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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936.

Hits

from

TOP

HAT

Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman & His Orch.

RL296: CHEEK TO CHEEK. F.T.

NO STRINGS.

RL297. TOP HAT, WHITE TIE AND TAILS.

ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY. F.T.

RL298. THE PICCOLINO,

F.T.

F.T.

Ginger Rogers with Victor Young & His Orch.

F5746. ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY.

F5747.

F296.

NO STRINGS.

CHEEK TO CHEEK,

THE PICCOLINO.

Harry Roy & His Orch.

CHEEK TO CHEEK. F.T.

THE PICCOLINO.

One Step.

TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.

9 Ice House Street HONG KONG

THE KID YOU CAN'T RESIST!

Back again to make you laugh-and make you cry a little, too!

This

as the LIFE!

FOX PICTURE

JANE(Ginger) WITHERS

JOHN MEGUIRE & SALLY BLANE SIDNEY TOLER • FRANCIS FORD

WEDNESDAY

AT THE

ALHAMBRA

Teething troubles

Becaitse SCOTT'S Emulsion contains 44% of pure cod liver

oil and lime calls

for bone formation,

It prevents teething troubles, rickets and. soft bones... Ask for. genuine qua

SCOTT'S EMULSION

EVERY MAN SPENDS $50,000

ON LUXURY BILL Pictures

WHERE MOST OF THE MONEY GOES

WOMEN-ON BEAUTY TREATMENT. MEN IN SMOKE AND LIQUOR IS washing worth while when it costs $4,160?

to nature" sounds like sweet music beside that figure: Is smoking worth while when it costs more than

$10,000?

Or drinking at the same figure?

It is almost temptation to f stick to opium and forget.

These are some of the start-

A Dog

ling figures revealed by an Commits

examination

of nuri ordin-

ary Englishman's expenditure Suicide

through an adult life, from 18. to 58.

Despite the rumour that the wo man always pays, living in less ex- pensive for her.

Spending $50,000

The calculations given below, necessarily arbitrary in many ways, but kept to reasonable conservative figures, show that a man who never enras more than $400 a month can easily spend $50,000 on items which da Buch strictly

within Como not

food, clothing essentials as rent, doctors' bills and children's schooling. Smoking, drinking, the cinema, the club-these and similar expenditures dimensions over the rench enormous forty years of adulthood.

Consolation in that much of the ex- penditure is indirect taxation and helps the world on, and on, and on.

figuren are lower for the woman! because a shorter period is taken in order to avoid the complications of changing needs.

Cosmetics

The period of the calculation is from 10 to 46 for women, when the] use of cosmetics may be assumed to be.. fairly steady.

to think that powder, Interesting one of the chief cosmetic items, is bought chiefly to be spilled or dusted off. Half of what stays on the face a cont lapel-and probably nda on that, of courst, means cleaners' billa.

The basis of the calculation in that for the first 10 years the young man earns $300 a year. Then five years ut

at $500, and 20 at $100. $100, five The woman's carnings are assumed to be at the same rate as the man's, but her maximum of $600 is earned for 10 years instead of 20.

For simplicity wo assume she re Inains unmarried.

Man-Poor Man !

For the normal consumption of cigarettes and tobacco and an odd cigar-say, $5 a week. Over his forty years-ofmanhood that

makes M Allowing a bottle of beer or

toda

D whisky day, or $0 a week, and adding on the rest of $10 for wines and spirits for guests, meals, and celebra- tions, drink brings the

$10,400

totel over adulthood to .. $20,900 And that "cumshaw"! Even week that

at about $1 a

$ 2,080 means Even if the haircut in only monthly and only $1 (add-

10 cents tip it means $2,288 Say $1.30 a week for news-

$ 2,704 panora

Club The on Saturday, Say

$20 a month

д

"Back

A dog jumped into Man- chester Ship Canal at Runcorn this month.

It was rescued by the cap- tain of the port sanitary launch Hygenia and was placed on tho canal bank,

It then jumped back into the canal, turned on its back, and disappeared.

Several

officiula 'canal watched the dog and consi- dered that it deliberately took its life.

to

$6,864

$

Of Adam And Eve

CENTURIES OLDER THAN THE BIBLE

Archaeologists excavating the ruined city of Tepe Gawra, in Assyria, which was destroyed 4,000 years before the birth of Christ, have discovered a pleture of Adam and Eve 6,000 years old.

The excavators, working under the leadership of Dr. E. A. Speiser, of the University of Pennsylvania, had dur down through the ruins of seven cities built on top of each other when they came to another.

Here they found the impression i of a seal on a small clay tablet.

This shows a bearded figure with

a female figure apparently suppori- ing him. Both are followed by a Herpent, Indentifled by its triangu far head. It is Adam and Ere and the snake,

Handed Down

It is claimed that the discovery of this seal proves that the Biblical account of the beginning of the earth was being handed down centuries be fore the chroniclers could put it in writing,

and long before Babylon.

The clay picture in one of the most important archaeological dia. coveries of all time.

Such sculs were used, it in pro- sumed, to identify sovereigns and Important officials in the place of a signature.

Tho

Top Gawra means Mighty Mound, and it is only twenty 600 miles from the Inter and greater

city of Nineveh.

or $3.30 for the night. Onco a week; that makes At least once a year you will have a real splash at the Hongkong Hotel-ray at $10 for the night. It adds up w Not to mention club fees which approximate $36 a

$ 1,400 year *** But the economics of friend- ship! Four letters llome (involving postage, рел and ink, paper, envelopes, 40 blotting paper) cost

GO cents for postage and cents for incidentals Christmas and other greeting cards (sny 21 at 30 cents),

-3 384. plus postage: And inescapable gifts. For

$ 1,772

name

Oldest Planned

Tepo Gawra is thought to be the oldest planned eity in the world.

Many implements, pots and pans, and weapons made of stone or bone have been discovered.

Much copper was also found. An- other discovery was a jar of kohl, a substance used for darkening a woman's eyebrows.

Fine, spacious homes and temples have been unearthed. Crudely fa- 510

HELEN

announces that

Mr. CUTT of the "Empress of Canado" will be in attendance for three weeks from 27th January, specialising in

LADIES' MODERN HAIR-CUTTING. Please make appointments in advance. Hours: 9.30 am to 5 p.m.

HELEN'S

120

25

27

BEAUTY ASIA LIFE BUILDING.

THIRD FLOOR, SALON

TEL.:34055.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS'

ACROSS

113

•

1 One thing about the Mauretania that will be "debunked" now she han retired,

4 "am, cure It", (anag.) 8 Disastrous.

If it lived up to its name, this Essex town would be opposed to the Jubilee celebrations.

10 You may get assistance

this aggressive set.

ehioned children's toys were found be-11 On the move. 20 cents a week $

a man, $40 a year $1,000 Library, magacine or book

buying at

Fares by Star Monthly

Ferry, Peak tram and/or bus and rickshaw easily average $10 a month Radio licence and purchase and maintenance of the set, or gramophone and. records account for another

$30 a year montage** The samo sum can be put down for charity collections in the office, presentations for departing staff and Christmas sweep-stakes Then extra special entertain- buck parties, an Occasional gamo ef poker. Four evenings a year $20 each

At

Then there is insurance, even if it is only sufficient to guarantee that the

worm

side earthenware jars,

Tepo Gawra was conquered by an unnamed attacker and laid waste, ita $ 4,800 people were murdered, and Hs riches

atolen.

$ 1,200

The Inevitable tip at 70 cents

weekly

$ 1,400 Bath and beauty-a frighten- ing list. Soap 20 cents,

bath toothpaste 30 cents, salts 50 cents, manicure cents, cold cream 30 tiasucs 30 cents,

GO $ 1,200

CLA cream 20 cents, tale 20 cents. powder 50 cents, So: $8 a week...

$ 8,200 Add 20 cent powder puff

An

$ 2,006

will have enough earth when dead. Say $50 nually Finally, most

enjoyable extravagance-your Home leave. Once in every five years it should cost you a total of at least Smoking is not so heavy an expense for the female as for the male of the species. Sho docs

not smoke Bo much-and sho usually re- celves many from the male. Let us

assume that sho pays for 10 a day-$100

weck

# 0,600

tho

208

a

$146

That bind beggar on

corner, or the street urchin. Say 10 cents weekly And while we are on smalt Items, there are matches. At one cent day he spende

the bath. Accessories to

Soap at 20 cents a week, toothpaste at 30 cents, bath cubes 60 cents, hair lotion 30 cents, razor blades or sharpening) 60 cents. Total $2 a week

Add yearly $1 for nail brush, $2 for toothbrush, $1 for tale, and $3 for shaving. зодр

The girl friend, and

later

the wife, must have a cine- ma. Say two $1.70 scats and a coffee afterwards,

SALESMAN SAM

$ 4,160

Drinking, too, can be disre

Kardod-as an

expense. Samo do, some don't; but few pay. Bridge. Say $30 пусат .....

But the hairdresser! There

perms a year (530), Het ting once a fortnight ($40 a year), hair lotions ($5 a year) Fashion magazines and other periodicals raise the news- paper. bill, At 50 cents a week

$10,000

"

.A

a fortnight, perfume

$5

n year.

at Six lipsticks, a

year

nt 60 cents each, eye- brow pencil, mascara, rouge, nail Bles, mirrors, eyebrow tweezers.

make

a year, nail up another $5 and toothbrushes another

rather

Stockings (at least $9 a year) the seems to come into sphere of adornment than parel. apparel, week A week added for trinkets

cents

20 and must be

Chocolates, despite alimming:

50 cents a week Generally postal

expennes ATO on about the same level.

$8,240

$ $12

$ B7G

$ 1,040

$ 1,328

as the male. Say, ...** 45

and Christmas

cards: Inescapable gifts:

greeting

$20

$1,200

year Fares: kamo as monfolk

1,772

$ 884

$ 800 $ 4,800

Radio or gramophone:

$ 1,200

Charity and other collections

$3,000

280

$ 1,040 The beggars at ton conts a

week

208

And matches at ten cents

week

208

HERES YER STATION, YOUNG) SAY, I'M SO COLD

·FELLAR - ARE YA COLD?. MY COAT POCKETS

(CE CUBES)

in the offee: $10 a year.. $400 Sport: A little less than

$ 1,500 mere manag For extra special entertain.

$ 400 ments: $10 a year Finally, because we have as sumed that the dear lady unmarried has remained

and wants to see her people' at Homo: half as much as It costs a man to do this..

Out Of The Frying Pan

BRRR! I'M STILL SHIVERIN'! ANY

PLACE AROUND HENG WHERE

KIN GET SOME HOT COFFEE

BIGGTOWN! GIVES YOU A WARM RECEPTION

BIGGTOWN- CHAMBER COMMERCE

SURE! THEY'S 'A SWELL REST'RANT. WES AROUN

CORNER!

$ 8,000

GOOD GOSH!WHAT AN EXPERIENCE! IT'LL TAKE ME A MONTH TATHAW

12 A movable barrier.

15 A strengthening process.

17 Founding or foundation.

20 Kind of "hop.

21 Dear James,

from

22 The surface extent of part of

town property,

25 Sounds pleasant, but the start

may hurt.

20 Domestic work, this.

27 This had something to do with

the coaching industry.

28 Many a clever, erook has been taken in by a brunetto of thin

DOWN

1 This is simply killing in breechTM

cal

2 Unwelcome guest in a menage,

of unsettling habits.

3 A time with no beginning.

4 The power of opposition.

5 This precedes a down.

6.Town of N. Africa.

7 This luxury reversed would be

almost tragic

Kodak

raiki

28

16

What can bo produced from this

world-wido allianco It Is hemp. (two words),

13 The beginning of some

nalient

future

14 This may be good or bad busi-

ness for the better.

16 "It's ho gala (anag.)

18 This vehicle's end is a brilliant

beginning.

19 Dog.

20 Mostly a muddio-headed holy

24

war.

If you hear this when motoring it may boa fine portent,

24 Noise of a prosperous period.

Saturday's Bolution

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DOUBLE PROTECTION

Verichrame Film has tur eniul, sions, of sensitive sili

ver. One gets detail in lealy shade; the other retains it in

That's glaring sun.

why Verichrome gets the picture where -ordinary films fail,

POLAR BEAR

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POLAR BEAR LUNCH

(E) 1936 BY MEA SERVICE, MIG.

EAT

HERE

$20

•For your own protection, ask for and see that you get the film in the yellow box with checkered stripes, marked “Kodak."

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