1936-09-29 — Page 12

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AFTER SILE KISSED THEM, THEY WEREN'T THE SAME! Joan's lo Parts now.... and in love with twoł. Who'll be the lucky man-Franchot or Cary? It's your gayost romantic thrill!

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METROTONE NEWS

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WORLD'S OLYMPIC

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mud the latest 'sho'x' of

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

JEAN HARLOW

Suzy

TORE GRANT

LEWIS, STONE PUROWINITA HUME

TO-MORROW

ROBERT DONAT JEAN PARKER in "THE GHOST GOES WEST"

United Artists Release.

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THE

WALKING

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DEAD

YOU CAN'T KILL ME AGAIN"

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MARCARET SULLAVAN in "NEXT TIME WE LOVE"

A Universal Picture.

MAJESTIC

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THE MYSTERY OF THE

WAX

MUSEUM

ALLIN GIOIR GEOUS

TECHNICOLOR

LIONEL ATWILL FAY WRAY

•

FRANK MCHUGH • GLENDA FARRELL.

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY! A VARIETY PROGRAMME OF "OLD FAVOURITES": FOUR WALT DISNEY'S COLOUR CLASSICS !· INCLUDING THE ONE AND ONLY "3 LITTLE PIGS !''

AND

“SAMARANG”

A THRILLING STORY OF LOVE AND ADVENTURES

LAIN THE SOUTH SEAST

„Printed and Published for the Promictors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, Dt:1; and 37 Ayndham: Streat”: In the City of Victoria

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936.

(IT ALL CONCERNS HUMANITY)

NEWS FOR-AND ABOUT YOU ALHAMBRA

When The

Boss Sends

For You REACTIONS

By A Staff Reporter TOMETIMES, as 1 sit

So

The Race ENGLAND (Portsmouth)--- SOUTH AFRICA · (Jchnanes- burg).

START: To-day 6.15 a.m. (2.13 p.m. H.KT.).

DISTANCE: About 0,580

miles.

PRIZES: Total of £10,000.

"ONE STOP'

deep in thought at my ORDER TO

desk, a voice at my elbow will quietly say:--

"The Editor wishes to see you, please,"

instantly i am back to earth with a completely new thought flashing through my mind, It is:

"Goal, what have I done now?"

And that is the reaction of the majority of workers when they are sent for by the Boss.

This

Is proved by results of a re- search, started some years ago by Dr. May Smith, Industrial Health Research Board Investigator, and o colleague.

Thele findings are published in the oficial journal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.

'Clinic Needed' Hundreds of workers in many types of jobs were interviewed, Six! types are classifed by Dr. Smith:-

A described lilmself as "mildly apprehensive at first, but the feeling soon passer off":"

in

B experienced Interested wen- er and hoped for der.

12 risc salary!

C felt shaky at the knees; D prepared for some most im- probable worst;

E feels that he has done some- thing wrong, though he knows ho hasn't;

Ffeels all right if he knows he lias done wrong, but apprehensive If he knows he is innocent.

JO'BURG RACERS

PORTSMOUTH. Airport,

with its "billiard table" surface, has been chosen for the start of the biggest air race since 1934. It starts to-day.

Time adjustments, to Buit the 'planes with their varying power and speed will be made at Cairo. only ometal control and compulsory slopping point in the race.

48-HOURS AIM Competitors must be observed turning over the Belgrade atrieid, although they need not land there.

Fastest competitors should com- plete the course in less than 48 hours.

Imperial Airways are co-operating, All their airports on the Cairo- Johannesburg nector will be lighted during the nights of September 20, September 30 and October 1. Some the plancs racing should cover the 2400 miles to Cairo by the night of September 20.

of

Filets in the race: A. M. Miller, 5. S. Halse, Tom Campbell Black, nil flying 220 m.ph. Mew Gulls; Victor Smith, Tommy Rose, Lleuten- Dr. Smith adds: "One girl said

ant Misri

Chand and P. H. Mox- well, Charles: she was so frightened if she had to

Scott, David Llewellyn, take down shorthand notes from

E. Clouston and F. E. Tasker, song one in authority that she had Hugh Buckingham, C. G. M. Aling- not the faintest idea what she wrote fon and Lieutenant 1. H. Booth. Flight-Lieut. H. R. A. Edwards and and only her excellent automatle

Squadron-Leuder Brian Thynne, knowledge of shorthand enabled her to carry on.

A laundry worker de.Max Findlay and Ken Waller, scribed herself as 'tointified and worrified."

Conclusion reached by Dr. Smith is: "We need a more detailed study

of industrial misfits and n clinic

for treatment where necessary.

Flea Index Is 43

In Singapore

Dex

ID you know that flea in- dex for Singapore was 43 last-year-and-that-among the decumanus rats who Talded tarders two out of three were females?

are

Probably not. But it is true, that the flea inder is not so bad as it sounds. In eclentise par- lunce it summarises the acti vitles of bacteriologists in the Health Department who working day and night to guard the city's health against disease. Altogether 3,803 rats and 2,218 fleas, caught in various parts of the municipality were brought. Inta the laboratories for dis- section.

None of the rats were found to be plague-infected.

These facts, are revealed in the annual report of the Singapore Health Department;

If Mercury Hits 90 Miami Will Give

Free Drinks To All

Misini, Fla., Sept. 10. The Chamber of Commerce the wagered to-day against weather.

Any day in September, the chamber decided, that the tem- perature eflcially reaches 00 degrees or higher, free bottles of papaya syrup-made from a

distri tropical fruit--will be buted.-

The chamber decided to take Its chances against the weather in order to emphasize to resi- denta and visitors Miami's claim to year-round comfortable tem-

peratures.

A

A BOMB-PROOF CELLAR IN BEETHOVEN'S HOUSE

The

prizes offered are: £4,000, £3,000, £1,500, £1,000 and £500.

The French Film actor, Charles Boyer, has returned to his native Jand France from America. Picture shows him speaking in the micro- phone the railway station in Paris.

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CLIPPER PLANES

HELD NOT SHIPS

IN TAX RULING

San Francisco, Sept. 21.

three American Pan

Airways* trans-Pacific flyers, the China, Hawalian and Philipnine Clippers, will have to avoid resting too long if they are to avoid taxation in Call- fornia,, according to the latest ruling of state taxation authorities.

Attorney General U. S. Webb has ruled that the clippers are taxable in California if they are habitually al the Alameda airport..

The company had demanded, ex- emption from taxation in the grounds that the transoceanic clippers were vessels and thus exempt from taxa- tlon under a section of the state con- stitution.

Webb ruled, howeyer, that clipper ships "are, generally regarded as sen- planes and not vessels Inasmuch as

You Will

Live Longer

DON'T SLIM BRITONS of the present generation are likely to live at least four years longer than their grand- parents.

And that annual fortnight's holiday (three weeks if you're lucky) by the sea is one of the big reasons why.

NATHAN AÐ KOWLOON-DARY AT 2,30×120+730 € 9,30-761.15 6 6 56

• FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY ( A GRAND MUSICAL WITH SEVEN BIG SONG HITS !

Adolph Zukor preven

RHYTHM THE RANGE

A roundup of mirth and melody with the Seven Big Song Hits everybody's whistlin'

A

A Paremment Picksen, wirk

BING CROSBY FRANCES FARKER BOB BURNS

MARTHA RAVE

Open by NORMAN TAVUOD

ADDED LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS SHORTS ALSO "POPEYE" CARTOON

TO-MORROW

"COUNTRY BEYOND"

Insurance companies and doctors say so. They give figures. Here 20th Contury-Fox

Picture. they are:

By 1944 the average life-span of man (which includes woman) will be 05 years-five more than at present and twelve more than twenty years

FIRST SHOWINGS IN KOWLOON

with Rochello Hudson

Paul Kelly Buck.

STARE

Biggest contributory reason--TO-DAY & TO-MORROW nun holiday.

com-

Recently, British insurance panies organised an Investigation into the ilves of 2,000,000 insured people. They produced a span-of-

life table--

Span of Life 50 yrs ago. To-day.

6414 years 70 yearn

People aged

20-30

30-40

60

71

+

*

40-50

50-60

0814 72

**

72

*1

74

作

Tens of thousands of people wil see the Coronation procession who, but for advances in medicine, en- hove gineering. chemistry. would been dead,

BEST CHANCES Widows do not live as long married women or spinsters.

13

London is a highspot of longevity, Women in Greater London have a longer expectation of life than wo- men in other parts of the country.

Here are some words of wisdom on "Life and how to make it inst longer"

.

Slimming to a great evil. It ex- poses the nerve-endings to all the shacks of a crammed and exacting life.

People who dispense with their annual summer holiday are nak- breakdown, for 24 nervous short life. It is premier health builder in modern c.

ing,

She Would Not Go

To London

A

MALDON woman

Shoredith County for £16

for

goods

sued al

Court

wrote:

I am sorry I cannot attend court. I have not the money for my fare, and I have never been to London."

1 £1-a-month made."

order

WAS

They Stole To

Get To London

TIREE Wormouth boys, two

one aged 12, aged 13, and had not the money for their fare to London-so they raided in Weymouth fun fair office, stolo

£16 17 0.

They went to London-spent three days in the city of their dreams-only to be arrested at Hammersmith.

Three tearful boys were bound over for a year at Weymouth' Juvenile Court and were ordered to be indoors at 9.30 in the sum- mer and 9 o'clock in the winter.

Moscow Girls

Buy Tiaras

Moscow, Sept. 24.

Russia rent by plots and counter-plots,

most of their travel is in the air. HeRLS will be girls, even in a also expressed doubt that when Call- fornio, legislators in 1914 enacted the present taxation law regards vessels that they were forsighted enough to have foreseen and inten tlonally included trans-Pacific air-

Bonn, Sept. 20. BOMB-PROOF and reproof celine in being constructed at the house in Bonn where Beethoven: was born to safeguard the priceless relles of the great composer in case planes, within the exemptions of the

that

tho ita

Was

of emergency,

The building next door to birthplace is to be restored to original condition. It was In this building

Beethoven christened.

Alterations are being carried out in the Beethoven Museum, and it in hoped to complete these by next March-United Press.

10he tax fght now hinges on the

interpretation of what is meant by the word "habitual" as regards the amount of time the clippers spend at their Alameda baze.

Omelals of the company say the average stop of the clipper ships at Alameda between runs to the Orlent is only eight days-United Press.

According to a report issued to- Day

by the

Stale manager of Jowellery Shop No. 2, a hundred tiaras a day were sold over the counter during · July to typlats, shopgirls and factory hands.

Vanity cases were included in the sales, which were double last year's. Many diamonds in geld suitings were bought, as well as gold and silver watches, cigarette cases, brooches, chains, spoons.

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