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Annual meeting Humphrey's Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., Yachting: atb and last Cham- pionship Race (racing yachts).
Fanling Hunt Steeplechase Meet- ing, Kwanti, 315 p.m.
Football: Eastern and Southern Chias U. Hong Kong Interport Team, HK.F.O ground, 3.30 p.m.
"At Home" 8. Peter's Church Young Men's Club, 4.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "La Boheme" World Theatre: "Long Live The King."
Star Theatre: "Wife of the Centaur."
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The Court of Judge Concepcion was packed to capacity when the judicial hearing opened on Febru- ary, says the Konila Times, on the question as to whether leprosy, is a contagious disease in connection with the petition for habeau còr- The King and Queen are enjoy-pus by Angel Lorenzo, a leper who ing their atay at Sandringham is now confined in the Sea Lazaro where they will remain till the bo cepital, against Director Fajardo ginning of February. King George of the Philippine health service. is spending part of his time shoot-
Well-known local physiciana who ing over his own coverts with a few are considered experts on leprosy intimate friends, and of course at- were there to aid the Court. tending daily to his State duties.
Representative Gregorio Perfecto Queen Mary, finds plenty of interest of Manila, who represented Lorenzo and pleasure in visiting tenants of attacked the legality of the law the Sandringham estate.
which provides for the confinement Incidentantly one hears that their of lepers in Government institu- Majesties have completed their tinta. He considered the law in classification of the furniture, question as, clasa legiulation. For jewels, and other belongings of the while the Inw provides for the reFlower. late Queen Alexandra Everything striction of the liberty of the lepers that was of personal value or in- by confining them in a certain place terest was divided among the child- as a police measure to protect the ren of the Queen Mother, and the health of the public, yet there is remainder has been disposed of. no law which requires the confine It is not generally known that the ment of persons who are afflicted surplus was sold by auction, but with tuberculosis and other contagi- or their Majesties explicit com- que diseases.
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Queen's Theatre: *The Dust
World Theatre: "The Ten Com andments."
Star Theatre: "Lost and Found." Principal Kaila:-Inward: Europe via Negapatam, papers only" (Lai Sang). "Monday.
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Yachting: Ladies Section wil off tio of Championship Handicap Class; Menagerie race for all classe8.
“H.K. Hotel ten dance, 4.30 p.m.
Hotel Bavoy ten dansant, 4:30 Director of Health, argued that Dr. E. Philharmonic Society ro- Fajardo simply followed his duties hearsal (HLY.B. Pinafore), Cathe
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Star Theatre: "Lost and Found." Principal Mail:-Inward: U.S.A., etc. (President Monroe),
King George And The Shingle.. Recently there has been some dis cussion in the Fress about the popularity of the shingled or bob bed beads of the fair ex. Some legislature has powers to enact such observers declare that the fashion is laws as will redound to the benefit already on the wane, and they pre- of the general welfare of the pub diet thas in a couple of years all lie, and in passing such laws it may
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H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea daniant, 4.30 Queen's Theatre: "Dance Mad- Bess."
hair long again. For the present, however, the shingles is the order of the day. Women who have kept, their hairs the phrasa is, are regarded as cid-Victorian.
But there is one small section of high Society where long hair is still the rule. This is in Court circles. King George has a strong anti- the constitutionality of the law in F- pathy against short hair for women. question. It is known that while the Queen merely thinks the fashion ugly and recognises it advantages in many respects, the King's feelings are so decided that he refuses to permit any of the ladies attached to the Court to appear with shorn locks.
World Theatre “Siegfied." Star Theatre: "The Social Code."
reat. It is a sign of old age; and
Principal Mail:-Outward: the fabric of the Church is suffer- Europe sid Marseilles (Sphinz), It is 2.30 p.m.; Australia, etc. (Chang ing from the same defect. said that £10,000 is required to save (te), 10.30 am...
Wednesday. both the bells and the building. H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m.
Hotel Bardy ten daniant,- 4.30. pm.
Dedication St. John's Cathedral Organ, 5.45. p.m.
likeable of Wren's churches in London, and it serves five parishes. There are only 100 people resident. in those parishes, but more than 100,000 work in them every day. of What a change since the days yore, when London tradesmen lived over their shops, and their appren- tices and assistante were lodged on the premises ar close at hand.
A week or two ago a certain dis-St. Mary-le-Bow is one of the most tinguished lady en appointment as lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary de cided to smarten herself up by having her head shingled; but as soon as she appeared at Court she was given to understand that she must let her hair "grow again, and while this was taking place use some art of the hairdresser to con ceal the fact that she had lost her long tresses. It is remarked that most of the friends of both Princess Mary and the Duchess of York wear their hair long in deference to the King's wishes.
Disappearing Bohemia. There is a good deal in the newspapers about the downfall of the Empire that is.to say, the one in Leicester Square, The Leicester Lounge next door is also doomed; and thus in a short time these land- marks of Bohemin in London will have ceased to be. The Empire Theatre will close its doors at the end of the present month, and it is to be rebuilt as cinemia.
Bow Halls To Be Bilent. The sad news is in circulation
Those who knew the West End of that the bells of the Church of St.
some twenty odd years ago will Mary-le-Bow are to remain silent recall the Empire as the home "ai till the sum of £3,000 has been variety, the most famous of all the raised to effect repairs. Bow Church music halls in London, and there was the promenade" behind the in Cheapside is the historic City dress circle, where tho
young bloods shrine associated with Dick Whit of the period, and gentlemen whose tington and his famous cat. When immediate object in life was to "paint the town red" and make a the hero started out from London night of it, were always sure to in search of fortune he sat down meet well dressed ladies who never beside a milestone outside the City required the formality
introduction in order to become to rest (the cat being somewhere coquainted. near, as you have seen in the pan tomime) and he heard the music of the bells. Since then everyone born within sound, of the chimes of Bow Church is adjudged to be a rightful and true Cockney.
A defeat-in one of the bells form- ing the peal has silenced all the (Continued on next column.)
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During and since the war the Empire's name has been associated with bright and respectable musical comedy. The house received a fair amount of patronage, but not suffi cient to make it a serious rival to the other theatres with a long. connection with music and drama Like the ald Tivoli Theatre, devoted to variety in the Strand, which as now a gorgeous cinema, the Empire will be devoted to the screen.-H.B.
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