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Hong Kong. Saturday, June 6, 1931.
Adversaria.
"Without fear, favour or malice."
I believe
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1931.
a stupendous procession has been ARNOLD BENNETT'S
arranged, showing "Queer ways
of earning a living." Give it the once-over and brighten up
ESTATE.
your ideas. Say, Grandma; give“ Old Wives' Tale" MS.
News in Brief.
May Not Be Sold.
"LIFE-STREAM OF TRADE."
Judge on Growth of Advertising.
NEW PROFESSION.
Mr. Justice MeCardie was the principal guest at the festival dinner of the National Advertis- Connaught Rooms, ing Benevolent Society at the
Society, he said that is title In submitting the toast of the was significant of several things. society which had sprung from a profound change the in the world conditions of com- including his merce.
nssets are
yourself a treat and come and see a real live bootlegger. You'l smile! Say, Pop and Momma, bring the kids to see some sights Mr. Arnold Bennett, the famous and tell the world. You'll laugh novelist, did not leave a large catate. Say, boys and girls, don't miss The forecasts of £100,000 or even the cuties of Chickerage and the £150,000 published recently are completely at variance with the 100 per cent. he-men.
You'll facts. shrick!"
The truth is that Mr. Arnold No wonder America takes re- Bennett left a comparatively small amount. His investments were very fuge in Prohibition!
limited, and it is understood that the requirements of the estate will leave very little over from them It was a when the will la proved.
The remaining household effects, manuscripts. By his will two- thirds of his estate, with tho ex vital importance of
"To-day," he proceeded, "the ception of certain manuscripts, willment is recognised on all hands. advertise- to Mrs. Marguerite Bennett. It has become one of the basic The speaker at the Rotary Club The remainder will go to Mrs. essentials of business success on Tuesday will be Mr. J. Douglas Dorothy Cheston Bennett and their both here and abroad. Butcher, M.I.E.E., his subject be-five-year-old daughter, Virginia.
Adver- tisement is the The value of the manucripts is of progressive trade.
life-stream ing "Electrielty."
difficult to assess. Undoubtedly the
It an- nouncés. It proclaims. It The name
will be much creates and broadens demand. It of Normati
Palmer "Old Wives Tale"
B.S. sought after by collectors, but the strengthens and develops the Poyntz Chamarethe, M.D., (Hong Kong) has been added to the price in such cases is usually deter source of supply.
mined by three or four men who not frequently achieve a mutual understanding. It is understood, of however, that the "Old Wives Tale"
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 75 degrees, The humidity was 61 at 10 am, and 73 at 4 p.m.
list of medical practitioners.
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go
most striking features of recent "I suppose that two of the
years have been: firstly, a new conception of the dignity- aye
the nobility of business; and, secondly, a new conception of the part to be played in domes- tic and world enterprise by wise and far-spread advertisement.
Important Duties. "The growth of advertisement has created a new vocation, a new progession, a new art. A fresh realm of activity has arisen with a vast body of workers and thinkers scattered in many places and vested with many difficult And so and important duties. this Society was founded in 1913, and it became registered in 1925 under the Friendly Society Acts. The rivulet of beneficence grew to a stream, and we trust that the stream will expand ere long to a broad river of help and bene fierce and kindness.
He mentioned that the Society gave help to those engaged in the advertising departments of the newspapers, on the staffs of those who advertise, and also to those engaged in the work of ad- vertising agencies, and to the widows and children.
The coxswain and a seaman the launch Texacoll, belonging to the manuscript may not be offered for Texas Oil Company, were dis-sale.
In view of the varying estimates charged by Mr. E. W. Hamilton atļ Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, of Mr. Arnold Bennett's large earn- after the hearing of a prosecutionings. It is stated that his earnings by the company for alleged theft off in certain years were as high as
£17,000. It must three gallons of petrol.
be explained, however, that this was when suc-1 cessful theatrical ventures augment- Kong Tin, a cook employed byjed the return from his books. that Mr. G. F. Taylor, at Green Island, During the last two or three years Bloated under the Traffic made a report to the Police to the his income is understood to have Motorists. Ordinances effect that whilst travelling in aaveraged £11,000, made up of royal- tramcar from the Central Market to ties and the retainer he received as of Hong Kong the
the Taiping Theatre a person stole book critic of the Evening Standard. pathway encircling St. John's two cardboard boxes, which contain-
Unfinished Novel, Cathedral is closed to motor ed European clothing valued at $75. He did not live extravagantly. On traffic. In any case, it is unfitted i
the contrary, his tastes were simple. But the kindliness of his heart, for any other than pedestrian
Whilst engaged in work in fixing which knew no barriers, led him to traffic, just as Lugard Road is new celling inns in the Majestic give increasing time to young au- dangerous for cars, Yet, in Theatre, Kowloon, a Atter, Chik thors, artists, and musicians, who spite of this, a few bloated road-Ping (38) of 136 Portland Street, sought encouragement and advice.
accidentally
fell through the He also restricted his writinga, hogs will insist on driving their
asbestos roof, and fractured his determined only to do work that saloon cars along this pathway.skull. He was removed to the Kow-appealed to him. Most of the offenders are women loon Hospital, in д dangerous
The future sale of Arnold Ben- -the wives of taipans
nett's novels will probably follow -who condition.
the usual trend of going up imme- order their chauffeurs to enter
diately after the author's death, the Cathedral precincts as though The Rev. Mother T. Martinoia, then declining until a new genera-
create the Canossian tion may suddenly it were their private drive. Only Superioress
Institute, desires the other day a European busi-
through the awakened interest. medium of the China Mail to ex-} Until he was taken ill Arnold ness man was walking along this press her deepest gratitude
and Bennett was working path, studiously looking on the appreciation of the vote of $300 novel: He had completed a third of ground, as he did not for one generously allocated to the cause of it when his fatal illness overtook the blind girls in St. Francis Con. him.. It is expected that this part- moment expect to be worried by vent, Wanehal, by the Hong Kong novel will be issued in a de luxe ture was £6,594. In 1930 it had traffic, A large sedan limousine Football
of
ú ré-
on a new
Since this, Society was formed over £60,000 had been expended in assistance, benevolence and education. Over one thousand cases had been dealt with affect- ing 1.586 adults and over 1,140 children. In 1929 the expendi
actual distress.
Association from the limited edition, with reproductions risen to £9.157. In that year 136 Case were helped, and those came sweeping up the path, blurt-Funds raised by the Sunday Herald of the original manuscript. ing its horn in a startling man-Charity Cup.
Arnold Bennett lived for litera-cases affected nearly 200 adults ture and music, his two great pas-and over 120 children in want of ner, and missed the astonished
sions. It may be truly said that he pedestrian by a
The Society was proud of the few inches. A parcel, containing a pair of died for them as well. He had not When the "lady" in the car saw scissors, a knife, and 220 in twenty recovered from the great effort of the dismay and discomfort of the Shaukiwan Police
cent pieces, was taken to the completing "Imperial Palace" when Station by an he started on his last novel. The gentleman she had nearly run Indian Police Constable, who physical and nervous strain was down, she turned to her com-stated that he picked it up on the telling on him, but he refused to
in Hong Kong; surely Ordinances are not for the rich alone, but for all the Colony's residents; surely these bloated, Il-mannered their motorists can be put in proper places? Ye Gods, what are we coming to!
篝
This is how a cer-
UNITED STATES.
"G.K.C.'S" IMPRESSIONS AFTER HIS TOUR.
Looking sunburnt and happy after a tour in the United States Mr. G. K. Chesterton chose the meeting of the Council for the
fact that not a single deserving case had been sent empty away. Major J. J. Astor, M.P., was another speaker. He said that was the legitimato advertising parent of goodwill. If advertis- ing was reduced. goodwill also
play curiously enough called and it seemed well establislted that ground lost in that way, was very costly to regain.
Ile understood that one firm of hear Beethoven's American motor manufactures Ninth Symphony. To him it was alone increased its advertising in the greatest music ever written, but 1930. In spite of this fact its he listened to it a stricken man. business was down by 14 per The London that he loved so well cent, but the average drop for never saw him again.
the trade as a whole was 28 per cent.
Y.W.C.A. CONCERT.
FUND FOR A SUMMER CAMP.
And How! ta in provincial Preservation of Rural Britain GOOD AND VARIED TALENT.
Musical Programme.
panion and laughed! Similar Shaukiwan Road near the bathing reet. One distinct cases have been reported to me dropped by a Chinese who, on the a
matsheds. The parcel had been Then he went to the premiere of diminished. Ground was lost, Motor Boat disadvantage of from time to time, and on Sun approach of the policeman, ran to- "Frailties." He came home obvious Charges. having no tunnel day morning last I saw an Austin ward the hillalde and disappeared. ly unwell, but the next night, or bridge across car, driven by a woman, creep. It is believed that the contents in against all advice, he went to the the-harbour It"that one has to along this self-same path. Sure, the parcel had been stolen from the Queen's Hall te
bathing sheds, rely upon ferries and wallah-ly the Police have some authority; wallahs. The former are all right for the business man, but no good for the reveller; the latter are useful to the reveller, but bad for his pocket. The cost of
An interesting programme of the ferry journey across to the
music followed the banquet. This had been arranged by courtesy mainland and vice versa is ten
of Mr. Lionel Powell, Miss Adela cents each way; the cost of a
Verne's pianoforte solos were greatly motor-boat at night is $1.40—a
appreciated. The en- thusiasm with which she was re- collossal price when you come to
evening paper at] for remarks on his American ex-
|ceived was fitting at this, her first think of it, which must give at
which left The Young Women's Christian public appearance since her re- least a 60 per cent. profit to the Home advertised on its front periences remarks
no doubt that, to his mind, Association gave their first concert turn from the successful Ameri page a "rag" to be held in aid of nothing in the new world could in the Theatre Royal yesterday can tour. proprietor. The petrol consump tion of the short journey and back the local hospital:-
displace the charm of British evening, In aid of a fund to erect a A welcome appearance was "Bay Folks! Bit up and Listen!¦ countryside.
Mme. permanent Summer camp for wo- that of
Marguerite costa a few cents- forty at the
Get wise to the greatest show
Namara, the Californian soprano, "I have just returned," hemen and girls. most and the overhead charges,
then some. ever, and
In the said, "from a different civilisa- The many Items, which ranged who is one of the principals of Company. such as labour, are low. The re-
Chinese songa to Hawallan the Chicago Opera tion or barbarism whatever from afternoon of Saturday, May 2, you call it. sult of this excessive charge is
New York is as melodies, were very pleasing. Kow-She sang arias from a number of 1981, America's most famous startling and horrifying to loon Dock Dancers furnished the her operatic rolee, and finally that Hong Kong people avoid, us
Scottish Sword Dance to the tunes joined Mr. Tom Burke in the far as possible, staying in Kowgangster, prince of Chickerago's Americans as to anyone else.
Boheme." Mr. Burke's fine voice loon after the last ferry, or, if underworld to wit, tu whoo, and have been to Tennessee where if of the bagpipes played by Pipe- duet from the first act of "La
to boot
— AL POLONY and his to shoot him. Call it barbarism
a man offends you are expected Major W. Mackie.
The Stringed Quintette, con- was heard to great advantage they do, prefer to spend the night
band of bootleggers, gunmen, or chivalry, It is a feudal spirit plating" of Mrs. Arnold, Miss and also in an excerpt from on the mainland.
"Andrea Chenier." hoodlume and swashbucklers will full of feud." :
Rodgers, Misses. J. and M. Braga Another queer point about the visit this fair city, this queen of
Describing the British village and Mr. J. Braga rendered selec
MERMEJORADO PARENTFASSBITDIZALETJESJELZITIILTUKLA wallah-wallah system is that you the Midlands, ̈ yea,
as a very precious possession, tions that were well received. this Mr. Chesterton declared that sole tap dance by Miss Betty must take separate boats. How same, Nottingham, Ain't that from end to end in the Ameri- Pestonji won much applause.A every many people are waiting great? And how! But listen can's magnificent civilisation dancing display was given by the unless they belong to the same folke.'
there was not such a thing as a pupils of the Misses D. O'Keefe and party, they
W. Henderson, whilst an episode in village. are requested to.
"The new Lord Mayor of take a separate boat. The whole Chickerago, Mr. Anton Tarmac, town," he continued, it is sim-ed with credit by the Wa Kwong "When you enter a little Ancient Chinese History was enact-. thing is, of course, unfair, but it's gonna give him the glad em- ply an eyesore to anyone of Club of Yeung Chung Girls' School, Royal Engineers, passed peacefully is the inevitable consequence of brace with much prattle and pow The first things which meet the plane, and played some fine jazz Bowen Road,, on Sunday morning. European tradition or instincts. Messrs Wiarum and True were at away at the Military Hospital, monopoly. What is needed is for wow. And after that way your eyes are yellow tin adver- numbers. "A Muddle-Headed Here" Death, which was due to pneumonia,. rival motor-boats to ply for hire people! There'll be the greatest tisements, tin buildings, frame a one act play by the YWC.A. took place after an illness lasting at night-time at reduced rates tour that ever bedadazzled this works of lead, glass and tin call-Dramatic Club, was most amusing, ten days. The deceased, who came say, 50 cents a head. That, er burg. You'll be there? Shake! ed shops, and then, thank God, the participants giving a good into Hong Kong in 1919, was un-
'you are out of the town. There pression of themselves.
A married. The funeral, with full nothing, would make the high-
"For the benefit of Al Polony are no lane in America but there A second variety concert will be military honours, took place at price concerns come down!
(and incidentally for your own) is far too much drink,”
given to-night,
Happy Valley yesterday afternoon.
even
A
Ten Years Ago
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Today's dollar is worth 2/6%.
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