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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
(August 23.)"
Rotary Club Tifin, Lane, Craw ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m. (closed meeting for members).
South China Motor Shipbuilding
& Repairing Works, Ltd., Annual Mooting, St. George's Building,
12.30 pim
Entries for Macao Races close. Queen's Theatre: "A Tailor-made "Man"
“YOU GOT TO HAND IT
OUT TO LONDON.
AMERICA LOOKS ROUND-AND
APPROVES.
AND A LONDONER'S VIEW OF THE
VISITORS.
I was prepared to be defensive manner of surprising sharps, and even apologetic, writes GM. fats and rich, velvety vowels like World Theatre "The Story of Thompson in the Evening Standard, reminiscences of Irish. Kin Tan" Part 2 (Chinese film)."Yes," I was ready to say,
our United States, Steel has drop
ped another dollar," said Double. Bass, 29 Wê crossed Trafalgar Square..
King's Theatre: "The Lawyer's 'Secret, **":
Star Theatre: "Montana Moon."streets are narrow and badly plan Central Theatre: Fair Ward
ned, our
buildings Bra too low by ing "..
about ten storeys; we are shabby and out-of-date, but our policenien you will admit, are wonderful, vur complexious have a certain bucatic charm, our grass, our trees $4.
It only shows how for wrong one
can go...
Prince's Theatre: South Sea
Rose."
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hoteli
European Mail: Inward from London (parcels only) by Nankin.
Tides:-High at 5.48 and 9.20; Low at 1.08,
Wednesday.
(August 90.)
Queen's. Theatre: "A Tailor Made Man.
World Theatre: "The "Story of Kin Tan, Part 2 (Chinese film)...
Star Theatro "Married Li Hollywood,"
/
Gee, another buck!** jubilated. a loan, hook-nosed man whose faco
seemed to be cast in a kind of high-
ly-glazed pottery. But on another seat a fat, melancholy, man drow down the corners of his mouth ex- pressively while his wife said sharp- lyWhat did I tell you, Eldred "
I had always imagined (heaven forgive me!) that those vast motor coaches which sleekly, bora our visi- Of course! The lean man was a` tors from the New World to gaze Bear and the fat man a Bull. At on our city moved to an obligato of last I had seen these mythological acrid trans-Atlantic disparage animals. Poor Bull, this was no ment: Say, is that the National weather for him... Gallery1 You should see the
Then suddonly" Double Boas putii art gallery at Nashville, Ten-his, paper down and looked about: Ressce."
bim.
And here I was in the midst of
it. To right and left, to front and
Central Theatre: "Honor" Among rear, the serried ranks of America Lovers."
Bocrot.
Prince'a Theatre South Sea Rose
་་
were massed: Men with hats thrust forward on their brows, with cigare slewing like the gun turreta of battleships, with a general air of benign truculence: women
trim assured and competent; girls in whom something of the exotic East
Ten Dance at King's Restaurant, Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel..
is united with' the unabashed and European Mail-Outward: open-air West-here they were? Europe (ordinary letters only) superscribed "via, Siberia.": Air -Mail, Shanghai-Manchouli."
Tidea-High at 7.60 and 10:11; Low at 1.05 and 3.11.
Thursday.
(August 27.)
World Theatre: The Story of Kin Tan," Part 2 (Chinese film).
Star Theatre: Morried In Hollywood."
Central Theatre: "Honor Among
But where were the covert sncers at an effete civilisation Where the raw comparisons of a nation with higher buildings than we?
Beautiful - Gizis.
"Say," he said in tones that must! have boomed over many a atricken"
seld of finance, say, you got lo
hand it to London. Yessir.” A low murmur of approval..
To Modest.
Was this the Hoover spirit at work, or bad I been misjudging them all along! What nonsense has heen talked about those modest, ap- preciative, intelligent people.
"We are now entering St. James Street, the heart of clubland. All around us are the clubs of the British aristocracy." Boanerges, whom we call our guide-lecturer, is a credit to us and to the famous Baiversity which has released himi for the summer.
I listened, and the great American Queen's Theatre: "Way For Aymphony sounded in my ears, from
"Hasn't he got "just the cutest Sailor."
the double-bass contributed by a secent. I could sit and listen to) man reading aloud the latest, Wall him for hours." The narrative of Street quotations to the lighter that New England passion halted wood-wind passages of a pair of while the fair Diana commented to beautiful-who discussed in high Boanerges. But only for a mo girls-one dark, one fair, both her dark sister on the charm of
Tarnished pitched New England voices thement: "What can a gurl expect if
lätost stage in some affaire de cœur she Icta a fellow take her to a dance Prince's Thestra: "The City that was throbbing to its conclusion and then goes home in another Girl,"
in distant Pennsylvania. Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotele
How pleasant the music of American- Tides:High at 8.35 and 10.31;
speech! Like English Low at 134 and 3.40.
transposed to another key, with all
∙Lovers." +
King's Theatret
Lady."
fellow's automobile."
A new voice impinged on my hearing, féminine and wearily per- (Continued on Page 10:)
ON AND AFTER
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26th
THE
TEA DANCES
Will be held at
Lane Crawford's
Restaurant
EXCHANGE BUILDING
Instead of at the
King's Restaurant.
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