Business in Hongkong is making progress, turn-over and all big com= panies here report improved results Jat their annual shareholders' meet~ Ings, the only exceptions being the China Provident Loan & Mortgage Ca, the Douglas Steamship Ca,, and the' Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Ca. The latter two companies are confident of the future, as their business during the second half year was better, felt among the motion picture studios," which are turning ut talkies in Cantonese dialect, The Nenking authorities now require that fall Chinese pictures distributed. in [China must be in mandarin, but local studios take the position that their [South China market will be ruined if their productions are in mandarin, which is not well understood here, Representatives of the film companies shortly will go to Nanking to petition the Executive Yuan not to enforce the now ruling, Cantonese talkies can be screened there and in the Chinese communities In Straits fand other foreign possessions, bul they cannot be exhibited on the' main: land, a very Important market, after Cantonese talkies are more popular South China cities than those pro: Guced in Shanghai. "Hongkong is the principal producing contre of Cantonese talkies and has turned out a group of talented actors and
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