WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930.
SANITARY BOARD CHANGES.
M.O.H. Restored to Former Position.
NO OPINION, ALLOWED?
WIFE WHO WAS LOCKED OUT.
Lord Merrivale and Violent Husband.
In the Divorce Court recently
THE CHINA
MAIL.
WHAT IS A PUBLIC |ROUND THE CINEMAS
SCHOOL?
House of Lords Decide Vexed Question.
Wimbledon High School for Girls
'
MUSICAL EMOTION AT THE QUEEN'S.
CHILDREN OF PLEASURE.”
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN CHINA MAIL...
Entertainments. of the talkie-cum-revue type that is Today Queen's Theatre
"Children of Pleasure" now show. ing at the Queen's Theatre is a film
Lord Merrivale granted a decreo was held to be a "public school" in enjoying so much popularity at the "Children of Pleasure."
of judicial separation to Mrs. Jayce A letter from the Government
Mario Gairdner, living with her of the proposing the restoration
father nt fatherton Hall, Cannock, Medical Officer of Health to his Staffordshire, on the ground of the
as a member of cruelty of
her husband. Mr Former position the Sanitary Board in the place James Ian Charles Orr Gairdner of the Diretor of Medical and Ovington Square, London,
The suit Sanitary Services, was laid on the
was contested. table at the fortnightly meeting Gairdner, "who described himself of the Sanitary Board yesterday ns, baving a half-commission ac- afternoon. The letter was dated
count with a firm of stock-brokers, September 10, and was couched incenied the charge. the following terms
Mr.
a
moment,
But it must be said at
Today Central once that it is distinctly above the Fast Company." average, and, in fact, constitutes a
To-day-World genuinely enjoyable evening's enter-Fighting Love."
Lainment.
And, above
Theatre
Theatre,
To-day Star Theatry. Love Trap.”
To-day-Majestic Theatre; "The Last Command."?
Sports
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Home Mails. To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Negapatam (Antenor);. Out- ward for Europe via San Francisco and Europe via Siberia (Asama Mura); 8.30 a.m.
Meeting.
House of Lords judgment recently, The case before the Law Lords raised the question whether the
For one thing, we are spared some school, the property of the Girls' Public Day School Trust, Ltd., was a-publle school sons to entitle the of the more dubious features that company to make certain deductions have characterised ether films of this in computing profits and gains for description, and, further, are given income tax assessment purposes. the semblance of a plot, and some
Sir John Simon, who appeared really brilliantly staged ensembles. 8. for the company, made his first ap- One in particular, "Duat," "achieves pearance in a case since his return most striking efects.
all. we have a cast which makes it to the Bar,
Lord Hailsham, in giving judg-self articulate throughout, the nasal ment, said that it was a school which affliction that many patrons: dis- at all material dates was open to the ke being reduced to a pleasing Mr. and Mrs. Gairdner were, general public. A large proportion minimum.
The producers, one thinks, have
September 23-Extraordinary Sir-With reference to your married in November, 1923, at of its pupile were scholars from the letter No. 297/1929 of November 47, 1929, I any directed to inform Penkridge Parish Church, Stafford-public elementary schools, and, a been unfortunate in their choice of general meeting of the Dairy Farm, After a time they went to great proportion of its governing title, which may possibly be a little Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd., Ex- you that it is now proposed to re-shire.
body was nominated by the local
more lurid than the picture deserves. change Bldg. (1st floor), Des Stare the Medical Officer of Health this former position as a men live in London at Nottingham Place education authority. The school A. A. Herbert, in Funch, once made Voeux Road Central, 12 a.m.
Miscellaneous. ber of the Sanitary Board in place and Ovington Square. They had was largely maintained by public pitiful plen, "Don't take my boy You may safely to the talkies." Regutions prevented the mak take him to this, as the fun is quite
clean in the nursery. school conducted for private profit,
When it is said that the action but this school, in the view of the concerns the love affair of a pro- Board of Education, satisfied the re-minent young song writer with the mil- gulations in this respect.
daughter of the inevitable Ilonaire, what follows should be to the talkie But it is all done very neatly tyro. fairly obvious even and naturally, and the hero manages tu find vent for his emotion in song without appearing one whit ridi- in itself is an culous-which achievement of distinct merit.
of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services whose experience one child.
on the Board has now placed him
The wife alleged that her husband
money.
in a position to consider and put
thad been guilty of cruelty on manying of a Parliamentary grant to
forward the recommendations
which reference is made in my let ter of even number dated Novem- her 21, 1949.
The legislation necessary for effecting the change will be intru duced in due course."
from Was
occasions and that he need abusive anguage and threatened her. She left him on February 5 last.
Bruises and Marks.
Lord Merrivale, in giving Judg- ment, said there was nothing more lamentable than that people in the position of the parties should be Dr.fighting out in an action for judicial
PENANG CHANGES.
FORT CORNWALLIS CLEARANCE.
Mr. G, It. Sayer. the Chairman of the Board, said that there were two minutes by members on the subject. One
As passers by will have noticed, W. V. M. Koch, and the other separation the kind of questions
Hon. Mr. J. P. with which the court had been the buildings inside Fort Corn occupied. If there had been a mode wallis are in the process of de- In which he could have avoided molition-in pursuance of the plan giving judgment. in the caso he to make the space within the walls an open area whilst retaining the wall itself as a relic of a by-gone age.
Government officers who
wax from the Bragn.
Why Secrecy?
be
but if it was the desire of the Board he would conver the minute
to the notice of the Government No Change in Polley?
the
were
living in some of the Fort Build ings have long since shifted and Capt. Saunders and Capt. Moore, who were two of the last to leave, new quarters in have gone into Light. Street Ghaut.
corner of the existing
Was
September 22-Opening of New Riology Buildings, University, 5
P.m.
*September 29-Hong Kong Stock Exchange Settlement Day.
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All the parts are well taken, and, all in all, "Children of Pleasurs" should meet with approval from
AT THE 5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. It certainly pleased a all sides.
7 p.m.-European Programme big house last night.
Amongst other items, the News of H.M.V. and Victor Records Réels is up to its usual excellent selected and supplied by Messrs. Arthur Pryor's Band standard, whilst "Sunny Jim" has Moutric & Co. own. There is also a short sound
(20319). an interesting little scena all on his William Tell-Overture (Rossini), film of a typical jazz orchestra, with Marcheta. singers to match, which does not What'? I do, call for comment.
.
Comin' Thro' the Rye.
Marion Talley, Soprano (1148).
Dr. Koch, he said, had express would have done so. cd the hope that the reports of The. Wife had alleged that in the
would the D.M.S.S.
madeeailler part of her married life there known to the Beard.
were acts on the part of her hug The Hon. Mr. Braga indicated band which exceeded his right. There was evidence that in 1927 that he had no idea that the ap-she spoke to her brother, and the pointment of the D.M.S.S. was of brother had said that he saw some
Victor Salon Orchestra (19876). He very nasty bruises and marks on such a temporary #ature.
Minuet (Boccherin), thought the change was for the his sister's shoulder.
"THE DIVORCEE." It was said that on one occasion The site for the new P.R.C. club-
Sous Bois (Staub),
Victor Concert Orchestra better and a great deal was exin 1928 the wife was late in getting house
has at last been finally!
The so-called divorce problem has
(203836), the improvement and home after an evening's outing settled and, as a matter of fact, had many expositions at the hands pected in reform of sanitary matters. with relatives and friends, and that work has already been taken, in
Tot dramatists. and scenarists, but Was It a Dream?
Beautiful National Cavallers, Malo
Quartet (21510). Giving his reply to Dr. Koch, finding the house locked against hand. the Chairman said that he had her she had to seek her friend's Mr. Ham, the Municipal Pre-perhaps never before from the just seen the minute and he was hospitality.
sident, has all along been against amazing viewpoint of "The Divor- Evening Song (Schumann).
treas cee." Norma Shearer's new Metro-Traumeroi (Schumann),
Victor String Ensemble (19864). therefore unable to give a reply,
Mra. Gairdner also stated that in the catting of the shade May 1929 she saw Dr. Halewhite along the old Fort Road which Goldwyn-Mayer talking vehicle. and her solicitors, and showed marks matter has now been closed and, which will open on Friday at the Home Sweet Home, of serious violence-not involving! accordingly, a site was marked out Queen's Theatre.
Remaining distinctly humán, with danger to life but violence that a at the
Tweet-tweet, Replying to the Hon. Mr. Braga husband could not be allowed to use padang near the present club no tinge of the academic, the pic- Lift up my finger and I say
house: This site was more or less ture casts a new light on modern that the lost the Chairman said
further divorcée, and, incidentally, affords Laughing Marionette, on kls wife.
Jack Hylton and His Orch. settled but there Not Premeditated.
of the moat
(22067). minute seemed to suggest that
and
sug- Miss Shearer one the
the most there was a change in policy. Lord Merrivale sald he had to correspondence
On the Banks of Allan Water, That was clearly not
The Sweetest flower that blows, the case consider whether there were periods gestion came from Singapore that startling, as well as
Edon Thornton, Contralto In appointing the D.M.S.S., when the husband was carried out of the shade trees might be cut, the charming, roles of her career.
She plays the role of a woman
(E429), idea was that the Director might his own control by the strained re- padang extended as far as the Fort
club who, convinced of her husband's naw P.R.C.
Air on G String (Bach), have the opportunity of acquiringlations, and the conclusion he had Wall, and the
herself admits Londonderry Air (Grainger), first hand knowledge of the work-arrived at was that the husband was house be built up against the lapses into error,
| promiscuous living to meet him on
New Symphony Orchestra (2010). lag of the department so as to carried beyond his own control.
western wall of the Fort.
common ground. Follows the However, it would seem that the a amond the Public Health
The acts of which the evidence
and finally Burprising I Know of two bright Eyes
(Clutsam), Building Ordinance.
could be seen the next day or oven shade trees are to remain although] divorce,
a powerful
Now sleeps the Crimson Petal The Hon. Mr. Braga asked whe-
(Quilter),
Derek Oldham, Tenor (2870). ther the Chairman would permit days afterwards were not pre- the padang has been extended as denouement in which him to address the meeting on the meditated, but came about in the far as the Fort Wall and the site dramatic climax shows up divorce
manner which Mrs. Gairdner had de- previously marked out for the Club from a new sociological aspect.'
Chestor Morris plays opposite little Love, a Little Kiss, subject.
is now to be definitely built upon.
(20279). The scribed in the witness box.
new Penang Recreation Miss Shearer and gives an intensely Estrellita Victor Salon Orchestra Club building is to be ready in six human characterisation as the hus Rollin' Down the River,
Robert Montgomery and Mia Cara ....Lee Reisman and His
Orchestra (22483). Conrad. Nagel, as the divorcee's
If I had a talking picture of you, months and its approximate cost band.
lovers, play their roles with deft Sunnyside Side Up, is to be about $15,000-Ex.
Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders (22124). REVOLT IMMINENT.artistry. The intelligent direction of Robert Z. Leonard is apparent in every acne. Included in the sup- Cryin' for the Carolines, porting players, adequately cast in Have a little faith in me,
Waring's Pennsylvanians (22272). Interesting parts, are Zelda Sears,
8.80p.m. From the Studio Tyler Brooke, Mary Doran, Florencà Eldridga, Helene Millard. George Mr. C. Dudley Bartlett will give theath of the series of talks Irving, and Helen Johnson.
"Music find the All Brow" entitled "RIO RITA."
"Musical Realism." When Bebe Daniels dons her 9 p.m.-Weather Report, Local brilliant Spanish wedding dress at Time and Press.
In the event of the Public Band the opening of "Rio Rita" at the
Club being cancelled "as a result Central Theatre to-morrow, the Concert at the Kowloon Football "gomething old, something, now; something borrowed, and something of 'bad weather a Dance will be
given.
10.30 p.m.--Close Down.
and
The Chairman replied that he would rather the member did not,
without a motion.
Lord Merrivale
added that the
wife was justified in leaving the The Hon. Mr. Braga said that matrimonial home and he granted a he would suggest that the letter decree of judicial separation with should form the subject of dis- costs and the custody of the child.
cussion without the necessity of bringing a motion. Otherwise, he
did not see the sense
at all of RED STAIN ON SNOW.
referring the, letter to the Board,
because according to the routine!
of the Board the circularisation GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF ALPINE
went from one member to another
and he took it that only the Chair-
man read the Minutes. The whole
Board was dot aware of Dr. skaso Koch's Minute.
Why Circulate the Letter?
ing circulated at all.
The Chairman said that it was
The
TRAGEDY.
•
AFGHANISTAN THROUGH A
GERMAN'S EYES.
trother, the
Prime Minister
official stands
money in the country.
Mohame
much
technicolour.
Į
FRENCH FLIERS.
The German tutor of one of the cobs of the former King Amanul- lah recently described the internal anreet in Afghanistan.. He said that it was likely to culminate in a London, Aug. 24. "As the father of one of them revolution at any moment. Af The Chairman said that he him- self was absolutely unaware of it1 fervently pray that no researches ghanistan, he said, was really until
Sirdar prior to the will be made to violate the tomb of being ruled by King Nadir Khan's five minutes
these young people." meeting.
Thus the father of Miss Mary Hashim Khan, who is also his
blue will be seen in colour Irving movingly concluded a graphic This
For a large portion of Radio The Hon. Mr. Braga aald that account of the Alpine disaster in
Pictures all-talking, "all-musical ver- if the whole Board were not al-which Mr. Vincent O'Connor, junior of his time in ranking paci lowed to express an opinion on classics master at Eton, and his fic overtures to rebellious tribes, sion of the Ziegfeld hit fe in
complain, among other Auch an important subject he did fances, Mies Mary Irving, daughter which
they have
Paris, Sept. 4. The brilliant colours of the tropics, not see any use of the letter be of Mr. R. L. G. Irving, of Winches-grovances that
not received the concessions
Mexican Costumes, palm trees, the Public excitement caused by the ter College, lust their lives.
colours of a sunset on the Rio successful conclusion of the first The party consisted of Mr. which, they allege, were pro- rather dimcult for him to answer irving, his daughter and two sons, mised them by aiding King Grande, and the wealth of shades direct, Paris-New York flight by Nadir Kharf to Recure the anything in the letter.
Mr. O'Connor and three others, member was surprised at the sub-
They started at four o'clock in the throne, The Afghan Army In and tones in the costumes of the two Frenchmen was further m **** that according to reports from Bitution of the M.O.H. for the morning and reached the south-west described as being weak and inex large cast all are seen in their tensified when it was announced "Miss Daniels was especially en New York Mafor Caste intonds to D.M.S.S. but the actual situation dge of Pointe de Leveque at 10 porlenced, and there is said to be natural, colours.
thusiastic over the opportunity to fly round the world in the North- was quito flain.
The Hon. Mr. Braga, said that
There they split into two teams, he happened to have known some- thing more than what was condone comprising Mr. Irving, his sons The squire was playing cricket ke colour requences in her first South direction thus overlying tained in the letter to the Board and one lady and the second under for the village eleven. It was all-talking picture. Not only with Poles Further details .za- breezy day, and the fast bowler, the fans have a chance to hear her yarding this schemo are still un
voice, but for the first time the knownTransocean-Kuomin with, the wind behind him was beautiful colouring of the exotic and his knowledge was that from Mr. O'Connor.
Both teams reached the summit.
Bebo. will be seen. the appointment of the D.M.S.S. Nobody saw the first movement almost unplayable. He sent down a the members might have expect that caused the accident, ball to the equire, which grazed one ed quite a lot but they were now, The climber Immediately in front of the balls, and carried it away... within a year, told, without any of Miss Irving and Mr. O'Connor But the bateman stayed in his reason, that the M.O.HI. was gold not feel the pull, but he saw her crense, and picking up the ball, re- ing to be restored to the Board and Mr. O'Connor, slipping. marked suggestively to the umpire: No member would object but sare-
The rope, which was an Alpine "Dashed windy to-day, George!", DECAD ly there must be some reason one under a year old, then broke The umpire replied dryiy why the D.M.S.S. was being re- and the victims were precipitated on Yesysir, it is; but I'm not, and placed
to the terrible rocks on the north you're out. The Chairman again drew at west face, striking rock bron rock tention to that part of the orl the 1,600-feat drop a red stain on ginal letter which he had already the snow slope leaving no doubt as quoted. At any rate, he continue their fate. WORK my pos ed. the conclusion was that the The party descended to the foot me. Director of Medical and Sanitary of che precipice of Pointe, dé Services, had completed bis ins Lesoque. but could and no trace quiry, &ng Agen of the Badler
The discussion then closed.
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