MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929.
MACDONA PLAYERS
OPEN AT THEATRE ROYAL THIS EVENING
FIRST RATE ARTISTES
Among the Macdona Players, who open their Shaw season at
the Theatre Royal this evening, is
CUT HIS HEAD INDIAN GUARD ON BRITISH
STEAMBOAT ·
WOUND TWO INCHES LONG
Indian guard No. 54, who is a
THE CHINA MAIL,
PRESIDENT HOOVER
AS SEEN BY A PERSONAL. FRIEND
A GOOD STORY TELLER',
Incurably shy, no sponkor at all,
£38,000,000 FORTUNE SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL"
To-day-Theatre Royal; "The Macdona Players," present "Pygma- lion," 9.15 pm.
RECORD ESTATE OF LATE MR, WHITNEY
EDUCATION BEQUEST"
New York-The estate of the Sikh, is alleged to have struck with and without the adiaphora of social inte Eir. Harry Payne Witney, the a knife the right side of his head graces. Herbert Clark Hoover, this wealthy sportman and internation- cue Rookies." at about nine o'clock on Saturday huge, massive man who has spent at polo player, was appraised by the night, causing a wound about two his whole life hunting the carth Tus Commissioners at approximand Eva" (at 5.10 and 9.20) Chi-
He has been detained for its mineral treasures, brings ately £38,000,000. inches long.
To-day-Queen's Theatre: "Cir-
To-day-World Theatre; ""Tápsy
In the Government Civil Hospital. to the White House & riper experi Under his will education and nese picture, 4 Emancipators," (at
Ile was on the British a.. "Fat ence of other lands-and particu-charities receive £9,000,000 and his shan" (China Navigation Co.), or larly of Britain and her Dominions widow £11,400,000. which he is employed
the incident occurred.
on anti-overseas-than all the thirty Pre- Life estates of about £6,000,000
Jan. 9-10-World Theatre; "On piracy duty alongside the Steam-sidents since General Washington.oach are bequeathed to the two boat Co.'s wharf, for Canton when To us who knew Hoover in his Ken-children, Joha Whitney and John Your Toes" (at 5.10 & 9.15) Chin- It is stated slagtan home, or in his luxurious Hay Whitney. It is expected that feese Picture "Emancipators." that he was under the influence of house in America's political capital the National and State Govern (at 2.30 & 7.15).
quor when he drew, the weapon.
deduct
HUT DWELLERS
LOSE SIX OF THEIR HOMES ON BREAKWATER
Six of the raw of huts on
the
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Jan. 9-30-Star Theatre; "Toss Our big host then-the
This is the largest estate on re- of d'Urbervilles." Amusing of raconteurs, despite acord in the United States. the nonsense published about his
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Jan. 9-12-Queen's "The Way of All Flesh."
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Jan, 11-12-Star Theatre; "Proud Flesh."
Jan. 11-12 World Theatre; "On Your Tees."
Lammerts Auction · Jan. 8-At Sales Room, valuable
Mr. Stanley Drewitt, who has pro- duced a wide variety of plays and played leading parts in some seventeen of the West End Thea tres in London, principally at, the Haymarket and the St James's. and has produced numerous plays and acted leading parts under the Management of Mr. David Belasco and the late Mr. Charles Frohman in America. Mr. Drewitt directed the 'Galoty! Theatre, Manchester, England, for the first three and a half
Į taciturnity—is called to what Mr. Mr. Payne Whitney's fortune is years of that notable enterprise,
Coolidge terms "the most import-pussibly the largest ever left by one He later directed and acted lend-
ant position in the world."
Sir David Yule, who died ing part in The Playhouse, Yaunmati breakwater, Kowloon, President, Herbert Hoover is mare last July, 1s stated to have left Liverpool, and the notable Bir- which were the subject of .com-than King: he is Prime Minister about $20,000,000, and M.:Lebaudy, mingham Repertory Theatre Mr. plaints by My. J. P. Braga tapenk and Foreign Minister, too; Coma- the French sugar refiner, who pass- Drewitt played important parts in ing for the Kowloon Residents' mander-in-Chief of Navy and away some forty years ago, was household furniture, etc., 2.30 p.m. several memorable productions Association) at a recent meeting of Army.
said to have disposed of a sum!
Meetings with the late Sir Herbert Tree at the Sanitary Board, were destroyed Yet much of this man's career Anna Harkness, widow of one of Kong Chinese General Chamber of nearly as large in his will, Mrs.! Jan. 8-Morthly meeting of Hong His Majesty's Theatre, London, in a fire at about 1 p.m. on Satur-has been spent in the Old World, the founders of the Standard Oil Commerce Committee, 2.30 p.m. and with the late Sir George day.
with roamings into wild lands and Company, left 121,400,000. Alexander at the St. James's
The blaze lasted only a few min-strange adventures, which he tells Theatre, London. He was for
Some other great estates were: some considerable time assocititedi tez and the ramshackle buildings with a quaint rest..... I see John Wanamaker
poor orphan lad of a "lost" Iowa Earl of Ivengh went up in smoke quickly.
Two engines were despatched village. I see him also in the far-Marcus Loewe from Kowloon Fire Station to deal off Oregon woods, then down in
film ntagnate) with the outbreak. The Fire floats the halls of Stanford University-Land Stratehcons
has "adopted"
lovely Sir Robert Ilouston characters. He is Director of
None of the boatpeople Inhabit- California na his own State. That Lord Glentana Plays for Charles Macdona, and will play Colonel Pickering infants was injured. The damage is was a practical school of mining, C. W. Post
Ind did menial work to (of Washington) "Pygmalion," Roebuck Rammsten assessed by them at between $20 and the
Viscount Cowdray In "Man and Superman," Sir and $30. And a careless match in pay his way through it.
There also he met Miss Louisa Viscount Bearsted Balph Boomfield Bonnington in contact with material rendered com-
4,000,000 Jan. 17-Meeting of Creditors of After graduation they The Doctor's Dilemma and the bustible by a long period of dry Henry.
Ten estates of members of the the Hong Kong Finance & Invest- to become a school Coats Rev. Samuel Gardner in "Mrs, weather is thought to have been the parted; she
family totalled about ment Co., Ltd.;, at 5, Des Voeux-rd. teacher in Monterey, Herbert to £25,000,000, and thore Warren's Profession,**
of half Central (4th Floor), noon. rough it in the Desert States of a dozen members of the Wills! Feb. 2-Extraordinary meeting the South-West, where he was family for tobacco fame) amounted of Shareholders of the Hong Kong soon hauling oretrucks far under to at least half that figure. - & Shanghai Banking Corporation; ground, like a pit-pony of our
In the case of American and City Hall, noon. Durham mines. "I must know my ather foreign millionaires the real) Feb. 23 Further, extraordinary job," he'd say, "from the bottom total is not always known, owing to meeting of shareholders of Hong up!
the different methods of appraise; Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor- So well did he come to know ment adopted by the respective porntion, City Hall, 12.45 p.m. that when Bewick, Moreign and Co.'s call came from London for an expert metallurgist to advise on the famous Broken Jill mines of New South Wales, young Hoover
with Sir Frank Beason and with Mr. Benson Greet in Shakes- percan plays und has played most of the leading Shakesperean
"Mrs. Warren"
Then there is Miss Joan Hopegood, who had the distine. tion of being the first English speaking actress to play the great part of Mrs. Warren in that much discussed play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" after it had been de finitely licensed and is now to repent that performance in india and the Far East, and has played lealing parts in most of the plays of Bernard Shaw in South Africa and in England,
were not requisitioned.
cause.
LESSON-SERMON
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG
"God" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Jan
uary 6.
The Golden Text was, "The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King"
Jeremiah 10:10).
Hoover
"America First"
Treasuries.
Jan. 8-Monthly meeting ot Members of Marine Engineers' .£15,000,000
Guild at David House, 67, Des 11,000,000 Voeux-rd.. 6. p.m.
Jan. 11--Extraordinary general meeting of members of the Kow- loon Cricket Club, Club House, G
8,000,000 6,749,000 6,000,000 4,642,000p.m.
Jan. 13-H.K.V.D.C. No. 2 2,295,000 Platoon Rille Club meeting, Peak 4,000,000 Range, 9.30 am,
ME. MARK HAMBOURG
Miscellaneous
To-day-Lecture and film show by Mr. Clarke Irvine at Helena May Institute, p.m.
SIR F. BENSON 70
"I HAVE JUST GIVEN UP FOOTBALL"
was sent out as "the best in sight."ist, appeared on the stage of the Scientist, free lecture on "Christian Mr. Mark Hambourg, the plan- Jan. 21-First Church of Christ, Central Hall Bristol, in a wheel-Science," Old Chamber of Com- Among the citations which com- Miss Hopegood after a period of
His work in Australia is well-ed chair to give a long-promised merce Room, City Hall, 5.45 p.m. prised the Lesson-Sermon was the severe training in dramatic art following from the Bible:
"And known. So it is in New Zealami recital, for which there was a while yet in her teens received great multitudes came unto him, and Malaya; in India, Ceylon, gathering of about 2,000 people. considerable encouragement in having with them those that were Egypt, South Africa, and Burmuh It appeared that he had suffer-, her labours by being awarded the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and where he explored in the Shan fed a knee injury, and he had to -diploma of the British Empire many others, and cast them down States, with more adventures than be carried into the hall. The au- Shakespeare Society in a comat Jesus' feet; Insomuch that the would fill a boy's books. No dience gave him a great reception. petition by representatives from multitude wondered, when they saw wonder the "whisperers" spoke of all parts of Great Britain for the the dumb to speak, the maimed to Hoover As A "Britisher"—even Ardrossan Dockyard, Ltd., have best Shakespearean performance, be whole, the lame to walk, and hinting at an offer of the Ministry obtained from Clydesdale Naviga- Later Miss Hopegood played prae- the blind to see: and they glorified of Munitions in London with an tion Co., Ltd. (Nisbet and Co.,
Sir Frank Benson, the Shake- tically all the leading Shakes the God of Israel" (Matt. 15:30,31). application for British citzenship Glasgow), an order for two cargo spearean actor-manager, is seventy pearean parts, among them Lady The Lesson-Sermon also included field, an English vote registered, steamers of 4140 tons gross each, to-day, says the "Observer" of Macbeth, Hermione, Miranda, the following passages from the and, of course, "Sir" Herbert and engines will be supplied. by
He has received many etc. She played the leading Christian Science textbook, louning, as a titled expatriate of John G. Kinenia and Co., Ltd. messages of congratulation and female role in "John the Baptist," "Science and Health with Key the Peace after a Great War! The Greenock.
goodwill. Mr. William Faversham's greatly to the Scriptures,"
by Mary truth is that although Hoover un-
"I was the laziest boy at Win- successful production in America Baker Eddy: "God will
healderstands and admires Britain's and several other leading parts in the sick through man, when-world-polity and people, as Walter about to seek powers to construct graduate of
The Underground Railways are chester, and the laziest under- my time," he said. New York and elsewhere in the ever man is governed by Page did, he puts "America First." new subwaya at Highgate, Totten- "The only thing I worked at was United States, ineluding that in God.
How the world-rover appeared ham Court-road, and Leicester- Truth easts out error now
athletics. But I know that inci- Bernard Shaw's Arms and The as surely as it did ninebzon
one morning (from Australia) in square stations, and a booking hall dentally I was developing an en- cen- Man.
Louisa Henry's Californian school, at the last-named station. turies ago. p. 495).
durance that proved useful to me Miss Hopegood will be seen in
In February, 1898, Mary Baker and told the girl she was to sail
In the very exacting lot of a such parts as Eliza Doolittle in Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder that very night for China as his Commissions as Second Lieuten- Shakespearean actor-manager. "Pygmalion," Mrs. Clandon in of Christian Science, established bride, is a typical abruptness of auts in the Singapore V. C. have grasped the truth of the relation "You Never Can Tell" Candida The Christian Science Board of Lec Cound Catholic priest (another v. Patterson, and A. C. Gilbert,
Hoover's career. And a hastily-been granted to Messrs 3. C. Grant, between efficiency of mind and effl- and Mrs, Warren in "Mrs. War-tureship. The Manual. of The ren's Profession."
Mother Church (Article XXXII, election "whisper" here!) married Section 4) provides that each the Quaker lad to an Episcopalian branch church shall give one or
Others include Arnold Walsh, who has not long returned from
a tour of the West Indica and
South Africa, before which he was at the Strand and Lyceum Theatres. Mr. Walsh will play such parts as Octavius Robinson
in "Man and Superman" and Frank in "Mrs. Warren's Profes- sion."
more lectures anually. In accord-
girl.
What a lurid honeymoon his be
Nov. 4.
I
ciency of body, especially for act- ing. It is to the athletic spirit that to a certain extent I attribute the success of the Bensonian Com- came his raising of the pany. ance with this by-law, First Church loved "Lou" had in the dread Department of Trade and Com- "My health and vigour to-day. I
made Hoover's to athletics. The doctors tell me
.
of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong Boxer siege of Tientsin, with her merce to a plich that amazed "Big attribute to my life-long devotion
engineer-husband (then Inspector-Business," and
i
"But I am not
will provide a free lecture on Chris-General of Chinese mines, with name a synonym for Prosperity-I have the arteries and blood pres tian Science in January. Denver, Colorado, member of The sacks-or crawling out in the dark tion of Mississippi flood-relief by swim a mile cut to sea and back.
Mr. W. Stuart Booth, C.S.B., of 20,000 coolics under him) throw and the Presidency!
ing up defences of rice and sugar)
sure of a man of thirty. I have Most recent of all was the diree-just given up football. I can still Board of Lectureship of The First through bullet-swept streets to set this "specialist in national cal- Miss Muriel Hutchinson was Church of Christ, Scientist in Bos- with Oscar Asche and Lily Bray- ton, Massachusetts, has been apa crazy pump in motion for aamities"-as Hoover is known to exceptional
a particularly ton for over five years during pointed to lecture in the Orient this grande dame is the silver-haired nster called for a Congressional there were men older than I who
precarious water-supply.
individual What Athe French. which time they toured Australla, year. Mr. Booth has recently lec-irst Lady of the Land"
That enormous dis struck me in the war was that later she joined Charles Doran tured in New Zealand and Austra takes over the White House "key"
who vote of 300,000,000 dollars. -who Was forming Shakes-la and will lecture in the Philip from Mrs.
I stood with that massive man oncome six thousand miles to do were serving, some of whom had pearean company, on which she pine Islands on January 15 at March 4 next.
Graco Coolidge an the broken levees below New their bit, and as Englishmen serv stayed for some years, "During Manila and on January 17 at that time she played, most. of the Baguio. He is expected to lecture gium; the relief of starving Russia guided his 'planes overhead and lar effort. The great asset of our The feeding of war-stricken Bel-fident as Noah in the Deluge, he ways given jobs requiring museu Orleans. Watchful and calm, con- ing with the French, we were al Shakespearean leads.
in Hong Kong on Monday, January (over ten million abjects to cater his motor-fleet on, turbid ocean Empire is that there Miss Hutchinson plays Mrs. 21. "Pearce in Pygmalion" Miss Rams- The Membership of The Beart of at home-here were other notable towns and farme.
for!) and the Food Controllership below, where once were thriving sands of men older than I who are
are thou den in "Man and Superman," etc. Lectureship is comprised of a land marks in Herbert Hoover's
Miss Ivy Walenn will play dividuals who have had practical vivid span.
just as fit Clare Eynsford-Hill in "Pygma- experience of the healing and beach- arose in the recent election over "Let's first get food and clothing I will walk eighty miles on my Other "whispers" "The dead can wait," he'd say that if I reach the age of eights, "Quite seriously, I have a bet lion" and Minnie Tinwell in the ing work in the Christian Science this latter thankless job. "Doctor's Dilemma." Misa Walenn fold and.they are thus well qualifi- had whittled down the price of left alive!"
Hoover and med'cine to the folks that are was with the Dunstan Shakes ed to speak with, authority on the American farmers' grain in favour
eightieth birthday." perian Repertory Company.. subject of Christian Science.
This is the new President of the
Asked what had been the proud- of Britain and her anxious Allies! United States. His motto-learn-est moments in his life, Sir Frank He had no more to do with this ed long ago from Louis Janin, bis said, "These-that on my sixtieth price-fixing than had Marshal Foch mining master in San Francisco birthday they were good enough As Generalissims of the Allied is: "Be sure you get your facts to give me the Croix de Guerre on Armies. It was done by President right. Wilson's own Commission.
Then, go ahead!" A the field of battle; the winning of "dual personality." Herbert Clark the three miles for Oxford against Hoover, the titan of Efficiency and Cambridge; and being knighted by By 1914 Mr. Hoover was already Progress, secks to evade the the King at Drury Lane.
GROUP OF THE MACEONA PLAYERS, who open their sea- eson at the Theatre Royal to night,
•
"Big Business"
a man of large fortune as a mining symptoms of these in his private engineer of international renown, life. He loathes a crowd, with branches from London and Chopin did; his only hobby is found Paris to Melbourne and Shanghai. in the mountain trout-stream, a
as
DISCHARGED
Great metal interests were now in thousand miles from the telephone A Chinese who was charged with his efficient hands, so that, had he bell, wished, he might have become a I predict high things from Her possession of 1,293 French plastres, multi-millionaire. But an appeal bart Hoover's White House term; alleged to have been unlawfully ob from Walter Fage in the first anexampled prosperity at home, tained from the Wing Hing Mow thunderclap of war ended Hoover's and a policy of co-operation with firm, of Rue Chinois, Halphong, was business career. His first public Europe which may make the formally discharged by Mr. R. E Bervice was the repatriation Fathers turn in their grave. This Lindseil at the Central Magistracy of America's hosts of strand the President-Elect has already on Saturday,
ed tourists in Europe. Here, foreshadowed his people in the Mr. H. C. Macnamara prosecuted also, is the stuff of a significant words, We cannot and Mr. F. H. Losoby appeared for gorgeous tragi-comic book! Later isolate ourselves from the world the defence.
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