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(BY TOWNSMAN).
Good Looks. Not Wanted.
I met a distinguished German film director to-day who is search
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TO-DAY (September 30).
19th, day of Jemadi-al-awal. Lammert'a Auction, 11 a.m. Auction: Hughes & Hough, 11
Rotary Club Tiffin.
Supreme Court long vacation
begins.
Mamak Hockey Tournament Meeting, St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30
m
Fellowship Meeting, Sailors' & Soldiers' Home, 8 p..
Whist Drive: South Wales Bor derers, 8 p.m.
Whist Drive: Civil Service C.C., 8.30 p.m.
Theatrek.
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Central: "Nice Women."! King's "Man of Mayfair " Star: "The.r Own Desire.' Majestic: "The Spy." Queen's: "But the Flesh is Weak."
Oriental: Caught." Garden: "Flood.".
of att actress who hay, no good H.E. Football Association Meet- leoks to recommend her, expressing. 5.30. ed surprins, bat G.-W. Pabst, the director, gave no indication timt he was seeking anybody who was unugal in film circles. "I want; London, August 10-With the a wild peasant girl," he said, "to opening of the new Marble Arch play the part of Dulcines in the station to-day-it has taken 20+ talkie' version of Don Quixote,” months to construct-the Under-in which Chuliapine will play the ground has added yet another to its lending part." He does not want; list of aptly dubbed "Wonder" fine lady with 'a 'chocolate-box ground" stations. Patiently and smile,” as he said, "but a rough, with unsurpassed skill in engin temperamental rogue of a girl with cering science, the Underground is naughty eyen. Mr. Pabst agreed being transformed, and when the that London was hardly the pines enterprising Lord Ashfield and his to find this type, and he appeared colleagues have completed their to think my suggestion worthy of programme of station reconstruc- consideration when I recommend-taurant. tion, the facilities for quick and od as a good hunting ground some cheap travel will be such as to parts of Scotland, make London the envy of the world's Capitals. To the perfec tion of travel are added a bustle and perpetual scene amidst which the traveller would fain linger Marble Arch station is a replica a smaller scale of Piccadilly Cixous with its beauty lights, jolly escalators, shops, kiosks, and every sort of ticket-machine. Like the Circus, it will no doubt become a favourite trysting place.
on
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Sir Eric Drummond.
Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary. General to the League of Nations, will celebrate his 56th birthday to day-for the last time at Geneva, since he is retiring at the end of the year.
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Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and King's Res
1.2.5.
Tides.-High; Low at 6.23 an!
Sunrise: 6.11 a.m.; Sunset: 0.99
p.m.
1.
Principal Halls. Tilawa Inward:---Calcutta and Straits
Outward: Japan, ·8. America end Europe e San Francisto: Shingo Maru Reg. 5 p.m.; Letters 1.30 p.m, on 21st inst.
WEDNESDAY (September 21.)
Ember Day,
I suppose hardtoned Genevan conferenciers will find it dificult to imagine the League without Sir
20th day of Jemadi-nl-awal. Ladies' Church Aid Society Meet- Eric, as he has been Secretary-ing, Sailors & Soldiers Home 10 General since its inception in 1019...
Hong Kong Area Aquatic Sports, Speculation concerning his pro-V.R.C., p.m. babie successor seems to have nar- rewed the Beld down to a French- man, M. J. Avenol, the present Sir Walter Scott Centenary Di Under-Secretary-General. But surner: Lane Crawlord, Ltd., 8 p.m.
Whist drive at Seamen's In- mise is still a tittle premature, as at all events the election must wait stitute, 9 p.m. till the Council meets at the end of, next month.
Tartan-Loving Frenchman. Enthusiasm for the Old Country is not more pronounced in any exiled Scot than it is in 1. Paga- an, the French Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He and his wife, he told me to-day, are going Edinburgh and for the next ten days to realise one of the big am- bitions of their lives-to see the enuntry of Madame Paganon's an- cestors. "My wife's mother," said have been strong
high Ambassadorial M. Puganon, who was a native of Bong Oban, is buried in Glasgow, and would be bis. There are, however, there we will go first. Then we certain difficulties which make pre- will visit the Highlands, which I diction dangerous. have written, so much about, but
never
Been, and which my wife never tires of describing to our three children and tho has never thema, for the was born in France." Even the children, whom
Funeral of Mr. Lo Chung Kue, Entries close for V.R.C. cham pionship, 6 p.m.
Theatres,
Central: "Nice Women. Queen's: As to Sir Eric's future, there weak."
rumours-that
post
Adrutral Lord Lonsdale.
Lord Lonsdale, who is entertain- ing a large company, including the Princess Royal, at Lowther Castle for the grouse shooting, in aldo busy superintending the final ar-
"But the Flesh is
Orientul: "Caught." King'e: May of Mayfair." Star: "Skin Deep."
Tea Dance at King's Restaurant ;; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant.
Tides.-High: 00.00 and 13.00; Low: 7.28 and 17.03.
Sunrise: 6.1 5.m.; Sunset: 6.2 p.m.
Principal Halls,
Inward:-Europe vis Suez by
I met, are enthusiastic about Scot-rangements for the Grasmere Naldera. land. The two little girls always sports. wear tartan skirts.
Outward :-Canada and Europe
THURSDAY September 22).
The sports, the chief events of via San Francisco, Shinyo Maru which are the wresting matches, 8.30 a.m. are of ancient origin, but owe their to Lord Lonsdale, present popularity almost entirely Among the many, offices held by the popular sporting peer, by the way, probab- ly the lenst known is that of Here- ditary Admiral of Cumberland and Westmorland, the countica whence most of the competitors drawn.
No Glass Shortage. That the plate-glass industry had been caught napping by the sud- den demand on stocks following the destruction caused by the re- cent abnormal hailstorm over Lon don was roundly denied by promi- nent manufacturers whom I inter-
The office is a survival from the viewed to-day. We are aware of days when admirals were appoint- the suggestion that has gained ed for most of the countien border currency," A member of a big firming on the son with power to deal
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of plate-ginia makers said, "but there is absolutely no truth in it." The stocks of both. British and foreign glass, I understand, are equal to the demand, exceptionally heavy as it is, but even if there was a shortage, the industry is cap- able of replenishing stocks almost before a complaint could be justi- fied.
Guarding the Nation's Treasures,
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Whist drive: H.M.S. Tamar, 8.45 p.m.
Theatres
Tarzan the Ape Man." Queen's: Oriental: “June Moon." King's: "The Strange Case of Clara Deane."
Central: Fast Companions." Star: "Wan."
2let day of Jemandi-al-awal. Hong Kong Area Aquatic Sports, V.R.C., 2. p.m
Parade of H.K. Police Force at Central Police Station, 5 p.m.
Theosophical Soe. Meet, 3 p.m. Badminton Club Meet, Sailors & Soldiers' Home. ***
Whist drive: Police R.C., Happy Valley, 8.30 p.an
Lantern Lecture by Dean Swans at St. Andrew's Hall, 9 p.m.
Theatres.
King's: "The Strange Case of Clara Deane."
Queen's: "Tarzan the Apeman." Star: "Skin Deep. Oriental:
June Moon."
Tea dance at King's Restaurant: Dinner dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and King's Res taurant.
Tides.-High at 00.25 and 14.16; Low at 08.50 und 10.30.
Sunrise: 8.11 a.m.; Sunset: 6.20
Tides-High 01.00; Low: 10.14.........
Principal Malls.
When revisiting the British Mu- reum to-day something prompted me-perbaps it was the growth of banditry of one kind or another to ask an official if the national treasures wore safe beyond any
Outward: Japan U.S.A. and risk. He laughed and proceeded
Europe vio Vancouver and Europe to open my eyes There are secret taward:---U.BA---- Canada, Japan via Biberia: Empress of Canada, systems of alarm which I raust not and, Shanghai by President Cleve- p.m. describe in detail, which would ef- and
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FRIDAY
(September 23).
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