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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
WOMEN'S PAGE
H.K. ART CLUB EXHIBITION AT CATHEDRAL HALL
Splendid Works Displayed
FINE PORTRAITS
The annual exhibition of the Hongkong Art Club opened yester- day at St. John's Cathedral Hall and will be continued to-day from
10 am till p.m.
Many of the exhibits in water colour pencil. charcoal and the sculpture work are very attractive and of great interest to the art lover.
Colourful
scenes of everyday
life in Hongkong have been put on canvas and paper and it is pleasing to spend some time among these scenes we should know so well yet pass each day utterly unaware of their existence,
Protraits of a Chinese workman and a woman in charcoal by Miss C. Minoot, a new member of the Club, are intense in their reality.
The Batik paintings, "Javanes Serimpl." by. Miss D. A. Murdoch are delightful and display # richness in colour,
DARKER SHADES
TENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING
Photograph taken at the Tenth Extra Race meeting
Saturday.
on
On the extreme left are Ms. “Digger" Ellis and Mr.
H. Seth, (Photo By Leica).
From A Newcomer's Window
By ANNA GINSBOURG
FI
Having dwelt upon the psycholo- | stupendous stock and selection of gical aspect of Hongkong's pecu- goods. Hongkong strikes a new- liarity, as viewed by a newcomer comer with the typical air of a
Mr. Luts Chan another new from the war regions, I shall now prosperous neutral city gaining in member of the club, tses his deal with the more matter-of-fact war in spite of the absence of darker shades in water colour subject, namely, the actual reper-balance between the supply and for the many boat and watercussions of war in the local mar, the purchasing power of the peo- scenes. His shadow effects arc ket, especially as related to the ple.. outstanding and provide a rich boycott of Japanese goods.
I have personally observed that people in ke circumstances ness and depth to his many native pictures.
a few
SOCIAL
HAS TRAVELLED 40,000 MILES
And Only Fourteen Months' Old!
LITTLE CELENE COOK
The youngest member of our Colony who has really travelled and seen life is Miss Celene Cook, who is fourteen months' old to-day."
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MIS
The young Miss Cook is the daughter of Captain and Archibald Cook, connected
with
the China Navigation Company, Hongkong.
Six months after her birth in the Colony, she joined the Em- press of Britain with her parents. Forty-thousand miles of travel is the record Little Miss Cook has aç-
BABY CELENE COOK
Apart from
minor buy and spend more than they complished to date, travelling" via annoyances, such as the over can afford simply because they this, steamer across the Pactic Sculptures by Mr. G. T. Chan crowding of the Colony and the cannot resist the temptation of Ocean, through the Canal to New attracted much attention in the overtaxing of its resources, Hong- too good a choice or are provoked York, and then to her parents' no- section of the Hall where they kong has greatly benefited by the by the atmosphere of prosperity.ve land in Scotland.
are displayed. The portrait of a Chinese artist in a bust is best tiful in the sensitive features and expression.
war and even reached the stage
Having explored well the cop-
of prosperity unprecedented in its tents of Hongkong stores. I felt
centennial history.
A BIT TIRED
She has called at Australia and
that all my long-cherished desires Last month completed eight One picture, which is a photo-
The newly acquired significance of earthly possessions could be months of voyaging when she ar- graphic composition, will theft of Hongkong as the only open port satisfied here. At the same time rived back in the Colony with her In China, coupled with its attrae- I took great interest to find out Parents aboard the ss. Antenor.
even those people
and interest
this type of art.
cing pose, in the centre to the
were
tributed to its colossal economic obtainable at all and how popular
Now, she is a bit tired" of all this travel and will stay in Hongkong for the winter months. Maybe in the spring the urge to sail the seas i take her on another voyage to iew lands
you
Miss Cook attended the Child's
un'acquainted with the working of tion as a British Colony, con- "whether Japanese goods
Entitled "Elusive Happiness growth during the past few they were; In other words, how the photograph, round in shape, months and induced almost all strongly was pushed forward the has a small nude girl in a dan either to open extra branches or Hongkong.
important concerns in China anti-Japanese economic boycott in
north, south east and west of the transfer their main offices here. On the whole, if my observa- Agurine are cur sets of hands all As a result of all this we see tions are correct, the amount of Fancy Dress Parade at the "Under expressing various feelings of Hongkong at present crowded to Japanese goods consumed by the the Green-wood Tree" fete · last desire and attainment. Such an suffocation and stuffed to capa-local market is negligible due, week where she willingly posed for interesting and forceful definition city with goods, which up to the primarily. to the
unfavourable photographers and related a short will Impress the layman and the fall of Canton and Hankow were competition in qualty with foreign history of her various travels. psychologist in some individual always sure to find a ready mar-goods. which enter Hongkong manner of feeling.
ket in the interfor.
duty-free and, therefore, are
Mrs. C B. Brown, secretary of How will Hongkong meet the offered at a lower cost compared the Club since 1916 and a well-changed situation? It still re- with other places. The anti- known artist, is to be congratulat- mains an open question.
ed on the grouping and selections From the standpoint of shop offered for art lovers in the Cloony.ping opportunities. due to
NEWSETTES
Mr. and Mrs. A. W, da Roza and
Japanese sentiment, as a motive for a voluntary boycott, in my its opinion. plays here a less impor
tant role, as almost in. all shope- which I visited, foreign and Chi- nesc alike, I could obtain some petty articles of Japanese manu-j facture. ·
In Shanghai. since its fall into hands the Japanese, almost all foreign trade, especially imports. dwindled to next to nothing due
Mr. A. Dimond. Manager of to the high exchange rate of for- their son. Peter, returned from a the Peninsula Hotel, was greeted eign currency and Japan's drive vacation in Australia in the ss by many friends on his return by for promotion of her products at Taiping yesterday.
the 8.5. Taiping after months' vacation.
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The new P. & O. as Canton will be arriving in port to-day. Her
seven no matter what low cost. Conse-
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quently, the city became literally swamped with Japanese goods,
The Kowloon Chess Club held which people could not help sell- arrival is awaited with keen anti-their annual dinner last night at ing and buying partly because of elpation.
the Peninsula Hotel, The func need and also for the sake of tion Was attended by a large keeping up the appearances of do- Captain S. M. Kheregat, LM.S., gathering of members. stogether with Mrs. Kheregat and their little son, will leave for India by the sa. Ranpura.
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Ing some business.
In Hongkong the situation
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A reception will be held by the different and. therefore, deeply Consul-General for Italy on board annoying. Here all those who can the my. Victoria from 12:30 to 1.30, and On Saturday evening, the Dock-p.m. Filday to celebrate, the birth-
no better outlet for their patriotic sentiment Jard Recreation Club will hold a day of HM, the King of Italy.
than words should advocate a rigid anti-Jap- dinner dance in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel,
Mr. Kad Ling-pat, Chinese Con-ganized. has already proved itself anese boycott. This properly or- sul-General in Singapore, says A no less effective a weapon for un- On Friday evening the REO.CA. message, has been elected doyen dermining Japan's strength in the will hold a Carnival Dance and of the various foreign Dinner Party in the Rose Room of services in Singapore.
rear than fighting her in the -the Peninsula Hotel.
front ranks on the battlefelds.
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ON
ARMISTICE NIGHT
IN AID OF
THE HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
1.
(PART PROCEEDS TO EARL HAIG'S FUND)
A WONDERFUL PROGRAMME
Extension 9
Gasmasks For Drunks
Tipplers will not be bounced "out, of New York's World Fair.......
on to a hard sidewalk next year. They will be conxed into ́s back room where a £10 “do- Intoxicating respirator" will be clamped to their diary Geads.
Bacchanalian machine was 80- The invention · of this ""anti-
Aqunced last week by Dr. Joseph Hoguet, Medical Director of the
The following forthcoming mar Mr. A. Brostedt. Traffic Manager leaving yesterday by the Imperial riages are announced!-Mr. Lay Mr. G. S. Archbutt of the Union of the Canadian National Railways Airways plane Delphinus, The Man-kit, managing clerk of Mesars, Insurance Society of Canton, and and Mrs. Brostedt, returned to the plane also carried 480.543 kilos of A. S. K. Lau and Co., solicitors, Mrs. Archbutt, returned in the ss. Colony from holiday by the 8.8. mail, and 42.042 kilos of freight. Hongkong, residing at No. 23, Pot- Taiping yesterday from a vacation Tatping yesterday and are staying in Australia.
at the Repulse Bay Hotel,
tinger Etreet, Hongkong, to Mise Herr A. Gelewsky, Chancellor at Tsang Lai-yung of No. 35. Anti-aircraft fring practice will At a meeting of the Shanghat Hongkong, is due back here to Arthur William Thomas White, the German Consulate General in Staunton Street, second floor; Mr. be carried out from the vicinity of Library Committee recently. Mr.morrow from a tour of Shanghai. Sanitary Inspector, reading at the Tai Wan Tau (pear Clear Water Yulin Fisi was unanimously elected Bay) between the hours of 9 a.m.chairman of the committee in suc- Gelewsky.
is..... accompanied by. Frau Aberdeen Police Station, to Miss and 6 p.m. to-day.
cession to the late Mr. Singloh
Winifred Amelia Tyrrel, school Hau
teacher, at present residing at No. Fair. Several sobering-up stations Dr. Wilhelm Wagner new Gert 82, London Road, Stony Staford, are already being built on the man Minister to Manchukuo left Bucks, England.
gigantic show-ground. Imperial: Airways, Ltd., expect to Kobe yesterday to assume his new move into their new offices in St post and is expected to arrive at ing seven months' leave in - has a mixture of 90 per cent. air The de intoxicating process is George Building, on November 15. Changchun on November 10, Until land.
uncomfortable for the victim, who The Accounting Department is recently. Dr. Wagner was "German understood to have already re Conául General at Kobe. moved, but the Trafic Departmentbyt vật nhan tukej
The Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, MY, LI
Sing-kud, will be host at a tiffin party in the Gloucester Hotel to day at noon.
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Mrs. Christine Isham, former Viscounters Churchill, was award
and 10 per cent, carbon dioxide
Just cat from hospital following gas pumped into his lungs more is still located in the Peninsula Mr. R. J. Master of the China chiu, popular novice jockey and ate
a bout of malaria, Mr. Choy Wing- than 30 times a minute (normal 15-20). This increases the Hotel Arcade.
Light and Power Co., Ltd., is due member of Messrs. Choa Fo-min rate at which the body madidises to arrive in the Colony to-day on and Company, sharebrokers, alcohol, and prevents hang-over. Mrs. E. C. Frederloks and Mr. the P. and O. m.v. Canton which convalescing at home. It is under- when intoxication has reached Army, oh charges of cruelty. She Lee Kal-chee were passengers for is on her maiden trip to the Far stood he may shortly leave for a
coma stage the treatment waived limony
Rangoon and Bangkok' respectively East, Mr. Master had been spend-trip to the south-
may last for two hot
ed an uncontested divorce in Reno from her hostíänd, L4-Col. Ralph
· Hayward"-Esfilim (of the British.
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