1936-05-27 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

MAY 27, 1936.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID 50 cents for Every Additional Day

Alternato Insertions 20% Extra,

If Not Prepaid a Booking Fee of 50 cents is Charged.

POSITIONS VACANT.

POZITIONS VACANT.-Two Young Ladies, maximum age 24, to fill per manent positions with international concern. Excellent promotions for Minn Apply applicants. Huitable Daucel, 18 Trocadoro Hotel, Kowloon

CINEMA NOTES

That epoch-making polar trip, tar- ring Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his! loyal band of fly-six followers, has been recorded for all time in Para- I mount's "Little America," an actual scene by scene account of the intrepid explorer's second Antarctic expedi- tion as taken by two cameramen who accompanied the expedition, which is being shown at the Queen's Theatre! to-day. Every thrilling event of this hazardous undertaking in this truth- in-stranger-than-fiction production, is crammed with suspense, drama and of Alm. romance in every foot

RADIO BROADCAST

(Continued from Page 7.)

Cinema, Elephant and Castle. 7.15 p.m. The DC. Empire Orchestra The News and Announcements. 8.10 p.m. 8.35 D.M. A. Pianuterie Interlude.

Transmission 3

(4.8.0., 1.8.7., q.8.D.)

⚫p.m.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED

NOT ICE

ALTERATION OF FARES

Commencing 1st June 1936, until further notice, FARES will be as follows:-

On Kennedy Town er Whitty Street Cars On Causeway Bay or Happy Valley Cars

On Western Market and Shaukiwan Cars On Western Market and Quarry Bay Cars On Shaukiwan Cars between Causeway Bay and Western Market or vice versa

:

1st Class 3rd Clai's

>

>

6 cents

3 conti

10 cents

5 cents

}

Shaukiwan-}

The Hon. A Recital by Maude Between Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay or

Melline 10hse).

9.15 p.m. The maiden voyaga of the

Conard White Bar Her RMS. Qaren Mary. A description from Houthampton of the Bug's dis parture for New York,

1.4: p.m. The 133rd renewal of the Derby

Blake.

of th 10.15 p.m. The maiden tyngs

-Card-While Har finer M..

Queen Mary. 10.30 p.m. The B.1.C. Theatre firchestra, -- Gladys Cate 11.28 p.m. A Recital by

(Australian Sopranel Myers Pop-

taneleris).

11.55 pm.. The News and Announcement. Greenwich Time Signal at 12 mm, 12.35 M. The 1.1.C. Natre fierbevira, directed by Henry Hall.

12.30 .. "Down to the Sea in Kbp

Sea Communicatlostus 7. Stunning the hip (2) Tramps."

Grebentru 12.50 .. The 11... Baner

{ront'd).

Isolated themselves of their own free NEW YORK STOCK

will, filled with the spirit of adven- ture, this courageous expedition set. out to conquer the frozen wastes of the South Pole, determined and ready 10 face any danger, every hardship. board the ship The film opens on "Bear of Oakland" as it fights in way through the icebergs and dangerous! pack ice to the 70-foot high barrier to "Little America", exactly as they felt it a few years before when they made their first trip.

EXCHANGE

MARKET UPWARD

YESTERDAY

:

New York, May 26.

Dow Swan, Culbertson & Fritz

Sailors and Soldiers in Uniform-All routes ) Children under 12 years of age—All routes }

MONTHLY TICKETS—Available on All Cars at

CASH TICKETS-Books of

13 (5

Hongkong, 26th May 1936.

NOTICE.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

5 cents

All times — $6 per month. cent) Tickets on Salo at the cont)

Company's Office. F. H. CLOVER Acting General Manager

FOREST FIRES

NEW JERSEY TOWNS IN DANGER

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTEEN ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE-Tuckerton, (New Jersey), May 20. HOLDERS will be held in Ex- change Building, Hong Kong on SATURDAY, 6TH JUNE, 1936, nt 11 o'clock a.m.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29TH MAY to 6TH JUNE, 1936, both days inclusive,

.KING'S THEATRE.

A GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION

OPENING TO-DAY UNTIL SATURDAY

ON THE STAGE :-

"TOMMY'S REVUE"

Over 2,000 men, with most of the firo

of fighting equipment three enunties, are battling with a forest fire on a ten mile front, which

12

ARTISTES !

has so far resulted in five deaths, und TALENTED EUROPEAN the destruction of 15,000 acres of timber.

At the present time another two men are missing and eight are in hospital critically injured.

8 CHARMING

GIRLS ! .

NEW ACTS ! GORGEOUS COSTUMES !

Six fires are burning in the ve THE GENUINE RHUMBA, CARIOCA, CONTINENTAL; HOTCHA southern counties of New Jersey, bul

attention is concentrated on the great HAWAIIAN DANCES—TAP DANCING, ECCENTRIC

of

blaze

kerton and Chat- "Tuckerton between worth, which has been raging since

Jones summary of yesterday's mar "The Great Impersonation"

ket: The market to-day was upward Two new and different Edmund

By Order If the Board Lowes wil! be seen at the King's by as much as 5 points and many high levels at the Issues reache Theatre to-day in Universal's "The close of the session. The market was Directors,

A. W. BROWN, Great Impersonation". In the excit inspired by the strength of railroad ing exposure of what goes on behind stocks. Though dull during the frat

Manager. the scenes of war preparations, Lowe 4 hours, traders bought heavily and pinys two rules, And a monocle is

Hongkong, 26th May, 1936. lagged.

Buying was then spread to: almost his sole means of disguise in horts covered, whilst the tickers differentiating. between

two. the

and mercantile Best known for his portrayal of fast-all sections, Railroad, steel, utily,

communication

WALLACE HARPER & CO., LTD. only talking, wise-cracking scapegoats, e securities advanced smartly, Is neither In this dramatisation

metal stocks were slow to respond to the E.

Shareholders are reminded that Phillips Oppenheim nuvel the bullisliness. The rise, however.i Lowe plays the ominous Leopold von Ragenstein, international adventure was entirely technical. In the bonds the Eight Annual General Mecting

market, Corporation issues willing to take any man's life for love higher, but Government bonds were of the Company will be held at Curb Ex-its Registered Office un Friday, of money or for love of a woman lower. Stocks on the

German

29th May, 1936, at 5.15 p.m. He is first seen hiding in

change were higher. East Afrien, while his employer, an unscrupulous munitions King, seeks

Swan, Culbertson &

were

Fritz Wall 25/5

to "x" a murder charge. Lowe is Street Journal comment on ako Everard Domincy, un alcoholic market:-May carloadings are like!. Englishnun who drifts downward to reach a new peak for 1936, whilst from power to worthlessness, What the operating Income of railroad com- happens when the two, who were panies for April is the best for that since 1030. if the bond once college chums, meet in Africa montli constitutes one of the most surprising market continues to improve, more motion pictures

conceive, new financing is likely. Busincas Valerie Hobson and Vera Engels play news continues to please Wall Street the women in the lives of these counterparts. The note of the certe,

ever

of horror in the offing, is present as

THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

Saturday, and in which the dann DARING ACROBATIC TURNS—and BRILLIANT Dance NoveltiES {

is estimated at over $200,000,

to

A strong

wind is

is driving the flames the south-east, with a ferocity which deftes control.

Smoke In overhanging an area of a hundred square miles, and flames are being discernable for miles around. leaping hundreds of feet into the vis

State Fire Warden Leonidns Coyle, flying over the burning area in u plane. is directing the Bre fghting by wireless.

The authorities believe that they have

Lo averted the danger

ninc towns and villages which were al one time in great peril of being obliterated by no less than 20 small and large outbreaks which were threatening them.

What to do to help a child.

Five hundred men were employed Anyone knowing of a child who to pump water through a mile und

half of pipeline all night long to

the vilinge of Waletown.-- ; save

The betting odds are still quoted at has been asaulted, neglected or

2 to 3 for President Roosevelt's roll-treated in a manner likely to United Press. election in November: Some chart

unnecessary suffering or

It should be in a mystery. Back of compilers say that railroad stocks cause

31

"Big Broadenst"

are

a

or

EXCHANGE RATES

May 25.

7541/84

15.41%

May 26. 75.41/04 -15.4147

Puris

Athens.

Oslo

Shanghai.

the Amsterdam

the English castle, which is the set- must lead before the general market injury to health, or knowing of ting for much of-the-netion, lies the can have any sustained advance. a parent who is seeking advice on child, favouring utility Black

Bog

menucing marsh Speculators

any matter concerning from which come strange scarcely issues."

would be doing an act at kindnessj human sounds. The Anal solution of

S. C. & F. New York office cables: by communicating at once with Geneva this puzzle involves explanation of

The Hon. Secretaries, H.KS.P.C. Berlin the major plot threads which make of

Stocks: The market reflected the the film one guaranteed to blat out

greatly improved sentiment and we c/o G.P.O. Box No. 513, Hongkong. Athe anyone's worries,

look for higher prices. Sears, or the Inspector, 49 Pokfulum Milan "The Big Broadcast." Paramount's Rotnick's sales were up 28.8 per cent. Road, 1st floor; or the Inspector, so all-star radio comedy, showing to-day for the month ended May 21st. Busi-

Road, Wanchai; at the Star Theatre, for one day only,ness failures during the past week Violet Feet Health Centre, John will keep the audience in to constant totalled 174 as compared with 200 aton

Demand Inspector, 12, Sai Young Chol Vienna. state of hilarity from its rhythmic fallires the previous week.

during the past week Street, 1st floor, Kowloon.

Madrid opening to the grand finale which deposits

amounted to $14,300,000,000, against

All further steps will be taken, d Lisbon more than Justifies the title. In that $14,222,000,000 the previous week.

and

by

the tongkong. expenses borne, finale, which, according to the story, is a giant programme arranged by Cotton: The crep outlook is ex-Society."

"The Informant's name will Stuart Erwin to put Station Whan cellent, except in the East, where the on the radio. map, you hear Bing drought continues. The possibility Crosby, Kate Smith, the Boswell

of Government control Isu restriction kept strictly private, except Sisters, Burns and Allen, the Mills

eases where malice is proved. on trade. Brothers, Cab Calloway and his or- chestra, Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer) and Vincent Lopez and his markets are weak. Prices to-day de-markets are disappointing.

atc

Wheat: The mill and foreign

favourable an

crop und orchestra. That's something of an I clined. evening's or afternoon's entertain-weather conditions and rains

the North-West, We ment in itself, but, in addition, long forecast in before the finale comes around, you've doubt if there will be any material heard these same stars in other num-inprovement in prices. The visible 36 Industrials bern. Finely directed, and finely enst, supply of Canadian wheat shows -from both the dramatie and radio decrease of 2,169,000 bushels. standpoints the film easily tops the) average or even the unusual screen fure.

.

latest

"Colleen" "Colleen," Warner Bros. musical film, is coming to the Queen's Theatre shortly, with an all- star cast including Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jock Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda and a score of other principals as well na a couple of hundred chorus beauties. and dancing youths. Robert Lord has provided a real plot for this musical comedy, which is said to be packed with delightful and hilarious fun as well as romance and some dramatic moments. As a spectacle, the picture presents. two unique and unusual zpecialty numbers staged by Robby! Connolly, famous dance director, in which scores of beautiful girls-parti- cipate. One is staged aboard Dean liner with everyone from the captain to the crew as well as the passengers doing a dunce rhythm. The other takes place in a modiste shop in which a veritable style show is featured. Three original catchy Longs were written for the production by the famous composers Harry Wor- ren and Al Dubin." Miss Kcclèr given through her famous top steps, nume lone, and alzo with Paul Draper the Broadway dancing wizard, who was taken to Hollywood especially for this, production. Others in the cast in- clude Mario Wilson, Luis Alberni, Hobart Cavanaugh, Berten Clatchill, J. M. Kerrigan, Spencer Charlers, Addison Richards, Mory Treen and Charles Coleman..

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Prague

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10.00

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12.37

527

UIDA

19.00 1/2.3/32

4.98

7.374

2612

121%

120%

Bombay

38.15/32

110% .1/3.0/16

1/0

30/2

110

1/3.9/16

1/8%

Brussels

be te Video

.29.47

29.40

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303

in

Belgrade.

219 219

210

Montreal.

,4.09%

4.08TH

Yokohama

1/2.1/16 *1/2.3/32

Silver (Spot).

20.1/10

20

20

105.5/LG

Rio

Silver (forward) 201

War Loan.......105.7/10

British Wireicas............¿

REUTER QUOTATIONS

Dow Jones Averages:

May 25. May 26. 150,83 132.2G

20 Rails

45.00

46.21

20 Utilities

30.01

31.05

Rubber: The undertone of the market

easy. The

40 Bonds

102,15

102.10

primary

11 Commodity Index 57.11

50.69

The fortnightly whist drive of the Craigengower Cricket Club will be held on Saturday, commencing at p.m.

TOMMYS REVUE

Members of "Tommy's. Revue," who will be soon at the King's Theatre to-day in dance novels ties and acrobatic turns. There will be a double programme, the picture feature, belog "The Great Impersonation," starring Edmund Lowe.

ON THE SCREEN

TO-DAY ONLY

ALIKE AS TWO PEAS IN A POD!

entienl

Spy, and

ew, which was

ទ

GREAT, MASTERPIECE

BECOMES

Carl Laemmle presents

Edmund LOWE

in Universal's sensational mystery thriller

THE NATION

ON THE SCREEN

THURSDAY TO SATURDAY

EDWARD ARNOLD

im

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

A COLUMBIA PICTURE **

with

Pator Lorra-Marian Marsh

THRILLING

AUDIENCES

AS IT

HAS THRILLED

MILLIONS

OF

READERS

A

GREATER

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