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BEST WRITTEN SCREEN PLAY
Mr. George Bernard Shaw has received the annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best waltzen
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA-WIDen screen play, the adaptation of his
dream of hearing music more often "Pygmalion."
than men; they see colours in their
sleep more often and have more
nightmares, a doctor trid the Ameri-
can Association for the Advance- with men's dreams, while men's ment of Science at a meeting here. dreams include more of the practi-
The doctor, Dr. Charles M. Dés cal side of life.
rens, also declared that women's Men have less anxious dreams, dreams contain more beauty and he said." but more that are more of the fantastic compared “thirsty.”
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SOCIAL
DEBUTANTE DANCERS
Chorus ensemble from “Debutante Goes to Town," musical comedy to be staged at the Queen's Theatre on March 1. Standing, left to right:-Misses. Mary Chan, Salina Luk, Bestries Law, Patricia and Priscilla Ho. Kneeling --Misses Re-Wah Ma, Florence Lam, Elsie Law, Elsie Wong and Ann Hai.
NEWSETTES
Mr. L. A. Searle, of the Police Department, will be 24 years" old to-day.
Mr. D. W. Waterton, of the General Post Office, will celebrate bis 39th birthday to-day.
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Mr. Im Kam-kwong, of the Civil Service, who retired last year, will be 57 years old to-day.
Monday afternoon there will be a meeting of the St. David's Bo- ciety in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong Hotel.
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will give an official dinner party at Government House on Thursday, March 2, at B.15
Sir Hugh Knatchbull-Hugessen, former Ambassador in China and the new Ambassador to Turkey, ar- rived in Istanbul on Feb, 22 to take up his now duties. Sir Percy Loraine, the retiring Ambassador, leaves for London to-day.
leave for Dutch Gulana in order A Dutch delegation will shortly
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Round About
Standing on street corner were two young Chinese boys, One's mouth was" wide open, his head thrown back and his eyes closed. cavity, indulging in a running, one- The other peered info the wet
to study, the possibilities for set-sided conversation. according to a statement thing Jewish refugees in Guiana.
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Quickly he put his hand inside made the boy's mouth and extracted a
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by Mr, R.A. Butler in the House small tooth from the upper front of Commons,
The conversation, which did not cease during the operation, Natives" of Ceylon are for the
In view of the death of Lord was carried on and entered into first time to be recruited by the Brabourne, HM, the King has ap- by the toothless boy, who expec- British Army as extra personnel for proved the appointment of Bir borated blood into the roadside.. coast defence work in the Island. Robert Nell Reid to act as Gov-
Their tones of voice denoted "a" ernor of Bengal and of Mr. Henry quarrel, evidently the owner of the Joseph Twynam to act as Gov-tooth wanted it returned to him; error of Assam in the absence the other.
doubt, WELS of Sir Robert Nell Reid.
claiming it for service rendered. And so they stood arguing on the After a conference, with high street corner about a piece of dead, military officials, Gen. Chiang yellowish enamel, which once was Kwang-nat, here of
a baby tooth. the first Shanghai war, has accepted the post of Chief-of-Staff of the 4th War Zone in South China. His colleague, Gen. Tsal Ting-kat, has also agreed, to accept an important military "cofaand.
p.m.
Mr. C. B Burgess, of the Colonial Secretary's Office, will receive the congratulations of his friends to- day on the attainment of his 29th Birthday.
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will attend the annual cabaret and dinner dance
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In addition to motor vehicles,
of the Society of Yorkshiremen in the South West Road Bureau has Hongkong on Friday, March 3 at made a large number of horse 8.15 p.m.
Preparations are under way for
carts with rubber tyred-wheels for way. These new vehicles will use on the Yunnan-Burma high-
the Kal Tak Civil Airport Dance economize expenses by about 60
which will be held in the Rose
per cent, in comparison with gaso- Room of the Peninsula Hotel on une-propelled ones." March 23. Mr. W. W. McCombe is handling the arrangements. :
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A distinguished Chinese who will Miss Janeb R. B, Donaldson from be arriving here from" Shanghai Canada will become the bride of to-day in the sa. Conte Blan- Mr. Ernest W. Coulson connected camano is Dr. W. W, Yen, formerly with the Dairy Farm in Hongkong. Foreign Minister and Prime Minis in the Union Church on the after-ter, who was at one time Ambas- noon of March 11. A reception sador to Soviet Russia. Dr. Yen will be held in the Peninsula Hotel is coming here for the purpose of attending the Chinese Red Cross Conference, of which Dr. C., T. Wang is President, Dr. Wank.
His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote, accompanied by Mr. H. A. S. Northcote, will be who was until recently Ambassador
present "at the races in Happy! Valley on Monday, Feb. 27, Tues- day, Feb. 28, Wednesday, March 1 and on Saturday, March 4,
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to the United States, has also re- turned to Hongkong.
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Under the auspices of the Hong- kong Working Artists Guild. an Overseas Chinese in the Philip Exhibition of Chinese Paintings pine Islands donated a total of and Calligraphy, by Mesars, Wong $13,500,000 (Chinese currency) to, Ting-ping, Cheung Shun-cho, Woo the National Government lasz Kim-um, Cheung Shiu-shek, Leung year, Of this amount $5,500,000 Vik-yn, Chiu Shin-ngong, Au Shin- was for the purchase of Liberty im and The Hi, will be held at at. Bonda,
John's Cathedral Hall; Garden Road," from Saturday, Feb. 25, The Australia Club is giving a until Monday, Feb, 27, from 10 dinner to the Duke of Kent as am to 7 pm. (Sunday, Feb. 25, Clovernor-General designate of from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.) Australia, on June 21, at the Do-
chester, Park-lane, W. The Duke of The Honglong Chinese General Gloucester, President of the Club, Chamber of Commerce has receiv will be present.
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ed a letter from Gen. Is Hon-wan. Chairman of the Kwangtung Pr Dr. Gregg, Archbishop of Dublin, vincial Government, stating that has accepted the position of Arch- he will appropriate $100,000 a6 2 bishop of Altriagh and Protestant labour relief fund for the refugees Primate of All Ireland, vacant by in Hongkong and Macao, The death of Dr. Day. Dr. Gregs, who Kwangtung Governor proposed. is 65, has held his present office that the money be used for the since 1920.
establishment of small factories and handicraft workshops.
Lord Craigavon, Prime Minis- ter of Northern Ireland, who has
returned from a sea voyage tar- The King has approved the ap en for health reasons, had con-pointment of Admiral Bir Reginald versations with the Home Be R. Plunkett Ernle-Erle-Drax cretary at the House of Commons to be First and Principal Naval on Feb. 23,
Aide-de-Camp to the King in suc- cession to Admiral Bir Roger R Mise Jean Batten, the twenty- C. Backhouse to date April 1, nine-year-old New Zealand air. 1939. Sir Roger Backhouse was woman has been awarded the earlier this month appointed First gold medal of the Norwegian Sea Lord in succession to Lord Aero Club Mias Batten went T-Chatfeld. He had also
followed cently to Oala to lecture on her Lord Chatfeld in the command flying experiences
of the battle-cruiser: Lion in 1910/
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1939.
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