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You have a lot of cargo lying idle in the godowns and you are anxious to ship it to Haiphong for inland China.
Will you please bring the problem to us?
We know we can offer you service to your satisfaction.
AVA TRADING CO.
Transportation. Dept.
Phone: 31433
Cable: "0099"
22, Des Voeux Rd., C., 1st Floor
HONG KONG
Also Offices at-
Haiphong, Kunming, Kweiyang, Chungking, Chengtu & Sian, etc.
Announcing
CHILDREN'S CHARITY FAIR
IN AID OF
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF WAR ORPHANS
ON
SATURDAY, MAY 20th, 1939.
'All The Fun Of The Fair"
From 2 p.m. till 7 p.m.
AT NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON
OPPOSITE PENINSULA HOTEL
NUMEROUS SIDE SHOWS
RAFFLES, ETC.
Special Attraction
CHİLDREN'S DRESS PARADE Come and support a good cause!!!
EAT AT
Kitchen
THE CHINA MAIL,
MR. AND MRS. SM
LOTUS-EATING
MR. and Mrs. Albert Smith, of Here is a typical Hollywood day,
Highgate-hill, No. 7, have re- Up at nine. Orange juice and turned from Hollywood. They had coffee for breakfast. The weather been to visit Mrs. Smith's cousin outside is perfect (they had only Charlie.
five days' rain in 365).
Charlie Chaplin.
From the big, rambling bunga- They took a year off to play low-type house Charlie Chaplin's something nearly every one means garden looks perfect. The lawng
to do, but few do. For twelve
stretch away down in terraces to
months they followed the sun and the kidney-shaped swimming pool.
sat in it.
You can't see the tennis court; it is hidden by trees.
What do they lose? Was it worth it? What have they missed
What shall we do to-day? Why, and what are they going to miss?
let's go and spend the day at Hal Now they are back, are they back Roach's place. This is not hard- where they started? Will shaking ship. Mr. Roach has a swimming hands with Hedy Lamarr have pool, tennis court, bar and stand- strengthened or weakened their ing buffet of salads and joints.
characters?
Will Mr. Smith's rivals have shot ahead of him in his absence? And will he now shoot ahead of them on account of the broadening influence of travel?
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They drive over, both dressed in slacks. They may not see Mr. and Mrs. Roach all day, but there is no feeling of trespass. Once they like you and everything they have is yours. I feel a certain personal interest in Mr. Smith's professional progress Boaches' daughter Margaret. Betty They spend the day with the because he used to be manager of Smith swims and her husband plays one of our local cinemas. Many a tennis. There is plenty of company time he has waved me courteously hanging around actors, writers,
towards the nines.
But until now we had not met.
directors and so on.
B
built at Til has a
He is darkish and amiably vivaci- That they never owed any one a dress. The
They all have the same complaint.
ous-looking, with a peaked nose and a jutting jaw. She
penny until they came to Hollywood should spen is dark and amiable, too; vivaciously good- and now they owe everybody for buy the sho at ten times their previous salary, on accessor looking, with catching smile. Casually well dressed under a very that in this tennis court, sunbath- they buy thị everything. Trouble seems to be spend as m opulent fur cape, Her hair, face, and make-up are all slick in an un- ter any more than it does on any ing atmosphere money doesn't mat- studied way.
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Now what has Hollywood done to these two ex-ordinary people?
They have come back to see. They are going to stay in England a month or two and see whether they prefer to stay here. or accept the jobs offered by Chaplin.
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Flash back eighteen months and see what kind of life they were leading..
They lived in a flat at the foot of Highgate-hill.
other holiday.
Husbands know more
Except that this isn't a holiday, fairs over be called to the studio by their wrong, and For one thing, they are all liable to where the
out in the morning without leaving the pie. agents at any minute. No one goes what produ
a number.
For there
For another thing; they talk no- wood men v them are working on a script or than a dru thing but business. And some of course, to ti
rehearsing a part.
with patent For lunch Mr. Smith has a salad have to was and beer. Mrs. Smith an avocado doesn't alter cook, just l Hollywood stories.
The Smith
They found that in
They got up at eight and break- fasted off orange juice and tea. pear. Then they both went off to work, Mrs. Smith to start work in beau- they ate less, drank less, smoked as ty parlour by 9.30, Mr. Smith to much, spent much more time out of people a lot start work in the cinema at. Clap doors, and went to the pictures less. they are so ham by 10. Mrs. Smith got home at 6.30; she had the rest of the day
to herself, for her husband didn't get back until after midnight; he was very keen on his work.
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Here is a fascinating fact. Dur- Smith: "You ing the year they spent in Holly- and a lot mo wood the Smiths met and went the top of th They went to all the good places. around with most of the big names. Marriage :i vate affair be
Yet in that year Mrs. Smith has there. Mrs. worn evening dress twice and Mr. duced as “M husband," wi
And now the scene changes to Smith not at all. Hollywood, land of high hopes' and heartbreaks, etc.
Problematics By EEN SHAW- No.
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THE PATH ROUND MY CIRCULAR LAWN IS EDGED WITH 8′′TILES 66 ON THE INNER EDLE 104 ON THE OUTER EDGE THE PATH IS 4 WIDE.
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THE CLOCK — THE BEDTIME HANDSARE EXACTLY DARLING OPPOSITE TO ONE
ANOTHER AND NEARLY HORIZONTAL
WHAT WAS
THE EXACT
TIME?
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MY NEIGHBOUR'S LAWN IS
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·WITH A SIMILAR PATH, CONSEQUENTLY HE NEEDED 132 TILES FOR HIS INNEREDGEA
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CAN YOU COMPLETE
HOW MANY DID HE NEED
THIS CROSS
THE POLICEMAN IS TRYING TO CATCH THE CRIMINAL. HOW MANY WAYS ARE THERE OF PLACING P. And C. SO THAT THEY CANNOT CIS — ALONG AS
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