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No. 23479, *6#Ħ±ƒ ̄ð #MƑKÆLS HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY,
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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NOVEMBER 1, 1933. AĦ EJEN
If Gossip We Must
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Well, Hongkong's first Navy Day is over, and we can all settle down again." I am sure the Com- modore must be glad: when I saw him driving through the Dock- yard on Saturday afternoon he was looking definitely harassed. but he need not have been." It all went off splendidly, and we en- Joyed ourselves, thoroughly. Our only complaint is that the time: was too short and the items ra- ther scattered. The Dockyard seems a terribly big place when it comes to dragging small child- zen, about: even a full day would hardly have been enough.
SOME OF THE SHOWS Looking back on it. I and I missed almost everything I parti- time we had tested the hutes cularly wanted to see! By the
and the aerial railway, and seen the howitzers at play (very thrilling, this), there was Just not long enough to get to Father Neptune. Besides, we had to pass the Dry Dock on the way and that looked so fascinating that we wandered about it till
the only disappointing show, for the aeroplanes began. This was
all. "they did was to fr out of sight and stay there til we were tired of straining our even after them. When they oyen- tually tame back we were deeply embedded in the queue waiting to get on board EMS. Engler and we would have been there yet if a Good Samaritan had not res- cued us and sent us up by the Officers' gangway. In the crush coming off the lift on to the fy ing deck ons child got adrift, and I was suppremely thankful for the nets when I found her
craping over the edge, trying to see. down
b) Duza launa"
STELLA
A Navy Day Group
his favour is suited his profile.
that the helmet sweet and charming in yellow; Miss Bonner very smart and so- phisticated in black, with black and white taffeta coat; The new bride Mrs. Evans in pale pink
the funnel of the destroyer, along~ | had had enough, and retired to lace looking very sweet and girl-
side!
CARTOON AND COSTUME
of
was not even a quiver officer's' moustachios-nothing but a few incisive words as the lift dropped out of sight. But I ra- ther suspect the sergeant was not so polite.
from
ish; Miss Johnson in pale blua taffeta; Mrs. Grelier very smart in black with white fur edging and black cape; Mrs. Jebb in red lace; Miss Gerrard (daughter of Professor Gerrard) very chic in
yellow with brown feather arm-
AT THE HOTEL
Before the lions appeared we
the more civilised arena" of the Hongkong Hotel Never have I We had a magnificent view of seen the place so packed. A thor the small arms drill by the de-oughly international crowd_sway- tachment of Marines. They were
ed together on the dance floor: 1 almost inhuman in their preci- noticed some of the American sion. But how disappointing it Navy wives, and there were sev was to see no Bateman reaction eral big Chinese parties, Thelets: Mrs. Begdon a newcomer to to the dropped bayonet! There women wore every type of dress completely the imaginable,
backless evening frocks to hats and a blouse and skirt. It was more picturesque, perhaps, when one made a point of dressing on Saturday night, but this new freedom must mean a lot of ex- Hongkong parents had a hectic tra custom for the Hotel, since day. In the intervals of shepherd- so many of us have now formed ing my own family I noticed the habit of dropping in there others equally distracted the for half an hour's dancing after Mackichang with their Leslie, the pictures. But could the band the Raworths and Richard (en- not play more" and shorter dan- thralled with the latest submar- ces? When the twelve
o'clock ine) the Coopers, the Rasmus rule is so rigidly enforced one sens, and several more. There hates to waste precious time on was no time to study frocks, but long intervals-or, worse still, be I did give more than a second stuck for fifteen minutes with an glance at Miss Betty Gerrard her inefficient partner! brown and white diagonal stripe and her little fur were quite de- lightful.
KWANTI:
i
It is sad to hear that there THE CLAIMS OF CAKE
will be no more race meetings at: Fanling this year. They were Tea in the hanger was a mar- always the most delightfully in- vellous idea, if only for the formal gatheringa, far kore chance it gave us of sitting down happy-go-lucky, 4 affairs than for a while; but, why," oh why do Happy Valley-and far cheaper children always take so long over for the impecunious backer! One their meals when one is in a left no qualms over the odd two hürry? We missed the next dollars even if one never spotted a "crossing the line" ceremony and winner all the afternoon. But five all the excitement in the basin, is another matter. thanks to the appeal of chocolate
THE cake, and we were too late for the cinema and forgot the mass- ed bands. On the whole, as I said before, I think we missed al- most everything. Please may we have it all over again?
HONGKONG HANK
the social circle of Hongkong from Shanghai in flowered ninon with a deep black hem; Mrs. An- derson in pale green Organdie; Mrs. Railton in black and a very unusual model; Mrs. Mackenzie in black satin with deep scarlet yoke and when I saw her, a fancy eye. Mrs. Turner was very smart little cap placed daintily over one
in beige lace: Miss Dover the "go ahead" manageress in pale pink organdle; Miss Cousens in red and blue; Miss Hill in black." Mrs, Holmes in pink with black velvet shoulder straps.
(Continued on Page. T.)
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TO-DAY
(November 1),
(IX Moon, 14th Day). All Saints Hallowmass Sales of Crown Lands, District office, Taipo, 11.30 am.
Lammert's Bale of Electrolytic Copper Ingots, "T" Brand, Sales Room, 11 ..
Dance at Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, 8.30 p.m. pok the Estate of Aline Wallace, late of Miscellaneous Claims against 2 Pork Road, due;
I wonder if the authorities are waiting to see. If they can catch anybody before they put proper screens round the Bank? Two big falls in a few days are no joke BACK TO ANCIENT ROME
for those who have to travel by Whist Drive, Beamen's Union, 8 tram. Is there any reason why P As they cannot use a wall matting Committies Meeting & p.m. As if an afternoon of spectacle
HKVD.C. Bergeants' Mess were not enough, we went that like the one that was round the Kowloon Union Church. We- evening to "The Sign of the old Beaconsfield Arcade? Beveral men's Guild Busingas Meeting, 10 of those pillars look most in- his
secure, yet every day I see people calmly walking past them where they could hardly fail to be Crushed if one collapsed., vreme
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