HONG KONG BY NIGHT
you.
It's
Sooner or later all roads lead to that would, appeal" to
is undoubtedly the fast- the hotels. Here is an assorted night life group of people who may be found est this side of the globe. It isn't 27 them nearly any night of the known as the most wicked city in week.
What do they talk about? the world for nothing.” Listen in.
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A tired young man wearing horn- The tall and fashionably-dressed rimmed glasses and a crushed navy blonde from Chicago, Illinois, said blue suit, who made up the three- she was bored and looked it. Her some at the table, leaned forward Far Eastern tour, she said, had so and said: far been a total washout.
Here
"But the guy downstairs told me she was, practically on the last lap that there are a coupla joints down of her journey and she had found the street where they have Chinese none of the glamour and mystery girls as dance partners. What say for which, she had been told, the we give them the once-over, huh?". Orient is famous. In fact, up to "I don't think you will find them it's present stage, her journey had very exciting," said the old resident
if still with that pitying smile. been most unglamourous, and.
insist.
Life in the hotel moved on.
MATTERS SOCIAL
For
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1938.
BY
URSULA JEFFRIES
there was something in that, and the matter was shelved for fürther consideration..
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SHOCKING INCIDENTS-
Over a glass of beer a policeman in a loose-fitting blue blazer and grey flannel trousers is telling his pals the latest tid-bit about a cer- tain chum of his:
"It was nearing the end of the month and Brown hadn't a single arrest to his credit in the case book, so one night he decided to make a round up. He needed six law- breakers and these he got; among them being an old woman who was Well, hawking without a licence. It had been filled with small towels. you know Brown. Too soft-hearted to be a policeman, in my opinion. He always feels sorry for the "poor
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there was any mystery attached to one thing, m❜lad, they serve nothing life. My advertisement clearly devils", as he calls them. Anyway, it at all, that mystery lay in where stronger than lemonade. But if you stated that I wanted a job as an this old woman was put in the cells the glamour was to be found.
"Let's have another drink," sigh- office assistant, and what do I get? for the night, and the following What she wanted to know was-
Three replies all from men who morning released on a fine of two is there nothing apart from the ed the tired young man, "and make
want to keep me in silks and er- dollars. Brown gave her the two night life to be found in this hotel, mine a double Scotch!"
mines in return for my company!" the "Me, too," said
slim and where everybody just sits around,
dollars out of his own pocket, and blonde from
told her to pay it to the cashier as drinking and talking and getting up fashionably-dressed
Let's move on to a table where she went out. It seems she did no- for an occasional walk round the Chicago, Illinois. floor? She wanted to go places and "I'll keep to beer", added the old a couple of bright young men from thing of the sort, and you should rival newspapers are chatting over have seen Brown's face when he do things. The sort of places that Hong Kong resident.
.whisky and soda:
reprimanded for letting the one can get a kick out of; where
So Miss Jones-she's a woman go without her fine being people are less highbrow and the fun is fast and furious. See what she meant?
that you miss during the course of reported to the chief for duty the
chief Now let's drift over to a table She raised her slim body in it's a day, they say, you're bound to run following morning, and the
one of Hong instructed her on the ways of writ- where sit a group of naval officers, expensive decollete evening gown across it at either of gold lame from the green-cover- Kong's two most popular hotels at ing a social column in Hong Kong, emaculate in soup and fish.
He carefully emphasized that there
And Smith, having the ed easy chair, reached out for her night. glass of whisky and soda with It is hard to say which of the two was a vast difference between so- Captain's permission to spend dainty red-tipped fingers, and toss- is the more popular. One group of called society in Shanghai and so- week-end on shore, gleefully dash- Whereas the ed off to find himself a billet. Some- ed the contents back with one move- people may swear by the "Gripps", ciety in Hong Kong. ment.
another will be equally emphatic Shanghai people co-operated with one had recommended an inexpen- He about the Gloucester. There are the newspapers in order to see their sive place, and there he went. The old Hong Kong resident who those whose opinion is swayed by names in print, the Hong Kong peo- asked to be put up in a single room literally filled and overflowed an- the smoother and more highly po- ple rather went out of their way to for two days and the bloke asked
the former, avoid publicity. Then he proceeded him whether he wanted two other chair on the other side of the lished dance floor at table, stirred his bulk lazily. He and the fact that most of the people to set her a standard. She had put in or one. Poor old Smith went smiled pityingly, and crushed the they know go there. Others will to be very careful, he said, to make as red as a beetroot.
that the score had been satisfactorily settled tobacco in the bowl of his pipe with argue that the Gloucester is more a discrimination between, say, one stubby finger before he spoke: to their liking because the atmos- Peak residents and those who did between them, and one bed provid-
informal not live on the Peak. It wouldn't ed for Smith's needs, he took "If that is what you want, m'dear, phere is somehow more I am afraid you are going to find and, therefore, puts them at their do to put the name of Mrs. So-and- look round his room and noticed Hong Kong very disappointing, be- ease. Be that as it may, all roads so of the Peak under the same co- that there was a small receptacle after lumn as that of Mrs. So-and-So not in the bathroom which said "use cause what night life you find in lead to either one of them
If Mrs. for cosmetics. Smith swore that this hotel is all that we can offer dark, and nearly any night of the of the Peak, for instance. you. Now, if you can put up with week will find an assorted group of So-and-So not of the Peak threw a it was empty when he first saw it, us until things become settled-you people sitting round the dozens of party, the report should be included but later, when he retired for the
night, he found that it had would pick a time when the Jap- tables, exchanging news and the under a separate column.”
latest bits of scandal, over their fa-
the filled with small towels. anese and Chinese are having a
vourite drink. little war, you know-you could go city up to Shanghai. There's 3
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"How did she make out?" other journalist asked, interested.
Our attention is next attracted Let's wander around
"Well, they never got any further ten.
than discussing it. Miss Jones, you toward a table where a sporty-look-: Here's a flushed young lady with see, pointed out the pitfalls in such ing individual in a daring check suit a round childish face and grave an arrangement. She said that is engaging the whole-hearted at- brown eyes talking to a very wild- there were a lot of Mrs. So-and-So's tention of two other men.
“Can you beat it!. It was a hot looking man with a mop of red hair, not of the Peak who would soon no- as they SIP Gimlets
tice the discrimination and be just-and-sticky day in the middle
chief admitted
(Continued on Page 3) was never so shocked in all my ly offended. The
"Coupla joints down the street.”
of