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ST. JOEN'S CATHEDRAL, Horo Kou
JANUARY HER, 1919, 2nd Sunday of er
Epiphany:--
Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Children's Service at 10a.m.
Peak Sunday School at 10 am.
Matins at 11 B.
Frenchor-Rev. H. V. Koop.
Holy Communion at 12 noce.
Evensong at 6 p.m.
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SUNDAY, 27th January, 1929
Watch Daily Papers for Particulars.
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Well-known Local Artistes Highland Dancing
Full Military Band and Pipes..
BOOKING at Anderson's Tickets-$3, $2, $1. Service Men in Uniforth, Half Price.
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MONDAY
At 9.15 p.m.
FRED COYNE'S
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COMPANY
MON. & TUES. WED, &
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FRI, &
"ON THE ROAD" SAT.
PRICES:
9-93, 2 & 1. Booking at Moutrie's and Theatre
THE
COMING!
GRIFFITH
THE
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
QUEEN'S
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1929.
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
TO-DAY'S FIXTURES.
The following games in the Hong Kong League are down for decision to-day
Division I. (Kick-off at p.m.) K.O.S.B.. Queen's Regt., 300- kuapoo 'ground. Referee: L. S. B. A Atkinson, Kowloon F.C. v. Club de Recreio, Kowloon F.O ground. Re feree: Mr. Ip Kau Ka Hong Kong Policer. Hong Kong F., B. Joseph's ground. Referee: Capt. Apatin, H.O., MOM. 1
GOLF.
יו
ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.
STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY.
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8.20 a.. F. A. Merry and A. E.
0.21
Lisanman.
V. M. Grayburn and
THE NIGHT LIFE OF HARBIN.
DRAB AND TEDIOUS. WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST'S
OPINION.
One must either. be very young and callow or have dined far too well to discover any spontaneous. gaiety in Harbin's night life, writes Mr. Rodney Gilbert from that city. A much larger per- Acentage of the respectable popula
E.
tion in Harbin dines at home and goes to bed shortly after dinner than in any other big foreign com munity in the East. Those who din- can afford it may go out to
D.ner, to the opera or to a concert,
*
.D. Black.
0.99
F. Lobel and H.
Mills.
8.39
L G. S. Dodwell
and
H. V. Ireland.
9.36
A R. Cox and E. Fletcher
P.
0.40
A. B. Raworth and
#
Royal Navy South China, Caroline Hill ground. Re feree: Mr. W. E. Hallands.
Division II
8.44
+h
A Campbell.
9.49
*
H. Spicer and T.
L.
8.32
D. J. Gilmore and S. Butlin
T.
9.33
M. G. Mills and N.
(Kick-off at 2:30 p.m.) South China "A". Royal Navy Res., Caroline Hill ground. Referee: Mr. Samy, K.O.S.B. Reserves. South China 1000
**B**
ground. Sookum poo Referee: Cpl. Lees. Small Units Reserves Queen's
Regt, Reserves, China Athletic 10.08 grounds Referee: Sgt. Bun- ting..
G. Bruce.
A. C. I. Bowker and
Christie.
Littlejohn.
"
Tannghan
Major Beamish
Stewart,
Thwaites.
or
but they do not dance half the night is other Occidentals might do, but return 'quietly home, be cause modern dancing is pronounc ed indecent and immoral in all
Red communities, Russian White, and the fox-trot is banned Ein all respectable restaurants and clubs. The Red railway officials and are not allowed to dance modern Jazz dances in public places. W.music and dancing are therefore confined to the cabarets, which are consequently more disreputable in sight of the respectable com- munity than dance halls aro else where and enjoy a much smaller would-be respectable degree of
10.04
W. J. S. Key and
G. Grimble and
C.
20.13
E P. Streatfield and
N.
F
H. Prockter.
H. W. Moon and G. E. Mitchell.
patronage.
What the traveller is taken to
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se is a very depressing exploita | STOMACH DOCTOR
Mtion of hunger and misfortune,
IT
10.20
IN
W. Garrett
and
J.
Hall.
10.94
21
J. S. Dykes and D.
Goodail.
10.23
Garter and S.
A.
Sleap.
10.39-
J. Waddell and
W
Clark.
J. Bentley
and
10:34
BA.F. v. Club de Recreio Res,
Re 10.18 King's Park ground. feree: Mr. T. G. Stokes. St. Joseph's r Kowloon F.C. Reserves, St. Joseph's ground. Referee: Pte. Lamb. PLAYERS AND PROSPECTS.
With the defeat of South China by the Police in mid-week, the question of league championship is more open, To-day, South China meet the Royal Navy at Caroline Hill and should the Navy play as well as they did last week against the K.O.S.B., South China, wili again drop the points The Navy will be without their centre-half, Cpl. Perks of H.M.S. Berwick this week, but they have plenty of good players to fill that position, Farlow is expected to take it. The game will be a good one and little to choose between the teams.
This game will attract a large crowd at Caroline Hill' especially as the China Athletic are not play- this week.
10.40
10.44
Lacon.
A. W. Har Edie and
L. Dugan.
misery in cheap tinsel, thrust into
a fatid atmosphere, and poorly paid to simulate high spirits and persuade the stranger that he is sharing in a life that is a never- Aending carnival. These tarnished cabarets play so very small, a part
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R. A. Green and
D.
10.43
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10.52
10.36 -
11.00
11.04 s
11.08%
On the Railway ground, Kowloon receive the Olub de Recreio. This 11.12 game should be well contested. The home team put up a good show last. week against the Queca's. The Club de Recreio won their shield match with the Hong Kong F.C. Should the visitors field a fall side they will take the paints.
11.16
11.90
11.24
The Police are at home to the 11 Hong Kong F.C. on St. Joseph's ground. The Police should take the points in a well contested game.
At Sookunpoo, the Borderers re ceive the Queen's Regt. The Queen's showed such improved form in 11.40 mid-week when they met the R.A.
Ellis..
in the life of Harbin but so big
a part in the city's reputation that
the writer feels that it is worth while to show how thinly the
D. Forbes and T. Ram-falsity of it all is veiled.
MAY:
J. P. Sherry and W. A. Weight.
A Leach and R, K. Hepburn.
Jeffries and Blackbura.
L. J.
L Yates and A.
G.
Coppin.
F. M. Ellis and S.
S.
Perry
La Comdr. Taylor and
J. Thayer.
Galety With The Gut off,
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There are at the moment three cabarets which one "does " when. making the conventional round, one pretentious, one mediocre and one small place that is frankly poor and dirty. There is no use giving the names for they probably would not be the same by the time this is in print. They all go bank
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singing and dancing is remarkably good.
A glave Market In Famine. After one has seen the efforts rupt at rather short intervals and of a large staff being lavished for reopen under new managements
and new
nstoes. The
Folie hours upon
ners
a bare handful of
A. B. Purves and R. ABergères of May is the Trocadéro malen, many of whom are pointed Redmond.
of July, the Alcazar of October and ly ignoring the "dancing part- and, in Continental fashion, ,,T. S. Whyte-Smith and the Cairo of December.
L. R. Andrewes.
Once the visitor has recovered making cheap drinks last as long E Marton and from, the first staggering effect of as possible, he is forced to realize
this atmosphere, he notes that he that if there is anything in it to
the management there must be
"
1. H. Geare.
11.32
E. D. Lawrence and I.
W. Shewan
11.36
J. Coulthart
and
Ellas.
J. Smith and N. Croucher..
A
da the Garrison ground. They 11.44 should win against the K.O.S.B. to-day.
W. J. Clerk and J.
Raikea.
..
their lips in constraint and ambar- ing themselves prove by biting rassment, that if anyone else is en- joying the performance which is doubtful-they are not. And this is the gay life of Harbin-gay with all the verve, deviltry and
famine area. abandon of a slave market in &
Good Temper Saves All One good word one must say
wretched cabarets and for obviously unhappy denizens and
ed.
&
hard fate
A. H. Ferguson and J.is in what would be a generous
Warren7"
drawing room in a big house. The wretchedly little in it for the emi- that is that everyone is unfailing- centre of the floor is cleared for ployeen. And the employees looky good-tempered, and not only tables all as though they were thinking just decently behaved but good manner- dancing. There are
Russians LTA seldom if ever S. around the wall and tables in a that, for whenever their faces re-
The rough or unpleasant in any situa- row of boxes along one side of the lax, they take on a tired, haggard Opposite the boxes there is and hungry-eyed expression. room. an orchestra and a stage for the girls on the floor get neither cos-tion, but almost invariably mild- Some say Hvariety show that goes on inter- tumes nor food, receive nothing mannered sad polite.
mittently from 11 o'clock at night for dancing with patrons, and no that it is a bovine docility, an until in the morning, this being commissions on the sale of food or easy surrender to
as easily borne up to s the alleged excuse for the place's drink, but get pathetically small which
form to
evaded by suicide. The stories of acquaintanceships ed by groups of men, drinking rest, Navy, are at Caroline Hill and MACAO RACES ON SUNDAY existence. A few tables are occupi- salaries and are expected for the certain point when it is as easily the cabarets are legion, and they lethargically. A few more are oc- that may prove profitable and de-suicide and attempted suicide in should strengthen their position at
cupied by couples, non-Russian velop them elsewhere.
The parade of nudity which is & are given almost daily notice in the head of the league table.
men and flufy looking girls who K.O.S.B.. should win against South
speak nothing but Russian but are much talked about feature of the the press; but, by coincidence per- China "B" at Seakunpoo. The
trying to look bright and cheerful entertainment in Harbin, is not hapa, one of the brightest and Small Units have been playing well
because they are paid to do that necessarily vulgar or vicious, but cheerfallest faces that the writer lately but they are not expected to
tion belonged to a girl who had beat the Queen's "on the Athletio
There may also be a group or so is always crude and pathetic saw during a long night's observa- hospital and of sophisticated-looking Chinese. There is no art, no exuberance, no
In the junior division, the Royal
ground. RAF. and Kowloon ahould win against Club de Recreio and St. Joseph's respectively.
LOCAL CRICKET.
WEEK.
K.O.S.B. GYMKHANA DATE ALTERED.
The next Race Meeting at Macao will take place on Sunday, 27th
In the course of the night twenty cheerfulness about these display just emerged from January.
At one time it locked as if this date would not be available, owing
to the fact that a gymkhana by the
King's Own Scottish Borderers was to be held on the same date at! Kwanti. Upon representations.
I.R.C. 2ND XI. ROYAL NAVY however, Lieut. Col. L. J. Comyn
2ND XI.
The following have been selected to represent the L.R.C, in the above League match to-day on the Navy ground Kowloon at 2 p.m. abarp.
Sirdar Khan (Capt.), M. P. Madar, A. S. Suffiad, N. B. Kit chell, A. M. Rumjahn, J. M. A Ramjahn, D. Mohomed; A: Butt, AR. Suffiad, R. Nazarin, M. R. Abbas.
HOCKEY.
HONG KONG LADIES' CLUB *. KOWLOON LADIES' CLUB.
kindly consented to change the date of the regimental event in order that all available ponies should be free to go to Macao. The Secretary of the Macao International Race Club gratefully acknowledges the courtesy of Lieut.-Col Comyn in this connection.
Further particulars of the Macao meeting will be announced later,
F.A. CUP REPLAYS.
NORTHAMPTON-MILLWALL DRAW AGAIN.
(THROUGH: EKUTER'S 'AGENCY. Į
between The replayed cup-tie Northampton and Millwall again
To be played at 4 p.m., this after-ended in a draw yesterday, the noon, at King's Park
score standing at 2 all after extra time had been played.
The following will represent the Hong Kong Ladies' Team:-F. M Stevenson, A. Owen Hughes, M. J. Jarvis, N. McNeillie, E. 8. Laing E. R. Bell, B. Baker, M. Hansen, M. W. Wallace, M. B. Bird, and D. Stanion. Heserves: F. Cousins and I. C. Bell.
The following will represent the Kowloon Ladies' Team:-M. G Groundwater, D. Pinguet, H. East- man, M. White, M. George, M. T Mason, L. Dand, E. Woolley, Eastman, M Woolley, and M. Bryson, Reserves: B. Hurst and
Groundwater.
ARMY DEFEAT THE NAVY.
Playing at the U.8.R.0. ground At Kowloon, the Army defeated the Navy by 3 goals to nit. The Army were the superior term and drew first blood in the first half through Dobbie, who scored in fine style Burton, the Army centre-forward, netted two more in the second half. The Navy made persistent at tacks, but failed to penetrate the Army defence."
In the other replay, Claptes two goals to one. Orient defeated Southampton by
TO-DAY'S RADIO. HONG KONG HOTEL DANCE BAND TO BE RELAYED,
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Govern- ment Broadcasting Station G.O.W. on 350 metres:
1.48 p.m.-Weather Report. 5.30 -6.30 pm-Demonstration Programme,
7.45 p.m.-Evening Weather Re- port...
8 p.m.-Evening Programme (EM.V. and Victor Becords),
8.30 p.m.-Dance Music relayed from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel
10 p.m-News Balletin,
10.10 p.m.-Dance Music from the Hong Kong Hotel
10.30 pm-Close down.
or thirty persons may appear on They are just shows, and the returned to the job after a serious the variety stage and some of the young women who live by exhibit attempt at suicide.
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