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pretty certain to result in any case from the general stress of Hong Kong. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1931. modern city life.
The real solution, of course, is
not that we shall all become ac-
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.
exert itself further in favour. It is announced that the Flex of silence., If American gang- Open Boxing Championships will sters are able to shoot their vic-be held here on December 2, 3 and tims with the noiseless pop' of aji. Further particulars as a gun controlled by a "silencer," venue, etc., will be announced lat. cannot something be, done to er. modify the roar of machinery?!
to
BARRIE'S FANTASIA,
Another Triumph for H.K.A.D.C.
· DEAR BRUTUS."
Perhaps the hooting of horns Fong Fuk, chief checker of Dod could be replaced to some ex-woll and Company, has reported to There is an especial charm and.. tent by a system of lights. The the Police that whilst unloading a fascination, an indefinable "some- horn and klaxon are employed, so lighter alongside the 8.8. Venezin at thing" which gets you, about Sir to speak, forward; yet already 2.30 yesterday afternoon, So Hol James Barrie's plays and stories. the backward signals of motor- (28) who resided on board the That something, that charm and. cars are performed by means of lighter, was pumping a gasoline fascination are not absent from the werning lights. It appears to be lamp, when the screw cap flew off, delightful fantasy, which the Hong a matter, for science. Our traffic and sprayed So with gasoline, Kong Amatear Dramatic Club is controllers have failed. In Paris which, unfortunately became alight, now procenting and with which thoy the Prefect of Police, M. Chiappe, The man, who was severely burned, add yot another success to a long has forbidden the sound of is now in the Kowloon Hospital. list of successful achievements. klaxons at certain hours and has
No attempt is to be made here to set a time limit to the energies After hearing the evidence of detail the story or unfold the plot. of housewives, who wish to beat arrest in the case in which two If you have neither read the play. their mats. Yet Paris remains Chinese are charged with commit-nor been this production, it is you the noisicat town in the world, ting armed robbery, Mr. Fraser, who are the poorer for a happy ex- including. New York. There is in the Kowloon Magistracy ad-perience and decidedly pleasant moreover, vibration. At Oxford journed the case. Inspector entertainment.
even buildings are sensitive, and Fallon sald that five men took part Last night, on the occasion of the the Master of Balliol's ceiling in the affair, which occurred at second performance, a good house has been known to collapse at the No. 7, Kak Hang Village. Kowloon assembled to "hear and sco" "the
passage of a truck Certainly, City, on October 16. One man play. Good from the point of view something should be done. One was armed with a revolver. After of numbers, and good front the one point the contentiona of holding up 14 people who were in point of view of the play- Oxford club for noise abatement the house, the robbers decampeders. For, though it was a critical may be questioned. It is suggest with some jewellery and $9 in house, it was also an encouraging ed that undergraduates cannot money.
house, one qulek to appreciate and study where there is noise.
applaud those many quipa which This is a hard age and a ma- Mr. Julcan Arnold, Commercial stud the play like so many scintil chine age.
If Oxford under Attache, American Legation, was lating stars. These quips, to re- graduates wish to be prepared the speaker at the tiffin of the tuin the lustre with which they have for the conditions of post- Rotary Club, yesterday, when he been invested by the author, must graduate existence they should spoke interestingly on the head
be put over with art, and it was with practise writing Greek ambles hunters of Formosa. He amused art and artistry of no small account between a tramway and a print-his listeners when he said that that the players put them over. ing press, to the sound of a pierc-when given a good handful of Eno's
The production left little to be ing jazz band. Meanwhile, the fruit sult to cure
a headache, a desired. The scenic and lighting Society is certainly setting a good Chief put the powder in a bag and effects, the stage appurtenances and example to other cities.-Man-hung it from his neck as a charm the dressings were distinctly good; chester Guardian.
for attracting evil spirits, thereby and, above all, the players evidently assisting in their destruction. Rain were beginning to feel more at caused the salts to effervesce and home. Mr. Rupert Foster and his the head hunters jumped to the con-helpers deserve great credit for A Puris judge has just been clusion that evil spirits were enter- their work behind the scenes. called upon to settle a little pro-ing it. When the bag had swelled
Turning now to the players, and have to a big size, the Chief buried it, dealing with them in their order of blem which might well puzzled Solomon. It is so deli- und lost his headache in the excite-appearance, Margaret Birt, as Mrs. cate that he has decided to post-ment! pone judgment for a month.
A Moot Point.
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In all Paris buildings which have a concierge a rigid distinc-
Personal Pars.
BRIGHT POSTER.
Vandalism at Harbour Office.
Come, seemed to have caught the Barrie spirit and so gave a charac ter Interpretation that pleased Im- mensely; Tess Thorp (Mrs. Dearth),
A
was just what Lob should be. grent portryal.. Cyril Champkin (Conde) 'and Maurice Barton (Purdie) put across creditable per- promances, while Alec Gray (Dearth) from his first appearance
Modern Noise.
customed to conditions like living
tion is made between those who
General Smuts was yesterday Sunny Hole (Lady Caroline), Jean- Kowloon has been prominent in a boiler-works, but that we
are entitled to use the main in the "news" field of late on ac- shall to a greater extent than stairway and the lift and those elected a Director of the Scottish Mackie (Mrs. Purdie), and Veronica Butterfield (Joanna) gave good per use the servante University of St. Andrews,
formances also, but just, only just, count of its noises. Since last ever abolish noise, even in the who must
staircase. A jeweller, who oe-
Erie Brooks we referred to nocturnal build-cities..
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Harper and failed to convince. cupies offices on a third floor, ing operations in the Shamshui- Before long, even the heaviest has aued his concierge for dam-children are returning by the a.. (Matey), frankly, disappointed in po district, residents have had and noisiest motor vehicle willages on the ground that she has President Hoover on her maiden the first acta difficult act it must considerable relief. May it be be as quiet as the best private refused to allow a number of his trip and are due here on November be admitted but made amends, in clients to use the lift, and has 30. Mrs: 3. A. Shaw arrives here by the wood scene. Sydney West (Lab) On the island con- cars are now; the latest move in compelled them to climb the ser- the same liner. permanent!
This, he de-] ditions making for noise are be- that direction is gigantic tyres vants' staircase.
that form practically the whole clares, has caused him to lose a coming more and more acute.
number of profitable clients. A writer in a Home paper wheel. A motor-cycle nowadays
A picturesque note is added to: complains that, in the great can be made almost as quiet as a
his complaint by a demand for compensation on account of "in- cities there, noise goes on in an car. ever-rising crescendo; the rum- The tramcar, in its present jurious language" used by the
But it was Betty Fair, as Mar- The gloomy atmosphere in the garet, Dearth's dream child, who, so ble and clatter of machinery, the form, is practically certain to be concierge in her arguments with
some of his visitors. One woman Harbour Office has been consider-it appeared, most Auccessfully silent in her, evidence said that the increasing din of traffic, which superseded by a more
perhaps a
trackless concierge in most pungent lan-ably brightened during the past caught and held that elusive some- grows year by year heavier in vehicle - both senses, seem to be grow-trolley, running on huge pneu-gunge forbade her to use the lift. fortnight or so by the appearance thing the spirit of Wendy, it may
She the client defied the of two exceedingly pretty posters, be termed," ing steadily worse. If city-matic tyres like the buses. concierge and entered the lift, one on the wall outside the Marine indeed. dwellers themselves do not al- When the wheels are quietened, with the result that she found Court, and the other on the notice. The players are to be seen again board in the Clearance Office eur-this evening 5.15 o'clock in a matinee performance, and then on Thursday, ways notice it, they are told of it } there will be far less need for herself imprisoned in the cage ridor, downstairs.
They are really artistic posters in Friday, and Saturday (the last When she replied to this and three colours, red, white and blue, time) nights at 9.15 o'clock. various other accusations, the and are excellent examples of the IE. the Governor and Lady Peel, concierge said that habitually
ceived them in the execution of
by visitors who are better able to make comparisons with a for- mer time.
very loud horns or bells,
As regards the noise of ma chinery, that will certainly be at
between two floors.
to the last held interest and con- vinced.
An excellent study
litographer's art. On a snow and party from Government House
ful figure of Britannia in blue with formance,
The latest medical alarmist, least diminished in all properly she did not utter insults but re-white background appears a grace were present, at last night's per- however, a French Government built factories by sound-proof her duties. The crux of the ques- the right arm held high above the doctor, will meet with little but floors, walls, etc. Machinery it-tion lies in the subtle distinction head and the index finger bent in NOBEL PRIZE FOR DEAD POET.
a beckoning gesture. At the fort scepticism when he predicts that self will be made quieter because between a visitor who has some-
Dr. Eric Axel Karlfeldt, the people in such large cities as it is already recognised that thing to sell and one who wants of the figure are bright red lette
to buy. The jeweller asks, with
Ings.'
Swedish lyric poeit, who died on London, Paris, New York, etc., noise is waste.
indignation, how the concierge
Three huge letters "B.L.F.", about April 4 last, has been posthumously will have to depend on artificial
is to distinguish between these
a foot high and very broad, are awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize for also is to wonder for a month.-underneath. in smaller letters, also erning the Nobel awards prizes can Daily Telegraph.
It would be easy to let the im-
hearing 50 or 100 years hence. agination run riot on the efforts two classes af visitors. The judge very conspicuous on the posters, and literature. Under the statutes gov
News in Brief.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 70 degrees.
4 p.m. 60.
in red, are the words:
"British Industries Fair, London and Birmingham, "Opening Date February 22, 1982."
We have heard these scare stories of the future to obtain silence,
be awarded to dead persons only if before now, end to them, at least, but it is really unnecessary.
|their names have been recommended. we are growing a little deaf. If] After all, most of us can tolerate
prior to death, as was the casa here."
Dr. Karlfeldt, who was permen- it is not. "tennis elbow, it is a good deal of noise, so long as it
ent secretary of the Swedish "golfer's knee" or motorist's is of a familiar kind, without
Those posters were the pride of
Academy, was offered the prize heel." But when do we ever see feeling our nerves sorely stress-
all connected with the Harbour Ofee
some years ago, but he was a very The until yesterday, when, sad to relate, retiring, man and declined to accept ed. such things?
Once we have abolished the humidity at 10 a.m. was 72 and at it was found that the beauty of the it. The decision this year comes What is really beyond reason-
one in the Clearance Office corridor month before the date, the award is able doubt is that an increasing worst of common noises, those
had been marred by some wag who
usually announced.. As the result of falling whilst obviously cannot be one who op amount of nerve strain is in-indicated above, we shall prob- volved in our reaction to our en-ably not worry much about those carrying a pot of boiling vinegar preciates art.
yesterday, Hu·Yu-yun (17) a fokl of With pencil and in shockingly bad vironment of noise, The human which remain.
the Kwong Hing Preserved Veget-hand-writing, the wag scribbled on organism exhibits a noteworthy
ablos shop, 156 Cremer Street, was the top left-hand corner of the severely scalded, and was removed poster the following:--- power of adapting itself to cir-
to the Kwang Wah Hospital. cumstances by developing an automatic resistance.
If, then, our nerves develop a more and more callous.resistance to the increasing, noise of our cities, what will be the price we shall pay? Probably we shall
From Other Pens.
Oxford versus Noise.
To-day's Thought. .
xonalities.
i
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mall" of
November 18, 19217)
Some lose sight of lasues because "Thanks for the information, I'l they are always dealing with per- pop over for the week-end. (Skip-1 Yesterday afternoon, altting in per Cheung Chau Ferry please note, the Supreme Court, in Admiralty and provision In readiness)."'
This sacrilege against art is £1 A society for the abolition of Jurisdiction, the Chief Justice (3ir noise has been formed at Joseph H, Kemp, K.C.) concluded crying shame and should not go un Oxford, and it is to be hoped hearing of the two remaining punished, and our sleuths and hand- that this excellent cause will actions claiming wages against the writing experts should forthwith be not thereby be lost. Schopen- 8.5. Ban Nam King. The plaintiffs placed on the job of tracking down hauer said that cabmen who in these actions were two former the culprit and bring him to justice; It might be an impairment of crack whips in the road deserve masters of the ship, Captain Ignacio and, to prevent the poster on the The new Grill Room of the Hong
Cordova, and What Marla
Captain first floor from being defiled in Kong Hotel will open on the night capital punishment:
some shameful manner. I of St.: Androw's Bail. The open- our thinking powers, but in most should be done to a modern taxi- Antonio Pinto Marques) who were the
driver? It seems to the un-represented by Mr. Les d'Almada, suggest that a subscription be rafs-Ing will mark the completion of selentifie layman a little aston-jun (lnstructed by Johnson, Stokes ed among the artistle in Hong Kong the first stage of an ambitious pro lehing that science, which, has and Master). Ils Lordship gave to provide a frame with glass to gramme of improvements and ad- ditions to an Hotel alrondy famous. pro-fudgment for the plaintiffs with preserve it in.
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