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edgerows, gemmed with haish up together the greatest dramatic welcome the news which suggests stateil. that an attempt may be made to settle the quarrel by pacific means. After so much idealistic talk at the National we can surely hope that Nanking will not seek to ride rough-shod
The Committee of the Sailors' and who came from Warwickshire and the Surrey side. It was not done, a certain over all opposition, irrespective Soldiers Home acknowledges the re-returned there, the whole message we are told, without of the motives which may inspire ceipt of the following donation to of plays and sonnets remains bound amount of hand-to-hand fighting. wards the funds of the Home:--Royal up with tris adventure. Without There were "cracked crowns and it, or be blind to possibie faults of Naval Recreation
Not by com- Club, (per Coat, the friendship of Shakespeare bloody coxcombu."
but by flerce Who can mercial accident, its own.
to mander E. G. Morris, R.N. H.M.S.is The better way is
me meaningless.
Intent, was the Globe to Tamar), $50.
be friends with a hypothesis? seok by rendjustments of view-
To my mind nothing could be "the glory of the
bank." factions to--
false Arrested during a rald at 113, more
than the point to bring all
Shakes-
Whether the young Stratford gether with the one
aim of the Woosung Street, a Chinese who was suggestion that because
deported from the Colony last year for peare la a "universal" dranintist it scapegrace was actually present on country's good. Unhappily, the a period of ten years, was sentenced follows that he expresses no per- that occasion we can only guces.
sonality .of his own.
Allke in Bat we do know how much he owed
the courage Kuomintang leaders have hitherto to twelve months' hard labour by Mr.
Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy those sonnets where he unlocked afterwards to
and shown little disposition
to wel- this morning.
his heart" and righ; through the comradeship of Dick Burbage him-
Acif, "old. come criticism, even of A CONS-
there
stuttering Heminge," plays
characteristica ctle-browed Condell; and The first Tes Dansant at the Grill which stand out to
claim faithful members
other tructive order. In this fact may Room, King's Theatre, will be held on be found the origin of much of the Sunday the 17th inst. from 4.38 p.m. sympathy-the things he believed
till Tn. Mesara, Lane, Crawford. In. present discontent. It is lime atd., have engaged a special orchestra
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Wertminster Central Hall Choir.
--A Few More Years Shall Roll (Hayne)
Westminster Central Hall Choir. John Gos3.
B-3762-Ten Thousand Miles Away (Willon)
-Agincourt (Wilfan); Here's a Health Unto His Majesty John Gosh, (Harris)
B-3754-Let Their Celestial Concerts (Händel)
Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. -Strike Your Timbrels (Schubert)
Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. .Gracie Fields. B-3780-You're Driving Me Crazy (Donaldson)
-The Kiss Waltz (Film: "Dancing Sweeties" (Dubin and Gracie Fields. Burke)
Choir of the Russian Church
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Russion Church of the Metropolitan of Paris, C-2099-Rolling in Foaming Billows ("Creation”—Hadyn)
Through the Darkness ("Stabat Mater"---Rossini)
B-3789-Our Father (Tchaikovsky)
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Those Immortal comedies and dramas did not represent as Ro
tentedly do--just the line of Jenst
new line of policy was evolved, for the occasion, and it is anticipateď | They ure by 130 menna
On the many modern plays and films con- Only by give-and-take ean Chima's that the opening danes will prove "universal" collection.
popular. Tables may be reserved. contrary, in their order they are resistance. The general public" rulers hope to attract to their
singularly rare, and. especially Ho was in favour, then as now, of side men who wish to contribute! Sentence of twelve months hard for his period. They express, to "Inexplicable dumbshow and no180." something to their country's well. Babour and twenty-four strokes of the gether with what we know of his samuthing more than a bond of
birch was imposed by Mr. linmilton life, a very definite man-human, egy success
helped magnetic, supremely. Jovable.
Hongkong Telegraph. being.
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1931,
NANKING LOSING
SUPPORT.
ed the trend of Chinese polities in favour of an extreme
nt the Kowloon Magistracy morning on a Chinese who admitted
this
Mrs.
rickahn. Mrs. Dorranée had not been
• ❤
It
must have these life-long friends to rise to-
of
his
Its
to him
a charge of snatching a bangle from is by this he lives as freshly together from their "outcast state" #18 rogues and vagabunds 10 a child which was being carried by the modern world as to his own. S The French Presidency.
its mother in the Mongkok Market Without this all his mastery of
opulence and inex-1 technique, his dramatic
respect and Royal favour-not to mention the church- The defent of M, Briand in the yesterday.
haustible faculty of Imaginative wordenships. And they did it by Presidential election is not parti
creation and wizardry of words, means only of high and noble art J. Dorrance. wife of Mr. would not have availed. cularly disturbing. His persona: "Bob" Dorrance of c
galaxy of brilliant Shanghai Above everything I feel, that
against air of calm when the result of the Public Works Department, died last Shakespeare makes us his friends scholar rivals. More than in poll was declared is the best men- [Saturday night from injuries received because he was himself a prince/preface, the First Follo. i iz
after being thrown from a public of sure of the importance of nis
"good companions." Of the monument to friendship-that best. Su-nue who has closely fullow-iailure. The threatened inndslide in Shanghai more than three weeks things he believed in, friendshin kind of friendship which is the
Nation- and leaves a husband and one son. Is easily first. I never can under-Inspiration to great deeds.
So, too, with other articles of both of whom are residing in the stand why dull-eyed commentators
Shakespeare's creed as n
n dramatist will persist in excusing the pas-bis idealisation of attesty will have been surprisedalist candidate did not eventuata, both
young passion. by the news of the resignations and he withdrew his candidature
sionate ardour of the sonnets on ilusionment, his ultimate faith fr The coxswains of two launches were the plea of permitted hyperbole good womanhood; his joy in rural of Dr. Wang Chung-hati, Presi- when a second ballot became nec-
that a man of new President, 31.
the most fruitful dent of the Judicial Yuan. and cessary. The
fined $100 each at the Marine Court Enough for me
genius and sensibility like Lord sport, Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of Railways.Paul Doumer, has several times this morning befors Commdr. J. B. Bentonsfield confessed for all his of all sources of simile; the ever- Newill, D.5.0., R.N., for carrying :
glowing flame
love' for More passengers than their licences inscrutable mask that in this England and the English scene: Peter DawROR-I has been obvious for some time been associated with M. Briand in
government. and there is common allowed during the Tinhas festival matter the intensity of his
own his matchless relish for country past that these two conscientious C-2104-Harry Lauder-Vocal Gems (1st Record)
ground between them 01 most
It was stated that they were going to experience in younger days
humour and country character. It Scottish Male Voier Singers, and capable officials have been un-points of vital concern in Euro-Chekwan, one having 213 passengers, much the same.
is open to anyone to twist the or 123 in excess, and the other; 168, This faith in friendship per career of Oxford or Rutland or áble to work in harmony with pean politics to-day. If President or 85 in excess. -Harry Lauder-Vocal Gems (2nd Record)
vades the plays--a faith dead Scottish Male Voice Singers. their colleagues, Dr. Wang Chung-Doumer is not whole-heartedly in
against the Machiavellian spirit. some other vamped-up claimant hui, when he took up the post favour of M. Briand's pacifie An increase of 67 per cent. In the of the time, as typified by the self-into a capability for these things.
The genius who could write the surrendered, policy, he is by no means as op-number of messages and of 50 per accking treachery of that "meanest
is only with the Stratford story had high hopes of being of great ponent. It is probable that 31.ent in the number of words be com-of mankind," Francis Bacon. Did plays could do anything. But it
his pared with 1920 took place last year not Hamlet wear Horatio in
the "heart and His West-Briand will be given opportunity in wireless messages handled
of heart"?
It was the key that all the facets of Shakes į service to his country.
peare's art and personality fall of putting to the test the correct-Post Office, according to the report of quarrel and instant reconcillation into their places. They do so 29- ern eonthets and expecially his
the Pustmaster General. Many new of Brutus and Cussius that old association with the Permanent guided him in his work at
ness of the principles which have direct services were opencil, and the Leonard. Digges remembered best naturally as If we had ourselves
the popularity and commercial value of In The Merchant of Court of International Justice. Feigi Monistry. Thus he
is wireless services was amply demon-"Much Ado About Aence not/ed" boy who flouted, the, country minde him anxious to establish able to contemplate with equan- the laws of his country on a firmimity the prospect of remaining basis, in qerordance with Western 15 charge of foreign affairs with ideals. A non-partisan, he spon M Doumer at the Elysee. In the
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which he has now
found himself
are as the breath of
A
life.
strated.
Was
re-
un-
cure.
and known him as the "merry-check- love itself can vanquish friendship. Justices, or during those twenty A growth in Post Office business is friendships forfeited.
"Macbeth" is largely a tragedy of years of favorish life in plague-
The hero
stricken London, or as the Prospero revealed in the annual report of the
The Agincourt addresses his soldiers of New Place garden, where good Mistress Hall," who was "wise to Postmaster General for 1030. surrounded by long run, we believe, France will number of mail receptacles of Hong-and treats them—ng "dear friends,"salvation." may have soothed-or
kong origin increased by 1,846, and With Lear, even in the agonised
mind." those to whom intriguo and bicker her choice. The new President is 1.451. Registered articles showed a ship of King and Fool survives.
have eaune to. feel antisfied with receptacles in transit increased by irony of that mad trio, the friend-atherwise--her inther's heating
ing
To me it means much to statesman of considerable ex- decrease of 5,467, and insured letters
than member that all this was not mere helps to remind one that though Among other things. Stratford decreased by 183. No fewer He himself says that there has perience both in France and the 128,849 parcels wore handled-an in-fiction or history. It fits in at Jalways been too much disagree- | Colonies, has earned a high re-crease of 17,684.
every point with what we know of the Dark-Lady episode did
hell doubtedly drive him "from ment over little points. with the putation as a non-partisan poli-
to hell and he confessus it was result that nothing is achieved. ticían, and as the possessor of a
not she who was the worse sinner he recovered from it triumpli- In disgust, he has thrown up his strong personality, immovable In ofice and intends to resume his career in Indo-China was little
antly. He wrote all his best plays his decisions when formed. His
afterwards and, one gathers, unoci place in the International Court short of brilliant, and his experi-
her for them.
at The Hague. The wonder is ence as an administrator in the that he has not taken this step | Far East should serve him in good before. Possibly. desire to stend at the Elysec. It is to be prevent discord accounts for this noted that while he did not occupy fact. With other breaches mani-a prominent position in French festing themselves in the Party, polities during the war, he was!
one of the leading figures in the however, he has now deemed it
arduous task of establishing the wise to withdrawn from Chinese peace, which is perhaps a happy palities. The reasons for the re-indication. He was Finance signation of Mr. Sun Fo are not | Minister in the Briand Govern- disclosed, but in his case also it ment of 1921-22 and steered the has been obvious that a break reparations settlement through would come sooner or later. A the Versailles Conference and the Chamber. Latterly, he has been sou of the Father of the Republic, Senator, for Corsica, and Pre- having close family connexionssident of the Senate. In the field with Chiang Kai-shek and T. V of social reform, he has accom. Soong, be would' certulaly not plished extremely useful work. sever his association with the M. Briand having definitely decid- Nanking regime, except. for very ed to carry on, the result of the Herlous differences. The tragedy election is not one which will give of it all ls that Nanking should rise to alarm in Europe. at this juncture lose two Auch
canteen
tudented members of the Govern Admitting a charge of lavenny of ment. She can I afford to suf-clothing from one of the
"boys" of the Stonecutters' Barracks, fer such withdrawals. 歌
two Chinese who appeared before. Mr. When we. take, these realgan-Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy tions in conjunction with the de- one month's hard labour., A third this morning were, each sentenced to
velopments in the South, the fact man was fined $2 for trespassing on the inland, he stating that ho had been becomes emphasized
Nan taken there by the second defendant kingle policies are meeting with who was formerly in the employ of
considerable opposition.
vory
that
the cantoon.
"All right wo'll take this so ono once more. But no over-
time to-day-1 gotta date."
It was the penance of the artist that he should "gore his own thoughts, sell cheap what is most lear
also hlo It was Certain it is that he never forget the home at Stratford, to which he devoted all the fruits of his success. Let people pass whatever about the cheap jokes they "second-best bedstend." If every erring husband provided for his wife and family a tithe as well as Shakespeare did there would bo
no alimony-cases for our courts.
How tender a father he was is clear from the little fact that Constance's grief over, little Arthur. was his own. He had just lost his only and deeply-loved little son. Hamnet. "Such gain-giving as would trouble a
woman. Shakespeare's
sharing of woman-heart lies partly, perhaps, the secret of that unlimited faculty for friendship which is still his.
A Trial by Jury.
Int the
HE' Home Secretary is about.
Tto appoint a committee to re-
port on the law relating to sweep- stakes.
Must it be just one more dull, gathering of representatives of
interests"? Or dare, we hope that.
· (Continued on Päge: 7.)