The Archive · 1941

Advertising Pays

Neon lights blaze along Nanking Road and Avenue Edward VII selling everything from cabarets to cotton Twentieth Century the cause of better advertising in another walk of life, A ggar on the Bund, who pennies by night, sits lighted candle and two of burning incense as he g. Busi-

Postscript 1f your best girl friend sweeps into a curtsy when you drop ar this evening—imstead of gre you with her accustomed fi pry—and peppers her conversation with "prodigiously," the explanation is quite simple.

She was one of the thousands ho delighted in the Hollywood tion of "Pride and P quite unconsciously is pat-7 her conduct along the lins by Jane Austen's valiant One of our foot ose contribu kong there Chinese shop flourishing under t name of "Tadnole and Company."

Bu the title for originality by no means goes to Hongkong. Ther Company, no rela of Shanghai's oldest hon [operating a dry-cleaning busin Avenue Edward VII.

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