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LOCAL AND GENERAĻ...
'No Woman Knows" is the attraction at the Coronet over the Wock-end.
AS YOU LIKE M
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 923
CORRESPONDENCE.
WEED-END SHREDS AND DEATH SENTENCE APPEAL.
PATCHES
[To the Editor of the " China Mail,"
OUR LITERARY LOBBY.
JOTTINGS FOR BOOKY
FOLK
dooming virtue; that hate is a fallacy and reacte a hundred fold on the hater, and that might is not right. It is not for a moment on tended that the cinema has renobed
(Specially Contributed;) perfection, but we are no good, pur-
Jurymen who wonder
Sir, I have read "Supporter's” pogo in condemning in language
what reporters do letter in your paper dated June 20,
Mrs. Conrad has written crude and rude and without truth
when they are not You will not wish me to write the cookery book, **** With an ide THINK taking notes may be case up again, but if there is a traduction by Joseph.***. It is a movement that, had to it
interested to hear what petition for the reprieve of the man not called Little Mary. A games of great mobilities. On June 3 a Chinese woman they did recently when a big mun whose cause Supporter" has so friend of ours tells us he is rending What is needed in healthy was knocked down by a motor car der trial was being heard. The ably championed 1 should like to Les Miserables and likes it very public opinion, that will ill the number of which was not seen. jury consisted of a number of vary~ | sign it, if I am eligible. Enclosing much. *** Another joke, LAIKY
Tho Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman luas been appointed Vice-President of the Sanitary Board while acting as the Director of Public Works.
WHILE JURIES
volent to the sharply business, and Į some amusement was gained by. the knights of the pen, debating and deciding which of the fury could reasonably be described as looking wicked, and who of pleas ant appearance. Not for worlds would we divulge the name of the prize-winner. He wouldn't like it. Thus Lord Northcliffe's SO HO. world tour diary
"We had secured a re- ception room at the Hongkong
Yours &c. -
INTERESTED. Hongkong, June 20, 1923,
THE CRICKET BEND..
She died yesterday as the resulting types from the portly bene my card, artistes and producers in giving of her injurias. the best they are capable of, and
*Owners of motor vehicles, oliminating the undesirable. I a'
trucks, trolleys, carts, vans and picture is worth seeing, let it bedrivers of notor vehicles are talked about, and Jet the Churches notified that licences are to be belp in the good work. The cinema renewed oh July 1 is a public concen. Preserve our To-day is the last chance to artistic consciousnesson by allseo-the fine picture, "The Perfect regri;
but recognise that there bre Woman," at the Star. Leeds and quite a lot of people who do not Le Mar are, appearing at both the matinee and evening performances, protend to have any, who are simple folk and desire only to idinige, to he amused, and a little instructed..
The Tyranny.
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My Journey Round The WorldNorth- cliffe's diary has aroused the anger of one of our specials. * * * When our diary is published he will com mit suicide. * * * Special to Hongkong people who have children: read The Mind of the Naughty Child *** Then you [To the Editor of the "Chino Mall."I won't have the Colonial Secretary writing nasty things about you. Sir,-When it was announced *** Opens up a new world to the Cricket Club was that the old pavilion belonging to parents--the mind of their:
be (children.'
'Examines the demolished, it was thought the unconscious and hidden causes of Hotel, a palatial structure with
terrible band near the Supreme defects, and paints to the only sure The sale by public auction of large lounge in which the usual have not yet been completed but it published some bedside books. Court would be lessened. Matters way of cute. *** J. M. Dent has a quantity of valuable household young men and maidens, in white furniture at No. 4, Carnarvon clothes, were lounging and Birting seems that no extra space has been *** "O sleep it is a gentle thing Villas, Kowloon, is advertised by as they do in any other hotel at added to the road and that this beloved from pole to pole." **** Messi Laminert Bros. for II a.m. home or abroad. The whole place bend is still as dangerous as it An insult to a book to read it in bed. on June 28239
was very capably managed, almost always has been. entirely by Chinese." Mr. Taggart Foreigners living in the Farwill give thanks for that "almost. Hongkong, June 21, 1923. East will note with interest that Dr.
This charming little Solf, German Minister to Japan, PANSIS," verse ("copyrite in has just sent his wife and children
the London Morning. Home, by the Siberian railway. It Post) is written by D.S.,aged five is announced that Dr. Solf has "oh dout you love the pansis every confidence in the safety of the railway.
Forthcoming Crown land sales: include five lots at Ma Tau Chung' for a total upset price of $81,597; about 88,000 sq. ft. at the New Motor Road from Gap Road to Wanchai Gap for $14.700; and about 2,440 sq. ft. at Ho Mun Tin for $1,220.7.
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ther drest in culors brite, theve fases just like puses perhaps that see at nite all the fairis dansing In the moonshine brite."
Yours, etc.,
PEDESTRIAN
BASEBALL TO-DAY.
The Book Club is getting together a splendid lot of books for ext season. **** The author of Kimono has broken but again. ***This time it is Rice and Chopsticks, ***Likè-ita predecessor it has Japan for its sete". ting.
*** Kimono as a story is At Happy Valley, this after footling. *** As a description of noon, the Hongkong Baseball Nine life in Japan it is good. * *** Max'. (Americans) will meet the Japanese Beerbohm has been getting into. *** Has caricatured" team from the Mitsui Bussan 'trouble'. Kaisha. The new stand is now the late King Edward as an angel. complete, so that "fans" can watch *** And the Prince of Wales as the game in comfort. Mr. Gale, a grey-bearded man, manying the Consul-General for the United daughter of an Ealing landlady at States, has promised to pitch the a registry office 50 years hence, first ball. The game starts at 5* Temble. ***Here is an o'clock.
excellent Bookology which we have: clipped. ***
The teams are: " ** HKBC.
Proulx O'Connor P. Bradford Ib
M.B.K.
C.
Edo Kanch Wuno
Books should never be dusted-
(By those who do not love them) Books should never be borrowed-* (By those who cannot return
them)
For centuries semingly, men have been content to submit to the thraldom and the tyranny of it. In chains, so to speak, have they allow ed theolves to be fettered; to bear the light of anguist in their eyes Ltd to speak falteringly of the thing, unwilling or unable to snap the yoke that imprisons them. Year after year goes by and the divaded and hated thing enmeshes them; more
Terrible news this in and more, sapping up vitality,
POETRY.which all poetry generating unnecessary heat and
lovers will share. Mrs. making man a very slave. It is
Mary. Diner who comes from our own native Liverpool has been with thru ou rising and only when
fined £1 for stealing beef and they nook sweet sumber does the hatod thing pass from human ken The Hongkong Radio Society, bottles of fruit-salad and sauce, arxi thought." It throttles and it has arranged a series of lectures on and unlawfully possessing tins, of chokes it has made strong men elementary wireless, which will be salmon. Nothing exciting about weak: women have been known to given by Mr. A. Chesterton, of the this perhaps, but the worst is yet. ahudder in suspense and to bear the Marconi International Marine Com to come. Ssh! Mary is fond of blanch of pallor when the, strong munication Company. These lec- poetry. This is the conversation' silent man of their love lara days tures are to be given at the Voluntat took place in Court:
Solicitor (defending) Do you four Headquarters becomes a raving jumble of adjec
evenings, read poetry?. tives Has there been-no-effort to successive Tuesday
Yes, I am very fond of poetry. strike off the shackles? Men have commencing on the 26th instant.
I read it all day. | tried-bilf-heartedly hoping against |
What particular poets do you At the Marine Court, this morning, before Commander Be-affect custom of habit and fashion is ekwith RN., Wong Kan, foki of
"Cowner and Shelley. against thern; that renson in this motor boat No. 388 V., was charged matter has long sinen gone by the with carrying 23 passengers in board. Who the cursed sprite-yae excess of his license.. His license that forged these inanaples that entitled him to carry 17 and he was
Defending Solicitor: Well, your have been the curse of the world, carrying 40. He was fined $3 and bistory sayeth not. There is none warned that his next offence, in Worship will able to gather from children, Anne Boleyn and Henry When the King of to call him blessed. On the con- similar circumstances, would be this some reason for the lady's the Eighth,
lapse.
Spain asked her to marry him, she trary. No statue is there to say severely dealt with.
Cowper, my honest lad, that said, "No, sire, I prefer to remain what he did; to hang garlands round
wrote John Gilpin and Satan a Virgin Queen." bis neck. He las left his garlands In the Summary Court next trembles when he sees the weakest If readers have any local ex- and they speak for him. They stick Friday, a suit to recover wages saint upon his knees turn in your amples, we shall be glad to have Long Look out. *** Keep closer than a brather. Sickness and from Mr. C. A-Stanton, proprietor grave and think about purloined them. death have followed in quick succes of Stanton's Midway Shows. steak, And Shelley-poet of the sion: ridicule even, the deadliest of is down, fari e-kdaring. The 'Skylark,' 'what boots it to repear/ BUT, YES you might recognise its about poetry,*** "If our read
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Yes, Plato and Aristotle. Do you read any old philosopher?
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The Presiding Magistrate i be put to death without his own seems rather far fetched.
All days she read us, sonnet and
ballad, But went out of nights pinching
fruit-salad.
all ille Wonen, for a time became claim is being brought by thee? enmeshed, but over changeful threw two Portuguese, named” J. «G.) off the yoke. But there la hope. A Rozario and RM. H. Castro, and new day is dawning. Visitors to seven Chinese They claim $45 our shores bring with them the light for wages due and $22.50 in lieu of Teason. Convention is not of one day's notice at $2.50 each enwrapped them. There is the look per day. of buoyancy in their eyes and their steps are like the gazelle. They are Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Dalgety to the wide discretion of tie patron. Are men, and they live. We would thank all kiad. friends for their If, as is assumed, the vast majority do also.
Boy: take these bated sincere sympathy, and all they have done for them in their great loss. of those who buy and borrow books, collars away and hand as our tennis
ACICHOWLEDGMENT.
*BIRTH
KLUBIEN-On June 17, 1923, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. S. Klubien, a son."
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, BATUrday, June 23, 1983.
PUBLIC CONCERN.
The question of what is good and bad in cinematography must be loft
do so to read for pleasure, it shirt.
morally certain that the crowds who |
lare content - to have their artistic!
at
perament agree to differ on a matter
Local Solicitors will now prob- ably try to prove that some of their clients are addicted to quoting the classics and ask for leniency ac cordingly,
In response to an invitatiorf from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Hon. Mr: E. R. Hallifax, O. B. E., 50 members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce were pres- ent yesterday afternoon to discuss ches" writes the sea-green in- Government's proposal to instal
consent.
..
had Queen Elizabeth
Books should never be lent-
(Unless: the owner's name
clearly
Written inside
And the owner
Is pretty sure
Of getting them back
But
In good condition)
Books should be Lorrowed and
| loved and dusted
..
And lent and loved and lived in
And read inside out
two
And back again.
truth. Of all the amusing things on earth Which causes the greatest amount
of mirth?? When they want a good laugh some
And loved
And shared with one's friends And counted among them)
All the same. ***.*
H. G. Wells may come to Hong-
your eye on the dots. ***This This from our tame poctist what Frederick Harrison said ing be utterly closed to the great poems of the world, there is some thing amiss with our reading." Further: "If you find Milton, Dante, Calderon, Goethe, so much "Hebrew-Greek" to you; if your Homer and Virgil, your Molière and Scott rest year after year un disturbed on your shelves beside your school trigonometry and your -old college text-books: if you have
people go.....
To see Harold Lloyd at the Cinema
Show
Or Charlie Chaplin's "spread out
feet
Rounding the comer of the street. Dear There is Robey's grin, and Lauder's MORAL COWARDICE. Shreds patter,
and Pat And Lesife Heason mad as a
1. hatter, A..
never opened the Cid', the Nibel ungen, Crusoe, and Don Quixote since you were a boy, and are wont to leave the Bible and the Imitation for some wet Sunday."
the meter system in the rider main corruptible," "why don't you write Some good folk of amaturer age afternoon-know, friend, that your
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
favourite caravanseral because you Falstaff,
sea,
agine that we were two old reprob»| Of
manhood of the place, and prob-|
Un
ably go home and write letters to More refreshing than tales of the the papers about us. I therefore liquor ban
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A. consciousnesses if they posses Pegging Away.
There is a Samuel Smiles air press,, the consensus, of opinion dice of some people in this village. | Mark Twain'or Wodehouse makes good.” -* ** So now, you know.. **** Oppenheim writes about ny, put to pain, attend for no about the nows that "Tommy" was against the proposal. After Last night Mesach said to me that them laugh,
* • 4,000 words a day.
Maric of entertainment which is easy to wealth in the shape of another executive of the Chinese Chamber|HAD to give a tip. I called him a Or Jacobs' amusing tales of-the Which is very true. **** Can other reason than that it is a form Lipton is once more to pit his discussion the S. C.A asked the he never liked paying cash in our Our old friend Pickwick, or far
Corelli riles furiously, *** assimilate, is at times of great "Shamrock against the best that of Commerce to canvass Chinese coward. He then called me one,
you tell me the name of any for previously we had ordered two Or a brilliant piece of repartee." bubbly sarsaparillas, and at my re- But funnier far than any of these writes newcomer. educational, volue, and provides America can produce. The newe opinion on the subject.
literary Soalety in Hongkong will probably do more to cement the
** Well-now amusement which, if occasionally much desired cordiale" between
quest the Boy had put them in to Is that sight which never falls to search us as Lord Tennyson tankards We clicked' them, please. on the vulgar side, yet is in the the two nations and peoplea than
safd.** * What about The odd held them in the air, and then It is better than all those yarns you Volumes Society.'*** Ever heard main free from any great blemish any number of Foreign Office dis in that respect. A criticism levelled patches, any number of loquacious!
Mr. F. Thompson has been ap rank: deeply in the tree Chester tell
of books being the driving force of Ambassadors, or any number of Ice pointed a member of the Dental Belloc manner. Had I been able To the Cronies you only know very Civilization. Rather good- at the cinema is that it produces Cream Soda Fountains that may be Board.
to remember the thing I should well;
and true. *** Eugene O'Neill of have recited one of the Chester More farcical than our local taipan Anna Christie has published some phases of life-which are ugly-that now and hereafter erected in the are reputed to come in to their own. If life is ugly, in certain phases, Iged 38 does it they tell you in denly of Mr. T. A. Angus, Regis-Feople, said Mesach would im- It licks to a frazzle all I can think Title The Moon of the Caribbets, When thieves fall out honest menit leaves nothing to the imagination. thirsty lands of the earth. "Its dog- The death has taken place sud. Belloc's favourite drinking songs. Attempting to act like a superman, more plays in book form. ** Similarly when men of like tat-there is every reason why it should Lancashire, and if anyone has been trar of Imports and Exports, Penates, another warning to the young Even the front page of the "Pink on oak. Recommended Con
"dogged" in the attempt to bring ang".
rad's books to a young Australian be raade knowIL. The ostrich-like prostigo to the sporting life of his
friend who had never previously of public concoru, in this case the bit should not apply: The recent own country, that man must be A Renter cable from Peking to
done any reading. He utility of the Cinama, the middle,
"Anna Christie"Tommy Liftem." production of
The new bout day states that Mr. Chang Ying- was a coward. This stumped In the U.S.A. Even funnier than
writes glowingly. *** He liked or ordinary, man, may safely go on brought forth the criticism that it is to be called "Shamrock V." and hux has issued leaflets in the me and I was unable to assure M, The new lance-corporal showing Lord Jim best Noble youth
*his stripe will exercise the imagination and Finance Ministry stating that he that my tankard idea was simply a
* * * Tales - 'of Unrest, Under this way knowing that all is an well was abnormal in that it was unfete skill of the best designer of boats has resigned.
Barriesque whim. I had to appease Is a youth proudly puffing at his Western Eyes and The Secret Agent as it can reasonably be in a not to life-n most extraordinary stato the British Teles con produce, and
him by having a lagër în true
were rather gruesome. orthodox fashion. But it struck moet exactly perfect Cinema world.
Our Musical critic That lad's going to blossom out in- ment. To anyone who has lived in command the care and attention-of
the best seamen that we have. It re-In honour of the anniversary of there is a vast amount of moral
THE says there is hope to a Litrary critic, *** Mr. St. John Ervino who is the crowded districts of a seaport mains to be seen whether any of the the birth of HRH the Prince of cowardice in this place. The man
MILLENIUM, yet Advice from Maurice Howlitt is dead. **-* publicist of samo note has made town the statement was far from rules governing the competition will Wales, who was born on June 23, who gives kips because he thinks
Melbourne states Latterly essay writing had claimed reference to the "bobbed hair and being accurate. Life is kalidescopic, be deleted. We are thinking of the 1894, the British men-o-war in port he has to; that other chap who is
dressed ship today.
willing to get his clothes dirtied in that Jazz music is a drug on the him, ** The Forest Lovers was a bobbed brains" of cinema artistes. The greatest charge levelled against principal one which he been a
"sheltering" under the tram-way market, and thousands of records ripping story: * * * Clutton Brock the assumption being presumably the cineman is that it is productive regular "bone" ever since as co One of the most interesting wed first class on top cover, in the rain, are now dead stock. The public gives a list of some dead metaphors that the mentality of our screen of ideas for the budding criminal, potition was instituted, and which ding presents to the Duke of York when for five cents he could com taste bas suddenly turned to higher
compels tho challenging boat t artistes is of the very lowest, and especially out East whom such ideas proceed to the country of the This was the lass musical clock of the second class. There is 100 Spring Sock could have been city, Turning a deaf ear to. A place in was that of the City of Glasgow, fort and shelter with the denizens music, Mendelssohn in particular, and parcel. *** Beyond the pale, of which 2,000 recórylsi of the The death warrant of Bulldog tenos that those who frequent cinema per germinated by the film pre either challenged under its own made more than a century ago by much of, “it's not done”, în this
sold, Y on hand.
the sun, Round pegs in square holes, formances are not without muspicion adopted or improved upon. The sail. With the buffetting which John Smith, of Pittenween, Fife Village. What about it? --
In Melbourne where the Aussies The silver lining, Casting in her lot with, The scroll of fame. **? There in that respect. Mr. August John, mme thing was said of the penny any lightly-built craft in likely to clockmaker
COSMOP
They like their music streng BA, an arst of some nobe and dreadful of our boyhood days. contention has been that a bont
are lots more. We all have our receive crossing the Atlantic the cleverness
Schoolboy bowlers
No Jazz no Trots, no sickly fiv, own which we beat to death until otoriety confusers to pain in his There must ever be a scapegoat, could not be expected to do itself
The funeral took place yesterday HOWLERS. are like Tennyson's
But Mendelssolin's Spring others come along. A goo artistic consciousness each time he The fact seems to be lost sight of full justice in the fil competition, at Happy Valley of the daughter of
stream-they go on
Sanger friend has lent us Somerset Mau
Two "Eimple" Scotsmen | ban's On a Chinese screen sttende this class of theatre. Ou that in every film story depicting but our American friends have not Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Dalgety, who for ever. Here are some examples The other hand Sir Wm, Orpen and right and wrong,
the former is soon their way to nigro and the died suddenly, at 119 The Peak, on which have just come to our notice, SCOTCH up in Londos noticed a tion to an anthology on mai
rals has consequently retained in Thursday Colleagues of Mr. and which seem to be new.
algo in a restaurant Another Cabell's "The Cords
• Bless ibers equally distinguished, offor always shown as the better way, foros. Whatever happens the Dalgety on the sulf of the Hong-The wife of a duke is a ducky which read:Welsh Rabbit 3d. Vasily commendation for the efforts of oer that trangressors have a very hard public has been provided with o kong and Shanghai Bank and Millennium in this belief of the Mos, its just the thing said Mac., good thing is Giles
We filet's go inside, hava, wo, and sell | turs, tain artistea and producem in mib time of it in the end; that no matter subject of conversation that will be other friends attended, The many Freemasons mmitting presentations that are, at what method is adopted in the way relief from the weary things that beautiful wreaths deposited on the circle is an af na depth the skiner. There money in de
The Chief claudin Mana me artistic and as xeor to truth be of robbery, it is in the end a more have been in their minde litely, give bord eloquent testimony to running round a dot for ever. They did so and here the story
from Rdhrand reaction to princes the deep sympathy felt for the so charts was that no free man, should. taste of times that love is a rand prohibition.
anyone could wish.
rowing parents.
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ends
Cerberus,
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