FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933.
“KUNG HAY FAT CHOY"!
Chinese New Year'
Celebration.
COLONY GAIETY
FRADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. the on a wavelength of 365 metres
(845 K.Cs)—
With ohl-time tradition, deafening roar of crackers, Chin- ese New Year day was heralded in on Wednesday night,
Hotels, Chinese and foreign, were in festive attire, and crowds thronged the carnival dances.
The Fair, held for the second time on the reclamation at Wan chai, proved most attractive. while at Kowloon, in the vicinity of Waterloo Road and Shanghai Street, business was brisk.
Throughout Wednesday, Chin ese were busy preparing ances
SNAKES THAT SWIM IN SAND
THE CHINA MAIL.
TO-Day's Short Story. "
ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT
By Algernon
Blackwood.
Reptiles With Stream- Lined Heads.
ZOOLOGISTS STUDY
(Reuter's Special Mail. Service.) AT the moorland crossroads And he becama" aware, then, of the exceeding loneliness of the Martin stood examining the country about him. The road for Los Angeles, Cal. Snakes that "swim" in the desert sign-post for several minutes in a hundred yarde went straight, sands are being studied by a zoo-some bewilderment. The names then curved like a white river run- logist of the University of Call-on the four arms were not what ning into space; the deep blue- fornia at Los Angeles,
green of heather lined the banks, These California snakes Ave be he expected, distances were not spreading upwards through the proneath the surface of the desert, given, and his man, he concluded twilight; and occasional small but in their subterranean wander- with impatience, must be hope-pince stood solitary here and there,
įjective, having made its appear-
1 p.m.-Local Time and Whether Report.
2 p.m.-Close Down.. Classical Programme To-Night. 4.30-7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 7-100 p.m. - European Bramme.
p.m.--Selected London and New
York Stock Quotations, etc.
7.16-8.15 p.m.Variety.
8 p.m.--Local Time and Weather Report). Orchestral-
The Kias Waltz
tral worship and the midnight Song-
Albert Sandler and His
Orchestra-DB320.
meal, and occasional bursts of March of the Grenadiers
crackers gave indication of the
(Soprano)-22247.
Jeannette MacDonald
approach of the festivities. Cru Fox Trot- ditora met debtors and all ar
Fiesta
New Mayfair Dance
Orchestra-BGOIQ.
roars were settled up.
Gipsy Moon
Guitar Dust--
Pearl of Hawail
Frank Ferera and John
Paaluhi-B2316.
Sydney Gustard--B4280.
The stalls at the Fair had Organ Solo much variety, but flowers this year appear to have been more in abundanec. The stalls in. Well- ington Street had a wonderful display, while the flower vendors in D'Aguilar Street had much Fox Trot
variety to offer. Dahlias, of bril liant hue were prominent, while
the ocean.
time.
with a double surface.
The
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
ings stay rather close to the surelessly out of date. Spreading all unexplained. The curious ad- face. For swimming purposes the toose texture of the sand is mech-gainst the post, he stopped ance, haunted him. So many things study it more closely. that afternoon were similarly un- anically comparable to the waters of to
wind blew the cor- explained; the short cut, the "The snakes are. streamlined, nera flapping against his face, darkened map, the names on the head and body," a zoologist explain-The small print was almost inde-sign-post, his own erraile impulses. ed. "The head is wedge-shaped, cipherable in the fading light. It that grenypon his spirit. The en- and the growing strange confusion with a sharp keel or edge and a countersunk lower jaw."
appeared, however as well as he tire countryside need explanation, These pecullar animals, known to could make out that two miles though perhaps. "interpretation" science as the Sonora Occipitalis, back he must have taken the lonely trees had made him see it. was the truer word. Those little actually live in the sand, differing
wrong turning.
Why had he lost his way so easily? markedly from burrowing creatures He remembered that turning. Why did he auffer vague Impres which live and travel through holes the path had looked inviting; he signs to influence his direction? they dig in the sand.
had hesitated a moment, then fol- Why was he here exactly here? Sand-swimmers сап disappear lowed it, caught by the usual lure And why did he go now "over from sight in an incredibly short of walkers that it might prove a Litacy H!!!"?
short cut." The short-cut snare is Eyes of some sand swimmers are old as human nature. For some protected by very thick lids with minutes he studied the signpost fringe-like, scales. The lids close and the map alternately, Dusk
was falling, and his knapsack had] He has also found similarities be-grown heavy. He could not make tween snakes living. on the surface the two guides tally, however, and of the Sahara and Southern Cali
a feeling of uncertainty crept over Leo Reisman and His
fornia deserts. They have indepen his mind. He felt oddly baffled, Orchestra-22453. dently developed the same kind of frustrated. His thought grew locomotion. Such are the horned thick. Decision was most difficult. viper of the Sahara and the Side-Tm muddled," he thought, "I Gracie Fields-B4214.winder of the south-western deserta. must be tired," as at length he
Both
Then, by a green held that shone travel by "side-winding," chose the most likely arm.. "Sooner which in its principle resembles the
darkness of the moor, he saw a sidewise rolling of the screw. or later it will bring me to an inn, de a thought of daylight amid the though not the one intended." form of travel eliminates necessity He accepted his walker's luck, and gure lying in the grass. It was n of firm points of resistance on the started briskly. The arm read blot upon the landscape, a more ground, essential to the normal "Over Litary Hill in small fine huddled patch of dirty rags, yet letters that danced and shifted with a certain horrid pictur sque- every time he looked at them; but less too; and his mind-though his German was of the schoolroom the name was not discoverable on the map. It was, however, invit order at once picked out the Ger- ing, like the short cut. A similar an equivalents as against the impulse again directed his choice. Euglish. Lump and Lumpen flash- Only this time it seemed more in-co across his brain most oddly. They seemed in that moment right, sistent, almost urgerit.
and so expressive, almost like onomatopoele warde, if that were
Cheer Up
the "New Year flower" had its Humorous Song-
A Fly's Day Out host of purchasers. The latter! flower is very popular with the
Tango- foreigner.
· Duck
Beautiful specimens of porcelain, Argentine Tipica Orchestra-B6357-
carved ivory and red coral, caught| Chorus- the eye at some of the stalls, but Watchman! What of the Night? these, some of which were priced
The Forty Stara-DB988. at nearly $500, did not garner Orchestral- many purchasers. Foreigners Dancing with Tears in my Eyes bought the smaller pieces.
Albert Sandler and His
Gold fish stalls were in promin· į ence, and no matter what the Song-
superstition is attached to these Dream Lover 1 fish regarding "bad luck," they ul
ways attract the buyer.
Some
Orchestra-DB320;
Jeannette MacDonald.
(Soprano)-22247.
really pretty specimens were seen Fox Trot-- swimming about among the weed Sunshine and Shadows In oval glass bowls.
▼
Narcissus
China's National flag, was" dis-). played throughout the Colony, and Organ Solo yesterday, the New Year Day, all and kindred Chinese were attired in their best apparel. motor buses flew small Chinese flags also..
New Mayfair Dance
Orchestra-B6010.
Sydney Gustard-B4230.
Kowloon Guitar Duet--
Love Dream of Lula Lu
Frank Ferera and John a
Palluhi-B2315.
Inter-change of visits were fre quently made for the purpose of Fox Trot wishing kung hay fat choy" and Swingin' in a Hammock.
presenting the time-honoured “lai
sze" (a red paper with ten or five
Leo Reisman and His
Orchestra--22453.
wriggle or undulatory method,
TRAGEDY FOLLOWS SWEEP WIN.
Drank to Death On £749.
Since
To-morrow's story will he "Caroline's Christmas, or, The Inexplicable Infant," by Stephen Leacock.
MAKING OF YOUNG able of sight. Neither ragg
COMMUNISTS
(Continued from Page 8.):
must end my work at 7. p.m., but
nor "rascal" would have fitted what he saw. The adequate description was in German...........
Here was a clue tossed up by the part of him that did not reason. But it seems he missed it.
At the next minute, the tramp.
(Reuter's Special Mail Serviċe.).
London. A Manchester
man, Mark. Cripps, kept away from drinks for 18 years until he won £749 in the Irish sweep,
A verdict that his death in a workhouse was due to alcoholic poisoning was brought in at an very often I stay in the atop tillrose to a sitting posture and asked half-past seven, or even hiter the time of evening. In German inquest on him.-.-
get no wages, because children must he asked it And Martin, answer It was stated that Cripps had work not less than one or two yearsing without a second's hesitation, at one time taken drink, but had before the master: begins to pay gave it, also in German,halb
sleben" half-past six. The in kept off it for 18 years.
them any wages." he won the prize, however, he This letter concludes with an ac- Waltzing Time in Old Vienna
attactive guess was accurate. A but to-day they commenced work Gracie Fields (Comedienne)-B4214 had been spending as much as £2 count of the writer's girl friend, glance at his watch when he look- with a new broom. In this line Tango
a night on drink.
who works for a Liverpool bakered a moment later proved It. He brisk sales. in brooms were made Old Mald
She also gets no wages, but has to heard the man say, with the covert insolence of tramps, Tank you; pay a sixpenny fine every time she
much opliged. For Martin had is five minutes late.
not shown his watch-another Lest. It should be supposed that this school-book is either unofficial intuition subconsciously obeyed. or dates from the earlier days of Communist propaganda, I may add that It bears the Imprint of the State Publishing Department, and [the date 1932,
cente wrapped in it), House Ber-Song- vants did not handle the broom,
a few days ago. Wash-amahs put Argentine Tipica Orchestra-B5357, over the washing till to-day and Chorus:
celebrated the New Year. at lei- The Moon Has Raised Her Lamp sure!
By yesterday evening, the roads
were deserted and the stalls, erect-
Above
The Forty Stars-DB998. All records in the above European
ed for the Fair, were demolished, programmes are kindly suppiled by In the early hours of this morn Messrs. Anderson Music Co., and S. ing, every Chinese shop, before Moutrié & Cour opening its doors to another year of work, fired a string of crackers to "chase the evil spirits away."
55-WOMEN FOR EVERY JOB.
Food And Shelter Tickets For Beggars.
(Reuter's Special Mall Service.) For every job open New York
SALMON OVER-RUN HIGHWAY.
Traffic Interruption In Oregon.
(Reuter's Special Meil Service.}
Tillamook, Oregon.
A
The Gae-Mask
He quickened his pace along that lonely road, a curious. Jumble of through him. He had somehow thoughts and feelings surging.
known the question would come, and coma in German. Yet It flus- tered and dismayed him. Another
8.27-8.45 pmA programme of records kindly loaned by a Listener.† Popular Songs from “Looking on Traffic cops for salmon on the Both this primer and a compan- thing had also flustered and dis ¡the Bright Side." Me
Oregon Coast highway is something ion volume for slightly older pupils mayed him. He had expected it in Looking on the Bright Side of Life, new, but the Kilchis River over- contain lessons on warfare and the the same queer fashion: it was He's Dead, But He Won't Lie Down towed the highway and salmon, part children must play in it, to right. For when the ragged brown
Gracie Fields (Comedienne): running upstream to spawn, were so gether with profuse illustrations of thing rose to ask the question, You're More Than All the World thick upon it that they were being military apparatus. A chapter on part of it remained lying on the
to Me,
alaughtered by motorists until the way to use a gas-mask is intro-grass-another brown, dirty-thing, Looking on the Bright Side of Life, raides were stationed to direct duce by the statement. There were two tramps. And he Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orch.trafic.
Foreign capitalists will attack saw both faces clearly. Behind the After To-night We Say Good-bye, At regular intervale, like any every town. They will use gas untidy beards, and below the old I Hate You, other traffic copa, the guides heited Everyone must know how to use a slouch hate, he caught the look of Gracie Fields (Comedienne), cars while the fish crossed the road gas-task. There will be a gas-unpleasant, clever faces that watched him closely while he pass job open for women in 8.45-10 pm-A programme of and then held the fish back with shelter in every house.
British rule in India is a favoured. The eyes followed him commercial employment agencies Classical records kindly loaned by neta while the cars proceeded.
ite aubject for the propaganda For a second he looked straight there are 55 applicants, a survey, by Mr. C. B. Brown
machine. A play staged while I into those eyes, so that he could the Women's Division of the Emer Sonata in E Minor
was in Leningrad showed the Gov- not fail to know them. And he genicy Unemployment Relief Com- 1st Movement (Beethoven), mittee showed here.
ernor of Bombay conspiring with a understood, quite horridly, that Hinda to provoke racial strife, and both faces wore too sleek, refined, contained a big scene in which Briand canning for those of ord tian troops shoot down the rioters tramps. The men were not really of both factions,
tramps at all. They were degule While their parents are enjoying cle, children in school are
glish, are shoot me workers and ed
Arthur Schnabel This contrast with 25 applicants Sonata in F. Sharp Major per job a year ago, and with two lab Movement (Beethoven), per job in normal times.
With men there are 73 competl tors for every job offered by these agenetes, comparing with 43 a year. ago, and a ratio of two to one un- der ordinary conditions
Arthur Schnabel Concerto No. 1 in C Major-de
2nd Movement, (Beethoven),
Arthur Schnabel and London:
Symphony Orchestri Concerto No. 1 in G Minon AB a means of ending, profes- 2nd Movement (Max Bruch), lonal begging, the Emergency Un
Master Yehudi Menuhin. employment Relief Committeeeda Symphony in D Major (Clock) beginning distribution of food and1st Movement (Haydn) shelter tickets.
-Books of tickets are being
ontributors to tho
$15,000,000
ployed
among
1st Movement (Beethoven),
Arthur Schnabel and London
Symphony Orchestra Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major
(Emperor) Srd: Movement (Beethoven), * Arthur Schnabel and London this spe
Symphony Orchestra. being. Sonata In E Minor ing down
2nd Movement (Beethoven) peasants in
Arthur Behusbel: 10-12 mid-nigh
lay of heveller's Darte Orchestra from Hong
Philharmonie Symphony. Gr.
chestra of New York by
Finale (Hayda)
Blac Behind
How covertly they wat
was his thought as ong the darkening: In dead earne
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