1936-03-07 — Page 20

Showing TO-DAY Simultaneously

KING'S

HỒNG KONG

ALHAMBRA

KOWLOON

2.30, 5.10. 7,15 &.9.30 p.m.;At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 ₺ 9.20 p.m.

YOU'LL REMEMBER HIM FOR THIS!

Dashing as he was in 'Raffles' and Bulldog Drum. mond'...he's even more fascinating ...as the man who does what you've dreamed all your life of doing!

RONALD

Colman

THE MAN WHO

BROKE THE BANK at MONTE CARLO

Added

AT THE KING'S "MOONLIGHT AND MELODY" (MUSICAL COMEDY)

and latest Fox Movietone News,

4 SHOWS

DAILT 1.30-£13

BENNETT

COLIN CLIVE NIGEL BRUCE

DARRYL F. ZANUCK -

2016 CENTURY PRODUCTION Presented by Jesepi M. Schenck Dürited by Struben Roberts Jeon the play by Ilie Surgulchoil

Attraction

AT THE ALHAMBRA "HOLLYWOOD LIGHTS" (MUSICAL COMEDY)

and intest Fox Movietone News.

TAKE ANY TRAM DA HAPPY

ORIENTAL

FLEMING

ROAD

WANOKU

TEL INTE

LAST 4 PERformances TO-DAY

OF THIS

FAST ACTION COMEDY THRILLER.

A picture that moves with surging suspenso from one stirring episode to another.

HERE'S THRILL-A-MINUTE ACTION I

FUGITIVE LOVERS in a thrill-a-second romance as EXCITING

AS LOVE'S FIRST KISS!

CHESTER MORRIS SALLY EILERS

PURSUIT

TO-MORROW—MONDAY TUESDAY. HOLLYWOOD HAS GONE THE LIMIT TO MAKE THIS OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION.

THE CHAMPAGNE OF ALL SCREEN MUSICALSI KYLVENAR FIELD PARENTFIEL

with

* JACK BENNY

Broadw

Melody

MATINEES:,206.-30c.

ELEANOR POWELL ROBERT

• TAYLOR

1936

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1936.

BATTLESHIP

FORMULA

FAIRBANKS

IN HURRY

AGREEMENT REACHED TO MARRY

AT LONDON

to

London, Mar, 0. The battleship formula agroed by the American and French delega- tions has been formally adopted by the Technical Committee of the Nava! Conference, which has also decided on the currency of new treaty

BULLYING PARISIAN

AUTHORITES

N. Y. FEAR OF VIOLENCE

ENLISTS SPECIAL

POLICE

New York, March 0. The police have enlisted 5,500 eligible candidates for membership of, the Police Force as reserves to combat possible outbreaks of ylolanco De * consequence of the strike of liftmen

The mania is affecting

until 1962, though fresh consultation WANTS TO GO troubles being reported

will be arranged in 1040 with a view to reduction in the size of battleships,

Heuter,

COMMITTEE SUCCEEDS

TO CHINA

(Special to "Telegraph")

London, Mar, 0. The Tochnical Committee of the Naval Conference has completely

Paris, March 0. agrood to battleship limitation to

Douglas Fairbanks, former screen 86,000 tone, with 14-inch guns. How. ever, the calibros will be 10-inches favourite and husband of Mary Pick ford, has had a disagreement with unless all the Powers, Including French officials during a whirlwind Japan, approved of 14-inch weapons.

The Italian delegation has sub-effort to obinin & permit to marry mitted reservations, retaining com- immediately Lady Ashley, pleto freedom of action-United Press.

GOOD NEWS FOR RADIO FANS

HONGKONG HUMIDITY

‘OVERCOME

from Philadelphia,' Harrisburg, Balti- more and Boston, while at Akron" where thore Bro already 10,000 strikers in four other disputes, milk producers threatan to censo deliveries owing to lorry driver blockading the dairies-Reutor Special,

STRIKE SETTLED.

New York, March 0. The lift striks has been settled by

elro-

arbitration in fifty-eight buildings where the management has agreed to Increase the men's wogen eight dollars He appeared before the Soine a month, but still continues | judicial authorities and asked that where-Router,

they waive the thirty days' residenco law and the ten days' publication of bans required ordinarily.

The authorities demanded identifi- cation papers. Fairbanks

obtained

INDIAN AIRMEN

MISSING

Humidity holds no terrors for the Maharajah's Pilot One

modern radio receiver.

Which just goes to prove that selence, in defeating ane of "The greatest hugbears of radio, has done someth 'ng for listening-in that so far. it hasn't been able to do succesfully for the listener.

Sponsors of the new movement to take the terrors of humidity out of the delicate mechanism of a rádio set aro the Philip's laboratories at Eindhoven, owners of PCJ and Pl, well-known to short-wave listeners, and makers of the famous receivers that use the Arm'a name.

In effect, the Philips laboratory has the radio receiver into an incu-

In this incubator is artificially pro- duced a day such as Hongkong people expar.enco in mid-summer when the temperature is in the nineties and the humidity is as high.

Thermometers and bygrometers, which are easily read from the out- side, facilititate continual supervision.

in

gathere

Of Lost Party

London, Mar, 6. Three Indian airmen are reported to be missing in Africa while flying from Uganda to Somaliland.

One was the pilot of the Maharajah of Patiala.- Reuter's Bulletin Service,

PROVE CARETA BERRESKURATUARENTA PAGINIA.

his trom the American Embassy and chartered an aeroplane to fly to Lon-

marriage

don and obtain Lady Sylvia's.

It indicated that a

licence will be issued to-morrow when Lady Sylvia's papers arrive.— United Press.

HURRY EXPLAINED

Parin, March 6.

LOCAL DOLLAR

DECLINES

FIRST TIME FOR TWO MONTHS

The official rate of the Hongkong

ullor declined 1/8th this morning to 1. 3.7/16, this being the first change for nearly two months.

Intur-bank rates wore 1s, 3.6/8d. selfers and 1s. 3.11/1Gd. buyers. The market is very dull.

The decline In the rats is due to n decline in silver prices and to a slightly easier money market.

NEW SHIPPING ·

SERVICE

BETWEEN SIAM AND JAPAN

Singapore, Mar. 7. The O.S.K. announces the innaura- *ing of a dirnet servies of steamers

by hatween Japan and Siam

пер 6,000-ton motor ships.

The servicn in being inaugurated

ment of cranemia peletions between the two countrics."-United Press.

The resalens is baked and bathed Douglas Fairbanks' hurry to wed"In view of the recent vast develop-

"perspiration". It

as Lady Sylvia Ashley is due to his de- nuch dampness as do the receivers ofsire to proceed immediately to China the unfortunate Peak listeners, who for the projected filming of the story wonder, after a week's dampness such of Marco Polo-Beuter

an we've experienced this week, why their receivers go "bung"

Why all these tests? The Philips all-wave 835 is now on the Hongkong market. It has evolved from tho Incubator tenta described above. It is, in effect, à receiver built under conditions that exist during summer for conditions that exist in Hongkong during summer,

If anything happens to this TÜ- ceiver in Hongkong, humidity won't be the cause. Which seems to put it well above its rivals.

THE SPITTING NUISANCE

'BOARDING HOUSE

REGULATIONS

The following rules have been made under the Asiatle Emigration and Boarding House Ordinancee:

24A(1) No person shall spit in

A

any boarding-house except into spit- toons provifel for the purpos

(2)

boarding house shall cause to be continuously displayed, in a conspicuous

position on every floor of his licensed premises, a notice or notices of a size and form Approved by the Secrotary for Chinese Affairs requiring persons

using the premises not to spit on the

floor.

Clippers Ready For Mails

H.K. TO BENEFIT *

FROM SERVICE

..

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

TO BE MARRIED TO LADY ASHLEY IN PARIS

Paris. Mar. 6. Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, the famous serorn star and Lady Ashley, who is one of the party accompanying him on h's world tour, have applied for special dispensation to avoid the pub-

It is notified in the Gazette that the lention of banns and hope to be mur-

ried to-day-Reuter. Post Office is prepared to Десер letters for transmission by Pan- American Airways to the Philippine The Hongkong Aquarium Society Islands, Guam, Honolulu and U.S.A. in holding its honthly meeting in the Transmission by air Lo the Laboratory of the Biology Depart- Philippine Islands will be dependentment of the longkang University on on the use of Hengkong ur Macao as Wednestiny, next, March 11, at 800 the Asiatic terminus of the service.

The rates per half ounce, inclusive "A talk will be given on "low

and where to

of the regular puntage, are:--Phlip- aquatle plantat local fishes and

The meeting is open pine Islands, 60 cents; Guam, $180; to the public, and all persons interrat. Honolulu, $3;' United States (San ed in tropical flahes will be welcome. Francisco), $4.20

APPOINTMENT OF MR. A. A. WRIGHT

Mr. V. Gordon Bowden, Australian

|Trade Commissioner to Chins, who

at

present visiting Hongkong from Shanghai, expects to remain in the

Colony for about ten days more be

fore leaving for the north. On March 10, Mrs. Rowden is due to ar LONDON UNOFFICIAL-rive here from Europe on the liner Sebamherst, and she will proceed to LY CONFIRMS REPORT Shanghai to make her home there

Mr. Bowden leaves for

треть

Through the courtesy of Router, the city.

ما

un-

Telegraph is able to announce that the (3) The licensed of a boarding reported appointment of Mr. A. A. house shall cause any phlegm, spittle Wright, of Fili, as Colonial Secretary Sir or saliva found on the floor of his of Hongkong, when the Hon.

Thomas Southern retirer, premises to be promptly swept up officially confirmed in London. and removed; and, in the event of

This information was secured his providing one or more spittoons, the result of an enquiry mado shall cause a suficient quantity of a

London by Reuter yesterday. disinfectant fluid to be kept con. tinuously in such spittoons while in use, and shall. thoroughly cleanse them daily.

T.T.

EXCHANGE

TO-DAY'S OPENING·

QUOTATIONS

Belling

Demand T.T. Singapore

TT. Shanghai

T.T.

Japan

T.T. India

Frisco & New York

T.T. Javn TT. Fmnca T.T. Manlia TT. Bangkok T.T. Saron T.T. Lisbon

that

The March issue of "The Rock" contains Father T. Ryan's views on the birth control controversy. It is ntitled "A-Reply to Mrs. Sanger, the as Gaso Against Birth Control in Propaganda". It is a reasoned argu- ment, the theme being ably considered. and Father Ryan concludes by asset- ing that birth control is race suicide. Other articles in this magazine cover a wide range of subjects, of con siderable interest, and the issue pleasingly illustrated.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. M. J. Abbott to act as Assistant Land Officer and Deputy Registrar of Marriages.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

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EVERY MIND, WAB MADE FOR GROWTHI,;FOR KNOWLEDGE: AND ITS NATURE IS BINNED AGAINST WHEN 1/8.1/10 IT IS DOOMED TO IGNORANCE,--- 1/8.7/10 Channing.

54%

110

85

The number of emigrants leaving the Colony for the Straits Settlements during the month of February, 1930, was 7,692.

His Excellency the Governor has, under instructions from, the Secretary

100% His Excellency the Governor has of State for the Colonies, appointed authorised the awards of Defence Mr. M. J. Abbott to be a Junior Legal Corps officiency modals to Corporal Officer. James Joseph King, Private Edward 46%

Drummor Docherty and 4.81 Rennie Forsyth.

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William It is notified that His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held 10 on Monday, March, 16, at o'clock in the forenoon.

A bankruptcy notification alates that a first and Anal dividend of $10.88 per cant. has been declared in the case of Wing Tai Loong and Co., of 57 Wing Lok Street.

The Government is inviting tenders for a kiosk for the Hongkong Travel Association. The work consiste 02 the erection of a two storied, concrete framed building with hollow block 1/4.1/10 walle, floors and roof. 1/4.1/16 1/43/10 His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. A.G.W. Ticklo,

His Majesty the King has approved 934 FRI.B.A., F.S.I., to act as Directer

of Public Works during the absence the appointment of the Han, Mr. Chau 500 4.99% on leave of the Hon. Mr. I. M. Hen- Teun-nin to be an Unometal Member derson, M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E. of the Legislative Council for a for-

ther period of four years. His Excellency the Governor han

His

Friends and sunnarters of the St. John Ambulance Brigade are remind-approved the relinquishment of his

Excellency the Governor, in ed of the screaming of "The Lost local commission as Leutenant in the Council has appointed Mr. R.A.C. Patrol" at the Alhambra Theatre on Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps North to be a member of the Housing Sunday at 11a.m. Proceeds are in by Lieutenant George Duncan, M.B.E., Commission in the place of Mr. N. L. aid of the Kowloon division of the on his permanent transfer from the Smith, and to be Chairman of the Brigade.

Colony,

Commissioners.-

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