KING'S ALHAMBRA
COMMENCING SATURDAY!
HERE
WE ARE AGAIN
B Jack
OLKS
Bad Benny
WAN
BY
SPEAKING
and I'm telling the world that never hns so much great entertain ment been crowded into one screen musical comedy! Get set for the hit tunes of a gen eration, a thousand laughs, a swell romance, hundreds of dancing cuties, in
"M« G« M ' GIANT SHOWI
MELODYTORK
SORO HIS
"Broadway
Rhythm
*Twe Ool Facia
You'te Fookin
"Buday
Altemoon
"You Are My
Lachy
"Hing Before
SAG HOTEL,
Penang Hills.
ELEANOR
POWELL
..Singing.
Dancing
Sentin
(2,400 feet abora seslavel).
JACK. BENNY ELEANOR POWELL- ROBERT TAYLOR
UNA MERKEL FRANCES LANGFORD SID SILVERS
BUDDY ESSEN VILMA EDSEN
JUNE KNIGHT
HARRY STOCKWELL HICK LONG, JR.
ONG
SEL:
BAY HOTEL:
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HOTEL:
ons Lits, Peking
TEL, LTD., PENANG.
Refreshment Rooms. (near summit station) Hi Railway.
"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE." RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
Privato ura for Excursions, Anywhere.
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways,'
Mande are interihangeable, no tra cost wherever you have your breakfast, Inasheen, tan, or dinner.
Kocms of both, botale bare private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Hansyurede each room has its own public telephone.
The Runnymede testaurant bas undeniably pride of place among botala of the East with the enline, and Justly claims by its associations to offer the traveller auch m
pot to be found sisewhere.
THE HONGKONG
THE OLD AND THE NEW
OLD
CHINESE CUSTOM·
Old Chinese custom is that it is, bad luck to start the New Year in debt.
That means-much extra work for the Hongkong mval and police forces. between now and January 26, combating robbery, banditry, and piracy.
For these are the things Chinese have a habit of indulging in to pay off their debts,
NEW
RENO CUSTOM
TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JANUARY
1936.
Five Million Lottors
M. G. M. STARS SET A
NEW RECORD
Their Fan Mail Is The Heaviest
Recorded In Hollywood
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor studio chalked up a new sort of record recently by receiving its five-millionth for letter in six
years.
It happens to be of all thingsi-a propusai addressed to Clark Gable by a young Indy in Jackson, Mississippi, who thought the star should bring her to California because she makes "unusually light and Sinky draking powder biscuits.”
It is considered likely that the studio has received at least twice 5,000,000 letters during its existence, but records have been kept only. during the last six years of the fan mail department's work. New York, Dec. 24.
that 833,331 fans per year, or On this basis, though, it means as the city of Rett famous lightning divorce, is now setting up approximately 2,118 per day have taken the trouble to write the studio as the city of lightning marriage,
People are flocking to lleno from the stars their appreciation or criticism of pletures and perform- all parts to get married, because in Reno a marriage licenco Is issued on the day application is made for it.
Outside Reno a three-day wait
is 'necessary.
ances.
The 5,000,000th letter, addressed personally to Gable, is to be held for his return from a South American tour. It may interest him. The young lady in Jackson wasn't proposing matrimony to him. Sho wanted a job as his cook!
STRATOSPHERE ENDS FLYING "TERRORS'
PROFESSOR G. T. R. HILL, Kennedy Professor of Engineering at the University of London, says that the air levels up in the stratosphere (which begins about six miles above the earth) are, in their calmness, all that air-sick passengers pray for.
He was talking to the Royal Society of Arts stratosphere travel.
about
The main conclusions he has drawn are that the higher you go you find fewer clouds, legs wind and higher temperatures.
cloud. Round continuous stratos-of Yes, far up into the phere the temperature actually about 30,000 feet we pass through rises, according to the professor. the region where the cirrus cloud, or mackerel sky, floats, and in the Ile said:
stratosphere we are free altoge- ther from clouds.
"At 160,000 ft., some thirty miles, it is believed to be about
WIND LOSES SPEED
As warm as on the ground. "Wind decreases up above. At But at 200 miles up the tem-10,000 ft. in the stratosphere it perature has risen so much has lost, perhaps, half its speed. that a piece of steel would be- Higher up we may describe the come red hot and brass would winds by the familia phrase 'the melt.
higher the fewer."
"At a reasonable height we get rid of clouds.
"Unless the journey be a long one, the climb and descent will "When we leave the 10,000 ft. occupy such a large proportion of level we can escape the possibility,the total time that may gain from
flying really high will vanish.
Josef The Beggar: £6,000, Big House
Warsaw, Dec. 15. JOSEF the Jew, oldest and
best-known beggar in
"Thus, in my opinion, it is not until we can contemplate journeys of at least 1,000 miles that we can f secure much benefit from high flying."
WINTER SPORT
The Olympic Skiingason, has began in Germany, and training la already being carried out with great well-known The enthusiasm on "Zugspitze" hill in the Bavarian` Alps.
NEW PARLOPHONE. RECORDS. F289. BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936. Selection
PLEASE TEACHER.
- Patricia Rossborough,
Selection. Pianoforta Solos.
F292. EVERY NIGHT AT MIGHT. Selection BIG BROADCAST OF 1936,Selection. His Rhythm.
F287. SERENADE. (Høykens)
VOLCA SONC.
Phil Green &
(Lchar) Organ Solos. Marcel Palotti,
F285. WHENEVER I THINK,
I FEEL A SONG COMIN' ON. Vocal. Leslie Hutchinson F286. EAST OF THE SUN.
MY HEART IS HAUNTED.Vocal. Leslie Hutchinson.. F283. THE CHOST OF DINAH. F. T.
TRUCKIN'. F. T. Nat Conella & His Georgians. F284, OH PETER ·
F282.
R2126.
PIDGIN ENGLISH HULA. Nat Gonella & His Georgian GESHWIN FOXTROT MEDLEY, Harry Roy's Tiger ·
Ragamuffin
SWING, BROTHER, SWING, F. T. NICKEL IN THE SLOT. F. T. Wingy Mannone & His Orch, 278. LULU'S BACK IN TOWN. F. T. ·
OUTSIDE OF YOU. F. T. (both from "Broadway Con- dolier") Harry Roy & His Orch F298. CHEEK TO CHEEK_F. T.
THE PICCOLINO. One Stop. Harry Roy & His Orch
(both from "Top Hat"),
MANY OTHER NEW RECORDS IN STOCK.
TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.
9 ICE HOUSE STREET
HONG KONG
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS-
ACROSS
114
16
16
*
23
124
1 Parts of animal and man as a
warning to seamen,
d Quite clear, the sleuths having
finished it.
9 Can't be struck without coming
to an agreement.
10 A form of A1 6 Down.
11 Touching results?
12 Sane terms (Anugram)-his
14 Angry in snakes, und
SUN HAS WE HAVE
RASH. BAD
SO RADIO
13
15 Down from
is
frequently broadcast.
Dewn
has a couple of them.
Warsaw, a city of many beg Spots Blamed For Erratic Reception gars, is no morė.
A rash of sunspots has broken out in the middle of the sun's
Day in, day' out, Josef had face. begged for the last twenty, years, wet or fine.. His garments were miserable rags, his home a miser-nomer Royal, Dr. H. Spencer-Jones.. able garret.
This is the meaning of a report issued this month by the Astro-
Bread was his staple food; water his chief drink.
AGED 100
He died in his attic last night
aged 100.
And this, it is said, is why our radio reception of Daventry and other stations is erratic.
This morning relatives found his will and two documents. One at thene was the title deeds for a four-storey house in a fashionable quarter of Warsaw. The other was a passbook showing that he had a balance of $8,000 in the Polish recorded National Bank.
'MAGNETIC STORMS'
The spots were actually first
The spots have caused "magne- observed by the telescopes at the storms" in the upper regions
Observatory. Greenwich
Now of the earth's atmosphere, and they have been brought by the have affected the way in which sun's rotation into a prominent short wireless waves are reflected by the electrified layers a hun- position a,,the centre.
dred miles or more above us. "It is the largest group of spots Professor E. V. Appleton, the for more than five scientist who discovered the. "Appleton Layer," has found with the yeara," Bay's the Astronomer
serious interference' According to Jewish ritual Josef Royal,
"echoing", of short-wave signals was buried this afternoon,
"When first sech, the group their return to the earth by the
layers- small. But relatively
No effect of thinkind wns within a few days its area had noticed until the large spota ap- increased to two thousand | peared
noar the centre of the million square miles..
It cost more than £100.
His widow, who gets the bulk of the £6,000, is leaving the attic at
once...
She was Josef's fifth wife.
SALESMAN SAM
WOB
WELL, A NIGHTS SLEEP HAŚ SORTA PEPPED ME UPI I BETTER CHASE AROUND, NOW, AN' DO SOME
EXPLORIN, AN" FIND OUT WHERE I AM!
OHAY
UMHAY!
sun.
Somewhat Relieved"
GOSH, THIS IS THE WILDEST OH,OH LTH' REMAINS PLACE I'VE EVER BEENĮ OF A FIRE! JUST LIKE SOME CANNI- BAL ISLANDS I'VE READ!
ABOUTĮ
17 Something else.
19 Whick goes to prove you must
straw to make bricks,
21 Starts liko a cannon possibly, and is caught like a ball, but Insido it is crazy and thoroughly out of sorts.
24 Tight either in the past, pre-
Bent, or future,
20 A great Itussian writer.
27: Inveterate bitterness.
28 In your interests.
20 Whose times Tennyson termed
spacious
DOWN
1 May indicate your station.
made dress 2 Long years have
Auch merc useless stuff.
3 Put In another tongue, and when
I'm inside an excuse attendance.
for
Inte
4 Might indicate greeting or panic. 5 Clean, and press; when beheadeil
A possibly regal drink.
NOVEL!
HER
7 Haring chawed up and swallow- ed another animal. Puss pre- Konts the pipe of peace.
8 If you were patient; you might
guess it.
13 A star model becomes a great
painter (two words).
15 A modley from abroad.
16 Land of Hope.
18 "Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus
to make poor-mad” (“Romeo and Juliet").
20 Comfort a number, with fish, or 22 historians on those, perhaps. 23 Behold, wrath is flowing is
France.
25 A broken heart.
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