SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1933.
THE CHINA: MAIL.
George Bernard Shaw Heads List CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Of Passengers On Tourist Ship
(Continued from Page 1)
The Empress of Britain soiled from New York on December 3, 1932, with calls at Madeira, Gibral-
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ORDINATIONS
Highest Figure Since 1914 Reached Last Year.
London.
More men presented themselves |
Fo-Day's Short Story.
LOCAL
RULES
By Stephen McKenna.
for ordination in the Church of TT is the boast of the Peculiar (the one examining chaplain and the England during the past year than Club that no two of its mem-jone private secretary. Al werd at any time since 1914.
bers are drawn from the same considering whether even the iron-
Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin and maid.
Miss Rath Jackson, Louis J. tar, Algiers, Monaco, Naples, Jaffee, Mrs. Jaffee, Mrs. Hope Jebb, The fifty-first volume of the profession and that no profession king could make their game more Athens. Haifa, Port Said, Suez, Arthur E. Johasen, Mrs. Johnson, Oficial Year Book of the Church of is left unrepresented. Unlike intolerable; and the Iron-king wan Bombay, Colombo, Padang, Batavia, Miss Luise L. Joly, Captain Piers England shows that 685 men were any other club in London, it shel- already hating them all in advance
Jonee and Mrs. Junes and maid.
ordained this year, as compared ters a single undischarged bank- as possible partners. Singapore, Bangkok and Manila.
with 498 in 1931, 503 in 1930, and rupt who would probably be ex- "Four spales," snapped the The giant liner will remain in Hong Mrs. James Lee Kauffmana, Miss 439 in 1929. In 1914, 610 men were pelled by a general resolution if examining chaplain. Kong until February 15, when she Peggy Kauffmann, Mias Susan ordained.
he obtained his discharge, for he "No," growled the millionaire un- Kauffmann, Mrs, Frank B. Keech A total of 18,328 clergy is re- would then become the second amiably, glaring at an unrivalled her journey pulls out to continue
and maid, James Keith, Bruce Kel-quired for the work of the Church
return to New York, visiting en Kerr, George C. Kirk, Miss Mar estimated that, to keep the priest-maker, one osteopath and one
architect and there is one book-tions."
When the cards were dealt, hep route the cities of Shanghai, Chin-jorie S. Kirk, Miss Adele Kirk hood up to strength there should be stockbroker, one-actor manager eeemed through force of habit-to wangtno, Beppi, Kobe, Yokohama, bride and Mrs. A. E. Kitching.
an average of 630 ordinations year and one county-court judge. have got in on the ground floor and L Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Los
To this blend of catholicity and mest unexpecially-to have stay- F. Karl Lamb, Mrs. Lamb, E. T.
The number of church people over Angeles, Balboa, Cristobal und Lambert, George E. Lang, William 18 years of age registered on ver exclusiveness the rules of the club ed there.
contribute, ladeed, nothing: but the "No-p," echoed the private secre- C. La Tourette, Mrs. Simpson electoral rolls of the 12,767 parishes members feel-and do not hesitate tary demurely, with the unruffled The Empress of Britain was built Laurie, Mrs. C. L. Lawrence and was 3,648,729 during 1931. The to aay-that while one examining smile that he always assumed after Mrs. Charles Howell number of baptisms that year was chaplain is an experience, two are a going down several hundred points. habit and three a crowd. The doubt- "And no," sighed the lexicogra- of Wales. She is under the com-Leonard, W. J. Levee, Maxime! Voluntary contributions for 1931 ful pleasure of social intercourse, phar. "The millionaire leads." mand of R. G. Lattu, a veteran sea Levy, Mrs. Levy, Gaynard Spencer amounted to £0,529,160, Of that for which most clubs are constitut- The private secretary put down captain and who had been in the Lewis, Mrs. W. J. Locke, R. C. aum £484,228 was used for over- service of the Canadian Pacific Long, M. Rodriguez Lopez, Mrs.'sens missions-Reuter. Company for many years.
Lopez, Miss Marlanita Rodriguez! Following is the passenger list ar- Lopez, Mrs. E. I. Lord, Mrs. Fred riving on the ss. Empress of Bri- F. Luedke and Frederick August tain.
Luedke,
around the world. The Britain will ham, Mrs. Kelham, C. J. Kerr, Miss in England alone, and it has been company-promoter. There is one collection of the smaller denomina-1
Havana.
ly.
in 1931 by the Clyde Company maid,
sponsored by H. R. II. the Prince LeFevre, Warren A. Leonard, Mrs. 418,582.
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Miss Hose M. Ambrose, Mrs. W. Mrs. James MacArthur, Dr. J. C.
Maddison, Mrs. Roy R. Male, Mrs.¦ Mrs. Amor-Simavi,
Helen Ashton, Mrs. Assheton-Bennett and Idah G. Mansfield, Mahlon H, Mar-
Mr. F. V. Ayers.
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B.
lin, Mrs. Mary M. Marlin, A. E. Marois. Mrs. Thomas Marston, Plerce Bailly, O. Bancharel, Mrs. Miss Adonell Massie, Mrs. F. B. Banchurel, Maj. Barker-Hahla, Mrs. Mauser, G. W. May, Mrs. C: W. Mc-
Charles
SOVIET FILMS ARE BLASPHEMOUS.
Vienna Exhibitor Imprisoned.
Vienna.
Jed, becomes dificult of attainment his hand, rang for a whisky-and- when the management of the club soda, and dropped into an empty degenerates into government of chair beside the iron-king, who in- lieutenant-generala by Heutenant-Continently turned away and buried generals; viceroys, admirals and his face in an illustrated paper. Cabinet Ministers become an op- pressed minority, bishops are black- balled, and even the Heutenant- generals are bored with one another. It was to secure an escape from this warfare of class against class that the Peculiar was founded; and for a dozen years it has afforded
MONDAY'S STORY.
a
Monday's story will be "The Sphinx Without Secret," by Oscar Wilde.
"One: never sees the remount-
A Vienna cinema, ochibitor has unrivalled opportunities for a war-officer here nowadays," he began
F. G. Barnard, Jose Bartiomeu, Cabe, Maurice B. McCarthy, Mrs.
to fourteen days' fare of individual against indi-conversationally, bringing out his Felix Bastien, Mrs. Bastien, Mrs. John McClay Meflhenny, Mrs. L. bean sentenced
A visitor to the card-cigarette-case and throwing onc Charles H. Bayley,
Bell, B. Meek, Mrs. Michaels, Mrs. Alice rigorous imprisonment on a charge vidual. Mrs. Bell, Master David Winton and Miller, Mrs. George Paul Miller, of blasphemy because he showed at room on a summer evening of 1917 carefully creased trouser-leg over "He's about die back) nurse, Mrs. James Ford Bell and Mrs. X. Millinger, Mrs. H. J. hie cinema the Russian filin, "The might have counted, in one corner, the other.
ja former prime minister, a bill-jnow, isn't he?" maid, James Ford Bell, Jr., Mrs. Moore, William P. Morgan, Abra- Building Song."
"He's considerably overdue," said Bell, Jr., Miss Sally Bell, Samuel ham Morris, Mrs. Morris, Miss N. Following protests against the broker, a post and the cditor of a
on bee-keeping. the iron-king grimly and without Bell, Mrs. C. R. Blandford, Mrs. Morrison, E. O. Munn, Mrs. F. W. film on the ground that it mocked widely-read paper
were quarrelling over their looking up. "And, when I last saw Norah M. Boucher, Mts. Violet Muna and mald, E. F. Mure, Mrs. Roman Catholic religious practices, All
in the middle of the room, him, he didn't look like coming E. Myer and Chester G. Myers. the Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss, order-game. "Boucher, Mde. Henriette Bouley,]
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Jed the police to intervene. Some of the one theatrical, costumier was home in any great hurry." Mons. E. B. Boureau, Mde, Bourenu, į
He buried himself more deeply in | Murray A. Nadler, Mrs. Nadler, the protests actually came from playing piquet with the one marine Mrs. Laban Jenkins Brady, Miss
engineer and disputing the score. his paper with the air of a man who Ann Leo Brady, Dr. F. G. Brath Miss A. L. Nelson, Mrs. F. A. R. The film contained scenes
Mra. Edward Nash and manservant, Communists.
of The one Iron-king was seated on did not wish to prolong the discus- waite, Mrs. Brathwaite, Henry H.
Glancing over his shoulder, R. H. Newbern, Mrs. churches being destroyed or turned the fringe of a bridge-four in sion. Breuss, Mrs. J. W. Bridges, A. F. Neuburger, B. Broadhurst, John W. Brodix, Dr. Newbern, Joel Ilarris Newell and inte.cinemas and of crosses being another corner, waiting to cut in. the private secretary noted that the torn down and replaced by Soviet The one lexicographer was partner-paper was only a trade journal and
ed with the one millionaire against that the Iron-king was holding it!
upside down. Z. B. W. STUDIO REPORT.
Clifford Brookes, Mrs. Brookes, Mrs.
Mrs. Newell,
stars.
see the.
Janette Brooks, Charles R..Brophy.
Guy Padoa, B. J. Padshah, Mrs. The Court sentenced the exhibi-j Mr. Brophy, Mrs. J. B. Brown, J. F. C. Bryce. Mrs. Bryce, Walter F. Evelyn H. Palmer, Miss Eugenie tor after adjgurning to Burgess, Mrs. Burgess, Henry Paul Palmer, Henry 1 Parsons, Mrs. film.-Reuter. Busch, Mrs. Busch, Miss Emilie Parsons, Eugene Patenaude, Mrs.
mald,
G
N. D. Patterson, Miss
Charles L.
C. B. Cordier, Mrs. Cordier, Mrs. Pulliam. Kate A. Cotter, Mrs. Joseph H. Cotton, Napoleon Courtemanche,
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Kenneth G. Rea, Master John
Performance Permit Refused.
to
Transmission During January.
"He was sent over by the War Oce to buy horses, wasn't he?" he asked.. "I always said that the Americans would find he'd come to Busch and Mrs. F. C. Buxton and Pearson, Miss H. Pearson, Miss M.
Mary E. MAYOR'S REBUFF FO
sell them a pup. Ha! Ha!" After "FLYING FATHER.”
a disconcerting silence he reiterat Pearson, Herbert J. Penn, Miss L.
ed, in a tone of entreaty: "Buy G. Perry, Miss E. M. Phillips, Mrs.
horses. The Rt. Hon. Earl of Cadogan Amy Peart Phillips, Randolph God-
Sell pups." and valet, Joseph Cahen. Mrs. A. frey Phillips, Darius
The iron-king pretended for a Valentine
The monthly report for Jan-moment to study the mechanism of Cameron, Mrs. Janet M. Castle, Phillips, Mrs. E. Erkine Pick, E. A.
uary of the Z. B. W. Broadcast-nn inverted hydraulic-crane. Mde. J. F. Chabel, Mille. R. W. Pickup, Mrs. Pickup, Miss Pickup,
New York. ing Studio gives a total of 286.75 Chabal, Walter J. Chellew, J. Char-atra. James Taft Pilcher, Miss
"That was always one of your honnier, Lt. Col. MacPie Claud, Edith Pilcher, Edouardo Pombo,
Mayor McKee, of New York, has hours of transmission, of which best jokes," he observed, dis- Ms. MacFie Claude (Nool Coun-Dr. Max Porges, Mrs. Porges and head of the "Flying Family," a per-programmes and 108.75 to Chin-
refused Mr. George R. Hutchinson, 178 were devoted to European paragingly. tess of Rothes), Mrs. De Witt Clin-muld. Miss Grace Power, Sir Wal mit for his children to give perfor-ese relays.
"It wasn't a joke at all," said the ton, Miss Mary De Witt Clinton, ter M. P. Preston, Lady Preston mances in a Brooklyn Theatre
private secretary, stiffly. Mrs. C. D. Coleman, Col. Constant, and maid and Judge
The relays were divided up as
"But none of us dared to tell you raise funds for a flight which the follows:-Morning transmissions
so" confessed the iron-king, "As family proposes to make from Lon-including commercial news and 'don to Australia.
Church relays, European 56.25, a matter of fact, there was a certain truth in the remark. The remount- The permit was refused on a Chinese 48.75. Mrs. Courtemanche, Mrs. Arthur Ren, Miss Margaret Reid, Mrs.,
officer did try to sell them a pup. petition of the Brooklyn Children's Crary, Miss Mary V. Crary, Her- Luella M. Robbins, Chapman Ropes, Society, the Mayor remarking: "pean 121.76, Chinese 66,00.
Evening transmissions. Euro-That's why he's overdue." man Cron, Mrs. Cron, Frank C. Milton E. Rosenheim, C. W. Row think the decision and the Society's Monthly percentages were.-
The private secretary took his Cullen, Mrs. Cullen and Neil B. Tey, Miss Miriam Rowley, Robert reasons for opposing the permit European 62,07, Chinese 37.93, for the iron-king, and prepared him
whisky and soda, ordered another Cullen,
H. Rycroft and Mrs. Rycroft.
During the month the follow-self-for the story.. speak for themselves." 3. C. Daniel, Parcy W. Darby-
Mr. Hutchinson, whose seroplane ing items were broadcast.-Dame Dr. Nuri Sabit Rev. A. H. San crashed in the ice floes of Greenland programmes 8, European studio
"Who persuaded the remount- phire, Mrs. Darbyshire. Major Cderson, Mrs. Sanderson, Mrs.
cfficer that he could play poker?"! Claflin Davis, Miss Alma Rose Eileen Sanderson, Mrs. Winifred Europe fight last September, was certs 4, European relays 49, run-ly.
on
attempted New York-concerts 14, Chinese studio con-demanded the iron-king, nggressive- Davis, Mrs. Albertine Davis, I.A. Sapte, Mrs. Samuel J. Schneck, not received by the Mayor when he ning commentaries 4, Chinese re- who had never played with him,
"It must have been someone Davis, Mrs. Davis, Miss E. Day. Frank A. Schumaker, W. E called at the City Hall.
lays 7; European lecture 1, Euro-imagine: probably someone who had Princess de Ligne, Baron Do Mar-Scott, J. H. Scribbans, Mrs. World-wide criticism of wicz, Baronne De Marwicz, Mrs. Scribbans,
the pean children's programmes
4 had a run of bad luck and had heard Camilla de Rekowski, Abram De cock, Miss M. Silcock, Cecil Flying Father" for risking the Chinese children's programmes of him for the first time. Heaven ¡lives of his two daughters, aged 84. Ronde, Miss Ethel De Ronde, Simpson, W. E. Skitch,, Mrs, Skitch, and 6 years, followed the failure of New dicences issued during night out on the Scorbutic i dia- knows, I'ma no player; but the first, Truman M. *Dodson, Mrs. Arthur Smallwood, Mrs. Small-the attempt. Dodson, Mrs. N. S. Dunlop and wood, C. W. Smith, Mrs. Smith, A.
The family were re- January tolalled 251: Renew-covered that I'd forgotten more. the sea by a British als of licences during the month than he'd ever learnt. I'm no D. Smith, Miss Edith Shepard cued from
trawler.
totalled 1,816.
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Mrs. Margaret C. Dwyer.
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R. Max Eaton, Mrs. Eaton, Miss D. Eaton, Miss M. Eaton and Mra.
Anna Bare Eldon.
F
Mra
$
G. G. SIL
Smith, J. B. Smith, D. Cargill Southam, Capt. W. W. H. Stansfield, Mrs. James Starr, Miss Sarah Logan Starr, James R. Steele, Mrs. Steele, Mrs. John Steele,, Mrs. M. C.
P. J. Falvey, Mrs. Falvey, W. J. Steele, A. R. Stephenson, Mrs. Falvey, Mins L J. Fauchon, Miss Stephenson and Miss Lech F Barbara Fisher, Wallace B. Flint, Strayer. A Mra, Flint, Miss Katherine F. Flint
*. and Mrs. Margaret Frazor.
G
J. W. Gardiner, Ivan E. Carver,
Mr. E. Gawthropp, Mrs. Clara Bell Gibson, Maj. A. W. Gill, Mrs. Gill, Mrs. S. M. Glassco, Miss Barbara Anne Glasaco, Mrs. Gilbert Good- ridge, John Greenbaum, Thomas Greenfield, A. C. Grinths, Mrs. Griffiths and iss Harriet E. Grout, the
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Mr. Hutchinson is trying to raise 10.000 for his new air venture.
Reuter,
HOUSEBREAKERS TAKE GRAMOPHONE.
Madrid.
Mra. James B, Tailer, Mrs. Carc It takes music to make Christmas
U
George C. Urlin..
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
W.
A MONKEY'S LIFE · WORK.
Measuring Stick For Human Health.
player, but I know it; the trouble, with the remount-officer was that! ho thought he could play and went on thinking It at anything from twenty-five to thirty pounds a night the whole way over. He still thought| it when we reached New York; and' I went out of my way to advise him to atlek to horses and leave poker alone the States.". He threw
and
of
his tradejournal away line W, Thomas, Dick Thornton, merry, In the opinion of persons Washington, District of Columbia. H. J. Tilt. Mrs. Till, E. Tweedale. who entered the home of ex-Minis- A monker, patiently sitting in a shrugged his shoulders compassion Mrs. Tweedale, Miss H. Tweedale ter Honorlo Cornejo. Pu
draught, is giving scientists of the ately. You can never convince a and Mige Twecdale.
Overlooking countless valuable ob Carnegic Institution of Washington men that he hasn't a sense jects in the same room and selecting a new memuring stick for testing humour," he resumed, "and I believe only dance records, they stole a human health.
it's as hard to teach any man that gramophone, leaving a Merry is sliting in the draught to he can't play poker. The Yankees Christmas" note and a stack of enable scientists to learn more tried from the moment he landed; grand opera recorda. The grame about the human body's heat pro- they reasoned with him into the Major J. B. Walker and valet phone and records taken are worth duction, because, for the purposes Middle West; and he was still buy- Ifr. 1. L. Wallis, Hon. Lorne C. about £16-Reuter.
of this test, he closely resembles a ing experience at their price when we met two months later in Kansas Mrs. Alexander and Webster, Miss Marion 1. Webster, meld, Miss Mary L. Hamilton, Miss Richard Mobster, heart woods, W.-H. Woodward, Mrs. The drought is a ca
is a carefully re-City. I dined with him and a num- Dorothy Hartle, L. M. Hawkins, Webster, Eric T Webster, E. Woolf, Mrs. Belle Wortham, gulated curgent of air flowing slow-ber of men on my way east, and Mrs. Hawkins, R. A. Heeran, Mrs. Howard Webster, Harold Wesley, Clarence A Wortham, Maxwell ly, through a glass and wire cage, after dinner he pulled up a table Adelaide Hennessy, Mrs. M. E. Mrs Wesley, Miss Joan Wesley, Worthum, I. S. Wyna and Mrs The monkey breathes some of the and said: Hesketh Wright and maid, Barney Miss Ida Wesley, Miss Betty Wes Wynn. Hess, Mrs. Hosa, Francia J. Higley, CA. P. Whooler, Arthur Wil-
man
oxygen from this air and breathes Do any of you guys know any out, carbon dioxide which is added thine about poker?
gia, Lady Bektrix Houre, Harry Hams, J. G. Willia; Mrs. Wolis, Thomas H. Yawgor and Mrs, to the originaal. Measuring "One or two hinted that they'd Hoare, Charles C. Hoge, Mrs. Mary Miss Eleanor P. Wilson, Mrs. Tawger
J. Hogle, W. E. Horton, Ralph Hub- Anna Vitherspoon, Miss Wenzella bard and Miss Virginia Hughes. Witherspoon, Mien
Ellabeth
Mrs. Kenneth Zimmerman.
these losses and gains of chemicals teard of the game, and in less time In the air shows the monkey's hont then it takes to tell we were hard
uter.
(Continued on Page 12.)
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