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QUEEN'S TASTE
IN COURT DRESSES
The Queen visited the Earl's Court section of the British Tridus- 'tries Fair on Feb. 20 amortly after the opening, and during a three- hour tour made a number of pur- chases for herself and Princess Elizabeth and, Princess Margaret.
Watching a display in the fashions theatre, her Majesty dispelled rumour, mentioned to her by an official, that all dresses worn at this year's Courts were to be white,
"Oh, no," she replied, "any colour will be sultable provided they are not too brighi, Bright reds and blues, for instance, would not be 'wise, because they are likely to clash with the uni- forms."
The Queen added a remark on ber own taste in the matter. "I think," she said, it is a pity that so many debutantes think they ought to wear white at Court. I like pastel colours of all kinds,"
Has our fancy won?" seems to be the question depleted by the anxious looks on the faces of this fair group at the annual Happy
Valley races. (Photo by Leica).
SOCIAL
KEPT ALIVE BY
HER LOVE
A woman whose baby was born when she was forty-three years old kept him alive for seventeen | years by her devotion.
Но was an inibecile. He.. couldn't eat, 'cuuldn't move his lips or teeth. For seventeen years his mother did not have ene unbroksa`night's sleep.
For seventeen years she chewed every morsel of food he ate and put it in his mouth.
The mother recently fell ill. The boy was taken to hospital And he died.
"You have kept him alive all these years by your devotion." the coroner, Mr. Norman Jennings;; told the mother, Mrs. Emeles Bibby, aged sixty, it the Kull inquest
GIRL WILL SCOUR WORLD FOR recently on John W. Bibby, of
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MISS ZITA HILL, a pretty, blonde, grey-eyed London BADGE OF EXHIBITION For the visit her Majesty wore a
typist, has given up her job to search the world for ancient Chinese pearl-inlaid cabinet that she claims, holds the long coat of deep violet coloured
secret of a gold mine discovered in Africa by her father... velyet trimmed with a collar of: silver fox, and a velvet tat of the For five years Miss Hill has and most ragged clothes I could same colour, with an upturned halo searched antique shops in Eng-find. I risked going down there.
"I was let into the house after brim. On her coat was pinned the land for the cabinet and twice oficial, badge of the Fair, which she has made trips as far as a lot of argument, and I actually had been specially made for her Egypt and America in her search; had to lie down alongside some of In solid allver.
only to find that at the end of the Althiest pieces or humanity Among her purchases were arti- her journey she had been put on in the world and pretend eles of peach-coloured lingerieja false scent.
smoke an opium pipe before they would trust me.
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Jones Bibby. a bargeman, the boy's father, said there was a violent! thunderstorm before his son, was born.
In the mother's words, instead of screaming in terror, she bore the strain inwardly. The boy was) an imbecile and never spoke...
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for herself and the Princesses, and Next week she leaves for Paris
"But all my trouble was use- for herself a pair of the rubber on a new trall, and this time she
less. When everyone in the room booters now worn extensively by thinks she will be successful
Mr. T. S. Fraser, of the P.W.D. business.girls. She chose a brown Sitting before her typewriter in seemed to be unconscious, I wan- pair, with brown velvet tops, her West-End office on "her Inst dered into a room that I suppose will be "41 years old to-day.
was some sort of a temple. Pastel blue was the colour most day at work. Miss Hill talked favoured by the queen for house the "Sunday Referee" about the found the cabinet that the anti- Mr. H. M. Cookle, of H. M. hold goods, hér purchases in-fortune she expects to discover. que dealer had described stand-Supreme Court, celebrates his 29th chading chintz curtains of this "My father was a "White Hun-ing before an altar. But it was birthday to-day. shade. A curtain fabric she chose ter in Africa," she said... "I can't not the one I sought,
"Even after that experience ...1] Mr. H. A. Mills, Chief Accountant was blue, with a patter of white tell you where, as that would give
away part of my secret, but dur-followed up every clue that came of the General Post Office. seagulls.
Lace net window curtains anding one of his many expedition; my way, till at last I found syself Mrs. Mills
in England with all my money | Patroclus for London. lengths of Ane lace curtain net he found a rich vein of gold.
"He kept his find to himelf plan- gone. were among other household pur-
ning to come over to England to chases.
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[ M. Henri Cosme, the new French Ambassador to China, will present his credentials to the National Government on March 10.
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Mr. YuYu-jen, President of the Control Yuan of the Chinese Government, wired the Chinese and Embassy in Moscow on Feb. 28, 5.8 expressing his condolences to the Soviet authorities оп Madame Lenin's death.
"I got a job and saved every Mr. G. E. Oliver, of Butterfeld' Home raise money to finance 2 new Denny I could, and now I am of and Swire, proceeded on
my mothér died once again. This time I think leave yesterday in the Blue Fun- Gen. Wu Ting-chang, Chairman mine. Then
net Uner Patroclus with their son. of the Kwelchow Provincial Gov-and my father decided to come I shall be lucky." ernment, has been appointed by back to Europe right away. the National Military Deputy Pacification Commissioner for Yunnan and Kwelchow.
Council.
HUNT IN DOPE DEN "Taking all the make-up off my face and putting on the oldest
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One hundred and sixty sing- song girls in Chungking donated more than $1,700 in the New Life movement Offer Gold Campaign To-morrow, Mr. T. B, Wilson of
yesterday. Torrential rain failed the American President Lipe in Hongkong will celebrate another to dampen their spirit. Two of the girls together contributed a birthday.
costly gold ring.
In the presence of a crowd of Mr. F. H. Neale, Wireless Süper- sightseers at Christie's on Feb. 20, intendent of Butterfield and Swire. |the pearl necklace which Ludwig I left with Mrs. Neale and child for
of Bavaria, gave to the famous Home in the ss. Patroclus. beauty, Lola Montez. falled to ex- ceed £840, although the bidding had begun at £500.
Mr. Paul Dietz, representative of the Goodyear Tyre Co., is paying a visit to Haiphong and is ex-
Even the finest pearl necklaces to-day do not fetch the huge prices obtainable 20 years ago, owing to Dected to be away for a few weeks. the competition of the cultured variety.
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H.E the Governor and Lady Northcote have issued an invita- tion to tbose attending the Flower Show to visit their' garden at Government House. This in- vitation is extended, however, only to those holding Flower Show
tickets.
The marriage took place at the Mr. William J. L. Liu, of Sydney, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, Emeralds, however, remain un is a visitor to Hongkong. Mr. shaken in market favour and au was formerly secretary of The on Mar. 3, of Miss Emily Elizebath Virden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. magnificent cross of translucent Sun Co., Shanghal.
E. A Virden of London, to Mr. stones was bought by a private į
Frederick Torrens Ranson, son bi bidder, Mr. Bull, at £1.320. It was. After almost 10 years, the U.8. the Rev. and Mrs, H. J. F. Ranson, accompanied by an emerald and Army Signal Corps is "abandoning of Green Island, Belfast diamond brooch for which the Morse telegraphy for automatic Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Com-telegraph apparatus and radio. pany gave £650. Both were once owned by the versatile collector
Skr Abraham Hume,
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A plan to suitably commemorate Mr., Wang Yu-ding, local Chinese Mr. N. F. Allman, who was on philanthropist, whose body WAS. The total of the day's sale was a combined business and vacation moved to Shanghai from Heng- trip to Hongkong and Manila, re-kong, where he died recently, will ver 28,000.
turned to Shanghai on Mar. 4. be decided upon by a "Permanent Commemoration Committee" un- Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Ronse left byder the joint auspices of various the ss. Patroclus. Mr. Rouse has local Chinese public bodies. Just retired from the P.W.D. after 27 years' service:
Amung some Jewels sold to benent a charity a necklace of 64 diamonds realised $700. It was. bought by Capt." Stroyan
NOEL COWARD
SEEKS SOLITUDE
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News was received in Shanghai- last week of the death of Mr. W.. Mr. W. J. Waddington; formerly J. Hunnex in Scattle on Feb. 25. The deceased. was formerly a local manager of the P. and O. Banking Corporation, left for the missionary and later was with the "North Noel Coward launched his latest United Kingdom in the a.& Patro-editorial staff of the
China Daily News." He is sur- theatrical inspiration "Bet To clus.
vived by his son, Mr. C. F. Hun- Music" on Broadway at the end
of January and sailed from the As a result of inquiry it is nex, who is in Shanghai, port of San Pedro, California, on learned that Professor and Mrs. the Matson-Oceanie liner Monterey Middleton Smith, will be leaving for Pago Pago in the middle of Queen's Pler at 3 pm, to-day for February....
the KPM. m.v ̧: "Ruys.”
Coward hopes for solitude, to do
Dr. Melville Mackenzie, a British official of the League of Nations, Is leaving for China by air to dis- cuss with the Chinese Government the lines of the work to be car-
his writing perchance under a A son was born on Feb. 24 at tropical tree where a vagrant Eltham Cottage Hospital, Eltham, ried out in 1939 in connection cocoanut or an idea or both will England, to Mrs. B. Castleton, drop into his lap.
Wife of Mr. R. G. Castleton, His craving for solitude was Mesars. Butterfield and deemed justifiable from the display Hongkong.”
of autograph seekers at the dock
of
Swire.
when he sailed. Filmland friends Capt. J. Magruder, of the United down to see the famous author off States
passed through
Navy,
were Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, ghanghai recently on his way to Michael Brooks, who is Earl of Manila, where he is to take com- Warwick; Vivian Leigh, selected for mand of the US.S. "Augusta.”: Scarlett O'Hara, Miriam Hopkins and the Ray- Bolgers.
Coward had been Grant's guest during his short stay in California
with the vote of the last Assembly of 1,500,000 Swiss francs for tech- |nical assistance to China for the
control of epidemics.
WEDDING AT REGISTRY
The wedding took place at the Registry yesterday of Mr. Chan
The wedding of MA PYee-chung, manager of the Wan- Goldman, of the Manufacturers son Farm, Fanling, New Territories, Life Insurance Co, Singapore, and and Miss Cheuck Yuen-so, of Lam's Miss Madge Swinton, of London, Villa, On Lok Village, Fanling, took place in Singapore on Mar. 3. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. Chan Chun-po, chemist, and An Itinerant educational corps comprising more than 100 mem Mr. R. J. D. Grieve, of Jardine, the bride's father, Mr. Cheark bers to educate the people in Matheson, who is a Commander in Shuk-wo, is a merchant. Kansu, Ninghsia and Chinghai has the Hongkong Naval Volunteer Mr. T Gould, Deputy Regis been organised here with, Me, Liu Force, left for Home in the a.strar of Marriages officiated at Jen a leader. The party will Patrocius yesterday with Mrs, the ceremony, which was witnessed,
Grieve and their children
by fathers of the parties, frat go to Kansu
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