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THE GONDOLIERS."
ANOTHER SUCCESS LAST
NIGHT
Uuplement weather conditions had.absolutely no effect on local lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan, for the Theatre Royal was well filled last night when the Philharmonie Society gave their third rendering of "The Gondoliers.'*-*
So much has been written of ie earlier performances that little is left to be said-either original or stereotyped. It was pleasing to note, however, thut the audience was denionstrativo one in every sense of the word, once they gut settled down, and encores were umnerons. It must have been gotifying to lie whole, conipany, find those responsible for the pró 'duction, to be the recipients of re mach practical appreciation of their efforts.
Here and there weak points were Ediscernible, but then no company
not pren a professional ente-is per- feet or anything, four perfect--and. taken altogether the local performé ance last night put some profes= | sional efforts respecting the sunte This is not open in the shade. said merely to please the personnel. It is based on experience and visible
demonstration.
Flongkong should be pront of the fact that there is so much talent in its midst. The best way to e- courage" and further develop that tulent is to ally whole-hearted round those who take the pains and the trouble to give the local public the best in opera and drama. From this viewpoint the applause and the many recalls were good to hear. The cast, individually and collec. tively, must have felt that their work was well worth doing..
THE CHINA MAIL.
GRAND OLD TIMER
CHILD SLAVERY:
POSITION IN CHINA REVIEWED
THE Y.W.CIAL'S WORK.
Y.W.C.A...
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925.
LATEST SPECIAL BONUS OFFER ENDS SATURDAY
This is final bonus period All contestants who have at least We are now on the final lap of the one bonus will positively receive a ̈ "China
prize. Mail" and "Sunday
Contestants whose names have Herald" great prize Campaign been in the list at any time may be reinstated, however, with their fall votes by turning in enough
one bonus. All contestants are
requested to be present at the Hongkong Hotel to choose the prize desired. In case a contest- ant is unable to be present, he ar she must appoint someone to. case such is not done, the Cam choose the prize for them, and in paign Manager will select the best. prize remaining for the contest ant not present.
** There are many kinds of po pularity but perhaps the best of all in that gained by solidworth,.... pleasant manners, kind words, and a cheer and smile for every body. Such is our friend W. J.
The efforts being made in The special bonus this week end Wilkinson who for so many years has been the trusted friend and China to bring conditions in ing Saturday, March 28, gives employee of that great Corporation modern factories more in accord 100,000 extra votes for each total subscription money to make up
the Hongkong Land Investment with the international standards of $100, in subscription money Co., Ltd. To see W. J. W. in his set by the Washington Confer- turned in by a contestant." This ence were dealt with at a meet-is positively the last bonus offer
of the Campaign. ing held in London in February under the aegis of the Industrial turned in next week and right up While subscriptions may be Law Bureau of the YWCA to B p.m..on Saturday, April 4, particulars of which are forward- after this week only the regular ed by the Secretary of the local votes will be given on subscrip- tions. The Campaign will close
NO CHÈQUE ACCEPTED. The meeting was held in hon- promptly at 6 o'clock, on that.
No personal cheques of over our of the recent return from date. All contestants in the office $36.00 will be accepted by the China of Dame Adelaide Ander at that hour will be waited on and Campaign Manager after April 2. son and Miss Agatha Harrison, to their votes will be deposited in the This rule will be rigidly adhered the formor of whom as National ballot box, after which the box to. Contestants who receive per Industrial Y.W.C.A. Secretary of will be sealed and turned over to sonal cheques for subscriptions Shanghai is greatly owed the the judges...
after that time should immediate- bringing about of the Child!
The final counting and awardly have them cashed or have Labour Commission. The latter ing of prizes will take place in them certified by the bank on served on the committee.
the Grill Room of the Hongkong which they are drawn. No devia. Sir John Jordan, former Hotel beginning at 9 pm. The tion will be made from this rule. Minister Plenipotentiary to totals, as fast as obtained, will be All contestants who wish to Peking and Mr. H. G. Sime, announced between dances. As have their ballots checked with comfortable ricshe' being carried former Chairman of the Muni soon as all votes have been tallied the Campaign records: should along to some part of his com- cipal Council also spoke of by the judges the prizes will be apply to the Campaign Manager. pany's possessions is an assurance conditions in China at this awarded to the contestants. After This must be done before Friday, itself of the solidly and safety London meeting which was the first three prizes have been April 3, as after that time there of things: that if there is attended by several representa awarded the contestants may will be a big rush and the Cam- anything wrong W. J. W. will tives of the League of Nations, choose the balance of the prizes in paign Department will be very SUC that it is put right among them M. Albert Thomas, accordance with their standings, busy. Contestants are warned To come in contact with Mr. executive of the International Eact contestant is requested to that all reserve ballots which have› Wilkinson is to come in contact Labour Office, and by many bring one person to act as judge. been issued on subscription MUST with reliability. No shifty promises officials of the Home Government, The judges so appointed will be in the ballot box at the Cam- a word given a word kept. Of in addition to leaders of many of count the ballots and award the paign office before 6 p.m., on no man could anything better be London's social organizations prizes.
April 4.. This is most important. said. W. J. W is essentially a and other men and women inter- On Tuesday, March 31, the Ballots not in the ballot box will. family man. A man's house is his eated in present industrial ballot box in the Campaign office not be counted. castle, and bese he reigns supreme. issues. Dame Anderson and will be opened for the last time He has given his hostages Miss Harrison described the effort and all votes polled up to that all these rules be studied and
It is most important that. to fortune and his children rise up which is being made in China to time will be published in the understood fully by the contest... and call him blessed. To judge a bring the conditions in modern paper. The ballot box will then ants. If there is anything'a con- man they say you must find out factories more into accord with be sealed, a slot being left open testant what they think of him at his the international standards set in the top to receive all ballots understand, he is requested to call " not thoroughly. work, outside bis work, and inside by the Washington Conference. thereafter. The box will not be on the Campaign Manager for his home. By this test a man, as a Miss Constance Smith, Deputy opened again until opened by the full explanation. man, succeeds or fails. Apply it Chief Factory and see. Apply it in the case of Mr. Great Britain and also chairman When the last count is published Inspector in judges at the Hongkong Hotel. W. J. Wilkinson and there emerges of the Industrial Advisory Com in the paper on March 31 all con- a hundred per cent. `man, a credit to the community which should mittee of the World's Y.W.C.A. testants who have not turned in make Hongkong very proud. traced the growth of conscience at least three yearly subscriptions Mr. W. Wilkinson of the concerning child labour in Eng to the "China Mail or ong bonus Hongkong Land Lvestment Co. is land, and the subsequent spread will be dropped from the list. to occupy nearly a column of one of the enthusiastic contestants of protective "legislation from space, so pucked is the picture in the China Mail and Sunday country to country. Shanghai's with tense moments and dramatic | Herald Campaign:
effort to put the work of the situations. The story is not the cut and dried triangle plot. is a tale of three women and a- hardened man of the world, who values money above everything élse. How this smiling villain steals the affections of each in turn and the dramatic climax that follows, how a woman is The Kung Yik was away longer tried for her life in a court of law than we expected, but has been and what the jury has to say-making her regular run, often these are but a few of the shades with a large number of passen- that give "Three Women" its gers; among these on Wednesday vivid colour as one of the greatest last was a Chinese bride, careful- dramas of the year. Not only isly hidden in the familiar red chair the story one of breathless inter- which being too high to be carried est, but the acting, too, is of com- on board, the top deck, had to be manding quality, the principal put below deck, bride and alt roles in a notable cast being filled (with the exception of the roof of by such accomplished
the chair which was removed players as May McAvoy, Pauline before leaving the pier, a brown Frederick, Marie Prevost, Lew blanket being slipped over the Cody, Pierre Grendon and Willard top in its place, preventing even Louis.
As for the staging and a bird's eye view of the lady), the filming it need only be men. The chair coolics travelled with tioned that "Three Women," their charge, taking her off at besides coming from the famous Hongkong. However, to do the Warner Brothers Studio, bears honours of the first class the the master stamp of the dele roast pigs and the gifts were brated producer, Ernst Lubitsch, placed on the top deck. In the afternoon the launch was kept waiting ten minutes for the empty chair and bearers.
THREE WOMEN, “
CORONET'S STRIKING
PICTURE.
Simply to catalogue the strik ing scenes in "Three Women" the big feature film now showing at the Coronet Theatre, would be
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CHEUNG CHAU NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
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be a prize for every contestant We have announced there will who qualifies and this will be fully carried out regardless of the number of contestants in the race, The only advice that can be given to all, is "Do your best "
children in her factories upon 2 OUR GREAT MOTOR CAR CLUB.
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latest countries to be indus- ENTERED AND WHO HAVE BEEN VOTED FOR AS THE MOST POPULAR trialized, to a struggle which PEOPLE IN HONGKONG. THE LIST 18 CHANGED THREE TIMES concerns the greater part of the "WEEKLY MONDAY, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
world.
Mr. Sims expressed his con- fidence that the ratepayers would rally to their civic responsibility by full attendance at the April meeting in Shanghai.
Among those who accepted invitations were: Sir Charles. Addis, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Chair. man. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Member of China Univer- sities Committee: Mrs. Corbett Ashby, president of International Woman Suffrage Alliance: The Duchess of Atholl, Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Secre- tary to Board of Education; Sir Gerald and Lady Bellhouse, H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories; Sir Atul and Lady Chatterjee, High Commissioner for India; Dr. Thomas Cochrane, Prominent Medical Missionary; Miss J. Kelman, Warden, Elect, Y.W.C.A. Training College, Author of "Labour in Industry;" Sir Thomas Legge, G.B.E., M.D., H.M. Senior Medical Inspector of Factories, Home Office; Miss Edith McDonald, Secretary of International Federation of Working Women; Miss H.. Martindale, C.B.E., H.M. Super- intending Inspector of Factories; Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Moore (Evelyn Underhill); Miss Maude, Roydenen
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HELP FOR POOR.
On Sunday last the Port was quite busy, several launches com- FREE EDUCATION SCHEME.ing and going and soon it will be still more lively as the big, lofty Philanthropic lectures, free medi- matshed for the annual theatrical cal consultation and a free read.performance at the Fisherman's ing library are some of the now temple is almost completed. When fentures which a Chinese benevo- the show is in full swing, launches lenk association is putting in hand, run back and forth every hour, The Chung Sing Society has been carrying the theatre "fans" randing free schools at which both The pier still remains in its ruin-' English and Chinese are taught to ed state. We are also waiting our The local branch of poor boys. This society is supported long-promised, wireless telephone. Y.W.C.A., which has its quarters by public subscriptions and receipts We hope something will be done in Caine Road, is this week begin- from performances of Chiness in both tratters before dram by its metiibers.
the ning a special effort to raise typhoon season. The present nearly $4,500 which is needed Mr. Mok Ching-kong, u director "Cable" is often disconnected in a over and above that received of the Bank of East Asia, in storm when most needed,
from Clasa fees membership and primarily responsible for the
hostel receipts. catablisliment of a new free achool
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The local school sports, which at Wai Ching Street, Kowloon, were such a success last year, will where the reading library and be held early in April, we hear. lecture hall will also be established. The lectures. ure to be strictly non-- sectarian
Through the generosity of Mr.
A cement concrete entrance way has been added to No. 8 a cut steps. The walls of Mr. great improvement on the earth-
LOCAL EFFORT,
QUEEN'S THEATRE,
picture, "Fascination, which is In Mae Murray's newest Metro
· A. C. Greaves-3, Excelsior Terrace.
INDIAN CHARGED.
Harem Bux, an Indian, was again before the Kowloon Magis.) trate yesterday charged with un lawful possession of poisons and practising as a doctor.
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith appeared for the Crown, and Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed by Messrs
After the evidence of an Indian Deacons) defended.
Government
GERMAN RASPUTIN."
FORMER CONVICT'S
FASCINATION.
Karl Grosskotenhaus, who is described as the German Rasputin," has been arrested on a number of serious charges
He declared that he was the
and he exercised such powers, of fascination over the working. people of Westphalia that the
20,000 members,
Chuan Shui-long, free Chinese inedi- "Rodine's cottage have been car presented by Robert 2: Leonard servant and an interpreter, Mrrepresentative of Christ on earth, cal consultation will be given ried up the full height and the at the Queen's Theatre, most of E. R. Dovey, the at the premises of the Sam Hing, forms put in place for the con- the scenes are laid in Spain. The Analyst, deposed to having found electrical contractors, at No. 47A crete roof. Plans will soon be interior settings were designed by arsenic, strychnine, opium and nux Elgin Street, where, the poorer ready for the additions and re- Charles Cadwallader, who bullt vomica in some of the bottles he Sect which he founded thas now
classes will ho attended.
With the innovations referred to, houses
construction of two of the old the Paris café scene for Miss examined. Witness agreed that the Chung Sing Society will he
Murray's previous picture, "Persenic compounded with other is followers call themselves Resurrectionists and have meet: cock Alley The designs for drugs in common use could be ing-houses in a number of the performing work of charity which we are expecting, several of these scenes
were obtained purchased from chemists, but towns of the mining and Iron will be fighly benefital to the the houses will be occupied next through models at the Metropoll
cution would follow the prorer Chinese. Gradual..oxpinmonth by early vialtors; & num tan Museum and from Spanish Ron has used the society to ook ber of missio
was adjourned unul ries from Indo books of household design new promises mud it is hoped that through the influence of Mahina are due and they will hold
their conference
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