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The Clock Tower and Time
the
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929.
"LA TOSCA "
the ITALIAN GRAND OPERA AT
According to the The Government Asylum, also Clock Tower at known as the Lunatic Asylum, Kowloon it was, will henceforth be called 8.30 o'clock in "Mental Hospital," according to
THE STAR- the morning..at a notification appearing in the
MAGNIFICENT RENDERING the Star Ferry Wharf, also Kow-current "Gazette.". loon side it was ten to nine.
A Government notification ap- Signor Carpi's Grand Opera and on arrival at Hong Kong it) was nine o'clock precisely. Scan-pearing in the "Gazette" says: Company possesses many talent ning the aforementioned times, "The washing of clothes, in any ed artistes and in last night's it is not difficult to realise that street, road or lane, within 100 performance of "La Tosca" the clock at the Tower was yards of any public fountain is principals were well chosen for their parts in this very dramatic wrong and to those Kowloon re- strictly prohibited.
work of Puccini. The music lovers sidents who on Tuesday timed their watches to the exact minate The annual meeting of the of the Colony were given a rare a word of Hong Kong Auxiliary of the Bri-opportunity of hearing Grand by the clock tower warning is offered against any tish and Foreign Bible Society Opera rendered in magniscent
Because will be held on May 7 at the style. such procedure again.
The story of the opera is one of one never knows if the clock tower Helena May Institute. Ter will time is right. What ever the rea- be served from 4.30 p.m. and the love and tragedy, and Paccini son has been of late, those respon-meeting will begin at 5.15 p.m. has skilfully adapted his musical sible for the correct, running of Addresses will be given by Dr composition to the theme of the the clock should see to it that It J. H. Montgomery, who will speak play. Differing entirely from his does run correct. Thank goodness on "The Bible in the World," and other and perhaps most popular it is not a very frequent occur by Mrs. Davies, of Canton, who work, "Madam Butterfly, it still rence, otherwise it would be just will speak on "The Bible in the has gained a great and lasting fame in its production through- for the clock to be taken Home" from the tower and stained glass put there instead Perhaps it
well known land mark,
out Europe and América. The free fight on Wednesday at Signorina Bodini, as "La "Tos- is rather unjust to criticise that the junction of Austin-road and en." was magnificent. She sang so to Parkes-street, Kowloon, when one with such perfect ease and cer- speak, of the mainland. It may of five combatants was wounded tainty, and in her passionate ap- be wondered how many, either by a revolver shot fired by an peal to "Scarpia" her voice rises Indian constable in order to quell to exquisite grandeur and pathos. travelling on motor-buses, Or motor vehicles of any other des-the disturbance, had a sequel. The part of "Scarpia" the tres- cription, or by rikisha, or even one of the fighters was arrested cherous Chief of Police, is taken on foot, when they turn around later, and appeared before Mr. by Sig. Casarosa whose rich bari- the corner at the Peninsula Hotel, S. Whyte-Smith. He is Cheng tone voice is heard to perfection, do not instinctively glance at the Tsan (31), a cooly boy employed at especially in his long soliloquy as tower to ascertain the time? It No. 9, Hart-avenue. His Worship he awaits the coming of "Tosca" is a habit not unjustly cultivated gave a week adjournment to to his apartments in the Farnese by repetition of the same day await the discharge from hospital Palace. after day, that is hard to shake of the wounded man, Kam Chiu (20), a house coolie employed at off. It is, then, all the more No. 21, Observatory-road.
necessary that the time as stated
at the tower should be correct to
the second. Those experienced
will after glancing at the tower,
on arrival at the Star Ferry
WHO'LL WIN ?
CUP
His Cantabile, too, was
a brilliant performance.
Sig. Frera as "Mario," receiv- ed perhaps the greatest ovation, his glorious tenor voice reaching unusual splendour in the familiar strain of "E lucevan estelle." In the lovely duet with "Tosca," too,
ty of tone.-
wharf, Kowloon side, again look POMPEY'S EYES ON ENGLISH their voices blend in perfect clari at the small clock there, and again Darly in the Chou at the one on the Hong Kong side.
A Mark dynasty, worthies It takes ten minutes to cross the
Sig. Frera well deserved the To-day Bolton Wanderers and tremendous applause accorded of were rewarded by harbour, so that deducting that Portsmouth meet in the Associa-him.
The Italian Grand Opera's pro- Distinction. a mark of distinc-ten from the time on arrival at tion Football Cup Final at Wem-
tion being affixed Hong Kong, one can more or less bley. From the fact that eight duetion to-night will be "La to the gateway of their village. know the correct time or ought or more Scots will be striving to Traviata."
win an English Cup medal! Edward Ward, the well-known
Here is one of a humorist writes thus in the
"Athletic News":- Hints on series of notes on Motoring motoring sent by a
In the more peaceful days of the to! Tang and Sung dynasties, when the population increased and villages were merged in towns," the practice began of erecting special gateways to bear the honorific tablets. They are now found on the streets of cities, across country roads and by the roadside. They vary in size and
Don't drive at all unless you splendour according to the wealth are fully insured; you may be a of the families which erect them, first-class driver yourself, but. having sometimes twelve sup there are a number of people who porting columns and sometimes are not.
! correspondent who suggests, that they will be of interest not only to motorists but also to the general public:-
two only. The commonest are "Don't hit tram-cars or steam- those with four pillars, forming rollers: if you must hit some- a large central passage and two thing hit the beacon in Pedder- smaller ones. Generally the in-street!
scriptions and decorations are the Don't drive up or down Queen's- same on both sides. There is no road Central or any other busy front or back. The important thoroughfare at five-miles-an-
thing which gave glory to the hour; go as fast as the car in structure was the tablet placed front of you. With all due re- highest of all, bearing the two spect to speed limits, motor characters "yu chih". (meaning "cops" and nervous people, the "by Imperial decree") or "sheng faster the traffic the less the con- chih" (meaning by sacred gestion.
Hong Kong, Saturday, April 27, 1929. degree") for, during the Manchu Don't forget that driving on
was
STILL WATERS
1.8
Gymnast
To Whom Granted
had
died
Don't insist on driving your car home after a good night out. Let the most sober member of your party drive, or hire a taxi.
Down Pompey way they are
feeling gay, And the lassies sing their
songs all day:
For the team has become the
harbour's pride, And the South is beginning to
put on side.
"Sailors don't care."
•
In Bolton town the hunt is up, And they're ready to polish the
famous cup.
They say: "When Lancashire
starts to play
You can just start cheering
right away."
Lancs will be there.
But when the cheering's o'er
and doné,
And they claini that the North or the South has won, We'll remember that, out of all
the lot
That played, every other man
was a Scot.
Mac will be there.
"THE IRON MASK”.
A SUPER FILM TO-MORROW AT QUEEN'S
2,000,000 SCOUTS
WORLD-WIDE EXTENSION OF
THE MOVEMENT
BALKAN AN
THE JAMBOREE
The Duke
of Connaught will open the Boy Scouts' World Jamboree at Birkenhead on July 31, when 30,000 Scouts from 42 countries will assemble to cele brate the coming-of-age of the Boy Scout movement.
The Chief Scout formed his first camp Foole, with 21 boys taken from on Brownsea Island,
all grades, including Eton, Har- row, and the East End of London.
In the British Empire recently there were over 654,000 Scouts, Scouts almost reached 2,000,000. while the number of International
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rule at any rate, such archways roads that are not controlled by could only be erected by a special Police on point duty is far more order of the Emperor. With the dangerous than on main roads. permission there was also a grant Most really nasty accidents occur of 30 taels of silver, which was on this type of road. Sound your Opinions may
probably intended to defray only horn and take all uncontrolled
The indifference of women to The Prince differ as to whe-the cost of the tablet bearing the crossings dead slow.
food, and her own sixpenny lunches ther H.R.. the two characters quoted.
were referred to by Professor Winifred Cullis, Professor, of Prince of Wales,
Physiology, University of London, These H.R.H. Prince
memorial
in a speech at a luncheon at the arches were grant-
The George or H.R.H. the Duke of
popular athlete hero, Hotel Victoria, in connection with ed to loyal servants'
Douglas Fairbanks, arrives at conference on industrial canteen Gloucester proved the best horse-
of the State who
the Queen's to-morrow in "The management organised by the In- in war (ie., man-on a China pony-although
"The word 'incurable' should be Iron Mask," Dumas* Samousdustrial Welfare Society. many were loud in their praise of "chung chen"); to officials of good removed from the dictionary story of the further adventures Some years ago, she said, for
reputation ("ming huan"); to
some absurd reason it was conai- the Duke's skill at the polo local worthies, distinguished by declared Dr. Ernst P. Boas, Direc-of The Three Musketeers."
In "The Iron Mask," his new-dered "very interesting," if you ground on Thursday when he virtue and learning ("hsiang tor of the Montfiore Hospital of est picture, Doug portrays happened to be a female, not to made his first acquaintance with hsien"); to philanthropists ("15 New York, before the convention D'Artagnan," the fastest moving care about foud. the China pony. The Prince of lahan hao shih") to families that of the American Hospital Asso figure of seventeenth century "I can remember the days in my
lived together for four or five ciation. "In the present state of Wales was not here long but generations; to centenarians; to medical knowledge," Dr. Boas France. Because of his fast men family when even the girls were al tal and physical tempo, he out-lowed to be hungry," she added. Prince George spent some time in the highest literary graduates said, "the pronouncement of the wits the keenest and most power- "Cousins of mine used to think it Chim and rode in the United ("cbih shih"); and to women who places a serious' responsibility on and de Rochefort were always eat. It used to be said that the sentence incurable' on a patientful brains of France. Richelieu rather indecent that I wanted to had been killed or committed Services race at an annual Jockey suicide in defence of their chas- the physician and implies a great just one jump behind the fast food we chose above everything else Club meeting, in which his mount tity, widows who escaped comput. The acceptance of the verdict by what he wanted and he gained chose that was because we had not er knowledge than he possesses.
moving D'Artagnan, He knew was a cup of tea and a bun. Why we made favourite and lost, sion to re-marry by denying the patient and the community wis goal. In the picture Doug any money to get anything else. The Duke of Gloucester, however, formed suttee. In
themselves, or those who per-
memorial not only cruelly quenches all is an excellent gymaast. This is arches proper the p'ai or main hope, but checks every further deftly shows that even death. When I first came up to London written on the authority of one tablet bears an inscription which effort at physical rehabilitation could not slow the onward sweep to work I wanted to do some re-
"New York Times."
of this seventeenth century dis-search work. My people had spent who knew him when he was et indicates its purpose; but there
ciple of action, A
more than they could afford in giv- are arches which also are terried Sandhurst, when he ahone in the pet lau or pai fang which are
"The Iron Mask" is said to be ing me a University education. A Before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Douglas Fairbanks's most ambi- brother said that if I could get redoubtable Jim Copeland's class merely decorative and commemor at the Kowloon Magistracy; tious effort to date. Mr. F. H. Hollman, of the Hong ate nothing. Several examples of yesterday, Mr. J. H. Corver, of Kong Civil Service, it is these were to be seen in present the Hong Kong Excavation, Pile day Peking. Probably the finest Driving and Construction Co., learned, was also an instructor in a faag now extant is that at the Ltd., prosecuted a Chinese on a gymnasties at Sandhurst when beginning of the avenue leading charge of larceny of thirty planks Prince Henry (as he then was) to the Ming tombs; its date is of wood from the Shek-lai-pui re-
1540,
servoir on the Taipo-road, was there, but the Prince was not
Indian Guard saw the accused and The gallant rescue of a fitter in Mr. Holdman's class.
H.R.H, the Dhike three other
men carrying four who had been overcome by escap Men have always realised that if H.R.H.
of Gloucester was bundles of planks, and when he ing gas occurred at Brentford.. Much that is in- Born a Day born on March shouted to the men and at the The fitter, Samuel Grinstead of they were going to do good work,
they must have good food, and P'ai Laus structive from the Too Soon 31 full same time fired over their heads, Bow-street, WC, was repairing a think it is high time we realized the
historic Kif not b
Christian name, they dropped the planks and bolt- gaspipe at a warehouse in Brent-me. Please preach that there are artistic point of view is connect by the way, is Henry William ed. Three of the men managed ford Market when he became un two kinds of foods which may be ed with the p'ai laus erected by the Frederick Albert. But about the to escape, but the accused jumped conscious. A market porter, regarded as protective foods, and Chinese community of Hong date of his birth. A gossip into the reservoir and was arrest Frederick Wright, aged 56, of which, if indulged in considerably, Kong to welcome HRH the Duke writer in a Home paper the other ed. Sentence of three weeks hard Horne-lane, Claygate, rushed up will always convert inadequate into
the stairs, and, although the of Gloucester. A p'ai lau is an day had a good story about him. labour was passed. henorary gate or archway, a very It is worthy of re-telling. When
room was full of gas, got the 6t perfectly adequate foods.
are milk and green vegetables." common object all over China. he was at Eton, the story goes, Signor Healli, who has appeared ter to the bottom of the stairs be “P'ar” means tablet, and "law" he was sent for one day by one on several occasions at the fore collapsing himself. means storey; less elaborate of the masters. When he emerg- famous Scala Theatre, Milan, and
The German police authorities arches are called p'ai fang, the ed, it was apparent to a friend Signor Giletti appear opposite Wright revived following the ap character "fang" being originally that he had had a dressing down. Mam..Henkina at the Star Thea plication of oxygen. Grinstead, are in constant touch with their the place, transferred in later "What did he say?" asked the tre to-night in "La Traviata," however, was in a much more forces throughout the country by times to denote the structure, friend. All that he told me was Madame Henkina recently com- serious condition, and some time means of a private broadcasting These structures go a long way that I was born a day too soon," pleted a highly successful three elapsed before he became well service. They have now decided back in the annals of the celestial Frince Henry (as he then was years tour as prima donna with enough to be taken to West to transmit photographs of wanted
the Fuller circuit in Australia Middlesex Hospital.
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