WOMAN'S CORNER.
BEAUTY AND THE
HOME.
NEW IDEAS IN INTERIOR
DECORATION.
At a recent exhibition at the Louvre, in Paris, of the newest
All the furniture on exhibition was squarely made, and relied en- tirely for its decorativeness upon the beautifully-veined and highly- polished wood of which is was com- posed.
Glass Tables.
Glass tables are soon everywhere, Land it is usual to place upon them soma pieces of lovely blown-
ethere glass bric-a-brac, their
Leaf Patterns,
al beauty duplicated by reflection. Painted furniture is conspicuous- idens at the French decorative arly absent. Steel framework is the tists, whose taste and flair for alternative to polished wood. novelty made it an exceedingly in- teresting forecast of French homes of the future, the tweed patterns of the moment showed their persis tence even in upholstery and house decorations.
Tweed Effects.
The tweed effect in upholstery materials is quite the latest note. A set of furniture was shown in polished white wood upholstered in tweed-patterned salmon pink There, were white satin cushions.
"The wall-papers shown were ruther formal in design, and the fabrics for hangings followed suit. The leaf pattern was evidently favourite, although lines, whorls and angles of somewhat Cabist trend predominated
Damask paper with a velvet surface on the raised pattern, was taseinating to the touch and rich to the eye.
Printed cotton window hanginga forecast the probable choice of the Parisian housewives for the sum
The walls of the specimen roommer, Shiny chintz is also very in which this furniture was afr. rauged were panelled with the same pink fabric.
Like Turkey Towelling.. Upholstery material closely re- sembling Turkey towelling is an: éther novelty. Rather pretty pink and grey mixture, giving quite a peach-bloom effect, was us ed for the coverings of some chairs.
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much to the fore this season, and many of the designs for the new chintzes are reproductions of the 18th century ones..
Chintz covers and wall-paper of exactly the same pattern to match are seen in many freshly-decorated houses.
Chintz Oushions.
For her cushions, especially, the practical Frenchwoman has decid- It is evident that metal-framed, ed upon chintz. Round cushions furniture has come to stay. Some with wide frills are an old-fashion- tables, bookshelves, sideboard, anded revival which are now very mo- other pieces at the exhibition were dern again. Square ones are trim made of polished wood edged with med and finished with braid. bright steel hands, which gave an appearance of great strength and solidity.
This is known as the falling-off season for Appetites bat
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COLD BUFFET
AND NOW
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JOHNNY HINES
IN
ALL ABOARD"
You'll laugh at him as a shoe salesman!
You'll roar at him as a tourists' guide !
But when you see him as a desert sheik, surrounded by a hundred beautiful harem girls,
You scream SCREAM and
and
S-C-R-E-A-M
AT THE
Enormous workbags which may be left lying about are also made. of pretty chintzes.
"UNITED STATES OF FRANCE."
FEDERALISATION OF COLONIES URGED.
Paris-France, instead of waxing enthusiastic over the project of a United States of Europe, would do well to look to the formation of a United States, of France. This is the theme of an article in the Revse de Paris by Comte de Fels.
Q
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930.
THE LOVE SONG
QUVAS
WITAMIS
TUNES. IN ON RADIO
SITS THROUGH VOCAL RENDITION OF IF YOU
ONLY KNEW HOW PM IN LOVE WITH YOU? HOPES FOR BETTER THINGS
ANNOUNCER SAYS THAT OUR GUEST ARTIST WILL NOW RENDER "DONT BE MAD JUST BE GLAD THAT I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU"
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PIRACY ALARM SIGNAL.
MASTER MARINER'S INGENIOUS INVENTION.
TURNS DIAL RAPIDLY GET- TING SNATCHES OF "SICK
WITH LOVE" AND " I'M LONELY WHEN I'M. NOT WITH YOU?
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS-
CROONING TENOR TOL- LOWS WITH PM 50
BLUE FÖR LOVING YOU. I'VE GOT THE IN LOVE WITH YOU BLUES"
GRABS RADIO PRO- GRAM AND AT LAST FINDS BROADCAST OF A PRIZE FIGHT,
TUNES IN
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
STATE FUNERAL FOR
DR. NANSEN.
DECEASED'S LAST WISH
OBEYED.
In view of the prevalence of piracy in Chinese watere, much interest attaches to an apparatus
Oslo, May 17-Hundreds of which has just been invented and people, including the Royal fami- patented by a young merchant ser ly, paid homage to-day to the late vice officer, Mr. Neil Richardson, great Arctic explorer and humani- of York, a Master Mariner whetarian, Nansen, whose funeral was has served in Chinese waters and held this afternoon. Long before
GETS UP HASTILY AND TRIES ANOTHER STATION
VOKE SAYS WHILE WAIT~{ ING FOR MAIN BOUT, MR. BLEEK WILL SING * TURTLE DOVE, I LOVE YOU." TUNES OUT AND GOES
TO BED
| THE SILVER SCREEN.
"MARRIED IN HOLLY-
.WOOD."
TALKING PICTURE WITH VIENNESE TOUCH.
The Queen's Theatre is living up to the high standard it bas set for talking and singing pictures that haunt one long after they have been seen and heard-pictures which are
a pretty effecetive test of merit, not soon forgotten, which, surely is
is at the present time" doing his the commencement of the ceremony naval drills as a sub-lieutenant in the University square was packed Reserve. The with huge crowds. The square it the Royal, Neval
The attraction yesterday was an name given to the apparatus is self was decorated with evergreen "Richardson's Piracy and Distress garlands in the midst of which all-talking and all-singing picture, "Married in Hollywood," with a Alarm. It is intended for use in stood the giant eatafalque in which ships which would not otherwise was placed the coffin surrounded distinctly Viennese flavour and re- miniscent of the heyday of Franz be fitted with a wireless transmit by floral tributes from all parts Leher or Io Fail operettas. The ting installation, and particular of the world with the deceased's
story is very cleverly worked out. whatly for ships voyaging in the China collabrators in various Aretic ven
It starts in the opera house at tures, including Captain Sverdrup, seas and rivers.
Vienna, where Prince Nicholai keeping the vigil. The ceremony falls in love with Mary Lou Hop- was proceeded by singing bykins, a lovely young American choir of 10,000 white-clad children singer, and ends in Hollywood, who afterwards fled silently, past where the two lovers are re-naited the bier following which guns were in a highly dramatic manner after fired from the Fortress Akershus being separated from each other by
"When France is invited to enter
European federation, France is thought of?" asks Comte de Fels.
Automatic Distress Calls.
Is it merely continental or Euro-
By means of the instrument, in pean France or is it the French im conjunction with any type of wire perial republic of 100,000,000 pe less transmitter, a vessel may send ple, living in Europe, Africa, Asia, the West Indies and Oceania? Be out a distress call and her name fore undertaking a share in the and position without the aid of a
announcing the two-minute silence
an unscrupulous ruse on the part of
construction of, a European federal/skilled operator. The instrument throughout the entire country while the queen mother, who is a bit of a
state, would not France be wise to make this extensive colonial em- pire a federal unit? And would
not the formation of a French cus toms union be a logical first step?
France no longer has any colonics in the strict sense of the word: that is territories inhabited by
emigrants from the home country Canada and Louisiana were the only territories which ever partook A better name for
small
Bre
as the same time flags were hoisted to half mast, over, all public and private buildings.
The ceremony was opened by the Premier Mr. Mohwinkel, who spoke from a stand
would be enclosed in a bullet-proof case. A series of switches, nine in number, and a push button. placed on the bridge of the vessel. When the necessity for a distress signal arises, the officer of the watch immediately dials the posi tion of the ship in latitude and longitude and presses the push-but ton. When this is done. the instru ment causes the transmitter to send out the Morse combination operat- ing auto-alarms in vessels within range. The name of the vessel, the the
beneath Nansen's
huge bronze bust above the Univer sity gate, warmly praising "Nor- way's greatest son whose labours
won for himself and his country
the respect of all mankind."
two
The ceremony lasted over hours after which the casket, to accompaniment of muffed
crema-
pride. In between the "working
main
theme
are
out of the some entertaining and amusing scenes on board an ocean liner and
some Hollywood lots where big. scenes are shot," giving the lay- mar a glimpse of the ways of Hollywood film directors and of motion picture stars.
Norma Terria, makes ɗn alto- gether charming actress and singer in the dual role of Mary Lou of that nature.
Hopkins and Mitzi Hoffman, in which Hungarian masquerade she the French possessiona Overeens would be dominions." They are
is presented to the American public by her discoverer," whose amus kingdums, empires and territories S. O. S., and her position are then drums, was borne to the
ing mannerisms serve to relieve the wita indigenous popilations, where transmitted in succession and are torium where the body was cremat
more sombro passages of the film drama. Playing opposite to her in the French element is and probably repeated indefinitely. It is used immediately without ceremonics
gested that the signalling apparatus in accordance with the express wish Mr. J. Harold Murray, who has a the dashing part of the Prince is always will be
and the transmitter should be plac ninority.
fine stage presence and sings and ed in a case on the mast and pro- of the deceased.
acts well. The other roles are well At a time when everyone is seek tected by several turas of live aeri- ing a system of stable peace, France. If the wires are cut by pirates shortly after his death and will be sustained and both the setting and mounting are conceived on a lavish. the machine would be set working. cannot make a greater contribution Any number of push-buttons, which analyzed by the world's leading scale. than by organizing these posses-
Married in. Hollywood" may sions, preferably on a federal basis, could be concealed, might be fitted specialists. The King also decrced
around the bridge and in the cabins that henceforth one vessel of Norbe said to be, without any exaggera- and consolidating this empire. The
tion, a splendid picture with plenty. primary condition of this feder. of officers, and the apparatus could
IL
very
Nanten's brain
Was removed
alization is not assimilation but then be worked without the aid of way's Navy shall always bear Nan- of genuine entertainment.
autonomy. French dominions." oversens, instead of electing mem-
skilled operatore ha van de
on The invention has been
the Offices of the
son's name.
ATTACKED BY PATIENT.
STORY AT INQUEST ON-
MENTAL NURSE,
ing à sedative, hoping that I shall sleep on. I live for sleep and, the rest that accompanies it.".
hera to the French Parliament, view at should have their own assemblies Officers (Merchant Navy), Federa and become individual units. in ation, Ltd., Leadenhall-street, where great federal state. The colonial it was seen by underwriters, and exposition of 1931 should be made others whose interests are partieu
The widow said that Hamilton an exposition of the United States larly concerned with the preven-
was wounded in the war. "After- of France..
tion of fre and damage to ships
wards, when training to become a and cargo. The Officers' Federa tion are naturally anxious to see An attack by a mad patient who mental nurse, he was attacked by amad patient, and had suffered the adoption of measures designed kicked him on the head was stated. to prevent piracy, and this further by the widow to have caused con- constantly ever since. He often evidence of the interest that, mer. stant suffering to Alexander F. complained that there seemed to be chant officers take in their work is Hamilton (37), à mental nurse, of a heavy weight on his head.va particularly welcome. Both the Porlock Weir, Somerset, whose Dr. M. Bronte, pathologist, Chins Coast Officers' Guild and death was inquired into at Croy- who made the post mortem ox the Marine Engineers' Guild of don last month. He was found in amination, said that he did not China are members of the Federshed ut a Coulsdon hotel with a find any signs of poisoning, but: tion. It is regarded as unfor bottle of yellow liquid near him, on the history of the case he was fpnate that the efforts of the ship and he tied in hospital
cortain that, Hamilton had taken dary branátia palcon of the mornhin
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his wife in which he wrote,
Listening for one and apparently mixed ance of military protection by white guards have not been succes have come to the end of my tether. with some orange juice. Probably ful. Many authorities consider For the past year all has been as a mental nurse he was familiar that the provision of Indian guards nightmare. I am in terrible with such preparations and kept will prove quite inadequate, though trouble and am too proud to tell some by him for dealing wth, pati the cost, which falls on the shipow. any of you, not that you could nera, may be anything between help me in any case. I am tak | £20,000 and £30,000 a year,
(Continued at foot of next column).
ents who were Testiess or sleepless. The jury returned a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind.".
pr
- WILLIAM FÖK. THE FIRST VIENNESE MOVIETONE
SINGING DANCING TALKING
SONG ROMANCE
WITH
JHarold Murray Norma Terris' WALTER CATLETT IRENE PALASTY TOM. PATRICOLA LENNOX PAWLE,
JOHN GARRICK
MARRIED HOLLYWOOD
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