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B-6039 "Leave the rest to Nature"
Ambrose & His Orchestra.
22859 "I'm a Specialist"
1550 "Cuban Love Song"
Frank Crumit.
Lawrence Tibbett.
B-6061 "You can't stop me from loving you"
Ambrose Orch.
1531 "Dancing Virgins of Delphi"
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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932.
Home-
DAY BY DAY
Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron arrived here by the Empress of Asin to-day.
BAD MANNERS.
Cult of Stage and Screen. By S. R. LITTLEWOOD.
TOT ALL those of us who have refusing to be either patronised
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regularly to represent the or bored?
But the vogue of mere vulgarity public in the theatre and cinema have agreed with Mr. Gil- and Indenconey now current is a ́very different matter. It doce not bert Chesterton's recent pro bear any genuine relation to saciai nouncement about the descant truth. There are some three or from Olympus." If Homer sang four words now in constant use aright, the gods of Greece had on the West End stage which no lawor standard of humour than clean-minded heat would allow to Mr. Thomas Fox hiss been appoin-any permitted by the Lord Cham- be used at his dinner-table, and But with which no respectable nowa- ted managing director of the Siamberlain or by Mr. Shortt."
lovel of paper has as yet defiled its col- Observer Press, Ltd. He is at pre-about the descent from Kent visiting Hongkong.
good taste and good manners of umns. The bringing in of thene which we in England had only. has nothing to do with art at all. Messrs. Alex Ross & Co. (China) few years nga every reason to be It is simply a "publicity stunt" Ltd., advertise that Mr. W. F. Webbproud no doubt can axist. There enjoyed all too readily by has been appointed manager of their is prevalent just now a cult of stupider sort of theatre patrone.
stupidity, vulgarity, and bad man who got what is described as Kowloon Garaga, Salisbury Road.
nors for their own sake-even in "now kick" out of a hitherto for
over the the highest class of comedy-bidden phrase thrown which does urgently need purging footlights. by an enlightened public opinion.
Chamberlain provides for draw- backs, it is true, but not in respect of the ten per cent; only of the .higher duties levied on selected articles., How, therefore, ho cari argue, as he has done, that a-re-
I HAVE ALWAYS. SPOKEN WITH venue tariff levied on most of the NAKED CANDOUR AND EVEN WITH raw and semi-finished materials of } DRUTALITY TO THE MULTITUDES. industry is Ilkely to stimulate ex- THAT 18 DISTINCT CONTRAST TO ports, it is difficult to see.
THE CONTEMPTIBLE COURTSHIP There are many other aspects of MADE FOR THEIR FAVOUR BY the matter which could be gONO POLITICAL PARTIES OF EVERY TIME into, but it will sufflco If we put AND EVERY LAND.—Mussolini, forward a very anno view which has been expressed on this tariff problem. Admitting that thing was needed over and above the departure from the gold standard and the restrictions which existed on Imports, the plea is advanced that any measure adopted should have been strictly tempor, ary, and all semblance of a bargain ing tariff should have been care fully avolded. Secondly, there
King's College annual sports are to should have been no general triff be held on the South China football applicable to raw or semi-finished ground, Carolino Hill, on the 24th materials vital to British industry. Instant. The prizes are to be din Thirdly, it would have been bettertributed by Mrs. G. P. de Martin. to proceed farther on the lines of
The annual general meeting the Abnormal Importations Act, by means of almost prohibitive dutica on a narrow range of articles, thun to impom protection over a wide field; and it would have been Car wiser, in certain enses at least, to
the
The old notion that the stage is To mo nothing is more painful there to set a good example in than to hoor the shout of apparent of mannera has, of course, long die mass approval with which a first- members of the liengkong Automobile appeared, Gone is the tradition night audience occasionally wel Association will be held in the Board by which it was expected to sug- comes some "bold" allusion, which Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathesongest, if it did not fulfi, a roman- not one of the applauders would & Co.. on Tuesday, March 29, at 6.30 tic ideal of courtesy, of loyalty, individually make or tolerato in.
of grace. Our comedy has forfeit his or her home. If the publle ed at once respect for age and re-like these things how helpless their
No of gard for innocence.
longer ambasandor! Happily, the so-called
Jin.
Through
taking an overduse
restrict imports by a licensing oplum, a woman named Yung Yuen, does a grande dame of the type "old English" vocabulary of nasty
of 370, Nathan Road, was taken to
represented memoraby by the words sanctioned by a "broad- system almilar to that of the the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday Dyestuffs Act than by the Impost-for treatment. It is stated that she late Rose Leclercq rule in a court minted" Censor is now becoming where young people approached exhausted. It is possible that the attempted Lo commit suicide.
ench other with chivalrous reserve, | always-cxigent demand for novelty
may thus cancel itself,
tion of duties.
Those Scrawling Signatures.
such
does
A
nol
gorgeous
exhibit
convicted
effect,
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FUER
of the
to
A small boy who was
Some of those old St. James's So, too, with the "undressing which acts" which have come to be re- Every time father becomes yesterday of obstructing the police
was again produces at the Kowloon comedies, for instance,
gratefully garded as essential to a modern critical of his son's handwriting as Magistrney this morning when he many still remember displayed in his latest school com-
wan senteneed to six strokes and to and vividly-how impossible, if comedy of bad manners. They position, perhaps he will do well siga a bond of $100 to be of goud not laughable, they would seem also are not concerned with actual behaviour for 12 months. The police now! When the late George Alex-social conduct. In Commander to consider what lead of signature verified his statement that he had no ander greeted lss Julia Nelson, Kimmins's "When Parents Sleep" he himself attached during the relatives in Hongkong.
In Sir Arthur Pinero's pleasant to take one example-a Colonial afternoon to his pile of outgoing
play, with "Time has flown high Governor's wife takes off her dress
he in the drawing-room so letters, father's Signature is at
St. John's Hall, Hongkong Univer-above your head, Princess," incka,sity, is organising a charity concert was speaking a different language, confer with her lover at greater I:*། all like the average
in aid of the Shanghal Relief Fund moving in a different world, from case in her underclothing. This the son need not feel
greatly The concert will take place on 1st & ours. Even Sir Goral du Mau- scone has been hailed with de- ashamed. Probably son's hand- 2nd April, at 8 p.m. in St. Paul's
College. The items will be contriburier, our present mirror of good light by large sections writing
There breeding, would be constrained to public. But it to ridiculous well-known artista. ted by assort-wil be also a painting exhibition to give his old acquaintance an audi- pretend that the wives of Colonial ment of angles and curlicues as
be held on the samo dates in the bie slap upon her shoulders, suy- Governors are really in the habit College from p.m. to 7 pm. The Ing. "Five years older and you of disrobing in this way. And if father's, but it is doubtless more
exhibition will consist of over look every minute of it, my dear the language used represents that printlike, more restful to the eye. hundred oil paintings by Italianor words to some such candid of a ward-room in his Majesty's The increased momentum of the artists, being the collection of Mr.
Navy, one can only be sorry for Luigi Do-Dionigi, ex-Vice-Consul of business day, the necessity for
It may be argued, of course, ft. Italy.
that life is no longer a minuet- The reason behind it all is Bim- signing letters in job lots, has
noply that the success of "high played havoc with present-day, A most enjoyable concert was given that a modern heroine has
the Helena script, declare teachers of penman-at
May Institute last time to receive homage with her comody" has ceased to dopend up- ship. The copperplate dignity and evening, the contributors to the pro- train twisted into a pool in front on the comparatively small class gramme being Mrs. A. M. Bowes- of her. It may be held that the whose manners it is supposed to legibility that characterized the Smith (soprane) Mrs. N. Mathieson nice conduct of an ostrich-fan, roßect. In order to exist at all correspondence of former genera-centralto), Mr. H. G. Annins (tenor), the perfect pose upon a Louis the West End theatre has to de- | THE TARIFF QUESTION. {tion is now studied under
ngina Barton (bass),
Dr. L. T. Ride (baritone) Mr-M. Quinze settee, simply do not mat-pend upon hosts of people who
Miss Daisy Ma ase, along with the feathered pen (pianist), with Mr. F. Mason A.R.C.ter in comparison with the urgency know nothing about the mannors and the bowl of blotting sand,, L.T.CL. accompanying. Vocal of current problems and passions. of this class, and have to be at Mr. Lloyd George envisages the
items predominated, the quartetten, Only intely I saw the leading tracted by shocks, surprises, and National Government remuning in
or another. Our jiggling chirography is but quintettes and ducts being especially lady in a West End theatre sit thrills of one sort another striking example of oficë for a period of four years,
the appreciated, particularly the delightful down in front of the audience with Hence words and scenes which can during which time, it is to be pre-wonder army
modern demand for fast work. No numbers from "Merrie England. The her toes visibly turned in. I need only attract through the rumour regulations insistnal concert of the season is being not give the name of the dietin- of naughtiness. Hence also the sumed, its tariff policy will be ex-
held on March Bint. that all offcial correspondence must
guished culprit, but her perform-parade of mechanical spectacle- tended rather than contracted. In
ance was almost universnily now somewhat outmoded. The have the typewritten name of the
Sentences amounting to one year's pruised.
wonder is, in these circumstances, writer In close proximity, to the hard labour is all were imposed on inked signature, so that no time a young Chinese who appeared before
For all this there is something that now and again & play of will be
at the
and merit-like "Journey's End" to be said. Times change Central wasted in deciphering Mr. Wynne Jones
Police Court this morning on charges manners with them. The leisurely "The Barretts of Wimpele Street" scrawling
penmanship. Indeed, of theft of three boxes of Omradin, and self-conscious development of does appeal and survive them.
In this fact and in the persist- this system might well be adopted from the King's Dispensary of 94, the old school may have given
(Debussy) Paderewski. Hongkong Telegraph.
B-3794 "Any Little Fish"
(Cochran's 1931 Revue) Noel Coward.
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the meantime, the former Liberal Premier is prepared to lead the anti-tariff section of his party in a fight for the restoration of Free Trade. What impression will be made on the country is a matter for speculation. Much will depend, -
we imagine, on the effects of the
tariff on living costs. Mr. Lloyd George is naturally angry with
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art,
in many civilian organisations. It Queen's Road and two boxes of place to something better in the ent encouragement of true in fortunate that the typewriter chocolates from the M. Y. San Co.; eager sincerity, the courage, and lies the hope that we shall create and telephone have come to the aiti Detective Sergeant D. Fitches, said cur period does at its best supply. Ing the new generation at its best also of returning from banishment comradeship, which the youth of a new comedy of manners, roflect- of the busy taipan. If he were the defendant was a gang of three No one need take umbrage at a and as it really is. Who knows compelled to drive a pen many shop-lifters. One of them would go faithful reflection of life as it la what now graces and splendours,
into the premises and pretend to
make those Liberals who have made hours a day, recipients of his let:purchases whilst the other two would of changes, for example, in of character, which are there all possible the breach with the counters would probably require a commit the thefts. His try's traditional fiscal policy. He board of high-salaried puzzle ex-described the defendant as a klep children for calling their parents vealed? has rounds for being so, of the probability that every endeavour will be made by the
Worship domestic ritual. Need we blame the time, would not then be re- in view perte to interpret their meaning.fraid the man was a hopeless case. nlly if the parents like it-or for tomanine, remarking that he was by their Christian names-especi-
Government to retain tariffs per manently,
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As it is, many a majestic signa- ture needs the swift attention of
the well-known pruning knife.
DEATH OF MR. A. MCCALLUM.
RAILWAY OFFICIAL PASSES AWAY.
As we read the position, the only mandate which the Government had for a tarii was one for merely emergency measure, design- ed to rectify the adverse balance of trade and payments. It is, of course, to be admitted that the Conservatives, who predominate in have to chronicle the death
It is with much regret that we the Government, wanted a tariff Mr. Archibald McCallum, Per- long before the emergency. The manent Way Inspector of the emergency gave them their chance | Kowloon-Canton Railway, which of getting it. They now appear, to took place at the Kowloon Hospital have no intention of letting it alip. Inte last night.
of
别特
The Government decisions repre- near Dundee and was only 38 The deceased, who was born
sent a "two-docker," or rather a
years of age, came to the Colony i "three-decker" tariff in vlow of the
in August, 1924, as second-class provision for special discriminat-overseer in the Public Works De Ing duties. This as a permanency,partment, which post he held un-i
whan ho was and not merely as a means of til April 1926,
transferred to the Railway rectifying the balance of trade.
acting Permanent Way Inspector, There is the general, or almost being promoted to the substantive general, tariff for revenue, levied post in August of the same year. nt a flat rate. This revenue He was admitted to hospital on tariff, it is to be noted, in totally Saturday, suffering from pneumo- different from the proposal ala, and despite every medical at sponsored some time back by Mr.tention he passed away last night. The late Mr. McCallum saw sor- J. M. Keynes, the noted economist vice during the war with the Mr. Keynes proposal was put for- Royal Engineers. Although ward mainly as a moans of offset- || ho
keonly interested ting the over-valuation of sterling in sport, ho took no active part conacquent on the return to the in any games in the Colony, but gold standard. But Britain is no was a member of the Kowloon longer on the gold standard, so that Institute. He was not married.
Football Club and the Engineers' argument has gone. Moreover, Of a genial disposition, he made Mr. Koyuna, recognising the numerous friends, who will deep- danger of the proposal to export ly regret his passing. trade, proposed to combine the re- The funeral takes place this -venue-tariff-with-a-corresponding evening, passing the Monument at bounty on exports. Mr. Neville & p.m.
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"Bure, you have seen me lotas times I was on the stage for years. before I became an advertising man,
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The same is true in lager mensure of the cinonta, for which in England wo are only partially responsible, save in an unfortunate and belated imitation of America's mistakes. Hero as things are, "the tail wags the dog" The logically and inevitably. gangster-Alm, with its gutter-bred gunman, living in luxury and pursuing criminal adventurea to
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end, and the films that revel in crude horror and sensuous ullurement, are commodities turally and definitely "traded" to a half-educated public, who seem sometimes to have no power to appreciate anything better. The higher-class patrons of the key- cinemas in the big towns are mere publicity-pawns in the game of getting at the masses on both sides. of the Atlantic.
na-
Yet even here the leaven is work Ing. A good, clean, beautiful. film does get its response now and again, whatever Its language. It is possible that from the point of
view of convenience, the passing of the Censorship Into the Lord Chamberlain's control would modify the present chaos. It might tend to raise the standard of the talk-film to that of the theatre- auch as it is. But first, last, and". always the real Consorship los in the public mind, so often vastly disappointing, yet. .without its garm of good..
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and nevor
The steam faunch Cormorant and a Junk which was being towed by the steam launch Kwong Bin came. Into ecifixion in the harbour at noon yester. day. The Junk was being towed from. - Kowloon to Hongiomand ther Cormorant was steaming, from west in east. Damage to the extent of $400 was caused to the funky whicdn was insured.AZ