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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TODAY.
(February 23.)
Annual Race Meeting, Third Day. Happy Valley, 11 a.m.
Cricket: Hong Kong Volunteers
z Kowloon Cricket Club..
Central Theatre: "Aro Thurd t
You
Queen's Theatre: Up For The Cup."
King's Thektro: Wives."
Docters'
World Theatre: Sidewalks, of New York."
Star Theatre: New Moon."" Hurmston's Circus at Wanchai, 9:15 p.m.
WASHINGTON PUTS ON
HER NEW ROBES
TO BE A MARBLE SHRINE AT THE HEART OF AMERICA.
NEW-FOUND BEAUTY AND SYMMETRY
OF U.S.A. CAPITAL.
BY R. 1. CRUIKSHANK.
"If our country wishes to com- pete with others let it not be in the support of armaments, but in the making of a beautiful capital city,
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Wonderful changes arg taking place in the capital of the United States. An impulse to beautify this Tea Dances at King's Restaurant queen among American cities is and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner leading to the erection of great new hances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen-buildings and other public works, said Mr. Coolidge, in blessing the Insula Hotel and King's Restaurant.
Revisiting Washington after a re-scheme. latively brief abweave, one feels like. Washington, with its broad Rip van Winkle. A fine now bridge avenues, its masses of greenery and -a song in white granite-spans white buildings, and the airy don the Potomac, Between the old treas of the Capitol floating over it like that give the city so much of its palace in the clouds, is a city that charm fash the snowy pillars of even the stranger comes to love in a freshly constructed buildings that peculiarly intimate way. Ita on make one rub one's eyes. Some of chantment will be heightened rather them, they tall me, have been than destroyed by the changes, now þerectoď a year ahead of the contraët
crowding fast upon it. time.
WEDNESDAY.
(February 24).
St. Matthias.
Election by J.P.'s of a member to serve on Licensing Board,
Auction Bale of Marble Hall by Lammerta, 2 p.m.
Cricket: Hong Kong Volunteer 2. United Services on the Hong Kong Cricket Club ground. ·
Annual Race Meeting Happy Valley, 11a.m. (Champions Day)
Whist Drive at Seamen's In- stituto, a p.m.
King's Theatre: Ladies of the Big House."
Contral Theatro "Tarzan the Tiger" (Chapter 1)...
Queen's Theatre Up For The Cup."
Star Theatro: "New Moon." World Theatre:"Sidewalks of New York,"
Ten Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner
noon at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen insula Hotel and King's Restaurant. European Mail-Inward: From London by Memnon: Outward Europe via Siberis (Asama Maru)
THURSDAY.
8.30 p.m..
(February 25.) Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis Tournament: Open Championship Singles: J. Barrow. F. Hata, W. Wirth 1. J. W. Leonard, J. J. Weite v. F. H. Kwok, Lee Wai Tsoi v. F. Grose, G. W. Sowell . A. E. Guest, Trui Wai Pui . G. Lai, E. D. Rarejohn. Lee Wai Tong..
Queen's Theatre: The Rosiry, King's Theatre: "Ladies of the Big House," "
Central Theatre: "Tarzan the Tiger" (Chapter 1).
9.15 p.m.
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All the new buildings, parks|| THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL
Thora is a pounding enthusiasm
ronds ära related to one another, behind these developments.
and the aim is to make the city an Outside the railroad station the artistic unity.
along Pennsylvania-
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ground has been cleared for a regal It plaza. One's taximan speaks with Avenue, that historie thoroughfare pride of the beautiful new Supreme leading from the Capitol to the Court building that will be a White House, that I had my bigge worthy neighbour of the Capital. surpriso. A triangular site of 70 The dust of the demoNsher is inace has been aksarad for the esse
tion of a grounp of monum saʼal. the air.
buildings so designed as to consti- tute a single great architectural Within this giant triangle unit, will be located the Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Government Archives, the Department of Labour, the De- partment of Justice, the Post Office Dapartment, the Interstate Com merce Commission and other official buildings. ...
Many tons of millions of dollars are boing spent on the great trans, formation. Here is a young capital spring to classic splendour, When it is finished the new Washington will be worth travelling a long road
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It is as though one had come back to London and found Whitehall in
TEMPLE OF INCOME TAX- process of reconstruction, now Law Courts going up along Millbank, The £3,300,000. Commerce Build" the ground in front of Victoria Staing and the £2,000,000 Internal Re tion cleared for a public square, built, show how impressive thin venue Bureau, which are already
extensions planned' for the British Museum and that Memorial Bridge actually built across the Thames at Charing Cross.
This
PASSION FOR BEAUTY. Star Theatre: "Pardon Us." World Theatre: "The Son Lion."
passion for beautifying Harnston's Circus at Wanchai, Washington in a phage of the Ten Dances at King's Restaurant Amortean genius of which little is and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner known on the other aide of the At Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong lantic. To men of taste and infu Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant. once like Mr. Mollon, the Secretary European Mail-Inward: of the Treasury, it has become an
absorbing hobby. Europe me Suez (Rajputana).
group of Government palaces is go ing to be. Our own income tax people may like to know that in the last-named building there are al İleast 250.000 messenger buzzera.
Beyond all this, the State Dopart- mant in to be transformed, and nove homes erected for the War nat Navy Departments.
Then there are the changes in the Mall. What St.. Jame's Park is to
London, the Mall is to Washington. It is a beautiful, cool stretch of full-leaved greenery as the axis of, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum.
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