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A GOOD STÄRT
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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933.
millions of people. The prompt THE HONGKONG CABARET The Very Idea!
and effective measures taken deal with this development pro- vide proof of Mr. Roosevelt's ability to grapple with large issues in a statesmanlike man- ner. Over, and above all these questions, the President has had to cope with the larger issues of the World Economic
VI. The Management
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CORRESPONDENTS
By Dorothy, Diz, nes Kelly.
Monday is always the day when.
"Controversialist" her deals with manner, isk not to be committed to points raised in a recent debate on the responsibility. Nor will he be blamed for it, but, in effect, that is the subject of cabarets.
The discussion at the academic what he is being asked to, both Conference, war debts and dis- debate referred to was directed in by the Mothers represented at the recent meeting, by the Legislative armament, each of which de-
an inquiring strain into the origin Councillor who recently acted as mands the closest possible con. sideration and extreme care in of cabaret dancing girls and their their voice vis a vis the Govern- Police authorities themselves now handling. It is, as we say, early terpischorean" capacity. It was ment, and, we hear alao, by the in the day yet to venture on a obvious from the very beginning seeking ways and peans of control prophecy
far that there could be only que verdict, ling the problem thrust on the 19 to how America's new President will and that verdict, reached
The most he believes he can do is a to make inquiries about the anteced-them straight out to a dozen coolies. of votes, revealed succeed in the work to which he division
the side ents of these girls before taking has put his hands. But if the substantial majority on
them into employment and that first few weeks of office are of those who do not approve of he thinks will be a hard jobs indeed. any criterion of what is to the employment of women in the He will also point out that a pist come, it would be reasonable
good record is no guarantee of fu- new sphere. to presuppose a large measure of success. Changes of govern-
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Having "displaced" ter from an ture continuance.
and MANAGER'S
ment are often to a country's occupation "combining work good. It looks as if America is pleasure, it was not suggested how RESPONSIBILITY to provide striking proof of an alternative means of livelihood
could be feund. this fact,
THE CABARET
By Carbonate of Soda !
GIRLS
What then is a poor Cabaret Manager, with an honest living
we function in the heart-broken de partment.
Probably more correspondents and co-respondents write to us than Every day a dozen coolles stagger to any other person in Hongkong. up. Wyndham Street outside the front entrance of this editorial. palace, and tip thousands of letters into a potent chute, whien delivers waiting at the back entrance.
A few of these letters happen, to stick in the chute. Those that are not accounts rendered or threaten- ing epistles we have great pleasure in turning over to your friend and adviser, Auntie Abigail, for reply. She may be your aunt, but they are her auntsers,
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Dear Mr. Kelly, I am a hotel. to make for himself and his manager, and am troubled by people. ntimerous charges, to do? He says giving me dud money. A friend all he can do is the utmost rea- told me to bite it to see if it was The great majority of women in sonably required of him, and, for any good. I did this, but last night. Just when British woollen and local cabaret employment are from the rest, hope for the best that a I bit a dollar in half. Do help me.
benevolent view of this world's -Dogebody, artificial silk manufacturers Shanghai, having been, as a matter
Dear Dogsbody. Paste the dol- Now let us examine what the best lar together and try and pass it. not to mention pastry cooks of fact, brought here, from other goodness can produce.
to cabarets. These can be said
has amounted to. Incidentally this on to a tram conductor. He won't were beginning to hope that the have embarked seriously on the
slimming craze" had died, out, profession as a bona fide means of brings us to the next stage, namely notice it. it has seemingly revived in a livelihood. Their status has been abuses by the managements. more virulent form than ever, properly and legally defined by everybody connected A medical authority states that written agreements, with the usual many young Society women are provisions.
Gandhi's
another lemon.
An Over-Critical Age
remunerative
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with soda. The rules regarding Holding Hands are unaltered, al- though hands should not be held under the table while a jealous hus- band is about. Dummy's rights, however, remain unimpaired.
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By managements are included Dear Eddie Could you explain. with the the new Portland rales on bridge.. business side of the undertaking-Ely Culbertson. the proprietors, the managers, the Dear Cuthbert-When it comes leading vigorous and strenuous One provision fixes the salary, attendants, and even the musicians to bridge, we are the ants pants. and doormen who are known to In the new rules the bidding is the Mr. Lo Chang Shiu bega to announce lives on nothing more sustain-shy at. $20 or $30 per mensum.
have placed themselves within this same as before, with the exception. that the marriage between bising than an occasional tomato Another fixes the commission, say daughter Enid and Mr. Joha Letablere Litton will take place cr lemon. (Even Ranee, the 10 cents, or approximately, a third category by delegating unto them- that the player with a weak Heart selves the role of "chuckers-out." is vulnerable, and should not be al- Peak. In at the Registry on Wednesday, Zoo elephant, has been doing her of the price of a dance,
Not to speak of provocations for lowed to play on the April 25th, and that a Reception utmost to reduce her weight| A third fixes Hot be held at the Bangkong by spending the hours when she contract, say, as the duration of the justificalice intrusion he has had Doubling, the pinyer who mistakes. to guard against unwelcome cus- the Ace for a Two is advised (a) to be asleep roaming Other provisions for board, tomers, in that stage of inebriation to see an oculist, (2) or to see two invitations are being issued, but ought all friends are cordially invited round and round her stable lodging, refreshments, ie after when a man is popularly, if not oculists if necessary () to take it to the Reception.
throwing the bedding about), dance suppers, may vary the terms legally, supposed to be more or less It is too bad. There are limits somewhat," but in the main those irresponsible. to self-denial. What between given above are what vitally con- ON WITH
cern the interests of employer and THE DANCE! followers rejecting employee. The funeral of the late Ronald J trousers for the dhoty and
Generally, he is kept out by The other type of dancing girl grilles or by closed doors which Stevens will take place to-day, passing the monument at 5.36 Chinese coolies positively re-is the punti ie. the local and Can opens only in favour of a
Dear Kelly. I don't go out much fusing to wear longer shirts, tonese girl, whose interest in the desirable class of customer and these evenings, for a girl can't and patriotism demands that British cabaret profession may be rightly then only upon the operation of a keep her youth. Bealdes, my pals women should shoulder the estimated as having dated from
ag have the same effect “Open not strong enough to keep carrying burden of increased output from the birt. of the local dancing acade-System of taps and signals which won't let me. They say they're our looms. Ergo, they ought to and who merely reflect the re- Serume." A generous display of me upstairs. So I just stay
markable interest taken in Ie be well nourished. What will creational dancing by Chinese youth ion are Reserved" is calculated to friends dropping in occasionally
the legend, "The Rights of Admis-home with a good book, only a few. happen to the Ottawa Agree- within the past few years: ments if women take the advice. These local girls may or may not carry on the hint. In such cir- every night for a quite evening. cumstances, the individual unable But now they have to quit coming, of Dr. Slot and limit themselves aspire to the same
to preserve his equilibrium (which because the people in the flat be-y to a daily ration each of two status as their Northern sisters, we are told is the first requirement low have complained three times eggs, eight ounces of vegetables, but owing to the advantage of being for a correct interpretation of this this week about the noise, and one aesthetic art) is left to hang for of the boy friend's threw an empty one cup of soup, three ounces of "nearer home," the conditions of employment in their cases have lean meat, and one teaspoonful revealed a more marked variation. support against the outside of the bottle out of the window and hit a No President of the United of bicarbonate of soda? One In brief, these have become a mat grille and to look wistfully, if with policeman, and, anyway, I'm sick watery eyes, into the "Aladdin's of this mob. It seems a pity to States ever took office with such cannot build up a robust con-ter of individual arrangement. Cave" beyond. But at other times see all this stuff going to waste in an array of domestic and ex-stitution, much lesa a vigorous | Both types of dancers may be he is able to assert himself, and my refrigerator, and I do feel so bicarbonate of found in any one cabaret, but be that in forceful manner, a sense lonely. What would you advise me ternal problems to face as those Empire, on which are now engaging the at- soda, pineapple, sherbet, snow cause of dialectal difficulties may be awakened in him of a deep wrong, to do. Sincerely, Maisie Middelevil. that is peculiar to minds in that Dear Maisie.-What's your tele- pudding, and Japanese seaweed, seen sitting apart. tention of Mr. Franklin D. All the world is crying out for A CORRECT
unsettled condition, and in phone number? that event
Emer- the Police Roosevelt. The prompt manner trade expansion, and here are DEPORTMENT
Unit Van. with the gency
Dear Sir-We have been In- in which he has begun to con- his wife and daughter refusing
Both types as far as can be obvery efficient Emergency Unit structed by our client to instituta centrate on the tasks gives to expand in sympathy. What served; have conducted themselves inside, is regretfully summoned, and legal proceedings against you if promise of a notable term of will they do about it? We grave-in a correct manner while in pub-it came clattering down the hill in your account, which has now been
At other times outstanding for....... office. Taking up his duties y fear that the answer will be lie; that is to say while engaged in quick response.
Dear Sirs, It is evident that their professional duties. They can again, the occurence is successfully only about a month ago, Pre-
be said not to have disappointed the prevented from developing into a your clients do not understand our large group of foreign observers major incident, maybe by an enlist-methods of dealing with accounts. sident Roosevelt has already
who have noted that the Chinese ment of the secular aid of the We manage this way. At the end shown that he is a man of ac
woman and girl can set an example musicians, when things are quickly of each month, when we have tion, for he has set in train a
Viscount Grey, in an address of decorous department, perhaps returned to normal, and customers, information of how much is left
one of their chief charms.
if they have not incontinently fled, over when the compradore's orders series of decisions likely to have to studenta at Newcastle-on-
But if you ask a local cabaret are requested to be at their "ease" have been met, we set aside a cer
tain amount for the payment of a marked effect on the depres-Tyne, has been warning youth manager if he would "underwrite" On with the dance!
outstanding accounts. In. order sion which has so long prevail-that it lives in an over-critical the character of some of his em In the concluding article appear- ed in America. Unemployment age, and adjures it to remem-ployees, he will, naturally, hesitate, ing to-morrow, the question of abus- is, perhaps, the biggest problem destroying but by admiring
ber that "we do not live by and then finally, if in apologetic es will be further amplified.
with which the country is faced, Youth itself is not solely and it is one of the first to to blame. When youth fails marks engage Mr. Roosevelt's attention. to
progress Nor has Lord Grey His scheme for the creation of time.
in mind those ultracrepidarian a Conversation Corps of a quar-i ter of a million men, to be critics who find fault with in-
significant details. Each placed on afforestation work, ceeding generation is unfortun- reveals a practical outlook which ately well-stocked with such; favours definite occupation for the poor in spirit are ever with the workless rather than letting us. The trouble is that fault them remain in idleness at the finding on the grand scale has become a cult. A "brilliant" cost of the State. Then we have intellect is supposed not to be his two thousand million dollar brilliant unless it can attack and fund for farmers, a scheme demolish. If someone. informed which, it is believed, will have us what's right with the world most beneficial effects on this we might begin to see daylight; again--and enjoy it. But how depressed industry. And now,
can the youth of any age be ex- to top the list, we have the plan pected to learn this lesson, and for a thirty-hour week, which, if remain young? A little map of it comes into law, will remain memory brings to our mind the in operation for a period of two story of a seone in the House of exacty forty-four years. The effect of these pro. Commons
ago, when two rising jects remains to be seen, but it years can at least be said that if Pre- young cadets of the Radical Party sat immédiately behind sident Roosevelt does not suc- the Front Opposition Bench, ceed in improving the nation's adorned by the venerable figure internal condition, it will not be of Mr. Gladstone. Old Parlia for want of trying. We have, mentary hands recall how these indeed, had an example of the Bright Young Things positively efficacy of his work in the mat dissociated themselves, on the Ashbourne Jand Furchase Bill, ter of the banking crisis. So from the line taken by their re grave had conditions become in vered leader, and how Mr. Glad- this regard that there was every stone leaned back with his hand possibility of a complete collapse) to his car, so that no word of the of the nation's banking system, criticism from their lips should with disastrous consequences to escape him. They were
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that there shall be no discrimina-
tion, the names of our creditors are put into a hat and the first names out are those who get paid. If we have any more impertinence from you, we shall not put your client's name into the hat.-Ed- ward Kelly.
BAD BEDS.
Sir Charles Higbam's commenta on beds echoed some of our sentiments. Bad beds, he said. make a C3 nation. We agree heartily. To be properly attrac- tive beds must have something in them. Beyond potatoes, we moan, even if they are soft-boiled.
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We suggest that an expedition. (preferably American) be ar- ranged forthwith. We suggest" there will be intense, world-wide interest in it-especially if they make a talkie of Prometheus, uR- chained at last, rising from his rock and being congratulated by Greta Garbo,
Prometheus
then Bay, through the interpreter:
"Well, folks, iữa just fine to have you restue me, and I thank you a whole lot. It's pretty swell having you round, and I just wanna take this opportunity, folks, of saying that a real gift for any gifting occasion is a gift- box of Kleinberger's Kutle Kandies--the Crunch She Craves. In every gift-box,” etc., etc.
Kieninberger's European publi- city manager having wrung Pro- metheus emotionally by the hand and spoken a few broken words on the Brotherhood of Man, the Garbo, lifting her heavy lids one half-inch, can then say:
"Ay tank ay yust go now." And so away.