TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931.
IRELAND'S NIGHT.
HONG KONG 1951 A.D.
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**For I'dijt into the future, fur delivered in Erse and translated by as hunna eye could son."
An interpreter, a man from Galway who has a feud with the President --TENNYSON. The outstanding social event of
got on to the platform and, seiz- the 1950-51 winter season in Honging the spenker by the throat, ex- Kong was St. Patrick's Dance, claimed:
"Be Jibers! and if it
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Are you a True Green or a"aan- guinary Ulcer ?" was the bellowed demand of the Rerserker.
Terrified Press Man.
The terrified Press man managed to stutter that he did not belong to either party, that he came from Melbourne and was representing the China Echo, Then, Imagining that he might ingratiate himself with his captor, he added that in the great war over thirty years ago he had been attached to the Con- "The Common Dangera," exclaimed Mike. "Be. Korra i was in the Munster Fusiliers and I'll knock your block off any day."
naught Rangers.
Evidently he was as good as his
Owing to the large influx of Trish-wasn't for the priainee uv the holy word for the next thing the now
men to the Colony since 1930 or thereabouts, the Hong Kong St. Patrick's Society at present occu- ples the proud position formerly held by the now defunct St. An- drew's Society. In Hong Kong, just as in Glasgow, the Shamrork has ousted the Thistle. On Friday,
father findicating a priest) kunck yir ruddy head off."
I'd
The interrupter was hauled away and told by the President: "Bad seran to viz, Tim McNulty ye've fair spoiled the flow uy the rhetoric and I've elane forget what I wis going to say. But I'll settle with yiz afther the dance." That seem
Ho
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS. ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SIR CHARLES ELIOTS DEATH.
MEETING will be held This
A Afternoon in the Great Hall
nt 5.30.
of the University
All members of the University are in- Hongvited to attend. Members of the University Staff are requested to wear Academic Dress.
at
Social Functions. To-day-Tea Dance at Kong Hotel.
To-night--Dinner
Dances Hong Kong Hotel, and Hotel Cecil.
To-night-St. Patrick Society's Ball, Peninsula Hotel.
Friday - Yorkshire Dinner.
Entertainments.
~ Queen's To-day "High Society Blues."
To-day Central "Slightly Scarlet."
To-day - Majestic "Delightful Rogue."
To-day Star
very anti-Irish Press man remem- hers is waking up in hospital with five stitches in his temple and a thousand noises in his head. is still there. ile does not lack company, however, for in the game heroes suffering Ward there are from concussion
*Faust." and three others. still unconscious, while, it is un-
To-day-World
Society'a
W. W. HORNELL,
Vice-Chancellor. Hong Kong, March 17, 1931.
H.K.C.C. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
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Theatry
Theatre
to note that a Complete List' Theatre; of Matches fixed for the current week is on view in the Club Pavi- Theatre. Hon every MONDAY, and that they should make themselves ac- Theatre, quainted with the datos on which
Ties in the Handicap Events are now being arrange i.
March 17, the day dedicated to free to satisfy Tim who went away | derstood, over 100 others have been "Flying Swords Woman," (Chi- they are down to play,
quietly.
attended to for minor injuries. 1
nese picture). These numbers, though imposing,
Thursday--Concert, Helena May fall far short of thore of previous Institute. probably
ears, and this fact is causing no small concern in the ranks of the
land's saint, over five thousand members and guests managed some-
There was much din and hilar how or other to squezza themselves into the City Hall. It speaks volumesity in the Bar which was named for the old-time workmanship as
"Clonakilty"-a name well as for the quality of the nine suggested by the St. Andrew's teenth century bricks and mortar Dance Bar. "Auchtermuchty" of
such hallowed memory. that. in spite of the huge assem
"Clona- blage and the normal avoirdo-kitty" was got up to represent a Sligo shebeen an contained no- pois of most of the dancers, the antique edifier is still intact and "Gainess, but lack of variety was thing bust "Jamieson" and good for another fifty years.
The place was tastefully decorat-compensated for by the quality of ed with shamrock and lumps of the stuff awi the size of the peits smaller one in that of the North-
pent. On the first landing there
blaze an enormous St. Patrick's
Cress fit up by green electric globes and festooned with oranges, while aurmounting the whole was a life aize portrait of Oliver Cromwell, Above this painting were the words "Gone But Not Forgotten." "Bhoys" and "Colleens" dressed in native costume distributed programmes and helped the absent-minded and others to find their partners.
Carefully Searched. Before they entered the building members of the Soviety were care- fully searched, special attention being paid to trouser-legs, but in 'spite of the efforts of specialty trained lynx-eyed experts a ur- piaingly large number of shilles labs, blackthorns, overripe oranges.
Lady Camper: "This economi-
cal lamp won't burn."
Village Shopkeeper: "Well, could anything be more economical?"
A strong body of constables and
Sperial ejectors were stationed in
the Bar.
selves the Northern Lights, kept to The Ulsterman, who called them the smaller dance hall and the her, aclf-dibbed True Greens, of whom a large percentage seemed to hail from Liverpool and Glas- gow, monopolised the larger floor. Until midnight, things were com- paratively quiet, and not more than half a dozen or so had been removed on stretchers. Those, it
should be explained, were unfor Lunate who, having parlaken of more well than wisely Jamieson and finding their sense of direct tion a bit hazy on emerging from "Clonakilty," had stumbled on to The wrong floor.
The Real Fracas, The real fracas, which began as the clocks were striking midnight. originated in a simple manner. A Glasgow Irishman, endowed with more temerity than tact, entered the "Orange Hulk" and sang in a voice. which smacked of Clona kitty. "If you knock the "t" out of Ulster it will still be Ulcer to me." His reward was a broken hend. That was, the signal. Then, Shakespeare would say,
were let slip the dogs of war. The pent up feelings of both parties, so ad- mirably held in check for three hours, at last burst the barriers of restraint and where seeming mirth and jollity had abounded havoc and tumult reigned. Fast and furious grew the din as shil lelahs, blackthorns. stink-bombs, cayenne pepper, and mustard gas
as
Sports. See Diary on page 8.
Meetings.
Island To-morrow Green
Co., Exchange Building
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young Irelanders. These firebrands are shaking their wounded heads over what they consider the decad-Cement ence of the race
and muttering 11.30 am. that Ireland has lost her breed of To-morrow-Dairy Form Ice & ble "bhoys." Moreover there is Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 2, Lower rift in the True Green lute and Albert Rol, moan.
ERS will be held in the Office of Friday-Hong Kong Automo-
the Company, 2, Queen's Building, Lights. It is alleged by fight-bile Association, Jardine Matheson Hong Kong, on MONDAY, 30th
March, 1931. Ns of both parties that members of Board Room, 5.30 p.m.
at Nou, for con- the medical profession (all Hong German or Irish) did not display
March 30-Society of St. George,sideration of the Directors' Report Kong's European doctors are now Jardine Matheson's Board Room, and Statement of Accounts for the the same ardour as the lawyers, March 30-Hong Kong teachers, and laymen: They were Whampoa Deck Co., Ltd., 2, Queen's thinking of their pockets rather Building, noon.
than of the glory of the "ould" country.
Hauteur!
It is also rumoured that the men from Trinity College, (T.C.D'a.)
6.30 p.m.
&
Home Maila To-day-Inward from Europe vin Siberia (Athos II).
To-morrow--Outward for Europe
amount of hauteur and lukewarm-
Dublin via Siberia (Empress of Russia), showed 1 certain 10 a.m.
Lammerts Auction. Madan are put down ness, while the contingent from
To-morrow--At 8, Peak Mansion, The crowd of "Bhoys" from Canton
as snobs. household furniture, 10.30 am. covered themselves with glory and
Miscellaneous, March 23-St. Joseph's College had very heavy casualties--one prize distribution, 5 p.m. man has disappeared altogether. But, worst of all (from a True Green standpoint) is the defection of the men of Clare who, for some reason known only to themselves, on the way to attain universal popu- Five song numbers, most of them rerused to fight. It is said that the larity, were provided by Joseph sicht of these sulking hedgers McCarthy and James F. Hanley. greatly encouraged the Ulstermen and enabled the Northern Lights to carry off Intact the painting of Cromwell. As a result Clare hos declared parties.
"SLIGHTLY SCARLET." Always identified with dramatic, a vendetta against both serious roles, Evelyn Brent has reached a high point in her brilliant Such is the tale of the 1951 St. moving picture career in her latest Patrick's Dance in Hong Kong. fim, "Slightly Scarlet," the cur- Each side, whilst claiming the vic-rent feature in the Central Theatre. tory, loudly declares the other side in "Slightly Scarlet," as in the to have been the aggressor. As the smashing success, "Interference," China Echo's policy in such matters Miss Brent plays opposite Clive is always a neutral one we refrain Brook from making any comment.-China Echo, March 18, 1951.
Mina Brent has been called the
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Hong Kong. 17th March, 1931.
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drove away the timorous what time ROUND THE CINEMAS mantie melodrama. The story double y the light-hearted pugnacious Gael came into his Kingdom. Unfor-
2
-Passing Show, London.tunately It is impossible to obtain trustworthy account of the Homeric scrap that took place for all the reporters, with one excep-
and stink-bomba found their waytion, fled and the stories given by into the hall. Members of the Fire Brigade and St. Patrick Ambulance, Corps were in attendance.
different eye-witnesses and fight- ers agree so little that one is com- pletely in the dark.
With such Ginned sardine elbow- The single Press man who re- room a graceful exposition of the mained the hall of Pandemonium terpsichorean art was, of course, in hopes of making a scoop is now out of the question. But the crush wishing he had followed the In- did not seem to
have any glorious example of his discreet damping effect 0:1 the en-brethren. Determined to obtain thusiasm of the dancers, "copy" the intrepid (or, should we though it was observed that sor- say, ignorant) reporter wedged and eral of the more fastidious, chiefly dodged his way to where the bat T. C. D. men, went away early. tle raged fiercest. This was really a good thing as it found himself in the grip of a Suddenly he left more room for the energetic frenzied giant, one of whose eyes and took a certain amount of strain
Was rapidly closing and whose
off the creaking flour. The pro-dicky" was bespattered with blood. gramme (which, na is invariably the case at St. Patrick's Dance, was
not adhered to) was officially: onb set of lancers, two walizes, three one-stops, ten jiga, three reels, two hornpipes, two Tipperary Tangon, and a game of hurley.
The typi- cally Hibernian menu consisted of (1) Mashed Potatoes; (2) Potatoes In the Jackets: () Potatoes and Bacon; (4) Potatoes and Cabbage; (5) Ham and Cabbage (6) Irish Stow; (7) Potato fritters; (2) Pommes-de-terre; (9) Spuds a la Murphy; (10) Iced Potatoes; (11) Poteen. One had the option of sampling each dish aeparately in the usual way or of having the first ten all mixed in a sort of hash and' then washing.it down with number cloven. Dancing maniacs, in order to get as much of the floor as was possible, plumped for the ten-in- one method; opícurns selected their vianda daintily; but the majority plodded steadily through the ten courses with frequent sjuicings of number eleven.
The First Casualtien. It was during the second supper (there were five alttings) that the 'frat casualties occurred. Two men were removed and attended to by the ambulizicean Englishman. who made a disparaging reference to the glut of potatoes, and a Scots- man who asked for hangia. During the President's apeoch, which was
JANET GAYNOR IN "HIGH SOCIETY BLUES."
ville Road.
harmonica band to take with him on location for "Love in the Rough," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adaptation of the stage hit, "Spring Fever."
"queen of melodramas," and "Slightly Scarlet" is A tense, dramatic, highly adventurous, ro-
folds in handsome surroundings with one unusual twist after an~ other. Miss Brent, famous on the screen for the beauty of her clothes, wears in "Slightly Scarlet" many A MUSICAL HIT.
new creations which admirably set off her gorgeous, dark beauty. Janet Gaynor, appearing with Chnries Farreli in "High Society Brent lived
Born In Tampa, Florida, Miss
in Blues," Fox Movietone Musical kit, Brooklyn,
Syracuse and in the Queen's Theatre, plays the
N.Y., 'And worked In the new musical comedy film, sort of role she always has wanted Film studio at Fort Lee, N.J. Jordan play a ainging love scene extra in the World Robert Montgomery and Dorothy to in this production.
Then she went to Britain, and was out on the links. Reisner, to give "I've been an Orphan Annie' so taken back to the United States to it novel musical setting, wanted to often, that I'm glad of a chance of play in American moving pictures. have a caddy harmonein band in- being a wealthy society girl for a "Darkened change," Miss Gaynor said.
Rooms," recently re- stead of a regular orchestra. leased, was her first starring pic- The director took his company to William Compton. Hedda Hopper, Louise pany," "Why
Collier, sen., Joyce Lure. She was seen fn "Fast Com- the Norconian Club as a location
and Gregory Gaye also are in the Lucien Littlefield, Brandon Hurst woman Trap," and "The Last taking place on the golf course and Bring That Up?" | trip, the major portion of the action
cast.
Club-house grounds. David Butler, remembered for his production of "Sunny Side Up," directed.
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SAMANG JORDAN 11 LOVE IN THE AQUGH” Dorothy McNulty, Robert Montgomery and Dorothy. Jordan appearing in the golf-farce: "Love, in the Rough" showing on Thursday in the Queen's Theatre.
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Benny Rubin leads the comedy "LOVE IN THE ROUGH.” troupe in the new picture which will open on Thursday in the Queen's Golf caddies who play harmonicas Theatre, and the supporting cast were rounded up by Charles F. includes J. C. Nugent, Dorothy (Chuck) Reisner, who organised an McNulty, and Catherine Moylan,
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