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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TODAY. February B.)
Beginning of Spring (Li Ch'un).
Chinose New Year Evo.
Chinese Now Your Bazaar at. Wanthai.
Golf
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Completion of na WHY
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Hockey Hong Kong Hockey Club Y.M.O.A. (King's Park) 6. b.m. Incognito v, St Andrews, Caroline Hill.
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CARR'S of CARLISLE
Theatro: "The Virtuous
Central Theatre: "The Sap from Syracuse
"Queen's Theatre: "Sidewalks of New York."
World Theatre: One for th Other."
Star Theatrs:
"The Locked Door:"
Ten Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant. Dinner Dance at King's Restaurant, Car nival Dancer at Peninsula Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and Hong Kong
Botel
Cingalese Girl Looks
At London.
QUIET STODGY COURTESY THAT
MAKES ONE FEED AT HOME.
ANIMALS AR HAPPY IN ENGLAND: MYSTERY IN FASCINATINGLY TANTALISING CITY.
The following was written by Miss Maresa de Silva, who has left the seclusion of Ceylon. So earn her living in the "bewildering, foovy, rain-sodden, beautiful city" of London,"
If you have ever been to Ceylon, The cold and fog outside only where the fireflies sometimes take soomed to intensity the pleasures the pince of stars, and the fam-within-fires burning merrily, hot boyant tres burst forth into flam buttered, crumpets and oh the ing glory during the day, you will quiet friendliness of those "overy- wonder why I have chosen to live day, commonplace little things that in London London that ought to go towards making an English srum so grey and dull and gloomy Christmas,
Harmaton's Circus at Kowloon..
to a stranger's eyes, I said it ought Europea'u Mail:- Inward: Ito-bet it doesn't. Europe via Negapatom (Katori Maru); London (parcels only). Sar
Having lived in London for soms
pedon Outward: Europe via Suzuar. I returned to Ceylon for one
Terukuni Maru) e p.m.
SATURDAY,
(February 8:)
Chinese New Year Day. Bank Holiday
I motored down to the Leather Bottle in Cobham, Kant, for lunch and during our meal «two little vil lage children looked In through the
year, and all during that year-in lattice windows-and this is part
spite of the sunshine, the moonlight and the "Blue-green hills-I bad a yearning for this Lewildering, foggy, rain-sodden," beautiful city of years.
down in its usual sooty waY, "
İ
of the conversation wa overheard :
"Who is she?"
Oh, an, Indian lady,"
Has she gut any shoes on 1" Lot's wait and she'
Cricket-Hong Kong (10.1
On the boat, as we drew nearer-- United Services, Craigangower C.C.
I thought it very intelligent of 4. Inthian R. C. (F) Second Div England, people took bets as to them to know I nght not have had sion: Police ". Kowloon 0.0. (L), whether there would be rain or for any shoes on. After all, probably University v. Hong Kong C.C...) somshow thought that the sun all the Indian women in their
Football.-First Division: 8.W. Bordorors u. Pollen, Clybu. Navy, would whias for a change, and said.
picturebooks were shown bare-foot- St. Joseph's Kowloon Second much to the surprise of all the e. After we had explored this Division: L'niversity Navy, Club others! But I was right famous Dickens alehouse and visited Kowloon, Twelfth Battery only the very next day the log came all the bedrooms (each one named S.W. Borderers, Chinese League: South China "A". Yee Woo, Sung
(after, a chaquetar from "Pickwick Cheng, South China "B,"
| Papers "), climbed down dark stairs and turned along narrow passages -we went for a short drive. We When I landed, it was a delight passed under the bare branches of Lo hear the porters, the taxi-men, trees that would meet overbend yea-and even the Customs officials and I thought of spring-an Eng talking in a leisurely way-no fusslish spying, Ah! Yes, I know you and no bother. And above every are smiling and perhaps saying: thing else I loved that quiet, atodgy "If there is a spring! But aq courtesy that seems ingrained in I've always known spring na thre; overy one of you.'
most glovens, cahilarating, vividly
Central Theatre: "Charley' Aub"
King's Theatre: Ann."
Merely Mary
Queen's Centre: "Sidewalks of New York.
World Theatre; Lucky Fool (Chinese film).
Star Theatre: "Pardon U." Harmaton's Cirens at Kowloon. Tea Dancer at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen insula Hotel and King's Restaur
ant.
SUNDAY. (February 7.)
Quinquagesima. Shrove Sunday.
Hockey Radio Sports Club, Jat Regiment.
Queen's Theatre: "Sidewalks of New York."
QUIET STODCY
COURTESY."
We stopped the car, and had a glorious view of the countryside. 1 drunk in all the peace the attes peacefulnew-of this sene;
And I thought of another sceno- my home thousands of miles away... the beauty of which told you al host, breathless perhaps.
It is not the kind of courtesy that I joyous time of year, I cannot very, gushes and leaves you feeling fright well think of it in any other way. fully uncomfortable" and somehow all wrong-it makes you--or at losat it makes me feel happy and at home. A sort of unspoken welcome sint I do not think I could explain. Christmes in London! Could it King's Theatre: Merely Marybe true Was I really here? The Ann."
pero mention of it sent a glow of Central Theatre:
Charley's excitement throngh me. The shops Aunt."
World Theatre Lucky Fool."London shop-with their lights, Star Theatro: "Pardon Us." warm and colour; the restaurants, Ten Dances at King's Restaurant the cafus and the pantomimes-for and Repulse Bay Hotel: Dinner
I confess, though Làm grown up. Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and King's Restaurant I love them.
2.
And yet what, was it? Where was,that sunse of quietness and rest that one always associate with an English country scene? I couldn't see a living soul about, and silence: (Continued on Page 4.)
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