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FINE FILM:
Star Theatre Attra Everyons has heard of ALE.W
THE PURSUIT OF SUCCESS E, nion's novel and stage play an
Looking around upon thin
Government's Scheme For- Workmen's Dwellings.
lo-Indian Hie, entisled “The Further details in "connection
ass for the Defence.” Li was with the Government's proposed general the average man beluded in the repertoire of a scheme for improving the housing feal constrained to echo the east muring company which came to conditions of the working classes, by saying that the world ham bus Hongrong about a year ago, mentioned by H. E. the Officer,
When fand one criteriða ---- auccess.
outstanding
morning.
success
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Administering the Government at the cynic so speaks he means success amongst the many yesterday's meeting of the material success. Nor need the dramas and comedies perform- Legislative Counel, were gleaned moralist quarrel with this, no ad ** the Theatre Royal. by Telegraph reporter who inter-long ** such
ba The soreen version of the Flawed the Colonial Secretary worthily utilised. At all events, famous play has been brought (Hon. Mr.AG.M. Fletcher) this success is a decidedly popular into the Colony, and will from to- pursuit, and accordingly treatises night till Monday.be seen at the The Government arə very explaining the why and the how Star Theatre. For those who interested in the proposition of for purporting to do so) are goner-have already seen the play in its housing the Colony's labourersly sore of readers. A publisher's stage form interest will be reviv- and artisans under better const is pretty sure to contain at ed, for certain features that could within the dition, but it is a matter that east one such title as "Searets of pos be included must be approached with great Success," Hor
to Make a limited ares of the stage are in caution, Mr. Fletcher explained, Fortune," Aids to wealth," the film realised in the splendid and there are several factors to
tc. Do higher plane wejangle settings and elaborate be considered. The real question have Smiles Self-Help." Lord photography of the scenes which ia to 'stabulas land values, and
Avebury's writings, and Mr. are laid in India and England. another point that must be borne Lorrimera “Letters from a Self- The woman in the case is in mind
that cheap Made Merchant to his Son.” impersonated by Miss Elsie transportation is necessary.
The latestco.tribution to this de- Ferguson, whose work in "Bar- A possible scheme, said Mr.partment of literature comes from bary Sheep," and all more Fletcher, is to lease an area of Lord Riddell It bears the caption, recently in "A Society Exile," Iand without a premium for Some Things That Master' is recalled with pleasure. Miss definite period of year-a short (Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. 61.) Ferguson was one of the most period-on condition that bail. There are plentiful hints upon popular artistes on the legitimate ders would erect good type of How to Think, How to Speak, stage before she joined the ranks workmen's dwelling. The builder and the like, the advice being of the silent celebrities of the would be allowed 8 per cent, and reinforced by numerous examples. silver sheet. Hence the rola there would be a sinking foodNothing dogmatic or didactic which is A tensely dramatic
revert
to reimburse him. At the marks the dissertations, which are one, is admirably suited to ber ptration of the period the whole set forth in a pithy, picturesque abilities, and her army of admirere thing would
10 the style that naver Wastes will bail her portrayal in this Government.
word. Particularly interesting are stirring photoplay, as one entitled Mr. Fletcher said it had not the chapters on the art of public to their warmest commendation. been decided where the scheme speaking, in which Lord Riddell would be tarried out: the matter himself is an all-round adept. was being fully gone into at the presant time.
For so example of a happy, far-with live souls and bodies with sought quotation the following bones in them. The Petrie family The idea is to cater for
comparison of the verbal methods is uncommonly-well realised. The the needa of the workman,
of Pitt and Fox is well worth re-cream, at them and centre of the such as mechanics, regular
membering: "Pitt carefully con-book is Petrie pere; bat Eere the labourers and men of that classidered his sentences before he portraiture becomes self-consci- Under the housing scheme, in- stead of living under the crowdeduttered them: Fox threw himself ons. Petrie, to, a large extents into the middle of his, and left it A literary figment, with his conditions which at present pr to God Almighty to get him out vocabulary and his sensational rail, each family would have a
again." The majority of occasion-doublings of personality. What room to themselves and it is hoped
si speakers resemble Fox rather remains of him is human-and to bs able to build houses
room would have A
to it.
window
economically of a type that each than Pitt, but the curious thing all of bim is striking. Cynthia, is that they are often more efec- the genine-daughter, aufers s tive with an English Audience little with reviewers because of than those who have the gift of the wast, ioane elder sisterhood A working class housing!
We that authors have created for her: scheme, though run on somewhatave and flowing oratory.
this author, does Dot different lines, is in existence at forgive them, if their mater beat
you with Cynthia's temperament. Indeed, she is a brisk, aselfish human being.
class under conditions which
Samihuipo. Here dwall large Practical, for the creaking of their clog
slow working meds. numbers of Calness of the artisan Lord Riddell's experience of induce brighter outlook op hi public life enables him to give us with singularly faw vapours. Her a list of the methods of prepara Jebarming young brother and her are conducive to contentmeal Ption pursued by speakers in the pretty, cormal sister are well to make the people take a greater political limelight:
done. Still better is the pl-intive, interest in the Colony, and give
Mr. Lloyd George carefully petulant mother, who is a mill- them a better existence generally.
prepares his set speeches, the stone round the family neck, until It is hoped that the type of bouses
heads of the arguments being are il necessity for action on her built will, with modifications, be
set down in detail on ball-sheets part rouses her to an amazing planned on sigilar liars.
of sh paper and important efficiency. It is a little hard to phrases being written out in believe that the pathetic and full. Mr. Winston Churchill heroic, and above all, the under- adopts a different practice. Hestanding little saint of the last
Cheap transport is one of the problems in connection with a proposition of this description, but this is A matter that the Government is taking in hand. One of the biggest schemes at: present under way with regard to Transportation is the new ferry project. The Government intend to run large ferries, of the type seen in the big cities of the world. from Jubilee Street, on the Hongkong side, to Jardin mainland. the Road
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The people believe, places where com monsense and the common speech murder towards the end is an of common people are unknown. "pen mystery to the reader, but some suspense and danger are! His Excellency the Officer Ad. They are, and have always beep, cloverly contrived, and all ends ministering the Government, ac- shools of practical reasoning in a shapely manner without ob companied by Mrs. Severn and about practical things. It would vicusness. Mr. Weigall has a her mother Mrs. Bullock, came be well if every man-and every line of his own and has not ex-
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Among
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without buying or appeal to all those who like no of fact, even borrowing the legal text exciting, romantic book; of which Our picture page to-morrow books, thanks to Lord Riddell's the scene is placed in our own will include two mos; interesting bappy thought of conveying the time. A very different type of photographs of the wrecked gist of the whole matter in a story is "Fotility," yet it gives Choysang, which is to be sold by series of chapters, all of which, the Russia
unforgettable picture of of just before auction next week. Another having a certain literary charm, striking picture will be a com-se as readable as they are and during the beginnings of the revolution. It has impressed
found in a suit case al a-Mar- posite photograph showing what reliable.
treal hotel is “ forgery...... Thé may be expected in the future-
Lord Riddell's volume, it may at least one critic as a book
detectives have, however, identi an airship with mails arriving in be opined. is not of a type that that will be more rather than less
Bed King and Cesilia Haley A Hongkong, making its way across will attract the Wallingfords. It read a time goes on. the harbour to alight at Kowloon will be welcomed, though, by a Dudeney's readers will delight in
A Toronto message says. It is the man and woman who st ped more thoughtful circle, people her new volume of short stories, now apparent that no new light at this hotel and King wil be
A Baker's Dozen. An excellent will be thrown on the case of Mr. prosequted for testing sensational story is "The Haunted Ambrose J. Small (the Toronto cae. It is believed Seventh, by General Ross. In millionaire who disappeared in woman had nothing It was reported in the China to success in the material Reuss, Don-fiction, Mrs. Stirling's, de Desember, 1919) by the arrest of the theft of the car
lightful, book on William de Herbert King and Cecilia Haley be givi Morgan and his Wife" is still at Montreal. The defau press that a Chinese sent to
"The Voice in the Wilderness being much read. Einstein and need that has two Shanghai by Chang Teo-lin is negotiating the purchase of 30 (Jonathan Cipe, 7 63.) shows the Universe and Helativity aeroplanes and 50,000 siflex, with Mr. Richant Blaker to be for All will struct mare the other supply of amumanition, for de-novelist of promise. There are than othe Hvary in from four to six months, half-a-dozen studies of phone would think ponsible 50
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