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Washington, Oct. 22. The following reports on the New In editorial to-day, the York Stock Market have been re-Washington Post says that the ceived through Messrs. Swan, Culbert- United States is farther from the son and Fritz;

stock

CINEMA NEWS

NOTES FROM THE

4477he realisation of the silver pro The Wall Street Journal report on granume than ever on account of yesterday's markets:-The market to-day was irregular and States.

the influx of gold into the United extremely activo. Utilities were strong. Automobile issues succumbed Also it says that the buying of to profit-taking despite favourable silver is retarding the growth of reports from the industry. During excess bank reserves but is offset the first two hours of business to-day, by the great damage to Chinn and there were anles of 1,610,000 shares, the possibility of inflation in the zin overnight accumulation, which future.-United Press. was the heavient opening siner Febru ury 10th, 1934. After this, selling developed, with utilities and ralls resisting the downward trend. Stuzka on the curb exchango were irregularly higher, while bonds irregularly higher.

were

also

S. C, and F. New York Office Cables: The murket to-day was slightly lower on realising, but the undertone roinnined firm. General Forda earned 55 cents per share for the Septentber quarter as against 64 cents for the same quarter of last

The your.

Commonwealth Southern Corporation paid a dividend and of $5.87 per preferred share for the year ending September 30,

as against $6.38 per preferred for the previous year. United States trade September showed

favourable inlance of $40,000,000 over that for September of 1994, Demand de- posits for the week totalled $16,370,-

2

Court decision on the control tax my cotton market, but for went to the patient holders the market looks higlier Inter on present merita.

weak

Wheat: Prices declined on foreign markets, the more reassuring European outlook, further heneficial rains and lack of European demand The decline in Canadian wheat was also reflected here.

Corn: The market was steady on the possibility of rains delaying the the wear position, movement of the crop and tightening

Rubber: There is no weakness here and prices are inclined to follow the

London. market. Purchases advisable on reactions,

are

THEATRES

at

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

LATEST SHARE

QUOTATIONS

The following quotations on the London Stock Exchange have been received by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz in confunction with Router.

23, 1935.

SHARE PRICES

The following is the list of local share quotations issued this "morning.

Banks.

H.K. Banks, $1,040 b. and sa, H.. K. Banks, (Lon. Reg.).

£100% tr.

Chartered Bank, £13% n. Mercantile Bank, A. and B.

£28% n.

Insurances.

Canton In., $180 b.

China Fire, $382 n.

H.K. Fire Ins., $180 b. Internat'l Assce., Sh, $4 n.

Mercantile Bank C., £1274 a. East Asia Bank, $60, n.

£101% £ 9911⁄2

Union Ins., $395 b.

China Underwriters, $1.10 8.

£ 77%

£ 22

£ 914 £ 06

601694%

£ 22

£ #3%

£ 25

£ 38

At last the lowly seaweed has come Into its own as an aid, to feminino loveliness. The strikingly beautiful Merle Oberon, filmdom's newest non- sation, who will be seen opposito Leslie Howard in London films. King's Theatre on Saturday attri

Scarlet Pimpernel" ut butes her exquisite skin to, of all

Oct. 21. Oct, 22. British Government Securitien things, seaweed bathet Every week War Loan 3. end? while she was engaged nt redm. after 1952 £104 104% Elstree in making "The Scarlet

Chinese Bonds Pimpernel" with Leslie Howard,

pro- duced by Alexander Korda for 440 Banda 1598

for release through United Artists, the

(Eng. 188.)... £101%

£ 99 of seventy-five miles from London to Loan 1912. £ 77% fair Merle motored n

hero. matter 4 Loan 1008 nere. Stamsgate and atopped at a hotel Reorg Loan

i91 (Lửa. Ias. Đ there which specialines in these beau Bonds 1925-17 E BOX lifying dips. "Any woman can pre-Shai-Nanking cure the seaweed at the shore and

Rly. prepare her weekly beauty bath in 5 the privacy of

own home", ex plains Merle, "The modus operandi 5% extremely simple. One merely hot water and senweed. The lodine br spends 30 minutes in a tab filled with in the weed acts as a general tonic and its other chemien have an almost magical effect on the properties akin

Seaweed baths are not ener vating. Bike Turkish baths, for in- stance yet and this will Interest many women they do tend to remove super- aucus Resh should you be nflicted with any casino de Paris"

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Hai Rly, 1913. £ 11%. £ 11%

Foreign Bonds and. Banks German 7 Int.

Loun 1924 £67

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£ 13% ents and oceans with no more trouble.

Commercial and Industrial Oct. 29. than it takes to breathe, Hughes in

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Crs and to him fell the task of Studios 3-4.60 27.00 designing four large sets of various 36.00 locales in the centre of which was a manmoth replica of the universe 56,57 inter-cut with an artistle stairway crossing the globe in four directions, In its entirety of one sound stage of one of the Bob dances

the picture de Paris" next change at the

REUTER QUOTATIONS

100,000 na against $16,350,000,000 for Daw Jones Averages the previous week, Business failures

during the week totalled 24, as 30 Industrials" ngainst 183 for the

previous

week.

20 Rails

Oct. 21.

198.00

33.82

Cotton: The approaching Supreme

11 Commodity

Index

26.25 16.72

56.5K

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Tobieco (benrer), Canadian Celanes Chinese Eng, and Mia. (Bearer) Curtaulds ............

Ruby Krawatre, with Al Jolson and Distillers

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Rubber With the Warren and Dubin song Electric Musical "A Latin from Manhattan"

Infostries as the

ne shout which the number was General Electric In le created, Connolly and liughes (England)

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Shipping.

Douglas, $36 n.

II.K. Steamboats, $4'n. Indo-Chinus, (Pref.), $30 n. Indo-Chinns (Def.), $10 b. Shell (Bearer), 76/3 n. Union Waterboats, $11

Alining.

Antamoks, 70 cts. n,

Balatoes, $14 n.

Baguio Gold, 22 cta...

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Benguet Consolidated, $10.60 n. Benguet Exp., 13 cts, n. Benguet Goldfield, - Big Wedge, 8 cts. n. Gold Creek, 30 cts. n., Gold River, 54 cts. n. Ipo Mining, 90 cts. n. Itogons, 361⁄2 cta. n. Salacot, 15 cts. n.

Langkats (Single), $13 n.

Venz: Goldfield $230 n.

Docks etc.

ILK. Wharves (old), $66% b H.K. Wharves (new), $63 R. HIK. Docks, $9 n.

Providents (old), 50 cis, b. Providents (new), 20 cta, n. Hongkewa (old), Sh. $237. New Engineerings, Sh. $4 n. Shanghat Docks, Sh. $80 n

37/6

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worked out an iden to express a mest Hawker Aircraft amusing thought. It was decided Impl. Cheat. Ind. that the evolution of the tango would O.K. Bazaars be revealed, showing it

onImpl. Tobacco starting on The pampas of Argentina and moving

Rails Royce on to Spain, then to smart Park Avenue, and finally to a cheap dine

innee ballroom where the tango became a dance quite unrecognizable from any of its predecessors

"Hell Helow** "Hell Below,"

Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's striking drama of life in the submarine service,

with Robert Montgomery, Waller Huston, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante,

Bugene Anglo-Dutch .... : 2473 Pallette and Robert Young in a great Gula Kalumpang cast, is providing a blend of thrills, Rubber. romance and contedy at the Star Pekin Synd. 2/- Theatre where the filmization of ord. sh..... Commander Edward Ellsberg's, not- able novel, "Pig-boats," is now being shown. The story is a tremendously dramatic one, Biet between dealing with the con- and duty freed by young unval lieutenant in action In the Mediterranean

during the World Wan. The mazin thrilling episodes of "Hell Befow" include the escape under water from depth bombs, the dramatic moment in the hold of a doomed submarine, the battle with the

the torpedoing! planes, of an enemy destroyer and the final climax in which Montgomery drives his explosive-laden boat into a fort to blow it up and thus bottle up at harbour protecting the enemy fleet. Montgomery and Huston are principals of the dramatic conlliet which

furnishes the motif of the plot, with Jimmy Durante and Eu- the cam-

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U.S. COMMODITY

PRICES

LATEST CABLED

October

QUOTATIONS

Oct. 21. Oct. 22,.

10.77

10.88/88

10:70

10.80/81

10.70

A pipe organ that shot bullets was chief of the many curious gadgets built by studio technicians for uni- veraal's thriller.

Mr. Dynamite" The following quotations on the opening to-day

New York commodity exchange are Queen's Theatre. This homicidal musical issued by Reutor: instrument was invented by Dashiell Hammett, noted author of crime fic- thons, who wrete the

December atory from which the film

January. was made. I WILH worked out

in dettal by Director Match. Alan Crosland in collaboration with

May Universal City's arsenal, music de-Spot partment and architectural stair. Ar original piece of music was writ ten especially for this organ fusilade December in which a Colt's 44

icone and a custom Color

the

January

10.73/73 10.71 10.78/70 10.74 10.81/81 10,78 10.85/85 11.16 11.20

New York Rabber

13.076 12.02/02 13.14 .13.00/00

13.17/17

13.31 13.45 1832732 13,576 .13.45b/49

a peris March ebony planny console played important parts. The July.... masien! shot was fired in

dimax scene of

Total sales: 235 lots. the picture. The star, Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Bather

Chicago Wheat Italston and Verna Hillle act in this December 101 100% 101 scene which reveals the true

criminal. May Lowe has the title role of "Mr.. Dyna- maite??

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ever, ran to risk in the organ scene. Monday's sales: 4,317,000 bushels. It was Jean Dixon who 'might have; been seriously injured if the timing October had gone wrong.

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December May..

December January March

Colton Mills.

Ewo Cottons, Sh., $5.75 b. S'hai Cottons (old), Sh $65 n. S'hai Coltons (new), Sh. $40 n. Zoong Sings, $8. Wing On Textiles, Sh. $25 n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $3.00 b. A.K. Lands, $25 b. and s H.K. Lands, 4% Doben.

$100 n.

S'hai Lands, Sh. $13.90 n. Metropolitan Lands, Sh, $10 n. Humphreys, $7.60 b.

H.K. Realties, $4 n.

Chinese Estates, $86 n. China Realties, Sh. $4 n. Chinn Debenturea Sh. $35 n..

Public Utilities.

-H.K Tramways," $10.66" sa Peak Trams, (old), $5 n. Peak Trams, (now), $4% n. Star Ferries, $76 n.

Yaumati Ferries, (old) $17 n. China Lights, $8.10 .. H.K. Electric, $5234 b. Macao Electric, $20--- Sandakan Lights, $3 a. Telephone (old), $17.80 b. Telephone (new), $6% n. China Buses, Sh. $11 n. Singapore Tractions, 13/ II. Singapore Pref. 25/- n.

Industrials

Malabon Sugars, $8.50 n.

Cald: Maeg. (old), Sh. $10% n Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh, $13 n. Canton Ices, $1.60 .

Coment, $3,15 n.

H.K. Ropes, $1.90 n.

Stores, &c.

Dairy Farm, $16 1. Watson, $3.15 n.

Lane Crawfords, $2.75 n. Mackintoshs, $7 n.

Sinceres, $1.00 n.

Wm. Powella, 70 cta, n. Wing On (H.K.), $55 n.

Miscellaneous.

II.K. Entertainments, $4 n. S. C. Enterprise $1.35 n. Macao "Greyhounds," $2 n. Constructions (old), $1.10 л. Constructions (now), 25 cts. 8. Vibro Plling, $4 n.

Ch. Govt. 6% 1926 G. $ Bonds

91% D.

H. K. Govt. 4% Loan 5% prem. b. H.K. Govt. 3% Loan par, b. Wallace Harpers $4 n.

BESWELL (MUSICAL SPECTACLE DOMI

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fiture of the polles. The actor, how-July

100% 100 100%

80

801 80% Monday's sales: 19,818,000 bushēlu. 12 cynical, coldly humerous private detective who solves a bail-

Chicago Corn ing series of murder to the discom December ...

May

July

6916

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80.34 80% D0% 80% 89 0114 03

93% Now York Sugar

2.40

69% ୫୬୫

50% 60% 80% 60% Winnipeg Wheat

2.39/40

2.18

2.15/17

2.16

2,12/13

2.19

2,10/17

July

7.92

2.20/21

Total sales:-11,000

tons. New York Silk December

2.08

2,00/07 March

2.00 2.06/06 May

2.07 Tolal aales:-00 lots.

Montreal Silver

60.40 68.20/23 00:70

80.35n me a sentence using the word March nitrates-Night rates are cheaper May

07.05 60.86/05 - 07.45 than day rates,

07.05/70 Total sales:-14 contracts.

2.06/06

"CASINO de PARIS" at the QUEEN'S

(Continued from Page 0.) Miss Forty:That's the way of May the world. While some of us can't get husbands at any price, others have husbands to burn!"

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SOME more "howlors":

Queen Elizabeth was called the Virgil Queen because she knew Latin.

The highest mountain in the Alps December is Blanc-lange.

January

Iavah, backstage musical (which should, ba "tapi" wherever they: ka tać "musicst Maison-Keeler picture specháčiks Bureau and then the plate. Joliosis

singing in his big "stuff" and he thinks, with „Kubýt dinčina að standout. -lespecially, (the likatis frem, Manhallány, Chamber, Pissi [Kelly, mužbe) meninned bug Rectromedi mamants, which really itę, jno temuľka ensemble members are maile to mean senė) thing, betaste the daremi' daken instead, al maxing about on mechanikal plecess) Bobby' Cornolip, deliters-much-dradiť" (115 these numbers' Warten and Dabin's music fits in micely, especially "Latin-from Manji hattan', 'Aboul a Quarter' të klipp “Mammy, I'll Sing About Yor Helen Modem 18 ta lại peret cũng Archia Mart's deckten is empath wil wet! &

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