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THE HONG KONG DAILY
PRESS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1929.
THE BLANKET
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Visitor: "Where's your mother,
Esthetic Dancer's Son: "Out inna woods, jumpin.""
Customer: "That chicken bought yesterday had no wishbone."Sonny
Poultorer: He was happy and contented chicken, ma'am, and had nothing to wish for.".
First Grad: My wife's gone to the West Indies."
Second G.: "Jamaica ?"
First G. "No-she wanted to
go."
Young Lady Motorist: "It's: snowing and slecting and I'd like to buy some chains for my tires."
Why can't you please.that cas-
omer in a tie ?"
"He wants a gray tie”
We have plenty of gray ties."
He wants a loud gray."
Governor: "You have. displayed exemplary conduct in your three- years in prison. Were you satisfi- I'm sorry we keep only gro-ed with the treatment 7" cerjea,"
How annoying! I understood this was a chain store.
"Well, boys," said Uncle Dick. "how are you getting on achool 111,
I'm first in arithmetic," Jackie replied.
I'm first in spelling," said Bobby
Line Now what are you first
in. Tominy ?"
I'm first on the street when it is time to go home."
New Terant: "Why did you move down, from the fifteenth Aoor ""
Old Tenant: "My dear, wo sim- ply couldn't endure the noise. The airplane traffic has become so an- noying.
"
"But you have only two or three buildings in this now town of
yours," remarked the perplexed prospector.
Convict: "Yes, I can warmly re- ommend you to all my friends."
Professor of Chemistry: "What is the common term for He S.04!" Sophomore: "I had it on the tip I can't think of it just now. of my tongue a moment ago, but
Professor: If you had it on the tip of your tongue a moment ago you'd know it now. It's sulphuric acid."
Laura:"Why do Eileen's people object to her future husband?"
Vera Well, there are seven in the family and he's only, got a two
seater."
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"How's business?" asked the President.
Not so good, we're making little money now," sighed the hend of the Bureau of Printing and En- graving.
"But I should think a short story
"I know," responded the enthusi-writer would run out of ideas,' antic real estate man, "but just look at our parking space."
Explorer: "Just to show you the advance of civilization-in the past the Eskimos used to eat candles for dessert."
Patient Friend: "And now, I suppose, they eat electric "light balla 7"
"Clara : She considers herself a most exclusive person."..
Cissie: "Exclusive! My dear, she even sings ducts alone.
2
3
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"They do but then they can al- Ways write books"
ther's meals as good as they used "So you didn't find your mo-
"to be?"
"No, she's going to a different
delicatessen now,
First Golfer (telling fish story): "He was about as long as that last drive of yours."
Second Golfer: "Oh, really!" Yes, so I threw him back."
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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WATCHES MOTHER TUCK HIM UP KISS HIM GOOD NIGHT, AND GO OUT OF ROOM.
HE'LL HAVE TO USE HIS HANDS TOO, BUT MOTHERS GOT NO RIGHT TO "TUCK
KIM UP SO TIGHT.
AHA! SHE'S PINNED THEM!
THE FIRST THING TO DO" IS TO KICK HIS BLANKETS OFF AS USUAL.
NOW THEN ALL TOGETHER, HANDS AND FEET STILL THEY WON'T BUDGE
WELL, THIS IS GOING TO BE A BATTLE OF BRAINS AND HE'LL JUST WALK OUT FROM UNDER
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PICTURES
Startling charges are taking place in the Paris entertainment world.
The Moulin Rouge., one of the most famous music and dance halls of the French capital, has just closed its doors after being for a short time the home of a negro theatrical show, and is to become
a cinema,
The Olympia, where all the old time English and American mus cal comedies were produced, bas closed down, and is also to reopen as a cinema.
It was announced that the Casing de Paris, familiar to thousands of visitors from London, has been sold by M. Leon Volterra, the legendary figure of the Parisian theatrical world.
When the war began M. Volterra, one of seven brothers, was a pro- gramme seller in the theatre he soon came to own. After selling pro- grammes he purchased the conces Hion for the theatre bar, and strode from success to success,
He purchased a horse for a joke one day in Brussels, where he own ed a theatre, and next year won the French Grand National with
it,
Mr. Samuel Barnard, of the Em- pire Theatre Woolwich, a member
SOMETHING SEEMS TO BE THE MATTER-THEY WON'T COME AS EASILY AS THEY OUGHT TO
MAYBE IF HE GETS HIS BACK INTO IT.
THERE! NOW HE CAN GO TO SLEEP IN COMFORT
AND PLAYS.
of a family prominent in the his- tory of music halls, has died in a London nursing home, aged eighty-four. His father, Mr. Dan Barnard, was at one time Chief Constable of Chatham, where he built Barnard's Music Hall. He was also the proprietor of a public house and skittle alley at Chatham knows as The Granby's Head, nam- ed after the same Marquess of Granby who leat his name to the tavern immortalised by Charles Dickens in "Pickwick Papers."
my fa
Mr. Daniel Barnard, who, with his brother, Mr. Dave Barnard, carries on the theatre at Wool- wick, said: "It was ther who originated the twice nightly performances in music halls and also the use of a gallery, One year my father, when only about seventeen, erected a gallery dur- ing his father's absence and gave two performances at the theatre to enable the service men, who had to be in barracks by 8 p.m., to attend. It was a wet weck, and the house
packed at all performances, so the idea of a gai- lery and two houses was continued. Among the artists my father dis- covered Bessie Bellwood and Little Tick. My father at one time ran the Alhambra at Hull, and eng. aged Dan Leno, before he was fam- ous, for a fortnight at a salary
was
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of about £4 109. a week. Dan Leno did one week and asked to be ex- cused the second to fulfil an im- portant engagement. My father granted this request, and when Leno was earning £40 a week he returned and completed his con- tract at his original salary of £4 108, a week."!
Famous writers, discussed sex and censorship in relation to the arts and literature at the inter- national congress of the World League for Sexual Reform in Lon- don last month. Mr. Desmond MacCarthy said opinion down the
ages
showed an instinctive fear that
unless the strong interest in sex was controlled it would destroy much that made life worth living. It was utterly impossible, however, to eradicate sex from art and litera- ture.
The ceasars did not know where to draw the line with much of the best literature. Mr. John van Druten, the dramatist, said the theatre was at least twenty years behind contemporary thought. The censorship was hardly to blame. It made an honest attempt to keep the theatre in line with general public opinion on sex questions. The case with which an audience could be shocked by things which would in no way shock each individual ment- ber was quite extraordinary,
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
TALKIES HERE !
AL JOLSON
IN
THE SINGING FOOL
Commencing Shortly
AS SAILORS THEY UNLOAD A GARCO OF LAUGHS |
AT THE
Ship-ahoy! Look who's
here, Mates! KARL DANE GEORGE K. ARTHUR
ALL AT SEA
QUEEN'S
IN
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 280, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20
STAR
MARIE PREVOST
FOR WIVES ONLY”.
FINAL, SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 6.30 & 9.20.
WORLD
DOUBLE ATTRACTIONS GRIP OF YUKON GAY RETREAT
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY FROM 1.15 to 11.15.
STAR THEATRE
COMMENCING SHORTLY
KAY
AMERICA'S PREMIER DANSEUSE RUTH
VAN VALEY
(LÄTE CAPITOL THEATRE, N.Y.)
AND
ROSE LEE
MACK SENNETT
SCOTT Fianist Supreme
BATHING BEAUTY
ESTHER. VAN VALEY
Coloratara Soprano
THE FORMER PARTNER OF
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
"Smiling" Jack Medford in Song
REX STOREY
"Dr." Foster
Jeannine Elliott
Violinkt
Horizontal,
1.-Mark on playing card..
4.-Dips out.
9.-Juice of planta
12-High card.
13.Up to that time.
14. To mature.
18.-To-be sorry. 17.-Physician. 19.-Related,
21.-Comparative suffix. 22.-To carry buoyantly. 25,-To dress
27.-Affectations. 31.-Girl's name." 32.-Sad.
34-Sixth note of scale.
35. To mingle.
36.-Old cloth measure.
37.--Pronoun.
38.-Separated.
.41. Borrow.
49-Narrow opening.
43.-To bow. 44.-Saucy
46.-Spanish article.
47.—Italian city.
40.-Frank
63-Church festival
57-Metalliferous rock.
58.-Earliest.) ·
€0.-Yes.
61.-Moist.
02.-Growing out. €3.---Cot.
Vertical
1.-Equality.
2.--Cool dessert,
3. Enthusiasm. 4.--Bed.
5.Something that neutralizek
poison.
Pronou 7-Cover,
B.American wild plums.
9-Occupied a seat.
10-In the past,
11-Through.
16.To devour...
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18.-Creep. 20.-Conjunction.
22.---Unites.
23.-Bencfit. 24.-Musical note. 26.---Most avaricious. 28-Supposing that. *20.~Report.
30.-Rain and hail. 32-To do wrong. 33--Antique. 33.-Silenced. 30.-Thus. 40.-Upper part. 41.-Pronous. " 44.-Dance step: 46.-Existence. 48.--To cloy. 19-Domestic animal.
50. Part of "to be."
51.-Snare.
52-Noise.
54,-Record.
53.Organ of head.
DO YOU KNOW?
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Jap silk, though it washes and wears everlastingly, is apt to lose the slight crispness that is its chief charm after the first time of wash- ing.
It is a good-iden to dissolve two or three lumps of sugar in the last rinsing water to bring back that little bit of stiffness. It gives the silk the right amount of
body" without making it hard and crack. "Iy.
SCHOOLDAYS
"DO PARENTS HELP!" "Difficult children, indeed!" said the head of one of the best kinder- gartens in England. "I've yet to meet the child who's one-tenth as difficult as most parents are."
She told me that the first few weeks of every term had to be spent entirely on recovering lost ground.
TAR STAINS.
Tar stains can be removed suc. cessfully from light-coloured gar- ments if attended to at once. Re- move as much as possible of 'the tar with the blunt edge of a knife, then cover the marks thickly with salty fat, such as salt butter, home- rendered lard, or goose-grease. Let this stay on for some hours, then scrape it off and wash the stains in benzine. Give them thorough soaking, and if they are very bad a little dry washing power can be used with the benzine.
"I've had more than one cane, she said, "of a stammer, reduced Add a pinch or horax to the water almost to nothing during the term, to prevent Jap silk turning yellow. being back again in full force when
the little sufferer returned after a ments if possible; if not, rinse out It is best wash the whole gar- That Old Rubber Bottle. Dont throw away that rubber long break..
"It would be different if only the part that has been treated in hot-water bottle when it springs &
parents would co-operate a little. clear, warm, water, and iron with leak. It can be put to several use But they won't. You'd think that
a cool. iron while still damp, with in the home. The top can be used when they've gone to great trouble
a piece of muslin between the iron as a funnel, and the bag makes two excellent mats to use under hot to find a school whose system fits and the garment to absorb the mois dishes on a polished table.
in with all their main idens, they'd ture and prevent a water mark Cat these out neatly along the ridge pull with us if only for the sake of forming round the damp patch.
consistency. that goes all round the outer edge
“Well, we have two kinds of par- of the bottle,
An old rubber bottle makes quite ents, and it's hard to say which is This puzzle took 20 minutes to a serviceable kneeling mat when. solve. See how long it will take washing or polishing floors. Bits date when they think hard about it, "One kind, though very up to of old rubber can be used as domes soon fall back into a very old on the bottom of chair legs to pre-fashioned attitude. They feel that vent them slipping on polished school's something that the child floors or linoleum..
needs compensating for, and the compensation takes the form of let ting the school's method slide dur ing home life, and holidays.
56.-A colour.
69.-Sun god.
you to solve it.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
(6) 1483. BEAVE BUTES
25KIND.DUSZON OE ADI2081. DO PER SPILI CUS BRAB PEGA SOZZ 192AR29 97UE
FROD BEAR- 9E3D. PLLETSK COAD REI ZEAS HUD PANGS RIP OR KEITHER LA
ColoRis
the worse.
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Two Cookery Tips, When the pic dish is too large for the quantity of meat or fruit you have to use, it is often a problem **The Prison Efects.” to know what to do to prevent the
"They do not realise that in top crust from collapsing and be places like this, where lessons are coming swamped in the juice or nothing more than carefully To prevent this, lay a few clean thought-out games, the prison effect wooden skewers across the dish be- (Continted at foot of nézt columm. fore putting on the top lid of pastry. These support the pastry, so giving a good appearance to the
gravy.
A
piu, and preventing a gravy-soakeded will not boil over if a small crust.
piece of dripping in dropped in lant as the water begins to boil. The dripping also helps to keep the greens a good colour,
Another rookery tip. The water in which green vegetables are cook (Contínued on preceding column).
The Juggling Jester |
WORLD-FAMOUS MARIONETTES
MANTELL'S MANIKINS
GREATEST OF ALL FUPPET SHOWS
TELLMAN
Magician
Plans at Moutrie's and The Star.
NOTICE.
M
ISS VIOLET CAPELL
wishes to announce
she will be Returning from
is simply non-existent. In every. thing except separation from their LONDON on the 22ND OCTO.. parents the little ones are busier, more interested and happier than at home. And, far from compen- BEB and will be resuming sating, the parents would do better children with them. to imitate us when they have their
her DANCING. CLASSES The other sort of parent in the
ultramodern sort who, not content FOR CHILDREN as From with having chosen our system, must always be trying improve ments. And even if the particular the 187 NOVEMBER. fads which appeal to the amateur Fere improvements, which they generally are not, they cost more than they are worth in the incon- sistency which follows.
"Consistency comes first. Every child is a separate problem; and there may be more than one way B
ON SALE.
resup
OUND VOLUMES * of the KONG WEEKLY HONG
of dealing with it, but only one | PRESS, January to June, 1929, can work at a time.
When a really good school is found, it is no good spoiling its | chances by making yourself its 'strongest enemy.
'WITH INDEX,
PALOz-$7.60.
On Sale at the Haru Kosa Daily PETS OFFICE.
LEN AYRES
Talkative Trickster
Prices $8, $2, $1.....
GRAND
MINSTREL
CONCERT
BY
"THE DANDY COONS” (Organized by Mrs. G. W. B. Griggs)
AN ENTERTAINMENT OF MUSIC, MIRTH & MELODY.
AT
THE CATHEDRAL HALL THURSDAY, OCT. 31st
At 9 PM
ADMISSION: $1.
MATINEE SAME DAY-5.30 PM. CHILDREN HALF-PRICE.
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