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TO-MORROW AT THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1936.

ALHAMBRA Europe's Tallest

Lord Mayor

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF

COWAN & BAILEY'S GREAT SHOW

Hongkong's Popular Favourites with

TED and EVELYN

presenting songs from "TOP HAT" and

"Broadway Melody of 1936".

SONGS MUSIC

DANCES COMEDY

ON THE SCREEN

MAY ROBSON'S GREATEST ROLE!

The star of "Lady for a Day," the first lady of the slago and screen, stops out again in her grandest story, assisted in laughter and tears by three of the mosi 'dovilish young rascals you ever laid eyes onl

with

CARL LAEMMLE

FREDENTS

THE BELOVED

May ROBSON

3 KIDS

AND A

QUEEN

CHARLOTTE HENRY

BILLY BURRUD

FRANKIE DARRO. HENRY ARMETTA

WILLIAM BENEDICT

GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION !

THE

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RUNNYMEDE HOTEL

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Private Care for Excurslous Anywhere.

Caterers etc, to Imperial 'Airways.

Mask stw Interchangeable, no extra cost wherever you have your breakfast, luncheon, lan, or dinnar,

Booms of both hotels have private bathroom and modera, sanitation. At 15e Runnymede each room has its own publis telephone.

The Bunnymada Restaurant kan undeniably pride of place among totals of the Zast with its culeine, and justly claims by its memociation in vier the travellez rush so la not to be found elsewhere,

Teething troubles Because SCOTT'S Emulsion contains 44% of pure cod liver

oil and lime salts

for. bone formation,

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SCOTT" EMULSION

(7ft. Lin.)

Resigns

EUROPE'S tallest lord mayor-Chief Burgo- master Heinrich Sahm, of Berlin, who is 7ft. lin. tall —has resigned.

A month ago Dr. Salita was CX- pelled from the Nazi l'arty by de- cision of a Court of Honour.

Ife had been seen talking to Jews, and his wife had been seen making purchases in Jewish-owned

an-

-day or two ago It was nounced from Berlin that he had been reinstated in the party at Iller the instigation of Herr himself.

WITH HITLER'S CONSENT Now Herr Hitler is reported to have consented to his resigning. There is a likelihood that he may be given another post..

For ten years Dr. Sahm was Chief Burgbmaster of Danzig. There he made a great reputation for himself.

it was because of that reputation that he was appointed Chief Burgo- master of Berlin In 1932.

Empty-Glass Toast

When Lord Derby át- tended the annual dinner of the Old Blackburnians at Blackburn last night he said he would have to leave early. One of the toasts was "Lord Derby."

The wine had not arrived. Blackburn one night he said ty glasses to their lips in a symbolical toast.

FIGHTING FOG

A fog balloon, complete with instruments, sunt up daily from Croydon airport to ascertain the lying conditions

Britain.

-Canadian Crime

over

LONDON GREETS NEW LORD MAYOR

The new Lord Mayor of London, Sir Percy Vincent, ap- pears in the gilded window of his ornate conch, smiling and bowing to the throngs of Len doners that Hned the streets through which Sir Percy's pro cession passed. The tradition- al costume of London's lord m nyor is draped on Sir Percy.

The Humble Coconut

Comes Into Its Own

Hats off to the coconut..

Regard it no longer as merely a useful missile for monkeys to rain down on explorers. Realise that It is something more-very

much mor than just a target of fairs.

The cornnut has become a vitalj cog in the machine that is Ceylon. An exhibition last month at Ceylon Huuse, Aldwych, shows just how vitul.

It was an exhibition devoted en

It revented tirely to the coconut.

the surprising fact that the corn- nut tree has "budited" into more than two hundred important pro- ducts. Here are some of them:

Coconut oil (used for making soap, candies, margarine, cosmetics, and medicines).

Poonne (cattle food).

Copra

Coconut milk (for curry).

Our Hollyood Serial

NEW-PARLOPHONE RECORDS.

F289. BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936. Selection

F292.

PLEASE TEACHER. Selection. Pianoforte Solos. Patricia Rossborough.

EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT. -Selection

- BIG BROADCAST OF 1936.Selection.

His Rhythm.

F287. SERENADE. (Hoykens)

Phil Green &

VOLGA SONG (Lchar) Organ Solos.. Marcel Palot

F285. WHENEVER I THINK,

I FEEL A SONG COMIN' ON, Vocal, Leslie Hutchinson

F286, EAST OF THE SUN.

MY HEART 15 ́HAUNTED.Vocal, Leslie Hutchinson. F283. THE GHOST OF DINAH, F. T.

F284.

F282.

TRUCKIN', F. T. Nat Conella & His Georgians. OH PETER

PIDGIN ENGLISH HULA. Nat Corella & His Georgians. GESHWIN FOX TROT MEDLEY. Harry Roy's Tiger

Ragamuffin

RZ126. 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- dolior") Harry Roy & His Orch

FZ98.

CHEEK TO CHEEK, F. T.

THE PICCOLINO.

One Step.

(both from "Top Hat")'

Harry Roy & His Orch

MANY OTHER NEW RECORDS IN STOCK.

TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.

9 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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Toldy and arrack (tropical i toxicantaj.

Cocktails.

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Jaggery (syrap).

Yarn, thatehing. matting, ship's cables, brounas, brushes,

IN GAS MASKS Then there are gas masks. Yes, gas masks have coconut in them The shell is burned for its char- the filter coal, which goes into section of the mask.

"English people know very, little about the coconut tree," an official

is

of anid. "It the life-blood Ceylon

ELAINE WANTS TO MEET

HER-HERO AGAIN ·

New York, Dec. 30,

ELAINE BARRIE, the 20-year-old New York girl whose romance wth John Barrymore, the film star, led to a quarrel and estrangement, says that she hopes to leave New York soon for Hollywood at Barrymore's invitation.

Edward Camomile, Barrymore's representative in Hollywood, atates, however, that he is "nearly certain that the actor has not been advised of Miss Barri's plans." "It has all been arranged by! long-distance telephone," Miss Bar- rie said to-day.

Asked if she would renew her engagement, she replied:

"I would rather not discuss that until I reach Hollywood." Then she flared up and exclaimed:

"PHONING EACH DAY" "I'm tired of having my romance ruined by publicity. It is like mak- ing love in Madison-square Garden. "I'm looking forward to seeing John," she added. "He has been

ENGLISH · MOTHER HANGED phoning me every day."

FOR MURDER OF HUSBAND

A

Woodstock (Ontario), Jan. 28. FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Durham woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Tilford, was hanged at Woodstock early to-day for the murder of her third husband, Tyrrell Tilford.

Mrs. Tilford was seen to collapse when the officers entered her cell at midnight and the prison matrons worked furiously to revive her. Nearly one hour later she was led into the bleak prison yard, through the snow, to the gallows.

She was the eighth woman to be Council decided not to interfere hanged in Canada since the setting with the sentence. up of the Confederation.

from

Barrymore has been suffering

nerves at his Hollywood- home. The latest news is that he has been chosen to play ns Mercutio. in the film version of "Remco and Juliet," in which Lasile Howard will take the part of Romes.

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chemist.

Another witness. stated that on one occasion Mrs. Tilford ordered two arsenic by telephone,

ounces of

Mrs. Tilford went to Canada in 1928 with her second husband William Walker, an official of the Dying Man's Accusation

Salvation Army, whom she married In the body of her husband traces Evidence was given during the in 1911 and who died in 1920. of arsenic were discovered when it trial by the dead up's sister, who, During the investigations into was exhumed last May, a month declared that her brother, Just Tilford's death his body was ex- before his death, said to his wife: humed, but no traces of any poison after burial,

killed The Ontario Court of Appeal last "Lizzie, you have

me. were found. Mra, Tilförd married dismissed Mrs. month

Tilford's You've killed three, but you will her first husband on the result of appeal. The Governor-General in kill no more."

a bet when she was 15,

SALESMAN SAM

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