TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930.
MOTHERING THE
CHORUS GIRL.
Making Life Worth-
While.
OFF STAGE SECRETS:
on
A
THE CHINA MAIL.
SUMMONS DELAY. SOCIALISED FARMS IN CHINA NEEDS MAGNA
·PROTEST BY MR. H.-G.· BRAYFIELD.
APPEAL AGAINST DECISION.
Before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Mr, T. H. G. Brayfield
car across the white lines.
mons on hlm.
11
RUSSIA.
CHARTA.
550,000 Acres with City Prestige of Government
Attached.
VISIT TO THE LARGEST
Boscow, Sept. 1.
SHADOWS BEFORE
at Stake.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
BOTHER
JOURNALIST'S ARREST.
secure the
A
Theatra,
Theatre
Theatre.
IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions. To-day--Tea Dance at "Hong Kong Hotel, 5 p.m.
To-day-Dinner Dances at Penin-
Į I suppose the time has long
When Dr. Sun Yat-sen formul- sula and Hong Kong Hotelė. since passed when the uninitiated
was summoned for causing an Of the three types of farming ated the famous "Three Peoule's thought of a chorus girl either as obstruction in Salisbury Road on now to be seen in the Soviet Union Principles," he had the welfare Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels. To-murrow-Dinner Dances at a clergyman's daughter who, not Getober 16 by Parking his motor-private, collective and State of the people at heart, says China seeing eye to eye, with her parents,
To-day-Easma Armistice Day left the old homestead. or as
Mr. Brayfield at the outset of edly the most remarkable.
farm-the fast-named is undoubt-Truth (Canten) in the course of Dinner, Hong Kong. Hotel
An articla entitled, "China Needs young adventuress, writes Mabel the case protested against the
Dec. 12 Hong Kong Automobile Chartn." The Great Association third annual dinner) Ellams Hope, in the Morning Post. summons being served on him at You travel across the vast step. Magna. These Ideas have gone the way of his office in Hong Kong instead of Pes of the Northern Caucasus, Leader did not ille in vain. But dance. many other preconceived notions at his home in Taipo, claiming that through huddled villages, along done since his death that would under a scorching sky. You pass there are things that have been
Entertainments. To-day Queen'd that encumbered our youthful out-according to regulations the sum-
the one look and literature.
mons ought to be left at the abode
mud street flanked by turn Dr. Sun in hig, coffin.
**The Kiss." cot. The revolution was n people's of the person summoned. He also dilapidated looking thatched It is hard tines
Today Central writers
Inges. of
This year's fine crop is revolution whose sole object was drew attention to a delay of romantic-a14
"Pointed Heels." distinct from.
days in the serving of the sundulating like seas of molten gold, selish northern warlords in order "Heroes of the Wild"; also "Just spread out to the very horizon, un-to overthrow the tyrannous and
To-day-World realistic-fiction; but quite a num- ber of chorus giria have adopted
You observe the peasants, bare to unite China, to The Magistrate over-ruled the footed and "raggedly clad, with blessings of peace, order, liberty their profession with the full con
Tony."
To-day objection, whereupon Mr. Brayfield
Star Theatre. vent and approval of their parents,
"The Silver Slave." and they steadily contemplate asked that, in view of the Magis.matted hair and dirt-stained faces. and happiness for the people."
Suddenly, out of the flat steppe years of hard work instead of an
The arrest and imprisonment of "The Wedding March."
To-day Majestic Theatre; alliance, with the peerage.
no attempt was made to provide arises a modern city, with paved Samuel Chang, a journalist, at Fostering Ambition.
November 15-Theatre parking place at the ferry cireus, streets and three-storey brick and Shanghai, assistant manager of Opening performance of the H.K. he be given leave to appeal for a concrete houses. Entering it you the Kuo Min News Agency has A.D.C. play "The Middle Watch," Whether it is a case of cause or effect, I do not profess to know; of the case in a higher and telegraph building a post roused intense interest and com-4.16. but quite a number of managers Court.
a moving ment in the foreign press both in foster this spirit and do all they.
The Magistrate decided to re-picture theatre-all the appur China and abroad. The world is can to help the ambitious chorus gister a conviction and imposed a tenances of town life.
neking us what has the National- girl rather than talk and think in fine of $10.
Automobiles and trucks, rattle ist revolution accomplished by terms of the survival of the
Mr. Brayfield repented that he over the cobblestones. The people way of securing individual free- fittest.
wished to appeal, whereupon Mr.in the centre, and in the seemingdom of Chinese citizens, when I have been in close contact Butters remarked: "Then, I think is endless surrounding fields, are they hear a Chinese journalist has revie management you will have to appeal in writing the brisk city-worker type, a com- been arrested by Chinese military that specialises }n
You have got a week before you plete contrast to the ordinary authorities and thrown into, pri- picked A chorus, They have d
to do it." couple of dozen young, fit, and beautiful girls of the educated type, and everything is done to make life worth while for them. No reason able woman could object to her daughter being there. provided the girl had talent-which is a more
with. મ
She: "What is the weather före- east for to-day? I want to go to town to buy a now, frock."
Hrute: Storm, thunder. hail, and possibly a tidal wave."
Aussie, Sydney.
or less superfluous qualification," for if she had not, she wouldn't be there very long!
trate's decision, and the fact that
.
LEPERS' MISSION.
CONCERT IN THE THEATRE
ROYAL TO-MORROW.
The following is the programme of a concert to be given "in the
peasant.
industrial
son without the prospect of a charga being brought against him and no trial is expected. Mr. Chang was arrested, according to the Shang-
Royal;
WHEN LIGHTNING
KILLS.
Dangerous in West Africa.
The remarkable thing about: lightning tragedies in this country Is that they are so few. Cen+
A Huge Farm, Yet this is not an town. It is only the headquarters hai Evening Post, by the Chinese of the world's largest farm-theiltary authorities at Lunghwa State-owned Gigant (Russian for three months ago for reasons not sidering that each summer brings Giant), a bread factory with a
at the time definitely stated
of heavy storms and that Britain is total population of 17,000.
his arrest. The offices of the so thickly populated and so closely Those engaged in planting and news agency are situated in the covered, with buildings, the marvel Theatre Royal to-morrow under reaping represent an entirely new International Settlement of Shang- is the lightning damage to human the patronage of H.E. the Gov-sort of peasant for Russia. They ernor and Lady Peel in aid of the work on a wage basis and they ed, was trapped in Chapel, Chin really considerable.
hal, while Mr. Chang, it is alleg. beings, beasts, and property is not Chinese Mission to Lepers, Hong enjoy some of the advantage of esc territory, and was placed under Elsewhere it is not so.
Take Kong Auxillary:
The Gigant covers 220.000 hec gaol since last June. The Even--West Africa-for instance. That arrest and lodged in the Langhwa "the White Man's Grave" country tarea (550,000 acres), which is ing. Post and Mercury representa-is a vast stretch of very thinly pec- about seven times as much as the tive, according to the same paper, pled land, with little in the way of largest farm in the United States, was able to obtain the Campbell farm in Montana. sources certain, information, tend buildings.
from official live stock, and less in the way of The administrators use
There are hundreds of (Wieninski)...Mrs. Balean plane to go from one part of their the mystery surrounding the ar- the lightning might strike without ing to clear un a good deal of thousands of square miles in which
1. Songs:-
(a) "Arioso de Benvenuto"
(Diaz),
(b)-"Pensee <l'Automne"
(Massenet) Mr. Li Cher-chi.
2. Violin Selo
"1st Polonaise Brilliante"
3. Song:
The Demon's Song" (H. Oliver),
Mr.-W. Houston Bailey 4. Chinese String Trint
"The Bead Curtain",-
3. Song:-
town life.
330-
man.
rest of the Chinese newspaper- hurting everybody's property, and It appeared that he had yet every year the lightning find out people incurred the displeasure of the manages there to and circulating articles for the to re National Government by writing and animals to kill and property
domain to the other.
This year. more than half its area, 113,000 hectares (280,000 Messrs. Fun In-tat, Luiment includes 220 tractora. 250 acres) was cultivated. Its equip Man-shing, Ma Ping-lit. combines, 450 tractor seeding "Songs My Mother Taught Me drills-7,000,000 roubles worth of favourable to the cause of Nannot remember one in which I did press which were not exactly In my years in that country I do (Dvorak)..Mrs. R. Sanger.machinery and 16,000,000 roubles 6. Dick Barty at the Plans.
of buildings and elevatora. In all, continued the same representative, ning-troubles men killed out in
king. Mr. Chang was regarded. not come closely in touch with light 7. Song:
"Red Rose of England"
(H, Oliver),
Mrs. Bruce Wilson, 10 Minutes Interval, 3. Cantonese Song:-
"The Flower Girl",
14.
Mrs. Lui Man-shing.
Band.
STEAMER'S MOVEMENTS
it yielded a harvest of 116,000 tons by the Nationalists as a propa- the open and indoors: beasts killed
of grain.
The Gigant, of course, is the largest of the State farms. In- deed, many economists consider it, too large to be managed profitably and in actual practice it is split into a series of units each under Its separate administration.
Obvious Advantages.
tion, using his position as an em- gandist for the, Northern Coall-in the pastures; houses fired in
the villages. ployee of a Nanking news agency; anti-National material. to facilitate the circulation
of
Reason for Arrest.
-When his alleged activities
I was called one afterthon, to- wards the close of a quite ordinary storm, to a native but Outside it lay seven bodies, and they had all been brought out of that one small hut, which had been "struck."-
Just at the end of my time in
a few yards away, and the lightning
And
Yes, lighting is serious in that part of the world.
Earning While Learning. To say that the girls are learn-
9. Song: Ing while they are earning is to go
"Up From Somerset" (Sanderson); out of one's way to induce the
Mr. W. Houston Baliey. cynle to remurk that this is only 10. A Yorkshire Philosopher,
The Verblud, another of the foo obvious in the case of the
Mr. W. J.. Geall, largest, yielded a crop of about were discovered by the Nanking West Africh another man and I sat average member of a beauty 11. Song:-
30,000 tons. From one extremity military he was taken chorus. I will therefore, put,the
"Awake" (H. G. Peliasler), to the other is a stretch of 86 tody s above stated.
into cus- in the bungalow smoking and matter more plainly by explaining 12. Violin Solo:-
Mrs. Bruce Wilson kilometres! These bread factories many weeks after, there were ap- the rain crashed down and there And for sipping and yarning, while outalde that every girl in the troupe, while "Caprice Viennois" (F. "Kreisler), have their own railways, daily prehensions
for his she is working or rehearsing, ią
Mrs. Halean, newspapers and schools.
personal was constant roaring and flashing. safety. 11 Song. given free three dancing, two sing-
The charge against Mr. The other State
The native butler farms- Chang would seem
came in and ing, and two elocution lessons per
"Mattinata" (Leoncavallo), Sovkhozes, in the Soviet political used his position to
that he had spoke quietly: "One of cook's wives week. She may not have a word Band Selection
Mra. R. Sanger, slang-are much smaller and some, paganda work in the interest of from the kitchen for his quarters do pre has just been killed. She started to say in the show for which she
Members of the A. & S.H. being newer, are not so well run. Yen-Feng combination. The Chin is engaged, but her ambition is
But thefr average yield, according ese military authorities in Shang- got her." Accompanist: Mr. W. P. Fleming. to official information, was twice hal, however, stimulated, and her chances of ultimate fame improved by the A. & S.H. Band (by kind permission cost per ton
Music supplied by Members of the as high as on private farms, the keep Mr. Chang under lock and of Audullahi, half-a-dozen of whose are determined to And always they were telling me elocution.
of Lt. Col. R. McLaine, M.C.).
far lower and the key for the duration of the pre- cattle had been killed; and of the Obviously, from the manage-
quality of the produce superior. ment's 'point of view, it is not a
sent civil war for reasons that fuckieas Mamadu, whose donkey had bad investment on the whole; but:
the government deems sufficient been killed; and of rich man Sin and there will be no trial accord-till, who had lost several camels to from the point of view of the girls, The B.L. 88. Talamba left Kobe
Furthermore, being under the ing to the same informant. It is the lightning that morning. it seems to be a kind of theatrical for this port on November 8, direct control of the Government, enld that they merely lock the of the firea. Utopia.
p.m., and is due, hore on Novem- the entire crop is almost auto journalist up for safe-keeping and that a well-soaked thatch roof weald You would not think Everybody who has sat and ber 19 at daylight.
matically available for feeding the have no intention of harming him. blaze under a tropic cloudburst, but watched dozena of exquisite girls
cities or for export, without the He is being well treated and has it does, hissing and steaming in Ale by, each one with marvellously See if their style is cramped 1" bothersome process of "collecting" plenty to eat and drink, tea the rain. well-cared-for hair, has thought: And I was turned loose among
It from the peasants. "Foor girl, I expect it costs some them, so to speak.
His wife is permitted to see himy The advantages from the Krem once a week. Daily papers are thing out of her slendor salary to I selected a Httle flower-like lia's viewpoint are so obvious that left at his cell and he is even keep those waves in place. A brunette, wearing the red pocket It is naturally concentrating on supplied with books and mage- guines goes nowhere when it comes on her jumper that denoted "front multiplication of this type of zines. This certainly, speaks well is much noisier or more vivid than
line," and asked her if she liked farm. Under the management whose being looked after. I particular-
for those responsible for his cue- those we sometimes see and hear Many Soviet leaders hope that a tody and detention.. methods I am describing, every ly selected her because she had large proportion of the collectivis
in this-country, but the quality of girl has her hair kept perfectly, been called qualified nuisance by ed area will eventually be remand for the abolition of extra. It must have vastly more vice to it In face of our persistent de- the lightning seems to be different. and her hands manicured free of the guy'nor for trying to re-organised cost. The trouble only begins if hearse with a bad heel and the soft basis, although there is consider reply to Great Britain, France, every storin that comes to London on this State-owned territoriality, what would be our than our home sort has. Otherwise, they do not present themselves for shoe) "treatment" regularly and woo.
able difference of opinion on the America. Japan and Italy, if their would wreak as much havoc as an At my query she paused, and wisdom of such a move. betide them if "the guy'nor" sees then suddenly jumped to "Like
nationale after the abolition of air raid did in those days when a hair out of place. Warm ferseys It?" she said,
The "factory" idea, thus far ap-extrality, are liable to be arrest London knew air raide. Capt. are provided for them to allp over Everything's so marvellous; every quickly extended to technical Mr. Chang! We are simply News.
"Why of course.plied chiefly to grain, is being ed and thrown into prison like F. J. Fitzpatrick in Evening their uniform practice-dresses so body helps us.". that they do not catch cold when I suppose the free lessons and etc. and to cattle raising The abolition of the unequal treaties. cultures such as cotton, flax, sugar, spoiling our own case for the they stop dancing; on tour, they hair-dressing, and all that, are at great tracts of land, some of It The world is pointing a finger
"CONSIGNEES" NOTICES are given board and lodgings, for tractive," I suggested, "but don't arable and some needing oply of acorn at China. Chinese mill which only a pound a week is de you flad that you are well-Irrigation, available to the Govern-tary authorities could arrest and Cracovia ore reminded to take
Consignees of cargo ex8. ducted from their salary, and restricted?” when in London canteen arrange-
ment in Siberia, Central Asia and Imprison at pleasure a Chinese delivery of their goods which will "How she asked, And what other sparesly populated sections newspaperman,, whereas they are be subject to rent after November ments are made so that they can could anybody say In the face of simplify the problem of creating powerless in the case of foreign 16. My h get good, and cheap lunches. Any thats why Bed
such enterprises, journalists protected by extrality. body who has tried to get board In short, I gathered that all the In fact, practically all new land The prestige of the National Gov- Balivier are reminded to take Consignees of cargo, ex RE and lodging in a provincial town girls thought themselves very opened up for agriculture is or ernment is at stake by Imprison- delivery of their goods which will knows how far a pound a week lucky to have been selected by the ganised along the line of the ing Mr. Chang without trial: We be subject to rent after November would go in the ordinary way management; they felt in their Sorkhotes.
Style Cramped?
own way that they had passed a The farmhands are proletarians should be Immediately tried be
ore of the candid opinion that he 17.
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