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HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER, 31, 1928.
CARAVAN HE MADE HER EAT THE DANCE STEPS
TOUR
LONELY WOMEN
TREKKING IN SEARCH OF HUSBANDS
£2,000 A YEAR
New York,-A new way of ac- quiring husbands has been found
CIGARETTES!
THE SEQUEL
FOR 1929
MASTERS' EDICT
STORY OF ATTACK BY AN EN-"MOVE LIKE MOLASSES FLOW"
RAGED HUSBAND
DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS
نه
⚫San Franciéco, Doc. 16.
IS THE ORDER
"BLUES" DEAD
Berlin, Dec. 14. Some smokers can't get a cough German dancing-masters have issued their edict for 1929 ball-
by Miss Helen, Davis, of Washing-out of a carload of cigarettes, but ton, who has organised a "matri- Mrs. Clare S. Edwards is trying to room fashions. Away with the monial caravan" to tour the United get a divorce out of a package. contortions, they say, which made States. Any lonely woman who is According to her complaint on the flesh of gentlefolk; creep two unattached can join the caravan on file hare against David C. years ago! They have ruled that giving proofs of her honesty of Edwards, ber husband became so dancing motions next year shall purpose and good Intentions.
enraged when he saw her smoking no longer resemble a tribal kraal
chieftain.
A sedan motor-car is the nucleus a cigarette that he threw her to during the burial of a nativė | of the caravan. It belongs to Mise the floor, sat on her chest and Davis, who is 32, was formerly a forced her to eat a package of travelling saleswoman, and is de-cigarettes one by one.-United scribed as a rapid and convincing Press. talker.
Her initial companions are two lonely widows-one a Virginian. aged 38, with a family-tree, and the other a University graduate, aged [50, who has a grown-up daughter.
The names of the subordinate! members of the caravan will not be disclosed unless they desire it.
May Smoke and Drink
Six hundred possible husbands in various parts of the country have written to Miss Davia.
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Tranquillity, elegance, poise and discretion are a few of the nouna which the German dancing sover- eigns use to describe their rulea of conduct for dancers during the coming season. The feet-slinging, finger-snapping, leg-slapping dane ing days are relegated to hushed oblivion.
Sir William Joynsan-Hicks, the "Don't get excited on the danc- Home Secretary, Indulged a fancy Ing-floor," is their warning, "and of himself as a daring film hero in don't let your temperament run
matter how
a speech he made at a dinner of away with you, no Whon interviewed, Miss Davis film producers at the Savoy Hotel boisterous the tunes emanating said: "We are not starting on a recently, The dinner was organised from that saxophone may be." frivolous expedition. We are by the film, group of the Federation The Berlin pace-setters of danc- Idealiste and want to become home of British Industries, to mark re- ing styles, Lutz Hoffmann and makers."
Miss Davis's ideal husband is one i who has an annual income of £2,000, and who would advance £1,000 to educate her brother. Fur-i thermore, he must be honourable; truthful and good-natured. She does not mind if he drinks and smakes in moderation. He mny even smoke a pipe. He must enjoy music and outdoor sports, because she does, and must be fond of tra- velling. He must be over forty; and under 55, but it does not mat ter whether he is bald-headed, or fat, or thin.
Love at First Sight Improbable Love at first sight is not reckoned as a probability:
Reinhold Sommer, have decided the fate of the following dances:
FRESH MONSOON
The quick-step charleston will set the fashion in German. ball- N.E. winds, fresh, fine, if the
rooms this year. It will be danc- N.E. winds, fresh, fine, is the led with lively rhythm, occasional- Hong Kong, the adjacent coastly merging into the fox-trot with and Formosa Channel.
At 10.30 am. to-day the Obser vatory reported:-There appears to be a depression to the east of Shanghai and a new anti-cyclone over China. Fresh monsoon may be expected over the China Sea. ————
cent progress in British film pro- duction.
turns and whirls and short run- ning steps, strongly syncopated.
The "blues" are dead. Nor will the Yale blues replace them,
The "slow fox" will be danced with simplicity, being restricted to two short and one long step.
The tango is destined to remain the queen of 1929 dances, retain- ing its southern congeniality and Proposing a toast to British film assured of popularity. production, Sir William said: The English waltz is still look- During the caravan tour all men when I pay my occasional visits ed upon with favour, but is adapt offering themselves as candidates
to the cinema I confess to a desire ed more for the tea dances than for matrimony will be catalogued, not to be a lady star, but a mascu- formal balls. with proof of their financial and
iline star-(laughter,)and be able: The "twist" is a newcomer and other declarations.. Then the pair-
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There will be one collection from the pillar-boxes and one de-ing off with the caravan maids will to climb a church steeple in the may prove a dark horse this sea- Its feature da a skating livery of ordinary correspondence as on Sundays, and one delivery be done in a businesslike manner. twinkling of an eye, or to ride son.
The caravan will halt near cities through my native village on a stride, for which waxed soles are while crossing the Continent from mustang, seize the girl of my desirable. Washington to Los Angeles. The choice, lay her across the saddle, Na rosy future is predicted for husband-hunters will give recep- and ride for 110 miles to my shed the "sugar-step" and the "Balti- tlons at each stopping-place, to on the hills, only to find that I have more," and their appearances“ at which all lonely single or widowed picked up my mother-in-law by German dances will be shortlived. The good old-fashioned Vien- women will be invited and asked to mistake. (Laughter).
It is hereby notified that telegrams conveying New Year Greetings to the United States & Canada will be accepted until 2nd January, 1929, at special reduced rates; for particulars apply to the Radio Office, P. & O. Buildings.
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accompany the caravan westward. Referring to the effect of the hese waltz, hardfest of all hardy A return trip eastward may be Film Quota Act, Sir William said perenniala, will retain its familiar made in the spring, but Miss Davis he was informed that while in 1925 popularity.
is confident that there will not be only from twenty to thirty films This is the edict of the German any caravan maids left to marry by were produced in Britain, and dancing-masters, and it indicates that there were only about forty in a conservative move away from
then.
One possible husband has writ 1926, this year they had already innovations and a systematic at- ten to say that his income exceeds produced 180 British films, of which tempt to bolster up the prestige £2,000, and that although he weighs half ware long films. (Hear, hear). of long-established dances. 14 he isn't really fat.
From the information he possessed, he saw no reason why, in the CUSTOMS SURPRISE course of the next year or so, they should not settle down to producing jat least a steady 250 films per
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