Miss Anna May Wong, (above), the famous Elm star, arrived, în Hong Kong yesterday by the ss. President. Grant
for ST
STAMP COLLECTORS
THE identification of
By A. E. L
water-ter. The two main papers.
THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936
DR. C. T. WANGIN HONG KONG
Rotary Dinner Party At HK Hotel
VISIT TO SOUTH ENTIRELY NON-POLITICAL
To-day's Short Story
A Pair Of Trousers
By Hardie Matthew
riw be without fannel trousers over the wood and glass partition
on a holiday is like trying of the fitting room.
TH
to play football in a silk hat Mr. Robotham, though not old-
to me.he would be about forty or so Dr. C. T. Wang, State Councillor at least so it seems of the National Government and There is something of the holi-did not possess that slim, elegant delight to member of the Central Execu-day spirit woven into their tex-figure which tailors tive Committee of the Koomin-ture. They are a symbol of portray on their advertisements. His waist measurement, in fact. sanx, arrived in Hong Kong yes-freedom and relaxation.
So when I discovered, in n-exceeded that of his chest, alwaJK terday by the ss. President Grant,
at the Hong backing my clothes at the hotel, an ominous sign. To fit him well and is now staying Kong Hotel He was met on the that I had left mine at home, I called for some care.
Besides, Mr. Robotham detested" Professor was annoyed.
Ee detested ship's arrival
I came down to the hotel lounge ordering new suits. Forster, of the University of Hons Kong, President of the loen! Ro-entered into desultory conversa choosing cloth, he never felt cer a stout,
middle-aged tain he was going to like it, bati tary Club. and other personal tion with
gentleman sitting there, and be most of all he detested being mes- friends.
in an interview with members fore very long found myself tell sured. At the same time, he was
by
of the press, Dr. Wang said that ing him of my predicament.
his programme had been complete-
Can-
He smiled reminiscently
"I know of a case where the that!
ORIENTALE
WE SHOW ONLY THE BE
OF THE BIG FEATURE PRODUCTIONS.
Here's another bunch.
of good "^pictures we can recommend to you."
THE KIND THATS GOT THE STUFF IN THEM THAT MAKES ENJOYABLE ENTERTAINMENT.
TO-MORROW-MONDAY TUESDAY
rather particular about his ap pearance. Lots of men are like
upset by his failure to reach
So it was with special care that! Canton by air on Monday last, lack of that essential garment was when the plane was compelled to very much more disastrous? be the head cutter noted the length
said.
of his sleeve, the opening of his turn back owing to bad weather.
He had a story to tell, and I vest, and his particular require- He hoped to have visited ton before coming on to Hans saw he was determined I should ments as to pockets.
"Now about the trousers, be Kong to address the Rotary Club bear it. He leant back in the easy!
chair and started off.
gan Mr. Robotham, frowning. on Tuesday, but now he would
A certain Mr. Robotham was at But at the word trousers stay in Hong Kong over the week
A end, leaving probably on Monday his tailor's ordering a new sit head cutter winced visibly, as at
He had chosen the materials something not quite decent. morning for Canton, where be
crossed his expression dark blue dressy cloth, and the pained would address the Rotary Club of: Cantón, and return here on Taes-head cutter was running a tape face, and be backed hastily out of
waist and the fitting-rooms. day, when he would go on to Swaround his chest and
out the measurements tow if there were a steamer avail calling iable.
Stamp under investigation is are a blue "safety" paper and ways a matter of concern to the jwhite paper, the former being list serious stamp collector. Fromed in combination with the Small time to time philatelic pablica-and Medium Garter watermarks. tions note the tendency of inks and the latter with all three tead in the printing of a stamp watermarks. to "bleed" when treated with benzine in the process of identify-{ ing the watermark.
THE
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First Air-Mail Letter
Rotarian, Not Political
Dr. Wang said that his visit was entirely.Rotarian, he being Governor of the 81st District of Rotary, which embraces China, the Philippines. Hong Kong and His visit had nothing to do, with that of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross.
Asked if there was any truth In
the
be "Trousers!"
called loudly outside. Robotham should have known, of course, that bead cut-
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COLONY BILLIARDS ters definitely ignore the existence 2 Days Only: WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY.
CHAMPIONSHIP
The Semi-Finals And Finals
TO BE PLAYED AT THE CLUB LUSITANO
1785
of this necessary, but lowly, gar-i To have anything to do] ¡ment.
with it would be grossly undigni- fied and flouting tradition.
**Trousers" The call for echoed up some distant back stair- way like the wail of the banshee not 20 The response to it was ethereal. There was a loud clatter
pistoom and rumble as of a
of
the suggestion that he had been
persuade Mr. H sect to try to Han-min to go to Nanking. Dr.
At a meeting of the committee Guardsmen in full marching order! A heavy, determined tread crept nearer, Wang said that he could positively that he
was on no off the Hong Kong Amateur Bil-tumbling downstairs.
liards Association arrangements
state
WIS
ficial mission, though he perwere made for the staging of the and the fitting-room door senally hoped that Mr. Hu would!
wuruly sandy local Senior and Junior Champion-young man with
hair and cadaverous countenance. accept the invitation of the Na semi-final and final matches in the fluss open to admit a tall, gannt king Government.
jahip
Olympic Athletes
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "Art Claims The Artist," by Alex Barber.
An attempt THE world's first air-mail letter is said to have been carried to find acceptable substitutes for benzine would from this stand-from Philadelphia to Woodbury,
By kind permission of the Pre- point, seem a profitable line of NJ, just 148 years ago. Old re-
Dr. Wang, who is Chairman of sident and committee of the Club, cords show that it was taken with experimentation.
led in the ball room of that club Watermarking 393 paper is the French balloonist Jean Pierde Committee of the China National Lusitano these games will be play-
¡Amateur Athletic Federation,
table which is to be usually accomplished by rendering Blanchard, when with his dog fors portions more transparent or company, he ascended on January stated that the Chinese contingent a new
Crawford, Ltd. Stands are being more opaque Agents adapted to 9, 1793, from the yard of the old of athletes for the coming Oly-specially erected by Messrs. Lane, will be ample erected and there rendering these marks more dis-Walnut Street Prison, a site now pic games, numbering 158 in all
seating accommodation for en- man ship about. tinguishable would therefore serve occupied by the Pena Mutual Life would leave Shanghai on a Ger-
the middle of thusiasts. There will be reserved as aids in the identification of the Insurance Company's building.
and unreserved seats available.
It was the trousers cutter and watermark on a stamp.
It could hardly be said that airįjunë,
Dr. Wang was the guest of It has been arranged for the trimmer, Macpherson by TAMIL. Such an agent should have the mail service was given, since there
first of the matches to be played but also answering, during busi- following properties:
was a considerable element of honour at the annual dimmer of of Hong Kong,
on Monday, March 9.
ness hours, to "Trousers.” 1. It should have 2 defnite certainty as to just where the let the Rotary Club
was held at 8 o'clock last fact which
The following is the programme- “I don't want those Oxford bag selectivity in its absorption by theter would be delivered-in
Monday, March 9
affaire," said Robotham, begin-1 watermarked or the water that was one reason why it had night at the Hong Kong Hotel,
Professor Forster presiding.
5.30 pan. Junior Championship ning to feel irritated for no rea- marked portion of the stamp.
semi-final (400 (up)- a colourless
son at all-unless it was à pre- 2 It should be
Senior Championship monition of what was to happen liquid to avoid colouring the stamps
semi-final (750 mp)-
Exter used in it.
"No, no! Ill see the that," re- High Volatility
5.30 pm. Junior Championship plied Macpherson affably, running 3. It shoulä have a high the citizens of the neighbourhood the Doumer, Briand and 1 f. 50
land Normandie stamps are all obsolete semi-fmal (400 up).
his tape up and down and round 9 pm. Senior Championship shout Robotham's legs volatility in order to assure rapid in which he happened to drying of the stamp after treat- Col. Charles A. Lindbergh also(the two former having been off
carried a letter of identification sale for some time) and that the semi-final (750 up). ment
St1 £50 Cardinal Richelieu would Wednesday, March 11 It should be relatively inex- from prominent citizens of
very shortly be sold out
5.30 p.m. Junior Championship pensive azid
available Louis, when he few to Paris. readily
French Calonies.-Of the recent Final (300 up).
"That'll be a' right. I ken fine through the retail trade, such as
Estonia-After much discussion Tercentenary Commemoratives of 9 pm. Flay off for third prize what ye want." Macpherson's re- 5. It should leave no residue the stamps that had been prepared the various French West Indianjin Senior Championship (750 up)-ply was meant to be soothing, but
were 33,000 with a portrait of President Paets possessions there
drug stores or paint dealers.
after evaporation.
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been written.
Written By Washington
Its author was George Washing-
ton, and it was written as a kind issue before April
of introduction for the aviator te
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France-We are advised
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Tuesday, March 10
"But I don't want to look as if I were wearing a couple of drain pipes,"
Thursday, March 12. it only added to Robotham's vague
Senior Championship irritation..
"And if they hang like concer- the final, first session (500 up).
..9 part
Senior Championship timas round my ankles, I won't
have them, that's al!" he cried fimal, second session (500 up).
But Macpherson was imper It is proposed that the prices of admission for the first three days turbable he patted Bobotham's
6 should not effect, appre-were rejected on the ground of complete sets printed. Of these poor execution. New plates have 20,000 were put on sale in Paris cibly, the gun on the stamp.
the printings and the remainder sent to 7. It should not have a solvent been ordered, but effect on the ink of the stamp nor from them will not be ready for colonies. the cancellation.
8. It should, preferably be non-
infamnable and non-toxic.
A survey of liquids which might
meet most of these requirement Government
Appointments
Smart "Just
be $1.10 to reserved seats and 55 arm confidentially.
"Till see ye get a real cents to the unreserved sexts. For the Senior Championship final pair o' breeks,” he said.
me, and nodded angely. appointments, jaddition to his other duties, dur-the prices of admission will be lerve it the
of Mr. Thomas $2.20 and $1.10 respectively.
Whereupon Mr Robotham, in a Servicemen in uniform will be loride, chloroform, acetone, benzol etc., are noted in the Governing the absence
Stodart Whyte-Smith or natïl fur- carbon disulphide, ethyl acetate. ment Gazette:---- amyl acetate, and ether.
yielded the following: benzine, 180. proof alcohol, carbon tetrach
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British Issues
THE public notice announcing
The following
Mr. Dongles James Valentine, ther notice, with elect from admitted to the unreserved seats rage, promptly bounced out of the at half price Association men-room and out of the shop. But MC, MB, BS. (Lord), D.PH February 18;
Charles bers will be admitted free on all them something like that always Boland Arthur Mt.
happened to him when he ordered D.T.M. & H., to act as Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary North to act as Secretary for days.
at a suit.
Macpherson, meanwhile,
Services, with effect from Febru- Chinese Affairs, with effect from
February 22;
ary 22;
Tickets can be obtained Messrs. Gande, Price and Co.
BOY FALLS INTO HARBOUR
TE
Its position symbolised the impor the all-important costs were ent tance of trousers in a suit of clothes, at least to a tailor. They were above the humble workroom, but had not attained the stature and dignity of" s-dat
the issue of the first British
At the end of each day's play treated up the stairs to his lair. Mr. J. L Tetley, BA, ALC., Ad stamp was dated July 24, 1855.
Mr. Thomas Richmond Rowel and Mr. A. Kuzrik to be Analysts there will be bomsolite ball corn- lay half-way between the work- and the stamp was issued on the
an Inspector of
for the purposes of the Adulter-petition, for which a cae and case rooms and the shop itself, where 31st of that month. It was ren B.Sc, to act as dered necessary by the reduction English Schools, zice Mr. James ated Food and Drugs Ordinance will be presented to the player in the rate of postage to France Ralston, MA on leave, with (Ordinance No. 8 of 1935); making the highest break
The person for the time being from 100 to 4d, and therefore reflect from February 22;
Stuart Seguin Strahan executing the duties of Medical placed the 10d, embossed stamp.)
The design, simple as it was. MR. B.CL. (Oxon), to be a men-officer in charge of Kowloon and achieved both beauty and dignity, ber of the Dental Board for a New Territories to be a Deputy in fact to the unprejudiced, mind, further period of three years, Registrar of Births and Deaths both this and the first 60 and 1s. with effect from January 6; regarded purely as designs, may Dr. Edward Wilfred Kirk to be well appear to be superiat, to the a member of the Midwives Board Id and 24 of the line engraved for a further term of three years,
Agirl assistant, onreuING. Whe racingular character with effect from January 9,
Miss Kathleen Trickett to be a fumes when fire broke out ht into Fork of the designs of the latter giving them a stiffness that is absent Nursing Sister, with effect from mouth in a Brighton hairdress
shop, and another who tried to ald from the earliest surface-printed February 6, “ Stamps.
GIRLS SAVED IN FIRE
Life Saved By Postanan Not that Macpherson was con
On His Round
Dr. Li Shu-fan to be a member her, were boths dragged to extety on the quay There were two main types of of the Medical Board for a further by neighboura ~ Jasper used for the early, 48. stamps term of three years, with effect
tent to be entting nothing but ¡trousers On the contrary, he spent all his spare moments chalk-
the Lead
cloth
dothed into the with the child to the
The Gusetts publishes a full list both were rescued by Mr. William James Lockert of midwives licensed to the Small, Medium and Large Gar-Smith to wet as Land Officer in in the Colony,
millan tolthed his de ters before changing his
and three different watermarks from February 11; have in be taken into consideration,
THIS IS NOT A $1,000,000 PRODUCTION but a darn swell picture, a fine story with plenty of action and thrills, it's far better than most of the pic- tures you've seen lately.
A Hell-Cat in tha Air...A Honey on the Ground.......I ádoljă Eiker presets
MYRNA LOY CARY GRANT
WINGS IN THE DARK
A Parambunt Picherewith Ruscon Items Hebert Cernonghi • Jean Dogger
What A Girl!
2 Days Only: FRIDAY & SATURDAY.
A REAL SMART COMEDY THATS A RIOT OF LAUGHTER ! Charlie and Mary in a hilarious matrimonial farce that's funnier than anything you've ever seen.
CHARLIE RUGGLES · MARY BOJAND
SUN
>>What the neighbors set; Mary bellavasi The dors of "Buggies ore et itogain,
•when the neighbors -tolk Charlie lata.» scantei ̋ka -conta sqlik bawalƐ cut off
| HYAMS · DEAN JAGOIR
MON TUES., MARCH 1-2-3
THE GREATEST OF ALL ADVENTURE PICTURES British soldiers battling blood maddened Tribesu Herds of elephants stampe ding through jungles.