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JOURNEY'S END.
Last Performance To-night.
FILM GLORY,
chat with one or two horsey friends, David went in search of his Jonathan, only to find the public stands absolutely vacant! Eventually Jonathan was dis- covered waiting to get in, and à touching and rather "moving" conversation ensued, with the "Jajtrney's End"? will finish; to wall between them. It all re-night at the Prince of Wales
glorious career on the 600th per
COUPLETS.
Full many a gem of purest ray
serene
After a run of fifteen months Is hiecoughed in our Volunteer
Canteen.
minds one of a touching poem of/Theatre, London. It will end its Earth has not anything to show
childhood days, attributed, one formance,
more fair
chair.
believes, to Mrs. Hemans, where With the exception of "Charley's Than a fat taipan in his private "they stood in their beautiful Aunt." more companies are play-
ing B. C. Sherriff's play all over Ah Love, could thou and I with garden, the children of high the world than any other produc- fate conspire degree." But, of course, in the tion. It has been acted by To make the Hong Kong dollar go present instance the poor puntere seventy-six companies in twenty- five languages and has taken eventually got in, so everything
more than £1,000,000. The play A chieftain to the Highlands ended up happily, even though holds the record for the number bound ecme of the more fortunate ones were afraid to go home in the dark,
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up higher.
of simultaneous performances. Did it on foot to save a pound.
vote.
Are now reserved for the cadet
dead
BELGIAN CRISIS. Sergeant Who 'Ignored.
Orders..
The play was turned down to- wards the end of 1928 by many The heights by great men rench- West End managers, who said
ed and kept that the public would never sup- Probably theport a war play without a woman After Many happiest man in the cast. The author, who at The curfew tolls the knell of part-
Years. the Colony last the time was a fire assurance As-
ing day. sessor earning a few pounds & Or would, if local Grundys had Sunday was the
week, aent the manuscript to a
their way. hardy veteran who set foot in the Sunday producing society, Here Colony once again, after an ab- it made little appeal, and only Breathes there man with soul so sence of several years. Deciding achieved production by a casting
After the private produc- Who never tried to swing the lead. on the impulse of the moment to tlon, Maurice Browne bought it, revisit the scene of former and within a few months had be- Come live with me and be my love triumphs, he prevalled upon an come one of the richest managers Said Philip Scott to Sharkey's old friend to accompany him to vast organisation with sumptuouaj
in the world. He now controls a glove.
-"Jox." that salubrious locality known to offices in the West End. the cognoscenti as Cat Street Mr. Sherriff's war play has Whilst idly poking about in the now Leen produced in Hollywood | ព a talking-film and has been interior of one of its gloomy (not acclaimed on both sides of the shady) shops, he was astounder Atlantic as the finest screen pro- to discover a watch which he had duction yet achieved.
The pro- missed under unsatisfactory cir-year-old ex-actor, after staging ducer, Mr. James Whale, the 33-
cumstances some time during the the play both in London and New
Brussels, May 7. series of addresses presented to
The Government is on the brink last decade. His friend, a wise York, went to Hollywood and of a grave criais over the case of Sir Cecil last February there was man, and something of a linguist, there produced it as the talkie Sergeant Leeuw of the Belgian no inkling of Kuomintang trou-explained the circumstances to
Army, who last year failed to obey bles, or rubber and tin slumps to the bewildered merchant, with the tractive quality of real and un- alleging that he failed to grasp the Mr. R. C. Sherriff has the atorders by his officer given in, French, mar the pleasantness of such an result that for a nominal sum the affected modesty.
as he showed meaning, because he was ignorant of eccasion. In Hong Kong, on the watch became the property of its when dining before the first pre- French.
rightful owner once again. This sentation of the "Journey's End" Overland China Mail. other hand, the addressors were reunion after many years
With the racial feeling between Bu talking film. Mr. Sherriff hardly the Flemish and French-speaking at much pains to enumerate all of affected the happy man that he mentioned the event the many needs of the Colony in arrived at his lodging some hours but just as the party were leav-heat, the case has excited great at- at dinner, sections of the populace at fever their address of welcome, and Sir afterward with three cash boxes, ing the restaurant he pointed to tention, culminating in a stormy
an oplum lay-out, a two-foot rule, his big cigar and eald, William, listening to the reading six strings of reputed ivory beads, do you think I ought to go in Common Deputy demanded that "I say. Parliamentary debate, at which a of the imposing list, may well and a slight stagger. Fortunate smoking this? have been pardoned for wishing the watch was still with him, himself back in the calmer back meanwhile,
his friend having taken care of it waters of Carcosa, even though in that case he would have had Mr. Egmont Hake and the Hypotheti- cal Fund to disturb his peace of mind.
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The name of Mr. Iu-hin Chau has been added to the List of Authorised Architects.
picture.
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It might look as the Government immediately quash
if I had something to do with it." the proceedings against Sergeant Nor was the remark meant just Leeuw, who is still awaiting trial by
a joke, though humorously a Court-Martial. spoken. As they approached the The Minister of War, M. Bro- Tivoll, Mr. Sherriff became en-queville, however, refused, declaring tranced with the electric display that the law under which the outside the theatre, culminating Flemish-speaking soldiers must be in "My word, look! Red letters." addressed by their superior in their This referred to his own name.own tongue was only promulgated which appeared, in not particular this year and was not retroactive, His Excellency the Governor has ly. big letters of that huc, just wherefore, justice must take its A "Dig", ut brother scribe appointed Mr. George William over the main entrance.
course since Leeuw's disobedience Sir Cecil! gets in this sly Anthony Tufton to be his Private Mr. Sherriff then drew himself occurred last year.. 3303.6
Secretary with effect from May 22. up and tried to make a suitably one at Sir Ceci!
The Flemish Deputies violently dignified entrance in company dissented, "affroncing their inten- Clementi: A contemporary com- . His Excellency the Governor has with the hero of the evening- tion to move a vote of censure menting upon Gubernatorial re-appointed Dr. Ralph Stockman | Mr. Jamies Whale-but those against the Cabinet,itate Musik un
Begble to be Assistant Medical serried rows of young women' who] Hong Kong, Saturday, May 21, 1930. that our present Governor seems May 9,
plies to addresses, makes a note officer of Health, with effect from wait outside theatres on first fats have announced their intenti
The Opposition, including Social- nights (and make the approach to, to vote solidly, against the Gover to take refuge in the scenery of
them impossible) had no eyes for ment in that division. STILL WATERS
At the expiration of three months Mr. Sherriff; they reserved their the country when he finds it dif-
from date the Ming Yuen Recreation criticlama for any other member ficult or undesirable to say any- Garden Wing Fat Company, Limited of the party.
A HOLIDAY IN JAPAN.
Apropos of
the thing too pointed in reply to his will, unless cause, is shown to the In the lounge Mr. Sherriff con- The advertisement of Hashimato Governors meeting
welcomes. It would be an in- contrary, be struck off the register, gratulated quite a dozen people Hotel in to-day's lasus of the of Sir
who were connected in some way China Mail recalls a most delight- Meet. Cecil Clementi and teresting pursuit for a member of of companies and be dissolved.
or other with the film, but he did ful holiday upeat there a few Sir William Peel in Some Civil Service to collect the
Owing to the lack of a quorum, not appear to expect any con- yenta ako. When we Bwung Malaya recently, "Topicist" offers various methods distinguished an extraordinary general meeting gratulations himself.
round the corner at the high end. some amusing observations in the Colonial Servants adopt of saying of the Hong Kong Development, "Journey's End" on the screen of the village and came face to Building and Savings Society, Ltd., at the Tivoli fulfilled all expecta- face with this hotel we were re- Singapore Free Press:-
nothing in a satisfactory manner. (in liquidation), was yesterday, tions of success. In the trans-minded of Peter Pan's house in "The thought of Sir William
afternoon adjourned until Friday plantation of this essentially Br the tree tops. Inside we found In the course of next. and Sir Cecil meeting amid the
tish thing to the strange spaces the host, Mr. Hashimoto, an More Tales his peregrinations +
of Hollywood little has been lost, obliging Peter, his sister a charm- fragrance of the magnolias at
of Woc. during the week. been pleased to recognise, provi- gained.
His Excellency the Governor has nothing cheapened, and much ing and assiduous Wendy, and tho Port Dickson should be inspiring,
representative sionally and pending instructions
others all good fairies. but The Topicist is afraid that of this paper had poured into his from the Secretary of State for the will have the long life of the about Ikao over moors, up gorges
It is to be hoped that the Alm were he to suggest the possible ear many tales of woe, all woven Colonies, Mr. George Bliss Lane as stage play, and that Mr. R. C or climbing mountains and lines of conversation he would be around the same motif.
a Vice-Consul for the United States Sherriff will reap the just reward Hashimoto Hotel is the best start- "Who of America in Hong Kong. treading on such personal grounds kept the public waiting outside
that his masterpiece so rightly de ing point. Inside the Hotel there that it is wisest to refrain. Ob- the entrance at the races last Lack of evidence up which a viously, however, the chance of
jury could riot possibly cou- week?" WBB the general vict, resulted in representing two Proconsuls of plaintive cry. To this our repre-boat man
& Chinese being discharged the Orient exchanging secrets of sentative, who has not attained by Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kow- the sunny sands in bathing suits Solomon, said that He didn't know slaughter. Asiatic rule whilst reclining on the years and wisdom of King loon Magistracy yesterday after- The 16th Troop's Second and by no means crowded.
noon, on an indictment of man- The Public Prosecutor and were they kept waiting stated that there was no further
is one that someone ought not to
血
misa either in picture or story."
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serves.
BOY SCOUTS,
Anniversary.
To-day is the second anniversary
There are ideal walks round
is a ceaseless flow of hot from and caletum water good to bathe in or to drink,
This is one of the best, chaap- cat and comfiest places we struck | in Japan, not too conventional
Ten Years Ago
From the "China. Mall,” May 24, 1920.)
To-day'a dollar ia: worth 4/
He was told it was his business to evidence than that given at previous of the formation of the 16th Hong. find out. So he tried to. The hearings. The victim, it will be The lively result of his sleuthing established a fight in which accused was
Kong (Catholic Cathedral) Troop. remembered, died many days after of Boy Scouts. There will be Our Treatment Topicist'
the fact that at 2 o'clock, when alleged to have struck him on the a celebration at 8.30 p.m., at the of Governors. sayeth in the the first bell went, the turnstiles bead, causing a wound for which the troop's headquarters in the R.C.
Singapore Free had not been opened to the public attention, preferring to treat it Fire Sing-song, and promises to be Empire Day: To the good citi-
vickim refused to receive surgical Mussion Building, 18, Caine Road. 43.
It will take the form of a Camp Some indignant punters even with native herbs.
Presa:
Those who have read the went so far, sa to assure him that
very enjoyable.
dozen every day should be Empire description of Sir William the public were not admitted until
Yesterday afternoon Mr. R. E. Representatives of other troops Day. May 24 is being celebrated Peel's arrival in Hong Kong and 2.15, what time the sun was in which a Chinese named Fung
Lindsell heard evidence in the case have been invited to take part in the as the birthday of a monarch we...
celebrations. in particular the terms of the shining, in all its
no longer pretend to revere. It splendour, and Yan is charged with the murder of address presented
was boomed for a permanent to him will terpors were becoming slightly a fokl named Tam Chap, at the Sul The valuation lists for the Colony celebration by an old man who is probably have formed the opinion
Fung Tobacco factory, 845 Queen's for the year 1980-1981 will be open a mere lime lighter. We happen that Sir William's hurried dash
frayed.
Road West, on April 28. The facts to inspection at the Treasury for to know him. If any one day to Port Dickson during his
of the case as outlined by Mr. T. twenty one days commencing on should be Empire Day, it should A pitiful story is
w be the birthday of the reigning Murphy, A.S.P. were similar to Thursday, May 29 Journey through Malaya most A Pitiful told of two bosom those already reported in the China
monarch. And it should not be have provided all too short
Story friends," one of Mail at the time of the occurrence. In a report to the Police last used for sectional propaganda. an opportunity for discus
Accused, who had been for some night, Fang Kuen, seaman on the The plain implication of Bishop whom has a mem alon with, Bit Cecil Clementi of bers' ficket He promised to meet ice would be terminated, sudde
time linder a delusion that his sor-Shamshulpo ferry launch Man Tal, Pozzoni's Empire Day address is stated that whilst the launch was on that the British people are at pre- the numerous problems that are fils more bourgeoisen nd who want amok with a chopper.
Its way to Hong Kong at 3.10 p.m., sent incapable of truth and awaiting solution... up in Hong was paying a humble dollar, In Chan war klied by thres wounds on the alarm of "men overboard was justice because their schools are Kong. Singy pore treats its new side, the course.
the neck and head, whilat another raised. The launch was immediato not left in the hands of parsons fold was also injured but survived. ly stopped and a search made in the and prieste: We deny that and
adjourned sa
slcinity, but no trace was found of resent it. Priestless is not neces- the nileged suicide."
Governors much more gently than scene, when after looking over The they do in Hong Kong, for in the the members' stand, and having a Monday. -
sarily godless.