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MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1920.
THE WEEK'S CHAT.
(Continued from: Fage 1)
I have not heard any results yet, perhaps the announcement would have appeared too obvious, coming so soon" after the event.
There was a New Year's dance at
HAT SNATCHER.
A. Chinese youth who was this morning charged with snatching a felt hat from the basket of a marine hawker in Queen's Road Central sald- another boy snatched, it and handed it to him to sell.
'SUICIDES
THE CHINA MAIL.
"EINEMA" NOTES
THE CERONE
A Chinese woman aged 21 bas committed suicide at No. 36 Gare Throughout the New Year Holidays Street by hanging herself with a piece the Coronet Kinema continued to draw large houses, the chief feature being of rope in her cubicle.
The dead body of another woman the five part fim entitled "The War After a Chinese detective had de has been found in an unnumbered ing" in which Mr. Heary Kolker takes the Peak Hore! the same night, a good posed to seeing the boy snatch the matshed ar Chi Ma Yeun, with a the part of a dipsomaniac and shows many familiar faces were missing, but hat from the rear basket and then plece of rope tied tightly round the to what lengths of ruination, a pros there were strong reinforcements input it under his coat and run away, neck. In the absence of any clue to perous family brought through his Worship passed sentence of one, the contrary, this according to the drink. The film also depicts some day's imprisonment and 10 strokes Police, points to a case of suicide. with a rattan. »
the presence of the Vanity Fair Company" and the place was gay with the uniforms of the many officers who are passing through Hongkong. Late trams made late dancing possible and also the thought of a holiday to
come.
I hear that there has been an at- tempt to have late dances at the Peak Club on Saturday nights and the special trams have been announced. From all I can gather these rams might as well go to bad early. fas there will be no girls to dance with after midnight on a Saturday night,
Hongkong mothers very rightly dick to their old principles as regards dancing on the Sabbath. This is ne hardship to girls who dance: mast nights of the week. The one blessing of the last car" and last ferry sys- tem in Hongkong is that in a climate like this it prevents people from turn- Ing the candle in the middle.
All the youth and beauty of the town appears to have migrated to Can- fon for the year and dance, which was.
A great success, for most of the youth and beauty, danced until it was time to catch a train or ship back to Hong
kong; to bring them to another round of mirth and revelly over here. There is no doubt about it. We do see life. We are all making fancy dresses for the Kingsclere dance, and we are to have the opera," by the same token. Would it not be possible to start the opera performances & little earlier than is usual in Hongkong? People could dine half an hour sooner or get down by 8.20 p.m., for most of the operas run into three or four hours, and there is always the morning after the night before to be considered in the life of a working man.
I have been much interested in the correspondence regarding my few re- marks in support of the movement to start a branch of "Comrades of the Great War." I hope to write a
special article telling what I know ef that organization and its splendid work Solon makes a bitter attack upoo the personnelle of the leaders and calls upor returned soldiers to join the Federation. of Discharged and Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors.
I should be interested to know whether a branch of the F.D.D.S.S.. exists in Hongkong or whether any effort has as yet been made to estab- fish a branch.
It does not seem to me to matter very much under what banner or
name the comradeship is established. as long as something is done to, keep the memory of the comradeship and fellowship of the great war alive. There are people who assert that the soldie men want to forget and should be encouraged to forget. Don't be- lieve them, no one wants to forget what war means. There is always a certain amount of self consciousness and fear of swark in the Englishman as regards his good actions and his inner feelings, but you get a few re- turned soldiers together, away from those who have not participated and
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you will soon realize, that they have The forgotten, nor do they wam to forget. There are other thing in war, besides horrors and discomforts and many a man who has returned to
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interesting juvenile kinema acting. "The Warning" is a motion picture of dramatic force which holds the sudience from beginning to end. Some interesting scenes in Spitzbergen were also shown together with the usual British Gazette. THE VICTORIA
"Gates of Brass is the theme
A Chine who was charged before Mr. N. L. Smith this morning with the unlawful possession of 16 The of civit lite, feels lonely and cut off plum, pleaded guilty and was upon which Mrs. Kats Cerbaley. "fined $1,500. Or a further charge, especially the youngsters, who yeni
drama, of that name apecially for straight from their school rooms ire of attempting to export: 60 silver builded when she wrote the five-act dollar-pièces, the same man I was training for the front. Comrades at ned. The oplum and the silver that veteran charecter actor, Me Frank Keenso add a powerfully a soldiers federait of any kind will dollars were confiscated. bring these men together." In every
compelling story of modern life. other country guch organizations have
"Gates of Brash opens a the been formed and, are flourishing; and
day run at the Victoria Theatre co-day. ** WALLA WALIA" Launches at and it goes without saying that Frank there is no particularly obvious reason why one should not flourish here...
Blaks Pier. Might and day ser- Keenan's latest offering will prove as vice,
popular as any of its predecessors.
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THE CORONET!
TO-NIGHT WE ARE SHOWING..
LIONEL BARRYMORE
KING OF LIGHT COMEDIANS
IN
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"THE BRAND OF COWARDICE"
AND ALSO
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