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OXFORD PUT UP A GOOD FIGHT.
SOME CARE-FREE HITTING AT LORDS:
NAWAB OF PATAUDI'S SUCCESS.
The Oxford and Cambridge match endled in a draw, after Cambridge. in their second innings, had forced! the pace and declared at wickets, leaving Oxford with a
gel to win.
for
to
Although it seemed r Foregone conclusion the match would end this way. Oxford, at their second! attempt, had seered 902 for only a wickets when stamps were drawn. The score was almost entirely the to a partnership between A. M. Crawing, who made S, and the Nawab of Pataudi, whe followed up his first innings catury with Booty-played $1.
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THE TALKIES"
WAR.
LONDON SOCIETY AND SLANG.
CIRCUS PARTIES THE VOGUE.
[D.P." Special Service.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929.
London, July 1-Over teacups nåd champagne glasses and from the belter of editorial desks and speakers' tables, a sniping "war fare is being waged here on the American." talkies."
Critics, orators and legturers have
"inde it almost a rogue to condemn the sound films and even society,
which "Bocked to the talkies" last season, has found new diversions.
The primitive circus apparently has supplanted the talking pictures in the favour of society leaders. | Lady. Cunard has been making up large circus parties, which have in- eluded the Duchess of Rutland and Sir Thomas Beecham, the music critic. Other circus enthusiasts are Lady Wodehouse, Lady Julier Duff, Lady Birkenhead and Sir Victor SPen Sassoon.
The Morning's Play. Earlier, Oxford's remaining, two wickets in their frst innings, had falien for only 1 run, leaving them 131 behind. S. A. Block and-3. H. were successful when Valentine Cambridge went in again, ecuring 34, and 52 respectively.
WAN
Some free cricket throughout the day, 423 runs being scored in all for the loss of D
wickers.
Scores, cabled by Reuter, were": Carabridge. 1st Innings, 7 (J.
T. Morgan, 133, G. D. Kemp
な
Newspaper Critiques. Newspaper critics. attack the talkies chictly for spreading American slang and customs.
The Americanisation of tde
Welch.ountry through the medium of the Lake in screen is fast being ac mplished," writes, the film critic the Daily Mirror In the West End of London every super-cinema except one is showing films in which soices provide entertainment in the dialect of the Bowery, the Middle West and occasionally of New York's "four hundred."
Oxford: 1st Innings. 46 (The Nawab of Pataudi, „106). "Cambridge,-2ni' Innings, 50 for 4 wickets (S. A. Block, 55. B 11. Valentine. 52)..
Oxford.-2nd Innings, 202 for 2] wickets (A. M. Crawley, 83, Nawab | of Patandi. 84).
LARGER U.S. GOLF BALLS.
BUT THEY WILL BE LIGHTER
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NEW RUSSIAN
CAMPAIGN."
SPEEDING UP PRODUCTION,
J
**SOCIAL COMPETITION"
PHASE.
"D.P." Special Service.]
Moscow, July 8..
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Competizion, once word belonging to the capitalist dark ages, has regained its social standing here, although it appears in polite Soviet society again in Bolshevik disguise-as socialist competition."
A strong campaign for socialist competition is now under way, with the Press devoting pages to rocord of its progress. lt. Was undertaken some time ago in the hope of stimulating production tightening efficiency, eliminating luteness on the job and generally getting more out of the individual by the Government. workingman for the pay given him
Commercial Challenges..
To those accustomed to the real intensive competition of economic necessity outside, the Soviet version | seems came and make-believe. amouate to one factory challenging another as to which will increase period of time; or the entire in- its output more during a given
dustry of one town challenging the ndustry of another. Sometimes the competitions are, arranged as be tween two or more departmente in the Jume factory, more rarely among individual workers.
Artincial 43 this proceeding sounds, it has nevertheless heighten ed activity all along the line. For ballenge, and its acceptance focuses one thing, the announcement of & public attention on the factories involved.
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POOR CABINET
MINISTERS.
UNABLE TO ENTERTAIN.
PLIGHT OF LABOUR LEADERS,
[Uned Press.)
London July 7-English society matrans are inwardly and silently diappointed at the outcome of the British election. They foresee a future let-dawn in the number and character of afbrial entertainments.
They are afraid the soel "whirl will degenerate into a social swish. keep the social pot barning.
It takes gold and plenty of it to The majority of the Labour Ministers are frank and admit they haven't got the golden stirring rod. comes to become members of Mr. Macdonald's cabinet. Their official salaries, unaugmented by private income (which haven't), are not sufficient for wide and lavish entertaining.
Most of them sacrificed larger in-
CHINESE MARRIAGES IN AMERICA.
SHOCK FOR FEDERAL AUTHORITIES.
["D.P." Special Service.]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. Chinese "matrimonial notions and American ideas on morality re- esived a thorough airing to-day in the Federal Court of Appeals, with the result that Wong Op, a Chinese who married not wisely but too frequently, succeeded in winning a chance to remain in America.
Wong first arrived in the United States at Astoria, Oregon, in 1902- when he was only 10 years old. In 1909, at the age of 17, he accom panied his father
visit, to China and in accordance with
on
parental instructions he married a Chinese wife, leaving her behind when he returned to most - of them
The Premier.
Hence, during the life the Labour Cabinet, English society matrons are looking forward, to a dull time as far as high Governmental and official
functions pre concerned. Many of the new Ministers have been loath, to take up residence in the official quarters beenise of the added expense.
States.
the United
1,
Wong married again in Astoria in 1927 and went off on another visit to China with his Abrerican- born wife. While they were in China Mrs. Wong the Second died. Wong accordingly "picked, up" the wife of his 1909 marriage and took her back to America with him.
Federal authorities detected the fact that Wong returned with a wife other than the one he started out with.
It was at first reported that even Mr. MacDonald did not want to
They refused to admit move into 10 Downing Street, the first Mrs. Wong and they like official home of all Prime Ministers, wise ordered Wong himself deport and that he was considering justed on grounds of moral tarpitude. using it for his town office. But he later decided to leave his breezy make his home at Whitehall in country home at Hampstead and traditional English fashion,
Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has decided to move into No. 11. Downing Street It is the traditional official home of the head of nithongh although there have been the Treasury,
departures from the custom.
Otheial residences" for the Lord
took the case up to the Court of Wong objected vigorously and Appeals, which decided to-day that
concubinage as peneticed in China does not constitute moral turpitude and is simply the eastom of the United Frees. country, which, Wong followed.-
SHAKESPEARE CLUB,
Chancellor and the Lord Privy Seal the new Ministers to occupy them. are also awaiting the decision of ELECTS WOMAN PRESIDENT,
A natural sporting instinct, a sort of school spirit, lends the work s to exert themselves to win. As to the directors of the competing units, their professional reputation is at stake and they throw them Belves into the work with a vim. The effect of these talkies is intended primarily to smarten up already reflected in the conversation industrial life, the socialist competi ~of children—and in mary inetances tion hae spread to nearly all corners
grown-ups. Talk in youthful circles of Soviet economic and cultural ife. The majority of the new Ministers Lo-day is of boobs,' kinkis,'
simps. hijackers,"
Spreading Knowledge, are losing money by giving up their kaps, and 'dumbells-the last two expressicas
Socialist competitions are started old positions. Mr. MacDonald, Mr. being the terms applied to friends in the collection of grain, the Philip Snowden and Mr. William whose mentality is not ranked as liquidation of illiteracy, the spread Graham, President of the Board of high as it might be.
of books, the eradication of fooli Trade, were all ardent journalists ganism-in nearly everything. As a and made considerable money writ result the whole Soviet Union ating for the English Press. Now that the moment is hamming with tens they hold official positions this form of thousands of contests, large and of revenue is denied. sinell, and additional thousands of challenges are made with a flourish and necepted with trumpets every week.
New York-Golf in the United States will be played with a larger and lighter ball after January 1, 1091. This announcement, the most radical step taken by a governing Judy of the sport in years, was made recently by Prescott S. Bush, secretary of the United States Golf Association.
It is quite a common cecurrence:
for small boys and girls to greet their parents after a visit to the talkies with Hullo, Kid, and mall wonder that a modern trane lation of a dream of fair women becomes a bunch of blondes."
Cosmo Hamilton,
This "propaganda" can only be counteracted, the eritic concludes by making good sound pictures in firent Britain.
The traditional rewards-banners, loving cups and the like are being awarded to the winners. Moreover, an innovation has been made by giving cash rewards in some cases. Among the more distinguished as
Discounting the ucise of the Press sailants of the talkies is Cosmo and the rhetoric of political leaders, The new ball will measure ao Hamilton: the novelist. At a lun- the socialist competition amounts less than 1.66 inches in diameter,cheon of the English speaking to an effort to speed up produe. and weigh unt nore than 1.53 oun union, he declared the sound piction-the same sort of effort that ees. Standard dimensions for the tures were inferior to the stient is made in capitalist countries by present ball are 1.62 inches and 1.92 films and prophesied that. 50 per means of bonuses, higher wages or onnees in weight.
cent of the public-probably mar- the threat of dismissal. The announcement affects only ried men-would always detest Communist leaders take pains to territories under the rule of the U.talkies," while the other 50 per S.C.A. British Golf authoritiescent would continue to prefer the recently rejected the proposed silent fims. change
Despite this appolition, however, the, pallic has continued to pack the theatres showing talkies. Recently the London county council granted permission to five large music halls to exhibit sound films on Sundays, although the Lord's Day Observance Society opposed the move.
In the United States however, the new hall will affect the millions who have turned to the Scottish game
duffers as well as competitive professionals and amateurs..
Lord Privy Seal. Mr. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal; "Mr. J. R. Cignes, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, and Miss Margaret Bundeld, Secretary of Labour, were all three earning their living as officials of trade unions. stopped with their acceptance of posts.
For the first time in the history
of the Shakespeare Club, which held its annual meeting on the 365th an niversary of Shakespeare's birth- day, a woman (the Mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon), Miss Annie Justins, was elected president. The meeting preceded the unfurling of the flags of the nations, of which there were 64, and the procession to the Parish Church.
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David Garrick, proposed the im- mortal memory at the luncheon, of the soul of Shakespeare the acting of his characters through the production of his plays,,,
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explain that there is no similarity between socialist competition and the brand commonly practised out side of Russia. This Joseph Stalin himself, in a preface to a book on the subject, deserts that the two General, Lord Chancellor and branda must under no circumstances several others, while the Prime
draws 25,000 be confused. Capitalist competi- Minister tion, he says, nima to kill its (825,000), and the Lord Chancellor economic competilor; one business gets $10,000-just double. Fall of the Ball,
thrives on the misfortune of another "Our experiments have shown
a dog-eat-dog sort of fight. Meanwhile, the drive for British- Soviet competition, he proceede, is that the new ball tends to fall more nearly straight down at the end made talking 6ms under the new one in which the loser too gains of its carry, anid Herbert Jaques quota act continues. Much interest by the process. It is not a fight. of the U.S.G.A. Executive Com- has been shown in the United but a race, in which both runners inittee. This makes it better for Studios, Limited, a newly formed are equally stimulated.-United approaching as the tendency to roll company, which is constructing a Press. is not so great and as result, mammoth studio at Ealing. United
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POLICE PROMPTITUDE.
There is considerable discussion FIVE MEN IN A CAR TRACKED
IN TWO HOURS. of the possibility of making Shake-
peare's plays into "talkies."
The films would have to be made
The Mayor expressed her belief that under new conditions of organ- ization and proper endowment, the great object for which the Memori- Theatre was founded would be
wholly achieved and maintained for all time. It was hoped that the new theatre would be opened in
1931.
Cabinet offices which returns a salary of £5,000 a year are held by Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Snowden, MA.
At the annual meeting of the gov- Clynes. Mr. Arthur Henderson,
ernors of the Memorial Theatre it Foreign Secretary: Capt, Wedgwood was announced that there หน Benn, India: Mr. Sidnes Webb. 250.000 now available, a sum which Dominions; Mr. Tom Shaw. War; would pay for the new theatre and Lord Thomson, Air: Mr. W. Adam-provide the nucleus for its endow- son, Scotland: M. W. Graham, ment fund. Board of Trade; Mr. Arthur Green-
wood, Health.
...Miss Bondfield na Minister of Labour, Mr. N. Buxton as Minister of Agriculture. and Sir Charles Trevelyan as Minister of Education receive only £2,000 a year.
by English actors in English talk Prompt measures by the police filma," said Reginald Bach, well-were followed by the appearance of known British producer. That is five men at Old-street Police Court quite certain. America simply can accused of being concerned together TWO MEN SHOT DEAD IN not do this kind of thing."United in stealing a motor-car valued at
2150.
Bush predicted that duffers would find the ball especially adapted to better play on the fair-way, in asmuch as it provides a better target for brassic and spoon shots. Freun
The subject of the larger and lighter golf ball arose first in 1920
when U.S.G. officials recommended PROHIBITION AND SAVINGS. at 8.30 p.m. at Commercial-street
to the British Governing body ad- option of the new dimensions. No official action was taken at that time and in 1828 the British re- turned a recommendation that "the new ball be adopted.
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Dotective Sergeant Rayner said that the car was reported stolen. Police Station. He received in- ! formation that one of the men had been heard to say that he wanted a car for the purpose of committing a burglary in Essex. A telephone message was sent to the Essex police at 9:15 p.m., and the five men were arrested at 10.30 p.m. at Rochford with the car.
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STRIKER TO PAY.
MAGISTRATE DECIDES IN FAVOUR OF A FIRM.
of Д
Mr. Basil Watson, the magistrate at North London Police Court, gave judgment in the case arising from the atrike at Mestrs. Polikoff, Ltd., wholesale clothing manufacturers of Mare-street, Hackney, half of whose workers are on strike on the ques- tion of the recognition "Breakaway" unton,
Sixty-seven tailors' cutters had been summoned for breaking their contract as weekly servants, and the case of Samuel Barnett, against whom damages to the amount of £4 158, were claimed, was taken as a test case.
A FIELD.
FOUND AFTER ALL-NIGHT ABSENCE FROM HOME. "Frederick Durrant, aged ninete en, af Markshall, and Frederick Turner, aged twenty-six, of Eaton, were found dead by Durrant's Buffalo (N.Y.), July B.-Prohibi-
sunt, Mrs. Jolly, who was crossing tion has helped the people of this
& fteld at Cringleford, near Nor- It was the turn of the U.8.C.A.
to SAVE approximately
wich, on her way to work.
The bodies lay two feet apart. to delay at that time, the Ameri. country can body preferring to complete the sixty billion dollars in ten years it
Frederick Joseph Allen, aged Darrant had been shot behind the experiments then being conducted has been in effect, Major Frank B.
ear and Turner in the before taking
official action. Ebbert, lawyer and associate of twenty, of Angels-gardens, Col-right
fayne B. Wheeler, told delegates umbia-road, who was stated to be forehead. Turner had a gun in his' Meanwhile Britain reconsidered and the U.S.G.A. is now waiting to the sectional conference of the the "prime mover" in the case,
was sentenced to six months' hard Both men were employed by Mr. to see what attitude will be taken Anti-Saloon League here.
Ernest Morse, a farmer and rose No nation has written a more labour, and Walter Francis Duck, in England regarding the present
wonderful story of percs and aged twenty-four, of Eastman- grower, in whose field they lay, Announcernant.
Production of the new ball will prosperity than we have since Pro- street, to three months' hard labour. They had been away from their prove no handicap to the manufac Pibition went into effect," he de- The other men, Albert Joseph homes all night.
aged twenty-seven,. "It reads like a romance. Lewis,
The two men had cartridges in Bethnal Green, turers,Jacques shid; for the only clared.
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Charles Carter, aged they may have been rabbit shooting, well Dequirements will be a figures are all due to Prohibition, I Stanley
slightly
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of Nicholls-square, turned the weapon upon himself. moulde for the gutta percha all angles of the situation,United twenty-one,
They were good friends.
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Mr. Watson said that it was pure- ly a question of contract, and he had on the evidence come to the conclusion that in this case there I contract. Barnett would was claimed, £4 158., with costs. have, therefore, to pay the damages The other summonses were ad- journed, as was also an application for further summonses.
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