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LEMON
GREAM.
FOR WHITENING
& SOFTENING THE SKIN.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1929.
WOMAN'S PAGE
MEN YOU MUST NOT MARRY.
[BY SHIRLEY CAREW.}
Tom is so vitalising, my dear, so full of joie de vivre. He is a positive tonic, I can't think how he keeps it up."
All quite true-but one may so easily over-tonic, be over-dosed.
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How often does one hear mutual acquaintance praised extra. yagantly for just that one outstand ing characteristic that will prove to be the cause of all the trouble later in life!
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The fact that it may be 'n dis- tinct social asset or that it hasn't been too blatant during friendship
courtship days, sometimes makes it overlooked altogether.
He spends hours reading up the THE WOMEN M.P'S.
works of similar enthusiasts | minutes raging inwardly, consumed with jealousy, if another joyous spirit at a party out-rags himself. Otherwise he does not know the meaning of the word repose.
He will slap people on the back once too often; his heartiest, most spontaneous repartee is already almost a platitude among a fairly wide circle of admirers.
Tom at parties is a cheery, 30 playful, sa unselfconscious-their very life and soul.
Tom in his own home-well, this is meant as a warning.
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Dick is a dear-but he has not got a hobby.
PERSONALITIES AND RECORDS.
[BY WINIFRED HOLTBY.]
The day will come when the pre- sence of women in the House of Commons will be no more noticeable than that of men. But that time hus not yet arrived. The fourteen women in the new Parliament, | though they differ in their interests, party allegiance, and experience. are bound together, upon certain issues by the special position which women still hold under the inw and the economic system as a class
In fac: there is not one thing in life in which is really more inter-apart. ested than anything else.
He quite intelligent and ob- servant, and although he has much more than attained his majority, he has not yet found a hobby that be can turn to in slack moments.
But watch out for it. The few examples. here cited are intended only to serve as an index finger. It doesn't matter so very much painting the way to observance and to you perhaps--you may act notice perception before it is too late! this deplorable fack, because when- Tony has a positive manis forever you see Dick some kind of hovine ragging He is the very entertainment plan is arranged. heart and soul of any “horse-play, and the practical Joke that Tom doesn't know and hasn't perpetrated simply doesn't exist.
He is sought after by every bos. tess organisers of holidays rarties pursue him throughout the year: and he is a more prominent and popular faure at children's parties this is Father Christmas himself.
His capacity for borine ragging" and his bottomless rit of practical jokes are to him a hobby, a pride,
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He will motor with you, walk with you, golf or talk with you, and all will be very well. Indeed, you will doubtless fall deeply in love with Dick
And it may be quite a long time before you see his tragic hobby- lessness.
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Summer days in the garden will quickly disillusion you, you who are more content to sit therein with a book, when no tennis has been a ranged and you are delighting in doing just-nothing at all.
Dick will begin to fidget-he is not particularly keen on reading. gardening, too, he doesn't much tare for," and the car-wall, after all, there is nothing at all wrong with the car,
What on earth can I do this
afterudon?" he queries, yawning. You are drowsy and content and he will keep on disturbing.
By tea-time he is bored and irrit able and thoroughly discontented; you are roused, disillusioned and rightly indignant.
If only he liked tinkering with the car or pruning rose trees-if only he liked anything enough to go and do it on his own initiative
This smart afternoon frock is carried out in navy georgelle with a white cullari
First Woman P.0. They make a notable team. Lend- ing them is Miss Margaret Bond- held. Our Maggie," Brat woman member of the Cabinet, beaming, alert, eloquent, and sensible. keen trade unionist who never for- gets that she once stood.behind the counter, the first woman Chairman of the General Council of the T... a well-known figure at Geneva, she has been a Socialist or ganiser since 1995,
Miss Bondfield's distinction "lies chiefly in her practical experience; Miss Susan Lawrence has high in- tellectual quality as well. During her impressive handling of the financial complexities of the De rating Bill, speculators whispered, "There goes the first woman Chan cellor of the Exchequer. She may never attain to that distinction; ter
close-croped head has already grown grey in the public service. Since she left Cambridge she has worked as a suffragist, a member of the London School Board, one time vice- chairman of the LC.C., and a vigorous party advocate.
**Red Ellen."
Her grave figure forms a striking contrast to the vivid, red-headed personality of Miss Ellen Wilkinson. Since she left Manchester Univer sity in 1913 Red Ellen" bas had that quality known as "good news value." A one-time Communist who found such extremism uncongenial
SNAPSHOTS OF À MAN PASSING A TRUCK
FOLLOWS 63 TRUCK OF EMPTY BOXES. SWIKES OUT OF LINE TO PASS ITS
AFTER ONE OR TWO MORE ATTEMPTS SEES THE
COAST CLEAR AND STEPS ON IT
NOSES OUT, FINDS. NOTHING IN SIGHT AND STARTS TO PASS TRUCK, BUT CATCHES SIGHT OF MOTER. CYCLE COP BY ROADSIDE
GETS HIS CHANCE AND FLASHES PAST TRUCK AT LAST, HAS TWO · MILES OF GLEAR, ROAD, "
CASANOVA, PRINCE OF ADVENTURERS."
AN EXTRAVAGANZA FROM
A FRENCH STUDIO. LOVELY VIEWS OF VENICE.
[BY OUR FILM CRITIC
"Casanova,
Prince of Adventur ers" is French film of a Don
Juan of the period of 1760, whose ad-
ventures carry him from Venice to
Austrin and Russia. It is Invishly screened, and produced regardless of cost." Comparisons with Ameri can spectacular films of a similar
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
SEES CARS COMING IN OTHER DIRECTION AND SWINGS BACK INTO UNE BEHIND TRUCK:
WIFE SHRIEKS FROM BACK-SEAT 'LOOM OUT!' SWINGS IN BEHIND TRUCK REAN. WIFE THOUGHT.
SOMETHING WAS COMING BUT WAS MISTAKEN
"
DECIDES TO PLAY IT SAFE AND DROPS BACK. IS ANNOYED TO SEE COP WAS EATING A HOT
DOG AND WASN'T NOTICING HIM.
STOPS FOR GAS. IS JUST READY TO. START WHEN TRUCK WUMBERS BY INTO WINE AHEAD OF HIM...
(Copyright, 1529, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc}
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QwYRS WILLIAMS
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
"The rent of this house is seven Little Margaret had been naughty. pounds a month, plus three pounds and her father had to punish her. in advance as a security."
Revenge came at the next meal. "Good; but where is the stable " "When I am married, mother," !! What stable ***
said Margaret, "I shall run away For the donkey who would pay from my husband if he ill-treats that rent."
dear little children,'
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grey and proud of it.
The young man was prematurely
Looks quite poetic, don't you think?" he asked the girl he had mat on the pier.
It does remind me of a certain poem," she said.
"And what is that "
"How many times do you imagine he's kissed you?"
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So far I haven't had to imagine
he's kissed me at all.".
Small Boy:
Please, Mum, I
don't like these holes in the bread." Tired Mother: "Never mind.
When the Frost is on theYou needn't eat the holes. Leave
them on the plate."
to her fundamental sanity, a suf-order are inevitable, and it must- be admitted that Hollywood pro- frage worker, a trade union or-
duces a more perfect whole. ganiser, and for three years Man and this is, I think, important, there
But, Pumpkin."' chester's youngest city councillor,
in her short life she has carried are scenes where the setting, group. through a hundred battles ber dashing, and lighting are of a far Figher ing courage, her quick temper, and American producers. They are less order than that arrived at by her glowing idealism.
Miss Jennie Lee has usurped her much more nearly to true art, and obviously perfect, but "Approach place as the youngest woman M.P.
the "Films de France" studio has This miner's daughter, who we managed to give us what America | scholarships to "Edinburgh Universeldom attempts a magnificent fancy sity and has become in her early
twenties a lawyer, a teacher and a member of Parliament, has still to
prove her expacity to a wider public.
The
dress picture with really quick move-
ment. The mavement is in fact too quick, which makes the story jerky and disconnected. It would appear that the French studio needs a ruth- less film editor who would delete quite half the short shots. The whole effect is bewildering and it is difficult to remember or judge the picture as a whole.
The Acting.
The New-comers. Among the new-comers to the Socialist Party, the most widely known is probably Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton. A Newnham graduate like Miss Lawrence, a distinguished economist, novelist and critic, she is famous in the Socialist world as the biographer of the Prime Minis-
As for the actora, Ivan Mosjukine as" Casanova" will at once be com- ter in the political world as member of the Balfour Commission pared to John Barrymore. He is on Trade and Industry.
not so good looking, but neither is Because Lady Cynthia Mosley's he so vain; he does not make love father was the late Lord Curzon, 62 exquisitely, but he has a sense many people treated her adventure of humor, and is much more nearly into Socialismi as the whim of an
the Don Juan of tradition in con- eccentric young aristocrat. They sequence. He dogs not act. so well, did not realise that she has been
but he is not always remarking quite student at the London School of clearly even in a silent film Look Economics, a civil servant in the at me, bow wonderfully I act." War Office, and is now an unusually The ladies are a little disappoint- well-informed and strenuous poli-ing. Except for "Carletta" (Jenny tician. Dr. Marion Phillipe, an Jugo) they are not as pretty as the Australian Economist, has been for stars of Hollywood; and lack self- some years chiel woman officer of the Socialist Party Dr. Ethel The colour effects are excellent in Bentham has devoted an energetic the distance but not very convincing; life to the service of public health in close upe, She founded in North Kensingtoa the first baby clinic, and was one of the first women magistrates. Miss Picton Turberville, Ö.B.E., is better known in the pulpit than on the platform.
assurance.
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But, perhaps, you will judge the picture on its own merits forgetting or not realising that it comes from France instead of America. I think in that case you will find much to please you, but will be somewhat: puzzled by the rapid sequence of events. You will, if you are a
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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Horizontal.
Mother sheep. 5.-Toy.
8. Voice. 12. To irritate. 13.-Part of "to be." 14.-Coarse rustic, 18.A judge in Israel.
17. Discount. 19.--Horse. 20.-Knots.
21. To boil slowly. 23.—To be foud, 94.-Likely,
34.A worm. 36.To bite at bit, 38.-Condensed moisture, 39.-Secret scheme.
"The Philosopher,” · Neither sex nor circumstance woman, he interested in and prob-26-Locales. could prevent Miss Eleanor Rath-ably charmed, with the magnificent 28.-To name. hope, M.P., J.P., C.C., M.A., from costumes, you will, almost certainly, 31. A father. becoming a statesman. At Somer-
32. Turn to right. Harry always goes one better." ville they called her "The Philo- away a memory of some ex-
33. Thus, quisite scenes, specially of those in Commercially he is already a made sopher." As the chief protagonist the Venetian episodes. You will, man, and socially he always ap of the policy of Family Allowances, unless you are a historian, feel that proaches unto success.
she is one of the most original you have learnt something of other His friends admit that only economists. of to-day. Though she lands in other times, and you will grudgingly because, while being a comes of a famous Liberal family, not in any case, I think, quite forget distinct asset in looks and manners she has persisted for eighteen yeara Casanova" for a long time. on every occasion, he invariably in calling herself an Independent.tainly it is
acceeds in spoiling every one else's Not so Miss Megan Lloyd George. complete enjoyment, by the most The chief thing known of her at embarrassing and subtle of meana.
He always has a better story than the last man. He waits, obviously impatient and slightly bored, only just until the tale is over before he begins "his own, pompously
charmingly,
Quite good, my dear fellow, but but do you know this one."
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There is no adventure so exciting, no incident so uncommon, no dream so strange that Harry cannot cap
it.
Delightfully assured, clever, and handsome, he treads relentlessly on the social efforts of every one else, leaving behitid a remembrance of success achieved only by the oppres sion of others.
Three Peeressos..
Gim to see.
41-Transaction. Cer-43-Histook.
present is ber Liberalism; but the ing the anti-suffrage movement, few ambitious child of a famous father foresaw in the sociable Scotch hos- always starts life handicapped. tess, the present Duchess of Atholl Lady Iveagh began her political career as private secretary to her have been in the House before. chairman of the Women's Unionist All three Conservative members father, the late Lord Onslow. A When Sir James Ramsay hung & Organisation for England and Wales great notice proclaiming Votes for she rendered considerable service to Women over the entry to Banf the party before she was elected to Castle while his daughter was lead her husband's seat of South-end-on-
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Here are three pen pictures that could be taken an warnings even in these competitive days of surplus
Lady Astor is the most independ ent of politicians. She attacks the drink trade, obsolete legislation about children, and political in- equalities with the verve of a They aro poignant criticisms from cinema star cultivating publicity, a critic on the very hearth of Tom shocking the unimaginative who and of Dick and of Harry-their have nover seen burning sincerity
adorned gay frivolity
women.
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Vertical.
1. Ova. 2. To stand in readiness. 3.First born. 4.-Mixed hail and rain. 5.-Ban-burn. 6.-Conjunction.
7.--By.
8-Head of monastery. "9.-Filled.
10-To carry. 11-Minerals.
16.Focus.
18.-Man's name,
29.-Island off S. E. England. 23.-Judges.
24.---A Simian,
23.Dance step. 27-A beverage. 29.-To employ.
20. To pod 35.-Leaped
.08.--Cipher.
27-Buddhists sacred language. 38.-Machine.
40.-Grants temporary use of 42.--Black-and-blue,
43.-Otherwise.
44.-To bring up.. 40.-Paradise. 47.-Anarchists. 49. To knock. 50.-Speck,
83.--To" depart.
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