ROTARIANS
ENTERTAINED
Max Malini Amazes
With Card Tricks
And Tells Some Jokes!
Mr. Max Malini, the world famòus magician, who has ap- peared" before both British and Foreign Royalty, had a splendid repertoire af jokes and marvellous card tricks up his sleeves when he antertained members of the Hong Kong Rotary Club at their weekly tiffin' held in the Jacobean Rooms of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday,
Mr. W. N. Thomas Tem. Pre- sident of the Club, welcomed Mr. Oh!
Holst, of Wanganui. New Zealand. a Past President of the New Zealand Rotary Club. S
Mr. Holst said that he brought greetings from the New Zealand and Wellington Rotary Clubs and neighbouring Clubs. A Conference
of Rotarians was being held in Wellington next March and he hoped that as many Hong Kong Rotarians as was possible would be able to attend.
Continuing. Mr. Holst sald that they in New Zealand realised that the coming century, would be a century when the Pacific would be the centre of the globe. It was going to be a century of peace and goodwill and friendly under- standing.
CORDIAL WELCOME
"I hope that as many members of your Club will be coming to Wellington next March," said the speaker. "I am authorised to assure you that those of you who can come will be most cordially wel- comed and we will do everything in our power to make your stay
in
New Zealand interesting and useful to Rotary. It has been my great privilege during the past fifteen years to travel and meet Rotarians in many places and Clubs. Rotary is a mission but I am sure we all do not know how great that mission is Your Club has greater opportunity than most other Clubs of living up to the ideal of friendship and service."" plause).
(Ap-
The President thanked Mr. Holat and hoped that when he returned to New Zealand he would convey the greetings of the Hong Kong Rotary Club to the Clubs he repre- sented.
MANY GUESTS
Mr. Thomas Tam welcomed back from leave
G.A.C. Rotarian Dr. Herklots. He also welcomed the following guests:-Rotarian N.A. Gorman (Holhow), Mr. Drumond Murray (London). Mr. F. W. Bertie (London), Capt. Waller: R.N.. Pay 'Commdr. Lloyd, R.N.. Surgeon.
Commdr. May, of the Royal Naval Hospital, Capt. Fabricius, (Copen hagen), Messrs. Henrix Nielsen Copenhagen), Erling Bache (Copenhagen), Victor Hugo, HJ. Armstrong. J. Anderson Miller, M. Ching. N. Bercovitz, C. R. W. Thomson, G.A Pentreath. IF. Tamworth and Dr. Murdoch Nicol- son all of Hong Kong).
Mr. Mallini remarked that teri years ago he was in the United States and when he arrived in 6an Francisco three gentlemen came. up and asked him if he would at- tend a luncheon at the Lions Club and was told that he need not do
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single trick. The manager. though, wanting a real ilon, went
out into the streets and brought back a boy. The latter wore a lion akin and was put into a cage. In the next cage there were leopards and tigers. The boy became frightened and shouted, "O! O!! but I'm a Jew'', He was placed be- tween the tigers and leopards which
In turn said, "Don't say anything
we're all Jews!" (Loud laughter).
ORTHODOX JEWS
Afalini
3ald
Continuing. Mr. that there were certalh Orthodox Jews who never carried money on Saturdays (Sabbath). One of these Jews WIN
the returning from synagogue one day and saw a 3100 bank note on the street. He put his foot on it. When told by a policeman to move on he refused to budge. It was close to mid- night. The policeman hit the Jew with his truncheon. "Saturday is over," exclaimed the delighted. Jew as he picked up the tanknote! (Laughter).
- Mr. Malini then entertained his audience with a series of extrac- dinarily good card tricks, all of which were met with hearty ap- plause. Between tricks the mazi- elan Would Jocularly remark. "That was wonderful, wasn't 16?", - |
MALIN! THANKED
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936.
EDUCATION BOARD
Senior Inspector Of Schools Vacancy
The 104th Meeting of the Board of Education was held on Mon- day, September 21.
There were present: Director of Education, Mr. G. R- Bayer, BA, Chairman;
Inspector of English Schools, Mr. T. R. Rowell, B.Sc.;
Inspector of Vernacular Schools, Mr. Y. P. Law, BA!
Mr. A. et Arculli;
Rev. Fr. G. Byrne, 9.J., Ph.D.; Mr. L. D'Almada e Castro, Jr.. B.A.
Rev. J. R. Higgs, B.A.: Sir W. W. Hornell, K., C.LE., M.A.. LL.D.;
Mr. Li Ts Fong: Mr. B. Wylle;
Secretary Mr. E J. Edwards. The Board met and considered tion relative to the filling of the papers remitted for its considera-
vacant post of Senior Inspector of English Schools.
alle" to
Papers relating "nter the following matters were laid on the table after circulation.
(a) The Class 2 exara.nation
and the Local Examination Syndi- cate.
(b) Scheme for eye Inspection
and provision of spectacles for pupils attending Grant - in - Aid Schools.
(e) The conversion of Un Long Rural School from an English School to a Higher Primary Verna- dalar (Ko Siu) and syllabus for Standard "I
(di The new Trade School.
the
new
CHIEF JUSTICE USE OF PRAYERS
INDISPOSED
FOR SICK
Sessions Unavoidably
Postponed
Dr. Inge On Their Efficacy
"LANEFORD'
SHOES
UNTIL NEXT MONDAY THE 'MEDICINE MAN"
on
Criminal Scasions at the Supreme Court have been postponed for a week, and will recommence Monday, September 28, owing to the indisposition of the Chier Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor.
It is learned that Sir Atholl is suffering from an attack of dysen- tery.
cases
It speaks volumes for his cape- city for work that he heard fve on Monday, although not feeling in the best of health.
Jurors-in-waiting, who appeared yesterday morning, were informed of the postponment by the Court authorities.
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This is the second occasion that Sessions have had to be unavold-
ably postponed during Sir Atholl's tenure on the Bench, the previous occasion being when the 'his Lord-
ship was laid up with an infected
foot.
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FURNITURE AUCTION
it
OUTLOOK
Di. W. R. Inge, former Dean 'of St. Paul's, raised questions on the emcacy of prayers for the sick and for rain at the Modern Church- men's Conference at Oxford re- cently,
Dr. Inge said that there nad been a change in our time, towards greater caution and difederice in petition
The notion that, the world was
governed by natural laws which might be suspended or modified at any time by Divine intervention was now felt to be one of the least satisfactory of philosophies. The and were disliked by on educated prayers for rain were seldom used
CongregatioIL
"We know that the
medicine
men in savage Africa are in re- quest us rain-makers and that this superstition is not quite extinct, even in Europe. but we should be ashamed to believe it." sald Dr. Inge.
A HOSPITAL TEST
"But can we consistently give up praying for rain with the expecta tion of altering the weather for Household furniture was auction- our beneat and continue to pray ed by Messrs. Lammert Brothers in for the recovery of a relation or their sales room at No. 35 Han-friend in sickness? Knowledge has kow Road yesterday.
There was a large quantity of teak and blackwood ware: carpets, ornaments. pictures, brass and porcelain ware. There were also various kinds of articles including a sewing machine, table fans, lamps,
CURIOUS NAMES Cutlery, etc.
OF TRADES
Puzzles For Health
Ministry
TROUNCERS" WHO
**BUMP-UP"
The Ministry of Health often comes across strangely named oc- 16,500,000 cupations among the
Proposing a vote of thanks on men and women who are State in- behalf of the Club, Ratarian T. B.sured. Wilson said:-I reel Ir" a great If a trouncer, for instance, ap- pleasure to propose a vote of plies for insurance beneft they
thanks to my old friend Max for his very charming entertainment. I have known him for a number of years-I don't know anything good about him-except that every- time I meet him I have to hold on to my pocket book! (Laughter), There is one favour I would like to ask you, Max. If you сад handle cards the way you do i wonder if could handle my over- draft? I have much pleasure in proposing a hearty vote of thanks. (Applause).
DINNER DANCE
A dinner dance will be held on the Open Roof of Repulse Bay Lido The President, introducing "the-weather permitting-and at the speaker of the day, remarked that Repulse Bay Hotel in event of Bad Mr. Max Malini had toured six weather, on Wednesday, September -times round the world and had had 23, 1936 at 9 pm.
the honour of performing before
their late Majesties King Edward
VII and George V., He also per-
formed before the President of the CATHEDRAL WOMEN'S United States and royalty in other countries and before. Rotarians in other parts of the world.
LADIES' DAY
GUILD
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It was inadvertently stated in a report which appeared in yester day's issue regarding the monthly meeting of the St. John's Cathedral Women's Guild that Lady Calder cott, wife of His Excelency" the Governor, was President of the Guild.
Before calling upon Mr. Malini at the request of the President, Prol. C. A. Middleton-Smith in formed the meeting that the speak- er next Tuesday will be Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of the Royal Ob-
Actually the President is servatory, whose subject would concem typhoons. The following Lady Follock and during her ab- Tuesday will be Ladies' Day when sence from the Colony, Mrs. P. B. the speaker will be Mrs. Mary Baskett s the acting President. Barker,
At the
outset his talk, Mr.
Malini, amid laughter, said that he was told by people that he alm ways got a free meal. "I have been very lucky in my business." said the famous magician,
who
WELCOME SOCIAL
have to know in Whitehall that he earns his wages by assisting the holder-on and occastorially doing a job of bumping-up.
Actually he is employed at engi neering works, where he catches hot rivets and passes them to the man who inserts them into their holes. When a riveting squad is at work in an awkward place he backs up a hammer with a hold-
R.E.O.C.A. DANCE
The R.E.O.C.A. is holding the first of it's dances of this season in the China Fleet Club Theatre, on Saturday. October 3, commen- cing at 8.30 p.m.
GRACEFUL CAPES
AND
SANDAI, WEAR
Shape Of Fashions
To Come
WAR HORRORS AND AFTERWARDS
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been enlarged in this field during our Lifetime. We know something about microbes; how can they be affected by our prayers?
Dr. Inge recalled a controversy carried on in two monthly review about the efficacy of prayer. The occupants of one ward of a Co- pital were to be the subjects, for a stated period, of special Interces- ston by a large body of the faith- ful while the other wards were to he left to the general prayers of the Church.
A comparison of the death "rates would, It was suggested, decide once and for all whether special any effect. The prayers had spokesmen on the orthodox 'side seemed to evade what was really a perfectly fair and plain du sklon: external "Does prayer · have any effect, such as can be measured by statistical methods?”
A "BETTER LIFE?" "Supposing." sald Dr. Inge, "those who offered petitions for the recovery of the patients in a selected ward were not actuated by any wish" to 'tempt God,' would any result follow of which a physician or a life insurance com pany ought to take notice? Is the husband of a loving and prayer- the ful wife better life' trom point of view of life Insurance than a man who has no Christian re- latives anxious for the prolonga- tion of his existence?" "
-questions
These were
which
ir
On the surface it may seem like descending from the sublime to the ridiculous to talk of "The Shape of Things to Come" in relation to hammer. "Scribbling engineer," is another clothes writes a "Bulletin" woman.
Mankind, however, has never acted might surely be asked without im- good name. This describes, not a
because of the obvious. There are piety, and which a statistical In- man who tries to add to his in-
a hundred obvious reason why we quiry alone could answer. He did come in his spare time, but one who looks after a machine which should not have war again-yet we not believe the result would be continue to prepare for it gaily agreeable to the old-fashioned he does. the Arst cärding of wool in
It is very often an apparently irrelever.. Yorkshire mills.
levant feature which brings facts
Dr. Inge told of a letter he had home to us with a final startling once received from a woman who clarity.
wrote: "I am praying for your Having been duly horrifled and death. I have been very success- rather numbed by the picture of
ful in two other cases." the destruction of civilisation, I confess it was not the thought of the death of myself or my friends, or, in the event of survival, of the attendant perils of disease or star vation which made war seem (80 awful
A "hoveller" may be tenant of a house 2* semi-detached as the next man's. He pays his rent with money made by helping barges to negotiate bridges in the Medway So far as the Ministry knows, the name is a local one, but it may have the same origin as "hobbler," a man employed to help Bristol pilots navigate ships into dock.
Another of these localized oc- cupations in that of the "sworn meter and weigher," who waighs and measures goods brought into the port of Kingston-upon-Hull. This is a very old title,
KNOCKERS-UP & RUBBERS- DOWN
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The "knocker-up"-a profession now on the down grade still has a fairly wide habitat in tactory towns, where some workers even now prefer a tap on the bed-roon window to the ringing of an alarm clock. The "rubber-down." on the other hand, is looking up. This is due to the popularity of cellulose spraying on surfaces which it is with bis function to pumice-stone or sandpaper.
smooth
The Committee of the Diocesan
in the Town Hall in New Zealand have arranged a re-union and prior, to which he had been told smoking concert to be held at the that if he met a certain British Chinese Merchants' Club on Satur knight, he would make a fortune. day, October 17, at 8.30 pm, to In the Town Hall, the British welcome the Rev. CBR, Sargent, knight, when asked to say a few Headmaster of the DBS, on his words approached Malini and return from Turlough Light re- putting bis hand on the magician's freshments will be served and shoulders said, "Palestine will be there will be a programme of yours and you will be premier of entertainment. Tickets at 50 cents "How the did he each, may be obtained from mem- Palestine!"
bers of the General Committee of know I was a Jew?" said Malini
at the door. (Laughter).
went on to tell of his appearance Boys' School Old Boys' Association Lookers" and "daggers" have no
time to waste. The former take care of sheep moved in the spring from upland farms to marshland. The latter spread non-conduc- ting paste on the outer surfaces of bollers and steam pipes.
The "backhander" also lives a peaceful life, holding iron bars for blacksmiths. To the latter blue bricklayers" are no relation. Their function is to ine sewers and tuxnels.
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WOMAN OF EVERYTOWN
with no cosmetics, no bairdressing or beauty salons, no baths?
Can they picture a life with no delicate lingerie, no slik stockings- where they will be bereft of all the What struck my imagination | creátiro comforts which seem so most was the sight of the women necessary to-day. The last decade who had survived the aerial dea-or two has sensitised women tre- truction of Everytown.
mendously; we are,
the slaves of the ease and beauty produced for us by iddustraitsation.
They were dressed in mere rags shapeless garmets of sackcloth and nondescript cloth. It seems in- credible to imagine such a state of barbarism, but a few bombs dropped on the dressmaking salons and factories would completely stop the production of clothes; as it would of everything else...
During the last war women were not acted from a fashion" point. of view. Worth and Schiaparelli designed new creations, and Lon- don and Paris remained active fas hlon centres, although their coun- tries armies were battling on the Western Front... The soldiers on leave found beautifully gowned and groomed women waiting for them at home.
...
It is, after all, the little things that count most in life in the end. Surely the thought of the sudden deprivation of all that makes le pleasant for women nowadays is suficient to make the feminine population rise unanimously "and demand no more war.
THE SUN MAY SHINE. Wells, however, takes us further. and shows us a new civilisation. when man is the master of hin machines. Clothes, keep step in fantasy-women wear short tunic dresses of what is apparently white linen and pique and celluloid Graceful capes swing from the shoulders, and on their bare feet A war of the future will be very they wear sandals Coming but diferent. The shope, 11 they into a chilly August night, one escape destruction, will have no- thinks that the climate of Glasgow I am thing to sell Dress designers will will have to change a lot not be exempt bombs do not doubtful, too, about our cures. chose their victims.
But perhaps by that time the sun will shine and we shall all be beautiful.
CAN WOMEN IMAGINE
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