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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1931
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NOTIC
FAITH OF SIR OLIVER | THE
LODGE.
Spiritualists and Their "Mistakes:"
DEATH AN INCIDENT.
Bir Oliver Lodge gave a remark-
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DEPARTURE OF THE HONG KONG TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.
JAZZ
New Modern Music
Disliked.
か
-FAILURE OF TALKIES.
Paria, Sept. 21.
able outline of his faith in lite after. There no doubt that the advent, death in an address at the David of the talkies caused a widespread |
in up
popular music Thomas Memorial Church, Bristol, shake In connection with the meeting of standards. And the concensus, of the British Association.
critical opinion seems to indicate
These are," he said, "the gon-that the change is for the better. eral conclusions to which I have Two men skilled in their lines; beer led by the facts known to us. that Is, Jack Yellin, who has been "Earth-life appears to be anthrough the fire of Broadway, and and Rene Bizet, the music of Journal, eplode of considerable importance survived, M merly Manager of aur Tien- in the history, of a soul, and in have attacked the problem in the
tsin
R. CHU CHONG-LING, for
Office will as from 18ning of an individual existence or Parisian press, and both have con- November, 1930, be the Manager personality. Certainly the indivi-verged on the oao idea that music! of our Hong Kong Office.
dual continues thereafter, and car-standards are improving and that HEALTH SERVICE
ries with him' his power, his the tin pan, rattle and rat-trup tunca invented by thieving and INTELLIGENCE BUREAU. memory, and his affection.
semi-thieving geniuses, are- dying SIOW CHOON-LENG,
The Dominant World.
out. "The process of growth con- Jack Yellin, author of Buch "cul- Hong Kong, 1st November, 1930.tinues, apparently without limit, tural novelties as "Hard Hearted and so long as his friends continue Hannah," "Ain't She Sweet," and their struggle with a material or "Happy Days are Here Again!" ganism he is able to help them, and etc., said in an interview that! occasionally under certain conditions American music, menaced by the) communicate with them.
Director.
MR. GERARD'S FANTASY:
59 Men Who Rule the
United States.
men
demonstrative.
talkies, is now reviving. from. the "Already science is discovering effects of the assault. He says that all activity, all energy, all talkies are falling into disfavour spontaneity, is to be traced to the generally and that Hollywood pro- properties possessed by what we call ducers admit their fallure in the empty space and that the matter muafcal field, that they are confla that appeals to our senses is a coming themselves strictly to talk and Mr. James W. Gerard, the for-paratively trivial interruption of its are thinking seriously of going mer United States Ambassador to] Germany, has issued a list of "59 continuity, with a function purely back to the "allent" drams.
Mr. Yellin observes, "The mis- who rule the Unit-1
"The real fact is that we are intake made by producers was in 36- ed States, The
he men
the midst of a spiritual world, that auming that the world was full of names, Mr. Gerard says, could it doruinates the material."
Al Jolsons and Maurice Chevaliers "make Britain the financial giantį
Of spiritualists, Sir Oliver said:
who are capable of making bad América now is,"
"They are not hampered either by songs sound good in spite of poor The list is composed exclusively the scientific or the religious tradi mechanical reproduction and of financlers, business men and tion, they feel free to travel clumsy direction. cwners and directors of newspaper whithersoever the facts lead them. Bad Songs Badly Sung. enterprises and film concerns. Some of them accordingly are un "Movie producers, swollen with The only men in it who could be balanced and make mistakes, and on success, thought they knew all described as politicians are Mr the whole they need curbing rather about the drama.
I saw musical Mellon, the Secretary of the
than encouraging."
pictures produced and directed by Treasury, Mr. John J. Raskol,
Already It had been discovered men who could not sing "Yankee chairman of the Democratic that mind could operate indepen Doodle" without going off key. National Committee, and Mr.
";
Samuel Insull, who has taken andently of brain, that a person was They flooded America with bad active part in the politics of not necessarily limited to the per- songs, badly sung and badly pro- Chicago and the Middle Westformance of the organs of his body, duced. Ever Al Jolson could not
that there existed Individuals who ever come the handicap. These three are business men to
Motion picture theatres which whom politics are almost inciden could send messages mentally, and tal. The men named on his list other individuals who could receive once fostered good music with
them.
great orchestras now grind, out rule,-according to Mr. Gerard,
The plonters did not stop there. synthetic music of the worst type. "by virtue of their ability. They They asserted that they were la With the movie. menace dying BRIDGE SCORES Ready Made LAMMERT BROS. themselves are too busy to hold touch with people who had lived and out there is hope for a revival of political office, but they determine who shall hold much office."
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ON THURSDAY, November 6, 1930, commencing at 5.16 p.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street..
A Collection of 2,500 Stamps. Comprising:
Mr. W. R. Hearst appears on the list, but not President Hoovel, DANCING CONTEST,
POPULAR FUNCTION AT SAVOY HOTEL.
The "C" Dancing Academy held the second of their dances in the Savoy Hotel on Saturday. A good crowd was present and dancing to the strains of the 'Shadowlan1! Orchestra" was kept up till a late hour.
who had departed this life..
the better popular music and semi- Whether that evidence amounted classic and standard songs which still a matter of had reached க high level in to proof was opinion. Scientific proof was America when the tin can deluge serious thing, not lightly to became along. The idea that takkles testified to; but the evidence was populariza a song is a fallacy. certainly very strong, and for prac Thus apenks Mr. Yellin who tical purposes had convinced some knows the evil at the root. of the pioneers of the fact that they Bizet, who has never known Broad- and their friends would survive, and way but whose ears have been as that death was an incident in life saulted by the almost barbaric rather than a termination of it.
BABOON HUNT.
SHOTS END A BID FOR LIBERTY.
Douglas, Sept. 4.
M
clatter of Broadway jazz interpret- ed by Alabama negroes during the last few years, ventures the pre- diction that the world is also get- ting sick of jazz, and it's the talkie and the radio that have brought about the change. M. Bizet avers Scarce and high values British A most popular innovation was
that the Viennese Waltz is coming Coloniala, Hong Kong, China, etc. the Fox Trot, Dalty, and Blues
back into vogue with a leap and a Terms: Cash on Delivery.
competitions. Many souples took On View from Tuesday, Novem the floor, and the judges had o Two savage Abyssinian baboons bound and that the best brand of difficult task in selecting prize- which escaped from a keeper at On-Harlem blues or the sophisticate ber 4, 1930.
LAMMERT BROS., winners. The judges were Miss chan provided visitors for sev arrangements of Paul Whiteman Auctioneers Lee, Mr. S. A. Asis, B.A., and Mr. eral hours with all the thrills of a or Ted. Lewis will no longer cast Hong Kong. November 1, 1930. Ward. 'The prizes
were kindly big game hunt before they were the spell over Europeans. They given by Mr. Stein K. Lee, Mrs, shot, one in a hotel bedroom and are waking up, M. Bizet says, while the radio insinuates this Wong and Mrs. Sy Soy-ying the other on a roof. pupils of the dancing academy. Mr. S. F. Yip proved a capable
XMAS SALE
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Prize-winners were:- 1-Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Tavares, 2 Mr. G. Rocha and Misa A. Bux.
3-Mr. Kwok Yik-on and Mrs. Woo.
The animals were being trane dreamy music into the brains, and ferred from one cage to another at quickens their pulses with music the show to which they belonged from masters such as Oscar Straus when they attacked the keeper, and Franz Lehar.
In four years. tho change has knocked him down and escaped
To-day Holiday-makers on the sea front taken place, Bizet says. were startled when they saw the American jazz has lost its' premier babooria pounding over rocks, leap- position, both In our public enter- ing from tree to tree and awarm-tainment places and the hearts of ing up to roofs.
our record collectors. It seems to One visitor enjoying a sun bath us now that the best orchestra In on the rocks was startled when a New York, relayed here on a black hairy apparition leaped, over him. rubber disk, cari only give us the This baboon climbed to the bal- music we are tired of." The critic cony of the Douglas Bay Hotel, concludes that music of the’Ameri- scampared into the Japanese can talkies is only slightly more The leading hairdressers of Lon- lounge, and scattered the 60 guests. popular, due to its novelty. And this appeil Is don are in Paris-deciding, with There was a cry, "Close all win he believes even the assistance of their French col dows," "and the intrader walked morely transitory. United. Press. leagues, the new ways in which into the bar, where lay Jim, the women are to be encouraged to manageroes's retriever..
DOOM OF ETON CROP
;
HAIR TO BE LONGER AND CURLY.
dress their hair. And here are! some of their secrets."
NO HATRED PLEA.
His Enemy. Jim recognised an enemy and st
MR. J. N. BASU REGRETS CONGRESS ABSENCE.
of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hairdressing chiefs will not once went for him, driving him up-
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have women's hair.short or cut at the nape of the neck. They will stairs. The baboon returned to the balcony and Jumped through on
"I am sorry no representative not have it long and dressed in open window into a bedroom. The the Congress is attending the Round bun ar a chignon. They insist that door was closed, so the ape made Table Conference," said Mr. J. N. it must be longer than it has been its way to the sloping roof of the Bsau, the Bengal Liberal leader, to for some years, and yet not nearly hotel
representative of the Statesman.
as long as it was years before that. The keeper tried to recapture als
One thing they are particularly charge, but could not obtain a foot "At a conference between Britain firm about. SAND hold and his attempt was made
Customers must have curts this autumn-any kind of curls from Nell Gwynn ringlets to kiss curls It la impossible to tell you ex actly how hair will be worn
and India, the Indian delegation cannot be complete without the Ins more dangerous by the fact that clusion of representatives of the the baboon was in an ugly mood and turned on him.
this Autumn yet! sold an assist
was away conferring." because
drama.
Congress. But the leaders of that organisation have chosen to refect Hundreds of people in the street the offer of an adjustment of differ- below breathlessly watched the ences by negotiation. It may he that there will be no ndiustment. ant to a master hairdresser who At length the baboon was corner-But the negotiations by themselves the now styles are not yet ready ad in the bedroom, where it still re will help to clear the atmosphere. for disclosure: You are too soobsisted all efforts to capture it, and, World atrifes have been settled
One
-hair will the keeper having failed to stun it by negotiation without any con- twill with an iron bar, it was shot. ditional precedent being fold down, fevel of The other baboon also fought so we should not forget that the world the savagely for liberty on the root of is advancing and that we should not Onchan Pavilion that it had to be give way to hatred and distrust Into rin dispatched with a bullet
when the alternative is a free and It is stated that had the baboons friendly discussion of mutual differ 500 to remained together they would have ances.
ba
to the the eyes almos
Then it will be
been seven more dangerous to Mr. Basu is shortly proceeding to
England' to attend the Conference.
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