The Frock Coat,
Banished From
Court, Is Dead
BY A SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
THE Frock Coat is dead-killed by the King's decree, banished from the backs of Household officials.
The few people who still own frock coats will, I am sure, be glad. A frock coat was not just a garment-as Oxford bags are garments. It was a regalia. It demanded a private income to maintain it,
It is the last of its own regalia to go. The stiff then shirt and cut-throat collars which tortured the Victorian martyr avho wore them went long ago.
The stiff cuffs either des tuchable or bobbed by owner when returned well-frayed from the laundry-have gone fore-{ ever, as has the fine sport of} "shooting" them before the club fireside.
The black stock has gone- modern girls probably make a couple of summer evening frocka from its brand acres.
P.S. FOR HONGKONG
TAIPANS
Spats are also going.
15TH CENTURY MASONIC TOAST TO CONTINUE
London, Mar. 16.
A Toast used as early as 1412 in Scotland and used in England since the early days of the 18th Century is to con- tinue in use by the Grand Masonic Lodge of the Scot- tish Constitution.
The Earl of Harewood presiding at the Lodge this werk made the announce- ment that it should be con- tinued.
The Toast in question is "King and Craft,"
Switchboard
For
All Europe
Spats are going. The last spa All
I saw in Great London was worn
by a Belgian journalist, catching
up with fashion steadily but sure-
ly.
The pearl or diamond tie-pin has gone. Again a matter of up-keep, and to some extent the fact that banks and businesses have to publish balance sheets to prove their prosperity. A pearl the-pln does not convince to-day. Imllutions are too good. i talked to an old lady who spans the Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian periods by being: sixty-four years of age.
She waved a charming hund at the imaginary Cortege of the frock coat.
"My dear, I am delighted to see the dear thing go. Nowadays people have to travel on buses, no matter what their incomes,
"Can you imagine the tire same job of gelting out of a bus] with every one sitting on your frock cont?
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WORLD
TELEPHONE CONFERENCE PLAN
Telephone experts of 21 coun- tries are attempting to improve the standard of telephone effi- ciency throughout the world, by conferring at the International Telephone Conference at. Bur- lington House.
They are exchanging the latest information concerning apparatust and methods which research en- gineers have perfected since the last conference two years ago.
Dieulties in the way of free exchange of telephone communica tion between countries are being broken down. The principal sub- jeri diseuksed vas the inter- ference of conversationa car- ried by overhead lines through the proximity of electric power cables. A plan was prepared which, if ratified, will reduce this interfer ence to a minimum: '
Another subject is that of a
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL. 1936.
SUBMARINE TRACTOR HUNTS FOR GOLD
MAE
Here's the newest method of recking undersea treasure—a tiny tractor, with powerful searchlight It is crawling nearty 200 feet under the waters of San Francisco Bay, seeking a $102.000 núition cargo in the wreck of the river steamer H: C. Cocurań. Above: Halley Hamitn salvage expert. in the tructor he invented and uses. Below: The tractor on deck of the tender, wuch supplies electricity, air, etc.
"ART" MAGAZINES: CHINA IS GOING
ALL HOLLYWOOD
Tientsin, March 30.
Chinese women, long trained to excessive modesty and only recently permitted to be seen outside the home alone, have near- ly caught up with their western sisters in the matter of appearing in the nude or semi-nude.
"People have greater ideas of unselfishness und hygiene to-day, The silk hat is going. On great days I always trot ap to Piccadilly to smell the naphtha coming from the hats of those op | "switching" plan for the whole of their way to the party. All the Dhrope. _silk_hats_have_been__"'put away', _all_direct lines between one town
since the previous party. Only] and another are occupied, it is pos-being turned out in Shanghaithe lens. Overnight, inhibitions bishops and schoolboys really sible to make additional connections wear silk hata dally these times. by more devious routes. so it is
These are hurried times. My father used to take must of the morning, and the help of most of the household, to dress.]
mean rank.
'EXIT PEACOCKS'
"Dress used To-day anything beyond wentness means that a man has nothing else to do. Men have ceased to be peacocks.
were
"My husband used to ride in the Row wearing those narrow trou-: sers which
fastened under the instep with elastic. That fashion started no earlier than the frock cont. Yet there is no man brave enough to wear such things to-day.
"Men and women to-day have great sense in the matter of clothes. The old idea seems now to me, in retrospect, to have been tho more the merrier. Thank heaven, we now wear our clothes instead of carrying them.
"The all hat is so handsome that it is bound to stay for years for the great occasions, but it is all the Victorian days will have left to us of their impossibly ample wear."
CORRESPONDENCE
Volunteer Machine
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As in Britain, when
hoped, by an all-Europe plan, to eut down the time of 'waiting for calls between capitals when there is unusually heavy traffic.
ALTERNATE LINKS
For example, if all direct lines between London 'and Switzerland are in use, it would be possible. under a European "switching" plan to send calls through Brussels and Paris.
Radio telephony has created many dimculties where landline and radio have to be linked across countries. A plan for the better connection of radio links between the countries of Europe, it is expected, will be one result of the conference.
The growing use of international telephone systems for relaying broadcast programmes has also pre- sented new problems. Attempts are being made not only to improve the quality of transmission but to enable linking up to be accomplish- cd so readily that eye-witness Accounts of any sudden and unfore
een event may be transmitted for broadcast without delay and with- out pre-arrangement.
SHORT-WAVE BAND
Another conference this week will be that of the International Broadcasting Union, which will meet in Paris on Thursday. This body, of which 40 countries are members, is primarily concerned with European broadcasting.
The main topic for discussion will be the growing congestion of the short-wave band.' More and (To The Editor,
more stations with ever-increasing Hongkong Telegraph.).
power are occupying wave-lengths In this band; and only by Inter- Sir- am very sorry indeed that national agreement can complete "Ex-Valunteer has seen fit to mis- paralysis by overlapping be pre- construo my statements as set out in vented. my letter of Blat. March.
I did not single out the American Company of the S.V.C. I merely numbers is a minor detail. It is un quoted the caption under the picture.sential factor even as is a thorough The rest of my remarks concerned the knowledge of the mechanlam. 8.V.C. as a whole "if this picture Whether a man has the guts to portrays them in action." I did not keep the gun in action in the face
ay that No. 8 M.G. Company were
of an advancing enemy in a question the first line of the Colony's defence, entirely for the man behind the gun. or that they were the only 'mombars
but I venture to suggest that those of the Corps who realised the value who, would fank: the real thing are of concealment.
in a very small minority. No man
Scores of "art" magazines in Published in the art and movie which health and beauty or photo-fan magazines, the picture created graphic excellence are the excuses a sensation. Movie stars and for showing le Chinoise femme in¦ dancing girls galore began step- all her undraped loveliness areuing out of their step-ins before
printshops und. distributed of centuries were gone. To-day throughout Chinn.
the Chinese film wctress is just as modern as her sister in Holly- The authorities frown on these wood. publjentions and even confiscate The Chinese Women's Club in them occasionally, but there Shanghai started a movement to seems to be just as many on the have Hau Lai-deported or barred bookstands each month. Even the from appearing in any pornographie postcard like those motion pictures but the movement made famous in Paris has a large failed, as the "Standard Beauty" sale in the treaty ports, retailing is more popular than ever and she for a few coppers euch or 20 cents together with Butterfly Wu, re per set.
mains the idol of the Chinese sil- The girls who posed for "art"ver screen, magazines were from the lowen) The nude fnd has not yet | class "pan tz" until recently when spread to the motion picture film
nora
a Chinese movle Queen, the ex- as yet, however, Two musical quisite Isu Lai, known to a pictures have been produced by Chinese as the "Standard Beauty," Chinese studios recently but whose beauty sets a standard for neither of them were concerned all China, dared to let herself by much with sex appeal and most | photographed sitting in a foreign | of the dancers appeared in nothing bathtub, revealing more than con- more dangerous than ordinary cealing her bronzed glory.
} tighta.-United Press.
COURT ORDERS BANK SAFE TO BE BLOWN OPEN.
London, Mar. 26.
Believing that £25,000 worth of gold bar and American Double Eagles, which they claim to own, is in a safe in a strong-room of the Midland Bank, London, a company has appealed in the Appeal Court against the refusal of a judge in Chambers to order an inspection of the safes, the keys of which had been lost.
The Company said an ex bilicer; of Scotland Yard "could put his hand on a man who could open the safe."
The Bank, resisting the appli- cation, have said the strong-rooin would have to be blown open,
Mr.. Van den Berg, K.C., for the Fondation de Famille Elizabeth
"We want to be sure that the gold is, there. If we have to proceed" to "trial with the action, It may Involve considerable expense, and we may`find, like | old Mother Hubbard, that the cupboard is bare."
The Midland Bank said that
ot Hans Ludwly Carl von Meister they had parted with csontal et Lelia von Meister," of Geneva, keys, of which there were no said they wore a private company duplicates, of the strong-room and who were plaintiffs in an action. safes..
E RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music from Studio By Semrch Orchestra
RECORDED PROGRAMME
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 0-0.20 p.m. Children's Studio Con- ecrt,
7-7.33 p.m. "Quartet in C Major** (Mozart) played by the Lener String Quartet,
7.33 p.m. The Hut Bilies.
The 1 Billy Band; Me and the Old Folks at home; Jump on the Wagon Littic
Mountain Cabin:
Pop-Eyed Pete.
8 p.m. Time and Weather Report; Stock Quotations.
8.05 pm. A Recital by Richard Crooks (Tenor),
1. A Dream of Paradise (Gray); 2. O Song Divine (Temple); J. Too- Late to-morrow; 4. Macushin (Rowe). 8.18 p.m. Violin Solos by Albert Sandler.
1. Estudiantinn-Waltz (Woldteu- fel); 2. Dolores—Waltz (Wakiteuful); 3. The Child and his Dancing Doll (Heykens); 4. Spanish Serenade (Heykens).
8.30-9.20 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.
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8.30 pm. The D.B.C. Dance Or- chestra, directed by Henry Hall.
9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin and Announcements.
9.20 p.m. From the Studio.
A Talk on "The Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children" by Mr. G. P. de Martin.
p.m. Light Opera Gems.
Chu Chin Chow. (Norton); Song-- Arcady is ever Young ("The Arcadiuns") (Monckion).... Winnie Melville (Soprane1: The Maid of the Mountains (Frasser-Simeon),
9.45
The J. H. Squire p.mt. Celeste Octel.
Phontom Minuet (Hope); Souvenir Willoughby); La Cinquantaine (Marie); Gavotte-from "Mignon" (Thomas); Andante in G (Batiste).
10 Bit Ben: 10-11 pm. From the Studio, Daner Music by the "Semreh” Daner Orchestra of H.M.S. "Hermes” conducted by Bandmaster Jack Gale: by kind permission of Captain the lion. George Fraser, n..O., 1.N.
11 p.m. Close Down.
D.M.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wavelengths and frequenelu are observed by Daventry.
Call Rign
Wavelength
49.69 meiren
Frequency
GHA
4,060 kr.
+89
9,510
вяс
k.e, M...
31.65 metres
GND
11.750 .c.
GUE
11,80 k..
31.30 25.63 szetrwa 20.26
GAY
16.140 kt.
CS0
RAU
GHI
GR1
17.710 k 21.470 k.. 16,240 ke 21,540 k..
CBL
0,110 ..
19.82 metres 19,86 metres 13.07 metres 70.00 metros 13.93 meltes 49.101 metres
Transmission 1
(G.S.N., 0.8.B.)
2.15 p.m. Blgem. The Componer at Bir
Flanefort--), 2.40 p.m. "Young. Jurma."
A programTr for anybody and everybody with yeang di 3.10 p.m. Arthur Young and his Ypungalers,
in dance music. Greenwich Time Signal at 335 p.m. 3.45 pm. Talki "Imperial Affairs,"
1. V. Hodson. 4p.m. The News Anil Anzouncement. 4.20 p.m. Clone down.
Transmisalon 2
10.8.J., G.8.G.)
. p.m.
7.15 p.m.
by
Ble. The 1.3.C. Welsh Dr.
chestra,
"All Pare, Please!"
Greenwich Time Bignal at B. DR.
1.15 p.m. A Reading from "Tem of the D'Urberville," by Thomas Hardy. 3:20 pm. The DC. Danes Orchestra,
directed by Reory Hall. The News and Announcements. 9.20 p.m. The Birmingham Orchestra.
p.m.
1.45 .. Clare down,
Transmission 3
(GAN, MAE.)
Hippodrome
10 p.m. Ben, Gelger and his Orchestra 10.30 p.m. An Aeronautical Harde:
11.45 pas. The Philip Whiteway Ensemble. 12 m. Talk: "The Epice of Elfa,”
12.20 am. The Hotel Metropola Orchestra. .
Greenwich Time" Signal až 12.30 am. 12.54 a.m. The News and Aanganeemenis. 12.59 a.m. Vocal Serenaden.
M.m. Close down.
Tennsmission 4
(GAL., G.R.D., G.B... (1.8.C., 0.8.0.1 1.Là năm tha Ban. Tha Mita Gulate with
Lola Gordon.
The News and Announcemenila.
1.20 am. Dance Music.
2.30 am, Brass Band Concert.
* Greenwich Time Bignal at 2 mm,
3.35 am, "Young Ideas” A programIRE
for anybody and everybody with. young ideas.
4.
A Recital by Samuel Kutcher
(Violin).
6.15 4.m. Twiki “Ocean Travel me it was Windjammer and Tremp Steamer," by Jerry Nunn. 4.30 .. The B.I.C. Ürchestra (Beet[on D-) 5.30 am. Pred Hartley and his Novelty
Quintet
6.45 4. The News and Announcementia.
Orvenwich Time Bienal at 4 mm
4.0 mm. "Out of Doors”—3; “I try te poe sil things as the sun mese them. se the inn sklom." - Complied by Henry Williamson 420 am. Chamber Music, “ 6.45. Close down.
"TWO ANIMALS”
TIGERS REPORTED AT KOWLOON. TONG
According to police reports "two animals." thought to be itgers, were soon in the Kowloon Tong district yesterday evening about 6.00 p.m. animals, each about three feat high, The report statem that "two very dark or black in colour word
The defendants were the Mid-} Lord Justice Scott (who heard Land Bank, and Bertrand Coles the application with Mr. Justice Noidecker, Aubrey Coles Neidecker, Eve) said the court had decided to and Sybil Neldecker, of New York., make an order for the inspection
The claim was for a declaration of the property. They would be seen by three Europeans, an Indian that the plaintiffs owned the gold. glad to have the assistance of constable and a Chinese constable on They also claimed an injunction to counsel in drawing up (the order, a billside behind No. 1 Kent Road, prevent the defendants parting Their intention was that what Kowloon Tong about 6.50 p.m.; yos- with it.
The gold was deposited on their presence of an officer of the court Chester Woods went out to in-
ever took place should be in the terday.
It is understood that Inspector. W. knows how he will act under fire untilore Bank, which, before it falled. That would give complete protec- of the hour nothing much could be behalf in the safes by, the Travel-and solicitors from all parties.vestigate but owing to the lateness. Mating: QUNNER, had headquarters in Paris.
tion to the bank.
done.
I cannot agree with "Ex-Volunteer ho han actually experienced it. that the correct placing of the gun.
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