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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937.

MINTON WIVES TELL HOW THEY ALHAMBRA

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

MASTER ONLY HIS OWN

DELMA

ALEXANDER KŪRDA

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

EXOTIC LIFE COULD PAINT!....

Kiuntion picture pocitud. that truly ders konar s

the wald's groust "lava

al busury," she immanel "prince of shadows"}

LAUGHTON

BEMBRANDT

sired us an artist's

palese Breakin

as a Rembrande

manospicent

De ALEXANDER KORDA CLATRUDE LAWRENCE LISA LANCHESTER

LOWARD CHAPMAN

LUNDAN ALKER 123820 anflata

and "TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS"

A Silly Symphony in Technicolour

NEXT CHANGE

Warner Bros.

-

4. SHOWS

- DAILY

8.30-5.13

7.11-4.30

JOE E. BROWN in POLO

JOE

FARE AND TRAM OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

THEATRE-

FLEMING ROAD

WANGHAI

SPEND WEEK'S MONEY But They Are Rather

Shy About It All

(By HILDE MARCHANT)

"HOW do you spend your husband's money?" I asked

ten housewives recently. They clung terrified to

the door, said "Not to-day," and slammed it.

Perhaps I look like a seller of hairpins or dud shares, or just a gipsy throwing curses on their step, but the good wives of Finchley, Epping and Chingford kept their doors on the chain, peeped round the curtains, and wondered what was coming.

They also had no idea how

they

spent their husbands' money, or will not tell.

Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, has announced a door-to- duor qutry an the question. He is expecting 10,000 intelligent, useful replies upon which to base a schedule m the cost of living.

I got four out of fourteen, and one photographer Was cheating the

knew her and we could be intro- duced.

First answer from Larkswood-road,

E.4:

Brown Mr. Ernest

CitH come

round himself and I'll tell him wint

I think of his prying into my agira;

How One

Man

Became a

Millionaire

Slim, young Count Atillio!

what's private he has no right to he Matarazzo's long fingers gently | asking, what does he want to knew smoothed the broad crepe band for I would like to know.

Perhaps the British Medical Asso-on the lapel of his jacket as he' ciation were right working it out in told of the greatest man hic their heads. They decided 5s. 10d.

enough for a working man's food ever knew. weeft.

was

а

TEL. 30473

LAST 4 TIMES TO DA.

WHAT A WOMAN DOCTOR LEARNED ABOUT MEN ?

A theme that's never been touched in motion pictures.... What goes on behind the door marked "Private".... of her practice and her practices. Intimate detalls

A PICTURE EVERY WOMAN WILL WANT TO SEE ! SCREEN'S FIRST STORY of a WOMAN DOCTOR

MARY STEVENS M.D.

Warner Bros, hit with

Kay FRANCIS

SPECIAL! TO-MORROW, ONE DAY ONLY

LORD TENNYSON'S MASTERPIECE

THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN THIS SUPREME FILM ADVENTURE

FR1. SAT.

... Ride with

Tennyson's

immortal

"Bu Hundred"

ERROL FLYNN"

OLIVIA

De HAVILLAND The CHARGE of the LIGHT BRIGADE

A Warner Bros. Plerure wich PATRIC KNOWLES • HENRY STEPHENSON • NIGEL DRUCH Donald Crisp • Devid Nivos - Robers Bernt. Darnered by Micheal Cheriz

"MY AMERICAN WIFE Hero's fast action comedy production.

a

with Francis Lederer, Ann Sothorn, Fred Stone.

® MATINEES: 20c-306 OREVENINGS: -20ċ.-30.-50c,÷70c.

• SHOWS

DAILY

2.30 - 20

720-930

MAJESTIC

THEATRE

"

NATH AN

ROAD KOWLOON

TEL. 57722

(MATINEES: 20c.-30c.o EVENINGS: 20«.-30«:50:70) THIS IS OUR “OLD FAVOURITES” WEEK!

TO-DAY, ONE DAY ONLY

MORE FUN THAN ALL THE AMATEUR HOURS PUT TOGETHER!

Adolph Tutor prestati

George RAFT

JOE

Something doing avery minute la this song-packed musical tour of radio's amateur heure

Alice FAYE

Eight

FRANCES LANOFORD THREE RADIO ROGULE

PATSY KELLY

TO-MORROW, ONE DAY

EE, BROWN in

ONLY

"SON OF A SAILOR” A First National Laugh Hit !

"I

"He was my father," he said, simply.

The little general dealer's business this which he started had grown into the Cop-greatest privately owned, enterprise in the whole of South America, con- trolling shipping, banks, mills and factories throughout Brazil.

Count

Was Francesco

Braz:1. Presidents came and went, but the fortune of Matarazzo grew unt!! he became the most influential man in the counter.

A tip for the investigators is to announce in a clear voice. have nothing to sell." With approach I got Mrs. Follis, of pelt's-close, N.12, at her case,

"Look at

at these boots. "They cost 10s. Gd. and last six boys and my hus- weeks. I've two band carns £2 135, 3d. Rent is 15s. 7d. a week, light in 35., and Friday's shopping always takes a ten-shilling note. By Monday I would have nothing left only I do morning work to help out and we can manage.

24. FOR EGGS

BEGAN WITH LARD

"As a youth, he started dealing in ard," sald Count Artills. "He pro Fale comparison is with Mrs. pered, the business grew, Then he Stevens, wite of 11 gardener at began to import flour from North. Epping, living at 31, Church-hill. America. He bought land and grew Then he purchased a I am lucky

.. I pay pre-war his own round his grain info flour.

rent for this cottage, 5s. 70. a week, mill and

husband gets 45s. a week and Realising the possibilities of a great gives me what we need. But It is lustry, my father decided to bulla scandalous the prices we pay for the most modern mills. market produce right here in the

Now the business is the biggest country that produces it. Two-pence'a South America, employing 20.and for crgs--and Epping produces thirty people. Just before the war the King thousand."

of Italy ennobled my father with the

A good average is Mrs. Hoare, who title of count."

pays

17%. Od. a week for two rooms and o kitchenette in a house on Wadham-road, Walthamstow. She is

schoolteacher's wife.

A

She spends £2 a week on food, light is 1s, Gd. a week, gas 3s., milk

1s. They go to the pictures once a

Race To

week, she spends little on her own Save

clothes, buying tailor-mades which will not date.

SUMMARY

Generally it seems that house- wives are spending twice as much en milk now as they did live years ago; They are economising on meat: They budget for a weekly visit to

the cinema as one of the "necessi-.

les

Compressed Man

HIGH FLIER-Lieutenant M, J. Adam of the British Royal Air Force, who ascended 53,937 feet --more than 10 miles-in an official test over Farnborough airdrome. His flight recaptured for Britain the heavier-than-ntr altitudo record, exceeding by 2.576 fect the height reached recently by Lieut. Colonel Marlo Pezz! of Italy.

EARTHQUAKE SHAKES MIDLANDS

AN

London, July 12.

N earthquake woke up thou- sands of sleepers in various Midland towns early yesterday morning and caused police sta- tions to be flooded with tele- phone calls from people who wanted to know what was the matter.

The tremor was recorded on the seismological instruments of Mr. J. J. Shaw at West Bromwich at 2.43 a.m. and lasted a minute and a quar-

said

Speechless and on the verge ter.

They stint themselves on clothes; of collapse, a man staggered into: "I felt the tremor myself," Rents, they grumble, are too high; the Royal Free Hospital, Grays Mr. Shaw. "The motion was from Prices of good fresh food have risen 10 per cent, in eighteen months; Inn-road, W.C., recently.

Eggs and frult are scandalously!

high

And, please, what is Mr. Brown going to do with the information when he gets it?

His investigators will have to be tough, paticnt, charming, and, finally, I would not take the job al a thousand

a year.

Indicating he wanted paper and penell, he sank into a chair, and with unsteady hand he wrote:

"Frank Hubert, 38. of Albert- road, West Ilam, employed in the Thamca construction of the new Tunnel at Dartford, suffering from compression."

AIR CHAMBER

east to west. The record was slight. It appeared to centre over the Bir- mingham and Walsall areas,"

UPSET LIGHTED STOVE

No serious damage was reported, but the movement upset a lighted oil stove which set fire to a shed at a Walsal holel

A Birmingham police officer sald: Realising the gravity of the situaMy first impression was that some- For over twenty years it has been lion, the medical staff kept an am- body was shaking the bed to get me left to civil servants to find out bulance in readiness and got into

and the doors and windows were whether the cost of living has gone touch with Siebe Gorman and Co., p. The house seemed to be rocking

rattling for over a minute." up or down.. and to say so, once Ltd., submarine engineers.

Hubert was raced across London a month.

In a car to the officer of Jolin A Walsall resident said: "I was Mowlem & Co., engineers, at Mlle panic-stricken. I jumped out of bed, End-read, where there is an air lock ran downstairs, and found half the street in their night clothes talking chamber.

wildly and afraid that there might be another tremor."

Ministry of Labour officials in over 500 towns circularise the local shops! and ask for current price lists on commodities like potatoes and bacon and butter and meat.

A director of the company hurried All these reports are examined into superintend the arrangements. London and a mathematician who himself earns a little over £9 a week amounces the "Cost of Living Inder.”

The Agure he announcer about the VICAR'S WIFE IS

middle of each month affects the wages of approximately 1,500,000 people.

Cost of living is now about half as much again as it was in July 1914.

BARRIE. DYING, MADE WILL

BOOK "CENSOR":

NATHAN AD HOWLO:

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

RIDING HIS WAY TO ADVENTURE HIS WAY LIKE A DAREDEVIL

HIS WAY TO VICTORY !*

FIGHTING SHOOTING

Thrilling Story of Love and Lowlessness!

cliony

FRIDAY A Paramount Picture

BUCK

IN

Jones

"BRANDED"

Punch Drama of Western Plains

Directed by D. Ross Lederman

A Columbia Picture

"HOTEL HAYWIRE"

Leo Carrillo Lynne Overman - Mary Carlislo

QUEEN'S

DAILY AT 2:30-5·15-7·20&9:30 ·TEL.31453

✪ FINAL

SHOWINGS TO-DAY

TO HIM MARRIAGE WAS A GAMBLE ..

TO HER IT WAS A GAMBOL !

Life Begins with a Blond! AS GOOD as

MARRIED!

- DORIS NOLAN

JOHN BOLES

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

TOMORROW •

A Paramount Pictura

"THE GREAT GAMBINI”

AKIM TAMIROFF MARIAN MARSH

CENTRAL

TO-DAY

AND

TO-MORROW

FRIDAY

Daily at 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. At Most Popular Prices: Stalls: 150, 280. Circle: 30c. 400,

AL JOLSON Ruby KEELER

LATE MR. G. B. TWEMLOW

LARGE ATTENDANCE

AT FUNERAL

CASINO DE PARIS

10 STARSAZ STINGS

LORETTA YOUNG in "RAMONA”

of

the

CHIEF JUSTICE BACK

His Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor is expected back from Singapore this morning on board the P. and

0.

liner Ranpura, and will be met by. the Acting Chief Justlee, Mr. C. G. Alabaster. The latter will continuo to sit for two or three days to con- The funeral of the late Mr. G. clude the opium confiscation clalm B. Twemlow took place in the which has already occupied more afternoon at the Protestant Ceme-than a week. tery. The coffin was borne to the graveside on the shoulders of six deceased's

comrades from H.K.V.D.C., Sergeant H. Rose, Ser Mrs. R. E. Cable, Mr. W. J. Carrie, geant Gartham, Bombadier Andrews, Robert Cryan, Mr. and Mrs. Chung

family, J. R. Curr. Mr. and Mrs. Gunners Walker, Pearce and Cuth-Kin-pul and family, Mrs. Carr and

The burial service was Deakin, Mr. and Mrs. P

Douglas, R. bertson. conducted by the Rev. J. R. Higgs. J. V. Everest, Misses Eilis, Mr. and Mrs. V. A wreath from deceased's wife, Mrs. A. H. Elston, Mr. and Mrs. Jann, who was the chlef mourner, H. Freeman, Insp. and Mrs. H. W. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. H. Green, Mr. was interred with the coffin.

and Mrs. J. H. Gelling, Mrs. E. Among the many present were, Greenberg, W. Greenberg, Mr. and Capt. G. P. Rickcord (representing Mrs. C. B. Hosking, Mr. and Mrs. His Excellency the Officer Adminis-W. H. Hirst and family, Jimmy and tering the Government), Lt. Col. H. Elleen Hargreaves, B. H. Hallowes, B. L. Dowbiggin, Col. E. D. Mat-V. II. C. Jarrett, Mr. and Mrs. A.

E. E.

A. Jeffries, G. W. Kynoch, thews, Col. R. C. B. Anderson (Com-

Li Kau, E. B. Lambert, mandant, II.K.V.D.C.), Mr. W. J. Kinnear, Carrie (Acting Superintendent of the Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lunny, Mr. and Botanical and Forestry Department), Mrs. W. L. Mackenzie, T. O'Connor, Messrs. A. Andrews, F. Baker, Lieut. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. G. Philippens,

+ V. C. Branson, A. G. Clarke, I. B. Mr. and Mrs. H. Rose and family C. Saunders, A. K. Saunders and R. J. V. Everest, W. F. Edge,

M. Grenham Babs, E. V.

V. Searle, Hazel and Ber- G. tram Sugars, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. (H.K.N.V.C.), G. W. Griggs, Dr. G.

W.

Smith, A. C. llerklots, L. W. Hunc, C. B. Telley, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hosking, J. Hargreaves, V. H. C. Andrew Tae, Mr. Wilson, Mr. and Jarrett, R. Keen, A. Kinnent, F. Mra. J. Watson, H. West, Ethel, Roy Lawrence, A. Hyde Lay, B. E. and J. M. Hatch, Capt. and Mrs. Maugham, J. A. L. Pearson, IL. S. Westlake, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. A. Womack, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Way, Tate, J. L. Tetley, Lieut. A. Urqu- Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Williams, the hart, Lieut. J. Watson, P. D. Wilson, Hon. D.P.W. and staff of the PW.D., the Corps 1st Battery W: L, Walker, W. Woodward, O. C. "A" Section

All ranks the H.K.V.D.C., Senior H.K.V.D.C., Womack, and J. R. Way.

Friends Chinese employees of the Botanical HK, Horticultural Society, indecent, and Forestry Department also at- in the Water Works Ollee, Office

start

of the Botanical and Forestry tended. disgusting. A profusion of floral tributes were Department, All ranks No. 2 Im- H.K.V.D.C., Fores- provised Ba

Battery The county sent from "Dad", Rene and Vic, lbratian explained that many Chris and Andy, "Stuffy", Hilda, try staff the Botanical and Forestry European staff the of them were 'modern' but Peggy and Jim, Hazel and Las, Department,

office P.W.D.. the Corps 1st Battery,

VILLAGE REBELS

J.

Mark Cross (Sussex), July 12. W

THEN Mrs. Kathleen Lelliott, twenty-seven-year-old wife of a villager, went to lend a hand at the Mark Cross branch of the county library she noticed that seve-w. Patterson, Lieut. F. Reece, ral of the books received from headquarters were never put in circulation.

....5

They were being censored by husband described Five days before Bir James Bar- the vicar's wife, Mrs. J. E. Ham- 'unmoral' and 'Irreligious."

was the librarian. rie died on June 10, he made his shero, who

will. When he did so, he had been Mrs. Hamshore banned them as seriously I only three daya. Full details of the will are not yet not fit for any one to read. Favallable, but it was revealed recent- ly that he left £500 each to the Kirriemuir District Nursing Associa- tion and the Kirriemult Coal and Clothing Society.

F. Sir James had been a subscriber

to the Nursing Association for near-

ly forty years and to the Coal and

Mirs. Lelliott protested, and the county librarian was Invited to attend a village meeting. Before it was held Mrs. Hamshere re- signed. A commister has now been formed to run the library.

MO

"Some were really merely trash.

I do not think that word should "Beautiful", the Hon. Mr. and Mre. Building Ordinance he allowed to excuse some of the . A. C. North, Mr. and Mrs. A."L" Section stuff. It would corrupt young girls, Andrews, Mr. Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Kwai Fong Garden, Garden Stalt

J. T. Dagram, T. H. G. Brayfield, the Botanical and Forestry Depart Mrs. Lelilott said: "Why should Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clark, Mr. and|ment. the vicar's wife or the vicar censor

what we rend? I do not neo why

"Some of the books sent io. us," they should tell the villagers what is Clothing Society for half a century. Mrs. Homshere sald today, "my "nasty' in literature,"

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