WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1931.
MISS BONDFIELD'S
EXPERIENCES.
Basis of Views on
Housework.
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WHEN SHE WAS WORKLESS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BREATHING SPACE. ROUND THE CINEMAS
FRENCH OPPOSITION TOO CONFIDENT.
M. HERRIOT'S INFLUENCE.
Paris, Dec. 19.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR BESSIE LOVE.
"GOOD NEWS."
You'll
you have
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS "ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL...
8 pm.
Theatre
Theatre
NEW “ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
all whom it may concern-
T1 ALEXANDER GAIRD
If any one attempts to contract fer me or to pledge my credit, re-, rerence should be made at once to my Solicitors, Mesers. Wilkinson & Griat, or to me if I am in port. Dated this 16th day of Febru- ary, 1931,
A. C. INGLIS,
Social Functiona.
INGLIS, Master of 3.9. "SEISTAN” To-day Tea Dance at Hong hereby give Notice that I hereby There are no tears to be shed Commenting on the Steeg Gov-for. Bessie Love In "Good News,"
Kong Hotel, 1.80 p.m.
expressly withdraw all and every crament's surprise victory in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's triumph of
To-day-Dinner Dances at Pen-Authority which I may at any When Margaret Bondfield was Chamber, the Press attributes the musical comedy transition, which insula and Repulse Bay Hotels, time have given to any person to appointed Minister of Labour
result chiefly to the over-confidence a showing in the Queen's Theatre.
leontract for me or in ray name or people said that she had been given the Opposition which as even
To-day-Chinese New Year Teas my agent or in any way pledge As far as can be remembered, the most dificult job in the Cabinet, the anti-Government papers can- Besalu has always had to cry in Party, Chinese Chamber of Com-my credit. and there were many prophecies didly admit, over-reached itself, her pictures. But here she is,
marce, 3 p.m. about the opposition she would meet playing nto M. Steeg's hands by gay and exuberant as a grasshop-
Entertainments, with from all sides. But it was not alienating the sympathies of some per-and just as lively.
To-day- Queen'a then foreseen that she would bring of the middle groups through un-laugh just as hard as
“Good News." such a storm about her head if, in unfair manoeuvres. Another factor cried with her
To-day Central fer she is a cute: her attempts to mitigate the severi-making for M. Steeg's initial suc- little clown with a bag of tricks
"Big Pond." ty of the problem of women's un- ceas was, In the Press opinion, Mall her own.
To-day Majestic Theatre: employment, she advised young Herriot's forceful speech pleading
"Paris". The picturisation of the famous women unabe to find work in the for a domestic truce and rallying musical success walks right away "Eagle of the Sea."
To-day -Star
Theatre. textile trades to consider the chances in domestic employment. Government's support. However, it tion. It is screened upon a lavish many wavering Deputies to the from the original stage produc- So greatly is this resented by ceris generally admitted that the Gov-scale with a cast that would have tain member of her own party that ernment will have a hard row to Broadway producer breathless. they even make a grievance of the hoc.
With Bessie heading the cast, fact that, in common with some of
Move To Escape Difficulties. there are featured such players as her women colleagues, she is trying
Paris, Dec. 20. Stanley Smith, Mary Lawlor, Gus to improve the conditions of domes
The Government'a resolationy, Lola Lane, Dorothy McNulty, tle service.
The Fortune-teller's Daughter," To-day-World Theatre.
(Chinese picture).
To-morrow Concert, Helena May Institute.
Home Mails To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Siberia (Peleus): Outward for
AIR MAILS.
ESTABLISHMENT OF NIGHT SERVICES URGED.
London. Dec. 17.
Those who know her are not sur-ending the Chamber into vacation Billy Taft, Cliff Edwards, Frank Europe via Siberia (Talyo Maru), Chamber of Commerce visited the
prised at her attitude. It is not a
was first announced to have been McGlynn, and Tom Jackson.
Miss Lawlor, it may be recall Ever since the end of the passed by the narrow majority of war, when thousands of wormen leste vote.
new one.
23.
the
are
8.30 a.m.
Sports
See Diary on pace 0.
Afeet'ng.
March 5-Annual meeting of K, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., Queen's Building, 11 cm.
Miscellaneous.
A deputation of the London
Peatmaster General to-day to dis. cuss the development of the air tail and especially, urged the ecessity of night air mail service. low average speed of the Indian Sir Robert McLean referred to the ir mail machines and said that it was due to passengers as well To-night-H.M.S. Cumberland, Chief Petty Officer's Dance in R. Egera were not yet able to travel as mails being carried, as passen-
by air at nights. He said that the Chamber believed that if steps
of the route to India
for night [Pying in both directions a three rnd-a-half days' schedule to Cal- rutta would be possible.
Theatre.
TONG SECRETS TO BE were taken to organise a section
REVEALED.
Promise Saves Murderer from the Chair.
It now turns out that jed, was the ingenue lead on the their jobs and were seeking in vain he tellers made a mistake in add-stage, and she repeats this per- for new ones, she has faced the fartg
Agures, the majori-formance with charm and voice on ty being really that domeatle work cannot be ignor
Shy, who created the eleven. As he screen.
the comedy lend on Broadway, does it the twelve members of ed, and she has actively "promoted
who Cabinet the training centres where girls
members of all over again in the filmisation vote as they with Miss Love as his partner. hitherto unused to housework, have the Chamber did not
A team! Dorothy been intensively trained in the cle had already left the House, the And what ments of the art.
Government Press crows loudly McNulty and Taft, who brought The writer retains a very lively that the Steg Cabinet goes into the "Varsity Drag" to public memory of An encounter with Miss vacation with a majority of about notice, put some new capers Into
it for the movie folk Bondfield when this point was being
The recess will be used, among From its very opening reel in discussed Jears ago. Knowing more about the unattractive side of ther things, to fill up the gaps in which the entire student body is a domestic worker's life than about the Government caused by the de- even prancing in the college gym- the straits in which thousands oftion of several Ministers just nasium, the picture is characteris- before the recent crucial vote ofed by fast action and youth buoy-
Sir Robert McLean also alluded the unemployed women had been
onfidence division.
ancy. There is not a lagging
to the delay in completing the air reduced, she expressed her surprise
The sudden adjournment of Par- moment and every scene has its
oute nernas India and beyond and that Miss landfield, who was then
one particular "gag"
New York, Jan. 6. orged Mr. Lees Smith to draw the working night and day on the pro-iament until January 19 amidst comedy.
Thomas Wong, who is halt attention of the Government of blem, should direct any of them to Pandemonium on Friday night, has bringing roars from the audience.
Edgar MacGregor, the original | Chinese and half Caucasian, to-india to the importance of agree- this path. She has never forgotten a loud echo in the Press, of which
and Nick Grinde day escaped the electric chair byraent in that regard. the vehemence, almost amounting to the Opposition papers insist that stage producer.
Mr. Les Smith ferocity, with which Miss Bondfeld the adjournment is a distinctly did an excellent job of the direc-giving a promise to reveal the in-
in reply said turned on her to say, "Haven't you high-handed action by the new tion, revealing a few new alants nermost secrets of the Tongs
er that a reply was awaited from a heart? Don't you understand Cabinet and prompted solely by the on camera ingenuity and mass ac- Chinese secret societies as they Endla to the suggestion to walve
exist in the United States.
the rule against sending insuffi. what it means to these women to wish to escape difficulties. The tion.
Wong traded his promise afterciently prepaid letters by air. He "WAY OUT WEST.”
he had been sentenced to death fo-rinphaalsed that.extensions of air murder. A member of the On services across India was solely Learning to operate a "crook- Leong Tong. Wong was convicted of for the Government of India over, it is declared that the add" roulette wheel is one of the the murder of a member of the Hup decide. The question of a foster service to India was primarily for demonstrates the new most difficult arts
in the world, Sing Tong.
Police in many American cities, the Air Council, but as far as the according to William Haines, who
WAB concerned all possible means to gain breath-took lessons in this form of leger such as San Francisco, Boston, Post Office ing space and prepare for handling demain for four days to qualify Chicago and New York, for many liability was much more important
for his opening scene in "Way years have been troubled from time than speed. Out West," his new talking comedy to time by the bitter and sometimes commencing Queen's Theatre.
"Did you bring the letters the defendant wrote to you?"
"No. I lent them to a girl friend to use in her case."
-Aussie, Sydney.
hunt week after week for work and never find a job?"
Personal Experiences.
pro-Government organs emphasiso
that the precedent for a prema ture adjournment was established by M. Tardieu this Summer. More-
"ournment
| Premier's determination to exhaust
the difficult situation next year.
Į
THE NEAR EAST.
GRECO-TURKISH TREATIES
RATIFIED.
to-morrow in the
bloody warfare 'which "breaks ort Peace pact between rival tongs. Haines first appears In the new after peace pact has been signed by the tong leaders only to be broken Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture as a coulette grafter in travelling when the rivalry grows too In-
to make the tense. boys lose and win at will by mani- Athens, Dec. 22.
carnival. He has
From Wong the police, hope obtain information which WAL
Parliament ratified the Greco-pulating the wheel just as profes-make it easier for them to deal Turkish Treaties of Friendship and sional gambling swindlers do. Commerce and Naval Restriction, "Like any other form of sleight of with the tongs and to prevent shoot- after an eloquent plea by M. Veni-band," stated the star recently, ings and stabbings by rival tong zelos. The members of the Cabinet the trick is extremely difficult to members. ̈‚' after the disposal of this import learn. One has to practise it for ant piece of work, handed in their hours until one suddenly acquires resignations to the Premier in the knack."
Miss Bondfield herself knows bet-jorder to allow him to proceed un- ter than
An actual rouletto wheel,
LONDON EXCHANGES
to
FC-
Paria
Rugby, Yesterday.
123.922
New York Brussels Genera Amsterdam
4.85 21/32
34.87
25.17
12.10/2
Milan.
12.80%
Berlin
Stockholm
20.44 18.15
Copenhagen
18.16
Oslo....
18.16
Vienna
34.57%
Prague
164
"fix-
Chiang Kai-Shek Takes Up Education Ministry.
Helsingfors Madrid
193
48.0
Lisbon
108.25
Athena
376
Bucharest
817
Rio
4 9/32
Buenos Aires
3 7/16
Montevideo
any other Minister of hampered to the reconstruction of e," was borrowed for the picture Labour, or indeed any other Cabinet the Cabinet. The Ministers of from the evidence room of the Minister, has ever had a chancs to Foreign Affairs, Finance and Com-Culver City Police, who had cap know what it means to an indepen-merce will retain the same port tured it in a raid. Heines was in- dent, self-respecting, and energetic follos. woman to be out of work.
Inder-
Blood her impatience when she told
me later of her own experiences, as
structed in its tricks by a former gambler.
The new picture is a comedy drama of the modern West, with
a girl during her first three months too often the girls living in were Haines as a carnival swindler who in London. She had been employed not protected. There was no com-turns cowboy, Lolla Hyams plays for several years in the drapery fort in those homes. The bedrooms the principal femining role, and trade in Brighton when she decided or dormitories
CH Edwards, were insufficiently Polly Moran, to try her luck in London She furnished, badly ventilated, and Francis X. Bushman, jun., Buddy brought with her excellent refer there were no baths. The working Roosevelt, and Vera Marsh are in ences and hopeful letters of intro-hours were longer than thoss of the cast. It is Fred Niblo's first duction, but there was a day when manual labourers, and the assist comedy production in seven years. she walked up and down the length ants had no legal right to a weekly
Breakfast Cheer: Dinner Doldrums,
ANOTHER PORTFOLIO.
Nanking, Jan. 7. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek visited the official quarters of the Ministry of Education this morning formally to take up the duties of. Acting Minister of Education.on let
WINTER COLDS IN
CHILDREN.
why does my child catch so many, colds?" fan question which many a worrlod mother asks her-
tlf during the winter months. She keeps him welf wrap ped up in woollens, feeds him well and watches him carefully:
Yet cold after cold comes along and he dreads each time that it might turn to something worse. Yet by ar the majority.'¡of, children's colds are preventable.
of Oxford Street, going into every half-holiday. They had few opp--MR. BALDWIN'S THREE STAGES. shop on both sides of the street, to tunities to make friends and were ask for work and finding rone. Bubjected to ondless Irritating re- "That was the way one had to ob- strictions and fines. They were tain work in those days when there lonely, though at the same time were no labour exchanges,” she said, the complete lack of privacy was "tramping the street, going into one of their tribulations. In fact shopa on purely speculative lines, the only important point in which 'or rushing off to some distant place they scored over domestic servants Mr. Baldwin, who is Lord Rector where there was said to be a was that they did not have to work of Glasgow University, had break- It has been 'definitely establish. vacancy, only to find on arrival that on Sunday. Margaret Bondfield fast with members of the Univer-ed that there is a germ which one or two hundred, other girls earned so little that it was. fivesity Union, whose new £70,000 ciuses colds, benca the infectious- ware after it too, and to learn pre-years after she left home before she building he afterwarde opened. · mots, and it is also known that it sently that the place had been filled, could afford to travel back to Like Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bald-1s in the unhealthy, congested The method of engaging us in those Somerset to see her mother. win feels at his best at breakfast, food tract that gorma find thefr days was as bad as at the docke. No wonder that, with the experi- "Whatever the cares of the day, Ideal breeding place.
Fro Searching for work was a very bit-enco she had gained in Brighton 1 always enjoy my breakfast," heTo keep your children free from ter thing.”
and in London shops, Miss Mar- told the students after the meal. colds this winter give them Baby's Ever since then, she said once, garet Bondfield was enthusiastic I come down to it every morn-Own Tablets occasionally. Given she had been working to get more when she heard about the Shop ing full of fresh hope, fresh faith in small doses, these pleasants freedom of choice for women than Assistants' Union, to which she was and cheer. By lunch-time. I have tasting little tablets are a gentle i they had in her young days., Sheto devote her energies for many lost a great deal of it, and by even simulant to the internal organs,| has always admitted that she would years. The work of organising ing 1 have very nearly given up all toning up the stomach and prevent- not, with wider choice, have chosen shop assistants In those days, when hope of this world or the next." Ing stagnation in the intestines.
Slightly increased doses quickly ré though she was interested in some multiple shope, but most of the He had no sympathy for, and leve. Infantile, Indigestion, con- aspects of the work she assistants were scattered among never wanted to meet, those people stipation, colic, and stomach and loathed serving behind the little business was so extraordin-, who did not wake till 11, did not bowel troubles generally. Baby & counter. Bal must of the young arily difficult that people said, it bogla, to take notice until lunch, Own Tallets comprise also, ideal- ** people of her generation, she could not be done, just as they say were at their brightest at dinner, ly balanced Ingredients which sald, felt strongly that it now that it is impossible to organ and naver wanted to go to bed quickly allay, fever,), and croup was their duty to earn their own ise domestic workers. But to-day But Mr. Baldwin began his pro During teething, they are invaly- living and hot ba a burden on their the Shop Assistants Union. Is an gramme the other day a disappoint-atle, essing, pains; instantly i; and parents. Any occupation that could acknowledged power, and as for ed man—at least his regretful this inducing medynd, *inafura, be honourably pursued was to be domestic workerswell, people who hosts thought 60.
2 eleep, although tiny "are" preferred to that, at kuow. Margaret Bendifold will sayÓn his arrival at Glasgow he teed to contato no narcotic druga Organising Shop, Amistails. that if she takes the matter in hand whispered to Mr R Minto the of any kind. They are mother a *** One of the pojute shen made in they will also. And how to furts, President of the Bolon, “Tell me, Ideal stand-by
the campaign, to secure better con- themselves intos, protective si brgan- is there haggin for breakfast?” and you
for shop assistants was that I loations Janchester Guardian. There was
Q-viat the
to be a chop assistant, and that, there were no mammoth stores or (Laughter)ord or f
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