MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932.
Some Amusing Songs
recorded on
VICTOR RECORDS
by
FRANK CRUMIT.
22859- I'm a Specialist.
second fiddle.
THE AMOULS OF THE DEXOTIC ADVENTURESS-
Mata Hari
spred from the mananch
KAREN BROWN
by zrangement with
Mera Goldwyn Ma
and most aristocratic boulevards on meagre rag doll.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
The thinness of a vell fluttered from each hand to the floor of the altar.
And it seemed to Rosano that what she said was inexorable, the voice was inexorable, the hands that
SHADOWS BEFORE
cast aside veil after veil, they were COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED remorseless too.
"I dance for you as the bayaderea danced on the sacred terrace of the Temple Boro-Bodur, where I was
IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions. To-day--Tex Dances
at Hong
LEXANDER Rosanoff, in the Rosanoff to halt for a moment, born, in Java." Taught Me How to play A private service of the Czar, startled. He thought that it was The sustained wail rose again. Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; and Colonel Shubin, ranking At-eome bizarre ornament in keeping This time, the blood gathered in Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, tacke of the Russian Embassy, left with the strangeness of the house, Rosanoff's throat,, congealed in and Peninsula Hotela and King's thele car in the courtyard of The object was slumped forward hard lump.“ He was afraid to Restaurant. building on one of the most ancient like an unusually large and very breathe and felt near to strangling Club Annual Bachelors' Dance.
Saturday Craigengower Cricket Silver-gray hair, All-was a mystic, fleshly white be- the loft bank of the Seine. The elaborately curled fell over its fore his eyes. The woman and her hour was ten o'clock of an evening face.
awayings and
To-day King's the seductive flesh "What's that?" he exclaimed.
that she wore more proudly, more]
"Doctors' Wives." "Bah! The old Marquis
de boldly with every motion, like Up For The Cup."
To-day Queen's garment, lika a dazzling dress of shot two streams of white mist into At the same time, Shubin was nudity, Alled them. Sometimes she the darkness. The shadows of the opening the last door, and caught moved and there was blackness, his
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TSANG FOOK PIANO leaves of a tree stirred in this mist between his amazement at such "yes could not follow her, they re- "Monkey Business."
for a moment, the bulk of the house decrepitude and his wonder as to mained glued to the spot where she showed white as a skeleton. There what could follow in such a house, had been. She returned and filled. was not a sound, not a glimmor from Rosanoff lost AwarenceS of the them with luminous white.
moment of his entry. Shubin She sank before the altar.
Rosanoff The younger man, Rosanoff, not hustled him a little.
became aware that expecting the headlights to be Then he was sitting
there was a golden glow in his eyes. switched off, was blinded for an in-thing cushioned which had no back When the dance had ceased or how stant and made an instinctive move to it, a bench, perhaps, in a faint, long it had lasted he could not have and Europe via Siberia (President ment to reach the support of the moonstoeped light which gave him told, but in the place where the Lincoln).
a suggestion of faces all around but altar had been, there were again two in soon went out entirely. Then he curtains of heavy Orient stuff.
heard music which seemed to come Rosanoff put a hand to his fore- They'll from nowhere, not music exactly, but head.
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Shubin's voice came to him low, exasperated sounds.
"Don't make a racket!
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Jardine Matheson's gioas like reel dia. Which made Rosanoff laugh. For instruments here and there, as if tallow.
Proof against
Several men had gathered was all too perfect, they had been jewels.
February 26-Kowloon Residenta' steel file, nitriche felt that it
But the about a woman who lay on a bench. Association, St. Andrew's Church neid, etc. The bril To have seen the dancer, whose ebb and flow of the liquid wait was, Rosanoff could just see her open Hall, Kowloon, 6 p.m. liancy of lustre will never become fame had travelled from the Euro- what hold the ear. Sometimes it mouth. She had fainted. dull. Price per carut ten shillings.
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February and the men and all the women looked grote Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1 27 Hong Kong k hundreds of miles inland to Moscow mesmerized nerves shrank from it, sque to him, and it struck him that Queen's Road, Central 11.30 am. and St. Petersburg, to have seen hot blood flowed to the head and perhaps he seemed just as hideous her in the ordinary way, on a stage left the body shuddering with an to them after the dance.
Feb. 29-Humphreys Estate and in a glare of lights, to have come inconceivable, icy excitement, and
But when he glanced again at his 11.80 a.m..
Finance Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, there with chattering people from pounded against the tight skin of companion, Shubin looked as com- a good dinner in a smart restaurant, the head in time with the hidden posed as usual,
It had been the would have been almost an anti-beat of the music, until, at the effect of the sudden lights. climas. The blackness, the silence, bursting point, the wail would slow- Shubin said, "Now you've seen Shubin's reluctance, made far more ly fade to a throbbing moan, the your little dancer, eh?" Sitting preliminaries. How these blood would flow back deliriously.
He got up and Rosanoff followed civilians enjoyed their spice of Somewhere Rosanoff had heard him. He wanted to answer Shu- danger! Even Shubin, a matter-of-music similar to this, in an alley bin's irony in kind, and he could lent Society, Sanitary Board Room, March 4-Hong Kong Berevo- fact, agreeable man back home had in Constantinople, in the shadow not find any casual words. Instead Post Office Bldg., 11 am. grown tense and mysterious in of the great turquoise Baths in he could find only questions. Who Paris. But Rosanoff had arrived Tiflis.
March 9-Hong Kong Telephone music at the line is she? What is she? Is she really Co., Ltd., Exchange Bldg., 2nd only that afternoon from the front where torture writhes in ecstacy, Dutch, as they say?
Was she born floor, 11 a.m. und he knew and remembered that Then, suddenly, it ceased.
in Java, as she says? He was danger was prosaic.
Two curtains at the head of the ashamed to
Flower Show, ask. He would not Danger was a routine such as he room stirred in an inexplicable have the older
March 3-Hong Kong Horticul- man think that he tural Show, Volunteer Headquar had recently followed. It meant breeze.
They billowed first about could not discuss a dancer like alters, 3-7 p.m. getting up before dawn, testing the the head, than the neck, then opened meal, with epicurean discrimi-I engine, then flying over levels, over slowly to reveal the body of Matanation and nothing else.
He was thin rivers, over war-torn fielda, Hari
She was moving toward anjafraid he would sound too enthusi-
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over cities, too, so high up that he altar which the curtains had hid-astic, perhaps even too fervent. heavy walls of this seemingly close- could not see even a church-spire-- den, The altar bloomed with Although the audience had been shut city concealed, he was alert dying tranquilly, almost going to light, which, like the wind, had no so tense during the dance, there for more. The fact that Shubin sleep at the stick, yet always know-source, and as she moved, this wind was shortly a hum of talk. Even had unbent released his eagerness. ing that in a second he and the ship mowed down her veils, drove them the woman who had fainted recover- He heard himself saying, "Do might be only two falling streaks back gently against her limbs and fed and explained in a quick, light you know Mata Hari?" welded together, perhaps, in flame. breasts.
voice about her "migraine," and He was not answered. Shubin following unclaimed tele It meant delivering the documents A surprising grame are lying at the E.E. Tele-in the sealed pouch, smoking a through Rosanoff's mind.
thought flashed the odour of the flowers in her cora- went on to his car in apparent com- How tall are. Rosanoff did not know any plete forgetfulness of his companion graph Co.'s office.
cigarette, sleeping off exhaustion, she was! It shocked him F. V. Chamberlin, Room 206, then waking alert for the next job. member that he had spoken of her new and then.
to re- of these people, but Shubin bowed and his former banter.
He gave an order to the chauffeur and then Hong Kong Hotel, from Bombay There was far more excitement to as a "little dancer." He felt hum-! "You prevailed upon me to come spoke almost as curtly to Rosanoff. him in the anticipation of good bled; it was so stupid, so juvenile, bere," Shubin insisted, "against my
"I must go back. You can meals. baths, comfortable quarters, to have come prepared for a little better judgment and when, as you amuse yourself, I imagine. Report beautiful women, above all, the sight dancer. He understood that his know, I should be work. You to-morrow night at my house for of beautiful women, beginning with eyes had been fastened on her and said you could not leave Paris with-orders." this little dancer who staged her ap-had been wrenched away. He out seeing Mata Hari dance. Now The young aviator was left atand- knew this because he had been see that you have seen the Circe of ing, at a loss, but in the next in- They had waited for about Aveling nothing but the veils, the Europe-not a word.
Are you distant relieved. Shubin's brusque- The following unclaimed tele-minutes and Rosanoff was about to whiteness, and now he noticed
a appointed?" grams are lying at the office of give Shubin the benefit of his re- towering, ebony object, sleek and
thought of the night's work ahead, ALEXANDER They were in the Great Northern Telegraph flections when the light from within shining. The Goddess Kall, with where the servant was dispensing delivered and preparing the
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Rosanoff and then saw Shubin. knew his eyes had returned, for he one of them remarked, "All the fell
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on him softly, a murmur time--while and he realized that someone
men of voices by the door was enchan- was die ... 2
tingly gay. speaking.
It made him think of He held another door ahead of
"Oh, well," said another with a that Paris to which his father had them. They were in a circular
It was the dancer. Her voice tolerant shrug.
"Some dance and sent him with his tutor not long be room with a polished floor, full of gave him a further shock, so that some die,"
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rosy sunsets, of flickering, feathery room was larger. It contained a was thinking that she was tall and gleaming buffet which reflected back her voice was grove. It was slow, the decanters, glasses and plates deep, and without inflections. Every with which it was laden. Poople word was as fully rounded as every It had begun to rain, a soft, On an impulse he beckoned to had eaten there, it was evident, and other word.
mild drizzle, which affected Rosanoff one of the chauffeurs, not quite attendants had cleared away too ".... dark goddess of destruction | pleasantly. The air felt yery fresh wishing to ask but compelled to. hurriedly. But recumbent by the who rules frenzy, cruelty, ecstacy and now that be had seen a little of "Can you tell me, which is Mata buffet was an object which caused and sin. . . "
what the discreet hangings and the Hari'a car?"
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