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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1923.
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"A Song of India"
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She sings the curious rising and falling strains, of Rimsky-Korsakow's famous "Chanson Indoue" with almost uncanny ease and smooth
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Meenwhile there are indications of a change in the atmosphere between France and Belgium, The. latter how favours a joint Belgian, French, British and Italian answer to the next German offer. If France agrees to this proposal at the forthcoming conference between the French and. Belgian Prem iers, it is the British Goverment's opportunity to intervene more effectively witha view to securing general Allied and German agreement.
the conservative leadership indicated, has put the Mr. Stanley Baldwin, as his speech, accepting European settlement in the very forefront of his policy, and according to the Observer's diplomatic correspondent, he has been taking a determined line. recently in the direction of persuading the French to take a more reasonable view of Germany's capac ity to pay.
NOT ALL ANGELS.
JUDGE'S WITTY DISCOURSE ON WOMEN.
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Is a man justified in breaking off an engagement if his sweetheart cannot remain on friendly terms with his mother?
WORTH $16,000.
LOCAL POST OFFICE'S STAMP COLLECTION.
Most people will have learned with surprise that Hongkong's Post Office, boasts a very fine stamp collection, containing with few ex ceptions specimens from every This was the poser put to a King's issue in the world during the last Bench Division jury when, before eleven years. A China Mail re Mr. Justice Swift, Miss Dorothy porter this morning had the op Lydia Betteridge, of Woodland-portunity of inspecting the collec damages from Cecil Henry James volumes. The collection is valued terrace, Old Charlton, claimed tion which is set out in six large Rhodes, of Wickham-lane, Plumat $16,000. but the stamps are not stead.
on sale as they have been presented to the Postal Authorities here with
According to the International a view to checking forgeries. Postal Convention every post master, whose Government is a party thereto, is bound to report back to, the office of issue any forgery discovered. When a forged stamp-is discovered, the letter to which it is affixed is con fiscated and retured with a proces verbal, setting forth the facts of the
After a witty discourse by. Mr. wives, the jury returned a verdict Justice Swift on sweethearts and forthe plaintiff, assessing damages at £50. N.
Mr. Fink Dowell - for the plaintiff, said the promise was admitted, but in July, 1922, Mr Rhodes wrote to Miss Betteridge intimating that he could not carry out the engagement to marry be cause she had been abusive to his mother.
There was no pretence about the Frawley's farewell offering at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. It was a farce comedy in three acts and that meant something to laugh at. Serious criticism-therefore does not come upon its power to produce the greatest mumber of laughs in the shortest possible time, and judged by this standard 'My Lady Friends earns a consider- able number of marks for there was a continuous run of chuckles and laughter during the time the performers occupied the stage. The story is a more or less impro- bable on, but you don't let that worry you, and you quite believe that it is possible for Mr. James Smith to earn so much money that he doesn't know what to do with it, from the selling of bibles, and de- spite being married to get entangl ed with a number of ladies to such an extent that he is prepared to pay lage sums to get out of it all. Mr. Bernard Nedeli whose work throughout the week has stamped him an all-round actor, played James Smith and almost made us share the good opinion of himself that he had. But we imagine the large audience present on Saturday night would award the honours to Miss Florence Roberts. Tre, her appearances were not many. They were always welcome and caused many a guffaw. She was a cook; a good cook as cooks go, and as cooks are always going, she went, or al- most so. The characterisation was perfect on a par with the little vignettes sketched in by Miss Rob- Everybody who started on the erts in such diverse piecesas Anna other side of 30 started with the Christie and The Cat and the Can-ides that the lady was perfect, ary. The rest of our friends were without flaw, and that no woman, good and made the most of the since Eve, at any rate, had ever: witty things with which the piece been created anything like her, ahounds, To-night at the Star (Laughter.). Theatre, Kowloon, Anna Christie
is to be given and this finishes the Frawley Season.
Summing up to the jury the judge pointed our that they had nothing to do with those curious people who believed that actions for breach of promise of marriage should be abolished and that there should be a close time called the engagement period in which peo ple should be able the better to make each other's acquaintance, and there should be an actual trial, so to speak, and either party should be allowed to draw back from it without any penalty.
Love was proverbially blind. No doubt members of the fury knew? what it was to have courted an angel and found out after marriage she was a mere human woman like the rest.
Heavy plague mortality in Delhi caused a panic in the city last month and the inhabitants fled to neighbouring villages. The streets THE FRAWLEY COMPANY. were almost deserted. There were
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PACKED HOUSE AT THE STAR.
Are Kowloon, people more ap- preciative of a good play than those who live in Hongkong? Compar ing the packed house at the Theatre Royal during the last few nights, it would certainly seem like it. On the other hand, there were a num-
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It is a curious way of doing things," said the Postinaster General, Mr. S. B. C. Ross, this morning. "If the place of issue- does not detect the forgery, it is very unlikely that the receiving office will unless the ran handling the letter happens to bea Stamp collector. In that event he can always refer to the collection in the office to check himself."
Mr. Ross added that the local collection may be inspected by any person interested in such matters on application at the Post Office.
THE NEW CINEMA.
THE GRAND. OPENS AT WANCHAL
Those who live at the Wanchai and Happy Valley end of the town now have their own cinema The Grand has been erected on the site' formerly occupied by the old Eas tern Theatre. It is a fine structure and is stated to be the largest piè- ture theatre in the Colony, seating some 650 persons. Both Europeans and Asalatics are catered for. There is a balcony with 170 tip- up seats, tip-up seats also being the feature of the first class. between 60 and 100 deaths daily.
accommodation downstairs. There The health officer advised the clos- are two large lobbles, downstairs ing of all schools and colleges. and upstairs. The interior is well- There were over 1,500 deaths dur-decorated, the scheme being white, ing March alone and over 3,000 plentiful supply of fans dotted with frosted lights, which, with the since January 1.
about the building, makes it a cool catre even in the hottest weather. The jazz orchestra consists of six pieces. A feature of the Grand Is that the operating box,is level with the screen. This is the only theatre se equipped in the Colony and, as may be imagined, this arrangement ensures a much better. projection of the films, The Grand opened on Saturday night, with the of Europeans, house packed, including a number
I CONSIDER THEM A BOON TO US WOMEN."
Lady In Natal Has Convincing Personal Proof of The Efficacy of
over to the Star from Hongkong. Dr. Williams' Plak Pills.
Perhaps Kowloon's: cosy little Theatre
Airs. M. Berg, Queen Street, Durban, is more attractive South Africa, states than the Theatre Royal, or perhaps ben at the age of 15 the premature those are right who maintain that birth of my third baby put me into a the poor houses at the Theatre deperable state of boal h, something Royal are due to the prohibitive respied to hage gone wrong, and I was price charged for admission. The bad for yere after. The healthy fansti. Daniel Frawley Company present ons of nature were entirely interruple 1 ed"The Gold: Diggers at the Enemmed to be getting word, in Star last night to a full house. is best of treatment. I am
"extremely narroda, and had little or no Miss Adele Blood and the other applice; then I began to base evelings members of the cast were in fine, all over my body, and suffered much form and well deserved the enthu- | pain. : 12. 1 period my fingers into the siastic applause accorded them by desky parts of my limbs the deate ro the delighted audience,
mained for a long time," Looking ugly To-night, by special request, blood out of the parts pressed. My case Bach wnd white, ne if I had preased and she
Two tine comedies are now show ing Charlie Chaplin, in- * Pay Day" and Harold Lloyd, in "Never Weaken.” The Grand also runs a serial, "The Sky Ranger" and the programme includes the first two episodes.
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the Company will againg stage the baght to be dropelcal.?I Picture-goers will now be able to Anna - Christie, Those who could weź ng relief, or in any way reduce se tõe principal happenings of the saw this presentation at the – the svellitén de get rid of many other Fast on the films. The British Theatre ··· Royal · are unanimous optoms had, intl Ivan American » Tobacco Company are Ensl? vijed to try Dr. Willaziv Prok in saying that it is by far the finest pas Artes) lud taken a ter bottle taking picames in the Orient of all play in the Frawley Company'sreins run fels much relieved the the important events which take pertoire Toses Mise Adele Blood cursings bigad to gardown until they place and these films will be at her best she should be noch, as ditappeared talogs-here always, re- acres the daughter of the old Dutch Coal sainend Dr. Wilfame! Pink Füll to
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