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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929.
For carrying plkwash during pro- COUNCIL MATTERS hibited hours in Keclamation-street |
a Chinese woman was at the Kow- loon Magistracy' this morning fired! $2.
fifth who absented himself from Court had his bail of $3 estreated
To-day Siu Sau (29) was fined $12 with the option of two weeks' jail at
2 ORDINANCES PASSED ON
CRIMINAL LAW...
FINANCE VOTES APPROVED
COMEDY
SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY PRODUCED HERE
THE PLAY & THE PLAYERS
Four Chinese coolies were at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, fined $1 each by Mr. T. 8. Whyta- Smith for gambling in Nam Tau Two Bills were read a second: For most of us the fame of this Street. They played pai kon. A time (and approved clause by clause of Paula Tanqueray by two great play rests upon the interpretation in committee) and finally actresses, Mrs., Patrick Campbell third time in the Legislative Coup and Glades Cooper and the pass- cil, by a full attendance yesterday. ing of time which makes us sever- They thus become law as follows that most of us have been right: er critics of the drama, proves An Ordinance to amend the the play alone is Offences against the Person Ore immortal
not deserving dinance.
praise, Somerset Ar Ordinance to amend the law others of the best modern play- Maugham, Sean О'Салет and relating to Accessories to and wright's have taught us the value Abctors of Indictable Offences,
of economy in writing, of sugges- Another Bill was read a first time, tion, and above all the possibility The seventh general meeting of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities loquy,
namely, An Ordinance to amend of abolishing the aside, the soli the University Art Association will for Enforcement) Ordinance. 1921. (read aloud) and the rest of the the confidant, the letter be held on Tuesday at 8.30 p.m., in the Union Assembly Room when Mr.
Sailors' Home
absurd conventions which have Lee Pui-tong will deliver a lecture
held the British stage from the Supplementary votes entitled "The Development of Chin- $211,534 were approved by the Fin-Elizabethans.
tolailing time of Shakespeare and the ese Proso Fiction" Tea will be ance Committee of the Council, as dramatically and brilliantly, as Pinero can write served after the meeting, all inter-detailed in Wednesday's "China he does in parts of this play, but
the Kowloon Police Court for the theft of an opium pipe, which has since net been recovered. It was the property of the master of a. barber's shop at 362, Shanghai-] strest where accused was formerly an employee.
ested are welcome.
GAOL FOR GARDENER
-TWO MONTHS' HARD LABOUR FOR THEFT
SURGEON'S GUN GREASER
Mail." On the vote of $180,000, re- A lating to the Sailers' Home, the critical audience and must form a good deal of it irritates a Chairman Hen. Mr. W. T.
Southom C.M.G., Colonial Secret-who perform it.
very serious difficulty to those
ary) said in reply to the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes:-
In case honourable members do
Glaring instances are the long declamation of Cayley Drummond
not remember the facts of this to Frank Misquith in the first act.
Paula's trade in- case they go back for very the "aside" conversation between the third, and many years-I think I am right in Cayley and Aubrey Tanqueray at
The Chinese gardener of the Dioce. Saying that it was in 1923 and 1924 the window in the third act. Re- san Boys' School, Eomuntin, appear- that N agreement was reached
without permission.
gales
Com-
ed at the Kowloon Magistracy before between the Government and the member the superb economy and Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith. this morning, Trustees of the Sailors' Home, restraint of "The Sacred Home," charged with the theft of a gun grea-which was submitted to the Secre-a tragedy of even deeper passions ser. valued at $10, the property of tary of State, approved by him, and and compare it with the surfeit Surg. Leutenant Cresswell Munro, I believe approved by the then of sobbing with which Pinero re- R.N., attached to the R.A.F., Kei Tack; members of the Finance
us in Act. III. and tho and with trespassing on the Aerodrone mittee, by which the Government difference in art and technique is
Defendant entered a. plea of not at West Point for $800,000 and|
was to purchase the Sailors' Home at once apparent. crowded" a matter on which the guilty,
The Playera Colony can pride itself, or the Cuard 596 who was on duty there was The whole thing went into abey makes a tremendous demand on
Evidence given by Chinese Police the provision of a site in Kowloon,
The part of. Paula Tanqueray astounding realisation that it has to the affect that at 4 a.m. yesterday ance in 1925. Neither the Trustees any actress; the emotional strain isolation block, that the he arrested tho defendant who was or the Government were in alis unrelieved and yet monotony behind the No. 1 position to go on, and it was only and lack of variety in emotional Hangar of the Base. Defendant at six months or so ago that serious range would ruin it. Miss April tempted to ran away, but was held steps were taken to reopen nego- Vivian acted with animation and man Bryan-who heard the commotion, then asked if it stood by its promise, heights: in her anxiety to portray The Government was charm bat never reached the
no
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Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 20, 1929.
CIVIL HOSPITAL
crouching down
when the R.A.F. Sentry-Ai Crafts-tiations.
WATERSPOUT?
TWO TERRIFIC DOWNPOURS OF RAIN DRENCH PASSERS-BY
A MINUTE'S DURATION
at 11.30 o'clock
Isobel Pargiter's "Lady Orreyed." She was the essence.
but an outrageous scandal and a came on the scene, in time to see the and naturally it said "Yes". positive indication of indifference, culprit throw the gan greaser down
passion and tragedy she was in- a shallow ditch. He was accordingly
Seamen's Institute
clined to over-emphasis and one inefficiency, and apathy? When taken to the Guard Room, and later to the Government brings its early the Kowloon City Police Station, where tion to the Government that they The Trustees put a new sugges
caught momentary glimpses of a woman dangerously like Simone Victorian mentality to understand the incident was reported.
His Worship convicted the defendant men's Institutte at Wanchal and,
should amalgamate with the Sea- (of "Her Cardboard Lover"). that a Civil Hospital is the most on the first charge only and passed sex-instead of building a new place in mature, and torture such as she. Paula WIS young but not im- urgent need of the day, more tenced of two months hard labour.
Kowloon, should build a combined must have known gnaws the heart pressing even than building and
Institute on Praya East. The Kow. inwardly but does not easily find salary extensions, and minor
loon site, therefore, became useless relief in outward loss of control. civic matters, perhaps, we shall
back to the to them and they 'cffered to sell it She says "I have not cried for Government for years," but Miss Vivian's · Paula see the work commence of build-
$100,000. The Government agreed made one doubt that statement ing a new, adequate, arid sanitary
that their proposals were
sound and did not seem to be the woman hospital, equipped with every
and, with the Secretary of State who in despair released herself modern device. A very stringent Two terrific downpours of rain fell the approval of the Finance Com-ed extremely beautiful and in her and, I think if I remember tightly, from unbearable pain. She, look- quite suddenly stimulant will have to be adminis-morning in the vicinity of On Lantied on those lines.
this mittee as well, the scheme was set quieter parts acted with skill. tered to the Government, appar-street (near Wyndham-street) drenchment will pay $900,000 altogether. mirably clear; in fact, she speaks The Govern- Her voice and enunciation are ad- ently, such
as a large-scale ing a few of the unwary passers-by for which it will get the, present sometimes
At the sound of the falling rain,
unnecessarily epidemic (when people would die which literally came down in buckets Sailors' Home at West Point and though that effect may be due in loud. through lack of hospital accom- the offices near-by, to witness the Sailors" Home will be amalgamated ing.
full, a number of, people ran out of the site in Kowloon, and the part to the acoustics of the build- modation), for the appeal which strange sight. A few unfortunate folk with the Missions to Seamen and the Honourable Mr. E. R. Hallifax who happened to be walking along On the new place will be on the Praya.daughter whó
As Ellean Tanqueray, the directed in his speech on the Lan-street were drenched before even
from being, as New Police Station? the shelter of the pavement could be Budget for. 1928, has had no reached.
Paula scoffingly calls her "St. Hon. Dr. R. H. Ketewall-May 1 Ellean" learns through her own The political typhoon has effect. He said on that occasion The downpour ended as suddenly as ask to what use it is proposed to misery and Paula's the lesson of swept over the Colony, dealing that "expenditure for beginning duration. Before long a large crowd Point).
it began, being only of about a minute's put this site (of $200,000 at West tolerance and sympathy, Miss with devastating thoroughness the Government Civil Hospital at of inquisitive Chinese had collected and
Heather Angel was often very The Chairman: think the pre- good. Her. appearance was de- where its vehemence; was most least will, I expect, be asked in the discussed excitedly the unusual occur sent Idea is that a police station lightful and she was usually con- needed, and has let in the day- Estimates for 1930. Yet no pro-
rence, pointing upwards as they did so should be built for that part of vincing, but she too has a ten- A European passer by who happened Hong Kong on part of the site. deney to over-emphasis. The role light on dark corners. hitherto vision for the long-promised up to be walking up Wyndham-street, said Honourable members will probably is by no means an easy one and shrouded by the cobwebs of a to-date Hospital is contained in down in buckets-full It came down Church as well, and some day we credit. Brilliantly successful was excitedly. "I saw the water falling remember it includes St. Feter's this young actress filled it with drowsy officialdom. That cham- the Estimates for 1980.
suddenly in two separate rushes, and shall have to redeem our promise Miss pion of the public weal, Sir Henry The public in Hong Kong has ended as suddenly. But for the facts of $50,000 for the Church Pollock, has, with forensic ability, reason to be grateful to the office I would have been drenched."
that I doiged into the doorway of an audaciously unlocked sealed doors Senior Unofficial member for his. He described his experience ad and discovered sad lapses and endeavours to secure efficiency in anique, and said that he had never seen
such a remarkable sight before. irregularities. For it is an irre-Governmental Departments, and gularity in a public body when the the protection of the public THE CUNARD LINE most important of British Empire health, Criticism cannot be too ports has a hospital that would strong in these matters, and we gineering students from Cambridge anything will be done for some
During the long vacation, en-
The Chairman-I do not think disgrace a small provincial town trust that his words, which con University are to make round trips time. I will make a note of it." It is, to use Sir Henry's
tain bitterness and disgust for to New York and back in the en-
Excess Expenditure wurdis, hopelessly out of date." the sensitive mind, will succeed tingents are
gine rooms of Cunard liners Con A strong indictment to make on in probing the elephantine hide Berengaria," "Mauretanin," "Aqui Council in respect of expenditure Tanqueray and played it well.
sailing in the Two motions were adopted by the and difficult part one of the most vital of public, that girds the Governmental con- tania," and "Franconia," and the in excess of amounts already ap- He was rataral and restrained in institutions, yet it is made with science.".
other Cutarders until the end of proved in 1927 and 1928 under ceract and speech and made us un- September, During the voyage tain sub-heads in the Supply Bill of derstand how Paula could at once full allegiance to the facts. A
these temporary engineers will take the two years, respectively. All love him and be almost crazy new civil hospital is one of the Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hazell and watches in the ordinary course of items were under $20 with the ex-with boredom as his wife. Cayley Colony's most pressing needs, daughter arrived here today by the their duty, and will be treated inception of one, in connection with Drummond was pleasantly acted by
every respect like engineer officers which the Colonfal Secretary said Mr. John Manuel, while the less and, rather than see the inmates
in the ship. The scheme has been Honourable members may fer-er parts were in the capable suffer under conditions which are Mr. and Mrs. C. H Elkins, with Faculty of Engineering of Cam that one hem is more than Mr. Forbes Russell. mediaevel and unhealthy, it would their daughter, returned by the Blue bridge University, and the authori-viz., item 88, in the first motion. For the remaining performances the thaps, call my attention to the fact hands of Mr. Charles Bradley and hage, been well were the Salaries
Funnel steamer "Aeneas" to-day." ties of the Cunard Line, to provide of $756.78 for a one-ton motor two comedies Commission, and other non-vital
practical engineering experience lorry specially fitted as a Mobile Those who enjoy a The next change of programme at matters which claim both the the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, will
Wireless Station. This item
good laugh Government's time and finances, be "Love Me And The World A letter from Mr. K. G. appeared is the Cology's accounts work should not miss them.
should not in my opinion, have and good acting of this lighter to have been set aside until this Mine" starring Norman Kerry and Wahamaki, Consul-General for Fin at all, except as an advance. It essential question had been set-
dant, informs the Council that hav represents that portion of the cost tled. "The present Hospital goes A Chinese student was fined $1 at sumed charge of the Consulate contributed by the Corps funds of charge against the revenues of the
ing returned to Shanghai, he reof this motor torzy which was back to the early days of the
the Kowloon Magistracy to-day for General on September 3, Colony it is difficult to keep riding in Laicheskok-road without a The resignation of Mr. W. Pernment, but when the lorry came
the Volunteer Defence Corps. The Colony and therefore should receive a breach of the Traffic regulations by
rest of the cost was borne by Gov-the approval of this. Council. clean and is unhygienic according lighted lamp.
Lambe from the Salaries Commis to be paid for the whole aum was to modern standards.” This is Sir Henry's own tempered
sfen, consequent upon his impend-charged temporarily to the votes of Two women were bound over injing departure from Shanghai, has the Colony. The end of the firm description of another of the anal fonds of $50 each to keep been accepted by the Council with dal year, which falls on Decanter
the peace for six months by Mr.regret Colony's disgraces. Is it nothing T. S. Wayte Smith at the Kowloon
31 for all Goverment - counts, caught this portion of the that a public hospital be un Magistracy tale morning. They The resignation of Rev. T. Dar cost not yet repaid by the Volunteer hygienic; nothing that it cannot
were stone breakers and one accused lington from the Chinese Education Defence Corps, and although it was the other of stealing some of her Committee, consequent upon his de repaid in 1828, the auditors have be kept clean? Is the avowed chipped stones which led to a fight parture from Shanghai, has been drawn our attention to the fact that
own
9.5. "Aeneas."
Mary Phibin
fact that it is often "very over in Sung Yee-street,
arränged jointly between
for students.
Dr. Kolewall--Will you make a of delightfel and natural vulgarity note that Unofficial members be and brought a welcome breath of given an opportunity of studying honest, common life into the tense the scheme when it is formulated and rather morbid atmosphere of We should like to know how it's the play. Her looks, her move. proposed to utilise such an expen-ments, and her accent were excel- sive site.
lent; she is to be congratulated respectable "Mrs. Cortelyon," Miss on this performance. As the very Grace Ray was satisfying and made an admirable foll to Paula
Mr. Alec Alexander had a long as Aubrey
ecepted by the Council with regret, as it stands, it is in our books as a
are
announcedi
As recorded yesterday, the second reading of the Appropria- tion Bill for 1930 was moved. Four Undficia! members spoke (Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Hon. Mr. W. B. L.
and H. E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Shenton, Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga)
Clementi) announed that Council will sit again on Monday, when the Government spokesman will
reply to the Unofficials,