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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931.
ONE SPLIT HEALED.
servatives have
dropped tho
now definitely referendum idea-a
DAY BY DAY
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Two cases each of small-pox and diptheria and one of typhold were. All wero Chingao, notified yesterday. A
THAT SOME PEOPLE REALLY foolish and clumsy method of set-HEART 18 THE DESIRE TO BELIEVE tling the main inue and have KNOW WHAT THEY BAY THEY KNOW, AND CAN BAVE THEM FROM THE taxa- new definitely endorsed the
TROUBLE OF THINKING FOR THEM. tion of food. So far n wo can BELVER-Samuel Butler. judge from the cabled summary, Lord Beaverbrook does not appear to have deviated greatly from the policy which he has always espous ed, though it is possible that he has mada small concessions on points. It still remains to be seen, the Rothormero however, how organs will react to the "scille ment,"
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FROM DINNER
TO DRAMA.
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By S. R. LITTLEWOOD.
"18
the
It is
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the little
# hus-Itho present-day West 66YX7HAT I want in
hand," said the supposedly life, which avowed and cial neglected wife in Mr. decorative rather than dietary
ill-point of view, recent Titheradge's Dion
Homeone to fated comedy,
It is, like so much In the theatre The Hongkong Football Association take me out to dinner and a play!
Only for a few nights, it is true, as well, due to the arrival of that a chance of making its appeal from whole creation"--the "modest wo their office will be removed to No. 20, fald this matrimonial aphorism have most tremendous object of the Ice House Street, ground doer.
the stage, "Frailties" ran for no man, dressed out in all her finery."
It is the wifo-neglected or than nine performances. It
and a play," who is responsible. The phrase has none the less linger. wanting to be "taken out to dinner ed in my mind an expressive of
It is she who has sat very large and Important truth.
This in, in very fact, how hosts, table with the tinted shade in the
the stage
In the middle distance- For having stowed away on the 5.5. not only of neglected" wives, but foreground, and the great art of Cremer, which arrived in Hongkong of thoroughly cultivated husband for is there not supper ange and "buts," We have always held from Singapore, Li Kong was sen spinsters, and buchelors; do rogardenbaret to follow? And with her..
tenced to six weeks' imprisonment by the theatre of our moment.
Kowloon this something to do after dinner part we all know, the food-though it must be of the choicentis only the view that if the Conservatives Mr. Hamilton, ab
morning.
of the practice described by Ameri-
an excuse for something much more to her purpose. It is empire sincerely believe in tariffs, even if
Weary of life, lo Wal-Ice (21), an cans as "going places."
that she Is after and homage food taxation is involved, they have
inmate of a licensed public house at
The infinitely belter prospect of 178, Temple Street, yesterday swallow-
Only a few evenings afterwards makes haste unthinkable. Let the their ed a dose of opium, dying from the converting the electorate to
in the pother over the production belle dame sane mere" of the one stalls will brook no rival beyond viewpoint by coming out strongly effects inter after being admitted to we had even more practical proof players bide their time.
the Kwong Wah Hospital.
of "Strange Interlude," on the lasue than by following
How recent this revival of Severni lorry drivers were hned by West End play since "Methusaleh" the footlights. action. The Mr. Schofield line of timorous
the Central Police daring to begin at a time which Court this morning for carrying precludes any prolonged rites of the feminine influence is may be g average voter likes to know pre-
This thered when one realises that the London's "dtuner-and- eisely for what he is voting. At
pluy life, so far as its reputable the moment, therefore, the people know where they are on this fiscal they question. In the one camp have the Conservatives; in the other, both Liberals and Labour. It looks now as if the next General this Election must be fought on Not for the first time within the food-tax issue. We shall be sur prised if the traditional attitude of have Mr. past twelve months
the electorate is reversed when the Baldwin and Lord Benverbrook be-
test taken pince. come reconciled. It will be in- teresting to see how long the con- cord persists. Just a year ago, the Conservative leader delivered a by hailed Wis speech, which
nounced that hereafter it will ጊዜ Lord Beaverbrook
being in accord with the ideals of publish a of its books anony-ed.
mously. Authors, the announce the United Empire Party
ment said, wet altogether too fond which had shortly before been of advertising themselves and fall brought into existence. It is true
devote enough attention that in that speech Mr. Baldwin did their writing. A writer gets a not come out definitely the reputation and then rests on his taxation of foodstuffs. Instead, he ours, letting the impetus of his suggested that if and when the Con- former books carry his now ones servatives came into power, they along, and spending a good share should consult with the Dominions, of his time in seeing to it, that his and, if a satisfactory agreement name gets into the newspapers and could be reached, the country should magazines. It will be interesting
to see how the authors reset to of Lee was to have returned savouries and iced peaches? Does cumstances, what wonder that be given a chance, by means of a referendum; of intimating whether this scheme. In pure theory it)
but a search of his quarters at the dienco are just a bunch of weak-playgoers, who clamuured just for or not it favoured the taxation of should make no difference ut all to work early yesterday morning. it mean that we of the modern au- most of those ardent, heart-whole our fore--content with a hurried chop A writer is supposed to welte be Blind Home at Mataukok failed to lings, without the intellectual and drama and plenty of It, were men foreign foodstuffs, Mr. Baldwin
cause of an imperativo inner com- discover any signs of him. Even emotional stamina of took that stand, not because he did
tually a note was found left fathers? Does it mean that the house. anack and high, if vain, im- is supposed to pulsion. He
To say that the "monstrous re- "I am going to the foot
of Sung more formidable than the classica not believe In Protection, for he thinking of fame very little and behind in his room, which read:plays now produced are so much aginings.
of an earlier day that they are not giment of women" has had a wholly bad effect upon the art of the stage and his Party always have, but, to of money hardly at all; he writes Wong Tol to commit suicide"
Sung Wong Tai is the famous to be approached fasting?
of would, of course, be wrong. It has use his own words, because he was because there is something in hin
It is obvious that neither last Emperior of the Sung Dynasty these things 60. Our generation made the theatre social, claimed unwilling to ask the people to give that demands expression. Theory, rack at Kowloon City where the
many hundreds of years ago la has proved its grit In other fields truth, encouraged wit, counteracted In vote on food taxes until they knew unfortunately, does not always
lino trend towards sentiment. One exactly what was involved and what square with the facts. There may be sunnosed to have taken refuge at than the theatre. The classics wens on juries--the eternal mascu period of Internal strife. tiny search-party led by Sanitary have always with us.
The change which has occurred 1 reminded that alike the merits
and faults of the Restoration thea they were going to get in exchange. a few writers who fall in this a
Inspector Roviance, in the vicinity
which tre occurred largely in tribute to Despite the somewhat indefinite category, but they are
The average writer, indicated, minority.
has mot with, no is, it seems to me, one in A report has been made dinner itself is not the main the masked beautige of King Char nature of the Baldwin declaration,
quite naturally, wants fame and success.
element. It is a demand made by les's court. Time bringe its re however, Lord Beaverbrook appear adulation. If he turns out n good to the police.
venge. Those of our restaurant- theatre reflect to 'a remarkable 'ex- other ed to be satisfied. On the
book he would like to get the
tent the wishes of its irreproach- hand, Lord Rothermere, who had
credit for it. Furthermore, au
able patronesseB." - been associated with the other thors have to eat; and many Press Baron, refused to accept the first-rate book came into existence statement of policy, asserting that in part, at least because its writer fading to bolster up a there were other objects, including neede
mare in- the Indian issue, which necessitat-bank account. Even
for
Lo
Anonymous Books.
A French house recently an-
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ed the continuance of the campaign teresting, will be the reaction of against the official policy of the the readers. Most of us, probably, buy books for the authors. If a Conservatives.
Time went on, and then it sud-book by an unknown appears we wait and find out what other denly appeared, that Lord Benver-
it. What brook regretted hin hasty endorse people are saying about it before
take a chance on We ment of the Baldwin declaration, would we do if the author's name especially the roferendum dovice. were withheld? However, there Thence onwards, the breach widen-is
BA-
chance little
that other
of
before-hand. excessive loads. Impositions ranging
så to 5 were inflicted, the fines dinner-table
dience's evening routine that varying according to the weight of the bas so completely dislocated the all-whale of
hour's break has to be provided and womenkind are concerned, goes no The very excess
Murray Suffering from the effects of eating as a note on the programme re-more than a life-time.
an was, as toadstools in the mistaken belief that vents-the entire resources of the word "restaurant" they were edible fungi, two women neighbourhood called in to atone shows, hardly used on this side of toria's reign. As late as the 'For- peasants, living at Chay Tung, Cheuk for a missed meal before the really the Channel before Queen Vic- ities one finds Charles Kaight re- Yuen village. In the Kowloon City big scenes come on. district, were yesterday admitted into
This was not always ao. Even
cording the new development with the Kwong Wah Hospital.
some surviving playgoers can re-
Covent Garden and the Hay. Convicted on a charge of larceny call the time when a five-hour per-surprise, not to say alarm. "About market," he writes, "there Are by bailee of a bicycle, the property of formance in a London theatre was
many French restaurateurs whose the Kwok Man bicycle shop, 650, by no means exceptional. The cur- Shanghai Street, Chun Kam was fined tain rose at seven with, perhaps rooms present the agreeable variety $50, or in default one month's im-
a short comedy. Then there would prisonment, by Mr. Hamilton, at Kowloon this morning: A recond be a comic opera or burlesque; of ladies dining without any man, Lam Shing, charged with receiv- then a full-length drama Shake-straint from the observation of In his delightful "Night Life," ing was discharged. It appears that spearean or otherwise and a farcemale visitors." the first defendant hired the bicycle to finish up with, not to mention
March 21 and never returned it. minor events between. If the en-Mr. Ralph Novill tells us how, at much before a much later time than this, any The second defendant was seen riding tertainment ended the machine yesterday and was arrest midnight the audience especially lady wishing to dine at a restaur a long board lie gave information which led to the half-price, people who came in ant had to alt the apprehension of the first defea-at nine o'clock considered they amidst convivial company or in
had had short shrift, and frequent-"Dew," where she was
even worse off, ly protested in the usual manner.
It was not until the "old St. No one in those palmy days seems to have worried as to when James Hotel, now the Berkeley
that or how dinner had been achieved. had sat a new
The im-separate tables for dining were in-. A gross consideration! portant thing was the drama, The troduced," Claridge's, the Cafe LEAVES LETTER THREATEN-food they sought was for the Acul. Royal, Vorrey's and Gattf's follow- What can have happened to have led suit. Even then the state of affairs presented by modern Soho spiritual vitality would not have been dreamed pos- A Sanitary Department fore-so sapped our
distressed appeared, leaving behind a letter fourth love affair of a
without fortifying the man, named Fung Lee, has dis-that we cannot face the third or siblo, in which he declared his intention heroine
committing suicide.
ed, until, na we know, open war publishors will adopt this system. bye-But it would be illuminating to was again declared. In one election, an Empire Crusader spilt see what would happen if they did. the Conservative vote, but in other, the Independent Conserva-
A memorial meeting tu honour of tive sponsored by the Presa Barona
the into Dr. John Anderson will be lost in a straight fight with the held in the Great Hall of the Univer
the- Baldwin nominoe. One might havesity on Wednesday, April 1, 1981, at
5.30 p.m. All members thought that after the triumph of University and all the late Dr. Ander. son's friends are cordially invited. the official Conservative candidate Members of the University staff aro wear academic at St. George's, Westminster, Mr. kindly requested to Baldwin would be in no mood to make concessions to the Beaver brook faction, but it is now disclos od that he has done so. The pro- bablilty is that Conservative head- quarters weighed the pros and cons Central Police Court this morning t was stated that the defendant did not and came to the conclusion that inform the police of the changs uhul
the Partypoken to mix months accura
taken us hia, present posts
there was more
drons.
For failing to notify the polics of a change of address, a chauffeur, in the employ of Mr. V. M. Grayburn, was fined $7. by Mr Schonald at the
dant.
MISSING SANITARY
Fong
ал
FOREMAN.
ING SUICIDE.
FOR THE
BEACH.
sometimes
fashion
physique with sales and cutlets. In these rough-and-tumble cir-
By a kind of irony, both epochs have been marked by the domina tion of the audience as against playwright and actor. Our drama- tists must please the women first--- the rest any time. We have had good actors since Irving; but a great one-no! He would mono- poliso too much attention. On the other hand a row of shapely giris" Jigging about not only affords harmless digestivo but makes us appreciate all the better the nobler ideal at home. She who wants to be taken out to dinner and a play? is sho who must be obeyed,
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