screen. It is tale of a shell-shocked English veteran who vainly tries to find in the world of 1932 a place for his torn and twisted dreams. It is a tale of second love, of Kacrifice and of splendour. -

"Svengali"

at the Last night's audience Queen's Theatre greeted with enthusi"| astic approval, John Barrymore's latest characterization, Svengali," the master hypactist which was such a sensation both as a novel and as a play a generation ago.

For

OUTWARD MAILS,

Date and Time

Per Thursday,

of Trilby Australia and New Zealand via Bríù- Brisbane Maru ....

bang

(Dve Brisbane, 19th April).

The gets provided for "Svengali are Sandakan ingenious in

in the extreme, and one Swatow amazing scene actually photographs Samihui and Wuchow the flight of a thought over rools and Bangkok clouds from the mind of Svengall to Straits the mind of Tellby--and the

return

Thurs., Apr. 6, Registration ...............12.45 pin. Letters....

....1.30 p.00- Hinsang..Thurs, April, 6, 230 p.m. Hydrangea .... Thurs., Apr. 6, 3 p.m. Tai Ming.....Thure; Apr. 6, 1 p.m. Halldor.....Thurs., Apr. 6, 4.30 p.m. Hal Bing Thur., April 6, 4.30 pm. Takada...Thurs., Apr. 6, 3.30 p.m.

Friday.

Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Empress of Russia ....Fri., Apr. 7.

of Trilby's shuddering surrender to Amoy his master-mind. The portrayal of Trilby by Marian Marsh is doubly

Central and South America and amazing when it is known that she is screen but eighteen and makes her

*Europe via Vancouver B.C., and *Európe via Siberia debut in the dificult role, which

of emotion. (Due Vancouver B.C., 24th April) requires the whole

range To exquisite flowerlike beauty of face Hoihow and Pakhol and form Miss Marsh adds rare Fort Bayard intelligence and sincerity. The sup- Swatow, Amoy and Foochow

Dental cast includes Lumsden Hare, Crisp and Bramwell Fletcher as Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billce. Luis Alberni exquisitely portrays Gecko, the humble fiddleplaying slave of Svengali, and Carmel Myers an arresting Honorl. The screen play was written by J, Brubb. Alexander. Archie Mayo directed.

a

Bangkok '

►

Parcela

Apr. 6, 8 pm.. Reg

Apr. 7, 9.15 2.2. Letters,

Apr. 7, 10 m. Kingyuan....Fri., Apr. 7, 1 p.m. Tinseng.....Fri, Apr. 7, 1.30 p.m. Hai Ning ..Fri, April, 7, 2 p.m. „Fr., April 7, 2.30 p.m.

Bintang

Saturday...

Sat., Apr. B.

(Duo Marseilles, 6th May) "

G. P. O.

Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, Rampura

East and South Africa, Adon, Egypt and Europe via Marocilles

K. P. O. Parcels,... Apr. 7, 4.30 p.m. Reg-

...Apr. 8, 9 a.m. Letters,

Apt. 8, 10 amIL_ Letters, Apr. 8, 10.30 am. Fort Bayard and Haiphon Straits and. Calcutta.

"Once in a Lifetime"

hilarious "Once in Universal's Lifetime" comes to a close at the Central Theatre to-day. This up- roarious satire on Hollywood mation picture production is said to be the funniest thing the screen has shown Amoy

a long time, and takes the Manila

not only into the forbidden

ces of the sound stages D

but

into the private offices of executives, Swatow, Amoy and Formosa where the reputedly fantastic methods of conducting a great film

BOOK AT ANDERSON'S plant are handled without gloves. Hoihow and Bangkok

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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday, the 18th day of April, 1933, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at North Point in the Colony oí Hong Kong for a term of 75 the option of years, with renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Nu, of bule

Inland

Lot No. 3518.

Registry No.

Inland Lot No. 2614,

Localty.

North Point.

South-west of

Boundary

Hessurements.

B.E

feed feet

As per sale

plan.

Contentsent

sq-feet

Annual.

Rental

опе

About

$8,500

8709

$39,500

Upset Prico

50 CENTS EACH.

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WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT STOCK-TAKING SALE IS NOW ON. GREAT REDUCTIONS IN PRICES.

SILK ENSEMBLES

WASHING FROCKS $10.00 $39.00 EVENING GOWNS FROM $25.00 STRAW HATS FROM $10.00

The east Includes Sidney Fox, Jack Oakie, Aline MicMahon, Russel Hop- to, Zastt Pitts, and Louise Fazenda."

"Americana extras' who

"Send us a thousand

Parcels, Rog

Canton

Hosang

Parcels,

Kuna

Letters,

Apr. 7, 5 p.o

Apr. 8, 9.45 am.

-Saty Apr. 8, 9.30 am.

Sat, April 8.

..April. &, 1 pm. ....Apríl, 8, 2 p.m.

..........Sat., 'Apr, 8, 3,30 p.m. Pres, Jefferson Sat. April 8, 4.30 p.m. Sunday.

Canton Maru ..Sum, April, 5, 9 am, Monday.

!!

Kweiyang Mon., Apr. 10, 1.20 p.m. Superscribed Correspondence only...

Grace". From this she was chosen frienda who believe "Street Sceno" to by Mr. Noel Coward to play one of be as much a story of mother love as

tan for

are unplied to undan, understudying Celia Johnson played for two years through the

seen

on tour.

look as though they had money in the the brides-maids in the New York Golwyn's earlier "Stella Dallas" is the bank," was

the demand from the production of "Bitter Sweet" On most important of all. Elmer tice

Goldwyn. H. Harwoods's Mr. Columbia ensting office to the Central her return from New York she ap. himself adapted his stage play to the

screen for all peared in Casting Bureau, from

White "Cynara" at the Playhouse Theatre. 600 performances in New York, and "extras" are studios.

must look

which part

principal cities of the United States. she afterwards played

Rice directed the New York, a day to pretend They were paid $5 a for the camera that is recording opposite Mr. Owen Nares: "American Madness," Columbia pie was in this part that Miss Bevan was Chicago, London and Los Angeles

film producer with the by

stage productions. A published ver- ture, showing on Sunday at the result that she was placed under con- sion of the play has appeared in five

and featuring Walter

"Nine languages. Queen's Theatre llusion and

"A Paaport to Hell" Till Six"

Misk ance, that they had between $500 and

Portraying the character of a $10,000 in the banka mob of New Sign of Four" which is now showing gutteral, stern German commanding

mob of New screen appearance followed by "The

the York business

men and wo- people, men

officer in "A Passport to Hell". at the King's Thea

Theatre. men, desperate because the bank in

"Street Scene"

dramatic Fox production coming th #fetime savings of which

"Street Scene," picturized from the King's Theatre very shortly, is Feat the has failed. The rumour runs that the the famous Pulitzer Prize Play by na novelty for Warner Oland. He president, Tom Dicks

Dickson,

portrayed by

Elmer Rice, will be presented by enacted a amilar role in "Victory" Walter Huston, has absconded with Samuel Goldwyn

at

"In "A the King's one

one of his previous pictures

to Hell", Oland appears as

cast of stellar import. tract with A. E. P. Arst

waa

all the bank's funds. Oulwantie the Theatre on Sunday next. In direct- Passpor of the young army officer

"extras" are hysterical because that

ing the story

of a warm-hearted the nest-egg they were hoarding against

romance and a passionate murder who, to save a mysterious woman the time of their next baby, or a

city

uncertain past from deportation, "rainy day," or a home, has gone against the living screen of a

effort down in the vortex of the back foll- street, King Vider makes of "Street marries her, only to lose her to

brother officer with whom she falls Scene his most ambitious

Ellasa Landi enacts ure, Inwardly, they are wondering

since "The Big

Sylvin Parade the the role of the woman

madly in love.

and Paul lead in romantic has the whether they will eat when the pic. Sidney william Collier, Jr., plays Lains and Alexander Kirland play ture is finished.

"The Sign of Four"

picture.

opposite her. Estelle Taylor follows the roles of the two officers. Other Isla Bevan was educated at Court-her brilliant performance in "Cimar-members of the cast includes Earle rai in Belgium. Left at the age of 17 ron" with the exacting and dificult Foxe, Donald Griep, Yola D'Avril, and became one of Mr. Cohran's role of Mr. Maurrant,--which, to Eva Dennison, Ivan Simpen and" "Young Ladies" in "This Year of many of the play's multitude of Vera Morrison.

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