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THE CHÍNA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1955.
VIENNA OPERA HOUSE REOPENS NZ Drive Against
SATURDAY
International
Audience
Will Attend
Vienna, Oct. 30.
November 5,
The Vienna Opera, one of the world's greatest opera houses, is to reopen here on ten years after its destruction by fire during World War II, with a performance of the Beethoven's "liberation opera," Ludwig "Fidelio."
van
In the State Bax will be the 80-year old' white-bearded President of the Austrian Republic, the a general in Theodor Koerner, who, as Imperial army, used to attend performances in the old building when the box was still occupied| by a Habsburg Monarch.
Ar international audience of jably modiven picture of Orpheus music lovers faven all over the land Eurydice verging from thei kwork,
And, as the Vien- diplomats, umcials, underworld
the would teneu and businessmen will new
pit, pastest
have disap-
Suc
Climbers
Drop Claims
Katmandu, Oct. 30.
If not prepaid a booking fee rowd the foyers, restored to imperial magni of 50 centa la charged.
their formes glory of white and peized from the State box
Special and leaf gold
In the opening month of the Japan, new
House, the Vienna State Correspondents Australia arvi South Africa, #6 Opera Company will perform no well as from every country in Hess than seven different operna Sir John Runt, leader of the MISS ALICE LILY teaches balloon
There will also to actionatiBurge, have been flooding the fand one ballet GANCUNE Made
British expedition to Everest in re- when gamister for weeka with gentlemen, beglanets and the
ย one performance of Beeth-1958, and Bir Edmund Hillary. Luli by myyrmat
The wish to improve
pven's Ninth Symphony
who conquered the mountain, Please tele- teueste din tickets Heat at pupti's home
fight of each opern is to
their plans to 7541 il 29
have dropped piute
be a big clal casin Street, Happy Valley
two big peaks clitub
in the Everest region next year.
mountains-28,146-foot
Jing Kwongi
WANTED KNOWN
A
Vienam volsides if fifting that the Opera Hour.
prow landmark. should be Vienu reopened in 1955, the year of the restoration of Austrian |vignily after 17 years of Nar write toul and Allied Occupation.
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NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
be
closed
1
Burg Reopening
Thirty Operas
I
Boehm's
Both
Kanchenjunga and 27,790-foot Makalu, the world's third and sixth highest-were climbed
According to !present plans, th
have to rehearse a repertoire of
30 Lover
the Ars! TAS including several new
company will! 101s
And
its opening. in Novembe,pductions. was preceded by the reopening greatest singers
u! Uhr October 15,
Burk theatre, the leaditional evatre of the theatrical life and skill of Imperial Virano, In the rat lime since World War 11
even
on
In
this year by different ex- ABHush Embassy spokes- man said here today that both the Si John and Sir Edmund had will have to Informed the Nepalese Gov- submit to a discipline which, so ernment they were giving up these peaks fr, in the Teutre an der Wien, their claims
had reserved £21 which they hus not been imposed.
There will be no more exien-advance last year.
Sir John intended to climb [sive foreign tours, for example, for star singers. Dr Buchm is Kanchenjunga in the spring but
British expetition Both May Opera Britise and the insisting
clause in each n un k Burg thoutre were all but com-
Finger's
contrael binding the Charles Evans has now done 1. French climber, Jean least Ave or six Arul pletely destroyed in the closing artist to
work The Opera | months'
for Franco, led a party up Makalu stages of the war.
Muil Special.
to ven
der
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Vienna
under
The Club Bar and Restau-House, built in 1809 by Eduar! three consecutive years. China before Sir Edmund, -- China
Nuel and August | Mall Special. rant will members from 26th October Siccard von Siccardsburg in the style of the rich neo-baroque day, was left a burned-out shell
March 14, 1945
to 4th November (both datos
inclusive).
By Order,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
Hint has Since then deferted except for the work-
it
WHO
HE'S NO BOY. THAT'S
ARE
JAKE. HE TOOK ONE OF
men--though the Opera company have made themselves a second Secretary.home はん the Theater an
MANDRAKE, YOU'RE WONDERFUL! YOU CATCH THE WHOLE GANG--
YOU,
THE TWENTY-YEAR-
BOY?
YOUNGER PILLS.
AND THE LO07--THEN
ster
TAY TO MAKE
Wien.
US SWALLOW
BUT
THAT YARK/
CHIEF-
A. E. ARNOLD,
NOTICE
Ceremonial
UNION INSURANCE
It has taken ten years of work and 280,000,000 sefulllings tove:
£3,500,000 sterling) to
restory the Opera House to much the same outward appearance
SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. | before. The new House, how-
that
2003
ever, bouts 1734 of the mos! advanced stages in Europe Irv the technical point of view.
A
Notice to Shareholders
The Opera House first opened NOTICE IS HEREBY
in May 1869, with a perfo:nance GIVEN
interimot Mozart's Don Giovaná.
dress rehearsal of the Dividend of $1.00 per share firmal
ala attended by has been declared on account same operu,
the Federal President, will inork of the year 1956.
the restoration of the House to its trudiilonul role on November 4, the day
before the offletul opening.
This Dividend is payable on or after 21st November 1956.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be closed from 12th November to 20th November 1966 both days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
D. B. SINCLAIR, Assistant General Manager. Hongkong, 29th Sept., 1965-
To ADVERTISERS
There will be o coronatal
which £21
the Inauguration Minister for Reconstruction will hand the keys of the new House to the Minister for Culture, who In turn will pass them ↳ Dr Kerl Boehm, the Conductor, who Is the first Director General o the new Opera House,
This is the one building on which the Austrian state, which owns It has spared no pains. SUNDAY POST-HERALD The architects have reconstruct. ed the auditorium almost, though Space for commerolat
not quite, in its former style. advertising should ba
The traditional red, gold and booked not Istor than white have reappeared and phunds of gold leaf have been noon on Wednesdays.
used in decorating the building. For the SOUTH CHINA Even the red silk tapestry which covers the walls is a reproduc- MORNING POST and tha
tlon of that used previously, to GHINA MAIL, 48 hours
the same pattern
by the firm before date of pubilation, which supplied the original silk
Announcements in 1800.
Spacial
and Clufied Advorlie- mants as dual.
Simmons
Beautyfrest
Mattienes. Bed Chari
But there is a smooth line in the new auditorium, which is i absent from pictures of the old. The old chandeller has been replaced by an obviously modern one, with 1,400 lamps and six metres (18 (cet) in diameter, in the centre of the radially patterned roof.
FERDINAND
NANCY
ARF
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curtain JOHNNY HAZARD
Iron The fire-proof between the audience and the stage now boare an uminislak-
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By M. P. CHU, AHiji,
on exhibition at 9th floor
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Famagusta, Cyprus "Towns: their watching framin people balcoutes ses Brilish troops imposing a daylight ourfew on Famagusta, second largest The curfow town in Cyprus.
followed the shooting of # Royal Air Force officer and the wrecking of the police
station by bomb.
on
Thoko incidents reflect the tension Brittal-controlled island, where there is a strong movement for Enosis (unton has Britain with Greece) countered terrorist attacks by Increasing the military forcen on the island and appointing a military governor.—Express
Photo.
Jordan Senate Appointments
A
Amman Oct. 30.
un- Royal decree today nounced the appointment of 20 persons to the Jordan Serato which was dissolved last week constitution. under the amended cons
it was also announced that King Hussein will officially open
#new session
Mail Notices
Alcoholism
SUDDEN PUBLIC CONCERN
Wellington, Oct. 80 New Zealand has suddenly started a drive against alcoholism.
A National Educational Society on Alcoholism was formed during September, and the activities of Salvation Army social workers and Alcoholics Anonymous have become news which is displayed with emphasis by daily newspapers.
This sugiden interent da not be established in Dunedin soon, because the country has taken and advice and modioat treat- to the bottle," but because the ment will be available, medical profession has focussed attention on something which has long existed a skoleton in the national cupboard.
On the spot donations were Cho Society's first made at meeting, by private citizens Pied god
and business houses. Soveral
organisations support
Immediat
The problem of the alcoholic local Is growing. A staff correspon- their dent of the Wellington morn-| B
afterwards, one of the ing daily newspaper. The browing firma in the country,
sumed it up like Now Zealand Breweries Limit this: "There are definite signs, ed, announced
Dominion.
that it would
A Nuisance
of increasing Interest In the give £500 to the Society. problem but it is probable that few people are fully aware of 11s extent. It may well be that it is Buffelcatly serious to the warrant active steps by Government, “
Current Opinion
The current public concern
A branch of the Society has been formed in Auckland. At meeting there the inaugural
(LS Professor Caughey,
gutet
speaker, said that in the past
hospitals
alcoholic
had regarded
the
AS a nuisance
but
was now being
that
Roto
Roa
about alcoholism seems to have this attitude been provoked by an estimate changed The latest
by Professor J.E. Caughey, of
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 By Air Formon, US-A., § ̧p.m.
Pastor Miridie Burte, India, East, Great Britain, Europe, 8 p.m.
Japan, & p.m.
Macko,
By Surface p.m. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Fly Air Thailand, 10 a.m.
N. Borneo, Australia, New Zealand.
2 p.m.
Philippines 2 p.m.
Quat, awall, U.S.A. 2 p.m. Malaya, Indonesia. 3 p.m. of the Jordan
Thailand, India, Middle For
Great Britain & Europe.
Parliamentary on November 1.
In his throne speech, he will deal with Jordan's foreign and internal
relations policy anxi with other Arab states.-Reuler.
JOKE IF YOU WANT TO, MANDRAKE. THIS IS YOUR DAY AND THE DEPARTMENT
IS PROUD OF YOU!
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Korea, gp.m.
Japan, 0 p.m.
Canada, .. Philippines.pm.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
HE GOING TO SHOOT WAL
KOLNZ
HOW OLD ARE YOU, SONY NOT MORE
THAN TEN.
1 AIN'T
TALKIN'
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
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-ERNIE- BUSHMILLEÍs
CANDY
By Frank Robbins
the Otago Medical School, that Island, a haven for alcoholles
there are alcoholics
Several
more
than New in other medical
support his estimate.
Declaring
by the
run
Salvation Army, than
20,000 Zealand.
more little men provided
segregation from the comfrun- ity, he added: "We believe that
of DOPEN the present system mitting people to Roto Ros 11
What La
In the annual report of the
19
Department of Health, too, wrong, for they receive littlo
was disclosed that alcohol
WIL one of the largest single causes; of insanity among the men of New Ze
Zealand.
Dhiring 1984, 31 men and six women were certi- મસ્ત insane
¤ result 02
alcoholism, compared with only two cases of insanity attribul- able to drug addiction.
от
sale
of
medical
treatment.
needed are beds in a hospital, Roto Ron should be abondoned." issuedt by the Figures
Statistics Branch Medical the Department of Health show that the problem is worst in In Wellington. Dunedin and
The Society will engage in Wellington, there are 8.8 known no aptivilles either to promote
to prevent the liquor. But it was agreed that Houor must be kept away from alcoholics and toon-agers.
A full time secretary will be appointed. The first clinic will
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS.
AND REFRIGERATORS
If we were
any fresher wed still be on the vine!
Libbey's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIÉS
TODAY
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
San Miguel
in every 10,000 alcoholfes people and in Dunedin, 5.3. In Auckland,
per there are 2.2 10,000
Christchurch, and in 1.d. The statistics bratich says that it may well be that these figures do not prosent an ác- curate pleture.
Labourers, the term cavern
a multiplicity irsg
of work, contribute the most alcoholics according to these statistics, but there are also solicitors, com- pany managers, chemists, countants, a doctor, optición, artist and hypnotist, ang many others.
First Aim
The first declared aim of the sociál workers arid medical men active in the new crusade is to convince the public, that alcoholism is a sickness, not a form of immorality to bd deplored and ignored. At an
of meeting
Alcoholics Arionymous In Wellington, a former alcoholle stressed this problem and aspect of the urged that better facilities be provided throughout New Zea Land for a treatment.
open
"We inck theso facilities," he said. "An alcoholio is put among other mental patterita in hospitals and thougfi I am not suggesting that he hit a mental patient, I should like for to see a ward set aside him where possible!!!
The causes of alcoholism..pre not fully understood, but dbo- to know that, with proper mbthods atid laya 66:5þération of the patient It can be cured. -China Mall Special.
NEW DEAL FOR THE MASAL
(Continued from Pigo 4)
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tribul elders think .. But the that thesd are reasociable prios to pay for preserving til mucit s they can of thæle aricient way at ife. They will be moto des pendent uT the white noui'a cviliation; but they w Hid in a sterengke position": chalcitain their own fakteriers- dering to
Milly Mamal Hindy when Polent the white man's intrusion. Blit to retrospect, it was probably, good thing the thorn thai ttin wřille mäit did come,+
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