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picture, and one which should not be lost sight of namely, that with the best intentions in the wark, a medical officer may allow his enthusiasms" to run to extremes. Such a man would naturally be difficult to work with unless he always had his own way, Not for a moment. do we suggest that Dr. Fawcett belongs to this category. We mention the point because we have encountered the type. Even so, we can forgive much where energy,"
re energy, enterprise and initiative are the inspiring motives with such men. Much better is it that we should be served by these zealots than that a man'a ability and talents should be permitted to become atrophied. Much as we may deplore the loss of a man of the calibre of Dr. Fawcett, who, were he given the opportunity, could.do.so much for Hongkong, the point which really matters is what is to hap pen in future to men of ideas who join the Government service here. Dr. Fawcett is not the first medical officer who has come, seen, and left in disappointment.
MUSICAL, JOTTINGS.
Miguel Fleta-Local Concerta-
Noel Coward's Operetta
Victor Records.
[BY "ALLEGRO."]
DAY BY DAY.
"THE BOY WHO IS TOP OF REL-CLASS" AT SCHOOL 18 NOT ALWAYS A SUO
CESS IN THE BUSINESS WORLD ----| Professor A. Laughton.
The E. and A. Company's 8.8. Arafurn, with the Australian mail; is due here on Saturday morning WD
The Very Ideal
Thus an Ame
17 Mrs Jervis
Dave tractive
Aned 8209 Ins the othery(dir It is probable that scarcely
whoopee. In a hotel anyone in Hongkong has heard of the Spanish tenor, Miguel Fista, The R.M.S. "Empress of Russia" ager charged that who is giving a recital here arrived at Manila this morning to play tunes of the osah re
the hotel intoxicated and towards the end of October. The leaves to-morrow afternoon at gister and throw lamps and bric only details I have been able to is due at Hongkong on Sunday abracat belt boys who tried glean about him are to be found 9.00 a.m... in the HMV and Victor Grame
Chen curtail her musical inclinations Ofe wonder how phone Record Catalogues. He is
Mr. M. Manuk will speak on Torvis B. Mortisols of Daven in the red label-Calebrity artist Bohemes of Evolution at the lows, or other points north, section, and several of his records weakly, public lecture of the east and west, haye been are pre-electric and must have Theosophical Society, Hongkong fined for such pranks. Mig been made within five years of his Lodge, to-day at 6p. few Hotels Just tacitly assu debut in 1919. He is only 31' and should therefore be in his prime
NAMAWASAN that the boy away from home. The forthcoming wedding is a make whoopee, that Most of his appearances princi-nounced of Mr. William Ngartae stand so much damage pally in opera, of course, have Thomas Tam, barrister, No. 11, and all this is taken into dhe been made in Italy, Spain, Austria Babington Path; Hongkong, to consideration along with the room and the USA. The exact date of Miss Jessie Pui-Chun To, No. 82.
his Hongkong routes to ass, but Dragon Terrace, Hongkong. dor is his programme hand,
But we are not yet suffic Accustomed to the modern
it will please certain critics to The Singapore Municipal Comto give her "whooped" privilege know that steps have been taken missioners have decided to recom to ascertain his programme, as soon as possible. He can be recom- mended as an artist for hir Strok has his pick of all the tenors in America and would not jeopardise his reputation by bringing out here any but the best.
mend that on and after Jan. 1, 1923, An English clergyman one day all newly registered lorries having forget to attend a funeral and solid tyres should be taxed at was accused of refusing to bury double the rate of pneumatic tyred the corpse of & Dissenter lorries.
I have heard, calda friend - of the deceased to him, "that "you would not, bury-because he was
Dissenters c
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THURSDAY OOT. 3, 1929.
ENTHUSIASM VERSUS
COMPLACENCY,
·
Clerk to
Glerk to reveller at Kingston-on- Serious head injuries were suf- Thames Were you drink? Erison- fered by a Chinese, named Wuer-Yes, and silly too, Chan, when he fell from the veran Mother at Willesden-1 have dah of his home at No. 620, Recla four babies at home, and one who mation Street, yesterday. The inhas just started work are
man was conveyed to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
The loss of two baskets contain Wintering two bathing suits and other Colony if it gets abroad that 24th, on which dats it is hoped Police by Mr. D. Lopes, who replied the clergyman, for I Hongkong is no place for officials that the young Chinese violin "informed the authorities that the would gladly bury them all, and. with modern ideas. That is the prodigy, Mr. Ma, who has studied baskets were lost at Shek O on you among them, friend
for years at the Paris Con- Tuesday, servatoire, will provkle nearly half the programme. On Novem- ber 7th, there will be a concert devoted to French music, at which Franck's Variations Symphoniques, for piano and orchestra (the latter being represented by a second Bonenfant. At the third concert on November 21st, arranged by Mr. Mason, there will be one of two trios and probably Grieg's Sonata in C minor for violin and piano. The last concert before Christmas will be arranged to appeal specially to children. On October 8th at 9 p.m. the inaugural concert of the Hongkong Studio
danger. Dr. Fawcett's experience suggests that under present condi- tions however keen and able a man may be, the probability is that he will be forced into the background: where his talents would become of little, if any, avail. Surely it is poor economy to engage, good men and then pin them down to routine to an extent which prevents the Colony getting full value in services. We fear that that has been the custom for all too long in Hongkong. It has been almost a tradition here
will be broadcasted.
Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, re- ported to the Police by letter yes terday that some person stole a rain screen from his car, which was left unattended near the City Hall, during Tuesday morning,
་-་
Yet another case of attempted suicide was reported to the police yesterday. An unknown Chinese, living on the third floor of No. 25,
Woman at Bow County Court Bad language can be made to sound not bad by some people,
Husband at Willesden Dinner you call it. All my wife gets me is a sausage served on a sheet of newspaper
More howlera:
The Soviet is what the middle classes call their napkin.
Britain is divided into three parts London, Midland, and Scottish:
After twice committing suicide
died a natural death
for, an official to settle, down in that on the same day that these Woosung Street, threw himself into Cowper lived till 1,800, when he
his particular groove, and to await the promotion and Increased pay which will automatically come if he merely conforms to what la expected of him. By now, we have outlived those cor- But apparently we have
kamate la ban a the
Although it is obvious that he could have said a great deal more than he actually did, Dr. H. A. Fawcett, in his swan-song at Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary should Board, was refreshingly candid cepts. and outspoken. Reading between pot. the lines, it is easy to see why he has decided, after a brief stay In the Colony, to resign from the Government service. An able, energetic and enthusiastic officer,
The Anglo-Soviet Agreement. That the British Government has materially modified the terms on which it is prepared to resume full diplomatic relations with
It was a curious coincidence Jottings contained a tirade against
the street, and received injuries the antiquated Theatre Royal and from which he is reported to be
The proper time to influence the City Hall, and the Telegraph leader dying.. dealt with the same subject, the
character of a child is about a Hon. W. E. L. Shenton voiced the The N.Y.K. ss. "Mishima Maru" hundred years before he is born, very same complaint in his speech arrived this morning from VictoriaDean Inge before the Legislative Council, B.C. and Seattle, among the pas- This Court has no machinery- giving pride of place to the sengers being Mrs. Jenkin, wife that I know of for extracting blood scrapping of this building among of Mr. F. C. Jenkin, well-known.
from atones.Mr. Justice Swift, the many "pet schemes" which he barrister-at-law, accompanied by mentioned. In these fottings, we her 2 daughters, Miss M. Jenkin advocated the erection of a new and Miss B. Jenkin. theatre on a quieter site, but naturally the same site could be used if the building were sound- cooling apparatus, such as are to proof with internal ventilation and
and elsewhere. be found in many parts of America Freedom from external interruption must be the rat consideration in the re-build ing-when it takes place...
revue
Noel Coward, ·whose... This Year of Greek was one of the outstanding productions of 1928, "Bitter Sweet Not only has written an "operetta" called
The Hon. Dr. R. H. Ectewall, C.M.G., LL.D., has been appointed to take the place of the Hon. Sir a member of the Executive Council Shou-son Chow, who left yesterday on the President Jefferson for a six
weeks' holiday in Japan. This is the first time that Dr. Kotewall has taken a seat on the Executive Council,
with 1.22 inch
Dreary, second-rate lives are "a" disorder than overwork or disaster! more frequent cause of mental
-Dr. Edward Mapother
Attorney-Generals are a kind hearted raceSir James Melville I have just finished writing my division- Mr. W. S. Morrison, about 2,000 letters to workers in M.P
WHO WAS?
Mrs. Heidelburg.
Mra, Heidelburg, a most for midable widow whom you will meet in Colman and Garrick's' well-known work, "The Clan- destine Marriage," kept house för her brother, a city mer chant called Stirling
* Overbearing to an extent that was wellnigh intolerable
· Mrs. Heidelburg had only to "encounter the slightest hint of opposition to her wishes and she would at once- threaten To go back to Hol
he has found himself waging Soviet Russia, there can be no hopeless battle against official further doubt. Once again Mr.
MotheJoan, you must not enertia and red tape, has tired of Arthur Henderson has chosen to
make all that noise as you come the task after many attempts to break through, the line of Tory
down the stairs. Go up again Kreisler was recently given a de get his ideas put into force, and, foreign policy, in circumstances
and come down quietly."
Joan went up, and came down which should lead the Cabinet to gree at the graduation ceremony at realising the danger of being
anticipate trouble when the agree-Glasgow University, and in a speechnery of Warshipg" will be given by
A lecture entitled "The Machi- | without making a sound. forced into a rut, has reached the ment with the Soviet envoy, M. expressed himself freely on philoso-Engineer Captain W. H. Mitchell little lady should come down, the
MotherNow, that's how conclusion that it were better to Dovgalevsky, is submitted to the His views on modern music are ing" of the University. The lec- Joan "Yes, I slid down the
phy, science and musical snobbery on October 8th at 8.80 p.m. In Room stairs. leave the Colony rather than to House of Commons, for approval.teresting.:"And to come to music, turs will be Illustrated and will be banisters, that time. allow his talents and his enthu- The previous negotiation, at the The Moderns? It may be that I am of a popular nature. It will be slasma to become" submerged. end of July, split on a difference growing older, but they do not held under the auspices of the We sympathise with his outlook of procedure. Mr. Henderson thrill me. They are often very University Engineering Society, and regretfully acknowledge the precautions, asking that a settle is aroused. Frankly, I cannot be The rainfall during the month of
clever. I can admire and appre- and visitors will be welcomed.o ventured a series of preliminary clate with my brain, but no emotion wisdom of his decision in the ment of all outstanding questions, come enthusiastic about Stravinsky. September, as recorded through circumstances prevalling.
including debts and propaganda I can see the ability and admire the The tributes that were paid to should be negotiated before formal way in which his 'Petrouchka the Botanic Gardens plavometer, Dr. Fawcett on Tuesday were such recognition of the Soviet. Moscow ustrates the scene, but I cannot see was 9.41 inches. There were le wet as one would expect from these demanded that recognition should though it may be leading us some-tion during any one 24 hours being this music living eternally, al- and 14 dry days during the month, the greatest amount of precipita who have come into contact with come first and the negotiation where. If we imagine, as I do, on the 29th wita 3.63 inches, the afterwards. Further discussion a golden sphere of truth and beauty him in his work here. A fully at that time was clearly im- to which all the eternal things are next largest being on the fat with. qualified man, who has specialised possible, and the Soviet envoy re attracted; I do not think that what 1.48 inch and the third on the 5th in public health, he could be des-turned to Paris. Mr. Henderson be admitted to the sacred orb... is called 'modern' music to-day will cribed as a "catch" for the Gov-has now surrendered the entire
Patrons of the Sun Kam Shan ernment. But his temperament position, except at the important
teahouse at 25, Woosung Street, and his enthusiasm inevitably point of propaganda, regarding
Yaumati, yesterday afternoon, had brought him into conflict with the which, it is stated, a separate
a peculiar experience. One of the customers suddenly went out to powers-that-be. It is quite na-agreement has been reached. Even
the verandah on the top floor of tural that a man of his type should friends as well as opponents Coward noted for the clever words street. The unfortunate man was Is the ballding, and jumped into the be impatient of "olo custom" and question whether the agreement is pose a catchy tune, with something admitted to the Kowloon Hospital of the Government will seriously of his songs, he can also com- found seriously injured, and was the self-satisfied complacency of wise, bearing in mind, the Im-in it which lifts it out of the or where he died at five o'clock in the Oficialdom in things as they are,placable opposition of Moscow bere A Room with a View" afternoon. The cause of his act
dinary rut of dance and jazz num-
not give effect to these threats, but remained to exasperate rather than in hopes of things as to most things British, and the "Dance, Little Lady" and others will is understood to be poverty, and her brother and his friends they might be. As Dr., Fawcett fact that once installed in London, come to mind as proof of this lack of employment
a Soviet Ambassador will prove Now Moutrib's have received the
A B Incredibly vulgar, Mrs. Hel- himself put it the ponderous difficult to get rid of should the piano-selection of "Bitter Sweet Bach and Brahms. Harold Bauer's
delburg, nevertheless profess machine of Officlaldom keeps occasion arise. There is, how- and about seven songs, which one 10 inch record of Brahms B minor
ed the greatest contempt for strictly to Its rails, and,
everything that didn't smack 48 he ever, another side of the question. may be sure will soon be the favour- Capriccio and Greig's Album Leaf The attitudes originally taken upite numbers of the dance bands, offs worth adding to any collection.
of high life on concern the do himself confesses, his nature is by the respective Governments re- Layton and Johnson, of theatre or- There are one or two good vocal
inga of the qualify Not? not suited to too much of that. vealed a singular lack of con- chestras and of various soloists. ones. Louise Homery, the contral-
only was she vulgar, but postés tively illiterate as well as her It is this fact which explains the the agreement now reached fa particular numbers: Tokay. "I'll on Coeur ouvre a ta Voix and fidence one in the other, and If Therefore make a note of these to, sings flat practically throughout
extraordinary spelling mis inability of men of his type to see capable of removing that im- See You Again," "If Love were all it seems that she must be living one of her general four pas are takes gave witdess, while some eye to eye with Officialdom of the pression, it is surely worth while. and "Dear Little Cafe." They are the reputation she made at the end gloriously inept She retera, Hongkong variety. Maybe else.
The movement towards the re attractive, the harmonies at times of last century and before the War for instance to a picture by Gumption of relations with Russia unusual, the words typical of Noel Kreisler plays two more trifles on a where, at Home in some. pro- obviously requires trentment dia- Coward. I suppose records of them ten-inch
Raphael Angelo Redund gressive municipal centre where tinct from ordinary rule-of-thumb may appear at any time now. They Tschalkovaky violin concerto re disc meanwhile the
superlatives had initiative is encouraged rather of peace of which Mr. Ramsay
diplomacy. It is one of the risks are worth watching for.
for this lady are one mains unrecorded. There are favor than kept under rigorous control, MacDonald spoke so eloquently at Owing to the August holiday at plays of saxophone gymnastics theghe had a lot of mon
dozens of dance, records with dis-ente the Dr. Fawcetts get their chance: Geneva. Britain has had to do the Columbia works, no new records only one I felt inclined to keep was knowing the here in Hongkong we could hardly question is whether the means though Anderson's have received Hot Chocolates, composed by Razif the pioneering and the burning came to hand. during September, "Aint Misbehavin'" from Connie's expect anything else but rest will justify the end. Time alone many re-ordered discs of favourities Waller and Brocks and played nea lessness and dissatisfaction on
can tell, though surely a reasoned in previous months. The usual foxtrot by Leo Reesman and His experiment aimed at ending a batch of Victor records arrived, how Orchestra. However, I didn't, be part. There
long period of stagnation and over, of which the best is probably cause somebody else in the house another Bide
the jdeadlock can be justified.
that of Maria Leginshka singing conltin't stand it.
their
ever,
how
land, of which country her though she herself was Eng- husband had been a native, al-
about har, however, she did die Unfortunately for all.
gave her.
after the, unlo her kind: