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Hotel Strathcona ON A "STATE" VISIT!
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COME of the Shareholders of the VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Sighing Empresses Who A Plea for Modern
Hong Kong Real' and Trust Co., Ltd. have prepared a Requlat- tion to be mada to the Directors for convening a Meeting to pass certain Important Resolutions affecting, the Company,
Any shareholder desiring to see or sign the Requisition should apply! personally to the undersigned dur ing office hours when full parti culars will be gladly supplied.
Hong Kong Shareholders" Association.
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Ion. Secretary,
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10, Des Vœux Road. Hong Kong. 20 August, 1930.
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Are Bored Stiff,
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'SEEING LONDON,"
Fashions,
THE CHANGING EAST.
The great thing about Ameri A few months ago an important 'cans is that they have no self- | German trade investigation mis
consciousness.
sion spent several months in China Like Roman emperors, they have investigating the possibilities for ........................that sublime outlook that sees the an expansion of German indus- rest of the world as a show staged 'tries in this part of the world, their expense, and the women says the China Weekly Review. with their pretty painted faces, and the men with their linou plus- Tours, who are chocking off London tis month, have also something of the emperor's divine weariness, writes a Daily Express woman re- presentative.
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AMUSEMENT
NEWS
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Last week all of the local foreign newspapers published telegraphie reports from London stating that the British Government is shortly sending a Trade Mission to China for the purpose of "studying mar- kets" for British manufacturera, the mission to comprise both em- ployers and employees.
-Taking "a" mean advantage of the rest of London, I went for an American tour in a twenty-four- Canada also has announced an seater-parlour-car-limousine (to intention of sending a trade in- China the vulgar a char-a-bane) to have a vestigation delegation to look at it.
and last, but not least, the United Stated Senate has appointed a special committee for the purpose of investigating the whole ques- tion of Chinese-American trade re- lations and the bearing of the
It was a restful tour. The coach only stopped at one place, because American women wear pretty shoes and do not caro to walk.
Besides, to do the whole of Lon- Sino-American treaties on this pro- don in an hour and a half needs blem. concentration and no greater waste of time than a alight slowing down past Buckingham Palace.
China thus becomes the Mecca for industrialists from all parts of the world who are looking for mar-
I ant. between a well-preserved kets for their surplus output.
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man with pearl-grey plus-fours, Naturally their interests do not WILL WOMEN SMOKE
black-and-white striped golf stack-coincide,
for
while Australia
Ings, and a camera, and a young would like to see China develop a giri, with a quite adorable face wool-manufacturing business that under her make-up, the most pro- would absorb the surplus wool of
vocative clothes, and a queen's
boredom.
PIPES ?
that country, Great Britain, on the Tobacconists' President
Sees Signs of It.
other hand, would like to see The guide rode 'standing up and China develop a wool-manufactur- backwards, and instructed through ing business that would absorb the & megaphone.
surplus wool of that country. Trafalgar-square. "Statue of Great Britain, on the other hand,
Pipe Week in Adelaide had a George Washington on your left." would like to see China continue most beneficial effect, Mr. S. G. The pretty to purchase large quantities of Lawrence (president of the Retail says the megaphone. girl looks at Nelson through a Britain's surplus production of Tobacconists' Association) said. lorgnette and sighs. The prese. woollen cloth. ed man photographs one of the lions.
Machinery.
We go under the Admiralty Aside from the purchase of Arch and spin softly up the Mall. machinery these various high-
MEMORY OF THE BROWNINGS.
Tribute at Bagni Di Lucca.
Florence, July 16.
A tablet to the memory of Robert
Sales were alightly increased, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning has and in addition, a new interest in
been placed on the facade of the villa pipe-smoking was created among at Bagni di Lucca, where the two men who had previously smoked poets spent the summers of 1859 and
A slight application of brakes in-powered selling schemes directed only cigaretica. Not only was the dicates the Palace.
ment.
the
ITS USE SHOCKS A MAGISTRATE.
Some of Mrs. Browning's finest
mento."
AD
inscrip- verses
After her death in 1861, A tablet with tion saying that her had "forged between
Italy
at China do not accord with this week satisfactory to tobacconista, 1857. The tribute is due to mem- said Mr. Lawrence, but the bers of Baylor University, Waco, "Residence of the King and country's widely advertised plans cigarette smoker learnt that there Texas, which has what is believed Queen of England," sings the for the development of native in-
to be the largest collection of guide "situated at the junction of dustry and the consumption of were other and perhaps more
economical ways of smoking, several of the finest, thoroughfares native, instead of foreign goods.
Since women began smoking, he Browning works and of backs and in London."
However, in spite of the official ban "Kindly indicate the royal bed-on foreign goods, the chances are added, many men had left their articles relating to them that has chamber," calls a woman from the that the Chinese people will con-had to carry some with them to
pipes in favour
cigarettes. They yet been got together. The cure- mony of unveiling the tablet at back, who has been reading a tinue for many years to purchase offer their women friends, and guide-book account of Holyrood. a large proportion of air require~|
were forgot "Villa Tolomer" (now Villa Bas- gradually the pipes The guide obligingly selects a ments abroad, the on being teu. But the time was possibly not tiani) took place last week in the window near the roof, and the the inability of Chine manufac far distant when women too, would cameras click.
presence of a large gathering. turers to supply themand. The be smoking pipes Mr. Lawrence London passes in a series of difficulty with Chine manufac flashes to a megaphone accompani- turers is that they have been said. One indication of the pos- poetry belongs to the Italiar period asleep to tendencies in their own ability of an early change-over and was inspired by the "Elaorgi- was that women were now smoking Park-lane, Bond Street, Chelsea country.
a heavler type of cigarette. For Embankment, the Albert Memorial
example,
modern all the beauties of the great Chinese young men and women
And then, as
SHAVIAN WORD. metropolis.
the have practically ceased to pur- old-fashioned heavy guide tells us, we come to the chase the "peace de resistance.”
silks and brocades of their fore- The pretty creatures in their fathers and turned to the modern long frocks (Americans take up a and more gaily coloured artifcia! QUEEN'S present Sue Carol in new fashion with far greater zest silks and woollens of the West.
London, July 14. Few Chinese young women wanti "The Big Party" The romance than we do), the young boys in
The word which Mr. Geo. Ber- knicker-bockers, to wear the heavy silks with nard Shaw put into the mouth of of a shop girl and her "boy peach-coloured friend," played against a varie and the dignified elderly men get standardized patterns that their Misa Dolittle in his play, Pygma-added a second small tablet to the On View from Friday, August [gated setting, ranges from a/down to do the Abbey. Only now mothers and grandmothers wore,lion, was mentioned in a case side of the house where the poetes
and as for the Chinese young men Marlborough Street on Saturday. Third Avenue tenement to an they are tired.
up," their inclinations turn toward the LAMMERT BROS. elaborate roof bungalow and a
It was the third hearing of Auctioneers gorgeously modernistic modiste's murmurs a girl in my ear. Well, more economical woollens of the charge and a cross summons. establishment, and further adorn-I'll say, 'Good old Sam'. Did you West and worse (from the stand-Thomas Harcourt Powell (23), of ed with delightful comedy and see the bit, Bernice, about him point of the Chinese manufac 'the Connaught Club, Seymour turer) they are turning toward Street, was charged with using in
"The shingling or even the shov- half a dozen of the season's catch-being rare?" iest songs-that, in a nutshell, is "Well, I will say the open air's foreign-style clothing in place of sulting words and behaviour outing of all the camels in the world
better than this. Why don't we the cumbersome long-gowns of side the Falladium on "The Big Party." A talkie film:
June, 18, would not produce anything like get back to the hotel?"
their ancestors.
and he had issued a cross-aum- enough hair for the belting sold "That may be a coronation chair,
No Compulsion.
mons for assault against one of under the designation of CENTRAL features William but I could scream with my feet."
I suddenly recognise a girl I had The Chinese Government may the Palladium attendants, Allen hair," said Mr. Justice Eve in the
Chancery Division. Powell and Richard Arlen in "The
For his offence Powell was fined Four Feathers." A war in which seen two months ago in Rome, pass laws galore and the Kuomin- Barnsley. the casualties were almost as catacombs on the Via Appia.
fainting after checking off the tang many issue daily manifestoes
against the tendencies toward 408., and on Saturday the summone large as. those of the world con- Which makes me wonder-what foreign style, clothing, but we against Barnsley was gone into. flict forms a thrilling background they do with themselves when they know of no way in which the During a disturbance in the bar,
at No: 19, Jordan Road (2nd Floor), Kowloon,
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in
"Johnson buried standing
for this Paramount alm. The Dervish Rebellion against the have seen it all,
And whether London looks as British in the Soudan
good to them as it looks friendly 1881 cost more than 6,000,000 to us... lives. A magnificent spectacle
I doubt it. throughout. & sound film.
MAJESTIC "Vanity" deals with a debutante reared to regard life as a careful matched pattern with certain standards by which Fall people may be judged.. Always
COAL STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA.
*
COST OF THE STOPPAGE.
Government can compel a shop- Powell and his friends were stated clerk to wear a long-gown while to have thrown a glass from the a glass roof. Either the verandah on to riding his bicycle. bicycle or long gown must be There was a scene, and Powell; given up and since the foreign alleged that Barnsley gave ́ ́him bicycle has become indispensable, & black eye. the long Chinese. gown must go,] In support of Powell's story In spite of any regulations that the evidence was given by a Government might issue against broker, Michael Hoare. the use of foreign-style clothing. admitted
Likewise, the picturesque Chin- language, and said it expressed ese costume can have no place in what he thought. the modern factory of whirring wheels and belts unless the wearer
stock-
Witness that he Used bad
"It Is Used In Books.". Invited by Mr. Mead (the magis-
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she has done the correct thing, Figures Indicative of the dis- but on the eve of her wedding she astrous results of the recent strike is willing to take a chance. on trate) to give the exact words, follows a mad impulse, believing of coal miners in Australia are now being sent to the hereafter through Houre replied: "I said twice. that no one will ever know. Un- available. The strike lasted 15 the agency of some cog-wheel or think, it is disgraceful."" pleasant results follow and months, involving about 11,000-men revolving shafting. China's salva- "Are you in the habit of sing Barbara learns the futility of who, it will be recalled, opposed a tion depends not on propagands expressions of that sort, you, vanity, finding that human nature reduction of wages by means of against foreign thiage, but in gentleman in an honourable pro-
fession?" asked Mr."Mepd. reacts according to environment. which the owners sought to bring learning to make them herself.
"No, but I did because the cir Even murder becomes under the price of coal from the un- The manufacturer of expansive standable to her. A silent film. economic level to which it had risen alike and brocades, Instead of try cumstances warranted it," retorted
The mines were reopened at the ing to compel the younger genera- Mr. Hoare. beginning of June, when the miners tions to wear their old-fashioned "Nothing warrants foul Jan- STAR features Esther Ralston accepted terms of settlement which designs, should wake up to modern guage from a gentleman," com-
they had twice previously refected. tendencies and produce in China mented Mr. Mead. and Raymond Hatton in In the Interval the wages lost by the the new patterns which Young "It is in a lot of books and a lot THE SUN CO., LTD. Fashions for Women a lavish the amounted to nearly Chinn-demands and which Young of plays," arged Mr. Hoare.
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photoplay of beautiful women and $8,000,000, and sustenance money by China is going to continue to wear What's that to do with it" de- sophisticated humour. Every means of dotes from the Govern- in spite of the official edictal Themanded Mr. Mead. Do you take type and style of women's wear ment and the Miners Federation pressure of Western industrialists your conduct from books and ing apparel is on show in this pic totalis, £1,886,000, to which must is bound to have a speeding-up in plays?" ture which had Faris, as its locale be added a considerable sum lost to fluence upon the modernization It was suggested that the in- Parla theoutyle centre of the the owners in overhead charges, process in China; hence China's cident arose out of a mistake, and world A Bilent. Alm,
The settlement has brought down main problem should be to put her was unintentional, and after a the price of inter-State coal by Bs. political and industrial house in conference Mr. Powell's solicitor 3d per ten, but coal for shipment order so as to be in a position to withdrew the summons, stating it overseas is expected to show a take advantage of the opportuni- was brought by Mr. Powell to
vindiente kis character? greater reduction
ties which are being offered!
WORLD presents The Legen dary Vixen," a Chinese drama,
golden Jink and England,” was placed by the Municipality of Florence on the facade of Casa Guldi, where she died. In 1916 when the two countries were again drawn very close to one another by motual suffering, the Florentines remembered Mrs. Browning, and
had looked out "from Casa Guidi windows by the church," with a quotation from the poem,
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