1939-03-11 — Page 15

PACE 11.

NEWS OF THE DAY Hongkong Telegraph

IN

PICTURES

FROM FAR AND NEAR PHOTONEWS

SATURDAY, March 11, 1039.

HAPPENINGS AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE

ENGLAND

A WEEK AWAY

LUFS

Ardent winter sports enthusiast is the Prince of Piedmonte, centre, son of Klug Victor Emmanuel et Italy and fature King. He is shown as he prepared for a skiing Jaunt with friends over the slopes of the Italian Alps at Sestriere, famed Italian resori. The Crown Prince is named for his grandfather, King Humberi I, who was assassinated.

Magnificently costumed playlet. "Le Souper de Jacques," was recently given by society folk in the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, for the benefit of the Musiclans Emergency Fund. Here are Lawrence Tibbett, as Count de Mornay, half brother of Napo- leon III, and Mrs. Vincent Astor, as countess de Mornay, awaliing cues in wings.

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Huge derricks at Southampton, England, swing the locomotive of the Coronation Scot, crack British train that links Glasgow and Londen, aboard a freighter for shipment to Canada. The famed train is to make a tour of upward of 500 cities in Canada and the United States and is then to be exhlbfied as the New York World's Fair. A headlight and other accessories had to be added to the train to conform to American railway rules.

By air, in the astonishing comfort of Imperial

Airways four-engined air liners, you get to London just

a week after leaving Hong Kong. Flying by day higli

above the heat of the earth below, you enjoy the most

modern way of travelling-in the most modern air

liners and the most luxurious in the world — the Imperial flying-boats. Fares include all accommodation and meals (but not drinks). No tips

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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

Bookings and Information from Imperial Airways (Far East) Ltd., S. Georgny Dáždings' Hong Kong. Telephone: 31111." Talegrumi | Aleways Hong Kong: or

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Crowd of demonstrators estimated by pollee at. 12.000, halted traffic in New York City when they paraded in front of the Italian consulate with a sing-song: "Lift, lift, lift the embargo on Loyalist Spain" Although there were few squabbles. police did not molest them much, but had to re-route traffic until the crowd left, after about 10 minutes.

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Enjoying the Florida sunshine

so much that she wants to drink It all in, is pretty Marseille McClourg, one of the Royal Palm girls at Miami News camera- man, looking about for a subject,. found her a perfect one for his lens.

Swan Culbertson & Frits

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Investment Bankera and. Brokersi,

Members of New York Cotton Exchange

Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Grain Exchango Commodity Exchange, Inc., Now Canadian Commodity Exchange. New York Coffee and Sugar Exc Manila Stock Exchange....

Hongkong Sharebrokers Association Shanghai Stock Exchange. -

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SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA AND SINGAPORE Cable Address: Swanstock

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, 'film stars, grinned Hiko this when they attended the Hollywood premiere of Mr. Gables picture, "Idiot's Delight." Mrs. Gable recently visited Reno, Nev., where she received a divorce.

London police held 20 men, unld, to be Irish extremists, In conneolion with simultaneous bombings in London, Birmingham and Manchester, England. “Above, shalicred windows in the Thames Embankment Rescue Mission, after the explosion of one of the bomba near the central electrical plant at Southwark

Carlos Martino Pereira e Souza, appointed new Ambassador to the United States by President Getulio Vargas of Brazil. He is of the nation's foremost diplomata. Ho is expected in New York, this month.

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