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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
AUTUMN FASHIONS.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
PLUS FOURS
AT
THE SMARTEST
TAILORS.
IN TOWN.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Tailor
84 Queen's Rd. C. Tel. 21417
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CURIOS AND ANTIQUES
JADE TREE, INC.
PENINSULA HOTEL ARCADE
Tel. 58081.
NEW SHIPMENT
OF
BEAUTIFUL LINGERIE
PYJAMAS
MANDARIN COATS EMBROIDERIES.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
let floor, No 74, Queen's Road,
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK, DENTIST
Successo! to
the late SIEN TING. 14, D'Aguller Street TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES,
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG
ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.
72. Queen's Road, Central. Tel. 23270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD,
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs.
Cali Flag "L Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FOREIGN GOODS STORE.
GREAT REDUCTION ON BHAVEWELL
A Marvellous Shaving Cream Usual $1.60 now 75 cents.
st YEE HING, (Tomey & Company)
(Late of 24, Pottinger Street)
62. Des Voeux Road C.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Tel 23010
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellern. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street, (opposite Queen's Theatre).
ON LOK
10, Wyndham St., 1st floor.
Entrance On Lan St. Telephone 22317.
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S
HAIR DRESSING BALOON.
Expert Barbers. Moderate Charges.
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An interesting book
of Cartoons depicting "Happenings on the China Const
PRICE $1.00.
Now on wals at
BREWERS
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW EXCELSION BOOK STORE.
and the Publishers
The Newspaper -Enterprise, Ltd. China Hall Ballding.
ailored
BROWN'S
FOR PERFECTION IN WINTER SUITS.
2nd 8. Rution Bldg., 7, Duddell St. Comp Gospel Hai). Tel. 23056.
Winter Suits Made to Order,
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Prices Within the Means of Everyone.
YEE SING
Gentlemen's Tailor, 12, Wellington St.
Tel. 21882.
First-Clan Tailoring With the Latest Sultings
For Winter Wear.
Cloth to Plasse You Cut to Perfection. Finish With Style. Leads to Satisfaction.
JHANDAD
MASTER TAILOR. 4. Peking Bldg.. Nathan Rd., Kowloon.
LADIES' TAILORS.
New Felt Hats Just Received From Paris,
New Colour Schemes For Autumn Dresses.
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CHEONG SHING Ladies' Tailor. Nathan Road, Kowloon
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central.
OPTICIANS.
GLASSES
STYLED FOR
YOUR FACE. The Sino American Optical Company,
83, Queen's Road C.
LAMP SHADES
BUY DIRECT FROM -
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SAVE YOUR MONEY:
THE B-B-C-COMPANY
"AGENT OF EXCHANGE? FOR
Chinese Arts and Products Silk Lamp Shades A Speciality
Ice House Street. Phone: 20665 WORK SHOP
Queen's Rd. Elit.
THE CHINA MAIL.
YOU CAN'T KILL THEin pantomime during Christmastide DISPUTE OVER RIGHT
PANTOMIME!
How He Draws £10,000 a Week Into His Shows.
WYLIE SEES RED.
This is the season
of the year
and the Now Year; and hd se timates that about
two hundred pantomimes aro put on, up
and down the country, every year.
"So I wouldn't say that panto- mime is exactly dead, or even dring --would you?" he remarks challeng-- ingly.
He will talk for un hour on pantomime. He is encyclopedic on the subject. What does the word
TO PRINT BIBLE
Firm Asked to Destroy Its Copies.
HIGH COURT MAY DECIDE.
The Daily Express understanda
Bear future
when my friend Julian Wylie ta ap mean? It means "A man who imi- that the High Court may be called! to sce red. Some one is bound to tates all." How old is it? It's as an to deelde in the get up and say that pantomime la dead, and that sets him off, writes William Pollock in the Sunday Ex press uf December 14.
Julian Wylle persists in pantomimes. There will ha five this year, to be exact-in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manches- ter, and Edinburgh. Which wil bring his total score of these pro- ductions up to ninety-four.
Next year he will no doubt do Rix pantomimes, and so be the first
JUAN
acoru 4 century
in
in
to pantomimes.
In Julian Wylie's office Shaftesbury-avenue there is hang- ing a photograph, of George Robey. Robey has written on it: "I al- ways feel sorry for poor Julian about three weeks before the pantomimes start."
on
to
But, bless you. "Poor Julian" likes it; he loves putting pantomimes and rushing all over the railway systems seeing them.
e in Edin "On Monday I shall burgh, on Tuesday in Birmingham, an Christmas night in Liverpool, in London on Boxing night, and I sha!! then catch the midnight train to Manchester," he tells you in that slow, resigned way of his. He has not had a Chrismas dinner at home for years.
And if you say, "Why do you do it?" he replies: "Oh, don't know. I suppose because 1 like pantomime."
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His brother. Lauri Wylie, the playwright, said to me the other day; "I dont know how Julian manages it all.
I believe he likes
to Scotland. going in trains don't know why he never seems to get tired. I hate going in traina." The fact of the matter is that Julian Wylie has a pantomime com- plex. It began when he was small boy in Southport (where he was put to be an accountant, but did not care about the job), and dreamed that one day he would pro- duce a pantomime at Drury Lane. He did last year.
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"I thought it was a success," he said to me, the last time I saw him. "Anynow, it played to $10,800 in one week, and to more than £9,000 in each of the following three weeks. But, somehow, they don't want me to do another Drury Lane pantomime this year, and so I am, doing one at the Dominion, which holds more peuple."
When Julian Wylie talks panto mime it is easy to understand why he persists in it and believes in it and gets rattled when he finds any one saying that it is "dead."
"Aladdin's" Fortune.
old as the ancient Greeks, and it questions affecting the right to came to this country from Italy in print and publish the Authorised the reign of James the Firat. Why Version of the Bible. docs Harlequin wear such queer garb? Well, all his "lozenges" signify something-the black patch the blue patch hope, the red patch| Is despair, the yellow patch hatred.
love.
A dispute has arisen on this mat- ler which is of presonal moment ta every person who purchases n gew Bible.
The point at issue is whether such a Bible, if not produced by one When Harlequin waves his wand of the, three "approved" printers, in his right hand it means a good in any way infringes their rights. action; when he waves it in his left
All manner of interests are in- those of the hand, a bad action. The pigtail volved, including curling over a clown's head signi- Crown, the owners of the copyright, fies defiance, and the reason why and of various religious socletics.
Three printers in England rave clowns speak in funny, thin voices! and are called "Joey" goes back to the right to issue the Authorised "Joey" Grimaldi, the father of Version of the Bible. They are the clowns. Julian knows it all by Cambridge University Press; the Oxford University Preas-who hold heart.
the privilege under royal charter=| and Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., the King's printers, who have the right under letters patent.
"Stick to the story" is his golden rule about pantomime. His argy ment is that nearly every panto mime is based on a fairy story or
Other firme have, however, print- n rhyme that most people heard in
Authorised the nursery and that if you played and published an pranks with it they will be disap- Bible. pointed
Recently Eyre and Spottiswoode, and annoyed: Foreign turns and men in modern trousers Ltd., have objected to the Bible are two things which he will not issued by John F. Shaw and Co., tolerate in his pantomimes, which Ltd., of Pilgrim Street, London, always begin with the words "Here we are again."
"Aladdin," is his favourite, partly because he can get ail Borta of "magical" tricks and stunts-which he loves-Into It, partly because it was the subject of the first panto- mime which he ever did with his late
"Must Be Withdrawn." Solicitors were instructed by the King's printers, and demanded that John Shaw and Co: should stop, the Bible they published.
The solicitors acting for Eyre and Spottiswoode wrote to the soll- citors for John Shaw and Co. in- | sisting that the "Shaw" Bible must be withdrawn.
partner, James W. Tate "Jimmy" Tate was married to Miss Clarice Mayne, and as her accom-
They asked that all reasonable panist, "That," was vastly popular steps should be taken to call in in variety. He died, of pneumonia,
copies of the Bible from circulation believe-through rushing about and to prevent any further sales; the country in his motor-car in bit-that all copies in the warehouse ter weather to see how various should be destroyed, and that the Wylic-Tate pantomimes were far-sheets and plates and the standing ing.
Julian Wylie has all pantomime type should be broken up.
There was a further request for cards indexed. When I was in his
an undertaking that John Shaw! office a few weeks ago a clerk was and Co. should not do anything in busily filling in printed postcards the future to infringe the royal let telling potential chorus girls when and where to report for auditions: ters patent for the printing of the Authorised Version of the Bible and when I went into his room
held by Eyre and Spottiswoode. found him poring over two huge sheets of ruled-off cardboard while Miss Dorothy Ward. turned over stacks of `songe.
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"What are you doing?" I naked. as he wrote something on one of these cardboard expanses.
Filling in the music chart," he said. "I've got every scene in every one of my pantomimes tabulated here, and I write in the names of the songs and the singers as we decide on them."
"Nowadays all the songs sound alike to me," remarked Miss Ward "When I started in this business we
It was pointed out in the letter that if this proposal for the destruc- tion, of the Bible was acceded to, then Eyre and Spottiswoode would waive any claim for damages, but if the request was not complied with, then Eyre and Spottiswoode reserved all rights of future action.
The point had been mentioned in previous correspondence that this question of the copyright of the Bible and the royal letters patent of Eyre and Spottiswoode might be raised in the House of Commons on a question.
The solicitors to Eyre and Spottiswoode answered this point
not be influenced in any way by this auggestion of House of Commons questions.
Eyre and Spottiswoode, said the
Ten years ago his "Aladdin” | had songs that people could remex played to between €64,000 und ber. Now we don't. Can you re-by saying that their clients would £65,000 in Afteen weeks member any of the songs you at the London Hippodrome. In heard in last year's pantomimes ?” Manchester one season a "Mother I cannot Goose" of bis took 239,000 in ten weeks. He has paid George Roboy a record pantomime safery of £650 a week, and opened to advance bookings of £25,000 on the strength of it evidence of what a box-office attraction Mr. Robey is.
Jullan Wylie employs about a thousand people, artists and others,
A Vancouver electrical supply solicitors in their letter, were not firm has been awarded a $100,000 prepared to make any arrangements contract to string 80 miles of power with John Shaw and Co. for the line on about 1,000 poles for a new publication of an Authorised Ver. power development project on Vansion of the Bible on payment of a couver Islands, says a report of the
royalty. Industrial Department of the Van- couver Board of Trade.
Château Lake Louise View on Lake
of the Most Beautiful Lakes
the margin of lake in the heart of the Casading Rockies, is altuated the of the most delightful the many modera hotala at the Canadian Padl way - Că.
"We maintain that the Bible we publish is in no way an infringe-i ment of copyright," said the man- ager of John Shaw and Co.
"It is an illustrated Bible, mainly for Sunday school use, and our firm has been issuing It for fifteen years. Now we are faced with this ultimatum to stop printing.
This problem of the copyright of the Bible extends to several roll- glous societies. The Religious Tract Society, who issue many thousands of Bibles, held a meeting of their committee to discuss the whole dißculty.
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The British and Foreign Bible Society, the largest publishera of Bibles in the world, are not affected by any legal argument, for with their English version of the Bible they publish, the printed sheets from one of the three "approved”, printers.
Difcalt Question.
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A curious point arises with re- gard to Scotland, for in that coun try William Collins, Sons, and Co. have the Crown sanction to print the Authorised Bible. The Collins printett Bible can be sold anywhere
England.
question of the copyright of "The qu the Bible is a difficult one," said the manager of the Bibla department of one of the university pressen. The copyright is vested in the Crown, and it seems to us that only the Crown could properly take action for any Infringement of the copyright.
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"If any alteration is made, by printers in the Authorised veraton qf the, Bible even if it is only a Comparatively small alteration then it is questionable whether the copyright has been infringed
Obylausir the problemas one which only the High Court, can properly settle."
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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SWATOW DRAWNWORK
Ready!
FOR THE SPRING.
A generous offering of Suits and Light Conta in the modes of the time-at reasonable prices.
MILLEN CO.
14. D'Agullar St. Tel. 22774.
SPECIALISTS IN BEAUTY.
ONLY
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MADAM KATIE'S BEAUTY PARLOUR. 81, Wing Lok Building, Kowloon.
Tel. 56841.
Tel. 56841.
JEWELLERY.
Lovely
JEWELS AND DIAMONDS
at.
ISACK & CO.
84, Queen's Road, Central
· AND
„JEWELRY. SINERVARE
WINDSOR BROS.
We have * large Selection of Jewel-
lerics suitable for all occasions.
A visit will convince you.
Established 1903,
58, Nathan Rd., Kowloon,
EUROPEAN
WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER AND ENGRAVER, Sale and Repairing of Gold and Silver. Gooda, Any kind of Watches, Chronometers. Chronographs, Repeaters, Speedometers, Typewriters and anything in the line of delitate mechanism. All orders executed promptly at moderate rates.
M. DOGDATSKY, No. GB, Nathan Rd, Kowloon
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
PHOTO
GRAPHS
DEVELOPING, PRINTING,
· ENLARGING
10 and 100 FRAMES.
LEUNG YIK KEE 12, Wyndham: 8t.
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Pyjama Suits and
Shawls.
SWATOW WENG.
LEE CO.
62, Nathan Rd., Kowloon,
For Swatow Goods
and Chinese Fancy
Goods.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL SOUTH CHINA IMP. & EXP. CO. 90, Nathan Rd K. Tel. 57757. Dealers in Hand-made Drawn-Work, Embds. & Curlos. Prices are moderate.
SHOES.
Footwear of High Quality. Footwear Within Your Means. Footwear That Has Long Life.
FAIR & COMPANY. 18, Wyndham Street. Tel.' 26204,
Pair
Black ** Brown Shoes from $6.00.
Black or Brown
Boots from $8.00.- Children's Boots or Shoes from $2,09.
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes, Repairing a specialty. WONG SIU WOON
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SILK STORE.
GREAT REMOVAL SALE
AT THE
TAJMAHAL SILK STORE
5, Wyndham St.
Tel. 26155.
SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC GOODS !
TOYS !
THE LIANG YOU COMPANY
70, Queen's Road C.
CRICKET "WISDEN" BATS, BALLS, STUMPS, LEG GUARDS, ETC. Inspection Cordially invited.
The Hong Kong Sporting Arms & Ammunition Store. 'Beaconsfield Arende,
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras, Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing. Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
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