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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934,

The wagerer would have had to Donny Shate to capture the Bri- CINEMA SCREENINGS place his Initial dollar on atlah Open golf title, both 15 to racehorse named. King Jack, a 10-1 shots. After that he would year-old gelding, who ran at Agus have backed Jack Lovelock and

Gamble, lanuary 8. King Bill Bonthron to run a mile in

HUGE FORTUNE BEGGING

Jack won at the longest odds of which both broke the world's re the year, roughly 410 dollars to cord, a 50 to 1 shot, 1 dollar (£82 to 4s.)..

The 410 dollars (or £82) would then have been placed on Max Baor to knock out Max Schmeling, and on Frimo Carnera to knock out Jack Sharkey, both at six to j one, *-*

Holc Jacobs to win the wo- men's tennis crown against a field that included Mrs. Helen Wils Moody at 10-1 would have been the next wager, and, after that, Notre Dams University to lose four straight football games with out scoring. single point. For this 100-1 odds were quoted. Colurabia University's defeat of Stanford University in the New

NOTES SUPPLIED BY

·THE THEATRES

In answer to the increasing - public demand for productions combining comedy and dramatic action and life as it actually is in the wide open spaces of the west, Pathe has produced Pardon My Gun." Hero in shappy story that ccntains all the elements of popular appeal-out-of-doors action, rip-roaring comedy, snappy drama. music, songs and dances. The pic- ture, featuring a mammoth roles and broncho relay race that for thrills, has acidiom if ever been excelled, Then there is barn dance in the course

LONDON STOCKS

PRICES

MARKET ALMOST

FEATURELESS

The following quotations, on the London Stock Exchange harton racoivod by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Frits in conjunction with th Market: Rather brighter, with some good features

Now York, Jan, 17. Fantastic though it sounds, anyone who could have foretold ton of the great 1933 sport sur prisos could, by merely betting ono dollar (48. odd) on the first team to win the National Lenguo i Year's Day annual rose bowl match of which aro Introduced more specially 5% Lonn 1912... £ 68 £ 08

of them, and then laying his win- nings from the first on the second,

and from the second on the third.

Then, the winnings from those two events would have gone on the New York Giants baseball

Pennant and the World's series.

THE TOTAL,

4

415

6%

Chinese Bonds,

Feb. 14. Feb. 16. Bonds 1898 (Eng. Iss.). £102

Loan 1908.

act than are usually found in a big-

Rearg. Loan time vaudeville show. The cast of

1913 (Lin. Iss.) £ DI players is exceptionally brilliant fr 6 Bonds 1925-47 £ 874 a production of this type and among 5% Shal-Narking

Georgo those featured are Sally Starr,

Lee Moron, 6%

Tint-Pukow

at Pasadena, California, would have netted still more at odds of 5 to 2. The wagerer would then have The total theoretical winrings and so on, havo made for himself backed Louisiana Stato College tal of anyone who had foreseen these. Durycs.. Robert Edesvern of ex-

win the National Collegiate track surprises and wagered on them Mona Ray, all screen

MacFarlana Southern would have totalled £3,321,090,- ceplicant quality, and the affarian championship from

Brothers, California Univerally, and on 000,000,-Reuter.

five times as much Jore than money as there is in the world.

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H.K. & S'hai, Bk. who waits at htme. Lionel Barry- more plays a doddering old inspector of acroplanes. Robert Montgomery Lattles the most difficult air run of all, that ever the mountains. William Gargan, C. Henry Gordon, Leslie Fenton, Harry Beresford, Frank Con- roy and Ralf Harolde round out a particularly strong cast.

Gable In a pilot battling at.

"The Private Life of "Henry VIII"

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"Meet the Baron",

PILLA,

Jack Pearl, famous "Barn Mun clausen" of radio, Jimmy Durante of "Schnozzle" fame, and Zasu whimsical comedienne of the Pitts Todd comedies and many a feature picture, are the laugh-making trio

the most remarkable heading

all comedian cast in history in "Meet the Earon." The

new Metro-Goldwyn Mayer comedy with music is a hilari sus story dealing with the sanguinary

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Paris

"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Geneva, Wolf," the song that the screen enr- Berlin' tour, Three Little Pigs, made fam'us Helsingfors is being used in a special sequence Osto

"Duck Soup, the Four Marx Athens Brothers" latest Paramount picture, Milan now showing at the King's Theatre. Buenos Aires Although the picture

finished Shanghal sometime before this song became so New York

the mind Marxmen called back Amsterdam popular,

WAS

heir production unit and photograph-Vienna cil an nddel scene in order to use this Prague "ew "National Anthem." This is be-Tadrid lleved to be one of the few times, if Bucharest not the only time, that one film Hongkong company has secured from another the Brussels right to use a lato "fit" song,

21 YEARS AGO

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-Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files.

The following cxtracts aro from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended Feb. 15th, 1913.

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-British Wireless.

Hongkong Philharmonic LEE THEATRE

Society gave a fine performance of "Marrie England" at the Theatre Royal.

Arrangements were made for holding a Dog Show at the Jockey. Club'a grandstand at Happy

Valloy,

Playing in Shanghal, Hongkong won the Interport soccer contest, winning by four goals to nfl.

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Mr. Alco Taylor, the well-known professional billiarda champion, played a series of matches in Hongkong ANTARA

The Garnian cruiser Scharnhorst, with Rant-Admiral: Graf von Spee, patu a visit to the Colony

NOW SHOWING CHINESE STAGE PERFORMANCES

TWO SHOWS DAILY AT 12 Noon and 7.30 p.m.

Miss WU DIP-YING

PAK KUI-WING

GALENS

A LAUGH PROGRAMME FOR THE

STAN

LAUREL

HOLIDAYS

to start you off

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"THE CHIMP”-

OLIVER. HARDY

JACK

PEARL

The Baron Himself

and

SCHNOZZLA

DURANTE

Whan they crash into a girls! collogo, you'll find yourtoff at the year's funniest farcal

jimmy says:-

*DIS PITCHER IS`

„COLOSSEÀL..

MEE

EET

THE

BARON

with

ZASU PITTS

EDNA MAY OLIVER

TED HEALY

and HIS STOOGES

and the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Girls!

Metro-Gohlwyn Mayer

DAILY AF 12.00 2.30, 5.10.7.20

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