HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
WOMEN'S PAGE
PRETTY CHINESE
WEDDING
WEE-MAH
St. Margaret's Church, Happy Valley, was the scene of a pretty wedding yesterday after- noon when two Chinesɛ fami- lies, well-known in the Colony, were united.
The parties were Mr. Wee Tong- lee, grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wee Khee-yam, who was a retired official of the Samarinda Government in the Dutch East Indies, and Miss Rosemary Mäh, popular in local socio by and daughter of the late Mr. Kah Sam-yuen. retired merchant Vancouver, B. C.
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The Rev. Fr. Granelli oficiated, and the bride was given away in marriage by her elder brother, Mr. Mah Fih-chse. She was attended
by four bridesmaids, three of whom were her sisters Jean, Bella and Kay, and Miss Mary Wee, sister
of the bridesgroom.
Mr. Victor Lam performed the
dutles of best man, and the bride-
AT THE VALLEY
台鐵
SOCIAL
DANCES FROM AMERICA
LONDON EXHIBITION
An American version of the Lambeth Walk, called the Cherry. Hop, was demonstrated for the Arst time in London recently by Miss Phyllis Haylor, a former world champlon ballroom dancer,
and Mr. Charles Scrimshaw at the Empress Rooms, Kensington.
Miss Haylor, who has just re- turned from the United States after a world tour, plans, with- Mir. Berimshaw, to originate American Interludes at English dances-short periods devoted to the latest steps
Scene at the 11th Extra Race meeting at Happy Valley, (Photo from America.
by Leica).
NEWSETTES
groom was attended by Messrs. LL Col. C.R. Spear salied
for
The two dancers gave an exhibi- tion of the Cherry Hop and two other dances, which are considered to be the most suitable for these interludes.
The Cherry Hop begins with both man and girl facing the line of dance with each other's hands clasped behind the back, similar to the bold in skating.
The Shag is one of the base Davis steps of the almost. defunct Big
Lo Hun-ting and Henry and John-Shanghai in the Empress of Asia. were among the passengers Apple on modernised lines, while
ston Wong
After the wedding, a reception
Professor and Mrs. M.C,
day at noon.
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abroad the as. Rawalpindi which the Yam is adapted from the on Batur-dance shown by Ginger Rogers and Mr. L. Pan, president of departed for London
Fred Astairs in their newest film "Carefree."
was held at the Hongkong Hotel, the China Travel Service. when the health and happiness of turned to Shanghat in "the, s.s. the newlyweds was proposed by Empress of Asia. Mr. William Vinson Lee.
The honeymoon will be spent in Manila.
POLICE OFFICER
MARRIED
At St. John's Cathedral on Saturday, two days after she ar- rived from. England, Miss Maud Florence Crosby Powell, of Hayes,
Sergeants J. R. Bentley and H. Danbrowsky, of the Hongkong
Palice, proceeded on Home leave TAILOR TO PAY
M. A.L. Davidson, of the Braboard the P. and O. 8.3. Rawal-
Chinese tish left Hongkong in the of Asia for Shanghai.
Corporation. pind on Saturday.
Empress
Brigadier and Mrs. G. 9. sailed for London aboard P. and O. liner. Rawalpindi Saturday.
The report that the
Middlesex, was married to Mr. tung Provincial Bank is Albert Billingham, Police Officer biish its head office at The Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, Dean ehouwan is, incorrect. of the Cathedral, officiated.
The bride was given away by Inspector. T., Babey, and Mrs. W McHardy was the Matron-of-Hon- our. The best man was Sergeant A. Haynes
A reception was held at Lane! Crawford's and was attended by a large number of friends,
When Mrs Bingham left for the honeymoon, which ta being spent at Repulse Bay, she wore a deep manna-blue two-piece cos- tume, trimmed with fur, and a brown hat.
SATURDAY'S MENU
BREAKFAST
Canned Peaches
Cereal.
Fried Ham. Omelette
Mashed Potatoes
Toast Coffee....
LUNCHEON
Cream Corned Soup
Salmon Salad
Spaghetti and Tomato Sauce
Baked Squash String Beans
Popovers.
Apple Tart and Cheese
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DINNER
Tomato Soup
Tuna Fish Salad
Grilled Lamb Chops
"Baked Potatoes
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Beets 77 Creamed Mashrooms and Onions
Chocolate Custard-
Coffee
Miss N. W. Bascombe,
Head-
Junilor Satur-
mistress of the Kowloon Low School. went on leave on
the day saling aboard the P. and O.
on Rawalpindi.
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FOR HIS SUIT
Criticism Is Held Absurd
A customer's criticism of a sult WES described as "outrageously
The Society of St. Vincent de absurd" by Mr. Registrar Friend at Kwang-Paul's Rose Day will be on Thurs- Clerkenwell Country Court re- to esta-day, December 1. when street col-cently.
Kwang-lections will be made in aid of the Hongkong poor and war refugees.
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Paul Dombey, tailors, of Seven Sistersroad, Holloway, sued Solo- mon Lopin, of Noel-street, Oxford-
Major A. W. T. Bonar. of the Five cases of dysentery and street, W., for 41 guineas, the price seaforths. salled for Shanghai in three
of which he had not of cholera, or a suit
each' cases
the Empress of Asia. Mrs. Bonar fever and chicken-pox were re-taken delivery. accompanied him.
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Messrs. B. E. Colson and H.A.
ported to the local authorities on Friday.
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health Løpin said that he was a wo-
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The House of Quality & Service
man's tailor and had to look smart. COWBOY HATS IN
He. had stipulated a good collar, aa women, who Inchided "Count ladies," often said, "I want a collar like that."
The to
westendarp of NAFFI, were pas. Dr. John C Ferguson is on his
the Empress of Asia. sengers sailing for Shanghal in way home to attend to the inter- ment of the remains of the late Mrs. Ferguson. •He expects
Mr. R. G. Witchell, Govern- ment Passport Officer, was a pos- senger in the Empress of Asia, bound for Shanghai.
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Registrar: Do you think be back in China about February. that, when you are attending any woman customer, she pays auch Under the auspices of the Y. particular attention to
you and M.CA Literary E Debating your clothes that she noted whe- Club, a debate on the motion,ther the edge of the collar is per- Mr. B. B. Landis. Far Eastern "That the press
misleads the fectly smooth? Yes. representative of the Ford Motors, public," will take place on Wedl left for Vancouver In the Empress ¡of Asia.
Miss Kathleen Grose.
F. Grose, salled for via Canada. in the
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CAMEROONS
Natives' Fashions
In Dress
Cowboy hats, frying pans, sewing machines and bicycles are some of the articles sought after and bought by natives in up-country villages in the Cameroons under British man-
-Lopin put on the coat in court and a cutter employed by Dombey's Mr. Hugh Barton,
said that any unevenness in the Shang- hal, returned to
date. northern edge of the collar was because it daugh- port in the s.s. Empress of Asia Was hand-stitched-a'' mark .. of ter of the local broker, Mr. J. on Friday. Mr. Barton is the good workmanship.
England, son of Sir Sidney Barton, former- The Registrar, giving judgment Empress of y
Conmil-General in for bombey's, said that Lopin had Shanghai and later H. M. Minis- not regarded it as an ordinary ter to Abyssinia.
sult for an ordinary man, but a an object of art on which the most The Chief, and Petty Officers' meticulous workmanship possible department, was a passenger in Recreation Rooms of His Majesty's had to be exercised. He was not the Empress of Asia; destined Dockyard, Hongkong, will hold a entitled to do so... “ for Bhanghai.
Asis.
Mr. Arthur 'Piercy, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Co.'s import
R.R.
Roxburgh,"
British
Carnival Dance at the Peninsula Hotel on Monday, December 5. Mr.
accom- Officers will attend..in dress uni- panted" by Mrs. Roxburg and form. Music will be supplied by their children, left for the Unit- the Dance Band of HMS. Dorset- ed Kingdom, via Canada, in the shire. Empress pf Asia.
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Round About
Government reports for 1937 on. the administration of the man-. dates over the Cameroons and To- goland, formerly under German domination in Africa, issued by the Stationery Office recently, states there is scarcely a village in 'some divisions where such goods cannot be bought.
Paramn, matches, cigarettes and scap can be found there. The men all wear European clothes of some sort. The latest fashion is a dinner jacket for day-time wear.
the
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in childhood for marriage in later years.
A middle aged man stood at the
Women "shingle" their hair and door of a public telephone booth.
wear slik stockings and high-heel- He fingered a ten cent piece.ed, shoes, and since their "eman- M. Paul Nagglar, who is leav- Opening the door he stood and cipation" the women of Mr. R. Middleton-Smith," soning China after having served looked at the ceiling, still turning Camerdons are refusing in of Professor C. A. Middleton-as French Ambassador for the the money in his hand.
to tolerate creasing numbers Smith. left the Colony on Satur- last few years, said goodbye to He enters the phone booth, looks the old tribal marriage CILS day in the P. and O. liner Rawal- the Shanghai French colony at at the instrument on the wall and toms whereby they were sold pindi which sailed for London, ata reception on Friday at leaves the booth to stand once vis ports.
the Cercle Sportit Francais.
again outside the door.
Finally, after, deep thought and.
Officers report that they have The Royal Army Medical Corps The Hon. Dr. F. 5. Selwyn- ceiling-glancing, he again enters put a new value on themselves. Association is holding a dance at Clarke, Director of Medical and the booth Lifting the receiver They choose their own husbands the Peninsula Hotel on Saturday Sanitary Services, left for Hanol he asks for his number. Then the and want a Christian marriage, December 3. The Aboriginals Aug- on 'November 21, to attend the clinking of the coin is heard and
NATIVES EAGER TO HELP" - mented Dance Orchestra will sup- Far Eastern Congress (Tropical his deep voice goes over the wire. bly the music.
Medicine). He will
The eagerness of the natives to return. on "Hello, hello! Maria!....What December 8. During the absence d'you say?" The gentleman's face help the British to run the Came- of Dr. Selwyn Clarke, Dr. J. T. turns red as he shouts, "Go away, roons has impressed offcials Na- Smalley will act as Director of I put money in my box, I want to tive councils are employed and en- the Medical Services.
talk with Maria, ... Maria, is dat couraged. Single chlefs with ad- you there? Hello Marta, Peter visory councils are allowed to rule speaks to you.", .⠀
Indian Tribe Make "London Mother' Princess Shining Star
Miss Jenny Morris, of Stanmore, Middlesex, known to Canadian soldiers as London Mother during the war, returned to Plymouth recently in the Queen Mary after being the guest of the Princess, Patricia Keriment in Canada' for two months;
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LAMBETH WALK AT GLOUCESTER
And again the Jingle of the tele- phone bell and Peter, becomes ray- ing mad inside a small telephone
some areas.
When a District Officer arrived at one village 30 natives to all sorts of European dress, the leader in a yachting cap. informed him
The dinner dance at the Glou-booth. cester Hotel on Saturday night wás "Go away" he screams. "You" they were the council. Nobody an unqualified success, the most got money, you.... Now, Marla, seemed to be there by strictly de- popular item on the night's pro-hello, you hear me-Peter?" \-
fined right, yet the body seemed to in which most of the couples joined about to tear down the phone, but habitants. gramme being the Lambeth Walk The small man appears to be represent the views of all the in- after the entition by Pat Bykes no Instead another link is heard. Togoland, which is hlily and ple- ang J, A. Andrew.
of a second ten cent piece being turesque, is gradually being re- She has an album, containing Members of the Sarcee tribe gave
duced into four confederacies of These popular ballroom enter deposited in the base the autographs of hundreds of her the title "Princess Bhiningainers were appe ing in
Maria, hello hello...This is Peter, amalgamated divisions. There are men she sad her mother befriend- Star”
tarowell performance and her I spend 20 cents to tell you that 1 now only 14 small Independent divisions, compared with 68 in ed. Everywhere in Canada she "Thirteen is my lucky number," gave also the Tam, a "swing" num-am good. Goodbye Marial" Was fefed. She is the second she said. "I left on the 13th of ber and a tango."
Hanging up the receiver, the man: 1920.
When the territory was annexed Woman to be honoured by being the month from No. 13 platform The Lambeth Walk, is definitely picks up his bat, thrown on the made a le member of the Cana and received 13 telegrams of good catching on in Hongkong and the goqr at the commencement of the by Germany in 1884 there was an dian, Legim.
wishes. All over Canada, people very hearty that's" was proof post- hectic conversation, and marches immense number of petty staten, She la alap the first woman to were most kind. I cannot express tive that those participating thor with much satisfaction down the They were further disintegrated by
the division of tribes, be made an "indian princess." my thinks too warmly," she said.oughly enjoyed themselves.
street.
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