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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG,
MEETING of GRADUATES A will be held in the GBEAT HALL of the UNIVERSITY at 5.15
P.M. on WEDNESDAY, the 14
JANUARY, 1931. The purpose of the Meeting, orer Thick the Box, FOO PING SHEUNG has consented
with a fragrant bouquet,
& genial flavour
preside is to consider the FORMATION that warms the heart-
of HONG KONG UNIVERSITY GRADUATES' ASSOCIATION. The VICE-CHANCELLOR will be "AT
HOME in the GREAT BALL From such is
4.10 to 5.18 F.M.
STANLEY V. BOXER,
Acting Dog'strar.
23rd December. 1930.
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Dated this 24th day of Dec., 1980. Per Pro, DODWELL & CO., LTD.
81. J. P. WAEREN,
Manager,
General Managers,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
flippancy or in the conventionally, romantic manner the, censor, anid
Yesterday's weather report, fore-nothing, but when the question" was cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 8p.m. stated.
The anti-cyclone remains central over S.W. Japan but has weakened slightly, Moderate to fresh mani- soon may be expected over the
China Scar
Local Forecast:-E, winds, mode
rote; fair.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 27, 1930.
·CENSORSHIP.
We have published from time to time, extracts from that strange morality play "The Green Pas tures," which portrays the Bible atory as seen by the childlike imagination of the negro. It is written in negro dialect, resembling pidgin English, and the Deity, who appears in the form of a negro pastor, talks to the archangels and
the patriarchs in the same easily
prosented seriously the play was prohibited. He argued that "an audience of East End clergy and social workers (as an intellectual dramatist ho sighs for the intollig enco and alertness of such an audience) would agree that the play was stating, unpleasant common places which the general public should be made to realise. of the cleanest writers who has
As one
even set pen to paper, Mr. SHAW very bitterly resented the censor's Betion. The objection to the play was that it made a specious defence. on cconomie grounds, of women following an immoral life. Mr. SHAW replied that the defence was not specious, but unanswerable, and mighty bad were conditions that allowed such things. The ban on the play has been lifted and no one
News and Views
Florida-Jamaica Air Service.
The negotiations between Pan- American Airwaya and the Govern mont. of Jamaica have now been concluded, anul it is understood that an air service between Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, and Florida was started early this month. The ser- vice to Jamaica is bi-weekly.
Without Bias.
known."
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Lady's Name Not Shielded.
In the London Divorce Court Mr. Local. Justice Langton, in a case in which the misconduct charged with at, a Agricultural Show, opening at London hotel with woman named. Sheung, Sui today.
Pago 7. said I think it is well it should
man and two be known that in these matters Three people, a publicity cannot be prevented. It women, were murdered by robbers is in the interests of justice that in a lonely farmhouse in the New publicity is insisted upon. I see Territories in the early hours of in the respondent's letter that he Thursday morning,
Pago 7 Captain Herbert Dixon, M.P., the wants the lady's name shielded if
A disastrous fire broke out at thờ racehoras owner, accepting a pre-possible. It is not possible, and it
Taikoktsui, Mongkok yesterday. sentation at a gathering of bowlere, is just as well that should be widely Wing On Loong timber yards of Page 7. commented on the fact that overy aport had its own characteristics.
Lance-Sergeant Post was serious- He said that he found jockeys had the appearance of being starvod; The Evening Standard makes the ly injured in a motor accident in cricketers, judging from their photo- following quotation from its 1830 Lower Albert Road on Christmas Page 7. graphs, seemed to be anxious, but file-fifteen years after Waterloo Day. when he came to bowlers he found was fought:There is no doubt that genial faces averywhere.
the great Powers of Europe aro augmenting their military forces. Russia is concentrating forces, in Poland. Russia has 90,000 troops arranged on the Wessel line, Aus- tria is recruiting and concentrating in the Tyrol, and France is employ But if Got ing all its resources. ernments sincerely want peace, we do not think they will have much difficulty in keeping it.
Fashions of East and West.
restaurant.
Fashions of East and West are piquantly blended in the London seems the worse
restaurants just now, and it is intor Highbrows declare that the conesting to boo that while the chilly sorship has ruined the British temperature of winter sonds western women into fur coate, castern drema, and only recent relaxations visitors, whom one might expect to have made a revival possible. feel the cold, appear perfectly warm and comfortable in transparent THOMAS HARDY, it is said, refused anris draped over bars sime. In a to write for the stage because of restaurant recently the gayest colour the censorship, and, if that be true, notes were provided by the Indian Indies dotted about the foyer and a mighty, dramatist was lost to literature. On the other hand, the authorities have got to preserve public order, and, to a less degree," to study people's foelings. The contention is that the sedition, blasphemy and decency laws aro not sufficient, to prevent insidious propaganda, being placed on the stage. If a play could only be stopped by an injunction from the courts on the ground that it was infringing these laws immediate
action would often be impossible,
familiar language. At one point, The Executive in fact, must have. at the very climax of the play, the power to ban a play for reasons In the Crown GABRIEL BAYS: "You look a little of expediency.
Нате д pensive, Lawn.
secgar, Colonies and India this, rule cor- LAWD." And yet the strange thing tainly applies Censorship, and in the quietness and the dignity rigorous consorship of plays and of the play. There is no bathos; filma, is essential. In view of diplo the characters ring true and theymatic complications that sometimes reach up to the tremendous figures arise, and of the netivities of the they represent. In England the world revolutionary movement, the present curb the drama, even in law-abiding England. While
A. S. WATSON & Co., play was banned and the censor's weighty reasons exist for keeping
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COMPREHENSIVE AND COM. PLETE REPORT
action has re-opened the whole ques tion of his veto. The English rule
M
cannot be much cause for complaint.
ONE of the reasons why English people dislike Frohibition is that this attempt of the United States to be more virtuous than the rest of the world causes constant friction between the two countries. It can not be denied that a good number of English adventurers have gone wholeheartedly into the rum-run- ning business. It is not only the monetary gains that attract but the excitement, the adventure and a
Parks for Learners,
Suggestions that certain parts of the London parks should be set aside for people learning to drive motor-cars were contained in ques tions asked in the House of Com mons.
The Old Game!
MP's Bride In Black.
Shipping Intelligense, Page 15, To-day's, wireless programme.
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Sport.
The Civil Servics Cricket Club held its annual Christmas party for children yesterday.
Page 7. Result of Home. football league matches on Christmas Day. Page 6.. Holiday charity football results.