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Glasgow, Nov. 27. Well over £1,000,000 în orders is stated to have been entered in the books- of Scottish motor traders as a result of the eight days' run of the Scottish Motor Show in the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow,
"In the words of Mr. RobertË. Croall, Edinburgh, president of the Scottish Motor Trades Associa- tion. Ltd., the Show was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the motor industry's products which had ever been held in Scotland.
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There were about 10,000 visitors in the hall on Saturday before the closing, and it is computed that the over 70,000 people attended show during its run.
The atmosphere of good business was present right up until the last minute.
A Rolls-Royce car. valued at over £2000, was soll shortly after uine o'clock, while other cars were also bought at a iate hour.
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THE LONDON GROUP Works Of The Late Roger Fry
(Special Air Mail: Sarrike);
Londen, Nov. 273|||
The first room at the London „Group's " exhibition at the New Barlington Galler!
best
one can remember UKL body, 'which has now produced thirty- two shows. The chief wall is given to a memorial exhibits of six works by the late Roger Fry. which include his portrait of Miss Nina Hamnett in a black Jersey, where he combined simplined pre- sentation with subtle and gym. pathetic realisation of character to a degree rare in his works,, "Peoples and Poppies" has a rich excitement of colour of which he was usually wary, and altogether It is a anely selected grim show. ing the balance" and i-variety of his rare gifts
Mr. Rupert Lee in a foreword writes how Fry, in the works of unknown painters, often recog nised values which his colleagues had passed over. "We like to re- Reports from "stands indicate
member the occasion of his stay- that good business has beening the condemnatory judgment transacted, while many inquiries of a work by saying "There is still remain to be followed pp.
something to be said for this ple- ture," and Mr. Sickert's affection- ate and malicious retort Bay It, Roger, say it'
At the close of the show Mr. Croall broadcast. Д message oť thanks and appreciation to the public One of the benedits which die New Year would give the motoring public, he said, was the reduction of 25 per cent. on the horse power lax,
ART FIND IN SCOTLAND
Portrait By Frans Hals
The laugh was
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
Thursday, Dec. 28.
Anniversaries and Holidays.--- Prince George, Duke of Kent, born 1902.
Auctions-Crown Land Sale, Land Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 am.j Toys, Lammert's Hong Kong Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.
Cinernas
King's: "The Black Cat.", Queen's:-"Uncertain Lady." Central:-"Chinese Picture.” Oriental:-"Tomorrow At Seven”. World:-"Charlie Chan's Cour-
age." Alhambra Hollywood Speaks." Majestic: "Sadie McKee.” Star:-"Just Smith." Dances, St. Andrew's Club Carnival, Church Hall 9 p.m.
Entertainments YMCA. Pan- tomime "Sinbad the Sailor," 9.15": p.m.
Meetings-Theosophical Society,
6 pm; Women's Fellowship, St. Andrew's Hall, 3 p.m.; Hong Kong Fluckey Association Council, St. Andrew's Hall 5.30 p.m.; HK. Union Church Deacon's Court, 5.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous. Nativity Play. "The Gladdening Light," St. John's' Cathedral, 8 p.m.: Whist Drive. Civil Service Cricket Club, 8.45
4.4.2 p.m.
Moon-XI Moon, 14th Day: Rehearsals-Hong Kong Sin- against him, but the victory was gers." Union Church Hall, Kennedy his. Roger was always willing to Road, 5.30 p.m.; "Hawaja," "Ca- say it, and to say it with unforthedral Hall, 8.45 p.m. gettable genius”.....
Social Functions-ToH. Din
Sports
The Loudon Groggs, which is ner. Featnsula Hotel, 7 p.m. now in its midis, age, is essen- tially his creation, and although It has a large and imitative tall. it has many heads, with Duncan Grant, John Nash, Sickert, Andrew's, 8 pm.
Badminton. Ladles Doubles Kowloon C.C. v. Club de Recreid "A": Club de "Recreio "B, St.
p.m.
Vanessa Bell, Mark Gertler, Hockey YMCA v. Ninth Bat- Maresco Pearce, Keith Baynes, tezy, Royal Artillery, 5.15 p.m. Ellott Seabrooke, James Fitton, Sunrise 6.58 a.m. Sunset-5.43 and R. O. Dunlop, and Maurice Lambert in sculpture (a particu- Tides-High at 10.25, and 20.54 larly strong example, "Woman at Low at 3.22 and 13.47, a Window''), who produce a dis- tinguished show.
The Depression Is Over
Friday, Dec. 21. Anniversaries and Holidays;— St. Thomas.
Auctions-Hughes and Hough, Race Ponies, Jockey Club Paddock, "Yassah," said old Fink, "bus-5.15 pm; Lammert's Motor Cars, nees very good. Done bought a pig Paul Braga's Garage, Kowloon, 5,30 p.m.; Household Furniture, Lam¬ mert's Kowloon" Sales Room, 2.30
Edinburgh, Nov. 27. The expert from Messrs, Sothe- by, the well-known auctioneers, | who recently visited Scotland to obtain works of art or antiques which their owners might wish to dispose of in the London sale-room, discovered, a picture long given up by art experts as lost. This is the portrait by Frans Hals, the to fo' $10, traded pig fo' a barrer. celebrated Dutch painter, whose barrer fo' a calf, calf to✨a bicycle, "Laughing Cavaller" is in the and sol' de bicycle for $10!" Wallace collection and five of "But yo' don' make nothin'. whose pictures are in the Nation-Link"
al Gallery. The picture, which "Sho' 'nough, but look at de bugi- belongs to Mrs. Broun Lindsay, ofness Ah been doin'"
Colstoun, near Haddington, was
examined by experts, and after
Sports
Doubles,
Club de Recreto "A" v. Fire Brigade'; Y.M.C.A. v. Chinese R.C.; Kowloon C.C. v. Club de Recreio "B", 8 p..
being carefully cleaned Was re- vealed by the signature to be the long-lost portrait, painted by Hals Badminton, Mixed in 1839, of Hendrick Swalmus, a famous preacher of that time in Haarlem. Engravings of the work which measures only 10 inches by 8 inches are fairly well-known. Hockey Hong Kong Hockey but the whereabouts of the pic-Club seconds v. Radio Sports Club ture itself, a most interesting and Kings Park), 5 pm.; Central Bri characteristic example of the tish Association V. KKSRA.. work of the great Dutch artist, (King's Park), 5:15 pic were 'until the other day unknown. The picture is to be offered for sale by Messrs, Sotheby on Decem- ber 12.
Bunrise. -6.57 a.m. Sunset-5.43 p.m.
Tides. High at 9:38 and 20.19. Low at 2.37 and 13.12,
p.m.
Cinemas King's: "The Black Cat." Queen's Uncertain-Lady." Central Chinese Picture." Oriental:"8he Learned About
Ballors."
World:-"Charlie Chan's Cour-
age."" Alhambra:"Hollywood Speaks." Majestic: "Badle McKee." Star: "Aunt Bally." Dances-Garrison Lecture Hall,
2.30 p.m.
Entertainments.-Diocesan Girls' School Drill Display, 3 p.m.; YM. CLA Pantomime," "Sinbad the Sailor Matines 5.15 p.m.
Lectures-Rev, E C. H. TAB- beck, Helena May, 10.30 am; Mr. G. P. de Martin, Jacobeah Room: Hong Kong Hotel, 5.30 p.m.
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