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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1931.. 式拜禮,日登廿月肄年登卅玖仟登英 Price
DIARY OF LOCAL NIGHT DANCE CRUSH IN
"EVENTS.
To-day.
(April 21.)
Rotary Club Tiffin Speaker Mr. R. T. Barnett on Journalism."
Polo Club Annual Meeting. Jar-i dine's Boardroom, 3.30 p.m.
Helena Mlay Institute, pianoforte recital by Youra Galler, 0.20 p.m.
Hong Kong Cricket Club, Tennis Tournament:-C. A. L. Rumjahu and J. A. Cassumbhog winners of the tie T. Kong and W. T. Lee
. Iu Tak Cheuk and H. Lo.
Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis
Tourtiainent:-
Handicap Singles "A":
FOUR CAPITALS.
THE LUXURY OF DISCOMFORT.
SIDE LIGHTS ON A CURIOUS MODERN
CRAZE.
The famous Hall of Mirrors in the | ing of French cigars and Maryland palace of Veranilles, where kings cigarettes
2.
of France occasionally gave Sinte To obtain n table seemed balls, is 220 feet long and 33 feetmatter of hours and involved cross- wide. It is by no means the mosting a dance floor quite two yards spacious ball-roùm in Europe, · but | aerosa. The guesta, most of them its dimensions were adequate for in evening dress, with an adequate the dignified minect and leisnely sprinkling of erinine cloaks, were waltz.
packed like the inmates of the Binck Hole of Calcutta.
The best-known night club in H. F. Foley (ser:) . C. E. London Its a dance floor which Holmes (ore 18).
measures (approximately) in inches what the Hall of Mirrors measures in feet.
Handienp Doubles:
Owen Hughes and More (owe 151 Law and Dowley (rec, 5/0). Miskin and Blaker (owe 1/6) Raworth and Turner (ser.).
Rodger and Rodger (owe 1/0) # Henderson and Bishop (owe 1/6).
Queen's Theatre:" Whoopee." - World Theatre: "Repaid Favour" (Chinese Film).
King's Theatre: "Ingagi." Majestic Theatre: The Wild Party"
Central Theatre: "The Devil's Holiday."
Daneca: Ten Dance, H.K. Hotel; Digner Dances, Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and Hotel Cecil.
European Mail:-Outward Europe ria Siberia (Heian Marui, 9.30 m. Europe in Suez (An chises), 2.30 p.m.
Wednesday. (April)
The few square yards of board flooring of this particular night club suffices for one-step and blues, tango and fox-trot, Sometimes just as many men and women struggle round this pocket-handkerchief floor as were invited to the set dances of Versailles,
Intimate!
It is an interesting commentary on modern jjfe that if a restaurateur gives his clients rooni in which to dance comfortably, few people will want to danes there. But if he packs the tables so close together that waiters have to lean across his customers to give them fragments of cold food, and at the same time cuts down the space of the dance floor the proportions of a horse blanket, he is almost certainly as sured of TEKS.
It was nearly an hour before I could get a drink, so great was the press of people, and all this time it was impossible to talk intellig. ibly because of the confused Rabel and the deafening encophony of three pianos, played simulinneously,
No One to Pay.,
At the end, when I wanted to pay my bill, no one appeared to take the slightest notice and so, leaving what I hope was an ade quate number of francs on the table, I again fought my way into the street.
As 1 caine out there were quite a dozen people waiting to push their way in, in precisely the same way as my party had done two hours previously. At the lowest computation there must have been three hundred men and women in that bar, not one of them able to "sit down or even stand up, in com- fort, but each one lingering on be cause the others did.
This refinement of discomfort we' And in the course of visits to rejoice in as being called "in many parts of Europe and Amerien timate."
I have found the same sort of Hong Kong Engineering and Throughout the whole of Europe- | thing. In the Kurfurstendam quor Construction Co., Ltd; Annual Fand America, for that matter-to iter of Berlin' you will find rows Meeting of Shareholders, St. be really smart is to be luxuriously of dance halls, ench one smaller Grorgo's Building, noon,
inconvenienced, to sit at tables too than the other; and the smaller,the Hong Kong General Chamber of tiny to contain a pot of flowers, | floor this higher the prices and more Commerce, Annual Meeting. City ash-tray and salt-rellars. leave numerous the crowd, Hall, 4.30 p.m.
alons pintes and dishes, and to be Hong Kong Society for the Pre-deafened by the strains of saxo- vention of Cruelly to Animals, Anphones and musical sews so that. nual Meeting, Jardine's Boardroom even the small talk of modern times which has taken the place of in- telligent conversation is almost im possible.
3.15 p.m.
Hong Kong Cricket Club. Tennis Tournament-Open Singles:
C. Fineher r. M. W. Lo. Handicap Singles "B":
R. H. Wild (rre, 3/0) . J. H. Anderson (ree, 3/8).
Paris Haunts,
A few days ago I was in mont. parnasse, that quarter of Paris H. Owen Hughes (owe 15/2) which is said to be the home of H. J. Armstrong (owe 13) or Rail-artists. According to the mood of ion (rec, 3/6).
11. M. Henderson (srv. 2/6) r. Holmes (owes 13) of Foley (ser.).
. Forster (own 15/2)r. A. B. Baworth (owe 4/0). Handicap Doubles:
Redmond and Ride (owe 4/6) r. Petrie and Lewis (scr.), Mixed Doublen:
the moment, it has replaced the once equally famous Montmartre as the night haunt of the French capital.
What has happened is that the negro bundsmen have transferred their instruments and the waiters their wine lists to the other side of the river.
And New York.
"
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The nut who wants a night out as a genius for discovering places which everybody else wants to go to. In New York, on the last oc ension I was there," everybody went to the damp and diminutive dance places of Greenwich Village. The food was inedible and the drink death-dealing, but one paid cheerfully because there was any number of people crowding around,
And among them was a million. aire of my acquaintance who lived in semi-regal state in an vagant apartment on Park-avenue, where he insisted on every comfort and luxury, and yet was willing to pay dozens of dollars in a dingy Greenwich Village supper place for the privilege of sitting on a rickety chair, being poisoned with rank champagne at untold money per bottle, and being inveigled into buy ing tempenny-halfpenny dolls and hundred
All over Montparnasse you will E. J. Dowley and Mrs. Dowles find tiny rooms and bars, atrocious free 3/6). C. E. Holmes and Missy decorated, dispensing appalling Taylor (owe 2/0).
entertainment at the highest price HR. Remington and Mrs. H. to a sweltering moh of indis- stuffed goblins at one Owen Hughes (rec, 2/8). Mona-criminate pleasure seekers, ghan and Mrs. C. P. F. James (rec. 4/0).
Queen's Theatre: Whoopee." World Theatre: "Repaid. Favour" (Chinese film).
King's Theatre: " Ingngi.” Majestic Theatre: The Will I'arty."
Central Theatre: "The Devil's Holiday."
times their proper value,
extra.
I happened to go into a bar in If he had, organised such an the boulevard Raspail, a bar which entertainment in his own apart.
more
is now the most popular night re-ment he would have lost every sort in Paris. It is a place the friend he had in New York! size of a Belgrave-square dining- But, after all, laughter is infec
erowds laugh room. Tt took me quite five tious-and minutes to battle through the crowd readily than individuals. So let us of men and women at the door, aad on with the dance-on the pocket within, the air was dark blue with handkerchief oor.--Norman Hill the accumulated smoke of an even-son in the Evening Standard.
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