THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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OFFICES
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NOTICE
DURING Suspension of die additional local train, will leave Kowloon on Sundays and Public Holidays at 2.52 p. returning from Shanr Chun at 6.30 p.1.
through express service, an
ROBERT BAKER,
"Mananger,
Kowloon, Hongkong 19th Sept., 1923..
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Share Register & Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st to 8th October 1923 "Choth days inclusive).
IN A, REPERTOIRE OF THE LATEST LONDON SUCCESSES"
SATTHDAY, 3 trên 200 từ tls p... The Nero's geht Lundensten
"ROMANCE"
The en vatisi jociatorý esep boil.
MONDAY, Fept. 24th at 9.15 p.tn.
· The shouyadulapele meil sunning in forologi
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"BLUE BEARD'S 8 WIFE"
from the pea ot yethur Winperis.
TUESDAY, Sept. 25th at 9.23 p.m.
The Grosi Snúgy Tugaten mugresk "PADDY THE NEXT BEST THING"
Naqd herein am Padily
WEDNESDAY, Bay. 24th at 9 15 p.m. The car made aw penning at the
Seemnedy Theatre, Lenk
"SECRET8"
by Rudolf Bokor & Ming Wiginton. Seenery and abi umties needs to † lil pian
* ad and replica of the original, Lendon production.
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THUNDAY, Sept. 27th at x 1.15 p.m. Lendonte man hynsorum comeity
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lant in the Fa
THDAY, Jept. 28th at 9.15 pm
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SATURDAY. Köpt. 29th at 115 p. 11. Special revival of the world's siègem k "PEG O MY HEART"
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To Treasurer of the
Alice Memorial and Affiliat ed Hospitals acknowledges with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals H. Wicking & Co......... $50.00 H.M.H. Nemuzon Exp
$75.00
J. M Alves & Charg
$25.00
Anderson Meyer & Co.
$25.00
S. J. David & Co
$25.00
Currimbhoy & Co.
$25.00
Central Agency Ltd. Cawarjee, Palanjec & Co. $25.00) British American Tobacco
$25.00
$25.00
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$ 5.00
$25.00 $25.00
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Arnhold Brus, & Cnë ........ R. R. Couper Esq, Hastings, Denny's & How-
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and
R. A.
Warrant for the Interi Dividend can be obtained at the Office of the Company, Queen's, Buildings Hongkong. n after the 9th prax.
By Order of the Board.
E. COOK. Acting Chief Manager. Hongkeng, 17th Sept. 1923,
HONGKUNG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
THE
HE Annual General Meeting of members, will be held in the City Hall on Friday, 28th inst., at 5.45 p.m.
By Order.
D. K. BLAIR.
Hon: Secretary." Hongking, 17th Sept, 1923.
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
TH
HE TWENTY-SEVENTH
ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Com pany will be held. at the Com pany's Town Office, 2 Lower Al-; "bert Road, Hongkong, on Friday, i 5th day of October, 1923, at noon,{ for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directork and Statement of Accounts to 31st) July 1923...
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from' 27th September to 5th October, 1923, both days inclusive.
By Order,
M. MANUK.
Secretary. Hongkong, 19th September, 1923.
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SATURDAY, Sept. 22nd.
A GRAND VARIETY PROGRAMME ADMISSION :- $1.00
MIS
NOTICE.
[ISS DAISY O'KEEFE, will resume her dancing classes on the 8th. October. Morning Station Hotel 10a.m. fo 1 p.m. Afternoon King Edward Hotel 3--7 p.m.
NOTICE.
ON and after Monday, Sept.
24th the Asia Banking Corporation will be located in now quarters, Prince's Building, Ice House Street,]
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ME
EMBERS are reminded that Entries for the Fourth
Gymkhana to be held on the 6th and 8th October 1923. close on Saturday next, the 22nd inst.
Okeh Records
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A BOOTH TARKINGTON NOVEL
A especially distinguished Tarkington novel, having been awarded the coveted Pulitzer prize of $1,000. for being the best novel of Amrican home life published during 1922.
Mure copies of ALICE ADAMS" have been sold than
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ALICE ADAMS was voted by the editors of Photoplay Magazine to be one of the best j pictures of the month.
The National Board of Review recommended "ALICE
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aparticularly fine picture.
It's an Encore Picture.
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LAMMERT BROS. HUGHES & HOUGH Oaths are Conservative."
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have receiv ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on Monday, the 24th, Sept., 1933,
cenniencing at 11a.m.
at No. 5 Godown. The Hong- kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon (for account of the concerned 48 Casks Sulphur of Soda
(stored in No. 5 Godown) 51 Bars Flat Iron'
4 stored in No 10 Godown)
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2 Cases Bamh Steel
stored in No. 16 Godown) Terms: Cash on Delivery LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC
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compencing at 11 ani
of their Sales Room. Duddell Srect
Yarns
Cases Colored "willen
3 Cusos Balek Silk Ganze 5 Cases Sherwin Williams Copal varnish.
5 Cases Naphtaline Balls
2 Jars Hydro Chloric Acid
19 Pieces Cotum Voils
1 Coil Rubber Ricksha Tyr
1 Lot Optical Goods,
and
A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods Terms: Cash on Delivery LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
THE Undersigned have receiv ed instructionse to sell by Public Auction on Tuesday, the agih. Sept. 1933 commencing at .45 pm. at-No. 39 (top floor), Humphreys Buildings, Hanoi Road, Kowloon, Large Quantity of Valuable
"
Household Furniture
comprising Drawing room suite, rhester- field couch and chairs, mantel piece, brassware, pictures, cur- tains, teak extension dining table chairs, sideboard, dinner waggon, cut glass, glassware, teak bed. steads, teak wardrobe, with glass doors, dressing table, chest of drawers, marble top washstand. toilet sets, carpets, pile rugs, etc.,
etc.
also
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS
AND: BROKERS.
The Undersigned have receive instructiona to all by Publ Auction,
on TUESDAY,
the 35th September, 1923, com- mencing at 2.80 p.m.,. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Read, Corner of Ice House Street, Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood Furniture and Household Sundries, &c. &c. &c. Comprising
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In English literature before the eighteenth century (says Mr. John Macy, in the American. Bookmin) oaths were taken for granted. At any rate, the printers did not cut the lungs out of words. sacred or profans. To be sure, the names of mundane dignitaries were disguised and suppressed for fear of the libel laws and more direct modes of punishment. But that is another matter. It is related to soft pedalled 'profanity, yague way: the perhaps, in a respect due great and dangerous earthly persons and the respect due great and dangerous spor natural persons merged in a com-
· Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofas, Į piety. and the wrath of all Arm-chairs (new), Tea Tables, orders of authority had to boward- Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large ed off and dodged. But in Shake- and small Wardrobes, Dressing speare's time, at once supersti Tables and Chairs, Washstanda, tious and sophisticated, tricks of etc., Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, type were used, as "a defence Crockery and Glass Ware, Cutlery, against practical worldly perils: Carpets and Rugs, Staircase Car-there was no attempt to bluff the pets, Electro-plated Ware, Electric celestial and infernal powers by Reading Lamps, Teakwood Screens, petty subterfuges of spelling.
The speech of cosimon miel, Blackwood Teapers, Marbic-top Flower Stands, Side Tables and when they are freed from certain social restraints, is, no “doubt, as Cabinets, and a few lots of Hand-violently and abundantly profane bags and Suit Cases.
as it as in more spacious days. (Full Particulars from Catalogue).though literature is no longer per-
Hongkong, 18th Sept., 1923.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Auctioneers.
THE EISTEDDFOD
"
The chief
mmitteel to reproduce it. The" diminution has not been in the quantity of spoken profanity but in the quality. There has been a loss of variety, in richness of vocabulary. And it is not likely that the losses are being replaced by new words. In some depart ments of language there are novelties and replenishments, but baths. like the religions" to which they are related, are con“. servative. It is not in the spirit. of our times to find few gods to swear by or devise new ways of swearing hy the old.'
American Choir's Success. The pavilion at Mold, Flint shire, on August 8th. became great hall of song. event was the main open choral competition for a prize of £120 VOLUNTEERING DE L' XE. and a "silver 'harp. This was preceded by a competition for male choirs made unusually in- With the object of demonstrat- teresting by the entry of a choiring that in the event of serious from Cleveland, Ohio. When the focal disturbances the operations
in white will be practicable, the Singapore: Americans, dressed flannels, which offered a sharp Volunteer Force will occupy the contrast to the sombre black or coming week-end with a meet grey clothes of the Welshbilisation scheme, commencing ol singers, came to the platform the Saturday and terminating on the audience, splendidly impartial, following morning, says a Singu- gave them a rousing welcome, pore paper. The Racecourse will Wales excels in male voice be the venue the scheme, and choral singing, but the Cleveland during Saturday-Sunday the: choir were too good for the troops will be billetted in the Welch opposition. Dr. Caradoc grand stand, their comfort being Roberts, in giving the decision of assured by the fact that mosquito adjudicator, praised the news, beds and mattresses will be the bright and clear quality of tone supplied, the "biscuits" of rea they showed in "Come live with lism will happily "he lacking, me” a simple and rather puerile large wet canteens are being pro- love song.
vided for and the catering will be
:
DANGER OF CELLULOID.
To
In the second test song. “Up curried out by Raffles Hotel. Hill," by Dr. Vaughan Thomas, alleviate the hardships" of the they found the correct mystic operations, a concert is being.
The given on Saturday
night by atmosphere of the poem. judges were delighted with the several well known ladies and purity of tone production, and said gentlemen. that the performance revealed a bareful study of the work. The American Choir were awarded 170 marks, end the second prize went to the Leeswood male voice choir The dangerous nature of ordin with 167 marks. The men froimary celluloid was shown recently A few pieces of Blackwood Ohio were again enthusiastically at Charing Cross Station. As a cheered when their success was young man walked along the plat- announced. Mr. Charles B. Dawe, form smoke was seen coming out their conductor, is a native of of his coat, and he found that a South Wales, and he told me that celluloid comb, which he carried the choir had come specially from in the pocket, had by some means the United States to take part in possibly from the ash of a the Eisteddfod. Three members of cigarette-caught fire. The driver the party were Welsh-born and of a train in the station promptly seven nationalities were repre-went to the "young man's assist sented in the choir. They intendance, and with water from his to stay in Great Britain for a engine tank "subdued the out- I month.
break." The coat was ruined.
WATC,
And One Baby Grand Piano (in ex- cellent conditich) by John Broad- & Sons.
Terms: Cash on Delivery, Catalogues will be issued. On view from Monday," the 24th September, 1923.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
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·TO-MORROW at The CORONET:
United Artists present
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in
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ROBIN HOOD
Times and Prices
2. 5 p.m 8.20 & 80 cts,
5,15 &9,15 pm, 82 00 & 31.00 Owing to the length of the programme there will be no 715 show,