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"WARM" HOUSE
Surrey cricketer. Lord Rose COMEDY COMPANY bery's second son, the Hon. Neil Primrose, gave great promise of "THARK" PLAYED BEFORE A political distinction and, while! quite young, was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. But he, like! many other young men forging ahead in the realms of politics and literature, was a victim of the
War. 1
SPLENDID ACTING AGAIN
Banvard
P'RAPS
P'RAPS NOT!
Last evening the
An American scientist has dis- English Comedy Company repeat-covered that it is unlucky to be ed their successful production of born at sea. We have decided to Ben Travers farce, "Thark," avoid it in future!!
before a large, and appreciative,
but, nevertheless, extremely warm audience.
In a Bad Way-The sweet
During their last visit the indi- young thing who gave up flirting vidual, members of the cast were as it was affecting her heart! eulogised as a result of their
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A man is what his prayers, make of him, and we are praying every day and hour, whether we know it or not. When we cease to pray we cease to live. We are splendid acting in "Thark," and This Week's Prize Howler. serding out our desires continual last night's performance showed Quide pro Quod is another way ly, and the universe is so made them to be deserving of more of saying 20s. or 14 days! that it answers back along the praise still. since working under
difficulties regarding A man has volunteered to pay greater line of our demand. This is 2 spiritual law. I mean that the weather they more than upheld for all necessary equipment if his
the very
envious record of Mr. old school will include tennis universe, visible and invisible, to
among its games. He's willing to which man stands related is act-W. R. Banvard's Companies. ing upon him ceaselessly, in res-ed to make the play a great suc
Everyone in the company help-stand the racket. ponse to the force of the demand
he makes upon it. The Daily cess, and it must be seldom that A psychologist says that clever a Hong Kong audience has been chess players are very trust- Express (London).
kept in such roars of laughter for worthy people. Naturally they so long as they were last evening, are usually on the square. whilst the question of the Haunt- ed Room at Thark was being threshed out.
Three case of small-pox were notified yesterday, and one case of cerebro-spinal fever.
The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow left for Shanghai by the 3.9. "President McKinley" to-day.
A suggestion is made that ad- vertisements might be printed on pavements. Somebody is sure to put their foot down on it.
This evening an entirely new production, "Diversion" will be staged and, in spite of the fact that it will undoubtedly be "pass- A footballer says that he does For the theft of two zine slabs warm" in the theatre, patrons not like a game in which the op- will be well repaid for a slight posing team does not score. It's from the Kowloon Docks, a Chin-discomfort by the excellent enter a nil win that blows nobody any ese employee was fined $7 or 10 tainment they will be given. good. days' hard labour at the Kowloon Magistraży.
Theatre Royal Season
In view of their short playing To-morrow, the company will life. footballers should be careful The Navy League (Hong Kong transfer their activities for three with their earnings," says a Branch) advertise that the film nights to the Theatre Royal sports writer. Goalkeepers, of "Keep Watch" will be shown at where
will
course, are very keen savers. the Queen's Theatre on Empire "The Best People," "The Day (May 24) at 5 p.m.
Ringer" on Thursday. and the A gardener states that he brilliant farce. "A Cuckoo in the makes a practice of reading one Nest" on Friday.
they
present,
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Schoolmaster: "What is an altruist?"
Two Chinese were each fined $5 In many respects he was at the Kowloon Magistracy for "The Best People" comes from Thomas Hardy's books every "Danie Fortune's" favourite, as trespassing at the Hankow Bar- the Lyric Theatre, London, where year. A kind of Hardy annual.
racks, Shamshuipo, where the it ran for over 300 consecutive his chief ambitions were fulfilled. Somerset Light Infantry is sta performances. and was one of the He became Prime Minister and tioned.
most talked about plays of 1926. It is a thoroughly amusing piece he won the Derby; and besides these two enviable distinctions, stone at the military picket at among the most popular plays in For throwing a small piece of with a witty dialogue and is he, though a very wealthy man, Temple Street, Yaumati, a Chin-the company's repertoire. married the richest heiress of his ese, who was described as a coolie
Boy: "A man who always speaks the truth."
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Lady Friend: "I suppose you
Mrs. Jac. C.: "Yes, but his hair
"The Ringer," Edgar Wallace's carry a memento of some sort in. time, Hannah Rothschild. Pri-in the employment of the Hong super-thriller, is the story of the that locket of yours."
Mrs. Jac. C.: "Yes, it is a lock Kong Club, was fined $5 at the exploits of a lawyer who in pri- of my husband's hair." marily he was a litterateur of a Kowloon Magistracy.
vate life is a receiver of stolen
Lady Friend: "But your hus- very high rank and an orator of
property. His prosperity might hand is still alive."" ability. outstanding
hardly At the Kowloon Court Det-have continued had not his love worthy, to be ranked with Glad-inspector Fallon applied for an affair with the "Ringer's sister is gone,"
order for the confiscation of two brought him to an untimely end. stone or Bright, but superior to revolvers and eight rounds of am- “A Cuckoo' in the Nest" is the
Scene: Inside an omnibus very many of the other recognised munition which were found hid-story of a man's wife. someone orators of his day--Joseph Cham- den in some sand behind No. 41, else's wife, and a mother-in-law early in the morning. Small boy
enters. Yuen Chau-street, Shamshuipo. The play had a tremendous suc- berlain, Asquith, Harcourt or The application was granted.
Conductor: "Fares, please." cess at the Aldwych Theatre.
Small Boy: "Penny, and turn and London Grey. Lord Haldane. in his re-
most ever the cent memoirs, ranks Rosebery as the Kowloon Magistracy as a re-excellent from start to finish.
Eight Chinese were charged at hardened critics acclaimed it as the lights on, I want to have a
read." among the most outstanding mensult of the attempt now being Each of these pieces was play- of his time. What he lost in poli-made by the Railway authorities ed to capacity, audiences at the "My wife is always worrying tical prestige he amply made up to prevent people crossing the Star Theatre, and in view of about something!"
"Why what's the matter now?” for in literary distinction and railway lines. In discharging the this, and the fact that they are
"She is afraid whiskers will be men, the Magistrate (Mr. T. S. being plaved for the last time in oratorical pre-eminence. Before Whyte-Smith) remarked that as Hong Kong, full houses should be in style when our little boy grows (and even after, to a lesser ex-it was the first case of its kind, he the rule during the short season up, so that he won't have a chance Hong Kong, Tuesday May 21, 1929. tent) he had settled down to his thought that a caution would be which definitely cluses on Friday. to show the pretty little dimple
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"lonely furrow"-(his own ex-
Wong Chiu-kwong, office boy of pression of his political collapse) A GREAT VICTORIAN
the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., -he was in constant demand as a K.C., made a report to the Police Rosebery last evening that some time be- The news has just come to public speaker, and
even the tween 2.30 and 5.30 p.m., yester- hand of the death of the Earl of never failed to grace Rosebery. He was 82 years old most mosak occasion by his re-day a table fan worth $20 was stolen from Sir Henry's chambers The thief the last of the great markable ability as a popular in Prince's Building. and was
made a hole in the ceiling and Victorian statesmen. For many years he was à colleague of Mr.
valued by those most competent Gladstone (the "Grand Old Man" of Victorian politics) to judge of the quality of hie
orator.
As a writer he was highly hauled the fan up through the
jopening.
UNUSUAL FILM
"THE PORT OF MISSING GIRLS
TO-DAY AT QUEEN'S
Mrs. Johnson was in the kit- chen helping Nera, the cook, to prepare supper. It's an old say- ing," she remarked, "that too many cooks spoil the broth. What do you think?".
"Sure, m'm." Nora replied, "there's nothing to worry about there's only wan cook here."
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whom he succeeded in 1894 as literary criticism, and for manyBoard coolie at No. 3 Railway flaming youth and the restless roll, chicken salad on bread,
"Pitt,"
Divers reasons for the strange action of modern youth have been
Young Lady: "What kind of suggested by many people inter-sandwiches do you have?” Noted Alleged to have been concerned ested in the subject.
Soda Clerk: "Ham bread, ham in the shooting of a Sanitary novelists have written stories of roll, cheese on bread, cheese on Bridge, a Chinese was brought up sex. Peculiar conditions arising tongue roll, tongue on bread, egg leader of the Liberal Party. He years his volumes on
"Appreciations and Addresses," at the Kowloon Magistracy for out of the War have been blamed: salad, roll and bread, tomato on was a Scottish nobleman, an
It was stated then the mode of the modern bread, combination salad rolls, "Sir Robert Peel," "Napoleon-formal remand. aristocrat to his finger-tips, and
the coolie with the intention of Freakish solutions have been Young Lady: "All right; bring much more of an "Imperialist" the Last Phase," "Oliver Crom-that he and another man held up girls' attire; motor cars and jazz. hot dogs. than a "Liberal," though included well," "Lord Randolph Churchill," robbing him, and, in the struggle advanced by scientists and medi- me a dish of chocolate."
"Chatham His Early Life which ensued, a shot was fired, cal men, and enlarged thyroids. in the category of "Liberal-
arid Connections," "Miscellanies, and the coolie was injured.
The and the presence of piluitary The husband of a churchgoer Imperialists" with Asquith, Grey, Literary and Historical" will be case was remanded until to-mor- glands have been solemnly point- had set out on a sea voyage, and
of his
row.
RIVER STEAMERS
ed to as the cause of the unrest the wife wrote and requested the among the now throughly restless
sex
when ever,
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on Sunday the "Mr. Sparkes,
and other stalwarts of the Glad-
parson to conduct a prayer for stonian camp.
Rosebery's life-long held in high esteem. He was
his safety during the service. Prime Minister and Lord Pre-
Where do these countless girls What she intended to be read long regret was that by the
sident of Council in 1894-95, and CORRESPONDENCE go? Do they seek adventure? out was this: accident of birth he was never at various periods Lord Rector of
Tire of school? Resent discipline? "Mr. Sparkes, having gone to able to take part in the proceed-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aber-
Seek "carriers"? Become victims sea, his wife desires the prayers ings of the House of Commons. deen Universities. For years he
of forbidden love? The subject of the congregation on his be In his time to be Liberal Prime
[To the Editor of the "China Mail"] has become a world-wide problem. } half.” was Chairman of the London
Now comes a well-known mò- Imagine her confusion, how- Minister in the House of Lords.
Sir, Your excellent article on! County Council, and did excellent the conditions of West
tion picture producer, Walter E. River was doubtless a great honour, but work for that body. He had been Shipping published on the 18th Greene, who has made a study of narson read: from a leader's point of view it Lord-Lieutenant of Linlithgow inst, under the heading "Still the situation for several years having gone to see his wife, de- was not an enviable position. He and also of Midlothian, and was Waters." gives a fair account of with a view to dramatising the sires the prayers of the congre-
possibilities of this theme. Hegation on his behalf." became more than ever a lonely a well-known figure in Edinburgh, expect from this Colony.
what a "down and outer" is to
has produced a sensational photo- figure in politics, and soon with near
play, showing the perils and pit- which is one
The third-class compartment of This is a British port, and the falls of the modern flapper, with the express contained two passent- drew even from his most loyal best known estates, Dalmeny tionality visiting here regularly of Missing Girls," which is the at- boy who had got in by himself.
numerous vessels of different out preachment, called The Port gerea dear old lady and a little colleagues to plough his "Jonely His ancestral acres include 7,000 make it an important shipping traction at the Queen's Theatre furrow." Rosebery will never be in Linlithgowshire, 18,500 in Mid-base. One would therefore ex-
a tunnel, the compartment was remembered as a great states lothian, 6,500 in Buckingham-pect that a poor and homeless to-day and to-morrow.
in darkness, the old lady beard man, as he never was such. He shire, 2,000 in Norfolk, 500 in mariner would have no difficulty
the carriage door open and close, in getting a job on any of the was too vacillating, uncertain, too Kent, 170 in Kent and 3 in Suffolk. vessels touching this port.
seems to forget that our Prince is the train emerged, and the small independent, too aristocratic-at In consequence, he was easily one We have here the Harbour offi- Admiral Commander of the Mer-boy was nowhere to be seen! least to lead the Liberal Party. of the largest land-proprietors of cials and even a Marine Officers cantile Marine, and that for his She jumped to her feet and else, made for the communication cord, As head of the Conservatives he the country. As a politician Guild. They are all British and sake, if not for anythioud en but as she raised her hand she might have been much more in Rosebery's life was a tragedy, but for all he pleases. What do we ploy Britons instead of foreign saw a small foot peeping from
beneath the sent. his element. But the glamour of as a writer of critical acumen and care? This is a British Colonyers.
"You little wretch!" she the "Grand Old Man" seemed outstanding ability he was nearly dogs, plenty more will be coming pect anything in this Colony un- and if one Briton had gone to the I suppose one should never ex-
screamed. "You might have always to be upon him, and, as great as he was an orator of out and there is the fact that we less one belongs to the "select sent me in a fit!" though with the Liberals, he pre-eminence.
The small boy crawled out and can always get a foreigner to do crowd.” Who says that the
screwed his knuckles in his eyes. never was of them. His father His heir is his eldest son, our work for us. Why a Briton Britons are not democratic?
then work for us why a B
"Yes, mum," he sobbed, in was a Peer, his mother a Duchess Lord Dalmeny, who has never
Yours, etc.,
bitter disappointment; "bute It is surprising how British and early in life he himself suc- aspired either to politics or liter mariners are left to starve here
ONE MORE old lady I did it to last Monday
ceeded to a peerage.
did have a fit!!! ature. He is well known as a of all places, and yet every one' Hong Kong, May 20.
Suddenly the train plunged into